The "Kono Light Novel ga Sugoi!" (This Light Novel is Amazing!) guidebook has revealed its annual light novel rankings for 2017. The list includes the most popular light novels, characters, and illustrators as polled by readers. Light Novels*1. Ryuuou no Oshigoto! *2. Re:Zero kara Hajimeru Isekai Seikatsu *3. Toaru Majutsu no Index *4. Sword Art Online *5. Goblin Slayer *6. Melody Lyric Idol Magic *7. Gamers! *8. Jaku-Chara Tomozaki-kun *9. Kono Subarashii Sekai ni Shukufuku wo! 10. Kono Koi to, Sono Mirai. Books *1. Overlord *2. Monogatari Series *3. Kumo desu ga, Nani ka? *4. Mushoku Tensei: Isekai Ittara Honki Dasu *5. Honzuki no Gekokujou: Shisho ni Naru Tame ni wa Shudan wo Erandeiraremasen *6. Ninja Slayer Series *7. Kyuuketsuki ni Natta Kimi wa Eien no Ai wo Hajimeru *8. Tensei shitara Slime Datta Ken *9. Boukyaku Tantei Series 10. Kono Sekai ga Game da to Ore dake ga Shitteiru  Female Characters*1. Mikoto Misaka (Toaru Majutsu no Index) *2. Rem (Re:Zero kara Hajimeru Isekai Seikatsu) *3. Megumin (Kono Subarashii Sekai ni Shukufuku wo!) *4. Asuna Yuuki (Sword Art Online) *5. Yukino Yukinoshita (Yahari Ore no Seishun Love Comedy wa Machigatteiru.) *6. Megumi Katou (Saenai Heroine no Sodatekata) *7. White Queen (Mitou Shoukan://Blood Sign) *8. Emilia (Re:Zero kara Hajimeru Isekai Seikatsu) *9. Index Librorum Prohibitorum (Toaru Majutsu no Index) 10. Othinus (Toaru Majutsu no Index) Male Characters *1. Touma Kamijou (Toaru Majutsu no Index) *2. Kazuto Kirigaya (Sword Art Online) *3. Accelerator (Toaru Majutsu no Index) *4. Subaru Natsuki (Re:Zero kara Hajimeru Isekai Seikatsu) *5. Hachiman Hikigaya (Yahari Ore no Seishun Love Comedy wa Machigatteiru.) *6. Kenji Fujikido (Ninja Slayer Series) *7. Tatsuya Shiba (Mahouka Koukou no Rettousei) *8. Kazuma Satou (Kono Subarashii Sekai ni Shukufuku wo!) *9. Sora (No Game No Life) 10. Kyousuke Shiroyama (Mitou Shoukan://Blood Sign) Illustrators *1. Kiyotaka Haimura (Toaru Majutsu no Index) *2. abec (Sword Art Online) *3. Kantoku (Imouto sae Ireba Ii.) *4. Kurone Mishima (Kono Subarashii Sekai ni Shukufuku wo!) *5. Warainaku (Ninja Slayer Series) *6. Ponkan 8 (Yahari Ore no Seishun Love Comedy wa Machigatteiru.) *7. Kurehito Misaki (Saenai Heroine no Sodatekata) *8. Shirabi (Ryuuou no Oshigoto!) *9. Shinichirou Ootsuka (Re:Zero kara Hajimeru Isekai Seikatsu) 10. Saki Ukai (Black Bullet) Source: Otakomu ← Previous Year |
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| Somehow, I'm not surprised that Goblin Slayer made the list. Glad to see Index in the top 3 though. Very happy to see Kumo desu ga, Nani ka? in the book section. I have a feeling this will be the next big thing next year. (anime adaptation when?) |
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| Can't say I've ever heard of the winning LN but there's a loli on the cover and it's supposedly about games of some sort so it sure sounds promising at least. Cool to see Re:Zero actually beating out SAO and Index too And well I don't think anyone should be surprised at Rem and Megumin taking the new waifu of the year awards at least (well out of the girls that have actually become popular this year that is, Misaka is hardly new) |
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| I don't get it: are Overlord and Monogatari light novels or not? The ranking is for light novels, yet there is a separate section for 'books'... ? |
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| *6. Ninja Slayer Series i came to here and make this coment just to pointing this out... |
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| Oh yeah overlord leading the way, the others are pretty good too. Books *1. Overlord The next big hits, all 3 will get an anime, mark my words. *5. Goblin Slayer *3. Kumo desu ga, Nani ka? *8. Tensei shitara Slime Datta Ken |
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| What a sad list lol. |
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| I was looking to see if this had been leaked yet this morning. @starlessn1ght - they are light novels. The "books" ranking is a new ranking this year which seems to be of series that are not bunkobon releases, some of which weren't previously eligible (but got in the character rankings sometimes anyway). I'll be able to confirm when I receive my copy if noone else has beforehand. I use a slow postage method though so don't expect it for a while yet. @Paulo27 - what do you mean by that? |
| There is no such thing as shit taste. Only idiots who think everyone should have the same taste as they do. |
| They should rename the rankings from Kono Light Novel ga Sugoi! to Kono Light Novel ga Cringy! |
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| I wonder what Ryuuou no Oshigoto is about MrStealYourLoli said: Good to see the mc god that is Hachiman get some love. He gets the love almost every single year :p |
| I'm seeing some LNs that were originally WNs. Interesting trend I guess. Some results were predictable, some were out of the left field. I'd like to see the breakdown of the votes by HP, Collab and Monitor so we could gauge how each series got their rankings. |
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| Oh my god Kumo desu ga, nani ka!!!! Yesssss |
kuuderes_shadow said: @starlessn1ght - they are light novels. The "books" ranking is a new ranking this year which seems to be of series that are not bunkobon releases, some of which weren't previously eligible (but got in the character rankings sometimes anyway). I'll be able to confirm when I receive my copy if noone else has beforehand. I use a slow postage method though so don't expect it for a while yet. Please mention me when you confirm it. |
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ichii_1 said: Oh yeah overlord leading the way, the others are pretty good too. Books *1. Overlord The next big hits, all 3 will get an anime, mark my words. *5. Goblin Slayer *3. Kumo desu ga, Nani ka? *8. Tensei shitara Slime Datta Ken *5 and *8 will get an anime I guess but *3 may not get becauce there is no human mc. I may be wrong. |
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| Great to see Ryuuou no Oshigoto won the LN rankings. Can't say I'm too happy with the rest. |
| 「友達なんていない。人はすぐに裏切るし、学校っていうのは誰かを標的にしないとやってられない馬鹿共の集 まり。ままごとみたいな役決めて、仲のいいふりして都合が悪くなったら知らんぷり。そんな奴らと仲良くした いとか全然思わない。」 |
| Rem trash and that autistic chuuni loli ranked so high Interested in what that Ryuuou no Oshigoto! is about but that cover is a bit. well they said don't judge book by cover. hope we have synopsis about that soon. "Kumo desu ga, Nani ka?" sounds interesting. >Ninja slayer not sure if people actually like it or it's there because of meme. |
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Robiiii said: I wonder what Ryuuou no Oshigoto is about From bookstore description. The newest work from creator of Norin - Shiratori Shirou, this time on shogi (japanese analog for chess) scene! 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. https://www.mangaupdates.com/series.html?id=124975 |
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Zekamashi said: Someone was really eager to Google translate that I see >.>Robiiii said: I wonder what Ryuuou no Oshigoto is about From bookstore description. The newest work from creator of Norin - Shiratori Shirou, this time on shogi (japanese analog for chess) scene! 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. https://www.mangaupdates.com/series.html?id=124975 Well whatever at least it was understandable. That does sounds pretty spicy for sure, not gonna lie |
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An annual light novel magazine/guidebook published by Takarajimasha containing info about various light novels, industry stats, info about websites and other resources relating to light novels, rankings and awards from elsewhere, interviews, and of course its own rankings, of which the lists above are the top parts, which are broken down in various different ways and with lots of details. Its focus is on series with volumes out in the past year. As for well known, it's by far and away the most prestigious awards relating to light novels, sells better than at least half of the light novels mentioned in it, and can give a visible boost to series that do well in its rankings. edit: eh? You deleted your post? Oh well, posting this anyway for anyone else. @starlessn1ght - I'll try to remember to. |
| There is no such thing as shit taste. Only idiots who think everyone should have the same taste as they do. |
| Last year's rankings of series in this year's top 10: this year's rank. Title - last year's rank *1. Ryuuou no Oshigoto! - 26 *2. Re:Zero kara Hajimeru Isekai Seikatsu - 29 *3. Toaru Majutsu no Index - 7 *4. Sword Art Online - 2 *5. Goblin Slayer - n/a (new series this year) *6. Melody Lyric Idol Magic - n/a (new series this year) *7. Gamers! - 15 *8. Yowa-Chara Tomozaki-kun - n/a (new series this year) *9. Kono Subarashii Sekai ni Shukufuku wo! - 100 10. Kono Koi to, Sono Mirai. - 16 Overlord was in 25th last year. Other volumes on the book ranking are either new or were ineligible last year. |
| There is no such thing as shit taste. Only idiots who think everyone should have the same taste as they do. |
| Mushoku Tensei anime when tho ::/ |
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LoneWizzy said: You'd need 100+ episodes to adapt all of thatMushoku Tensei anime when tho ::/ But yeah I'm a bit surprised we haven't gotten at least just a partial adaptation of the first couple volumes |
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HaXXspetten said: That didnt stop Re:Zero adaptation o_OLoneWizzy said: You'd need 100+ episodes to adapt all of thatMushoku Tensei anime when tho ::/ But yeah I'm a bit surprised we haven't gotten at least just a partial adaptation of the first couple volumes But ye if the yever do it will probably be something like Kimi No Iru Machi where they adapt stuff from middle and mess it up with timeskips and flashbacks everywhere |
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| all i care about is Rem <3 |
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Lolimancer said: With its actual sales of paper light novels dropping this is interesting to see. Does this mean the reader polls are not a good indicator of sales or does it mean that the ebook market has eaten sufficiently into the paper book sales that we can't use those to see how well a light novel is doing? Hard to say.Index bounced back up this year after slowly trending downward with the lack of S3. Should be interesting to see where it goes from here.... |
| Overlord over MT? Top fucking kek. LoneWizzy said: But ye if the yever do it will probably be something like Kimi No Iru Machi where they adapt stuff from middle and mess it up with timeskips and flashbacks everywhere If they ever do an adaption like that for MT, I will allahu ackbar whatever fucking studio is in charge. |
hoopla123Nov 21, 2016 11:10 AM
| Mikoto still rocking it year after year, huh. hoopla123 said: LoneWizzy said: But ye if the yever do it will probably be something like Kimi No Iru Machi where they adapt stuff from middle and mess it up with timeskips and flashbacks everywhere If they ever do an adaption like that for MT, I will allahu ackbar whatever fucking studio is in charge. I totally cannot imagine anyone doing a decent adaption of MT, especially in 12 episodes. |
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hpulley said: Lolimancer said: With its actual sales of paper light novels dropping this is interesting to see. Does this mean the reader polls are not a good indicator of sales or does it mean that the ebook market has eaten sufficiently into the paper book sales that we can't use those to see how well a light novel is doing? Hard to say.Index bounced back up this year after slowly trending downward with the lack of S3. Should be interesting to see where it goes from here.... Index fans always seem to be more active in online polls than any other fandom, and indeed it is the HP rankings that Index is most dependent on - and to a greater extent than literally any other series in last year's top 60. For the last few years the HP ranking has been completely dominated by OreGairu, so the very absence of that this year would probably disproportionately benefit Index. |
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| A lot of future anime candidates here. Ryuuou no Oshigoto! will probably receive one within a year. Would like to see one for Kono Koi to, Sono Mirai. in particular. Monogatari Series being in the rank isn't anything new, but glad to see Okitegami ranking as well. SHAFT, get to it, and get to it fast! |
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It being on the series ranking is new - it wasn't eligible before. |
| There is no such thing as shit taste. Only idiots who think everyone should have the same taste as they do. |
| Releasing a Best of [YEAR] list in mid-November, how stupid is that? |
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| Heh, Index dominating, hopefully that's a good sign for what's to come in the very near future. |
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This definitely needs an adaptation! |
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| Mostly pretty good rankings. Rem should have been #1 though. Some of the posts here a so cancerous. |
| Also for illustrators, Kurehito and Kurone should be on the top 2. List is a joke as usual lel. |
| I have never even heard of number 1. I would imagine it would get an anime adaptation eventually. Good to see Re:Zero so high. I can't believe there isn't a season 3 of Index yet. |
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| Ey! Kantoku is up third! |
| Warainaku's art is incredible, nice to see him get some recognition. |
>autistic >best girl Re:Zero is overrated, and so is Rem. Megumin deserves her place in the top 10, as does Kazuma. Misaka is good and all but being #1 all the time is meh. Kirito doesn't deserve #2, Touma I can live with, 8man needs to be higher. That's about it I think. |
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| We still have a lot of Index in the rankings, but its poor sales tells a different story. |
| Onee-sama deserved this year throne with those terible things going on with her in NT latest story. LoneWizzy said: Mushoku Tensei anime when tho ::/ Nice taste sir, have a good day. |
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OneTrueEmiya said: >autistic >best girl Re:Zero is overrated, and so is Rem. Megumin deserves her place in the top 10, as does Kazuma. Misaka is good and all but being #1 all the time is meh. Kirito doesn't deserve #2, Touma I can live with, 8man needs to be higher. That's about it I think.  >Best girl >autistic chuuni loli That's like saying If there's edgy character ranking 8man would be ranked 1st dont worry Emiya-kun. |
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TrashDax said: Releasing a Best of [YEAR] list in mid-November, how stupid is that? Years starting and ending in mid November is normal in Japan. There's probably some history behind it which I don't know or did but forgot about. larethian said: The master-disciple relationship is somewhat modeled after real-life shogi pros, Yonenaga Kunio and Hayashiba Naoko, who also went into apprenticeship in elementary school and lived with her master. Interesting info. Thanks for that. |
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