**Read the novel that ignited the phenomenon!** In the year 2022, gamers rejoice as Sword Art Online - a VRMMORPG (Virtual Reality Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game) like no other - debuts, allowing players to take full advantage of the ultimate in gaming technology: NerveGear, a system that allows users to completely immerse themselves in a wholly realistic gaming experience. But when the game goes live, the elation of the players quickly turns to horror as they discover that, for all its amazing features, SAO is missing one of the most basic functions of any MMORPG - a log-out button. Now trapped in the virtual world of Aincrad, their bodies held captive by NerveGear in the real world, users are issued a chilling ultimatum: conquer all one hundred floors of Aincrad to regain your freedom. But in the warped world of SAO, “game over” means certain death - both virtual and real… *Source: Yen Press, Vol. 1*

The pinnacle of human civilization has come and gone, leaving only ruins in its wake. Society and science now struggle to rebuild, rediscovering scraps of knowledge from powerful ancient artifacts that defy comprehension. These relics of the “Old World” can make the fortunes of those who find them—if ancient security systems and rogue bioweapons don’t kill the relic hunters first. Akira, a young street orphan, sets out to become one such hunter to escape his brutal life in the slums. Untrained, malnourished, and poorly armed, Akira would be lucky to make it back from the ruins alive—until an encounter with Alpha, a mysterious, ghostly woman, changes his fate forever. Alpha needs a hunter, and she’s willing to train Akira to get one. Will her support be enough to help a penniless kid from the slums climb to the top of a crushing and merciless world? *Source: J-Novel Club, Vol. 1*

Hero: a title that carries the most severe punishment a criminal can earn. Why? Because these “heroes” are the front line in humanity’s war against the Demon Blight. Driven mad by centuries of fighting, the penal hero forces are made up of the most morally bankrupt to exist throughout history. They fight without hope of redemption, driven mad at the helplessness of their mission as the fallen are resurrected to continue struggling for all eternity. It is to this chaos that Xylo Forbartz—former captain of the Order of Holy Knights—is sentenced for his crime of deicide. But after he encounters Teoritta, an unknown Goddess of the Blade, the two will forge a pact with the power to change the course of history, and maybe save the world from annihilation… *Source: Yen Press, Vol 1*

Retells the original Star Wars film in manga. Fleeing from the evil Darth Vader and the Galactic Empire, Princess Leia sends her two androids C-3P0 and R2-D2 to the planet Tatooine, in hopes that the top-secret plans to the Empire's secret weapon reach former Jedi Obi-Wan Kenobi. The two droids end up at the hands of a young orphan named Luke Skywalker, who then teams up with Obi-Wan and renegade pilot Han Solo to rescue Princess Leia from the Empire. (Source: Anime News Network)

Middle schooler Kon lives in a world with periodic exceptional phenomena, more commonly known as bugs. He works as the unofficial assistant to his landlady Kasane Himesaki, a leading researcher in the field, and they study the effects and impact of these mysterious abnormalities. Some of the bugs bring fun, others intrigue, and still others cause inconveniences to their daily lives. In their ever-changing world, there’s only one thing that’s certain—the most ordinary moments can be the most extraordinary of all! (Source: Yen Press)

This Manga is about a game the girl Yuki and her friend Mamoru play, which is about raising horses.

A zany, surrealistic perversion of Edo-period travel literature, *Yajikita in Deep* was adapted into a film in 2004. **Note:** Won the 2001 Tezuka Osamu Award for Excellence.

"B.Q." (literally "Trash&quot😉 is a two volumes collection of short stories, hilarious and irreverent like the best Tarantino films! "Bark at the Moon", the story of a hijacker dealing with a mysterious liquid stolen from a passenger; "Highway Romantic VS Sodomy Diner", ruthless portrait of a small American village that hides a reality populated by murderers and psychotics under a veil of apparent tranquility; "The Drifter", a tale of an unlikely extraterrestrial invasion; "Dead Skater", dismal story of a complex and violent boy struggling with a mad scientist; "The workers of the Hamano workshop", an "X-Files" tale filled with mysterious objects and human-like extraterrestrials; and finally "Dong!", the story of a struggle for power in a ruthless mafia family! In the very excited "Attack!" we witness the daring escape of three criminals ready to do anything to get rich: in "Dog Eat Dog" a young killer decides to give up his job after death appears before his eyes! In "The god of the tribe 'Nbada" we learn about the inhabitants of a poor African village of the eleventh century who possess extraordinary powers thanks to the benevolence of a mysterious deity; in "The concerns of the Head of the Lunar Research Team", the scientist who directs the work of a geological research base on the Moon finds himself struggling with an employer on the verge of bankruptcy, a wife very little inclined to marital fidelity, quarrelsome underlings and an unimaginable terrorist plot; in "All in one night" the phlegmatic Tomiyama and his friend Seki, a recurring couple of Kaneko's manga, find themselves having to deal with extraterrestrials looking for their partner!