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Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. What Did You Eat Yesterday is best described as part comic, part cookbook - it depicts the romance between two 40-year-old men and the many meals they share together. In the narrative, 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.…

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. The puzzles in Number Place are conceived by Japan's greatest puzzler mind, Tetsuya Nishio, who takes extreme pleasure in hand-creating his puzzles. His latest series provides 101 Sudoku puzzles, plus a handful of logic puzzles and mazes. Now, after readers have completed their Sudoku puzzles, they can test out a whole new line of Nishio-created torture! These pocket-sized collections are the perfect companion for the on-the-go puzzler.…

Paperback. Zustand: Good. An action fantasy set in a dystopian future where, to combat monster attacks, monster hunters infuse themselves with monster DNA in order to predict where they might strike next. However, in the process they lose their humanity, resulting in the development of a monster hunter extermination unit. A werewolf named Hank heads up the team; the world is about to be overrun with monster and counter-monster conflict.…

Paperback. Zustand: Good. Satoko Tawada first encounters 12-year-old Mashuu practicing soccer by himself in a park as she's heading to work. Later that night, he's still there. Satoko, who had played soccer herself when she was younger, decides to help the kid prepare for his tryouts. When Mashuu doesn't make the first team, Satoko continues to work with him, encouraging him not to quit and supporting him at the games. Their emotional connection strengthens as the two spend more and more time together, and fill the emptiness in each other's lives. Mashuu comforts Satoko after her ex-boyfriend betrays her. And when Satoko learns that Mashuu's parents are largely absent, she starts to become more involved in his personal life. Have Satoko's intense feelings for her young friend crossed the line from maternal to inappropriate.…

Paperback. Zustand: Fair. Conceived by Japan's greatest puzzle mind, Tetsuya Nishio, who takes great pleasure hand-creating tricky teasers for Sudoku fans. In this series, he provides 101 Sudoku, plus an assortment of new puzzles, so once fans have got defeated the Soduku, they can test out a whole new line of torture! The price point, trim and level of difficulty have all been especially tailored to perfectly suit the gamer on the move.…

Paperback. Zustand: Good. Yukiyo Fujimoto's life has been in a rut. He is about to turn thirty and has never held a steady job or had a girlfriend. And at a time when the prospects for hope seem at their lowest, suddenly his phone blows up. Out of the blue he is contacted by several women from his past. His moteki has finally come! Love has struck and cupid's arrow has hit him repeatedly and, coincidentally, all at the same time.…

Hardback. Zustand: Very Good. Chigiri Yamazaki is a divorced single mother who has returned to Tsurugi City with her 11-year-old daughter to care for her ailing father - a famous sword maker whose business has completely faltered. It falls to Chigiri to keep the debt collectors at bay. Go Imai, a freelance documentary maker, is on a business trip from Tokyo and has decided to stop by this little town of Tsurugi, where he had come to do a story on Chigiri's father 25 years ago. Go reunites with Chigiri, and the two begin a love story of epic consequence and passion.…

Paperback. Zustand: Good. Koji Suzuki is an internationally recognised and lauded horror writer, often described as the Stephen King of Japan. And like King, Suzuki's works have been adapted to both television and film around the world almost as soon as the ink dries on each new manuscript. Both Ring and Dark Water received the Hollywood treatment - the former's success eliciting a sequel - and Dream Cruise - another short story from Dark Water - was adapted as one of the episodes of Showtime's Masters of Horror series in 2007. A massive shifting of the San Andreas fault and subsequent tumbling of California into the Pacific sets the tone of this thriller right from the get go. It isn't long before the reader learns that this catastrophe is a mere blip on the cataclysmic scale as the reasons for its occurence come to light: something is adversely affecting the molecular stability of matter at the quantum level.…

Paperback. Zustand: Good. Kino's Journey is about a character named Kino who travels around the world with a talking motorcycle named Hermes. Kino travels to many mystical worlds, each with its unique customs and people. Kino's policy is to only stay three days in every town without exception, saying it's enough time to learn about the each place and moving on to explore the next new place. Shiomiya, Iruka (illustrator). …

Paperback. Zustand: Good. Following the surreal adventures of the young inhabitants of Tokisadame city, Nichijou is already making waves with its blend of strange situations and bubbly cast of characters. Set in a strange school where you may see the principal wrestle a deer, or a robot hide the school lunches, the days that unfold in Nichijou are curious and hilarious, if not downright bizarre. However amidst all the chaos and comedy Arawi still takes time to share everyday slice of life stories giving readers an insight to modern Japanese youth culture.…

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. Following the surreal adventures of the young inhabitants of Tokisadame city, Nichijou is already making waves with its blend of strange situations and bubbly cast of characters. Set in a strange school where you may see the principal wrestle a deer, or a robot hide the school lunches, the days that unfold in Nichijou are curious and hilarious, if not downright bizarre. However amidst all the chaos and comedy Arawi still takes time to share everyday slice of life stories giving readers an insight to modern Japanese youth culture.…

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. An instruction manual on how to make 17 different small objects featuring the Aranzi Aronzo menagerie of cute characters. Hot off the trail of the runaway hit craft book The Cute Book and Aranzi Machine Gun series, Cute Stuff provides instructions on how to make everyday items and accessories like hair ties, book covers, key holders and a slew of appliques fresh from the Aranzi denizens.…

Paperback. Zustand: Good. An instruction manual on how to make 17 different small objects featuring the Aranzi Aronzo menagerie of cute characters. Hot off the trail of the runaway hit craft book The Cute Book and Aranzi Machine Gun series, Cute Stuff provides instructions on how to make everyday items and accessories like hair ties, book covers, key holders and a slew of appliques fresh from the Aranzi denizens.…

Paperback. Zustand: Good. High school student Kei Nagai is killed in a traffic accident, but immediately revives to learn that he may not be a human after all. Instead, he may be a Demi-Human, a mysterious and almost immortal being blessed with amazing super-human abilities. Scared, he runs away and is aided in his escape by his friend Kai. Unfortunately for Kei, the manhunt is on, and he will soon be caught up in a conflict between mankind and the other Demi-Humans as they prepare to fight for global supremacy.…

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. Nagatoro is a freshman in high school who loves teasing and torturing her older male classmate (Senpai). What is her motivation and why does Senpai put up with her? Does Nagatoro just want to create misery for Senpai? Or maybe she secretly likes him.

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. Following the surreal adventures of the young inhabitants of Tokisadame city, Nichijou is already making waves with its blend of strange situations and bubbly cast of characters. Set in a strange school where you may see the principal wrestle a deer, or a robot hide the school lunches, the days that unfold in Nichijou are curious and hilarious, if not downright bizarre. However amidst all the chaos and comedy Arawi still takes time to share everyday slice of life stories giving readers an insight to modern Japanese youth culture.…

Paperback. Zustand: Fair. Nagatoro is a freshman in high school who loves teasing and torturing her older male classmate (Senpai). What is her motivation and why does Senpai put up with her? Does Nagatoro just want to create misery for Senpai? Or maybe she secretly likes him.

Paperback. Zustand: Good. 'They say if you write down your wish, bury it under Sheep Tower and then dig it up after 7 years and 7 months, your wish will come true.' Tsugu Miikura, a high schooler who loves to play guitar, due to family circumstances, moved away from the rural town where she had spent her childhood. After several years, she's back in her old hometown. She reunites with her childhood friends - Sora, Yuushin, and Asari - the friends she'd buried a time capsule with back in elementary school. Tsugu is overjoyed to be with her friends once more, but the bonds that she thought would never change have in fact started to grow major cracks.…

Paperback. Zustand: Good. Nagatoro is a freshman in high school who loves teasing and torturing her older male classmate (Senpai). What is her motivation and why does Senpai put up with her? Does Nagatoro just want to create misery for Senpai? Or maybe she secretly likes him.

Paperback. Zustand: Good. 'They say if you write down your wish, bury it under Sheep Tower and then dig it up after 7 years and 7 months, your wish will come true.' Tsugu Miikura, a high schooler who loves to play guitar, due to family circumstances, moved away from the rural town where she had spent her childhood. After several years, she's back in her old hometown. She reunites with her childhood friends - Sora, Yuushin, and Asari - the friends she'd buried a time capsule with back in elementary school. Tsugu is overjoyed to be with her friends once more, but the bonds that she thought would never change have in fact started to grow major cracks.…

Paperback. Zustand: Good. Unbeknownst to the general public, vampires are rampant in Tokyo. To control and contain them, the government has developed a program to track and treat rogue vamps who decide to prey on the public. But what happens when vampire and man come together in harmony and love? Will the public accept this, or will they try to tear such partnerships apart. …

Paperback. Zustand: Good. What does a young noblewoman freshly betrayed by her betrothed need most? A crash course in everything naughty! And who better to teach her than the feared hermit sorcerer who for some reason can't help but pamper her to no end? Allen, a powerful sorcerer feared as the 'Demon King' by all in town, wants nothing more than to enjoy his solitary existence, deep in the forest that is, until the day he discovers a young woman unconscious in his neck of the woods and saves her from a band of knights. He soon learns the girl, Charlotte, was betrothed to the prince of the neighboring kingdom before he framed her for vicious crimes and forced her to flee for her safety. Moved by her plight and the pitiful life this disgraced noble had led, Allen stakes his own life on a promise: to give Charlotte a crash course in all that is naughty, and make her the happiest woman in the world. Katsura, Ichiho (illustrator).…

Hardback. Zustand: Good. Kenzo Kitakata, the undisputed don of Japanese hard-boiled, mystery writing, has never had any of his more than one hundred novels go out of print. Ashes, considered by many to be his masterpiece (adapted for the film Like a Rolling Stone) does for the Japanese Yakuza what The Sopranos does for the American Mafia. Tanaka was once heir to his gang's boss, but has fallen out of favour. Opinionated, irritable, shrewd and lonely, but unconcerned with the typical trophies of the Yakuza way, Tanaka is a convincing portrait of a middle-age man in unusual circumstances.…

Paperback. Zustand: Good. A rom-com between a stoic monk in training vs the cutest girl in high school! Who will win in this heated battle of wills? Mona and Asahi are finally facing off against each other in a heated one-on-one swimsuit battle! Which one of them will ultimately earn the right to 'confess' to Medaka?! As the much-anticipated final round arrives and the winner carries out her fake confession, the whole crowd goes wild! At the same time, Tomo is going through some emotional turmoil. 16+.…

Paperback. Zustand: Fair. Stray kitty Fuku Fuku has been adopted into the home of a widowed grandmother and the two quickly begin to develop a relationship viewed through the kitten's eyes. Fuku Fuku is Konami Kanata's flagship work, a series that has been running continually in Japan since 1988, and even made a brief appearance in Chi's Sweet Home Volume 2 (Vertical, also available). Now Konami's first feline love is coming to English and readers, stores, libraries and cat-fanciers cannot be more excited. …

Paperback. Zustand: Good. Stray kitty Fuku Fuku has been adopted into the home of a widowed grandmother and the two quickly begin to develop a relationship viewed through the kitten's eyes. Fuku Fuku is Konami Kanata's flagship work, a series that has been running continually in Japan since 1988, and even made a brief appearance in Chi's Sweet Home Volume 2 (Vertical, also available). Now Konami's first feline love is coming to English and readers, stores, libraries and cat-fanciers cannot be more excited. …

Paperback. Zustand: Good. In this anime masterpiece, Makoto Shinkai brings us the story of two lonely souls who meet under a gazebo in the rain. They are both playing truant from their otherwise average lives; Takao, an aspiring shoemaker and school student, is cutting school, while Yukari should be at work as a student teacher. They shelter together and find themselves bonding, but seemingly their love can never be. However, their brief encounter will not be their last, as gradually their lives begin to intertwine.…

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. What Did You Eat Yesterday? Is best described as part comic, part cookbook. In the narrative, a hard-working middle-aged gay couple in Tokyo come to enjoy the finer moments of life through food. After long days at work, Shiro and Kenji will always have down time together by the dinner table where they can discuss their feelings and enjoy delicately prepared home cooked meals. Not only is food incorporated into the narrative, but the frames actually take readers through the process of preparing meals in great detail, with recipes listed at the end of the chapters.…

Paperback. Zustand: Good. What Did You Eat Yesterday? Is best described as part comic, part cookbook. In the narrative, a hard-working middle-aged gay couple in Tokyo come to enjoy the finer moments of life through food. After long days at work, Shiro and Kenji will always have down time together by the dinner table where they can discuss their feelings and enjoy delicately prepared home cooked meals. Not only is food incorporated into the narrative, but the frames actually take readers through the process of preparing meals in great detail, with recipes listed at the end of the chapters.…

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. An action fantasy set in a dystopian future where, to combat monster attacks, monster hunters infuse themselves with monster DNA in order to predict where they might strike next. However, in the process they lose their humanity, resulting in the development of a monster hunter extermination unit. A werewolf named Hank heads up the team; the world is about to be overrun with monster and counter-monster conflict.…