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For years Alec held the crown prince's party together with support magic nobody noticed, and his reward is to be thrown out as useless. Free at last, he looks up his old academy friends — the party that once set a record in the royal dungeon. No more holding back for weaker allies: the team is back together, and Alec can finally fight at full strength.

Reborn as Eld in a world that works just like the online game he used to play, a young man finds that nobody here knows even the basics he took for granted. Starting from level 1, he sets out to change into the game's strongest class, Sage — using knowledge the whole world has somehow forgotten.

Born without the gift her family is known for, Miyo Saimori is treated as a servant by her father, her stepmother and her gifted half-sister. Then she is sent away as a bride candidate to Kiyoka Kudou, a soldier rumoured to be so cold that every candidate before her has fled. A slow, gentle romance with a supernatural edge, set in an alternate Meiji-era Japan.

Leez Kubera is a girl named after a god nobody remembers, in a village where gods walk among people. When the village is destroyed, she sets out for revenge. An intricate fantasy of gods, magic and suras, built over more than a decade.

Every family has an OrderMaid robot now, and Bondo finally gets one. He was hoping for a pretty android; he gets Roboco — muscular, overconfident, convinced she is gorgeous, and very kind. A gag manga in Weekly Shonen Jump that parodies Jump itself, with a surprisingly big heart.

Taro Sakamoto was the greatest hitman alive — until he fell in love, retired, married and settled down to run a neighbourhood shop, a little heavier than he used to be. When a bounty lands on his head, every killer in town comes calling, and Sakamoto has to fight them off without breaking his promise to his wife: no killing. Inventive action comedy.

Morihito, an ogre, is appointed familiar to his childhood friend Nico, a witch whose spells go wrong at least as often as they go right — and they are to live under one roof. A gentle, very funny magical comedy with a mystery underneath.

Towers rose all over the world, and monsters poured out of them. The Walkers who climbed them were offered a way out at the brink of death: a stone that sends them back in time, into a new timeline, leaving the old world to fall. Jae-Hwan refuses it. He keeps climbing for the world everyone else gave up on, and the higher he goes, the stranger the truth about the Towers becomes.