The Asterisk War (Light Novel) - Recommendations

• Vol: 1+; Ch: 1+
• 2022 - ?

• Vol: 13+
• 2019 - ?

At Academy Island, everything is settled through "Games" waged for a certain number of stars, with the strongest student being granted the ranking of Seven Stars. Hiroto, a transfer student, unexpectedly beats the strongest empress and becomes the pseudo-strongest in the school! A mind game of lies and bluffs begins!

• Vol: 3+; Ch: 18+
• 2016 - ?

Konno Wataru is the only male student at the prestigious St. Justine Girls High School, a boarding school built on a solitary island in the ocean.The reality of this school where daughters of rich and famous families gather is a cruel sanctuary where the "student council" dominates with pleasure and pain...

• Vol: 1; Ch: 33
• 2007 - 2016

Fujisako Aiko is a nice but somewhat solitary girl attending the beautiful and isolated Enishida Academy, a boarding school on a lush, walled-off island. One day while wandering through the island's woods, she peeks out from behind some trees to to see two foreign-looking girls around her age in a forest clearing. One is cold and pretty. Another is cheerful and happy. In spite of their differences, Aiko soon finds out they are sisters from a royal family from another kingdom! Swept up into their luxurious surroundings and their large household of brothers and sisters, she is happy with her new friends. But what is this subtle wrongness she senses from time to time? And how come she feels so drawn to the obsidian eyes of the coldest sister of them all?

• Vol: 17; Ch: 141
• 2009 - 2017

In the mechanized city of Liverpool, a Japanese student and his beautiful female companion enter the most prestigious magic academy in the world–the place all puppeteers dream of going. There, students use automatons and living dolls to fight against each other in the quest to become the world’s best puppeteer.

• Vol: 5; Ch: 21
• 2009 - 2011

To find the end of the sky and sea, we went on a journey aboard the flying island Isla. A boy who lost everything in the revolution. The lonely girl who calls the wind, who became the revolution's symbol. The young pilots set out aboard the flying island Isla to find the end of the sky. Friendship, love, adventure... and each of them have something they want to protect. An epic story of love and dogfights begins now.

• Vol: 9
• 1984 - 1995

Follow the adventures of Filena, a female slave and gladiator brought up as a boy in the ocean kingdom of Filosena, which is in the middle of a revival. The ruling empire offers gladiatorial games to keep the masses happy, however they use young boys to be trained as gladiators for the games, and force the girls into prostitution.

• Vol: 3; Ch: 13
• 2022 - 2023

• Vol: 7; Ch: 43
• 2016 - 2019

In a world consisting of many floating islands, a young man named Gran has dreamed of taking to the skies and exploring them since his father disappeared years ago, leaving a message for his son to meet him at Estalucia, Island of the Astrals. When a mysterious girl named Lyria literally falls out of the sky trying to escape the evil Erste Empire who held her captive, her life becomes entangled with Gran's and his long-awaited journey finally begins. Together with their companions, former imperial soldier Catalina and the baby dragon Vyrn, they take to the heavens, exploring the many mysteries of their world while trying to avoid being captured by their enemies.

• Vol: 12
• 2011 - 2016

Kimito Kagurazaka is an ordinary high school student. One day, he is enrolled in a school where its female students are cut off from the rest of the world to keep their innocence. This comes after a large number of graduates fail to cope with the outside world. However, the school thinks that Kagurazaka is a homosexual with a muscle fetish, but Kagurazaka has no choice but to cooperate after he learns that the alternative is castration.