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series written and illustrated by Yasunori Mitsunaga. It has been serialized in

Kodansha is a Japanese privately-held publishing company headquartered in Bunkyō, Tokyo. Kodansha is the largest Japanese publishing company, and it produces the manga magazines ''Nakayoshi'', ''Afternoon'', ''Evening'', ''Weekly Shōnen Magazine'' an ...

's manga magazine ''

Monthly Shōnen Sirius is a Japanese monthly ''shōnen'' manga magazine published by Kodansha, and first issued in May 2005. It is issued in perfect-bound B5 format and retails for 580 yen. ''Monthly Shōnen Sirius'' is aimed at readers aged 16–21. The magazine a ...

'' since September 2019.

Plot

Kuzuno Sekai is ostracized after an embarrassing photo of him is posted online. Distraught, he wishes he was gone from this world, and finds his wish granted when he abruptly wakes up in a fantasy world with nothing but the clothes on his back and a video game controller. He learns the controller's pause button allows him to freeze time indefinitely until he presses it again. He enthusiastically uses the time freeze for hedonism and perversion, but also to solve problems and defeat opponents, sometimes spending hours or even days in frozen time to find the solution, and often using it to move his allies around and save on travel time. He keeps his time freeze ability secret from all but his closest allies; he pretends he can strip people naked with a spell called "Disarm" and lets people assume that he has super speed or the ability to teleport. He finds a timer in his vision that counts down, though it stops just like everything else when he freezes time. Though unsure of the timer's purpose, he finds that it resets with more time, accompanied by a spontaneous fireworks display and a "Stage Clear!" message, whenever he accomplishes a great heroic deed. After earning the title "Hero of Salvation", he befriends the thief Niña and the dark elf Fury and forms an adventuring party with them. They travel around solving problems and aiming to defeat the King of Darkness, a demon who leads the Forces of Darkness to conquer the world.

Publication

Written and illustrated by Yasunori Mitsunaga, ''Time Stop Hero'' started in

's manga magazine ''

'' on September 26, 2019. Kodansha has collected its chapters into individual volumes. The first volume was released on January 9, 2020. As of April 9, 2024, fifteen volumes have been released. In North America, the manga has been licensed for English release by Seven Seas Entertainment.

Volumes

Chapters not yet in ''tankōbon'' format

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