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The Kabukimono Chronicles: The Flight of the Twin Blade Dragon

In Toyoashihara, a fantasy world in the mold of old Japan overrun by roaming yokai, those who slay these monsters and settle the troubles they cause are known as Kabukimono—wandering adventurer-warriors. Among these Kabukimono, one twin-blade swordsman would come to be hailed in later generations as the strongest of all: Ashino Yasutaka. The man he sought to surpass was history's greatest swordsman, Sukebei, who scattered his seed across the world and was known as the legendary 'Breeding King.' This is the story of Ashino Yasutaka, chasing the legend of the Breeding King, and his fiancée, Matsuoka Mani-hime, who chases after him.

48 chapters · ~196 min Ongoing

FAKESTAR/YUICA ~A Lie Told in Earnest Surpasses the Real Thing~

Misaki Tanaka is thirty-six, works part-time at a publisher, and has never once had a boyfriend. Her parents are gone. Her younger sister Yui has just walked out of the house with a backpack, swearing she is done with VTubing forever. Alone in Yui's abandoned room, Misaki presses a large red button on her sister's streaming rig—and the chat starts moving. She is live. As YUICA. As a fake. The viewers ask for the usual things, and thirty-six years of swallowed anger finally comes up. "Shut up... you pigs..." For some reason, the chat goes wild. A story about a woman who had given up on her life, borrowing her sister's face, and climbing to the top while still being a fake.

18 chapters · ~131 min Ongoing

The Star Courier Delivers Your Heart

It's been thousands of years since humanity spread across the galaxy, and where there are stars, there are jobs, cargo, and trouble waiting behind every one of them. Celestina, a courier of the stars, cruises through the cosmos every day alongside her partners: Lilith, an all-purpose AI, and Lemurias, a state-of-the-art transport ship. Her latest job seems simple enough at first: deliver a capsule known as the "coffin," said to contain a corpse. Blinded by the generous reward, she takes the job, only to hear strange noises coming from inside the coffin mid-transport. That moment marks the beginning of the Echo Incident, a mystery that will shake entire star systems to their core. Traveling from star system to star system, Celestina meets new companions and bids farewell to others, uncovering fragments of a lost past, sealed research, and a path leading toward a legendary stellar region. Today, as always, the courier of the stars takes flight, carrying someone's feelings along with the cargo.

10 chapters · ~70 min Ongoing

I Shall Trample Humanity Underfoot ~The Omniscient, Omnipotent, Strongest, Invincible, Absolutely Superior One~

I was reincarnated into another world, and I spent the Goddess's Gift ([The Power to Have Any One Wish Granted]) to become [The Omniscient, Omnipotent, Strongest, Invincible, Absolutely Superior One]. Why? I couldn't tell you. I erased those memories myself. The only thing I kept was the knowledge that the Goddess who reincarnated me is extremely irritating. So I have decided to strike down every Hero she sends, one after another, and drive humanity to extinction. Not rule it. Destroy it. Don't get that wrong. A textbook Hero party. A cheat-stat Hero at Lv. 99999. A sage who reincarnates without limit. A god who is omniscient and omnipotent. Reincarnate as many of them as you like. Every last one will be turned back at my door, and every last homeland will have a monolith dropped on it. Thirty-four duels, one at a time, because finishing it all at once would be boring. Mwahahahaha!

34 chapters · ~210 min Complete

Dream Maid Robot

"Nice to meet you, Master. I'm Maria, your maid." At the start of summer vacation, Ryo, a diehard maid enthusiast, finds himself with an unexpected houseguest: a girl named Maria who claims to be a maid robot. His dream of living with a maid has finally come true. But this maid brews terrible tea, cooks disastrously, and leaves the room in chaos wherever she goes. She's a total troublemaker. Can Ryo ever reclaim his peaceful daily life?

1 chapter · ~5 min Ongoing

Paradise Sixth: The Aptitude Trial

In the year 20XX of the Century Calendar, two hundred thousand second-year high school students across the nation face a virtual education exam known as the EDEN Program, a new-age sorting system that determines not just college admission and career paths, but even future social status. Waiting within are formidable bosses, cutthroat competition against fellow examinees, and truths about EDEN that no one has ever uncovered. Ichijo Rei, a cynical and slightly twisted second-year student, sets out to survive and conquer the program alongside his childhood friends, relying on his sharp intellect and keen observation. Why did humanity create EDEN? What does the AI truly want? And what exactly is this paradise trying to select for? This is not a story about being chosen by paradise. It is the story of a boy who refused to be the one selected, until he seized the future for himself.

4 chapters · ~31 min Ongoing

Magic Planet Simulator: A God's-Eye View

Two gods sit down to build a world from scratch. Lunga, a jaded veteran deity, and Aithel, the "ancient-loli" goddess of love and space-time, create Eishir, an Earth-like planet, but one of swords and sorcery. From primordial lava to oceans, from bacteria to a strange "magic bacteria" that lays down the world's mana-crystal strata, they fast-forward eons at a thousand gold per press of the "Hundred-Million-Year Button." Dragons, elves, dwarves, demon lords, otaku heroes summoned from Earth, doomed harem parties, the rise and fall of kingdoms and empires: the whole sweep of a fantasy world's history, narrated as color commentary by the two gods who made it and then, in the end, learn to stop meddling and simply watch. A comedic god's-eye chronicle of how a fantasy world really gets made.

11 chapters · ~40 min Complete

The Lady of Gluttony: The Mage Is the True Saint

Tiela Ann Elgrid, sixteen, daughter of Duke Elgrid of the Kingdom of Kumaran, is known at every party in the capital as the "Lady of Gluttony": the girl who can eat anything, in any quantity. The rumors are true: she never gains weight and never grows taller, because every bite converts into mana. It is a deadly-sin skill, and it quietly makes her the capital's last line of defense, though in peacetime she would much rather rain golden blessings on party guests, run her little healing clinic, and eat. A lighthearted gourmet fantasy about a duke's daughter, her mountain of party food, and the courtly intrigue she would happily trade for another plate of wyvern karaage.

7 chapters · ~20 min Complete