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Full list announced in the article:

• Lycoris Recoil: Ordinary Days (novels)
• Love Unseen Beneath the Clear Night Sky (novels)
• Solo Leveling Collector's Omnibus (novel)
• The Color of the End: Mission in the Apocalypse (manga, this might be better known as Usuzumi no Hate)
• I'm Here, Beside You (manga)
• Takahashi from the Bike Shop (manga)
• Everyone’s Darling Has a Secret (manga)
• Hell is Dark with No Flowers (manga)

From the article:

> The novel will follow four different stories including: a rare card Ichikawa Kyotaro received as an elementary school student and the mysterious woman he met at the time, Ichikawa and Anna Yamada's relationship from the perspective of Moeko, the follow-up on Ichikawa and Yamada's double date, and the secret story of Yamada's mother. > > The publisher also hints at a possible story set ten years later.

From the article:

> The app will utilize Mantra's AI-assisted translation system. Mantra is the service that is providing AI translation for the simultaneous English releases of Kore Yamazaki's The Ancient Magus' Bride and Ghost and Witch manga. Shogakukan invested in Mantra in June.

Also, I found this bit interesting. Will be curious to see what this ends up looking like and if the AI will mess this up:

> The releases will also include word balloons with icons of the characters to display characters' lines, as Shogakukan told Nikkei it has received feedback that "Japanese names are hard to remember."

• Toradora!
• Reincarnated as a Sword
• Perfect Blue: Complete Metamorphosis
• The Condemned Villainess Goes Back in Time and Aims to Become the Ultimate Villain
• The Evil Queen’s Beautiful Principles

From the article:

> Shogakukan is listing a series of novelizations for Doga Kobo's original television anime series Jellyfish Can't Swim in the Night (Yoru no Kurage wa Oyogenai), with the first novel covering episodes 1-4 launching on May 20. Writer Yūki Yaku (Bottom-tier Character Tomozaki), the head writer and scriptwriter for the original anime, is also penning the novelization.

Cross Infinite World announced on Tuesday that it has licensed five new light novel series:

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Title: By a Twist of Fate, I'm Attending the Royal Academy in Disguise

Creators: Ringo (story), Tsukasa Satsuki (art)

Release Date: May 31 (digital), physical version at later date

Synopsis: Cesia, a mere servant, is attending the Royal Academy in place of the lazy, pampered daughter of the viscount she works for, all for a massive monetary reward upon her successful graduation that would allow her to live the rest of her life without any worries. She spends her days avoiding the feeble bullying of the ladies of the Academy while being worked to the bone at the viscount's mansion—until just before graduation, when she gets tricked and her pay completely vanishes! Furious, she vows to get even, no matter what it takes, when out of nowhere, the second prince shows up and offers to help her? A spunky heroine with determined resistance as her motto and a mischievous prince who puts his life on the line for his country meet in this love story where anything could happen!

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Title: Let's Get to Villainessin': Stratagems of a Former Commoner

Creators: Hiironoame (story), Misumi (art)

Release Date: July 31 (digital), physical version at later date

Synopsis: Would you become the villainess to save your beloved baby sister? That was the deal promised to Mio Satou by Shizuki Sakurazaka, heiress of the Sakurazaka Group, one of the most powerful conglomerates that dominate modern day Japan. The terms? Take her place in life. Survive three years at an elite academy where the progeny of tycoons and moguls roam, and in return, Shizuki will cure Mio's terminally ill sister. But in a revelation that turns Mio's world upside down, Shizuki reveals that their reality is based on an otome game from her previous life, with herself as the game's original antagonist—an antagonist whose downfall was essential in guiding the world to its happy ending. Now, as former “commoner” Mio steps into the labyrinth of high society, can she successfully navigate her way to her predetermined demise and her sister's rescue, or does more than just doom await her at the end of this journey?

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Title: Soup Forest: The Story of the Woman Who Speaks with Animals and the Former Mercenary

Creators: Syuu (story), Muni (art)

Release Date: June 30 (digital), physical version at later date

Synopsis: Sometimes it's animals, sometimes it's humans, but, today too, the person coming to Olivia's restaurant holds painful memories in their heart.

Olivia, who runs a soup restaurant outside of town on the edge of the forest, has a secret she can't tell anyone. She can hear animals' and humans' inner voices. This ability left her alienated from her family to the point that they sent her away to a convent when she was only five years old. After escaping while en route, she was brought to the restaurant by the people who would become her adoptive grandparents. Twenty years later, Olivia continues to live with her heart closed off to other humans, until, one day, a former mercenary by the name of Arthur stops by on a rainy morning, dripping wet. And what are those feelings he starts to develop for her?

Soup Forest is a place of meetings and partings, a place filled with the forest's bounties, a place of gathering for both animals and humans. They come together, share a meal, go their separate ways, and continue on with their lives.

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Title: The Former Assassin Who Got Reincarnated as a Noble Girl

Creators: Satsuki Otonashi (story), MiRea (art)

Release Date: July 31 (digital), physical version at later date

Synopsis: Enter Lady Selena, the former assassin who assumed it'd be easy to step into the role of pampered mademoiselle, but who finds herself aggravated by how differently she views things compared to her flower-brained mother and her scheming, deceitful (yet utterly ineffective) stepsister. She navigates tea parties filled with ladies attempting to assert their dominance, attends an academy thick with ulterior motives, and dodges harassment flung at her with an icy glare and fierce counters, but it's that stone-cold heart of hers that leaves her isolated and alone.

One day, she learns her stepsister has become engaged to the second prince, a fact that forces her to run away from home. She doesn't get far before bumping into someone, however, and that someone just happens to be the first prince. Come watch as the cold-blooded former assassin who's never known love dives fearlessly into noble society!

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Title: Too Strong to Belong! Banished to Another World!

Creators: Kazuki Karasawa (story), Akane Rica (art)

Release Date: August 31 (digital), physical version at later date

Synopsis: Sakurako longs to fall in love. Unfortunately, her super-strength scares everybody off! If only she were normal… But then she would have died long ago. Her continued survival jeopardizes time and space, so God sends Sakurako and her lovelorn best friend Kazuya to another world.

Um, a place where she can be a delicate damsel and finally get a boyfriend? Yes, please!

Will Sakurako make it as a weakling in a world of magic and monsters? Can Kazuya compete with the handsome hero in their party of adventurers? And what's this about a Demon King who's due to show up to destroy the world any day now?

No word on translated release dates that I could find.

I haven't read this series, but have seen some discussion about it in this community, so I thought I would share.

! Title: Sword Art Online Alternative Clover's Regret Creators: Soitiro Watase (story), Ginta (illustrations), Reki Kawahara (supervision) Summary: Sword Art Online, as reimagined by famed fantasy author Soitiro Watase! Asuka Empire. A Japanese-style VRMMO created by Akihiko Kayaba from a VR engine entitled “The Seed”—a game once played by Yuuki, Ran, and Merida of the Sleeping Knights that hides many stories. Two young women—warrior priestess Nayuta and ninja Koyomi, who became friends in-game—come across a mysterious priest named Yanagi. The elderly man tells them that he's looking for a detective to solve a riddle with a one-million-yen reward. The girls are shocked by the outlandish sum for this peculiar request, and then they meet an equally peculiar young man, who claims to be able to do this job as well as any other detective. With all his stat points invested in Luck, the man is useless in battle, but he does still seem to have some tricks up his sleeve, like that unbeatable drop rate for rare items... The mystery unfolds as two young girls and their dubious detective partner try to solve the case in this cutting-edge VRMMO world!

! Title: Hell Is Dark with No Flowers light novels Creator: Yoru Michio (story), Ruka Todo (art) Summary: Seiji Tohno sometimes sees the people around him as monsters. It is a curse that had driven him to a life of despair, living out of internet cafés with nowhere to call home...but all that changes one twilit evening when he stumbles across a huge European mansion. There, Seiji meets a bewitchingly beautiful boy dressed in a kimono with a white peony motif on the shoulder, who introduces himself as Shiroshi Saijou. This mysterious young man seems to know more about Seiji than he does himself, and before he knows it, Seiji has agreed to become Shiroshi's assistant in exchange for room and board. Little does he know, however, this “proxy service,”' as Shiroshi puts it, is none other than outsourced death! Sending monster-possessed sinners to Hell, will bring Seiji face-to-face with terrifying new creatures each and every day!

! Title: My First Love's Kiss light novels Creators: Hitoma Iruma (story), Fly (illustrations) Summary: Takasora Hoshi's life is upended when a girl from her class named Umi Mizuike and her mother temporarily move into her family's cramped apartment. From the outset of this arrangement, Takasora finds herself annoyed by Umi's behavior...and her good looks. And though the two girls initially agree to avoid interfering with each other's lives, Takasora can't help but start to wonder where Umi keeps wandering off to at night… From the author of Adachi and Shimamura comes the bittersweet tale of two high school girls whose lives are thrust together under the same roof.

> The popular Summer 2022 original anime Lycoris Recoil is getting a second spin-off light novel. The new book, titled Lycoris Recoil: Recovery Days, will launch in Japan on March 8.

As far as I can tell, the previous novel doesn't have an English translation either released or announced unfortunately. So, I am not sure how good the prospects are of the series getting a translation in the future. It seems like a missed opportunity considering the popularity of the anime.

> Fantasia Bunko's website is listing the first volume of a new light novel by The Magical Revolution of the Reincarnated Princess author Piero Karasu titled Seijо̄-sensei no Mahо̄ wa Sunderu! (The Saint Teacher's Witchcraft is Progressive!) for release on February 20 (ed. note: in Japan).

> The novel follows a powerful saint Tia as she becomes a teacher to three saint candidates after being banished from the royal capital due to accusations of heresy.