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naoki urasawa's wonderful documentary program manben shows mangaka at work while they discuss their form and process with urasawa-sensei. this list includes one noteworthy series by each mangaka featured on the show.

an english fansub of the series can be found here (this is NOT urasawa-sensei's official website):

https://www.naokiurasawa.com/

i will do my best to choose series' that can be read in their entirety in english, either officially or via scanlations. information can be found in the descriptions for each entry.

format:
mangaka ([season][episode])
common english title(s)
magazine

Speculative Japanese history, based on myths.

These manga are concerned with the study of human societies and cultures and their development. Many of them specifically focus on Japanese origin myths and Izumo.

There is so little Jump manga from the 70's that are fully translated into English's, but these are the one's that I was able to find.

If you find any that I missed please tell me.

[Note: Cobra still has a volume that's not translated, but I'm including it here because the last time it was updated was a month ago, so the last volume will probably be translated in the near future]

Here is the Jump Manga from all the other decades:

- 1980's: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/39714
- 1990's: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/39716
- 2000's: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/37510
- 2010's: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/39694
- 2020's: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/39660

Horror manga with some combination of ancient religious beliefs versus the modern era, terror lurking in the country, fear of the spirits and gods, and often dangerous encounters between the outsiders and the isolated village. Due to the genre often being associated with Western horror, entries may not have all of these elements but will have most of them.

The genre is not to be confused with supernatural horror and is not wholly identical to "horror (usually supernatural) that is set in the countryside." However, the genre is fuzzy, so my interpretation may not wholly align with what someone else calls Folk Horror.