“You’re about to have sex with a man that you hate.” Even though I don’t want to, he keeps hitting my softest spots deep inside over and over again…! In order to repay her father’s huge debt and to look after her little brother, Iroha had to resort to using a sugar daddy app. She thought that an honest and stable man was going to come, but instead it was Renya, a handsome man whose looks top those of a model…!? Iroha was bewildered, but she ended up spending the night with Renya who understood her situation and was going to put an end to her past. Though he spoke politely, the way he had sex was completely sadistic. On top of that, Renya was really a Yakuza. He told her he’d cancel her debt in exchange for becoming his girlfriend...!! The curtain raises on the battlefield of love!

"Would you let me take control of your nutrition?" College student Sudo is unable to eat other people's cooking after a traumatic incident. One day, while going to the convenience store he usually frequents, Sudo is handed a homemade bento from a worker at the store he has never seen before. He rejects the offer coldly at first, but opens up after seeing how worried the worker, Hasegawa, is over his health. Around the same time, a rumor starts to spread about a pervert hanging around the university…? This volume also includes a short story about a childhood friend's disturbed love obsession, "Sweet Hell".

Writers, game designers, teachers, and students ~this is the book youve been waiting for! Written by storytellers for storytellers, this volume offers an entirely new approach to word finding. Browse the pages within to see what makes this book different:

Imagining Global Amsterdam gaat over het beeld van Amsterdam in film, literatuur, visuele kunst en in het moderne stedelijke discours, in het bijzonder in de context van de mondialisering. De essays gaan onder andere dieper in op Amsterdam als een lieu de mémoire van de vroeg-moderne wereldhandel. Wat betekent deze herinnering in de hedendaagse cultuur? Waarom verwijzen zo veel contemporaine films en romans naar dit verleden terug? Ook het (inter)nationale imago van Amsterdam als een multicultureel en ultra-tolerant ‘%x;global village’%x; komt aan bod. Waarom is dit beeld zo persistent, en hoe heeft het zich in de loop van de laatste decennia ontwikkeld? Tot slot wordt ingegaan op de vraag hoe mondialiseringsprocessen ingrijpen in de stadscultuur, zoals in het prostitutiegebied op de Wallen en via de erfgoedindustrie. Hoe manifesteert de mondialisering zich in de stad, en welke rol speelt beeldvorming daarbij? Deze bundel vormt een rijk geschakeerd onderzoek naar de relatie tussen Amsterdam, mondialisering en stedelijke beeldvorming. Marco de Waard is als docent literatuurwetenschap verbonden aan het Amsterdam University College.

In this highly original book David Wills rethinks not only our nature before all technology but also what we understand to be technology. Rather than considering the human being as something natural that then develops technology, Wills argues, we should instead imagine an originary imbrication of nature and machine that begins with a dorsal turn-a turn that takes place behind our back, outside our field of vision. With subtle and insightful readings, Wills pursues this sense of what lies behind our idea of the human by rescuing Heidegger’s thinking from a reductionist dismissal of technology, examining different angles on Lvinas’s face-to-face relation, and tracing a politics of friendship and sexuality in Derrida and Sade. He also analyzes versions of exile in Joyce’s rewriting of Homer and Broch’s rewriting of Virgil and discusses how Freud and Rimbaud exemplify the rhetoric of soil and blood that underlies every attempt to draw lines between nations and discriminate between peoples. In closing, Wills demonstrates the political force of rhetoric in a sophisticated analysis of Nietzsche’s oft-quoted declaration that “God is dead.” Forward motion, Wills ultimately reveals, is an ideology through which we have favored the front-what can be seen-over the aspects of the human and technology that lie behind the back and in the spine-what can be sensed otherwise-and shows that this preference has had profound environmental, political, sexual, and ethical consequences. David Wills is professor of French and English at the University of Albany (SUNY). He is the author of Prosthesis and Matchbook: Essays in Deconstruction as well as the translator of works by Jacques Derrida, including The Gift of Death.

A gay congressman, Satoru Tsuho, frequents a member's only S&M club. One day, he meets a mysterious trainer named Kyo as part of a free course, and tastes a flavor of sadism he has never before experienced. (My head is blank…) Satoru's true self is revealed as he climaxes in front of the room's mirror. Two people who should have never crossed paths star in this love story, where their S&M training sessions become like a dance…

A twelfth-century poem by the creator of the Arthurian romance describes the courageous exploits and triumphs of a brave lord who tries to win back his deserted wife's love

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!!

【A story by USA Today bestselling author becomes a comic!】It’s been six months since she inherited her late husband’s fortune, and Neve has been struggling with her fourteen-year-old stepdaughter, Hannah, ever since. One night Neve almost gets lost in a snowstorm while running after Hannah, but she’s determined to keep going until she finds her. Suddenly a beautiful godlike man comes to rescue her. He calls himself Severo, and he carries her into a nearby house when Neve tries to continue her mission to rescue Hannah in the storm. They end up trapped by the snow and must spend the night together… What will become of Hannah? And what will happen between Severo and Neve?