Fujino could be considered a NORMAL high school student who is surrounded by friends- that is, if he didn't have a major hand fetish. Takie is Fujino's close friend who, by Fujino's standards, has mesmerizing hands. This is a story about Fujino and how his hand fetish became overpowering, which led to him getting aroused just by Takie touching him! My oh my, just how does the relationship between Fujino, the hand fetishist, and Takie, the owner of beautiful hands, turn out? --
Desert night shrouds the capital city in its heady warmth. Heath and Caio walk the winding alleyways, absorbing sights of unrestrained decadence. This is that infamous den of hedonism: the pleasure district of Sa’arre. Deep within the palace of desire, they feel an irresistible, charismatic pull. In a world of inhuman passion, no spell can protect against raw demonic charm. A search for allies takes an unexpected turn as the danger around them spirals out of control. The naïve couple soon realizes nothing is what it seems. Format: Short story Length: ~7,000 words ***CONTAINS EXPLICIT GAY SEXUAL CONTENT***
“God has delivered you unto me.” Hidden away high amongst the arid cliffs of the western mountains sits the settlement of Vero. Under the watchful gaze of The Prophet, this village has long remained isolated. Said to be chosen by god himself, the divine leader wields absolute and unyielding control over the minds of his subjects. As son of The Prophet, Finn Vale is de facto royalty within the compound. Independent and uninterested in his father’s teachings, the young man’s curiosity is piqued when a mysterious and handsome traveler arrives at the community. Finn can’t help but stare at the charming foreigner’s thick biceps and powerful, masculine frame. It goes against his father’s teachings, but he wants to be alone with this stranger…he wants to fall to his knees. He soon realizes there’s only one thing in life worth worshipping, and it’s between this man’s legs. Format: Short story Length: ~6,000 words ***CONTAINS EXPLICIT GAY SEXUAL CONTENT***
Fanning the Flames examines the worlds of fans in the exuberant and commercialized popular culture of contemporary Japan. The works collected here profile denizens of all-night rap clubs; sumo stable patrons; passionate fan clubs of a professional baseball team; enthusiasts of traditional rakugo storytelling; a club of middle-aged female fans of a popular music star; youthful followers of Japan's longest-running rock band; vinyl record collectors; and a thriving community of girls and women who produce and devour amateur comics. Grounded in close, often extended fieldwork with the fans themselves, each case study is an effort to understand both the personal pleasures and political economies of fandoms. The contributors explore the many ways that fans in and of Japanese mass culture actively search for intimacy and identity amid the powerful corporate structures that produce the leisure and entertainment of today's Japan.
«D'après ce que je vois, beaucoup d'adolescents de ma classe vivent des choses incroyables. Un camarade a une sorte de courant électrique qui lui parcourt le corps dès qu'il voit de belles mains... comme celles de Takie par exemple ! Tout ce que je peux dire, c'est que ce courant semble lui procurer des sensations agréables. Que se passerait-il s'il se faisait toucher par ces mains ?! Ce manga de Taishi Zaou réunit 7 petites histoires incroyables !
Izumi Sena is an average guy born into a family of famous celebrities. A college student and total otaku, he works hard every day with the goal of someday becoming a manga creator. In an attempt to hide from his stalker, Izumi moves in with Ryoma. The two enjoy home-cooked meals, baths together, and steamy action between the sheets! It looks like smooth sailing for these two—that is, until Izumi decides he wants to top Ryoma! Freaked out and unsure what to think, Ryoma beats a speedy retreat. Separated, the two give serious thought to what it means for a man to love another man. Could this spell the end for this showbiz couple?
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His father is a singer and his mother an actress, while older brother Shogo is the lead singer for the popular band “CRUSHERZ.” Though his family is packed with famous celebrities, Izumi Sena is just your average guy. Currently a college student, he is a huge otaku with aspirations of becoming a manga creator. But one day he gets roped into participating in a TV commercial and meets popular young actor Ryoma Ichijo. Could this be the same boy he starred in a commercial with over ten years ago?! -- VIZ Media
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.
D'après ce que je vois, beaucoup d'adolescents de ma classe vivent des choses incroyables. Un camarade a une sorte de courant électrique qui lui parcourt le corps dès qu'il voit de belles mains. Comme celles de Takie par exemple ! Tout ce que je peux dire, c'est que ce courant semble lui procurer des sensations agréables. Que se passerait-il s'il se faisait toucher par ces mains ? Ce premier manga de Taishi Zaou réunit 7 petites histoires incroyables !
