🐸🐸 Frog-kun 🐸🐸

Kim Morrissy. Anime and light novel fan.

[🐸🐸 Frog-kun 🐸🐸 @frog_kun]

Best new light novels of 2025 thread!!

1) Miri Lives in the Cat's Eyes

A touching supernatural romance story with Golden Age mystery elements. Unusual combination, but it really makes the plot stand out! University aged cast is also a plus.

[BEANQUeenie_🫘👑 @BEANQUeenie_]

Light Novels that capture the state of depression in its characters so extremely well that they just leave you feeling so incredibly sad once done.

Do not let some of these covers deceive you; they get very dark.

[𝐴𝑟𝑖𝑎 ⋆˚࿔ @vitaaeris]

This but also in a language that isn’t English if possible. Because the way Kevin has fumbled entire passages is genuinely maddening. You wouldn’t even know that Jinshi has asked for Maomao’s consent to pursue her in a relationship if it was for him. Because he just cut it out!

[いのり。@ライトノベル作家 @Inori_ILTV]

Pride monthということで、少し昔の話を。学生時代、会話の流れで友人と性的指向の話になりました。

うすうす勘づかれていたのか、それとも別の理由だったのか分かりませんが、しつこく問い詰められたので、仕方なく自分の性的指向につ��て話し、事実上のカミングアウトをしました。ところが、後日その時のことを友人は「いのり。が勝手に話し始めた」と表現したので、かなり理不尽な気持ちになりました。

もちろん、カミングアウトにある種の侵襲性を帯びることがあるのは理解していますが、あれだけ話せ話せと促しておいて、なおそういう受け止め方をされてしまったので、本当はどうすれば良かったのか、と途方に暮れてしまいました。

今はその辺りは上手くやれるようになれましたし、あの時のような無遠慮な質問をする方は減ったな、と感じます。当時は初心だったので、それなりに深く悩みましたが、数十年たって振り返ると、世界は確実に進んでいるように思えます。🌈✨

[🐸🐸 Frog-kun 🐸🐸 @frog_kun]

@_Aoikou Oh my gosh, are you the author of The Hero-Killing Bride? I love your book too!

[🐸🐸 Frog-kun 🐸🐸 @frog_kun]

God I love the Brunhild light novels. The first volume is technically a standalone while all the others are prequels, but taken together they're an epic saga about the cyclical nature of violence and revenge... They all range between 8/10 to 10/10 LNs imo

[Anime Posts @animeposts]

Apothecary diaries dynamics

[Yen Press @yenpress]

😚

📖 Shino & Ren, Vol. 1
🎨 @minori_chigusa

[Yen Press @yenpress]

Enjoying the Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World-? Then start where it all began - the light novel!

🔗 Begin the series here: https://t.co/gOCQHdplPF

[鳥谷真琴厨 @NingFan0613]

『おまえだけは選ばない』

読了。

圧倒的な衝撃。
ため息が漏れるほどだった。

これを「芸術」と呼ぶべきか迷うけれど、
LOWRISE先生の美学とも言えるイラストと相まって、
あえて言わせてほしい。
――本作は間違いなく、
一つの「芸術品」である、と。

↓

[🐸🐸 Frog-kun 🐸🐸 @frog_kun]

The idea that a faux-China setting that's not meant to be historically accurate could even cause MILD upset among some people is the reason why we get the same boring faux-Europe setting in every fantasy ever

because of the perceived "barrier" to entry

[daily apothecary diaries @dailykusuriya]

Natsu Hyuuga about the misconception that Apothecary Diaries takes place in Ancient China:

“It’s not technically set in China, but the setting is very much inspired by China. There are also some Japanese sensibilities in there”

Full interview: https://t.co/tNsGWCXejr

[scarlet @hyIianscarlet]

Finished 'Sexiled' (Light Novel), I was so sold on seeing 2 badass women fighting incels and sexism, but I was so invested in this series and I'm really glad I read it. It's a really fun time and I love Tanya and Laplace so much+

[Yen Press @yenpress]

What happens when a quiet and gentle (but surprisingly assertive?) girl starts dating a confident, outgoing tomboy with a hidden cute side? That’s what Shino and Ren, two girlfriends who can’t keep their hands off each other, aim to find out!

📖 Shino & Ren, Vol. 1
🎨 @minori_chigusa

🔗 Preview and order Shino & Ren, Vol. 1 here: https://t.co/pjXRb83yMo

[🐸🐸 Frog-kun 🐸🐸 @frog_kun]

@Sebasu_tan I think cat people strike me as more patient and willing to put up with bullshit, maybe 😆

[🐸🐸 Frog-kun 🐸🐸 @frog_kun]

Please explain this to me lol. Assuming I know nothing about a person other than they are a dog or cat person, I would rather place my life into the hands of the cat person.

I am a dog person, and I am married to a dog person.

[AsarathaHS @AsarathaHS]

holy crap... its just like subaru said...

[🐸🐸 Frog-kun 🐸🐸 @frog_kun]

@CloudMonkeyTWT For just a hot second, I felt like fighting you 😭

[🐸🐸 Frog-kun 🐸🐸 @frog_kun]

Since there's only has a small handful of publishers (in both EN and JP), it's fairly easy to keep track of new releases on a single spreadsheet tab.

From there, it's a matter of reading the blurbs, looking at the art and characters, and deciding what to pick up.

[🐸🐸 Frog-kun 🐸🐸 @frog_kun]

The good thing about being a light novel fan is that it is easy to find the books you like. Almost everybody first finds LNs through an anime they like.

It's a bit harder to find good LNs that haven't been adapted, but still very doable.

[Kelly Quinn Chiu 🧭 @kellyqute]

The recent comments of "it's impossible to find f/f SFF" or "there's no m/m fantasy" (both demonstrably untrue) have reminded me of something I learned as a librarian, which is that most people genuinely don't know how to find books they will like.