The world's stories × Japanese manga
Myths and classics hold what people everywhere have cherished: their wonder, their laughter, their hopes. We retell them as full-color Japanese manga. Every episode is free, in your language.
Now serializingKOJIKI: Chronicle of the Gods
Each region, its own myths and classics, adapted into manga.
Now serializingA 16th-century Chinese adventure classic. A monkey born from stone wreaks havoc in Heaven, then joins a monk and a band of misfits on a journey west: the story of a rebel who learns to travel with friends.
Now serializingJapan's oldest surviving chronicle, compiled in 712. From the birth of the islands to a sun goddess and her storm-god brother, an eight-headed serpent and the first emperor: the epic family saga of Japan's gods.
Now serializingAround 700 BC, the poet Hesiod sang of how the Greek gods were born. From Ouranos the sky to Kronos and then Zeus: three generations of parents and children fighting for the throne of heaven.
Coming soonThe World Tree and its nine realms, gods against giants, and the end of the world, Ragnarök: the myths of the far north.
We're adapting the world's myths and classics one by one. New series are on the way.
Freshly published stories
NEWEpisode 4Journey to the West
Episode 4. Invited to Heaven, Wukong is made "Bimawen," keeper of the Heavenly Horses. He works day and night without sleep, then learns the job is so low it doesn't even have a rank. Furious, he goes home to Flower-Fruit Mountain and names himself the Great Sage Equal to Heaven. He drives off Heaven's army, and Nezha is the first to call him by that name. But what Heaven finally gives him is a rank with a big name and nothing else.
19 pages
NEWEpisode 13KOJIKI
Episode 13. Iwarebiko sets out east with his elder brother Itsuse, only to lose him to an arrow wound. In the forests of Kumano, Iwarebiko and his whole army collapse. A sword sent from Heaven wakes him, and a great crow perched on his brother's bow leads him on. Carrying his brother's lesson, "Keep the sun at your back," he faces the wall of shields once more.
20 pages
NEWEpisode 10KOJIKI
Episode 10. The young heavenly god Ninigi falls for Sakuya, a princess of blossoms he meets on a cape, and asks to marry her. Her father, the mountain god, sends her older sister Iwanagahime, the princess of stone, along with her. Ninigi sends the sister home because of how she looks, and from then on the lives of his descendants are as short as falling petals. After one night together Sakuya is pregnant, and Ninigi doubts the child is his. To prove she is telling the truth, she sets her own palace on fire and gives birth to three sons inside it.
19 pages
NEWEpisode 12KOJIKI
Episode 12. Toyotamabime enters the birthing hut with one plea: "Please don't look." But Hoori is so worried that he peeks, and inside he sees a huge lord of the sea, part shark and part dragon. He runs, then turns back. By then his wife has left their child behind and closed the road to the sea. Neither of them can let go of the other, and only their songs still cross the line between sea and shore.
19 pages
NEWEpisode 8KOJIKI
Episode 8. Okuninushi has guarded the land he built with his best friend all on his own. Heaven sends envoy after envoy, and none of them come back. The last to arrive is Takemikazuchi, a thunder god of few words, who sits on the point of a sword planted in the sea. After a trial of strength, the king gives up his land on one condition: a shrine whose pillars reach the sky.
19 pages
NEWEpisode 8GREEK MYTHOLOGY
Episode 8. On a misty mountain, the shepherd Hesiod hears a song from the goddesses of song. Ten years into the war against Cronus, the father who swallowed his own children, the fighting still hasn't ended. Then Zeus hears the voice of Gaia, Mother Earth. He goes down to the depths of the earth and, with his own hands, brings three forgotten hundred-armed brothers back into the light. Cottus swears that now it's their turn to protect him, and Zeus raises his thunderbolt for the first time. But across the divide, in the darkness, a golden eye opens.
20 pages
NEWEpisode 5Journey to the West
Episode 5. Made guardian of Heaven's peach orchard, Sun Wukong secretly eats the immortal peaches. When he finds out he's the only one not invited to Heaven's grand banquet, he goes on a rampage. He devours the feast, gobbles up Laozi's golden elixir pills, and flees home to Flower-Fruit Mountain. Down on Earth, 110 years have already passed, and Heaven sends a hundred thousand soldiers after him.
19 pages
NEWEpisode 7GREEK MYTHOLOGY
Episode 7. Zeus calls every god to his side, but no one wants to be the first to raise a hand. Then Nike, the youngest, asks one simple question. It pushes her mother Styx to act, and Styx brings her four children to Olympus ahead of everyone else. The young king has been standing alone until now, and he answers her by keeping every promise he makes.
19 pages
NEWEpisode 1Journey to the West
Episode 1. A monkey born from a magic stone on Flower-Fruit Mountain finds the Water-Curtain Cave hidden behind a waterfall and becomes the Handsome Monkey King. Five hundred years later, at a feast, the king sees that his childhood friend has grown old. Afraid of the death that comes for everyone, he weeps. Then, refusing to let the end take his friends, he sets out alone across the sea on a small raft.
19 pages
NEWEpisode 6GREEK MYTHOLOGY
Episode 6. On a misty mountain, the Muses sing a hungry shepherd the tale of "the night a mother told her only lie." To save her youngest, Zeus, from Cronus, the boy-king who swallows his children, Rhea hands him a stone wrapped in swaddling cloth. Raised in a cave deep within the earth, Zeus overthrows his father with his grandmother Gaia's cunning and his own strength. He frees his five siblings from the light, reunites with his mother, and receives thunder from the uncles he unchains.
20 pages
NEWEpisode 4GREEK MYTHOLOGY
Episode 4. Hesiod, a shepherd boy looking for true songs, is taken to Nereus, the Old Man of the Sea, who never tells a lie. Starting with Nereus's fifty sea-daughters, Hesiod follows one family line down to Medusa, Echidna, Cerberus, the Hydra and the Chimera. Even monsters had mothers, and brothers and sisters. And from the life of one mortal daughter, the winged horse Pegasus bursts into the sky.
19 pages
NEWEpisode 3GREEK MYTHOLOGY
Episode 3. From the drops that fell from the sky come warriors and nymphs, and from the sea foam steps Aphrodite, goddess of love. At the same dawn of the world, Night—joined with no one—gives birth to Death, Sleep, and even Affection.
19 pages
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Myths and classics carry how people saw nature and family, what made them laugh and what they prayed for. We retell stories from around the world with the energy of Japanese manga and make them free for anyone to read. Our hope: a kid somewhere in the world falling in love with the myths of a faraway land.
Japan, China, Greece and beyond: we adapt myths and classics region by region.
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