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light novel
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Japanese novella-type storytelling in conjunction with illustrations, geared toward young adults
Wikidata facts
- Subclass of
- young adult literature
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- Commons category
- Light novels
- topic's main category
- Category:Light novels
- equivalent class
- dbpedia.org/ontology/LightNovel
- topic has template
- Template:Infobox animanga/Light novel
- native label
- ラノベ
- different from
- manga
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Encyclopedic overview
A light novel (Japanese: ライトノベル, Hepburn: raito noberu) is a type of popular literature novel from Japan usually classified as young adult fiction, generally targeting teens to twenties or older. The definition is very vague, and wide-ranging but it generally refers to a story accompanied with manga-style illustrations, often in black and white.
"Raito noberu" is the wasei-eigo from "light novel" and its abbreviation is the clipped compound ranobe (ラノベ) or, in English, LN.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “light novel” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.