/lit/ - Literature

>>18817842
Fun premises but intellectually hollow. At least manga can have striking, thoughtful visuals even with a shit story, like BLAME! But with VNs, the writing is often so awfully mediocre, it becomes tedious to get through.

i reject them outright and assume people who consume them are subnormal.

>>18817842
>Im a girl

You will never be a woman

>>18817842
>anime adaptation for light novel is announced
>fans of this particular LN on /a/ swear it's actually good and that "it's not like the others"
>anime comes out
>it's more bottom of the barrel crap and the differences with the other derivative shit are purely cosmetic
I've seen this happen like 10 times.

They are 99.9% garbage. I can think of only a handful of exceptions, and most of these were garbage for a long time before they were re-written, edited, and translated. The good news is they don’t exactly claim to be anything more than really low brow, dime store novel quality so I suppose that means they’re average given what they are supposed to be.

>>18817842
They can be pretty good and basically just novels.
Read NHK also Adachi and shim is a nice LN.
don't announce gender on chan stupid roastie

Why is there such a shilling towards light novels on the board this week wtf

The prose is always either dull or terrible. A lot of anime dialogue is also shit but at least it doesn't go on and on for paragraphs at a time.

>>18817842
>another LN thread
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

>>18818003
I want to eat your pancreas was really shit at times but was also good. Welcome to the NHK had nearly no prose from memory.

>>18818020
I did actually enjoy NHK quite a bit, it felt like the author was conveying a lot of his genuine feelings and experiences which is vanishingly rare in weebshit.

>>18818026
read yuri LN's like Adachi! so cute

>>18817998
To make you mad I guess.

>>18817842
The best light novel I ever read was kizumonogatari, and it wasn't exceptional fiction. I have read dozens of other light novels and they read like outlines of an actual novel that the author never bothered to flesh out. The truth is that the japanese are terrible writers. They are not well read. Their standards are not high.

>>18819183
compared to western young adult fiction?

Chinese webnovels are better

>>18817908
To add to that...
>anons keep promising that the LN is actually better than the anime because they cut that one really meaningful discussion between two character or whatever
>reply with "read the LN" whenever you call out some shit
>the LN is actually completely garbage and worse than the adaption and bloated up by 100% with useless and terrible exposition
It's laughable actually. 90% of all LNs are written as anime-scripts anyways because thats the sole purpose of them, to be adapted into anime or manga to be made worthwhile with pretty pictures.

children's books

>>18817842

>>18817842
I like light novels that lewd underage girls. I would rather read a normal book on this topic but I know no real literature except lolita that would be daring enough. Also you can read them in their original language because most of them written by children for children, therefore they're easy as fuck. Study a year and you can read light novels in Japanese effortlessly.

I have tried to read a couple light novels. idk if its the translators or the author but it feels like they were written by 14 year olds

>>18817842
>Im a girl so Im interested in guys opinion.
plz be in l o n d o n

>>18817842
Not literature

>>18817842
The prose is actually way worse than the average YA novel. I didn't think that was possible, honestly. I wouldn't even recommend them for kids, they are that terrible.

>>18819269
Reminds me of that meme
>YA novel
>YA novel, Japan

>>18817842
Depends, which one are we talking about?

>>18819183
Light novel authors are just failed manga artists. These days people get published (and get anime adaptations) by posting web novels on Japanese equiv of Wattpad. That’s how we get shit like Redo of Healer

>>18819205
Unironically, yes.
YA authors are failed artist doing what they can
LN authors are fans trying to mimic artist.
Like day and night.

>>18817842
>Im a girl so Im interested in guys opinion.
Truer words, never spoken.

LNs
>Haruhi (anime is generally better)
>Spice & Wolf
>Monogatari
>Baccano
>Kino no Tabi
>Zeroth Mania
>Kokoro Connect
>Boogiepop
Non-light novels that are still associated with animu
>LotGH
>NHK (anime is better)
>Koten-bu
>anything by Tomihiko Morimi (Tatami Galaxy anime is better)
>Bishounen Tanteidan
>that Death Note NISIOISIN novel
Everything not on these lists is an abject waste of time or has no benefits over an anime/manga adaptation

Light Novels are the perfect way to get into Japanese reading.
Many of them have easy prose and the multi-volume structure allows you to gain reading speed without having to re-read the same book over and over.
After a couple of LN volumes, you can then move on to Japanese entertainment novels and afterward to Japanese literature while taking breaks filled with light novels.

>>18822191
I can't see anything wrong with this post.

We have this thread every week

>>18817842
Mostly garbage, but are sometimes nice to turn your brain off and read for a few days.
Bookworm is pretty comfy, though.

>>18817842
>Im a girl so Im interested in guys opinion.
Hello. I've never read any light novels. Which ones would you recommend?

>>18817842
>Im a girl so Im interested in guys opinion.
keep it up and you will make a good wife

>>18823411
The list in >>18822191 will give you an overview of good light novels.