An Older Guy's VR First Love (Kodansha, 2022)

""Farewell, my last and final lover."" Naoki is forty years old, single, male, and a temp worker. But in the world of VR, he takes on the form of a lovely young girl. There, he meets his first love- the cheerful and beautiful Honami. Real life, for Naoki, was a failure. The VR world where he escapes to is coming to an end, too. But in those final moments, he finds her...