Not Lives

Not Lives
File:Not Lives, volume 1.jpg The cover of the first manga volume.
ノットライヴス (Notto Raivusu)
Manga
Written by	Wataru Karasuma
Published by	ASCII Media Works
English publisher	NA Seven Seas Entertainment
Demographic	Shōnen
Magazine	Dengeki Daioh
Original run	August 2011 – present
Volumes	9

Not Lives (ノットライヴス, Notto Raivusu) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Wataru Karasuma. The series began publication in ASCII Media Works's Dengeki Daioh magazine in 2011. Seven Seas Entertainment licensed the series for publication in North America.

Characters

• Shigeru Mikami (三神 シゲル, Mikami Shigeru) is a high school student who spends his time trying to develop the perfect romance game. When he plays a new game called "Not Alive" that arrives at his home, he finds himself pulled into the game in the form of a female avatar named Kyouka Amamiya (天宮 鏡花, Amamiya Kyōka), where he must participate in a survival game where losing will mean he dies in real life.

Volumes

The series has been compiled into nine tankōbon volumes, the first of which was published in English in March 2016.

No.	Japanese release date	Japanese ISBN	English release date	English ISBN
01	27 January 2012	ISBN 978-4-04-886282-0	29 March 2016	ISBN 978-1-626923-07-2
02	27 July 2012	ISBN 978-4-04-886846-4	21 June 2016	ISBN 978-1-626923-11-9
03	27 February 2013	ISBN 978-4-04-891455-0	23 August 2016	ISBN 978-1-626923-14-0
04	27 September 2013	ISBN 978-4-04-891939-5	27 December 2016	ISBN 978-1-626923-67-6
05	26 April 2014	ISBN 978-4-04-891455-0	—	—
06	27 August 2014	ISBN 978-4-04-866846-0	—	—
07	27 January 2015	ISBN 978-4-04-869134-5	—	—
08	27 August 2015	ISBN 978-4-04-865291-9	—	—
09	27 February 2016	ISBN 978-4-04-865291-9	—	—

External links

• Not Lives at Dengeki Daioh (Japanese)
• Not Lives at Seven Seas Entertainment
• Not Lives (manga) at Anime News Network's encyclopedia