In the spring of 1998, Kouichi Sakakibara transfers to Yomiyama North Middle School. In class, he develops a sense of unease as he notices that... more>> the people around him act like they’re walking on eggshells, and students and teachers alike seem frightened. As a chain of horrific deaths begin to unfold around him, he comes to discover that he has been placed in the cursed Class 3 in which the student body head count is always one more than expected. Class 3 is haunted by a vengeful spirit responsible for gruesome deaths in an effort to satisfy its spite. To stop the vicious cycle gripping his new school, Kouichi decides to get to the bottom of the curse, but is he prepared for the horror that lies ahead…? <<less

“Baccano”, which Narita translates as “s*upid commotion”, is Italian for “ruckus”. Each of the stories in the series involves several unrelated plots intersecting and crossing each other as events spiral farther and farther out of control. Immortal alchemists, mafia operated speakeasies, and many other elements of pulp fiction mashed together for a world straight out of the movies.... more>>

It all started 300 years ago on a boat where the alchemists summoned the “demon” in order to obtain the method of immortality. The demon gave the alchemist the liquor of immortality, the only way to die is to pass down the way to produce the liquor.

But the following night, one of the alchemist started to devour his companions. To escape the threat, the alchemists scattered all over the world. In America during the temperance movement, centering around the liquor of immortality, the “s*upid commotion” starts! <<less

Living in the high school student dormitories is first year student Araki Jin. His archeologist parents have sent him a mysterious lamp that, once polished, causes the academy's idol Zadou Sierra to abruptly appear! What's more, she is dressed in a maid outfit! After she appears, her father arrives and explains that Sierra is a descendent of a lamp genie, and that a genie needs to grant their master’s wishes in order to grow up. ... more>>

However, as a novice genie, Sierra cannot use her magical powers in any strong ways, and so she lives with the weak-bodied Jin making a lot of tumultuous noise. Thus begins the fantastic story of Sierra, the Ojou-sama turned novice genie, and her master Jin. <<less

A normal high school boy Ryūji Kisaragi's peaceful life is turned into an adventure by the return of his second cousin, Eriko. Ryūji and Eriko... more>> seize a relic box from a black market broker named FANG. In the box, they find a red dragon girl whom Ryūji names Rose because of her rose like pattern on her left hand. In order to protect Rose from the black organization, Ryūji decides to fight using his power as a breaker. <<less

The story revolves around Tazusa Sakurano, a Japanese Olympic figure skating candidate, and Pete Pumps, a Canadian stunt pilot. During a qualifying round in Montreal,... more>> Canada, Tazusa falls in the middle of a Triple Lutz and loses consciousness. At the same time, Pete dies mid-performance when his stunt plane crashes due to mechanical trouble. Unfortunately for Tazusa, Pete ends up involuntarily inhabiting her body for 100 days. <<less

One day I suddenly got a chance to change the world, and without hesitation my wish came true. That’s right, all the branch off choices,... more>> events, and the lines of the characters of - everything I memorized about my beloved gal-game “Eternal Innocence” became reality. I originally wanted to go into the main heroine’s route, but somehow I ended up falling into multiple routes at the same time! And things that didn’t happen in the game started happening in real life! Will my heroine and I reach the true end?! Running through the infinite choices of real world, this is the 10th annual Entame Excellence Award story!! <<less

"You too can become a wizard!" Thus begins Koyomi's story.... more>>

Wanting to change herself, Koyomi becomes a student of Misa, the modern era's strongest wizard. Koyomi is clumsy and short for her age, but it looks like she has magical talent... however, just as her first spell terminates strangely, daemons appear and start causing trouble. <<less

Due to a certain incident, Sado Tarou has awakened to a bothersome constitution where he starts feeling good whenever females does this and that to... more>> him. At this rate, he can't even engage in a normal relationship! To fix his constitution and to confess to his beloved "Shiori-hime", Sado Tarou visited "they who grant the student's wishes",the Second Volunteer Club, but in there was Isurugi Mio, a beautiful girl who has greatly mistaken herself as god and Yuuno Arashiko, an abominable girl who has served as the trigger to his awakening. The ecstatic traps released from the girls one after another. Do your best Tarou! And you can't feel good at that! <<less

The main character, Ayase Yuuto is your average boy without any special traits. He attends a private high school where he is one of the many and doesn’t stand out, until, one day, he happens to discover the secret of the school princess Nogizaka Haruka, and his life changes drastically from there on.... more>>

Haruka, the school’s most unattainable girl, is so idolized in the school for both her looks and intelligence, that her classmates nickname her Nuit Étoile (The Silver Star of the Night) and Lumière du Clavier (The Shining Princess on the Piano). However, nobody knows that it is only a fake role she assumes to hide her true nature. In reality she is a die-hard fan of anime, manga, and otaku culture. <<less

The story revolves around Charles Karino, a Levaamu Empire mercenary aerial pilot who mans the twin seater reconnaissance seaplane Santa Cruz. One day, he receives a preposterous assignment: to fly solo over 12,000 kilometers of enemy waters to protect a girl named Fana del Moral. Fana happens to be the next in line to the empire’s throne and a girl possessing beauty “equal to 5,000 beams of light.” ... more>>

This is a standalone book, but there are 17 total books in this universe (飛空士).

Adapted to anime as “The Princess and the Pilot” <<less

The story takes place in approximately the year 3000, when humankind arrived at the peak of its civilization, but is losing it’s will to keep... more>> living. It follows a girl, called “princess” by those around her, living on a small island with a fifty person colony and a shinning coral reef. She is a descendent of the Moon people, and it focuses upon how her ancestors supposedly came to Earth. <<less

The small country of Adarshan recently conquered a territory of the Castoria Empire. To create an alliance between the two countries and secure new border... more>> alignments, the victorious Adarshan general, Alexid Deke Adars (the king's younger stepbrother), was forced into a political marriage with Castoria's sixth imperial princess Justinia. But she's only 10 years old! <<less

Kaga Ryosuke, a helplessly romantic teenager, was walking in the rain when he sees a beautiful girl with red eyes drenched in the rain. Everyone... more>> was avoiding her, but Ryosuke was taught to treasure women so he offered his help by letting her dry off at his home. Ryosuke can't imagine that this mysterious girl would stab him in the chest and leave him to die… Or did she? Who is this pretty girl and what does she want with him? <<less

In a world where everyone has the ability to use magic, Kazuki Shikimori -a descendant of the world's greatest magicians is now being sought after... more>> by girls -for his genes!! Can he stay alive? Because these girls will seek his help and cause his limited magic to drop to zero and turn him to dust. <<less

"Hotel Williams Child Bird", nicknamed <Birdcage Manor>, inhabiting in there are eccentric people who can't fit in the normal society.
A day-dreaming beautiful woman, a Gothic Lolita that's a grade school-er, a person in a cat's costume, the eerie elder twins and an unidentifiable piercing cry that continues to resound.... more>>

In such <Birdcage Manor> one of the residents - Kizuna Etoh, in her 16th winter makes acquaintance with an Art collage student living on fifth floor like a hikikomori - Yusei Asai.
And then she is invited to a part-time job as a nude model for paintings.
In an disorderly atelier with a heavy scent of oil paints as she spends time together with Asai, she feels that to her that time is gradually becoming a valuable part of her everyday...

It's a story how <Birdcage Manor's> a bit odd residents' pass a bit odd but in various ways their normal everydays. <<less

Mikadono Shōgo, the son of an industrial magnate, has until the end of high school to find a girl he loves for marriage because of... more>> his late father's last will. For that, he transfers into Miryuuin Academy. Among the students there is a girl who says that she is Shōgo's separated-at-birth sister, but she does not inform him of her identity. She and some other girls then try to get close to him. <<less

R-15 is about a boy, Taketo Akutagawa, who attends a school for geniuses: Inspiration Academy Private High School. Taketo is a genius novelist and writes erotica. Despite negative perceptions many people have of him, he aims to be at the top of his class and be recognized as the world's greatest writer. ... more>>

A manga adaptation illustrated by Hayato Ōhashi started serialization in the June 2010 issue of Kadokawa Shoten's Monthly Shōnen Ace magazine. An anime TV series adaptation began airing in Japan in July 2011. <<less

The plot revolves around Natsuru Senou, a normal high school boy with blue hair. One day he wakes up to find himself turned into a... more>> girl. A stuffed tiger "Harakiri Tora" comes to life and tells him to fight as a female fighter "Kämpfer". Having no idea about what's going on, Natsuru is involved in many battles against other female Kämpfer. <<less

After being separated from each other for 6 years since the death of their parents, fraternal twins Akito Himonokouji (brother) and Akiko Himonokouji (sister) had finally reunited together again during the holidays thanks to some planning from Akito, despite objections from both of their adoption families.... more>>

Being happy that Akito had fulfilled his promise to be with her again, Akiko confessed readily that she had in*estuous love in Akito, and will not hesitate to do anything to win the love of Akito. Akito however does not harbor the same feeling for Akiko, and as a result had a headache with Akiko's actions.

Despite all these, he still loves Akiko as a sister, and finds her adorable and cute, especially when he had not seen her since she was 10 years old. <<less

The series takes place in an alternate version of Japan called Great Japan, in an alternate timeline where the Tokugawa shogunate remained active and has remained isolated from the rest of the world. The story takes place at Buou Academic School, an academy located at the base of Mount Fuji where children of military families train to become samurai warriors. The academy is in the middle of a power struggle between Yukimura Sanada and Matabei Goto of the Toyotomi faction and the powerful student council that rules the school, and Muneakira Yagyu, the owner of the Yagyu Dojo, and the mysterious Jubei Yagyu are dragged in the middle of the conflict.... more>>

The series features famous historical figures from Japan's Sengoku period and early Edo period. The character Charles d'Artagnan also comes from the same age in Europe. <<less

If a beautiful girl could fall from the sky in front of a boy, why couldn't a hot boy in front of a girl?... more>>

On one day, a captivating boy appeared on the road.

"My name is written as the tree (樹), pronounced as Itsuki. Miss, if you don't mind, may you take me home? I won't bite, and I'm well-mannered."

This was all Sayaka heard from this gorgeous male stranger, but this was enough.

Their everyday lives together gradually became irreplaceable. Let this flower bloom, and this relationship grow!

Through the growing weeds and flowers on the road, the sweetest, deepest, newest love novel is born!

Originally a love novel hosted on from Kadokawa web novel house sari-sari (ケイタイ小説サイト「小説屋　sari-sari」) from June 2008 to April 2009. The light novel was released in 2009 after the competition of the web novel. <<less

This novel is a spinoff of Fate/stay night, by Narita Ryohgo, set during a war that occurs a few years after the conclusion of the Fifth Holy Grail War. ... more>>

The stage: the city of Snowfield in the western U.S., far from Fuyuki. There, a "false Holy Grail War", quite unlike the original Holy Grail War, unfolds. There were those who had been keeping an eye on the auguries of the Holy Grail in Snowfield. According to an investigation by the Mage's Association, the Holy Grail War system in Snowfield was an imitation of the one in Fuyuki. What's more, the system was incomplete, leading to the exclusion of one of the seven classes and the selection of beings as Servants who ordinarily could not be summoned. It was, verily, a strange fake. As an organ of the U.S. government executes its various plots, the Servants are summoned one after another--- <<less

"Slayers follows the adventures of teenage sorceress Lina Inverse and her companions as they journey through their world. Using powerful magic and swordsmanship they battle overreaching wizards, demons seeking to destroy the world, dark lords, and the occasional hapless gang of bandits."... more>>

-Wikipedia <<less

Eruna Ichinomiya is a third-year junior high school student who has not decided on which high school to attend, and spends her days skipping school... more>> and playing games at home. One day, Eruna's eyes are captivated by a photo of Seisa Mikagura in a pamphlet for Mikagura Private Academy, given to her by her cousin, Shigure Ninomiya. Feeling that it is fate, Eruna decides to attend Mikagura Academy. However, Eruna discovers that Mikagura Academy is a school where only cultural clubs exist, and that it has an intense battle system where students with special powers must fight each other as representatives of their own clubs. <<less

“I mustn’t die before I finish this book!!”... more>>

One day, I unexpectedly died in the hands of these robbers and somehow I, the bookworm, ended up being resurrected… as a dog. Why a dog! How am I supposed to read like this! In the midst of my troubled thoughts, I saw this girl who believes that scissors are weapons——Natsuno Kirihime. She seemed pretty dangerous to me, but at least she understands my dog-talk. Apparently she’s secretly my favourite author, Akiyama Shinobu!? What should I do? And where are the robbers who killed me——!? <<less