Nacuo Kirino Libri

La pazienza di Yaoyoi, dolce e graziosa, si è rotta oggi in modo improvviso. Davanti al marito Kenji, che ha dilapidato tutti i suoi risparmi, Yaoyoi ha reagito strangolandolo con la cinghia dei pantaloni. Kenji ha tentato di difendersi, ma non ha avuto tempo. La scena è stata tragicamente buffa: il suo collo si piega all'indietro mentre le mani cercano disperatamente aiuto. Un uomo che beve, gioca, ignora i figli e picchia la moglie non merita di vivere. Dopo che Kenji è rimasto immobile, Yaoyoi ha controllato il suo collo per le pulsazioni e ha trovato solo silenzio. La macchia bagnata sui suoi pantaloni l’ha sorpresa, facendole ridere della propria forza e crudeltà. Con l'aiuto delle amiche Masako e Yoshie, ha trasportato il cadavere a casa di Masako, smembrandolo e gettando i resti in vari bidoni. Questo straordinario thriller segue quattro amiche—Yaoyoi, Masako, Yoshie e Kuniko—che lavorano in una fabbrica di cibi precotti. Insieme, scoprono il gusto della rivolta e il fascino del crimine, illuminando un mondo in cui la tradizione si rompe, proprio come la pazienza di Yaoyoi.

The legendary Samurai, and the sharp-edged katanas they mastered, are the point of this thrill-seeking guide to drawing swordfights, battle scenes and skirmishes. The Complete Guide to Drawing Dynamic Manga Sword Fighters provides a highly detailed series of lessons, starting with the body, the fighter's stance and the various ways your characters can be twisted, torqued and turned into powerful poses. No detail is overlooked--from the grip on the weapon to the intense look on your character's face. Also included is an entire chapter devoted to the various razor-sharp weapons your characters can come armed with. This invaluable manga drawing guide then concludes with a gallery of full-color scenes, poses and anime stills showing important, aspirational details: captivating scenes, compelling characters and powerful weapons at the ready. With this book, intermediate artists can refine their style and add intensity, authenticity and drama to their stories. Enjoy as your characters slash, fence and fight their way through your own custom-designed action manga.

Raised in her beautiful sister's shadow on a mystical island, headstrong Namima is ordained to guide the spirits of the dead to the underworld while her sister becomes her family's next oracle, a fate that guides her from her first experience of love to a scalding betrayal.

Two prostitutes are murdered in Tokyo. Twenty years previously both women were educated at the same elite school for young ladies, and had seemingly promising futures ahead of them. But in a world of dark desire and vicious ambition, for both women, prostitution meant power. Grotesque is a masterful and haunting thriller, a chilling exploration of women's secret lives in modern day Japan.

In a suburb on the outskirts of Tokyo, four teenage girls drift through a hot smoggy August and tedious summer school classes. There's dependable Toshi; brainy Terauchi; Yuzan, grief-stricken and confused; and Kirarin, whose late nights and reckless behaviour remain a secret from those around her. Then Toshi's next-door neighbour is found brutally murdered and the girls suspect Worm, the neighbour's son and a high school misfit. But when he disappears (taking Toshi's bike and cell phone with him) the four girls become irresistibly drawn into a treacherous vortex of brutality and seduction which rises from within themselves as well as the world around them.

Nippon noir – provokant, abgründig, diabolisch Aiko Matsushima ist mit den Abgründen des Lebens von Kindesbeinen an vertraut. Sie wächst in einem heruntergekommenen Bordell in Tokio heran, von ihrer Mutter fehlt jede Spur. Außer einem Paar weißer Schuhe ist dem ungeliebten Kind nichts von ihr geblieben, und so muss Aiko früh lernen, sich in einer Welt voller Kälte und Rücksichtslosigkeit zu behaupten. Auch als sie älter wird, hat sie es nicht leicht. Sie schlägt sich als Prostituierte, Zimmermädchen oder Kellnerin so eben durch, stets umgeben von Schmutz, Armut und Elend – von Menschen, die Gescheiterte sind wie sie selbst. Und unmerklich wächst etwas in ihr heran, das eines Tages mit Macht an die Oberfläche drängt: Sie, die mit dem Rücken zur Wand steht, ist nun bereit, alle Tabus zu brechen. Getrieben von mörderischem Hass, bricht sie auf zu einem beispiellosen Rachefeldzug – und dabei kennt ihr Killerinstinkt keine Gnade … • Provokant und schonungslos – das faszinierende Psychogramm einer jungen Frau, die ihre Seele verloren hat und zur Serienmörderin wird