While not as big an industry as manga, light novels like The Apothecary Diariesare a fundamental part of anime culture. Some of the biggest anime in the world were based on light novels, and with how ...

Adriano is GameRant’s Anime Features lead. He has been working on creating anime content for GameRant since November 2021. He enjoys a wide variety of anime, with Shinichiro Watanabe’s Cowboy Bebop ...

Light novels have been one of the most productive “idea pipelines” into hit anime for the past couple of decades, largely because they are built for rapid iteration and audience feedback. In Japan, ...