Most of you already have most or all of the information in this series, but I thought I’d let you know that I have a series called “10 Light Novels You Should Know.” Up so far: Haruhi, Zero no Tsukaima, Shana, and Spice and Wolf.
Again, there probably won’t be a single series you guys haven’t already heard of, but I can’t help but try to pimp myself. ♥
According to Publishers Weekly, the American Library Awards were announced this morning, and VIZ Media won the Mildred L. Batchelder Award for Best Work of Translation for Miyuki Miyabe’s Brave Story– as pointed out in the comments, that’s the translation of the novel, not the manga adaptation (released in English by TOKYOPOP).
That’s it for manga-related stuff in the awards, but on an only tangentially-related note, a top prize– the Randolph Caldecott Medal — went to the illustrated novel The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick. A sign that the market is more ready for the concept of the illustrated novel (or, in Japan, “light novel”)? Perhaps.
This just in from Moon Phase: Katsumi Nishino’s light novel Kanokon, which Seven Seas has licensed but not yet released, is being developed into an anime.
The story is about a boy who meets a fox-girl and a wolf-girl, who both fall for him. Moon Phase refers to it as a book in which the “main ingredient = breasts.” Sounds like a winner to me!
No air date is mentioned.
ComiPress has a list of the Light Novel Awards winners, which include a few names I recognize.
The winner for best romantic comedy is Toradora!, a light novel that just got adapted into a manga starting late July.
In the action category we get Rental Magika, which is being adapted into an anime this fall.
And then we have Koukaku no Regios in the school category and “Bungaku Shoujo” to Shinitagari no Piero in mystery– mayhap we’ll see adaptations of them, too?
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