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For those who don't know: Light novels is a style of Japanese novel primarily targeting high schoolers and middle schoolers. The average length of a light novel is 50,000 words, usually don't last more than 200 pages and published in bunkobon size (A6, 10.5 cm x 14.8 cm). A distinguishing trait of light novels is they are usually illustrated with an anime/manga style for the covers and interior illustrations and published in separate book volumes and serialized in anthology magazines, similar to manga.

With a POD of the early 1950s, create possible conditions for an American counterpart for light novels to exist.
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