Sarcophagus City is devoid of life. The Junker enters to search for valuable loot and the like in order to survive in the post-apocalyptic world the eternal rain has left him in. However, as he scans for a rare bottle of alcohol, he is chased by the city’s defending robots onto the roof of a large, decrepit department store. Inside, he is greeted by a cheerful humanoid robot named Yumemi Hoshino. In this rooftop planetarium that hasn’t seen a visitor in nearly thirty years, the Junker finds that not only does it miraculously still have electricity, but it also has a projector that can show him what nobody has seen in who knows how long: the stars. The only problem is that it’s not exactly in the best condition…

Together, shut-ins and siblings Sora and Shiro form the urban legend known as ‘blank’ – an undefeated player at the top of every game’s leaderboard who leaves their name blank. Unfortunately, their unparalleled skill and fear of the outside world has led them to become bored. That is, until Tet, the god of play, invites them to join his world of Disboard. Be it wars, arguments or even royal heirs, there everything is determined by games. Launched into their dream world, the two quickly find themselves capable of becoming the rulers of Imanity, a race bearing no magic and nearly no land. Together with the previous king’s daughter, the two embark on a quest to bring Imanity to glory and challenge the god who sent them there.

Takeo Gōda has no luck with women. Every woman he’s tried to confess to has either flat out rejected him and gone after his pretty-boy best friend, Suna, or just gone after his pretty-boy best friend, Suna. For some reason, though, he keeps rejecting them. However, one day, Takeo spots the gorgeous Rinko Yamato being harassed on the train and he decides to step in. Armed with bulging muscles, incredible height and a menacing glare, he saves her from those icky, wandering hands. It’s looking like Takeo’s very own love story might begin when she shows up to thank him with a homemade cake. Unfortunately, it seems that she might have also fallen for his best friend. Though dejected, Takeo becomes resolved to bring the two together, but is that really what they want?

When the Demon God awakens, the Goddess of Fate brands six warriors with the crest of six flowers, tasking them to defeat it. Adlet Myer – the self-proclaimed ‘strongest man in the world’ – is chosen as one of these six blessed braves. He travels to the meeting point of the so-called ‘braves of the six flowers’ with a princess and some others he meets along the way. However, when they arrive, not only is there a fog barrier confining them to a temple and its surrounding forest, but seven crested braves show up. The worst part is that they’re convinced Adlet is the fake siding with their enemy…

Yū Otosaka is one of few adolescents who develop superpowers and better yet he’s got one that lets him take over a target’s body for five seconds. Of course, he uses it to cheat on every test, get into a prestigious high school and even get the most popular girl in said school as his girlfriend. However, his dream-life is cut short when he is forced to transfer by the student council president of another high school. As with everyone at this other school, she has superpowers, but unlike Yū, she’s using them to save others from the cruel fate that befell her brother. When Yū is conscripted to join her efforts, he soon learns what destiny has in store for all ability wielders.

Haruhiro awakens in another world alongside many others who, like him, don’t remember their own identities. With few options, Haruhiro joins the Volunteer Soldiers, forms a party with the leftovers and tries his best to make enough money to survive. With no kills under their belts and a purse that is getting dangerously thin, the group realise they will have to push their amateur strength if they want food for the foreseeable future. However, it’s not long before the group also realise how easy it is for a life to be snuffed out when it happens to one of their own. Their already-shoddy teamwork is pushed to breaking point as they try to deal with the loss and keep living in the mysterious world of Grimgar.

Ganta Igarashi is a seemingly normal student preparing, like his classmates, to go to ‘Deadman Wonderland’ for the class trip. He gets there, but not in the way he expected. When Ganta is framed for the brutal murder of his entire class, he is immediately afforded a place in the famous attraction, where he discovers he – and the other prisoners – will have to regularly compete in death games if they want to live. However, Ganta has a balance-tipping secret that lets him use his blood as a weapon and he might be able to use it to find a way out.

Timid Naho Takamiya receives a letter one day supposedly from herself ten years in the future. Though she is initially disbelieving, she begins to reconsider her opinion when it perfectly recounts everything that happens to her that day – including the introduction of a transfer student. Naho and her friends quickly befriend new boy Kakeru Naruse, despite her letter’s wish to wait a day. As she reads on, she finds she must forgo her timidness and her questions when the letter promises to help her save Kakeru. It seems he might not be the calm, laid-back person she thought he was…

Undersea dweller Hikari Sakashima’s school has been shut down, forcing him to seek education on the surface with his other classmates. On land, the four face the unwelcoming results of an unstable relationship between the surface and the undersea dwellers. This isn’t helped by the fact that the clumsy and charming girl Hikari likes seems to have taken a liking to one of said surface inhabitants. But maybe – just maybe – there’s a friendship to be made between them that could show the adults a thing or two about coexistence.

After being caught in the middle of a desperate peeping operation, the first five male students in a co-ed school are exposed to the establishment’s unusual punishment system. Rather than be expelled, the students have been allowed to serve time as prisoners where their sins will be forgiven if they can keep out of trouble for long enough. Except, it would seem that on the day they were arrested, Kiyoshi found a girl he’s interested in who seems interested in him as well. In order to fulfil the promises he made to her, he might just have to break a few rules. Good job he’s not the only one who wants to breakout…