A high-school student narcissist Takamura has a mission to gain information through a sexy "Yakuza's mistress" who also runs a bar, Renge. Takamura believes that no one can resist his charm, but apparently, Renge is in the different league. After several seductions, finally, Renge invited him to his house and having an intimate relationship with Takamura. But instead of devouring Renge, it seems like he is the who got lead on... This chest-tightening feeling, is it just usual frustration or does it mean something else? "A Touch of the Love Bug" is a thrilling romantic tales between an alluring adult and persistent young man who insisted on greedily devouring each other...
Kei Kurosu, the ordinary office worker, is a being that feeds from humans' life force. Since men with strong libido have stronger life forces, usually he also sleeps with them.One day, Kei bumped into a handsome mixed-race hotel owner, Shou, who suddenly took Kei to his room and said, "I've finally found you again. It has been 20 years since the time you left our house and tell me to find you". Despite Kei having no memory about that promise at all, Shou keeps pursuing him and his body!For some reason, Kei could not use his memory modification on Shou. Moreover, he started getting addicted to Shou's taste... What actually happened in their past?Will the love born between these two different beings last forever?
Boys Love Manga and Beyond looks at a range of literary, artistic and other cultural products that celebrate the beauty of adolescent boys and young men. In Japan, depiction of the “beautiful boy” has long been a romantic and sexualized trope for both sexes and commands a high degree of cultural visibility today across a range of genres from pop music to animation. In recent decades, “Boys Love” (or simply BL) has emerged as a mainstream genre in manga, anime, and games for girls and young women. This genre was first developed in Japan in the early 1970s by a group of female artists who went on to establish themselves as major figures in Japan's manga industry. By the late 1970s many amateur women fans were getting involved in the BL phenomenon by creating and self-publishing homoerotic parodies of established male manga characters and popular media figures. The popularity of these fan-made products, sold and circulated at huge conventions, has led to an increase in the number of commercial titles available. Today, a wide range of products produced both by professionals and amateurs are brought together under the general rubric of “boys love,” and are rapidly gaining an audience throughout Asia and globally. This collection provides the first comprehensive overview in English of the BL phenomenon in Japan, its history and various subgenres and introduces translations of some key Japanese scholarship not otherwise available. Some chapters detail the historical and cultural contexts that helped BL emerge as a significant part of girls' culture in Japan. Others offer important case studies of BL production, consumption, and circulation and explain why BL has become a controversial topic in contemporary Japan.
Born and raised in the countryside, Kyouhei immediately clashes with his next door neighbor, an outgoing playboy called Takara, when he moves to Tokyo. As someone who's always been teased for being a country bumpkin, he doesn't exactly have much in common with an extoverted city boy. But when Takara makes a move on him one day, Kyouhei can't get it out of his mind. Even though he can barely stand Takara, he can't help finding himself strangely drawn to him. But Kyouhei's not looking for a one night stand; he's looking for serious love!
The moment we realized that we both like men, a special"rule" was born between us: First, we should keep a secret about us being gay. Second, we should not fall in love with each other. Rio has been secretly watching this attractive classmate, Etsu, for quite a long time. Etsu has a complicated character, but his face is just Rio's type. Regardless, It has been decided by the destiny that they could not be together no matter how attracted they are to each other. After all, they are both "bottom"! Still, aren't "rules" made to be broken? Enjoy the complete volume of "Rule No. 1" series, a masterpiece by the reversible couple enthusiast, Sachi Murakami!
While visiting a small, deserted island for work, Yuichi and his boss Imakura find themselves left behind by mistake. They must survive until someone notices they are missing, a task made more difficult by the incompetent Imakura. Though they struggle for even the most basic necessities, Yuichi finds his facade is beginning to crumble!
Takanashi and Tokunaga were spending their peaceful office lovers' life until Takanashi suddenly got transferred to another department. Separated with his partner, Tokunaga gradually realized the true depth of his feeling. But that doesn't mean their relationship was getting better. The more important Takanashi becomes in his eyes, the clearer Tokunaga can see the dead-end of their relationship. In a world that sometimes becomes unkind, can the two lovebirds walk to the future they wish for...? "Another Love Story Between My Trainee and I" is a sequel from the famous "Love Story" series by Nanameguri!
As the band races toward their first live concert, Mafuyu struggles to write lyrics for their new song but can’t find the words to express the emotions burning within him. Meanwhile, Uenoyama hears rumors about Mafuyu’s past and is bewildered by his own feelings. The tension builds until the night of the show, when the band explodes into a raging, life-changing performance. -- VIZ Media
Among the elites and criminals, Giichiro Jin is known for his top-notch plastic surgery skill that can transform patients appearance along with their fates. But his service costs an arm and a leg, on top of that, he will never operate the same patient twice. Because he believed what he does is a God's Job, thus should never be taken lightly. He travels around the world and encounters many dangerous cases that would not only change people's lives but also his own. "God Job" is a heavy and unusual hard-boiled medical drama that is amazingly brought by Kengo Izuki and Seisaku Kano. Warning: Graphic Image
Hugo and Shirley Jackson award-winning Peter Watts stands on the cutting edge of hard SF with his acclaimed novel, Blindsight Two months since the stars fell... Two months of silence, while a world held its breath. Now some half-derelict space probe, sparking fitfully past Neptune's orbit, hears a whisper from the edge of the solar system: a faint signal sweeping the cosmos like a lighthouse beam. Whatever's out there isn't talking to us. It's talking to some distant star, perhaps. Or perhaps to something closer, something en route. So who do you send to force introductions with unknown and unknowable alien intellect that doesn't wish to be met? You send a linguist with multiple personalities, her brain surgically partitioned into separate, sentient processing cores. You send a biologist so radically interfaced with machinery that he sees x-rays and tastes ultrasound. You send a pacifist warrior in the faint hope she won't be needed. You send a monster to command them all, an extinct hominid predator once called vampire, recalled from the grave with the voodoo of recombinant genetics and the blood of sociopaths. And you send a synthesist—an informational topologist with half his mind gone—as an interface between here and there. Pray they can be trusted with the fate of a world. They may be more alien than the thing they've been sent to find. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
