Romance
When Mia is rescued from Ringnora Island by Gavin, she plans on staying by his side while getting revenge on the sly. But he just spoils her too much.
Eastern Fantasy
Tianyun, a game addict, traveled to Merak Palace of the Dragon Empire. In the frenzy leveling up system, he gained treasures and divine weapons to beat every master and demon towards the Divine King Level.
The world's top field agent Kaia Bennet accidentally sleeps with Universal Corp CEO Nolan Grey and now she's pregnant. For the baby's sake, he decides that they will get married first and let romance happen later.
Fantasy
Ning Xiaofan was an unremarkable teenager from a poor family who was often bullied by his classmates, until one day, when a magical app called the "Three Realms Online Shop" suddenly appeared on his phone. Ever since then, Ning Xiaofan's life has been thrust onto a completely different path, taking him from zero to hero.
BL
The once high and mighty creator of the world falls onto the land he created. Sadly, soon enough he realizes he has no access to his hacking system when he is ready to dominate the world. Well, the only choice left for him is to buy a cheap shadow guard (yes, a real man) to protect him. But wait a minute, this shadow guard is not your ordinary guard! Turns out, he is a bloodthirsty and vicious villain, and the only way to activate the hacking system is by kissing the guard?!
ActionFantasy
At the dawn of the Martial Arts Era, terrifying Beasts rose up across the Earth, and humanity collided with an existential threat that forced it into the shadows. Three centuries later, Tyler Lu stumbles upon a secret with the potential to rewrite history when he discovers that his dreams are transporting him through time – to a post-apocalyptic world 10,000 years in the future. With millennia of advancements in the Martial Arts at his slumbering fingertips, Tyler has become humanity’s final hope.
Because his work stopped updating, a third-rate author was punished into his own novel. In the novel, he is reborn as the villain, Li Yuguo, battling wits and courage with the hero of the original novel. Unexpectedly, he got to know many "confidants"...
Han Hao is a young man who discovers that his innocent girlfriend turns out to be a plaything of rich people. There is a blessing in disguise for him after he was cheated on that he obtains the strongest cultivation system by chance. From that moment, he starts his counter strike! A "perspective amulet" that can see through all things, a "golden creation pill" that can heal all diseases, dressing in women's style can obtain magical ability? It can be said that once the system is one's hands, one can gain the whole world.
Eastern Romance
In her previous life, Lin Yaoyue was framed by her lover and relatives. After dying in vain, she woke up to find that she was reborn in her youth. Lin Yaoyue vowed to make the villains pay for what they’ve done, but what she didn't expect was that Murong Jin, her enemy in her previous life, had become her lover in this life...
They were once an enviable couple. Now, they've severed their relationship. When they meet again ten years later, he is no longer a nobody, but a ruthless general with rights in his hands. And he falls from the throne and becomes a conquered person. Ji Ning has changed his temperament because of a misunderstanding that happened ten years ago. He loves Bai Qingyan the most and hates him the most.
Framed by her best friend, she was abandoned by her boyfriend and got kicked out of the family by her relatives. By accident, she spent a night with this cold president. "Since you're pregnant, let's get married. I know you don't love me, and you should know that I don't love you either." A story of this loveless contractual marriage has begun...
When Ruan Ruan wakes up from her nap in the bathtub, she realizes she has trespassed into a parallel world and becomes a demon rabbit. Wandering around in this surreal outer realm, Ruan Ruan runs into a stoic and cruel fox demon Qi Yang, and dies by accidentally tripping and hitting his blade. To her surprise, she finds herself revived the very next day, as good as new. Upon discovering Qi Ying might be the reason why she has been resurrected, Ruan Ruan decides to become Qi Yang's errand girl hoping to survive in this world...
Action
High school student Li Gaolou discovers the Book of Life and Death in his school bag one day. The Book can change his fate. Saving a damsel in distress, making a fortune, becoming powerful… Things he'd never dreamed before are now possible!
DramaEastern Romance
Transmigrating into the world of the book, she became a supporting female role who died distressingly. Ain't got no that for this game! The female lead decided to kill the male lead, destroy the world and get out of here! When she faced this scrawny little boy, she just couldn't do it... What should she do? Raised up this boy as her helper? An excellent idea! But this boy didn't grow up as a righteous man as she expected! Could she restart again?
When Yamada Satoru read the last chapter of “I will save the world before I die”, he was very dissatisfied with the ending, at the end of which the main character died. Leaving a lot of negative comments, he fell down the stairs. When he woke up, he realized that he was not in his own body, but in the body of a secondary mob. -I will become a companion of the main character and together with him, we will go to save the world. And at the very end, no matter what, I will save him.
RomanceDrama
Before she was reborn, she was bullied by her step mother and her scoundrel sister together, and even became a her sister’s tool of fame who ended in dying in the hospital bed. After she made her comeback from the hell, she tortured her step mother and punished her evil sister. In her previous life, she was driven anguished and desperate by her indifferent fiance, but after she was reborn, she issued an annulment of her engagement with that man! However, she was directly forced to the corner ——Wanna pull back? It’s too late!
As a girl from the modern world, I transmigrated to the ancient times and acquired a superpower. You might imagine a story of invincible female lead in your head, but the story didn't go as you thought. I died at the very beginning of the story! But it's okay, I was given a second chance to be reborn. I fulminated against the royal family, punished the wicked and conquered the harem! But I met the man who killed me in my last life. In this life, he was so clingy to me and he even acted in a cutesy manner to me! Gosh! I was so overwhelmed!
In the Jiulong Continent, warriors are held in high regard, and their "bloodlines" determine their achievements. The most powerful one is absolutely the dragon's bloodline! Jiang Ting was bullied by his sect for his low bloodline grade. With the help of his ancestors, he worked hard to reinforce the bloodline and to promote his martial arts. He swore that he would give everyone who looked down on him a slap in the face!
She was killed by her husband and sister during pregnancy? Maybe the god finally speaks for himself and make her reborn to two years ago. Her low profile and forbearance in the previous life brought her nothing but betrayal and misery. In this life, she is determined to make a rise in the entertainment industry so as not to be bullied anymore! Unexpectedly, the rumored President Tang falls in love with her at first sight and wants to marry her? Let's see how the leading female character will make a change and regain everything she lost!
ActionAdventureFantasy
Ten years ago, after "the Gate" that connected the real world with the monster world opened, some of the ordinary, everyday people received the power to hunt monsters within the Gate. They are known as "Hunters." However, not all Hunters are powerful. My name is Sung Jin-Woo, an E-rank Hunter. I'm someone who has to risk his life in the lowliest of dungeons, the "World's Weakest." Having no skills whatsoever to display, I barely earned the required money by fighting in low-leveled dungeons... at least until I found a hidden dungeon with the hardest difficulty within the D-rank dungeons! In the end, as I was accepting death, I suddenly received a strange power, a quest log that only I could see, a secret to leveling up that only I know about! If I trained in accordance with my quests and hunted monsters, my level would rise. Changing from the weakest Hunter to the strongest S-rank Hunter! (Source: Kakao, translated)
RomanceYaoi
Though he's a High School senior, Takitani works as an escort named Ryou. To escape being caught, Takitani does his best to remain inconspicuous in school. But one day a classmate suddenly shows up as his customer. The son of a doctor, Kunimi is a total prick who's always picking on Takitani. Anxious not to be caught, Kunimi is completely oblivios to Takitani's disguise and becomes smitten with his cute and cool attitude. Takitani tries to push him away so they don't become too intimate, however... [from Baka-Updates]
Slice of LifeSeinen
Gen Kinokura loves camping solo. He enjoys the quiet solitude away from the hustle and bustle of the city, and being able to appreciate nature all by himself. But on one camping trip, his solitude is broken by the appearance of Shizuku Kusano, a young woman who wanted to camp solo herself, but is ill-prepared and completely out of her league. While he tries to to get her to go home so he can camp in peace, she refuses, and stubbornly insists on accompanying him on future camping trips until she's ready to camp solo. Thus Gen and Shizuku's days of solo camping together begin. [Written by Denji]
MysteryDramaHorror
Sasakura Ryuu is a college student who also writes a particularly bloody series of light novels. One day, he meets a mysterious young fan with the name of one of his characters, "Mikato." Since Mikato is one of the characters Ryuu is planning to kill off in his next novel, this raises some questions about what, if any, responsibility Ryuu has towards his fans and what they might take away from his work. These questions only grow worse when murders begin to occur that blatantly copy specific events in his novels. What's more, a "fan" that may be behind the murders begins sending him disturbing photo texts... (Source: MangaHelpers)
ActionFantasyGame
FantasySci-Fi
ActionComedyMystery
In this world, there are people known as "Minimum Holders" who are capable of specific "small miracles." A government funded elite academy trains these Minimum Holders in order for them to reach their maximum potential and serve national interests. Once, a student, of great potential named Nice, dropped out. He started a private investigator team with an assistant named Hajime and seemed content solving cases for his clients (which often involve Minimum Holders). A top student of the academy, Murasaki, has been tasked with bringing Nice back. Murasaki bristles at the claim that Nice has a higher potential than he does, but he ends up involved in Nice's detective activities... (Source: MangaHelpers)
Izu Takashi was just playing the online game "Argate Online" as usual, but he suddenly noticed something strange, his level is now 1!? Also, he can not log out and the pain control function does not work anymore... It seems like he wandered into another world-like game that became a reality... (Source: MU)
ComedyFantasy
ComedyRomanceShounen Ai
Energetic teenager Shuichi Shindo is the lead singer and songwriter for the smash-hit pop band, Bad Luck. He's recently moved in with his older boyfriend, Eiri Yuki, the handsome, sophisticated, and uber-famous romance novelist. Nothing goes smoothly for Shuichi, however. Yuki is inexplicably cold and cruel toward him, more so than usual; due to a rash of publicity appearances on comedy sketch shows, he can't get anyone to take his band seriously; and he's suddenly entered, totally unprepared, into a nationally televised concert with Bad Luck's rival band, Ask. (Source: Tokyopop)
AdventureFantasyGame
ComedyFantasyParody
A series of 4-panel comic strips that touch on the days of Aincrad in a comedic viewpoint.
ActionDramaSupernatural
Novelization of the anime. The novels are designed to be complementary to the series and focus on incorporating more of the Marebito's side of events into the main half of the story. (Source: Megami Tensei Wikia)
HorrorPsychological
Mai Yashiro (22) was an average office worker until the day a video game console arrived in her mailbox. The game she is forced to play, "Nightmare," is a dangerous game in which one risks both the lives of the ones they love and their own body!! If you refuse to play, those dear to you die. If you lose battles in the game, parts of your body (your arms or legs, your voice, etc.) cease functioning. The horror of this game spreads throughout society in a flash, and, to fight it, Mai's company creates a "Nightmare" Strategy Team. After being assigned to this team, Mai and her dependable comrades boldly rise up against this hellish game. Adapted from the super-popular novel which has received over 40,000,000 hits online!! (Source: MangaBox)
SchoolSci-Fi
The story follows Karen Kohiruimaki, a 183-centimeter-tall (6-foot-tall) college student who's insecure about her height, and is bad at dealing with people in the real world. She enters the world of Gun Gale Online with her avatar, Ren, who is less than 150 centimeters (5 feet) tall and wears all pink. She meets a beautiful, brown-skinned female player who goes by Pitohui. They hit it off, but one day Pitohui pressures her to participate in "Squad Jam," a team battle royale variation of the Bullet of Bullets tournament. (Source: ANN)
In the year 2022, gamers rejoice as Sword Art Online-a VRMMORPG (Virtual Reality Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game) like no other-opens its virtual doors, allowing players to take full advantage of the ultimate in gaming technology: NerveGear, a system that allows users to completely immerse themselves in the game world by manipulating their brain waves to create 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)
Utilizing a system called "Sense," each player aims to create their unique character in the VRMMORPG "Only Sense Online." Joining this realm is Yun, an absolute beginner in the world of gaming, equipped with some of the worst customized "Sense" ever. While his two sisters, both veterans in this world, criticize his choices of equipment, he continues to delve into the skill sets he has acquired. Along his way, he meets the art of "production" and people that have mastered this art. Watch as a total novice creates a revolution in the gaming world and create the "ultimate" support class. (Source: MangaHelpers)
ActionFantasySchool
"This game is impossible to clear. It's just a matter of when, where and how you die." Kayaba Akihiko's death game has been up for one month. This incredibly difficult VRMMO has already claimed 2000 victims. It's the day of the 1st floor boss strategy meeting. The solo player Kirito, who's decided to only strengthen himself, meets a rare female player on the current front lines, while heading to the meeting around noon. Fighting alone against the strong monsters, she was like a meteor cutting the night sky. A compilation of Aria in the Starless Night, where Kirito becomes known as the Black Swordsman, the events concerning the 2nd floor boss clearing, and Rondo of the Transient Blade, the sad tale of a young male blacksmith. (Source: Volume 1 description)
On December 28, 2025, Suguha showed Kazuto a news article that the Holy Sword Excalibur in ALfheim Online had been found. Excalibur was the rarest and most powerful sword in ALO, but, although they had found the sword nearly a year ago, they were not able to break through the guardians of the dungeon that the sword was held in, until they ended up temporarily forgetting about the sword due to more important matters. However, Kazuto was then told that the weapon had only been discovered so far, but not yet acquired. Thus Kazuto called Asuna, Lisbeth, Silica, Klein and Sinon to form a full party and attempt to clear the dungeon again. However, after they arrived at Jötunheimr and got on Tonkii's back, they discovered that the other players discovered the location of the item via a quest that required slaughtering the beast-type Evil Gods. (Source: Sword Art Online Wikia)
In the year 2022, gamers rejoice as Sword Art Online—a VRMMORPG (Virtual Reality Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game) like no other—opens its virtual doors, allowing players to take full advantage of the ultimate in gaming technology: NerveGear, a system that allows users to completely immerse themselves in the game world by manipulating their brain waves to create 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)
ComedyFantasyGame
ComedySupernatural
ComedyRomanceSchool
The story centers on Yakumo Atae, a first-year student who knows the hidden secret of his fearsome classmate Tsurugi Yabusame — while she is the school's strongest girl, she is also a budding light novel author under the penname Mio Himemiya. Tsurugi is stuck in a huge slump while writing her new romantic comedy. Yakumo's cousin Kokona Atae happens to be Tsurugi's editor, and Kokona suggests that Yakumo and Tsurugi become a couple so that Tsurugi can know the experience of romance. (Source: ANN)
Kirito awakens in a vast, fantastical forest filled with towering trees. In his search for clues to the truth of his surroundings, he encounters a young boy who seems to know him. He ought to be a simple NPC, but the depth of his emotions seem no different than a human. As they search for the boy's parents, Kirito finds a peculiar memory returning to him. A memory from his own childhood, of this boy and a girl, too, with golden hair, and a name he should have never forgotten—Alice. (Source: Yen Press)
While Asuna, Leafa, Silica and Lisbeth were doing their homework in Kirito and Asuna's Log House on the 22nd Floor of New Aincrad, Lisbeth informed Asuna of a player known as "Zekken" (Absolute Sword) who was challenging players on the 24th Floor, while offering an 11-hit Original Sword Skill as a reward. Asuna was told that the mysterious player had actually converted from a different game and that over thirty players who had attempted to challenge the player, including Leafa and even Kirito, were defeated. Hearing that Kirito had said something to the player before being defeated and not sharing what he had said with the others and thinking that the mysterious player had come for a reason, Asuna decided to challenge the player as well. To her surprise, the player was actually a girl named Yuuki. (Source: SAO Wikia)
Sword Art Online: Hollow Realization takes place in Sword Art: Origin, a restoration of Aincrad with intentions of research and development in the year 2026, three years after the original Sword Art Online event.
Two side stories bundled with limited editions of anime Blu-ray/DVD.
It has been a full year since the end of the Sword Art Online incident and ten months since the end of the ALfheim Online incident. Although things had returned to normal for some time, mysterious incidents occur in another VRMMO game, called Gun Gale Online (GGO), when in two instances, a player in the game is shot by a mysterious person in a mantle who calls himself "Death Gun" and the shot player mysteriously disconnects after a few seconds, only for their real body to be found dead days later. After the second such incident, Kirigaya Kazuto is asked by a member of the VR Crimes Division, Kikuoka Seijirou, to investigate the rumours that the incidents in-game are related to the deaths of the players in the real world. After hearing that Death Gun has a requirement for his targets: the people he supposedly kills are all top players, Kazuto agrees to convert his ALfheim Online avatar into Gun Gale Online using The Seed's character conversion feature to enter the most well known tournament in the game, the Bullet of Bullets, to draw the attention of the mysterious Death Gun. (Source: Sword Art Online Wikia)
Follows the heroines from the Aincrad arc through their various adventures in the real world at the SAO Survivor School and in the virtual world of ALfheim Online.
Kazuto Kirigaya has survived the death game of Aincrad masterminded by Akihiko Kayaba, programmer of Sword Art Online, and made it back to the real world. Unfortunately, the same cannot be said for Asuna Yuuki (aka Asuna the Flash), the girl Kirito fell in love with in the game world and who has yet to awaken from her seemingly endless slumber. As his sister, Suguha, sadly looks on, Kazuto continues to visit Asuna in the hospital in the hope of finding answers... But one day, the answers suddenly find him in the form of a man who claims to be Asuna's fiancé?! With him, the man brings an in-game screenshot of someone who looks a lot like Asuna being held captive! Now Kirito must dive into an all-new VRMMORPG, ALfheim Online, to bring Asuna home!! (Source: Yen Press)
ActionSci-FiShounen
FantasyGame
A doujinshi co-authored by Kawahara Reki, under the pen-name of Kunori Fumio, and ponz on Sword Art Online. Note: Part comic/novel doujinshi. Novel by Kawahara Reki, manga by ponz. The contents are: "Sound of Water, Sound of Hammer" - Kunori Fumio "Extraordinary Ordinary Days" - ponz
A doujinshi co-authored by Kawahara Reki, under the pen-name of Kunori Fumio, and Kurusu Tatsuya on Sword Art Online. Note: Part comic/novel doujinshi. Novel by Kawahara Reki, manga by Kurusu Tatsuya. The contents are: "The Final Promise" "A Spot of Sunshine in the Winter"
ActionGame
In 2022, the world of virtual reality was upended by the arrival of a new invention from a genius programmer, Akihiko Kayaba, called NerveGear. It was the first full-dive system, and with it, came endless possibilities to VRMMORPGs. In 2026, a new machine called the Augma is developed to compete against the NerveGear and its successor, the Amusphere. A next-gen wearable device, the Augma doesn't have a full-dive function like its predecessors. Instead, it uses Augmented Reality (AR) to get players into the game. It is safe, user-friendly and lets users play while they are conscious, making it an instant hit on the market. The most popular game on the system is "Ordinal Scale" (OS), an ARMMORPG developed exclusively for the Augma. Asuna and the gang have already been playing OS for a while, by the time Kirito decides to join them. They're about to find out that Ordinal Scale isn't all fun and games... (Source: Aniplex USA)
A side story of Only Sense Online that focuses on Myu.
FantasySci-FiSlice of Life
"...And so, this short story became ‘A tale of Kirito riding a bicycle’, but it’s a story I wanted to write since the past as well, so I would be glad if you enjoyed it. I’ll write a story that involves playing games next time." (Kawahara Reki in this story´s afterword) (Source: Tap-Trans)
ActionAdventureSci-Fi
Asuka Empire—a long-living Japanese-style VRMMO game that started service in the midst of the SAO Incident. This game, where Yuuki, Ran and the others formed the Sleeping Knights guild, also had a hidden story―― The battle miko Nayuta and the ninja Koyomi. The two girls who met in Asuka Empire by chance and became friends encountered a strange priest in-game. The elderly priest wished to request help from a "detective" to "solve" a certain quest and he planned to pay 1,000,000 yen for the job. The two girls were shocked by the exorbitant payment, but the detective who accepted the strange request was an equally strange young man. All of his stat points were invested into luck―meaning that he was a tricky player who was absolutely weak in battle, but had an extremely high rare item drop rate... The solution of the mystery in a cutting-edge VRMMO world by the shady detective, along with the two girls, now begins. (Source: Dreadful Decoding)
1. The Fourteenth Autumn (十四回目の秋); Aincrad 35th floor, October 4, 2024 Brief story about Silica and Kirito approximately one month before the clearing of SAO. Also introduces the «Angel's Ring», which is used later in Sword Art Online: Girls Ops.
AdventureGame
A spin-off of the Sword Art Online series focusing on Kibaou.
ComedyMagicSlice of Life
ComedySchoolSlice of Life
The alternative version to the Caliber SS from volume 8, where they decided not to save Freyja in the dungeon. The SS in the title means 少し失敗 (sukoshi shippai) which translates to Slight Failure.
ActionComedyFantasy
ComedyFantasyHistorical
A 4-koma anthology of Touken Ranbu -ONLINE- by various artists. It's the year 2205 AD, stories of the old days are slowly being modified by unknown, evil forces. As a sage, you have the ability to bring life to inanimate objects. Your duty is to bring these blades to life, create an army, and defeat the enemies! (Source: MU)
An anthology of Touken Ranbu by various mangaka.
ComedySchool
School
I'm a high school student who became an author after debuting at Dengeki Bunko. After taking a year of hiatus from school to write my work, I transferred out to another high school to study, and met a girl called Eri Nitadori in school, a rookie voice actress cast as a character in the anime adaptation of my work. In school, we treat our professions as a secret. However, Nitadori's very popular in class, and I'm a loner...the only chance we get to talk to each other is when we take the train together every Thursday, seated side by side as we head off for an anime studio. To improve her skills, she asked me questions regarding the profession. While I was answering the questions regarding the process—how did it end up like this?! This is what I last remembered before I lost consciousness, and the story of my near-death experience. (Source: Baka-Tsuki)
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