Today, Yen Press announced several manga and light novel titles plus one art book. All of these titles will be of interest to light novel fans as the manga and art book are based on existing light novel properties and the light novels are spin-off, or side-story, material of popular series.… Read More Yen Press Licenses Several Manga and Light Novel Spin-Offs
Back in 1996 there was a Sega arcade game you could play called Virtual On: Cyber Troopers, in which you and a friend could control giant robots (via two pilot joysticks, mad scientist-style) and attempt to beat each other up. Some things happened, and then in 2018 a new game of this sort was released… Read More Let’s Play A Certain Magical Virtual-On
Every year since 2005, a light novel guide book titled Kono Light Novel ga Sugoi! (This Light Novel is Amazing!) is published in Japan by Takarajimasha. It features lists such as the top 10 most popular light novels and top 10 favorite light novel characters. The poll has two categories of voters: the homepage survey… Read More Kono Light Novel ga Sugoi! 2018
Hello everyone, it’s time for another post for random news and tidbits relating to light novels. I hope you are all enjoying a good book. What have you been reading? I am wrapping up My Youth Romantic Comedy volume 3, and hope to have an article for that written soon. Hoping to read the Yume… Read More Light Novel Notes: November 2017
It’s time for light novel notes! I’m going to stop posting recent releases (I have those covered here), but I will go over what’s coming out soon. (Or in the case of The Violet Knight, what has just barely released.) The Violet Knight volume 1 (ebook) Amazon Release Date: September 12, 2016 Strike the Blood volume… Read More Light Novel Notes (September 2016)
How was everyone’s summer? I hope you all had a good time reading light novels. I haven’t been keeping up with all the posts I’ve wanted to publish here, but I think it will be easier now that things have settled a bit with my move back to Japan and wrapping up the summer reading… Read More Light Novel Releases — July & August 2016
