Explain to me like I'm 5, what's the appeal with light novels?It can't be the writing because it's amateurish at best.It can't be the artwork or people would just read manga.I can understand webnovels popularity in Japan, since they're free and accessible but what is the appeal here?
>>287252736>It can't be the writing because it's amateurish at best.What the hell do you read things for, you troglodyte? A good story will be a good story even if it's told by a five-year-old, so long as the elements making it up are interesting enough. Do you just read books so you can earn some "intellectual cred" with other midwit niggers?
>>287252846Form matters. Good form matters.
>>287252736>amateurish writing>mono>honzukidid you read them?
>>287252736popcorn media, cheap and simple
>>287252910You're a retarded gorilla nigger and it's extremely obvious you don't enjoy any literature, good prose or not. Kill yourself and don't reply to me again.
>>287252736They're simply written mostly episodic novels that you can read through in a couple of days casually.Why is the shock there that they're pretty popular?
>>287253004Form matters, retard.
>>287252846based>>287252910cringe
>>287253094post form
>>287253126That's not how you upvote here, samefagger
>>287252910>>>/lit/
>>287252736its the writing, what happens is that you are a tourist that only likes books that name wannabe philosophers and breaking bad
>Explain to me like I'm 5,>IMG_Dogshit tourist bait thread
>>287253171Also has a strong anti-Japan angle, intended to increase the engagement because people on /a/ probably like Japan and are likely to defend it. If not he can present a consensus by spamming how much Japan sucks.
>>287252846It doesn't matter how interesting the elements that make up the story are if the author isn't a good writer.
>>287252736You might as well ask what's the appeal of YA novels or penny dreadfuls. They're all basically the same kind of thing.
>>287252910>Form matters. Good form matters.Unless you're reading them in Japanese, that means nothingActually, serious question, have you even read the titles in the picture to be calling them out like that?
>>287253246The equivalent to isekai/litRPG slop light novels in the west is actually romantasy novels targeted at women. All of the same tropes, just that the protagonist has a bajeena.
>>287252736I assumed it was just anime genre fiction. Nothing of serious literary merit, but it's not like everything has to be.
>>287253266>Unless you're reading them in Japanese, that means nothingThere is zero chance OP is reading them in English, let alone having even N6 level Japanese literacy.
>>287253300There is a zero chance OP reads anything at all. This entire thread is a bad faith shitpost where he will respond to everything feigning supreme intellect and insight without referencing anything specific.
>>287253286Wouldn't it be stuff like Mistborn? I guess those are longer in format, but Americans like everything huge.
>>287252736Could you tell me what about Seishun Buta Yarō's writing makes it amateurish? You included it in OP so I'm assuming you've read it.
>>287253347True. You inspired me to unwatch and hide the thread.
>>287253379Western fantasy targeted at men doesn't include low-brow romance tropes like harem building, vacuous love triangles, enemies to lovers, interspecies erotica, etc. to anywhere near the extent that romantasy does. The protagnists are often frequently quite normal by the standards of their world, and ascend to greater heights via hard work and dedication. By contrast, romantasy protagonists are presented as being normal and boring, but are actually le specialest of all—not unlike many isekai/litRPG protags. Note that I love the kind of slop in my LN's, so I'm not judging white wine moms for liking it in their shitty fucking fantasy novels.
Japanese reading practice that goes further than manga.
There's actually good light novels published in Japan. The problem is the audience in English doesn't usually buy them so you get the lowest quality isekai and villainess slop again and again.Take a look at J-Novel Club, there's maybe 3-5 decently written light novels on the lineup out of over 200 series.Yen Press and Seven Seas fair better, but Yen Press has priority to the better Kadokawa stuff like Seishun Buta while Seven Seas gets lucky with authors like Yoru Sumino.It's an English market problem that makes light novels look worse and less appealing from the outside. It's less jarring if your coming from manga, maybe.
>>287254784I think the translation is also a huge factor. The only light novel I've ever read where I was legitimately impressed by the translation was an ancient Yen Press series called Book Girl (one of the company's first releases). I don't know who worked on the translation, but the English version's writing style was noticeably more poetic than you usually see out of LN translations, official or otherwise. Like whenever it was going into atmospheric descriptions, it would use a lot of warm, flowery adjectives.
>>287253286Well LitRPGs have made their way westward sadly
