New Releases by Osamu Takahashi

Souta plans to confess everything, though he may be too late, as a delirious Rikka is being led by Kanade to her comatose boyfriend’s hospital bed! With the group’s tangled knot of lust beginning to fray, Souta is offered a way out—but are he and Rikka prepared for what it may cost them...? Don’t miss the conclusion to this cursed tale of love as it climaxes in the final volume!

The high damping force of oil damper vibration control systems in buildings offers relative safety during earthquakes and at a low environmental cost. The oil damper is connected using braces in series and is installed with pins to the building structure, which minimizes the impact on the building structure and allows installation and removal with ease. This is the first book detailing experimental work and cases of the use of oil dampers in buildings. It shows their effectiveness by detailing the testing and analysis of buildings with them placed at braced positions, exposed to small amplitude vibration, and without them. • The only comprehensive presentation of oil damper vibration control • Covers analysis and design, with case studies and details of testing and experimental results The book is organized systematically to suit students and junior professionals in structural design as well as more specialist engineers. An additional Python code sample is available online for learning the behaviors of oil dampers (Jupyter Notebook environment required). Osamu Takahashi is a professor at Tokyo University of Science, founder of Science Kozo Inc., and an advisor to the New International Structural Design & Engineering Challenge Association, in Japan. Atsuki Yokoyama works in the Research and Development Department of Sanwa Tekki Corporation and has a PhD in Engineering from Tokyo University of Science.

The most popular Evangelion spinoff ever returns to finish the story! While a school play starring Rei and Asuka as star-crossed lovers makes some ponder just where Shinji fits in, the question of whether he can make up his mind may become moot as SEELE makes their final bid to seize the Magi System with a ruthless scheme—taking Rei’s own memories hostage! Collects Neon Genesis Evangelion—The Shinji Ikari Raising Project Volumes 16–18.

After catching Souta cheating on her with not one, not two, but three other women, a devastated Rikka starts to avoid him completely. And with the help of the demon Gremory, she finds that she doesn’t need him to feel pleasure anyway! What Rikka doesn’t realize, however, is that her fantasies aren’t all what they seem to be...Can Souta uncover the reasons behind her strange new behavior before it’s too late?

There’s a new girl in school—Koyuki Nonomiya, a third-year transfer student with a reputation for debauchery. Bearing a curse from the demon Gremory, a rival of Zepar, she wants in on all the fun, and won’t take no for an answer! Faced with an experienced and aggressive partner, Souta finds himself increasingly pulled away from the other girls. Can he deny the pleasures set before him?

As summer break begins, Souta is drained more and more as he scrambles to satisfy the rampant sexual needs of Rikka, her friend Makoto, and now their teacher Shino. When Makoto learns of this third cursed lover, she hatches a plan to seek even greater depraved thrills. With Zepar’s help, she arranges an overnight camping trip to the beach. Trapped alone with Makoto and Shino, Souta will have no choice but to let his desires run wild…

After Makoto’s confession, Souta finds himself having to balance a delicate three-way relationship. Trying to keep both lust-crazed girls satisfied while also keeping his cheating a secret from Rikka is hard enough, but Zepar isn’t through with him yet…as the next to fall victim to her curse is none other than their homeroom teacher, Tateaki-sensei! Faced with the domineering charms of a lonely adult woman, will Souta be sucked into yet another immoral affair?

Souta and Rikka are officially boyfriend-girlfriend, but they still haven''tbroken the demon Zepar''s curse. Then, one day, Makoto, who had seen Rikka''s"grimoire," falls prey to the curse herself. She consults with Souta and theybegin to have a side relationship to keep Makoto''s symptoms under control. Butthen Makoto leans into her curse and doesn''t even want to be free of it?! Whenthe grimoire''s curse catches Makoto in its clutches, Souta, Rikka and Makotoform a love triangle?!

Souta Takatsuki and his neighbor Rikka Amanome have been like brother and sister since they were kids, but his feelings for her run much deeper. With her birthday coming up, he wants to find the perfect gift, which presents itself in the form of a book from a mysterious shop he happens across. The owner doesn''t even charge him, saying he''ll return to pay eventually...Souta is wholly unprepared for the insatiable passion the book inspires in Rikka, and it seems the ultimate price of this gift may be hefty indeed...

The aim of this experimental study was to determine if the indirect tensile (IDT) strength test results for Marshall cylindrical specimens are associated with a laboratory evaluation parameter for the rutting resistance of wearing course hot mix asphalt (HMA) mixtures. We investigated a wide range of HMA mixtures with various aggregate gradations; the specimens consisted of seven Vietnamese and six Indonesian HMA mixtures with a 12.5-mm nominal maximum particle size. Three different fine aggregates from two sources (natural sand and manufactured screening) were used to fabricate these HMA specimens. Wheel tracking tests were also conducted to verify the validity of the IDT strength test as a potential indicator of rutting resistance in HMA mixtures. The experimental results showed that the IDT strength test using Marshall cylindrical specimens has potential applications for evaluating rutting resistance, regardless of aggregate source. The study also explored the effects of fine aggregate on the resistance of HMA mixtures to permanent deformation. Overall, fine aggregate significantly influenced the rutting resistance of mixtures when the aggregate gradations were controlled to achieve the same gradations. In contrast, fine aggregates with different gradations were not strongly associated with the rutting resistance of HMA mixtures.

SEELE''s frustrations with Gendo''s plans leads their agent inside the school to abduct Shinji and place him under their mental control...which means Rei and Asuka must put aside their own rivalry long enough to join forces and rescue him!

Don''t say "crazy"! The campus culture festival is coming up for the students of Class 2-A, and in manga that means not only cosplay, but starting an all-girl band! But what are they supposed to do about the fact that the keyboardist, Shinji, isn''t, um, a girl? Well, that''s when it''s time for a little crossplay! Contains bonus color pages! Evangelion 3.33 movie now available from Funimation! The Shinji Ikari Raising Project ran for 18 volumes in Japan--more than the original series!

In Book Three, Shinji, Rei, and Asuka at last begin to train as a team for real combat, weapons in hand...stalking a giant gelatinous creature with a spherical "core" they must take out. If this kind of mission sounds strangely familiar, you''re right--but if things go as usual, it''s poor Shinji who''ll get called the slimeball! And even as the lab deals with the fallout of the Jet Alone affair, can they stand the stress of a relaxing game of company baseball with Gendo...?

If Rei and Asuka fear they''re never going to get anywhere with Shinji...why not cut out the middleman? Cast as star-crossed lovers in the school play, the two girls are going to share a kiss on stage in front of the entire school, but is it really just an act? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet! Khara, Inc. is a Japanese animation studio best known for its work on the Rebuild of Evangelion film tetralogy. Studio Khara is the primary an animation production studio. It was founded by Hideaki Anno in May 2006. Anno remains president of the studio. The name khara comes from the Greek word χαρα, meaning joy. The author lives in Japan.

Book Two introduces Mana Kirishima, the mysterious transfer student who might be more capable than even Rei and Asuka...and who''s definitely more capable when it comes to making moves on Shinji! The four of them will get a chance to show their elders what they can do (and hopefully not kill each other in the process) when Yui takes them all on a field trip to a facility run by her greatest rival from school¬--to see Japan''s newest, nuclear-powered giant robot! What could possibly go wrong?

The famous final episode of the Neon Genesis Evangelion anime TV show imagined the show''s main characters in an alternate world where friendship and romance could be as important as their task to pilot the Evangelion. That premise forms the storyline of Neon Genesis Evangelion: The Shinji Ikari Raising Project! Stunning, hot-headed Asuka Langley Soryu has been friends with Shinji Ikari since they were little. And she always sort of assumed they''d stay together--until the day the beautiful, brilliant Rei Ayanami showed up in class! When Shinji starts to get curious about Rei, Asuka needs to figure out if she wants to be just friends with Shinji, or something more. But why are so many people keeping an eye on these relationships--people like homeroom teacher Misato, school nurse Ritsuko, and Shinji''s mother--NERV''s chief scientist, Yui Ikari...?

Breaking their silence, SEELE tries once again to hack the Magi System. Yui, who has been tasked with running the research facility, dispatches Shinji and the crew to meet the menace. Shinji vanishes upon confronting the bizarre invader entity--but has he truly succumbed to unreal horrors, and can Rei and Asuka bring him back again?

Is it just an optical illusion, or are Rei and Shinji actually getting closer to one another? Asuka isn''t too sure--but one thing you can be sure of is that she''ll be giving this perception test a hard stare! And on that note, is Asuka falling victim to the same baka-tivity that afflicts her childhood friend, as she decides to use some of Shinji''s "techniques" to help bring Toji and Hikari closer together?

Shinji Ikari remembers having met the charming, mysterious Kaworu during childhood. But that’s not all–Kaworu has more shocking truths to share about Shinji’s own father, Gendo! Shinji and Kaworu, along with their friends Asuka and Rei, must do battle to put an end to Gendo’s crazed rampage! Can four teenagers put a stop to the destruction of the Y’ggdrasil, the Life-Tree, the pillar sustaining our dimension and reality? The ultimate fight is on! * The saga concludes in this astonishing volume! * Neon Genesis Evangelion: Campus Apocalypse is a new, original adaptation of the original Neon Genesis Evangelion anime series. • Featuring exceptional artwork, color pages, notes from first-time creator Mingming, and your letters!

Accompanied by his high-strung “frenemy” Asuka Langley, Shinji sets out to locate Misato Katsuragi. On a journey through the underground tunnel beneath the school abbey, Shinji sees something that shouldn’t-couldn’t-exist! Suddenly, before his eyes, the sinister role played by Shinji’s father Gendo in the whole conspiracy becomes shockingly clear! * A new take on the internationally successful Neon Genesis Evangelion mythos from creator Mingming! * Interest in the Evangelion series is reaching new heights with the theatrical release of the Rebuild of Evangelion movies. * Each volume contains gorgeous color artwork, creator notes, and your fan mail!

Shinji is never quite sure whether he''s in a relationship or just some sort of bizarre lab experiment, and he probably didn''t need yet another cute, mysterious individual to arrive in his homeroom. But that''s just what he''s going to get in the person of Mana Kirishima. Will she prove to be a girlfriend of steel... or more of an iron maiden?

Take me out to the brawl game! Gendo’s latest scheme for fatherly bonding should have seen another draft before putting baseball bats in the hands of his employees. Then, a mysterious hack into the MAGI system brings out all the brilliant mothers in force: not only Shinji’s and Asuka’s, but also the system’s creator...Ritsuko’s mom, Naoko Akagi! * Includes your fan art, letters, and special giveaways! * Bonus color pages begin each volume. * Interest in the Evangelion series is reaching new heights with the theatrical release of the Rebuild of Evangelion movies.

You didn''t really think all this raising being inflicted on Shinji by his parents and guardian was without constructive purpose, did you... a purpose, perhaps, related to giant robotlike things? As Yui deals with the fallout from the Jet Alone affair, her son tries to mind his own affairs... but usually just ends up falling.

Face the thing that should not be! At last, Shinji, Rei and Asuka are being trained for actual combat, gats in hand--stalking a giant gelatinous creature with a spherical "core" they must take out. If this kind of mission sounds strangely familiar, you’re right--but if things go as usual, it’s poor Shinji who''ll get called the slimeball! * Each volume contains your fan art, letters, and special import-only giveaways!

Shinji and Rei enter the plugs side by side for their new synchro test, where Rei is given the task to find her way out of an imaginary cityscape, and Shinji is given the job of helping her concentrate — but how likely is that, with all the chaos happening in their personal lives, a chaos everyone seems eager to encourage? Volume 5 includes your fan art, letters, and special giveaways — plus, an exclusive preview of the brand-new Evangelion manga title starting in August from Dark Horse: Neon Genesis Evangelion: Campus Apocalypse!

An alternate take on the famous series! By now, Shinji, Rei, and Asuka thought they knew the drill, but they don''t know this one — namely, the giant drill coming down from the even more gigantic eight sided . . . thingie . . . hanging over the streets of the virtual Tokyo-3! Who''s behind this new menace — Doctor Akagi, her daughter, or the man who fascinates them both? Heck, who fascinates everyone!

Don''t say "crazy"! The campus culture festival is coming up for the students of Class 2-A, and in manga these days that means not only cosplay, but starting an all-girl band! But what are they supposed to do about the fact that the keyboardist, Shinji, isn''t, um, a girl? Well, that''s when it''s time for a little crossplay! Plus, a special bonus 4-koma (four-panel gag strip) feature! Each volume contains four opening pages in full color, fan art, letters, and giveaways! * The most famous anime franchise of the last twenty years. * The new anime movie is available from Funimation.

Plot development? In MY The Shinji Ikari Raising Project? It''s more likely than you think! SEELE''s frustrations with Gendo''s plans leads their agent inside the school to abduct Shinji and place him under their mental control...which means Rei and Asuka must put aside their own rivalry long enough to join forces and rescue him!