Why are light novels such an awful medium?
>>157865974
Low standards for publication.
No seriously that's it.
>>157865974
How many did you read? In Japanese that is.
>>157866021
This.
>>157866021
this basically
pretty much anyone can get one made because of how low the standard is for making a profit since all you need is like 6 good drawings and really shitty writing
but that's the same as it is for all novels and books
EOPs think they can judge a medium they can't read
>>157866168
>can't read
dude they're books that expect you to know about 1000 kanji and even then use furigana for basically everything, they're pretty lcd
>>157865974
Because 95% of everything is awful. LNs are no different, they're just manga in text form. Also, it's really only the popular pandering moneymakers that get translated or animated. Plenty of good stuff get passed up because they're harder to get into.
>>157866333
>dude they're books that expect you to know about 1000 kanji and even then use furigana for basically everything
Except that's completely wrong you retarded EOP, don't talk about shit you have no idea about
>Hakomari
You take that back nigga
Now it ain't some literary masterpiece but it ain't that
>>157866333
>even then use furigana for basically everything
I really wish this was true. Would make it a lot easier to pick vocab from them.
Can you guys even mention one novel released in the past year you consider good, language doesn't matter
Easy profit for high lack of effort, just like American YA novels
All you have to do is copy what's popular. It's different than manga where you need to be able to draw as well.
>>157865974
They're made be teenagers, for teenagers.
>>157866334
>Lot of good stuff get passed up because they're harder to get into.
This is sadly true. I'm still wandering how many good stuff from the mid-70s to early-90s that are sitting around without an anime or translation.
Slayers is literature and Lina is perfect
>>157865974
Some of them are passable enough to act as a story board for a superior medium like manga or anime, but yeah, by themselves, they are completely and total shit.
>>157865974
>oregario
one of these is not like the others.
>>157866334
Actually, no
Sturgeon's law says it's just 90% of everything is crap. Unfortunately, the standards in publishing an LN is completely abysmal making it's chance of failure soar up to 99%. They just kept on throwing shit to see which one sticks
>>157866021
This. And I believe most LN garbage written by "ghostwriters".
>>157866407
Well for example "Ender's Game" is YA novel. But quality is completely different compared to LN
>>157866351
>>157866373
they do exist, I'm not lying, it's just the ones that do use furigana and such are really trashy and are more of just smut/porn than any attempt of being a wish fulfillment or actual narrative, but I honestly don't think the rest are really much more complicated anyways
>>157866569
>one of these is not like the others.
Please don't kid yourself.
>>157865974
one of these is not like the others
>>157866592
Nah. LNs aren't the type of thing to be ghostwritten.
You get contests and recruited materials from online WN websites that perform really well and are published.
WNs differ from their LN counterpart due to the fact there is some changes to the story or the story gets a massive rehaul.
You also got some anomaly LNs. Goblin Slayer started out as blogposts on fc2 using ASCII and got turned into a Light Novel or Maoyu which was posted on 2ch in play format then converted into a book..
>>157866890
utsuro no hako might be unlike the others but that's honestly one of the strangest book series I've ever read from any country
it makes freaking shadowrun look consistent in terms of quality
>>157866911
Yeah Index is actually good.
>>157866890
>Please don't kid yourself.
Please don't kid yourself.
>>157866569
I agree, HakoMari shouldn't be there.and neither should machine doll, to an extent
>>157866095
Chrome Shelled Regios had shit drawings. And was shit writing. And it got like 20 volumes published.
>>157865974
Literally any fucktard can make one. Hell at least when you make a manga you need to know how to draw, LNs can be made by a fucking kid
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