Books published by J-Novel Club

If there aren't any books, I'll just have to make some!

Proven appeal of subject: Over 13,000 copies of this series have been sold as eBooks during Q1+Q2 2020. Japanese turnout is strong, with a manga adaptation also released in monthly serialisation and an anime coming to Japanese television in Q4 2020. Genre staying power: A heartwarming high fantasy series, By the Grace of the Gods provides a calming spin on the genre, inviting the readers to feel good about themselves and each other. The serialised storytelling also encourages returning for the next volume! Artwork: Multiple full-page illustrations (including color frontmatter) add extra value and provide crossover appeal with the manga buying audience.

Proven appeal of subject: Over 15,000 copies of this series have been sold as eBooks. Japanese turnout is strong, with a manga adaptation also released in monthly serialisation and an anime coming to Japanese television in Q4 2020. Genre staying power: A heartwarming high fantasy series, By the Grace of the Gods provides a calming spin on the genre, inviting the readers to feel good about themselves and each other. The serialised storytelling also encourages returning for the next volume! Artwork: Multiple full-page illustrations (including color frontmatter) add extra value and provide crossover appeal with the manga buying audience.

Ascendance of a Bookworm comes to manga form! Based on the best-selling, award-winning light novel series, Ascendance of a Bookworm is the story of Myne, a book-loving woman reincarnated in a world without books! Can she teach an entire society the skills required to create her great love - or will she succumb to a mysterious illness first? Both the novel and the manga adaptation are actively translated with new content available weekly on J-Novel Club's subscription service and apps. Readers come back week after week and then collect the books. 4,000+ member paid subscription service. Active J-Novel Club Newsletter (10,000+ members) and twitter (~3,000 followers). Innovative marketing campaigns tying up with popular anime and manga websites.

New hot book category: Light Novels! A novel that appeals to fans of anime and manga, it has multiple color images in the front and ~10 black and white illustrations in the main text. Books are 250-350 pages long and published rapidly in long series, hooking the readers! THE genre for sales Isekai! "Another World" books involving a character from the real world transported or reborn into a fantasy world are the most popular subgenre of light novels. The possibilities and variations are endless, allowing the reader's imagination to go wild! To be adapted into a TV show: Anime! This book series will be adapted into an anime series in the fall of 2019, which will only cover the first couple of books in the series... Fun for all ages: Ages 13+! This series is appropriate for young teens and up, and will appeal to all book lovers out there with the plight of the main character just searching for a way to recreate books!

The second volume of an adventure with an earth-shakingly powerful Demon Lord (or at least someone who acts like one) taking on another world!

Rentt Faina, the undead adventurer, agrees to take on a request from the Latuules, a highly influential yet mysterious family in Maalt. There's just one complication-in order to actually meet with them, he has to find his way through a giant hedge maze! At the end of the maze, Rentt finds the Latuule matriarch, a young girl named Laura Latuule. Laura explains the request, and as thanks for him accepting it, she shows Rentt her family's prized magic item collection. Rentt is fascinated by the sheer number and variety of items...but when he accidentally activates a magic golem, it's time for battle!

Proven appeal of subject: Over 20,000 copies of the original light novel series have been sold as eBooks and over 10,000 in print. Japanese turnout is strong, with an anime series starting in July 2021! Genre staying power: A high fantasy with intellectual elements, How A Realist Hero Rebuilt the Kingdom combines action with small, personal moments to keep the reader coming back for more. The serialised storytelling also encourages returning for the next volume!Value: Omnibus format offers readers two complete volumes at a 30% discount over buying individual editions and a higher POS point for retailers.

Traditional and digital media: eARCs are available to genre websites and influencer circles in the anime and manga-spheres. Promotion via media tie-ins: An anime adaptation is in production! J-Novel Club also publishes the manga adaptation for Seirei Gensouki: Spirit Chronicles digitally, creating strong buzz in fandom and spurring demand for the original source material. Social Media & Newsletter: Over 8,000 followers keep up-to-date with new releases on J-Novel Club¿s twitter account and 20,000 readers are subscribed to the company¿s newsletters. Conventions & Events: J-Novel Club staff attend and hold panels at major conventions including Anime Expo (over 100,000 attendees) and Anime NYC. J-Novel Club also partakes in digital conventions and livestreams to announce new titles and promote fan engagement. J-Novel Club runs its own book club. With over 5,000 paid subscribers, J-Novel Club offers its members first-look access to new titles through ongoing serialisation. Average session length for returning users is over 13.5 minutes. Users are encouraged to engage with staff and each other through book-specific member forums, as well as on the J-Novel Club Discord server.

Proven appeal of subject: Over 30,000 copies of the original novels have been sold as eBooks, with the series returning soon from extended hiatus and a second anime series airing in late 2022! Japanese turnout is strong, with the manga adaptation continuing its release in monthly serialisation throughout the pause. J-Novel Club is also releasing the manga digitally and in print. Genre staying power: With its European-inspired setting and epic fantasy story, The Faraway Paladin follows the grand medieval tradition of stories such as Parzival and Tristan, telling a story of emotional and moral growth alongside exciting moments of high action. The serialised storytelling also encourages returning for the next volume!

"Katarina has tried time and time again to avoid becoming the villainess she is seemingly destined to be, and yet she's acquiring more and more Dark Magic items by the day. Thankfully, Raphael has an idea--a certain spell that just might be the key to avoiding her impending doom! She has a lot more on her plate than just avoiding bad ends though: her relatives have been pressuring her to go ahead and get married already and then she gets summoned...by the king himself?! With all this going on, she decides to visit the village that Maria used to live in, where she makes some new yet familiar acquaintances..."--

You’d think surviving an assassination attempt would entitle Mia Luna Tearmoon to some rest and recreation—but in comes her old friend the great famine! Forkroad and Co.’s business has completely collapsed, and with it, the logistics Mia needed for her famine-prevention plan.Mia’s investigation reveals the culprit is a man she knows all too well: Shalloak Cornrogue, the Merchant King. In the previous timeline, Mia had suffered indignity at his hands. Now that he’s meddling in this timeline as well, it’s the perfect excuse for payback!Her road of revenge takes Mia all the way to Perujin. There, the Sage of the Empire finds herself embroiled in a whirlwind of trouble, culminating in a showdown that will forevermore change the fate of Perujin...

Proven appeal of subject: Over 30,000 Print Copies sold to date (Volumes 1-15 now in third or fourth printings! Volumes 16-19 in second printing!). Over 10,000 digital sales per quarter! Japanese turnout is strong, keeping the series in print for over 20 volumes! Genre staying power: A low fantasy with light comedy, In Another World With My Smartphone combines action with cute artwork and goofy antics to keep the reader coming back for more. The serialised storytelling also encourages returning for the next volume! Artwork: Multiple full-page illustrations (including color frontmatter) add extra value and provide crossover appeal with the manga buying audience.

Thanks to Laura Latuule, Rentt achieves the next stage of evolution, and is reborn as a vampire! He returns to Maalt’s Second Orphanage, both to check on Sister Lillian’s health and to ask if he and Lorraine can take on Alize as an apprentice.Little does Rentt know that two figures are approaching Maalt. One is a saint of the Church of Lobelia, and the other is a famous...vampire hunter?! Can Rentt survive this duo, or will his undead life come to an end?