When high schooler Yuuta Asamura learns his father plans to remarry, he’s not too bothered by the idea…until he finds out his future stepmom has a daughter! Her name is Saki, and to Yuuta’s surprise, she’s a beauty who’s made a reputation for herself as an unapproachable “bad girl.” But as he gets to know her, he realizes she’s not the person everyone says she is. Could he be the one she finally opens her heart to? *Source: Yen Press, Vol. 1*

An anthology comic of Umineko no Naku Koro ni by various mangaka.

Kidnapped and stuffed into a trunk by an unknown assailant, teenager Kazumi bursts forth from the confines of the case to discover that she has been stripped not only of her clothes, but also of the memories of her life before the kidnapping. When she is recovered by a pair of schoolgirls, she doesn't recognize them as her best friends and roommates, Umika and Kaoru. As Kazumi tries to settle back into her normal life, she quickly realizes that her former "normal" was anything but! (Source: Yen Press)

Born a poor man in the slums, Zenos never had opportunities in life, so he decides to forge his own opportunities by teaching himself the curative arts after a chance encounter with a healer. When an adventuring party led by a man named Aston extends him an invitation, Zenos is elated—only to then be treated like dirt by his teammates. Despite Zenos’s diligent efforts to hone his skills to nothing short of perfection, the party deems him useless and kicks him out. Bereft of money and options, Zenos starts an illegal clinic and becomes a shadow healer. Word of his healing genius spreads quickly throughout the city’s underbelly, and as his reputation grows among the dregs of society, knowledge of Zenos’s esteem reaches the wrong ears… *Source: J-Novel Club, Vol. 1*

“Which me do you like?” The girl I fell for, there are two of her — “Akiha” and “Haruka,” with “split personalities.” My strange relationship with them, where I tried to treat them separately, soon twisted into a bizarre love triangle— (Source: Dengeki Bunko, translated)

Hosono Akira loves the novel “14 Years Old” and its protagonist Tokiko. On the day he enters high school, a girl named Hiiragi Tokiko appears, and she’s just like Tokiko. This is the story about the impossible meeting between the Reader and the Protagonist.

“Stay with me this time.” On graduation day, I reflected on my dull high school years. My grades were bad, I’d given up on my dreams, and my girlfriend and I had broken up. She is now a famous musician. But on that day, there came news that Nito Chika, my ex-girlfriend, has disappeared. And then I found myself in a completely different reality. Dumbfounded… I had time-traveled into the past, back to the day of the high school entrance ceremony. Can I save Nito this time? …No, that’s not good enough. This time, I want to be on equal footing—able to stand alongside her. I’ll try my hardest to rewrite those three years! A youth redo love story that started with graduation. (Source: Dengeki Bunko, translated)

The Sword Art Online Comic Anthology is a comic anthology of Sword Art Online-themed short, independent manga stories by various illustrators, published under the Dengeki Comics imprint.

The girls of the popular seinen magical girl series are reimagined in different scenarios across all sorts of genres by various mangaka.

*Note: Published in Monthly Spirits 2025-09*