Saenai Heroine no Sodatekata

Saenai Heroine no Sodatekata (冴えない彼女(ヒロイン)の育てかた, Saenai Heroine no Sodatekata lit. "How to Train the Ordinary Girl to be a Heroine") is a Japanese light novel series written by Fumiaki Maruto and illustrated by Kurehito Misaki, published on Kadokawa's Fantasia Bunko. The first volume was published on July 20, 2012 and marks Maruto's debut as a novelist.

List of Light Novels

Main Part

Title	Release Date	ISBN
Saenai Heroine no Sodatekata	July 20, 2012	ISBN 978-4-04-071078-5
Saenai Heroine no Sodatekata 2	November 20, 2012	ISBN 978-4-04-071081-5
Saenai Heroine no Sodatekata 3	March 19, 2013	ISBN 978-4-8291-3875-5
Saenai Heroine no Sodatekata 4	July 20, 2013	ISBN 978-4-8291-3917-2
Saenai Heroine no Sodatekata 5	November 20, 2013	ISBN 978-4-04-712956-6
Saenai Heroine no Sodatekata 6	April 19, 2014	ISBN 978-4-04-070096-0
Saenai Heroine no Sodatekata 7	December 20, 2014	ISBN 978-4-04-070425-8

Short Stories Collection

Title	Release Date	ISBN
Saenai Heroine no Sodatekata FD	August 20, 2014	ISBN 978-4-04-070282-7

Adaptations

Manga

A direct manga adaptation with the same title, begin serialization on Fujimi Shobo's Dragon Age February 2013 issue, illustrated by Takeshi Moriki.

Titled Saenai Heroine no Sodatekata ~egoistic-lily~ (冴えない彼女の育てかた〜egoistic-lily〜), this spin-off is illustrated by NEET (にぃと, NEET) and focuses about Eriri. The manga was serialized on Kadokawa Shoten's Young Ace, from its March 2013 until June 2014 issues, collected into three tankobon volumes.

Another spin-off of the series is titled as Saenai Heroine no Sodatekata: Koi Suru Metronome (冴えない彼女の育てかた恋するメトロノーム lit. "How to Train the Ordinary Girl to be a Heroine: Metronome in Love"), setting Utaha as the protagonist and Tomoya as her sidekick, and has different story from the main part of the light novels. The manga is illustrated by Sabu Musha, currently being serialized on Square Enix's Monthly Big Gangan starting the 2013 Vol.09 Issue.

Anime

An anime adaptation directed by Kanta Kamei on Aniplex's A-1 Pictures premiered on January 8, 2015 on Fuji TV's noitaminA block.