From Yen Press: 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...
The woman who tells the story with a beautiful voice and the girl who writes it down with beautiful handwriting. The stories which are as mysterious as a fairy tale and as cruel as reality are created by the two of them.
April 2014, Japan. It all starts with the High Energy Accelerator Research Organization that’s looking into the yet-unknown Exotic Star particle. A great war begins between two factions: the Enlightened, and the Resistance!
Middle schooler Seigi, skilled in martial arts, has an instinctual need to protect the vulnerable. One day, he comes to the defense of a homeless man against a group of troublemakers, and in gratitude, the man marks his palm with an enigmatic tattoo. This tattoo is a classified weapon developed during the arms race between the Serinistan Kingdom and America. Seigi's life takes a perilous turn when an influential girl, who also bears the same tattoo, viciously pursues him to obtain his. Despite his martial arts proficiency, Seigi is in danger. Can he unlock the full potential of his tattoo in time before it's too late?
Jolyne, Fly High with GUCCI is a new full-color one-shot manga starring Jolyne Cujoh featured in the February 2013 issue of Shueisha's women's fashion magazine, Spur. "Jolyne, fly high with GUCCI" features the protagonist of Part VI: Stone Ocean, Jolyne Cujoh and 3 Vento Aureo's characters: Leone Abbachio ,Bruno Buccellati ,& Polpo. This is the second JJBA-Related one-shot published in that magazine.SummaryThe story starts in a airport, where Jolyne is waiting for a plane for Tokyo. Ten days beforehand, her mother died from a illness. Jolyne is later seen thinking about how her mother made her clothing to fit Jolyne before she died. Then, Jolyne turns to see a small blue unicorn looking at her, with three men close by. Two men, revealed to be Buccellati & Abbachio, are goverment agents while the other, Polpo, was a citizen who lost a pet. Buccellati says that the animal is very important to the goverment & asks to search Jolyne. After she refuses, Buccellati looks at the survaillence where Jolyne is seen with the pet, shown to be the unicorn she saw earlier. The unicorn is seen bleeding, leading Buccellati to warn Polpo about the consequences of potenitally harming it. Then, Jolyne is seen kneeling down in front of the camera, when she gets up, the unicorn has disappeared. Buccellati corners Jolyne to hand it over or to be arrested. Jolyne, confused & in tears, still refuses saying that it would be all alone in a strange country. When Buccellati goes to apprehend her, he notices the unicorn on her scarf. Jolyne realizes that it is a dream, that also have given her newfound hope in herself. She comes to the conclusion that the dream is a message, it is also power.
Post-Apocalypse story set in Tokyo, 2037. The story of a man's revenge after he lost everything.
20 years ago, there were two forces who fought against each other - the Eve "Balance" and the Evil Knight "Imbalance". The Evil Knight strained to destroy Eve who maintains the nature, peace, equality, and beliefs of the world.To prevent the Imbalance from destroying the world completely, Eve extracted herself to 5 to preserve her existence in the world. Contrary to the people who support Eve, there's also an organization that supports the resurrection of the Evil Knight even though he's long gone.This story revolves around a boy named Xavier who is one of the prime suspects for being the Evil Knight.
Read Yamada-kun to 7-nin no Majo Manga Ryu Yamada is called a delinquent in his HS; he has not been interest of courses of attending college after one-year. One day, he accidentally falls onto Urara Shiraishi, the ace pupil of the school from a flight of steps. Yamada wakes up to discover he has swapped bodies. The two attempt to rescind the change and find that the body swap is triggered by kissing. On the idea of pupil council vice president Toranosuke Miyamura, the Supernatural Studies club is revived by them. The unnatural-occurrence-obsessed Miyabi It? Shortly joins the club. The club falls upon other "witches" with distinct abilities which are activated having a kiss. Kentar, a transfer student? After almost causing a fireplace to the aged school-house, Tsubaki, becomes an integral part of the club. Yamada allegedly has his recollections of the witches eliminated upon finding the identification of the witch, but nonetheless, it instead changes the pupils as well as the witches involved. While the pupil council attempts to impede his progress, Yamada collects the seven witches to get a service where he desires for the powers to disappear, and restores the recollections of the witches having a kiss. He admits his love to Urara and they turn into a couple. He could be recruited to the newest student council where he learns that you will find witches, although that he nonetheless h-AS his witch duplication power. They are confronting resistance from pupils commanded by the Japanese chess club, which includes male pupils with new forms of witch abilities even though the student council attempts to protect each other in the powers while finding and allying with all the witches. The pupil council must confront a recall election and receives a vote of no-confidence. In the procedure for infiltrating the chessclub that is Japanese, Yamada discovers of a witch who had been linked to his earlier. He operates a deal with childhood buddy-turned-competing Ushio where he desires for his recollections to return; in trade, Ushio would consider Nancy's power to seventh witch. When the Japanese chess club proceeds to control the effort, Yamada utilizes his seventh witch strength that is copied to erase the current occasions, but Ushio defeats him to the punch and the pupils both forget them. As the institution begins to fall into madness, Yamada attempts to recover the trust of Urara
From the mind of Noboru Miyama comes Godo! An adventure set in a mysterious and weird world with influences from Norse mythology. "Put an end to this cursed world! That is your fate!". An alchemist by the name of Godo whose father was charged with theft must seek revenge for his father and his own freedom as he participates in the fighting festival known as Valhalla.
Biblia Koshodou no Jiken Techou is a mystery series in which Shinokawa Shioriko, a young owner of a bookstore in Kamakura, unravels the mysteries of the ancient books that are taken there. The story begins with a young man named Daisuke, who practically grew up without reading books due to his phobia, who brings the complete (and autographed) collection of works by Natsume Soseki, (Japanese writer of the Meiji era) that he inherited from his grandmother, to the mysterious bookstore. Will the shy and introverted Shioriko solve the mystery of the books?
Opus is Kon's metafictional tale of Chikara Nagai, a creator under pressure to finish his latest graphic novel, Resonance, who finds that the harshest critic of the shock ending he's got planned is the character who'll have to die in it! Nagai's strengths and weaknesses as a creator are tested beyond their limits as his present and his past, and the worlds of the manga and of reality, become the levels of a maze he may never escape... let alone get a chance to resolve the story!
They took his family, they took his face, and they took his soul. Locked between the lethal but gorgeous assassin Maria and the mutant Spider Man, the Skull Man digs into the conspiracy that gave birth to his powers and those of his partner, Garo. Haunted by his past, he will not let them stand in the way of his revenge. ( from Tokyopop )