Best Seinen Novel List

Tales of Leo Attiel ~Portrait of the Headless Prince~

Sugihara Tomonori The Principality of Atall lies between two great powers: the Kingdom of Allion to the west, and the Holy Dytiann Alliance to the east. Leo Attiel, the second-born prince, was sent to Allion as little more than a hostage, where he studied and trained in the military arts under a frontier general. And now, the times have reached a turning point. Relations between Allion and Conscon Temple, a neutral land adjoining Atall, have worsened. Percy, sent from Atall as reinforcement; Camus, a warrior monk; and Kuon, a mercenary from a remote region, join forces to resist the looming threat of Allion’s army. At the centre of the fighting, the three of them and Leo are about to have their fated encounter.

Swordsmeister of Rome

ALLA Born of a great family, world shaking genius. The man who had shaken the world. The story of the Swordmeister.

Tatakau Shisho

YAMAGATA Ishio “Kill Hamyuts Meseta” A story about a world where all dead people become “Books” and are housed in a Library. The boy named Colio Tonies had his memories taken and a bomb transplanted in his chest. His life’s purpose is killing the world’s strongest Armed Librarian, Hamyuts Meseta. But, one day he gets his hands on the “Book” of a beautiful princess and falls in love at first sight. Furthermore, that love will cause Colio to get involved in a grand scale battle…

Tate no Yuusha no Nariagari

ANEKO Yusagi Naofumi Iwatani, an uncharismatic Otaku who spends his days on games and manga, suddenly finds himself summoned to a parallel universe! He discovers he is one of four heroes equipped with legendary weapons and tasked with saving the world from its prophesied destruction. As the Shield Hero, the weakest of the heroes, all is not as it seems. Naofumi is soon alone, penniless, and betrayed. With no one to turn to, and nowhere to run, he is left with only his shield. Now, Naofumi must rise to become the legendary Shield Hero and save the world!

Three Meals of a Reincarnator

Vega After living in a desolate land, where there wasn’t even a single blade of grass and hunger was an everyday reality, Min Sung finally returns to Earth: his home. “Am I… back from the dead?” Having lived off the remains of the monsters he had slain for a century, the food on Earth became a heavenly delicacy to him. “Do NOT get between me and my meal!” Judgment awaits those who disrupt the champion’s meal. Now, let the feast of the ultimate reincarnator begin!

24 Hearts

Sadly Crying Soul I made a game. When I woke up, I was in that game. When I was in confusion and embarrassment, the one who brought me into this world appeared and said: “Oh, Creator. This is a game only for you, but it is also a ‘duty’.”

Game of Divine Thrones

Jang Myeongsu In a survival game to select new Gods, mankind is summoned to another world filled with different races. An endless competition in order to fill the Divine Thrones, but despite 40 years having passed, the game still hasn’t ended. Humanity’s strongest, Overlord Chun Woohyuk, decides to start anew. With his return to the past, everything will change.

Welcome to the Man-Eating Dungeon

Hitotose Arata The young man living in a frontier mining village, Elliott, lived in estrangement there. The reason was because he carried the blood of the Demon Race, and had an unusual face, with two small horns growing from it. Several years after his mother – his only family – died, a young woman who called herself an acquaintance of her mother’s came to visit, and once she knew of Elliott’s existence, displayed the traits of a succubus, and whispered thus: “From now on you will ravish many women, steal many lives, and trample over the world, you shall dominate. But to start … you will dominate me, violate me, please”. Unable to wield a sword, nor kill his opponents with magic, the mixed-blood young man who could only grant a slight bit of magic into matter, used information, tools, and traps, repelling enemies, ravishing women, making them submit and fall into demonhood, and dominated them, surviving in a ruined world. This is the story of the young man who was the Lord of the perilous place of fear, one that never allows a guest to leave, the “Man-Eating Dungeon”, and the women whose lives had been derailed by him.

Chaotic Lightning Cultivation

??? Song Zhong’s parents were the geniuses of the sect. But they were apparently killed while on a mission when he was barely 6. As he apparently did not excel in any of the 5 elements, in fact, all 5 elements are in balance in his body. Thus, our fatty is deemed to be trash and does not deserve the respect his parents had. He is allowed to have one task, to collect garbage of the sect until he reaches the initial test-age where he has to prove that he is worthy to stay in the sect. Our fatty has no choice but to cultivate the only heritage his parents gave him. A mysterious black pearl. Unfortunately for him, this pearl seems to be only useful for... collecting garbage...

Seoul Station's Necromancer

??? Necromancer girl Nene and her best friend Rose were betrayed by the heroes during war with the demon. They were used as decoy so the heroes could escape. Caught in a dilemma, Rose protect Nene from demon and burned into nothing. In despair, Nene decided to use necromancer’s forbidden magic to return to two years ago. To get revenge on the hero’s party who betray her, and above all, to save her best friend. Nene who successfully return to two years ago immediately left the hero’s party and decided to live the life of “second playtrough”. With undead girl which Nene resurrected, Fran, and Rose who just met Nene for the first time in this world, the curtain of the girls’ strongest second playtrough is open!

Knight's & Magic

Amazake No Hisago A mecha otaku is reincarnated into another world as Ernesti Echevalier (Eru). In this world there exist huge humanoid weapons known as Silhouette Knight. Dreaming of piloting those robots, Eru, with childhood friends, Archid Walter and Adeltrud Walter: together they will aim to become a Knight Runner, pilot of Silhoutte Knight.

10 nen goshi no HikiNiito o Yamete Gaishutsushitara Jitaku goto Isekai ni Ten'ishiteta

Bandou Tarou Houjou Yuuji, 30 years old, jobless, hikkomori for 10 years. Using his parents’ death as the impetus, he decides to rid himself of his hikkomori life and leaves the house. What awaited him, however, was a different world that he was not used to, creatures strutting about that he didn’t recognize. This is the story of a man transported to the another world, as he lives in relative peace with his beloved dog Kotarou – his house, with electricity, water, gas, and the internet somehow still connected. One day while exploring the forest near his house he finds a girl named Alice, and becomes her guardian. Thus, 4 years after he is transported to this world, Yuuji resolves to venture into his first town.

Heavy Object

KAMACHI Kazuma In the end, war couldn’t be extinguished. But, there was a transformation. Even in the heart of a worthless accomplice in murder who was indifferently continuing his task, there was a transformation. The massive weapon “Object”. This was a weapon that changed the whole definition of war. An exchange student named Quenser, who was dispatched to the battlefield, met at the base a girl with a strange aura. The girl, dubbed “Elite”, is the pilot of “Object”. The near future. This diminutive boy had come to take on the role of standing up against the strongest weapon “Object” for the sake of the girl. This was the motive for their first meeting.

The Wizard World

Get Lost Ye Song, who once lived in a technologically-advanced world, died and reincarnated into a noble teenager’s body in another world. A fantasy world filled with magic! A series of events filled with tragedy, action, etc. began to unfold one after the other when he fatefully encountered one of the most guarded secrets of this world, obtaining the legendary power of Wizards. Watch how he reaches unreachable heights as a powerful Wizard in this new world.

The Girl Who Bore the Flame Ring

Nanasawa Matari How long I’d been here, I couldn’t quite recall. From this sorry situation, I as always raised my eyes to the sky; a sky in which the great, massive sun was clad in levity. Sunlight poured gently upon all. What a blessing it would have been for the world if only the skies could remain clear. For tomorrow too, and for all days to come, I was to continue to pray for calm. To endure for those who cried, with desperation I remained in prayer. And then, one freezing, forlorn, soulless, stagnant, drizzly day we died. Or so I thought…

The Girl Who Ate a Death God

Nanasawa Matari What happens when one eats Death? Personally, I don’t really know. What I do know is merely one thing. I’m hungry. Therefore, I’ll take the heads of these guys and deliver them to my superiors. Surely, I’ll be able to eat delicious food. Come, if preparations are in order, we depart.

The Lazy King

Tsukikage By the time I realized it, I had reincarnated into another world. I kept sleeping, and at some point I became a Demon Lord. Even though I never wished for it. But for me to not have to work, this world is the best. It must be true that good things happen to good people. The flavor of Sloth is as sweet as honey. Glory, diligence, virtue, or honor. I have no interest in anything like that. What’s there to hide? The Lazy king is… none other than me.

Living in this World with Cut & Paste

Sakuya A world where God will grant abilities called Skills to those who come of age. The protagonist, bestowed with two skills, uses them and rises to an existence called a hero.

Top Management

Long Umbrella Jung Sunwoo was an average man. He had just taken his first job at W&U, a celebrity management company, as a manager. He could finally achieve his dream of being the manager of a world-famous actor or actress. On his way to work, he fell into what appeared to be a lucid dream about his future. As he went on with his day, he realized it may not have simply been a lucid dream.

I Shaved. Then I Brought a High School Girl Home.

Shimesaba Broken-hearted and drunk, Yoshida, a 26-years old salaryman, stumbled upon a runaway-from-home high-schooler on his way back from the bar. “Hey, you. JK.”* “What the heck are you doing out here. Go home already.” “Uncle, let me stay at your place for the night.” “You can do ‘that’ to me if you let me stay.” “If you meant that as a joke, it’s not funny.” “I’m not joking. It’s fine by me.” “Then allow me to tell you that I have no interest in brats.” “Hmm?” “Then, just let me stay.” Notes: [*] JK is slang for Joushikousei (high school girl)