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

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

KAGEROU DAZE, written by Jin and illustrated by Shidu, joins Shintarou Kisaragi, a NEET—person “Not in Education, Employment, or Training”—who has refused to leave the comfort of his room for two whole years. But Shintarou’s easy and solitary life is about to take an unexpected turn when his computer crashes and he is forced to venture into the world he was happy to shut out forever…and stumbles into the middle of a hostage situation!... more>>

Note: The song album "daze/days" contains the short story "My little daze" featuring Ayano in a brand new story. <<less

In an alternate history of the aftermath of World War II, Japan has been cleaved in half, with the south—Honshu and the other islands—allied with... more>> the United States and the northern island Hokkaido annexed by the enigmatic Union. It was on Hokkaido that a mysterious tower had been built, a strand of metal reaching up out of the atmosphere, visible from the northern tip of Honshu. In 1996, three teenagers, Hiroki, Takuya and Sayuri, make a pact—they will build an experimental aircraft, almost invisible to surveillance, cross over to Hokkaido and unlock the secrets of the tower. Their dream was never realized, because Sayuri was sent to Tokyo for treatment after she fell into a coma. It is now three years later. The rosy illusions of youth have fallen away, but not the unbreakable strength of the trio’s promise. The truth of the tower will be uncovered, and with it, the link between it and Sayuri’s mysterious, carefully tended condition. <<less

By its eleventh expansion pack, the massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) Elder Tale (エルダー・テイル Erudā Teiru) has become a global success, having a following... more>> of millions of players. However, during the release of its twelfth expansion pack: Novasphere Pioneers (ノウアスフィアの開墾 Nōasufia no Kaikon), thirty thousand Japanese gamers who are all logged on at the time of the update, suddenly find themselves transported inside the game world and donning their in-game avatars. In the midst of the event, a socially awkward gamer called Shiroe along with his friends Naotsugu and Akatsuki decide to team up so that they may face this world which has now become their reality along with the challenges which lie ahead. <<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

Based on the Eroge by UNiSONSHIFT.... more>>

There are two primary worlds within the story of Nanatsuiro ★ Drops: the human world called Retroscena, and a magical world called Figurare from which the Stellar Spinners originate. There are currently two schools that teach magic within Figurare: Prima Pramu and Prima Asparas. According to Natsume, each year the two schools pick their top Stellar Spinners to send to the human world to capture seven stardrops in a goodwill competition to improve relations <<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

I don’t want to die. I want to be free. To that end, I shall….reconcile myself to the fate of becoming a “monster”.... more>>

A strange disease that racks up one’s entire body with intense never-ending pain, until the person slowly withers away and eventually dies. After a few years of braving through the pain, the boy is in no luxury to even feel despair. With nary a soul to tend to him, he breathes his last.

The next time he opened his eyes, the boy had become an “Undead” of the lowest rank through the power of an evil Necromancer.

The boy rejoices at having his earnest desire fulfilled, which is a body that will never feel pain. However, he realizes that he is still under someone’s control and how it was no different from when he was cooped up in the hospital ward.

But the world would not leave alone the boy who only wished for peace.

The Necromancer who revives the boy from the dead, names him “End” and attempts to gain control over him.

The Undead Knights, lay their lives on the line to persistently chase after and annihilate the beings of the darkness.

With countless monsters under their command, the Demon Lords rule over their own lands while they all contend for ultimate supremacy.

The motivation being survival and freedom. The requirements being caution and power.

This is the tale of the cowardly King of the Undead. In his pursuit for freedom, he heads into battle and turns tail at times. He knows when to fear his opponents and when to waver in his decisions. <<less

One day I suddenly got a chance to change the world, and without hesitation my wish came true. That’s right, all the branch off choices,... more>> events, and the lines of the characters of - everything I memorized about my beloved gal-game “Eternal Innocence” became reality. I originally wanted to go into the main heroine’s route, but somehow I ended up falling into multiple routes at the same time! And things that didn’t happen in the game started happening in real life! Will my heroine and I reach the true end?! Running through the infinite choices of real world, this is the 10th annual Entame Excellence Award story!! <<less

The protagonist was sleeping, and he did get to a white world with a phone booth in his dream. It rang, he answered. A girl on the other end claims to be God. Who the hell would believe such a dumb thing? "God" claims to grant him a power to save the world. HA! Who the hell would believe that? Fine, so he decided to make this dream end in a joke "Then give me the ability to upskirt girls!" HAHAHA The next day, he woke up, naturally he didn't really give it much thought. But he still wanted to try it out, let me try upskirting that girl... And it happened!! After another try,... more>> he confirms that he has the power to upskirt girls(indirectly) with a swing of his hand upwards and crying "upskirt." However, when a world crisis really starts coming to his town, a girl comes to gather the warriors that will save the world. And the kind and innocent girl(with ability to find comrades and sense the incoming crisis) asks... "What is your ability?" Note: This is a CUTE girl. Eventually, they gather all the comrades:

An otaku with teleportation abilitiy.
A kid with shielding abilitiy.
A girl that can sense comrades and incoming crisis.
A dog that can clone itself and talk.
A GUY THAT CAN UPSKIRT GIRLS.

And so, the protagonist sets off with the group to save the world with his mighty gift, THE POWER TO UPSKIRT GIRLS!! <<less

Kana Sugomori, a 15-year-old girl living in a remote town, suddenly found herself to be a wanted criminal chased after by the police. To avoid being caught she tried to hide herself in a garbage chute, but to her surprise and shock, there was already a body inside. Shivering in coldness and fear, what would she do? ... more>>

Girl Presumptive (推定少女 / Suitei Shoujo) is a light novel by Kazuki Sakuraba published under the Famitsu Bunko light novel label in 2004. It was later republished under the Kadokawa label of conventional literature in 2008. <<less

High-school student Koremitsu Akagi finds himself attending the funeral of Hikaru Mikado, who had died in an accident during Golden Week. He’s not sure why he’s there, as he only exchanged a few words with Hikaru at school. However, Hikaru doesn’t seem to be completely gone from the world, as he comes back as a ghost in order to fulfill a promise to Aoi Saotome, his fiancée. Since Koremitsu is the only one who can see him, he asks him to carry out his promise in his place.... more>>

Complying with his request, Koremitsu tries to fulfill Hikaru’s promises to the rest of his “girlfriends”, helping them overcome past misunderstandings and repair broken relationships. <<less

There is a strange disease that causes people to have spontaneous episodes in which they lose touch with reality and behave as if they're living... more>> in their own fantasy world. It's currently a manageable condition, as the sufferers just need someone to watch after them. If they have an episode, the monitor makes sure nothing happens to the dreamer or anyone else. Nakanishi Kei runs into someone with this daydreaming illness, a young woman who insists he's "Pierrot the Ripper" upon meeting him and drags him into her wild dream scenario. Even after her scene ends, she seems determined to inject herself into his life... <<less

"It is a boring club", Sasaki Itto was interested in entering the Movie Club just because of such a light and lazily written club introduction. He was 2 months late starting school because of his family's problems, and with hope and anxiety he entered the club's room. Inside the room, there is Hasegawa Shiho who is dancing while holding a toy gun, and the arrogant Kudou Ozuma. "Get the hell out of here! You have nothing to do in this club" - was the greeting Itto got from Ozuma.... more>>

But on the way home from school, Itto gets attacked by a guy with a huge weapon. By coincidence Shiho was also there and the attacker changes his target to attack Shiho. In the urge to save her from the attacks, Itto's power as a Parabellum awakened... <<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

Since around middle school, Tokido Haku has seen this nightmare every night……
On it, the unknown Rei and Sakuhi were both trying to kill each other.... more>>

Who were this two people?
Why did they always come out in her dream?
Haku had no idea at all.

This world was constituted by two parts, one pretty close to a modern world, the “Outside World” and one where magic existed, the “Inside World”.

Since both civilizations developed in a different form, even if their existence were so close to each other, this caused a huge instability.

That instability was the cause of wars, crimes and many unstoppable acts made by humanity.
With that in mind, an evil organization used dark magic to plunge the world into chaos……

What was the meaning behind Haku’s dream?
What was the role she and her friends were given?
The battle of the boys and girls who stood up to return the world peace begins now. <<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

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After breaking the city “rule”, the girl’s life gradually broken, and finally she pass across the forbidden white line──.... more>>

Along with Ayasato Keishi’s spine-chilling 『Nekono Tenoko』, there are Sasaki Ichiro’s 『Vertical』, Tao Noritake’s WEB published work 『Kobito no Geemuya』, Maisaka Kou’s story of a man experiencing the worse fear in the middle of test courage with the popular girl in class 『The Two in the Test of Courage at Night』, Takeoka Hazuki’s 『Ainosainou』, and state-of-the-art Nishino Sego’s newly written 『Ghost Tunnel』.

Presenting these six stories, this is the first volume of the summer night light novel horror! <<less

The story follows the East German Army's 666th TSF Squadron in its battles and political conflicts during the BETA's westward push in 1983.... more>>

The East German Army 666th TSF Squadron "Schwarzesmarken" (Black Marks) are a special-forces unit tasked with assaulting BETA forces through unconventional tactics; specifically, they target Lux and Magnus Lux to deny the BETA the advantage of ranged firepower. Their orders are given the topmost priority, such that it is common practice for the 666th to ignore allied distress calls that will result in deviation from their original mission, even if only for a short moment. <<less

Ordinary highschool boy Amagi Souya was suddenly transported into another world, a fairytale world with filled with Gods, magic, magical beasts and monsters! In order... more>> to search for the mythical which would bring him back home, Souya had to team up with three other like himself, a samurai from the Warring Periods, a member of the NYPD with a guardian angel, a Crusader with many secrets, and explore the miasma filled ruins of the Capital City. Souya only wanted to go home, but his encounter with the Goddess Raquell, a girl self-proclaimed to be his fated lover, propelled him into a journey FULL of unforeseeable dangers! <<less

The protagonist is a guy who is among the s*upidest of the s*upidest in the school. In this school, your grades can, under the supervision of teachers, take a virtual form to do combat! However, if you leave an examination half way, you get zero marks. A bright and cute girl, Mizuki Himeji, was having a high fever during the examination. Despite her potential to be the second highest scorer in the level, she obtained zero marks for having left due to her illness and is thus allocated to the worst class, class F. ... more>>

Grades mean almost everything. For Class A, they have a smart-looking teacher, a plasma TV as big as the entire wall as their blackboard, personal laptops, personal air-cons, refrigerators, adjustable seats and all kinds of different appliances. Within the refrigerator, there are all kinds of drinks and snacks. Their ceiling is made of glass, the wall lets them put up high-class drawings and plants.

As for Class F, the worst class... They have Japanese desks and seat paddings. Their blackboard is dirty and there is no chalk even! Someone complains that the legs of his desk are broken, so the teacher asks, "Didn't we distribute some glue to stick wood together? Glue it back yourself later." Another one complains that wind is blowing in from the broken window. The teacher says, "I got it. I will apply for plastic bags and invisible glue to fix it later." There are spider webs everywhere, not a patch of the wall is clean. A unique moldy smell spreads across the entire room; it must be from the old tatamis used to tile the floor. This is the status of class F.

The protagonist feels displeased at such an arrangement, and seeks help from his friends to try to make a change through summoning war!! And they devise all kinds of plans to try to beat the famous class A, intending to get class A's classroom and equipment if they win!! <<less