Top 5 Light Novel Like Orange [2026 List]

5. Shuumatsu no Harem: Britannia Lumiere

High school girl Eri has a strong and pure heart. One day, she is suddenly summoned to another world, "Britannia" where only men exist. To save this world as the "goddess of light", a harsh battle begins in this world full of men!

World's End Harem: Britannia Lumière has finished publishing and it has 22 Chapters. It is also Known as: 終末のハーレム ブリタニアリュミエール, World's End Harem ~Britannia Lumiére~, 終末のハーレム～ブリタニア リュミエール～

4. Frankenstein

A collection of stories:

01. Hallucinations
(Kubi Gensou, 首幻想)

02. Bog of the Living Dead
(Ikiryou no Numa, 生霊の沼)

03. Penpal
(Pen Friend, ペンフレンド)

04. Intruder
(Shinnyuusha, 侵入者)

05. Further Tales of Oshikiri
(Oshikiri Idan, 押切異談)

06. Further Tales of Oshikiri: The Walls
(Oshikiri Idan: Zoku, 押切異談・続)

07. Frankenstein
(フランケンシュタイン)

08. Hell'o Dollies (also titled A Doll's Hellish Burial)
(Jigoku no Ningyou Sou, 地獄の人形葬)

09. Fixed Face
(Ganmen Kotei, 顔面固定)

10. Ito Junji's Dog Diary
(Nonnon Oyako, ノンノン親子)

11. Ito Junji's Dog Diary 2
(Nonnon Oyako no Kakurenbo, ノンノン親子のかくれんぼ)

Note: Frankenstein won the Eisner Award for Best Adaptation from Another Work in 2019.

Frankenstein: Junji Ito Story Collection has finished publishing and it has 11 Chapters. It is also Known as: フランケンシュタイン, Frankenstein (ITO Junji), Itou Junji Kessakushuu 10: Frankenstein, Junji Ito Collection Masterpiece Vol. 10, 伊藤潤二傑作集10 フランケンシュタイン

3. Kujira no Kora wa Sajou ni Utau

Chakuro is the 14-year-old archivist of the Mud Whale, a nigh-utopian island that floats across the surface of an endless sea of sand. Nine in ten of the inhabitants of the Mud Whale have been blessed and cursed with the ability to use saimia, special powers that doom them to an early death.

Chakuro and his friends have stumbled across other islands, but they have never met, seen, or even heard of a human who wasn't from their own. One day, Chakuro visits an island as large as the Mud Whale and meets a girl who will change his destiny.

Children of the Whales has finished publishing and it has 97 Chapters. It is also Known as: クジラの子らは砂上に歌う, Whale Calves Sing on the Debris, Tales of the Wales Calves

2. Orange

Orange has finished publishing and it has 22 Chapters. It is also Known as: orange, Orange

1. Orange

Everyone has regrets in life. So who wouldn't take the chance to change the past if given the opportunity? When sixteen-year-old Takamiya Naho receives a mysterious letter, claiming to be from her twenty-seven-year-old self, her life is suddenly thrown into flux. The letter tells her that a new transfer student by the name of Naruse Kakeru will be joining her class, and to keep her eye on him. But why? Naho must decide what to make of the letter and its cryptic warning, and what it means not only for her future, but for Kakeru's as well.

orange has finished publishing and it has 26 Chapters. It is also Known as: orange, Haru-iro Astronaut, Spring-Colored Astronaut, orange: future, orange -mirai-, orange -未来-