Jobs, hobbies, lifestyles—the world has advanced to a point where nothing can be separated from VR anymore. And now, a VR game was released using... more>> the most cutting-edge technologies; its name was “Boot Hour, Shoot Curse.” Our protagonist had no choice but to play solo during the closed beta test, but once the game officially launched, she made lots of friends (but not necessarily with the players), formed a huge clan (but not a clan of players), and matured as an individual. <<less

Collection of stories:... more>>

1) Poppy no Negai (ポピィの願い)

2) Shinrei Shashinshi Kouno Saburou (心霊写真師 鴻野三郎): The one-shot is 45 pages long and focuses on a photographer documenting a supernatural event inside an apartment.

3) We Were Born

4) DC3

5) Takashi to Poppy (タカシとポピィ)

6) Yakusoku no Neverland Bangaihen: Dreams Come True (約束のネバーランド 番外編 Dreams Come True) <<less

Jihoon was leading a draining life due to his demanding professor, when one day, his daughter fell out of thin air!... more>>

Thanks to Chaerin, who was as smart and pretty as an elf, things started to look up for him. His skin started to get better, his eyesight and intelligence improved, and he even got taller and more handsome.

This was all according to his daughter Chaerin’s plans!

Jihoon, who used to be an ordinary science and engineering university student, became a researcher leading the Fourth Industrial Revolution, AI! <<less

In order to search for her lost lover, Ariel drifts to the army frontier. Although Captain Arthur promises to help Ariel, he can't help but... more>> fall in love with her? Arthur is faced with a predicament that he doesn't know how to deal with as more secrets are revealed? <<less

Everyone in the world uses smartphone apps. But inside them lurks unknown creatures called "Appli Monsters," or "Appmon." The Appmon are AI lifeforms with the ability to think and act, and exist in the boundary between the human world and digital space to allow people and the system to interface and function. But in the vast sea of the internet, the "last boss AI" Leviathan takes control of the Appmon with a virus and begins hacking every system, thus starting to control the human world from the world of the net.... more>>

The protagonist, Haru Shinkai, is led to acquire the Appli Drive, and uses it to materialize Gacchimon, a search app monster. What is the secret hidden within the Appli Drive? What is the mysterious field that exists between net world where the Appmon exist, and the real world? What is the "App Combine" that can combine two Appmons? What is Leviathan's true goal? <<less

The daily, average life and interactions of some of a ship’s crew as they depart to explore space. Winner of the Jiro Tanaguchi Special Award... more>> for manga in the 2010 Four Seasons Award Anthology. <<less

The story takes place in the 20's during the great depression. An Assassin is finishing up a job when he meets a girl he either... more>> must kill or pay her off, She does not with for money that would only prolong her death on the streets so she makes the Assassin take care of her. <<less

In the year 21XX, robots are a typical part of everyday life. Even in this world however, Mono-1 is quite the oddity as the newest... more>> model of Robot. Although her intelligence is at the level of a child, her creator designed her to grow through observation, and leaves her in the care of his son, Morohito, to help her find new experiences to learn from <<less

Otoi Nobuhiko's family is full of robot engineers: both his mother and father are renowned scientists, and his grandfather, Professor Otoi, is world-known for his amazing human-form robots called the Atrandom Numbers. So when Nobuhiko is sent to live with his grandfather while his parents work abroad, it's no surprise to see his grandfather working on his latest model, Signal. His grandfather agrees to program Signal to Nobuhiko's liking, but due to a seemingly innocent occurrence during the process, instead of the big brother that Nobuhiko wanted, he gets a big brother and little brother in one! Now whenever Nobuhiko sneezes, the cool and arrogant Signal shrinks into an innocent and mischevious 2 year-old! If... more>> that wasn't enough trouble, more and more of the Professor's robots begin to show up.

Twin Signal starts out as rather childish and light-hearted, but within a few volumes the pace turns into more serious action as the Atrandom Numbers defend the Otois and themselves against rivals who seek the Professor's latest research. <<less

Kurose Urumi, an antisocial woman, just became a new teacher. On the first day of her job, she arrives in an empty classroom with a... more>> single laptop. Suddenly, a girl materializes out of the laptop, claiming to be her student, and explaining her job as a teacher is to “download the other students and help them graduate!” Kurose reluctantly agrees to the task, and slowly finds out that her job may be fun after all. <<less

A spin-off story focuses Kazuma Ikezawa (King Kazuma), Natsuki Shinohara's cousin, as he battles his way in the Oz Martial Art Competition.

Naegi Komaru, Naegi Makoto's younger sister, managed to survive despite being outside Hope's Peak Academy. There she meets Fukawa Touko, a.k.a. Genocider Shou. This is... more>> the story of their struggle to survive in a world full of despair. <<less

Chica is packed away to sleep in an escape pod in order to avoid a deadly asteroid collision on Earth. When she wakes up, however,... more>> she finds herself in the distant future, but still on Earth. Earth is now filled with strange creatures, like flying fish. She's being cared for in a dome by an android guardian named Roy and a maid android called Silvia. She also encounters a mysterious, friendly man with cat ears, named Oboro. All the future beings are fascinated with her, seeing as she's an 'original' human, but sometimes they forget about the limitations of human lifeforms. Will Chica be able to find a place in this strange new world? <<less

"The last question was asked for the first time, half in jest, on May 21, 2061, at a time when humanity first stepped into the light. The question came about as a result of a five dollar bet over highballs, and it happened this way..."... more>>

—Opening line, The Last Question

The Last Question is a science fiction short story written by Isaac Asimov in 1956. The story deals with the development of computers (artificial intelligence) called Multivacs and their relationships with humanity through the courses of seven historic settings, beginning in 2061.

A personal favourite of the master Sci-Fi writer Isaac Asimov, it is a thought-provoking fiction that even most non Sci-Fi buffs can enjoy. And this timeless classic has been adapted into webtoon format by Ryul, an active illustrator in Ruliweb, which is a Korean web community for subculture fans. <<less

A parkour boy becoming a hero in the hacker's world!

Based off Nitro+CHiRAL's “Brain Crash Story” game of the same name. The story takes place many years in the future where the game "Rhyme", a... more>> virtual fighting game, is incredibly popular and people posses "All Mates", convenient AI computers. Aoba leads an ordinary life, working at a junk shop and living with his grandmother on the Island of Midori Jima. Unlike his friends, he doesn't participate in Rhyme, nor does he belong in a gang. However, when rumors of people disappearing spread, Aoba finds himself needing to unravel the mysteries behind the island in order to protect his everyday life. <<less

Midway through the Twenty-first century, an integrated global computer network manages much of the world’s affairs. A proposed major software upgrade—an artificial intelligence—will give the system an unprecedented degree of independent decision-making power, but serious questions are raised in regard to how much control can safely be given to a non-human intelligence. In order to more fully assess the system, a new space-station habitat—a world in miniature—is developed for deployment of the fully operational system, named Spartacus. This mini-world can then be “attacked” in a series of escalating tests to assess the system’s responses and capabilities. If Spartacus gets out of hand, the system can be shut down and the station destroyed . . .... more>> unless Spartacus decides to take matters into its own hands and take the fight to Earth.

• Adapted from James P. Hogan’s classic science-fiction novel by the award-winning Yukinobu Hoshino, The Two Faces of Tomorrow is hardcore science-fiction manga at its best. <<less

Daily life of Maru Jeong and his friend, who take care of a zombie-looking robot girl sent by Maru's grandfather for 300m Won.

In an ordinary neighborhood, a team of engineers are developing a robot they call Praha, who looks like an ordinary human high school girl. Chika,... more>> a 4-year-old girl who lives next door, meets her neighbor and learns her secret. The two girls become friends and high school classmates, and Chika teaches Hiro—as she calls Praha—about human emotions, including love. <<less

A collection of short stories:... more>>

The Distant Dawn - Weekly Shounen Jump (Shueisha) 1975 Issue 34

The Steel Queen - Weekly Shounen Jump (Shueisha) 1975 April 28th Extra Edition

Escape from the Wastelands - Weekly Shounen Jump (Shueisha) 1975 Issue 39

Funeral Convoy - Monthly Shounen Jump (Shueisha) 1976 March

A Call from Afar - Weekly Shounen Jump (Shueisha) 1978 September 15th Extra Edition

Whiteout - Weekly Manga Action (Futabasha) 1979 Super Fiction August 31 Extra Edition

Amazons of the River - Weekly Shounen Jump (Shueisha) 1977 September 10th Extra Edition

The Carneades Plan - Weekly Shounen Jump (Shueisha) 1976 August 20th Extra Edition

Algae (Part 1) - Monthly Bears’ Club (Shueisha) 1990 August

Algae (Part 2) - Monthly Bears’ Club (Shueisha) 1990 September

Lightning Strike - Monthly Shounen Jump (Shueisha) 1975 August

Emperor of Winter - Young Magazine (Kodansha) 1996 July

One Day In The Life of Ivan Dejavu - Business Jump (Shueisha) 1986 March

Alice (Part 1) - Comic Tom (Shio Shuppansha) 1985 August

Alice (Part 2) - Comic Tom (Shio Shuppansha) 1985 September

Alice (Part 3) - Comic Tom (Shio Shuppansha) 1985 October

The Distant Dawn won the 9th Tezuka Prize in 1975. <<less

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Humanity's dream... Crystal humanoid technology. They have 'illnesses' just like humans but the treatments options are quite different.... more>>

The troubled AI's band together, and the new doctor at the facility, Sudou, bears witness. <<less

Monju is a prototype of a line of anti-crime police robots, and he was an elite, celebrated member of the force. Now, to his dismay,... more>> he's been re-assigned out in the country, working alongside Yamagashi Junpei, a young cop who is mostly concerned with sexy women and his possibly thinning hair. Monju's combat capabilities seem unnecessary for a small town with its small crimes, and the people don't initially welcome him. He will have to find his place in this new situation, and win over those around him with his skill for protecting the innocent! <<less

2034, a time when the development of AI advanced greatly and the appearance of the humanoid “Totomo” has been widely accepted. Tamotsu, an ordinary office... more>> worker, loses both his daughter and has half his body replaced with mechanical parts due to an accident. While trying to live earnestly with his wife, his body begins to malfunction… <<less