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 horrifying monsters! From the author of Sword Art Online and Accel World comes a story beyond VR and AR, where gaming and reality are one and the same...and staying alive is just the beginning!
(Source: Yen Press)
A reborn princess embraces her fated marriage to the north, yet with wit and resolve she transforms the frontier, inspires a general to topple a corrupt dynasty, and abolishes the very institution that once doomed her.
A shadowy company claims it has been integrating artificial intelligence into human beings since 1967. Each self-contained episode follows a different protagonist who meets humAIn's technology at the moment they believe it will solve their biggest problem. Technology is not the villain. Human nature is.