New titles incoming for 2017: Death March to The Parallel World ( Pre-order link), Konosuba: God’s Blessing On This Wonderful World ( Pre-order link), Kingdom Hearts: The Novel ( Pre-order link), Rokka: Braves of The Six Flowers ( Pre-Order link), your name ( Pre-order link), Sound!! Euphonium, Magical Girl Raising Project, The Empty Box and the Zeroth Maria Titles they’re selling: Accel World, Sword Art Online, The Isolator, Baccano, Black Bullet, The Devil is a Part Timer!, Goblin Slayer, The Irregular at Magic High School, Is it Wrong To Try and Pick Up a Girl in a Dungeon?, Is it Wrong To Try and Pick Up a Girl in a Dungeon? On the Side: Sword Oratoria, No Game No Life, The Asterisk War, Psycome, A Certain Magical Index, Spice and Wolf, Durarara!!, Re:Zero, My Youth Romantic Comedy is Wrong as I Expected, Overlord, Kagerou Daze, Strike The Blood, Another Chances are there may be more LN services that get added as the year goes on, so if that does happen, A) expect this to get updated and B) Please email us ( contact at theoasg dot com) or comment below if there is a new legal source.Īlso, if you already know of legal listings in your country, or where you can purchase it, please let us know. This is also a source of where you can get a bit more info on a title. Unlike the other two legal guides ( anime and manga), this is a more general listing of where you can purchase and read LNs, know what’s already licensed, and what’s coming out in 2017. I guess it makes sense that Yen Press was the one who decided to do so, and since they started their Yen On imprint, we’ve seen a number of LNs get licensed, and new sources of sites where we can obtain LNs. Even so, if it was going to come, a publisher would have to commit long term to that media. The trend of LNs coming to the West was more a possibility than ever.

Anime has adapted more light novels, and sites such as Crunchyroll and FUNimation licensed them. So it’s 2017 and suffice to say he was onto something. Well, let’s go to Novemand see what Viz Media founder Seiji Horibuchi said before answering the intended question: Like if it was 2011 and you thought LNs would be the next big thing. Then, where would it be stocked? In the manga section or the novel section? Needless to say, confusion reigned, and with seemingly no titles to localize and a lack of success with what did get published, you’d have to be really convinced to think LNs would eventually succeed. It did not have the original JP cover, it had its own US cover, and boy were people mad. No better example of this was the very first volume of Spice of Wolf. In addition, most publishers who wanted to bring LNs over had to determine the best way to put it in bookstores. But with no legal streaming sites and not that many studios working on anime, LNs didn’t have a chance. This doesn’t mean there weren’t some LNs adapted into anime - think of Shakugan no Shana and Toradora to name a few. Before, most animation studios would adapt manga or novels, an original creation, or a game. The reasons why could be many, but the lack of anime adaptations of LNs might have been a factor.

After all, from 2010 to 2013, only Yen Press published them, and that was Haruhi Suzumiya and Spice and Wolf.

Despite its short history, it was hard to see LNs succeeding in the West. If you thought 10, 5, hell, maybe even 3 years ago that you could read light novels legally, you’d be lying to yourself.

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