After meeting Nomi's brother, Rika leaves Nomi behind with him and returns back home with her uncle. Meanwhile, the secret scheme of the Sword Master of Black Iron is revealed... to revive Arthur, his best friend and Rika's father, at the price of Rika's life!

The sword master of Black Iron is kicked out of the Magic Guild when he's unable to follow an order to destroy the beautiful doll called Fiona. Then one night, his servant Nomi comes home with a letter for him. What are the contents of this letter, and why is Nomi so afraid to present it to his master?

When Jackie's ex-lover Noah dies, she decides the best and quickest way to get over the love of her life is to hold a personal ritual with Noah's ashes. Jackie consumes the ashes in the form of smoothies for 12 days, hoping the pain will subside with her profound reaction to Noah's death. While she and her partner-in-crime Nick, Noah's brother, spend the time in the closed space her apartment, they slowly become consumed by Noah's tragedy.

A royal maid named Ana, and a nearby kingdom's young prince, Zelos, have been accidentally bound together by a magical curse. The two 15-year olds are now each only 10 years of age! They both retain the ability to transform back to their original age, but at the cost of knocking the other down to a mere 5 years old! Now the age-shifting pair must search for a way to break the curse while also trying to avert the disaster facing their two kingdoms!

Zelos and Anna were each 15 years old, but due to a magical curse the pair only has 20 years of age to share between them! Now on the run from an evil Prime Minister, the two have been captured by villainous slave traders. Can the age-shifting duo actually use the curse to their advantage for once?

Since mankind has acquired the technology to travel vast distances through space, lives and loves have been sacrificed to the thrill of space exploration! And now humanity must reckon with the responsibility that accompanies such awesome power. Due to greed, the first steps to colonize other planets end in violent confrontation.

Humanity has colonized the stars, but will people's dream of finding or creating the utopia everyone longs for ever be realized? Is peace and fulfillment obtainable, or is it folly to think that we can ever leave the savage side of human nature behind?

This double-pack contains both 2009: Lost Memories and Yesterday.

Humanity, having faced extinction at the end of the 20th century, would not have entered the new millennium if it weren't for them. In 1969, during their youth, they created a symbol. In 1997, as the coming disaster slowly starts to unfold, that symbol returns. This is the story of a gang of boys who try to save the world.

This introduction to reading Japanese characters, or kanji, is based on the characters most frequently used in everyday situations. Twenty-one lessons illustrate situations in places like train stations, banks, post offices, restaurants, hospitals, and university campuses while in Japan. All the tools you need to feel comfortable and accomplish your goals in these environments are right here in this book.

Unfortunately, the kanji taught in most textbooks are not always those mostly commonly encountered in everyday situations. To fill this gap, a group of Japanese-language lecturers from the prestigious University of Tokyo have pooled their talents to create 250 Essential Kanji for Everyday Use, Volume II, a workbook that when used in tandem with Volume I teaches 500 kanji characters most frequently seen in daily life in Japan.