Latest ORICON Japan Weekly Light Novel Ranking Feb 16 2026

Oricon (Japanese research organization) released its weekly Light Novel ranking for the week of Feb 16 2026.
※The English titles of works may not always be accurate as some have not been released overseas. Thank you for your understanding.

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Oricon Comic Ranking Summary

3rd place: Cosmic Princess Kaguya!

Ultra-High-Spec Overworked High School Girl × High-Tension Kaguya-hime × Virtual Idol!?

A little bit in the future.
Aya Sakayori, an ultra-busy, high-spec high school girl living alone while aiming for admission to the University of Tokyo, encounters something unbelievable on her way home one day: she picks up a mysterious baby who emerges from a rainbow-glowing “gaming utility pole”!

What’s more, the baby rapidly grows up before her eyes and turns into a selfish girl who absolutely adores Aya!
Claiming she came from the Moon, the girl is named “Kaguya” by Aya. However, after learning how The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter ends, Kaguya makes a bold declaration—

“I’m absolutely going to make it a happy ending!”

And for some reason, she ends up aiming to become a top idol in Japan’s largest virtual space, “Tsukuyomi”...!?

2nd place: My Thousand-Year Kingdom 2: The Free-spirited Reincarnation Chronicles of a Genius Mage

From Kureha, author of The Oni’s Bride (Starts Publishing Bunko) and The Solitary Flower of the Barrier Master (Kadokawa Bunko), comes a brand-new series! The “Seracion School of Magic Arc,” where her true identity must absolutely remain secret, begins!!

Having arrived in the Thousand-Year Kingdom, Leticia sets her next goal: enrolling in the Seracion School of Magic. Hoping to avoid drawing attention, she and her companions take the entrance exams—but things immediately go awry. Duke shocks everyone around him with his dark-attribute powers, and Leticia somehow ends up admitted only as a waitlisted candidate!?

To make matters worse, their assigned dormitory is full of eccentrics, the academy headmaster turns out to be an elf who once journeyed with her in a previous life, and a suspicious dark elf instructor is researching an evil dragon. It seems her student life is destined to be anything but peaceful…

Thus continues the second volume of the great archmage’s wandering journey across the world, as she desperately keeps her overpowered abilities hidden.

The digital edition includes the bonus short story “Duke’s Discontent.”

1st place: Makeine: Too Many Losing Heroines! Vol. 8.5

Beware of a Girl’s Enemy!

“—Were you about to say something you can’t let other people hear?”
“...Um, Mashori-san, wasn’t what you just said also not something you should say out loud?”

Talking with someone who likes you is surprisingly enjoyable.
Just as I was awakening to that simple truth, a wheat-colored breeze rushed past right in front of me—.

This volume collects a wide variety of short stories, including
“Target: Wheat-Colored,”
“Yanami · Ramen · Food Crawl,”
“Yoshiki Nurumizu’s Birthday Festival 20XX,”
and “The Pajama Party Full of Mistakes,” among others.

An all-new, entirely original short story collection that definitely connects to Volume 9!

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Oricon Comic Ranking Summary

Ranking / Estimated number of copies sold / Estimated cumulative sales volume / Title / Author

3,137 21,145 Too Many Losing Heroines! 8.5 Takibi Amamori (Author) / Imigimuru (Illustration)
2,301 2,301 My Thousand-Year Kingdom 2: The Free-spirited Reincarnation Chronicles of a Genius Mage Kureha (Author) / Yoh Hihara (Illustration)
2,222 6,782 Cosmic Princess Kaguya! Studio Chromato / Studio Colorido (Original Work) / Naruto Kiriyama (Author) / Asao Urata (Illustration)
2,168 5,292 Mobile Suit Gundam: Char's Counterattack - Beltorchika's Children (New Edition) Yoshiyuki Tomino (Author) / Haruhiko Mikimoto (Illustration)
2,101 5,256 A Late-Starting Tamer's Laid-Back Life 15 Yu Tanaka (Author) / Nardack (Illustration)
2,014 2,014 I Was Reincarnated as a Villainess, So I'll Become a Shut-in NEET 8: I've Finally Met You, Whom I've Always Wanted to See... Fukuro Fujimori (Author) / Yami Wan (Illustration)
1,859 1,859 You May Call Me "Worthless," But It Seems My Power Was the Real Deal? ~The Divorced Reincarnated Noble Lady Was Actually a Rare Magic User~ Yu Kawasaki (Author) / Mirucho (Illustration)
1,820 1,820 I Tamed a Spider Monster, So I'll Do My Best at Sewing with Spider Silk! 3 Akisake (Author) / Yo Tamura (Illustration)
1,755 11,974 Mobile Suit Gundam: Hathaway's Flash (Part 2) Yoshiyuki Tomino (Author) / Haruhiko Mikimoto (Illustration)
1,730 15,092 Campfire Cooking in Another World with My Absurd Skill: a la carte 1 Ren Eguchi (Author) / Masa (Illustration)

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