MyAnimeList and Honeyfeed are teaming up with Shogakukan, the legendary publisher behind hits like Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End and The Apothecary Diaries, to celebrate the launch of their latest light novel platform: NOVELOUS.
To mark this special occasion, the NOVELOUS Worlds contest calls on all aspiring writers to craft unforgettable narratives. The top 10 finalists will earn a spot on the NOVELOUS app, bringing their stories to a global audience! This year’s contest is all about bold, gripping concepts that hook readers instantly. And what stories are more powerful than love and the end of the world?
Think you have what it takes? The submission window for this contest is from February 10, 2025, to May 7, 2025.
Witch hunting has inflicted massive hysteria across Europe in the 16th century. Not only because of witchcraft, but also because the discovery of a blood sucking monster that hunts humans at night. Amongst the accused witches & wizards, there were vampires caught in the crossfire, exposing their ...
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Our protagonist was an ordinary guy with an aspiration to be called hero, yet people mistook his actions. Until one day he woke up to find himself in the very world of an anime he watched for the first time. But he isn't the protagonist, instead, he's a minor bullied character who never even appe...
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When Satoru, a Japanese high schooler, decides to spend his summer in Germany with his older sister Miho, he expects an exciting change of pace. What he doesn’t expect is to end up sharing the apartment with an extra guest. Silke, the younger sister of Miho’s friend, is a beautiful girl just a ye...
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An ordinary boy. A strange new world. And a meeting that will change everything. Ken was your average high school student — until he suddenly woke up in a fantasy world of swords and magic… Alongside a traffic light. Yes. A literal lamppost now stands alone in the forest. His bike? Summoned i...
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When the peaceful Furyu Clan is destroyed, Renn Furyu vows revenge on both the Bushi and the mysterious Asura behind the massacre. Believed dead, his sister Koki is taken in by the Bushi and seeks to end the cycle of hatred—before her brother’s wrath consumes everything.
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How do you want the world to end? As this poll is seen on smartphones worldwide on New Year’s Day, society is thrown into a mix of emotions to determine who or what is behind this joke: Hour 0, an application where society votes on their fate one year later. But what is seen as a joke tak...
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He woke up in the ruins of a forgotten world, his name lost to the void, his past shattered like broken glass. But the hunger inside him? That was undeniable. Eldrin was once a great mage, but when he awakens in a desolate tower with no memory of who he is, all he knows is one terrible truth—...
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What if fate wasn’t absolute? Haru awakens in a world where the sky shifts in unnatural hues, an anomaly in the rigid order of Orbis. The system denies his existence, yet something within him refuses to yield. To the Fate Guardians, he is a threat, one that must be erased before balance is los...
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Prologue "It was a dream. The outcasted knight awoke cold and alone. The images flickered at the edge of his memory: lux et erebus, the suffocating darkness, the swirling amethyst spiral above the dancing shapes. He was alone, as always, with the echoes of the nightmare clinging...
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