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In the VR game Legend World, people earn money by selling items in the real world, but ordinary player Yak wants more than just making ends meet. Then one day he gets a mysterious reward, Gigantes Dark, a pet-class item worth 1.5 billion won! Finally thinking he's made it, Yak is dismayed to learn that, as a pet, Dark can't be sold. However, as there's no limit to how powerful Dark can become, Yak decides to raise him. Can Yak be a good parent for Dark and rise to the top of the Legend World? (Source: Tapas Media)

Is the world in front of you real, or is it only a game? Nobuteru, a senior high school student who wandered into the street racing game world of Drive-A-Live, begins a series of hard races that he must win to survive! While everyone around him is talking about driver's licenses and cars, third-year high school student Nobuteru hates anything of the sort; when he was in elementary school, he and his younger brother Takahiro were involved in a car accident. While he came out with just a few scratches, his brother lost his leg. One day Takahiro suddenly disappears without a trace of leaving to be found in his room. When Nobuteru investigates the room, he sees Takahiro on the screen of a racing game he had left on, and once he grabs the controller... (Source: Shogakukan, translated)

"Where am I? What... am I?" Gold Armored Sword Dragon, the boss monster of Demon Palace's 7th floor and the Guardian of the Abyss, becomes self-aware and awakens in a game world! Gold Armored Sword Dragon is a giant dragon covered in golden scales, but he takes on a human form once he withstands a set number of attacks. He's a rare character in the game "New Legend of Mir," a supposedly authentic martial arts game. Dorothy, the girl who call him "Geum Ryong" (Gold Dragon)... Jeok Chan-Woon, the attack force's leader and commander of the Red Blood Group... and Gepetto, who goes by the nickname, "Dumplinghead Girl"... Their story takes place inside the world of Murim within the virtual-reality martial arts game, "New Legend of Mir!" (Source: Kakao Entertainment Corp., translated)

Haruto Renge, a novelist who has lived since the Kamakura period, is a vampire with an aversion to blood. Due to his catastrophic lack of technological skills, he has been leading a super analog lifestyle. However, during a meeting one day, his editor suggests that he write his next manuscript within a cutting-edge VRMMO game. With both excitement and anxiety, he steps into this new world, only to be greeted by sunlight for the first time in hundreds of years and a variety of delicious foods that he could never enjoy in reality. He quickly becomes enthralled with the game... "Wait, what? My brainwaves aren't human—so I'm being treated like an NPC? A cardiac arrest and an ambulance is being called? Whoa, whoa, hold on a second!" This gentle vampire, a total newbie gamer, starts hopping between the game and the real world. Unknowingly, he begins to drag those around him into a slapstick VRMMORPG adventure! (Source: TO Books, translated)

Takahashi Daigo is a NEET who participates in small video game events for money. One day he meets a girl named Elena who makes him her apprentice and leads him to the world of e-sports.

The story is about a young boy named Arashi Ishino who is obsessed with video games. He would spend all his time trying to beat the games and conquer the local arcades. He would meet competitors like Satoru Daimonji and Ishii, who would try to out match him with higher scores. At a certain point in each episode, he would display his special skill of unleashing a top which will spin so fast that both the top and his hands would catch on fire. On release, the spin would land on or near the cabinet panels, turning the ordinary button into a turbo button thus giving him a major advantage. His appearance is known for being bucktoothed, and he always wears a hat labeled "Arashi" with a picture of a sprited alien. (Source: Wikipedia)

Nogami Hajime is a player who enjoys game challenges such as clearing things at the lowest level possible or playing games with one character. In the VRMMORPG, he plays as Ichino, taking advantage of a certain system in the game which allows him to modify his exp gain such that he remains Level 1, giving him the nickname of "Complete Novice." Three months before the start of the story, his sister, Nogami Ren, had her character data split into 8 key items called "Memory Fragments" when a cracker hacked into the game system. Though the company tried to respond to this, the cracker sent a message to them saying "Continue to manage the game as it is. If you try anything, the same thing will happen to other players." Hajime, along with his father who is one of the game developers, Nogami Jin, and some of his coworkers, decide to do everything they can by the rules. With information he finds from players in game and information his father finds by sifting through the game data, Hajime goes is on a search for the Memory Fragments. (Source: Animesuki)

Nina is popular, fashionable, and dating one of the coolest guys in school... But no one knows that she's secretly crazy for video games! When she's playing her favorite, Rode, for the hundredth time, something strange happens--she falls asleep, and wakes up to a cat telling her she's actually been transported to Rode! It's all just a dream... right? (Source: Which Scanlations).

No family, no home, and no savings—the Nakata brothers, Kanade and Kaname, have lost it all. So when a mysterious app offers to help them find lucrative work, what choice do they have but to sign up? Introduced to a gamified system of bounties, the two soon come face-to-face with the "odd" in odd jobs—the dangerous creatures they must now fight. But Kanade and Kaname have no choice: To make money, they'll have to take down these monsters called Worlds...or die trying. (Source: Yen Press)

Dimension Wave—a super popular VRMMO game where players can experience several years of fantasy in just twenty-four hours of real time. Enticed by the entry ticket his sisters won, a young man takes part in the project's Second Wave. However, as soon as he enters the world of the game, he finds that his sisters have played a trick: he's been transformed into a girl with the cringy name Kizuna†Exceed. But instead of letting it get to him, he decides to chill and take this new life as it comes. Without sparing a fraction of a second deciding, Kizuna immediately chooses to fish rather than fight on the front lines in this fantasy world. Alongside his sisters, Kanade and Tsumugi, a Japanese-style beauty named Shouko, Yamikage the fake ninja, and other quirky comrades, he works to enjoy his second life to the fullest. (Source: J-Novel Club)

Famicom, PlayStation, Sega Saturn... Two present day high school girls, fascinated by the retro games that once captivated the world, passionately discuss their thoughts about games! Will it be a rivalry or friendship that blossoms between them?! (Source: Kodansha, translated)

Chitose is a high school baseball player who had to abandon baseball due to an injury. One day, when Chitose was spending a boring day off without any goal, Chitose's life changed completely with a "VRMMO game" that was suddenly sent by his sister Haruka! "Oy Onii-chan, let's play a game together in our spare time!" A high school baseball player became a gamer at the invitation of his cute sister!? Using his "excellent baseball sense" to enjoy a fun game in a VR world! (Source: Gentosha Comics, translated)

Aimi Asoyama, a first-year high school student, hatches a grand plan to search for a lost friend by playing the popular VRMMORPG Real LIFE Online 2 and becoming a popular streamer. She starts playing as an apprentice saintess with seemingly the best appearance, but... it's a transcendentally obscure and peaky job class with not a single active player in the world. With 5 HP, paper-thin defensive power, and super-specialized magic and MP that can't take charge of the front or rear guard, it's a joke class. However, by chance, she acquires the unique skill Auto Heal and the world is completely changed...? This is the legendary story of a slightly foolish saintess who becomes a popular streamer and leaves her mark on the annals of gaming. (Source: Akita Shoten, translated)

Sky World takes place in the eponymous world of the MMORPG, Sky World. One day, thousands of players woke up to find themselves in the world. Junichirou Mikimori is one of these players who has now come to live in Sky World. The story begins with Junichirou on Altaria Island. There, he encounters an all-female guild and befriends two of its members. Together, they decide to leave Altaria Island and journey to the highest point of the world: Aion Island, in hopes of being able to find a way back to the real world. (Source: NanoDesu)

A sequel to the Sword Art Online the Movie: Ordinal Scale which was included with the limited edition Blu-Ray and DVD release of the movie.

After rising to the top as the strongest MMA fighter, Kwon Youngmin decides to retire from all competitions and enjoy a lazy, carefree life. However, his plans go slightly awry when a gamer calls him out in the virtual game "Final Saga," provoking him to join. Clueless to gaming but reluctant to lose in any way, Youngmin logs into the game with a new goal of becoming #1. Can this former MMA Master take complete control and become the top player in this virtual world? (Source: Tapas Media)

"I'll never be a main character." Our hero has lost all hope in life when a mysterious woman suddenly appears before him, pleading with him to "save the world." What ends up in his hand? A game controller! Can he actually save the world?! (Source: MANGA Plus)