Why did visual novel adaptations die off?

>>158466414
They didnt

>>158466414
Because adapting 50+ hours worth of content into 12-24 episodes appealed to neither newcomers or people who actually read the material.

>>158466414
Ugly as fuck art styles.

people realized that VNs are trash

>>158466414
Because Anime now is popularized to mass normies. Not only Otaku's thing anymore.

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>>158466414
AYU A CUTE

Aokana was their last chance to make something good, but they utterly fucked up by removing all the romance and making the Flying Circus matches CG.

>>158466414
There's one coming in Fall

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>>158466414
Because they were supposed to advertise the VN, but the problem is a lot of VN adaptations aren't good so it had the opposite effect

>>158466414
I still can't believe how KyoAni managed to make Kanon so good compared to the source material which was absolute garbage.