For the Barrel is a novel ‘reinterpretation’ of Yoshiyuki Tomino’s original 1979 TV series Mobile Suit Gundam. The novel represents an alternative vision of the One Year War, with Ling A-bao (aka Amuro Ray) piloting the machining skin "Gunboy Wilbur” against the Zeon forces. The series was put as part of the Gundam metaseries and took place in an alternate interpretation of the Universal Century timeline. However, it has no relation or resemblance to any previous Gundam works.... more>>

Originally serialized in magazine Newtype, it was created to celebrate the 15th anniversary of the magazine. It’s since been relegated into the “black history” section of the Gundam pantheon, and has never been reprinted outside of the original magazine run, which has only added to its enigmatic status. <<less

Boy, Giant, Dream, Future, Youth, Girl, School, Society, Space-colony, Education, Class,... more>>

Pilot, Alien, Battle, Death, Selection, Complex, Teacher, Glory, Fear, Desire, Aspiration,

Guardian, Counseling, Brain-wash, Shield, Club, Ruler, Passion, Xeno, Soldier, Genius,

Respect, Simulator, Dream, Frontier, Galaxy, Machine-Caliber, Farewell, Rebel, Discipline

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In a distant future, where the planet Earth has long become a legend, humanity travels the universe in massive fleets, endlessly battling the superorganisms known as the Hideauze.

A young boy named Ledo, who aspires to be a pilot of the Machine Caliber — a weapon to counter the enemy, enrols in Cadet School.

As he interacts with his classmates, he learns various things: goodwill, malice, his first feelings towards the opposite gender, and the inconsistencies of the Galactic Alliance of Mankind that has become specialised for warfare.

This is the story of an innocent boy's journey to becoming a soldier. <<less

A novelization of the 6-episodes OVA, premiered in 1988... more>>

Noriko's dream is to become a space pilot like her father, Admiral Takaya. He died when she was still a little girl due to an attack of alien forces in deep space.

After entering Okinawa Girls Space Pilot High School, Noriko is handpicked by instructor Ohta as someone with great potential. She must then persuade everyone, especially herself, that she can indeed fulfil her goal and become an accomplished pilot despite being just an ordinary girl. <<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

These novels are an official publication, not fan-made. They were written by the show’s director, Hiroyuki Kakudou, and one of the screenwriters, Hiro Masaki. Therefore,... more>> information revealed in them can be considered canon. Notice the use of verb “can” here, meaning that it is not an absolute. You’ll discover as you read on that not everything is exactly as portrayed in the television series. <<less

It is the year of 2400. Most of the world’s population transferred its consciousness into the virtual reality of Diva, whose servers are located in... more>> the Earth’s orbit. This freed people from their mortal bodies, and also opened up many new opportunities. However, the resources of Diva’s servers are limited and their use must be worked for the benefit of society. A certain hacker named Pioneer regularly hacks the Diva server in order to invite its inhabitants to go with him to explore outer space. As the investigation shows, the cyber attacks come from the real world, from the surface of Earth. To catch the criminal, Diva sends an agent of the security system, Angela Balzac. To perform the operation, she is given a body, and a partner that inhabits the surface of Earth. <<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 tale of two people, Tono Takaki and Shinohara Akari, who were close friends but gradually grow farther and farther apart as time moves on.... more>> They become separated because of their families yet continue to exchange contact in the form of letters. Yet as time continues to trudge on, their contact with one another begins to cease. Years pass and the rift between them grows ever larger. However, Takaki remembers the times they have shared together, but as life continues to unfold for him, he wonders if he would be given the chance to meet Akari again as the tale embarks on Takaki's realization of the world and people around him. <<less

In the world of the near future, an epic war rages between the Earth Federation and the rebel space colonies that call themselves the Principality... more>> of Zeon. The most fearsome weapons of this new era are the robotic vehicles known as mobile suits, armored giants with the firepower of battleships. The Federation has pinned its hopes for victory on its advanced mobile suit prototypes, but when a young cadet named Amuro Ray becomes the pilot of the mobile suit Gundam, he discovers that machines alone will not be the decisive factor in the conflict. For a new stage of human evolution is dawning, and the future - if humanity has a future - may well belong to the Newtypes... <<less

In an alternate history of the aftermath of World War II, Japan has been cleaved in half, with the south—Honshu and the other islands—allied with... more>> the United States and the northern island Hokkaido annexed by the enigmatic Union. It was on Hokkaido that a mysterious tower had been built, a strand of metal reaching up out of the atmosphere, visible from the northern tip of Honshu. In 1996, three teenagers, Hiroki, Takuya and Sayuri, make a pact—they will build an experimental aircraft, almost invisible to surveillance, cross over to Hokkaido and unlock the secrets of the tower. Their dream was never realized, because Sayuri was sent to Tokyo for treatment after she fell into a coma. It is now three years later. The rosy illusions of youth have fallen away, but not the unbreakable strength of the trio’s promise. The truth of the tower will be uncovered, and with it, the link between it and Sayuri’s mysterious, carefully tended condition. <<less