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Haganai: I don’t have many friends

Poor Kodaka Hasegawa was born with an unfortunate face and pudding-coloured hair, leading many to believe that he is forever angry with them. His disastrous introduction at his new school means that he still has no friends over a month in. However, he discovers he may not be the only one when he meets classmate Yozora Mikazuki, whose best (and only) friend is made of air. In an effort to learn how to make friends, she decides to create the Neighbor’s Club, and enlists the reluctant Kodaka as the other member. For their first activity, they put out posters advertising their club, fully expecting no turnout. But things take a turn for the surprising when the most popular girl in school (and Yozora’s arch-nemesis) is the first to show up with a genuine desire to join…

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Mitsuha is a shrine maiden’s daughter out in the country, praying that she could become a handsome Tokyo boy in her next life; Taki is a handsome Tokyo boy struggling between his part-time job, studying and deciding on his future. Through some bizarre and largely unconsensual supernatural occurrence, the two swap bodies. Of course, with both believing they’re living a dream, they soon have to set ground rules to maintain their respective reputations and Taki’s money. However, when eventually the body-swapping subsides, the two discover that there is more than one kind of distance that separates them.

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WorldEnd: What are you doing at the end of the world? Are you busy? Will you save us?

Willem Kmetsch is the last surviving human of the apocalypse. Frozen for five hundred years, he’s thawed and he’s looking for work. He is soon hired as the caretaker of a weapon’s storehouse, but when he shows up on his first day, he doesn’t find the weapons he was expecting. Instead, he finds Leprechauns: fairies that wield special weapons to defeat the seventeen beasts of the apocalypse. Inspired by his life before his petrification, he takes care of these fearless humanoids as he learns what happened while he was unavailable. However, the oldest of the living weapons, Chtholly, is developing the will to live, and it’s starting to affect her mentally…

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Sakura Trick

Haruka and Yū are the best of friends and have been for years. It helps that they’ve always sat adjacent to one another, so they can pick their conversations right back up after class and look after each other should one of them (ahem Yū) fall asleep. However, when the new seating plan threatens to separate them, they decide to ensure their friendship’s survival by doing something no other friends would do: kiss. To their surprise, this innocent act does more than maintain their friendship when the pair discover they’ve become obsessed. Of course, they mustn’t let anyone else find out about their secret addiction, least of all Yū’s strict older sister. It would seem, though, that they aren’t the only girls in their school with a similar secret…

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Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon?

In a fantasy world where the Gods have descended to the earth to endure the inconveniences of human lives, Bell Cranel is the sole member of Hestia’s familia. Spurred on by his grandpa’s words of wisdom, Bell struggles through the great dungeon of Orario alone in an attempt to save and fall in love with a damsel in distress. However, one day, he is backed into a corner (literally!) by a Minotaur and all seems lost. That is, until famed adventurer, Aiz Wallenstein, saves his life and he falls in love with her. There’s not so much an age gap between them as there is a humongous ability gap, but he seems determined to close that. And with his first skill and a custom-made knife, it might just be possible! Now if only he can stop being the damsel in distress and start doing the saving…

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Monster Musume: Everyday Life with Monster Girls

The government has admitted to the existence of Demi-Humans, and so, to integrate them into human society, the Demi-Humans are sent on homestay programs with willing volunteers. Nice guy Kimihito Kurusu is not on this list, and yet he is dumped with a Lamia by the lousy agent Smith. Just as he’s settling into his new life, Smith only goes and dumps him with even more and he just can’t seem to say ‘no’. But with Smith nominating him the prototype for a lift on the interspecies relationships ban, can he survive his cohabitants’ literally suffocating love?

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Your lie in April

After the death of his abusive mother, piano prodigy Kōsei Arima became unable to hear the notes he played. One day, he is tricked into tagging along with his best friends to a violin competition. Seemingly, the girl responsible for this request is fellow musician Kaori Miyazono, whom he has already had a disastrous first meeting with and who claims to be in love with his footballer friend. Not only does she quickly become his favourite contestant at the competition, but she also seems determined to have him play the piano as her accompaniment, despite his condition. Can she breathe music back into Kōsei’s life? And why does she seem so desperate to have him play with her as soon as possible?

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Yamada’s First Time: B Gata H Kei

Beautiful, popular Yamada has a dream, and her dream is a big one, for her dream is to have sex with a hundred different guys. Large: yes; achievable: not when she’s struggling to find someone who’ll share in her first kiss. She has her desires set on devouring a virgin boy for her first to avoid any accusations about a lack of experience on her part. Luck strikes when she falls (literally!) into the life of completely average and forgettable Kosuda in a bookshop. Eventually determining that he will do nicely, she now has to find the lucky lad and let him know. If only she could remember what he looked like…

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Mardock Scramble

15 year-old prostitute Rune Balot is in a limo ride with underground powerhouse Shell, thinking how she would like to die. Her wish comes true when he leaves her in the car and burns her to death. At that moment, she takes back her words, and again her wish is answered. Resurrected by Doctor Easter, she comes back as a cyborg. Œufcoque, a shape-shifting mouse, presents himself as her companion as she vows to take revenge on the man who killed her. However, Shell has his own demons and he doesn’t like the idea of being hunted by one he vaguely remembers dispatching. Will Rune succeed, and even if she does, can she find a reason to live beyond the violence?

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And you thought there is never a girl online?

Gamer Hideki Nishimura (AKA Rusian)’s last romantic venture ended in trauma: confessing his undying love to a catgirl online, only to be told she was a middle-aged man in real life. However, a year spent playing solo and Rusian returned to the in-game marriage system and wed support player Ako. All is going fine until his guild decide to have their first offline meeting, wherein Rusian will find out if his in-game wife is a real woman. He discovers there are bigger problems, though, like the fact that Ako can’t distinguish between games and reality, strongly believing the two are married offline, too. It’s up to Rusian and fellow guildmembers swordmaster Schwein, and premium player Apricot, to bring some sense into their deluded companion and show the good side of the real world.

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Last updated: Friday February 22, 2019