What is this genre all about? A virtual reality is a place where the character interacts with a computer (or some other device)-simulated environment, be it real or imagined. The condition for a virtual reality to exist is the existence of real world for the character. In some cases, a virtual reality where characters can get harmed physically is depicted.
We present you the list of Virtual Reality manga you should read right now.
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Top 20 Virtual Reality manga you should read right now. [2024 List]
- 20. Murim Login
- 19. Overgeared
- 18. Choinui Geim
- 17. Ranker's Return (2021)
- 16. BJ Daemadosa
- 15. Jamman Jado Ranker
- 14. Ore no Genjitsu wa Renai Game?? ka to Omottara Inochigake no Game datta
- 13. Leveling Up, by Only Eating!
- 12. The Strongest Florist
- 11. Taming Master
- 10. Usogui
- 9. Daejangjangi Jigeu
- 8. Destiny Unchain Online: Kyuuketsuki Shoujo to Natte, Yagate "Aka no Maou" to Yobareru You ni Narimashita
- 7. I'm Destined For Greatness!
- 6. Tomodachi Game
- 5. Overlord
- 4. Cong Renzhen Wan Youxi Kaishi Jueqi
- 3. Liar Game
- 2. Seaworld Game: Please Save My Husband
- 1. Bishoujo ni Natta kedo, Netoge Haijin Yattemasu
20. Murim Login
An era where hunters thrive on hunting monsters that come from Gates. Jin Tae-Kyung is a low-rank hunter who picks up a VR machine, and accidentally logs into the game, which is set in the world of Martial Arts. After many ups and downs, Tae-Kyung is able to escape this world. The strength and skills, which he received in the Murim were able to be carried over back to the real world. This allows him to continue making a living a hunter... but he decides to return back to the world of Murim, out of care for his NPC friends.
Murim Login is currently publishing and has Chapters. It is also Known as: Murim Login
19. Overgeared
[Shin Youngwoo (Username: Grid)]
The world's greatest VR game
Whether in reality or in the game, misfortune has always befallen upon him...
An unexpected reward he discovered during a quest, 'Pagma's Rare Book'.
Changing into a one of a kind, strongest, Legendary class amongst +2 billion users.
"How are you still alive...?!"
"Well, it's nothing complicated..."
"I'm Overgeared."
Overgeared is currently publishing and has Chapters. It is also Known as: Overgeared (2020), Overgeared (Team Argo), 템빨 (Team Argo), Temppal
18. Choinui Geim
Seo Moon-Yeob was the world’s greatest superhuman, who sacrificed himself after saving humanity. Thought to have been dead, he returns 17 years later to a now-peaceful world, and the superhuman sport faces seismic change.
Superhuman Battlefield is currently publishing and has Chapters. It is also Known as: Superman's Game
17. Ranker's Return (2021)
In the early days of the virtual reality game, Arena, MeleeGod was the strongest ranked player! He deleted his character and suddenly left. In order to restore his bankrupt family, he returned to Arena! "Do you want to create a character?"
Ranker's Return (2021) is currently publishing and has Chapters. It is also Known as: Ranker's Return, Ranker’s Return (Remake)
16. BJ Daemadosa
Jung Hyeon-woo had neither ‘Talent’, ‘Money’, or ‘Luck’.“Why can I see the hidden information in the game?”After an electrocution accident, I started being able to see stuff I couldn’t before in the game.
Source: MU
Archmage Streamer is currently publishing and has Chapters. It is also Known as: BJ Archmage
15. Jamman Jado Ranker
We’re only taking a break for about 30 seconds? I’m not imagining things, right?” “…Yes.” After 15 hours of hunting, Hyunsung asked to rest for a while, and after 30 seconds, he had to get up again and started hunting. Actually, Hyunsung has a special skill. [Thananos’ narcolepsy skill is activated.] [You’re being forced into a sleep state.] After sleeping for a while and waking up, I got an item? Pay close attention to the story of the God-Rank Class, the descendant of Thananos, the unstoppable Hyunsung.
Source: MU
Sleeping Ranker is currently publishing and has Chapters. It is also Known as: Ranker, Even if I Sleep
14. Ore no Genjitsu wa Renai Game?? ka to Omottara Inochigake no Game datta
One day, 25-year-old Hasegawa Ryou wakes up to see a holographic screen floating in front of him. The screen prompts him to save/load files and an item shop, as well as his stats. It seems like he’s been sucked into some erotic love game, since his stats depend on seducing women and “capturing” them.
After finding a target and going through game-like options, Ryou thinks he knows what he has to do to “capture” his target. Surely he needs to have sex with her, right? And yet when the woman turns out to be a murderer, Ryou finds out the shocking truth: he has to capture these women and unveil their secrets! And if he fails, he dies...
A Dating Sim of Life or Death is currently publishing and has Chapters. It is also Known as: 俺の現実は恋愛ゲーム??かと思ったら命がけのゲームだった, Ore no Genjitsu wa Ren'ai Game?? ka to Omottara Inochigake no Game datta, Is My Reality a Love Game?? ~I Thought it Was a Life Like Game~
13. Leveling Up, by Only Eating!
The main character is stricken by a rare condition that affects only two people in the entire world, bulimic deficiency.
He organizes his daily meals to survive, but his hope of survival grows dimmer as the days go by.
He consults a doctor, who suggests playing the Alternate Reality Game 'Athens', where he can eat as must as he wants without gaining any weight.
He plays the game to save his life and grow in strength by doing nothing but eating!
A Gourmet Fantasy Life!
Leveling Up, by Only Eating! is currently publishing and has Chapters. It is also Known as: Gourmet Gaming
12. The Strongest Florist
Hwang Jae-Ho joins a game and wants to open a flower shop, thus begins his long journey of being a florist in a virtual world.
The Strongest Florist is currently publishing and has Chapters. It is also Known as: Too Strong to Grow Only Flowers, Too Strong, to raise Flowers, Kkonman kiuneunde neomu gangham, Strongest Florist, Слишком сильный, чтобы выращивать только цветы
11. Taming Master
The best-known VR game in the world, 'Kaillan'. A certified game addict well known in the virtual world, Ian. Despite having a Level 93 Archer character in the top leaderboards of Kaillan, Ian decides to delete it despite everyone around him telling him not to. All to convert to a hidden class he obtained by chance. The class he chose is the most worthless class in Kaillan, the Summoner class. If he wants to avoid getting an F in college, he needs to level up to his previous level within two months... Kaillan is notorious for its very cruel leveling system, where it is said to take over a year to reach level 100. His struggles to reach level 93 in only two months unfold... Level quickly, thoroughly and persistently. The legend of the 'Taming Master' begins!
Taming Master is currently publishing and has Chapters. It is also Known as: Taming Master
10. Usogui
There are gamblers out there who even bet their lives as ante. But to secure the integrity of these life-threatening gambles, a violent and powerful organization by the name of "Kagerou" referees these games as a neutral party. Follow Bak Madarame a.k.a. Usogui (The Lie Eater) as he gambles against maniacal opponents at games—such as Escape the Abandoned Building, Old Maid, and Hangman—to ultimately "out-gamble" and control the neutral organization of Kagerou itself.
The Lie Eater has finished publishing and it has 541 Chapters. It is also Known as: 嘘喰い, Igyou Tobakusha Usokui, Yakou-san, The Lie Eater
9. Daejangjangi Jigeu
Having lost his ranked account to a hacker, Kang Yoohan wants to get even. Assuming his lost equipment was sold, he’s hoping that as blacksmith Zig, it will come back to him through repairs and lead him to the hacker. After breaking many swords, however, he finds this is no walk in the park. Thankfully, he’s able to see cracks in the equipment and enemies that show their vital points to make or break them! Armed with these skills, Zig is looking to get things shaking, or rather, smithing!
Zig the Blacksmith is currently publishing and has Chapters. It is also Known as: Blacksmith Jig, Blacksmith Zig, Blacksmith Zigg, Legendary Blacksmith's Vengeance, The Blacksmith Zig, ซีค ช่างตีเหล็ก, 鍛冶師ジグ〜元最強ソロプレイヤー、鍛冶屋をはじめる〜, 鐵匠齊格的復仇
8. Destiny Unchain Online: Kyuuketsuki Shoujo to Natte, Yagate "Aka no Maou" to Yobareru You ni Narimashita
Kou Mitsuki is a gamer with god-like skills who also goes by the nickname "Headhunting Crim". He participates in a test of a new game device for his father's new game, "Destiny Unchained Online". But the game was filled with bugs at the start and he ends up as a vampire girl. Meeting amazing allies, and taking the game by storm, the story of a top-tier gamer where anything and everything can change....begins!
Destiny Unchain Online: Kyuuketsuki Shoujo to Natte, Yagate "Aka no Maou" to Yobareru You ni Narimashita is currently publishing and has Chapters. It is also Known as: Destiny Unchain Online ～吸血鬼少女となって、やがて『赤の魔王』と呼ばれるようになりました～ , Destiny Unchain Online
7. I'm Destined For Greatness!
When you succeed at everything you try, you have no choice but to seek challenges elsewhere, like in a game. By using the trash jobs that no one pays any attention to, with the right attitude you're bound to accomplish your goals! even succeeding at the most impossible of quests, the main character bets everything he has. "With my skills I'll beat this game!"
I'm Destined For Greatness! is currently publishing and has Chapters. It is also Known as: I'm Destined For Greatness!
6. Tomodachi Game
Katagiri Yuichi believes that friends are more important than money, but he also knows the hardships of not having enough funds. He works hard to save up in order to go on the high school trip, because he has promised his four best friends that they will all go together. However, after the class's money is all collected, it is stolen! Suspicion falls on two of Yuichi's friends, Sawaragi Shiho and Shibe Makoto.
Soon afterward, the five of them are kidnapped, and wake up in a strange room with a character from a short-lived anime. Apparently, one of them has entered them into a "friendship game" in order to take care of their massive debt. But who was it, and why did they have such a debt? Could they have stolen the money from class to pay for entry into the game? Katagiri and his best friends will have to succeed in psychological games that will test or destroy their faith in one another.
Tomodachi Game has finished publishing and it has 129 Chapters. It is also Known as: トモダチゲーム, Friend Game
5. Overlord
The story begins with Yggdrasil, a popular online game which is quietly shut down one day. However, the protagonist Momonga decides to not log out. Momonga is then transformed into the image of a skeleton as "the most powerful wizard." The world continues to change, with non-player characters (NPCs) begining to feel emotion. Having no parents, friends, or place in society, this ordinary young man Momonga then strives to take over the new world the game has become.
Overlord is currently publishing and has Chapters. It is also Known as: オーバーロード, Over Lord
4. Cong Renzhen Wan Youxi Kaishi Jueqi
One born as an ant out to have will and ambition. Fate has not yet been determined; each of us are a black horse. When the game [Yuan World] descended into reality, players gained the ability of their in-game characters. As such, the world became chaos. Liu Yi — forbearing, ambitious, yet afraid of fighting— time travels to an era before the game had become reality. Armed with the knowledge of the future, starting from the bottom to overcome his fear of fighting, Liu Yi rises up to the top, ultimately becoming the Savior and resolving the crisis of the apocalypse.
Source: MU
It All Starts With Playing Game Seriously is currently publishing and has Chapters. It is also Known as: Cong Renzhen Wan Youxi Kaishi Jueqi
3. Liar Game
Wishing she would live up to the ideal, Kanzaki Nao's father named her thusly for “honesty”. Nao has more than lived up to her father's wishes—even exceeding them and earning the label of "a foolishly honest girl". This makes Nao the least qualified candidate for the high stakes 'Liar Game', where winning requires deceiving the opponent out of their money and losing means receiving massive debt. However, that doesn't stop a box containing a hundred million yen in cash and a card informing her of her participation in the game from arriving at her doorstep, nor does it stop her from being promptly tricked out of the entire sum of money. Upon hearing that a genius swindler, responsible for the bankruptcy of a major corporation, is being released from jail, Nao goes to the swindler, Shinichi Akiyama, to enlist his help. With that, the two are drawn into the dark, greed-filled, and deceptive world of the Liar Game.
Liar Game has finished publishing and it has 203 Chapters. It is also Known as: LIAR GAME, Liar Game
2. Seaworld Game: Please Save My Husband
Game notifications? Quests, and a magical item shop... inside a convenience store? After getting married, Bipa's life turns into a video game! Things were going great with her hot and attentive husband—until he has to head off to the frontlines of a war zone, leaving her alone to deal with her insufferable in-laws and terrified for her his safety. One day, she discovers a powerful but expensive item in the magic shop. Can she earn enough points to save her husband’s life?
The Newlywed Game: How to Save My Husband is currently publishing and has Chapters. It is also Known as: Please Save My Husband, 夫を助けてください
1. Bishoujo ni Natta kedo, Netoge Haijin Yattemasu
The story follows the High-schooler Jintarou Futsu , whose confession was rejected by his crush. His misfortune continues, as news of a gender-change disease turns Jintarou into a beautiful silver-haired girl. The shock of it causes him (her) to try to escape from reality by playing the VRMMO, Clan/Clan. His game character Taro uses the same girl's appearance as real life and the Alchemy skill, which most players call a trash skill. He meets lots of fellow adventurers, and becomes stronger within the game world of Clan/Clan. Taro hides what happened to his (her) appearance as a bug to his friends who also play the game, and hides the fact that he (she) had become a girl in real life. When summer break is over, he (she) will have to show their face at school.
Source: MU
I've turned into a bishoujo, but I chose to be a net-game addict! has finished publishing and it has 24 Chapters. It is also Known as: 美少女になったけど、ネトゲ廃人やってます。, Bishōjo ni Natta Kedo, Netoge Haijin Yattemasu.
