What does it take to make the best possible start in cosplay?Two veteran cosplayers - Miyuu Takahara and Kenji Weston - have teamed up their experience and skills to give cosplay newcomers the guide they deserve. Expertly composed, this book contains hundreds of images, many of which illustrate the advice, instruction and ideas offered. Topics and techniques are explained in easy to understand and straightforward ways, while at the same time being ...

MAKING THE BEST OF A BAD SITUATION!In an academy for summoners, students combine impressive stores of magical energy with artful incantations to usher legends, great and small, onto the battlefield. Feil Fonaf, an eighteen-year-old son to a poor farmer, may have had a rougher upbringing than his more affluent peers, but he’s here to prove he deserves his spot at the academy! As luck would have it, his counterpart summon winds up being the legendary god-slaying beast, Pandora! There’s just ...

Yahiro and the gang head to Kyoto hoping to figure out how to turn the Japanese populace back into humans. When Galerie Berith’s armored train stops in Nagoya, the Chinese Federal Army, the current occupant of the former Nagoya Station, demands that the Galerie surrender Vanagloria’s Regalia in exchange for safe passage. By that time, the powerful Relict has fused with Ayaho, and handing over one of Iroha’s siblings is the last thing they’d do. Can they protect her, negotiate their way out...

When Iroha’s channel surpasses a million views overnight, Yahiro and the others know the reason can’t be anything good. As it turns out, a sleuthstreamer called Yamadou has exposed her as a dragon medium on his channel, and now the whole world is watching Iroha’s every move! Before Yahiro and Galerie Berith can do anything to retaliate, the Guild detains Yahiro…as a suspect for a rash of murders?! While Yahiro is away, the Galerie’s Japanese branch comes under attack by a foe with an old g...

Yahiro Narusawa once lived alone in the ruins of Tokyo, but things have changed for him in the blink of an eye. Now his job is to protect a dragon medium—a girl named Iroha who wields the power of fire and the ability to summon a dragon. Yahiro’s sister, Sui, is also a dragon medium and responsible for the cataclysm that destroyed Japan. He’s been searching for her all this time, and he’s finally discovered that she’s allied with the shadowy organization Ganzheit. Determined to kill Sui fo...

Four years ago, a dragon filled the sky, the nation of Japan fell, and Japanese people around the world were wiped out. Yahiro, a survivor of the tragic event, works as a salvager who obtains Japanese artwork and artifacts for foreign buyers. Not many are willing or able to brave the ruins, which are crawling with monstrous beasts called Moujuu. But Yahiro’s the best man for the task. After all, thanks to his regenerative abilities, he can’t really die. He’s approached about a job to searc...

After their fierce battle in Nagoya and their horrible discoveries about the Japanese populace-turned-Moujuu, Yahiro and Iroha are headed to Kyoto for answers. There, they plan to meet the mysterious Karura Myoujiin who called for them. What they didn’t expect to find is Marquis Eusebius Berith and the Galerie’s European HQ soldiers. Though the marquis heaps praise and accolades on Giuli and Rosé, it’s not that easy to pull the wool over the twins’ eyes! They know he’s up to something, and...

Three years after the Ploutonion closed and the world narrowly escaped destruction, humanity is slowly recovering. Although Yahiro and Iroha saved everyone, the pair’s whereabouts are unknown. One day, peace is disrupted when Galerie Berith receives notice that Moujuu have reappeared. Meanwhile, on a nameless island in the south, Yahiro and Iroha have been enjoying a laid-back lifestyle when a mysterious girl washes up on their shore. She is wary of Iroha yet seems quite familiar with Yahi...

In a world where Japanese people were almost completely wiped out…Yahiro spends his lonely days working as a salvager in the wreckage of Japan. Despite routinely being gutted by Moujuu, the monstrous beasts that roam the ruins, he makes it home every night without a scratch on him thanks to his body’s mysterious regenerative powers. But one evening, he’s ambushed by twin girls named Giuli and Rosé. And these supposed “art dealers” have a dangerous mission for him—something only he can help...

In a world where Japanese people were almost completely wiped out…Tasked with taking out the leader of the Moujuu—the Kushinada—Yahiro and his party have ventured deep into the ruinous 23 Wards. They’re greeted by two shocking sights: a vegetable garden and a Japanese girl riding a Moujuu. Yahiro manages to talk with her—until they find themselves under siege by RMS. Whoever this girl is, she matters. Now, if only she and Yahiro could get on the same page…!

A CRUSADE UNFULFILLEDThe invasion of Omen has been thwarted, and three of the Sovereignty’s princesses have joined forces with the Empire. But as everyone decides how to deal with Elletear and the calamity, Queen Mirabella hesitates to lend aid. To face the truth, she asks Sisbell to use Illumination to re-create the events from thirty years ago. They see a young Mirabella who cared only for battle, shirking her royal duties and connections with others to indulge in her obsession with comb...

DOWN TO THE WIREThe Phillet Company, determined to complete the final stage of the Demon Sword Project, has taken Elfiné prisoner. Riselia and the others attempt a desperate rescue, but it may already be too late…Meanwhile, Leonis faces the Lord of Beasts, and danger finds its way to the once-safe halls of Excalibur Academy. As the eighteenth platoon works to free Elfiné, Leonis faces a difficult decision and confronts the fear that he may not be able to save everyone…