I am the strong-willed Earl’s daughter, Yulias, who loves making money and loathes the thought of losing any due to my spirit of enterprise.... more>>

I knew my fiancé was a person with a bad head but I never thought that it was to that extent.

If you plan to annul our engagement, I will gladly receive the consolation money for it.

Let’s annul the engagement. <<less

A dress only master tailors could create, an enchanted dress for witches: [Magic Dress].... more>>

Fascinated by witches since childhood, Hino Soujiro came to Alstroemeria Academy to become a master tailor.

With the apprentice witch Chloe, he devoted himself to making dresses. But contrary to his expectations, he couldn’t make a mark amidst the outstanding students.

Soujiro grew impatient. But because of a one-off utterance from Chloe, he began thinking anew of the “reason I create dresses…?"

“It is a dress that carries forth my feelings.”

The truth they both know is the link to the future. <<less

Among the orcs, a race whose mind is filled with nothing but lust and food, a certain individual was born.... more>>

He uses rational thinking to control his s*xual urges, thanks to a unique outlook on life.

One day, he found a certain book mixed in with the belongings of a human his companions had abducted.

The book described a gentleman’s way of life: showing kindness to women and children, and never forgiving evil deeds. After reading this book, he decides to become a gentleman, though this particular book speaks of how to become both a respectable, and lecherous, gentleman:

"A gentleman helps those in need. He is soft-spoken and has a gentle heart."

However, mixed in are writings about immoral and salacious activities, which he mistakes as the way to becoming a gentleman-by-night.

With both of these as guides, he proceeds to make the women of various races s*aves to his libido. <<less

This blog is a record of battle as dictated by a man with a fujoshi girlfriend. Okay, that was a lie. I’m not fighting at... more>> all. The war is purely one-sided. Each day I am dragged further and further into the world of otaku. I cannot be held responsible for any damages incurred by reading this blog and falling into the same predicament. There is much otaku talk contained within, so please follow your directions carefully, and do not exceed your recommended dosage. <<less

Due to an accident, half of Kagami Keina’s body was paralyzed. One day, because of a power outage she regrettably died, but just before that she was moved to the world of the online game she was playing. When woke up, she was in the game, moreover it was 200 years in the future?... more>>

Well for the time being, in order to survive I should probably do something.

In the world that was a video game, who stands in the way of the fumbling girl making her way through!? <<less

In May of his first year in High School Harada Utaya became something that’s not a human being. He gained inhuman athletic abilities and was unable to continue playing his beloved basketball.... more>>

He changed schools and there he met a beautiful – virg*n Mary-like senior (Harushina Ayane) who asked him to be her “lover” Dracula in a play?! <<less

Sentenced on false charges, Kamiya Kyousuke was forced to enroll in the “Purgatorium School of Rehabilitation” where juvenile convicts are gathered. His surroundings include pretty girls with beautiful legs or fluttering hair… But they are actually convicted mu*derers.... more>>

Attracting extra attention in school as the special ‘Mass mu*derer of Twelve’, Kyousuke is also drawing the advances of the unidentified gas mask-wearing beauty with the giant rack, Hikawa Renko. In order to graduate safely, will Kyousuke be able to resist temptation laced with death!?

Every single classmate is a mu*derer. LOVE=KILL! The deeper the love, the greater the risk of death, a hardcore romantic comedy!! Let the lessons begin!

Winner of the Excellence Prize in the 14th Enterbrain Entertainment Awards. <<less

In the eastern frontier of the continent there was a house Telsia and a knight who served them for many years. Age had taken its... more>> toll on his body, and knowing that the last of his days grew ever nearer, he retired from his service to his lords, surrendered nearly all he owned, and set off on a journey–a solitary journey that he might taste all the curious foods and see all of the interesting sights that this world had to offer. What he did not realize, however, was that this journey was but the beginning of a tale that would be told in the continent for many years to come. <<less

Izumi Maya, a 33-year-old professional pastry chef who went out to buy some mustard, loses consciousness while facing an inexplicably bright light. When she wakes up, she's been reincarnated as a princess in another world!... more>>

The living picture of her famously beautiful mother, at just 12 years old, she is the Princess Consort to the country's Crown Prince, and her life is a giant target.

She'll find out the truth about who is aiming for her life, and why, while taming her 15-years-older husband with food!

In the name of being a pastry chef, I’ll defeat the criminal and my husband’s stomach at the same time!! <<less

Tohru, a passionate fan of the “absolute evil” Demon King, who died as the symbol of the happy ending of the manga ‘Lapis Lazuli World’, was in despair. ... more>>

“I wanted to dedicate everything to you.”

Such was Tohru’s last thought as she fell from a high building.

The next time she woke up, she had already transferred to the Lapis Lazuli World. And to the castle of her beloved Demon King, at that! <<less

I was reborn as the heroine of a shoujo manga I had read in my previous life. Yay! That’s not it! Out of everyone, I was reborn as the heroine that I hated. I don't want to be that girl, I don't want to stick to men that like such a girl either!... more>>

In preparation for the high school entrance ceremony, I decided. I will completely avoid the hero and make the rival character and the hero stick together. Since the high school entrance ceremony, I stealthily watched over the hero and the rival character from the shadows and saw them grinning and getting along with each other. Even though I was just gazing at them, I somehow became acquaintances with the rival character and am having tea with them right now. <<less

“I mustn’t die before I finish this book!!”... more>>

One day, I unexpectedly died in the hands of these robbers and somehow I, the bookworm, ended up being resurrected… as a dog. Why a dog! How am I supposed to read like this! In the midst of my troubled thoughts, I saw this girl who believes that scissors are weapons——Natsuno Kirihime. She seemed pretty dangerous to me, but at least she understands my dog-talk. Apparently she’s secretly my favourite author, Akiyama Shinobu!? What should I do? And where are the robbers who killed me——!? <<less

It is an age when giant monsters rule the world of nature, freely roaming the land and soaring through the sky. In order to survive, humanity relies on the hunters, powerful warriors with the strength and intellect to fell such beasts.... more>>

Zeeg Grandest is one such hunter, albeit still a rookie. Through his meetings with numerous comrades and battles against powerful wyverns, the boy will learn what it truly means to be a Monster Hunter.

Based on Capcom's PS2 video games Monster Hunter and Monster Hunter G.

The series won Kadokawa Shoten’s 2007 light novel award for light novels under the novelization category. <<less

It is an age when giant monsters rule the world of nature, freely roaming the land and soaring through the sky. In order to survive, humanity relies on the hunters, powerful warriors with the strength and intellect to fell such beasts.... more>>

Sonia is one such hunter- One that is late for the Wycademy recruitment campaign at Bherna Village, leaving her without a job, a place to stay, and food to eat. Saved by an employee of the Dragon Cat Pavilion Restaurant, she must, for some reason, put her hunting skills to the test in order to pay off her debt!

Based on Monster Hunter Generations, a brand new novelization of the smash hit video game franchise! <<less

The Kingdom of Endalgia was destroyed by rampaging monsters coming from the Demon Forest.... more>>

The alchemist, Mariela, was able to escape almost certain death by using the "Magic Circle of Suspended Animation." Although it was somewhat inadvertent, she awoke nearly 200 years later, in a time where all other alchemists had died out.

A labyrinth was left where the demons had stampeded through. In this labyrinth, a city formed from what little remained of the Kingdom of Endalgia. Its purpose was to manage the Demon Forest.

In this city, the only remaining potions were decades old and the effectiveness of these potions had deteriorated. This caused the price of potions to increase by nearly 100 times.

Mariela became the only alchemist left in the city able to make potions. This story is about Mariela secretly selling potions while trying to relax and enjoy life in the labyrinth city. <<less

Feria, the younger sister of a feudal lord from a remote region, is chosen to be the king’s 31st consort… being that the king visits... more>> the queen candidates by the order they were appointed, she can only meet him on the 31st of each month. “Am I the queen of unlucky draws or what?” She resigns herself to her fate and spends her time tending to the fields. However, falling in love with the king on their first meeting, her place as the 31st consort becomes the biggest obstacle. <<less

I’ve always dreamed of becoming a villainess, but I never thought that I would actually become one….!... more>>

This is the story of a young girl who aspires to become a villainous noble girl who’s capable of growing stronger through every confrontation that she is faced with. <<less

Makabe Shizuru grew up in a single-parent household, and was left alone after his mother was killed in a traffic accident.... more>>

However, on the night after the funeral, a man claiming to be his father appeared and offered to take Shizuru in.

And so, when he visited the man’s house, he found Hasumi Shion, a popular female student at the same high school, waiting for him there with a cold gaze.

‘Well, I’m proof of her father’s betrayal. That reaction is expected…’

Nevertheless, they were still siblings and were going to live together under one roof.

On the other hand, Shizuru has long been pursued by a beautiful, refined lady, Takinami Ruika, a senior student at his school.

A cold half-sibling and a refined lady(?)

Shizuru, who was supposed to lead a quiet school life as the only member of the library committee, but one day, his surroundings became rowdy and colorful. <<less

Kagerou is a shipgirl stationed in Yokosuka Naval Base. As the nameship of the Kagerou class, she pushed herself to do her best in training,... more>> but things didn’t go very well. In fact, she was put to form a fleet consisting of Ushio, Arare, Satsuki, Nagatsuki, and Akebono— the leftover shipgirls that were unable to join any fleet because of their respective reasons! Kagerou, with her stationing delayed and getting in last out of all of them, found herself stuck in such a fleet and thus, her unpredictable daily life in Yokosuka Naval Base began. <<less

Kusuhara Meru is a normal girl with an ordinary appearance, style and grades. Therefore, she had been living a peaceful, inconspicuous high school life, but by a chance accident, the beauties of the student council called, “Reiryuu’s 5 Leaders,” ended up taking a fancy to her. As she comes into contact with the cheat council members, her hidden abilities were revealed and Meru too, was thrust into the student council.... more>>

With Reiryuu Academy as the stage, the ordinary girl chock-full of secrets together with the genius boys chock-full of beauty will lead, a full of dokidoki and at times heartrending, everyday-life-type school story begins! <<less

Kujo Yuuri, who had been playing Elysia Online, finally changed her occupation to the sage of her desire. Then, she was asked whether to go to the true Elyasia or not and selected [Yes], and somehow went to another world. Furthermore, she became a small child.... more>>

The small sage Yuuri and her companions' love and adventure fantasy. <<less

Marriage with the villainous ‘Ice Emperor’—despite his harsh words, the voice of his heart is super sweet!?... more>>

The Princess of the Southern Kingdom, Tistye, who can read people’s heart, is married to Gaizel, the King of the Northern Kingdom, which is renowned for its outrageous cruelty.

Contrary to his relentless cold words, she can hear the voice of his heart, which is surprisingly mellow—his gap almost causes her to die of embarrassment! <<less

Within the long decaying empire, in the northern borders where the public order has been crumbling, beasts of darkness threaten the livelihood of the people.... more>> Phineas, a young boy who works as a miller, is forced to leave with his family, away from the windmill, to take refuge in a town ruled by the brigands who were once the army. This is the story of a boy who goes on a journey with the support of his family and his friends to find a quiet place they can call home. <<less

The story centers around a loner named Takahashi, who is talented in many things except for studying. He shied away from others in high school,... more>> and soon was in his second year, still completely alone—until he has a once-in-a-lifetime chance meeting with Satou, a perfect girl in many ways except personality. She asks him to use his talent and help her become the student council president. Now Takahashi finds himself supporting Satou, and is determined to reclaim his school life. <<less

For Tohko Amano, a third-year high-school student and self-styled “book girl,” being the head of the literary club is more than just an extracurricular activity. It’s her bread and butter…literally! Tohko is actually a literature-gobbling demon, who can be found at all hours of the day munching on torn out pages from all kinds of books. But for Tohko, the real delicacies are hand-written stories. To satisfy her gourmet tastes, she’s employed (rather, browbeaten) one Konoha Inoue, who scribbles away each day after school to satisfy Tohko’s appetite. But when another student comes knocking on the literary club door for advice on writing love letters, will Tohko discover a new kind of delicacy?... more>>

Bungaku Shoujo won Kadokawa Shoten’s 2007 light novel award for light novels under the mystery category.

Placed 7th (2007) and 3rd (2008) on “このライトノベルがすごい!” (This Light Novel is Amazing!) without an anime nor manga associate.

Novels:

– Main story:

1. Book Girl and the Suicidal Mime

2. Book Girl and the Famished Spirit

3. Book Girl and the Captive Fool

4. Book Girl and the Corrupted Angel

5. Book Girl and the Wayfarer’s Lamentation

6. Book Girl and the Undine Who Bore a Moonflower

7-8 Book Girl and the Scribe Who Faced God

– Short stories:

1-4. Bungaku Shoujo to Koisuru Souwashuu (Episode)

– Gaiden:

1. Bungaku Shoujo Minarai no, Hatsukoi

2. Bungaku Shoujo Minarai no, Shoushin

3. Bungaku Shoujo Minarai no, Sotsugyou

– Last Volume:

Hanjuku Sakka to Bungaku Shoujo na Henshuusha (Muse) <<less