It is the year 2100 A.D., and humans have developed a virtual reality game with a realism level of 99%. Feng Lan, due to a... more>> bet with her twin brother, vows to succeed in playing the game without using her "female benefits." Due to this, she becomes the first and only female to play as a male character in "Second Life." As her infamy rises as a bloodthirsty warrior, can she keep her identity a secret from her real life acquaintances whom she has beaten up? <<less

Shin Youngwoo is a pure loser in life who is also heavily indebted to an insurance company. ... more>>

He lives with his dissappointed parents and brilliant younger sister who is one top students at her school. Even in games, like the popular VRMMORPG game Satisfy he's a total loser.

But one day, while on a quest he miraculously finds a Legendary Book that can give anyone who reads it the never before seen Legendary Class!

He was planning to sell it for alot of money but luck was always his worst trait.

Through an unlucky change of the situation his dream was short-lived as he was forced to use the item for himself.

His life changed forever since that fateful day... <<less

No matter how much the times change, bullied kids aren’t going anywhere. And fat junior high school student Haruyuki is one of them. But one... more>> day, Haruyuki encounters Kuroyukihime, the most beautiful and elegant girl at school, who gives him a mysterious program: “Brain Burst”…and the secret of the “Accelerated World.” He may be at the bottom of the food chain at school, but Haruyuki and his destiny begin to “accelerate” with incredible speed in the virtual realm as he aims for the top. <<less

Reiji Ozora thinks he's no good at anything--especially schoolwork! Then one day he's introducted to a game called Dragon Drive and gets his very own... more>> virtual dragon named Chibi. Small and weak, Chibi appears to be as big a loser as Reiji! But after their first battle, Reiji realizes there may be more to his tiny friend than meets the eyes. <<less

The year is 2028, location in New Koshigaya. A young boy, Isurugi Neru, lives in a poor family and is forced to quit school so... more>> that he can find his own way in life. Neru on the other hand, only thinks of one thing: to take revenge on Yagami, a classmate, who's especially gifted and has humiliated Neru numerous times. <<less

Yuuki Asuna was a top student who spent her days at cram school and preparing for her high school entrance exams–but that was before she... more>> borrowed her brother’s virtual reality game system and wound up trapped in Sword Art Online with ten thousand other frightened players. As time passes, Asuna fears what will become of her life outside the fantasy realm–the failure she might seem in the eyes of her peers and parents. Unwilling to wait on the sidelines for more experienced gamers to beat the game, Asuna employs her study habits to learn the mechanics of game–and swordplay. Her swiftness impresses Kirito, a pro gamer who invites Asuna to join the best players on the front lines. Is Asuna ready to swap class rankings for player rankings and join Kirito? <<less

Alien invasions come in all shapes and sizes. This time, Earth is under attack by "Unknown Codes" that infiltrate digital devices to eviscerate the human... more>> race. The only way to counter these codes is to play their own game. An awkward mesh of men with different motives are recruited to fight. How is everything going to end? <<less

A story about four members of the same broken family who find peace in a game called "Planet." The catch is: they don't know about each other.... more>>

As the story unfolds hidden things are discovered about each member and about the relation the virtual world has with reality and how they affect one another. <<less

When thirty thousand Japanese gamers are suddenly trapped in the online game world of “Elder Tale,” a realm of swords and sorcery–that was, up until... more>> yesterday, very much a fantasy–is now their cold, hard reality. Severed from their everyday lives, they’re faced with fighting monsters, eating food with no flavor, and being unable to die?! Amid the chaos in “Elder Tale” Akihabara, veteran gamer Shiroe locates his old friend Naotsugu and teams up with the beautiful female assassin Akatsuki. Together they embark on an adventure to change the world as they know it! <<less

Kanata and his friends must find a way to return to their original bodies after they're trapped in the real world as their game avatars.

After a falling out with his team, the Guild Master of the greatest guild quits the game. As the top player, he had pioneered the... more>> creation of a unique plot item that is required to open a new area of the game. After 2 years he returns to find that his items and gold have been stolen by hackers and the unique plot item he made unavailable by leaving, was never replaced, and so he is hated by everyone in the game. Our accessories-loving hero is however very relaxed, and simply goes back to his old ways of trying to create/purchase the most interesting items. <<less

Kim Jee-Ha comes from a good background with decent grades and test results; however, he has one big flaw - when it comes to official... more>> events like university interviews for example, he is horrible. To overcome his social awkwardness, he embarks upon the virtual reality game Trikia where he meets an eccentric high level undead Nine - his future guild master. <<less

Shigeru Mikami is a video game genius–he can play and conquer any game, and just as easily program his own. While planning his next project, Shigeru discovers a strange oddity among his stack of research materials–a game disc labelled NOT ALIVE. Absorbing into his body, the disc thrusts him into a strange parallel reality where he becomes the "Player" of a real life video game, one where he controls the mysterious and skilled Kyouka Amamiya as his new female avatar. With rules to learn, other players to combat, and an omniscient GM overseeing the process, will Shigeru's gaming skills be enough to survive in this brave new digital world?... more>>

Note: The chapter numbering between the magazine and tankobon versions are different because Chapter 1 was split up into two parts in the magazine, but put together in the tankobon version. <<less

Manga version of the Summer Wars movie.... more>>

When timid eleventh-grader and math genius Kenji Koiso is asked by older student and secret crush Natsuki to come with her to her family’s Nagano home for a summer job, he agrees without hesitation. Natsuki’s family, the Jinnouchi clan, dates back to the Muromachi era, and they’ve all come together to celebrate the 90th birthday of the spunky matriarch of the family, Sakae. That’s when Kenji discovers his “summer job” is to pretend to be Natsuki’s fiancé and dance with her at the birthday celebration. As Kenji attempts to keep up with Natsuki’s act around her family, he receives a strange math problem on his cell phone which, being a math genius, he can’t resist solving. As it turns out, the solution to the mysterious equation causes a hijacking of the social networking site through which most of the world's social and business traffic flows. <<less

In the year 2022, gamers rejoice as Sword Art Online - a VRMMORPG (Virtual Reality Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game) like no other -... more>> 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… <<less

Oneshot about a virtual reality social networking service.

An online game is causing players to commit suicide. One hacker rises to solve the mystery.

Technology has now allowed the full integration of virtual reality in massive multiplayer gaming. Gamers can now immerse themselves in a fantasy world, and fully experience a role-playing game. The first game to implement this system was called "Eden." Gamers around the world flocked to their first chance of being part of this system. Three years have passed since the discovery of the bug in "Eden." This bug prevented anyone from "logging out" of this game. Players were forever trapped in the fantasy world of Eden, and now had to fight to survive inside the game. ... more>>

Our main character, nicknamed "Teacher," continues to follow the road of the beginners course inside the game. Tirelessly training his skills, he fights alone against any enemy to become the strongest player in Eden. <<less

G.U.+ follows the player Haseo, a powerful PKKer known as "The Terror of Death". Haseo is obsessed with an infamous PKer known only as "Tri-Edge" who attacked a close friend of his sometime in the past. The manga details Haseo's search for Tri-Edge, and his eventual inclusion in a mysterious group known as "G.U." ... more>>

Back story of the ps2 game (same title)

In 2015 a fire at the main CC Corp. building resulted in the loss of a lot of data, and The World was forced to shut down. By splicing in data from what would have been another game, CC Corp was able to rebuild the game system. The next year, "The World R:2" was released, but many old players objected because they were unable to bring over their old characters. However, many new users were drawn in by the new style, and over 12 million copies were sold. Though not a match for the previous version's 20 million users, it became the top-selling netgame on the market." As a result of the new world, four major clans (Kestrel, Lunar Tree, Canard, and Raven) came to power. The clans actions shape 'The World', and most players end up taking one side or another during conflicts. <<less

Welcome to The World, the most advanced online game ever created. Fourteen-year-old twins Rena and Shugo are two middle-school students who enter The World as... more>> level-one game characters--and now they're ready to take on anything...or so they think. When Shugo's character dies, he is transported to another level where he is entrusted to bear the Twilight Bracelet by the mysterious Aura. Shugo must find out who Aura is and why she gave him this powerful weapon to protect his sister from the dangers in The World. <<less

Buyer beware - when video game obsessed Kaito Suzuki mysteriously receives a game called Gamerz Heaven, he gets a lot more than what he bargained... more>> for! Not only is he playing the game, he finds himself being sucked into it! With a boy named Nata serving as his "Navigator" in the game, Kaito will have to eliminate all of the monsters before he can enter the Second Zone. Things become difficult when Kaito realizes that losing this game had deadly implications for the real world! <<less

This is the story focused on West Wind Brigade members! Aka the "Harem Guild" and how the guild master 'Sword Saint' Soujirou deals with the... more>> situation since the start of the apocalypse. <<less

A girl playing a male character in a video game falls in love with a female character in the virtual world while unaware the player... more>> is actually a boy. Meanwhile strange distortions begin to happen in the real world... <<less

Day laborer Kazuya Shibuya is feeling frustrated with his boring, day-to-day life when a mysterious game called “Blackout” is delivered to him out of the... more>> blue. Not knowing what is going on, he starts to play the game, only to find out that what is inside surpasses anything he could have ever imagined. No one has ever managed to beat this game shrouded in mystery. Is “death” awaiting him at the end...? The battle-filled fantasy novel popular on website Everystar is now a manga! <<less

Juvenile criminals are sent to a prison called Carpe Diem, which is located in a virtual reality. The prisoners are promised with release if they... more>> behave well, but behind the system lies a tragic secret… <<less