Hey everyone.
I don’t think the community is big enough to go a second year with the full nominee/vote route. And it seems like we even have less active members here than last year. So let’s just post our personal light novels of the year and some come up on multiple lists that’s the official winner for 2025.
Categories are:
- Best Volume
- Best Debut
- Best Protagonist
- Best Antagonist
- Best Supporting Character
- Best Couple or Duo
- Best Author
- Best Illustrator
- Best Worldbuilding
- Best Overall Series
- Best Emotional Moment
And since it’s YOUR list you can even add as many categories as you like. Neat.
Love the internal struggle of MC.
The new series from Yuu Tanaka of Sword Tensei fame.
I have a thing for main characters that aren’t shackled by fake morality (you know the type that kills 1000 underlings without a thought but then is too “good” to kill the actual boss pulling their strings). And this year there wasn’t a character more ruthless than sweet Yulucia.
Even if I were to disregard the whole flipped good/evil plot and just look at them as a counter to MC they are still written with a clear motivation and individual personalities that stay consistent.
Got even his own spin-off. He’s that good.
As always.
Clearly written like Ascendance of a Bookworm with a clear outline of the entire plot already laid out.
My favorite light novel world got fleshed out more in the Hannelore spin-off series.
Even though many of this year’s volumes were an arc that I didn’t like very much it’s still consistently great to read and every volume is a highlight for me. Silent Witch is getting there.
Not going to spoil it, but man… God damn it man.
I don’t think I’ve seen anything this year that clearly stood out for the Illustration award, so I pass this one.