The “NOVELOUS Worlds” Contest Has Officially Concluded!
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.
Ryūka Tatsuhara always dreamt of leaving her boring hometown and starting a new life in Tokyo. But then strange doors called Daimen appeared, bringing kaijus onto Earth. One of them, a massive kaiju known as the Daikaiju, arrived in Ryūka’s town looking for a host to carry his child. When he c...
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When all over Earth, chunks of reality start disappearing from existence in mysterious events known as extirpations, Dr. Ken Soma finds himself at a crossroads: should he divulge the fate of the world, or keep it to himself? His ex-wife, Dr. Irina Alexandrova, Russian expat, decides for him wh...
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Yani is a Godsinger, a special class of people who can link themselves to the AI gods that watch over her world and hear them when they speak. She loves her god, Imon, more than life. When her status as a Godsinger is threatened by a surprise arranged marriage, Yani must choose how far she's will...
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For six years, Valeria Evernight has survived in a world left empty by the Vanishing, tirelessly preparing a ritual to find her lost mother. But when she finally completes it, the spell doesn’t bring her mother back; it summons Caelum, a boy from another world who is just as lost as she is. Worse...
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Ryuuto Iwasaki is moving to Tokyo to attend his dream university – part of his vision of a tranquil college life. Suddenly, his plan is turned on its head from a former student’s burnt ramen and a simple question: “Iwasaki-kun, how’s your English?” With that, he is placed in the international ...
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Yani is a Godsinger, a special class of people who can link themselves to the AI gods that watch over her world and hear them when they speak. She loves her god, Imon, more than life. When her status as a Godsinger is threatened by a surprise arranged marriage, Yani must choose how far she's will...
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One day, Nicholas wakes up to a girl sleeping by his side. This mystery girl, Elerina, mysteriously appears beside him. She comes from a world that is currently at war. After becoming her husband, he commits to supporting her in any way he can.
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When all over Earth, chunks of reality start disappearing from existence in mysterious events known as extirpations, Dr. Ken Soma finds himself at a crossroads: should he divulge the fate of the world, or keep it to himself? His ex-wife, Dr. Irina Alexandrova, Russian expat, decides for him wh...
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Ryūka Tatsuhara always dreamt of leaving her boring hometown and starting a new life in Tokyo. But then strange doors called Daimen appeared, bringing kaijus onto Earth. One of them, a massive kaiju known as the Daikaiju, arrived in Ryūka’s town looking for a host to carry his child. When he c...
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A pandemic of a mysterious disease, completely harmless to humans but deadly to plants, begins rapidly destroying all flora in nature, causing a significant drop in the oxygen levels of Earth's atmosphere. According to scientists' calculations, if the current rate of oxygen depletion continues, h...
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“I shall live to see an Age of Magic renewed.” This is the promise of Lavenza, an apostate who wanders the land in search of ancient mana. “I shall live to see my father’s armor reforged.” This is the promise of Deme, a child who delves in dungeons in search of Rafta, the withering flowe...
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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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In Aethelgard—a land where nature's magic thrives and machines are shunned—apprentice scribe Ren maps the shifting ley lines of the Whispering Woods. His orderly life is disrupted when reality shimmers, revealing fleeting visions of Cogsworth, a steam-powered city where gears, logic, and automata...
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Orianna is an immortal angel who has forgotten the promise that once gave meaning to her existence. Her fate changes when Samuel, a young doctor from the Victorian era, dies and becomes trapped in his own purgatory, condemned to relive the echoes of a childhood trauma he can no longer remember. ...
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When Souta confess to his childhood friend, he's not only got his answer, but also having a second body? Moreover is a girl's body!!!!???? Now, Souta have to learn how to control both of his body separately and do his activities as two different person at the same time. What can go wrong w...
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What’s the point of getting stronger in a world without the Demon King? That was my excuse for being unable to scale my insurmountable wall. Even though people around me claim that I am talented, I was never called a genius, or the Second Coming of the Hero. There were times when I showed the ...
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Its all about a boy being bullied until he got amnesia. The bullying slowly died down.
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Meddling with evolving viruses, a genius virologist makes his creation unassuming and untraceable even in view of all. Traversing the false peace, can a benevolent researcher and a weapon-obsessed hero unveil his machinations before he makes the entire world his own blue zombie paradise?
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★ Multiverse: The Story of Chaos • Written by Darklord Yuvraj In a world where time fractures and infinite realities collide, one man dares to rewrite fate itself. Haunted by memories he can’t explain and truths he was never meant to know, a nameless warrior—known only as the Time Pha...
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In a future controlled by EdenNet, an all-seeing AI disguised as humanity’s savior, Jessi—a sarcastic, brilliant hacker with no digital footprint—discovers she's an anomaly in its perfect surveillance. Driven by her sister Victoria’s mysterious disappearance, Jessi and her talking ferret sidekick...
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In a world where power is forged through cultivation, innovation, and unyielding will, Layla al-Zahira, a former queen reborn into the fragile body of Meilin Wuye, heir to the crumbling Silver Lotus Sect. Haunted by memories of her past life—a reign marked by both triumphs and failures—Layla m...
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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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