It’s been six years since Amakawa Alice’s family disappeared, and the cute but destructive creatures called Cosmofs invaded her world. Alice has been holding down the fort, fighting wild Cosmofs and protecting the few humans who have survived, in the hopes that her family will someday return. She refuses to give up on them…even when everyone believes her mother, Raika, caused the Cosmof invasion. (Source: Seven Seas Entertainment)

Twenty-year-old former wage slave Yuki Tanaka now works among her idols: the streamers of Live-On, one of Japan’s top VTuber companies. As the gorgeous, polite Awayuki Kokorone, she delivers only the most ladylike content. Unfortunately, her subscriber count and savings are at rock bottom. One evening, after Yuki thinks she’s ended her stream, she cracks a few cold ones—and more than a few crude jokes—while watching Live-On’s video archives. But her viewers hear it all, and clips of her bawdy, drunken commentary go viral overnight. Yuki thinks her career is over...until her manager reveals that everyone at Live-On has been waiting for her to snap all along and gives her free rein to drink on-stream. Now free of all feigned purity, she jumps right into her new “rowdy drunk” character and is welcomed into the fold by her fellow Live-On VTubers, who turn out to be just as crazy as she is! With her views and finances skyrocketing, Yuki’s work—for the first time in her life—is actually fun! (Source: J-Novel Club) *Note: Chapter count includes 8 volume prologues and 10 epilogues.*

What would you do if you were reincarnated as a child emperor—kept alive as a puppet, with corrupt, greedy nobles sharpening their knives on all sides? How would you live with no overpowered abilities, no freedom to act, always one wrong step away from an assassin slipping poison into your next meal? How about this: Survive. Learn magic. Purge the empire of corruption. Sounds ambitious, you say? Well, no emperor ever made a name for himself sitting at home. *Source: J-Novel Club, Vol. 1*

Selene Vixent has died nine times. Each time, she’s betrayed and dumped by her fiancé, is abused by her noble family, and meets an untimely end—all because she doesn't awaken to the power of Sun, the so-called power of protection inherited by those in her family. Selene is determined to escape this cursed time loop, and after nine deaths, she abandons all attempts to be the perfect fiancée and daughter. She instead awakens to the power of Shadow—seen to be an ominous portent of misfortune—and fully embraces her new life as a villainess. However, everything changes when Dier Veldt, the former crown prince of the kingdom of Werkst, tells Selene he knows all about her time loops. He offers to help her under one condition: she kills him. With her newfound villainous ways, can Selene break free of these endless time loops once and for all? (Source: J-Novel Club) *Note: During serialization, all chapters were split into two parts, later combined in the volume release.*

Well-known mishaps and new encounters await Hayate, Shun, Takayuki and Soma in their colorful everyday life. Moments that are deeply embarrassing to some bear unexpected insights for others.

*"If one more guy asks you out, we'd be tied... Then how about I do it?"* Chikage and Haruto have competed over one thing or another since elementary school. It even went as far as a battle to see who could get asked out more times by their high school graduation?! ...Now, several years later, these two who could hardly cross paths without challenging each other to some sort of battle have grown up: Chikage is a model, Haruto is an actor, and they are each embarking on their own paths in life. And then, just as Chikage gets her first shot at filming a made-for-TV movie, it turns out that Haruto will be her costar... As this clumsy pair is led to and fro by love and work, their romance will have your heart throbbing! (Source: MangaPlaza)

After being attacked by monsters, a countryside girl meets an all-too-sudden death, only to wake up and find herself as the villainess of the storybook she loved so much! Originally doomed to live as the main heroine’s enemy and die at the hand of the Demon Lord, she suddenly finds the Demon Lord proposing to her, unlocking an uncharted story route…?! With her story knowledge and incredible powers, this villainess is ready to dodge her bad ending and make a legendary comeback in this fantasy tale! *Source: Manga UP! Global*

Holy maidens protect the world from "Impurities," monsters born from negative emotions in people. Rena Retalie trains hard every day to become a holy maiden, but her powers are weak. She feels like a failure, and now that her training is completed, she's been dispatched to the boonies. Her family is so disappointed in her, they don't even care about her anymore... Rena feels all alone until one day, she meets the knight-to-be Yulie who's also at the bottom of his class. He volunteers to be her personal knight, saving her from having to team up with a total stranger. Both nervous and excited, the two head off on their journey, but things are harder than they thought they'd be...!! Keep reading for a fantasy that will show you that a tight bond between people might even change the fate of the world!! (Source: Renta)

“I command thee, kneel!” When a history buff reincarnates as the infant emperor Carmine, he’s immediately struck by despair—child rulers aren’t known for their longevity. But as he learns the ins and outs of his new reality’s elaborate metaphysics and “his” corrupt and bloated state apparatus, he sets in motion a scheme to purge the rot—and woe betide any scheming noble standing between Carmine and a functioning government. Of course, he’ll have to survive first—no easy feat for a child emperor dancing on other men’s strings. But hey, how hard could running an empire be? *Source: J-Novel Club, Vol. 1*

“You possess true skill. Your environment was simply holding you back.” Alto, a young appraiser who was forced to work like a slave in the aristocracy-driven Kingdom of Dramd, has his life turned upside down when he is scouted by Beralt, a soldier from the enemy nation, the Glaus Empire. In this completely meritocratic country, Alto’s off-the-charts appraisal talent is discovered, and he’s suddenly nominated to be an executive candidate in the military! Immediately after joining, Alto has great expectations placed on him by the military executives, a group of powerful individuals. Yet, the people he chooses to ally with are only hopeless dropouts facing desperate situations… This is an exhilarating rise-to-power fantasy where Alto uncovers the hidden talents of his comrades and carves out a new destiny! *Source: Alpha Manga*