With a brand-new guitar in hand and a passion for classic rock, Chihiro Hatono enters high school eager to join the Light Music Club--and take her first step toward greatness! As best she can while being awkward and introverted, anyway. Hatono doesn't seem like the type to dream about being a rockstar, but she's got big plans. First, she's gotta get her band together, and the other starstruck freshmen may be the perfect place to start.Winner of multiple manga awards--a moving tale of youth...

**THE MONKEY DANCE OF DEATHTetsuo Hara’s masterful follow-up to the generation-defining Fist of the North Star—a rollicking samurai epic inspired by a real-life legend.**Keiji’s luck has finally run out. Imperial Regent Hideyoshi has caught wind of his exploits in Kyoto and summons him to an audience with a not-so-veiled threat: fail to appear, and the House of Maeda pays the price. Having brought the nation to heel, the ruthless warlord now seeks to bend the famou...

**The Wildest Samurai Who Ever LivedTetsuo Hara’s masterful follow-up to the generation-defining Fist of the North Star—a rollicking samurai epic inspired by a real-life legend.**Long before the Japan of today, there was a land riven by a century of war between hundreds of feudal lords. Standing astride this most chaotic and storied era in Japanese history was a samurai unlike any other—courageous, free-spirited, and peerless on the battlefield, Keiji Maeda had a bombastic ...

**The Wildest Samurai Who Ever LivedTetsuo Hara’s masterful follow-up to the generation-defining Fist of the North Star—a rollicking samurai epic inspired by a real-life legend.**Tall, handsome, and deadly, Keiji revels in his own taste of beauty, whether it be slaying men on the battlefield or carousing with courtesans in the pleasure district. But in an era when might and ruthless politics reign, staying true to oneself—while staying alive—is no easy feat.

UNDERSTAND OLED DEVICE PHYSICS FROM CARRIER INJECTION TO LIGHT EMISSIONPhysics and Technology of Organic Light-Emitting Diodes presents the first textbook focused solely on OLEDs built from amorphous organic semiconductors. Two veteran researchers with decades of combined expertise detail device operation mechanisms, from carrier injection through light emission, emphasizing the structure and behavior of multilayer thin-film OLEDs that power modern smartph...

Learning Hiragana and Katakana is a systematic and comprehensive Japanese workbook that is perfect for self-study or use in a classroom setting.Written Japanese combines three different types of characters: the Chinese characters known as kanji, and two Japanese sets of phonetic letters, hiragana and katakana, known collectively as kana, that must be mastered before the Japanese kanji can be learned.Learning Japanese Hiragana and Katakana ...

Ken’s mastery of Hokuto Shinken, the Divine Fist of the North Star, has no equal among the debased gangs that prey on the ruins of civilization. But Ken is not the only martial artist out there. Rei, a user of the Nanto Suichoken technique, is on a journey to find his sister, who is being held by a brutal band of savages known as the Fangs. Ken and Rei team up to find her, and woe to any who stand in their way!

Can a single wish destroy a Box?Daiya has a goal, and he will stop at nothing to accomplish it-including wielding the Box Crime, Punishment, and the Shadow of Crime, whose power allows him to control others by using their own sins against them. To stop him, Kazuki traps him within the Silver Screen of Broken Wishes, a Box designed solely for putting the brakes on Daiya's dangerous plan. But Daiya won't give up on his wish without a fight, and the consequences for Kazuki could be disastrous...

"When science unravels the mystery of eternal life, a grand conspiracy emerges from the darkness of history."Berlin, July 2008. After giving a lecture, Max Knight, a Nobel Prize candidate and professor of genetic research, is kidnapped. His captors show him part of a corpse, a left hand, discovered when a bomb exploded at a neo-Nazi rally. Although the hand appears to be that of a male in his forties, it actually belongs to a Nazi lieutenant, who must be 111 years o...

As the years have passed, peace has come to the wasteland. But it is an unjust peace, one kept in place by the brutality of a powerful empire. Rin and Bat, having finally reunited with Kenshiro, are now freedom fighters. Along with a bounty hunter named Ein, the group faces new enemies—Falco the Golden Wolf and the cruel warlord Jako, who serve the mysterious Tentei. Falco and Jako may have whole armies at their beck and call, but they’ve never come up against the likes of Kenshiro and Hok...

The masters of the Nanto Seiken school are known as the Nanto Rokuseiken—the Six Holy Fists of the South Star. Of the six, the most powerful is Holy Emperor Souther. But Shu, another warrior of Nanto Seiken, dares to resist Souther’s tyranny. Shu once saved Kenshiro’s life. Now the two will team up again. But Kenshiro is unaware of Souther’s secret—a secret so powerful even Raoh won’t dare challenge his reign...

Historians have long been aware of the richness and complexity of the intellectual history of modern Japanese politics. Najita's study, however, is the first in a Western language to present a consistent and broad synthesis of this subject. Najita elucidates the political dynamics of the past two hundred years of Japanese history by focusing on the interplay of restorationism and bureaucratism within the context of Japan's modern revolution, the Meiji Restoration.