A comedy that explores the ins-and-outs of working in the adult film industry! Kaeruno is jobless, freshly divorced, and all out of dating prospects. When he decides to start a new life for himself in Tokyo, he has no idea what awaits in the big city. His move marks the first step into a bold new career path: male porn star! This memoir chronicles the ups and downs of one regular otaku's entry into the world of glamor, glitz, and money shots.

Kaeruno is a newbie porn star, and he's just completed his first real gig! He thought his new career would be all sex and giggles, but now he's facing the struggles every male porn star must conquer. It's a tall order maintaining a stiffy with all these interruptions, and then he has to make sure his climaxes are both numerous AND voluminous! Will he rise to the occasion?

Kaeruno is jobless, freshly divorced, and all out of dating prospects. When he decides to start a new life for himself in Tokyo, he has no idea what awaits in the big city. His move marks the first step into a bold new career path: male porn star! This memoir chronicles the ups and downs of one regular otaku's entry into the world of glamor, glitz, and money shots.

Ever wonder what it's like to sell comics at a Japanese bookstore? Honda provides a hilarious firsthand account from the front lines! Whether it's handling the store, out-of-print books, or enthusiastic manga fans, Honda takes on every challenge!

Being a porn star is hard work...and unfortunately for Kaeruno, it doesn't quite pay the bills! When an old friend clues him in on an office job with a flexible schedule, Kaeruno jumps at the chance. Now he's an office worker by day, and a porn star by night! But juggling the two isn't easy, especially when shoots get delayed, or go longer than scheduled. Whatever happens, he just has to make sure it won't affect his performance!

From award-winning author Fumi Yoshinaga comes a casual romance between two middle-aged men and the many meals they share together. A hard-working middle-aged gay couple in Tokyo come to enjoy the finer moments of life through food. After long days at work, either in the law firm or the hair salon, Shiro and Kenji will always have down time together by the dinner table, where they can discuss their troubles, hash out their feelings and enjoy delicately prepared home cooked meals!

PORN: IT’S HARDER THAN IT LOOKS. Kaeruno is a newbie porn star, and he’s just completed his first real gig! He thought his new career would be all sex and giggles, but now he’s facing the struggles every male porn star must conquer. It’s a tall order maintaining a stiffy with all these interruptions, and then he has to make sure his climaxes are both numerous AND voluminous! Will he rise to the occasion?

One summer morning before school, Kaoru hears an unsettling rumor--of a mysterious tunnel that can grant any wish to those who enter it, but ages them dramatically in exchange. At first, he writes it off as nothing more than an urban legend, but that very night, he happens upon the selfsame passage: the Urashima Tunnel. As he stands before its gaping maw, a thought occurs to him--if this tunnel truly does have the power to grant any wish, could he use it to bring his younger sister back from her untimely death five years prior? Yet when he returns to explore the tunnel the next day, he finds he's been followed by the new girl in class: a total enigma by the name of Anzu. She takes an interest in Kaoru, and they agree to work together to investigate the time-twisting tunnel and uncover its mysteries. Together, they might achieve their deepest desires...but are they prepared for what it may cost them?

Malcolm Gladwell, host of the podcast Revisionist History and author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Outliers, offers a powerful examination of our interactions with strangers and why they often go wrong—now with a new afterword by the author. A Best Book of the Year: The Financial Times, Bloomberg, Chicago Tribune, and Detroit Free Press How did Fidel Castro fool the CIA for a generation? Why did Neville Chamberlain think he could trust Adolf Hitler? Why are campus sexual assaults on the rise? Do television sitcoms teach us something about the way we relate to one another that isn’t true? Talking to Strangers is a classically Gladwellian intellectual adventure, a challenging and controversial excursion through history, psychology, and scandals taken straight from the news. He revisits the deceptions of Bernie Madoff, the trial of Amanda Knox, the suicide of Sylvia Plath, the Jerry Sandusky pedophilia scandal at Penn State University, and the death of Sandra Bland—throwing our understanding of these and other stories into doubt. Something is very wrong, Gladwell argues, with the tools and strategies we use to make sense of people we don’t know. And because we don’t know how to talk to strangers, we are inviting conflict and misunderstanding in ways that have a profound effect on our lives and our world. In his first book since his #1 bestseller David and Goliath, Malcolm Gladwell has written a gripping guidebook for troubled times.

'" Living on her own is harder than Nagata Kabi expected. Building relationships is difficult too, but with a new friendship to cultivate and a new perspective on her family, she''s doing her best to open up and become a warm, compassionate person! "'