Thanks to some unfortunate gameplay, a young man named Leon has been reborn into the world of an alternate universe otome game. Facing an absurd scenario where males are no better than livestock who serve at...

Office worker Leon is reincarnated into a dating sim video game, where women reign supreme and only beautiful men have a seat at the table. But Leon has a secret weapon: he remembers everything from his past...

Shin Youngwoo (a.k.a. Greed), an unlucky man in life and a low-level player in the popular VR game “Satisfy,” finds a powerful item that earns him a rare legendary class title: “Pagma’s Successor.” He’s now a...

What do you do when your favorite game shuts down? Momonga decided to stay logged in right up until the very end. But when the servers go dark, he finds himself transported into the game world and he's been...

For twelve years, the virtual world of Yggdrasil has served as the playground and battlefield for the skeletal lord Momonga and his guild of fellow monsters, Ainz Ooal Gown. But the guild's glory days are...

“I wish I could meet other humans.” That is the secret wish of Ria Frontier, who grew up as the sole human amid a veritable melting pot of other fantastical races on a small island. As she prepares to celebrate...

One day, penguins are spotted in the suburban town that fourth-grader Aoyama calls home. The penguins make their sudden appearance in a residential district nowhere near the ocean and disappear just as...

I may only be in fourth grade, but I know more than most adults. I take notes every day and read all kinds of books, so I have a solid grasp on the world around me. But suddenly, there are penguins in my town...

1-Star heroes are just fodder for learning a boss' attack patterns. That was Seojin Han's philosophy when playing the notoriously difficult game Pick Me Up. But after being transported into the game as one of...

Kaguya is the orphaned survivor of a war she can't remember. She has grown to love her new life and the parents who have adopted her, until once again, her life is torn away from her. A boy she remembers only...

“Bul’taaaaaaaaaarrrrr!” [Bul’tar in ancient orc language is ‘life,’ and to orcs, ‘life’ is synonymous with ‘honor.’]Yi-An joins the virtual world of Elder Lord as an orc but struggles against the harsh...

"Save me!" Those were Sakurako Amamiya's last words to her friend Ageha Yoshina before she mysteriously went missing. Now Ageha's on a quest to find her. He's convinced that the mythical Psyren Secret Society...

In the post-apocalyptic Junkyard, warring tribes fight to unify the six territories, and thus gain access to Nirvana, the promised land. This is Avatar Tuner, Vol. I, a novel set in the landscape of the Shin...

Note: A one-shot prototype titled Emeraldas was published in 1975 in Akita Shoten's Monthly Princess. The sci-fi classic from the creator of Space Battleship Yamato (Star Blazers), Galaxy Express 999, and...

On the planet Raguna, there is a music festival. With Leader at its helm, the musical group “Karriot” is brought to life by Gaia’s organ, Freya’s guitar, Seiichiro’s mandolin, and Nathaniel’s pipe…but his pipe...

Official English Translation A cryptic message scratched on to the bottom of a lantern powered by mystical fireflies; a world of constant rain, and cities submerged in ever-changing tides; as dark forces linger...

The civilization of the past, now called "Old World", has produced many "Relics" with its advanced technology. Many rubble of unknown material, high-rise buildings floating in the air, strange medications and a...

The pinnacle of human civilization has come and gone, leaving only ruins in its wake. Society and science now struggle to rebuild, rediscovering scraps of knowledge from powerful ancient artifacts that defy...

Technology has advanced due to the discovery of an alternative source of fuel called "Thunder-Cores." This has changed civilization for the better due to the creation of longer lasting trains and cars, and a...

When I wake up, everything is a mess. War? Extraterrestrial invasion? Whatever it is, I just need to take my personal revenge. ~ After being beaten up by bullies, high school senior Yiyeon Kang wakes up from...

She, an infamous fool in the capital, a loser in everyone's eyes, is set up by her vicious elder sister and perishes. When she wakes up, a modern girl's soul is reincarnated in her body. From then, she is no...

1000 years since the end of "The War to End All" and the destruction of the history of mankind. Ragdis-Hart is known as an "Explorer," and risks his life in the labyrinths of ruins crawling with ferocious...

Eight years ago, Zuo Fan's warrior father was arrested for deserting his post when a huge monster tide swept through S City. Zuo Fan is determined to clear his father's name and save him from his death sentence...

From Pocket Comics: Commander of the Specialist Operations Unit, Hayato Kirijo is so intimidating that a look from him could silence a crying child. It is this man who has been tasked with the job of a home...

Rising Stars of Manga (RSoM) was an annual comic anthology published in English by TOKYOPOP from 2002 to 2008, as well as the name of a contest. It was originally semi-annual, but switched to annual beginning...