A Certain Magical Index: Apocrypha Archive (Light Novel) - Recommendations

• Vol: 2; Ch: 10
• 2006

Petrograd, Russia, at the turn of the twentieth century. Throughout Europe a vampiric menace stalks the streets: Chiropterans - incredibly strong, inhuman monsters. A new organization of vampire hunters named Red Shield battles to stop the beasts, but they are outnumbered in the face of the superior might of the creatures. All that stands between the creatures and the end of humanity is a lone girl - Saya! This first of two novels will explore the history of the Chiropteran menace, how Saya and her enigmatic mentor Hagi first met, and the inner secrets of the Red Shield organization.

• Vol: 1; Ch: 8
• 1968 - 1973

When a Nazi lieutenant is sentenced to death for war crimes, he expects to escape with his life, but hubris is his downfall. A female android marries for love but is soon lost, and she must deal with the consequences. After a married man finds out his city is being experimented on, he tries to save the people while struggling with adulterous thoughts. On a dark and lonely road, a cabby picks up a shady man who threatens him, but little does his passenger know the cabby is not as he seems. An educated man falls in love with an elusive woman who has a life altering secret. American school kids learn the cruelty of war. A revolutionary fails his revolution, and an interstellar peace conference does not yield the hoped for results when space hippies defy peace conventions.

• Vol: 1; Ch: 8
• 2001

• Vol: 1; Ch: 13
• 2012 - 2013

• Vol: 1
• 2016

• Vol: 11+
• 1996 - ?

Ryoko Yakushiji is the gifted and beautiful Superintendent of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police; no matter what the problem – science gone wrong or supernatural monsters – it seems there is nothing she cannot solve. With her new partner, the mild mannered Junichiro Izumida, she sets about tackling some of Tokyo's most terrible crimes. However, as Izumida quickly discovers, Ryoko's talent comes with a big ego and some strange personal baggage; cleaning up the streets of Tokyo becomes not just a matter of finding the bad guys, but trying to survive Ryoko's attitude problem as well!

• Vol: 1; Ch: 10
• 2017

Autumn, 2015. With the arrest of the youth called Miyashiro Takuru, the succession of bizarre serial killing cases known as the “Return of the New Generation Madness” which shook the streets of Shibuya had ended, but not without casting a shadow over Shibuya and its people. Yamazoe Uki. Kazuki Hana. Arimura Hinae. Kunosato Mio. Minamisawa Senri. Onoe Serika. For these girls who were by his side in the heart of the incident, what was it that they had thought and ascertained up till now, half a year after those cases—.

• Vol: 2; Ch: 25
• 1968 - 1977

• Vol: 3; Ch: 17
• 1969 - 1970

A man from the slums faces his doppelganger from the other side of the tracks; three guests visiting a hot spring are reminded of their past sins by a magical ringing bell only they can hear; stranded on the moon, an astronaut is stuck within a crater, sustained for a century by a mysterious life-giving gaseous fume the moon crater expels. The Crater is a collection of self-contained short stories, ranging from horror, mystery, to science fiction.

• Vol: 2; Ch: 26
• 2016 - 2018