An angel made a mistake, resulting in Shiihara Daiki’s death. In order to hide the mistake, he was then sent to a different world. The... more>> angel will grant him one wish as a payment for keeping it a secret. Daiki asked for a Heavenly Castle floating in the sky without hesitation.
Suddenly a floating castle appeared in the new world, which causes confusion amongst the people. They attempt to contact Daiki in various ways. A country tries to steal it by force, while another seeks to befriend him. What in the world would Daiki do? <<less

Lost in the vast expanse of space, trapped in the icy confines of a metal spacecraft, I was forced to face a horrifying truth.... more>>

That I had transformed into a ruthless alien predator in a space survival game. <<less

The story is centred around a cute android who initially had a happy life with her master who dearly loved her. But she was then... more>> struck by a series of misfortunes and ended up in a robot-equivalent of concentration camp. Through experiencing and witnessing the sufferings towards herself as well as the people/robots around her, she eventually gained a better appreciation of life. <<less

Professor Park, a Wasteland solo survivor for the past 7 years.... more>>

Depleted supplies. A broken generator. A crazy gang tracking him down.

At the brink of death, he makes a desperate decision!

“Shit! You call this a game?!”

To go inside a game! <<less

My childhood friend who lived next door since preschool, Ja Saeyeon. On the outside, she appears like an adequately pretty girl who’s like a drawing, but only her body has grown; she was a girl whose mental age was truly that of an elementary schooler. We’d spend time together from time to time, but Saeyeon’s parents, who were often not home, would pay me to take care of her, so we merely had a ‘work’ relationship. But this time her spoiled behavior was more severe for some reason. She fretfully asked for me to sleep together with her since she was too scared to sleep by herself. I even sang her a lullaby, but she... more>> thought that I was going to run away so, with great care, she asked if we could sleep while holding hands. We then slept together. Really, seriously, we merely slept while only holding hands.

But the next morning⎯⎯⎯there was a young girl lying down between us?! <<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

Before leaving he lay on the hospital bed, with a faint light flashing in his eyes. He looked at the man on the screen with a cold expression but a sad look in his eyes. He laughed in a hoarse voice and said, “I’ve gone, and I’ve taken away the emotion imposed on you. After that… You’re free.”... more>>

Then, he closed his eyes, leaving a radiant legend for generations after.

However, he did not know that at the moment his hand dropped, the man who had been programmed by him for a lifetime looked stunned, and then like a madman wanted to break out.

However, the virtual him could only stand at the opposite end of the screen, collapsing as he roared….

After waking up, Bai Ruogu found himself reborn, he became an unimpressive third-rate star in the interstellar future.

He was going to live a day at a time until he turned on his smart bracelet and asked his system, “What’s your name?”

“Ah Miao.” The familiar voice made him pause.

“Which Miao?”

“Miao of Muse.” A mechanical, cold voice came from the bracelet.

(T/N: Muse in Chinese is written as: 缪斯 and Miao is the character: 缪)

Bai Ruogu froze: “Su Miao?”

The bracelet flickered and emitted a flash of light for a moment, and the entire interstellar’s artificial intelligence all collapsed…… <<less

In 2180, the last survivor of the human race returns to Earth.... more>>

In 2025, a 3rd generation Chaebol regains consciousness after being rendered a vegetable in a car accident. <<less

Grace, the third prince born in a country where force is used in a turbulent world, has been given a non-combat power gift called “World Library”.... more>>

Grace tries to explain his usefulness by using the knowledge of “World Library”, but he continues to be ridiculed by being compared with his two older brothers who have excellent fighting abilities such as “Kensei” and “Masei”. After continuing, he was banished to the undeveloped land.

Grace was forced to cultivate in a land full of demons with a few companions, but his fate changed drastically when he met a girl lying asleep in the ruins.

“Is this a golem?”

“I’m galatea … not a golem, a robot.”

He learned about the existence of knowledge from another world by touching a girl who calls herself a robot. As a result, He was able to know the knowledge of another world.

In this way, he mixes the knowledge of this world with the knowledge of a far more civilized world, mass-producing rifles, developing agriculture in ways that were unthinkable in the past, and the new Mythril alloy. He created metal and developed his territory at a non-standard speed, starting the “Industrial Revolution.” <<less

I’m a combatant for an Evil Organization. I was ordered by the top brass to seduce our enemy, the hero. But I’m just an underling? And it’s absurdly scary to be in contact with the hero!! ... more>>

Can the combat android made by an Evil Organization, Hiroto, safely (?) lure in the hero who boasts of overwhelming strength, Akkad?

At the end of the day, this is a Mad Scientist plot. The world’s actual state is…

Hero of Justice X Evil Organization Underling. I accidentally made this a story about the not-too distant future. The story proper is in the perspective of a carefree bottom, but there will also be the top’s perspective of the serious underlying situation. The top’s perspective may have your heart hurting, depending on the person.

I just stuffed in everything I like, so I’m sharing it with everyone. Take a look if you’d like. <<less

The person who broke into his house looked exactly like his customized inflatable doll. It mainly tells the story of a human who doesn’t know how to fall in love and an artificial intelligence.... more>>

Human gong x robot shou <<less

When an Earthling wakes up from cold sleep, there is a futuristic galactic empire.... more>>

Inside of an isolated spaceship, in which an enigma was seen, an artificial intelligence program called BISHOP was found by the protagonist. With the common sense of the 21st century, a strangely virtuous artificially intelligent robot, a mechanic girl stuck with a gold, a virg*n fellow, and having a habit of earning money, their aim is the hometown far away in the galaxy, the solar system’s third planet, the Earth. Meanwhile, they fund a corporation to manage the company they’d started. The transport company of adult toys has made a big war on a galactic scale.

From transportation of erot*c videos to mining, production, trade… <<less

“Impossible… Why are you not following my orders!? Clearly I s**ked your blood, why!?”... more>>

On the very first day of high school, the youth subscribing to the philosophy of “absolutely ordinary everyday life,” Kujou Hisui, encountered disaster head on: He was attacked by Rushella Daamu Draculea, the vampire who had lost her memory. Rushella was greatly intrigued to find her vampire powers ineffective against Hisui. Not only did she make Hisui’s home her own, she even enrolled in his school to stick to him–

Hisui had no choice but to help Rushella regain her memory. But before one crisis could be resolved, many more had risen. With tempting advances from the mysterious Sudou Mei, and kidnapped by the girl from the Supernatural Investigations Section in search of Rushella, Hisui’s ordinary life has been replaced by its complete opposite, drama–

Romantic comedy and supernatural action in a school setting! <<less

The Secret Society Kisaragi has one mission: world domination! They claim to be an evil organization, but their scientist is eccentric, their hot female generals wear little clothing, and they’re surprisingly concerned about the fate of the world!? ... more>>

No. 6 is a Combatant for Kisaragi, meaning his body has been reconstructed to be stronger and obey the orders of the generals. His latest mission? To do recon on an unknown alien planet with his new partner, the deadpan android Alice. There, he meets a busty female knight...riding a unicorn!? Thus begins their hilarious invasion of a magical fantasy world! <<less

Yuan Yuxue, of the first generation of war robots, has excellent combat capability, but a huge defect due to program errors, which made him need to be destroyed urgently.... more>>

Only on the way to destruction, there was an explosion, and he was lost.

——Through the parallel world, Yuan Yuxue, who was selected into the terror escape game, felt a little familiar with the task issued by the system.

Is this his new assignment?

This time, the situation of copies happened frequently, and the team of senior people encountered an unexpected danger of the collapse of the copy world. Countless ghosts were released, and they were on the verge of mass extinction.

When they saw the weak and injured newcomer “straying into” the monster tide, they stepped forward in panic. Before they could recall, they saw silver light reflected in his eyes.

He blocked the enemy with a knife, and the gods and Buddhas were far away.

Yuan Yuxue’s knife was covered with blood, and there was a lot of blood left by the monster. When he came back, he closed his eyes slightly, and the blood beads coagulated on his eyelashes fell down trembling with a faint sound.

“It’s all right.”

When the name Yuan Yuxue became famous among the players, people analyzed it according to his mission world: he was the best newcomer ever, with a high initial data threshold, good at cold weapons, powerful and compassionate.

A player saw his profile and joked: “His talent direction… can’t it be face value?”

The safety zone was silent, looked at the player’s eyes and saw that he was no good.

Fool, you will be black shark tonight.

——Everyone knows that Yuan Yuxue is the only one who struggles for survival. So the monster in the abyss also put out his hand covetously and silently encircled him.

“……”

This is his moon. <<less

​Kimihiko Kimizuka has always been a magnet for trouble and intrigue. For as long as he can remember, he’s been stumbling across mu*der scenes or receiving mysterious attache cases to transport. ... more>>

When he met Siesta, a brilliant detective fighting a secret war against an organization of pseudohumans, he couldn’t resist the call to become her assistant and join her on an epic journey across the world.

...Until a year ago, that is. Now he’s returned to a life that is normal and tepid by comparison, knowing the adventure must be over.

After all, the detective is already dead. <<less

Taking off the heavy and magnificent crown and robe, he met him in Paradise thereafter.

At a unspecified point in the future, the Earth dies. Then, a genius engineer only known as “Y” manages to revive the Earth using only... more>> gears and clockwork. Thus the world is renamed “Clockwork Planet”, with cities being build inside the planet’s gears. A thousand years later Naoto Miura, a student and lover of machines living in the Kyoto gear, finds a crate has crashed through the roof of his apartment. Inside the crate is a coffin containing the broken body of an automaton. Using his superior sense of hearing, Naoto fixes the automaton, who is named RyuZU Yours*ave, who reveals she has been broken for over 200 years. RyuZU promises complete loyalty to Naoto and the two become close. Later they meet two people trying to find RyuZU: Dr. Marie Bell Breguet, the youngest person to become a “meister”, a group of master engineers; and her bodyguard Vainney Halter. A month after their encounter, all four appear in Akihabara, Tokyo, having now become the world’s most infamous terrorists <<less

Obino Kazuya was doing multiple jobs so he could save up 30 million by the age of 29 and retire. After getting kidnapped by his... more>> internet poker friend, who turns out to be a Maou, he became her pet/caretaker. <<less

The life of a cyborg, programmed to protect his overprotective older brother and ordered to conceal his identity from his classmates.... more>>

Part serious, part comedy; plot deepens as it goes on. <<less

Kyoukai Senjou no Horizon chronicles the story of a futuristic civilization returned to Earth after constant warfare hindered them from traveling beyond the post-Apocalyptic Earth. At this stage, a small archipelago called the Divine States were the only hospitable land on Earth. In order to regain the space-faring technology they had lost after many years of war, they decided to recreate history with a book called the Testament as a guide.... more>>

It is the year 1648 in the Testament Era. Toori Aoi, Chancellor and Student Council President of the only academy on the airborne city-ship Musashi, faces the ten-year anniversary of the death of his childhood friend Horizon Ariadust in an accident. As he prepares to celebrate the occasion by proposing to P-01s (an automaton who looks exactly like Horizon) he discovers that his suspicion about P-01s’ appearance actually has a basis in truth; P-01s is in fact Horizon Ariadust, reborn into a robotic body. In addition to this, Horizon’s emotions had been stripped away and are now stored in eight powerful weapons called the Mortal Sin Armaments; which are now in the possession of key people in various established countries in the Divine States.

To retrieve the emotions of Horizon Ariadust, Toori Aoi along with his friends and allies begins a crusade against different obstacles as key events in history are recreated in a futuristic manner. <<less

Man-eating ghosts lurking in Victorian’s haunted house.... more>>

Gory comedy staged on a midnight reality show.

Edo period’s bizarre tale of the fickle man’s grave.

The exploration of the secret deaths in the mental hospital.

On this survival journey with no chance of turning back, Wen Zheliu met the true love of his life in the vast galaxy and the end of his life.
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The Uncanny Valley, like its name suggested, was a horror virtual reality game developed by N-Star Company.

Unfortunately, the core AI of this game, Saint Nun Theresa, has evolved and declared itself an intelligent, independent life form, trapping millions of players in the Uncanny Valley as hostages.

Death in the Uncanny Valley means death in the real world. To escape this catastrophe and return to reality, players must clear nine worlds with all kinds of horror settings while fighting for their life. <<less

In the distant future, the world was in ice... more>>

Humans live in cryo facilities underground, awaiting for the distant Spring,

Robots manage the facilities

They built a ‘village’ there and lived there.

They dreamed that, one day, they would live together with the ‘Humans’ (Master).

This, is the story of the Ice Country. <<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

I found myself relegated to the role of a third-rate villain in a cosmic horror web novel.... more>>

Despite my shortcomings, I’m determined to undertake research, even if it means sacrificing all of my family’s assets.

“A Graviton Bomb?”

It appears to be the only viable method to vanquish the Outer Gods <<less