The "System" That Made Light Novels Suck vol. 1 : Debuting - Newbie Contest

[@pierredelapotterie5996]

From the two path you've presented, I would have thought that it's from web novel to light novel where the source of bad LN, due to writers are not necessarily trained/competent writers. Insightful video thanks

[@conkle7955]

It is sad to think that there are a lot of light novels that actually have unique stories yet they tend to get swept under the rug for not following trends. It is understandable that companies need trends to boost their sales, but it does not excuse them giving burgeoning authors rules that limit their creativity. Although I don't particularly consume any LN content due to the clichés, it did make me ponder on the knowledge that there are authors out there whose works are unique but did not get a platform due to such a bad judging system

[@foolish137]

The pages limit are understandable especially since you are supposed to write a 'light' novel and you need skills to write less while conveying more. But yeah traditional publishers kinda have their pro and cons. Webnovels are nice because what the people truly wants are the one that can get into the spotlight but a lot of writers need some editor help and perhaps that is why LN contests still exists; it's where the editors can find these unpolished writers. It's a shame they've limited their choice of genres etc due to the fact that reading a thousand submissions would be very taxing.

[@azhargenius6304]

this is very enlightening i was wondering what is up with anime the past few years and this is why

[@alpaca8128]

Great video! I never really thought about this topic before so everything was fresh and new to me. Looking back, most of the light novels I like originated as web novels so I guess this video proves a point 😅 Again, thanks for the interesting video and looking forward to part 2

[@KeebeThePlush]

Novel writers deserve a lot of appreciation for the amount of work they put into developing then and winning contests

[@Tilde_Shii]

Interesting video. I never took interest in Light novels, the only book that I actually took interest in(for now at least) is Hyouka. And that is a novel. But I can see the problems you are explaining here, certainly having short amounts of pages and expecting to get a long running series will be very hard. I like this type of video once in a while between the clips, would love to see more of your thoughts on the LN industry.

[@Унмеито]

I respect that you focus on writing. I mostly came here for VTuber clips but this video is also amazing

[@Sultan-wj3gp]

Interesting info, def gives context to all the garbage series around. Thank you for the video!

[@joshuagabrielcatindig7607]

Finally, writing content! And yeah, too much power fantasies and harem animes. Probably how unicorns in the vtube industry are made. At the very least, it has to have a part in the unicorn's genesis.

[@zigaudrey]

As a reader who read mostly LN on baka-tsuki (translated to my mother language French), I have a strict list of what kind of LN I choose. Its source has to be the LN itself, not based on Video Game or Manga. Its date has to be around 2000-2010. And I don't remember the third. I prefer J-Novel over Light Novel. Yeah, like Fan-Fiction and digital writing plus the length, LN is also an abused format. Some claim this is like Manga turned into Literature thanks to focus on action and dialogues.

[@wootoo3435]

今まで異世界系、なろう系にどうしても興味持てなかったから面白い動画だった！ 賞で評価される能力とその後に期待される能力の違いの話、小説とマンガで媒体は違うけどジャンプが進撃を落としてマガジンに取られた話を思い出した

[@kpthewriter]

Can we get some examples of such contests? I tried googling, but I found none of the contests you briefly show on screen at 0:43 . Can you tell us where you found them?

[@oboretaiwritingch.2077]

Here's a whole list of ongoing ones. ln-news.com/page/contest Generally you can go to any light novel label homepage and they'll have a page for 新人賞

[@kpthewriter]

@oboretaiwritingch.2077 Omg! Thanks a lot! 🤩

[@notgadot]

Light novels= Overused cliches One-dimentional caricatures Power fantasy Fanservice spam

[@leolee.]

LN for me is about dialogue. And long ass titles in their names

[@LinceNico]

5 min in the video and it seems nice and interesting, also nice ASMR voice (?

[@slevinchannel7589]

INSANE

[@joshuagabrielcatindig7607]

I dont even care too much about Oscars, imagine ine for each studio. Breh.

[@ejmuerterisefromthedead8924]

and its the reason why anime stories are becoming degrading at this point meaning, we starting to have hunger on good stories. like what animesnob(youtuber) said anime/manga/light novel are producing low quality stories and this is the sad reality we are facing it now. edit: btw i hope you can adjust your volume a bit higher