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Physically confronting your abusive superior might be cool and satisfying when it happens in a drama, but, as Kazuo Sugishita is learning, it’s less cool when you’re sitting at home afterwards, terrified to learn how you’ll be punished when you return to work the next day. The sentence he faces sounds surprisingly lenient – just…

At some point, the astrologer Io could only foretell “major calamities” and “unlucky events”. Ever since he foretold the death an influential person, the rumors about him spiraled out of control and he was confined to a tower as an “astrologer who invites disaster”. His guard switches out periodically, and several months ago Regulus came…

In the 13th Year of Jian’an (208 AD), under a flickering oil lamp, a white-bearded old man handed over a bag made of cloth to the jail guard. He whispered, “He who obtains this Classic can save lives.” The old man was none other than Hua Tuo, who was set to be executed by Cao…

Yang Yi, along with everyone else, is thrust upon a Maritime Survival Game. Some lucky individuals possess special ships; the Iron Heart is armed to the teeth, the Swift Wind is so fast it’s almost invisible, and the Ironhead charges forward with a massive ram. Only the Nightmare, Yang Yi’s ghost ship, has strange and…