Bungaku Shoujo

Cover for 1st novel.

Konoha Inoue is a seemingly normal senior high 2nd year student. His high school life, other than a hinted incident 2 years ago, can be summed up as normal- if one can dismissed the secret fact that he used to be a female bestselling romance author. Due to an incident, however, he has now vowed never to write again.

This continued on until he was forced to join the literary club by the literary club president, the 3rd year female student Amano Tooko, a beautiful girl who has a taste of eating literary works.

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Series Information

Genre: Mystery
Japanese Title: 文学少女
Author: 野村美月
Illustrator: 竹岡美穂
Volume: 1-8, short stories
Series Finished: Yes

Awards

8th place in このライトノベルがすごい! 2007 Best Series(This novel is amazing! Contest 2007)
3rd place in このライトノベルがすごい! 2008 Best Series
1st place in このライトノベルがすごい! 2009 Best Series
1st place in このライトノベルがすごい! 2009 Best Illustration
1st place in このライトノベルがすごい! 2009 Best Female Character ( Amano Tooko)
4th place in このライトノベルがすごい! 2009 Best Female Character ( Kotobuki Nanase)
5th place in このライトノベルがすごい! 2009 Best Male Character ( Inoue Konoha)

このライトノベルがすごい! 2007

Updates

• 10 Dec 2008
  • teaser project initiated.

Translations

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Volume 1 - "Bungaku Shoujo" and the Clown Who Seeks Death

• Novel Illustrations
• Prologue
• Chapter 1 - Tooko Senpai is a Gourmet
• Chapter 2 - The Most Delicious Story In the World
• Chapter 3 - The First Handnote - Shuuji Kataoka's Confession
• Chapter 4 - On That Sunny Day of May, He...
• Chapter 5 - The Reasoning of the "Literature Girl"
• Chapter 6 - The Proposal of the "Literature Girl"
• Epilogue - A New Story
• Author's Notes

Volume 1 description

Konoha and Amano's daily life were interrupted when a 1st year student, Takeda Chia, asked the Literary Club to help her with her love life- she has a crush on her senpai and wants the literary club to write her a love confession letter. The club president agreed and Konoha is tasked with helping Takeda.

As the story progresses, however, certain facts appeared and Konoha became increasingly unease. Who is Takeda's senpai? What is Takeda hiding? What does all these have to do with a student who committed suicide 10 years ago? As he and Amano dive deeper into the mystery, they find themselves surrounded by lies, betrayals, deceits, deficiencies in human nature, and their grim resolutions.

Notes

The translation is based on the Chinese Edition, with Japanese edition as the backup for ambiguous phases.

Personal Thoughts

I have read many novels (light or not), seldom do I find a series that draws my as much as Bungaku Shoujo. Every time I receive a new volume, my hands shake just from the anticipation; and the book always exceed my expectation.

It is fair to say that out of all the light novels I have read, Bungaku Shoujo is my favorite light novels series.

I have translated a chapter of it a long time ago, but I forgot about it. Well, here it is.

--Thelastguardian 17:44, 10 December 2008 (PST)