The Garden of Sinners (Light Novel) - Recommendations

Alt titles: Kara no Kyoukai (Light Novel), The Borderline of Emptiness (Light Novel)

The Garden of Sinners (Light Novel)

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Boogiepop (Light Novel)

Boogiepop (Light Novel)

There is an urban legend that children tell one another about a shinigami that can release people from the pain they may be suffering. This "Angel of Death" has a name--Boogiepop. And the legends are true. Boogiepop is real.

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Both authors are contemporary and show a similar side of Japanese urban culture from the 90s and early 00s. Both series of novels delve into dark fantasy and urban legends, have a similar depiction of supernatural powers, violence, drug use to control others, and like to debate modern society and the human psyche. I think both are the very first titles that started the light novel trend.

Umineko: When They Cry (Light Novel)

Umineko: When They Cry (Light Novel)

In the year 1986, eighteen members of the Ushiromiya family head to Rokken Island where Kinzo, the elderly head of the household, will soon choose one of them as his successor. A portrait of the Golden Witch Beatrice greets them as they arrive at the family mansion, along with a disturbing epitaph: she will be resurrected on the ninth twilight after a number of bloody sacrifices. Unfortunately for the group, the statements come true, and soon the carnage begins. Will anybody walk away from the ominous island, or are their destinies due to be forever ruled by Beatrice?

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Akuryou Series (Light Novel)

Akuryou Series (Light Novel)

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Umineko: When They Cry Chiru (Light Novel)

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Zoku Owarimonogatari: End Tale (Cont.) (Light Novel)

Zoku Owarimonogatari: End Tale (Cont.) (Light Novel)

Just when we thought the darkness menacing the town had been identified, named, and tamed, clear and unclear mysteries of seasons past looming or surfacing, then resolving, not without tears, not without bittersweetness, of course, but satisfyingly, in a tripartite finale, all loose ends tied up into, or at least with, a bow… The End Tale continues—if only for one last time, in a bonus stage for the ages, as our softie of a protagonist who wished for all parties involved, including himself, maturely enough, to end up happy, sees his reflected image freeze in a mirror and regretfully, regrettably, reaches for it to find himself through the looking glass.

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Onimonogatari: Demon Tale (Light Novel)

Onimonogatari: Demon Tale (Light Novel)

After time travelling to the past with Shinobu Oshino, Koyomi Araragi meets Mayoi Hachikuji and returns her backpack, which she left in Koyomi's room. That is when they witness something unidentifiable - something that can only be expressed as the 'darkness.' Koyomi, instinctively feeling danger, sits Mayoi on his bicycle and attempts to escape, but the ever-elusive 'darkness' tries to swallow the two of them. They barely manage to escape with the help of the young shikigami girl, Yotsugi Ononoki, and they evacuate into the ruins of the cram school. There, Shinobu tells him that she encountered the 'darkness' about 400 years ago. Then a woman named Izuko Gaen, who says she knows Meme Oshino, explains to them the nature of the 'darkness'... and Koyomi has to face Mayoi's tragic fate.

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Hanamonogatari: Flower Tale (Light Novel)

Hanamonogatari: Flower Tale (Light Novel)

Our sorry hero, his reformed girlfriend, and the amnesiac class president have all graduated from their high school out in the boondocks, and self-described Sapphist and ex-basketball ace Kanbaru, retired by reason of an “injury,” is starting her senior year. Bereft of the company of her beloved mentors, the only other person around her with any working knowledge of aberrations the junior Ougi Oshino, apparently a relative of the Hawaiian-shirted folklorist, she feels a bit alone and blue, and sick with dread that the devil residing in her left arm courtesy of the Monkey’s Paw might act up again while she sleeps. Investigating a rumor that she fears might lead back to her, the former star ends up peering into an abyss of negativity called Roka—a “wax flower” to take the characters’ meaning. Trapped in a pit the like of which could only be escaped by the one girl who was able to pull off slam-dunks in her basketball nationals, can the penitent Kanbaru, however, still be aggressive?

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Umineko WHEN THEY CRY Episode 8: Twilight of the Golden Witch

Umineko WHEN THEY CRY Episode 8: Twilight of the Golden Witch

It's time once again for the annual family gathering on Rokkenjima! Ange Ushiromiya is just getting over a cold, but that won't dampen her excitement at seeing her cousins again! Granddad couldn't be more thrilled to see his beloved grandchildren and throws a special Halloween party where everyone gets lots of treats! By lunchtime on the first day, the aunts and uncles are chatting up a storm, and the cousins are eagerly planning the afternoon's fun. It's the very picture of a happy family - one that in no way resembles the bickering, bitter Ushiromiya clan! What is going on?!

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Lord El-Melloi II-sei no Jikenbo (Light Novel)

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Sakurada Reset (Light Novel)

Sakurada Reset (Light Novel)

Almost half the population of the town of Sakurada possess special abilities. Misora Haruki has the power to reset time for a maximum of three days into the past; Kei Asai has a photographic memory that allows him to remember everything he sees and hears, even after Misora resets time. Together, they use their powers to help others…

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