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Virtual Reality · Video Games1. Overgeared
by Park Saenal, Lee Dong-uk, Team Argo
- Action
- Adventure (shared)
- Fantasy (shared)
Shin Youngwoo is unlucky in life and just as unlucky in Satisfy, the virtual-reality game he plays to make ends meet. Then, by sheer chance, he finds an item that grants him a legendary class: Pagma's Successor, a blacksmith able to forge the finest weapons and equipment in the game. Under the name Grid, Youngwoo sets out to use his new skills to earn fame and fortune, but his greed, insecurity and bad luck keep getting in the way. As his reputation spreads, powerful guilds, rival players and entire kingdoms in the game take an interest in him, and Grid slowly grows from a petty, self-pitying player into a leader worth following. Adapted from Park Saenal's long-running web novel with art by Team Argo, the webtoon is an entertaining game fantasy about crafting, growth and turning a life of failure around.
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Virtual Reality · Video Games2. Hardcore Leveling Warrior
by Sehoon Kim
- Action
- Comedy (shared)
- Fantasy (shared)
Hardcore Leveling Warrior is the top-ranked player of Lucid Adventure, a virtual-reality game played by millions, and a legend whose real identity nobody knows. Then he is ambushed and killed, losing everything and dropping from the very top back down to level one. Starting over with a mysterious companion called Dark, he must climb all the way back up, while facing players who remember exactly who he used to be and enemies who want to keep him down. Along the way, his old knowledge of the game becomes his greatest weapon, and the world of Lucid Adventure turns out to hide far more than anyone suspected. Sehoon Kim's webtoon is a funny, explosive game action series with a cocky hero, great fights and a surprising amount of heart. It is one of the classics of the game-world genre.
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Virtual Reality · Video Games3. The New Gate
by Shinogi Kazanami, Yoshiyuki Miwa
- Action
- Adventure (shared)
- Fantasy (shared)
- Isekai
THE NEW GATE was an online game that became a life-and-death prison for its players. Thanks to Shin, the most powerful of them all, the end seemed within reach: he defeats the final boss and frees everyone. Moments later, Shin is bathed in an unknown light and transported five hundred years into the future of the game world, which is now a real world with its own history. The game has become legend, and the legends are about him. Reunited with his loyal support character Schnee, now a living person who has waited centuries for his return, Shin sets out to explore a world that continued without him. Based on Shinogi Kazanami's novels and drawn by Yoshiyuki Miwa, The New Gate is a classic overpowered-hero fantasy about rediscovering a familiar world transformed by time. The story was also adapted into an anime.
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Virtual Reality · Video Games4. I'm the Max-Level Newbie
by Maslow, WAN.Z, Swing Bat
- Action
- Adventure (shared)
- Fantasy (shared)
Kang Jinhyuk is a gaming streamer and the only person who ever cleared Tower of Trials, a game so brutally difficult that everyone else gave up. After eleven years, its popularity has faded, and Jinhyuk prepares to say goodbye to the game and his small group of subscribers. On that very day, the Tower of Trials appears in the real world, and people across the planet are summoned to climb it. Starting again as a level-one newbie, Jinhyuk has a decade of secret knowledge in his head: hidden quests, boss patterns and shortcuts no one else knows. He climbs with confidence, choosing carefully when to reveal what he knows and when to let others underestimate him. Written by Maslow and WAN.Z with art by Swing Bat, the webtoon is a confident, satisfying game-world adventure with a hero who has seen every trick before and still enjoys finding new ones.
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Virtual Reality · Video Games5. Grand Warlock Streamer
by D-Dart, SADU
- Action
- Drama
- Fantasy (shared)
Jung Hyunwoo barely gets by playing the virtual-reality game God Wars, grinding long hours for very little. Then an accident costs him his account, and with it everything he has built. Forced to start again from nothing, he discovers while creating a new character that he can see information the game normally keeps hidden. That secret leads him to a legendary class, the Grand Warlock, and to a second chance as a streamer whose broadcasts might finally pay the bills. With an audience watching his every move, Hyunwoo has to grow stronger, outsmart rival players and decide how much of his advantage to reveal. The webtoon mixes game strategy with the rise of a determined underdog and the chaotic energy of live streaming. It is a light, satisfying power fantasy for readers who enjoy clever builds, hidden quests and a hero who knows exactly how much one secret advantage is worth.
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Virtual Reality · Video Games6. The Player Hides His Past
by Kaechaban (개차반), Badass (베데스), Vinukki (비누끼)
- Action
- Comedy (shared)
- Drama
- Fantasy (shared)
One day, rifts open all over the world, threatening to unleash monsters from the virtual-reality game Chronicles of Arcana. Only players, people who awaken as their in-game characters with all the same stats and skills, can close them. Lee Ho-Yeol awakens too, as the character he created during the most embarrassing phase of his life: a dramatic, edgy middle-school persona with cringeworthy lines, poses and a tragic backstory. He may be strong enough to save everyone, but surviving the shame of living as that character, in public, is another matter entirely. The webtoon, with art by Vinukki, is a hilarious action comedy built on the gap between the imposing hero everyone sees and the mortified young man inside, with plenty of spectacular battles.
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Video Games · Comedy7. FINAL FANTASY XIV: Eorzea Academy
by Esora Amaichi
- Comedy (shared)
- Fantasy (shared)
- Slice of Life
Alisaie is a high-school student at Eorzea Academy, an exclusive institution created by merging two former rival schools, the Academy of Light and the Academy of Darkness. On paper they are one school now, but frequent quarrels show that a bitter divide remains between the Class of Light and the Class of Darkness. Worried about the ongoing conflict, headmistress Tataru decides it is time for some bold solutions to raise school spirit. What follows is a series of classroom misunderstandings, competitive events and unlikely team-ups, as familiar faces from Final Fantasy XIV, including Alphinaud, G'raha Tia, Thancred, Y'shtola and even Emet-Selch, trade their usual roles for the routines and rivalries of school life. Esora Amaichi's comedy is an affectionate alternate-universe spin-off for fans of the game, reimagining its world as a lively high school where rivals must learn to share a campus.
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Virtual Reality · Video Games8. Taming Master
by ARC STUDIO (아크 스튜디오), 박태석, 빙빙고
- Action
- Adventure (shared)
- Fantasy (shared)
Kaillan is the most popular virtual-reality game in the world, and Ian is one of its best-known players, with a level 93 archer near the top of the leaderboards. Then he does something everyone tells him not to: he deletes his character. All for a hidden class he obtained by chance: the Summoner, considered the most worthless class in Kaillan. With a strict deadline hanging over him, Ian has to level up from scratch, learning to fight through the creatures he tames and discovering that the weakest class may hide extraordinary potential. The webtoon, adapted from Park Tae-seok's web novel, is an energetic game fantasy full of adorable and powerful tamed monsters, clever builds and a hero who bets everything on a hunch.
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Video Games · Adventure9. The Unrivaled Reincarnated Sage of Another World: The Strongest in Another World Through Game Knowledge
by Shinkoshoto, Sanjuu Sanjuu
- Action
- Adventure (shared)
- Comedy (shared)
- Fantasy (shared)
After an unfortunate death, a young man is reincarnated under the name Eld in a world that works almost exactly like the online game he used to play obsessively. There is one big difference: the people of this world have forgotten the basics. They do not even know what fundamental skills are or how to change classes properly. As the only person who remembers how everything works, Eld sets off as a level-one novice, aiming to change into the strongest class in the world, the Sage, using knowledge everyone else has lost, and astonishing everyone with what seems elementary to him. Based on Shinkoshoto's novels and drawn by Sanjuu Sanjuu, the manga is a confident, entertaining isekai about game knowledge, efficient growth and a hero who keeps surprising the people around him.
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Video Games · Adventure10. Final Fantasy Lost Stranger
by Hazuki Minase, Itsuki Kameya
- Action
- Adventure (shared)
- Drama
- Fantasy (shared)
Shogo Sasaki works at Square Enix and has a big dream: to produce his very own Final Fantasy game with his sister, Yuko. But after the siblings are caught in a truck accident, they awaken to find that they have left their world behind and fallen into the world of Final Fantasy itself. Coming to grips with the situation, they make new friends, join a party and accept their fate as adventurers, recognising the monsters, spells and creatures from the games they love. But knowing a game is not the same as surviving its world, and when danger strikes, Shogo learns that the consequences here are real. Written by Hazuki Minase and drawn by Itsuki Kameya, Final Fantasy Lost Stranger is an affectionate adventure full of references to the series, about loss, determination and the stories that shape us.
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Video Games · Comedy11. Rooming with a Gamer Gal
by Renjuro Kindaichi
- Comedy (shared)
- Romance
- Slice of Life
Takumi Satsuki is a young man in his early twenties who plays Dragon Quest X online with a female character. There he becomes close friends with Goro-san, a fellow player with a male avatar, and the two get along so well that they decide to become roommates. But when Takumi goes to meet Goro-san in person, the person waiting for him looks nothing like the character in the game: Goro-san is Miyako, an outgoing gyaru, who had made an equally mistaken assumption about him. Unintentionally catfished, the two gaming friends move in together anyway and have to work out chores, boundaries and their growing feelings away from the screen. Renjuro Kindaichi's series is a fun romantic comedy about an online friendship becoming a real-life relationship, where cooperating in a game turns out to be easier than sharing a home.
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Video Games · Adventure12. Dragon Quest: The Mark of Erdrick
by Chiaki Kawamata, Junji Koyanagi, Kamui Fujiwara
- Action
- Adventure (shared)
- Fantasy (shared)
Many years have passed since the legendary hero Erdrick and his companions defeated the forces of evil. After a century of peace and prosperity, the world is once again under threat, as dark forces gather and the old stories offer no protection. Prince Arus, a descendant of Erdrick, decides to take to the road together with his guardian, setting out to confront the returning darkness. Their journey carries them far beyond the safety of the kingdom, and gathers companions, rivals and formidable enemies, as Arus discovers what it truly means to carry a famous name and become a hero in his own right. Written by Chiaki Kawamata and Junji Koyanagi and drawn by Kamui Fujiwara, The Mark of Erdrick is an epic fantasy adventure set in the world of Dragon Quest. It ran in Monthly Shonen Gangan in the 1990s and inspired an animated film.
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