"The rain that started to fall turned into April's last snowfall. On that day, my sister died. My shoulders that wouldn't stop shaking... were held down by Eiji." Although Asahi knew Eiji only pampered himself as a replacement, it doesn't stop him to harbor romantic feeling for his sister's former fiancee. The feelings won't come across, the love won't bloom, but Asahi still stays beside the man he loves. Until one night... A chest-tightening touching love story under the mercy of rain, "Harusame Tunnel" knocks the softest part of your heart.

"Dessert Flower" is a tragic romance between two warriors from two countries in a war. After sharing one night with the enemy general, Samon, in an abandoned shack, Byakuren from Koumei realized Samon is a man that could make him forget about his own misery other than his prince. Although Byakuren had tried to forget his night with Samon, he could not resist the desire to meet him secretly. Unfortunately, Prince Souen found out about their relationship, "Can you kill him when you are on the battlefield?" This volume also includes: Moments Away From The Dream Yuya and Hazuki used to play together in the past, but after being separated once, they never really talked anymore in high school. One day, Hazuki touched his uncle's antique mirror and suddenly he was transferred back to Edo era...! Mistaken as a bouncer, Yuya now has to guard a brothel. There, a handsome man with a face exactly like Yuya showed up! Moreover, he wanted to "buy" Hazuki?

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.

Takanashi and Tokunaga were spending their peaceful office lovers' life until Takanashi suddenly got transferred to another department. Separated with his partner, Tokunaga gradually realized the true depth of his feeling. But that doesn't mean their relationship was getting better. The more important Takanashi becomes in his eyes, the clearer Tokunaga can see the dead-end of their relationship. In a world that sometimes becomes unkind, can the two lovebirds walk to the future they wish for...? "Another Love Story Between My Trainee and I" is a sequel from the famous "Love Story" series by Nanameguri!

Tsujido Ei, a flower arranger,is struggling living with his step-brother, Natsuki, who he has strong feelings for. But trying to be the "Good Younger Brother" is starting to become harder as Natsuki keeps increasing his skinship. All of the sudden, Natsuki wearing only underwear, hugs me and he smells amazing... "As your older brother, I'll take the responsibility of protecting you...", wait is this a delusion?! A love comedy that makes the family relationship go crazy!!

"More than the cake, I wanted to savor more of you!" On the way home, Takuya and his little brother came across with Keisuke, a red-haired patissier in the park. Despite his gaudy appearance, the sweetness of his strawberry cake captivated the two brothers, forcing Takuya to splurted out his honest opinion. Attracted by Takuya detailed evaluation, Keisuke asked him to be his permanent tester. At first, Takuya did not buy the idea, but why does he end up going to Keisuke's shop every day? Does he only want to eat cake with Yuta? Or maybe it has any connection with this growing tightening feeling in his chest? "Sweeter than Cake" is a sweet paradise for readers who loved children and sweets featuring in BL manga. It is one of the best heart-healer you can have!

Since the end of the Second World War—and particularly over the last decade—Japanese science fiction has strongly influenced global popular culture. Unlike American and British science fiction, its most popular examples have been visual—from Gojira (Godzilla) and Astro Boy in the 1950s and 1960s to the anime masterpieces Akira and Ghost in the Shell of the 1980s and 1990s—while little attention has been paid to a vibrant tradition of prose science fiction in Japan. Robot Ghosts and Wired Dreams remedies this neglect with a rich exploration of the genre that connects prose science fiction to contemporary anime. Bringing together Western scholars and leading Japanese critics, this groundbreaking work traces the beginnings, evolution, and future direction of science fiction in Japan, its major schools and authors, cultural origins and relationship to its Western counterparts, the role of the genre in the formation of Japan’s national and political identity, and its unique fan culture. Covering a remarkable range of texts—from the 1930s fantastic detective fiction of Yumeno Kyûsaku to the cross-culturally produced and marketed film and video game franchise Final Fantasy—this book firmly establishes Japanese science fiction as a vital and exciting genre. Contributors: Hiroki Azuma; Hiroko Chiba, DePauw U; Naoki Chiba; William O. Gardner, Swarthmore College; Mari Kotani; Livia Monnet, U of Montreal; Miri Nakamura, Stanford U; Susan Napier, Tufts U; Sharalyn Orbaugh, U of British Columbia; Tamaki Saitô; Thomas Schnellbächer, Berlin Free U. Christopher Bolton is assistant professor of Japanese at Williams College. Istvan Csicsery-Ronay Jr. is professor of English at DePauw University. Takayuki Tatsumi is professor of English at Keio University.

The high-schooler Fuji has a bad habit of taking other's attention too seriously. When he misunderstood his workplace manager's observing eyes as love, Fuji experienced lethal heartbreak that leads him to another misunderstanding. A random salaryman thought he's going to jump to the railway and deliberately pull him away! Since then, the two of them became acquaintance​s, but is Fuji's growing feeling toward the older guy is just another fruit of misunderstanding? This Volume includes: "Welcome to the Fetish Restaurant" The spin-off from "Accidental Love"! The chef from that popular pasta restaurant actually has the weirdest fetish ever--he becomes turned on just by seeing people eating his cooked dish."It's like someone is eating me!"One day, he couldn't resist touching himself while licking a hot customer used-fork.. but that customer suddenly went back and expose him!Instead of sue the chef, the young salaryman chooses to "torture" him by going along with the chef's fetish.. Will their relationship goes beyond "eating" each other?

The new employee, Takanashi, could not believe his ears when his mentor, Tokunaga, confessed that he is a gay that has a crush on their president, Mr. Furuya. Since then, Takanashi has awkwardly struggled to adapt to a company that doesn't seem to bother about Tokunaga's sexuality. But once Takanashi understood his mentor feelings, he couldn't take his eyes off of him anymore. Wait? Is this feeling... Love? "A love story between my Boss and Me" is indeed a sweet rom-com between a "straight" subordinate and his cute superior that will warm your day!

Azumi Sasakawa is a proud bottom that has a side job as gay bar bartender. Currently, he only has a casual relationship with Kashima, a handsome interior designer but his interest is actually a patron from neighbor design office, Tomoki Konno. Tomoki was always a bit anti-social and would not even take the same elevator with other customers, moreover, his weak posture invokes Azumi's "motherly" instinct. After an unexpected conversation with the little guy, Azumi assumes Tomoki is cold to him because he is homophobic. Until one night, he met with Tomoki again in Kashima's doorstep... What would happen between these three? "Stairway to Love" is another heartwarming mature "Boys Love" by the fluff goddess Sachi Murakami.