Are mangaka who adapt LN and similar by and large the failures

>>153544006
>by and large the failures of the industry?
They have a regular income, so no.

>>153544071
Who would be worse?
Unemployed people aren't part of industry.
Most of them have no original manga credits or one that last a couple chapters.

>>153544360
There are plenty of mangaka who fail to get their projects published. Many of them come up with new ideas again and again and fail again and again, or re-work their existing ideas again and again to get the approval of the editor. While they don't have a spot in a magazine, many of them help out as assistants to other mangaka.
Being serialized means being part of the successful ones.

All forms of art only allow a tiny fraction of the artists to make an actual living off of their work. Writing manga is no exception. The fact that they are working on somebody else's idea doesn't make them failures.
Is an actor a failure for listening to the director?

hataraku maou sama's manga adaptation is pretty good