'Kono Light Novel ga Sugoi!' 2015 Rankings Revealed

TheNaturalPerm said:
and what the fuck is harem league basketball...sounds and looks like cancer.

Zefyris said:
That's why people like you are such a ridiculous bunch in any LN related news you know. With no offense intended, of course.

The "harem" here is in the "inner palace" meaning of the term, not the "school life harem" that you see in lots of anime. So, Harem in its true meaning historically.
In other words, it's both a story about inner palace's concubines and about baseball.

Your comment is especially hilarious because this LN may actually be the best LN of the 60. I mean, the author is Ishikawa Hiroshi. That's the author of works like mimikari neruri series and vampire summer time after all. While the author may have made a miss this time- I haven't read it, so maybe - that's quite a package for the author as the titles I cited were quite acclaimed, especially mimikari neruri.

Not convinced? Then let me inform you about how the LN poll of the kono light nove wa sugoi works. While the other poll in this magazine are only popularity based, the LN poll has 3 categories of voters adding their vote. One is your normal readers, one is the monitors which are readers reading a lot of LN selected specially for this, and the last one is... People from the LN industry.
For years, people from the industry have been pushing less known titles in those rankings, trying to promote quality titles ignored by the masses, with somewhat significant successes.
And when the ranking are announced, while you have the sum of everything, you also get in the magazine how much each title received by each group of voters.
As such, some peoples like me see konorano rankings as an opportunity to find less known but quality titles published during this year by looking at which title were the most supported by collaborators.

I suppose you're seeing it coming now. Guess which was the title this year with the most support from the collaborators (by quite a huge margin first, to boot)? Yeah, that's exactly it.
You may want to refrain badmouthing when you don't know. Judging a title by its cover or by its title only shows how much ignorant you are in the end.

TheNaturalPerm said:


you know...the genres are ecchi harem and gender bender AND to top it off a light novel. according to the genres it sure is harem you know?
There is absolutely 0 potential of this not sucking. Don't kid yourself lol.

Zefyris said:
AHAHAHAH you're awesome xD.
When I wrote the previous answer, I didn't imagine that I would receive such hilarious answer once again. You really don't know when to stop, and as a result of it, you're looking more and more like a complete ignorant.
Okay, so, I hope you won't mind me poking a little fun at you. i mean, you're so full of yourself, you should be able to handle that much, right :3.
So after judging a title by its... Title, you're now judging it by... using the MAL tags. I'm sorry, really, I have a hard time not laughing when I write those words. BEcause, you know, MAL tags are well known to be accurate. Especially, in case such like this, where after looking at the MAL page for this work for 10 seconds, you can see three things
-No synopsis
-No one on MAL completed it (neutral loben doesn't count, obviously, as he hasn't read it like you surely know)
- One volume long

-> from the fact it's one volume long and that no one completed it, you can easily deduce that the user who made that MAL page hasn't read this book at all.
-> from the fact that it has no synopsis, yo ucan also deduce that the user who made it either
- doesn't know japanese and therefore couldn't translate the japanese synopsis
-Know japanese but didn't take 10 minutes of his/her time to translate that very short synopsis.
In either case, it's pretty clear that the person who made that page hasn't read a single review of that title. I mean, reading a full review require either to know japanese or to search a lot an english review that may or may not be somewhere on the internet, and therefore a lot of time. Which, like the fact that the synopsis wasn't translated shows, wasn't something the person who made that page was ready to do.

From there, only spending 10seconds looking at that MAL page, you can deduce that the person who put the tags had almost no knowledge of the content. There's aready a lot of titles on MAL with tags error, and all of thing, you used tags from a page created by someone with almost no knowledge of that title to look down on it.

I hope you realize how foolish that was. How could you miss something that simple. Were you so eager to find something to answer me that it blinded you?

Not that I'm reproaching anything to the person who made that page . It's nice to see more LN pages made on MAL. Tags errors are a tiny mistake that no one can blame.
Besides, it does happen to be that that person technically didn't made any error in the tag list this time. That's what make your answer even funnier.

Because yes, technically, the harem tag is fitting. Like I said, it's about the emperor's harem. Obviously, the emperor isn't the MC, so that's not the MC harem. And the MC isn't stealing the emperor's girl either. Besides, you could have deduced that simply from looking at the number of volume. How the hell do you want to cover at least 3 romances (to make a harem) in only one book while having the story focusing on other things like baseball. I guess you missed that hint of your mistake as well. So the MC infiltrate the emperor harem. As such, most of thge girls are part of a harem. Therefore, the book deserves its harem tag. Not in the way you think it does, but it's still correct per se.
And yes, technically again, it does deserve its ecchi tag. As a place full of women, there are some scene with women nudity, or partial nudity. It's not lewd scenes, simply scenes with nudity, free of perverted implication. Still, woman nudity enter the realm of eroticism when you tag a work, and therefore ecchi which is our equivalent tag of eroticism on mal is justified as well.

So what, little did we know, you're right, it's a harem, and it's erotic! woow. This must be baaaad. No, no, I'm (not)poking fun at you, I swear.
But you know, rather than trusting tag or title to judge a work, you could trust someone who actually read long reviews like this one :





...Before answering you the first time. I don't know, I think I know more than you, how weird.

Didn't I tell you right in the first post? "people like me use the kono rano rankings to see which works were the most voted by the collaborators and discover books they didn't know about"? What do you think I did with a work that was the most voted by the collaborators? How can you think that looking at half the title and half hassedly looking at MAL tag could have any chance to be righter than what I knew of the title? Again, everything was written in my first post, but you completely failed to understand any implication behind it.

And as such, while I don't agree often with Fakepriest, I think that his

...Was actually a pretty good advice.

But yeah, keep them coming if you want. Ignorant peoples like you who come in thread just to look down on things he doesn't know are funny. Especially when, in all the things they could choose to look down onto, you choose so poorly that there is absolutely no recovery possible after the said mistake. Such a delicious development, wouldn't you agree.