AN UNLIKELY DUO AGAINST THE WORLD In this world, people known as Informationists sell their supernatural abilities for use in armed conflicts. When Tsushima Rindou, an ordinary Informationist, agrees to help a fallen noble named Holy defect from the Balga Empire, he isn’t expecting anything other than a typical escort mission. But there’s much more to his client than she’s letting on, and Balga is intent on keeping Holy within its borders, dispatching the army and an elite group of Informa...

An autobiography in manga form from legendary anime director Rintarô. Fully illustrated and with a foreword by director Katsuhiro Otomo, creator of Akira, this inspiring memoir is the unique journey of an animation trailblazer.Grand Prize Winner of the Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize!Born in 1941 in Tokyo, Rintaro joined the Japanese animated film company Toei Animation in 1958 at the young age of 17. Even in his humble beginnings, whe...

PUTTING THE PAST TO RESTIt was a long and grueling journey, but with the help of Tsushima, Lupus has defected to the Free City of Elbar, and the two have attained a measure of peace. However, their newfound stability is shattered when the Balga Empire’s top Informationist attacks Tsushima in a bid to take revenge for one of his many past transgressions. Pitted against the Informationist’s overwhelming power, Tsushima realizes there is only one way he can keep Lupus from getting caught in t...

Since the adoption of the 1947 Constitution of Japan, the document has become a contested symbol of contrasting visions of Japan. Japanese Constitutional Revisionism and Civic Activism is a volume which examines the history of Japan’s constitutional debates, key legal decisions and interpretations, the history and variety of activism, and activists’ ties to party politics and to fellow activists overseas.

In the shadowed streets of old Edo, where lantern light flickers across narrow alleys and secrets vanish into the winter mist, a young detective takes on the first case that will make his name feared—and respected.The Stone Lantern, the second story in The Curious Casebook of Inspector Hanshichi by Okamoto Kidō, is a masterful blend of historical mystery, psychological suspense, and ghostly atmosphere. What begins as the disappearance of a merchant’s beaut...

Problem-based learning (PBL) has been deployed as a student-centered instructional approach and curriculum design in a wide range of academic fields across the world. The majority of educational research to date has focused on knowledge-based outcomes addressing why PBL is useful. Researchers of PBL are developing a growing interest in qualitative research with a process-driven orientation to examining learning interactions. It is essential to broaden this research base so as to support PB...

Takashi Suzuki, a middle-aged mercenary and former hit man, just lost his battle with cancer. But death isn't the end for a killer of his caliber. A mysterious goddess has other plans: reincarnate him in a fantasy world--and give him a divine kill order: eliminate thirty-two heroes.These so-called heroes? Japanese high schoolers summoned en masse, granted cheat-level powers, and now plunging the world into chaos.Reborn as Rei and partnered with the beautiful and deadly elf warrior Lydina, ...

Bardium is a tightly guarded city where magic, miracles, and illusions aren’t allowed. Here, in a dimly lit room, a young boy named Norman is being interrogated. He’s asked about Unlaw—supernatural monsters who gain abilities from unstable emotion. Four of these beings, all beautiful women, are now hunting each other down, and Norman must sate their desires while dealing with other oddities cropping up all over Bardium. The city is in chaos, and yet, there is hope. Everything will come dow...

Wim Strauss isn't a flashy fighter--he's a granting caster, a support mage who boosts his allies' strength in battle. His magic keeps the party alive. But when his quiet power starts to overshadow the wrong person, the team's prideful leader has him unceremoniously kicked out.Enter his slightly clingy childhood friend Heidemarie, now a member of Nachtlibelle, a renowned A-rank guild counted among the strongest in the land. She offers Wim a chance to join her team--a fresh start among allie...

For one avid first-person shooter (FPS) gamer, the boundary between fact and fiction has not only been found, but completely crossed! A worldwide legend in FPS fan circles, Schwarz is obsessed with Virtual Reality Multiple Battlefield, and suddenly finds himself completely immersed in the game--literally! One small clip off the map leaves the Schwarz facing an unfamiliar realm filled with roaming monsters and obstacles that can't be conquered with any known cheat code. Can he stumble his w...

THE PRICE OF AVERTING A TERRIBLE FATE Walker, a man reincarnated as a teenage adventurer, is suddenly attacked in a dungeon by a high-level monster and realizes he’s in the dark fantasy world of a manga he read in his previous life. Not only that, but he isn’t the protagonist… He’s an ill-fated side character, meant to die along with his party to establish the setting’s grim tone! Walker fights tooth and nail for his friends, and although he loses a leg and an eye in the process, he manage...

Support caster Wim Strauss was once just an invisible stagehand on the battlefield, but now that he has joined Nachtlibelle, one of the greatest guilds around, Wim finds himself shoved right into the spotlight! It's not every day that two floors of the labyrinth are conquered so quickly, and opinions of Wim have begun to shift.All eyes are now on Chronos and the other members of Wim's former party as the world starts to suspect that Wim played a greater hand in a certain boss's defeat than...