His father ran away in the night. Leaving behind a debt. Lukut Ochs, the only boy left behind, is about to be sold off to a s*aver as a form of his father's debt. At that time, it is Meriage, a black iron merchant and a "moneylender," who helps him out by taking over his debt.... more>>

Meriage tells the boy Lukut, to become a hunter. And so it was. Now, Lukut is attending the martial arts department of Notre Belles Academy to become a "Hunter". This is the story of a hero who has a large amount of debt and aims to pay it off while still in school by conquering the labyrinth. <<less

Chen Lan, 36, has a 16-year-old face. Everyone who knows his real age is stunned. His boyfriend calls him the Ageless Seducer. The Ageless Seducer is a cheeky, good looking fighter, the white in the waves. He seems coquettish, but is, in fact, conservative. He only loves his boyfriend, Li PanEn. Chen Lan, the Ageless Seducer, is a bartender in a bar and likes to make everyone believe that he is weak. Every time he comes back with a wound, Li PanEn is usually angry and distressed. The Ageless Seducer has to exert his demonic power, grind hard and soft so that he can make every effort to seduce his family’s Xiao PanEn, and successfully... more>> turn the contradiction into something not invisible.

Li PanEn met Chen Lan when he was 18 years old. Since then, his heart has been tied to Chen Lan, and he never left. He broke off his relationship with his family and went abroad to study (with Chen Lan). His childish, middle-aged, and violent temper gradually flattened Chen Lan’s edges, and he successfully captured himself a little loyal dog.

This pair has always been destined for one another. <<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

Sinan Ke is a young talented writer of small, very dark *beep* novels. He is a gold medal author on a famous meat* novels website and he has a multitude of fans. However, he is still, after all, a wretched writer who puts the main character in his stories through great torment; so on this day, he got his retribution… ... more>>

System: Welcome, Visitor No. 039, to the virtual punishment worlds of the Great Harmony Department. You are in scene XY0358, your current status is a student currently taking an exam—

Student Sinan Ke: What?!! (⊙?⊙)

System: Please save the various youths who have lost their way, otherwise, you will not be able to break away from the virtual punishment world.

This is the story of a small author of small *beep* novels being punished to go through various small *beep* worlds. He was tasked to save the protagonist who, because of said author, was turned into an obscene *beep* toilet. <<less

Cheng Ke quit his job, moved away from his rich family in pursuit of arts. He is a sand painter who creates stunning pieces of... more>> art using sand. He becomes Jiang Yu Duo’s tenant who’s a gang leader and takes care of his sister’s apartments. Their worlds collide as they move from mutual rejection to mutual understanding. Through hard work and struggles, they each achieve success and move towards a better future. <<less

Jiang Che transmigrated into the novel world.... more>>

At the start of the plot, the Iceberg CEO was lying on the bedsheets.

Jiang Che could not be happy because he was cannon fodder and couldn't survive 3 chapters of the novel.

Moreover, at this time the protagonist must already be on his way...

Forutnately, at this critical juncture, he awakened the God-level Extortion system.

He would be rewarded as long as he extorted the plot characters.

So...

When Jiang Che saw the unconscious and ice-cold CEO, he had a very sinister thought in his mind.

"President Su, you don't want others to know about this, do you?"

"Please behave yourself if you do not want your pictures to leak out."

Inside the hotel room, Jiang Che looked at the noble and elegant Miss Lin.

"Madam Lin, you also don't want all your efforts to be wasted if the Patriarch Lin learns about your plan you've planned for ten years, right?"

"Madam, you should resign yourself to your fate rather than make a pointless struggle." <<less

Song Qian was the famous "Sesshomaru" in the underworld, the top assassin in the Red Lotus Assassin Hiring Center.... more>>

On her eighteenth birthday, she sneaked into the presidential suite to enjoy a night! She met a hooligan with great fighting capacity...

"You know who I am? Carefully I kick your ass!"

"pu*sy cat, maybe you are the one!"

An hour later, "From now on! You are my Enemy No.1!"

...

Six years later... She pretended to be a male bodyguard to get her daughter back. Her daughter was addicted to handsome boys.

“Why you are blushing? Why you don't pee?” He approached her slowly.

"Emm... Boss Pei, you didn't wash your hands after..."

"Bodyguard Song! If I change my s*xual orientation because of you, you should be responsible for me!" <<less

Similar to that of a Phoenix, a martial arts expert who was from the Song Dynasty had reincarnated after his death. The body he now... more>> possessed belonged to a bullied Japanese high schooler, one that had complicated family issues. <<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

He—an enigmatic and cold-blooded soldier with a mysterious background.
She—a ruthless and bloodthirsty spy.... more>>

After she transmigrated out of the blue, she held a knife to his neck on their first meeting— marking the beginning of their twisted fate.

One day, she pinned him to a wall.
"I've been teasing you for so long but you aren't reacting at all, you're forcing me to…"

Before she could finish, he smiled wickedly and counterattacked.
"Good girl, this is what you call sending a lamb to a tiger's mouth."
Then, he sealed her lips with a kiss... <<less

When she woke up, she had an eighteen-year-old teenage body and an eight-year-old memory. With no choice she pretended on squeezing a certain male and... more>> insisted to have a long-term free ticket meal. <<less

I like you. You can like whatever you want.

Qin Yi met Ji Ranxin in an abandoned small building in the suburbs outside the school, and Ji Ranxin made a strange request.... more>>

Content tags: Urban, bloom of youth, rainy season, soft spot, drama

One sentence introduction: I’m Ji Ranxin, nice to meet you. <<less

TL :... more>>

A traverser's life in Chicago 1990.
Racism, slum, poverty, greed, showbiz.
A look into RAP and music industry of 1990s.

Original:

Crossing, Chicago 1990, American Entertainment, Composition, Screenwriting, Production, Media Group. <<less

When Hong Kong was in the 1980s, bully triads were dominant and the society was in insecurity. The police were corrupt at that time. The infamous unruled area, Snapdragon Walled City (based on Kowloon Walled City), was especially chaotic. Over a dozen big and small triads settled over there.... more>>

The golden hatchet man* Xia Liuyi in Xiao Qi Tong founded a film studio to launder money under the boss’s command. The female lead of the film was their sister-in-law; the male lead was a threatened popular star; the director has only shot X-rated films – they need one more educated person to write a story.

Wasn’t that an easy task?

Boss Liuyi took action promptly. He picked the only college student in this area – He Chusan who was coming home with his little backpack. He Chusan said: “I can’t write a screenplay. I’m studying economics.” Xia Liuyi said: “Beat him.” He Chusan became a golden screenwriter obediently.

After finishing this film, He Chusan thought he was already freed. Rest assured, he went to school with his little backpack again. However, he stepped on the Xia Liuyi covered with blood just in front of his home. The stage of a triad boss who was a snapdragon in this chaotic world and a white-collar elite from an innocent family, two parallel lines that seemed not to cross each other, and a messy, unreasonable fate, has its curtain lifted……

*In this book hatchet man literally means “the hired beater (打手)”, and Xia Liuyi was a top-ranked hatchet man. <<less

Youth Wei Qian, orphaned at thirteen or fourteen, struggles through life with a half-sister. He picks up a street child who shamelessly latches onto him and gives him the name Xiaoyuan.... more>>

Wei Qian dreams of rising above the crop. He is someone who values money over his own life. In the earlier part of his life, he battles against many obstacles, with his number one mission being to make a name for himself. Finally, when he achieves some success and thinks that he’s seeing the light of daybreak in life, Xiaoyuan suddenly goes crazy. <<less

“You, you are mine since you signed the contract.”... more>>

Isaac lived his entire life as a Beta before he became a recessive Omega at the peak of his adolescence. Four years ago, he had only one relationship with a dominant Alpha, the only experience he had as an omega. Then, while Isaac was hiding his Omega identity while running a small flower shop as a Beta, the arrogant but dazzlingly beautiful dominant Alpha Felix came in…

An unfair contract is signed between Felix, a world-renowned arms dealer and a dangerous man connected to the mafia, and Isaac, an omega dreaming to live as a normal Beta as he runs from his past. <<less

A policeman went undercover at a company to get close to the mafia boss in order to find his criminal records and send him to... more>> jail. <<less

"Do you want your passport back?"... more>>

He stared straight at her eyes that were clearly shining under her short bangs.

"…Give it back."

"Then you will have to work hard for it."

While she was chewing the meat in her mouth hard, the next piece of meat came into her mouth right after. Avoiding it was not as simple because she thought the fork would become a weapon in this man's hand.

The meat that she barely chewed and fell over her neck in chunks.

"What should I do to get it back?”

"While growing up, did no adults tell you this? You can't just say what you want, so don't say it like that."

A large chunk of meat could not fall over and felt stuck somewhere in her throat. Sarin clenched her fist and tapped her chest.

"Hmm…"

"Well, if you'd just spent that money on laundry, we wouldn't have had a chance to face each other like this. Don't you think so?"

It was a simple favour until the money was received, and then it was malice. Owen's interest borders on malice. His golden eyes glistened. It looked like a completely crazy look, it gave her goosebumps from the inside of her wrist.

"…My flight is just around the corner. I have to go back."

Not interested in feeding anymore, he laid down his fork carelessly. She could hear the sound of metal hitting the plate.

"That's your situation."

Word is that her situation is not over yet. <<less

Abandoned by his parents as a child and raised in a gambling den, Gyeon Heeseong.... more>>

He does not hesitate to take on rough tasks for the sake of the older brother who accepted him into the group, but when he is turned into a puppy due to an injury from an attack, he is picked up by Yoon Chi-young.

“What’s with this scruffy puppy?”

‘Let go… you bastard!’

Suddenly, Gyeon Heeseong becomes Yoon Chi-young’s puppy, known as the man-eating wolf.

“The pheromones are almost undetectable. It’s just a puppy.”

‘Quack.’

However, even the doctor judges Heeseong as a mere puppy, so Heeseong decides to deceive Yoon Chi-young by pretending to be a puppy and then escape.

But Yoon Chi-young is a lunatic who never lets the puppy out of his arms.

“I even gave you a treat… Can’t you give me just one kiss?”

‘Sigh…’

Although Heeseong becomes the recipient of affection and care from Yoon Chi-young, whom he fears, their cohabitation is precarious.

“Puppy… I don’t think I’ll eat you.”

‘You, you’re insane.’

The story of the cohabitation of a puppy who just wants to escape from the man-eating wolf, and the man-eating wolf who has lost his heart to such a puppy.

▶A Quick Taste

“I’m sorry, okay? Please forgive me this once.”

“……”

“I’ll never leave your side again. I promise.”

‘Don’t try to act cute!’

If only he had left him alone, he would have cooled down on his own. But being coaxed with a handsome face, the puppy was utterly infuriated. Heeseong attacked Yoon Chi-young’s hand as soon as he saw it and barked fiercely.

Woof! Woof!

“What’s that? You like me so much? Want to go home quickly?”

Yoon Chi-young, petting the puppy, asked Ji Yeong-bae, a subordinate of the canine tribe. Despite continuously being bitten by the puppy, he always thought romantically. And Ji Yeong-bae always responded honestly.

“Yes, sir… He’s saying, ‘You bastard.’”

“So damn cute…. Okay, let’s go home and be alone together.” <<less

Sheng Yuan, a model student, excelled year after year, with a life motto of striving for the best and always aiming to be the first. However, fate took an unexpected turn as he found himself transported to a parallel world where school delinquency run rampant.... more>>

System: Are you ready to become the most formidable youth delinquent?

Sheng Yuan: “…”

Sheng Yuan had always been devoted to his studies, but he soon realized that only by surpassing the leader of delinquent youths could he ensure his own survival. Thus, he embarked on the path of delinquency.

Skipping classes? No problem. He would make his exit in the last five minutes of each class.

System: Hey!!!

Staying overnight in internet cafes? No problem. The evening news played throughout the night.

Internet café netizens: ???

When he received a challenge to meet in a small grove at 10:30, Sheng Yuan found himself in a difficult situation and expressed his inability to go.

Opponent: “What? Are you scared?!”

Sheng Yuan: “No, it’s just that my home has a curfew at half past ten.”

Opponent: “…”

Soon, Sheng Yuan’s became famous within the delinquent circles due to his impressive exploits, and his delinquency value skyrocketed. In the process, he even managed to lead the delinquent leader onto the right path.

Sheng Yuan: Hi, handsome, would you like to do homework together in the small grove at the back?

Yu Zuojin met Sheng Yuan during a summer filled with lush foliage and vibrant greenery.

He had a cong**ital hearing impairment and relied on a hearing aid to perceive the sounds of the outside world. Coincidentally, his hearing aid was broken when he met Sheng Yuan. He saw the youth standing under the shade of a verdant tree, and Sheng Yuan uttered a few words to him:

“I like you.”

Yu Zuojin rejected him on the spot.

Sheng Yuan: “Classmate, you dropped some money.”

Yu Zuojin: “I don’t need it.”

Sheng Yuan: ?

“In that case, it’s mine,” Sheng Yuan said. (Slips it into his pocket.) <<less

Liu Yanbo is a taxi and valet driver. He works all day, but he loves his peaceful, comfortable life. Liu Yanbo originally planned to live as such, blandly. One day he meets a beautiful CEO, and a sudden marriage completely breaks the peace of his life.... more>>

A marriage full of happiness, anger, and sorrow begins, all kinds of trouble come one after another, and Liu Yanbo’s unknown past slowly surfaces. <<less

Durarara!! is about a number of unusual people who gather in Ikebukuro, Tokyo--- a youth who yearns for an un-mundane life, a hoodlum, a stalker denpa-girl, a young man who deals in information ?for fun?, a black-market doctor, a high-schooler obsessed with magic, as well as a ?headless rider? riding a bike painted black.... more>>

These unusual people begin a series of abnormal stories that never fail to create headaches. But, although their personalities are all twisted? they still talk about love.

Note: A sequel novel series "Durarara!! SH" began in 2014. <<less

Durarara!! SH is a sequel series of light novels following Durarara!!. Set one and a half years after the end of the original series, SH features the same setting as Durarara!! and much of the previous series’ cast returns alongside several new main characters.... more>>

The first volume was published in April 2014 under the Dengeki Bunko imprint, and three volumes have been released in total as of January 2015.

As with its predecessor, SH is written by Ryohgo Narita and illustrated by Suzuhito Yasuda.

One and a half years after the end of the Dollars, Ikebukuro now welcomes a new wind.

Yahiro Mizuchi, a cowardly boy with a knack for fighting, moves to Ikebukuro after a childhood of ostracization in his hometown in Akita. Come to the city in hopes of meeting the famed Headless Rider and validating his existence as a “monster," he enrolls in Raira Academy as a freshman where he quickly befriends fellow classmates Kuon Kotonami and Himeka Tatsugami, both of whom possess their own reasons for seeking out the urban legend. Meanwhile, the rider in black has yet to be seen in the city for the past half year, and anyone who has since attempted to seek out Ikebukuro’s resident Dullahan has vanished without a trace.

With a new start on life, Yahiro wants nothing more than to live out a quiet, ordinary existence, but the city of Ikebukuro has other plans... <<less