Kono Light Novel ga Sugoi! 2017

Light Novel BEST 10:
1. Ryuuou no Oshigoto!
2. Re:Zero
3. Toaru Majutsu no Index Series
4. Sword Art Online
5. Goblin Slayer
6. Melody Lyrik Idol Magik
7. Gamers!
8. Yowakyara Tomozaki-kun
9. Konosuba
10. Kono Koi to, Sono Mirai

Novel BEST 10:
1. Overlord
2. Monogatari Series
3. Kumo Desu ga, Nani ka?
4. Mushoku Tensei
5. Honzuki no Gekokujou
6. Ninja Slayer
7. Kyuuketsuki ni Natta Kimi wa Eien no Ai wo Hajimeru
8. Tensei Shitara Slime Datta Ken
9. Boukyuku Tantei Series
10. Kono Sekai ga Game dato Ore dake ga Shitte Iru

Male Character BEST 10:
1. Kamijou Touma (Toaru Majutsu no Index Series)
2. Kirito (Sword Art Online)
3. Accelerator (Toaru Majutsu no Index Series)
4. Natsuki Subaru (Re:Zero)
4. Hikigaya Hachiman ( Yahari Ore no Seishun Love Come wa Machigatteiru)
6. Kenji Fujikido (Ninja Slayer)
7. Shiba Tatsuya ( Mahouka Koukou No Rettousei)
8. Kazuma ( Konosuba)
9. Sora ( No Game No Life)
10. Kyousuke Shiroyama (Mitou Shoukan://Blood Sign)

Female Character BEST 10
1. Misaka Mikoto (Toaru Majutsu no Index Series)
2. Rem (Re:Zero)
3. Megumin (Konosuba)
4. Asuna ( Sword Art Online)
4. Yukinoshita Yukino (Oregairu)
6. Kato Megumi ( Saenai Heroine no Sodatekata - Saekano)
7. Shiroki Joou (Mitou Shoukan://Blood Sign)
8. Emilia (Re:Zero)
9. Index (Toaru Majutsu no Index Series)
10. Othinus (Toaru Majutsu no Index Series)

Illustrator BEST 10:
1. Haimura Kiyotaka (Toaru Majutsu no Index Series)
2. abec ( Sword Art Online)
3. Kantoku (Henneko)
4. Mishima Kurone (Konosuba)
5. Warainaku (Ninja Slayer)
6. Ponkan8 (Oregairu)
7. Misaki Kurehito ( Saenai Heroine no Sodatekata - Saekano)
8. Hisashi ( Netoge no Yome wa Onna no Ko Janai to Omotta?)
9. Otsuka Shinichiro (Re:Zero)
10. Saki Ukai ( Black Bullet)

>no Miyuki in best female characters
Fuck yeah.

>1. Ryuuou no Oshigoto!
literally who

>5. Goblin Slayer

This being the closest thing to an LN thread, I may as well post this here.

Whoever it is who keeps uploading Kindle rips of Yen Press novels to the sekrit klub, could you please pick a source to rip from other than Kindle?

Kindle is pretty much the only source that deliberately murders image quality. Pick Google Play Books or Kobo or something that actually allows a publisher to save the images in the original non downscaled resolution, and with JPG quality 98 instead of 40.

>6. Ninja Slayer
AIEEEEEEEEE

Konosuba has fourteen volumes and an anime and just now get included in this list.

Doesn't that mean this list doesn't mean jack shit? It's looks to be just a mere popularity contest otaku.

>1. Misaka Mikoto (Toaru Majutsu no Index Series)
BIRIBIRI STRONK

>It's looks to be just a mere popularity contest
Every ranking list ever

Lame

>5. Goblin Slayer

>1. Ryuuou no Oshigoto!

Lolicons and Uchida Yuuma fans prevailed

TOUMA
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There's no such thing as best light novel

Like

>kumo desu ga

Damn, that's as much as bullshit as the oscar is.

>1. Overlord
>3. Kumo Desu ga, Nani ka?
Finally japan gets some decent taste

nah, oscar is on a much higher level

Konosuba didn't even make the top 30 best-selling series in 2015.

My nigga!

>Goblin slayer
God damn. I feel like an anime is coming.
At least I'm glad that the long name trend was over, the high school battle harem is almost over.

>Ryuuou no Oshigoto!
>Kuzuryu Yaichi is youngest shogi champion - Ryuou (dragon's king) - in history. And here is a girl - Hinazuru Ai, who ask him to become his disciple. Too yong for his title, Yaichi is going to revive his shogi trough passionate disciple.... wait, Ai-chan is 9 y.o.? She is an elementary schoolgirl! And... is she going to live with Yaichi? All night until morning? What? Officer, can we have you here, please! A comedy about shogi-holic live-in disciple.

They vote, but they are not going to buy that LN anymore......

It got massive boost as the result of the anime I think.

Where is Kyoani's Violet Evergarden?

animeonlyfags would just watch that instead of lizard/climb arc of overlord

>7. Shiroki Joou (Mitou Shoukan://Blood Sign)
>10. Kyousuke Shiroyama (Mitou Shoukan://Blood Sign)
Sasuga

But it goes to shit once wisdom san appears

Garbage list.

Oh fuck yeah it did, they sold 750,000 books in the first two quarters of this year, by far the best-seller.
It's not surprising at all that it wouldn't have registered in last year's Kono Ranobe ga Sugoi. The series was largely unknown.

>Ninja Slayer

WHAT THE FUCK

HOW

>Mahouka not in top 10

That's a massive drop. Is Kamachi planning to end it soon?

>1. Misaka Mikoto (Toaru Majutsu no Index Series)
Yes. Mai Mikoto is still sitting on the throne.
>2. Rem (Re:Zero)
Figured. I knew she was going to be somewhere in the top 2-5.
>3. Megumin (Konosuba)
Good. I expected 2nd or 3rd place. I'd prefer 2nd place though.
>4. Asuna ( Sword Art Online)
Of course.
>4. Yukinoshita Yukino (Oregairu)
Nice tying with 4th place. Yukino is still strong.

>1. Kamijou Touma (Toaru Majutsu no Index Series)
>2. Kirito (Sword Art Online)
>3. Accelerator (Toaru Majutsu no Index Series)
>4. Natsuki Subaru (Re:Zero)
>4. Hikigaya Hachiman ( Yahari Ore no Seishun Love Come wa Machigatteiru)
Expected.
>7. Shiba Tatsuya ( Mahouka Koukou No Rettousei)
>8. Kazuma ( Konosuba)
Figured Kazuma would be top 5 at least.
>9. Sora ( No Game No Life)
Good to see Sora is still top 10.
>10. Kyousuke Shiroyama (Mitou Shoukan://Blood Sign)
Unexpected, but Kyousuke is awesome so this is nice.

Still sad to see Izayoi is still knocked off the top 10.

>1. Ryuuou no Oshigoto!
This came unexpected.
>2. Re:Zero
>3. Toaru Majutsu no Index Series
>4. Sword Art Online
Naturally.
>5. Goblin Slayer
It's nice to see GS that up.
>9. Konosuba
A lot lower than I expected.

>1. Overlord
>2. Monogatari Series
>4. Mushoku Tensei
I'm fine with this.

Fans being cucked 3 years in a row does wonders to a series. heavy object was pretty good though

On the garbage can.

Why is Ryuuou no Oshigoto even that popular? From what I can tell it has a loli heroine who moves in with the MC (presumably alone) and judging by the later volume covers this probably turns into a harem of sorts, but being a shogi series I wouldn't expect this level of fandom.

The art is nice, at least.

>Index that high

Dengeki probably paid these guys to boost its rankings in an attempt to get readers to buy the novels.

So-bin not being number 1 illustrator means this list is bullshit

Can't have no dirty corean winning a japanese competition!

Blood Sign is doing amazing despite no anime promotion!
All hail the Queen!

>They thought Rem would beat Mikoto and dethrone her.
Lol

>Overrated electric biribiri whore wins again lol

Why even bother with this shit.

>1. Kamijou Touma (Toaru Majutsu no Index Series)
>10. Othinus (Toaru Majutsu no Index Series)
Fucking GREAT

>1. Haimura Kiyotaka (Toaru Majutsu no Index Series)
>3. Toaru Majutsu no Index Series
Where's my S3 Miki?

>Othinus hangs on in the top 10
Sweet. Good to see Touma first and Kyousuke and White Queen ranking too.

>Novel BEST 10:
>1. Overlord

>ryuuou no oshigoto
who?

>Touma
>Misaka
>Haimura
>#1
Nice.

Lolis and shogi

>tfw you'll never have a tsundere vampire daughter(adopted)

a tsundere vampire daughter(adopted) is a lot of responsibility

Kumo is kinda a bad mother too. She's kinda like those Chinese tiger moms but not really.

Why is Oregairu here? Isn't this supposed to rank only things that had a release this year?

I'm not entirely sure if that's how it works. Perhaps it's just a "what is popular at this moment in time" popularity contest.

Aw shiet, mah nigga Touman took the top.
Quite unexpected that index did do well, considering how much the sales plummeted.
>mikoto
misaka too stronk, no wonder she's there in every book

I thought Rem would beat Misaka this time...
I wonder what the vote difference was.

>Oregairu
I want the last volume to come out already.

Not even Chinese mother eat their own child when drunk.

I recall a zealous Remfag clamoring on about Rem beating Mikoto. A close match, but a lose is a lose. Tears licking is in order.

Do you know how much the difference in votes was between them?

I wonder too. But whatever it is Mikoto won, and Rem is more of a seasonal(or annual) waifu unlike Mikoto who had been popular for years and years.

I didn't mean to quote you

Wait, what does the novel category mean?
I don't remember seeing it divided like this in previous years

We need scans of the magazine to know the numbers.

>Still sad to see Izayoi is still knocked off the top 10.
Same. Izayoi deserved a top 5 spot at least.
Guess that's what happens when your series ends and you're not the protagonist of the sequel.

Izayoi is still a main character though. He's basically the male deuteragonist. Nothing against Homura since he's good, but most fans naturally would still read to see Izayoi, plus old cast members too.

The will of Our Queen cannot be defied!

It has more pages (300+pages) so it's no longer light (around 180 pages for LN).

Wrong. Most LNs are in the 200-300 page range. Many Dengeki releases are longer. Index, for example, regularly goes above 400+, and Horizon is 2-4 times as thick.

Kawakami is a treasure.

The Light in Light Novel means it's easier to read, not the actual lenght of the book. Each Horizon volume is between 700 and 1100 pages long and it's still a LN.

Can someone get them for us? I wonder

>1. Kamijou Touma (Toaru Majutsu no Index Series)

>1. Misaka Mikoto (Toaru Majutsu no Index Series)
STRONK

>KonoKoi continuously been in top 10 best new series
>STILL no translations
I just want my cute, gender dysphoric tomboy loving

>Canon even in rankings

It's a marketing meme. There's no definition of LN that doesn't have obvious exceptions.

3 of 10 best male character is written by kamachi
4 of 10 best male character is written by kamachi.

I like this.

You have no idea.

>All of them have no anime to boost them yet got top places
Kamachi rules.

I'm happy yet slightly mad that Kyousuke got in before Hamazura did.

Wasn't Hamazura in the top 10 back in 2011? I'm more surprised H&Q aren't in but the announcement bait and switch probably put a damper on that plus the votes splitting between them.

>1. Overlord
>3. Kumo Desu ga, Nani Ka?
>4. Mushoku Tensei
>8. Tensei Shitara Slime Datta Ken

I'm happy that those 4 get some recognition but i wish Tate no Yuusha no Nariagari was on that list. I'd be totally fine if the other 3 besides overlord had an anime before tate no yuusha.

>2. Rem (Re:Zero)
>8. Emilia (Re:Zero)

Emiliafags BTFO

>1. Overlord
>3. Kumo Desu ga, Nani ka?
>4. Mushoku Tensei
Oh yes, I'm extremely fine with all of these, especially MT which I think wasn't even in the list last year. Once vols 15-18 get adapted I feel its popularity will increase even more.

>2. Re:Zero
>9. Konosuba

I thought Konosuba would be ranked a little higher, but Re:Zero is as expected.Index that high and Heavy Object nowhere in sight is a travesty btw

Looks the like the isekai/narou wave finally hit hard. Last year there were almost none of them on that list and look now.

>husbando of the year all years Hoshino motherfucking Kazuki not in best nale characters
Shit taste, nippon.

>9. Boukyuku Tantei Series
Fuck yeah, this needs an anime, dorama is not enough.

Nah, Hamazura never made it.

I think HO is too 'Murrican for the nips who vote in these.

Hail the White Queen. Adaptation soon.

>i wish Tate no Yuusha no Nariagari was on that list

>11th place
So close yet so far, that must have been what I was thinking.

Was planning on getting this in my next batch of books since it seems highly rated. Lowest average volume score is 4.5/5 stars on amazon with a decent number of reviews per book. That's fairly rare for a LN and it usually means that the author builds on their strong points.

Where can i see the rest of the list?

>The Light in Light Novel means it's easier to read
That seemed to be original intent and the average LN prose is quite manageable but then you have authors that love playing around with their writing behind some of them as well. Kawakami alone should tell you that can't be the actual definition for it.

I was just talking about the 2011 rankings Index managed from th BT page

>No Mahouka
This list is shit.

They just can't handle the twin sons of liberty. Simply impossible for the japs.

What is it about?

But Onii-sama is there just a couple spots above Ani-ue.

Well, it's not in the novels ranking at all. I guess it doesn't matter in the character ranking.