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Anime and manga based on light novels

  • The Hidden Dungeon Only I Can EnterIn The Hidden Dungeon Only I Can Enter, Noir's new power can kill him if his Life Points reach zero.
  • Durarara!!A headless rider on a black motorcycle searches Ikebukuro for her stolen head. She is a dullahan from Irish folklore.
  • Re:ZeroSubaru Natsuki is walking home from a convenience store when he is suddenly transported to another world. That moment opens Re:Zero, a Japanese light novel series written by Tappei Nagatsuki. It is also known, less commonly, as Re: Life in…
  • KonoSubaSnow kept the KonoSuba author from a Tokyo meeting about his own anime. He heard the news by phone in January 2015.
  • Haruhi SuzumiyaHaruhi Suzumiya is a Japanese light novel series by Nagaru Tanigawa, illustrated by Noizi Ito, and it helped solve a math problem that had stayed open since 1993. In 2011, a crowd on 4chan set out to answer a puzzle inspired by the anime's…
  • Baccano!In 1711, alchemists aboard the ship Advenna Avis summon a demon and walk away with eternal life.
  • Mushoku TenseiMushoku Tensei opens with a 34-year-old man being thrown out of his home. He is a NEET, meaning someone not in education, employment, or training, and he drifts through the streets lamenting his life and wishing for a do-over. Then he…
  • Sword Art OnlineSword Art Online opens with 10,000 players logging into a virtual reality game for the first time on the 6th of November, only to discover that they cannot log out. The year is 2022, and each player wears a helmet called the NerveGear,…
  • Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon?Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon?, known to fans as DanMachi, had more than 17 million copies of its print franchise in circulation by March 2024. That is a remarkable figure for a series that began as a single writer's…
  • Overlord (novel series)Overlord opens in the year 2126, in the final minutes of a virtual world called YGGDRASIL. The game is a full-dive online role-playing game, the kind where players feel they are inside it. After a run of twelve years, its servers are about…

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