It’s the end of summer, and you know what that means: the end of the light novel summer reading program. A big thanks to everyone who participated in that! My hope for every post I write is that people will share their own comments and interact with each other more. If you missed them, be… Read More Light Novel Notes: End of Summer 2017
Cross Infinite World has announced a new light novel license for Obsessions of an Otome Gamer. Like Cross Infinite World’s other releases, the source material is a Japanese web novel. (In this case, a novel on Syosetsu.) It was written by Natsu, and featured illustrations by Shoyu. The first ebook for Obsessions of an Otome… Read More Cross Infinite World: Obsessions of an Otome Gamer
BookWalker Global has recently announced they will release in English The Ryuo’s Work is Never Done!, or Ryuo no Oshigoto! as it was known in Japan. The first volume is planned for release in the fall. This will be BookWalker’s second exclusive digital light novel title in English, following The Combat Baker and Automaton Waitress… Read More The Ryuo's Work is Never Done! to Release Via BookWalker
At Anime Expo 2017, Seven Seas made the following light novel announcements: Toradora! by Yuyuko Takemiya (with art by Yasu) has been licensed for English release, beginning in 2018. The ten-volume series released in Japan from 2006 to 2009, and had a popular anime adaptation in Fall 2008/Winter 2009. Seven Seas has already published in… Read More Toradora! Licensed by Seven Seas
Yen Press announced five new light novel licenses at Anime Expo: Goblin Slayer: Year One — a spinoff novel for the Goblin Slayer series Reborn as a Vending Machine, Now I Wander the Dungeon — (Jidouhanbaiki ni Umarekawatta Ore wa Meikyuu ni Samayou) — Novel Updates — LNDB.info — by Hirukuma (with art by Itsuwa… Read More New Yen On Licenses at Anime Expo 2017
J-Novel Club has added a new light novel series to its lineup: Clockwork Planet, by Yuu Kamiya and Tsubaki Himana (with art by Sino). So far there are four volumes in Japan for this series, which is published by Kodansha Light Novel Bunko (Kodansha). There is an anime adaptation currently airing, which you can watch… Read More J-Novel Club: Clockwork Planet
