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The award-winning light novel that inspired a manga—also available from Seven Seas—and an anime! Plain, boring, and friendless Nukumizu Kazuhiko has witnessed something completely baffling: popular girl Yanami Anna was friend-zoned by her childhood friend and crush! In fact, all the popular girls around him are getting similarly rejected by the boys they like. Without realising it, Kazuhiko becomes entangled in the relationship drama where all the leading heroines are losing out on love! Can he keep their spirits up and help them find happiness?

While these cute schoolgirls may protect Japan as agents of Lycoris, they’re also coffee shop employees. Chisato embarks on even more thrilling adventures at Café LycoReco. Meanwhile, Takina awakens in a cabin in the woods with a murderer?! And what do Fuki and Sakura have going on, besides protecting the city without anyone noticing? The everyday lives of these girls are anything but normal!

Lycoris Recoil: Ordinary Days is the light novel spin-off of the sci-fi action manga Lycoris Recoil.

When their supervisor brings Tsuwabuki first-year Shiratama Riko into the lit club’s life, she appears like an angel upon scorched earth. Cute, demure, and not at all threatening, the gang lets their guard down—but she’s not the saviour they were hoping for. She’s a walking red flag who’s already on the school’s bad side! Thanks to her, the literature club has become a pawn in a revenge scheme, and those bells in the distance sure don’t sound like the wedding variety! A storm’s coming, but are the losers prepared to handle it?

"Willkommen im Café LycoReco!" Ein schickes Café im Norden Tokios, von dem aus man den alten Sendeturm gut sehen kann, und in dem man leckere Getränke und Desserts bekommt: Das ist das Café LycoReco. Dieser Roman dreht sich um kleine Geschichten des ganz alltäglichen Wahnsinns, in den die zwei Starkellnerinnen Chisato Nishikigi und Takina Inoue immer wieder verwickelt werden, wie man sie in der originalen Anime-Serie noch nie gesehen hat. Von leckeren Desserts bis zur knallharten Waffenaction, über Brettspiele, Gefühlsdramen bis hin zu Zombies und Monstern und einem Roadmovie … Und außerdem noch eine Prise Romantik?! Natürlich darf bei so einem Mix auch nicht die Rettung durch einen guten Kaffee fehlen! "Bestell dir was von der Karte. Egal was … überlass das nur mir! " Im Laufe der Zeit wächst die Bindung zwischen den beiden Mädchen Chisato und Takina immer stärker. Dieser Roman wurde vom Schöpfer des Originalwerks als Spin-off kreiert und ist wie ein großes, buntes Paket voller Süßigkeiten, gefüllt mit Extras aller Art, sodass wirklich für jeden etwas dabei ist!

Yakishio Lemon hasn’t given up on love just yet! Even though her crush can’t seem to take his eyes off the winning heroine, Asagumo Chihaya, there’s still time for Lemon to catch up from behind. But even if she does manage to catch the object of her affection alone, can she really muster up the courage to confess? Are we about to see a Losing Heroine stand atop the podium having finally snatched victory from the jaws of defeat?

A school festival would usually be the opportunity for big romantic gestures and emotional moments between love-smitten couples. But don’t hold out hope for this hopeless gaggle of losing heroines! Meanwhile, the third-years have graduated, and now it’s Komari Chika’s job to hold down the lit club fort as its new president! But she’s been acting strange lately for some reason or another...

Plain, boring, and friendless Nukumizu Kazuhiko has witnessed something completely baffling: popular girl Yanami Anna was friend-zoned by her childhood friend and crush! In fact, all the popular girls around him are getting similarly rejected by the boys they like. Without realising it, Kazuhiko becomes entangled in the relationship drama where all the leading heroines are losing out on love! Can he keep their spirits up and help them find happiness?

No matter what turmoils Nukumizu Kazuhiko goes through, he always knows his clingy little sister Kaju has his back. But one Valentine’s Day, the unthinkable happens - she makes chocolate for everyone except her beloved oniisama! Something must be wrong, and Nukumizu’s got to get the bottom of it. Maybe he could sneak into her school and pretend to be a junior high student? Or maybe he’s just got to accept that he perhaps isn’t the shining jewel of his sister’s heart any longer...

Nukumizu Kazuhiko, the background character whose defining trait is his ability to appraise tap water, is going on an aquarium date. With the popular and attractive Yakishio Lemon at that! What on earth is going on?! There’s got to be some secret reason for it... What’s more, graduation is coming up, and the lit club must say goodbye to its eccentric vice president. The storm that is Nukumizu’s daily life isn’t letting up anytime soon!