A salesperson saves another world!? Alec is chosen as an envoy of the gods fated to defeat a demon lord by pulling out a legendary sword. The king selects a capable party of extraordinary individuals for his party: a warrior, a mage, a priest, and Hayashi from sales. "Huh? Who's Hayashi and what's sales!?" "I'm the kind of person who says, 'Thank you for all your help.'" "I haven't helped you at all! We've never even met!" Alec cannot hide his surprise at this man with his neatly-parted hair, strange black clothing, and suspicious smile. This is an epic tale filled with laughter, tears, and Hayashi from sales, as a hero's party journeys to defeat a demon lord.
What we saw in the old school building was a corpse dressed in a spacesuit . . . "Our youth was stolen!" In July of 2023, after the national state of emergency has been lifted and normalcy is returning to Japan, two high schoolers sneak into their old abandoned school building late at night to make one last memory before their lives are consumed with studying for their college entrance exams. Their hearts race with curiosity and the allure of doing something forbidden as they open the old storage room door. And, on the other side lies a skeleton wearing a spacesuit! Is the corpse actually real? Why are they wearing a spacesuit? Reuniting with their other two childhood friends, they name the corpse Charlie and strive to unravel the bizarre mystery throughout their final summer of high school. Winner of the 18th Shogakukan Light Novel Award of Excellence.
He crosses a line with his younger childhood friend. Yuma Kawai grows up alongside Suzuka Kuramoto, his best friend Kosei’s younger sister, and someone he’s always seen as family. Even after entering high school, nothing seems to change. Or so he thinks. When Kosei falls for a senior at his part-time job, Suzuka scoffs at the idea of love, admitting she doesn’t understand what it’s supposed to feel like. Yuma, still haunted by his own past, feels the same. But neither of them can ignore their curiosity about intimacy. “Do kisses really feel that good?” They both know it’s a boundary they shouldn’t cross, but they do. In the aftermath, the two strike a quiet pact: their relationship will last only until one of them finds someone they truly love.
At eighteen years old, in the end of summer, I decided to kill someone. It was the first day back after summer break when Rin received Hikaru's shocking confession: "I killed my mother." Hikaru was brilliant, handsome, and seemingly untouchable at the top of the school’s social ladder. But he had a dark secret: a hidden death wish. Rin, burdened by past friendship scars and a history of truancy, finds herself swept into a runaway journey alongside him. When she asks what they’re going to do next, Hikaru proposes a game. For the seven days remaining in August, they’ll take turns choosing someone they want to kill. One person each, each day. With nowhere left to go, the two become weapons in a game born of loneliness, pain, and twisted love. Winner of the 18th Shogakukan Light Novel Grand Prize.
Eyes like the break of dawn, reaching out to seize the unknown! Seven alternate worlds float in the sky, while civilization has sunk beneath the sea of sand. In a world ruled by the armed force known as the Strand Fleet, a girl rises in defiance aboard her drill-powered submersible. Her name is Raymei, the Desert Pirate. Within an ancient relic seized from the enemy, she discovers a ninja named Get, frozen in cold sleep. Little did they know—that encounter would ignite a war engulfing the lost civilization and the otherworlds themselves. "I won't allow you to die here. Get, I’ll make you my husband." When a freedom-seeking pirate and a duty-bound ninja join hands, a new dawn rises over a sea of despair. Piercing the heavens, drilling through the deep—thus begins a post-apocalyptic voyage of epic proportions. Anchors aweigh!