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...

Kunieda Kei is the up-and-coming Prince Charming of the evening news. Inside, he's the opposite: brash, hot-tempered, and prickly as can be. For years, Kei has successfully juggled his private and professional personas--until a chance meeting with a stop motion animator threatens to bring it all crashing down. But is that really as frightening as the possibility that someone might love and accept both sides of who he is?

Chiharu Saeki and Wataru Toda are two high school students who share a common hobby: They love to watch movies. After they meet, they become fast friends, until one day, when Chiharu confesses his love for Wataru. Wataru says that Chiharu’s confession doesn’t bother him, and the boys continue throughout their summer, going to pilgrimages to see film spots from their favorite movies. But the more time he spends with Chiharu, Wataru realizes that he may not only be as unaffected by Chiharu’s confession as he claimed to be, but those feelings may also be mutual…

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?!

"My feeling for Daichi should not be known... forever." Mihiro has been secretly liking his best friend, Daichi, a clumsy high-schooler who has bad luck with women. When Mihiro got confused with his relationship with Daichi, his upperclassman started to approach him. But why does Daichi act like he's jealous? Even though he supposed to be head over heels towards his girl crush...

Boys Love Manga and Beyond looks at a range of literary, artistic and other cultural products that celebrate the beauty of adolescent boys and young men. In Japan, depiction of the “beautiful boy” has long been a romantic and sexualized trope for both sexes and commands a high degree of cultural visibility today across a range of genres from pop music to animation. In recent decades, “Boys Love” (or simply BL) has emerged as a mainstream genre in manga, anime, and games for girls and young women. This genre was first developed in Japan in the early 1970s by a group of female artists who went on to establish themselves as major figures in Japan's manga industry. By the late 1970s many amateur women fans were getting involved in the BL phenomenon by creating and self-publishing homoerotic parodies of established male manga characters and popular media figures. The popularity of these fan-made products, sold and circulated at huge conventions, has led to an increase in the number of commercial titles available. Today, a wide range of products produced both by professionals and amateurs are brought together under the general rubric of “boys love,” and are rapidly gaining an audience throughout Asia and globally. This collection provides the first comprehensive overview in English of the BL phenomenon in Japan, its history and various subgenres and introduces translations of some key Japanese scholarship not otherwise available. Some chapters detail the historical and cultural contexts that helped BL emerge as a significant part of girls' culture in Japan. Others offer important case studies of BL production, consumption, and circulation and explain why BL has become a controversial topic in contemporary Japan.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A stunning “portrait of the enduring grace of friendship” (NPR) about the families we are born into, and those that we make for ourselves. A masterful depiction of love in the twenty-first century. NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • MAN BOOKER PRIZE FINALIST • WINNER OF THE KIRKUS PRIZE A Little Life follows four college classmates—broke, adrift, and buoyed only by their friendship and ambition—as they move to New York in search of fame and fortune. While their relationships, which are tinged by addiction, success, and pride, deepen over the decades, the men are held together by their devotion to the brilliant, enigmatic Jude, a man scarred by an unspeakable childhood trauma. A hymn to brotherly bonds and a masterful depiction of love in the twenty-first century, Hanya Yanagihara’s stunning novel is about the families we are born into, and those that we make for ourselves. Look for Hanya Yanagihara’s latest bestselling novel, To Paradise.

"This impure feeling should just disappear..." Hachi and Ritsu grew up hanging out together in the countryside despite their stark differences. Ritsu thought their relationship would never change, but Hachi suddenly moved to Tokyo after junior high school graduation without saying anything to Ritsu. Ritsu can't believe he was being neglected, so three years later he decided to go after Hachi in Tokyo... This time he will not let Hachi escapes, even though that means he must prepare for another heartbreak.

As his cheap college dormitory shuts down, working student Nonohiko gets caught in a predicament where his only salvation is an all-male sharehouse. Despite the beautiful Onee-san (♂) landlady only allowing beefcake hotties room and board, Nonohiko somehow passes inspection. Shouldering some unease, the move-in day dawns. From being invited to bathe with a promiscuous glasses-clad sharehouse roomie, to even being mistaken as a guy down for casual sex----?! Executive glasses guy x Super pure working student A love sex comedy starting from mistaken identity★

"If all the world’s a stage, then are all the men and women really merely players? For Sakuya, it all started out as an innocent game: “Why don’t you pretend to be a girl and approach my brother?” Yuuki said. “That’s a great idea!” responded Sakuya who unbeknownst to him would begin to discover he and Yuuki’s brother shared not only many things in common but mutual feelings for each other. Known as Sakura to Yuuki's brother, Sakuya finds himself caught between a rock and a hard place as his feelings for Yuuki's brother continue to increase. Will Sakuya have the courage to confess his real identity and feelings to Yuuki’s brother and will Yuuki’s brother be able to accept Sakuya for who he really is? Find out in "You Haven’t Seen the Best of Me," a light-hearted rom-com sure to make you smile.