Would you buy manga adaptions of light novels?
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Usually I don’t but I sometimes I do if I really love the series or the art is really good
Tearmoon Empire has great expressions and I love the series dearly so it is one of the few that I buy both of
The Apothecary Diaries manga I buy because I like the art but I may not continue to buy it as there are only so many series I can afford to buy
Side note: I prefer to read Unwanted Undead Adventurer in manga form because I find it more palatable and the manga cuts a lot of the dross of the novel
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I may be unusual, it appears. (
Why does no one look surprised?)I discovered Light Novels by finding mention in a manga I was reading of source material; that it was an adaptation of a novel, that many manga are adaptations of novels, was something I had no clue about.
That's not how it works in the US, after all.
Well, sure, Classics Illustrated if of a certain age, but I'd long since forgotten about those.That my start in anime and manga were works such as Urusei Yatsura, Maison Ikkoku, Mobile Suit Gundam, Dirty Pair &c probably has something to do with this; the US experience was a tad different back in 1988.
Being disconnected from the fandom for decades didn't help any.
So probably five or six years back is when I found out about WNs and LNs, if that long ago.So, um, yes, I would buy manga adaptations of light novels.
Perhaps more to the point, I'll seek out the LN for manga and anime that I've enjoyed. -
I'd also love to see LNs with more illustrations (best of both worlds?)
- the 'advantage' of a manga - you get to see what is described, i.e. a costume/dress/(or lack thereof) or armor/battle scene/fighting pose
- the 'advantage' of a LN - you get more plot- more nuanced character development, more detailed descriptions, more dialog
- the 'advantage' of an anime - you get to see/hear characters 'brought to life' or awesome action scenes - or monsters or whatever
I know I've mentioned it somewhere else in the fora - but I'd love to see/buy LNs with many more illustrations, or even a hybrid volume (every 5th chapter or interludes as manga ?) -- this is why I LOVE/BUY the JNC versions of LNs from JNC - extra art, bonus stories, author or translator notes etc. why give Bezos more money when the JNC edition is better (for less$$) but I digress
I'd love to see more volumes like the Bookworm fan books - the problem - how does it get licensed? how do royalties get paid? ---publishing a LN w/ artwork imported from the manga or an omnibus/collectors edition of a LN is (by definition) a derivative work - and would require an extra/additional license to be compliant with copyrights etc. (and the license holders of the LN and the manga might not be the same entities)because this wouldn't be easy - I believe the buying public would understand/pay the premium $$,
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I’m not much of an LN reader, so I only read Manga.
If I like the story premise, then I collect it, I’m not very picky or a harsh critic.
Although there is 1 exception, I do collect the LN’s of “The Irregular at Magic High School”. I wish Yen Press would also license the manga (or some other publisher), but I’ve given up hope. -
I am a big Light Novel reader. I am running out of space. Never got into manga much.
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Oh wow. This thread is 3+ years old, but I'm only seeing it now.
I usually prefer to experience a series as the creator intended. So whichever one might be deemed the "source material" would be my first choice typically. Although there are exceptions. That said, I'm not really a fan of comics or manga. I often find the visual information to be too noisy, and I struggle to make sense of who's doing what to who, often having to spend a long time on each panel picking it apart. For this reason, I usually prefer a textual presentation.
Some random thoughts:
- Star Wars was a movie before it was a book. I prefer the movie.
- V For Vendetta was originally a weekly comic. I prefer the movie, which has a much tighter presentation and feels more polished.
- Neverwhere was originally a TV mini-series, and Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy was a series of radio dramas (?). In both cases, I prefer the subsequent books that were like the perfect distillation of their core ideas.
- Most WNs come off as first-drafts of the story, so I tend to prefer the more polished and updated LNs that come after.
- For series that I love, I will purchase the manga adaptation in order to support the author and support the series, but I don't usually like them all that much.
- I can't think of any series that started as a Manga but then was later adapted to an LN, so I don't have that point of comparison.
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Sorry the cutoff for replying in this topic is 3 years and 25 minutes ago, too late.
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@Rahul-Balaggan Ahaha, I didn't know you had a sense of humor.
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@unknownmat Only allowed to show it once a year.
Serious mode time
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@Rahul-Balaggan said in Would you buy manga adaptions of light novels?:
Only allowed to show it once a year.
Huh. TIL. I had thought moderators were required to have it surgically removed.
