In a Tokyo in the not too distant future a young girl studies diligently with ambitions of soon attending space academy. If things work out just right, her future may very well be among the stars as well. And yet, every time she looks up to the stars there is a sense of melancholy in her heart. A sadness surrounds Asumi, as space exploration itself has profoundly impacted her life for as long as she can remember.But she is not alone...A young man wearing a lion's mask is always bes...

Four years have passed since Yashiro’s fateful battle with Hirata. Having left the family, Yashiro now makes a living as an investor of an underground casino. However, despite Yashiro no longer being tied to the family, Musumi still visits him in the casino, from time to time, in hopes that Yashiro might change his mind and return to the Shinsei-kai.Unlike Yashiro, who has removed himself from the yakuza world, Doumeki, on the other hand, has fallen deeper into it. Having been aban...

Where were you when the first International Space Station was scrapped and dropped into Earth's atmosphere?It was Asumi's first day in space school, and she promised Lion she would not cry or be homesick as she will be leaving her quiet seaside town for the big city. Waiting for her in Tokyo will be a lot of work. She is going to have to go through the rigors of space exploration training at the Tokyo Space School. After hours, Asumi will focus her efforts on homework, when not ear...

At last, Khalifa and Lailah have confessed their feelings to one another--but in a cruel twist of fate, time has run out, and the cursed crest is complete. There is one last hope: Lailah's estranged great-aunt Monir may yet hold the key to a cure. As Khalifa and Lutf race against the clock to find her, Malaika sets her carefully calculated escape plan into motion.

In the ninth volume of Twin Spica, Asumi and her classmates are getting closer and closer towards graduation, and changes in store for this group of friends. There will be good-byes to be said and that might end up causing some tension within this group. Some of that friction might be spurred on from outside of the Tokyo Space School as the media has caught on to the identities of at least one prime candidate.

I can't hold my voice with his fingers caressing me under my wedding dress like that. How did this happen...? Yuri's favoritism with masculine men always ends in tragedy so she decides to join a match making party to find an easy-going gentleman to settle with instead. There she meets Satsuki, the most perfect "husband material." ...Or so she thought?! Satsuki's innocent mask fooled her into marriage and now she's stuck with this aggressive sadist whose exactly the opposite man he had port...

"You're the most important thing in my life..." Now begins the newlywed life for the architectural designer Natsu and the pure damsel Ayano! Now that they're living together, the sex life reaches a whole new level...?! "You're so hot... you're gonna need to take responsibility for that." In the foyer, in the kitchen, at the beach, and even at the hospital, the two get a little bit crazy...

"My job is to satisfy the sexual desires of female employees?!" Even that usually strict and cool senior who is looking for naughty benefits is moaning sweetly!

The Akutagawa prize-winning novel by Kou Machida, Japan’s most outlandish and inventive author.Rip It Up is the first ever English translation of Kou Machida's award-winning novel, an undertaking over five years in the making and the inaugural title of Inpatient Press's translation imprint Mercurial Editions.Set in a kaleidoscopic hyperreal Japan circa Y2K, Rip It Up catalogues the misdeeds and misgivings of a down-and-out wannabe debonair...

"You're the most important thing in my life..." Now begins the newlywed life for the architectural designer Natsu and the pure damsel Ayano! Now that they're living together, the sex life reaches a whole new level...?! "You're so hot... you're gonna need to take responsibility for that." In the foyer, in the kitchen, at the beach, and even at the hospital, the two get a little bit crazy...

This study documents Hmong’s involvement in the Secret War in Laos, their refugee exodus from Laos to the refugee camps in Thailand, and the challenges to find third countries to take Hmong refugees. At the time, Hmong and other highlander refugees from Laos were considered unsuitable to be resettled into the United States. He provides detailed research on the adaptation of Hmong Americans to their new lives in the United States, facing discrimination and prejudice, and the advancement of ...

The 4th volume of Her Royal Highness Seems to Be Angry.To solve the mystery of the white-cloaked man and the black fog, Leticiel turns to Nirvaan's royal library for answers. There, she encounters a strange and sinister message in one of the library's books...But before she can uncover more, Leticiel learns of a mass uprising within the Filiaregis duchy! Chaos is spreading throughout the region, and it's up to Leticiel to set things right.C...