A giant form looms ominously at the bottom of a dam…A god of karmic retribution meddles in human affairs…More inexplicable incursions await! What connection lies between the towering shadow at the foot of the dam and the strange monsters that entrap their prey with human voices? Daigo Katagishi of the Divine Incursions Special Investigations Division is on the case. Unfortunately for him, his partner this time around is Mitsuji Rokuhara, his boss and brother-in-law—and his least favorite p...

Homura and the girls cross the arid wastes with strict orders to bring the neighboring country of Zhorguan to its knees. If they succeed in their mission, Proto and Tsutsumi will finally be recognized as official Phalanx soldiers, so they have to see it through! The squad goes undercover, donning cursed collars to trick their foes and infiltrate the enemy town. However, unable to use magic, they soon find themselves in hot water. Proto steps up to protect those “feeble carbon lifeforms,” b...

THESE HEROES MIGHT BE MORE TROUBLE THAN THEY’RE WORTHHomura wants to light something, anything, on fire—and she finally gets her chance when she’s summoned to another world that’s desperate enough to ask her for help! Along with a group of similarly offbeat high school girls who all have their own powers, Homura sets off to incinerate evildoers and rein in the chaos caused by the Dark Lord’s resurrection. But what happens when these five oddballs get carried away? Will they actually save t...

THIS IS MORE THAN A GAME—THIS IS REAL LIFE.Sixth-grader Yuuma Ashihara and his twin sister, Sawa, are playing Actual Magic , a brand-new virtual reality MMORPG, when it suddenly begins fusing with the real world. Amid all the chaos and confusion, it becomes clear that death is lurking around every corner, including when Yuuma runs into his classmate Sumika. Before, she was one of the cutest girls in his class, but she’s since undergone a terrible metamorphosis—into one of the game’s horrif...

Katagishi of the Divine Incursion Special Investigations Department has been called in to solve a mystery in his own missing wife’s hometown. It’s as rural as rural gets, filled by families with names from Ichihara (“First field”) to Juuhara (“Tenth field”). In this isolated village, cut off from the larger community living at the base of the mountain, Katagishi might finally be able to uncover the true nature of the guardians known as the “Lonely Gods”...

THERE ARE TWO SIDES TO EVERY STORYInfected by a mysterious being called the Goddess and transformed into unthinking creatures of havoc and slaughter, abominations known as “heroes” wage an endless war of blind justice on monsters… never realizing that these monsters are actually fellow humans. Only Charon, an elite unit led by a young man named Azuma, stands a chance against these terrifying heroes. So what might happen when Kaguya, a headstrong young scientist, joins Charon’s ranks and wa...

The Federation’s Offensive—Rising Dawn. The Federation has been steadily preparing itself for the decisive battle. As the moment of truth rapidly approaches, the Empire which has long been on the offensive remains unaware of the threat. In these dire circumstances, only one person has noticed where everything is heading: Tanya. Zettour also refuses to simply watch and begins his grand plan to deceive the world. In the end, the one who will pull the trigger on this operation is a monster in...

None of the soldiers on the front can remember the last time they had a decent chance to eat, drink, or sleep—and yet the battle rages on. Hoping for a victory that will do little more than delay defeat, Tanya and her mages rush to the battlefield. They howl and struggle, a faint glimmer in the dark of twilight as Zettour finally lives up to his name as an enemy of the world. Will his master plan truly be enough to save the Empire?

Strange and terrible gods shake this world. They try to put it back in order. A village where titanic body parts fall from the sky. A small morgue that finds that every corpse it takes in arrives hollow, with all internal organs missing. A seaside town where the people dream of immortality and smile when they die… All in a day’s work for Katagishi and his junior, Miyaki, investigators from the Divine Incursions Special Investigations Division! Can they get to the bottom of these mysteries?...

FINDING FRIENDS AND FOES IN A BRAVE NEW WORLDThe latest VRMMORPG, Actual Magic, has sealed an entire class of sixth graders in a terrifying game of life and death. Countless dangers await eleven-year-old Yuuma and his friends. One of their classmates has been turned into a monster, and gargantuan beasts lurk around every corner. Their only hope? The demon Valac, who has possessed Yuuma’s twin sister. Following Valac’s guidance, Yuuma and his party set out to save their missing friend, Nagi...

After the success of their assault on the Russy Federation’s capital, Moskva, the 203rd Battalion is treated to a brief respite. As her comrades eagerly blow off steam Tanya confronts the mysterious “Being X.” She has vowed to chart the path of the Unified Era with her own hands, but an urgent message from Major Uga leaves her shaken: the city of Tigenhorf, the empire’s most crucial logistics hub, is under siege by Federation troops. The battle that will decide the fate of the entire Easte...

BETTER THE DEMON YOU KNOW THAN THE ONE YOU DON’T…The students of Yukihana Elementary School Class 6-1 remain trapped inside Althea, a mixed-reality hellscape. Yuuma wants everyone to work together to escape this nightmare, but an unexpected treachery leaves several of his classmates turned to stone. A surprise attack with unclear motives, a betrayal from a trusted ally, a disturbing new stat called a “demonization ratio”…and now Aria has transformed into a demon, just like Sawa! In order t...