“Video game genius transported into a real-life game where he controls a female avatar to survive against other players and a GM.”
Not Lives
NOT LIVES -ノットライヴス-
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Video game genius transported into a real-life game where he controls a female avatar to survive against other players and a GM.
Mikami Shigeru is a video game genius―he can play and conquer any game, and just as easily program his own. While planning his next project, Shigeru discovers a strange oddity among his stack of research materials―a game disc labeled NOT ALIVE. Absorbing into his body, the disc thrusts him into a strange parallel reality where he becomes the "Player" of a real life video game, one where he controls the mysterious and skilled Amamiya Kyouka as his new female avatar. With rules to learn, other players to combat, and an omniscient GM overseeing the process, will Shigeru's gaming skills be enough to survive in this brave new digital world? (Source: Seven Seas Entertainment)
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A Manga Publication
- Format 54 × 10 ch × vol
- Total read 7h 12m approx
- Published Jun 2011 – Oct 2016
- Source Manga media type
- Ref. BS-M16221 catalog