is a Japanese

light novel A light novel (, Hepburn: ''raito noberu'') is a style of young adult novel primarily targeting high school and middle school students. The term "light novel" is a ''wasei-eigo'', or a Japanese term formed from words in the English languag ...

magazine that was published by

Kadokawa Shoten , formerly , is a Japanese publisher and division of Kadokawa Future Publishing based in Tokyo, Japan. It became an internal division of Kadokawa Corporation on October 1, 2013. Kadokawa publishes manga, light novels, manga anthology magazines su ...

between 1993 and 2011. It was launched April 1993 then proceeded to be published monthly for most of its run. The magazine was aimed at a young adult male audience. It serialized many popular light novels, including the ''

Haruhi Suzumiya is a Japanese light novel series written by Nagaru Tanigawa and illustrated by Noizi Ito. It was first published in 2003 by Kadokawa Shoten in Japan with the novel ''The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya'', and has since been followed ...

'' and ''

Trinity Blood is a series of Japanese light novels written by Sunao Yoshida with illustrations by Thores Shibamoto and originally serialized in ''The Sneaker''. Set 900 years after an apocalyptic war between humans and vampires, the series focuses on the ...

'' series, and the novel adaptations of the ''

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anime is Traditional animation, hand-drawn and computer animation, computer-generated animation originating from Japan. Outside of Japan and in English, ''anime'' refers specifically to animation produced in Japan. However, in Japan and in Japane ...

series. In the final year of its run, the Sneaker editor in Chief Koichi Sakamoto said the company would expand their 'Bunko' (pocket sized paper back books), and broaden their use of web and electronic books in response to their readers needs.

October 31 2018 special one-time revival

Included an all new short story in

Nagaru Tanigawa is a Japanese author. He is a graduate of the law school at Kwansei Gakuin University. He is best known as the creator of the ''Haruhi Suzumiya'' series for which he won the grand prize at the eighth annual Sneaker Awards and has been adapted int ...

's The melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya series. The included draft was called 'Nana Fushigi Overtime' which roughly translated means 'Seven mystery Overtime'. It was considered rather long for a short story as it was around 120 Japanese manuscript pages long. The special issue also included an extended interview and new short Story by

Ryo Mizuno is a Japanese author and game designer. Mizuno created ''Record of Lodoss War'', '' Sword World RPG'', ''Legend of Crystania'', ''Rune Soldier'', ''Starship Operators'', ''Record of Grancrest War'', and was the general supervisor of ''Galaxy A ...

for Record of Lodoss war. introduced a new short story and a short manga interview centered around Konosuba - God's Blessing on this wonderful world. The cover art of the special edition was drawn by two artists

Kurone Mishima Kurone Mishima (三嶋くろね) is a Japanese illustrator from Saitama Prefecture. She is best known as the illustrator of the ''KonoSuba'' and ''Akashic Records of Bastard Magic Instructor'' light novels. Works Light novels *''KonoSuba'' *''Ma ...

and

Noizi ito is a Japanese light novel and video game artist. She is employed by the H-game maker UNiSONSHIFT and is a part of the circle Fujitsubo-Machine. Unlike most romanized Japanese words and names, Noizi Ito's name uses the Kunrei-shiki romanization f ...

. The art consisted of Aqua from Konosuba - God's Blessing on this wonderful world, and Haruhi from

The melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya is a Japanese light novel series written by Nagaru Tanigawa and illustrated by Noizi Ito. It was first published in 2003 by Kadokawa Shoten in Japan with the novel ''The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya'', and has since been followed ...

. The choice of each artist was due to each of them being familiar with each property.

being the main artist for

Konosuba is a Japanese light novel series written by Natsume Akatsuki. The series follows Kazuma Sato, a boy who is sent to a fantasy world with MMORPG elements following his death, where he forms a dysfunctional adventuring party wi ...

and Noizi Ito having been the main artist for T he melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya Unlike the formerly mentioned short stories, ''

Sagrada Reset , also known as ''Sakurada Reset'', is a Japanese light novel series written by Yutaka Kōno and illustrated by You Shiina. The series was published by Kadokawa Shoten between 2009 and 2012. A manga adaptation was published in '' Mont ...

'', ''

Rental Magica is a Japanese light novel series by Makoto Sanda, with illustrations by Pako. It is in the midst of serialization in ''The Sneaker'' magazine published by Kadokawa Shoten. An anime television series adaptation animated by Zexcs was broadcast ...

'', and ''

Trinity blood is a series of Japanese light novels written by Sunao Yoshida with illustrations by Thores Shibamoto and originally serialized in ''The Sneaker''. Set 900 years after an apocalyptic war between humans and vampires, the series focuses on the ...

'' received special features and new illustrations.

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