After the Delpice Empire unifies all kingdoms with brutal subjugation, all the noblemen who stood up to the empire had to relinquish their titles. As her father’s only child, Leyrin Efran becomes a countess overnight, but to secure her family’s title and estate, legally she must be wed! She enlists info from the infamous Nine Night Guild to find a man of lower rank to keep the empire at bay. They deliver as requested (eep! he’s SO hot!), but things don’t completely seem as advertised... (Source: Tapas)

Boy meets girl... you know how it goes. But while the boy (Arato) might be a typical 17-year-old, the girl (Lacia) is a beautiful android equipped with an enormous black device that defies human understanding. Set 100 years from now, BEATLESS depicts a familiar yet futuristic vision of Japan in which society is run by incredibly human-looking robots, known as hIE. Most people regard them as mere convenient tools. Yet some hIE–like Lacia–now appear bearing technology that far surpasses anything regular humans can produce. Humans and ultra-advanced artificial beings: who is the master and who is the servant? Who made Lacia, and what ties her fate together with Arato? Bewildered by the turmoil of danger and mystery that Lacia brings into his life, Arato will find himself forced to make choices with profound implications not just for himself, but for all of humanity (Source: J-Novel Club)

From Viz: In the future, Utopia has finally been achieved thanks to medical nanotechnology and a powerful ethic of social welfare and mutual consideration. This perfect world isn't that perfect though, and three young girls stand up to totalitarian kindness and super-medicine by attempting suicide via starvation. It doesn't work, but one of the girls, Tuan Kirie, grows up to be a member of the World Health Organization. As a crisis threatens the harmony of the new world, Tuan rediscovers another member of her suicide pact, and together they must help save the planet from itself. Note: Won Seiun Award and Nihon SF Taisho Award in 2009.

From Viz: The war on terror exploded, literally, the day Sarajevo was destroyed by a homemade nuclear device. The leading democracies transformed into total surveillance states, and the developing world has drowned under a wave of genocides. The mysterious American John Paul seems to be behind the collapse of the world system, and it’s up to intelligence agent Clavis Shepherd to track John Paul across the wreckage of civilizations, and to find the true heart of darkness—a genocidal organ.

Virtual reality. Murder. Werewolves. And teen girls! In a future where nothing is as it seems, can old legends come true? In the near future, humans will communicate almost exclusively through monitors, making real interaction a rarified and weak occurance for those living in a near totalitarian society. In this new world of communication, children are only allowed to interact personally on school grounds. So when a serial killer starts slaughtering junior high children the communication routes go under futher surveillance. And despite all the safeguards put in place to avoid physical interaction, the killer's latest victim turns out to have been in contact with three young girls: Mio Tsuzki, a certified prodigy; Hatsuki Matsuno, a uiet but opinionated classmate; and Ayumi Kono, her best friend. And as the girls get caught up in trying to quell curiosity under such terrorist scrutiny, Hatsuki learns that there is much more than meets the eye of their monitored communications.

Go Sung-tae is the target of the bullies in his school... voluntarily. He is a part of a secret experiment by the government that aims to produce "Heroes" in hope of rivalling the other countries. Not wanting to get involved, he steers away from the prying eyes of the government by keeping a low-profile, being the "timid" kid. The most popular girl in his school, with a strong sense of justice decides to follow him with the intention of helping him, only to discover that he was faking his personality. (On top of that, his secret got revealed.) What will happen to Sung-tae now?

"In this world, Skills determine your future". Yota is a support mage with only one support skill that is widely unpopular. In a profession where it was difficult to raise your level, Yota even was slower than the others. As a result, the difference in his ability and his friends gradually widens, and finally, the leader, Laguiole, expels him from the party. But what they didn't know was that Yota's skill wasn't just support magic. It was the one and only strongest skill... This is the success story of one support mage who was unlucky.

Say, did you think that humans were the one standing at the top of the food chain? That's a great misunderstanding. The ones who are located at the top of hierarchy of this world are "Them" who live inside the darkness. By no means do they come to the surface world, the one we humans live. What we understand about "Them" is only that they absolutely hate having their existence to become known to human society. While there are some of "Them" with a form resembling that of a human being, there are others that look like a completely different kind of living creature. It is rare, but sometimes trouble between humans and "Them" can happen. Humans who discover the secret of "Their" existence, a stray "Them" preying on humans, and many other problems that I can not talk about to anyone. In those cases, in order to resolve those incidents involving "them", an utility man is employed. That man's name is "Pluto O"... that's me. What I told to you only was what I know. If you ever get in troubles, call my name three times. Say "Pluto O! Pluto O! Pluto O!", and if you're lucky I'll show up to help. All the volumes of this series were released under the name of Echizen Matarou (越前魔太郎); the true identities of the writers were later revealed on Kodansha's page, but not which author wrote which book. The project was a collaboration between Kodansha and Kadokawa, and the books were published by 3 different labels. (Source: Kodansha Book Club)

── there are humans possessing the “Power of the King” apart from the collection!? The resistance organization "Undertakers" obtained a video. In it, a character fighting alone against a mysterious armed group was reflected. Cornered and in a desperate situation, that character thrust their right arm into their own chest ── and then, together with a dazzling light, a sparkling silver object materialized into their hand: a "void".

Carjacked and hit by a truck, Park Min Seo wakes up as Madelyn Roseheart, a frail baron’s daughter destined to marry the terrifying Duke of the North, Torsten Icewood. But Min Seo has no interest in romance—she’s a businesswoman who wants nothing more than to annul the engagement and start fresh. The twist? The Duke is none other than her carjacker, who was also reincarnated here… and claims they’ve both been thrown into a romance novel he once read, in which their characters are destined to die. The harder Madelyn tries to break free from her fate, the more entangled she becomes with her thuggish fiancé. And between murderous parties, poisoned tea, and hidden truths, one question remains: will they outsmart their tragic ending, or fall for each other in the process? [Original Webtoon](https://www.webtoons.com/fr/romance/the-duke-is-a-thug/list?title_no=8814) **Official Translations:** [English](https://www.webtoons.com/en/romance/the-duke-is-a-thug/list?title_no=8645), [Japanese](https://mechacomic.jp/books/246551)

Pairing: Gintoki x Hijikata Anthology of Gintama doujinshi from different artists. Stories included (list incomplete): • *Hot or Ice* by YUKUE Moegi: Okita and Hijikata observe Gintoki sitting dazedly on a bench while it's snowing... • *Wagamama na no wa Docchi da* (Who's the Selfish One?) by Kisayuki: Gintoki drags Hijikata back to his place on the pretext of police business but what are his real motives... • *Near Miss* by Nagisa: When Gintoki is able to sneak up on him, Hijikata gets to thinking once more that Gintoki is no ordinary guy...