

Katanagatari (刀語), which means Sword Tale in English, was written in 2007-2008 by Nisio Isin who is one of the most famous light novel authors in Japan. Katanagatari (Sword Tale) Katanagatari Light Novel She finds out that she has a much more powerful abilities than average while she asks to make her abilities just average. Didn’t I Say To Make My Abilities Average In The Next Life?! Didn’t I Say To Make My Abilities Average In The Next Life?! Light Novelĭidn’t I Say To Make My Abilities Average In The Next Life?! (私、能力は平均値でって言ったよね!), which has been published since 2016, is categorized as fantasy and Isekai.Ī high school girl Misato is killed in a traffic accident and is born again in the parallel world as a teenage girl named Adele. The manga and anime adaptions have been made for its popularity. The main character Goblin Slayer is the soldier who takes his life on hunting goblins. And then, the current format as a light novel has been published since 2016. Goblin Slayer Goblin Slayer Light NovelĪ popular ongoing dark-fantasy light novel Goblin Slayer (ゴブリンスレイヤー) was originally released on a Japanese textboard in 2012. Many popular books are translated into English and other languages so that you can enjoy reading them in your native languages. Today, I’d like to introduce the best light novels of all time for both beginners and advanced readers. Since then, now-famous titles have been released in Japan and the light novel is one of the most popular book genres as well as manga and novels in the present day. Light novels became widely recognized when the legendary Slayers written by Hajime Kanzaki (illustrated by Rui Araizumi) was published in 1989 though there were a small minority of the fans in the whole society. That kind of novels were sold in Japan from around the 1970s and it is said that light novels originate with that date. To put it plainly, light novels often have an anime-style illustration on the book cover and some character illustrations are added inside the book as well. The definition of light novels are not clear in a general way. At the same time, light novels can be positioned as part of Japanese literature. Speaking of Japanese novels, Haruki Murakami, Soseki Natsume and other modern authors are famous worldwide.

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Current popular anime series are adapted from the light novels. However, don’t forget that light novels which are generated by Japanese pop culture (or subculture) becomes the basis of anime and manga adaptions. A light novel is one of the coolest modern Japanese cultures while anime and manga have been known more commonly as leading Japanese contents recently.
