“You’ll die if you stop ingesting bodily fluids from the opposite sex.”Nichika’s fate has been foretold by a man claiming to be a witch, and it spells doom. What a thing to be told right after tumbling into another dimension!Bodily fluids—in other words, tears, spit, blood, and even—yup, kissing.With the threat of death snapping at her heels every day, Nichika finds a way to beat the arrogant, selfish, and eccentric Witch Oswald at a bet and gets him to take her as ...

Suma Suzume works at Enoshima Dinoland, a dinosaur park that's seen better days. As she approaches the second half of her hands-on training period, Dinoland's parent company puts the floundering park's operations under the knife...and the results aren't pretty.There's only one way Dinoland can avoid extinction: Boost its visitor numbers by a factor of five and put itself in the black for the fiscal year. The news shakes Suzume and her fellow dinokeepers to the core. What does the future ho...

The Eccentric Master becomes a butler?!Disguising herself as a rich young lady, Nichika infiltrates the hidden ranks at Elminage Academy for Gifted Witches and Wizards to investigate the attacker from Cherry Blossom Kingdom. All too happy to play along, Oswald completely enters Butler Mode, treating Nichika so kindly she starts to miss his teasing! But he’d better watch out if he wants to hold on to his apprentice because an old frenemy is out to win Nichika’s hear...

Rookie dinokeeper Suma Suzume is continuing to make the rounds through every department in the struggling Enoshima Dinoland. Now that Umeko the Centrosaurus is out of surgery, Suzume's time with the ceratopsians comes to an end. Can she find a way to get close to Fuzuki, the decidedly peculiar head of the pterosaur department? And what happens when Benkei, the Troodon chick she raised, scampers back into her life?

Since the 1970s, there has been much discussion about the “glucoreceptor” and “substrate site” and which of these two is the dominant theory, but new findings on the glucose-sensing receptor have now shed new light on the “glucoreceptor theory.”This volume reviews recent advances concerning the glucose-sensing receptor in pancreatic beta-cells.The history of research into pancreatic beta-cells is long and complex; accordingly, the first chapters present the history of this ...

Mobile Childhoods in Filipino Transnational Families focuses on the lived experiences of '1.5-generation' migrants with similar 'roots' (the Philippines), traversing different 'routes' (receiving countries). By shedding light on the diversified paths of their migratory lives, it revisits the relationships between mobility, sociality and identity.

Escape Into A World Of Reversed ExpectationsHigh schooler Yura’s world is literally turned upside down when she’s pulled through a mysterious mirror and into the strange land of Tolkinia, a world of magic and fantasy, where opinions of beauty are reversed. Now the girl who was bullied for her looks is beloved and admired for those same traits, while the knight she finds incredibly handsome is abhorred for his. Facing this mysterious new reality, Yura must decide if...

Things are heating up between the secretary and her hero at long last!Separated from the rest of their party in the Ancient Ruins, Aki and Elias finally have time to define their relationship. But a deadly trap set by the Shadow Tribe pushes them both to awaken powers that demand a price.Meanwhile, Leo and Johann are facing an equally dangerous threat that puts everything they believe in to the test. Will the Hero Party be able to regroup before it’s too la...

Locked in the back of a minivan headed for who knows where, Azusa Saito realizes she has been kidnapped. Just when she thinks there’s no hope for escape, she is rescued by a man with glowing red eyes. Or is she? Her supposed rescuer forces her to live in a town of vampires. There she learns the story of her kidnapper, a red-eyed vampire charged with the bothersome role of guarding her from enemy covens and from escaping. He is the dreaded Akaoni, the only vampire all other vampires tremble...

She Slays Monsters and Hearts Alike!Bernstein, the daughter of a marquess but christened as a boy, attends an all-boys military academy. A knight of idol status, she must hide her gender from everyone—even her friends—to graduate. But she dreams of establishing an order of female knights in a kingdom where knights are exclusively male, hoping that one day she’ll be able to openly serve her nation with honor. When a monster appears, taking down knight after knight, ...

Cats Are Better Than Harems!I’ve been reincarnated into the world of an otome game, and… What? My mom did, too? Even my dad and my older brother?Meet Amy, the daughter of the Earl of Northland. Her entire family has been reincarnated as the aristocratic Northland family. In an attempt to amicably remove herself as a candidate for the Third Prince’s fiancée (which would certainly cement her position as the game’s villainess), Amy has taken drastic measures—e...