Too Many Losing Heroines! (Light Novel) – serie

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?

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?

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!