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Youkoso Jitsuryoku Shijou Shugi no Kyoushitsu e

Also known as Classroom of the Elite.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Psychological , Slice of Life , Thriller

Students of the prestigious Tokyo Metropolitan Advanced Nurturing High School are given remarkable freedom—if they can win, barter, or save enough points to work their way up the ranks! Ayanokoji Kiyotaka has landed at the bottom in the scorned Class D, where he meets Horikita Suzune, who’s determined to rise up the ladder to Class A. Can they beat the system in a school where cutthroat competition is the name of the game?



Includes Volumes: 4.5, 7.5, 11.5
Included Chapters: 14 Prologues, 13 Epilogues, 1 Extra

Tags: School , Primarily Teen Cast , Male Protagonist , Anti-Hero , Battle Royale , Ensemble Cast , Politics , Revenge , Fugitive , Survival , Heterosexual , Denpa , Philosophy , Coming of Age , Boarding School , Classic Literature , Conspiracy , School Club , Tragedy , Bullying , Disability , Tsundere , Athletics , Torture , Kuudere , Delinquents , Female Harem , Martial Arts , Rehabilitation , Love Triangle , Suicide , Board Game , Yandere , Teacher

Seishun Buta Yarou wa Bunny Girl Senpai no Yume wo Minai

Also known as Rascal Does Not Dream of Bunny Girl Senpai.

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Psychological , Romance , Supernatural

Book 1 of the Seishun Buta Yarou series.

Out of sight, out of mind! Bunny girls do not live in libraries. This is simply common sense. And yet, that's exactly where Sakuta finds one in the wild. More bewildering is who the bunny girl is: Mai Sakurajima, a girl one year older than Sakuta, famous at their school for her acting career even though she's currently on break. To top it all off, it seems like no one else in the library can see Mai at all, no matter what she does or...wears. Wanting to find out more about this mystery and maybe get a little closer to this beautiful upperclassman in the process, Sakuta launches an investigation to discover why an unforgettable bunny girl keeps becoming totally invisible.



Tags: Urban Fantasy , Primarily Female Cast , Coming of Age , School , Time Manipulation , Amnesia , Male Protagonist , Ensemble Cast , Hikikomori , Bullying , Idol

Bakemonogatari

Also known as Bakemonogatari: Monster Tale.

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Mystery , Romance , Supernatural

The first part of the Monogatari Series.

There’s a girl at their school who is always ill. She routinely arrives late, leaves early, or doesn’t show up at all, and skips gym as a matter of course. She’s pretty, and the boys take to whispering that she’s a cloistered princess. As the self-described worst loser in her class soon finds out, they just don’t know what a monster she is. So begins a tale of mysterious maladies that are supernatural in origin yet deeply revealing of the human psyche, a set of case files as given to unexpected feeling as it is to irreverent humour.



Note: The English release and the JP ebook edition have Bakemonogatari split across three volumes, instead of the original two volumes.

Tags: Urban Fantasy , Male Protagonist , Vampire , Philosophy , Achronological Order , Meta , Gods , Primarily Teen Cast , Coming of Age , Ghost , Primarily Female Cast , Denpa , Heterosexual , School , Dissociative Identities , Ensemble Cast , Tomboy , Nekomimi , Shounen

Jaku-Chara Tomozaki-kun

Also known as Bottom-Tier Character Tomozaki.

Status: Releasing
Genres: Comedy , Romance , Slice of Life

Tomozaki is one of the best gamers in Japan, and in his opinion, the game of real life is one of the worst. No clear-cut rules for success, horribly balanced, and nothing makes sense. But then he meets a gamer who's just as good as him, and she offers to teach him a few exploits...



Tags: Rehabilitation , School , Philosophy , Male Protagonist , Coming of Age , Video Games , Love Triangle , Satire , Bullying

Suzumiya Haruhi no Yuuutsu

Also known as The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya.

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Psychological , Sci-Fi , Slice of Life , Supernatural

Kyon, your typical high school student, has long given up his belief in the supernatural. However, upon meeting Haruhi Suzumiya, he quickly finds out that it is the supernatural that she is interested in; aliens, time travelers and espers among other things. When Haruhi laments about the lack of intriguing clubs around school, Kyon inspires Haruhi to form her own club. As a result, the SOS Brigade is formed, a club which specializes in all that is the supernatural.

Much to his chagrin, Kyon, along with the silent bookworm, Yuki Nagato, the shy and timid Mikuru Asahina, and the perpetually smiling Itsuki Koizumi, are recruited as members. The story follows the crazy adventures that these four endure under their whimsical leader, Haruhi.

Note: Includes a prologue and epilogue.

Tags: Philosophy , School Club , School , Urban Fantasy , Tsundere , Aliens , Parody , Gods , Achronological Order , Time Manipulation , Kuudere , Primarily Teen Cast , Surreal Comedy , Female Protagonist , Male Protagonist , Alternate Universe , Chuunibyou , Maids , Memory Manipulation , Conspiracy , Otaku Culture

Sakurasou no Pet na Kanojo

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Romance , Slice of Life

Kanda Sorata is a second year high school art student who was recently kicked out of the school's dorm because he was found keeping a cat in his room. Sorata begins to live in the apartment house "Sakurasou", infamous for its eccentric residents. Here, Sorata is asked to take care of one of his classmates, Shiina Mashiro. Although she is a brilliant, world-class painter, she is extremely clumsy and lacking in common sense. And thus begins the story of the master and his pet.

Tags: Coming of Age , Drawing , Kuudere , Female Harem , Boarding School

Toradora!

Also known as Toradora!.

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Romance

The original light novel that inspired the hit manga and anime series!

Takasu Ryuuji might look like a thug, but he’s actually a nice guy. Making friends when you’ve got an unintentionally scary face is tough–and don’t even get him started on girlfriends. But with his secret crush in his class, the start of his second year of high school is off to a good start…until he crosses paths with Aisaka Taiga. Beautiful, frightening, and not quite five feet tall, the girl known as the Palmtop Tiger is the one person in school even scarier than Ryuuji himself–and he’s just made the mistake of making her very, very angry.



Tags: School , Tsundere , Female Protagonist , Coming of Age , Unrequited Love , Heterosexual , Male Protagonist , Love Triangle , Primarily Teen Cast , Tragedy , Female Harem

Youkoso Jitsuryoku Shijou Shugi no Kyoushitsu e: 2-nensei-hen

Also known as Classroom of the Elite: Year 2.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Psychological , Thriller

Students of the prestigious Tokyo Metropolitan Advanced Nurturing High School are given remarkable freedom–if they can win, barter, or save enough points to work their way up the ranks! Ayanokouji Kiyotaka started at the bottom in the scorned Class D, where he met Horikita Suzune, who was determined to rise up the ladder to Class A. Who can beat the system in a school where cutthroat competition is the name of the game? The second year of this intense school drama begins now!



Includes Volumes: 4.5, 9.5, 12.5
Included Chapters: 15 Prologues and 15 Epilogues.

Tags: School , Male Protagonist , Anti-Hero , Ensemble Cast , Boarding School , Philosophy , Conspiracy , Heterosexual , Coming of Age , Survival , Primarily Teen Cast , Battle Royale , Politics , Fugitive , Bullying , Revenge , Classic Literature , Delinquents , Card Battle , Orphan , Seinen , Torture , Martial Arts , Disability , Dissociative Identities , School Club , Athletics , Tsundere , Calligraphy , Love Triangle , Kuudere , Female Harem , Suicide , Yandere , Maids , Tragedy

Kokoro Connect

Also known as Kokoro Connect.

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Drama , Romance , Slice of Life , Supernatural

5 boys and girls full-shuffled! 5-way love pentagon comedy! At clubhouse room 401, there gathers "anything goes" members of the culture study society. Pro-wrestling otaku Taichi Yaegashi, mysterious beauty Iori Nagase, cool Himeko Inaba, the clown Yoshifumi Aoki and fancy-loving Yui Kiriyama found the noisy but calm days suddenly come to a halt. The personality switched among the members--. The unnatural days of changinging into "someone" by getting back to "themselves" by becoming "someone else" has started!

Tags: School , Love Triangle , Urban Fantasy , School Club , Coming of Age , Philosophy , Ensemble Cast , LGBTQ+ Themes , Primarily Teen Cast , Body Swapping , Heterosexual , Bullying , Amnesia , Memory Manipulation , Dissociative Identities , Gender Bending , Tsundere , Age Regression , Male Protagonist

Chitose-kun wa Ramune Bin no Naka

Also known as Chitose Is in the Ramune Bottle.

Status: Releasing
Genres: Comedy , Drama , Romance , Slice of Life

Being popular isn’t easy. It’s hard to beat Saku Chitose. The most popular kid in his high school? Check. An ironclad reputation that can weather even vicious online attacks? Check. A group of friends as attractive on the outside as they are inside? Check. But when a teacher asks for his help bringing back a student who has been shut away in his room for months, Saku’s perfect world will never be the same. What is this, some kind of normie harem story...?



Note: The series won the Award of Excellence in the 13th installment of the Shogakukan Light Novel Award in 2018 under the title "Ramune no Bin ni Shizunda Biidama no Tsuki" (ラムネの瓶に沈んだビー玉の月). It was later renamed to "Chitose-kun wa Ramune Bin no Naka" for the official publication.

Tags: Female Harem , School , Primarily Teen Cast , Coming of Age , Philosophy , Rural , Male Protagonist , Rehabilitation , Baseball , Basketball