J-Novel Club gets two Ichijinsha ranobe licenses

Acquires Worldwide English Digital Rights to “My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom!,” “Apparently it’s My Fault That My Husband Has The Head of a Beast” light novels J-Novel Club, a legal way to read light novels, adds more titles in their library available to its members. The two titles, brought to readers worldwide through an arrangement with publishing giant Kodansha, bring their twists on the romance genre. ...

October 2, 2018 · 4 min

J-Novel Club + Crunchyroll

Tired of watching anime and reading manga? Why not read a light novel in one subscription? Imagine this: You’ve been watching Crunchyroll on your mobile phone during commute. As the day ends your eyes are glued in their manga section. You’ve been doing this for quite a long time that you got bored. You’ve been to J-Novel Club and got turned off because you need a separate subscription to access it. ...

September 4, 2018 · 2 min

Isekai Smartphone light novel to be available in print soon

The “In Another World with My Smartphone” light novel (2nd, from top) will now be on printed paper, and eight other titles will now be available on J-Novel Club, all translated in English. Do note that some covers included in this photo are the Japanee ones. (Photos taken from J-Novel Club’s press release) Eight other titles can now be read online worldwide For J-Novel Club, there’s nowhere to go but up. When I received the letter from Otaku Journalist Lauren Orsini about this news, she said that this is a landmark in the service’s history. ...

July 5, 2018 · 7 min

Finally, a place where you can read official English-translated ranobe

The triad of legal anime- and manga- distribution websites has been completed with the launch of J-Novel Club There are legal gateways for reading manga and watching anime but I have yet to see a similar service for light novels (also called ranobe, raito-noberu, so on and so forth). Until now. What I’m going to share to you is as important as legit anime streaming/manga distribution sites. I would like to introduce you to J-Novel Club. ...

October 18, 2016 · 3 min