Psycho Busters (Light Novel) - Recommendations

• Vol: 1+
• 2023 - ?

Matsurika Hououdou, who has just lost her job after punching her sexual harasser of a superior, gets scouted by a beautiful man called Kaine in a back street cafe. The job that is pretty much forcefully pushed onto her there is that of mediator for Alighieri, a temporary work agency for psychics. As the name says, psychic powers are abilities that transcend common knowledge, and only a limited number of people bear them. Alighieri is said to be an organization that borrows such psychics in order to deal with problems that can't resolved through normal means, but...

• Vol: 3; Ch: 22
• 1961 - 1973

A young man named Sabu gets into a car crash. After a blood transfusion in the hospital, he suddenly realizes that he can read the thoughts of other people. The transfusion has also awakened other powers sleeping within him, and soon he finds out he can also use mind control and telekinesis. Eventually, Sabu starts finding other people with powers similar to his. However, he also finds himself to be of great interest to mad scientists, government spies and powerful corporations, which gets him involved in one strange case after another.

• Vol: 1
• 1986

When the president of the Psychic Power Research Society is unceremoniously ejected from the club by its brainwashed members, a team powerful three powerful psychics known as the Academy Super Girl Team begins to investigate strange occurrences at Yamashiro Academy. Can they uncover the secrets of the Psychic Power Research Society, and figure out exactly what the group is plotting?

• Vol: 6; Ch: 53
• 1985 - 1986

Mai is silly, giggly, and flirtatious - just like any other cute fourteen-year-old girl. As far as Mai is concerned, her telekinetic abilities are just good for practical jokes. But when the secret organization known as the Wisdom Alliance tries to exploit her as a weapon to enslave the world, her father puts his life on the line to protect her. And Mai soon learns the hard way that her powers are no joke, but capable of unbelievable, deadly force!

• Vol: 2; Ch: 6
• 1995 - 1996

• Vol: 9+
• 2017 - ?

Hiroto Domori is a seemingly weakling Irregular who doesn’t have any magical or spiritual powers. But what most people don’t know is that he just got back from the demon world and is the world's strongest demon killer. This "weak" demon killer goes up against an unrivaled enemy who attacks innocent people. The battle between lessers and the strongest!

• Vol: 2
• 2017 - 2018

“Uhm…..could we rent this DVD together?” Itou Daijirou, who attends an all-boys high school, visits a rental video store late one night. There, he’s “hit on” by a lone girl. From this event, the two become friends. Daijirou is having fun, but feels dissatisfied that they can only ever meet at night for a short time. Actually, he gets another weird feeling too. Mysterious phenomena happen when he’s with her, like objects that move and break without being touched. In truth, the girl – Haijima Koharu – awakened special powers when she was young. And along with other girls who also awakened their powers, she’s being kept isolated from society – an esper who lives her life in a research facility. She slips out of the facility night after night, enjoying her secret adventures in town. However, some of her classmates find out what she’s up to, and things develop from there…

• Vol: 6
• 2008 - 2011

Jiyoung has been told about Trumps and the Rule to control Trumps from her maternal grandfather. When she goes to her new school, she encounters a super model that fights with a guy using special power that seems to be the one Jiyoung’ grandfather has been talking. Unfortunately she is involved to their fights involuntarily, and even meets them at her new school. She gets to know they are psychics called Trumps (or Cards) who have special talents, mingling with them and she realizes she also has a special power. Is she also a trump or the rule?

• Vol: 2; Ch: 8
• 2008

Bekku Nanaki is a mirror clairvoyant. She moved to Tokyo from the countryside to escape calamities she sees. There, she witnesses an accident on the road caused by a mobile fish vendor, who saves her from being crushed by a billboard that falls from above. The next day, he turns out to be Banjou Kizaki, her classmate and a student held back due to his involvement in incidents and accidents that others attribute to his being unlucky. His eccentric behavior, however, catches her attention, which he explains as changing the future...

• Vol: 2
• 2022

Matsurika Hououdou, who has just lost her job after punching her sexual harasser of a superior, gets scouted by a beautiful man called Kaine in a back street cafe. The job that is pretty much forcefully pushed onto her there is that of mediator for Alighieri, a temporary work agency for psychics. As the name says, psychic powers are abilities that transcend common knowledge, and only a limited number of people bear them. Alighieri is said to be an organization that borrows such psychics in order to deal with problems that can't resolved through normal means, but...