The “KADOKAWA Anime’s Overseas Business Strategy, Case of ISEKAI. and Future Prospects” seminar at TIFFCOM talked all about anime, isekai and how the company wants to get more involved with overseas deals. The two people representing Kadokawa at the seminar were Takeshi Kikuchi, the Kadokawa …Read more »
Sometimes when you take a break from your day job, you get a chance to work on your true passion, but it doesn’t always work out as one might hope. In the case of one 28-year-old civil servant in Kanagawa Prefecture’s Hiratsuka City, he got …Read more »
I’m the Villainess, So I’m Taming the Final Boss, a series of isekai novels by Sarasa Nagase, is getting animeified. Here’s how Yen Press describes the light novel series, which kicked off in 2017. When her engagement to the prince ends unceremoniously, details of the …Read more »
Light novels are big in Japan, and they’re increasingly making their ways licensed overseas. But the Kadokawa Culture Museum might have the biggest collection of light novels in the world. That’s what the museum is saying, and it would be hard to beat them. When …Read more »
Publisher Seven Seas is opening a new light novel imprint called Airship. Seven Seas publisher Jason DeAngelis explained, “We’ve been publishing light novels from Japan since 2006, when there were only a handful in the North American market. But in the last several years, we’ve …Read more »
The fall anime season is well underway, but we’re already peeking ahead to winter 2021 even so. Continuing series, revivals, and new adaptations all wait on the horizon. Wouldn’t it be great if we could get a head start? Well, in the case of these …Read more »
Yen Press is re-releasing the original Haruhi light novels through their Yen On imprint. The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya and The Sigh of Haruhi Suzumiya will both come back out in January 2021. Following that, two more Haruhi books will be released each month until …Read more »
How can you make learning a second language fun? Japanese public broadcaster NHK has an idea. They’ve published a 178-page isekai light novel called The Legendary Girl Who Was Reborn in an Alternate World that’s written in junior high level English. The thought is that …Read more »
Everyone’s hyped for the big news: our favorite godlike high-schooler is coming back for another light novel! With The Intuition of Haruhi Suzumiya on track for simultaneous digital release in English and Japanese, we’re feeling nostalgic for the earlier light novels. So, while we wait, here are …Read more »
Everyone’s been eager for the third season of the anime that adapts Wataru Watari’s romantic comedy light novel series My Youth Romantic Comedy is Wrong, As I Expected, which is in production now. While we wait for that, though, the original series is about to come …Read more »
Fans of Natsume Akatsuki’s fantasy comedy light novel series KONOSUBA: God’s Blessing on this Wonderful World can look forward to a nice bonus with the recently released anime film. Third week showings of Legend of Crimson will include free giveaways of newly-drawn colored paper panels by original novel illustrator …Read more »
The new TV anime adaptation of Yoshinobu Akita’s Sorcerous Stabber Orphen light novel series officially has a premiere date. According to the official website, the series will debut in January of 2020, and 10 more cast members have been announced along with the timing. In addition to Showtaro …Read more »
Look, at this point it’s way too easy to make fun of light novel titles, but this one is a doozy. Itai no wa Iya nanode Bougyoryoku ni Kyokufuri Shitai to Omoimasu, AKA the elegantly localized title All points are divided to VIT because a painful one …Read more »
If you’ve ever wondered how Japanese creators feel about fan-translated material that’s distributed over the internet, well, here’s one example. Kugane Maruyama, who writes the Overlord series of light novels on which the anime is based, was informed by a fan last week that a fan translation …Read more »
Kazuma Kamachi’s A Certain series of light novels—including A Certain Magical Index and A Certain Scientific Railgun—has inspired plenty of additional media, the latest of which is the A Certain Magical Index Imaginary Fest smartphone game. To promote the upcoming Japanese release, the official website recently kicked off a character popularity poll, …Read more »
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