Light Novels

HORNED ADVERSARYCollege dropout Yoshida “Shooter” Shuta has survived enslavement, a basilisk, and his first dungeon crawl. Now, he just wants to get back to Apegut village—and to Cassandra, the wife...

Osamu Dazai's Entrance Exam Doppo Kunikida is an idealist and a straitlaced detective at the Armed Detective Agency, an organization that takes on dangerous jobs even the police won't handle....

Osamu Dazai and the Dark Era Before he joined the Armed Detective Agency, Osamu Dazai was the youngest-ever executive with the Port Mafia, the most notorious underground crime syndicate in...

The Untold Origins of the Detective Agency Over a decade before the events of the manga series, a chance encounter leads professional bodyguard Yukichi Fukuzawa to begrudgingly take an arrogant...

55 MINUTES The Armed Detective Agency's latest case brings them to the floating city Standard Island, a strange man-made vessel and a resort for the wealthy off the coast of...

DEAD APPLE An unexplained spate of suicides by skill users worldwide has sent the Armed Detective Agency on a search for Tatsuhiko Shibusawa, a mysterious skill user who may be...

BEAST What if the Port Mafia’s attack dog, Ryuunosuke Akutagawa, had joined the Armed Detective Agency? Likewise, what if Atsushi Nakajima belonged to the Port Mafia? In the parallel universe...

Dazai, Chuya at Fifteen Years Old Not long after Ougai Mori takes the reins of the Port Mafia, his accomplice Osamu Dazai has a dreadful run in with Chuuya Nakahara,...

It’s been roughly one year since Chuya Nakahara joined the Port Mafia, and he’s got his sights set on an executive position. But as he makes plans to move up,...

Young, hungry, and homeless, the orphan Atsushi Nakajima’s hard knock life turns around when he meets Osamu Dazai, a peculiar man who’s part of a group of detectives with special...

Yukito Ayatsuji, a brilliant investigator known as the Homicide Detective, has a skill so deadly that he is assigned a minder― rookie Special Division for Unusual Powers agent Mizuki Tsujimura―to...

Belle lives in a world where people take the forms of animals like cats, frogs, and mice―and she’s the odd one out! This peculiar fang-less, fur-less, scale-less, smooth-skinned girl sets...

Mukouda Tsuyoshi was nothing special in modern Japan, so when he was summoned to a world of swordplay and sorcery, he thought he was ready for the adventure of a...

Chainsaw Man's supernatural action returns in four new prose stories of devil-hunting partners! Power lives out her favorite anime by becoming a genius detective--or so she wants her "audience" to...

A girl named Yae reincarnates into a world where one's name determines their essence. When a monster attacks her, she unleashes Arai, an ex-god in the form of a golden...

When the hero Blade defeated the demon king, he lost all his powers. For him, this should have been a dream come true―finally, life as a normal student, without fighting...

THE EXCITEMENT NEVER ENDS AT ROSEWOOD ACADEMY! Retired Hero Blade is enjoying his time at school to the fullest. Now that he’s made one hundred friends, he plans to relax...

Blade, now surrounded by his 111 friends (including two birds and a dragon), should be enjoying his sweet school life…So why isn't he?! Well, first his class is invaded by...

Blade's peaceful days are rudely interrupted when a pack of mass-produced artificial Heroes who all look exactly like Sophie come after his life. What's a super-being to do? Meanwhile, Blade...

Always bring a gun to a sword fight!With world domination nearly in their grasp, the Supreme Leaders of the Kisaragi Corporation--an underground criminal group turned evil megacorp--have decided to try...