We’ve finished a pretty nice year for light novels in English, with over fifteen official releases as well as a lot of exciting announcements. For this post I will go over some of this year’s highlights as well as a couple related personal achievements. And then maybe take a look at what 2015 holds for us? First, here… Read More This Year in English Light Novels 2014
Every year since 2005, a light novel guide book titled Kono Light Novel ga Sugoi! (This Light Novel is Amazing!) is published in Japan, featuring lists such as top 10 most popular light novels and top 10 favorite light novel characters. To create their final listings, the poll works with multiple categories of voters: the homepage… Read More Kono Light Novel ga Sugoi! 2015
The first volume of Is it Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon? (DanMachi), the third volume of Sword Art Online, and the thirteenth volume of Spice and Wolf have recently been released by Yen Press. They are available in paperback, and can be purchased online. On Amazon, it also looks like DanMachi is… Read More News: Danmachi 1, SAO 3, Spice and Wolf 13 Released
English Title: Is it Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon? Japanese Title: ダンジョンã«å‡ºä¼šã„を求ã‚ã‚‹ã®ã¯é–“é•ã£ã¦ã„ã‚‹ã ã‚ã†ã‹ — Danjon ni Deai o Motomeru no wa Machigatteiru Darou ka — “DanMachi” Author: Fujino Omori — 大森藤ノ Illustrator: Suzuhito Yasuda — ヤスダスズヒト Translator: Andrew Gaippe Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Adventure, Harem Original Run: January 2013 – ongoing English Run: December 2014… Read More Is it Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon?
For general information on this series: A Certain Magical Index entry This review is for the first volume of A Certain Magical Index by Kazuma Kamachi. The English edition was released by Yen Press in November 2014. The second volume will release in February 2015, and will (in theory at least) be followed by the remaining twenty volumes in… Read More Review: A Certain Magical Index (Vol 1)
As the year comes to a close, I thought it would be fun to put together a few blog posts in the form of “top 10” lists. I have at least three of these in mind, but for now I’ll start with a list of my favorite anime shows that are based on light novels series.… Read More Favorite Anime Adapted from Light Novels
