'Kono Light Novel ga Sugoi!' 2016 Rankings Revealed

kuuderes_shadow said:


I'm not sure. I don't know how they decide what is or is not eligible. Hence that was a question and not a statement.

I don't recall ever seeing one on the rankings, though.

Zefyris said:

Well that poll is asking what you find was the most impressive/bestamong novels published this last year.Obviously lots of peopels are just going to vote like mob for their favourite series without caring if the volume of this year were good enough to justify it. I mean look at Index still in the top 10 for example.
But still, even if WN are more polished in LN format, the story in itself will not surprise them again, so the chances are high that except for hardcore fans of a specific series, that title will not come to mind when they're voting. THey can only vote for 5 titles too.
If you look at the ranking, even though Overlord sold like crazy during the adaptation (ranked in weekly sales 19 times in row), it's still ranked lower than Rokka, who also had an anime this year but didn't even sell enough to have its older volumes rank one single week in the ranking this year. Overlord is originally a Wn, whereas rokka is not. This is definitely playing a role.

Zazie122 said:
Misaka needs to fuck off already.

DatRandomDude said:
Pretty much sure that every LN that doesnt have an anime adaptation in this top 10 will get one soon.

Ramkec said:


That series is getting less and less relevant by each day.

Zefyris said:


Best LN in the top 10 afaik. sukasuka is a new title with three volumes over one year that almost got cancelled several times due to poor sales. It's a miracle it's still here, and it's a beautiful story. Volume 2 for example on amazon has nothing but 5 star ratings. Not a single lower rating. Everyone is praising it and I agree, this is far too good to be interrupted.

Alderamin was very good as usual. One of the best military work I've read, and the characters are really likeable, and well developed. Nice

Risara said:


It's just a popularity ranking. Japanmen prefer self inserts.

Risara said:


Can you give a summary what SukaSuka is about?

Ramkec said:


That series is getting less and less relevant by each day.

D-Joe said:


It's in #25
Here is Top 60/30/30/57 of LNs/Female/Male/Illustrators
https://forums.animesuki.com/showpost.php?p=5710629&postcount=536

ichii_1 said:


It's okay I guess, needs new seasons for more exposure.

Tengai said:
Snafu s3.

Stark700 said:
*8. Saika Totsuka (Yahari Ore no Seishun Love Comedy wa Machigatteiru.)

Siva said:

Oh yeah best male characte, but in what way?

The list is either lazy list or they should change the title to "This Light Novel is Popular!"

No wonder one should only take top internet list with a grain of salt. They tell you nothing but "I love this series because I love it."

Siva said:

Oh yeah best male characte, but in what way?

The list is either lazy list or they should change the title to "This Light Novel is Popular!"

No wonder one should only take top internet list with a grain of salt. They tell you nothing but "I love this series because I love it."

barmar said:

For the novels there are 3 types of voters ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°):

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Zefyris said:
Mushoku tensei is another WN so 1) it enters in the same explanation I gave above (yes know that in case of Mushoku tensei the LN version is very different) AND Mushoku tensei isn't even especially popular in japan to begin with. The sales aren't anything impressive.

bobzanny said:

What's the difference between the WN and LN? Or which is on Baka-tsuki? Because that was one pretty kick-ass read.

barmar said:
Hmm did you check the notes on baka-tsuki they say which one is from where(only the first volume and a bit of 2 I think..... the rest is WN)

As for the differences so far(there are only 8 LN volumes out) there's not much it seems, except for Vol7 which is a new story that takes place between the original vol 6 and vol 7 of the WN.You know when Rudeus was still adventuring all those years.

bobzanny said:

Well I knew that some volumes were LN and most were WN but I didn't know how much content was actually different. It almost sounded that the LN and WN had major differences.

Zefyris said:

To clarify, in Mushoku tensei's case, I haven't read either version. I simply remember reading several times that the story diverges greatly passed several volumes. How much those comments were true and in what do they diverge, that I don't know.

Zefyris said:


The ranking concern the volumes released on the last one year period of time. IF a series wasn't that good but that the last few volumes published were far better for example, it deserves to be higher. For example NGNL volume 6 was far FAR better than the previous one. And last year it ranked very high. That was fully deserved. It's less deserved this year, but volume 7 was stil better than volumes 1-5 imo.
As such, what is ranked here about SAO are the last current volumes of the alicization arc. Which are said to be quite better than the previous arc (I don't know, didn't read them). Obviously still, SAO is the LN that sells the most currently. SO you're going to have peoples voting for it just because they're fan, just like Index.

Onii-chan said:
Shit taste confirmed. I will commit sudoku now, Japanese people's taste prefference is beyond help.