Sato Koharu is a pretty girl that everyone can recognize.... more>>

But her attitude with anyone is so bitter that she got nicknamed “salt-god Sato-san.” Anyone who tried to get close to her got emotionally injured in a brutal way.

Though for some reason, I was able to save Sato-san from pick-up boys where I was working at. Which made her like me, and thus I became a friend of “salt-god Sato-san.”

In front of everyone, she is a salt-god, but in front of me, she is so sweet. This is a high school life story between Sato-san and I. <<less

A boy who kills nightmares and a girl who lives them.... more>>

In the modern age, communication technology has developed that uses dreams as a medium instead of electrons.
In the world of “shared dreams,” people are engaged in economic activities even when they are asleep.

A malignant factor that invades artificial dreams and destroys the mind, “Nightmares (Noise)” ……
There are those who make a living out of suppressing them with force.
They were called “tapirs” by the people, who likened them to dream-eating beasts.

One day, Touya Rumaki, a high school student who carries out his duties as a “tapir,” finds himself in a situation where he is unable to find a way out. He meets a “witch” in a wheelchair.

The girl, who called herself “Meia”, stretched out her body, which was not free in any way, to Touya and whispered to him like a spell.
“I’ve been betrayed by everything in this world.

And when the wishes of a boy hunting nightmares and a fragile girl intersect
The nightmare that has been called a disaster, “The Beast’s Dream,” awakens.

This is the beginning of a dark battle of science fiction and otherworldly powers that will distort the world!

With “Gahou”! <<less

A romance comedy as experienced by a loser of an ability user! Hagure Narihira is a second year in a special high school for special... more>> ability users. He has no friends. This is all caused by the ability he has– "Drain" –which makes him unconsciously drain the energy of people in a 1 meter radius around him. He doesn't seem to have a chance at being popular. Or have any friends. His seat is set at the back of the class. Red tape marks a 1 meter distance around him. The bottom of the social ladder? No, he's completely off it. "Even people with weirder powers like shape changing have friends! How is this world so unfair?!" As his woes started to reach a boiling point, he met the infamous, aloof, sharp-tongued Ice Princess–– Takawashi Enju. By some weird twist of fate, he discovers her secret and agrees to form an *alliance*. He begins to suspect that birds of a feather maybe shouldn't always flock together.... These two loners soon discover that they're not the only ones.... It's a superpowered school life of loners cursed by their powers! <<less

Japanese most important Light Novel Award "KONORANO" winner of 2021 and 2022, second in 2023... more>>

As far as normies go, it’s hard to beat Saku Chitose. The most popular guy in his high school? Check.

An ironclad reputation that can repel even vicious online attacks? Check.

A group of friends as attractive on the outside as they are on the inside? Check.

But when a teacher asks Saku to help rehabilitate a student who been shut away in their room for months to school life, his perfect world will never be the same.

What is this, some kinda normie harem story? <<less

“It’s probably impossible for that washboard to become a familiar.”... more>>

“Go to h**l!”

‘I want the class beauty to serve me,’ is probably a thought that went through anyone’s mind at least once.

But frankly, I wouldn’t recommend it. I, Souta Ashiya, a failure of a magician, turned my classmate, Chikage Fujiwara, into my familiar. She was the progeny of a famous magician, as well as the number one beauty amongst the freshmen whom everyone looks up to.

Eh, you’re jealous? Seriously? Then, how about I hand her over to you? First off, she has far too high expectations of her master. Not to mention, she’s a sore loser and really rebellious, and above all, flat-chested. If you’re really fine with that, then she’s all yours…

Ah, that was just a joke! Spare me, Fujiwara!

—This is a story of how a relationship of servitude evolves into that of mutual love (?)… apparently. <<less

Want to go an exorcism trip? B class exorcism that forces the target to go all the way to C!... more>>

–Climax Exorcism.

An obscene ability that forces anyone struck by it to climax, regardless of whether they are living or dead. As a bonus, it also forces evil spirits and monsters to ascend to heaven.

This is a world where evil spirits and monsters are everywhere and being an exorcist is a real job.

From among promising boys and girls, those with talent are trained at the “School for Exorcists”.

Furuya Haruhisa is a boy cursed with the ability, climax exorcism, and is also the school dunce.

Using the ability could lead to his social death…

But then, Haruhisa meets her.

Soya Misaki, a girl who possesses a similarly cursed pair of eyes–demon eyes.

A fearsome pair of eyes that can effortlessly reveal people’s secrets.

And so begins the legend of how history’s worst exorcists come to be known as the strongest before anyone realizes it. Their first real job results in a big fight with a monster woman who runs away from b**bs. <<less

In a world dominated by swords and magic, Cleo lives his lonely life where he believes painting is his sole purpose to life. Since Cleo... more>> was born in a noble family, he must prove himself worthy to become the family’s successor by participating in a certain trial. As he enters the forbidden forest, Cleo encounters a beast that is half human and half plant. After being easily captured by the beast that resembles a human girl, Cleo plans his escape by attracting the beast’s interest and keeping Cleo alive. Out of his expectations, the time they spent living with each other made him feel unbelievably relieved. However their calming daily life did not last very long… <<less

A supreme utopia (romcom) created using data!... more>>

“I want to have a romcom-like experience.”

Haven’t all romcom lovers who enjoy light novels thought this before? Being all lovey-dovey with the heroine, and leading a fulfilling high school life with the best of friends. However, there’s no way something that exciting could happen in reality. I have no younger step-sister, no childhood friend, no classmate who’s an idol, no mysterious senpai, and not even a male best friend character. That being the case, what can I do? Obviously, I have to put it together myself! For a romantic comedy, you need both data analysis and constant practice! As well as…

Note: Winner of the 14th Shogakukan Light Novel Award for Excellence. <<less

You alone will be burned and devoured in Naraka because of your own evil deeds.... more>>

Your family, such as your wife, children and brothers, cannot save you. <<less

A battle of business brains with a genius consultant!... more>>

"'Business' is a tool to redraw the world."

World Business Foundation (WBF) is a place where young business geniuses gather to create their own ideal "world"

"Mister, would you like a 'friend'?"

Ina Tamaki - A management novice with blonde hair, big breasts, and a bright smile, Ina dropped out of high school to join the WBF and has chosen as her partner a genius consultant, Sei Makoto, the renowned "success contractor"

"I'll teach you what real business is."

In the midst of business geniuses,  the only way for a novice like her to win is to sell her "friends"!! <<less

Jiro Hoshimi, the self-proclaimed "strongest and cutest" cross-dressing boy is a super beauty that makes head turns on the streets 100% of the time.... more>>

Even though he has been hiding this in school, one day, Shiya Kokone, the introverted girl sitting next to him discovers the truth.

"In exchange for keeping your secret, please make me as cute as Hoshimi-kun!" The sudden rebranding of Kokone has begun.

From helping her put on makeup, cross-dressing and picking clothes for her, to taking photos at the desserts shop.

The overly adorable Hoshimi-kun is teaching Kokone everything he got.

"But Hoshimi-kun is a boy..." She's slightly aware of the fact that Hoshimi-kun isn't a girl.

A rebranding rom-com where a cross-dressing boy is trying to make an introverted girl cuter! <<less

When the midnight chime rings, we are captured in a “Houkago”.... more>>

In there, there is neither a correct answer nor a goal or a stage clear.

Only our dead bodies are piled up.

One day, elementary school student Kei Nimori witnesses his name suddenly written on the blackboard in the classroom along with the mysterious word “Houkago Gakari”…

In the peculiar school called “Houkago Gakari”, where monsters are recorded and suppressed at the risk of their lives, the “midnight fairy tale” of boys and girls is now unlocked. <<less

This was a story that began and ended with tears.... more>>

Yakumo Saegusa, a boy who lost his mother to a strange disease, the “Chloride Blight,” in which the whole body slowly turns into salt and crumbles, met a girl in the music room.

She was a beautiful and gifted piano player named Yuzuki Igarashi. Her delicate fingers were capable of both piano and wring bullies. She struggled to live up to her mother’s excessive expectations in the dark while presenting a strong front. Yakumo, who had seen Yuzuki in all her various forms from a distance closer than anyone else, was unknowingly drawn to her.

Graduating from elementary school, Yuzuki grew more beautiful and charming, and by then, became the object of people’s love and admiration. By the time she entered high school, Yuzuki, already a professional pianist, left for Italy to learn her craft. Yakumo, acutely aware of the overwhelming difference between him, a nobody, and Yuzuki, an international pianist. Eventually, he began to write a novel.

His reunion with her came suddenly one day—and that reunion would come to change his destiny forever.

Grand Prize of the 16th Shogakukan Light Novel Award. <<less

A world where one’s life was decided by one’s talent called Gift.
The main character Erio Scarlet who was born in the house of influential noble family that had produced a lot of Holy Knights manifested a suspicious gift Incubus in the conferment ceremony. Furthermore the skill attached to that Gift was only one embarrassing skill called Peerless.... more>>

Erio was banished from the city because there was no way his indecent existence could be permitted in a family of Holy Knights but……somehow he went through an amazing growth when he dealt with his horniness though!?

In addition when his childhood friend who was bestowed with the Gift Sacred Knight chased after the main character because of her love for him reverse ra-……did it with him, a lot of powerful indecent skills showed up and on top of that they even got bound by Master-Servant contract……!?

This was the indecent heroic tale of the boy who was gifted with indecent Gift rising in the world while [getting along] with a lot of girls. <<less

This stands at the forefront of strategy guides to Life (a shitty video game)!... more>>

Life is a bad video game. This commonplace phrase is, unfortunate as it might be, the truth.

After all, Life has no simple, easy rules. The rules it does have are nothing but irrational and unfair. The strong claim that Life has a high level of freedom, but the weak have no choice but to cope with an overwhelmingly disadvantageous design.

That’s why it’s a sh*t game.

Since I, Japan’s leading gamer who has experienced and mastered a multitude of games, say so, there can be no mistake.

— However, that person, on top of having mastered gaming to about the same level as I, declared to me that Life is a god-tier game.

Destined to be a top-tier character, that person is the school’s perfect heroine, Hinami Aoi. And to top it off, she even says she will teach me the rules of Life?

…… Normally, I wouldn’t believe such a thing. However, Hinami Aoi is someone who does not fit into a frame like ‘normal’ at all!

From the winner of the 10th Shogakukan Light Novel Award for Excellence. A low-tier character takes on life’s strategy guide, but with instruction from a pretty girl! <<less

Umisato Katsuya woke up in the school’s infirmary. Why was he even here? According to the school nurse Kagami, he tripped while walking down the stairs and lost consciousness because of the impact…Except, Katsuya himself remembered none of that. Because of an accident dating back many years, he had lost both his parents and the memories of his childhood, only leaving him with what he experienced after moving. However, as if that was only the beginning, weird things started happening around Katsuya. ... more>>

A girl’s corpse next to a vending machine. An ominous letter appearing out of nowhere. The soft feeling of a girl’s neck within his grasp, as she begs for help. Are all of these irregularities reality or just a fragment of his imagination? The past comes back to haunt Katsuya, as it even takes shape to hunt him down to punish him for his sins. But what lies at the core of the past that Katsuya himself had forgotten? <<less

A fake relationship with my favorite idol!?... more>>

Akira Sezai, the perfect idol.

She was my last hope, given that all the idols I admired were gradually stepping away due to issues ranging from revelations about boyfriends to allegations of harassment.

I told myself that she's the final idol I'll be supporting.

Suffering from gynophobia, getting physically close to a woman would make me ill. But I mustered up the courage to attend Akira's handshake event.

Despite my nervousness and stammering, something unusual happened that night—Akira, for some reason, barged into my house.

“Will you be my boyfriend?”

With her words, my everyday life dramatically changed. Her off-stage persona, which I had never witnessed before, gradually revealed itself to me.

However, she had a purpose other than just becoming lovers.

Just by spending time with the idol I merely admired, I found myself gazing at her dazzling brilliance and the abyss that lay beneath her.

I’m afraid of women, but at the same time, I yearn for them. And while shining as an idol, Akira seems to be heading for destruction.

What lies ahead of us as we pretend to be lovers? <<less

In a provincial city, high school student Sakuma Kamiki has grown apart from his once-close childhood friend, Ushio Tsukinoki, who is stunningly attractive, excels in... more>> academics and sports, and is incredibly popular. Sakuma struggles with past traumas and feelings of inferiority towards Ushio. Despite this, Sakuma develops a romantic interest in his classmate Natsuki Hoshihara, bonding over a shared love for novels. However, he is shocked when he sees Ushio, usually the epitome of perfection, dressed in a sailor uniform and sobbing uncontrollably in a park. <<less

The story of a young man who yearned for space and a vampire girl.... more>>

The first astronaut in the history of mankind was a vampire girl—-.

It’s the era where manned spaceflight has not yet succeeded.

The supreme leader of the republic announced the project to send humans up into orbit with rockets. He spoke passionately, “Before the United Kingdom does, let’s make mankind reach space!”

Behind the scenes, at the end of the snowy fields of the republic, at the secret town , the “Nosferatu Project” that used vampires as a substitutes for humans for rocket flight experiments was moving forward. Taking advantage of a certain incident, First Lieutenant Liev Lepus was promoted from Cosmonaut Cadet. He was ordered to supervise the vampire girl, Irina Luminesque, who was chosen by chance to be a guinea pig.

Strict training. Continuous failed experiments. Can mankind actually reach space? The team was enveloped by such an atmosphere.

“Before anyone else, I will travel to space. I want to take a look at the moon from outer space, where no one has gone before.”

Irina had those exact feelings. In their chests was a pure longing for space.

Despite being made fun of by the egoist top-brass and the whims of the times, they were here, putting everything they have into aiming for distant space. Spun by a young man who yearns for space and a vampire girl, a Cosmonauts’ Graffiti tale of space and adolescence is here. <<less

"Uhm.....could we rent this DVD together?" Itou Daijirou, who attends an all-boys high school, visits a rental video store late one night. There, he's "hit... more>> on" by a lone girl. From this event, the two become friends. Daijirou is having fun, but feels dissatisfied that they can only ever meet at night for a short time. Actually, he gets another weird feeling too. Mysterious phenomena happen when he's with her, like objects that move and break without being touched. In truth, the girl – Haijima Koharu – awakened special powers when she was young. And along with other girls who also awakened their powers, she's being kept isolated from society – an esper who lives her life in a research facility. She slips out of the facility night after night, enjoying her secret adventures in town. However, some of her classmates find out what she's up to, and things develop from there...
A boy-meets-psychic-girl, youthful love comedy! <<less

Teo Korpi, a young man dreaming of becoming a cortege blacksmith, was on his way to the borderlands, just to have his coach attacked by a horde of orcs.... more>>

On the brink of death, help arrived…but, something wasn’t quite right with the swordswoman who was supposedly his savior.

Far from just killing the orcs, she slaughtered, slaughtered, and slaughtered them in the most gruesome ways…as if finding pure joy in a gory massacre.

Then she turned around towards Teo… <<less

A beautiful girl captain and a genius general counselor, to the battle of the fleet in the sky!... more>>

Hinoo, an island nation in the Far East. The first princess of the imperial family, Izaya, is 18 years old.

She is, however, also the captain of the flying destroyer “Ibuki”. The crew, all of whom would give their lives for Izaya, are her biggest fans!
The main character, Kuroto, suddenly boards the Ibuki as one of Izaya’s subordinates. The son of a member of the imperial family, Kuroto was a childhood friend of Izaya’s. One day, however, he caused the worst incident against Izaya and was stripped of his imperial title, and fled with his family to the enemy country of Gameria. “Why is Kuroto here now?”

“I’ve come back to protect Hinoo from the monsters that run Gameria,” Kuroto declares. At the same time, the country of Hinoo has decided to start a war with Gameria, who is trying to take Hinoo for themselves with money and force. Izaya and Kuroto drive the “Ibuki” and challenge the world’s most powerful flying fleet of the superpower Gameria to a decisive battle!

A confident, ultra-arrogant, smart, and ridiculously hard-working man, Kuroto’s life of blitzkrieg splendor, the long-awaited Inumura Koroku quintessential “air battle fantasy war story” opens with a bang! <<less

The world revolves around me.... more>>

My name is Sakagami Kagura. I’m incredibly cute, unbelievably intelligent, and my manners are utterly flawless. No diamond in the world could compare to my illustrious beauty. You could say that I simply put the rest of the world to shame with both brains and beauty.

Regrettably, someone such as myself is beset by troubles at every turn, just as a ill-fated protagonist of a story might be. My tendency to attract such misfortune is perhaps my one and only flaw. Mournfully, I sigh, raising my chin slightly so as to better catch the illumination of the streetlights. Even sighing, I must look simply exquisite.

Then, I give the stuffed rabbit in my arms a squeeze and focus my gaze on the two individuals in front of me, the source of my most recent plight. One is a black-haired young woman, the kind that would be idiotic enough to walk the streets this time of night. The other is a quite literally wolf-faced man. Naturally, he has her cornered. A werewolf and his prey.

My duty is to exterminate such horrific, inhuman creatures before they can wreak havoc on human society — using puppets such as this little fellow here…

Winner of the 7th Shogakukan Light Novel Grand Prize. <<less

To erase Christmas, I decided to become the girl’s lover.... more>>

Early December, when the holy night is just around the corner and the city start to be cheerful.

Dumped by my seniors, I was trembling with irresistible irritation and sadness as I watched the beautifully shining light (illuminations) in front of the station.

I wish that ‘Christmas’ just disappeared already…

And suddenly, a girl who seems to be a high school student appeared in front of me.

“You can do it, you can make ‘Christmas’ disappear.”

The notebook that she hold seems to be able to “to grant an unwanted wish.”

But, I need to like Christmas first before she could erase it with the power of her notebook. That’s why….

“With me, Please become a pseudo lover with me.”

One of The Winner of the 14th Shogakukan Light Novel Award for Excellence.

This is a story to end love, starting with a strange relationship between me and a girl. <<less

In the popular MMORPG world ‘Union’ there existed a legendary party named Subaru. This party, made up of a group of childhood friends and elementary... more>> schoolers, exceeded the limits of the game with their various senses. However, due to an incident which resulted in a death, ‘Union’ ended its service and the group of childhood friends went separate ways. Six years later, highschooler Haruto logged into the new ‘Reunion’ and reunited with a single girl. Asahi—one of old ‘Subaru’ party members, and his childhood friend who should have died six years ago. Is she a digital ghost, or…? <<less