#J-Novel Club Announces 8 New Light Novel & Manga Print Licenses

J-Novel Club has announced that it has licensed several light novel and manga print acquisitions during the company’s YouTube livestream. These titles will be released in print throughout the year.

Some of the highlighted light novel and manga titles receiving print releases include Campfire Cooking in Another World with My Absurd Skill, Gushing over Magical Girls, and The Brilliant Healer’s New Life in the Shadows, among other series. 

Here are the details: 

Light Novels 

Making Magic: The Sweet Life of a Witch Who Knows an Infinite MP Loophole 

Story: Aloha Zachou

Illustrations: Tetubuta 

• • Volume 1 coming out in print in September 2025.
• • Volume 2 coming out in print in November 2025.
• • Cover price: US$15.99 / CA$21.99 (before tax)

Synopsis: 

Looks like I’ve been reincarnated into a gamelike world filled with monsters and dungeons. But don’t worry — it’s nothing I can’t handle. I chose Creation Magic for my unique skill, you see, and it lets me make whatever item I want…so long as I’ve got enough mana. Ah, there’s always a catch, isn’t there? But where there’s a rule, there’s a loophole — and this little witch knows just the trick to expand her mana pool a bit more each day.As for what I’ll be up to in the meantime, first I’ll make a friend.

(Literally. Golems are a thing in this world.) Next, I’ll make some tracks. (And the sooner, the better. The goddess dropped me off in the middle of the wastelands). Then finally, one day, I’ll make myself a place where I can truly belong. (That’s the plan, at least.) Time to make some magic!

Isekai Tensei: Recruited to Another World 

Story: Kenichi

Illustrations: Nem 

• • Two volumes per omnibus volume release. 
• • Each omnibus includes a fold-out with full cover art for both volumes. 
• • Omnibus 1 (containing volumes 1-2) coming out in print in September 2025.
• • Omnibus 2 coming out in print in November 2025.
• • Cover price: US$24.95 / CA$33.99 (before tax)

Synopsis: 

Tenma Otori died. But his story doesn’t end there! A god from another world appears before him with an offer Tenma can’t refuse: if he agrees to be reincarnated to save the god’s dying world, he’ll be bestowed cheat abilities. Who can say no to that?

Tenma is reincarnated into a lush fantasy world filled with demi-humans, monsters, mysterious forests, even magical spells and items. He’s adopted by two former master adventurers, while his new grandfather is a famous wizard. As Tenma grows older, his adoptive family discovers more and more of Tenma’s extraordinary gods-given powers and abilities.

But even if Tenma wants to lead an ordinary existence, fate is not so kind. He has to contend with three mysterious strangers who try to kidnap him. And when tragedy strikes, Tenma has no choice but to leave his new home behind and set out into the world…

The Brilliant Healer’s New Life in the Shadows 

Story: Sakaku Hishikawa

Illustrations: Daburyu

• • Volume 1 coming out in print in August 2025. 
• • Volume 2 coming out in print in October 2025.
• • Cover price: US$15.99 / CA$21.99 (before tax)

Synopsis: 

Life hasn’t been kind to Zenos. He was born in the slums, and his dirt-poor background has denied him almost every opportunity. One day, he has a chance encounter with a healer, and it sparks inspiration in him to study. He has a short stint of adventuring with a disrespectful party, who eventually kicks him out once he’s outlived his usefulness. Bereft of money and options, he puts his talents elsewhere and opens an underground clinic. Word spreads quickly about the brilliant healer in the city’s shadowy underbelly. Can Zenos buck the odds and carve out a life for himself in a world that’s spit in his face, and can he save the lives of the patients who wind up on his doorstep in the process?

Campfire Cooking in Another World with My Absurd Skill 

Story: Ren Eguchi

Illustrations: Masa 

• • Two volumes per omnibus volume release. 
• • Each omnibus includes a fold-out with full cover art for both volumes.
• • Omnibus 1 (containing volumes 1 and 2) coming out in print in August 2025.
• • Omnibus 2 coming out in print in October 2025.
• • Cover price: US$24.95 / CA$33.99 (before tax)

Manga 

Isekai Tensei: Recruited to Another World

Art: Shibanobancha

Original Work: Kenichi 

• • Volume 1 coming out in print in August 2025.
• • Volume 2 coming out in print in October 2025. 
• • Cover price: US$15.99 / CA$21.99 (before tax)

Synopsis: 

Tenma Otori is dead. Lucky for him, a god from another world offers him a second chance at life. All Tenma has to do is reincarnate to save the god’s dying world, and in return, Tenma will be granted life along with a suite of cheat abilities.

Tenma finds himself in a lush fantasy world filled to the brim with demi-humans, magic items and spells, monsters, mysterious forests, and more! He is adopted by two former master adventurers, with a famous wizard as his grandfather — and as Tenma grows, his new family learns of more and more of his god-given powers…like the ability to befriend slimes and baby wolves!

But the tranquility doesn’t last, and Tenma is thrust into adventure when three mysterious strangers attempt to kidnap him.

The Brilliant Healer’s New Life in the Shadows

Art: Ten Junoichi

Original Work: Sakaku Hishikawa

• • Volume 1 coming out in print in July 2025. 
• • Volume 2 coming out in print in September 2025. 
• • Cover price: US$15.99 / CA$21.99 (before tax)

Synopsis: 

Zenos hails from the slums, but he won’t let that stop him. He paves his own path to success when he chances upon a healer, and he takes the opportunity to teach himself the curative arts.

When an adventuring party led by a man named Aston extends him an invitation, Zenos is elated — only to find himself treated like dirt by his new party members. Despite Zenos’s diligence in honing his skills to perfection, his party deems him useless and kicks him out.

Now out of money and out of luck, Zenos starts an illegal clinic, becoming a shadow healer. Word of his healing genius quickly spreads through the city’s underbelly. As his reputation grows among the dregs of society, word of Zenos’s ability reaches the wrong pair of ears…

Campfire Cooking in Another World with My Absurd Skill

Art: Akagishi K

Original Work: Ren Eguchi

• • Volume 1 coming out in print in September 2025.
• • Volume 2 coming out in print in November 2025.
• • Cover price: US$15.99 / CA$21.99 (before tax)

Synopsis: 

When Mukohda Tsuyoshi is summoned to a world of swordplay and sorcery, he’s pumped to go on the adventure of a lifetime! Just one problem: he’s summoned by mistake!

Not only is he not one of the three heroes, his stats are also laughable. Looks like he’ll be averagely average in this world too…but given that the people of the kingdom seem the type to take advantage of their heroes, Mukohda’s determined to make his own way in this new world.

Mukohda aims to lead a comfortable life with the help of his unique skill, “Online Supermarket”! But when he introduces the taste of modern cooking to the fantasy world, Mukohda winds up with repeat customers who just can’t get enough!

Gushing over Magical Girls

Story and Art: Akihiro Ononaka 

• • Volume 1 coming out in print in July 2025. 
• • Volume 2 coming out in print in August 2025. 
• • Monthly releases through to the end of 2025. 
• • Cover Price: US$16.99 / CA$23.99 (before tax)

Synopsis: 

Hi, I’m Hiiragi Utena. I’m a normal magical-girl-loving middle school girl — or at least I was, but then some talking mascot showed up out of the blue and cast a spell on me! Now’s my chance to join my beloved magical girls as…a villain? Hang on, something’s wrong with my outfit! This can’t be happening! Nooooooo! Don’t post pictures!

Watch this shy magical-girl fan transform into a sadistic dominatrix! When good and evil collide, who will be the one to submit?!

Source: press release