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This thrilling sci-fi/fantasy series welcomes you to Japan, a top-ten destination for extraterrestrials looking for refuge, relaxation, a good time, or just to raise a little hell! Join one unsuspecting Tokyoite as he discovers that intergalactic tourist relations can prove to be a lot more dangerous than they seem! Akira Gunji, Sho Tenkubashi, and Raika Nadeshiko plunge headfirst into a cosmic clash against Raika''s doppelganger Ririka an assault weapon wreaking havoc across the stars! The odds seem insurmountable until Kaito Toya, Raika''s unexpected ally, rockets onto the scene, catapulting Akira and his crew into an even more daunting battle. Then, apart from saving the universe, Akira faces a quintessentially mundane challenge - he flunked a high school test! His schoolmates Sho and Masato Kizaki assemble at Akira''s house for a tutoring session. Little do they realize that Masato''s stay on Earth is more than just academic - it''s a mission to find a bride!

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Hotaru's been found out...by Midori! His accusations of deception weigh heavy on Hotaru, who's still lying to her teammates in Toy Gun*Gun about being a girl... Desperate to play with Matsuoka and Yukimura and fight in the TGC again, she decides to tell them the truth. But as she prepares to deliver her confession, she comes face to face with an unexpected proclamation from Matsuoka instead...!!

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"We, Star White, will stand with Toy Gun Gun."Star White suddenly shows up to join in on the fight against 11 DOGs. When Midori suggests that they temporarily team up, Matsuoka agrees to the plan. What will come of the counter battle that faces the two-man cells of Tachibana and Ichi, Yukimura and Fujimoto, and Matsuoka and Midori!? And what kind of difficult past does Matsuoka share with Midori and Yukimura...?

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Time for the first match of Star White, five-time champions of the TGC!! Midori shows his unbelievable skill in a match that favors his opponent!! Meanwhile, Toy*Gun Gun's second match is approaching, and Yukimura is worried. "Why are Midori and Mattsun still using their old guns? Are they going to team back up someday!?" And this worry brings disaster...

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Toy Gun*Gun claims victory in their second match at the TGC! But not without casualties - after being forced to withdraw from the fight against 11 DOGs, Matsuoka's headed to the hospital to get his injuries checked. And the usually invincible Midori gets the wind knocked out of him during Star White's second match...by who? With both team's leaders worse for wear, will Toy*Gun Gun and Star White even be able to advance to the next round?!

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Tachibana is up against her most dangerous opponent yet as the first round of the TGC begins. Midori is a veteran survival gamer whose shared past with Matsuoka could spell defeat before the first shots are fired. Tachibana's out for revenge, but also in it for herself-if she can prove she's a valuable asset to the team by helping take down their rivals, surely she'll be safe letting Matsuoka and Yukimura in on her secret...? Which team will win this game when neither can afford to lose!?

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With Midori and Matsuoka badly injured, both Star White and Toy Gun Gun have to compete in the semifinals without their leaders. Next team up that Toy Gun Gun will face off against is Agartha, the legendary "strongest team" Midori and Matsuzaka were once a part of. And team leader Shingen Gareki, with his unparalleled knowledge of survival games, is determined to stop Hotaru and the members of Toy Gun Gun in their tracks!!

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Ever since its rediscovery in 1934, "The Book of Margery Kempe" has generally been judged to be over-emotional and its structure regarded as at worst non-existent, at best naive. Naoe Kukita Yoshikawa argues instead that the book unfolds a creative experience of memory as spiritual progress, and explores Margery's meditational experience in the context of visual and verbal iconography. She provides a comprehensive analysis of Margery's meditative experience as it is structured in the book, paying particular attention to five major meditational experiences that influence her spiritual progress and develop a coherent theology.

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The Boke of Gostely Grace is the anonymous Middle English version of the Liber specialis gratiae by the German visionary Mechthild of Hackeborn (1241–1298). The original Liber, compiled at the convent of Helfta in Saxony, presents Mechthild’s visions as she experienced them in the liturgy of the Christian year. Her famous visions of the Sacred Heart follow, along with instructions on the religious life in community and her visions of the afterlife. The Middle English version adapts the text to a new fifteenth-century audience, probably a Birgittine community such as the newly founded Syon Abbey on the Thames near London; it emphasises imagery of the dance of the liturgy, the vineyard and the Sacred Heart in new and vivid terms, while other aspects, such as the bridal imagery, are played down. Within a generation, the English text had become popular among the nobility, and stimulated lay piety and private prayer. While scholars have traced the influence and reception of many continental European women writers, Mechthild’s revelations have often escaped their attention, through the lack of suitable editions. This edition of Bodley 220, the manuscript written in the London area, includes introduction, commentary and glossary, and breaks new ground in the study of late medieval vernacular translation and women’s literary culture.

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