Influence Incident (Light Novel) - Recommendations

• Vol: 2; Ch: 11
• 2005 - 2006

She is my best friend – we hardly see each other, but she always tags along when I go home. She is my hateful nemesis – she slaughtered my family and she's going to pay for it. She is my fellow partner – together, we save the world from humanoid energies. She is my... What do she and her absurdly beautiful smile mean to you?

• Vol: 3
• 2004

• Ch: 41
• 2019 - 2020

• Vol: 1+; Ch: 16+
• 2021 - ?

• Vol: 9; Ch: 50
• 2017 - 2022

Everyone in Class 2-D of Kairei Private Middle School receives an e-mail at the beginning of the school year detailing a "class hierarchy." But the number one ranked Tsubaki Himeyama clears away the unrest this causes with her sunny disposition. Normalcy returns to the class... until Himeyama is found to have killed herself on campus. And once her classmates return from her funeral, they find suicide notes addressed to them on their desks! Will these notes expose the darkness class 2-D conceals?!

• Vol: 3; Ch: 21
• 2004 - 2005

Juu Juuzawa is a tough kid in a rough town. One day, he is approached by an odd girl by the name of Ame, who claims that she was connected to him in a past life and insists on serving as Juu's knight. His first reaction is to ignore her, distancing himself as quickly as possible. However, when a serial killer murders one of Juu's classmates and Ame seems to know something about the killings, he is forced into cooperating with her to get to the bottom of the mystery. Can this enigmatic stranger really be trusted?

• Vol: 7; Ch: 69
• 2015 - 2018

Life at the Yanagizawa private high school is boring for all attending students who prefer to stare at their smartphones for most of the day, just playing games and chatting to each other. Everyone’s dormant lifestyle though seems to awaken when they are asked to vote for a classmate who will be asked to clear a task or otherwise become the “sacrifice” and suffer a “social death”! What does this mean though? Who will be the first one to be voted and what is a “social death”? The students will find out very soon that some games are far from innocent…

• Vol: 1; Ch: 4
• 2003

When Chiko found a cell phone and answered it at school one day, she had no idea that the voice on the other end would foretell of an upcoming death that afternoon. Though she hopes it’s just a bad joke Chiko soon discovers that the death is real and more are to come – unless she puts a stop to them. Now, with each call she answers, Chiko has one more person to try to save in time. Alongside her classmate Bando, Chiko will race against the clock in hopes of saving lives – but who is the voice on the other end of the phone?

• Vol: 1+; Ch: 18+
• 2023 - ?

Ougokujima: a heavenly island where everyone, adults and students alike, can live happily and peacefully. It's said that if you can live on this island, you're sure to have a rich and fulfilling school life that will make your youth incredibly satisfying... But all of that is only the island's outward appearance. In truth, the entire island is a place of insanity, filled with nothing but believers being manipulated by a certain cult religion. Every single one of the island's inhabitants have placed their faith in... "youth"?! That's right. Apparently leading a life in which one has celebrated youth to its fullest will bring a person the closest they can possibly get to God. Thus each day, all the islanders behave as if they are the main character of their own story... But since transfer student Shuuichi Mugi has realized the truth behind this island, will he be able to avoid all the insane "stories of youth" that happen one after another, and escape from the island of cult followers?!

• Vol: 1; Ch: 4
• 2017