“This fight will be the true test of my limits!” As the selection battles approach their final stages, the most accomplished students must now face each other in combat. In hopes of facing the future together with her beloved brother, Shizuku uses every last bit of strength at her disposal to challenge the most powerful knight in the school: Raikiri. Meanwhile, the Kurogane family is forced to bare its fangs as Ikki’s reputation continues to grow. Caught up in their dastardly scheme, he is taken prisoner, and the world threatens to tear apart his relationship with Stella. In the midst of it all, fatigue takes over both his body and mind, and his most powerful foe yet stands before him as his final opponent. The third and final part of the Selection Battle Arc has Ikki facing the final obstacles in his meteoric rise to fame! He continues his charge to the peak of the Seven Stars, slicing his way through every hardship that befalls him! © Riku Misora / illustrations © WON / SB Creative Corp.

Modern mages, known as Mage-Knights, materialize their souls as armaments. Attending a school for Mage-Knights is Ikki Kurogane, a failed knight—the Worst One. One day, he is challenged by Stella, a Rank A knight, to a duel, putting lifelong servitude on the line. What Ikki lacks in magical power, however, he makes up for with his unorthodox mastery of the sword, leading him to victory! “I’ll do it! Make me do whatever you want! Stupid creep!” Though she regrets her defeat, Stella begins to fall for Ikki. Meanwhile, in the battle for the top of the knight world, the Worst One begins to grab the attention of every Mage-Knight out there, becoming known as Another One! The curtain rises on Ikki’s school-based, sword-action underdog tale as he cuts through one powerful foe after another! © Riku Misora / illustrations © WON / SB Creative Corp.

Ikki and the rest of Hagun Academy’s representatives are made to share a training camp with Tohoku’s leading school, Kyomon Academy, as they and their coaches begin preparing for the Seven Stars Battle Festival. Everything goes off without a hitch—until Hagun Academy falls victim to a sudden assault. “I’m going to need you to fall. You will be the stepping stones that lead to our success.” Ikki, Stella, Hagun’s student council, and the others come face-to-face with Akatsuki, a powerful gang of Blazers from the dark underbelly of society. Just as the fires of war begin to rage, a supposed ally unsheathes the dagger of betrayal! Worse yet, Ikki's path to knighthood is blocked by the strongest Blazer in the entire world! What will come of this premature confrontation? A fierce battle awaits at the boundary between hope and despair, the place where dreams and reality intersect! © Riku Misora / illustrations © WON / SB Creative Corp.

“Why does she get all the attention?!” Ikki and Stella continue to rack up wins in their selection battles, but despite their progress in battle, they’ve made little to no progress romantically. To make matters worse, a pretty upperclassman girl, Ayase Ayatsuji, has been taken under Ikki’s wing as his apprentice in swordplay, making Stella’s jealousy flare up more than ever. One day, Ikki finds himself tangled up in a conflict between Ayase and her fated enemy: the Sword Eater, Kuraudo Kurashiki! Will he be able to survive his duel with a student who reached the quarterfinals of last year’s Seven Stars Battle Festival? A battle with a student council member, the feeling of distance between him and his girlfriend, and a duel off school grounds with the ace of another school—the curtain rises anew on the second part of Ikki’s school-based, sword-action underdog tale as he cuts through yet more powerful foes! © Riku Misora / illustrations © WON / SB Creative Corp.

The People's Revolution has begun! By presenting themselves as angels, with Akatsuki the magician as their god, the High School Prodigies have been steadily winning over the people and growing their new democracy. While Tsukasa believes the tyrannical empire won't make a move until spring, he's proven wrong when Duke Oslo el Gustav launches a seemingly unstoppable magic attack on Dormundt City. With Shinobu taken hostage behind enemy lines, the seven extraordinary teenagers from Earth will need to pull off a miracle just to survive!

After Chicago's ghost population starts going seriously postal, resident wizard Harry Dresden much figure out who is stirring them up and why they all seem to be somehow connected to him.

BUTTON MASH TO VICTORY ​On the verge of flunking out of Grand Swordcraft Academy due to his total lack of talent, Allen Rodol’s life goes from bad to worse when the class prodigy challenges him to a duel where it’s win or face expulsion. However, the night before his hopeless bout, a mysterious hermit grants Allen a button that will give him one hundred million years to train in an alternate reality when pressed. Allen not only gladly accepts the offer but also goes back for seconds, thirds, tenths even! With over a billion years of straight practice under his belt, the world is about to see what the “Reject Swordsman” can really do!

One of the earliest great stories of English literature after ?Beowulf?, ?Sir Gawain? is the strange tale of a green knight on a green horse, who rudely interrupts King Arthur's Round Table festivities one Yuletide, challenging the knights to a wager. Simon Armitrage, one of Britain's leading poets, has produced an inventive and groundbreaking translation that " helps] liberate ?Gawain ?from academia" (?Sunday Telegraph?).

Seven Japanese high school prodigies have taken the world by storm, exercising their mind-blowing abilities in everything from politics to entertainment. But when their plane crashes one day, these geniuses awaken to find themselves in a different realm-one that's home to magic and beast folk! While such strange new surroundings might throw an average person for a loop, these prodigies take their situation in stride...and then some! With the greatest minds and talents known to Earth, this dream team is about to turn the other world on its head!