Seventeen year old Hajime Nagumo is your average, everyday otaku. However, his simple life of pulling all-nighters and sleeping in school is suddenly turned upside... more>> down when he, along with the rest of his class, is summoned to a fantasy world! They're treated like heroes and tasked with the duty of saving the human race from utter extinction. But what should have been any otaku's wet dream quickly turns into Hajime's nightmare. While the rest of his class are blessed with godlike powers, Hajime's job, Synergist, only has a single transmutation skill. Ridiculed and bullied by his classmates for being weak, he soon finds himself in despair. Will he be able to survive in this dangerous world of monsters and demons with only a glorified blacksmith's level of strength? <<less

Ichiro Sato formerly suffered from a case of youthful delusions of fantasy and grandeur, which caused him to be bullied throughout middle school. Now in... more>> high school, he strives to be a normal student. Unfortunately, his teacher has entrusted him with the care of a girl with a similar case of delusions. <<less

The black history notebook of my middle school days was sent from my parents’ home.... more>>

While being nostalgic, as if I had made a proper magic circle, I summoned the Hero from another world.

“–Who are you, an underling of the Demon King?”

A story of struggling to return the hero who was summoned by mistake by a 25-year-old OL who should have completely cured her chuunibyou disease.

Note : OL (オーエル) stands for Office Lady ( オフィスレディー), a japanese slang for female office worker (in Japan) who performs generally pink-collar tasks such as secretarial or clerical work. Office ladies are usually full-time permanent staff, although the jobs they perform usually have relatively little opportunity for promotion, and there is usually the tacit expectation that they leave their jobs once they get married. <<less

One day, first year high school student Yuichi Sakaki suddenly awakens the power of “Soul Reader” within him, and he can see words above peoples... more>> heads that describe their true nature! With just a glance at the people around him, he sees crazy things like “Zombie”, “Witch”, and “Vampire”... That would be bad enough, but then there is “Serial Killer” Natsuki Takeuchi walking straight toward him... Nobody would ever believe him! Well, except for his older sister Mutsuko: This kind of stuff is right up her alley. <<less

Kim Dokja does not consider himself the protagonist of his own life. Befitting the name his parents gave him, he is a solitary person whose sole hobby is reading web novels. For over a decade, he has lived vicariously through Yu Junghyeok, the main character of the web novel Three Ways to Survive the Apocalypse (TWSA). ... more>>

Through Junghyeok, Dokja has experienced secondhand the trials of repeatedly regressing in time, in search of an end to life-threatening “scenarios” that force people to act out narratives for the amus**ent of god-like “Constellations.”

After reading 3,149 chapters—long after all other readers lost interest—Dokja finally resigns himself to the story ending. However, he receives an enigmatic message from the author, stating that the story will soon be monetized, before his surroundings suddenly go dark.

He swiftly realizes that fiction has become reality and he is now living through TWSA. Although he is the singular omniscient reader of the events yet to come, his success in the scenarios is not guaranteed—but perhaps his advantage will empower him to step into the protagonist role that never suited him before. <<less

Zhou Yu, a reclusive otaku who did not like to go out of his house, was one day forced out of his house by a... more>> series of unexpected events. <<less

Buntarou Sugawara, a truck driver from Hokkaido, was tasked with the job of carrying wood to Kumamoto by his boss.... more>>

However, this was also a battle with the reincarnation applicants who dreamed of getting transported to another world.

They threw themselves onto the truck’s path; if he ran them over, Buntarou would lose his license and job, and it would mean the end of his life too.

Still, Buntarou will drive his truck.

To protect his livelihood, to protect the company he works for, with his heart and soul, he will drive the truck to Kumamoto! <<less

Kazuhe Nomomiya, a boy who was given a gifted education from otaku parents.... more>>

One morning in the kitchen he saw a mysterious vortex that changes his fate.

A boy nurtured as an otaku, instantly recognizes that it is summoning magic.

What does the future hold, for the boy who rushed to the vortex at full speed…

A 16-year-old boy who loves otaku subculture goes to a different world. <<less

December 25
If anyone is happy with this day, drop dead! I'm sure there are some who think that.
A month ago I was the latter.... more>>

Now?
I'm sorry, but I'm so excited, I'm in front of the station looking forward to it.
Actual reality isn't bad either!! It's the beginning of a happy day.
I did my research and a gift is prepared and ready.

What? Strange illumination at my feet?
That there is such a mechanism at the station, Christmas is amazing...... <<less

Suddenly finding himself in the Sengoku era, regular high school student Sagara Yoshiharu is about to be killed in the battlefield. He is saved by... more>> none other than the man who later becomes the infamous Toyotomi Hideyoshi but at a cost to his life. With history completely changed because of Yoshiharu's actions, he tries to make things right again but it seems that history is taking a different course than the one he learned in school. Oda Nobunaga is now a brilliant but young girl named Oda Nobuna. Yoshiharu starts working under her command to bring back history to its correct course and find his way back home to the present world. <<less

This is the story of a crazy lich who possesses an internal game system and brings catastrophe to the entire world.... more>>

“Let’s look at the daily quests today… it’s the damned choose one-of-two-options-type again. Destroy a town with a population of 30,000 people or above; reward: 10,000 evil points. Steal lollipops from 3 children; reward: 1 evil point. If neither of the quests is completed, then 2 points will be deducted.”

“Tsk! You think I’m s*upid? If I really destroyed a town, a crusade of Epic-ranked Holy Knights would definitely come hunting me down. Even if I earned the points, there wouldn’t be any life left in me to spend them. I better just go be a kindly lollipop bandit.”

I’ve already had enough of being a notorious lich. Who says that a lich can’t be a good person? I’m definitely going to beat this damned system and be an upright and dignified good man. <<less

“Are you, Takahashi?”... more>>

Takahashi, the young man who failed his university entrance exam for the second year got kicked from his parents home and had to start living alone in an apartment inside Akihabara’s radio tower introduced by his yakuza uncle. There he met a or to be more accurate, a manga artist girl living on the top floor of the tower claiming to have come from another world. Receiving the mission from his uncle to find the secret of the residents of the tower who, for some reason, all seemed to be almost demented, he was about to start his new life utterly lacking from common sense. <<less

Felmenia Stingray was a genius mage. She quickly became the most distinguished mage of the Astel Kingdom after her discovery of white fire magic, which had the power to burn anything.... more>>

However, the world is in peril due to the Demon King. The kingdom’s court mages perform a summoning ritual for heroes and bring forth a hero and two youths, a boy and a girl. Unlike the girl, the young man refused to fight the Demon King alongside the Hero and demanded to be sent back to his world. The kingdom, angry with his behavior, locked him away.

Now Felmenia stands before the young man with her strongest magic, the white flame, being completely useless and asks who he is. It was already obvious to her that this man was far stronger than she was. To this he simply responds.

“Yakagi Suimei, a magician.” <<less

Irie Tsukasa had a longing to be a hero when he was a child.
His desire was stronger than anyone else’s, so much so that he would get himself into trouble, and many times he was reckless and got injured.... more>>

The burn scars on his back, the dog bites on his shoulders.
It is an embarrassing past now.
Even in his second year of high school, the scars remained with him…

“I can’t let them know about this…..!”

However, Yuzuha, a childhood friend and one of the girls he saved, sees the scar.
The secret that he had been hiding until now.
Unfortunately, after one of the girls finds out, the other girls find out that the man who saved her in the past was actually Tsukasa.
And it just so happens that they all happen to be the three most famous girls in the school…

“Um, you know……… today…do you want to go home with me?”

For some reason, things suddenly started to go wrong. <<less

This is an extra, “unofficially published” edition of Naoto Asahara’s previous work,”She Likes Homos, Not Me.”... more>>

Description of the previous novel:

“Jun Andou, a high school student that hides he’s homosexual, accepts confession from a fujoshi named Sae Miura and starts dating. However, Jun also has a male lover that he has a s*xual relationship with...

Jun’s only support comes from his classmate Sae, and his only friend that shares and accepts the suffering of his, is someone online with the username ‘Mr.Fahrenheit’.

…What’s the ideal relationship between Jun and Sae who are at odds with each other and their worlds? An emotional coming-of-age drama centered around a boy and a girl that would’ve never otherwise interacted, desperately trying to protect their crumbling relationship.” <<less

Yahari Ore no Seishun Rabukome wa Machigatte Iru is a romantic comedy which revolves around antisocial high school student, Hachiman Hikigaya, who has no friends, no girlfriend, and a severely distorted view on life.... more>>

When he sees his classmates talking excitedly about living their adolescent lives, he mutters, “They’re a bunch of liars.” When he is asked about his future dreams, he responds, “Not working.” In an attempt to fix Hachiman’s twisted personality, his teacher forces him to join the volunteer ‘service club’, where the only other member happens to be one of the school’s most beautiful and smartest girls, Yukino Yukinoshita. <<less

“Sword & Magic Online,” a VRMMO consisting of 255 floors to clear, harbors a horrible secret: Everything from floor two onwards hasn’t been implemented yet. And all the devs ran away.... more>>

“What are you gonna do about this?!” “We’re gonna make them now!” “People are already close to beating the first floor, you know?!” “No problem, I’ll let everyone die at the boss!”

Also, there is no magic in this world of swords and magic, the gold value has inflated indefinitely due to a dupe glitch, this kusoge (fixed term for a shitty game) is going down the toilet.

And yet, there are friends enjoying this kind of game. For that reason and to avoid this world’s destruction (end of service), a youth named “Sasaraki” continues developing this kusoge world together with the mysterious girl Alice who dwells in the debugging room, and…? A VR kusoge development rom-com! <<less

A side story of Oda Nobuna no Yabou which focuses on Bontenmaru, the Daimyo of Oushu and the future Masamune Date. She is a companion... more>> and bodyguard of Louise Frois and an ally of the Oda Clan. Possessing heterochromia, she also has a case of chuunibyou (8th grader adolescent delusions), believing her red eye has special powers which is hidden under an eyepatch. Like Nobuna, she also has an estranged relationship with her mother. <<less

Before his reincarnation, Wen Yu always thought that his childhood sweetheart, Fu Chengque, was like the snow on the high mountain, unattainable.... more>>

But later, he realized that she was not ice and snow at all. She was clearly a penguin standing on ice. With one slip of her foot, she tumbled down the mountain…

——————

Next door.

Fu Chengque looked at her golden finger and felt extremely puffed up! She wrote hastily: “I, the future empress, the superhuman, the destined deity Fu Chengque, am recruiting talents! Help friends regardless of reason, sign up quickly!”

But her tasks were not only related to her childhood sweetheart Wen Yu, but each one was super difficult!

【Make Wen Yu say “But I like it.”】

【Have a candlelight dinner with Wen Yu.】

【Whisper to Wen Yu for ten minutes.】

…

She’s just a girl, not a lover. How could she possibly complete them!

What’s absurd is that, although things didn’t go as expected, she still completed them all!

[Highly recommended for people who enjoy both male protagonists and/or female protagonists] <<less

In the popular VRMMO game, “Dimension Wave,” it’s said that one can experience several years’ worth of time in just 24 hours of reality. A boy was lucky enough to receive an invitation to the game from his siblings, who were invited to participate in the second installment of the project.... more>>

However, for some reason, the boy transformed into a beautiful girl with the somewhat painful name of “Kizuna † Exceed” upon entering the game world. Kizuna, having been forced to play as the opposite s*x due to a prank by his sister, decides to keep a positive outlook and enjoy his life in the VRMMO. Instead of heading for the front lines, he decides to go fishing.

Joining forces with his older sister, Kanade, his younger sister, Tsumugi, Shouko the beautiful Japanese-styled girl, and Yamikage the fake ninja, he plans to enjoy his second life.

NOTE: Many characters that appear in “Dimension Wave” also appear in “The Rising of the Shield Hero.” However, despite the many similarities, the characters in both series are not related to each other. “Dimension Wave” is not a spin-off of “The Rising of the Shield Hero”, but a separate story in a different universe that shares many similarities. <<less

Convenience store part-timer Lee Young-jin finds himself reincarnated as Wolfram, the third-rate villain of his favorite game, D/Z SAGA. ... more>>

To avoid the ‘dead end’ of being expelled from the academy, he takes over a small shop and desperately operates it as a convenience store.

Story progression? Let the main characters handle that. I’m going to run a convenience store.

Wolfram, who challenges survival with all kinds of various convenience store products and ideas. But, did the people of Academy misunderstood the changed Wolfram’s movements? <<less

From doomsday transmigrated into the male-only mysterious world, Liao Han found that the most unlucky thing was not turned into an extremely beautifull, little weak chicken but being married as a wife to someone pampered with a psycho tendency. ... more>>

Strive hard to educate this ‘psycho’ into an upright boy?

Liao Han said, forget it! Go away! Get out as far as you can!

The tag harem is only for ML’s brother and father. This is 1vs 1 <<less

The assassin, Nekomaru Kuroki, who had infiltrated the high school on a secret mission, was astonished.... more>>

"I have been waiting for you, inhabitant of the dark world like me!"

A mysterious girl calls out to him with an aura that sets her apart from other humans.

"Are you my target, the Red Dragon, huh?" (no, she's just chuunibyou)

Calling Nekomaru's name in her sleep, sharing her homemade bento with him, and showing an innocent smile from time to time despite her usual fearlessness and ostentatiousness.

Is she trying to catch me off guard ......?!

On the other hand, she was also mistaken.

"I can't believe I'm meeting a comrade who has the same chuunibyou as me. ......" (No, he's a real assassin)

A chunibyo and an assassin. Despite all their differences, "residents of the darkness" are attracted to each other! <<less

When Lin Shen transmigrated into a book he had no intention of flipping through, he found himself blocking the cute and peppy female lead in the back corner of the classroom.... more>>

Kabedon! (Wall slam!)

But he wasn’t the male lead!

He was just a scumbag bought by a vicious woman who wanted him to kiss and mol*st the female lead!

He still remembered that he only lived for three chapters in this book!

1,000 words per chapter!

The page was about to be turned!

He was about to be kicked away by the male lead and become a tool armor to the heroic act of saving the beauty from a cannon fodder without a name!

He didn’t want to die ahhhh!!!

Lin Shen calmly looked down at the female protagonist and asked, “What is the coefficient of expansion of a positive cubic mass with a linear coefficient of expansion of α, when the amount of expansion is smaller?”

The female lead who never studied: “Eh?”

The male lead who was used to throwing money at people: “Huh?”

Lin Shen looked at the two of them and said, “You can’t even do a simple question, and you still have the heart to talk about love? I advise you to study, fellow students. This is the only way for you to improve yourself every day and become a qualified successor of socialism!”

Later……..

Lin Shen was blocked in the back corner of the empty classroom.

Kabedon!

The school heartthrob, whose appearance and figure were off the charts, leaned over and blew into his ears: “I came first in the exam, do I count as a qualified boyfriend that can f*ck you every day?”

“Scram!” <<less

Konosuba: Yorimichi (Lit: Detour) is the short story collection released by Akatsuki Natsume after volume 17 featuring a set of eight brand new short stories. ... more>>

Apart from the last story, all of these short stories have previously appeared as Bonus stories for buying the Blu-Ray set. <<less