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Author
Publisher
Europa Editions
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
221 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Fuyuko Irie is a freelance copy editor in her mid-thirties. Working and living alone in a city where it is not easy to form new relationships, she has little regular contact with anyone other than her editor, Hijiri, a woman of the same age but with a very different disposition. When Fuyoku stops one day on a Tokyo street and notices her reflection in a storefront window, what she sees is a drab, awkward, and spiritless woman who has lacked the strength...
Author
Publisher
Grove Atlantic
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Keiko Furukura had always been considered a strange child, and her parents always worried how she would get on in the real world, so when she takes on a job in a convenience store while at university, they are delighted for her. For her part, in the convenience store she finds a predictable world mandated by the store manual, which dictates how the workers should act and what they should say, and she copies her coworkers' style of dress and speech...
4) Sweet bean
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Language
日本語
Formats
Description
The manager of a pancake stall finds himself confronted with an odd but sympathetic elderly woman looking for work. A taste of her homemade bean jelly convinces him to hire her, which starts a relationship that is about much more than just street food. Nominated for an Un Certain Regard Award at the **Cannes Film Festival.** Official Selection at the **Toronto Film Festival.** *"Its sentimentality is tempered by the elegant restraint of the fine lead...
Author
Language
English
Description
Twenty-five-year-old Takako has enjoyed a relatively easy existence, until the day her boyfriend Hideaki, the man she expected to wed, casually announces he's been cheating on her and is marrying the other woman. Suddenly, Takako's life is in freefall. She loses her job, her friends, and her acquaintances, and spirals into a deep depression. In the depths of her despair, she receives a call from her distant uncle Satoru. An unusual man who has always...
Author
Publisher
Viz Media, LLC
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
220 pages : chiefly illustrations (some color) ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"University student Mimi and her boyfriend Naoto encounter one chilling mystery after another. There's the enigmatic neighbor woman dressed in black from head to toe--but if she's so odd, why does it seems like there are many others like her? Then, whose eyes track Mimi's movements from the cemetery next door? And why does a bizarre red circle drawn on a basement wall change with each passing day? Nine scary stories that really happened, drawn from...
Publisher
Funimation
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (600 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
日本語
Description
Sought by the greed of Men since the dawn of humankind, but only bestowed upon the woman whose fate it forever scars - The Witchblade. Is it the righteous sword of God, or the Hand of the Devil himself? Now a new bearer has been chosen and she must discover the answers for herself.
Author
Series
Akane-banashi volume 2
Publisher
VIZ Media, LLC
Pub. Date
2023
Edition
Shonen Jump edition.
Physical Desc
196 pages : chiefly illustrations (black& white) ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
Akane takes on the world of rakugo to avenge her father! Shinta Arakawa wants nothing more than to pass his shin'uchi exam--the test that would make him a top-rank headliner and master storyteller in the traditional Japanese art of rakugo. Akane Osaki, his daughter and biggest fan, spies on him while he practices and learns his routines for herself. When rakugo master Issho Arakawa expels everyone after the exam with no explanation, a fire is lit...
Publisher
Shout! Factory LLC
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
[Blu-ray/DVD combo edition].
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (116 min., 116 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
日本語
Description
"On the day before her birthday, young Akane meets the mysterious alchemist Hippocrates who brings her through a basement and into a fantastical world full of magic and color. Though things seem peaceful on the surface, he reveals this world is in danger and as the destined Goddess of the Green Wind, it is Akane's responsibility to bring back the rain and save this world from the terror known as Zan-Gu. Joining Akane on her journey is Pipo, an alchemist...
Author
Publisher
Pushkin Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
317 pages : map ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
A locked room murder mystery. Loosely inspired by Agatha Christie's And Then There Were None, the brilliant Gokumon Island is perhaps the most highly regarded of all the great Seishi Yokomizo's classic Japanese mysteries. Detective Kosuke Kindaichi arrives on the remote Gokumon Island bearing tragic news--the son of one of the island's most important families has died, on a troop transport ship bringing him back home after the Second World War. But...
Author
Series
BL metamorphosis volume 3
Publisher
Seven Seas Entertainment
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
142 pages : chiefly illustrations (some color) ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"After a little push from Ichinoi, Urara finally takes a step toward something she has only dreamed about! They might be over fifty years apart, but Urara and Ichinoi prove that age means nothing when it comes to the support of a good friend!"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Series
BL metamorphosis volume 1
Publisher
Seven Seas
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
146 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
Boy's love for the ages. Ichinoi, a seventy-five-year-old woman living a peaceful life, unwittingly buys a boys' love manga one day, and is fascinated by what she finds inside. When she returns to the bookstore to buy the next volume, the high school girl working there - Urara, a seasoned BL fan - notices a budding fangirl when she sees one. When Urara offers to help Ichinoi explore this whole new world of fiction, the two dive into the BL fandom...
Author
Series
Apothecary diaries volume 2
Publisher
Square Enix Manga
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
160 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 18 cm
Language
English
Description
"When word of her accomplishments falls on the ears of His Imperial Majesty, Maomao finds herself tasked with a direct request from the throne. Turning down the emperor is out of the question for the former apothecary - if she wants to keep her head! But while acquiescing to the emberor is expected of all subjects, Maomao is about to discover that ladies-in-waiting have still more taxing duties to which to attend, as preparations for the garden banquet...
14) She and her cat
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First Atria Books hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
135 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"This is the story of Miyu, a woman who lives alone with her cat, Chobi. As Miyu navigates the world of adulthood, she discovers both the freedom and loneliness that come with living independently, and Chobi learns of the outside world through her actions. Time drifts slowly for Miyu and her cat, but the harsh realities of the world soon catch up" -- provided by publisher.
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (299 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in
Language
日本語
Description
[v. 1]. Osaka elegy. Switchboard operator Ayako agrees to enter into an affair with her married boss after he promises to support her and her father - setting her off on a seemingly irreversible downward spiral
[v. 2]. Sisters of the Gion. Two geisha sisters - one modern-minded, the other staunchly traditional - disagree over how to deal with the men controlling their lives and livelihoods
[v. 3]. Women of the night. The story of two sisters,...
Series
Crown volume Season 1
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (approximately 599 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The British Empire is in decline, the political world is in disarray, and a young woman takes the throne... a new era is dawning. Queen Elizabeth II is a 25-year-old newlywed faced with the daunting prospect of leading the world's most famous monarchy while forging a relationship with legendary Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill.
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