Seventeen-year-old Rachel Kim confronts the dark underbelly of the K-pop world as she strives to become a K-pop star.

East Asian pop culture can be seen as an integrated cultural economy emerging from the rise of Japanese and Korean pop culture as an influential force in the distribution and reception networks of Chinese language pop culture embedded in the ethnic Chinese diaspora. Taking Singapore as a locus of pan-Asian Chineseness, Chua Beng Huat provides detailed analysis of the fragmented reception process of transcultural audiences and the processes of audiences’ formation and exercise of consumer power and engagement with national politics. In an era where exercise of military power is increasingly restrained, pop culture has become an important component of soft power diplomacy and transcultural collaborations in a region that is still haunted by colonization and violence. The author notes that the aspirations behind national governments' efforts to use popular culture is limited by the fragmented nature of audiences who respond differently to the same products; by the danger of backlash from other members of the importing country's population that do not consume the popular culture products in question; and by the efforts of the primary consuming country, the People's Republic of China to shape products through co-production strategies and other indirect modes of intervention.

The astounding athletes of New Japan Pro-Wrestling return to a world of high school rivalries! As Tetsuya Naito reminisces about his study abroad in Mexico and the lessons he learned there, old and new opponents make their presences known. Between “Rainmaker” Kazuchika Okada, the “Ace” Hiroshi Tanahashi, Katsuyori Shibata, or even the foreign exchange student Kenny Omega, can Naito reach the top? For that matter, does being the champion still mean the same thing to him? See if Naito fulfills his destino in this final volume of New Japan Academy!

Ben pulls his covers and listens to me. ‘And we bring the treasure back home,’ he added. I, Belinda, love my little brother Ben. He is very fond of fish. And that’s why I always tell him the story of the Swamping Sea every…every night. However, Ben goes missing and I am in shatters. I am nothing without Ben. My brother…My everything… My world. I need to find him! A family can never be broken. Someone who puts your needs before theirs is a family. Ben, I am always here for you!