Genre - Historical

The Golden Age of Pirates In 1715, pirates established a lawless republic in the Caribbean and ruled the land and seas. These outlaws paralyzed navies, halted international trade, and plundered vast fortunes. They threatened the power structures that ruled Europe, inspired the imaginations of millions, and left a legacy that still endures. Into this world sails a young, cocky, and fearsome captain named Edward Kenway. His skill with a sword and disdain for authority earn him the respect of pirate legends like Blackbeard, but thrust him into an ancient conflict that threatens to destroy everything the pirates have built.

Azumi is a manga series that concerns a young woman brought up as part of a team of assassins, charged with killing three warlords that threaten Feudal Japan with an agenda of war and bloodshed. Azumi received an Excellence Prize at the 1997 Japan Media Arts Festival and the Shogakukan Manga Award in 1998.

From Aerandria Scans: Sin and Leona are childhood friends – she has always been fascinated with the mysteries of the ancient Near East, and he has always been fascinated with her, to the point where he is ready to follow her thousands of years in the past, to the days of the Kingdom of Babylonia, where she has a very special part to play…

In the mid twentieth century, a little republic ended up stuck between a kingdom and a realm - both of whom needed to control the republic to suit their own particular needs. Keeping in mind the end goal to shield itself from the two sides of the contention, the republic made a little gathering of warriors whose activity it is to stifle upheaval and contradiction in any capacity conceivable. This is the narrative of the Opera House.

from Iskultrip Scans A long time ago… there was a disease that would cause nightmares and kill people. Doctors and wizards threw in the towel, unable to find a cure. All of a sudden, mysterious magicians appeared. These magicians ate the nightmares of those who suffered from them. It was said that those who had their dreams eaten were able to sleep peacefully. This is the story of “Baku”.

Bakumatsu Renka Karyuu Kenshiden takes place in the first year of Tokugawa when the Shogunate and the emperor's supporters fight for supremacy. Shizuki Rin is a girl growing up in a Dojo who lost her memory of the past. Secretly the dojo deals with information. Including the violent Shinsengumi, some bishies and children who aim to get stronger.

Richard, the goal-oriented third child of the House of York, accepts he is reviled, cursed from birth to timeless haziness. However, is it really destiny that shows him the way to individual annihilation? Or then again his own tortured longings? In view of an early draft of Shakespeare's Richard III, Aya Kanno's dim dream observes the one who could be top dog remaining between universes, between classes, among great and malevolence.

The Sky Mountain Range was a resting place for spirits, and the residing were not permitted to cross it. Everybody trusted it in that capacity. "You will end up being an extraordinary fighter, Urich." The most grounded fighter of the Boulder Ax Tribe, Urich, achieved what others in his clan proved unable, and went past the 'Sky Mountain Range'. What he saw past those mountains was, different clothing being worn, various dialects being spoken, and new individuals in iron-clad defensive layer. This is the tale of an unfamiliar world and the person who faces it.

The Iga clan and the Kouga clan have been sworn enemies for more than four hundred years. Only the Hanzo Hattori truce has kept the two families from all-out war. Now, under the order of Shogun Ieyasu Tokugawa, the truce has finally been dissolved. Ten ninja from each clan must fight to the death in order to determine who will be the next Tokugawa Shogun. The surviving clan will rule for the next thousand years. But not all the clan members are in agreement. Oboro of the Iga clan and Gennosuke of the Kouga clan have fallen deeply in love. Now these star-crossed lovers have been pitted against each other. Can their romance conquer a centuries-old rivalry? Or is their love destined to end in death?

There are some heroes whose names you do not know, whose faces you have not seen... They operate secretly, and their actions can make a difference in the outcomes of wars. Be Huen is the story of such a man. To follow his story, one must search in the shadows, for that is the only place you could find him...

A thousand years before Christ, the last king of an ancient dynasty was seduced by a fox spirit that caused chaos in his land and drove his people to despair, before she killed the king and was finally sealed by an exorcist. During the Heian Period that golden-haired, nine-tailed vixen, known as Daji in China and Kayo in India, reappeared in Japan... In Kyoto, misfortune befalls Mikuzu's family after her father nearly shoots a fox with an arrow. Now Mikuzu, with the help of her neighbour and a childhood friend Oniomaru, is looking for a way to cure him. But once the fox spirit abducts Mikuzu, meaning to recommence her misadventures in a new incarnation, the battle to save the girl and to restore the seal begins.

Year 265, Si Ma Yan became king. He destroyed the kingdom of Wei and created the kingdom of Jin. With its growing power, the eight kings became restless and joint forces against Jin. Jin moved south to a void wasteland. Bian Huang Ji was a place of business between two rivers. In this place, law doesn�t exist and people who goes here are called Huang Ren, people who don�t belong to any kingdom or government. (Source: mangafreak)

1-2. Binzume no Jigoku (The Inferno in Bottles) 3. Sei Anthony no Yuukai (The Temptation of Saint Anthony) 4-5. Koganemochi 6-7. Kawaisou na Ane (Poor Big Sister)

From Evil Flowers: Qing Chun, a canary, and Chen Di, a rooster, are holly birds that can take the form of humans. Chen Di has the job to wake the earth every morning whit his singing and Quig Chun is the one who eases everyone's heart with her beautiful songs. Pan Yi is the human Quin Chun felt in love with and just once she would like to be the one who wakes him up in the morning. She asks Chen Di to let her perform his job for enlist one day and in the end he agrees because he loves her, but things don't go exactly as planned for Quin Chun and somehow Pan Yi ends up finding her secret.

The story of Hirano's new manga centers around a handsome ophthalmologist who investigates a murder in Tokyo in the first half of the 20th century. (Source: ANN)