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. [2025 List]
- 20. Overgeared
- 19. Murim Login
- 18. Usogui
- 17. Ranker's Return (2021)
- 16. Choinui Geim
- 15. BJ Daemadosa
- 14. The Strongest Florist
- 13. Jamman Jado Ranker
- 12. Daejangjangi Jigeu
- 11. Taming Master
- 10. Imawa no Kuni no Alice
- 9. Tomodachi Game
- 8. Ore no Genjitsu wa Renai Game?? ka to Omottara Inochigake no Game datta
- 7. Zhan Yue
- 6. Leveling Up, by Only Eating!
- 5. Bad Ending Maker
- 4. I'm Destined For Greatness!
- 3. Overlord
- 2. Mireuui Jeonseol: Geumgapdoryong
- 1. Moto Sekai Ichi'i Subchara Ikusei Nikki: Hai Player, Isekai wo Kouryakuchuu!
20. 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
19. 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
18. 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
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. 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
15. 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
14. 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
13. 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
12. 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
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. Imawa no Kuni no Alice
Alice Ryouhei will leave high school soon, but he's trying to avoid thinking about his future. Late one night, when he's hanging out with his tough friend Karube and his silly, girl-crazy friend Chota, they see fireworks. After one blindingly bright explosion, they find themselves waking up in a different world. In this "Borderland," people are forced to either participate in potentially deadly games or simply die. Will Chota, Karube, and Ryouhei be able to survive this dangerous new world, and is there a way they can get back to their original lives?
Alice in Borderland has finished publishing and it has 87 Chapters. It is also Known as: 今際の国のアリス, Imawa no Kuni no Alice
9. 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
8. 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~
7. Zhan Yue
After emerging from an accidental journey to the Boss World with a new set of skills, I have been hiding among the other players of Phantom Moon, searching for the secrets concealed within this game. In order to achieve my goals and find my missing brother, I’ll have to bend – and sometimes break – the very rules of this virtual reality in my favor. Guilds? Other Players? Powerful Bosses? All are simply stepping stones on my way to a destiny greater than the game’s mysterious designers could ever have imagined.
Zhan Yue is currently publishing and has Chapters. It is also Known as: Paraselene, Moon Chopping, Moon Slayer, Reborn as a Skeleton, Zhǎn Yuè, 血月の死神〜最強のボスを目指して〜
6. 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
5. Bad Ending Maker
"Please write your resignation, Mr. Mincheol." He was fired overnight from the job he devoted his youth to for opposing the management's billing policy. That's how his life as the online director of Wings came to an end. It's a game I made and a world I made, so... I'm the only one who finishes this world. I will become the final boss myself and end this game with my own hands! "Now I'll show you what a bad ending is."
Bad Ending Maker is currently publishing and has Chapters. It is also Known as: Bad Ending Maker
4. 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!
3. 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
2. Mireuui Jeonseol: Geumgapdoryong
"Where am I? What... am I?"
The Gold Armored Sword Dragon (or Geumgap Doryong), the boss monster of Demon Palace's 7th floor and the Guardian of the Abyss, becomes self-aware and awakens in a game world! He is a giant dragon covered in golden scales, but he takes on a human form once he withstands a set number of attacks. He's a rare character in the game, "New Legend of Mir", a supposedly authentic martial arts game.
And then there is Dorothy, a girl who calls him "Geum Ryong" (Gold Dragon), and Jeok Chan-Woon, the attack force's leader and commander of the Red Blood Group, and Gepetto, who goes by the nickname, "Dumplinghead Girl"... Their story takes place inside the world of Murim within the virtual-reality martial arts game, "New Legend of Mir"!
Note: Chapter count includes a prologue.
Mireuui Jeonseol: Geumgapdoryong has finished publishing and it has 51 Chapters. It is also Known as: Legend of Mir: Gold Armored Sword Dragon, Mir's Legend: Gold Armored Sword Dragon
1. Moto Sekai Ichi'i Subchara Ikusei Nikki: Hai Player, Isekai wo Kouryakuchuu!
The protagonist who was rarely ever at school during his middle school and high school days, is unemployed even as an adult. From morning till night, it was video games. For him who was ranked first worldwide, it was his life.
One day, his character is suddenly hacked. The data was unrecoverable and there was nothing that could be done. Feeling great despair at having lost his rank that he had bet everything to achieve in a world that controlled his life, the protagonist attempts suicide.
When he awakens, he finds himself inside the video game, no, it was a real world that resembled it. There, he notices that he has reincarnated into the the body of a sub character that he had created and bought premium benefits for long ago but had left neglected.
The Former Top 1’s Sub-Character Training Diary ~A Dedicated Player is Currently Conquering Another World!~ is currently publishing and has Chapters. It is also Known as: 元・世界１位のサブキャラ育成日記 ２ ～廃プレイヤー、異世界を攻略中！～, Moto Sekai Ichi'i Subchara Ikusei Nikki ~Hai Player, Isekai wo Kouryakuchuu!~, The Former World Number 1's Alt Character Training Diary
