Summary
The only feeling better for avidlight novel readersthan finding a captivating fantasy to read is finding an already completed and captivating light novel fantasy series. Aside from being one of the biggest genres for light novels,fantasy series allows readersto immerse themselves in the rich, imaginative worlds that tie together the story’s characters, their lives, and objectives into one grand tale of excitement.
Therefore, it matters very little whether the reader is a seasoned veteran or a complete newbie in search of literary excitement. Below are some of the best already concluded fantasy light novels for readers.
10Trapped In A Dating Sim: The World of Otome Games is Tough For Mobs
Anime-Planet Rating: 4.1 / 5
Trapped In A Dating Simpresents a romantic andexciting tale of reincarnationand beautiful women. The series follows the central character, Leon, an office worker whose life takes a rather exciting turn when he is suddenly reincarnated into a dating simulation video game, one he particularly hates for many reasons. Now, in the game where women dictate everything and only men considered beautiful are even looked at, Leon must survive.
However, Leon may be able to do more than just survive as, fortunately for him, he remembers everything about his previous life, including a complete playthrough of the very video game he has been reincarnated into. Armed with his specific memory, Leon sets out to fulfil his ultimate desire in his new world.
9Chivalry of A Failed Knight
Anime-Planet Rating: 4.0 / 5
Chivalry of a Failed Knightfeatures the lives of two individuals in a world where supernatural powers are commonplace. The people who possess these powers are Blazers, who can manifest their souls as weapons. The central character, Ikki Kurogane, is also a Blazer but virtually talentless in magical aptitude, earning the nickname ‘Worst One.’ On the other hand, is the other central character, Stella Vermillion, the second imperial princess of the Vermillion Empire and one of the most powerful A-rank Blazers, who has never been defeated and, like Ikki, dreams of becoming an accomplished Mage-Knight.
With the pair and their lives at different ends of the magical spectrum, their fates collide at Hagun Academy, one of the seven Mage-Knight schools in Japan, and they soon realize that they may be more alike than they think. Driven towards the same goal, the pair strive to meet in the Seven Stars Battle Festival, aprestigious and extreme tournamentthat sees the strongest students of all seven schools across Japan fight for the title of the Seven Stars King.
8The Faraway Paladin
Anime-Planet Rating: 4.3 / 5
The Faraway Paladinrevolves around the central character, Will, the lone human in a city of the dead that has long since met its ruin. Born with a vaguely distant memory of a past life in modern-day Japan, Will is raised by three parents: Mary, a mummified priestess, Blood; a skeletal warrior; and Gus, an ancient sorcerer spirit.
Together, all three train and educate Will on every possible aspect of his life and the life he might encounter later through combat, magic, and religion. However, the curiosity about his existence begins to eat at Will, and with the answers to his questions growing more vague, Will is driven to find the answers. However, Will quickly discovers that the answers he seeks lie beyond the city and the people who raised him.
7Ascendance of a Bookworm
Anime-Planet Rating: 4.4 / 5
Ascendance of a Bookwormpresents a feel-good tale of the central character, Urano Motosu, a university student who loved nothing more than to read books. Her pleasure for literature is so great that her final aim for graduation was to graduate with a librarian’s diploma, which she would have had it not been for the earthquake that caused the collapse of her bookshelf, killing Urano in the process.
Strangely, however, Urano’s fate is not yet sealed as she suddenly reawakens in an entirely different world in thebody of five-year-old Myne, a feeble little girl living in a foreign medieval city. Fascinated by her new life and world, Myne is desperate to learn its literary treasures. However, her family’s low standing and the low level of public literacy are more significant obstacles than she thought.
6Re: Monster
Re: Monsterpresents an unlikely tale of the reincarnation of the central character, Tomokui Kanata, who suffers an uneventful death after an uneventful life as an ordinary Japanese middle-aged man. However, Kanata’s adventures are far from over, as he is reincarnated into a world of magic and monsters as the lowest of the lowest goblins.
With a new world, a new life, and a new name, Goborou has the upper hand in his new life as he retains his past life’s memories. With his new gift of a body and the memories of his life as a human, Goborou plans ahead of himself a life once unattainable to his previous self.
5Arifureta: From Commonplace to World’s Strongest
Arifuretashines its bright lights on the life of its central character, Hajime Nagumo, a seventeen-year-old everyday otaku whose seemingly uneventful life is turned upside down when he and all his classmates are suddenly summoned to a fantasy world. Summoned to a new world, Nagumo’s woes are compounded as it is revealed that he and his classmates have been summoned as heroes tasked with saving the human race from extinction.
While the rest of his classmates receive extraordinary powers and abilities, Nagumo’s ability is that of a synergist, capable of only a single transmutation skill, making him the weakest of the lot. Ridiculed and bullied for his lack of power, Nagumo must navigate a dangerous world of friends, foes, and monsters with no more than a blacksmith’s power level.
4Fate/Zero
Anime-Planet Rating: 4. 2 / 5
A war of blood, magic, and spirits is what the War of the Holy Grail is about, and it is the premise of theFate/Zeroseries. A ritualistic battleamong seven magesand seven familiar spirits for the command of the greatest magical artifact ever created, the Holy Grail, is the Holy Grail War, which the series' protagonist, Emiya Kiritsugu, seeks to conquer at the behest of The Einzbern Family.
The series follows the aftermath of the last three inconclusive Holy Grail Wars and now a fourth one, where Emiya Kiritsugu finds himself at the centre. Known to be more ruthless, Emiya, like other participants in the war, has his reason for seeking the power of the Holy Grail. On course to achieve his goal, he encounters a strange but familiar foe, Kotomine Kirei, bringing to play an outcome that even fate could not have predicted.
3The Boy and The Beast
Anime-Planet Rating: 4.2 / 5
The Boy and The Beast features a tale of two worlds: the human realm and Shibutenmachi, the realm of monsters. By order of nature, these two realms must never intersect until the central character, Ren, finds himself in Shibutenmachi after encountering another central character, Kumatesu, in Tokyo.
Out of curiosity, Ren follows Kumatetsu back to the realm of monsters and somehow cannot return to the human world. In a split decision, Ren becomes the disciple of Kumatetsu and is renamed Kyuuta. Unfortunately, Kyuuta’s prolonged presence in the monster realm threatens to destroy the balance of the two realms, and the master-apprentice pair will need more than sparring sessions to maintain the balance between both worlds.
2Wolf Children: Ame & Yuki
Wolf Childrenfocuses on an unlikely love story that alters the central character, Hana, ’s life and results in a beautiful butultimately hard life. Her decision to finally be brave enough to talk to the mysterious student in her college class turns out to be more than what she bargained for. Their conversation blossoms into true love, and only then does she discover that he is secretly a wolf living as a human.
Undeterred, she accepts him, and despite a far-from-perfect relationship, their love results in the birth of her two children, Ame and Yuki. They have also inherited their father’s ability to transform between wolves and humans. Hana is left to raise her kids alone, and her motherhood journey is unlike any other.
1Fullmetal Alchemist
Fullmetal Alchemisttakes place in a world where alchemy is widely practised, and alchemists are generally respected and revered. However, despite its vast possibilities, the practice of alchemy is not immutable, nor is it all-powerful, as it is mainly believed. The series' central characters, Edward and Alphonse Elric, are made painfully aware of the limits of alchemy after they try the taboo of human transmutation and attempt to bring their dead mother back to life.
They fail miserably and pay a heavy price for their action, as Edward loses his right leg and Alphonse loses his entire body. To ensure his brother’s soul is not lost completely, Edward gives up his right arm in exchange for sealing his brother’s soul in a suit of armour. After several years, the brothers begin their journey across the country, looking forthe Philosopher’s Stone, hoping to be able to recover their old bodies with its power. However, their quest leads to unravelling the darkest secrets of alchemy.
