In the never-ending winter, the two went on a date.... more>>

The abnormal weather where "winter" had continued ever since the New Year began. The summer where temperatures never rose, the snow that fell in September. The rice harvest was hopeless, crude oil prices kept rising, and consumption had cooled. People gradually sank into despair, wondering if the world had already ended.

The beach in Izumimachi, Kanagawa Prefecture, was also covered in snow, with no sign of surfers, anglers, or yacht owners. For Amagi Yukihisa, a high school student who grew up in this town, it was a sight he had never imagined. Remote classes had become the norm due to the continuous snowfall. The world had completely changed.

With a snow shovel in hand, Yukihisa arrived at a certain place in the neighborhood. Beyond the metal gate stood a house with a unique design, its front wall entirely made of glass. A girl was shoveling snow within the property. She was Manase Minami, a classmate who had moved to this town from high school. She lived in this house alone. It had become a daily routine for Yukihisa to visit her house and help with the snow shoveling.

Yukihisa and Minami were already dating, but since they barely spoke at school, none of their classmates knew about it. In a world closed off by snow, the two secretly continued their dates. <<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

“Huh? Who are you calling loser?”... more>>

As the background of the class, I, Kazuhiko Nukumizu, witnessed a popular girl – Anna Yanami, getting rejected by another guy.

“Even though he said we’ll get married. Don’t you think he’s pretty mean?”

“When did he say that?”

“When we were 4 or 5 years old.”

That doesn’t count, right?

With this, the losing heroines like Remon Yakishio from the Track and Field Club, and Chika Komari, from the literature club.

“Nukumizu-kun. There are two types of girls. Childhood friends or cheating cats.”

“I see. Well, that’s a bold statement.”

There’s a fortune for those who shine only after losing. Losing Heroines— The curtain to the mysterious coming-of-age story “Makeine” opens now! <<less

Eric lost everything.... more>>

Family, childhood friend, best friend, and loved one.

Eric loses everything and despairs that there is no point in living in this world and commits su*cide.

However, he woke up when he should have died, and when he grasped the situation, he became a baby! ?

He thought that it was a reincarnation, but he do not know the reason why he remember his previous life.

However, Eric, who was already in despair because he was born with the memory of his previous life, hated the fate of reincarnation.

And when he look at his ‘mother’ – it was his mother in the previous life.

Eric understands that he’s “returned” to the baby, not “became” a baby, and decides to become the strongest to save everything he has lost.

――This is a story of a man who confronts the uncertainties of fate―― <<less

He ended up in an inappropriate relationship with his childhood friend, one year his junior.... more>>

Kawai Yuuma has a childhood friend who's a year younger than him—Kuramoto Suzuka, the sister of his best friend Kousei. To Yuuma, she's always been like a little sister, and he thought that wouldn't change even in high school... or so he believed.

One day, Kousei falls in love with a senior at his part-time job. "How s*upid," mutters Suzuka, claiming she doesn't understand romantic feelings. And Yuuma too has his own trauma when it comes to love. Yet, they're both curious about "that kind of thing."

"They say kissing feels good, don't they?"

Knowing it's wrong, they still cross that line.

The two make a promise: their inappropriate relationship will last only until they find "someone they truly love." <<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

The girl dedicated her life to avenging the seven people who killed her sister.... more>>

Akada Town, a rural area surrounded by mountains on all sides. Nakagawa Shiori, a high school student in this town, had stopped attending school due to bullying. One day, Mei Satou comes to live with Shiori as a cohabitant. Mei, who doesn't open her heart to anyone, reveals her purpose for coming to this town only to Shiori.

"I want to kill the seven people who drove my sister to her death."

Three years ago, Mei's sister, Akari, was subjected to horrific bullying in this town and took her own life. Mei has returned to exact revenge. She plans to perform the blood-soaked ritual 'Okakashitsutsumi,' handed down at Akada Shrine, to embody the giant serpent god 'Okakashisama' and kill the seven people involved.

On the night of the summer solstice, Mei successfully performs the ritual. From that point on, with the power of the god and together with Shiori, Mei begins to kill those involved in her sister’s death, one by one each day. Amid their days of vengeance and escape, the two eventually develop romantic feelings for each other. However, Mei keeps one secret from Shiori: anyone who performs the 'Okakashitsutsumi' must ultimately offer their soul to the god, meaning Mei’s own death is inevitable. <<less

A romantic comedy as experienced by a loser of an ability user! ... more>>

Hagure Narihira is a second year in a special high school for special 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

A fun, carefree, and casual relationship.... more>>

Spent the night with an ex-girlfriend. Exhausted from his demanding job, Yamase Fuyu reunites one day with Ito, his girlfriend from university, and they go out for drinks. As they bond over complaints and old stories, Fuyu thinks how nice it is to have this kind of friendship. But in a moment of drunkenness, they end up sleeping together. Although Fuyu regrets it, Ito sternly tells him, “Don’t apologize.” She continues, “Don’t talk about doing things properly. Let’s just stay together because it feels good.” Ito, too, was tired of the societal pressures to be correct and the constraints of adulthood. Thus, they form a peculiar relationship: ‘excluding bothersome things like work and love, and just doing fun things.’ A short story series offering comfort and a touch of eroticism to those weary from society. <<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

“When all colors are layered together, they become white. What I create is a ‘White Kingdom’ where all races come together.” ... more>>

In the Gr*pe Sea, where different races continue their conflicts, Toto Gattoland, the second prince of the Gattoland Kingdom ruled by the “Meow” tribe with cat ears, encounters Artemisia, a girl sent as a hostage by the antagonistic Black Rose Knights.

Initially closed off, Artemisia gradually regains her smile through interactions with Toto and his companions. However, deep-seated discrimination exists between humans and Meow, and a cruel fate awaits Toto and Artemisia, who have started to harbor a faint love.

A large army led by knights clad in armor, a fleet of sailboats filling the sea, eight swordsmen with the sacred beads of “Benevolence”, “Righteousness”, “Propriety”, “Wisdom”, “Loyalty”, “Trust”, “Filial Piety”, and “Sibling Harmony”. Mechanical soldiers roaring with the miasma engine, and a flying fleet in the 500-meter limited “Floating Zone” – Inumura Shoroku, the creator of the “A Certain Aeronaut” series and “Propeller Opera”, depicts a battlefield and love story like never seen before with overwhelming artistic prowess.

“Whenever, wherever, even if everyone becomes an enemy, I will be your shield to protect you.”

The unparalleled classic fantasy chronicle begins. <<less

A bus of students on a field trip in a small eastern European country is abducted. It’s the handywork of a criminal group called... more>> the “Hunting Club”. Students are embedded with GPS and made to roam in an abandoned city. This is the start of a “manhunt” game. But amidst the horror, one student awakens his talent, turning the game upside down. In order to make the game more interesting, “entertainers” are released one after another… A woman in a black dress who uses poison and wears a gas mask, a serial killer in a hockey mask. In the end, who are actually the “beasts” pitifully scattered around? <<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

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

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

It tells the story of a young boy who forms a contract with a troublesome goddess and their journey of love and battles.... more>>

In a time long ago, there was an era where beautiful goddesses fiercely competed for the throne of world rulers. At some point, the goddesses with fangs, disguising themselves with the facade of love, began to peacefully guard the human world.

A young boy named Soujou Shouma, encounters and falls in love with a goddess who secretly came to the human world. After making a promise to meet again someday, he works hard to grow and become a man worthy of the goddess. As a schoolboy, he is appointed as the president of a company.

However, in the modern era, abnormalities occur in the divine realm of the goddesses, known as the Heavenly Realm. The uncontrollable goddesses engage in violent battles reminiscent of ancient times to decide the next creator god – the ruler of the Heavenly Realm. This conflict’s flames even spread to the human world.

Upon learning of this, Shouma, in order to fulfill his first love and protect world peace, decides to utilize his company in a special way for the goddesses. He teams up with one of the strongest goddesses, Elvina, who shares his interests, and as the company’s president, joins the battles! <<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

There are three female masters who are known to be the strongest in the world. The only thing they can’t get there hands on… their ideal of a man.... more>>

“If there are no ideal men, why not raise one yourself!?”

As they pore over the list of candidates, the ladies' eyes all fixate on one man. A level 0 with no shred of talent… <<less

A world where one’s life was decided by one’s talent called Gift.... more>>

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.

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

Mikitaka's first kiss was Nakadou Ayane. It happened when he was 6th grade. "Hey Mik-kun, You better forget about me someday, Okay?"... more>>

However, Mikitaka could not forget about Ayane even though they're not in touch anymore.

Mikitaka's granpa, Genichiro Nakado, died. He was not only a millionaire but also a womanizer. He had many grandchildren, and his will gave them a room in an apartment in the center of Tokyo.

Mikitaka went to a high school in Tokyo and started living alone in the apartment and, there he met his cousin Manabe Io, who is the same age as him, and his twin sister Manabe Maya. They, too, have moved to Tokyo to live in one room in the apartment that their grandpa left in. Mikuru unwillingly begins a lively daily routine with the girls, including sleepovers in each other's rooms.

One day, Mikitaka runs into Ayane in the apartment. She was also a resident of the same apartment building.

Now in her second year of college, she has grown up beautifully just like in Mikuru's precious memories.

His first love was his cousin who was four years older than him - a sweet and bitter love story. <<less

Kengo Mashima, the discipline committee president, hears a rumor from an unknown source ......... more>>

The rumor came from Takane-san herself, who wants Mashima-kun to be interested in her!

But the overly serious Mashima-kun doesn't get it......
Takane-san, is it true that you have feelings for me?

"W-...why are you asking me that ......!?"

In fact, Mashima also likes Takane.

The unrequited love comedy between a serious disciplinary committee member and the school's most beautiful girl. <<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 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

Yamase Fuyu, a typical office guy who was being worked to the bones at his game company, reunited with his ex-girlfriend Ito. The two went... more>> out drinking together to celebrate the good old times, but ended up in bed thereafter. Being a diligent guy, Fuyu wanted things to get back on track towards a proper and wholesome relationship, but he had reckoned without Ito, marking the start of two working adults fumbling their way through a kinky, romantic comedy. <<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