Yoshio delights in the everyday sounds of Tokyo, but when a musician tells him that her favorite sound is ma, the Japanese word for silence, Yoshio sets out to hear this sound for himself among the hustle and bustle of the city. Includes information on the Japanese concept of ma.

Relates the true story of a dog who accompanied his master to and from a Tokyo train station for a year and, after his master died, continued to wait for him there every day for many years.

"Sadao Maou, the Devil King, has finally been promoted to store manager. And who should move next door to his fortress (actually a tiny studio apartment in a dingy walk-up) but a lovely kimono-wearing lass. But the former devil-crushing hero Emi Yusa is none too pleased with this turn of events, to say nothing of high-schooler Chiho Sasaki, who's still nursing a terrible crush on the Devil King. Meanwhile, a Sentucky Fried Chicken has opened up right...

"With the repairs to his dingy one-bedroom apartment completed, Maou needs a new TV, so the Devil's going digital. The trouble is, Maou and Ashiya don't know the first thing about flat-screens, so they bring Emi's friend Rika along with them to the local big-box electronics outlet. For some reason, Suzuno ends up coming along, and it turns into a shopping tour with the whole gang"--Page 4 of cover.

"A portal opens in the courtyard of the Devil's Castle (a tiny walk-up). From it emerges a little girl who calls the Devil King 'papa' and the Hero 'mama.' Ashiya and Chiho are shocked to discover that Maou and Emi had that kind of relationship, but nobody's more surprised than the two new 'parents.' Will Maou the breadwinner be able to make the grade when it comes to child rearing? And will this spell the end of the starry-eyed Emi's romantic ambitions?"--Page...

"For the Hero, whose mission is to slay the Devil King, Emilia Justina appears to have gone soft. She travels to Ente Isla with Alas Ramus to sort through her thoughts and investigate what's happened there since she went to Japan. The gang expects to see Emi again soon, but she never returns. Meanwhile, Maou (the Devil King) is studying for his driver's license, trying not to fret over the Hero's disappearance. On the way to his exam, he meets a strangely...

Tojiro, a young seller of rice cakes in the Japanese capital of Edo, later known as Tokyo, is amazed to discover that the grumpy and shabby old man who buys his cakes is a famous artist renowned for his sketches, prints, and paintings of flowers, animals, and landscapes.

"The Hero and her angelic mother may no longer be at each other's throats, but that doesn't mean Emi and Laila are suddenly getting along. The whole situation is a pain for Maou, especially with Laila constantly pestering him for help, claiming the fate of an entire planet is at stake! When the Devil King finally decides (for Emi's sake) to lend a hand, Chiho can't help feeling a bit jealous, and she is plagued by the fear that her friends might...

A tsunami hits the Imagination Station and Patrick and Beth wash up on the shores of Japan in 1923. The city of Tokyo is then hit with an earthquake, but the cousins survive thanks to a Japanese celebrity and a performing elephant. They finally find themselves at the Imperial Hotel where they struggle to help survivors.