How is everyone’s new year coming along? I hope everyone’s been able to read a light novel or two this past month. Did you forget your new year’s resolution to read at least 100 of them this year? ;P I have a few LN-related links to share from Frog-kun’s blog Fantastic Memes: Identity through Inou-Battle —… Read More News: Light Novel Articles (January 2015)
Sega has announced today that the light novel crossover fighting game Dengeki Bunko: Fighting Climax will be localized for the West. It is a 2D fighter featuring 14 playable characters along with 23 support characters, mostly from popular Dengeki Bunko light novel franchises. The video game will release on the PS Vita and Playstation 3 this summer.… Read More News: Dengeki Bunko Fighting Climax to be Localized
I’m a bit late for this, but thanks to Frog-kun (Fantastic Memes) for posting about this news recently. On December 24th, Impress QuickBooks (a Japanese e-book publisher), released three of their “light novellas” in English. A light novel contest was held on Conyac, a crowd-funding translation website, and Impress QuickBooks then published the three winning… Read More News: Impress QuickBooks Releases LN Ebooks
Though this site focuses on light novels in English, I feel it's useful to take a look at what's making waves in Japan every now and then. Series that are popular in Japan may become likely candidates for official releases in English, and it is interesting to note the trends within Japanese pop fiction. Over… Read More News: Top-Selling Light Novels in Japan (2014)
On their Twitter feed today, Yen Press has announced three new light novel licenses for their Yen On imprint: Durarara!!, Strike the Blood, and Black Bullet. Durarara!! volume 1 has been confirmed for release in July, Black Bullet volume 1 in August, and Strike the Blood volume 1 in September. Here are the tweets announcing… Read More News: Yen Press Licenses Black Bullet, Strike the Blood, Durarara LNs
The twenty-second volume of Vampire Hunter D has recently been released in English as a paperback by Dark Horse. You can purchase the volume from online retailers such as Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and Book Depository. It doesn't appear to have an ebook format available at the moment, similar to the previous two volumes. Synopsis: Commissioned by a… Read More News: Vampire Hunter D Vol 22 Released
