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relyat08
Posts: 4125 Location: Northern Virginia |
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But you didn't even link it! This is a pretty low level plug, if I've ever seen one. |
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vonPeterhof
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I think the biggest offenders in terms of language complexity in the LN market are the titles that deliberately appeal to a chūnibyō aesthetic, using obscure outdated terms, mythological references and fanciful kanji readings. While some teens do want their novels more easily readable, others may derive extra enjoyment from reading something non-transparent and arcane-sounding. When Supernatural Battles Became Commonplace makes fun of that trend pretty well. |
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Clarste
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Mostly because kids spend so much time texting, etc. Our culture encourages everyone to constantly be exposed to reading and writing, and while people like to complain about the use of chat abbreviations and whatnot, that's still far better than the "good old days", where unless they had the specific hobby of reading novels, kids would basically only be exposed to reading at school and probably graduated semi-literate. In the same sense that people who take a 2nd language at school aren't going to be fluent unless they also spend time using that language outside of school. IE: Even a kid who only uses chatspeak is probably a far better reader and writer than their parents or grandparents were at that age. |
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writerpatrick
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It does seem as if this is what would be classified as YA here. But if you're dealing with a story like The Hunger Games it could be placed both in YA and out of it.
300 pages is the length of a full novel. Although publishers put out novels of 400 or more pages regularly. There's a tendency to want to give print readers as thicker and thicker novels without any regard for the quality of the story. Although that doesn't hold true with e-books. Pulp novels tend to be written fast because the writer is using an outline or a story template. There is almost no creativity involved. 10,000 words a day, 1-4 weeks and you have a novel. That's how you get writers producing a novel a month. |
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Kadmos1
Posts: 13540 Location: In Phoenix but has an 85308 ZIP |
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Another thing is that, unlike most fansubs and scanlations, some LN and even web novels received permission from the authors to do fan translations.
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Cptn_Taylor
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LNs are fanfic material. Maybe slightly polished but that's the standard. It isn't even considered bad literature. |
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maximilianjenus
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well, hentai light novels exist; and I mean pure hentai, not heavy fanservice stuff like shinmai amou or HxH. Also, soe light novels get published notonly by volume, but in recopilatory tomes, like shounen jump weekly does, though I don't know specifics, such as which series or how big that part of the market is. |
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omoikane
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@ vonPeterhof,
You're right about that. There is nothing about light novels that makes them different than other novels in the same genre of story in terms of the difficulty in reading them. In fact I think sometimes they write in an obtuse way just on purpose for this reason ("Take that, your garden variety YA novels!"), so it's not just the fancy kanji or mythological references. Also, just as an aside, page count is a poor way to describe length of books, especially when comparing a kanji-based language with any western language. Word count is a much better way to measure things. [Edit]: removed unnecessary nested quotes. Please read the quoting guidelines. Errinundra. |
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jymmy
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But they did. j-novel.club is the link. Here it is as a hyperlink: j-novel.club |
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MrFox123
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Yes! Hoping for another season. Chances seem good for Re Zero based on figures but dunno about GATE. haven't heard too much about either of these once they finished airing |
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relyat08
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Ah, thanks. I would consider that a url, rather than a link, since it was not clickable. But I didn't realize that it was the url, even, since they normally hyperlink automatically. |
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samuelp
Industry Insider
Posts: 2228 Location: San Antonio, USA |
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So i am actually angry at this article, see, because I was going to write an advertorial with this exact same title for J-Novel Club here in a month or two when we have all our titles announced.
But now with this article out that will ruin all the SEO we would have gotten! Damn you well written and researched article scooping my possible advertisement hits Need to find a new angle... maybe like What makes Light Novels so great? |
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SaneSavantElla
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I agree that Kino's Journey is quite different from Sigsawa's other works, but then most of his other stuff (except maybe for the SAO spinoff, Squad Jam) still do not fall under what one poster's doesn't-appy-to-all-but-still-not-so-inaccurate description of light novels as "magic high school battle harem fantasy". Somehow I think that's actually why his other works aren't "hits" with regular LN fans. He even commented somewhere that that Squad Jam has sold more than his latest series (the one with the verrrryyy long title). But then he has gained enough following that a small but steady stream of fans always check out whatever else he puts out, and unlike most run-of-the-mill LN authors, Sigsawa is probably able to make a living out of writing. |
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SilverTalon01
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I think the reason a lot of people think that is because the first LNs they think of are just aimed at a younger audience. For example a harem action battle LN being easier to read is more because of the harem action battle part than the LN part. |
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Polycell
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