From Star Strings

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

7 Seeds

Natsu Iwashimizu wakes up on a sinking ship with no memory of how she got there. Rescued by three strangers—Arashi, Semimaru, and Botan—she makes it to a deserted island that turns out to be Japan, transformed beyond recognition. A meteorite struck Earth and wiped out humanity. Anticipating the disaster, the government launched the 7 Seeds project: five teams of seven young people and a guide, kept in cryogenic sleep until the planet became habitable again. Natsu and her companions belong to Summer B, the group made up of those society considered failures. Now awake in a hostile world, they must find one of the seven government shelters, learn to survive, and figure out how to coexist with

Kino's Journey: The Beautiful World

Kino travels the world on the back of Hermes, an unusual, anthropomorphic motorcycle. Together they roam from country to country, never staying in any one place for more than three days. Each land they visit has its own customs, laws, and ways of life, and every stop brings new encounters. Through their journeys, Kino and Hermes witness happiness and sorrow, kindness and cruelty, beauty and decay. As they move along the road, they come to understand that the world is full of imperfections. And yet, it is precisely those imperfections that make it a beautiful place.

Battle Angel Alita: Mars Chronicle

Mars has been engulfed in endless war for centuries, a desolate red world forged in conflict. In this apocalyptic landscape, the story follows Yoko, a young girl who will one day become the solar system's most formidable warrior, known as Alita. Her childhood on the war-torn planet is the crucible that shapes her destiny. The narrative weaves together the past and future, revealing the pivotal events and harsh realities of Martian society that define Alita's origins. As Yoko navigates the dangers and complexities of a planet in perpetual strife, the foundation is laid for the epic saga of the Battle Angel, connecting her early life to the larger conflicts spanning the solar system.

Alma

In a ruined world where no one else seems to be left, Ray and Trice have grown up side by side. She is his only friend, and she watches over him with a worry she cannot voice, while he keeps searching for people other than the two of them. Then an unwelcome visitor arrives from the skies, proclaiming "Glory to humans," and a secret kept hidden for fifteen years is dragged into the open. Alone now, Ray begins to walk, driven by a single word he cannot let go of. Their near-future world of people and machines is about to shift around him, and he has no way of knowing what waits at the end of the road.

Ginga Tetsudou 999

Tetsuro Hoshino is a young street urchin who dreams of trading his human body for an android one, which would grant him immortality and the social freedom androids enjoy. Such a body is far beyond his means, but rumor says that at the end of the line of the Galaxy Express, a train bound for the Andromeda Galaxy, there is a planet where they are given away for free. When an Android Count murders his mother, Tetsuro has nothing left to hold him to his home planet. He sets out to board the train alone, seeking both the body he craves and a way to avenge his loss. He meets Maetel, a mysterious woman who offers him a ticket on one condition: that he travel as her companion. Together they ride f