Taken from Cross Infinite World: Rejected by her first crush, Mashiro finds herself hooked on an unbeatable music-themed otome game. Her high school days are spent learning the wonders of music, obsessively trying to claim the romance ending with the handsome 2D character who stole her broken heart. On the way home from her college entrance exams she gets distracted by a billboard for the game’s remake and unexpectedly falls down a manhole and plunges to her death! Mashiro finds herself reincarnated in a world bearing similarities to the otome game she was obsessed with. Only this time, she has no idea how to avoid the twists and turns of certain character routes, including the bad endings! Now, as a seven-year-old, she decides to walk the path of a pianist to embrace the musical world to its fullest, but no matter where she turns, she just can’t seem to escape triggering events and getting involved with troublesome yet handsome characters! Does Mashiro have any choice in where her new life will take her? Or is she en route to a horrifying ending manipulated by the original game world? Find out in this exciting shoujo light novel series that follows Mashiro’s life from elementary through high school. And just like an otome game, it will give readers the chance to choose which hero she ends up with and how their story unfolds in volumes focused on their route!
From Cross Infinite World: When The Ayakashi Come Out And Play! When Haruka Kitazawa bumps into the enigmatic Ayako Towada, her life veers down an unexpected course. Ayako introduces Haruka to her nephew, Takumi, a seemingly aloof classmate nursing a unique and uncanny secret. Takumi and his aunt bear an unusual gift—the ability to perceive ayakashi, spectral creatures that straddle the boundary between this realm and the one beyond. As Haruka and Takumi grapple with their newfound reality and their burgeoning relationship, they must learn to draw strength from each other and those around them to confront their most profound fears and insecurities. Amid the turmoil of adolescence and the mysteries of an unseen world, they strive to chart distinct paths and transform the messiness of youth into their own fairy tale of self-discovery and empowerment.
From Cross Infinite World: “Would you like to be the heroine in an otome game? The catch is…you must have a downfall so the villainess can gloat.” One day, a white cat who calls himself the messenger of a god comes to scout Nina Scaglione for a certain role. The prince, whose heart she’s meant to capture only to be thrown aside by him, is obsessed with farming. The villainess, who’s meant to gloat over the heroine’s failure, is a seemingly perfect noble girl with hidden flaws—one of them being an inability to effectively carry out a plan. Once Nina takes on her role as heroine, she encounters another character: a handsome boy with silver-white hair. Nina must work hard to make sure the villainess gets a satisfying triumph or she won’t get her payment, but can she pull it off?
From Cross Infinite World: Career Support For the Supernatural?! Kaede Kikui longs to be normal. Self-conscious of her boss’s inappropriate favoritism, she’s in the middle of job hunting when she encounters a handsome executive named Rai Shinozaki. But based on his fox ears and tail, he’s anything but normal! Within minutes of meeting Kaede, Rai informs her that she’s “leaking spiritual energy like a busted pipe,” accuses her of being an exhibitionist, and…offers her a position at his company?! The bizarre offer is way too good to be true—and indeed, Kaede soon learns that Rai runs Ayakashi Career and Moving Services, a business devoted to helping supernatural beings find work and community in the human realm. In her new role interacting with a variety of ayakashi, Kaede will have to find her own version of normal!
From Cross Infinite World: A Strawberry A Day Keeps The Time Loops Away?! Amelia, a downtrodden princess, has endured her stepmother’s and her half-sister’s abuse, but her bad luck doesn’t stop there—she’s even dragged into time loops, all so that her half-sister, the Saint, can capture handsome men as her trophies! The timeline has reset four times, but Amelia simply minds her own business until she discovers that the Saint’s next target is her fiancé and first crush, Luke. Amelia refuses to take that lying down. However, her fiancé has ignored her for years, and she can’t meet him in shabby clothes. But never fear, she has one dependable ally: strawberries! With her strawberry magic, she hustles to procure funds, but then a most unexpected encounter springs up on her. Perhaps there’s more to Luke’s silence than she thought… Can Amelia break the Saint’s time loops with the power of strawberries and finally communicate with her surprisingly doting fiancé?
**A bicycle crashes into me one night, and the next thing I know, I’m a baby?!** Getting reincarnated in another world populated by humans, demi-humans, and mythical beasts is certainly not the turn I thought my life was going to take. I especially didn’t expect to be carried off by a wolf and given into the care of a one-armed former knight! Now I’m trying to repay him by rebuilding the family inn and healing his arm with alchemy. But the more time passes, the more it becomes clear to me that I’m not actually human… *Source: Cross Infinite World, Vol. 1*
Taken from Cross Infinite World: The small kingdom of Steliol is rife with the machinations of nobles and politics. Princess Salia, the 17-year-old daughter of the king, rules the country with the people's support. She is gifted with beauty, an aptitude for politics, and has the blessing of her kingdom's god. She even dared to invade a neighboring country to stop a war and succeeded. Princess Salia is the definition of noblesse among her people, when in a sudden twist she decides to study abroad in Japan. Will Salia's abrupt decision give her enemies the chance they seek to eliminate this princess for good? Those who seek to do her harm will have to contend with her royal bodyguard and the special agents assigned to protect her first.
Can Two Reincarnates Set Aside Their Differences To Save The Villainess? After being reincarnated as the villainess of her favorite fantasy otome game, Claire realizes she has to act fast to save her twin sister and favorite character from falling in love because she’s cursed to literally die of a broken heart! But that won’t be easy when another reincarnate and a big fan of the fox twins is determined to save Miku—by making her fall in love with him instead! Which reincarnate will succeed in giving this silver-furred fox girl her happy ending: her sister the villainess or the main hero who wants to make her his waifu?! Will they end up working together to prevent innocent Miku from falling in love with one of the other five eligible bachelors and meeting her inevitable demise?
A retro-modern romantic fantasy set in the age of the Kotogami! After a fearsome beast burns down her company lodgings, Akari finds herself homeless and out of a job. Luckily, the handsome yokai who rescued her from the beast offers her a job as a live-in custodian at a manor in the city. Needing a safe place to sleep, Akari accepts Tomohito's offer but soon finds that living in a house full of eccentric Kotogami spirits isn't exactly the sweet deal she was hoping for. With no alternative, Akari resigns herself to cohabiting with her idiosyncratic new roommates. And so begins the heartwarming tale of the trials, new friendships, and blossoming romance of a hard working young woman, living in an age where the Kotogami spirits walk among humans.
A Fake Isekai, But A Real Saint?! “Summon a saint from another world.” Thanks to their daydreaming king’s unreasonable demand, the members of the clergy, including Fiona, are at their wit’s end. The country has enjoyed a long stretch of peace in recent years, so it would be a waste of the national budget to spend the astronomical amount required to summon a saint. While turning the problem over in her mind, she realizes something. The saint summoned in the neighboring nation has black hair. And Fiona herself, who for whatever reason finds herself the object of the handsome prince’s affections, also has black hair, an unusual color in their country. The time has finally arrived for her tresses to prove useful. “Let’s pretend I’m the saint.” The kingdom’s finances and working conditions for her fellow clergymen must be protected at all costs. So in collusion with the prince and the head priest, Fiona resolves to deceive the king by taking on the guise of a cost-effective saint! While she runs hither and fro alongside the overprotective prince with a borderline unhealthy obsession with her hair, where will Fiona’s life as a fake (?) saint lead her?!
**Cats Are Better Than Harems!** I’ve been reincarnated into the world of an otome game, and… What? My mom did, too? Even my dad and my older brother? Meet Amy, the daughter of the Earl of Northland. Her entire family has been reincarnated as the aristocratic Northland family. In an attempt to amicably remove herself as a candidate for the Third Prince’s fiancée (which would certainly cement her position as the game’s villainess), Amy has taken drastic measures—eating tons of food and just enjoying life (at her mother’s suggestion). With this reincarnation, Amy has been given a precious second chance at life, and this time, nothing—not even an otome game—is going to stop her from fulfilling her dream… Amy wants a cat! *Source: Cross Infinite World*
Escape Into A World Of Reversed Expectations High schooler Yura’s world is literally turned upside down when she’s pulled through a mysterious mirror and into the strange land of Tolkinia, a world of magic and fantasy, where opinions of beauty are reversed. Now the girl who was bullied for her looks is beloved and admired for those same traits, while the knight she finds incredibly handsome is abhorred for his. Facing this mysterious new reality, Yura must decide if she wants to return home to normalcy or embrace the distorted views of this new, war-torn world. (Source: Cross Infinite World) **Official English:** Cross Infinite World