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Gantz

Kei Kurono is a cynical high school student who keeps to himself, tired of the cruelty people are capable of. One day at the subway station, his classmate Masaru Katou jumps onto the tracks to save a drunk man who has fallen. On impulse, Kei follows him. They manage to pull the man to safety, but both boys are struck and killed by the oncoming train. Instead of dying, Kei and Masaru wake up in an apartment full of strangers, all of whom have recently died. In the center of the room is a large black sphere called Gantz. It gives them high-tech suits and strange weapons, then sends them out to hunt and kill bizarre alien creatures hidden on Earth. Each mission is brutal and often deadly. Sur

Btooom!

Ryouta Sakamoto is a 22-year-old unemployed young man who still lives with his mother. In the real world, he is a nobody, but online he is one of the top players of the combat game Btooom!, a title he has mastered to perfection. His uneventful life is blown to pieces when he wakes up on a tropical island with no memory of how he got there. He soon discovers that he has been trapped in a real-life version of his favorite game, where the bombs are no longer virtual and the only way out is to kill seven other players. Forced to fight for his life in a hellish free-for-all, Ryouta must use all his skills to survive long enough to figure out who is behind this deadly game and why he was chosen.

EDENS ZERO

On the planet Granbell, Shiki has grown up as the only human in an amusement park run by machines, which he treats as his friends. His isolated life changes when Rebecca Bluegarden and her cat companion Happy arrive, the first visitors in a hundred years, hoping to record videos for their B-Cube channel. When the park's robots turn dangerous, the three flee to Rebecca's home planet, Blue Garden. There, Shiki becomes an adventurer for the Shooting Starlight guild and learns about Mother, a mysterious goddess no one has ever found. Feeling an inexplicable connection to her, he decides to search for her across the galaxy. Rebecca and Happy join him, and together they travel through space, mak

Air Gear

Minami "Ikki" Itsuki is the toughest kid at Higashi Junior High School and the leader of the East Side Gunz. Known as the "Unbeatable Babyface," he lives with the mysterious Noyamano sisters, who secretly belong to a Storm Rider team called Sleeping Forest. After a humiliating defeat at the hands of the Skull Saders, a rival street gang, Ikki discovers the sisters' hidden world of Air Treks—motorized inline skates that allow their riders to perform incredible, gravity-defying feats. Determined to regain his pride and experience the sensation of flight, he throws himself into the dangerous and thrilling world of Air Trek.

ORIGIN

Tokyo, 2048. The Eurasian Railroad now links Japan to the entire northern hemisphere, turning the capital into a magnet for crime and vice from across the continent. By day, the city is a bustling megalopolis; by night, its shadows hide a different kind of predator. Unbeknownst to the public, robots with advanced artificial intelligence live hidden among humans, killing to ensure their own survival. Night after night, they strike from the darkness, leaving bodies in their wake. But one being hunts these machines: ORIGIN, the prototype from which they all descend. To protect humanity, he must confront the creations that share his own artificial nature.

Real Account

Ataru Kashiwagi is a second-year high school student who spends much of his life on Real Account, a social media platform that links online profiles to everyday reality. His followers are his escape and his sense of belonging, the people he considers his true friends. That illusion shatters when Ataru and nearly ten thousand other users are pulled into the Real Account Zone and forced into a series of deadly games. If a player loses all their followers, they die in real life; if a player dies, every one of their followers dies with them. Betrayed by those he trusted and left with a single anonymous follower, Ataru must use his knowledge of the platform and his wits to clear each game and f