Do you prefer anime or manga/light novels?
booth!
Toradora! FTW
In my opinion it's anime. The only reason anybody reads light novels or manga is because the anime is over and they want to continue the story so it's that or nothing.
Why do you think fate fans are crying for a heavens feel anime adaptation? If the source material was so great nobody would care. They just want the better form of entertainment. This is only one of many examples.
Light novels don't have music.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=iZ2j45PHlHs
I think that's thread.
Mango > Animu > shit > light novel
If I'm gonna read a book, I'll just read a real book.
>>142504598
Anime for the art, light novels for the story. Not really in to manga very much, its the bastard child of animation and books.
>>142505797
Define a "real book". I would also question that you have ever even read a real book or even a light novel.
Manga > LN > VN > Anime
>>142504598
I prefer good series over shit like you posted.
>>142505827
>anime for the animation
>light novel for the story
The problem is when you're reading light novels you're basically reading books and imagining the characters are anime. Why not just read a real book that that's better and pretend in your head the characters are anime?
>>142505910
You're so edgy.
>>142505864
I'm an intellectual so usually read books like The Great Gatsby, 1984, The Process, The Cather in the Rye and Ulysses. Haven't found a single light novel that I even dare to compare against such books.
>>142505864
>Define a "real book".
Not a "light" novel
>>142505989
>intellectual
>The Great Gatsby
>Catcher in the Rye
:D:D:D
>>142505971
>>142505989
Im going to guess that you are the same person. Im also going to point out what a doofus you sound like right.
>I'm an intellectual that only reads intellectual books for intellectuals like my self.
You should kill your self for spewing such cliche and lame shit on 4chan. Even worse, go back to tumbler and die from suffocation in a fat womans crotch. You are even more lame than the kid that only watches adult anime for cool edgy adults, like Death Note and Elfin Lied. I dont know how you even look at your self in a mirror in the morning with out shooting your self in the head. Id laugh at you but im far to nauseated.
Anime
.animation
.voice acting
.music
Manga/light novels
.reading with pictures
.sometimes colored
Anime wins by default right?
>>142506168
Unless you're comparing a good light novel to a bad anime but if it's a good anime to a good light novel the anime always wins.
>>142505989
>I'm an intellectual
>on a taiwanese pottery sculpting board
Get over yourself.
I suppose pic related is the reason light novel readers watch the anime 100% of the time without fail even though the source material is "superior" right?
>>142506456
Matilda is the reason people watch anime adaptions of light novels? I suppose she is magical but I dont think thats the reason.
>>142506533
You know deep down in you're heart you know exactly what I meant.
>>142505999
>le real art is only what falls within my own definitions
*tips Fedora*
>>142506580
>your
>>142506533
I just realized Matilda is technically a typical live action magical girl loli. Now that I'm thinking about all the live action magical girl loli I'm realizing America loves this shit. Is the only thing separating us from the normies reality vs animation after all?
>>142505726
You can just look to this post. Anime brings new elements to a story, such as sound. It also brings in other peoples perspectives of scenes, people and objects. For example. Heavy Object, the objects designs in my head were pretty shitty thanks to the rather crappy representation the LNs had for them. The anime did a much better job bringing the objects to life and filling in the blanks. You can be a brat and whine about how the anime didnt get your one favorite moment right or you can enjoy the anime for what it is as long as they dont completely butcher the plot.
>>142506456
>light novel readers watch the anime 100%
I'm not defending LNs, but you can't prove it
Manga would be my preferred medium because of it's greater potential to tell better stories, something that comes from the author being allowed to have larger creative freedom. The art in manga is usually more detailed then in anime and there is a greater verity of stories compered to the ones that are made or adapted into anime. I'd also say that anime is better then light novel but that is mostly because while I like some light novels I am not familiar with many light novels that are not generic crap that most often tries to appeal to people by following popular trends.
Anime will always be superior for me, Just having OST's and glorious VA's is too hard to beat.
I find it hard reading manga for long periods of time because sometimes it just feels so uninteresting because you're reading it and you can't feel anything or get hyped about text on the internet.
You guys, just think about the most fun you've ever had reading a light novel and compare it to the most in you've ever had watching an anime. Which one was better and why was it anime?
>>142506921
Because I didnt know The Slayers was a book and the book was not even translated.
I just watch good old anime and read actual novel. Who the fuck thinks light novel are good? Manga is too fast to read so I don't bother buying any (fuck off with your online reading)
>>142507020
>reading manga or light novels online
>online
That's truly some regressive caveman type shit if I've ever heard it.
>>142507176
So far we have an intellectual and a guy whos manga expertise is reading it online. I feel like ive stepped in to the Reddit Zone!
>>142507376
I guess that's one small bonus to buying light novels. You have a collection.
>>142507446
When is Japan going to start selling anime movies in the form of character driven flash drives? I thought this was the future?
I'd spend a lot more money on anime. Especially if there was
Limited edition versions.
>>142505999
The Three Musketeers is considered light fiction. Don't be a retard.
>>142507809
Seriously, read this shit:
>"That is to say, you are in love with this lady as you were with Madame Bonacieux," said Athos, shrugging his shoulders contemptuously, as if he pitied human weakness.
>"I? not at all!" said d'Artagnan. "I am only curious to unravel the mystery to which she is attached. I do not know why, but I imagine that this woman, wholly unknown to me as she is, and wholly unknown to her as I am, has an influence over my life."
>"Well, perhaps you are right," said Athos. "I do not know a woman that is worth the trouble of being sought for when she is once lost. Madame Bonacieux is lost; so much the worse for her if she is found."
>"No, Athos, no, you are mistaken," said d'Artagnan; "I love my poor Constance more than ever, and if I knew the place in which she is, were it at the end of the world, I would go to free her from the hands of her enemies; but I am ignorant. All my researches have been useless. What is to be said? I must divert my attention!"
This is LN-tier writing. And that doesn't make it any less of a classic and a good story.
live actionby gaijinis the best form
>>142508546
I know you're just trolling but I like dubs better than subs most of the time. (Especially with railgun)
>>142508670
The sad thing is manga readers can't even bitch because they read everything dubbed.
>>142508790
(They most likely hear the voices in English in their head as they read the subs as well)
>>142508840
>>142508790
This is why you learn Japanese.
>>142504598
Novels are the best.
>>142508870
I wouldn't go to the trouble of learning Japanese just so that I can watch them in a different language when I already speak the best language in the world. What's the point? I actually heard learning Japanese can mess shows up for you because most people can't even tell if a Japanese voice acter is bad because they don't speak Japanese. It can mess up my favorite weeb music as well.
>>142508670
>subs better than dubs most of the time
You just have a shit taste.
>>142509004
Most voice actors are good though. The bad one you can hear without even learning the language.
>>142509026
I agree. Subs are better than dubs ALL the time.
>>142509004
There are some exceptions but I'll stick my dubs, especially in comedy anime.
>>142509097
Wow, you totally fit in anon. Good job.
>>142509004
>I already speak the best language in the world
Is that the excuse people use who are to lazy to learn other languages?
Most decent people can use multiple languages. There is no "better" languages that's subjective. So the real question is not why learn a diffrent languages but what languages you're going to learn.
And if you aren't a newfag but a real /a/utists who watches a ton of anime,reads at least as many mangas and reads many light novels than Japanese can only be beneficial.
I'm probably stuck with this media for my whole life so it would be a waste to not learn Japanese.
>>142509097
Well i'm not sure if this is sarcasm but i don't think subs are better than dubs all the time but most of the time.
>>142509278
>I stick nails in my ears because im a unique snowflake.
Good for you anon.
>>142509304
I will literally never need to learn another language in my entire life. Until the day they stop creating subs for anime I'm not even going to try.
>>142509245
You're probably one of those fags who faps to dubbes hentais.
>>142509367
Dubs died with the invention of the DVD.
>>142509398
There's a lot of untranslated stuff you might like though. If you're going to have this hobby until you die then it's a worthwhile investment of your time.
>>142509407
You enjoy monogatory so I don't respect your opinion.
>>142504598
How about all of them?
>>142509398
I assumed that. I said decent people can use multiple languages so i was excluding you.
People who only do stuff when they need it are in general weak subhumans.
>>142509428
Don't you mean soon to be translated stuff? I mean unless it's garbage and in that case I wouldn't waste my time only it anyways. It's sort of like an auto filter.
>>142509454
>monogatory
Lurk 2 years longer newfag
I prefer anime as a medium, but I often find myself enjoying manga way more than their anime adaptations.
LNs and VNs are just an extension of my anime experience so far, but I might try out HakoMari at some point. I don't wanna bother too much with VNs though, they take way too much time.
>>142509555
Damn, this is Komeiji all over again.
>>142509555
Right now you are the mercy of other people's tastes. You don't decide what gets translated.
>>142509561
>Monogatari
Sorry if I offended your garbage series.
>>142509511
I do plenty of things I'm not required to but I'm not about to waste my time learning another language. If I only spoke Japanese or something I'd consider it but I guess whatever makes you feel better about having a useless talent you worked hard for.
Good anime adaptions are the best, followed by light novels and then bad anime adaptions.
Manga adaptations are bottom of the barrel trash 9 times out of ten.
>>142504598
Anime
>>142509687
How is it a useless talent? Do you even know where you are?
>>142509615
You're only offending your own intelligence with the things you write. But then again it seems like there isn't much to offend.
>>142509763
I'm in the U.S. on an English speaking image boardboard.
>>142509763
Not that it even matters because everyone in this room has yet to speak another language no matter where they're from.
>>142509827
Are you pretending to be retarded now?
>>142509778
And you are acting like you made a unique achievement that makes you better than him. Guess what, you aren't.
Maybe it's just bad translating, but LNs always read like the shittiest of fanfiction to me. I can never read through even a chapter of them, they're terrible, or at least whatever ones I've tried reading.
>>142509902
This is a English speaking imageboard anon. You do know that right?
>>142509687
>being able to watch anime without bad translation
>being able to watch anime before most people
>being able to read manga and light novels which aren't translated yet
>being able to play visual novels without waiting for shitty translations
>being able to read japanese news and now much more about the inner workings then most people
>being able to understand Japanese music without having to watch the video with subs
>being able to interact with all Japanese people
Yeah it's such a useless talent. You don't really seem like someone who is into anime anon if you really thing being able to understand Japanese is useless.
Maybe you should consider going back to your homeboard.
>>142509953
Yes, but what is this imageboard about?
Light novels would be better if they were audio books accompanied with dramatic music that would be used as if in an anime, and then VAs read the characters lines.
I think it'd be pretty sweet to listen to an audio book and then hear the instrumentals drop at rhe dramatic segments.
>>142509907
Yeah i think i'm better than a newfag.
Do you have a problem with that?
Do you think newfags are equal?
Do you think people who have only watched a double digits amount of anime are equal when it comes to understanding of anime?
Where do you think we are?
>>142510171
Your post makes me think you have been here all summer.
>>142510227
You don't know me reddit.
>>142510000
Anime but there is an anime board on 2chan as well. Maybe that's where you belong?
>>142509997
I've never had a problem with with any of the points you've made because Instead of always trying to get the latest scoop on anime I'm usually more focused on watching anime itself. I probably still know more about anime than you anon. Do you even actually know Japanese?
>>142510171
Wonderful story. I've most likely been here longer than you and the amount of anime I've consumed in my lifetime would probably make you sick.
You all need to go back to 2chan.
>>142510424
Do you mean 2ch or futaba? An oldfag like you would know right?
>>142510424
>I've most likely been here longer than you
>the amount of anime i've consumed in my lifetime would probably make you sick
>can't spell Monogatari
>>142510550
Is there really any use in trying to prove anything? You do realize I'm on the Internet right now right?
>being able to focused on watching anime itself and getting a better experience
Thanks for adding another reason why Japanese isn't useless.
Thanks for ignoring all the other reasons and showing you don't have an argument against that.
>>142510550
I mean Gaia. Go back to Gaia.
>>142510550
I could literally look up the answer to almost anything in Desustorage or google even if I was new. I really don't like how you kids on 4chan today think just because someone's been here for a while means they're automatically considered "cool" there is plenty of people on here who started when this image board was just a baby who are just as big of idiots as guys who just bearly started.
>>142510850
Not true. While both may be idiots, at least one of those idiots is more attuned to the customs here and has some level of board etiquette.
>>142510815
I can focus on the anime just fine? That's like saying driving an automatic is better because you can focus on the road better.
>>142510919
You literally just posted an American cartoon.
>>142510926
Driving an automatic is better. People shouldn't have to die on the road so that you get can an ego boost fiddling around with your stick.
>>142504598
Novels >> Manga > Anime >>> LNs
>>142510977
If you'd been here long enough you'd know why that particular one is acceptable here in small doses.
>>142510996
Can you show me the statistic that says Manual drivers get into more accidents?
>>142511021
Wrong.
It's:
Novels >> Manga > Anime >>>literal dogshit>>>>>>>>> LNs
>>142511021
>>142511261
What's the difference between Novels and LN's? Is it just novels are longer?
>>142504598
VN > manga >= anime > LNs
>>142511384
>thinking like a caveman
This is the future. Anime is superior!
>>142511384
In fact the very pic you posted is from an anime!
>>142511370
Yes and LNs have some pictures in them, not many. They're marketed at the same crowd as anime and manga.
>>142511370
LNs are literally Japan's YA books.
>>142504598
anime > manga > light novels
>>142508894
ALWAYS
>>142509278
>talking shit
>image.gif
>>142504598
>they can't buy BDs
Scum.
>>142510977
WRONG, newfag, he posted a longstanding meme.
Wait no
Shit
>>142510424
>there is an anime board on 2chan as well. Maybe that's where you belong?
>implying there is a working proxy left that hasn't been banned yet or isn't slow as fuck
>>142511370
LNs are YA books.
It's a demographic thing.
Japs like using Engrish for their teen shit aimed media. It's TRENDY™.
>>142511515
Yeah, no. You're using the same retarded logic that classifies all animation and comics as "for kids".
LNs are a lot more comparable to light fiction in general. There are LNS targeted at both children and adults. There are even R18 LNs (most of which remain as WNs, but a few have made their way into print).
>>142511739
What are you implying you're on a PC right now? Shouldn't you be watching anime or at the very least playing video games? It's a real shame you'd spend your time on your I'd assume expensive high resolution PC playing on an image board. I bet you're the kind of guy that drops tons of money on a Desktop and uses as a Facebook machine. As an anime fan you should be ashamed of yourself for showing your face here when there is anime and visual novels to be played. I really hope you at the very least create anime images or use your PC to contribute to the Imageboard in some way.
>>142511859
>buying BDs
>>142512040
You can read right here:
https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%A4%E3%83%B3%E3%82%B0%E3%82%A2%E3%83%80%E3%83%AB%E3%83%88
There are YA books in Japan as well, with publishing labels dedicated to them. Some are LNs, and some are not.
The relevant terms in Japanese publishing are juvenile fiction, young adult fiction, and light novels. There is plenty of overlap, but they are by no means synonymous.
>>142504598
Light novels are only good for desperately trying to justify your appalling taste in anime girls by spamming overanalysed nonsense about the source material that you read afterwards
>>142512381
>says it squarely in the wiki article some in the japanese book industry consider light novels as the japanese ya
So the wiki article basically says you're retarded.
Good to hear. Take your Xanax or whatever you take for your autism and fuck off.
>b-b-b-b-but those people are wrong
K.
All you post from now on I will ignore. There is no point arguing with mental deficient defects.
>>142512060
Not him, but when you go to Akiba Softmap 1, the second floor is the LN floor and its English marking is "Young Adult Literature".
Just saying. Go check it out one day.
But obviously you can equalize LNs and YA, you have LNs for adults like things by Gagaga or Seikaisha.
>>142512675
>can equalize
can't fully equalize*
>>142512575
Where does it say that?
Google translate is not your friend, anon
I prefer anime to manga. Also, I never read light novels, because they are the cancer that is currently killing anime.
>>142512827
At first I wanted to call you a clueless EOP (which you are), but then I realized most LNs I read are very unLN-like and outliers, so I guess it's effectively true that the typical LN is the shit "killing anime".
>>142506360
>>142506086
>>142506163
>getting legitimately mad at blatant bait
>>142508894Threadly reminder that you should stop posting that because it's a thing.https://www.fictionpress.com/s/3206139/1/
Someone has the expiration date for ShitNovels and the anime that comes from it?
this seasonal bullcrap makes me sick
>>142504598
Anime then the vanilla doujins that come with it
>>142512675
I totally buy that, and I see the usage often enough in materials online, but it's not standardized at all.
Before Tokyopop went bust, there was a big effort to make Japanese books sound less exotic by pigeonholing them in western formats; that's the only time period I've seen industry presentations explicitly talk about LNs being the equivalent of YA books or sharing their exact audience.
>>142513330
i don't know what is worse. Keit-Ai Spammer or Anti Keit-Ai Spammer. Both equally as bad probably
>>142504598
i've watched the 2 seasons of oregairu within a week but it took me two months to read the first 4 LN vols of wataru watari and i'm usually a fast reader.
manga≥anime>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>lightnovels
>>142504598
I'm seriously starting to prefer good lightnovel. I don't having to deal with crap animation and no ending with them.
Or having to deal with a manga risking hiatus, or cancellation at any time as soon it doesn't pander to the magazine's specific audience.
>>142513831
Movies >>>>>> anime too amirite?
Fucking retards.
>>142512575
>anon post facts
>he sperg like a retard instead of trying to have some argument
>>142504598
LN > Anime > VN >> shit >> manga = anime storyboards.
>>142514203
Books written by people older than 14 >>>>> Manga > VN > SHIT >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> LN = Anime
Maybe if they put more effort into Anime, it wouldn't be garbage. Instead they adapt the shittiest LNs self-insert garbage written by middle-schoolers 90% of the time. Japanese "LN"s are just all trash, completely worthless. Manga USUALLY have effort put into them, at least until they get serialized, and then they give up. VNs that aren't garbage "dating" sex simulators like Fate/Shit and Tsukihime are also usually good, or at least interesting. It's a good way to put music into a story to enhance it, and also provides character images and scenes that can be hard to imagine.
If you watch anime for the "action XD" just go watch Transformers 42 or Marvel's who gives a shit 25 and get bombarded with sound and flashing lights for 3 horus, I guarantee they'll have better action scenes than any anime.
>>142508894
IT'S YOUR FAULT! IT'S ALL YOUR FAULT!
>>142504598
manga
The anime adaptation is always worse then the manga. That and only shit reaches anime these days.
>>142505989
Orwell's essays are more impactful, Salinger speaks to you cause he is also a fedora faggot, Great Gatsby lost its poignancy as the lavishness of prohibition got insta-forgotteb , Ulysses is byzantine and mostly read in the same way many fedora kids learn a few neat guitar tricks to scream about musical proficiency while lacking any real technical depth (in the case of Joyce, a decent grip of the Western canon into which to put Ulysses) just to be tryhard.
Who are you trying to impress anyway?
>>142515263
I don't agree with the other anon's obviously pretentiousness but not reading classics from the Western canon because you don't want to seem pretentious is just as tryhard.
>>142514078
What are you even on about? Manga gets completed more often than anime and has a wider variety of content to choose from. It's not a hard choice.
>>142514712
Nigga most of this season are actually manga adaptions, not LN.
>>142515363
The only book in that list I haven't read is Ulysses because I don't have the time to put the requisite effort to read it in context. The rest were compulsory reading in high school so I don't really see why it would be special to have read those. I think it's important to read literature but not something that makes a person exceptional as fedorafriends make it out to be. Plus a lot of works that seem erudite are really trashy. I read Cretien's Arthurian Romances and that might as well be set to some trashy hip hop: the shoutouts like you'd hear in mixtapes are there and the boasting could make Kanye look humble.
>>142516499
I don't get what you're getting at. Reading classics is always better than not if only because now you know what they are about. It's like how having seen Eva is pretty rudimentary regardless if it is liked or not.
>>142506360
why don't you call it weeaboo website?
>>142504598
It depends. Sometimes the anime is a shit adaptation (like Schwarzesmarken), sometimes it isn't (Haruhi).
Unlike many, I don't mind it so much if an anime does it's own thing so long as it makes sense. Anime changes are usually kind of strange though (like turning Kirino into a bitch).
>what do you like guys, the book or the adaptationProtip: One can be shit while the other isn't, or both can be shit
>>142515263
*tips fedora*
>>142517665
>*actions*
Fuck off.
The only LN I've read completely was Baccano!. And that's only because the anime was pretty much never going to get a sequel.
But overall I prefer watching anime as opposed to reading it.
