ABE Reiko

"'Level up even while offline'?! That's not a game on 'easy mode'—that's just an AFK game!" The online game Yamada Kenichi had been playing religiously is shutting down its servers, leaving him with a void in his heart. He looks for a new game to fill it, but everything he finds is way too easy. The kind of game he likes—the kind punishing enough to make players want to spend…

After being struck by a car, 52-year-old civil servant Tondabayashi Kenzaburou finds himself reincarnated as the villainess of his daughter's favorite video game! Committed to his role as the haughty and arrogant Grace Auvergne, Kenzaburou plays out Grace's part in the game's story... Except his kind nature and elegant Japanese manners accidentally turn the unlikeable Grace…

A 33-volume collection of award-winning oneshots put out by Kodansha from 2002-2012. Some of these would later get serialized or collected in other volumes. Click here for the full list (.txt). Serialized or otherwise collected: AKABOSHI Tomo Shishunki Syndrome AKIZUKI Risu Oku-sama Shinkaron ARAI Hideki 8-gatsu no Hikari ARAMAKI Keiko GENOMES ASADA Torao Spoonman 3.18…