Hotaru's Way 11


Book Description

Friends to lovers... Doesn't it sound great to realize the perfect match was right by your side all along? Hotaru sure thinks so. In fact, now that Makoto's out of the picture, she thinks her soul mate might not be Makoto, the chic, metropolitan designer...but Kaname, the stately feudal lord! How's that going to turn out...? Later, a new femme fatale sets her sights on Takano-buchou!




Hotaru's Way


Book Description

Hotaru spends her summer vacation like a true master himono: lazing around the house with a beer in her hand! Spending the week overseas wouldn’t have been the end of the world, either, but in the end, a woman’s house is her castle! So long as she has manga, beer and snacks, the Three Sacred Artifacts of the Himono, close at hand, she’s in paradise! But just as soon as she’s settled in, someone shows up to make waves! Volume 4 includes all of this, a look into Takano-buchou’s past, and a haughty new character’s lordly debut!




Hotaru's Way 9


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Countless trials and tribulations have led Hotaru and Makoto where they are now: living together and madly in love! Or so they thought...until Makoto saw Hotaru at historically-unprecedented heights of slobbiness! Hotaru's backed into a corner with nothing to say for herself, and in an instant, she crashes from cloud nine to the depths of hell! Their romance is quickly headed for a tragic end. Is there anything Hotaru can do to save it?! We'll find out in Volume 9...and you'll never believe your eyes!




Your Affection Brings Me to My Knees! Ch.11


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On his first day at his new job, Tsuki Aofuji is immediately smitten with his drop-dead gorgeous trainer, Momoko Kisaragi, and professes his love for her in front of the whole office. Shortly thereafter, Tsuki learns that Momoko is the object of everyone’s affection, but is way out of their league... Even so, Tsuki refuses to give up on her. During his training one day, Momoko leans over Tsuki, brushing her chest on him while standing behind him at his desk. She whispers in his ear, asking him if he really meant what he said. Tsuki tells her he was being serious and wants to get to know her better. That same day, he stays late to review everything Momoko taught him. Just as he’s finishing up, Momoko walks in and brings him something from his favorite coffee shop. As Tsuki is reaffirming his feelings for Momoko, she grabs him and plants a kiss on him, grabs his hands, and thrusts them onto her chest...!




Hotaru's Way


Book Description

"I'd rather nap at home than fall in love." Hotaru no Hikari, a love story about himono woman Hotaru Amemiya, has been collected into a volume! This himono woman is bewildered when she falls in love for the first time in a long time with younger man Makoto....how will this himono woman romance play out?! Also included is a one panel comic drawn especially for this volume!




Hotaru's Way 10


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Hotaru couldn't be happier! She's back at her old stomping grounds and back to her old himono ways. Fresh off the formation of an old-folks' club with Buchou, she's beginning to feel content to wait for her retirement to kick in...until Buchou's deep-seated hermit-like ways make her see just how much trouble she's really in!




Hotaru's Way 14


Book Description

Hotaru's never been one for romance. She'd rather kick back and lie around the house all day…or so she thought, until she ended up living with an older man—her manager, Takano-buchou—and going out with a younger man…who happened to be a rising star of the interior design world! Hotaru breaks up a fight between Takano-buchou, the object of her desire, and Makoto-kun, her jealous ex-boyfriend. She never thought she'd live to see the day…and if that wasn't surprising enough, Makoto-kun tells her he wants to get back together! But she's hardly got time to catch her breath before Takano-buchou proposes to her!! Is this all a dream…or has this old himono been swept up into a fairy-tale romance?!




Billboard


Book Description

In its 114th year, Billboard remains the world's premier weekly music publication and a diverse digital, events, brand, content and data licensing platform. Billboard publishes the most trusted charts and offers unrivaled reporting about the latest music, video, gaming, media, digital and mobile entertainment issues and trends.




A Condition Called Love 6


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Hananoi and Hotaru have finally enjoyed their first kiss. While Hananoi waxes nostalgic about a "friend" from grade school, the floored Hotaru resolves to make him happier than ever. They both promise to become an even better couple, and more and more people are starting to gather around them...?! It's volume 6 in the tale of a girl who doesn't understand love and a guy who loves laying it on thick!




Thinking with Animation


Book Description

This volume brings together scholars based predominantly in Asia to contribute provocative and experimental essays on the dynamic relationship between animation and philosophy. In an inventive and playful philosophical way, they address not only the mainstay of Japanese animation, but also Korean film, picture books and Mickey Mouse to understand what we might call film-philosophy in Asia. In thinking animation with concepts from the technicolour philosophies of Deleuze, Guattari, Stiegler, Benjamin, Kristeva and Heidegger, the book sees animation not as a representation of a philosophical idea per se, but conceptualizes it as a philosophical thinking-device. In the images themselves, what is at work is not just the thinking of a particular director or manga artist, but, rather, thinking as such, through and by the images themselves. The scholars in this collection are committed to thinking images themselves as thought-experiments and thinking machines.