My favourite Japanese light novels (anime)

Just some story I read over the years. I don't read much and I mostly read JP

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Yet to read/ in midst of reading

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A list of some of my favorite dark fantasy stories.  Where monsters are really monsters and people struggle to survive. Most of these will be mature due to gore, fighting, and deaths. They may contain adult scenes, although that isn't a requirement. ... more>>

Most will contain a mature MC (Alpha Mc). Often times they are ruthless or don't have problems killing someone if they have to. Another example is that they don't shy away from le*d events.

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Kono Light Novel ga Sugoi! (このライトノベルがすごい! Kono Raito Noberu ga Sugoi!, lit. This Light Novel is Amazing!) is an annual light novel guide book published by Takarajimasha. The guide book publishes a list of the top ten most popular light novels according to readers polled on the Internet. An introduction to each of the works comes with each listing, along with an interview of the light novel's author or authors for first place. Many of the light novels that have been listed in this guide book were later adapted into anime series. Most of the light novels listed contain a series of volumes, but some single-volume light novels also get listed. The first release of... more>> the guide book was on November 26, 2004 and is the 2005 listing.

Top 10 bunkobon

1. The Ryuo's Work is Never Done!

2. Re:Zero -Starting Life in Another World-

3. Toaru Majutsu no Index

4. Sword Art Online

5. Goblin Slayer

6. Melody Lyrik Idol Magik

7. Gamers!

8. Jaku Chara Tomozaki-kun

9. KonoSuba

10. Kono Koi to, Sono Mirai

Top 10 tankoubon

1. Overlord

2. Monogatari series

3. Kumo Desu ga, Nani ka?

4. Mushoku Tensei: Isekai Ittara Honki Dasu

5. Honzuki no Gekokujō: Shisho ni Naru Tame ni wa Shudan o Erandeiraremasen

6. Ninja Slayers

7. Kyūketsuki ni Natta Kimi wa Eien no Ai o Hajimeru: Long Long Engage

8. Tensei Shitara Slime Datta Ken

9. Bōkyaku Tantei series

10. Kono Sekai ga Game da to Boku dake ga Shitteiru <<less

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Well, this are the ones that peak my interest

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Basic list of novels I like A-Z. Good list to get you started.

Typical fantasy/second-chance usually. Was mostly KR, but I start reading more CN stuff. Rarely read romance-centric novels. Don't like specifically harems usu.... more>>

No description=TBD. Review-ish comments. May be slight spoilers but never something like xx dies. Most of the stuff I like/recommend are on the first page. I started getting lazy with updating rankings though.

List includes basically everything I've read before.

Other novels:

Birth of the Demonic Sword (C641)Good for like first 500-600 chapters. After there's a couple time skips, which I don't mind but events also just feel filler/boring. Also kind of feels a bit like a Reverend Insanity rip-off. MC has parts different enough but there's not enough meaningful character interactions (esp. later on)/inner monologue (for philosophical stuff) imo.

Author's POV - 4.5/5; C646; Good series inspired by Novel's Extra. Romance is handled much better imo.

Shadow s*ave- 2/5; Finished Vol 2. Vol1 was good. Vol2 felt like MC only ever interacted with the other MC and the side characters sort of just followed the party along without interacting/much presence. Also just didn't like the logic of vol2 so dropped.

Cultivation Online -3/5; C560; Enjoyable for 3/5 but the MC sort of just keeps levelling up without any impending threat so it feels kind of boring after the initial mystery of the world is lost.

I've reached the list cap so I might start tracking my reading list elsewhere. <<less

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I haven't put isekai in here to avoid confusion. Also some books are toeing the line between isekai and fantasy so bear with me and see for yourself how good these are. ... more>>

Also rankings don't mean anything cause I just added randomly <<less

Mostly Isekai with some fantasy. So far I have liked most of what I read and didn’t start LN until global pandemic. My intro to LN were No game no life and death march. ... more>>

***  “lesbian elf and the cursed princess” is first LN I disliked 

Also, I have been reading English translations on several other places as not all volumes are posted here. For example, Death march has 15 chapters here while English translation is already at vol 14  (with web novel completed). This place just makes it easy to keep track of what I have read.  <<less

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Stuff that I think is outstanding and worth reading.... more>>

Ordered by number of chapters in COO (kind of). <<less

things i plan to check out

I'll be updating this list along the way. Btw, this is in no particular order zzz~ I randomly add good reads to lists.

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These are my most favorite novels. I hope ya find something to your liking.

in no particular order