[The End is Now] "The gods are careless and cruel; I learned that young. Then the Harvest Scythe was stolen, and I learned they were stupid too. Without it in its divine place, the world would starve in one year's time, and apparently, she needed a gaggle of random assholes at a bar to go get ...

El used to shine. Now he hides in a quiet beachside studio, mixing silence instead of songs. Then Sofi arrives — a blunt, chaotic girl chasing the voice of her drowned sister through a warped cassette. She brings noise. He only knows silence. But somewhere between tape rewinds, unfinished song...

Sean wants everything to get back to normal while Emma just wants some peanut butter on her sandwich again. Our world had changed dramatically after a month when scientists announced that a giant asteroid will destroy Earth a year from now. The leaders of our world has united and issued Ordinance...

The world’s greatest scientists have confirmed it—humanity has one year left. In six months, the planet’s core will begin to crystallize. In the six months that follow, the transformation will spread, wiping out all life. There is no stopping it. No escaping it. The countdown to extinction has al...

'Brute' is the energy stored inside each individual. Living things can rarely tap into its infinite power. It's best to think of it as a cycle that follows a repeating wave over a straight line. The straight line represents our world, and the highest points of each crest represent a period in whi...

Shizuka Hiratai is a mangaka who manages to win the yearly manga and light novel contest put on by Shimizu Publishing House, a well-known publisher in Japan, with her shojo romantic dramedy Break The Ice. She is also a huge fan of perhaps Shimizu's most well-known manga, a seinen action/fantasy/h...

Kaito Asano, a 34-year-old aspiring author, once tasted fame with his debut novel, Delusional Distress, a critical and commercial success. But since then, he’s struggled to replicate that achievement. Each subsequent work has either been rejected or ignored, leaving him branded as a one-hit wonde...

Starlight Academy is a large-scale learning institution where the students go about independent daily life within the school's isolated community. There, Yuko Maeda has recently started her first year in high school, expecting the peaceful days within the walls of the academy to continue. However...

After getting caught stealing, 14 year old Marina is sent to volunteer at a hospital she can't stand. Then she meets Rei, a boy who smiles too much for someone always out of breath — and whose room smells more like the ocean than antiseptic.

Years ago, virtual reality MMORPG SiltSea took the gaming world by storm. With its incredible life-like simulated feedback, players could explore a vast ocean, duel rival factions, parley with pirates, and combat the corruption threatening to destroy Bathing Bay's fragile ecosystem. Today, the ...