The manga is about a series of unrelated short stories of people's life and their lessons in life. (Source: MU)

Human Scramble won the 1986 Shogakukan Manga Award in the general category. It was partially published in English as Ningen Kosaten in the educational publication Mangajin, where it was included occasionally between August 1991 (issue #11) and October 1995 (issue #49), for a total of seven issues.