Book Girl

Book Girl
Cover art of Book Girl and the Suicidal Mime, the first light novel in the collection, published by Enterbrain, showing Tohko Amano.
文学少女
(Bungaku Shōjo)
GenreMystery[1]
Light novel
Written byMizuki Nomura
Illustrated byMiho Takeoka
Published byEnterbrain
English publisherYen Press
ImprintFamitsu Bunko
DemographicMale
Original runApril 28, 2006April 30, 2011
Volumes16 (List of volumes)
Manga
Book Girl and the Suicidal Mime
Written byMizuki Nomura
Illustrated byRito Kōsaka
Published bySquare Enix
MagazineGangan Powered
Gangan Joker
DemographicShōnen
Original runAugust 2008November 2010
Volumes3
Manga
Book Girl and the Delicious Recipe
Written byMizuki Nomura
Illustrated byAkira Hiyoshimaru
Published byKadokawa Shoten
MagazineBeans Ace
Monthly Asuka
DemographicShōjo
Original runDecember 10, 2008April 2010
Volumes2
Original video animation
Book Girl Today's Snack: First Love
Directed byShunsuke Tada
StudioProduction I.G
ReleasedDecember 26, 2009
Manga
Book Girl and the Lovesick Poet
Written byMizuki Nomura
Illustrated byAkira Hiyoshimaru
Published byKadokawa Shoten
MagazineMonthly Asuka
DemographicShōjo
Original runJune 2010January 2011
Volumes1
Original video animation
Book Girl Memoir
Directed byShunsuke Tada
StudioProduction I.G
Released June 25, 2010 December 24, 2010
Episodes3 (List of episodes)
Manga
Book Girl and the Famished Spirit
Written byMizuki Nomura
Illustrated byRito Kōsaka
Published bySquare Enix
MagazineGangan Joker
DemographicShōnen
Original runJanuary 2011September 2013
Volumes4
Other

Book Girl (文学少女, Bungaku Shōjo, lit. Literature Girl) is a collection of Japanese light novels by Mizuki Nomura, with illustrations by Miho Takeoka. The series contains 16 volumes: eight cover the original series, four are short story collections, and four are of a side story. The novels were published between April 2006 and April 2011 by Enterbrain under their Famitsu Bunko imprint. Yen Press licensed the light novel series and began releasing it in English in North America in July 2010. There have been four manga adaptations serialized in Square Enix's shōnen Gangan Powered and Gangan Joker, and Kadokawa Shoten's shōjo Beans Ace and Monthly Asuka. An anime film adaptation produced by Production I.G was released in Japanese theaters on May 1, 2010.

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