Miguel and his team enter a global competition to win the virtual reality game Chimera.

Five best friends in a high school computer club get sucked into an underground hacker's game run by a mysterious A.I. that thinks it's God. As the Game pits them against each other, it offers the ultimate promise--win and learn the meaning of life, or die.

"Decades ago, Japan won the Second World War. Americans worship their infallible Emperor, and nobody believes that Japan's conduct in the war was anything but exemplary. Nobody, that is, except the George Washingtons--a shadowy group of rebels fighting for freedom. Their latest subversive tactic is to distribute an illegal video game that asks players to imagine what the world might be like if the United States had won the war instead"--Page 4 of...

"The Weltall Tournament's professional VR games were supposed to be a symbol of cooperation between SysGov and its militaristic neighbor, the Admin. But that was before star Admin player Elly Sako received a death threat, written in blood next to a copy of her own severed head. The Admin's Department of Temporal Investigation swiftly seizes control of the crime scene, and the tournament transforms into a flashpoint of charged politics and conflicting...

Riko can?t help it?her tuxedo baby is just too cute! Will her coworkers feel the same or will it add to their bewilderment about her? At home, Riko learns more about Musubi, from favorite toys such as a free grocery bag to their shared joy of video games. And Musubi himself learns a new trick?how to tell her when it?s dinner time! "Leveling up" in skills, surprises, and adventures extends to real life, as Riko discovers what it?s like living with...