Matthew Rutsohn

As Masachika and Alya's sweet story continues, Masachika's childhood friend Yuki Suou throws herself into the mix! She really wants him to join the student council with her, and she's willing to tease Alya in order to get her way. But she may just have a secret of her own... Alya Sometimes Hides Her Feelings in Russian, Vol. 3 by...

One day, deliveryman Sakunosuke Oda finds a boy at his doorstep on the brink of death. His name is Osamu Dazai, and he is a member of the Port Mafia, the very embodiment of darkness and violence. Thus begins a peculiar living arrangement: Oda, who cares for the boy, and Dazai, who longs to die. But what will become of...

It's been roughly one year since Chuuya Nakahara joined the Port Mafia, and he's determined to become an executive before fellow mafioso Osamu Dazai. However, a man by the name of Paul Verlaine, the king of assassins who claims to be Chuuya's older brother, suddenly appears, vowing to murder everyone he cares about! Now Chuuya must team up with Adam,...

Welcome to the Suou household—where everyone is a devoted fan of the little sister of the family! At a park in the dark of night, Masachika finally revealed to Alya that Yuki is his sister. Alya can't stand to watch Masachika beat himself up for abandoning his younger sibling, so she takes him by the hand and they go visit...

As their memorable summer vacation winds down, Masachika and his classmates jump straight into their second semester at Seirei Private Academy. The school festival is coming up fast, and Masachika knows how much the event influences the student council election. He encourages Alya to get involved and win over some voters, but when she starts making new friends in earnest,...

Everyone at Seirei Academy witnessed Alya's victory at the trivia showdown on the festival's opening day, and since then they've all been enjoying the event. The final day of the festival approaches, but when Alya and her band get ready to take the stage, a major incident occurs! Someone is scheming to ruin the festival, but Masamichi is determined to...

Yukito Ayatsuji, a brilliant investigator known as the Homicide Detective, has a skill so deadly that he is assigned a minder, rookie Special Division for Unusual Powers agent Mizuki Tsujimura, to monitor him. When Ayatsuji is tasked with solving a murder case, who should be pulling the strings behind the scenes but his archnemesis, Natsuhiko Kyougoku?! As the stakes continue...

The gut-wrenching and heart-pounding sports festival may have ended in her loss, but it also led to Alya realising her feelings for Masachika. Now with Alya's birthday party coming up, Masachika finds himself caught up in a major struggle to figure out what to get her as a present. He can't seem to catch a break, and to top it...

College student Tsuneo loves the ocean and the creatures it harbours, and he dreams of studying abroad in faraway waters. All he needs is enough funds to go, so when a girl in a wheelchair suddenly barrels into his life, he readily agrees to work part-time as her caretaker. Getting close to the prickly Josee is easier said than done,...

After saying some pretty embarrassing things to each other, Alya and Masachika are trying to figure out the nature of their changing relationship. Alya's feeling a bit flustered now that she's seeing more of his cool side, but she needs to clear her mind and be ready for rivals popping out of the woodwork. One of Masachika's childhood friends doesn't...

This collection of short stories captures special moments during the student council's summer vacation, and it may even answer some important questions: How will Sayaka react to the truth about Masachika and Yuki's relationship? What devious activities is Nonoa up to behind the scenes? Will Masachika pretend his intimate moment with Alya never happened? Why is it so easy for...

A romantic comedy perfect for fans of Chitose Is in the Ramune Bottle and The Girl I Saved on the Train Turned Out to Be My Childhood Friend. When referencing the title, avoid putting it in quotes or speech marks. Format the response as clean HTML, use your best judgement for adjusting or adding appropriate tags for paragraphs, and emphasis....

Not long after Ougai Mori takes the reins of the Port Mafia, his right-hand man, Osamu Dazai, has a nasty run-in with a gravity manipulator named Chuuya Nakahara, leader of the Sheep gang. However, with ominous rumours about Mori's deceased predecessor as well as the mysterious being called Arahabaki spreading throughout Yokohama, the duo must put aside their differences and...

Unable to get around without a wheelchair, a young woman named Josee leads a solitary, housebound existence. Her key to the outside world is her friend Tsuneo, a recent college graduate and her so-called caretaker. The titular story, Josee, the Tiger and the Fish, depicts the precarious, at times sensual relationship that blossoms between these two young people still learning...

Featuring the stunning work of Kiyotaka Haimura! This collection of illustrations, rough sketches, and more is sure to please any diehard lovers of the beautiful artwork decorating the covers and pages of Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon? On the Side: Sword Oratoria! Included are a long format interview between Kiyotaka Haimura and the...

Who Ya Gonna Call? Everyone's favourite Crimson Magic wizard is back with a new series of odd jobs to endure, and each request is more self-centred than the last! This time around, there's the classic frog hunt, another slime crisis involving Cecily and the Axis Church, and an encounter with a mysterious beast. Can Megumin, Yunyun, and Iris maintain their...

Can a neurotically overprepared hero and an underachieving goddess save a parallel world together?! When the inexperienced goddess Ristarte is tasked with the daunting mission of saving the S-ranked world Gaeabrande, she thinks that summoning Seiya Ryuuguuin, a Japanese teenager who has utterly broken stats as a Hero, will finally turn her luck around. Seiya's abilities (and good looks) are...

With stakes this high, is there such a thing as being overprepared? Arriving in the nick of time to save Rista from sudden betrayal, Seiya clashes in a fierce battle with a demonic Emperor Wohlks. Up against the God Eater, a sword capable of destroying the very soul of a being, Seiya quickly finds himself in a fight for his...

As winter draws its curtain around the first capital of Zephent, the goddess and her penal heroes are enjoying a little break. But, as usual, the fun doesn't last for long. Soon the penal heroes are given a new order to interfere in the election for the next archpriest! As various schemes and plots collide, a force working behind the...

Alisa Mikhailovna Kujou is Seiren Private Academy's solitary princess. She's a half-Russian beauty with silver hair, at the top of her class, serving as the student council accountant, and completely unapproachable. For some reason, she's also taken on the responsibility of reprimanding the slacker who sits next to her in class. Masachika Kuze is constantly frustrating her by falling asleep,...

It's no big deal to be alone. The story rewinds to Masachika's and Alya's first meeting back in middle school, when the Russian transfer student was struggling to prepare for the school festival all on her own. A snowy day long ago taught her to close herself off from others, but perhaps a helping hand from a nerdy boy can...

Following their victory at the debate, Alya and Masachika have some downtime to strategise for the upcoming closing ceremony. But can you really call an impromptu lunch date, hypnosis chaos, and vigorous study sessions downtime? Either way, it draws to a close when Masachika suddenly gets sick. It's an opportunity for Alya to play nurse... but it's also a chance...

Summer vacation has arrived, so Masachika and Alya get to spend some time together away from the hubbub of school. However, studying at Masachika's place is the only thing they've been doing! Alya takes it upon herself to teach Masachika how to treat a woman, but once those two get into it, neither is willing to back down. Summer break...

Young, hungry, and homeless, the orphan Atsushi Nakajima sees his hard-knock life turn around when he meets Osamu Dazai, a peculiar man who is part of a group of detectives with special powers. And he wants Atsushi's help to catch a man-eating tiger that's terrorising Yokohama?! Experience the beginning of the hit anime series adapted into a novel with Anime...

Doppo Kunikida is an idealist and a straitlaced detective at the Armed Detective Agency, an organisation that takes on dangerous jobs even the police won't handle. Everything in his life is going just as he's planned until one day, he’s paired up with the agency’s newest hire: a suspicious, eccentric, suicide-obsessed man named Osamu Dazai. Their first case together turns...

Before he joined the Armed Detective Agency, Osamu Dazai was the youngest-ever executive with the Port Mafia, the most notorious underground crime syndicate in all of Yokohama. Three of its members—Dazai, Odasaku, and Ango—formed a camaraderie despite their vast disparities in rank. When Ango suddenly goes missing, Odasaku, a lowly Mafia grunt, receives direct orders from their boss to find...

Over a decade before the events of the manga series, a chance encounter leads professional bodyguard Yukichi Fukuzawa to begrudgingly take an arrogant boy genius named Ranpo Edogawa under his wing. Their first job brings them to a local theatre on high alert after receiving a bizarre death threat — a challenge that will require both Ranpo's brains and Fukuzawa's...

The Armed Detective Agency's latest case brings them to the floating city Standard Island, a strange man-made vessel and a resort for the wealthy off the coast of Yokohama. But what awaits the detectives turns out to be far more complicated than any of them could have expected: a bomb, time travel, and a mysterious skill user named H. G....

An unexplained spate of suicides by skill users worldwide has sent the Armed Detective Agency on a search for Tatsuhiko Shibusawa, a mysterious skill user who may be connected. Each incident occurs under the blanket of a thick fog... just like the one descending on Yokohama. Kyouka Izumi and Atsushi Nakajima are hot on Shibusawa's heels when they run into...

What if the Port Mafia's Hellhound, Ryuunosuke Akutagawa, had joined the Armed Detective Agency? Likewise, what if Atsushi Nakajima belonged to the Port Mafia? In the parallel world of Bungo Stray Dogs: Beast, fledgling detective Akutagawa's desperate mission to rescue his younger sister from the Port Mafia's clutches brings him face-to-face with the organisation's fearsome White Reaper... a.k.a. Atsushi Nakajima....

Does the Cautious Hero have a plan for taking on General Deathmagla’s army? The misadventures continue with Seiya, the absurdly overcautious hero who tried to buy a thousand bottles of holy water as soon as he knew he’d be fighting undead, and Rista, a goddess who’s always waving her literally holier-than-thou attitude in his face! Things start off badly when...

Alya Sometimes Hides Her Feelings in Russian, Vol. 1 (manga) is the manga adaptation of the romcom light novel series.

Sentenced to Be a Hero, Vol. 4 is a thrilling addition to the Sentenced to Brave Punishment light novel fantasy series. This series is jam-packed with action and adventure, capturing the hearts of fantasy enthusiasts everywhere. Part of an increasing trend of sword-and-sorcery style light novels becoming available to the English-reading world, this volume continues to deliver exciting narratives and...

Alisa Mikhailovna Kujou is a girl of many faces and every one of them is presented stunningly in this very first artbook for Alya Sometimes Hides Her Feelings in Russian! Packed with exquisite, full-colour pieces from the celebrated illustrator Momoco, this collection features illustrations from Volumes 1–8 of the light novels, plus promotional artwork, chibi illustrations, and even an exclusive...

Sentenced to Be a Hero, Vol. 1 (light novel) by Matthew Rutsohn, Dengeki Bunko, MEPHISTO MEPHISTO, Rocket Shokai explores a world where heroism is a punishment for only the worst criminals. Those sentenced to the fate of a hero are forced to fight on the front lines against deadly centres of contagion that rot the land and turn its creatures...

Sentenced to Be a Hero, Vol. 2 brings more challenges for Xylo and his unit of penal heroes. Despite having defeated the immortal demon lord Iblis and saving Mureed Fortress, their punishment continues. New enemies arise, including a demon lord with the ability to don a human disguise and a band of assassins bent on killing Teoritta, plunging the city...

RACE TO RECLAIM THE CAPITAL! The Second Capital has fallen to the Demon Blight, and it's up to the combined forces of the Noble Alliance, the Ninth Order of the Holy Knights, and Penal Hero Unit 9004 to retake it. But first, they must establish a base on snowy Mount Tujin, facing legions of faeries along the way. And once...