Explore the Japanese concept of tsundoku—the art of joyfully collecting and living with books—in this charmingly illustrated volume.The Japanese term tsundoku sums up a concept that may sound familiar to many readers: buying books and often putting them aside to read at a later date. The fact is that these books we've accumulated and which now reside in “piles of shame” on our bedside table, in overflowing bookcases, or even on the floor number to...

Using all his skills, Soei-one of Rimuru's oldest and most faithful companions-must fight the assassin who brought a sniper rifle to a fantasy world! Then, when the smoke of battle clears, Rimuru and his friends join an expedition to the lost city of Amirita, a mysterious ruin full of treasure and danger. But in the darkness of the lost city, evil forces wait for the chance to strike. Weakened by the deadly dungeon, the slime finally comes face to face with Maribel, the mind-controlling ch...

The Japanese term tsundoku sums up a concept that may sound familiar to many readers: buying books and often putting them aside to read at a later date. The fact is that these books we've accumulated and which now reside in “piles of shame” on our bedside table, in overflowing bookcases, or even on the floor number too many to be read in a single lifetime.This is where the art of living tsundoku comes in: the joy of choosing and buying books, rebellion against must...

Following the events on the Eltram, Hugo finally reaches the capital of Caldina. There, he meets the leader of Sefirot, the strongest clan in Infinite Dendrogram, and encounters a particularly...dubious Superior from the enchanted realm of Legendaria. Meanwhile, in a city far to the south, Caldinan and Granvaloan Superiors converge for critical negotiations. The motives of countries and the motives of their Superiors intertwine and collide, with unexpected results!

As players of Monster Hunter and Dungeons & Dragons know, the slime is not exactly the king of the fantasy monsters. So when a 37-year-old Tokyo salaryman dies and wakes up in a world of dragons and magic, he’s a little disappointed to find he’s become a blind, boneless slime monster. Mikami’s middle age hasn’t gone as he planned: He never found a girlfriend, he got stuck in a dead-end job, and he was abruptly stabbed to death in the street at 37. So when he wakes up in a new world straigh...

This book constitutes the proceedings of the second International Workshop on Mechanism Design in Social Networks, MNet 2025, held in conjunction with IJCAI 2025, in Montreal, Canada, during August 16–22, 2025.The 5 full papers included in these proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from 11 submissions. They provide a cross-disciplinary study and communication on the research of mechanism design and social networks..

At the climax of the Walpurgis, Clayman's schemes are exposed, and he resorts to desperation. Although Rimuru is firmly in command, this is unlikely to be the end of the Moderate Harlequin Alliance. Meanwhile, the truth about a certain vampiric Demon Lord with connections to the Holy Church are sure to complicate matters for Tempest. The origins of Luminism are finally revealed!

Over the course of his new life as a slime, Rimuru has overcome many trials and tribulations—aggressive neighbors, treacherous plots, deadly beasts—to build his very own nation of monsters. For a change of pace, he's decided to engage in a diplomatic tour of the nearby human kingdoms, where he might have found his most challenging adversary yet: a classroom of rowdy children! Can he live up to the memory of his long-lost friend Shizu by taking care of her former pupils?

During his rise from a humble slime to the chancellor of the Jura Tempest Federation, Rimuru has tackled his fair share of trials and tribulations. But this latest challenge is unlike any he has faced beforea challenge where the lives of loved ones hang in the balance. While there is a solution, it may involve the most drastic cost yet…

Now that things have mostly been settled with Hinata, its time for Rimuru to announce his rise to Demon Lord to the world. Thus, Tempest prepares to hold a ceremony, inviting other countries to attend. Will the nation of monsters be able to convince people to respect its right to exist and its leader, though? It certainly seems like Rimuru has his work cut out for him.

This book investigates phase transitions and critical phenomena in disordered systems driven out of equilibrium. First, the author derives a dimensional reduction property that relates the long-distance physics of driven disordered systems to that of lower dimensional pure systems. By combining this property with a modern renormalization group technique, the critical behavior of random field spin models driven at a uniform velocity is subsequently investigated. The highlight of this book i...

The Tempest Founder's Festival is finally over-but now the bills are due! With all the human merchants refusing to accept the monsters' currency, it looks like trouble for the monster kingdom until a handsome nobleman offers them a loan. Or is this seeming generosity just a trap set by the secret leaders of the human nations, the mysterious Five Elders? Meanwhile, a party of skilled adventurers forces Rimuru to defend his dungeon personally!