Top 10 Light Novels in Japan for the week of February 12-18, 2018

Here are the Top 10 Best Selling Light Novels for the week of February 12-18, 2018

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Boukensha ni Naritai to Miyako ni Deteitta Musume ga S-Rank ni Natteta Vol.1

4,530 Copies Sold This Week
aka My daughter who went out to the capital wanting to become an adventurer was S rank

What it’s about… (Bad Google Translation version)

Introduction

The strongest beautiful girl, appear!
A masterpiece of heart-to-world world fantasy, opening here!

“Become a novelist” Top annual general ranking top, topic’s popular work has become a wonderful one volume.
With popularity, comicalization is ongoing as well!

Angelin, a beautiful girl with the title of the highest guild «S rank», struggling day by day to eliminate demons of high rank.
She loves her foster father Bergriff from long ago!
Although taking a long vacation for a certain number of days in a certain day and planning to return to the father of his hometown, the existence of demons appearing one after another continues to keep hoarding home.

“When will I get to see my father … …!”

Heartful world foreign fantasy, which opens vividly the interactions between parents and children, friendship and powerful battle scenes, opens here!

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Youkoso Jitsuryoku Shijou Shugi no Kyoushitsu e Vol.7.5

4,603 Copies Sold this week.
aka Classroom of the Elite
http://www.novelupdates.com/series/youkoso-jitsuryoku-shijou-shugi-no-kyoushitsu-e/
Anime adaptation 12 episodes aired July-September 2017 covered volumes 1-3 and used some material from 4.5. According to Reddit the anime made significant changes to the source material. Can be streamed via Crunchyroll
Currently no license for the light novel or manga English

What it’s about…

Koudo Ikusei Senior High School, a leading prestigious school with state-of-the-art facilities where nearly 100% of students go on to university or find employment. The students there have the freedom to wear any hairstyle and bring any personal effects they desire. Koudo Ikusei is a paradise-like school, but the truth is that only the most superior of students receive favorable treatment.

The protagonist Kiyotaka Ayanokouji is a student of D-class, which is where the school dumps its “inferior” students in order to ridicule them. For a certain reason, Kiyotaka was careless on his entrance examination, and was put in D-class. After meeting Suzune Horikita and Kikyou Kushida, two other students in his class, Kiyotaka’s situation begins to change.

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Saikyou no Kanteishi tte Dare no Koto? Vol.3

5,496 Copies Sold this week
aka Who is the Strongest Appraiser?
No License for English

What it’s about… (bad Google translation version)

Men’s high school students start living in a different world!

Yumi Kugimiya of a boys high school student suddenly moved to another world.
The place which was getting lost in the dungeon is called “the crimson wildcat (Scarlet · link)”
To be protected by adventurers.

I got the strongest skill (skill) of the appraisal system [the eyes of God] when it metastasized, but do not do that to such a thing!
It felt that he liked the original cooking skill and fine work and fell into the honor cooking charge,
Grabbing the stomachs of people around you, producing things not in the other world, or wasteful use of cheat abilities on parade!
While getting angry with various kinds of efforts, I am enjoying a different world life!

Sandwich in croquette, handmade mayonnaise etc.
Delicious Slow Life Opening !!

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Tatoeba Last Dungeon Mae no Mura no Shounen ga Joban no Machi de Kurasu Youna Monogatari Vol.4

5,511 Copies Sold this week
aka A story such as a boy in the village before the last dungeon lives in the early stages
No English license for the light novel or manga

What it’s about… (bad Google translation version)

A boy in a remote neighborhood village, Connon village Lloyd longed for a soldier who read in a story, decided to go to the kingdom and become a soldier. The villagers who worried about the weakest Lloyd in the village oppose, but with permission of the village head, they depart for the kingdom. In the kingdom he was preparing for a military academy admission test while living in the house of the witch Marie who is the disciple of the village chief.

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29 to JK Vol.4

5,759 Copies Sold this week
No English license for the Light Novel or Manga

What it’s about…

Very little information in English.
Appears to be about a 29 year old man who is ordered by the president of his company to date a 15 year old girl (possibly the president’s granddaughter?) Is sold as a “forbidden age difference romantic comedy.”

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Dungeon ni Deai wo Motomeru no wa Machigatteiru Darou ka Vol.13 Limited Special Edition

6,174 Copies Sold this week
aka Is It Wrong to Try to Pick-Up Girls in a Dungeon?
https://www.novelupdates.com/series/dungeon-ni-deai-o-motomeru-no-wa-machigatte-iru-darou-ka/
Licensed for English release by Yen On. Volume 11 releases in English in April
13 episode anime covered volumes 1-5. Streaming on Crunchyroll

What it’s about…

In Orario, fearless adventurers band together in search of fame and fortune within the monstrous underground labyrinth known as Dungeon.

But while riches and renown are incentive enough for most, Bell Cranel, would-be hero extraordinaire, has bigger plans.

He wants to pick up girls.

Is it wrong to face the perils of Dungeon alone, in a single-member guild blessed by a failed goddess? Maybe. Is it wrong to dream of playing hero to hapless maidens in Dungeon? Maybe not. After one misguided adventure, Bell quickly discovers that anything can happen in the labyrinth–even chance encounters with beautiful women. The only problem? He’s the one who winds up the damsel in distress!

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Ookami to Koushinryou Vol.20

7,623 Copies Sold this week
aka Spice & Wolf
https://www.novelupdates.com/series/ookami-to-koushinryou/
25 Episode anime + 1 OVA & 2 Specials. Licensed in English by Funimation
Licensed for English release by Yen On

What it’s about…

A young travelling merchant, Kraft Lawrence has become accustomed to days of roaming and trading, with few companions. Or so it was until one peculiar day where the trader finds a young, naked, wolf-like girl asleep in his wagon.

The beautiful girl, calling herself Holo, claims to be a local wolf deity worshipped by locals as the God of Good Harvest. Year after year, she ensured they would reap a good harvest, but she has since grown tired of fulfilling the wishes of the ungrateful locals.

Holo ends up striking a deal with Kraft: if he helps her escape the villagers, she will gladly help him in his merchant endeavours. Together, they roam from town to town in search of business, and Kraft realizes both the ups and downs of travelling with a haughty and shrewd wolf goddess.

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Netgame no Yome wa Onna no Ko ja Nai to Omotta? Vol.16

9,683 Copies Sold this week
aka And you thought there is never a girl online?
https://myanimelist.net/manga/57835/
http://www.novelupdates.com/series/netoge-no-yome-wa-onnanoko-ja-nai-to-omotta/
No license for the light novels
The 12 episode anime was licensed by Funimation

What it’s about…

After mustering up the courage to propose to a girl in an online game, naïve otaku Hideki “Rusian” Nishimura is devastated when she flat out rejects him. To make matters worse, the girl reveals that she is actually an older man in real life. With his dreams crushed and his heart broken, Rusian comes to an abrupt decision in the midst of his raging fit: he will never trust another girl in an online game again.

Years later, Rusian is now in a guild with three other players, one of whom possesses a female avatar by the name of “Ako.” Ako is deeply in love with Rusian and wants to marry him. Although he entertains the possibility that she might be a guy, Rusian accepts her proposal, claiming that her gender doesn’t matter as long as she is cute in the game. However, after a discussion between guild members that led to all of them having an offline meeting, Rusian finds out that Ako, along with the other members, are not just girls, but also his schoolmates.

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Dungeon ni Deai wo Motomeru no wa Machigatteiru Darou ka Vol.13 Regular Edition

64,319 Copies Sold this week
aka Is It Wrong to Try to Pick-Up Girls in a Dungeon?
https://www.novelupdates.com/series/dungeon-ni-deai-o-motomeru-no-wa-machigatte-iru-darou-ka/
Licensed for English release by Yen On. Volume 11 releases in English in April
13 episode anime covered volumes 1-5. Streaming on Crunchyroll

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Sword Art Online: Progressive Vol.5

65,785 Copies Sold this week
Licensed for English release by Yen On
Previous 4 volumes already available in English
https://www.novelupdates.com/series/sword-art-online-progressive/
Anime used some material from Progressive Volume 1 for the Aincrad arc.

What it’s about…

“There’s no way to beat this game. The only difference is when and where you die…”

One month has passed since Akihiko Kayaba’s deadly game began, and the body count continues to rise. Two thousand players are already dead.

Kirito and Asuna are two very different people, but they both desire to fight alone. Nonetheless, they find themselves drawn together to face challenges from both within and without. Given that the entire virtual world they now live in has been created as a deathtrap, the surviving players of Sword Art Online are starting to get desperate, and desperation makes them dangerous to loners like Kirito and Asuna. As it becomes clear that solitude equals suicide, will the two be able to overcome their differences to find the strength to believe in each other, and in so doing survive?

Sword Art Online: Progressive is a new version of the Sword Art Online tale that starts at the beginning of Kirito and Asuna’s epic adventure–on the very first level of the deadly world of Aincrad!

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