Lucas has a hard life. In his mid-thirties, a mixture of failures has left him old and crippled, playing pack mule to a couple of young adventures.

Then one day, he pulls a magic sword from a stone that tells him he has been chosen to become a hero. Given a youthful form, Lucas must use the power of the sword to vanquish evil and attain a massive harem.

Before you ask, it’s not isekai because he’s been in this world from day one. It is wish fulfillment, though, so in the end it’s basically the same thing.

Douglas, once known as a legendary strong magician. But now he is called old man, his body fades and becomes tattered. In addition, the brave party will be fired, and eventually the guild will be stripped of the adventurer's license. In this way, Douglas, who was determined to travel alone, encounters a cursed girl, Ravi, while wandering, and the journey of two people begins.

Anise suddenly gets a message on her phone one day asking whether she'd be willing to lend her their aid. As if responding to her thoughts, it chooses for her and she finds herself suddenly summoned into the world of an otome game. While Hime is dumbfounded at her situation, Hime, the girl who is summoned with her declares, "I'm the saint!" As a result, Anise is treated as useless and driven out.

If things were to continue to go on like this, then the general of the neighboring country will die, Hime, as the saint, will take over, and a tragic ending will be met. To avoid that and take her life into her own hands, Anise resolves to save the general, change the scenario, and just settle down somewhere, or that was what she planned, however...

Links:
Original Web Novel: https://ncode.syosetu.com/n0469ft/ (Japanese)

Hyakkaou Private Academy. An institution for the privileged with a very peculiar curriculum. You see, when you're the sons and daughters of the wealthiest of the wealthy, it's not athletic prowess or book smarts that keep you ahead. It's reading your opponent, the art of the deal. What better way to hone those skills than with a rigorous curriculum of gambling?
At Hyakkaou Private Academy, the winners live like kings, and the losers are put through the wringer. But when Yumeko Jabami enrolls, she's gonna teach these kids what a high roller really looks like!

Note: Placed 3rd in the DaVinchi x NicoNico Tsugi 2016 Manga Awards.

Late at night, a loli spirit drives a girl away from work.

From their worst encounter comes a story about their ultimate happiness! This romantic comedy explores the ups and downs of a serious relationship.

A collection of Twitter shorts posted under the pen姉 (@pensis_x) account.

Cedric, the Great Sage of Heaven. He was called a living legend because of his overwhelming magical power until he died an unlucky death due to the betrayal of his subordinate. Feeling the limits of his power, Cedric plans to start over by reincarnating as a child. However, he gets reincarnated in the body of a bullied student! For the young man who went as far as to give his life to call Cedric, a revenge drama of the strongest great sage begins!

Kazuma Suzuki was just your average high schooler—until his childhood friend, Rua Takayashiki, a beautiful, sharp-tongued girl who also happened to be the granddaughter of the school chairman and the nation’s top idol, cut all ties with him using a line straight out of a drama.

Forced into submission for years as her so-called childhood friend, Kazuma decides it’s finally time for his first-ever rebellion. He’s done playing lapdog. This time, he’s taking back his freedom—and aiming for a normal school life.

Escaping a powerful beauty like her is easier said than done...

" You have been selected as the fittest"
" With your talent, the survival rate [5%] in the Selha Latna is lower. "
"Do you want to commit suicide? Y/N"
"X-"
Less than a 5% chance of survival. 22 years. Countless battles with the demon dogs. In this hell; I'm surviving alone.
Hidden behind level 5, together with the outrageous hidden stats!
The extreme survival record of the strongest level 5 swordsman Ryu han bin who was thrown into this other world with just a sword.

Touya, the strongest player in the game Pandemic World Online, had won so many items that he decided to create an alternate account to store the extra ones. While playing this very game in his second account, he was summoned to another world as a character he made, where the people were merrily expecting a hero. However, when it is known that he doesn't have the title of a hero, he is discarded and replaced by another person. Now, he must survive in an another world with the account he merely used to store his extra items in.

Links:
Original Web Novel: https://ncode.syosetu.com/n9275ei/ (Japanese)

A hitman and a marriage swindler set out on the world’s most grueling battle for marriage! Gero is a young man from a clan of hitmen, which has been in existence for hundreds of years. As someone who’s never gone to school and lived his life dealing in the dark side of the business, he considers himself to have “no prospects with women” and marriage as “something not for him.” However, one day, in fear that their lineage would dissolve, his clan warns Gero that if he doesn’t marry and produce an heir, they would have no choice but to…force his little sister into doing “that.” Driven to his wits’ end, Gero asks the target of his work, a marriage swindler, to…

In recent years, Japan has become the shining light of Asia, with its noteworthy achievements in the fields of Science and Technology, Medicine and the like.
But while there are a great number of rich and successful Japanese people, there are even more who're engaged in a furious struggle simply to earn their day-to-day living expenses -- all the while battling dangerous and money-consuming addictions such as gambling and alcoholism. What will these people do when they require the cash to feed the never-ending desires that are part and parcel of being human? How miserable and dangerous might their lives become if they fall into traps set by black market money-lenders to ensnare just such weak-willed individuals?

Note: Won the 56th Shogakukan Manga Award for general manga in 2011.

Anastasia, an elf renowned as a once-in-a-millennium magical talent, faces the final battle of a three-way war in another world. In the midst of battle with her arch enemies, the demon race, Anastasia is enveloped in an intense light and, when she awakens, finds herself on an uninhabited island. As Anastasia strolls around the island, a mysterious human appears before her, but she can no longer use magic...!?

One day, Taro Yamada, who runs a detective business, slips on a banana peel and reincarnates into Tsukushi Shikizaki, the younger brother of three beautiful big breasted sisters who will all die on the same day. As he spends time surrounded by the three beautiful sisters, he finds out that the boy he is reincarnated as will be killed by one of the three sisters ...!?

‘This is a development that I know of.’ The moment he thought that, the world had been destroyed, and a new universe had unfolded. The new life of an ordinary reader begins within the world of the novel, a novel that he alone had finished.

Feelings that have remain unchanged from back then...

Please be aware of me soon!

When did he become so cool……! No, no, there's no way!

I thought he was just a normal cute "little brother"-like childhood friend, but
6 years later he……

The story centres on first-year high school student Tatsuya Yoigoshi, a former ace soccer player who dislikes sports. He gets invited to join a team for the contact sport kabaddi. He scoffs at the idea at first but becomes interested after watching a kabaddi practice.

There's a new hero in town and he's got a bad attitude and a chainsaw dog demon! A dangerous combo.

Note: In 2021, the manga won the 66th Shogakukan Manga Award in the shounen category.

A world where human trustworthiness is ranked.

Kiriya, a boy who has had everything taken from him by the rulers, throws himself into a rebellion that will turn the world upside down—

A forbidden sci-fi suspense story begins here.