A tale of solitude by Maijo Otaro following Naruo, a boy with a mane on his back, in his constant search for speed.

“Love is a prayer. I pray. I wish for the people I love to all be happy. I wish for all of them to fulfill their wishes. I wish for everyone to live somewhere warm, cool, or whatever they find comfortable, and be surrounded by their loved ones. I want absolute bliss to pour on them like heavy rain. I love every single person in the world.”... more>>

A set of love stories digging into the essence of love and stories. <<less

Spurred by a genuine impulse, the 15-year-old Touko lands on a remote island.... more>>

There, a young man she comes to know tasks her to monitor a certain man.

The man spends his days typing on his laptop in silence, shutting himself in a locked-room situation in a shed by the cliff.

Touko keeps monitoring him.

When the observer x observed structure tips over, it only takes an instant for the world to collapse!

This books contains all the worries and solitude inherent to the act of writing—

A controversial work among controversial works…or maybe a masterpiece? <<less

There exist in this world a set of six daggers that carry a terrible curse: the ability to inflict a death beyond time. Those under the daggers' curse shall reincarnate without end, never able to know happiness and always drawn to die once more by the dagger. This is the story of "Raine" and "Marie", two souls bound by the daggers' curse to kill one another, over and over again.... more>>

France, 1243. Lapis Lazuli Castle is the name of an insignificant relay fort nestled away in a forest east of Carcassonne. Its ruler, Count Geoffroy, and his only daughter, Marie, are both believed to be insane. The root cause of their shared madness is the mysterious disappearance of Geoffroy's wife three years ago, which caused Geoffroy to grow detached from humanity and cast Marie into a deep depression. After three years of wandering in a state halfway to nonexistence, Marie works up the nerve to ask her chief bodyguard, Sir Raine, to investigate her mother's death, confiding that on the night of her mother's disappearance, she had witnessed something impossible. However, her investigation only prompts a new tragedy.

The French-German border, 1916. As World War I rages on, Raine and Marie's latest reincarnations live the life of a sub-lieutenant in the French army and a medic with the Red Cross, respectively. The two lovers are reunited at the site of the Battle of Verdun, but no sooner have they met then Raine finds himself faced with a barrage of impossible circumstances. An enemy soldier's head suddenly vanishes, right before his eyes. One of his subordinates reports the same thing happening to an ally. Four more headless bodies vanish from a flooded bunker in the minute he looks away. These baffling events are a prelude to the return of their old tragedy.

Northern Hokkaido, 1989. Kimiyo, age eighteen, is already dying, an inoperable tumor in her hypothalamus leaving her with less than a year to live. Refusing to despair in the face of her tragic circumstances, she spends her remaining days with her friends at "The Library at the End of the World", a private library so called due to its isolated nature. One day, a man named Kito approaches her out of the blue, regaling her with a story about a set of cursed daggers, knights in the 13th century, and the two of them being cursed, fated lovers. Naturally, Kimiyo is intensely skeptical, but the events that come next don't require her to believe in them.

Arriving at the scene of these three tragedies is Snowy, an enigmatic figure of indeterminate gender who claims to be "a detective charged with managing the world's chaos". <<less

“If it means suffering, I don’t need to be loved.”... more>>

An explosive journey of the Meta Detective Tsukumojuuku’s soul threading its way on the dance floor scourged by the trumpets sounded by God/Seiryouin Ryuusui, the maestro to serial mitate mu*ders based on Genesis and Revelation to John from the Bible. <<less

Ten years have passed. Miyuki is a shop assistant at a bookstore, and Akane is working at her parents’ okonomiyaki shop.... more>>

Yayoi is a popular manga artist, Nao is a soccer team coach, and Reika is a teacher at a middle school.

Five girls are seemingly living peaceful days at first glance, however, they began to realise something is wrong with this world.

That…is the Story of Despair crafted by Joker… <<less

Hojo Emu, who works in the Department of Pediatrics and the Cyber Rescue Center at Seito University Hospital, receives a package from an unknown sender. Inside is a gashat labeled “Mighty Novel X”. No way, it’s a challenge from the genius game creator Dan Kuroto! No, he’s supposed to have disappeared. Who in the world would make something like this…? Emu meditated and took a deep breath. His hesitation eased, and he put his finger on the activation switch of the gashat. Game start!... more>>

The novel takes place three years after the events of Kamen Rider Genm vs Lazer. <<less

My little sister hanged herself, and my devastated mother called me. An amused trespasser showed me a video of my sister's r*pe, and pointed me... more>> to the location of the rapists' beloved daughters. I grab my stun gun and enact my kidnapping plan. But the city is also home to Jack the Stabber, whom 77 girls have fallen prey to. <<less

When student teacher Hirose returns to his alma mater for a few weeks, he notices strange events seem to be revolving around a student, Kaname Takasato. As Hirose soon learns, Takasato was said to have been “spirited away” and then mysteriously reappearing one year later without any memories of where he had been or what had happened to him.... more>>

While some students are fascinated with Takasato, others have taken to avoiding him, particularly as rumours emerge that bad things tend to happen to anyone who tries to upset Takasato. As Hirose tries to learn more about Takasato, he soon witnesses firsthand the strange occurrences surrounding Takasato as the consequences grow ever more severe and horrifying.

The author later worked certain events from this novel into the Twelve Kingdoms series. Chronologically this novel takes place after the fourth Twelve Kingdoms book, Skies of Dawn (風の万里 黎明の空; Kaze no Banri, Reimei no Sora) and some events are covered in book six (黄昏の岸 暁の天; Tasogare no Kishi, Akatsuki no Sora). <<less

A novelization of the game, Zero Escape: Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors, with some slight difference.... more>>

The story follows Junpei who was abducted and placed aboard an empty, sinking cruise liner along with eight other people. The cruise liner resembles the RMS Titanic, a ship which killed over 1500 in the early 20th century. The nine people were forced to participate in the "Nonary Game", a deadly game which involves numerical bracelets, small bombs in each player's stomach that will detonate and kill them if they disobey, exploring the ship and solving escape-the-room puzzles in order to survive and escape before they drown in 9 hours. The players also attempt to find out why they were kidnapped. <<less

(From the back cover of the first Volume)
Keitaro Urashima is the only boy living at the Hinata House, an all-girl dorm. Despite the fact that he's kind of a screw-up, the girls are climbing all over each other in an effort to tear his clothes off. But it's not what he thinks! Supposedly somewhere on his body is a map to HInata's secret treasure!... more>>

An already tumultuous living situation escalates into an uproar when Keitaro and the girls must entertain a group of guests, as their dorm transforms back into a hot springs inn. Things keep going wrong and the customers have crazy ideas of their own!

Join the gang on a wacky adventure which reveals the true mystery of the old annex! <<less

A novel adaptation of K, focused on the history of the blue clan and the events which led to Munakata Reisi's appointment as the current... more>> blue king. <<less

A novel adaptation of K, SIDE:RED tells the story of how the current red clan was created, the background story of Kushina Anna, and details... more>> of Kamamoto Rikio, Yata Misaki and Fushimi Saruhiko joining the red clan and their time together as a clan. <<less

Humanity has learned to live in complacency behind its high walls, protected from the giant Titans. But when a Titan-worshipping cult opens one of the gates, a Titan wreaks havoc, consuming the cultists. After the rampage is over, two young Survey Corps members are shocked to discover a pregnant woman’s partially digested corpse – with her baby still alive inside it! What will the fate of this “child of the Titans” be? And how will humanity learn to cope with the Titan threat?... more>>

Vol 1: Before the Fall

Vol 2: Kuklo Unbound

Vol 3: The Harsh Mistress of the City <<less

A novelization of K which tells the story of how Misaki Yata and Saruhiko Fushimi met and parted ways. There are three parts: "Meeting," "Getting... more>> Along," and "Betraying." <<less

A novelization of K, K SIDE:Black & White takes place in a love hotel that Yashiro, Neko, and Kuroh hide in after the events of... more>> the K anime episode 8. The novel features them talking to one another and remembering their pasts. <<less

Autumn, 2015. With the arrest of the youth called Miyashiro Takuru, the succession of bizarre serial killing cases known as the “Return of the New Generation Madness” which shook the streets of Shibuya had ended, but not without casting a shadow over Shibuya and its people.... more>>

Yamazoe Uki. Kazuki Hana. Arimura Hinae. Kunosato Mio. Minamisawa Senri. Onoe Serika.

For these girls who were by his side in the heart of the incident, what was it that they had thought and ascertained up till now, half a year after those cases—.

This is a complete new work by Umehara Eiji, the overall scenario writer of Chaos;Child, which depicts the afterwards of this masterpiece. <<less

The Mizuki Diving Club (MDC) is facing hard times, with a decline in membership and public disinterest in the sport of diving causing its parent... more>> company to threaten to shut it down. Just when things are looking bleak, a mysterious new coach by the name of Asaki Kayoko arrives and strikes a deal with the company: If the club can send one diver to the Olympics next year, then they must keep the club open. Sakai Tomoki had always loved diving, but now he, along with his teammates, must work harder than they ever had before in order to fulfill that condition. <<less

In the Japan of a 1000 years from now. A humanity that has acquired the telekinetic power called ‘Jyuryoku’, while terrified of the legendary abominations... more>> called ‘A’ki’ (Fiends) and ‘Gouma’ (Karmic Demons), has built a peaceful society. However, a group of children previously under the school’s strict control, as a result of violating a certain rule, have suddenly descended into a nightmare! The false peace crumbles away, as a fantastic archive tells them the truth of humanity’s bloodstained history!? <<less

This novel is a prequel which narrates the series of events that occurred years before the start of the manga version of Owari no Seraph. It primarily tells the background story of what happened before the world became the way it is in the manga. Guren is the protagonist in this light novel series.... more>>

Both the light novel and manga started within a few short months of each other and are running concurrently at almost the same speed. <<less

Midori’s mother has finally acquired her dream home, but it isn’t long before supernatural phenomenas disrupt the peace of the family. And if unexplained electricity failures, strange phone calls, and the eerie presence of spirits weren’t enough, finding unexplainable blood in the bathroom becomes the last straw. Mai and Shibuya Psychic Research are brought in to investigate, but what horrors will they find in the ‘dream’ home that turns out to be nothing but a nightmare?... more>>

The two books are a continuation of the Evil Spirit Series (Akuryou), but in a different setting. <<less

Kara no Kyoukai is a series of stories written by Kinoko Nasu with illustrations by Takashi Takeuchi.... more>>

The first five chapters were posted online on Nasu and Takeuchi's dojin website "Takebouki" starting Oct 1998, and the last two chapters being released at Comiket 56 in 1999. In 2001, part of the story was included in "Tsukihime PLUS-DISK," created by TYPE-MOON, the doujin circle Nasu and Takeuchi joined. The story gained huge popularity, and the doujinshi edition of the stories saw release on December 30, 2001 at Comiket 61.

Note; The cover image is from The Garden of Sinners non-novel volume 1 edition published in 2004. <<less

Kohei Kurose and Yuzuhana Koikawa were hit by a car right after they filed for divorce and they both went back in time on the day of the high school entrance ceremony.... more>>

Knowing that they had both returned to the past, they said, “I will never get involved with you again in order to live a happy life! I swear!

But, they both share the same hobbies and are very compatible with each other.

As a result, everytime I go, I end up having to spend time with her. I was reluctant at first, but as time went on I realized that spending time together is much more fun than spending time alone

This is a story about an ex husband and wife who return to their youth and are attracted to each other again. <<less

The year is 2013, and it's the city of No. 6: a stringently controlled, diligently maintained megalopolis that embodies the highest ideals of humankind. Sion has lived under close supervision as a "high-ranking elite and therefore one of the city's assets" since the age of two, and feels secure - if not particularly happy - in his carefully planned out, government-sponsored future. ... more>>

On the night of his twelfth birthday, his comfortable lifestyle is turned upside-down when he meets, tends the wounds of, and shelters, a strange boy with an icy demeanour who calls himself "Nezumi" (Rat).

Why did I open the window that night? If I had not, I'd never have been forced to know what it's like to fight, to starve, and to suffer in anguish... <<less

I was run over by a truck and died, so for some reason, I got to decide which race to reincarnate as via roulette.... more>>

That’s how I chose…a virus!?

Seen off by a beautiful, easygoing goddess, I was sent to another world.

“As expected, a virus is too meaningless. There were dragons and the like among different races…”

I was depressed, but I soon noticed the cheat ability.

Free possession.

Copy skills that you can get every time you are infected.

An almost infinite stock of life.

Weakening the enemy to self-modify.

Having become an immortal virus, I decided to enjoy a new life in a different world. <<less