On a whim, shop owner Shuji Tanihara hooks up with reserved pediatrician Takafumi Saji. Shuji wasn’t expecting much from the fling, but after seeing an unexpected side of the serious doctor while out on a date, Shuji finds himself becoming more attracted to the man. When Shuji accidentally sees Takafumi kissing someone else, he’s surprised at how conflicted it makes him feel. To make matters worse, the doctor then tells Shuji that he won’t be able to see him for a while! Will the relationship that started as a fling finally deepen into something more? -- VIZ Media
Shuji, a divorced single dad running a modest corner shop, has an easygoing attitude and an eye out for anything to break the boredom of his days. So when Saji, the serious, reserved pediatrician who’s been coming into his store, suddenly declares that he’s gay and wants to take Shuji home, Shuji goes along with it out of simple curiosity. He thought they’d just mess around, have some fun, and that would be that. But he gets a lot more than he bargained for in this story of opposites in love! -- VIZ Media
Local shop owner Shuji Tanihara and neighborhood pediatrician Takafumi Saji are in a relationship, and what began as a mere fling has turned into love. Little by little, Shuji has grown accustomed to the relationship, but he can’t quite gauge how much he can open up to Takafumi, which troubles him. What will the future hold for these two men as they reach an important turning point in their lives?
High school student Ao has been dreaming about his longtime neighbor Ryomei, a priest at the local Shinto shrine. A little freaked out--and a lot excited--at the prospect of having a relationship with Ryomei, Ao gathers up his courage, confesses his feelings...and gets turned down flat. Luckily, Ao's not the kind to give up easily. Thanks to some creative persistence (and Ryomei's weakening resolve), he finally gets a kiss. But one single kiss won't satisfy him for long! -- VIZ Media
Awkward Yoshida’s life got flipped upside down when the hottest guy in school started going out with him. Things should be easier for Yoshida now that his whole class knows about his relationship, but it’s never that simple with Sato as a boyfriend. There’s always something or someone getting in the way of their relationship taking the next step. Can these lovebirds get even closer by ringing in the New Year together? -- VIZ Media
At the height of the dispute, Yashiro, deputy boss of Shinseikai, faces Doumeki in his room. Yashiro has long avoided his feelings for Doumeki. Likewise, Doumeki has been resolute in being Yashiro's bodyguard and that alone. Although they have been painfully aware of each other, they have kept theirfeelings penned up, determined not to cross the line. But, when Doumeki is cornered and confesses his feelings to Yashiro, that line is washed away. To get something he wants, or lose it for pride, which will Yashiro choose...?
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.
Corporate secretary Shirotani suffers from obsessive-compulsive disorder. One day he meets Kurose, a therapist who offers to take him through a ten-step program to cure him of his compulsion. As the two go through each of the ten steps, Shirotani’s attraction to his counselor grows. -- VIZ Media
On a whim, shop owner Shuji Tanihara hooks up with reserved pediatrician Takafumi Saji. Shuji wasn’t expecting much from the fling, but after seeing an unexpected side of the serious doctor while out on a date, Shuji finds himself becoming more attracted to the man. When Shuji accidentally sees Takafumi kissing someone else, he’s surprised at how conflicted it makes him feel. To make matters worse, the doctor then tells Shuji that he won’t be able to see him for a while! Will the relationship that started as a fling finally deepen into something more?
A new collection of delightfully macabre tales from a master of horror manga. An old wooden mansion that turns on its inhabitants. A dissection class with a most unusual subject. A funeral where the dead are definitely not laid to rest. Ranging from the terrifying to the comedic, from the erotic to the loathsome, these stories showcase Junji Ito’s long-awaited return to the world of horror. -- VIZ Media
