/lit/ - Literature

>>23126952
Is that so? I thought 新文芸 was just a catch-all term for published series which were originally posted online (web-novels).
>我々の定義する「新文芸」とは、UGCと呼ばれる、ネット上で発表された作品を書籍・電子書籍化して出版する小説の総称であり、これが従来の一般文芸とは明確に異なる点です。
Sure enough, ラノベ are separated from 新文芸 on Kadokawa, so I was wrong about it being a LN. I'm not sure it isn't ライト文芸, though, judging by this. Are you sure it's the demographic which precludes Overlord from being considered light-bungei, or is it something else? Because it looks like light-bungei actually is marketed towards people in their 20s-30s.
>対象となる年齢層は10代の少年が主人公となる作品の多いライトノベルに対し、ライト文芸は主な購買層と同じ20 - 30代以上(大学生や社会人)がメインキャラクターとなるものが主流である。
These terms are kind of confusing, honestly.