A History of Light Novels: The 2000s
The following is an unofficial English translation of a Japanese article about the history of light novels by a group called the Light Novel Research Institute. It...
A History of Light Novels: The 1990s
The following is an unofficial English translation of a Japanese article about the history of light novels by a group called the Light Novel Research Institute. It...
A History of Light Novels: The 1970s
The following is an unofficial English translation of a Japanese article about the history of light novels by a group called the Light Novel Research Institute. It...
How to Start an Isekai Story
Isekai, or “second world,” stories are a staple of light novels and webfiction for many reasons. They start with a natural hook that makes readers interested, and...
How to Make a Romantic Comedy (From the Light Novel Research Institute)
Since actual Japanese sources on writing light novels aren’t easy to find in English, I am sharing translations of some of the more interesting articles I have...
How to Write a Romantic Comedy Light Novel (from Novenaro)
Since actual Japanese sources on writing light novels aren’t easy to find in English, I am sharing translations of some of the more interesting articles I have...
What is a Light Novel? Part 4 – Rob’s Definition
Over the past three days I have looked at the different ways people see light novels. From the Japanese point of view From the non-Japanese point of...
What is a Light Novel? Part 3 – Laying out the Perspectives
For this little project, I went through many definitions of what a light novel is, both from Japan and from the non-Japanese world. And I have to...
What is a Light Novel? Part 2 – The non-Japanese View
Previously, we looked at how some Japanese try to define what a light novel is. Now, this time we’re going to look at how some non-Japanese have...
What is a Light Novel? Part 1: The Japanese View
Defining what a Light Novel is seems to be like trying to grab a greased pig – it’s messy, hard to pin down, and you can never...