Hiro is a high school student refusing to go to school after a traumatic run-in with the local bullies. But his feeble life is forever changed when, one day, he applies online for a new gadget called "JUNK." Once the mysterious package arrives, he activates the gadget and finds himself encased within a powered armor JUNK suit. Apparently "the clothes DO indeed make the man" as Hiro is granted abilities far beyond anything the muscle-bound jocks at his school could ever dream.

This new edition of Japanese Beyond Words takes the language student into the nonverbal skill zones that must be mastered to communicate effectively in Japanese. Now with an index and expanded chapters, it outlines the ins and outs of polite/rude speech, bowing, disagreeing, intonation, apologies, slang, preconceptions of foreigners, and much more.

When his childhood friend is murdered, 17-year-old clone Aoi spends his last year to live looking for the killer! As he searches for revenge, Aoi uses his ability to travel through the Jihai (wasteland), where supposedly nothing can survive, to act as a courier. After a routine delivery goes wrong, a pistol-packing padre named Tristram saves Aoi, but Tristram's buddy Dis accidentally runs him over!

Tricked into a confrontaton against the Ochre Top by Third, Thor faces his life on the line once again. What is the sly Third plotting and how does Thor fit into his plans? Time is running out for Thor and he'll have to continue to grow stronger if he hopes become the King of the Beast Planet!