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Non-linear Storytelling

This tag refers to the writing style where the progression of the story takes place in a non linear fashion, with events from different times in the time line being written in a jumbled format to generally increase the mystery elements. This tag is different from the flash back tag, in the sense that the sudden non linearity can be due to a future event suddenly being brought up, and not just a past event.

Primordial Villain with a Slave Harem

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Quinlan, a simple office worker finds himself transmigrated to an extremely dangerous fantasy land as a level 1 Commoner with nothing to his name but his wits - and a unique gift that accompanied his teleportation. No one in Thalorind could have predicted that this unassuming arrival would one day...
Action, Harem, Fantasy, Slice of Life, Adventure, Romance, Drama, Mature, Adult
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The Empty Box and Zeroth Maria

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This is a sinister story about 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...
School Life, Psychological, Horror, Tragedy, Seinen, Action, Drama, Mystery, Romance, Supernatural
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I’m an Infinite Regressor, But I’ve Got Stories to Tell

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There is such a genre. In any novel, regression is a cheat key! What if it’s the ability of [Infinite Regression]? No need to worry about any bad endings, after all, the protagonist will eventually reach a happy ending. “Cheat key my foot.” I tried it myself and it wasn’t so. The success myths of...
Fantasy, Action, Tragedy, Seinen, Drama
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  • MTL
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Destroying the Virgin-the Making of a Saint-

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There was a man… named “Takagi Ryo” who was hideous both externally and internally. No light shone in his life. Throughout his life, he was mistreated and abused by women in particular, leading to a warped image of the kind of woman he desired, which drove him even further into madness. In the...
Horror, Psychological, Tragedy
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I Came Back but the World is Still a Fantasy!?

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When a boy coincidentally fell into a dimension hole, what awaited him was a world of sword and magic. Two years of tragedies, wars, and schemes, passed until he was finally able to return to Earth. But when he came back, the world was no longer the same. A new world with advanced technology,...
Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Harem, Romance, School Life, Sci-fi, Seinen, Tragedy
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The Guide to Capturing a Black Lotus

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The demons of this world run amok; it’s time for the children of heroes to fill in their own legends. Unfortunately, you’re not the cold and incorruptible female lead. You’re not even the high-status, delicate and charming second female lead: You’re just the detestable cannon fodder female number...
Adventure, Fantasy, Mystery, Romance
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A Death Row Convict Teaches at a School of Magic

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As a human being, Kanaki Taiga was a broken man. Being a monster with rationality, he was finally apprehended one day and sentenced to death. From there, through twists and turns, he was now a teacher at a school of magic. After three years of teaching, his school life began to undergo a transition...
Seinen, Psychological, Horror, Mature, School Life, Action, Fantasy, Supernatural, Tragedy
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The Founder of Diabolism

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As the grandmaster of demonic cultivation, Wei Wuxian roamed the world, hated by millions for committing acts of necromancy. Overthrown by the powerful clans he had attempted to subjugate, Wei Wuxian is supposedly killed by his shidi in order to save the cultivation world. Restored to life in the...
Yaoi, Adult, Fantasy, Comedy, Adventure, Action, Smut, Romance, Xianxia, Horror
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Omniscient Reader's Viewpoint

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Only I know the end of this world. One day our MC finds himself stuck in the world of his favorite webnovel. What does he do to survive? It is a world struck by catastrophe and danger all around. His edge? He knows the plot of the story to end. Because he was the sole reader that stuck with it....
Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Mature, Mystery, Psychological, Shounen
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Kumo Desu ga, Nani ka?

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The world where the Hero and the Demon King continue to oppose each other. The grand magic from the Hero and the Demon King cross over worlds and exploded in the classroom of a certain high school. The students who died in the explosion will be reincarnated in a different world. The protagonist,...
Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-fi, Seinen
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