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Plus Ultra is the definitive Aoike Yasuko artbook, with nearly 200 full-color illustrations. This stunning artbook contains Aoike's best work from various stories, including From Eroica With Love, Z Suite, Sons of Eve, Trafalgar, Alcasar, Brother Falco, El Alcon and Seven Seas, Seven Skies. It traces the artist's work from the seventies to today.

Yasukado and Yasutoki are twin brothers born as the heir and protector of their family's feudal household. When an assassination attempt is made on Yasukado, Yasutoki must do all he can to protect his beloved brother and lord.

Tokugawa Iemitsu struggles with his fear of death and finds salvation in the young samurai Samon of the Yagyû clan. But their relationship triggers a battle for power and respect, stirring tension between the Shogun and the Yagyû clan.In five chapters, the story depicts each of the main characters and follows their downfall as the plot unfolds.

I somehow managed to be reincarnated as a maid who monopolized the Emperor’s affection. In the end, she was killed by the Evil Empress through vicious means. ‘Fortunately, I’m only five years old.’ ‘I still have a long way to go before the original work begins, so shouldn’t I just avoid the Emperor and Empress until then?’ I thought so, but… “Lize, what did you say to the Emperor?” “I said that I support you.” The evil Empress who was supposed to kill me in the original story won’t leave me alone. “Truthfully, you like me much more than the Emperor, don’t you? Am I right?” Is the Empress trying to win me over?

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A collection of short stories. The title story is about Youzuke; one summer when he was growing up, he stayed at his uncle's house. His uncle had a pool, and at night Youzuke would see a mermaid swimming there, visiting his uncle.

"The Human Whose Name is Written In This Note Shall Die" This is the story of a Death Note user.

Story about friendship and truth, with of course, a supernatural box.Begins in a middle school where a mysterious box appears before some boys

Contains three stories.1) Pink Prisoner -Hazuki Mayu is the granddaughter of Hazuki Ichinosuke, founder of the Hazuki-style Sword Arts. Four years ago, she debuted as a child star in a children-oriented TV program, but Mayu had a bad experience as a d

My husband is my homeroom teacher. Is there anything else to tell...

[From Anime-Source]:Taking a break from her popular, brilliant, Fullmetal Alchemist; Arakawa-sensei drew up a one-chapter humorous Shounen story about a Frankenstein tournament, for mangazine GX to commerate their 5th year anniversary.

A comet passing close to the Earth flooded it with cosmic radiation. The radiation mutated male genitalia and sperm, killing approximately 70% of the males on Earth. Finding that there would be long term damage on females, they take 200 fertile women, and

Collection of short stories including:• When Saying Goodbye to Love• Couple´s Temperature ~Lovers´ Moment~• What a Silly Love (Nante Bakana Koi Nanda)He hates girls that cry all the time. The reason why he's my friend is because I don't cry. If I'm his friend, I can stay be his side. Therefore, I absolutely can't cry in front of him.- Intercross• It´s Time to Be in Love• It´s Time to Continue The First Love• Lovers´ Moment

Kanbara Rinko is a half-Japanese, half-British girl, so she has blonde hair and blue eyes.However, the vice president of the public moral committee at her school, Kotoshiba, thinks that she dyed her hair and uses contact lenses, so he constantly gives h

A cute short story about a girl who's a tomboy, but whenever she's around him, she seems to turn girly.

English teacher Kijima-sensei and his six years younger colleague , PE teacher Ono-sensei are working in an all-girls school on a hill. After Kijima overhears a girl confessing to the PE teacher, Ono asks him for advice. The two get closer bit by bit and in a conversation Ono confesses that he has a one-sided love. Who is the person Ono has one-sided feelings for and how will Kijima handle the matter...

One evening, a boy named "Air" suddenly appears at Mizuki's window, forcibly transporting him to Neverland. Having grown up most of his life without his own father, Mizuki wants nothing to do with being a surrogate father to Air and the other children, but unfortunately stuck without a way out of Neverland, he has little choice but to stay. As he spends time with Air, however, Mizuki is gradually charmed by his boyish innocence.

Businessman loves his musician nephew who is still in high school.

1-2) Chill OutTakafui manages a gay dance club, and when the owner introduces new hire Tomoya, it's love at first sight for Takafui. Unfortunately, he can't even get Tomoya to look at him, let alone talk to him or see him outside of work. Will Takafui's drinking buddy, Yukihiko, acting as Cupid, be able to bring them together?3-4) Strawberries and ChocolateHaruhiko has been in love with his best friend Jyunya for a long time. It becomes harder and harder for him to sit through the details of Jyunya's sexual exploits. Unable to sit and watch from the sidelines, he bribes his younger brother into seducing Jyunya's latest boyfriend away from him. How can his plan possibly go wrong?5-6) Abortive FlowerUchida thinks that he likes his art teacher, Yoshino-sensei. He struggles with the uncertainty of knowing how deep his "like" really runs, and how he can communicate his feelings to his teacher.7) Apartment ZeroAndou left his hometown following an unsettling "kiss" incident with his best friend Nei-chan. Now, two years later, he finds himself broke and homeless, and breaks into an apparently abandoned apartment building for a place to stay. But he wakes up to find the irate true tenant of the apartment, his old friend Nei-chan, who also fled their hometown about the same time. When will the two friends face the incident that caused their estrangement?8) Pretty in PinkWatabe was dumped by his boyfriend because they had few interests in common. Luckly for Watabe, his dad was transferred about that time, and moving saved him the humiliation of having to run into his former boyfriend every day. All he wanted was someone to share his tastes in designer clothes, trance music and art films. Strangely, the clerk at the video store in his new neighborhood seems to share his tastes in a lot of things, and is just Watabe's type in looks too. So why is Watabe running as fast as he can in the opposite direction?9) Abortive Flower?A short trailer which features a conversation between friends on the permanancy/ impermanancy of gay partnerships.

Haru Akaishi's father has just died, leaving him an orphan at age 17. It seems his father was in a lot of debt and took out some shady loans, and just when the Yakuza-esque creditors come to collect, a mysterious lawyer named Yuuji Senoh appears and says he'll deal with the matter personally. As it turns out, Mr. Senoh was someone Haru befriended many years ago as his mother ailed in the hospital, but Haru has forgotten about him. When the bank takes back the mortgage on his house, Haru takes Mr. Senoh up on his offer to live at his apartment. While Mr. Senoh claims that he's only trying to offer financial support to Haru as a minor, perhaps there is a stronger bond between the two than either realize at first.

The young Yamato Yousuke searches for a way to follow in the steps of his father, a detective who passed away in mission trying to save a little kid who got kidnapped. Finally, an opportunity to become a detective himself has arisen, but in the middle of carrying out his first assignment, a test to see if he would be a good detective, Yousuke suddenly gets hired, apparently for no reason. There must be a secret behind all this...

Kugou's best friend Nakaya is cheerful, lively, and just a bit hopeless, exactly the type who is popular with both boys and girls. So it comes as no surprise to Kugou when one day he catches Usui, a quiet, yet serious classmate staring at them as they pass by... Included in "NightS" book as second story (ch2).

Yuto is a typical high school student whose family just so happens to have had a long line of sorcerers as members. While in the family storage shed, he accidentally awakens a god who was sealed in a sword hundreds of years ago. Now, if only this mysterious god could remember who he is! Yuto names this extremely good-looking spirit, Jade. Stuck with an amnesiac god who's strangely attached to him, Yuto begins a clamorous life of high school, adventure and attraction.

CH.1 - YUNI-SAN: Kaoru is a boy with a tough home life and almost no one to care for him. While wandering the streets alone one night he happens to meet a man -- a foreigner named Yuni, who shows Kaoru that friendship and love do exist.CH.2 - KAERU-KUN: In middle school, a new student, Nagare KAE, nicknamed "Kaeru-kun" against his will, feels like an outcast because of his name. Kae skips school in favor of video games; however, at the arcade he meets his classmate Kaoru, whom he unwittingly befriends.CH.3 - SHUU Part 1: Now in high school, Kaoru's friend Yuu insists on bringing him to his house near every day. Kaoru meets Shuu, Yuu's older brother, who intrigues him. Curious from the things Yuu's said about his brother, Kaoru confronts Shuu about relationships...