Why is it that the greatest light novels of all times aren't

Konosuba is just gag, and barely funny.

Financially not sound

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Zero no Maria deserves 2 fucking seasons, 25 episodes in each.

>>159970666
Konoshitters are cancer.

>>159970816
>Haruhi within the top 10 all time best selling anime
>10 novel has the 2nd highest 3 week sales record
>Novel is in the top ~7 best selling all time

>>159970666
Delete yourself.

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>>159970666
Author block

>>159971216
Kadokawa jews want a novel to promote with the anime. No new novel, no anime.

>>159970666
>all those trash LN
>greatest LN
sure is summer here

>>159971300
Spoonfeed some good ones then. Someday summerfags are going to became winterpus anyway.

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>>159970816
>Haruhi
>Not financially sound

>>159971300
>started browsing /a/ post 2010
>calls others summerfags

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>>159970703
but you do find it funny.

>>159970905
if you ever read it properly you should know it's written in a way that it's not possible to adapt it in a visual medium, nor anime neither manga

>>159971419
P2 please.

>>159971853
I don't have it

>>159970666
Like konosuba and haruhi have proven, LN adaptations are all 2 season commercials. They adapt 20% of the story to get people to like the characters. They have no plans of making continuations. All that matters is that the LN sells. That's why I steer clear of all LN adaptations.

>>159972017
>make Haruhi season three
>remind the oldfags of anime why they fell in love with Haruhi
>make all the newfags fall in love with Haruhi
>billions and billions of dollars in sales

OP you seem confused, if you're really talking about the greatest light novels of all time your pic should have toaru majutsu no index, heavy object, intellectual village no zakishi warashi, and waltraute-san no konkatsu jijou

>>159970666
But Monogatari seems to be getting fully adapted

>>159970666
>KonoSuba
>the greatest
Pick one

What LN that I haven't read yet should I read?

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>>159972938
>Index
>Good

>>159970666
Is there 1 (one) LN with good prose?

>>159975476
Monogatari

>>159975476
Welcome to the NHK

>>159975561
>>159975476
Welcome to the NHK is a literary masterpiece and should be nominated for a Nobel Literature Prize. No other piece of fiction ever has been able to convey what it means to be insecure as accurately. It was written by someone who hit rock bottom, and he either achieved amazing understanding of the human condition or the book is just a stream of consciousness of a man plagued with a broken soul.

>>159976019
I don't know about the book, the anime was nothing special though

>>159976119
the anime was pretty good but it was watered down a lot. It still was pretty great though. The manga also is watered down and it is also filled with anime bullshit.

>>159970666

They don't care about making quality materials and complete stories. They only care about selling for profit.

>>159972938
>it's a delusional indexfag episode

>>159975561
>NHK
>LN

>>159970666
Dunno, I prefer anime companies to try another original work instead of beating three uninteresting dead horses.

>>159970666
Japan is stupid and sucks at capitalism. Even though all of those were big hits and would be big hits with more seasons, they'd rather adapt other LNs that are unproven.

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>>159976019
I hope this is bait

>>159970666
S3 is around the time it reaches diminishing returns.
Some series don't reach that point that early, like Monogatari. SAO is another example, because it performed consistently well, it's getting a full adaptation.

99% of LNs are shit anyways. It's the trashiest medium known to man.

>>159977513
No, that title goes to Asian web comics and novels that aren't Japanese.

>>159977513
Haruhi is actually engaging in later chapter though. Sasaki animated when?

>>159971258
>>159977513
These.
Even Monogatari has experienced sharp drops but when you're starting with an average of 78k sales (and I imagine that correlates well with merchandise) it's a guaranteed profit.

>>159977653
Web comics at least require a certain level of artistic talent.
LNs are shit, because the bar is set so low for the industry that literally anyone can write their own LN. It might be the cheapest form of media to produce right now.

Light novels are all pretty bad, at least Haruhi has an intertwining storyline, and pretty interesting plot.

>>159978281
This meme again, you can simply carry your manga by drawing few sexy girls+suck a few cocks here and there and thats it.

You're absolutely delusional if you think its easier to get your work/LNs published especially now with all the ridiculous competition+isekai. Even those subhumans at narou have to work their asses off to acquire points and get in the 1% out of tens of thousands who get to have their work published

>>159977854
Haruhi has an average of 700k sales per novel with the tenth novel being the best selling light novel on Amazon Japan.

>>159970666
Well, Anime is a way to promote the LN. Most of the target market already has bought said LN and reached a peak of popularity.
They were too good that it doesn't make sense financially to have a new season. Maybe just OVAs

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>>159970666
>posting THAT Kazuma

>>159978580
You need to draw to make manga. It's a harder industry to survive in, if you read any interview of people who worked in multiple industries, they'll attest to this.

Competition for LNs doesn't even matter, anybody can get their shit published, the cost to print those 300-600 yen LNs is low, and writers get paid like shit and they deserve it because most of them have terrible writing.

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>>159970666
Spice and Wolf's execution was pretty shoddy. If you watch the subs, you might as well be watching a LN with some pretty pictures in between.

That being said, I loved it.

>>159970666
We're getting Monogatari since Aniplex/Kodansha gave SHAFT a blank check for adapting everything Nisio.

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>>159972938
I fucking love Index, but please don't pretend it's anything but entertaining garbage.

>>159973150
Reread OP; he said GOOD light novels.

>>159980331
Was his pic unrelated then?

>>159978936
And it experienced a 50% drop in disc sales between seasons. With S3 being released 8+ years later it's easy to imagine it under-performing. Also, as mentioned in the first post, the author stopped writing so there is no novel to advertise with a new production.

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>>159970666
Some of them are just hard to adapt so they only get a partial adaptation like Horizon or none at all like ZW.
Though now that I think about it, the only LN I know of to get a full adaptation was Shana and they messed with it a lot too.

>>159972620
>implying newfags have ever heard of haruhi

>>159982658
You mean never?

What is 気

>>159984593
It's ki, meaning energy. I think it looks cool so I put it there because the picture felt empty otherwise

>>159985136
I appreciate the thought you put into your craft.

>>159970666
Light novels are for faggots

>>159970666
Spice & Wolf is the only good LN

>>159986580
*Kino no Tabi

>>159986580
>>159986646
Hakomari is better than both of those.

>>159986580
I don't like spice and wolf but I understand why people do. What I don't get is the knock offs. Who likes Hiro no Kakera? Seriously...

>>159986681
>Mirai Nikki : the LN
>good

>>159986580

I'm currently at Volume 9 and I hope it gets better again. Volume 2 is still my favorite one

>>159986580

Vampire Hunter D is also good

>>159980929
Four seasons is a lot no matter the time period; that LN adaptations hadn't quite hit their stride is impressive, really.

>>159987863
2 hit me so hard. Even knowing it went on long after that, I felt the weight of it.

>>159987863
>>159988101

What happens in volume 2? isn't that one the end of season 1?

>>159979082
ah yes, kaze no stigma, aka the kazuma power hour

>>159988525

Yeah I think? It's the story where they met Norah and Lawrence almost got bankrupt.

>>159970666
OreImo got a full adaptation, anon.

>>159970666
I thought the top left was Kampfer for a moment and was confused.

>>159988101

Why did it hit you hard?

>>159976697
>Japan is stupid and sucks at capitalism.
Not at all. Sequels earn less than new series, so since sequels cost the same money to make as new adoptions, new adoptions make more sense.

It's only recently with the economic uncertainty, that they started adopting old franchise sequels because they are just scared of new franchises failing. That sequels are more reliable investments even though you earn less.

But fundamentally, the major issue with Haruhi is that the author is creatively dead and a waste of Kadokawa's time. They would rather invest in Gatoh with Full Metal Panic, to reward him for his steady output of new books.

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Remember the time when /a/'s bogeyman medium of choice was Visual Novels and their adaptations?

>>159989075
I miss VN adaptions.

>>159988642

then what`s so sad about it?

>>159980331
There is no such thing as a "good" light novel. They're all shit. It's just whether it's fun/entertaining or eye gouging awful. Don't pretend otherwise.

>>159989228
Obviously never read
>>159986646

>>159971258
>>159977854
>>159978936
>>159980566
Monogatari isn't under the Kadakawa monopoly.

It's under another publisher.

Kadokawa pretty much never adapts all the novels completely but only for certain properties.

However, the lag for no reason at all. It shouldn't have taken this long for No Game No Life to get new animated content even if a movie was made.

>>159989075
>>159989157
Same. Need more White Album 2.

Also, Grasia was alright. Was like watching a Hollywood movie.

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>>159989668
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>>159975561
Welcome to the NHK's author went insane in the head. /a/ already had threads about this.

Guy's a goner.

>>159989668
Is he referring to Goethe's Faust , Marlowe's Faust or some Japanese adaptation?
I'll admit I'm unfamiliar with any of them beyond the basic premise, but they don't seem to fit that bill.

>>159989917
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faust_(magazine)

>>159989981
Oh. I feel foolish now. Thank you anon.