An unknown parcel arrives to Yoshio, a 30-year old NEET. The content is a game disk titled “The Village of Fate.”, a beautiful CG game with real-life images.... more>>

All of the villagers in the game are high-performing AIs, who behave remarkably close to human beings. In the game Yoshio takes the role as the god of destiny and is in a position to guide the villagers. But his only options in the game are to give a message, a prophecy, once every day. The villagers will follow the instruction, and their gratitude transforms to the power of miracles, which the god of destiny can use.

Yoshio is worshiped as God but in reality he lives like a shut-in. Thanks to villagers he will again learn the joy of life and thanks to him the villagers will be saved. <<less

Fujino is a fourth grader who draws a manga strip for the school newspaper. Her art makes her the star of the class, but one... more>> day she's told that Kyomoto, a student who refuses to come to school, would also like to submit a manga for the paper... <<less

The hikikomori boy and the girl who wants to die want to escape from the rotten reality. This is a story about forbidden love.

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3-4) Watashi to Watashi: Two girls with the same name; one beautiful and athletic, the other awkward and shunned. But who’s the lucky one? <<less

Isao Komori is a college dropout who spends his days cooped up in his apartment playing video games and masturbating. The highlight of his day is visiting a convenience store where an angel-like high-school girl called Mari visits every night.... more>>

One morning Komori wakes up in Mari's body. Another "Komori" inhabits his old body, and Mari has disappeared. Komori struggles to maintain Mari's ordinary life and starts to investigate Mari's disapperance. Perhaps Mari wasn't so innocent and perfect after all? <<less

Who do you think lives next door? A college student? A secretary? A foodie? A quiet sort? Or a killer?

After a traumatic incident, Jun Sakurada refuses to interact with the outside world and return to school--he even shuts out his sister, his closest friend.... more>> Jun spends most of his time online buying spiritual items that are obvious rip-offs. One day he finds a website that curiously enough asks him to put his order in his desk drawer. Thinking it's a joke, Jun plays along. The following day a suitcase arrives containing a doll named Shinku... that comes to life before his very eyes! Welcome to the world of Rozen Maiden, where Jun must enter an all-new reality to protect and serve a living doll... <<less

Koizumi Shintarou is 30 years old, a virgin, and has isolated himself in his room for 15 years. He has become a burden on his... more>> father, Koizumi Yasujirou. One day, Shintarou makes a proposition that if Yasujirou gets a girlfriend, Shintarou will come out of his room. It turns out that Yasujirou has already made a girlfriend, a young beautiful woman, Yoshinaga Haruka, who is with Yasujirou for her own personal reasons. Yasujirou and Haruka decide to get married, but Yasujirou dies on their honeymoon. Now Haruka decides to take care of Shintarou, and so this weird "mother and son" are now living together. <<less

"Marriage"—when two who were once unrelated vow to love each other and wish for each other's happiness become "family." This marks the start of the married life of her dreams. Or so she thought. Before she knew it, she became a shut-in!? What will the newlywed wife do!?... more>>

This is the true story of a woman who became a shut-in as she was living the newlywed life! <<less

Based on the eponymous novel, Sugar Candy Bullets Can’t Pierce Anything follows two young girls during one fateful summer.... more>>

Yamada Nagisa is a bored teenager who finds everyday life extremely unappealing: thus her plans to join a military academy as soon she graduates. On the last term of middle school, a strange girl named Mokuzu Umino, who claims to be a mermaid, transfers into Nagisa's class and, much to her bewilderment, begins to follow her around incessantly.

An annoyed and discomfited Nagisa initially strives to avoid these encounters, but then she begins to catch glimpses of the pain and sadness concealed beneath Umino's cheerful and carefree demeanour... <<less

Sato Tatsuhiro is a drug-addled "hikikomori" (a Japanese shut-in) who thinks a sinister organization, NHK (Nihon Hikikomori Kyoukai), is the cause of all his problems!... more>> He falls in love with a girl, Misaki, who he thinks is trying to assassinate him, but doesn't know how to talk to her or if he can trust her. The more he stays in his house watching anime porn, reading manga, and doing drugs, the harder it is for him to leave. Only Misaki can keep him from rotting away in his own apartment! <<less

Yuko's twin sister is a hikikomori. When Yuko tries to get her to go outside, she finds...!?

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The Hinomoto Kingdom's Princess Guard is an elite squad that directly protects their royal princess. Kasuga Haru was newly appointed to this prestigious position and was stationed next to the Kingdom's one and only princess.

There's only one problem. Their "royal princess" is a hikikomori, a recluse who stuffs her room with video games and refuses to leave even a nanometer-length out of her room, much less let anyone in. Kasuga's special mission given by the Queen is to make Princess Terras into a proper human. Can Kasuga succeed in turning this otaku princess into a proper princess full of charm and beauty? <<less

The near future lily comedy that beautiful girls flirt! Genius robot pilot high school girl, Hagane. I'm withdrawing and staying in the cockpit. I do... more>> n’t want to go to the bathroom, so I wear diapers. I love Kotoha-chan, my only friend. “You can't do anything other than maneuvering the robot, but to return a huge debt, you will find a handy man from searching for lost dogs to getting rid of ghosts…! <<less

Two brothers, Izumo and Shinonome live in the lawless city of Donten, where they run an odd-jobs agency. A girl asks them to capture wanted... more>> criminal, Ron Biscott and free her younger brother, but will a freeter who’s distracted by his part-time job and a computer-addicted shut-in really be able to help her? <<less

Hideo Kawamura has a really terrifying look, but soft heart. While contemplating suicide, he stumbled upon this computer that contained the virus, "Wiruko", who convinced... more>> him to join the "Seimahei", a fighting tournament that has the world as its prize. However, Hideo happens to not have any fighting skills whatsoever, so he has to get through on his wits (and luck) alone. <<less

A NEET fujoshi is forced by her younger sister to adopt a pet salaryman.

A collection of four short stories.... more>>

Story 3: Chihiro and Chiaki are twins with a special ability; Chihiro sees strange visions triggered by the things around him, but it's Chiaki who, without actually seeing them, knows what the visions mean. The trouble Chiaki has caused by blurting out the truth behind the visions has caused Chihiro to shut himself away to keep the visions from coming. But then, one day, his brother asks him to step outside... <<less

Oneshot manga with six short tales of fantasy and friendship by Shimizu Aki.... more>>

1) The NEET Woman and the Second Grader

A 19-year-old NEET and near-hikikomori named Tsuda Yasue encounters a crying second grade girl outside her apartment and tries to figure out how to handle her.

2) Flow My Tears, the Onion Said

A girl suddenly is spoken to by an onion she is preparing to cook.

3) The Young Lady and the Gardener

A young, wealthy lady who lost her sight after her father died sits at her window and makes grandiose requests while a gardener that works outside her window tries to fulfill them.

4) The Ouroboros-drome

An Alice-in-Wonderland like tale.

5) The Secret of the Pair

Two history fangirls meet, and one of them reveals a secret that leads to the other playing out a very familiar situation.

6) Advice on Love

A five-years-later continuation of the NEET Woman and the Second Grader. <<less

How does a washed-out, child genius actor confront his fears? Faced with the fear of never surpassing the acting of his greatest nemesis, he idles... more>> away while his childhood mentor and director recovers in a hospital. For five years, he sits idly, wondering what it takes to be a good actor. That is, until the day he met her... <<less

The time is probably the 21st Century. In the Hinomoto Kingdom where the king has the kingdom under control with somewhat of peace, 3 rookie military officers, Haru, Natsuki, and Touma, are assigned with a very special mission: To protect the King's daughter! The three rejoice at this unexpected mission that their lieutenant provided them with, and they quickly arrive at the princess' room but find out that the princess is different than what they had expected..... A princess guardian comedy now begins!... more>>

This is a prologue story composed of 6 chapters. <<less

Eri Mizutani, mostly known as ELLIE on Internet, is a hikikomori that spends most of her time chatting on the Internet with people that she... more>> hardly knows. One day she receives a message from a producer named Ozaki who encourages her to debut as a real idol. Eventually she is able to build up the courage to meet Ozaki. Then she makes her debut at the 876 productions. She meets Ai and Ryo there and decides to give up her life as a net idol and hikikimori. Will Eri be succesful in the idols world? <<less

Mi-hun is a loner. He doesn't get out of the house after his parents' deaths. But after his encounter with the mysterious raincoat wearing man... more>> from the next door that just moved in, strange things starts happening in his dull and repetitive life. He finds out that the unexplainable 'spontaneous human combustion' incidents that are happening in his town are somehow connected to that raincoat man. He can't help spying on his new neighbors, but that turns out to be the biggest mistake in his life. <<less

Kurumi Ayaki is a recently-retired police officer with a record of excellence on the force and the guts and guile to back it up. In order to earn some extra money for her upcoming wedding, she has to return to the force... and is "rewarded" with an assignment to an elite unit who solves crimes that have been classified as unsolvable. ... more>>

Partnered with a mysterious young genius who is unable to feel emotions, or even to leave his room, she acts as his eyes and ears to piece together clues even as her own personal life falls apart around her. <<less

Morinonaka Iyo is a shut-in (hikikomori) who refuses to go to school, choosing instead to coop herself up at home all day surfing the net... more>> and browsing online auctions. However, her homeroom teacher will stop at nothing to make her go to school... <<less