Vastralaya

Connor Harris

Evan Shively (Perseus271)

Edgar Colt

Vitor Miguel

Prisma Soulstorm

Serena

Jordan

Bruna Guedes

Husain Kothari

FRNK

Uendi Prifti

There is an urban legend that children tell one another about a shinigami that can release people from the pain they may be suffering. This "Angel of Death" has a name--Boogiepop. And the legends are true. Boogiepop is real.Told in a non-linear fashion that asks the reader to piece together the sequence of events to solve the mysteries alongside the characters, Kouhei Kadono's first Boogiepop novel took First Place in Media Works' Dengeki Game Novel Contest in 1997 and ignited the Japanese "light novel" trend. Today, there are over 2 million Boogiepop novels in print, a feature film and manga adaptation based on the first book, an original manga entitled Boogiepop Dual, and the unforgettable original anime series Boogiepop Phantom.

Accused of a crime he didn't commit, Kyosuke Kamiya is sent to Purgatorium Rehabilitation Academy. Suddenly, he's surrounded by a variety of fetching lasses--each one a murderer! Worse, he's famous for being the "Dozen Demon," a killer responsible for twelve deaths! When the busty, gas mask-wearing beauty Renko Hikawa approaches him, the difference between death and desire becomes very narrow indeed. How is Kyosuke gonna graduate alive?

(Volume 12)September 30th. As the seasons change in Academy City, so do the seasonal clothes. Mikoto Misaka, talented esper student of the elite Tokiwadai Middle School that stands above the hustle and bustle of the city, waits in front of the concert hall for her companion. But...he never arrives. There is no trace at all of that young man who was supposed to show up to accept his punishment game. Mikoto sighs as she cradles her too-thin schoolbag and the violin case she'd been holding all the while but now--When Touma Kamijou and Mikoto Misaka finally cross paths, the school comedy that revolves around a punishment game will begin!

What are you truly wishing for?Kazuki Hoshino is still trapped in the cruel game of Kingdom Royale, where players have to fulfill the victory conditions of the roles they are assigned-which nearly always means killing the others. But this time, he has a plan to take charge and break everyone out once and for all. Unfortunately, the key to his success is Daiya, the trickiest one of the group. Before Kazuki can end the game, he must discover the truth behind it...

Now that the Daihasei Festival has ended, life returns to normal for the boy who knows nothing but misfortune, Touma Kamjiou. But in a stroke of unbelievably good luck, Kamijou manages to snag two tickets for a getaway overseas trip! He and the sister, Index, make their way to pearl of the Adriatic, Venezia, where maybe the two will even have romantic rendezvous and many heart throbbing events. But is everything really going Kamijou's way, or is there something more to this too-good-to-be-true adventure...

Can you do what it takes to survive?This time, Kazuki and Maria find themselves trapped in a game of deception and betrayal with four other students from their school. Despite being pitted against each other, the two once again work together in an effort to break the Box's hold. But as the stakes rise and the game grows increasingly twisted, it becomes clear that this is no ordinary wish-and that the owner may be impossible to convince. What kind of person could have created such a Box...?

Can a single wish destroy a Box?Daiya has a goal, and he will stop at nothing to accomplish it-including wielding the Box Crime, Punishment, and the Shadow of Crime, whose power allows him to control others by using their own sins against them. To stop him, Kazuki traps him within the Silver Screen of Broken Wishes, a Box designed solely for putting the brakes on Daiya's dangerous plan. But Daiya won't give up on his wish without a fight, and the consequences for Kazuki could be disastrous...

A certain unlikely hero...August 31. The day Accelerator meets a strange girl in a back alley and he's sure he's seen her somewhere before. The day Mikoto Misaka finds herself asked on a date by a very pleasant young man. That same day, Touma Kamijou awakes with an especially unlucky feeling. The reason: He's just realized he has completely forgotten to do any of his summer homework. Three characters, three stories, and one last day of summer vacation!

(Volume 2) In Academy City, magic and science coexist in an unwavering power struggle--and Toma Kamijo has been caught up in the middle of it ever since he met Index, a magical nun who has been implanted with 103,000 ancient texts. When Toma learns from magician Stiyl Magnus that a shrine maiden is being held captive at an Academy City cram school, and that someone from the magical realm might be involved, the one-time enemies team up to save the girl. But it isn't long before the rescue mission takes a turn--will Toma be the one who needs rescuing?!

In Academy City, magic and science coexist in an unwavering power struggle. Toma Kamijo, an academically-challenged student in Academy City, wields the power of the Imagine Breaker in his right hand, which allows him to completely negate all supernatural powers - as well as his own luck. When he happens upon a mysterious nun named Index, whose mind has been implanted with the Index Librorum Prohibitorum - 103,000 ancient texts banned by the Church - Toma's luck is about to be pushed to its limits when he finds himself in the middle of a war he never expected!

Yuna, a 15 years old girl started playing the world’s first VRMMO. She has earned billions of yen in stocks. She confines herself in her house playing the game without going to school. Today, a huge update has arrived. She obtains a non-transferable rare bear outfit. But the equipment is so embarrassing that she can’t wear it even in the game. Furthermore, when she answers the survey regarding the new update and relaunches the game, she appears in unknown forest in a bear outfit. Where is this? Email from God? Different world? If she wears the bear outfit she’s a cheat, if she takes it off she’s a normal girl. Her adventure starts just like that. Yuna began doing as she liked.

I really enjoyed this series. I started by picking up the manga adaptation of the first volume by accident and found out what a great read it was. Then I heard there was a anime adaptation and I couldn't be more hyped. After the anime, wanting more, and only then that I started reading the source materials, the light novels, and they were just as good if not better! I especially love the banters between the characters. Hope to see this series get officially translated. Thank you, Hajime Kamoshida-san, for this great series!

Do we really have the knowledge what the life is? Or do we know what the life is for a self-centered person? Some of what we know may be only for ourselves.Now-a-days, life has become just like business.Do we really know what success in life really means? If our earnings are much higher, we consider ourselves happy and successful; we are proud if we become famous. In fact, we have tied the happiness of life between fame and typical success.On the contrary,when we fail- we think of ourselves as the most unhappy and worthless person in the world. We become frustrated, we drown in despair and think nothing else is possible in life, life has no value.What is the story?It's about selling lifespan and time.Sounds weird? A boy named Kusunoki found himself as the unhappiest and worthless at the age of 20. As an introvert, he was not accustomed to normal communication with people, he did not have any such friends. This poverty and miserable life made him restless.He had neither money nor fame.Life did not turn out the way he wanted it 10 years ago. So, that depression lead him to sell his whole own lifespan but left 3 months for living.The store which one buys lifespan sent an observer named Miyagi to Kusunuki. Then the countdown of his last 3 months started with the observer girl.The whole story will give you a glimpse of real life with supernatural things. A glimpse of a self centered person and his thoughts. Actually, the life of a person full of despair like Kusunuki can also be happy and beautiful with the touch of love and friendship. It may seem that people come to understand the value of life at the end of life. Actually that's not much true.People like Kusunuki who are lost can understand the value of life only when someone is by their side. What’s happiness for you?” “Pay attention to me,” Miyagi pouted. “You haven’t been talking to me much lately, have you?”\
  We never imagine that there could be infinite happiness in everything we have less or more. Let there be little fame, let there be little money, let us be happy

I'm so in love with this Rascal series, they're so adorable. Even though I'm not much of a romance girl, these are so lovely, and the fantastic elements in the story are fascinating. In this volume we have another version of Adolescence Syndrome, where a girl, so fearful of her reality, starts looping days until she can get the result she wants, thus trapping Sakuta in the loops. As with the previous one, it's fascinating seeing how the emotions and mental stability of the characters is what is triggering the Adolescence Syndrome and its consequences. The girl we see in this book, Tomoe, is a teenager terrified with being left out. So she always answers every single text from her friends, agrees with them, watches the video they watch just so that she can talk about them with them, she does everything in her power so no one hates her, but all of this stress is taking a tall on her, and honestly, this is no way of living, as there will come a point when she won't be able to avoid frictions. All this tension triggers her Adolescence Syndrome, and until she resolves her inner issues, things won't stop.It was another fantastic story, that also deals with unrequited love. How much pain can you hold, how much hope you can have, but also about how you need to deal because you can't force anyone to love you. It was heartbreaking sometimes, but I loved how the theme was explored, and while the anime is very close to the books, in here we get to see character's feelings way more deeply. I'm so afraid of getting to the Kaede book, because I know how that story ends and I can already predict lots of tears.

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