When a free Otaku who lacked money met a mysterious beauty, his dull life was bound to cause waves. She was sweet and mysterious, she was an intelligent planner in the daytime, and a sexy seductress in the dark at night; he was a web writer with black-rimmed glasses in the daytime, and was still a master gamer with black-rimmed glasses in the evening; when the Otaku met a beautiful lady, when the ordinary planner met a veteran planner, an inverted love would be played out in the city of desire.

Bai Xiaomi was a natural born housewife. Every day, she would play all kinds of love stories into her computer, until one day, her mother forced her to go on a blind date. Her career had completely changed. Qin Huai was an investor and a manipulator. He had a cold nature and great ambition, it was just a business conspiracy for him to get close to Bai Xiao Mi and make her fall in love with him. When he finally got his wish and became Bai Xiao Mi's legal husband, he realized that he had some kind of strange feelings for Xiao Bai. He started to reject the life of a husband and wife, and found an excuse to distance himself from Bai Xiao Mi. Until they obtained the business secret of Bai Family, when Qin Huai and Bai Xiaomei were preparing for a divorce, and the house girl finally got drunk on her legal husband the night before their divorce, and started a relationship between them. On the second day, they divorced. After that, Qin Huai would never be able to forget his ex-wife. He asked his friends to take care of Bai Xiao Mi. Under the care of the bookseller, Bai Xiaomi finally became famous one day and became a popular writer. However, her ex-husband couldn't help but appear before her again and again. Finally, when she was about to be engaged to another man, he asked to remarry. Bai Xiaomi was unwilling to remarry, and her ex-husband was pressing her even further. She was finally at the end of her tether, agreeing to remarry her ex-husband. However, this was only the beginning of her revenge ...

Hu Qingchuan, a young man who came to the beautiful riverside from the ancient capital Xi'an to fight for his job, and the beautiful and lonely beautiful landlady created sparks that crossed the ages, but due to the age difference, this sister-in-law relationship was not tolerated in the secular world. After failing, they chose a different life. But fate could not separate them. When they met again, things were different. Fate had brought them to the brink of despair, and had also left their love forever in this sky by the riverside. The song finally ended. Everything will be over, and what will never go away is the pure love between the little man and her sister Man-jie!

When a freelance man in need of money met a mysterious beauty, his plain life was bound to cause waves. She was sweet and mysterious. She was an intelligent planner during the day, a seductive seductress during the night, a web writer with black-rimmed glasses during the day, and a game master with black-rimmed glasses at night. She was a otaku when she met a beautiful woman, and an ordinary writer when she met a veteran planner.

From Nausicaä to Sailor Moon, understanding girl heroines of manga and anime within otaku culture.

From the bestselling author of Kafka on the Shore: A magnificent coming-of-age story steeped in nostalgia, “a masterly novel” (The New York Times Book Review) blending the music, the mood, and the ethos that were the sixties with a young man’s hopeless and heroic first love. Now with a new introduction by the author. Toru, a serious young college student in Tokyo, is devoted to Naoko, a beautiful and introspective young woman, but their mutual passion is marked by the tragic death of their best friend years before. As Naoko retreats further into her own world, Toru finds himself drawn to a fiercely independent and sexually liberated young woman. Stunning and elegiac, Norwegian Wood first propelled Haruki Murakami into the forefront of the literary scene.

Tomoyo Shiino has stood by her friend Mariko through years of abuse, abandonment, and depression. However horrific her circumstances, their friendship has been the one reassuring constant in Mariko's life-and Tomoyo's too. That is, until Tomoyo is utterly blindsided by news of Mariko's death. In life, Tomoyo felt powerless to help her best friend out of the darkness that ultimately drove her over the edge. Now, Tomoyo is determined to liberate Mariko's ashes for one final journey together... to set free her dear, broken Mariko.

This book primarily examines human-animal and human-plant interactions in Asian forests (Southeast Asia and Japan) and inland waters (China). For comparison, cases from the Americas (whales in the Arctic, sea turtles in the Caribbean, and plants in the Amazon) and Central Asia are also included. The relationship between plants, animals, and humans in Asia is quite unique from a global perspective. For example, "satoyama" in Japan means ecotone area, or the boundary between a village and a forest. There, as the number of inhabitants declines, bears, wild boars, and other animals increasingly ravage crops, sometimes attacking humans as well. By showing the regional nature of human-animal and human-plant interactions in Asia, this book provides for the first time a framework for understanding the world's animal and plant-human relationships. It is assumed that the relationships between humans and animals and plants during this period were diverse, including hunting, taming, semi-domestication, and full domestication. At the same time, for regions outside of Asia, the extent to which these diverse relationships were adapted and how diversity was formed is explained from the perspective of historical ecology. Customers can expect to derive perspectives on the coexistence of human-animal and plant-animal relationships from this book in the near future. The conservation of rare species, diverse habitats, and biodiversity is a central theme in considering the relationship between modern civilization and the global environment. In post-industrial Japan, one focus has been the protection of iconic animals such as storks, crested ibis, dugongs, and sea turtles, while damage to crops and humans by deer, wild boars, monkeys, bears, and other common animals has become an important social issue. How can the world's 7.7 billion-plus people live in harmony with other species? We would like to get some hints on how to solve the problems we are facing.

Love blossoms when a landlady and her tenant form an unconventional arrangement in this popular yuri romance (originally known as Even If It Was Just Once, I Regret It). Twenty-four-year-old Koduka Chiyo quit her job and is wallowing in self-pity. She's also three months behind on her rent. Her landlady proposes an unusual solution: sleep with her, and she'll help with the debt, the filthy apartment, and the loneliness. Can true love develop from an arrangement that started with a bang?

Manga is the backbone of Japanese popular culture, influencing everything from television, movies, and video games to novels, art, and theater. Shojo manga (girls’ comics) has been seminal to the genre as a whole and especially formative for Japanese girls’ culture throughout the postwar era. In Straight from the Heart, Jennifer Prough examines the shojo manga industry as a site of cultural storytelling, illuminating the ways that issues of mass media, gender, production, and consumption are involved in the process of creating shojo manga. With their glittery pastel covers and focus on human relationships and romance, shojo manga are thoroughly marked by gender—as indeed are almost all manga titles, magazines, and publishing divisions. Drawing on two years of fieldwork on the production of shojo manga, Prough analyzes shojo manga texts and their magazine contexts to explain their distinctive appeal, probe the gendered dynamics inherent in their creation, and demonstrate the feedback system that links producers and consumers in a continuous cycle of "affective labor." Each chapter focuses on one facet of shojo manga production (stories, format, personnel, industry dynamics), providing engaging insights into this popular medium. Tacking between story development, interactive magazine features, and relationships between male editors and female artists, Prough examines the concrete ways in which shojo manga reflect, refract, and fabricate constructions of gender, consumption, and intimacy. Straight from the Heart thus weaves together issues of production and consumption, human relations, and gender to explain the unique world of shojo manga and to interpret its dramatic cultural and economic success on a national—and increasingly global—scale.