Natsume Natsume Vol 5

Natsume Shiranui has the face of a villain. From strangers on the street to his own high school classmates, his creepy grin freaks everybody out. But secretly he yearns to be a hero like his childhood friend — the kind, brave, and beautiful Natsume Minazuki. Can he become her hero, or is he destined to always be the one getting rescued? From the creator of The Girl with the Sanpaku Eyes, Natsume & Natsume is a wholesome romantic comedy about becoming a hero for the person you love.

Takashi thinks he's found a balance between yokai and friends when he goes with a group of classmates to a country inn for a marathon cram session before school starts again. But even the prosaic threat of homework can't keep the ""other world"" at bay, especially when the innkeeper has been dabbling in mermaid blood! -- VIZ Media

Mikami-sensei and Natsume are boyfriend and girlfriend in secret! A male transfer student who is also a popular model enters Natsume's class. Mikami-sensei tries everything to challenge the guy who's become very attached to Natsume, but it turns into a massive failure ...

Takashi Natsume is a troubled high school student that is able to see spirits and demons, and has inherited a "book of friends" that contains the bound names of enslaved spirits and demons that are willing to do anything to get their names back.

Yuuki Narito’s new seatmate Yui Takatsuki is the notorious “Seatmate Killer,” who strings guys along before breaking their hearts. But Yuuki’s so clueless he might be immune to her charms! And so begins a fierce competition between two seatmates in this hilarious rom-com.

Spending summer break at home is the perfect scenario for loner Hachiman Hikigaya, but his club advisor, Hiratsuka-sensei, knows just how to ruin his dreams. Say good-bye to a quiet vacation and hello to taking care of some snot-nosed elementary school brats at summer camp! But there's a bullying problem among the kids, and the target is a pint-sized loner named Rumi Tsurumi! Can Hachiman and the rest of the Service Club help Rumi out, or is her social life done for?

Natsume Shiranui has the face of a villain. From strangers on the street to his own high school classmates, his creepy grin freaks everybody out. But secretly he yearns to be a hero like his childhood friend — the kind, brave, and beautiful Natsume Minazuki. Can he become her hero, or is he destined to always be the one getting rescued? From the creator of The Girl with the Sanpaku Eyes, Natsume & Natsume is a wholesome romantic comedy about becoming a hero for the person you love.

The Uses of Literature in Modern Japan explores the varying uses of literature in Japan from the late Meiji period to the present, considering how creators, conveyors, and consumers of literary content have treated texts and their authors as cultural resources to be packaged, promoted, and preserved. As the printed word became a crucial form of entertainment and edification for an increasingly literate public in early 20th-century Japan, literature came to assume a variety of new uses. Touching upon a wide array of sources, Sari Kawana traces the ways in which literary works have morphed into different variants, ranging from textual (compilations, textbooks) and visual (film, manga, other media) to virtual and real world, through innovative publishing and reading practices. She takes up themes such as the materiality of texts, the role of publishers and advertising campaigns, the interplay between literature and other media, and the creation and dissemination of larger cultural fantasies tied to literary consumption. She stresses the agency and creativity with which readers engaged literary works, from divergent readings of propaganda literature to inventive adaptations of canonical texts in adjacent media, culminating in the practice of literary tourism. Moving beyond close reading of texts to look at their historical context, the book will appeal not only to scholars of modern Japanese literature but also those studying the history of the book and modern Japanese cultural history.