After dying from an attack from Truck-kun, an unemployed adult shut-in finds himself reincarnated as Rudeus, the son of two young adventurers. As he starts getting used to his new life, he starts learning about magic, and while still as a child he figures out how to increase his magic power and cast magic without… Read More First Impression: Mushoku Tensei: Jobless Reincarnation
Noir Stadia might be a noble son, but being the lowest rank of noble he is at the mercy of all the higher-ranked nobles around him. Aiming to enter the Hero Academy, he finds out that his Great Sage skill, previously unusable due to the headaches it induces, can be used… if he kisses his… Read More First Impression: The Hidden Dungeon Only I Can Enter
Yen Press provided a review copy of one of their newest light novels, The Angel Next Door Spoils Me Rotten, Vol. 1. and so, for all intents and purposes, this is a review of that light novel. That said, my thoughts on this light novel are more personal and somewhat less review-like. ~ stardf29 Amane… Read More A Review and Musings on The Angel Next Door Spoils Me Rotten, Vol. 1
2020 might have not been a good year in many ways, but at least for light novels, it was a great year. The two might not be unrelated, either; I know that light novels have helped me through a lot of this year, and I bet plenty of other people found light novels to be… Read More Our Other Favorite Light Novels of 2020!
[The LORD] determines the number of the stars; He gives to all of them their names. – Psalm 147:4, ESV When the psalmist wrote this verse a couple millenia ago, they probably had no idea how many stars there really were in the sky. Of course, they saw a lot of them, way more than enough… Read More 12 Days of Christmas Anime, Day 1: Asteroid in Love
…no, not in that way. In the Land of Leadale is a light novel published in English by Yen Press. In this story, Keina is a girl who had unfortunately been involved in a bad accident and spent her days on life support in a hospital. Her main solace is being able to play the… Read More Making Children In the Land of Leadale
This is more than just a review: it’s a Review Plus! There’ll be a review, and at the end I’ll throw in a short extra takeaway for Christians to think about. The Book Title: Unnamed Memory, Vol. 1: The Witch of the Azure Moon and the Cursed Prince Author: Kuji Furumiya Illustrator: chibi Translator: Sarah Tangney… Read More Review Plus: Unnamed Memory, Vol. 1 (light novel)
Welcome to our discussion on The Saint’s Magic Power is Omnipotent, Volume 1! This month, we take a look at an office lady who ends up summoned to another world as a potential “Saint”… only to be ignored and left to fend for herself. Well, this is a shoujo/josei light novel, so of course she’ll get… Read More BtT Light Novel Club Chapter 26: The Saint’s Magic Power is Omnipotent, Vol. 1
Welcome back to Light Novel Kindling! Here, I will take a look at our next Light Novel Club selection and give my thoughts on something related to it. At the end of this post, I will also announce the light novel we’ll be reading for the meeting afterwards, which in this case will be in… Read More Light Novel Kindling: The Shoujo Light Novels are Omnipresent
It’s time for our discussion of volume 2 of Tearmoon Empire! We ended up having two whole posts of discussion on the first volume of this series (a hint to how much we loved it), but this time we managed to keep things down to a single post. Rest assured, though, Jeskai Angel, Gaheret, and I… Read More BtT Light Novel Club Chapter 25: Tearmoon Empire, Vol. 2