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Ask anyone about catering and party meals, and they will all say they wish to see dishes that are easy to make and equally easy on the eyes. For the best experiences, they also hope for a few surprises to their senses, as even little dishes and stylish decorative designs can turn a good into great. So for even the most busy of times, food coordinator Riko Yamawaki, of Tokyo's Riko's Kitchen cooking school, has compiled a treasure-trove of casually stylish dishes that will make every meal a memorable event and every party into a bash!

For over a century after the fall of Constantinople in 1453, the Ottoman Empire enjoyed an almost unbroken series of victories n Eastern Europe and throughout the Eastern Mediterranean. It couldn't last. In The Battle of Lepanto, Nanami Shiono vividly depicts the fierce sea battle that delivered the Ottoman juggernaut its first major defeat.

Birthday is Ring-master Koji Suzuki's return to the Ring universe, a collection of short stories focusing on the female characters with a theme of birth. An exploration of extraordinary circumstances from the perspective of memorable women, this expansion of the Ring, Spiral, and Loop world was adapted into a hit movie less than a year after the book's publication.

Black Jack is a mysterious and charismatic young genius surgeon who travels the world performing amazing and impossible medical feats. Though a trained physician, he refuses to accept a medical license due to his hatred and mistrust of the medical community's hypocrisy and corruption. This leads Black Jack to occasional run-ins with the authorities, as well as from gangsters and criminals who approach him for illegal operations.

Black Jack is ill. The good doctor has come down with a condition that might force him into retirement and the medical world is now on bated breath as they wait to hear whether Black Jack will ever return to the operating table again. With his nerves shot and his confidence at an all time low, is there a doctor capable of treating Black Jack? Or will the underworld have to find another scalpel-for-hire to do their miracle work?

Black Jack is called out to the jungles of Indonesia to help an old friend with some unique research. Renowned Paris based Professor Dr. Triufeaux has stumbled upon a rare case of a modern day wolf-boy. Raised by a flat-headed cat, the child is extremely afraid of humans but is equally at risk of attack by the jungle's many predators. Black Jack and Triufeaux work together using medicine and educational science to train and nurture the boy back into the world of humans. But you can't take the wild out of a wildcat, and Black Jack will learn just how powerful the big cats of Southeast Asia can be.

In a chapter devoted to Pinoko, we follow her to the pool where she is starting to take swimming lessons. But her body made of prostetics, she had little chance of floating let alone swimming very far. However, a proud teen comes to her aide. A budding animator, he is working on the animated adaptation of Osamu Tezuka's Jungle Emperor Leo, but there is something lurking within him that might take his dreams away... cancer.

Black Jack is a mysterious and charismatic genius surgeon who travels the world performing amazing and impossible medical feats. Through highly trained, he freelances without a license because he disdains the medical establishment. This leads to run-ins with the authorities and unscrupulous, sometimes criminal, individuals. Because Black Jack keeps his true motives secret, his ethics are perceived as questionable and he is considered a selfish, uncaring devil.

Black Jack is a mysterious and charismatic genius surgeon who travels the world performing amazing and impossible medical feats. Through highly trained, he freelances without a license because he disdains the medical establishment. This leads to run-ins with the authorities and unscrupulous, sometimes criminal, individuals. Because Black Jack keeps his true motives secret, his ethics are perceived as questionable and he is considered a selfish, uncaring devil.

Black Jack is a mysterious and charismatic genius surgeon who travels the world performing amazing and impossible medical feats. Through highly trained, he freelances without a license because he disdains the medical establishment. This leads to run-ins with the authorities and unscrupulous, sometimes criminal, individuals. Because Black Jack keeps his true motives secret, his ethics are perceived as questionable and he is considered a selfish, uncaring devil.

Black Jack is a mysterious and charismatic young genius surgeon who travels the world performing amazing and impossible medical feats. Though a trained physician, he refuses to accept a medical license due to his hatred and mistrust of the medical community's hypocrisy and corruption. This leads Black Jack to occasional run-ins with the authorities, as well as from gangsters and criminals who approach him for illegal operations.

Black Jack is a mysterious and charismatic young genius surgeon who travels the world performing amazing and impossible medical feats. Though a trained physician, he refuses to accept a medical license due to his hatred and mistrust of the medical community's hypocrisy and corruption. This leads Black Jack to occasional run-ins with the authorities, as well as from gangsters and criminals who approach him for illegal operations.