Manga/Graphic Novels Starting With Something Else

Rena and Shugo entered The World with dreams of becoming legends. Those dreams have quickly drifted into the twilight now that they're in prison! As the controversy surrounding Shugo's bracelet shifts into overdrive, will our heroes be deleted... or is it end of The World as we know it?

Welcome to The World, the most advanced online game ever created. Twins Rena and Shugo enter The World as level-one game characters - and are ready to take on anything... or so they think. When Shugo's character dies, he is transported to another level where he is entrusted to bear the Twilight Bracelet by the mysterious Aura. Shugo must find out who Aura is and why she gave him this powerful weapon.

Welcome to The World, the most advanced online game ever created. In The World you can be anyone you want to be, act out your adventure fantasies and through teamwork and determination, you can even become a hero. Fourteen-year-old twins Shugo and Rena just won a contest that let's them play as legendary .hackers avatars Kite and Black Rose, and now they're ready to take on anything - or so they think...

Three years after the popular video game The World was shut down, Tokio Kuryuu cannot wait for The World R:X to come out. Unfortunately for him, he forgets to reserve a copy and finds himself with no access to the game. That is, until a mysterious new transfer student forces him into the game and makes him her servant!

Tokio and his new friend, Tsukasa, move onward to the R:2 generation in order to add Haseo, the Terror of Death, to their ranks. They find that his memory has been tampered with, driving him on an old quest of vengeance to defeat the Player Killer known as Tri-Edge. When things are looking their worst, a mysterious person appears who can defeat players with a single tap! Having lost his confidence, Tokio becomes determined to make her his master, but there may be more to her than meets the eye.

Tokio continues his training with the mysterious Master only to get frustrated by his lack of results. At last, Master confronts Tokio and brings out his hidden strength only for him to learn the Master's identity. With his new strength in hand, Tokio heads to the Arena in hopes of freeing Haseo from Posaune's brainwashing.

As the link between the power of Kite's bracelet and the incidents on- and off-line grow, Kite must decide who - and what - he can really trust in The World. The final showdown with the Phases and the secrets of Aura and her bracelet are revealed in this final volume!

Teito Klein is a top-grade military academy student with unsurpassed skill in the magic of Zaiphon. But when word reaches him that the officials at his school were behind the murder or his father and the fall of his birth kingdom, he flees to find a way to make things right again... and finds help in the most unlikely place: the Church. There may be the answer he needs to learning secrets about himself and the truth behind the legendary protectors of the state: the Seven Ghosts.

All Teito Klein wants is to forget his murky past as an orphan and slave and to graduate from Barsburg's military academy with his best friend Mikage. But when an overheard state secret triggers treasonous memories, he's forced to flee from the very empire he once sought to defend! Deliberately leaving Mikage behind, Teito escapes to the Barsburg Church. There, with the help of its three bishops, he begins to unravel his role in the story of an evil god, seven ghosts, two rival empires, and his own mysterious past.

Teito has regained his memories of hosting the Eye of Mikhail, a powerful artifact that has helped the Seven Ghosts keep the evil god Verloren at bay for thousands of years. To claim that power for themselves, the Barsburg Empire sends Teito a gift with bloody strings attached: Mikage.

While Teito trains rigorously to pass the Bishop Examination and gain worldwide travel privileges, a crime perpetrated by one of Ayanami's henchmen rocks the Barsburg Church. When Frau is framed, can Teito put aside his quest for answers to save the one person who has shown him the true meaning of sanctuary?

When Ayanami storms the Barsburg Church in a ruthless effort to drive the Eye of Mikael from Teito's body, Frau is forced to make a terrible choice: let the Eye fall into Ayanami's hands, or abandon Teito to die. But Teito may be powerless to accomplish his search for truth without it...