What You Need to Know:
- The 2016 rankings from the light novel guidebook, "Kono Light Novel ga Sugoi!", have been revealed, where My Teen Romantic Comedy SNAFU gets first place for the third year in a row.
- See the rankings below!
Top 5 Light Novels 2016
5. Kōkyū Rakuen Kyūjō: Harem League Baseball
Synopsis
The protagonist infiltrates the emperor's castle disguising as a girl in order to assassinate the emperor. Upon infiltration, he discovers a paradise of girls playing baseball in order to win the love of the emperor and...
4. A Certain Magical Index
Synopsis
Kamijou Touma is a student living in Academy City, a highly advanced place in terms of technology. Despite being gauged as a level zero esper (no powers), he possesses on his right hand the Imagine Breaker, an ability that negates any power whatsoever. Touma finds a young girl named Index who is trying to run away from Necessarius, a powerful magic organization that she is member of. Blessed with the skill of memorizing any sort of information, she holds 103,000 forbidden magical books within her head. As science and magic cross paths, Touma must face several dangers amid espers and magicians who appear at the exciting scientific town.
(Source: ANN)
3. No Game No Life
Synopsis
No Game No Life is a surreal comedy that follows Sora and Shiro, shut-in NEET siblings and the online gamer duo behind the legendary username "Kuuhaku." They view the real world as just another lousy game; however, a strange e-mail challenging them to a chess match changes everything—the brother and sister are plunged into an otherworldly realm where they meet Tet, the God of Games.
The mysterious god welcomes Sora and Shiro to Disboard, a world where all forms of conflict—from petty squabbles to the fate of whole countries—are settled not through war, but by way of high-stake games. This system works thanks to a fundamental rule wherein each party must wager something they deem to be of equal value to the other party's wager. In this strange land where the very idea of humanity is reduced to child’s play, the indifferent genius gamer duo of Sora and Shiro have finally found a real reason to keep playing games: to unite the sixteen races of Disboard, defeat Tet, and become the gods of this new, gaming-is-everything world.
(Source: MAL)
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2. Sword Art Online
Synopsis
The players of a virtual reality MMORPG, Sword Art Online, are trapped and fighting for their very lives. After it is announced that the only way to leave the game is by beating it, Kirito—a very powerful swordsman—and his friends take on a quest to free all the minds trapped in Aincrad.
(Source: ANN)
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1. My Teen Romantic Comedy SNAFU
Synopsis
This romantic comedy revolves around an antisocial high school student named Hikigaya Hachiman with a distorted view on life and no friends or girlfriend. When he sees his classmates talking excitedly about living their adolescent lives, he mutters: "They're a bunch of liars." When he is asked about his future dreams, he responds, "Not working." A teacher gets Hachiman to join the "Volunteer Service" club, which happens to have the school's prettiest girl, Yukinoshita Yukino.
(Source: ANN)
Source: Kono Light Novel ga Sugoi! 2016
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