The duel to determine the ranks amongst students is underway at the Academy. Shortly after transferring schools, Hiroto Shinohara unseats the previous year’s undisputed champion Sarasa Saionji and soon becomes the fastest student in Academy history to rise to Seven Star status—but all of this is a lie?! 

Everything you need to learn Japanese quickly!Learning Japanese is a complete language learning package designed for people who want to learn to communicate in Japanese quickly and easily—whether on your own or with a teacher. The book introduces all the basics of the language including pronunciation, vocabulary and sentence patterns—so you can engage in simple conversations right from the start!Useful explanations of the Japanese script, ...

FROM WORST TO BEST IN LESS THAN A DAYOn the massive island called the Academy, students compete in star-hunting Games to advance their ranks. And among the many competitors, none is better than Sarasa Saionji, the Seven Star Empress. At least, not until unranked newcomer Hiroto Shinohara beats her by accident. To protect himself and the status quo, Hiroto must fool everyone into thinking he’s the new top student despite almost failing his entrance exam. Will he be able to keep this lie goi...

Having passed “ordinary high school girl” Shion Hagoromo’s almost impossible test, Hiroto is finally ready to relax and enjoy his school trip—but he’s suddenly interrupted when Shinji sends an urgent request calling him back to the Academy! Hiroto arrives to find the top third-year Eimei players staring down the barrel of defeat in their own game, the Refrain, thanks to a mastermind working behind the scenes to manipulate the other school wards into targeting them. With too many enemies to...

The 14th International Conference on Distributed, Ambient and Pervasive Interactions, DAPI 2026, held as part of the 28th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, HCI International 2026 (HCII 2026), took place in Montreal, QC, Canada, during July 2026.A total of 7435 individuals from academia, research institutes, industry, and government agencies from 94 countries submitted contributions to HCII 2026. Following peer review, 1463 papers and 360 posters (as short rese...

There is a rumor going around that a twelve-year-old boy is going to enter the sixteen-year-old and under tennis group. How can someone so young ever hope to compete with kids much older and more experienced than him? This is no ordinary kid: he is none other than Ryoma Echizen, the Prince of Tennis! Ryoma's father was destined for greatness until he injured himself during a match, ending his career forever. His talent was passed on to his son, who is determined to be the best tennis playe...

With one lie after another, Hiroto must contend with the realities of being the Academy’s strongest. Now everyone on the island has their eyes on him! Amid countless spectators, skeptics, and would-be rivals, Hiroto takes on his first challenger. But this time, he has Himeji and the Company by his side, and he’s ready to defend his title through any means necessary—even if it means not playing by the rules!

The stakes just keep getting higher! On the Academy, stars dictate everything, like what Abilities can be used or even one’s social standing. And while Hiroto’s lie has granted him Seven Star status, he must continue to prove his worth and protect his secret—this time, against the Five Star Seiran Kugasaki, who also wields the power of a Unique Star. In the face of such a high-level opponent, how could Hiroto possibly win, especially when, in reality, he has only a single star…?

The Fourth Ward Challenge, one of the many traditional events in Eimei School’s calendar, is kicking off! Individual stars aren’t at stake in this Eimei-exclusive contest, but Hiroto is still gunning for victory, all for the grand prize—one of the unique colored stars that can grant special skills. For Hiroto, this is an opportunity he can’t pass up. After all, this will get him one step closer to becoming a true Seven Star. The only problem is…someone’s stolen the prize before the competi...

This two-volume set LNCS 15802-15803 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Distributed, Ambient and Pervasive Interactions, DAPI 2025, held as part of the 27th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, HCII 2025, in Gothenburg, Sweden, during June 22-27, 2025.The total of 1430 papers and 355 posters included in the HCII 2025 proceedings was carefully reviewed and selected from 7972 submissions.The two volumes cover the foll...

A LONG-AWAITED REUNION!Hiroto Shinohara is enjoying a nice little break after making it through the May Interschools when he’s suddenly invited to a special Game run by the very person he came to the Academy to find! With a face-to-face meeting with his childhood friend and a purple Unique Star on the line, he finds himself locked in a fierce battle against Sarasa Saionji…to help students with their relationship problems? Will his Company connections and Seven Star Abilities be enough to h...

In this book, a framework of the investment function is developed that allows for the heterogeneity of capital goods, i.e., the Multiple q model, and investment behavior in Japan by employing this Multiple q framework is developed. The standard approach to investment behavior is Tobin's q theory in which the investment rate is a linear function of only the q ratio, or a firm's market value measured by its capital goods. As is well known, however, its empirical performance has been almost u...