
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.
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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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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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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Human girl meets catgirl, then hold hands and kiss and stuff
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For six years, Valeria Evernight has survived alone, 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 still, he doesn’t even speak her...
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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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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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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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Reiji Nakamura thinks teenage love is all nonsense… until he sits next to Aika, a strange girl who talks to plants and believes love begins with sock riddles. Things get weird when he discovers Aika is writing a love story with him as the protagonist… and what she writes starts happening in re...
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In the peaceful village of Thistlewick, witch and tea shop owner Emery Mickleright thought she had left the past behind. But when a hidden grimoire tumbles into her hands—marked with forgotten languages and family secrets—she unlocks a story stretching back generations. Through its pages, Emer...
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The quiet, starry, silent night - a sacred space for many insomniacs, where people come in touch with their truest selves. But for Kanashiro Sora, the night offers no peace. Haunted by the loss of someone very dear to him, Sora now wanders the city streets every night, unable to sleep, unable to ...
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Jack Turner was a normal Seventeen year old boy. He went to school, had a job. And other then the fact that he lived alone in his grandpa's townhouse, he lived an ordinary life... Until the day he saw something he wasn't supposed to see, in the end he lost his life. But then God brought...
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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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Mahiru Watanabe has always dreamed of crossing the wall that divides the country into East and West. As the youngest daughter of the chief of state in the East, her life is tightly controlled. When she was young, her grandfather filled her heart with tales of the free-sprited people in the West, ...
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What would happen if you got isekaied and woke up a few billion years ago back when the earth was still magma and have to make it all the way back to premodern isekai time. That's Rin's story. After her hellish experience she goes through the normal isekai process and realises that she's too damn...
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One fine day; the sky opens up with a flurry of blue lights. Thus, exposing a huge armada of ships heading for earth. The world stops in awe of the intimidating sight. Twelve years later; society has come to screeching halt. Earth is now a territory of the Fromani space empire. The extraterre...
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Meddling with evolving viruses, Fion, an anguished, genius virologist, genetically edits his hand-selected creation to be unassuming and untraceable even in the view of the whole world, with his body as the original testing vessel. Traversing the false peace, can a benevolent researcher and a ...
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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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