light novel
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A light novel (Japanese: ライトノベル, Hepburn: raito noberu) is a type of popular literature novel from Japan usually classified as young adult fiction, generally targeting teens to twenties or older. The definition is very vague, and wide-ranging but it generally refers to a story accompanied with manga-style illustrations, often in black and white.
"Raito noberu" is the wasei-eigo from "light novel" and its abbreviation is the clipped compound ranobe (ラノベ) or, in English, LN.