Is the difference between novels and light novels just in the label like many people say or is it something else? How they are written, structured, etc.
A light novel adaptation usually needs 4-5 volumes worth of content to fill a cour with no anime-original episodes, while an actual novel like Hibike only needed one. Sitting at around 300 pages, it wasn't any more robust than the average light novel page count, the complete series was only 4 volumes long, though, while light novels go on forever. I'm using Hibike as an example since it's the only anime adaptation of an actual novel I know of, maybe this is just a special case?
Zachary Morris
>Is the difference between novels and light novels just in the label No. >like many people say Like who? >How they are written, structured, etc. Why don't you look it up? >it's the only anime adaptation of an actual novel I know of, Maybe you should also watch more anime.
Michael Harris
Just remembered Tatami Galaxy and NHK ni Youkoso were novels.
Adam Nelson
Animated ny Kyoani = novel Animated by someone else = LNshit
Michael Gutierrez
Lurk moar newfag.
Noah Martin
>moar
Who's the newfag? This is Sup Forumstard speak.
Jack Jackson
Fuck off.
Bentley Rivera
All light novels are novels, but not all novels are light novels
William Murphy
>Is the difference between novels and light novels just in the label like many people say No. Who the fuck actually says this? The rest of your questions are stupid and can be answered by a simple google search and/or lurking the fuck more.
Eli Jackson
>Like who?
>No. Who the fuck actually says this?
Sup Forums in a thread a few months back
Carson Ramirez
Hakomari is a light novel and it's genuinely good.
Figure that one out.
Brayden Perez
Compare SAO to The Woman in the Dunes and you will see what the difference is.
Carson Harris
LN's are basically YA - dumber, more waifubaiting, the target audience are stupid horny teenagers. In contrast to western YA they are also very short and have lots of pictures.
Compare Shana to SSY.
Levi Sanders
LNs are shorter and have pictures.
Parker Thomas
What's this then?
Juan Martinez
They also have a relatively simplistic language.
Then you could add a few common tropes for LNs, like making characters recognizable by way of catch phrases or using complicated and ominous kanji and translating them to mean something else, but that's not what defines them.
Alexander Turner
A heavy light novel.
Gabriel Edwards
They get bigger. Help.
Charles Brooks
Manga?
Are you retarded or just trolling?
Leo Ramirez
Fun fact you can find it on exhentai if you can get past the panda. LNs are pulp periodicals, like the ones popular in the west until TV replaced the niche. They typically have a cliched storylines and characters just like a detective novel would. Instead of Sam Shady you have "nice guy" MCs and the tsundere, onee-chan, lolita type etc.
Xavier Foster
It's not a manga. It's an LN. But it did get a recent manga adaptation and anime announcement.
Zachary Adams
Do most Japs see Naziboo stuff like this as being in poor taste?
William Anderson
The fuck are you talking about? Are you calling Youjo Senki that?
Zachary Gray
What an ugly whore.
Aiden Richardson
Not to my knowledge. Most people don't give a shit about a century ago.
Chase Ross
Ironically, this one has a theme as well as dialogue and monologue that is on a real different level.
Nathaniel Scott
Stop insulting characters from actual novels.
Carson Watson
Novel. Say hello to what you see as the filename.
Ethan Jenkins
They're usually short, have pictures, easier kanji, are written by otaku for otaku. Basically a light read, you can buy a volume, blast through it in a couple of hours and buy another volume once it comes out.
There are exceptions, of course, not every light novel fits all these criteria.
Lincoln Roberts
>blast through it in a couple of hours No, that's normal books. You can blast through an LN in an hour or less.
Ian Powell
>Sup Forums You mean an user who you were dumb enough to believe.
Like people have already said, look the difference up yourself and lurk the fuck more.
Cameron Watson
Denying that something ever existed is what's in poor taste.
Julian Hughes
Then maybe I'm abnormal, but it takes me more than an hour for ~300 pages. I could try speeding up though.
Cameron Baker
Light novels have pictures and non-filler chapters. Novels have no pictures and most chapters don't even make it on movie film.
Adrian Collins
250-300 pages in an hour or less? And you think that's the norm? Most people don't even get through 100 pages in an hour, dude. You're either trolling or are really delusional of what the norms are. If you account for the simple dialogue that LNs normally have you can get through it quickly, but in no way an hour or less.
