Violet Evergarden (Light Novel) - Recommendations

• Vol: 13+; Ch: 129+
• 2020 - ?

Elf mage Frieren and her courageous fellow adventurers have defeated the Demon King and brought peace to the land. With the great struggle over, they all go their separate ways to live a quiet life. But as an elf, Frieren, nearly immortal, will long outlive the rest of her former party. How will she come to terms with the mortality of her friends? How can she find fulfillment in her own life, and can she learn to understand what life means to the humans around her? Frieren begins a new journey to find the answer.

• Vol: 23+
• 2000 - ?

In another world, there exist many countries, each with different cultures, customs, and traditions. From technological marvels to folk legends, each location yields a vast wealth of insight of its people: their hopes and their dreams, their failures and fears. Kino is a traveler whose goal is to visit as many new places as possible, learning about others' ways of life, but also making sure to stay clear of their affairs. Together with the talking motorrad Hermes, Kino sets out to explore the beautiful world and meet its inhabitants, wherever they may be.

• Vol: 6
• 2006 - 2009

16-year-old Kizuna stalks the city at night, flirting with middle-aged salary men and coercing them out of their money. The thrill should be enough to satiate her, but Kizuna remains unsatisfied with her everyday life… That is, until the beautiful Inoue Yuki, also living in “Birdcage Manor” approaches Kizuna with a job proposition- to model in the nude for Yuki’s cousin, a painter and fellow resident Yusei Asai!

• Vol: 8; Ch: 43
• 2002 - 2007

Shut away in his room, the reclusive Jun only manages to find entertainment by ordering bizarre items from the Internet and returning them before the grace period ends. One day he receives a mysterious suitcase that contains a beautifully crafted doll, and upon winding it up Jun is astounded to find that not only does she talk but also he has the ‘honor' of becoming her servant! The doll is called Shinku and she is the fifth of the Rozen Maiden - a group of seven legendary dolls who just happen to be involved in a battle with each other. This fight is known as the Alice game; the single victorious doll shall earn the right to become Alice and stay by their creator's side. While hesitant to fight, Shinku recruits Jun as her medium, and together the two begin to learn to battle side by side. However, they'll have their work cut out for them, as the first Rozen Maiden, Suigintou, is hell-bent on becoming Alice...

• Vol: 1; Ch: 6
• 2014

• Vol: 10; Ch: 68
• 2008 - 2014

Jun, now a university student, is working at a bookstore and finds an unaddressed copy of the first issue of a weekly magazine "How to Make a Girl", containing a spring. He brings it home, and soon starts receiving further issues of the magazine by post, each issue having one part of a doll's body as a gift. One day, after putting much effort into assembling the fifth Rozen Maiden doll Shinku, he receives a notification that the publication has been cancelled, leaving him with an incomplete doll. Suddenly, he receives a mysterious text message from his old number, claiming to be the Jun Sakurada asking for help against the seventh Rozen Maiden doll Kirakisho...

• Vol: 3+
• 2022 - ?

Youth is not just about love. But – only this love must not be noticed. “Youth = getting a girlfriend? Youth or anything is not at all just about that.” A high school student with a trauma in love, Koga Junya, believed that youth is definitely more about making merry with friends and developing friendships than about love; that watching the beautiful starry sky, and chatting in a family restaurant till morning with the five best friends was precisely their youth. ――And yet, why do we fall in love with someone even if they’re our friends? Even though we might not be able to have the same relationship as before. Upon discovering the true hidden thoughts of one of the group members, Narushima Yoru, a complicit relationship between Junya and her is born, leading them to unintentionally touch each other’s wounds.

• Vol: 1; Ch: 11
• 2002

Tatsuhiro Sato is a university dropout and a "hikikomori" – a person suffering from social withdrawal. To Sato’s dismay, his self-imposed exile from the world is rudely interrupted when a mysterious girl knocks on his door. She has charged herself with the task of curing Sato of his hikikimori ways! Now, as new problems ranging from hentai games to internet suicide spring up, can Sato manage to overcome his hermit-like ways, or will the imaginary N.H.K conspiracy force him to remain a hikikomori forever?

• Vol: 4; Ch: 32
• 2019 - 2022

• Vol: 13+
• 2019 - ?

At Academy Island, everything is settled through "Games" waged for a certain number of stars, with the strongest student being granted the ranking of Seven Stars. Hiroto, a transfer student, unexpectedly beats the strongest empress and becomes the pseudo-strongest in the school! A mind game of lies and bluffs begins!