Why is so much stuff these days light novel trash? What happened

No one understands me hikikomori bullshit + ripping off every sci-fi movie and TV show at the time is barely what I would call artistic

Easier to make an adaptation of a successful series with an already existing fanbase than experiment with original ideas that usually bomb.

>>148968410
>Lain
>artistic
Please stop, it was surreal, not artistic.

>>148968791
Even if Lain isn't artistic you're still autistic.

>>148968410
also, nobody gave shit at Japan about Lain, same as GiTS, it was the west that picked the scraps

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>>148968791

>>148968851
>argument ad populum

This isn't even relevant to the OP.

>>148968724
This seems about right.

>>148968962
it is. nobody will make a continuation of something that's not popular

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>implying

>>148968791
>the word surreal is now actively contrasted with artistic
expanding the movement to visual art was largely ill-concieved