/jp/ - Otaku Culture

[Anonymous No.]

I just realized that VNs and Light Novels artistic values arent really different from low rate manga.

[Anonymous No.]

Congratulations. Now that you realize this you should be able to enjoy your hobbies more.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8119654
This.

Also, stop playing totally shitty VNs and reading comically bad light novels.

[Anonymous No.]

You'll find that pretty much all popular media has really shitty writing from a literary critic's standpoint. TV, movies, (especially) video games etc.

Why do people like these things so much still, then? Because they don't just strictly give us the experiences that we get with books (just words alone). Other media can give us visuals beyond description, interaction with the user, emotions we can feel more directly than just words on a page etc. Seeing and hearing stories has a much more visceral effect on the mind than slowly digesting descriptions by reading them, something like just seeing a huge mountain cloaked in fog, or an ocean sunset is always going to beat out someone trying to describe it verbally. To tie in real quick here, anime/manga/VN work the way they do because for example, just describing someone as having "really big beautiful eyes" doesn't reflect what the designers want us to see without becoming tiresomely verbose... there need to be at least a few pictures as guides, such as in light novels, and otherwise pictures/animation describing everything else.

The other thing is, good writers tend to sequester themselves to just books, because it usually takes coordination of teams that have ulterior motives (read: making money) to make other kinds of media, and that tends to water down the original writers' meaning/message.

Only when you have a long history of stories and "classics" that raise the bar of expectations of a whole medium, such as with books, do you suddenly have people defining things by whether they're trashy or not. Compared to classical literature practically everything on TV, every game, every anime, every manga etc would be considered trashy, with very few exceptions. And I just outlined why we're ok with that above.