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The Oblivious Saint Can't Contain Her Power

The Oblivious Saint Can't Contain Her Power (無自覚聖女は今日も無意識に力を垂れ流す), also sold as Forget My Sister! Turns Out I Was the Real Saint All Along!, is a Japanese light novel series by Almond about Carolina Sanchez, a supposedly magicless noblewoman whose unconscious holy power exceeds her Saint sister Flora's; it spawned a Yona Etou manga and a 2026 twelve-episode Magic Bus anime.

The Ogre's Bride

The Ogre's Bride (Oni no Hanayome) is a Japanese romantic fantasy light novel series by Kureha, about a schoolgirl claimed as bride by an oni.

The Other World's Books Depend on the Bean Counter

The Other World's Books Depend on the Bean Counter is a Japanese BL novel series by Wakatsu about an accountant swept into another world, adapted into manga and a 2026 anime.

The Otome Heroine's Fight for Survival

The Otome Heroine's Fight for Survival (Otome Game no Heroine de Saikyou Survival; 乙サバ) is a Japanese light novel by Harunohi Biyori: orphan Alicia learns she is an otome game's destined heroine, rejects that fate, and becomes the fighter Aria; adapted to manga and a July 2027 anime.

The Remarried Empress (재혼황후) (novel)

The Remarried Empress (재혼황후) is a South Korean romance-fantasy web novel by Alphatart, serialized on Naver Series from 2018, about an empress who remarries after divorce.

The Return of the Condor Heroes (神雕侠侣)

The Return of the Condor Heroes (神雕侠侣, Shendiao Xialv) is Jin Yong's 1959–1961 wuxia novel, second of the Condor Trilogy, following Yang Guo and Xiaolongnü's forbidden love during the Mongol invasion of Southern Song.

The Salty Koharu Has a Soft Spot for Me

The Salty Koharu Has a Soft Spot for Me is a Japanese light novel series by Sawatari. It follows two high school students who secretly love each other.

The World After the Fall (멸망 이후의 세계)

The World After the Fall (멸망 이후의 세계, also The World After the End) is a Korean web novel by singNsong of Omniscient Reader's Viewpoint, serialized on Munpia 2016–17 and revised 2022, in which Jaehwan refuses the regression stone; adapted into a Naver webtoon and licensed by Yen Press.

The World's Strongest Rearguard

The World's Strongest Rearguard (世界最強の後衛, Sekai Saikyou no Kouei) is a Tôwa isekai light novel with Huuka Kazabana illustrations, published by Kadokawa Books since 2017, about office worker Arihito Atobe reborn as a Labyrinth Country Seeker with the support-only Rearguard class; adapted to manga by Rikizo and a 2026 Maho Film anime.

Udayar

Udayar (உடையார்) is a Tamil historical novel by Balakumaran, published in six volumes, depicting Rajaraja Chola I's reign and the construction of the Thanjavur Big Temple.

Violet Evergarden (ヴァイオレット・エヴァーガーデン)

Violet Evergarden (ヴァイオレット・エヴァーガーデン) is Kana Akatsuki's KA Esuma Bunko light novel series (2015) about an Auto Memory Doll letter ghostwriter, adapted by Kyoto Animation into a 2018 TV anime, 2019 side story film, and 2020 feature film.

Water Margin (水浒传)

Water Margin (水浒传, Shuihu Zhuan), fully Loyal and Righteous Water Margin, is China's first long vernacular chaptered novel about Song Jiang's Liangshan uprising. Key facts: disputed Shi Nai'an/Luo Guanzhong authorship, 100/120/70-chapter editions, Jin Shengtan's abridgment, one of the Four Great Classical Novels.

Winnetou

Winnetou is Karl May's fictional Mescalero Apache chief, hero of the 1893 trilogy (volumes 7-9 of the Gesammelte Reiseromane) and blood brother of Old Shatterhand; staged at Bad Segeberg since 1952.

You Like Me, Not My Daughter?! (娘じゃなくて私が好きなの?!)

You Like Me, Not My Daughter?! (娘じゃなくて私が好きなの!?) is a completed 7-volume Dengeki Bunko age-gap romance light novel by Kota Nozomi and Giuniu, in which university student Takumi confesses to Ayako, the single mother who raised his childhood friend, with a manga adaptation by Tesshin Azuma.