This article, titled "Inside Cover: Dithienoazepine-Based Near-Infrared Dyes: Janus-Faced Effects of a Thiophene-Fused Structure on Antiaromatic Azepines," discusses a design strategy for creating near-infrared (NIR) dyes using antiaromatic azepine. The authors, Masahito Murai, Takahiro Enoki, and Shigehiro Yamaguchi, explain that while benzo-fused azepines have bent conformations that become planar in the excited state, thieno-fused azepines with electron-accepting groups remain flat even in the ground state, resulting in NIR emissions beyond 850 nm. The article includes cover art by Dr. Issey Takahashi at ITbM, Nagoya University. [Extracted from the article]