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! 2016
A new year has arrived, and I thought it would be worthwhile taking a brief look back at how things have fared for English light novels over the course of 2015. In 2014 I counted 18 releases… How many do you think there were in 2015? January: Vampire Hunter D 22 February: A Certain Magical… Read More This Year in English Light Novels 2015
I had the special opportunity to send a few questions to Stephen Paul about what it’s like working as a translator for Yen On, the light novel imprint for Yen Press. The work that goes into bringing light novels to English-speakers is a topic I haven’t seen delved into much, so I think it’s great… Read More Interview with LN Translator Stephen Paul
I was recently asked a few questions about light novels over at a book blog titled Forgeries. Here is a link to the article! In this interview, I speak with Dwikrid a bit about what light novels are, and how I first got into them.
It is about time we had another interview! This post will feature NanoDesu, the head of NanoDesu Translations. The team behind that site is hard at work on a wide variety of light novel translation projects, including Rokka no Yuusha, Kure-nai, Saekano, Qualidea of Scum and a Gold Coin, Maoyuu Maou Yuusha, and many others. Cho: Can… Read More Interview: Light Novels and the NanoDesu Translation Group
It’s time to wrap up our summer reading! For the third and final week of this month's LN reading program, we will discuss the final act of Durarara!! (volume 1) and The Witch’s House: Diary of Ellen. Durarara!! And our first volume concludes with everything ending happily ever after… sort of? It was a wild ride for the last few chapters, but overall… Read More LN Reading Program — August 24
