/lit/ - Literature

>>19482777
Well they are literature obviously, but that's because literature is a medium. Genre trash is also literature. Doesn't mean it's good.

>>19482777
>At least they teach us to be more human and loving.
Kys Marxtranny

>>19482777
Spice and Wolf and Kino's Journey? Yes. The rest? No.

>>19482777
Light novels are trash and that's why Japan's book industry is basically a funnybook industry, combined with the fact they can't write.

>>19482777
You made this thread yesterday you mentally ill tranny

>>19482974
I despise transexual ideology. It's demonic.

>>19483757
Light novel haters CONFIRMED trannies

>>19482777
I've only ever read light novels of anime movies I've watched and enjoyed. Often, interesting new details will be explored, particularly if the LN is written by the writer/director of the movie itself.

>>19482777
They read like something my students would submit to me. They're in HS so they have an excuse. Maybe it's just the translation but fuck me these books need an extra editor.

t. read Grimgar and Overlord

>>19482777
Spice and Wolf is my favorite series. Wish they did a sequel to it. Or make another season of it.

>>19482777
>At least they teach us to be more human and loving.

The fuck does this even mean? Why do you think this is good in itself, in a vacuum? Fuck you, just fuck you.

>>19485057
I’m always blown away and floored when I meet adults who like anime/manga. It’s like admitting to me you want to fuck children. I see it the same way and I usually bluntly ask these people if they’re pedophiles. I ask the same question when adults tell me they read YA.

>>19485182
You're trying too hard to be mature, anon. Wait for your balls to drop first.

>>19482781
>Genre trash
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SciFiGhetto
Of course, granted, most 'genre' fiction is crap, but that's only because most of everything is crap.
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SturgeonsLaw

>>19485182
Stop being such a try hard.

>>19482777
>>19485057
This.

>>19483777
>>19482777
Witnessed

>>19485121
>x, just x

>>19489292
Holy shit

>>19489292
Dangerously based

>>19482777
Facing the Void is not Nihilism. Fleeing into happy pony land is.

>>19489700
>facing the Void

>>19489774
You know that's not an argument right?

>>19482777
lets be honest here:
If the text had no association with anime, the writing was serviceable, not genre clad and the art style was something "other" like Mucha, then it could be judged without bais and would probably be well received here

>>19482777
They are one of the worst form of lit. They have little imagery so they can hardly provide the same level of visual pop as a manga and yet they offer just enough to fuck up your imagination. Most nips are also shit at writting(at least from a European perspective) and most translations are done by people who just -kinda- know Japanese so even if they are written well in terms of bare phrasing most of us will never know. The only genuenly good LN I read is Boogiepop.

>>19482777
I read the first volume of The Empty and Zeroth Maria because it was number one on some list and it turned out to be one of the worst things I've ever read. It was also my first and only light novel to date and it has led to me never want to give another one a go if this is the sort of thing touted as the best of the best.
Are there any that are actually good reading to someone who reads more than YA fiction?

>>19482777
Honestly weird that you would say this, I dropped Spice and Wolf around volume XIII because it kept getting more cringy and gaytheist. Everything after Lawrence abandons his dream of owning a shop for no reason and Cole joins the party is fucking gay.

>>19486561
If it wasn’t crap it wouldn’t be genre fiction.

>>19490600
As another anon pointed out they are not exactly high literature in the first place, and they become downright unreadable when they are translated by some dweeb who majored in Japanese in college.

You are out of your godamn mind if you think that LNs by and large are better than Western Lit. LNs are generally extremely trashy.

>>19490643
>gaytheist
what

>>19490672
If you can’t see how everything he writes about the pseudo-Christian Catholic Church verges more and more on fedora-tipping atheism, I dunno what to say.

>>19490660
So if someone tries to write genre fiction but writes something actually good it's not actually genre fiction?

>>19490744
Yes

>>19482777
>At least they teach us to be more human and loving.
I doubt it. Most weebs (like you) are anything but. Presumably because you have been reared on a mental diet of impossibly perfect human specimens who resolve everything through melodrama and faux-deep (but really nonsensical) conversations. No wonder normal humanity is intolerable to you

>>19491729
So how exactly do you define genre fiction?