This is the regular edition of Kabukicho Bad Trip Volume 2. A special edition with a 10-page bonus manga is also available!
Toru and Mizuki are officially together! Though they want to venture deeper into the world of S&M, daily life keeps getting in the way. Toru is doing his best to look for a regular job, while Mizuki receives an offer from a famous screenwriter to appear in a TV show. Mizuki worries that his increased profile will cause problems for Toru, since the paparazzi are determined to expose their relationship. How will they balance being open about their relationship with Mizuki's rising popularity?
This long-awaited second volume doesn't skimp on the BDSM action!
Revised in October 2024 with a brand-new translation! Toru Miyama is a country boy who has climbed his way to the top of Kabukicho's host club scene—not an easy feat, considering that Kabukicho is the number one red-light district in all of Japan. His secret? Why, it's his enthralling good looks and his secret mind-reading skills, of course. When he's not working, Toru spends his time obsessing over male model Mizuki Hikawa. When they meet by chance one day, Toru jumps at the opportunity to get closer to the object of his affection. But when they go on a date, Toru gets a peek into Mizuki's mind... and finds himself in a submissive position. Can true love really blossom between a dominant top model and an earnest host?
This is the regular edition of Lala's Married Life Volume 2. A special edition with a 12-page bonus manga is also available!
With Ramdane still adjusting to living as his twin sister, Lala, Wolsey's older brother, Badma, makes an unexpected visit to the Brooktine manor. Badma boldly claims that he's going to take Ramdane as his wife, and he challenges his brother to a duel! How will the duel play out, and what other events will unfold in Volume 2?!
Monster customers, a boss who takes no responsibility, nonchalant coworkers, unreasonable departments...Food company customer support worker Tokura has racked up daily stress. One day after a stress induced meltdown, cleaning staff Keita offers himself up. "How about me?" While at first he can’t imagine taking out his frustration on the self-described hardcore masochist, his pent-up anger incites him to sin. Drunk off of the pleasure of domination, Tokura begins to search for more sources of stress in order to have sex with Keita...
An insightful and comprehensive look at Asia on the rise—a "masterful job of describing Asia's anguish and ambition" (The Washington Post Book World)—from the Pulitzer Prize–winning journalists and bestselling authors of Half a Sky and Tightrope The 1997 economic crisss in Asia heaped devastation upon millions. Yet Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn argue that it was the best thing that could have happened to Asia. It destroyed the cronyism, protectionism, and government regulation that had been crippling Asian business for decades, and it left in its wake a vast region of resilient and determined millions poised to wrest economic, diplomatic and military power from the West. Thunder from the East is a riveting look at a complex region, a fascinating panoply of compelling characters, and a prophetic analysis from arguably the West's most informed and intelligent writers on Asia.
Coyote has lived his entire life hiding the fact that he’s a werewolf, while Marleen, a pianist at a local bar, is the secret successor to the mafia family hunting Coyote’s kind. When Coyote unexpectedly goes into heat, the two form a deep bond that only serves to further escalate the feud. Now that the werewolves have decided to dismantle the mafia once and for all, Coyote must choose between love and family. But when his next heat overcomes him, who will he run to? -- VIZ Media
This Volume includes 3 BL chapters that will make your heart races!
At The Class President's Beck and Call: Just like the others, Ichika's joined the student council because he admired the beautiful and charismatic President Sasamori. But the president is actually a hardcore masochist! And as the only person who knows, Ichika had to help the president enjoy his weird hobby. One day, Sasamori asked Ichika to accompany him to an S&M Club, but why did Ichika felt so irritated when the other club members were playing with the president's body?
The Secretary and His Pet After a massive number of council members resigned at the same time, the ones who left beside the president and vice-president are only Yashiro, the secretary, and the 1st-year Mochizuki. At first, Yashiro only thought Mochizuki as a loyal pet who will gladly follow his instruction and will smile if got praised but what he did not realize that the pet might not be a cute hamster or rabbit... but a snake ready to predate him!
Now Then, Sir, Here's Your Aphrodisiac Kojou is an elementary school teacher who got stressed easily. Fortunately, he ran to his underclassman from university day, Hiiragi, who was also his first love! Hiiragi gave Kojou a drug that can help with his complication. He did get better, but not without a side-effect—an irresistible sensitive body! Thankfully, Hiiragi decided to take responsibility in the best way Kojou never imagined.
Step into the booth. Check your judgments at the curtain. Close your eyes. Listen: you can hear the voices of the visitors who sat here before you: some of the most twisted, drug-addled, deviant, lonely, lost, brilliant characters ever to be caught on film. What do you have to offer the booth?
It is rumored that Touji Seryou, one of the more popular boys at school, would go out with anyone who asks him out on a Monday morning. But on this particular Monday morning, the first person he meets at the school gate is no other than Yuzuru Shino, Seryou's sempai at the archery club. On a whim, and well-aware of Seryou's reputation, Shino asks Seryou to go out with him. Thinking that it will be treated as a joke, they're both guys after all, imagine Shino's surprise when Seryou takes him up on the offer! There is a catch, though. While Seryou does go out with the first girl who asks him out on a Monday morning, the other side of the coin is - by the end of the week, he will break up with that person. In essence, Seryou is a lover with a one-week expiration date. But will Shino prove to be the exception to that rule?
This book places Bird's visit to Japan in the context of her worldwide life of travel and gives an introduction to the woman herself. Supported by detailed maps, it also offers a highly illuminating view of Japan and its people in the early years of the 'New Japan' following the Meiji Restoration of 1868, as well as providing a valuable new critique on what is often considered as Bird's most important work. The central focus of the book is a detailed exploration of Bird's journeys and the careful planning that went into them with the support of the British Minister, Sir Harry Parkes, seen as the prime mover, who facilitated her extensive travels through his negotiations with the Japanese authorities. Furthermore, the author dismisses the widely-held notion that Bird ventured into the field on her own, revealing instead the crucial part played by Ito, her young servant-interpreter, without whose constant presence she would have achieved nothing. Written by Japan's leading scholar on Isabella Bird, the book also addresses the vexed question of the hitherto universally-held view that her travels in Japan in 1878 only involved the northern part of Honshu and Hokkaido. This mistaken impression, the author argues, derives from the fact that the abridged editions of Unbeaten Tracks in Japan that appeared after the 1880 two-volume original work entirely omit her visit to the Kansai, which took in Osaka, Kyoto, Kobe and the Ise Shrines. Bird herself tells us that she wrote her book in the form of letters to her sister Henrietta but here the author proposes the intriguing theory that these letters were never actually sent. Many well-known figures, Japanese and foreign, are introduced as having influenced Bird's journey indirectly, and this forms a fascinating sub-text.
