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A young video game developer encounters a strange sword.

Reiji Shishido, the heir to a massive conglomerate, is a high school student who falls in love in an online game. Using the premise of an event inside the game, he proposes to Sakura, a player he has feelings for, and they become a couple. However, he inadvertently learns that Sakura's true identity is Ryougo Asakura, a delinquent boy from his class?! The line between digital and real world romance gets blurred in this teen heir x delinquent BL! (Source: Square Enix)

On the brink of a major update, the lead developer of a full-sensory VR game uncovers a fatal bug and is pulled into the world he built. Trapped inside a stage that responds to touch, breath, and desire, he's offered a single way out: complete a cryptic quest from an unseen presence. As the game blurs sensation and control, survival means surrendering to rules far more intimate than code. (Source: Lezhin Entertainment)

A what-if story of the Fate/Grand Order 2020 Summer Event featuring Tomoe Gozen and Consort Yu.

One day, 27-year-old Haruto Sakurada is contacted by his childhood friend to play in a game show where people challenge professional gamers. (Source: MU)

"I'm not interested in attacking Aincrad! I aim to open a diner!" Yuzu and Hina, a brother and sister who are new to the game and just wanted to experience cooking in a VRMMO, are trapped in Sword Art Online. The choice they made was to master the "Cooking" skill! Together with other players who also love to cook, they form a party called the "Food Quest Group." They spend their days devoted to cooking, completing quests that reward them with delicious ingredients and rare cooking utensils, and trying to recreate modern Japanese cuisine. Spending their days entirely on cooking, they open a food stall. The menu is so ingenious that it has even captured the stomachs of the most determined players! A laid-back gourmet quest life in the world of SAO begins! (Source: Kadokawa, translated)

An anthology of Sword Art Online "what if" short stories by various authors and illustrators.

"Backyard" is a town where video game characters spend their time when they're not being controlled by their players. All the characters live in that single town, going beyond the boundaries of the game. Liz, one of the female characters in the action RPG game "SMOG", is attracted to Saratoga, her senpai in the game. However, this forbidden feeling becomes a bug in the save data...!? (Source: Akita Shoten, translated)

In the near future, the full-dive VR game Visions has taken Japan by storm. However, a flaw in the game leads to a series of fatal accidents involving players who remain logged in for extended periods. To halt the game, an attempt is made to force all players to log out, but a group of players rebel and barricade themselves within the game world. To evict these players and bring them back to reality, Kokoro Hato—a protagonist belonging to the Regional Welfare Department's Hikikomori Support Office—ventures into the world of Visions to make contact, but...? (Source: Kadokawa, translated)

Itsuki Kageyama, socially awkward and unable to fit in at her job, finds her one joy in life in an online game. One day, she meets Yoru, a new player, who, as they spend more time together, starts slowly changing Itsuki deep down. (Source: Bungeishunju, translated)

Self-proclaimed "part time warrior" Nanaka Futayado has too much time on her hands after all the places she worked at went out of business. It was then that her her pro gamer and live-streamer friend invited her to play "WorldLive-ONLINE," the world’s first VRMMO with an integrated live-streaming function. This is the exhilarating blugeoning story of an IRL cheat girl (age 21) who goes on a rampage in the VR world with a blunt weapon, striking fear into her live-stream viewers! (Source: Shousetsuka ni Narou, translated)

"I'm not interested in attacking Aincrad! I aim to open a diner!" Yuzu and Hina, a brother and sister who are new to the game and just wanted to experience cooking in a VRMMO, are trapped in Sword Art Online. The choice they made was to master the "Cooking" skill! Together with other players who also love to cook, they form a party called the "Food Quest Group." They spend their days devoted to cooking, completing quests that reward them with delicious ingredients and rare cooking utensils, and trying to recreate modern Japanese cuisine. Spending their days entirely on cooking, they open a food stall. The menu is so ingenious that it has even captured the stomachs of the most determined players! A laid-back gourmet quest life in the world of SAO begins! (Source: Kadokawa, translated)

Somewhere in a slightly different world line is the dimension known as Gamindustri. Neptune and her fellow goddess candidates are studying abroad at a human school to understand and learn about the humans they are protecting. A trial was given to Neptune, who had been spending every day lazily as peaceful days go by. The challenge is... to create a game?! (Source: Kadokawa, translated)

Rule #1: Don't reveal your identity Sarang may be a loner at work, but in the MMORPG game Black Star, she's a charismatic hero! So when the toxic Black Peng steals her thunder as the strongest player, she begins to feel conflicted. Now the search is on—is Black Peng the new Art Director, Junghoon? Or her childhood friend, Joonyoung? (Source: Manta)