Juni Taisen: Zodiac War (Light Novel) - Recommendations

• Vol: 2+; Ch: 11+
• 2022 - ?

In this manga continuation of Battle Royale, Project 68, now run by a diabolical government AI, returns. Once more, high school students will fight to the death.

• Vol: 1; Ch: 10
• 2011 - 2012

Viewers participate in a heavily advertised new quiz show where the winner earns one hundred million yen. But waiting there is a cruel game of death and competition. What will be the fate of the ten finalists? And just what is the true purpose of the quiz?

• Ch: 100
• 2017 - 2021

Sonnya's brother Milo is missing, and the only clue she has to his disappearance is a mysterious text message. She discovers Milo is somehow involved with the now-defunct RPG game, "Freak-quency," which was stopped for good reason: players were disappearing. To her horror, she also finds that the game is no longer confined to computers, and has found a new home in the world of the living. Just what was Milo mixed up in? Finding Milo means she'll have to play... and it's anyone's guess what the game has in store for her.

• Vol: 3; Ch: 21
• 2016 - 2019

Her name is Alice. One day, she wandered into a crazy tea party. Alice, the leader of a popular idol group, found herself in an unknown forest. Little Red Riding Hood, Thumbelina, Snow White... The heroines of fairy tales appear one after another. What's different from the fairy tales is that their forms are disfigured. The heroines, who have met an "unfortunate end," are said to be killing each other in a "Heroine's Game" to change their fate. So begins a beautfiul yet cruel fairy tale heroine battle royale.

• Vol: 4; Ch: 15
• 2011 - 2013

A group of 15 elite high-school students are gathered at a very special, high-class high school. To graduate from this high school essentially means you'll succeed in life, but graduating is very difficult. The school is presided over by a bear called Monokuma, and he explains to them that their graduation hinges around committing a murder. The only way to graduate is to kill one of your classmates and get away with it. If the other classmates discover the identity of the killer, the killer is the only one executed. However, if they fail to catch the killer, only the killer graduates and the others are annihilated. Which of the 15 will survive the bloodbath to come?

• Vol: 2; Ch: 19
• 2003 - 2004

Makoto Hashimoto is unlucky – so unlucky that she's scared she'll cause her entire class to be nominated for the horrific game The Program, even though all of the participating teams have already been chosen for the year. However, when she and the group embark on a field trip, they soon find themselves in the middle of an even deadlier scenario. Forced to attend 'Defense School', they must survive attacks and the wrath of each other – not to mention the exploding collars around their necks - to graduate. Can Makoto and her classmates survive a day, let alone the time it takes to graduate?

• Ch: 19
• 2016

In the city where the desires storm, the murder game with a prize of 100 million has begun

• Vol: 3+
• 2006 - ?

• Vol: 22; Ch: 123
• 2002 - 2011

Sakai Yuuji thought he was a normal high school student, until one fateful day when time stopped. Watching in horror, he witnesses a monster devouring the "frozen" people around him; but luckily for Yuuji, he is saved by a sword-wielding red-headed girl that calls herself a "Flame Haze". The girl informs him that he has been dead for some time now and that his current self is merely a replacement for the human that he used be while alive. He is, she says, merely a torch whose life will come to an end when the blue flame in his chest ceases to burn. After this rude awakening, Yuuji realizes that he is able to see the flames of life in other "torches"; and after discovering that a friend of his is also a torch -- and her life is burning out faster than his – he gains the courage to live out the rest of his life with meaning. Will Yuuji be able to find his place in the world before he ceases to exist?

• Vol: 2; Ch: 17
• 2012

Yuki is a disaffected middle school boy who has no dreams or goals in life; in fact, the only thing he has is his diary. Writing down everything he observes and documenting every thought, the young boy uses it as an outlet for his imagination. One morning, however, Yuki wakes up to find his cell phone filled with diary entries for the next ninety days. Thinking nothing of it, he continues his morning until he begins to realize that everything on his phone is rapidly coming to pass, and it isn't just mere coincidence. Now, Yuki suddenly finds himself thrust into a survival game against other future diary owners to become the new Lord of Time.