Japanese Young Adult

Brought to you by Penguin. Chris Harding's enormously enjoyable new book distils Japan's long, complex and fascinating history into the stories of twenty remarkable individuals. These vivid and entertaining portraits take the reader from the earliest written accounts of Japan right through to...

A certain college girl who's loved books ever since she was a little girl dies in an accident and is reborn in another world she knows nothing about. She is now Myne, the sickly five-year-old daughter of a poor soldier. To make things worse, the world she's been reborn in has a very low literacy rate and books mostly don't exist. She'd have to pay an enormous amount of money to buy one.

Marty Friedman's upbringing was as atypical as his career. Growing up in a Jewish household in Maryland, the son of an NSA executive, he lacked motivation until he discovered the guitar. Enjoying a hazy adolescence overflowing with partying, music, and teen antics, he achieved local stardom in Deuce, then burst onto the national scene by pioneering a radically new style of playing, bringing attention to the guitar aficionado label, Shrapnel Records. Friedman moved to California and scored a gig in Megadeth.

Listeners of this book will gain a clear understanding of what makes the Japanese, and their society, tick.

Agnes is an unusual young woman with peach-blossom hair and the fairy-given ability to make mushrooms sprout willy-nilly. Fortunately, she's now in a relationship with a handsome dragon prince who's absolutely obsessed with her mushrooms! Unfortunately, Agnes is still trying to get over the trauma of her last relationship, and it'll take a lot of spoiling from Claude to help her! This is the story of how, through a series of unlikely events, Agnes has found her mushroom-loving prince charming.

Ten-year-old Manami did not realize how peaceful her family's life on Bainbridge Island was until the day it all changed. It's 1942, after the attack on Pearl Harbor, and Manami and her family are Japanese American, which means that the government says they must leave their home by the sea and join other Japanese Americans at a prison camp in the desert. Manami is sad to go, but even worse is that they are going to have to give her and her grandfather's dog, Yujiin, to a neighbor to take care of.

“Congratulations, you’ve won the lottery!” shouts the angel Prapura to a formless soul. The soul hasn’t been kicked out of the cycle of rebirth just yet - he’s been given a second chance. He must recall the biggest mistake of his past life while on "homestay" in the body of 14-year-old Makoto Kobayashi. It looks like Makoto doesn’t have a single friend, and his family don’t seem to care about him at all. But as the soul begins to live Makoto’s life on his own terms, he grows closer to the family and the people around him and sees their true colors more clearly.

Japan is a single nation, but its origins are so old, and often, so fragmented, that unified mythology and folklore can be difficult to point to. Still, there are some key texts, tales, and characters we can focus on which will give us a pretty good sense of Japanese mythology. In this audiobook, you'll discover stories of mystery, horror, and romance while simultaneously learning about the Japanese culture.

「最悪だな。ミカエル陣営に、ヴェルザードさんまで加わったのか……」ミカエル率いるセラフィム軍団の侵攻計画が進む中、
その対策のために開かれたワルプルギスに集結する八星魔王たち。

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勇者、胎動――ミカエルの野望を阻止するため、各所で激闘を繰り広げるリムルたちだったが、フェルドウェイの策略により魔王レオンを奪われてしまう。

貴族院に入学したローゼマインは図書館に通いたい一心で、勉強に試験に大奮闘を続けていた。が、貴族の常識を知らない振る舞いに、側近や教師たちからも心配の声が高まっていく。

友情も恋愛もくだらないとのたまうひねくれ男

全てを蹂躙する、砂海の白き伝説ダンテを倒し、異世界≪ウォーズ≫直下を支配から解放したテンドウ海賊団は、覇者集う六大会議に参加するため、カンパニーへと航路をとる。その前に姿を現したのは、砂海の伝説と呼ばれる超巨大生物・白鯨。壊滅的な被害を受けながらも騎士ネビュラの助力で難を切り抜けたレイメイ達だったが、それはカンパニーで待ち受ける戦いの序章に過ぎなかった。

クロス、攫われる！？【満月が最も高く昇る晩に”アルメリアの至宝”をいただきに参上する】大怪盗セラスから学長宛に届いた予告状。バスクルビアは騒然とし、勇者の子孫エリシアに厳重な警備がつくことに。クロスたちアラカルト派も護衛任務につくのだが――セラスの狙いは、まさかのクロスだった！！

TVアニメ化決定！「このライトノベルがすごい！２０１８＆２０１９」２年連続第１位！シリーズ累計１２０万部突破！

リムル消滅の報により激震が走る魔国連邦。しかし以前とは違いリムル生存の確信を持つ幹部たちの姿に、すぐさま冷静を取り戻していった。リムルが帰還したときに国がなくなっていたでは笑えない。

暴走と覚醒の最終章――因縁の敵ミカエルを制したリムルであったが、各地では今もなお激戦が続いていた。ミリム陣営と蟲型魔人(インセクター)の戦いもまた、両陣営入り乱れた混戦の様相を呈している。

TVアニメ化決定！「このライトノベルがすごい！２０１８＆２０１９」２年連続第１位！シリーズ累計１２０万部突破！

神殿に入ってからずっと見てきた背中ーー引き継ぎ業務と貴族院の予習に追われるローゼマインの心は落ち着かない。王命を受けたフェルディナンドの旅立ちが近づいていた。