/lit/ - Literature

>>15198570
There is a huge difference between VNs and anime, and good reason to prefer the latter.

While both utilize visuals and audio, the context is totally different. An anime has to tell its story within a ~20 minute time block with room for advertisements to interrupt every 5 - 9 minutes. This fundamentally effects the structure of how it gets written. Not to mention that aside from audio, the primary form of communicating is through animation. Meaning the visual component is most significant with audio coming in second.

With VNs the visuals only really serve a purpose to communicate a background of information that the writing puts into greater context. The visuals exist primarily to buttress the context of the writing, and the audio enhances the mood of the writing. Not to mention that like a book a VN is a completed work. The writer has nearly as much power in the pacing he wants to tell the story as a novelist would. When watching an anime you have to follow the Director's pace, and the writing is severely limited to having it fit into a 20 minute format. Typically making a beginning, middle and end structure for every 20 minute episode.

In short, a VN when it capitalizes on its potential is essentially an enhanced book. Having the strengths that books do, but having sensory additions (visuals audio) to enhance the experience. While few manage to utilize this potential, there some that do and they have been an enormous pleasure to read through.

(I will cede that even among the best VNs I read their prose rarely compare to the prose of a well-written book. But again it isn't as necessary when you have appropriate visuals and audio supporting the writing. Infact ornate prose can be redundant when you've already communicated the point via the visuals/audio.)

>>14119155
Infinite Jest is the SubaHibi of literature