Oricon (Japanese research organization) released its weekly Light Novel ranking for the week of October 13 2025.
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Oricon Comic Ranking Summary

5th place: I Became Friends with the Second Cutest Girl in Class Vol.8

More and more happiness. One year into being lovers, their relationship takes a step forward――.

It’s almost been a year since Asanagi Kai, the “Second Cutest Girl in Class,” and I, Maehara Masaki, became a couple.
While planning for Christmas Eve, thoughts about our “firsts” together keep swirling in my mind... How can I make Kai even happier?
Carrying those worries, I once again prepare as staff for the Christmas party and attend a meeting with the Tachibana Girls’ Academy Student Council――
where Aoi Hachiga, the president, takes an interest in me after we bond over shark movies!?
Sharing love advice with Nozomi and Takizawa, enjoying a lively ski camp, it’s a bustling winter of our second year in high school.
Then comes the anniversary of one year as lovers with Kai――a precious Christmas Eve night overflowing with happiness!

4th place: I May Be a Villainess, but I’m So Popular Vol.11: The Tale of Hinamiya Choubi

The Three Hina Girls go undercover in a brothel!? The great reversal in the harem tale continues with Act 6, “Magnificent Gold Territory” Part 2! After successfully receiving the hospitality of Nadir, the First Prince of the Seiruba Kingdom, Huang Linglin, Zhu Huizue, and Jin Seika face new challenges. The drug scandal that broke out at the night market was also narrowly escaped thanks to Linglin and Huizue switching places... but only briefly.
“We think the quickest way is to infiltrate the brothel ourselves.”
Unwilling to stay silent any longer, the three decide to storm the mastermind’s base, “Tenkou Pavilion”!
Full of determination, Linglin and the others quickly infiltrate and approach the top courtesan reigning over the brothel, “Tenka”...
“Who is this new recruit, such a wild one?”
That beautiful woman turns out to be Seika’s childhood friend, Kinyou!?
Exclusive courtesans, a looming deadline with no evidence found, and the shocking truth gradually coming to light――.
Volume 11 of vows and tears.
Includes a digital-only newly written short story, “Startled!”