Is It Just Me, Or Are A Lot of Light Novel Adaptations Mediocre?

flannan said:
I have no idea why the hell was this thread resurrected, but here's my opinion:

Most of these are pretty damn good! Especially Haganai and SAO. Ignore the elitist snobs who don't like them.

On_the_Lam said:

I am pretty sure that the general consensus is that SAO is overhyped garbage, and that has nothing to do with "elitist snobs". If anyone even cared about the opinions of "elitist snobs", the top 15 anime of MAL wouldn't be 80% Gintama.

gabrielrroiz said:

haganai is atrocious
such an indulgent representation of what being an antisocial is like
even sao is way better

GangsterCat said:
light novel = pile of garbage, created by bunch of weebs who don't know how to draw and write a story

JustALEX said:

Brah...you need to watch Monogatari.



^Hitagi is one hell of a sadist....you'll like her!

GangsterCat said:
no, monogatari is shitty bizarre (in a bad way) series, i watched few episode in my friend's house.

Aquamirror said:
How do you expect good adaptations when even the original works are utter shit? Most LN have below average quality of writing.. and even the "good" ones are terribad.

By the way, all these gifs really discourage me from watching Monogatari, it looks like fucking porn. :|

Aquamirror said:
How do you expect good adaptations when even the original works are utter shit? Most LN have below average quality of writing.. and even the "good" ones are terribad.

By the way, all these gifs really discourage me from watching Monogatari, it looks like fucking porn. :|

Aquamirror said:
How do you expect good adaptations when even the original works are utter shit? Most LN have below average quality of writing.. and even the "good" ones are terribad.

By the way, all these gifs really discourage me from watching Monogatari, it looks like fucking porn. :|

GangsterCat said:
light novel = pile of garbage, created by bunch of weebs who don't know how to draw and write a story

Aquamirror said:
By the way, all these gifs really discourage me from watching Monogatari, it looks like fucking porn. :|

GangsterCat said:
not only porn it looks like disgusting and pedo porn

Deknijff said:
just LNs?
why not VNs, manga or even books also?
why single out just LNs
I dont understand

Isterio said:
I can´t speak for the creator of this thread, but I assume it´s because of the overabundance of light novel adaptations in recent years that predominantly had the purpose of being adapted into 12-24 episode Anime seasons of gorgeously drawn waifus for everyone´s taste including the "animal lovers" and the "pedophiles", ignoring any semblance of a decent or sensical story for the sake of gorgeous but uncreative fighting animation to fill the time the audience´s blood was moving between their boners and their brains.

While factual those flaws exist within those Light Novels

Darek said:

Hitagi deserves to get gangraped


Bake is shit comparing to every other entry in the series.

Tenshi_Shura said:


So how many LNs have you actually read? Or is this another pathetic attempt at trying to fit in with the crowd by copypasting other people's arguments and trying to display it as your own despite having no knowledge of the matter at hand?

HyperL said:
Yeah, maybe is shit compared to every other entry in the series, but is not shit by itself, it's pretty watchable.

Aquamirror said:

No, that's my own opinion. I don't need to read 100 light novels to know that, HakoMari is overrated as fuck btw.

Deknijff said:
so are you saying manga and VNs don't share those problems just as much as LNs or something?

Tenshi_Shura said:


Can you give a minimum of 5 LNs that you've read wholly and not just summaries from wiki pages or other users' own description of them and judge their quality of writing to prove your baseless generalizations?

Isterio said:
I wasn´t done with my section but had something more important to do. Read the finished quote.

Isterio said:
I can´t speak for the creator of this thread, but I assume it´s because of the overabundance of light novel adaptations in recent years that predominantly had the purpose of being adapted into 12-24 episode Anime seasons of gorgeously drawn waifus for everyone´s taste including the "animal lovers" and the "pedophiles", ignoring any semblance of a decent or sensical story for the sake of gorgeous but uncreative fighting animation to fill the time the audience´s blood was moving between their boners and their brains, since they were introduced to the Anime through their regular porn site when they spotted their waifu.
While factual those flaws exist, those Light Novels or their Anime aren´t hurting anybody and just do their job. Appealing to their target audience of 12-18 year olds that haven´t seen those clichés repeatedly and probably see them for the first time.

Isterio said:
regarding your comment. No!
What I am saying is, that predominantly Light Novels with the above explained flaws had been massively popular and adapted in resent years. Much to the distain of their haters that see a rising trend in their production.
There obviously is a shitton horrible Manga and visual novels out there with the same levels of badness their light Novel counterparts have but they just stay that, Manga and visual Novels. Shitty Manga that aren´t selling well get cancelled not adapted and shitty Visual Novels *ahem* "Hentai games" get adapted as just that Hentai, with few exceptions like the Fate series but that´s only possible through massive rewriting and adjustment.

Aquamirror said:

I don't need to read them to know that, you seem pretty triggered lol
And reading plot summaries is enough to indicate the overall quality of the plot. Even reading 1 page is enough of prove for quality writing. Most of them suck ass.

Tenshi_Shura said:


"I have not the slightest experience with Light Novels but I'm going to shit on the entire medium anyway because who needs to read one when you can easily copy and paste other people's arguments and look cool for doing so."

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Aquamirror said:
Lol, go read a real book bro.. and get something for mental stimulation, you look retarded.

Deknijff said:
hmmm @Tenshi_Shura is actually giving strong arguments while you have nothing good to say
how is he looking retarded here?

Aquamirror said:

Lol, go read a real book bro.. and get something for mental stimulation, you look retarded.

Aquamirror said:
I said enough. I don't care if he keeps deluding himself, you can't argue with triggered fangays.

Deknijff said:
I don't understand why you would need to bring up porn sites but Im not going to deny Ive seen Highschool DXD on Pornhub and Yosuga no Sora on Youporn but granted I saw that after I had already seen the series before hand

Deknijff said:

Well I don't play VNs so Im not going to say a bunch of bullshit such as how much they adjust the script since I don't know anything about that

Isterio said:
Where do you think a non Anime fan millenial would first be confronted witb those series?Not necessarily Sao because there will be some guy named Kirito in Overwatch, Lol or whatever the kid plays alongside the hundreds of Narutos and Sasukes or Ryus. You were an Anime fan "before" that´s why " you" already had seen it. Never underestimate the power of rule 34!

Isterio said:
Than you shouldn´t say bullshit like the sentence you just wrote. They did adjust the script for the Fate series that´s undenieable. There isn´t explizit sexual content in any of it´s Anime iterations while the games sole purpose and half of it´s selling point is it´s sexual content and the resulting waifu merchandise.
I haven´t played any visual Novels myself but I have seen a let´s play of the first Fate VN through and it´s a better version of this:http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/594476
Which is something I played as a young teenager during a time when the internet was still an infant, VHS existed and pornography was scarse to come by and girls were nasty.
To end my argument Murakami Teruaki and the Company Bishop are proud distributors of Visual Novel adaptations. Which are works I wouldn´t recomment anyone to search for if they have fragile souls. Boku No Pico pales in comparision to the smut those guys create.

Deknijff said:
most people I talk to find anime through youtube now a days...
but hey I do love rule 34 so whatever I'll just roll with it

Deknijff said:
not really understanding why you are saying what I said is bullshit when I just said I don't have enough information on the subject and that I will just believe you to a certain degree

Isterio said:


Than you shouldn´t say bullshit like the sentence you just wrote. They did adjust the script for the Fate series that´s undenieable. There isn´t explizit sexual content in any of it´s Anime iterations while the games sole purpose and half of it´s selling point is it´s sexual content and the resulting waifu merchandise.

I haven´t played any visual Novels myself but I have seen a let´s play of the first Fate VN through and it´s a better version of this:http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/594476

flannan said:

Let's play of a VN? how the hell does that work? will we get a let's read of books next?
Sorry, but you cannot really understand a VN like Fate without actually reading it like a book.
By the way, Fate route has 2 H-scenes, and Unlimited Blade Works has only 1. Not so much of a selling point as it is a case of false advertisement.

Isterio said:


The guy showed the whole story in a 34 hour let´s play . While you may not get the same experience because you´re not the one making the decisions you want and it becomes more similar to reading a book it doesn´t change anything about the story being told. Visual novels are nothing more than choose your own adcenture books on the PC.

Yes it has 2h scenes but this doesn´t change the fact that the authors and company went out of their way to say in an interview that they only put the H scenes in the "game" because they were insecure about the product and assumed it wouldn´t sell otherwise. It also falls under the category of Eroge, which translates litterally into "erotic games" and also was marketed as such with the girls on the front covers "NOT IT´S STORY" . It´s 18+ for those sex scenes "that are graphic". Like it or not your "waifu" Rin´s dirty ass is on display in the game with a dick sliding into it. This qualifies as porn and there is no false advertisement

The pathing options in the game are literally dictated by which girl you will date. Saber, Sakura, or Rin, so stop being salty over your waifus being in a hentai game because without being objectified for Otaku to splooge onto their screeens they wouldn´t exist to begin with.

flannan said:

To clarify. I have actually played F/SN the game (all of its routes), and enjoyed it. I have even seen the pathing diagram, and unlike Tsukihime, there is only one way to read it (meaning, the game will not allow you to see Rin's route until you finish Saber's route, and Heaven's Feel until you finish Rin's route).
It does not bother me that the girls had sex. It bothers me when people assume that sex scenes are the reason for the work's popularity/existence. Because they are not, and Nasu is infamous for his bad writing of sex scenes. (I still fapped to them)

Anyway, 34 hours might actually be enough to show you enough of the game (maybe even more than just Saber's route), and you might have actually read it. (I still think such a letsplay is pure madness)