The Valdias are a seemingly normal family of nobles that no one would expect to face a future full of death and condemnation—a fate which is about to be rewritten. After a mysterious accident, former salaryman and avid gamer Hajime Kanda wakes up as their eldest child, Reid, in the world of an otome game he once fully cleared. And he knows the terrible future that awaits them all.Reid may have been a petty villain in the main story, but he’s got exceptional stats that will help him...

Reid Valdia has gone through a whirlwind of events after regaining his memories of his previous life as a salaryman—he’s started a business, invented new spells, and even developed a medicine that can help recover mana! Thanks to the medicine he created with his magic tutor Sandra, his mother’s life is no longer in danger, but they still need to work on a cure.As if he doesn’t have enough on his plate, Reid’s father informs him that he must enter into a political marriage with the ...

After successfully thwarting the plans of the faction opposed to his marriage to Princess Farah, Reid can now focus on his second objective for his trip to Lenarute: finding rute grass, the ingredient he needs to make the silver bullet that could cure his mother’s mana depletion disorder. Thanks to his memories from his previous life, Reid already has a lead—he’s confident that he’ll find rute grass in the Evil Forest. Of course, the “nonconventional prodigy” isn’t going to return home wit...

Create interesting and expressive manga characters by learning the techniques of professional artists.This volume builds on the proven three-step technique presented in the companion volume, Drawing Basic Characters.Trace a simple outline of the characterAdd clothing, facial expressions and other details using the easy-to-follow tipsUse color and pen...

This workbook provides a revolutionary new 3-step tracing technique that beginning artists can use to quickly learn to draw manga characters just like a pro!Popular manga artists Junka Morozumi and Tomomi Mizuna guide you through a series of carefully graded lessons to build up your skills gradually. Each pose and scene has a star skill level, so you can build your way up from 1 to 5!Learn character poses ranging from standing, walking and running, to...

Create one-of-a-kind outfits with this essential guide to Japanese-style fantasy fashion!Using the authors' unique Costume Matrix, you will learn how to develop new and daring designs for your anime and manga characters and cosplay creations. First, choose a look to serve as your fashion foundation. Then select an alternate style and fuse it with the first fashion theme to create an unexpected ensemble combining elements have never before been seen together!

With summer break over, Lera returns to the royal capital to begin a new year at the noble academy. Hoping that this year won’t have any of the chaos of the previous, those hopes are quickly dashed when an older student starts bothering her. It’s not long before this incident drags her into a greater dispute she really wants no part of. If that’s not bad enough, she gets a surprise visit from her father, Ribbons is being her usual self, and Bear keeps foisting work onto her.On the ...

Ren thought his reward for being the first to clear the sequel to The Legend of the Seven Heroes would be personal satisfaction. So when he’s rewarded with “special content,” he quickly accepts...only to wake up as a baby in the game’s world. At first hoping he’s been reborn as the hero, Ren instead discovers his new life is that of the story’s shadowy antagonist, the figure suspected to be the mastermind behind the entire trilogy. Good thing Ren is fully intent on living a peaceful life i...

He cannot remember anything of his past life, not even his name. He can’t even remember the details of the novel he’s been reincarnated into. All the newly-awakened Vanitas Lindblum does remember is that he’s been cast as the villain in this world—and that by the novel’s end, he’s doomed to die. Determined to avoid that fate, he undertakes learning the ancient skill of Grasping Magic, which not one of his foes is able to wield. Along the way, the women enslaved by the evil Vanitas—destined...

They tried to silence her, but she doesn’t need a voice to twist the odds in her favor.When Liliana wakes up in the body of an otome game villainess, she knows it’s do or die. As the daughter of a duke and a candidate to marry the crown prince, she faces constant threats from assassins and her father’s political enemies. Worse still, a fever has left her mute, unable to call for help or use magic to defend herself.Or so they all think!One quick attempt is all it takes ...

Since Sienna was imprisoned, Laviange’s days have been peaceful ones. But her happy time with her new sacred beast, Dia, is interrupted by the church’s relentless envoys. The church claims they want to protect her, but they seem to have ulterior motives.Meanwhile, Laviange meets a particular young lady and can’t help noticing her talent and potential—although this young lady has her own secrets. Channeling ever more fervor into her anti-church activities, Laviange triumphantly takes...

Luke wasn’t sure what he would receive in his blessing ceremony, but his father certainly expected more than a seemingly useless and altogether strange blessing: the Village-Making Gift. Now disowned and exiled to the borderlands under the pretense of “reclaiming the barren wasteland,” Luke has nothing left to lose. He sets off for the wilderness with only a dream of a quiet life and a single loyal maid. But the moment they arrive at the desolate frontier, his mysterious Gift automatically...