Category: Light Novel
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Monogatari Series
The Monogatari series is a Japanese light novel series written by Nisio Isin (stylized NISIOISIN) and illustrated by Vofan. The plot centers on Koyomi Araragi, a third-year high school student who survives a vampire attack and finds himself helping girls involved with a variety of apparitions, ghosts, beasts, spirits, and other supernatural phenomena, which often…
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I Want to Eat your Pancreas
The unnamed protagonist is a bookworm who is deeply detached from the world he resides in. He has no interest in others and is firmly convinced that nobody has any interest in him either. His story begins when he stumbles across a handwritten book, titled Living with Dying. He soon identifies it as a secret…
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Ocean Waves
Kochi highschooler Taku Morisaki is going about his work when his friend Yutaka Matsuno calls and asks him to get to their school as soon as possible. Taku arrives, and Matsuno introduces him to the beautiful Tokyo transfer student Rikako Muto. After a chance encounter during their Hawaiian class trip, Taku suddenly finds himself more…
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Toradora!
Ryuuji Takasu is a gentle high school student with a love for housework, but he has an intimidating face that often gets him labeled as a delinquent. On the other hand is Taiga Aisaka, a short girl, who is anything but cute and fragile, is instead equipped with a wooden katana and feisty personality. One…
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Eden of the East
Akira Takizawa wakes up naked outside the White House with no memories. He’s got a gun and a cell phone. He doesn’t remember the phone gives him access to ten billion yen and a woman who will grant any request. He doesn’t even remember he’s supposed to save Japan and will be murdered if he…
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Josee, the Tiger and the Fish
Tsuneo Suzukawa is a 22-year-old university student studying marine biology. He works part-time at a diving shop. On his way home after a lecture, he saves a paraplegic young woman named Kumiko Yamamura, who insists on being called “Josee”. After being invited over for dinner as a token of gratitude, Tsuneo receives a job offer…
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Shigatsu wa Kimi no Uso
Your Lie in April. Fourteen-year-old piano prodigy Kōsei Arima becomes famous after winning several music competitions. When his mother Saki dies, Kōsei has a breakdown while performing at a piano recital. Two years later, Kōsei has not touched the piano and views the world in monochrome. Kōsei is confronted by Kaori Miyazono, an audacious, free-spirited violinist whose playing…
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Mobile Suit Gundam Hathaway
Hathaway first of three planned films adapting the Hathaway’s Flash novel series written by Yoshiuki Tomino himself. After the events of Char’s Counterattack, Hathaway Noa, son of First Gundam’s White Base captain Bright Noa, joins a group called Mafty and adopts the name Mafty Navue Erin. Mafty the organization aims to disrupt a meeting of…
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Ano Hi Mita Hana no Namae o Bokutachi wa Mada Shiranai.
AnoHana: The Flower we Saw That Day. In Chichibu, Saitama, a group of six childhood friends drift apart after one of them, Meiko “Menma” Honma, dies in an accident. One summer day five years after the incident, the ghost of an older-looking Menma appears beside Jinta Yadomi, the group’s former ‘leader’, and asks to have…
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Super Cub
A high school girl rides a Honda Super Cub motorcycle. With no parents, friends, or plans for the future, her daily detours on her way to school become her sole source of excitement. One day, she learns a classmate, Reiko, shares her passion. Komuga’s mobility leads to a job opportunity and majestic cross-country excursions. Super…