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Akira has grown by leaps and bounds as a hunter, and so he decides to tackle the dangerous Mihazono Town Ruins. In Mihazono’s factory district, he unexpectedly comes across Carol and Monica, two hunters who are working together as surveyors. But the real surprise comes when a horde of menacing machines defy their own programming in order to pursue the hunters! What does this mean for Akira and his companions? Friends both new and old, and some unlikely allies, join the fray against their toughest foes yet!
The odyssey of Lord Samuel Kainz continues. Hunted by Death, cursed by life, forged by ambition, he knows neither surrender nor defeat. He has no qualms about annihilating anyone or anything that stands between him and his goal. The fate that awaits him is to cancel himself in the oblivion of the afterlife, like all living beings on this earth, but the same will that saved him will lead him far beyond human possibilities. He will sacrifice his life in search of ascension, towards that power that allows him to challenge God and his Horsemen. This will and strength will lead him to the Apotheosis or to the most enormous and ruinous defeat. The time to flee and hide is over, the time has come to make known what a man is capable of who is armed with a strong will and limitless arrogance.
Akira has only spent two days exterminating the heavily armored scorpions hiding out in the underground tunnels, and he’s already had more close calls than he bargained for. And try as he might, his bad luck’s about to get worse. A chance encounter soon proves that the biggest threat in the tunnels aren’t monstrous bugs but other humans. Now a gang of cyborg relic thieves have him in their crosshairs, and his fellow hunters may not take his side. With his lines of communication cut off, and forced to fight new enemies and old allies, Akira is outclassed, outgunned, and out of options. How will the young relic hunter stop a threat that can pursue him from beyond the grave? As Akira fights for survival, the scheming ghosts of the Old World look on...
Specifically designed for use in a range of undergraduate and graduate courses, while reaching specialists and general readers, this second edition of Introducing Japanese Popular Culture is a comprehensive textbook offering an up-to-date overview of a wide variety of media forms. It uses particular case studies as a way into examining the broader themes in Japanese culture and provides a thorough analysis of the historical and contemporary trends that have shaped artistic production, as well as politics, society, and economics. As a result, more than being a time capsule of influential trends, this book teaches enduring lessons about how popular culture reflects the societies that produce a...