'Kono Light Novel ga Sugoi!' 2014 Rankings Revealed

-Crys said:
Hell Yeah for Oregairu. And now give us a second season, we need more Hachiman.

tsubasalover said:
*8. Rokka no Yuusha

ToG25thBaam said:
What do we get recently? School club activities-related anime adaption. Edit: with stereotype characters that's pretty much one dimensional

CrimsonPhantom said:
Hachiman is not the MC we need, but the one we deserve. That guy is too boss not to be in 1st place.

ssjokg said:
IMO many of the other female characters,including Misaki, are better than Misaka(and Index).

Amiluhur said:
Fun fact, these titles took less than 30 pages for establishing character and world building while wasting 100++ page for utter stupidity and trite dialogues that have no weight at all to the overall plot. I mean, you've got potential, good set of characters, and promising premise. Then why not develop said potential to the fullest? Why marginalize it with something completely inane and off-putting instead?

Anyone, prove me wrong please.

Amiluhur said:
>snip<

Jaeger07 said:


Oh sheesh, not this type of person again. Go find your preferred tropeless tale then, clearly the ones you've read recently were not even aimed for your taste in the first place.

symbv said:
Besides, it is not that those readers do not want to see more world-building though. Many LNs keep building on the world and get complex as it progresses, but the key element is just the interesting (stupid to you) situation and dialogues which may or may not have to do with the plot. In LN world, readers do not get obsessed as much about plot as many western people seem prone to do.

Jaeger07 said:


Oh sheesh, not this type of person again. Go find your preferred tropeless tale then, clearly the ones you've read recently were not even aimed for your taste in the first place.

symbv said:
BakaTest is also school activities related even if it is not really club-based. And I know detractors would call BakaTest one dimensional with stereotype characters too. My point is that whether a LN/anime is good varies from person to person, and MOE exists almost everywhere in LN these days so blaming MOE for any decision about anime adaptation is totally missing the point.

Clive said:
Never read Bungaku Shoujo

Amiluhur said:
Oh i see. That kinda explains why most Japanese LNs i've read so far (at least the translated ones on Baka Tsuki) put heavy emphasis on dialogue and character interactions as opposed to say, Dragonlance series that i liked a lot during my childhood (this is the only western literature that i deem closer with LN in comparison) that puts more emphasizes on narrative instead, so yes, probably my preference leans more towards plot than anything else

1. Yahari Ore no Seishun Love Comedy wa Machigatteiru. (Oregairu)
HP = 116.40
Supporter = 122.58
Monitor = 26.00

2. Tenkyou no Alderamin - Nejimaki Seirei Senki
HP = 18.93
Supporter = 169.35
Monitor = 0.00

3. Toaru Majutsu no Index (Index)
HP = 109.88
Supporter = 0.00
Monitor = 72.00

4. Dungeon ni Deai wo Motomeru no wa Machigatteiru no Darou ka
HP =13.25
Supporter =164.52
Monitor = 0.00

5. Sword Art Online (SAO)
HP =66.98　
Supporter =20.97
Monitor = 87.00

6. Hataraku Maou-sama! (Maou-sama)
HP = 34.81　
Supporter =117.74
Monitor = 15.00

7. Tokyo Ravens
HP = 19.14
Supporter =111.29
Monitor = 3.00

8. Rokka no Yuusha
HP = 11.25
Supporter =104.84
Monitor = 16.00

9. Ore no Imouto ga Konnani Kawaii Wake ga Nai (Oreimo)
HP = 33.33
Supporter = 50.00
Monitor = 45.00

10. No Game No Life
HP = 8.52　
Supporter = 98.39 　
Monitor = 15.00

Kitchiri said:
Tenkyou no Alderamin got almost no voting in homepage site questionnaire lol - but got ridiculous amount of supporter voting.

Clive said:
Never read Bungaku Shoujo or Baka to Test so I can't say anything about those, but Toaru Majutsu no Index placing higher than Kino no Tabi in a "Best of 10 years" ranking is a really bad joke.

annov said:
ok... but, where is monogatari series??

Mecasonic said:

Before this year, it has never failed to get in the top 60 since the Kono Light Novel ga Sugoi! 2008 rankings.

scytheavatar said:

It's a novel, not a light novel.

tsubasalover said:

Male Characters
*7. Sakamaki Izayoi (Mondaiji-tachi ga Isekai kara Kuru Sou Desu yo?)
*9. Sugisaki Ken (Seitokai no Ichizon)

Light Novel Artists
*2. Ponkan 8 (Oregairu)
*5. Kantoku (Hentai Ouji to Warawanai Neko.)
*6. Tsunako (Date A Live)
*8. Kanzaki Hiro (Oreimo)
*9. Ukai Saki (Black Bullet)

New Works
*3. Clockwork Planet

Faytz said:
Not trying to be a troll here, but seeing this list kinda makes me feel sad. Of the 10 first LNs listed, more than a half follow one exact same formula that has been used for years now and yet are a lot popular, which means that all the new authors trying to pull up different stories/formulas are struggling to get some attention.

I'm not saying that these novels are all bad, I just wished a little more variety in terms of content.

iLostReason said:
Good for OregaIru and Maou-sama.Hopefully we will get second seasons sometime in near future.

This looks and sounds really interesting.Too bad noone is translating it.

ok... but, where is monogatari series??

Zefyris said:

Please tell me what exactly makes you think Koudansha boxes are closer from LN than titles from media work bunko like Reinousha Minato or Biblia Koshodou which AREN'T allowed.
If you can't, then it doesn't deserve to be here, just like it didn't deserve to be here the past years; and just like the characters themselves has nothing to do in there as well. Koudansha has its own ln label IIRC, so no reasons to validate koudansha boxes as valid in this ranking.

symbv said:
If Senjougahara is in the female character list, I would expect that the novel should also be eligible. Yes indeed I find it puzzling too...That said, I think Kono LN ga Sugoi is more than just a simple magazine poll rankings. Its methodology encompasses readers, industry people, and opinion leaders from outside the industry (like ordinary literary critics). In fact, the book is a survey onto itself and is not derived from any survey conducted by a magazine.