light novel

A is a novel with anime or manga style illustrations, primarily targeting teens and young adults. The term "light novel" is a wasei-eigo, or a Japanese term formed from words in the English language. Light novels are often called or for short.Despite their association with anime or manga, light novels are prose, the equivalent of a young adult novel. In recent years, light novel stories have been popular choices for adaptation into a manga or a TV anime series. Light novels are often serialized in literary magazines like Gekkan Dragon Magazine and The Sneaker, Dengeki hp, or mediamix magazines like Comptiq and Dengeki G's Magazine. An example of the light novel would be the Slayers novels written by Hajime Kanzaka. Slayers was made into a manga series as well as a very popular anime of the same name.
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Light is a science fiction novel written by M. John Harrison and published in 2002. The book centres on the lives of three individuals - the physicist (and serial killer) Michael Kearney, on the verge of a breakthrough in theoretical physics sometime in 1999; Seria Mau Genlicher, the cybernetically-altered female pilot of a "K-ship", and the ex-space pilot and adventurer Ed Chianese. Seria Mau and Ed's stories take place in the year 2400 AD.
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