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yeah like Light Novels... photons and waves man... doh
Sounds nice, not a lightnovel though.
DOH
I did not look at what I was posting in, haha guess your community hit the front page of All.
Nice. We could use some more foot traffic here.
Since you're already here and obviously a reader, can I interest you in the wonderful world of Japanese lightnovels? The closest thing to compare them to would be Young Adult novels. Not exactly Pulitzer Prize contenders, but really easy to read and entertaining. Especially if you haven't had any contact with them yet, it can feel really refreshing to get a whole different set of genres and tropes to read through.
I may have already - does "The Guy She Was Interested in Wasn't a Guy at All" count? One of my kiddos suggested it.
I'm not familiar with that series, but it looks like this is a manga. Think Japanese comic books. Light novels on the other hand are just written words with the occasional illustration here and there (usually around 3-5 or so throughout a volume). They share the same origin country and light novels often get adapted into the manga format, so trope-wise, that would indeed be a first contact.