Through Life with a Gacha

A 25-year-old shoe salesman, fed up with his job, dies in front of his keyboard while browsing an isekai “waifu catalog” website and awakens as Lucian Taylor, a depressed 16-year-old orphan in New York City. He attends the same school as Peter Parker. He shares a universe with Tony Stark, Thanos, and countless other people who could easily end his life. No powers. No narrative protection. Just a gacha system built into his soul that generates random cards—characters, objects, abilities—from every imaginable fictional universe, which he can obtain with points earned gradually or buy with money, which he certainly doesn’t have to spare. He can summon these cards as allies with their own will, which he can’t fully control, or integrate them into himself and slowly transform into a mix of a shinigami from Bleach, a basketball prodigy, and who knows what else; personality included. Ruined, emaciated, grief-stricken, and about to become the subject of a regeneration-driven scientific experiment, Lucian must maximize his chances of survival in a world that devours survivors. All this unfolds while a sarcastic and self-deprecating narrative pokes fun at anime tropes, isekai clichés, and his own poor choices at every turn. — Description from novelcodex.orgFull novel: Through Life with a Gacha — read the rest free on N​o⁠v​e⁠l​C⁠o​d⁠e​x⁠.​o⁠r​g⁠