is a publishing label affiliated with the Japan

Japan

Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...

ese publishing company Hobby Japan

Hobby Japan

HobbyJAPAN CO. is a Japanese hobby magazine and publishing company, specializing in roleplaying, war, and tabletop games, as well as action figures, toys, and artbooks for successful anime, manga and light novel franchises.- Role-playing games :...

. It was established in July 2006 and is a light novel

Light novel

A is a style of Japanese novel primarily targeting junior high and high school students . The term "light novel" is a wasei-eigo, or a Japanese term formed from words in the English language. Light novels are often called or for short...

 label that is aimed at a young adult male readership. Hobby Japan publishes a bimonthly light novel magazine titled Charano!

Charano!

, is a monthly Japanese light novel magazine, first published on September 2006. The magazine is aimed at young adult males. It was first titled Novel Japan, but on June 30, 2007 its title was changed to Charano!.-Serialized works:*Alexion Saga...

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Title	Author Author An author is broadly defined as "the person who originates or gives existence to anything" and that authorship determines responsibility for what is created. Narrowly defined, an author is the originator of any written work.-Legal significance:...	Illustrator Illustrator An Illustrator is a narrative artist who specializes in enhancing writing by providing a visual representation that corresponds to the content of the associated text...	No. of volumes Bunkobon In Japan, bunkobon are small-format paperback books, designed to be affordable and portable.The great majority of bunkobon are A6 in size...
6jōma no Shinryakysha!?	Takehaya	Poco	1

A

Title	Author Author An author is broadly defined as "the person who originates or gives existence to anything" and that authorship determines responsibility for what is created. Narrowly defined, an author is the originator of any written work.-Legal significance:...	Illustrator Illustrator An Illustrator is a narrative artist who specializes in enhancing writing by providing a visual representation that corresponds to the content of the associated text...	No. of volumes Bunkobon In Japan, bunkobon are small-format paperback books, designed to be affordable and portable.The great majority of bunkobon are A6 in size...
AIKa R-16: Turning Mission AIKa R-16: Virgin Mission AIKa R-16: Virgin Mission is an anime OVA series by Studio Fantasia. It is the prequel to the Agent Aika OVA series, also by Studio Fantasia. The series takes place 10 years before the events in Agent Aika...	Akira Suzuki	Noriyasu Yamauchi	1
Akuma de Shōjo	Hikaru Wakatsuki	Masato@Takashina	4
Alexion Saga	Yū Godai	Mutsumi Inomata Mutsumi Inomata is a Japanese illustrator and animator.-Biography:An anime fan, Inomata began her career as an animator with Toei Animation, soon after graduating from her senior year at high school...	2
Annis to Fukigen na Mahō Tsukai	Makio Hanafusa	Ryō Ueda	3
Ano Hibi wo Mōichido	Takehaya	Sou	1
Aoi Hana no Densetsu	Yūki Yahara	Kaduki Kugawara	1
Armored Trooper Votoms: Command Vorct Armored Trooper Votoms is a 52-episode anime television series, created by Ryosuke Takahashi and Sunrise, featuring mechanical designs by Kunio Okawara. The series originally aired in Japan from April 1, 1983 to March 23, 1984 on TV Tokyo...	Tōru Nozaki	Norio Shioyama Norio Shioyama is an animator, illustrator, character designer, and animation director born on 1940-03-28 in Kumamoto Prefecture, Japan. He is most well known for his work as character designer on the anime TV series Armored Trooper Votoms...	2
Ashitabiyori	Mamori Amamori	Suzunari Shimokitazawa	2

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Title	Author Author An author is broadly defined as "the person who originates or gives existence to anything" and that authorship determines responsibility for what is created. Narrowly defined, an author is the originator of any written work.-Legal significance:...	Illustrator Illustrator An Illustrator is a narrative artist who specializes in enhancing writing by providing a visual representation that corresponds to the content of the associated text...	No. of volumes Bunkobon In Japan, bunkobon are small-format paperback books, designed to be affordable and portable.The great majority of bunkobon are A6 in size...
Binzume Otomegokoro	Mamori Amamori	Yūji Naruse	1
Black Sheep	Hiroshi Tominaga	Sō Samba	1
Breathless Hunter	Shin'ya Kasai	Eiji Kaneda	3
Bright Red Level	Takehiro Arihara	Kōji	2

C

Title	Author Author An author is broadly defined as "the person who originates or gives existence to anything" and that authorship determines responsibility for what is created. Narrowly defined, an author is the originator of any written work.-Legal significance:...	Illustrator Illustrator An Illustrator is a narrative artist who specializes in enhancing writing by providing a visual representation that corresponds to the content of the associated text...	No. of volumes Bunkobon In Japan, bunkobon are small-format paperback books, designed to be affordable and portable.The great majority of bunkobon are A6 in size...
Chōkōjo Sarah	Tomonori Terada	Ein	6
Chōkōjo Sarah Gaiden: Chōkōseijo Becky	Tomonori Terada	Ein	1
Cutting	Daisuke Haneta	Mo	4

F

Title	Author Author An author is broadly defined as "the person who originates or gives existence to anything" and that authorship determines responsibility for what is created. Narrowly defined, an author is the originator of any written work.-Legal significance:...	Illustrator Illustrator An Illustrator is a narrative artist who specializes in enhancing writing by providing a visual representation that corresponds to the content of the associated text...	No. of volumes Bunkobon In Japan, bunkobon are small-format paperback books, designed to be affordable and portable.The great majority of bunkobon are A6 in size...
Fake-Fake: Mozō Ohjo Sōdōki	Ichirō Sakaki	Kaori Fujita	3
FLAG: Wartime photo-journalist Saeko Shirasu FLAG (anime) is a 13-episode Japanese mecha-genre anime series directed by veteran director Ryosuke Takahashi. It was broadcast as pay per view streaming web video on Bandai Channel starting on June 6, 2006. Episodes 1 and 2 were scheduled to be broadcast on the anime PPV channel SKY Perfect Perfect Choice...	Mami Watanabe	Kazuyoshi Takeuchi	1
Flag no Ohjisama	Kyōdai Oda	Kikurage	2

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Title	Author Author An author is broadly defined as "the person who originates or gives existence to anything" and that authorship determines responsibility for what is created. Narrowly defined, an author is the originator of any written work.-Legal significance:...	Illustrator Illustrator An Illustrator is a narrative artist who specializes in enhancing writing by providing a visual representation that corresponds to the content of the associated text...	No. of volumes Bunkobon In Japan, bunkobon are small-format paperback books, designed to be affordable and portable.The great majority of bunkobon are A6 in size...
Glorious Dawn	Takeshi Shōji	Shiki Dōji	8 (Franchise) 1 (Eyecatch)
Genome Seed & Genome Spiral	Narumi Takahira Narumi Takahira is a Japanese voice actress.-Filmograpny:* Soul Eater , Patty Thompson* Ryoko's Case File , High School Girl* Darker than Black: Ryūsei no Gemini , Ariel-External links:*...	Yō Fujishiro	2
Goddess!	Reiko Hikawa	Ototsugu Konoe	3
Goldberg Variations	Yū Godai	Rika Suzuki	1

H

Title	Author Author An author is broadly defined as "the person who originates or gives existence to anything" and that authorship determines responsibility for what is created. Narrowly defined, an author is the originator of any written work.-Legal significance:...	Illustrator Illustrator An Illustrator is a narrative artist who specializes in enhancing writing by providing a visual representation that corresponds to the content of the associated text...	No. of volumes Bunkobon In Japan, bunkobon are small-format paperback books, designed to be affordable and portable.The great majority of bunkobon are A6 in size...
Hakana-san ga kita!	Oda Kyōdai	Takehito Mizuki	3
Hajimari no Hone no Monogatari	Yū Godai	Rika Suzuki	1
Hell Girl: Urami no Monshō	Maki Hiro	Shunsuke Taue	1
Hibana Sparkling!	Seiya Fujiwara	Noriyuki Matsumoto	2
Hōkago no Sekai Seifuku	Hikaru Wakatsuki	Hotori	1

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Title	Author Author An author is broadly defined as "the person who originates or gives existence to anything" and that authorship determines responsibility for what is created. Narrowly defined, an author is the originator of any written work.-Legal significance:...	Illustrator Illustrator An Illustrator is a narrative artist who specializes in enhancing writing by providing a visual representation that corresponds to the content of the associated text...	No. of volumes Bunkobon In Japan, bunkobon are small-format paperback books, designed to be affordable and portable.The great majority of bunkobon are A6 in size...
Ichiban ushiro no Daimaou	Shōtarō Mizuki	Sōichi Itō	5
Idolmaster Xenoglossia: Iori Sunshine!+ Idolmaster: Xenoglossia is an anime television series by Sunrise, based on the Bandai Namco game series The Idolm@ster. It was first broadcast in Japan on April 4, 2007 on Kansai TV and various other UHF television stations...	Ryō Suzukaze	Sikorsky	1
Ikusahime	Midori Natsu	Iruka Shiomiya	3

K

Title	Author Author An author is broadly defined as "the person who originates or gives existence to anything" and that authorship determines responsibility for what is created. Narrowly defined, an author is the originator of any written work.-Legal significance:...	Illustrator Illustrator An Illustrator is a narrative artist who specializes in enhancing writing by providing a visual representation that corresponds to the content of the associated text...	No. of volumes Bunkobon In Japan, bunkobon are small-format paperback books, designed to be affordable and portable.The great majority of bunkobon are A6 in size...
Kagetsuki no Yajiri	Yui Tokiumi	Asami	1
Kanojo wa Megane HOLIC	Tetsuto Uesu	Shunsaku Tomose	3
Kigurumi no Shugosha	Okina Kamino	Koin	1
Kurokano	Midori Natsu	Tsukasa Saitō	1
Kushizashi Helper Sasare-san	Kō Kimura	Tetsuya Nakamura	3

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Title	Author Author An author is broadly defined as "the person who originates or gives existence to anything" and that authorship determines responsibility for what is created. Narrowly defined, an author is the originator of any written work.-Legal significance:...	Illustrator Illustrator An Illustrator is a narrative artist who specializes in enhancing writing by providing a visual representation that corresponds to the content of the associated text...	No. of volumes Bunkobon In Japan, bunkobon are small-format paperback books, designed to be affordable and portable.The great majority of bunkobon are A6 in size...
Lottery travelers	Fumika Shimizu	Yoshitaka Ushiki	9

M

Title	Author Author An author is broadly defined as "the person who originates or gives existence to anything" and that authorship determines responsibility for what is created. Narrowly defined, an author is the originator of any written work.-Legal significance:...	Illustrator Illustrator An Illustrator is a narrative artist who specializes in enhancing writing by providing a visual representation that corresponds to the content of the associated text...	No. of volumes Bunkobon In Japan, bunkobon are small-format paperback books, designed to be affordable and portable.The great majority of bunkobon are A6 in size...
Magical Marine Pixel Maritan	L. B. Johnson Anonymity Anonymity is derived from the Greek word ἀνωνυμία, anonymia, meaning "without a name" or "namelessness". In colloquial use, anonymity typically refers to the state of an individual's personal identity, or personally identifiable information, being publicly unknown.There are many reasons why a...	Yukio Hirai	1
Meigen no Miko	Seiya Fujiwara	Haruyuki Morisawa	1
Meikai no Amaryllis	Ken'ichi Wada	Atsushi Suzumi Atsushi Suzumi is a Japanese manga artist.-Works:*Amefurashi*Venus Versus Virus*Haridama Magic Cram School*Nightmare Go Round-External links:*...	1
My-HiME　Destiny: Ryū no Miko My-HiME Destiny is a light novel series published in Hobby Japan's monthly magazine, Novel Japan. It is the third universe established by the My-HiME Project. Like the My-Otome universe that went before it, it uses many elements from the My-HiME anime and manga series, such as the same character names and designs ...	Hideaki Ibuki & Hajime Yatate Hajime Yatate is a pseudonym for the collective contributions of the Sunrise animation staff.-Name:"Hajime Yatate" is considered named after a quote of Matsuo Bashō's Oku no Hosomichi:-Credited series:... , My-Hime Project	Sankichi Meguro	1
Mystic Museum	Miyako Fujiharu	Shizuki Morii	1

N

Title	Author Author An author is broadly defined as "the person who originates or gives existence to anything" and that authorship determines responsibility for what is created. Narrowly defined, an author is the originator of any written work.-Legal significance:...	Illustrator Illustrator An Illustrator is a narrative artist who specializes in enhancing writing by providing a visual representation that corresponds to the content of the associated text...	No. of volumes Bunkobon In Japan, bunkobon are small-format paperback books, designed to be affordable and portable.The great majority of bunkobon are A6 in size...
Nihon Jōkū Irasshaimase	Shio Sasahara	Taskohna	2

O

Title	Author Author An author is broadly defined as "the person who originates or gives existence to anything" and that authorship determines responsibility for what is created. Narrowly defined, an author is the originator of any written work.-Legal significance:...	Illustrator Illustrator An Illustrator is a narrative artist who specializes in enhancing writing by providing a visual representation that corresponds to the content of the associated text...	No. of volumes Bunkobon In Japan, bunkobon are small-format paperback books, designed to be affordable and portable.The great majority of bunkobon are A6 in size...
Omakase Taima! Shield Girls	Akira Suzuki	Mika Aketaka	3

P

Title	Author Author An author is broadly defined as "the person who originates or gives existence to anything" and that authorship determines responsibility for what is created. Narrowly defined, an author is the originator of any written work.-Legal significance:...	Illustrator Illustrator An Illustrator is a narrative artist who specializes in enhancing writing by providing a visual representation that corresponds to the content of the associated text...	No. of volumes Bunkobon In Japan, bunkobon are small-format paperback books, designed to be affordable and portable.The great majority of bunkobon are A6 in size...
Pan-Ho!	Rin Yūki	Hashigo Ueda	1
Pastel Magic	Akira Kamishiro	Quan Xing	1
Princess wa Otoshigoro!	Ichirō Sakaki	Waka Miyama	3

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Title	Author Author An author is broadly defined as "the person who originates or gives existence to anything" and that authorship determines responsibility for what is created. Narrowly defined, an author is the originator of any written work.-Legal significance:...	Illustrator Illustrator An Illustrator is a narrative artist who specializes in enhancing writing by providing a visual representation that corresponds to the content of the associated text...	No. of volumes Bunkobon In Japan, bunkobon are small-format paperback books, designed to be affordable and portable.The great majority of bunkobon are A6 in size...
Queen's Blade Queen's Blade is a series of visual combat books published by Hobby Japan based on the licensed works from Flying Buffalo's Lost Worlds. First published in 2005, it features sexually suggestive depictions of an exclusively female cast of characters. The overall plot of the game revolves around a tournament...	Eiji Okita	Eiwa (Franchise) & Hirotaka Akaga (Gekitō!)	5 (Franchise) 1 (Gekitō!)

R

Title	Author Author An author is broadly defined as "the person who originates or gives existence to anything" and that authorship determines responsibility for what is created. Narrowly defined, an author is the originator of any written work.-Legal significance:...	Illustrator Illustrator An Illustrator is a narrative artist who specializes in enhancing writing by providing a visual representation that corresponds to the content of the associated text...	No. of volumes Bunkobon In Japan, bunkobon are small-format paperback books, designed to be affordable and portable.The great majority of bunkobon are A6 in size...
Rasen no Kuni no 3 drills	Hiroshi Tominaga	Uni	1
Revenge Revenge	Haruhisa Kujira	Kotetsu Yamanaka	1
RIN ~Daughters of Mnemosyne 2008~ Mnemosyne (anime) is a six-episode Japanese anime television series produced by Xebec and Genco, featuring grotesque and erotic visuals. The anime was produced to commemorate the tenth anniversary of the AT-X network, which it originally aired on. Funimation Entertainment licensed the series in North America...	Hiroshi Ōnogi Hiroshi Onogi is a Japanese screenwriter and novelist focusing on anime productions.Ōnogi attended Keio University in the same years as Macross character designer Haruhiko Mikimoto and creator Shōji Kawamori, both of whom he would first collaborate with in The Super Dimension Fortress Macross.- Filmography :*...	Chūō Higashguchi	1

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Title	Author Author An author is broadly defined as "the person who originates or gives existence to anything" and that authorship determines responsibility for what is created. Narrowly defined, an author is the originator of any written work.-Legal significance:...	Illustrator Illustrator An Illustrator is a narrative artist who specializes in enhancing writing by providing a visual representation that corresponds to the content of the associated text...	No. of volumes Bunkobon In Japan, bunkobon are small-format paperback books, designed to be affordable and portable.The great majority of bunkobon are A6 in size...
Satō-ke no Sentaku	Daisuke Kaihana	Akihiko Imaizumi	2
Scramble Wizard	Ken Suebashi	Kabocha	3
Seikō no Matsuei	Yūki Yahara	Atsuto Shinozuka	1
Senkan Ningen Hayato	Jun'ichi Ōsako	hippo	3
Sensuikan	Shōtarō Mizuki	Mako Aboshi	3 (Franchise) 1 (Matome)
Shinaino.	Haruhisa Kujira	Aburidashi Zakuro	1
Shinanai otoko ni koi shita Shōjo	Kazuki Sorano	Puyo	1
Special Anastasia Service	Hitsuji Torii	Mattaku Mōsuke	4

T

Title	Author Author An author is broadly defined as "the person who originates or gives existence to anything" and that authorship determines responsibility for what is created. Narrowly defined, an author is the originator of any written work.-Legal significance:...	Illustrator Illustrator An Illustrator is a narrative artist who specializes in enhancing writing by providing a visual representation that corresponds to the content of the associated text...	No. of volumes Bunkobon In Japan, bunkobon are small-format paperback books, designed to be affordable and portable.The great majority of bunkobon are A6 in size...
Tama Nama	Shinobu Fuyuki	Sakana	6
Tasukete Akiyoshi-kun!	Yū Fuwa	Chōniku	3
Tetsujin Thousand	Jun'ichi Ōsako	FBC	3
Tornado!	Hideaki Ibuki	Shiki Dōji	1
Toy Joy Pop	Labo Asai	Noan Shibakura	1
Tsuki no Musume	Masaki Watanabe	Hideki Yamada	2

U

Title	Author Author An author is broadly defined as "the person who originates or gives existence to anything" and that authorship determines responsibility for what is created. Narrowly defined, an author is the originator of any written work.-Legal significance:...	Illustrator Illustrator An Illustrator is a narrative artist who specializes in enhancing writing by providing a visual representation that corresponds to the content of the associated text...	No. of volumes Bunkobon In Japan, bunkobon are small-format paperback books, designed to be affordable and portable.The great majority of bunkobon are A6 in size...
Uraniwa no Kamisama	Okina Kamino	Rōga Rūen	4

Y

Title	Author Author An author is broadly defined as "the person who originates or gives existence to anything" and that authorship determines responsibility for what is created. Narrowly defined, an author is the originator of any written work.-Legal significance:...	Illustrator Illustrator An Illustrator is a narrative artist who specializes in enhancing writing by providing a visual representation that corresponds to the content of the associated text...	No. of volumes Bunkobon In Japan, bunkobon are small-format paperback books, designed to be affordable and portable.The great majority of bunkobon are A6 in size...
Yōkoso Mumokuteki-shitsu e!	Takehiro Arihara	Kuropenguin	1
Yūnagi	Masaki Watanabe	Hideki Yamada	1

External links

• HJ Bunko & Charano!s official website