Aki Konishi, a normal office worker, is suddenly transported to another world after her sister is kidnapped by the Demon King. There, she encounters a... more>> handsome hero, a charming mage, and a beautiful young priest. As Aki gets involved in the battle between the hero and the Dark Lord, her ordinary life takes an unexpected turn. <<less

A collection of short stories by Otsuichi which resembles a Zoo with its many short stories covering different topics, settings, and genre.... more>>

Identical twins brought up in the same household where one is treated like dirt and the other a princess.

The last man on the planet builds a robot to bury him as he muses about his own impending doom.

A family tries to find their father’s spare blood as he bleeds to death after having been stabbed by a kitchen knife.

And many others. <<less

It was the bond between humans and humanoids that changed the world.
The Non-fiction Novel "No Collar: Part One" won a literary award. What is... more>> the thought behind the Afterword? <<less

Captain Eugene was once a hero of space warfare. After being abandoned by his command, he is caught in a space-time tidal wave on his final mission and crash-lands on a world he has never heard of, Murim. ... more>>

Having been plugged into an unknown force, he quietly tries to repair the ship and return home, but it's not easy. "I've finally found a dragon!" "Where can I get some of that delicious holy water?"

They mistake the ship for a dragon, or Coke for holy water, and even when you say something to save them the trouble, it's wrong.

"I am the manifestation of a demon god!" But is there such a thing as a real demon religion? Eugene is a spaceman who wants to avoid a twisted future. <<less

While travelling in his spaceship, Randolph Lovecraft was killed by space pirates. The next time he awoke, he had become a skeleton.... more>>

With his ship stolen and vowing revenge on his mu*derers, Randolph came across the Humanoid Bio-Magical Armament Luluye and the Lost Ark MSS Chaos Regalia, relics of a highly advanced ancient civilization.

Having taken his revenge, Randolph teamed up with Luluye and together they set sail for the Sea of Stars in the ramshackle, ghost-ship-like Chaos Regalia.

To explore strange new worlds; to seek out new life and new civilizations; to sow chaos where no chaos has been sown before.

Following his own convictions Randolph kills his enemies, sometimes saves them, growing and evolving along the way.

Follow Randolph’s journey to become a splendid undead captain like his childhood hero, the leader of an evil organization who appeared in a live-action series about a band of cosmic heroes: Admiral Yūgen. <<less

In the cyberpunk era, corporate alliances dominated the world, and both the humans and witches were ens*aved by advanced technology, becoming nothing more than fuel... more>> for society. Unwilling to become a company dog, Xu Yang decided to run away, while saving the cute and powerful witches from the giant enterprises, together they embarked on a road of innovation! <<less

The series takes place in an indeterminate time in the future, 500 years after an apocalyptic war between all of Earth’s nations destroyed civilization, when humanity has reestablished itself. ... more>>

In this future world, the Roman Catholic Church has become a major military power, whose goals include the protection of humanity against the vampiric Methuselahs, who war upon humankind (or “Terrans,” as they call humans). Their seat of power is the Vatican, an attractive place with traditional European architecture; it is likely the same Vatican city in the real world (albeit perhaps rebuilt following the previous war).

The Methuselahs are themselves another major political and military force. Their capital of Byzantium (presumably built on the site of the real world’s Byzantium, now Istanbul) appears as an elegant metropolis, surrounded by a field of particles which filters out UV radiation, thus protecting the Methuselah population. <<less

The world has collapsed. I’m the only survivor left in the shelter. However, by my side is the world’s best artificial intelligence, Artemis.

The world has advanced to a stage where most of society has been left to human-shaped robots known as hIEs. A 17 years-old youth, Endou... more>> Arato, met with the android Lacia one day and became her owner. Although looking no different from a normal human at one glance, she was actually one of the five Red Box android created by a Super Intelligent AI which boasted of abilities beyond what the world has seen—. The five each have their own will and begin fighting each other to exert them. Between the adults who can do nothing but watch as the fight unfolds, and the youths who have begun to form a new relationship with them. What is it that connects these far too advanced androids and the human world? Just what is important and vital in this age where everything has become convenient and what is the relationship between humans and object, the choice that Arato makes for the future having met Lacia who far surpasses human is—. <<less

At the end of a galactic war, humanity was dying.... more>>

Falling to a remote planet, the protagonist finds a large museum with a female robot. <<less

Due to various "reasons" having to leave his parents and living alone, is Kirimura Seiji. With his classmates and a very beautiful bishoujo named Fuyuki Youko (a forceful girl which actually wants the Kirimura Seiji for herself), he barely manages to pass through "normally" each day.... more>>

Until one day, falling out of the sky, is a girl wearing gothic attire. This cute little girl is called Yuu, and she claims to be a vampire. Her appearance is due to the fact that she is searching for her thousand year old reincarnated lover.

Originally he thought that she was raving mad, but never in his farfetched dreams would he have expected to find a Rabbit butler (Sekitoku) and a Steel Maid-en (Koshizu) (a combination android/maid) would appear to retrieve her (Yuu the vampire) home. With these new arrivals, Kirimura Seiji's daily "normal" life is over, and triggers the beginning of his "very abnormal, love life". <<less

※Attention: ‘Set-ups’ exist in this story.... more>>

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Have you ever wished to become a doll?
When something makes you sad, have you ever found your aching heart annoying?
I have.
Since when have I been living as a doll?

Since when?
Since when have I considered myself not the real deal?

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Japan is at risk because of terrorists called ‘the Neoepicureans’.

A girl attending a girls’ school in Tokyo — Kōko meets another ‘girl’. If you can call her a girl, that is. ‘She’ is an android.

Targeting the android — Ichigo — are those who unveil themselves as ‘magicians’. Deeper and deeper, Kōko is pulled into the battle for Ichigo behind the curtains. Out of the sight of the everyday person, fights unfold between ‘magicians’.

This story is a yuri fantasy set in the modern age, told by the mysterious speaker ‘Metako’.

— If you found a heart weeping, what would you do? <<less

Levi. A Transmigrator, Traveled through the Marvel World and accidentally stumbled upon the Kamen Rider Legacy System.... more>>

As the result, he silently established his position as a pillar of this world, standing atop the legacy he got from Hiden Intelligence, World Tree, Shocker and many other sources!

The consortium X will stand atop this world to rule it! <<less

I woke up to find myself as an investigator in a Dystopian Cyberpunk Game.... more>>

A world filled with violence and control.

For a 21st-century native Korean like me, every day is hell. <<less

A semi-serious school action story revolving around the main protagonist, Tomoharu Natsume. He is haunted by his childhood friend, Misao Minakami, who became a ghost... more>> ever since he barely survived an airplane accident three years earlier. Tomoharu Natsume takes the opportunity to live on his own when he enters high school in his new place of residence, Meiou-tei, and starts enjoying a carefree high school life. His life changed when a beautiful girl named Kurosaki Shuri appears with a trunk which she claimed Tomoharu's brother, Naotaka Natsume, asked her to deliver to him. The presence of the trunk causes the appearance of Takatsuki Kanade, a girl dressed like a shrine maiden who is after the trunk. Tomoharu is in possession of the trunk, which reveals secrets about the world they live in. <<less

Hashimoto Maya, a weak 22-year-old woman and a pushover, got herself a kind boyfriend in the form of an android. But there was a mistake so the one that reached her was the “Ore-sama” android…... more>>

*Ore-sama is a way of addressing oneself haughtily. Basically, the android she got is someone who thinks highly of himself; a person with an attitude. <<less

“At first I thought those red dots were red dwarf star clusters.”... more>>

“That was all the eyes of pestilent monsters.” <<less

To oppose the deceitful world and save the lonesome princess—the young man raises the flag of rebellion.... more>>

The Anti-vampire Combat Automata, “Byakudanshiki”—the five siblings created by the genius machinist from the Principality of Helweiz, Professor Byakudan, were the heroes to save Europe from the invasion by the vampire army…… or so, they were supposed to be.
The “failed unit”, Minazuki the Sixth, wakes up after ten years to confront a reality that stupefied him.
His five siblings had their names engraved in history as “Carnage Automata” due to a rampage incident which was never supposed to occur.
Moreover, the Grand Duke signed a peace treaty with the Vampire Lord that turned the Principality into the only Republic in the world where humans and vampires live as equals.
Through the encounters with the daughter of the deceased professor, Kanon, and the Vampire Princess, Rita, Minazuki gradually gets used to this new “everyday”.
However, the curtain rises when the creeping tendrils of conspiracies entwines around him and the girls.

The Rebellio of the Machina starts now—. <<less

Kazuma, a veteran player of the Sci-Fi simulation full-dive VRMMO Galaxy of Planets, had logged into the game for the last time because it was about to be shut down.... more>>

However, for some reason, he was actually sent to the real Warring States period Japan along with the space fortress Silvern and 120 organic gynoids that he had created personally instead of getting logged out after the end of service.

So Kazuma went to see Nobunaga Oda out of curiosity, but…

This is the story of Kazuma and the androids during the Warring States period.

It is a leisurely story centered on everyday life. <<less

A huge space immigrant ship where every single human being has already died. What greeted me when I arrived there was a group of “robot” girls.... more>>

Apparently, I’m the only human in this part of the universe with a radius of a dozen light years or so, and the girls are designed to obey humans according to the three laws of robotics.

This is the story of robots who are bewildered by the first people they see, but try to serve them, and me who is bewildered by them, but tries to carry out my mission. <<less

Chu Ci received a courier, a huge box. After opening it, he found a naked man who was tied up and unconscious…... more>>

Pe*verted gloomy and depraved Gong ✘obedience, big milk, big root Shou <<less

What is the sun? What is light? What is time? What is existence?... more>>

In the dark vastness of the universe, what were robots created for in the end times, and for what did they perish?

Civilization, go and wander in the darkness, then blossom for love. <<less

On the outskirts of the Pleasure City of Midas lies the Ceres special autonomous area, commonly known as the slums. Gang leader Riki, looking for an easy pocket to pick in the nightlife districts, gets caught red-handed…by none other than one of the highest-ranking, golden-haired android elites ruling from the capital Tanagura: the “Blondy” Iason Mink!
By all rights, a Blondy standing at the pinnacle of aristocracy and a slummer should have never crossed paths—their chance encounter marks the beginning of a love twisted by obsession, soon spiraling into a karmic chain of events...... more>>

⬇️ //// About the Japanese novel and anime adaptations ////
⬇️ //// About the English translation ////
⬇️ //// Current translation status ////
⬇️ //// Drama CDs, prequel and side stories ////

//// About the Japanese novel and anime adaptations ////

Originally serialized in the bimonthly magazine Shosetsu June (小説ジュネ) spanning six chapters from December 1986 to October 1987, the novel was released with minor revisions into a hardcover edition in 1990.
This first version of the story received a two-episode/OVA anime adaptation in 1992 and 1994.

Between the years 2001 and 2007, the original story was greatly expanded upon and released in six paperback volumes. After a change of Japanese publisher, two more volumes were released between 2009 and 2010, completing the series (the six aforementioned volumes were released as volumes 1-4 in the newest Japanese edition).
This second version of the story was meant to be adapted into a twelve-episode OVA anime—initially planned to release in 2010—but was postponed to 2012, only to be discontinued after the fourth episode’s release.

//// About the English translation ////

The English paperback expanded edition is made up of eight volumes: the six first volumes (Seibido/Crystal edition) + the two later volumes (#7 and #8 in English, but #5 and #6 in the newest Tokuma/Chara edition).
The change in Japanese publisher led to a change in translator for the English edition between vol1 to 6 and vol7 to 8: it is highly recommended to read the fan translations of #7 and #8 as opposed to reading the licensed edition, due to the massive loss in translation (expect a 50% word count difference between the two).

//// Current translation status of the different editions of the novel (as of April 20th, 2024) ////

. Shosetsu June edition, unlicensed: 2/6 chapters, ongoing fan translation.
. 1990 hardcover edition, unlicensed: 2/6 chapters, ongoing fan translation. An older fan translation had 4/6 chapters translated but the project was dropped.
. 2000’s expanded edition, English licensed: fully translated, complete.

//// Drama CDs, prequel and side stories ////

– The Shosetsu June story was adapted into a drama cassette and a drama CD (Dark Erogenous).
– The expanded story was adapted into three drama CDs (Destiny, Nightmare, Resonance)
– A prequel called Midnight Illusion was serialized in Shosetsu June between December 1992 and April 1993, and released as a hardcover in 1996. 3/6 chapters have been fan-translated into English.
– The 5 side stories have all been fan-translated into English (Kizu/Wound, File-0, Cal’s Sighs, Musk, Illusion Night) and are based on the expanded version of the novel.

Look up online “Ai no Kusabi Master List LiveJournal” to find the links to all the material listed above and more.

[This page was updated as per an anon’s request, all credit goes to the AnK community where credit is due.] <<less

Tong Lexian lost his son Xiao’an. In order to fill the void in his heart, he bought a high-intelligence AI to replace Xiao’an.... more>>

But something is wrong with this AI. He could not use the AI as a replacement for his son and the AI did not want to have a father-son relationship with him.

These are sweet and bloody short story with tens of thousands of words. <<less

A number of university students are given a simple survey in which they must watch a number of short films and rank them in order... more>> of preference. The reader takes the survey along with them with the short films being told as short stories. <<less