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NEWS: Anime Greenlit for Tanaka's Titania Space Opera Novels

I'd be much more excited if the news was that Tokyopop decided to add Tanaka's books to their "Pop Fiction" line, but this sounds interesting anyway. Anime based off of light novels tends to be a cut above the normal standard.

I'm not too clear on that myself, because "The Twelve Kingdoms" is listed as a light novel, but the English version is over 400 pages.

BleuVII wrote:

I'm not too clear on that myself, because "The Twelve Kingdoms" is listed as a light novel, but the English version is over 400 pages.

Light novels are usually defined by publishing labels, not length; there are light novels clocking in at something like a 1000 pages.
The first Twelve Kingdoms novel was split into two volumes in Japan, but combined for the English release, anyway.

Taitania appears to be published in the noberu/novel format, which is generally not considered 'light.' Light novel labels almost always go in bunko format, while novels tend to be larger sized paperbacks with two tiers of text on a page. Some of the novel labels have been publishing novels designed to attract light novel readers - novels like Del Rey's upcoming Zaregoto series, which was published by Kodansha novels, but placed at the top of some Best Light Novel lists. So the definition does get a bit fuzzy, and Taitania is published in a novel line owned by Square Enix, which doesn't help clarify much of anything.

I'm not sure whether I'm more informed or more confused than I was before.