For those of you who don't know, a light novel is a style of episodic book released in volumes and typically targeted to young adults in japan. They are the new form of serialized pulp fiction. These days, a lot of light novels have been made into mangas, animes, and video games. Some well known examples are Brave Story, Slayers, and Sword Art Online.
I downloaded Heavy Object from a translation website, along with a few other light novels. Heavy Object is the only one I've managed to finish and it was somewhat difficult. I must have chosen the wrong books.
Heavy Object is more or less about two teenage boys who are in the military and blow up advanced weapons called Objects. Objects are the most dangerous, well protected things on earth, designed by the smartest people who have ever existed. Still, our little boys repeatedly outsmart the objects and saving the day. Objects are piloted by elites, chosen at birth because of their genetic superiority and subjected to a life without freedom. They life a life of strict training and cyborg-style body enhancements.
So the elite on our side is a fifteen year old girl. That's her picture on the cover. The army general and leader to our young heroes is a woman who has huge tits and dresses like a geisha. Our boys almost see her naked a few times. There is some type of romantic interest between our hero Heivia and our elite, who is often called princess. She isn't explicitly sexualized. Instead our hero accidentally harms her body, which may arouse the kinks in some readers.
When I was in 7th-10th grade and enchanted by anything Japanese, considering my limited access, I probably would have been really into light novels. As an adult, reading Heavy Object is like reading a (severely drawn out) tv show about boys blowing up robots and fantasizing about underage cyborg girls with thigh gaps.
I'm trying to read another light novel called Antiquarian Bookshop Biblia, but it's so boring. I may never finish and report on it.
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