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View Poll Results: How does long titles in light novels affect your anticipation in its story? | |||
Very much, positively. | 1 | 0.78% | |
Not much, but it makes the series interesting. | 10 | 7.81% | |
It doesn't bother me at all. | 68 | 53.13% | |
Not much, but worries me a bit. | 30 | 23.44% | |
Very much, negatively. | 19 | 14.84% | |
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2013-01-25, 15:00 | Link #102 | |
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2013-01-25, 23:39 | Link #104 |
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I'll admit that when I see that yet another ridiculously titled light novel is to have an anime adaptation I tend to roll my eyes. It's unnecessary and not at all funny. Generally speaking these titles don't appeal to me anyway so it's difficult to judge whether there is any correlation between the length of the title and my interest.
Although . . . I did watch (and sort of enjoy) OreImo which I understand to be the progenitor of this trend. I would have to look back over my viewing habits since then but I don't believe I've watched a light novel adaptation since then. I could be wrong about that though.
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2013-01-26, 01:30 | Link #105 | |
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The problem: They can't draw interesting male characters so they resort to cheap harem antics to hide their weaknesses.
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2013-01-26, 02:03 | Link #106 | |
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2013-01-26, 02:06 | Link #107 | |
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Wait what? Since when does Illustrators have anything to do with what goes on in the story? Are you sure you're not mistaking Light Novels for Mangas where the artist cover story and drawing?
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2013-01-26, 02:18 | Link #108 |
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IIRC, VOFAN never drew Araragi or any of the males in the Bakemonogatari light novel series and Akio Watanabe ended up designing the men based on the descriptions in the light novels instead.
I don't know if there are truly light novel artists who have a weakness for the male anatomy.
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2013-01-26, 07:26 | Link #109 | |
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@ Marcus H. Look at the one who did Seitokai no Ichizon. Her male anatomy is funny in a bad way... |
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2013-01-26, 07:30 | Link #110 |
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Usually for me, the longer the title, the crappier I expect the anime to be. If the creators arent creative enough to make a short title, then they probably arent creative enough to stray from the otaku pandering cliches that I hate. Therefore I don't waste my time on it (unless I have already read the source material, or heard it was good from a friend)
from shorter title show I can expect it to at least not be bad but If it sucks in the first episode (i.e. K) I drop it. and to the person that said infinite stratos. . . so what? I saw it was bad in the first ep so I dropped it. longer titles dont even get watched in their first ep with me. |
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2013-01-26, 09:03 | Link #112 | |
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2013-01-26, 19:12 | Link #113 | |
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2013-01-27, 03:58 | Link #114 |
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They are teenagers and drawn as bishounen, and those are what sell in japan and most of those LN have "ordinary highschool students" as PoV MCs. What did you expect as protags that your japanese reader would identify with? Musclemen like Frazetta's Conan the Barbarian or guys like Travis Touchdown?
EDIT: Japanese readers would much rather identify themselves with characters looking like Hidenori and Tadakuni.
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2013-01-27, 06:02 | Link #115 | |
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It was about being drawn badly/blandly compared to females... |
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2013-01-27, 06:33 | Link #116 | |
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I think you are confusing writing and drawing here. Being able to "draw" interesting characters doesn't matter squat if you can't write them well. Conversely, being able to write interesting characters doesn't mean you can draw. If an author of a LN hires an artist to draw for his novel, the artist will have zero, I repeat, zero, influence on why the story is bad. I have no idea how you came to the conclusion that drawings are the deciding factor in how a story is written. |
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2013-01-27, 06:52 | Link #117 | |
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2013-01-29, 01:19 | Link #120 | |
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Well, we'll just have to see how the trend goes.
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