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40356514 No.40356514 [Reply] [Original]

For some reason most refuse to read japanese media, they will start a series and then constantly beg for a second season or more manga chapters to see what happens next, that may or may not ever come, but when you tell them that anime or manga is an adaptation of a LN or a VN and they could know what happens next right now they will vehemently refuse to read it.
I have even seen people complain about text on JRPG games when those barely have any text in them.
Also light novel thread I guess.

>> No.40357091

>>40356514
give me tl;dr i am not reading all this

>> No.40357178

>>40356514
I don't complain about second seasons, they'll come when and if they will
I don't read because I prefer anime for the voice acting and music

>> No.40357595

>>40357091
just more bullshit you can just ignore.

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40357614

>>40356514

>> No.40357644

I hate gay people

>> No.40357693

>>40357644
Same

>> No.40357897

>>40356514
I don’t know how to read

>> No.40357918

Some take it to the level of speculating about things that have already been written and treat "spoilers" from almost decade-old works with outright hostility. On the other side of the spectrum some worship the material and constantly ask for crumbs of "spoilers" while vehemently refusing to read them.
Some people are must be functionally illiterate and reading must be an effort similar to working out for them.

>> No.40357954

>>40357918
>speculating about things that have already been written
You know good and well adaptations will deviate from even works that were finished decades ago.

>> No.40358423

>>40356514
Audio-visual stimulation and effort. You get more color and noise from an anime or voiced game than from a manga or VN. You also don't have to click for the next textbox or flip a page if you just recline and watch an anime. Not to mention that in a LN you have to actually imagine what a character looks like when they show up. Ironic weebs and normalfags can't into LNs when all they're looking for is a new meme to share in their discord room. Consider why there are so many Persona fans that have never played an Atlus game.
Tl;dr - Lazy fucks are fucking lazy

>> No.40358507

>>40356514
It's a general audience thing not limited to Japanese media or western audiences. Consider how most people don't bother with the original version of adapted movies or shows within their native language.

>> No.40360906

>>40358507
nowadays people don't even bother with the adaptations themselves either, they just watch a youtube video about it and claim they consumed it

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spoiled for stimulation, cultural stigma against reading, mentally unfit finding reading excruciating like a fatty exercising and think he's dying after a jog, having gone through the visual adaptation and can't decide whether or not to re-read from the start or jump to last left off and miss details, having better things to spend energy and time on, having spent enough energy on a soul crushing job and just want to turn on the tv and zone out to bazinga

>> No.40362358

>>40356514
I like reading, not gonna read your post still lmao

>> No.40362372

I like to read, but I never know what to read. Also the local library sucks. I prefer it to other forms of media because it's more relaxing. I can take things at my own speed and I can fill in the details however I want to.

>> No.40362596

>>40362372
I want to read with others. People that I actually like.

>> No.40362631

>>40362596
But wouldn't it be annoying to reach the end of the page sooner than the person you're reading with? I'm too impatient for that.

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Light novels can be a slog to read. Pic related. It hasn't gone into any slaves nor any harems for the past 8 chapters, with the 9th being a dream sequence that doesn't go anywhere besides baiting future said slaves and harems. English TLs of such media can be dogshit either from official translators butchering it with cringe localizations or fan made machine translation making it disjointed to read.

>> No.40364368

>>40356514
Light """Novel""" is low tier literature, if you would even consider it one. It's the same as asking "why don't you raid the airport bookstore?"

>> No.40364624

>>40356514
Any light novels recommendations? Bonus if it is finished and/or short

>> No.40364628

>>40364203
>English TLs of such media can be dogshit either from official translators butchering it with cringe localizations or fan made machine translation making it disjointed to read.
I wanted to start reading light novels but this scares me a lot.

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>>40356514
>>40357918
>>40358423
>>40362284
>>40364203

>> No.40366613

>>40364203
To be fair this one is a complete fucking slog even by LN standards, I have no idea how it got popular with the western ironic weeb fanbase.
Same thing with mainstream stuff like Overlord and Tensura Slime, both of those are also slogs to read with not much happening each volume.

>> No.40366954

>>40364628
>current year
>he doesn't already know japanese
ngmi
everything suffers from english TL butchering, pretty much no exceptions

>> No.40368612

>>40366613
To be honest, they're all isekai within the light novel format, which is like detective noir stories in the pulp fiction format. Both have been iterated upon and done to death within their respective literary formats.

>> No.40368888

>>40368612
It's really hard to take this argument seriously when it's the exact same argument normalfags use to easily dismiss everything they don't like, including any other kind of "weeb media", made even more absurd seeing it in /jp/ of all things.
Made worse by this argument seemingly only ever coming from people that don't know the genre or medium they are dismissing at all, which is the only way the can make those sweeping generalizations in the first place.

>> No.40370247

>>40357614
vtumor dane

>> No.40370883

>>40358423
>>40362284
i will never understand EOPs and their pride over being as retarded as possible

>> No.40370938

>>40368888
Whatever. I'll just lurk more and read more light novels.

>> No.40370974

>>40358423
>Consider why there are so many Persona fans that have never played an Atlus game.
This is hardly limited to persona, it's an everything thing now.
At least touhou secondaries had the excuse the original games were hard + actually did play some of the fan games.

>> No.40371038

>>40358423
>>40362284
>>40370974
>anime? speedwatched at x2 speed or higher
>manga? speedread and consumed without remembering anything about it because they read new chapters of dozens of series at once as they get uploaded to mangadex
>games? played while making a beeline for the ending, constantly alt-tabbing to a guide full of spoilers to know how to cheese everything and miss nothing in their first and only playthrough
>vns/lns/anything with reading? they don't even try
>this is assuming they even bother at all in the first place instead of going to tv tropes, wikis and youtube videos to get their "lore" from other people just as lazy and just as misinformed
this is the average modern western "fan"
this is the kind of person doing theory/iceberg videos
it's not just ironic weebs either, even fans of western media are like this now

>> No.40371069

>>40364624
that question is so broad you are not asking anything at all, you are not even specifying if you know japanese or not
then again the fixation with closure and not wanting to read much stinks of EOP so probably not

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>>40356514
>Why do most westerners refuse to read?
Speak for yourself

>> No.40371174

>>40371135
>using listings to more easily share on discords and reddit how much you read
you read more for the cred than to actually enjoy it, you likely don't remember the details of half those books either

>> No.40371180

>>40371174
I refuse to use d*scord because of the type of people who post on there, nice assumption. Try me about any of the books on there, I'm glad to tell you about them. Sour grapes motherfucker

>> No.40371208

>>40371180
>claims to not read just for the attention
>instantly asks for a meme quiz for the attention
are you on elementary school or something?

>> No.40371225

>>40371208
You made a thread with a dumbass assumption and I proved you wrong. Go fuck yourself you overcompensating mutt

>> No.40371241

>>40371225
>he thinks literally one exception proves anything
peak westoid mentality

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40371269

I want to FUCK Komarin.

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>>40371241
>westoid
Get the fuck off my board, crossie. Drink yourself into a stupor and pass out in your own vomit

>> No.40371296

>>40362631
Listening to an audiobook together would be a solution to it, but I know that it's a way for smooth brains to pretend to pay attention while doing something else entirely.

>> No.40371548

>>40371296
Audiobooks aren't any different. I hate reading along to audio. I end up reading faster than the audio and get confused when I'm reading and listening to two different things.
I think the best solution would be reading to someone else. That way I can read how I want, practice speaking, and have fun with over dramatic acting.
Yes, reading to other people is the best way.

>> No.40371678

>>40371548
Taking turns reading and assigning characters to each other like a play could be fun, too.

>> No.40372030

>>40371678
That'd be very fun.

>> No.40372613

>>40362284
brain scans are total garbage

>> No.40374069

>Learned japanese years ago just for touhou, not afraid of learning or reading.
>Nowadays I can read most things fairly fluently and rarely get stuck on new kanji.
>Been reading a lot of JRPGs, VNs and LNs that don't get a translation and likely never will.
>Even if it has a translation I read the original anyway, especially when replaying games, it always ends up better.
Living the dream, don't care about what western faggots waste their lives with.

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>>40356514
Is this "bashing westaboo" thread?

fucking danbooru. I need to time my upload date between image I want to upload vs "image I think please their mods small dick" so my account don't get penalty for 'bad art'.
Their upload system is made do deny pixiv is another devianart with less search options

>>40371296
>knive is used for cooking but I know it is a way for criminals to murder people with
Your brain is smooth alright

>> No.40374380

>>40374131
God I hate Americans so much.

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