While searching about Light novels I encountered the wiki how page on Light novels. In recent years, light novels' stories have been popular choices for adaptation into manga, anime, and live-action films, though in the case of the former two, usually only the first two novels are adapted. If you read further on the wiki page it is mentioned that popular movies as Star Wars have also influenced the content. They aren't exclusively used for anime or manga adaptations though. Since the target group of light novels are primarily middle and high school students, it wouldn't surprise me if most of them are. Is a light novel used exclusively for anime or manga adaptation? I guess novels would printed in the A5 format, but a light novel would be printed in the Bunkobon format, which would be the A6 format. How is a light novel different from a regular novel? If you would use the term in the west, you would be referring to Japanese novella. The text is often serialized in anthology magazines before collection in book form.
They are typically not more than 40,000–50,000 words long (the shorter ones being equivalent to a novella in US publishing terms), rarely exceed 200 pages, often have dense publishing schedules, are usually published in bunkobon size, and are often illustrated. Such short, light novels are often called ranobe (ラノベ?) or LN in the West. "Light novel" is a wasei-eigo, or a Japanese term formed from words in the English language. So before I continue and answer your questions, I'll let wikipedia explain what a light novel would be.Ī light novel (ライトノベル raito noberu?) is a style of Japanese novel primarily targeting middle and high school students (young adult demographic). A light novel apparently is a Jenglish or wasei-eigo expression for a novella, which would be a short novel, but not as short as a short story according to it's wiki page. Therefore I always assumed a light novel to be a short story of sorts, something you could read on the bus or on the train. When referring to a novel, you'd be talking about.Ī fictitious prose narrative of book length, typically representing character and action with some degree of realism. Pictures from englishlightnovels, afrobonzai.unblog. Information from wikipedia, englishlightnovels, animanga.wikia, tvtropes. In recent years, light novels' stories have been popular choices forĪdaptation into manga, anime, and live-action films, though in theĬase of the former two, usually only the first two novels are adapted. The narrative evolved to please the new generations and became fully Included articles about popular movies, anime and video games.
To please theirĪudience, in the 1970s, most of the Japanese pulp magazines, which hadĪlready changed from the classic style to the popular anime styleĬovers, began to put illustrations in the beginning of each story and Light novels are an evolution of pulp magazines. The reason because light novels are styled like anime or manga is because of their history and they are actually from Japan. Why is a light novel styled like an anime or manga? But today you also find many novels that include colored illustrations. In typical light novels you will find mostly black and white illustrations. Left an image from the scene and to the right the text to read. On the picture below you see an example on how a light novel is build up. The illustrations are mostly at the beginning of capitals or when a new characters respectively a new place is described. This is particular because the text contains much simpler and easier to read modern kanji. In short: Light Novels are usually shorter and they also contain few illustrations. What is the difference between a novel and a light novel? In the western culture light novels are normally called Japanese Novella. In Japan you will use the word raito noberu (sometimes also ranobe or rainobe as an abbreviation) which is the Japanese term of light novel. The term is everywhere used where you read such novels. It is a wasei-eigo (literally translated “Japanese-made English”) which is a Japanese term formed from words in the English language. The word “light novel” is actually not an English word. Where does the term come from and what does it mean? Light novels are very popular in Japan as you can see in Japanese bookstores. The length is comparable to a novella in US publishing terms. They are usually published in bunkobon size (A6 – 105 x 148mm). These novels contain mostly illustrations in anime or manga style. A light novel is a style of Japanese novel targeting teenagers and young adults.
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