Most [light novels](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light_novel) would qualify as they contain many of the tropes one tends to come across in anime—and indeed many light novels eventually get adapted to anime as well.
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The plot of Journey to the West surprisingly reads exactly like an anime, even through it is 400 years old
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Julie Kagawa’s *Shadow of the Fox* trilogy
Most [light novels](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light_novel) would qualify as they contain many of the tropes one tends to come across in anime—and indeed many light novels eventually get adapted to anime as well.
The plot of Journey to the West surprisingly reads exactly like an anime, even through it is 400 years old