Proof that the remaining 10% is worth dying for, followed by winning The Game and coming back to read them again, here:
These are recommendations made by tropers for The World Ends with You, all of which have been signed. After a few samples, you will be able to judge whether you might be interested in the 'fic, based on who recommended it. No-name recommendations will be erased. Discussion of the recommendation is welcome on the discussion page. As such discussion is important, do remember to add the discussion page to the watchlist, if need be.
Do warn when a fanfic may head into romantic or non-canon territory. Some people just don't like it, and as we all know, Shipping is Serious Business.
Authors, and Websites
- Recommended by Keltena, starstuff99, Link Season Master
- Scrawlers has several stories for this fandom, all of which are complete. Her stories are generally pairingless, although hints of Neku/Shiki and Beat/Eri sneak in at times.
- Recommended by PMiller1
- One of the Good Authors. They make some Good Post-Game Stories. And have a story for the "Lesser-Known Pals" with a story call Moon and Sun
that Ship Ai/Makoto and some More.
- Recommended by fjcute and Flairina
- Status: Complete
- Synopsis: Post-game, some spoilers. 'After surviving three weeks of the Reapers' Game, Neku demands that Joshua return him to the world of the living; Joshua agrees, but there's a catch to the deal…'
Dividing by Zero by Ersatz.Love
- Recommended by Kris Mahai, Flairina, Link Season Master
- Status: Dead
- Synopsis: Post-game, and contains spoilers from the secret reports. "The battle was lost, but the war's not over; the Composer's biggest threat has yet to be erased, after all." Minamimoto-centric.
Krick-KRACK by The Light's Refrain
- Recommended by Rhyme Beat
- Status: Complete
- Synopsis: Post-game. All was well after the Shibuya game, right? Wrong. Things are going to hell. All the creativity has gone to ultra-competitiveness. Meanwhile, both of the Bito siblings are lost without ambitions.
roulette by Lucky Dice Kirby
- Recommended by Keltena
- Status: Complete
- Synopsis: Fairness is a subjective thing. Not every problem has a solution, once you mess with the numbers enough.
Chapters by Azalee
- Recommended by starstuff99, Haustere, Keyseeker
- Status: Dead
- Synopsis: /Rese T/ Neku finds a new app in his phone. Based off the "what-if" scenario of Neku finding the Chapters option in his phone from post game. As expected, Neku is thrown into the last three weeks of Game all over again with his memories intact, but is prevented from doing anything because it's already happened.
Joshua Trips by Kipper Snack
- Recommended by Spencerrr, Ellamew, Snergby, Haustere, Hassohappa, Thragg Lootrippa
- Status: Dead
- Synopsis: ...well, he does.
Mind the Gaps by Ennael
- Recommended by forthel0veoffanfic
- Status: Complete
- Synopsis: Choosing to not erase himself and the whole city has consequences that Joshua would have loved to not deal with. But, well, that was his choice and he will stick to it since he doesn't quite want to see Shibuya, Sanae and Neku destroyed. Saving his precious things with half his powers binded is going to be tough but he has all faith in himself. Mostly.
Noise of Regalement by The Light's Refrain
- Recommended by Ellamew
- Status: Complete
- Synopsis: Your life. Another life. Sanity. Humanity. How easily these are taken for granted. In the end, what must you sacrifice for a power you don't even want?
Dreamless by Tenshi No Akuma (alt link)
- Recommended by Marshmello, Keltena
- Status: Complete
- Synopsis: After the Game, everyone has changed... except Rhyme.
Shibuya's Composer by Natalie Field
- Recommended by LittleMissSophie
- Status: Dead
- Synopsis: Sight has always been a problem for Yoshiya Kiryu. Not because of what he can't see, but because of what he can... The story of how Joshua became Shibuya's Composer.
Know You Better by The Genius Mage Divine Wolfe
- Recommended by Death Note Fan
- Status: Complete
- Synopsis: Post-game, one-shot, friendship fic. Shiki knew she needed to tell her, but the words were lodged in her throat and seemed content on staying there.
Down the Sewer Hole by Ellamew
- Recommended by Theboywonder
- Status: Complete
- Synopsis: One uneventful day, Rhyme's beloved bell pendant takes a tumble down the local sewage system. Worried brothers, bad coffee, math frauds, and tale-telling shoes aside, she wants it back.
Proof of Life by Etoile Luna
- Recommended by Keyseeker
- Status: Complete
- "Synopsis": While Joshua struggles to survive in the game between him and the angels, Neku struggles to understand the Composer. After all he's the only one who can help Joshua, as his only friend in the RG.
The Game by Pugatorie's Respite
- Recommended by The Thnikkaman
- Status: Complete
- Synopsis: A summary of the premise of TWEWY In Poem Form!
How To Become Composer by meiflower
- Recommended by Anderling
- Status: Complete
- Synopsis: There was one way. It was murder. A fic that explores the relationship Joshua had with his predecessor, the Composer he killed to get the job.
Unus Ultim Ludus by The Genius Mage
- Recommended by Flairina
- Status: Complete
- Synopsis: A Tournament begins to see who becomes leader of the Angels, and of course our favorite Composer enters, and that means Neku and the gang are thrown back in the Game once more.
failure to by some lad
- Recommended by forthel0veoffanfic
- Status: One-shot
- Synopsis: Joshua travels to other planes in search of a Neku who chooses to shoot.
The World Ends With Witches by AyaAya
- Recommended by Link Season Master
- Status: Ongoing
- Synopsis: Shiki Misaki is a young witch with a wish—and rumor is, a certain vampire can help her achieve it! Partnered with a shapeshifting cat named Rhyme, Shiki sets up shop in the town of Shibuya as she searches for a way to change her fate. Inspired by the official Halloween promo art.
- Tropes Page here.
Aftermath by Jestry
- Recommended by Arc Varanus
- Status: Complete
- Pairings: Neku/Shiki
- Synopsis: Aftermath of the Reaper's game. In which we attempt to pick up the shattered pieces of our lives, and glue them back into some semblance of reality. Written from Shiki's POV as she comes to grips with how the Reaper's Game has changed her life and relationship with her family, Eri and a certain Mr. Emo.
Monochrome by The Genius Mage Divine Wolfe
- Recommended by tropertea
- Status: Complete
- Pairings: Neku/Shiki
- Synopsis: Neku Sakuraba used to see the world in shades of black, white, and gray. A visit to Shiki's house and a small garden changed everything. Focuses on the ways that Shiki changed Neku's perspective of the world during and after the game.
Infection by Zilleniose
- Recommended by Keltena, notsomuch.
- Status: Complete
- Pairings: Joshua/Neku, sort of
- Synopsis: "Neku, Neku... did you honestly think I'd let anyone else kill you?"
Signal to Noise by twigcollins (Alternate link)
- Recommended by Juanaxu, Azalee, Ellamew, Kris Mahai, Kaiserin Kai, Haustere, Myriam D, Keltena, moooomoooo, Hassohappa, Cyissoul, Mandichaos
- Status: Complete
- Pairings: Joshua/Neku
- Synopsis: Hey, what’s the worst that can happen? A fic that explores what would happen if Neku agrees to be Joshua's Conductor. Neku attempts to balance his life with his Conductor duties, tries to come to terms with everything that happens in the Game, and falls for Joshua.
Things You Don't Do by weaverofstars
- Recommended by Death Note Fan, Keltena
- Status: Complete
- Pairings: Eri/Shiki, Joshua/Neku
- Synopsis: There were a lot of things that Eri had to learn not to do when she became friends with all of them.
Glass Feather by Shinigami Yumi (Alternate link)
- Recommended by brumal
- Status: Complete
- Pairings: Joshua/Neku
- Synopsis: From the author: A year after their Game, Neku and Joshua meet again. Neku wants answers. Joshua decides to indulge him...conditionally, of course. But when new enemies surface and things go awry, Neku gets caught up in a battle to keep Joshua as Composer...and alive.
Expand Your World by Lazuli
- Recommended by Stratagemini
- Status: Ongoing
- Crossover: Worm
- Synopsis: While looking at a strange mural, Taylor finds an odd pin. A fusion of The World Ends With You and Worm, set in the latter's Brockton Bay, with Worm's characters, but using the mechanics and metaphysics (for lack of a better term) of TWEWY. As a result, things start off the rails and then proceed to completely ignore any and all stations of the canon.
Playing for Keeps [1] by FlikFreak (Crossover with the Kingdom Hearts series, put on this page because it takes place in the TWEWY-verse.)
- Recommended by SapphireBlue, Haustere, star trail
- Status: Complete
- Synopsis: Sora is sent to Shibuya to investigate some strange activity coming from there. But instead, he ends up being thrust into the Reaper's Game. He's partnered up with Neku, who's back due to an accident but was instructed to help Sora. Together, they find out that the Heartless have come to Shibuya. Neither of them knows much about the other. But they still have to figure out what's going on, while still making it safely through the Game. (Note From the Future: Written way before KH 3 D.)
Jersey Sore [2] by RyukoVulpix (Crossover with the Kingdom Hearts series)
- Recommended by forthel0veoffanfic,
- Status: Complete
- Synopsis: A short-but-sweet little bit of flash fiction that made me laugh and somehow managed to perfectly capture the characters in less than 500 words.)
The Lucidity of the Descent [3] by Devicing
- Recommended by Halogen
- Status: Ongoing
- Synopsis: From the moment he wakes up, Momota knows he’s lost something. It’s not his bag, still slung over his shoulder, or the wallet jabbing awkwardly into his hip where it’s pressed to the ground beneath him. As he pushes himself up off the pavement and up onto one arm, the absence feels painfully obvious—a strange vacuum somewhere in the hollow of his chest, a single cog missing from an intricate machine still running yet still somehow off. The Ikebukuro Station East sign looms over him. Above it, the familiar jumbotron screen flickers with dazzling multicolored lights. In lieu of the usual Seibu Lions highlight reels and idol advertisements, there is a single phrase. "Rise and (Sun)shine!" it screams. "You Have 7 Days!". For the myth to be tragic, the hero must be conscious of the absurdity. To truly feel the weight of one's own life, one would would have to remember it, first.
- Comments: A really solid fix overall, manages to use TWEWY's setting without spoiling the actual game, and keeps everyone in character.
