@MintMarbles said in [Light Novel] The Ogre's Bride:

Volume 1 Light Novel Cover:

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Alt titles: 鬼の花嫁, Oni no Hanayome

Written by Kureha
Illustrated by Yū Shiroya
Published by Starts Publishing
Imprint Starts Shuppan Bunko
Original run October 28, 2020 – present
Volumes 9

Synopsis: (Taken from anilist.co)

This is a Japan where humans and supernatural ayakashi coexist in harmony. Being chosen to be the bride of a powerful ayakashi is both a dream and an honor. Yuzuko, an ordinary high school girl, has grown up being compared unfavorably to her sister, the chosen bride of a fox spirit. One day, however, Yuzuko meets a man of exceptional beauty, and her destiny will be dramatically changed.

"I have found her. My bride."

His name is Reiya Onryuin, an oni who stands at the top of the ayakashi world. Yuzuko is bewildered by Reiya's all-consuming love, but she escapes her family and finds her place by Reiya's side...?

(Source: Novema, translated)

Additional information

This is written by the same author as "Bride of the Barrier Master", which is currently licensed by Yen Press.

The Ogre's Bride is scheduled to have an anime release next year (2026), and I would love to be able to read the original light novels. Right now, there are over 5.8 million copies sold (including electronic sales) in Japan. Currently, there are 9 volumes of the light novel published in Japanese. I hope this series will be put into suggestion for licensing!

There is also a manga adaptation, which would be great to be localised by J-novel club as well, but I'm more interested in the Light Novel.

This was turned into an anime that started this week on Crunchyroll. And I immediately started looking for the light novel, but it wasn't available in English anywhere. Spotting this post I would like to say that I'm sure there are more that feel same as I and would love to read the light novel.

I read the manga and liked it. I'm curious to see how the LN is different so it would be nice to see it licensed.

Oh my, it‘s old, but gold! Wish they would license it.

Cover illustration for Volume 5, released October.

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@lily-garden The female perspective really works in this series. She's quite expressive especially when it comes to scenes where the male mc shows her parts of his past within the other world and what in any other isekai series would have been harem-esque developments but he's having none of it and has his mind thoroughly set on the one he loves, Koori.

Tsukumodo Antique Shop's first few volumes was a novel I read alongside Utsuro no Hako to Zero no Maria, back when I still new to light novels.

So, imagine this scenario: there's someone new to light novels, and those two novels were the very first ones he read. At the time (and to this point), he likes one as much as the other. Years later, I still have difficulty finding novels that can rival the writings of those novels. From the top of my head, I can only name probably novels like Biblia Koshodou or works by Sugaru Miaki that can rival them.

Now of course, as a random anonymous person, my opinions hold little to no importance. But I do hope my point comes across, point beingTsukumodo Kottouten is an excellent novel.

Just started watching the anime, and it become immediately obvious that the original material was a novel. Went looking to find out if I could buy and read it somewhere, but to no avail. As such I would love for J-novel to get the English novel rights!

Still keeping my fingers crossed that this series will be picked up one day. Volume 9 came out on Christmas:

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I've been rewatching the anime, and it's a lot better than I remember! Now I really want to read the novel.

I'd like for this to be licensed too. I love everything by Type-Moon, especially Fate/Zero. One of the commenters said the fan translation was "too good", which I really doubt.

I read the fan translation of the first volume and it was annoying and unreadable. I couldn't continue. Awkward sentence structure all around and I had to read paragraphs multiple times to even understand what was being said. You could really tell it was translated from a Chinese fan translation to English. I'm pretty sure that means there are a few mistakes too.

I would like to support Type-Moon and read this series with a good translation in proper English. I don't know why only Brasil is able to license it.