Utsuro no Hako to Zero no Maria, or The Empty Box and The Zeroth Maria, tells the sinister story of Kazuki Hoshino, who is almost madly attached to his everyday life, and his antagonist Aya Otonashi, who suddenly transfers into his class—for the 13,118th time. She majestically announces to “break” him, without paying heed to anyone else around them.
This is but the start of a dark roller coaster ride that turns the two against themselves, the people around them and the one who may be god. Read on as their relationship slowly changes and they go against their most basic values in their struggle against the world itself.
The Empty Box and Zeroth Maria has finished publishing and it has 40 Chapters. It is also Known as: 空ろの箱と零のマリア, HakoMari
Genres: Fantasy , Thriller , School Life , Horror , Drama , Romance , Action , Psychological , Mystery
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Top 10 Light Novel Like The Empty Box and Zeroth Maria (Utsuro no Hako to Zero no Maria) [2024 List]
10. Mahou Shoujo Madoka★Magica
When a new girl joins her class, Madoka Kaname thinks she recognizes the mysterious, dark-haired transfer student from one of her dreams…a dream where she is approached by a catlike creature who offers Madoka an opportunity to change destiny. Madoka had always thought magic was the stuff of fantasy…until she sees the transfer student fighting with the very cat being from her dream! And just like in Madoka’s dream, the cat gives her a choice. Will Madoka become a magical girl in exchange for her dearest desire? What will be the cost of having her wish come true?
Puella Magi Madoka Magica has finished publishing and it has 12 Chapters. It is also Known as: 魔法少女まどか★マギカ, Mahou Shoujo Madoka Magika, Magical Girl Madoka Magica
9. Classmate, Kamimura Yuuka wa Kou Itta.
Shirasaki is incredibly bored by his unchanging daily school life and he ends up falling in with his weird classmate Kamimura Yuuka, who rants about changing the world to his uninterested classmates. However, when she reveals the truth about the nature of their world to him, everything will quickly become stranger than he would ever have expected!
Classmate, Kamimura Yuuka wa Kou Itta. has finished publishing and it has 29 Chapters. It is also Known as: クラスメート、上村ユウカはこう言った。, Classmate, Kamimura Yuuka wa Kou Itta.
8. All You Need Is Kill
The world is in a war against an alien race called "Mimics," who have taken over most of the world with a mission to eliminate the human race. Keiji Kiriya is a new recruit in the United Defense Force, which is battling against these "Mimics." On his first day of deployment, Keiji and his unit encounter "Mimics" and are all killed... Or was it all a dream? For some inexplicable reason, after every time he dies, he is resurrected and returned back to the day before the battle. Why does this happen to Keiji and how can he escape from this never ending cycle?
All You Need Is Kill has finished publishing and it has 17 Chapters. It is also Known as: Edge of Tomorrow
7. Jinsei Reset Button
What does "being perfect" mean to you? To Hashidate Yuuto, it means everything. All his life long he strived for perfectness until a single incident occured in middle school that ruined his plans of being perfect: He pooped in front of the whole class and parents. Believing, that his reputation was destroyed and that he would never be able to reach perfectness anymore, he wished that the incident never occured. This is when a mysterious Goddess named Maki offers him a button that allows him to go back in time.
Life Reset Button has finished publishing and it has 6 Chapters. It is also Known as: 人生リセットボタン, Jinsei Reset Button
6. Kamisu Reina Series
She is my best friend—a member of the track-and-field club and in a different class, but we always go home together.
She is my hateful nemesis—the murderer of my family. I won't forgive her and I will take revenge!
She is my fellow partner—together, we fight against the humanoid energies to save the world.
She is my...
She is always smiling with an absurdly beautiful smile. What is she to you...?
Kamisu Reina Series has finished publishing and it has 11 Chapters. It is also Known as: 神栖麗奈シリーズ, Kamisu Reina Is Here, Kamisu Reina wa Koko ni Iru
5. Steins;Gate
The story of Steins;Gate takes place in Akihabara and is about a group of friends who have managed to customize their microwave into a device that can send text messages to the past. As they perform different experiments, an organization named SERN who has been doing their own research on time travel tracks them down and now the characters have to find a way to avoid being captured by them.
Steins;Gate has finished publishing and it has 17 Chapters. It is also Known as: STEINS;GATE, Chouyoku no Divergence:Reverse, Keijijou no Necrosis:Reverse, Kyoukai Menjou no Steins,Gate:Rebirth, Rokubungi no Idiom, Kyoukai Menjou no Steins, Gate:Rebirth
4. Umineko no Naku Koro ni - Episode 1: Legend of the Golden Witch
Each year, the Ushiromiya family gathers at the secluded mansion of its patriarch, the elderly Kinzo. It has been six years since Battler joined his cousins at the annual event, but their happy reunion is overshadowed by worsening weather and an eerie premonition from his youngest cousin—not to mention their parents’ feud over the inheritance. Battler doesn’t hold much stock in dark omens, nor does he believe the tales of the witch rumored to have given his grandfather a fortune in gold…and who walks the halls of the mansion to this day… But when the eighteen family members and servants are trapped on the island by the raging typhoon, the grisly events that follow leave Battler shaken to his core. Is one of his relatives desperate enough to kill for the family fortune? Or is this the work of the Golden Witch?
Note: Volume 4 also contains the tea party chapter for this episode
Umineko WHEN THEY CRY Episode 1: Legend of the Golden Witch has finished publishing and it has 23 Chapters. It is also Known as: うみねこのなく頃に - Episode 1: Legend of the Golden Witch, When Seagulls Cry Episode 1: Legend of the Golden Witch
3. Gekkou
Gekkou, or "Moonlight", is about the peculiar relationship between a cynical boy and a perfect girl. Said cynical boy is Nonomiya who spends day in day out in boredom, taking refuge from his dull life in his imagination. One fateful day, he happens upon the notebook of the much-rumored beauty Youko Tsukimori, neglected on the ground. Poking out from it is a scrap of paper with the unexpected title "Murder Recipe". His interest ignited, he immediately stuffs it into his pocket, only to find out the promising recipe contains nothing but scenarios that may or may not lead to deadly accidents, not even worthy of being called a plan. When he tentatively asks her about it the next day, she hasn't lost anything. But then her father dies. An accident...
Gekkou has finished publishing and it has 11 Chapters. It is also Known as: 月光, Moonlight
2. Re:Zero kara Hajimeru Isekai Seikatsu
Suddenly high school student Subaru Natsuki has been summoned to another world on the way back from the convenience store. With the biggest crisis of his life being summoned to another world and no sign of the one who summoned him, things become worse when he is attacked. But when he is saved by a mysterious silver-haired girl with a fairy cat, Subaru cooperates with the girl to return the favor. When they finally manage to get a clue, Subaru and the girl are attacked and killed by someone. Subaru then awakens in the place he was summoned and notices he gained the ability "Returns by Death." A helpless boy that only has the ability to rewind time by dying. And beyond the despair can he save the girl from the fate of death?
Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World- is currently publishing and has Chapters. It is also Known as: Re：ゼロから始める異世界生活, ReZero, Re: Life in a different world from zero
1. Death Note
Light Yagami is a brilliant 17-year-old student, one of the top scorers on his exams in all of Japan. One day as he leaves school, he finds a mysterious black notebook on the ground with "Death Note" written on it. The first thing written inside: "The human whose name is written in the notebook shall die." Light decides to use this to cleanse the world of evil by killing all the criminals. On the scene comes L, ace detective, who's determined to find Light—who the world now calls "Kira"—and track him down, thus bringing us an epic psychological thrill ride.
Death Note has finished publishing and it has 108 Chapters. It is also Known as: DEATH NOTE, Death Note
