Light novel
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A light novel (ライトノベル raito noberu?, often abbreviated as ラノベ; ranobe) is a short novel with anime or manga style illustrations, primarily targeting teens and young adults. The term "light novel" is a wasei-eigo, or a Japanese term formed from words in the English language.
Unlike picture books for younger children, light novels contain more text like a novel. In recent years, light novel stories have been popular choices for adaptation into a manga or a TV anime series. Light novels are usually serialized in literary magazines like Gekkan Dragon Magazine and The Sneaker, Dengeki HP, or mediamix magazines like Comptiq and Dengeki G's Magazine. An example of the light novel would be the Slayers novels written by Hajime Kanzaka. Slayers was made into a manga series as well as a very popular anime of the same name, starring Megumi Hayashibara.
[edit] Stories that started off as light novels
This is an incomplete list of stories that started off as light novels, which may have later been adapted into other formats such as a manga series or an anime series.
- Bokusatsu Tenshi Dokuro-chan
- Boogiepop series
- CLAMP School Paranormal Investigators
- Dirty Pair
- Dokkoida
- Full Metal Panic!
- Ginban Kaleidoscope
- Hanbun no Tsuki ga Noboru Sora
- Inukami!
- Iriya no Sora, UFO no Natsu
- Kage Kara Mamoru
- Kamisama Kazoku
- Kara no Kyoukai
- Kino's Journey
- Kyou Kara Maou
- Lost Universe
- Maburaho
- Maria-sama ga Miteru
- Petopeto-san
- Read or Die
- Slayers
- Scrapped Princess
- Shakugan no Shana
- Shinigami no Ballad
- Sorcerous Stabber Orphen
- Strawberry Panic!
- Sukisho
- Suzumiya Haruhi series
- The Third
- Vampire Hunter D
- Weathering Continent
- Welcome to the N.H.K.
- Zero no Tsukaima
