.hack//CELL is a novel series written by Ryo Suzukaze, serialized in the magazine .hack//G.U.: The World, and published in paperback format.... more>>

It follows the experiences of a female Edge Punisher, Midori, as she hires herself out to players who want to fight her without resistance <<less

“The World” is a massively multiplayer online game played by more than twelve million people across the globe. Within this virtual world Haseo, a PKK... more>> (Player Killer Killer), continues an endless fight. Everything he does is for the sake of the girl Shino, who back in the real world, is hospitalized by an unexplained coma. However, on finally meeting with his sole lead, a PK called ?Tri-Edge,? Haseo is dropped back to Level 1 by a mysterious power! Can Haseo save Shino now that he has lost all of his abilities? <<less

It's a game of death once you've logged in. While the other players around him cry, Karma starts to capture the game – because he can’t die!... more>>

As a result of his reputation/title and playing style, Karma receives a damage withstanding body!

Before anyone knew this, Immortal and the Guild, members that surround him – and a slime – becomes one of the select few Guilds in the game that push the capture forward.

※ Karma is basically a solo player.

※ I said it many times but even if the surroundings are life- threatening there is hardly any danger to him. <<less

In the year 2xxx, the VR technology in Japan advanced by leaps and bounds. Although it was a little strange at first, it soon become... more>> commonplace. By the recommendation of his twin sisters Hibari and Hitaki, he started to play the VRMMO [REAL & MAKE]. While being taught by these two people.... Playing a game that doesn't seem to be a game while feeling both familiar and unfamiliar at the same time. Single-mindlessly playing, hunting, charmfully taming, producing realistic feats of dexterity and cooking realistic cuisine with the force of a household husband. It is a story of being watched by the players and AI inhabitants of the bulletin board. <<less

Yuugo went to the RPG world to play until he realized he was on the highest level. Thus, this attracted a lot of players especially cute girls there.... more>>

“I felt like I don’t want to return to reality!”

With his pe*verted mind, Yuugo took a dungeon quest and realized there’s no reset button or even resurrection spells. <<less

Nogami Hajime is a player who enjoys game challenges such as clearing things at the lowest level possible or playing games with one character. In... more>> the VRMMORPG, he plays as Ichino, taking advantage of a certain system in the game which allows him to modify his exp gain such that he remains Level 1, giving him the nickname of "Complete Novice." Three months before the start of the story, his sister, Nogami Ren, had her character data split into 8 key items called "Memory Fragments" when a cracker hacked into the game system. Though the company tried to respond to this, the cracker sent a message to them saying "Continue to manage the game as it is. If you try anything, the same thing will happen to other players." Hajime, along with his father who is one of the game developers, Nogami Jin, and some of his coworkers, decide to do everything they can by the rules. With information he finds from players in game and information his father finds by sifting through the game data, Hajime goes is on a search for the Memory Fragments. <<less

Due to a mistake on his student’s part, a super Martial Artist had received a wrong class in an online game and had become a mage. He who was used to curbing violence with violence and using strength to subdue strength could only make the best out of his mistake. Taking on a new lease in life, he became a violent close combat mage. When strength and magic came perfectly together, a new gaming path had been opened by him!... more>>

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“Fireball spell? Lightning Chain? Frosted Ice Mirror… etc.”

“Wait, I came here to practice Kung Fu! What has magic got to do with me?”

“I am a mage?”

“Oh, that’s right. I am a Mage!”

“However… do you really firmly believe that I am a mage?”

“Alright then, look at my knives! Look at my sword! Look at my fist! Look at my concealed weapons!”

“What? You’re now saying that I’m not a mage?”

“If you don’t believe me, I will prove it to you: If you believe me, I will show you a performance: No one can get in the way of a mage who knows Kung Fu!” <<less

There are some people who are destined to meet, even if one is in heaven and the other one is in hell.... more>>

In the real world, Rose Prison is known as the No. 1 prison! You can even find the world’s top criminals, the elites of the business world, influential politicians, notorious hackers and even nuclear professionals locked up here. What happen if you lead such a group of people into a VRMMORPG world?

In the game, Heroes Prison is recognized as the No. 1 prison! You can find legendary heroes and magical beasts, doomsday envoys, ancient demon kings, colossal demon chiefs, bounty hunters, and even the most powerful — god!

As I can bring such a prison along with me, whoever dares to provoke me, I will release one of the prisoners out…

In fact, the world is like a prison itself.

To obtain true freedom, one must change the world! <<less

Earth Online – a virtual MMORPG that takes place in the future year of 2190 – a game that everyone will bet their futures on. Set in a map that is ten times the size of real-world Earth, players battle for supremacy in the first game to feature personal adventure, territory construction, and grand warfare. For every death you experience in the game, your level would drop back to zero. Ouyang Shuo, an above average player, suffered the ultimate betrayal. For merely a piece of equipment, his sworn brother betrayed and backstabbed him. This time, after he reincarnated in the game, Ouyang Shuo swore to exact vengeance.... more>>

However, in an unexpected turn of events, Ouyang Shuo found himself back five years before the betrayal – right before the launch of Earth Online. This time, armed with the knowledge from his past life, Ouyang Shuo would venture upon a new path.

How to perfectly complete quests? What historical battle maps would appear? How should one build up their territory? Utilizing the experience from the predecessors of his last life, Ouyang Shuo makes his bid for the top against all odds. Follow his journey as he seeks to lord over the world!

A different kind of tale that blends historical characters and virtual reality gaming, with heavy emphasis on kingdom building and warfare. <<less

In the popular MMORPG world ‘Union’ there existed a legendary party named Subaru. This party, made up of a group of childhood friends and elementary... more>> schoolers, exceeded the limits of the game with their various senses. However, due to an incident which resulted in a death, ‘Union’ ended its service and the group of childhood friends went separate ways. Six years later, highschooler Haruto logged into the new ‘Reunion’ and reunited with a single girl. Asahi—one of old ‘Subaru’ party members, and his childhood friend who should have died six years ago. Is she a digital ghost, or…? <<less

AI buster, the prequel to .hack//SIGN, is the story of Albireo,a debugger, who used to play ‘Fragments,’ the beta version of ‘The World.’ Albireo encounters... more>> Lycoris, whom he assumes is an event NPC (an AI character) but she’s actually a failed version of Aura. She is blind, deaf, and mute, because Albireo debugged her and broke up important files. The missing files are hidden as items in the World, and when returned to Lycoris, she gets a function back. When she gains them all, she changes into a teenage form with purple hair who looks like Aura. Because of his acquaintance with Lycoris, Albireo cannot log out of the game and exit the World. <<less

The fabulously wealthy heir to the Tsuwabuki Concern, Ichiro Tsuwabuki, has arrived inside the next generation virtual reality MMO, Narrow Fantasy Online. His cousin Asuha... more>> has asked for his help in finding someone inside the game, and he's come to help her out. Of course, while he's happy enough to help his cousin out, Ichiro also cannot be satisfied with anything but total mastery of whatever he tries. He quickly proceeds to dominate the game world using his natural genius... and his wallet! <<less

Monster Soul Online.... more>>

A virtual reality MMORPG known primarily for one thing: there are no rules. It is a lawless world where humans can shed the masks they wear and unleash the cruel beasts inside. It is in this very world that our story takes place.

After our protagonist, Sila, is defeated in a match that was in no way fair, he is forced to venture into this world after his master goes missing. The only clue? His opponent from the duel, Montra, says that he kidnapped Sila's master. Outside of the game, they are but two young men in a vast world filled with many kinds of people. Inside Monster Soul, however, Montra reigns supreme as the Magic Emperor, one of the top four players. Sila, on the other hand, is just starting out, and he has a lot of catching up to do if he wants to get answers from Montra.

But not everything is as it seems in this world, and what starts off as a simple journey to find his missing teacher turns into a quest of previously unpredictable proportions. Sila uncovers a world beneath the reality he thought he knew, filled with martial artists capable of incredible feats. From the legendary Tiger God to the peerless Sword Prodigy, Sila will learn about and even meet some of these figures that other martial artists both revere and fear. His quest will push him to his limits and bring out both the best and worst parts of his inner self. His light and his darkness. Whether he makes it out while retaining some part of his original personality or not, only time will tell. <<less

As an obscured and transparent slag gamer in the gaming world, Bai Lian Hua (White Lotus) had always been fond of those tr*sh forum posts.... more>> Until one day: “White Lotus! Go check out the forum! 233333! You’re getting flamed!!!” <<less

Story about the one who is rich and the one who is being nurtured

Kim Jee-Ha comes from a good background with decent grades and test results; however, he has one big flaw – when it comes to official... more>> events like university interviews for example, he is horrible. To overcome his social awkwardness, he embarks upon the virtual reality game Trikia where he meets an eccentric high level undead Nine – his future guild master. <<less

As one of the first players to gain access to World of Falan—the first immersive game worldwide—Roland creates his character as a Mage.... more>>

However, playing as a Mage is not as fun and easy as he thought. His head even explodes after he casts the very first spell in the game.

Stubbornly sticking to his class when most Mages decide to create a new character, Roland gradually discovers tricks of the trade and his unusual talent. This allows him to change people’s stereotypes on Mages and to explore the deeply-buried secrets of this game… <<less

Even in the future, all the advances and innovation in the world can’t change the dynamics of the school playground. And for Haruyuki Arita, a... more>> fat kid in junior high, that means he’s destined to always be at the bottom of the food chain, prime pickings for the school bullies. But when he encounters the beautiful Kuroyukihime, an avatar in the virtual world where he relaxes, Haruyuki’s life is turned on its head as he dives into Brain Burst, a mysterious computer program, and the Accelerated World with her help. And it’s in the Accel World that Haruyuki casts off his depressing reality and takes hold of the chance to become a Burst Linker, a knight to protect his princess! <<less

Tendou Aoi was a normal girl who liked playing games. She was playing VRMMO『Genesis Frontier』when she found a quest to cut down a giant tree.... more>> The tree was too big for a person to cut. It took her about a year to clear the quest. The quest that no one thought could be cleared (even the game administrator). The enormous amount of Exp and Titles was granted to her as a reward. In one night, she suddenly got the same power as the top players in the game. But she was really confused, didn't know what to do. Because until now, she had only been focused on cutting the tree down for one year. Thus she forgot how to play the game normally <<less

Ayane Kajiwara has a father who is the greatest blacksmith in Japan.... more>>

Ayane, who usually helps her father with his work, suddenly receives a message from her best friend since elementary school, Ryoka Shimizu, and decides to play the VRMMO 《Sekandaria Online》.

Ayane, who is learning things very quickly, is absorbing more and more of what her father teaches her.

So what will Ayane, who was told that she might be a genius at blacksmithing, do in a second world? <<less

Only a hundred thousand players are able to partake in a new inverse virtual reality massively multiplayer online game by IVRMMOG by Asmodian Systems Technologies, titled the Immortal Realm Online.... more>>

Yi Mu, a top player in the Guardians Online has this such opportunity and what is going to happen next is not what he is expecting.

A shock awaits him when he rolls some of the worst stats in his entire life, forcing him to accept the consequences of his fateful rolls.

He is about to be taken to a virtual world of surreal reality with a grand design behind it, between life and death where failure is not acceptable!

Can he rises to the challenges and the trials that he will be expecting to face?

What is the Immortal Realm Online?

What is the real secret behind it?

Who are the developers?

What are the grand purposes?

Can he unravels it or perish in the attempts? <<less

“Sword & Magic Online,” a VRMMO consisting of 255 floors to clear, harbors a horrible secret: Everything from floor two onwards hasn’t been implemented yet. And all the devs ran away.... more>>

“What are you gonna do about this?!” “We’re gonna make them now!” “People are already close to beating the first floor, you know?!” “No problem, I’ll let everyone die at the boss!”

Also, there is no magic in this world of swords and magic, the gold value has inflated indefinitely due to a dupe glitch, this kusoge (fixed term for a shitty game) is going down the toilet.

And yet, there are friends enjoying this kind of game. For that reason and to avoid this world’s destruction (end of service), a youth named “Sasaraki” continues developing this kusoge world together with the mysterious girl Alice who dwells in the debugging room, and…? A VR kusoge development rom-com! <<less

Wu Han Ying does not know why a bunch of people were following him around shouting sister-in-law.... more>>

Xia Chen does not know why he begins to like the existence of this obedient Little Wudang, who is sometimes a bit silly as well.

Being followed and being called Sister-in-law, Little Wudang could not stand it anymore and retorted, “I’m a man.”

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Lao Da (Boss) confessed, Sister-in-law (Sao Zi) ran away, so Lao Da is going crazy.

Guild Member 1: Sister-in-law, please come back, Lao Da doesn’t mind that you’re a ladyboy! (ladyboy – a male that plays a female character in game)

Guild Member 2: Pei Pei Pei, ladyboy your ass! Dare to call my sister-in-law as ladyboy, come to Yan Nan* (A place’s name, where players use for PVP)

Guild Members: …

Little Wudang thought to himself, you can’t blame me for disappearing, it’s because the school internet got disconnected. <<less

Third-rate university student Zhu Zixi is enticed by his roommates into playing , with no intention to become a blacksmith, he begins his journey towards becoming a legendary craftsman!... more>>

What is the true meaning of an artifact?

How does it turn into a legend?

My bunch of brothers are also waiting for equipment! <<less

One month after Akihiko Kayaba’s game of death began, the death toll continues to rise, two thousand players having already lost their lives to the... more>> ultra-difficult VRMMO world of Sword Art Online. On the day of the strategy meeting to plan out the first-floor boss battle, Kirito, a solo player who vows to fight alone to get stronger, runs into a rare, high-level female player. She gracefully dispatches powerful monsters with a single rapier that flashes like a shooting star in the night…This volume contains three stories, including “Aria of a Starless Night,” which details how Kirito came to be called the Black Swordsman, and “Rondo of a Fragile Blade,” the tragic tale of a young blacksmith that takes place before the second-floor boss fight. <<less