Long ago, I can remember going to an anime film festival in Dublin. I saw many great films such as Redline and Summer Wars but one of the standouts was a film called “The Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya”. Watching it, I could tell it was a sequel but I still remember how much I enjoyed the film. I bought the TV series from a now defunct company called Beez Entertainment and soon discovered that the franchise had started out from something called a “Light Novel”.
Light novels are targeted at a young adult audience and are generally 200 to 300 pages long. The most distinguishing characteristic of these novels is the anime/manga style artwork that are scattered throughout the novel, often depicting a scene from the previous page. While many light novels are first published as volumes, some are serialized in anthology magazines before being compiled into volumes.
