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[dLtMs0 v 5.4] ITT SHINJI IS CONFIRMED FOR GROSSEST; Days till Pokestick Day: check new thread

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I like series where best grill wins. That was one of them.
 
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Forgetting to bring towels into the bathroom when you have a shower is not nice when you like to keep the rest of your house pretty cold.
 
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Oh boy, more Nurutu money grabbing confirmed. Now it is an alternate reality book where coolest guy didn't go to the dark side.
 
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I wonder.

Would certainly rather watch a 12 ep adaptation of some high school romance bs than play 50 plus hours of it. Those type of visual novels, the Key clones, often have worse art in VN form than they do anime. That is just a personal opinion though, obviously.

Those that try to have a bit of substance are potentially better in VN form. If the translations and art aren't horrid then it could be worth putting the time in. Whilst I didn't love Saya no Uta I doubt the average anime adaptation would improve it. Maybe Steins;Gate would fall into this category, I seem to remember you saying the characters were something like shells of their VN selves in the anime. Still not going to play it though.

People that genuinely try to claim that VNs are superior to anime and manga are deluded imo. Why the elitism? Because you are reading more word?

Maybe one day I'll awaken true weeb powers and learn to love the format.
 
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Well one reason that people get into Visual Novels rather than their anime/manga counterparts is because of the amount of cut content. It's pretty much the same reason I'm hesitant to get into a 12 episode anime that has 12 volumes worth of manga, or most short-ish anime that associated with Light Novels. I feel like I'm missing out or will be given a half-assed, unsatisfactory original ending that basically tells me "go buy the manga". When I was younger, I used to watch anime of manga I read and vice versa all the time, but nowadays I pick and stick to one, and generally I choose the anime as physical manga are becoming harder for me to come by affordably.

In the case of Visual Novels though, it's almost inevitable that a good amount of content and almost all choice will be gutted (with a small bit of the latter often being released in the way of OVAs or, rarely, completely different adaptations). As a result, it's understandable that an anime and a VN would be attractive choices. Generally people will play the former to get the full experience and then watch the latter to see how it's adapted. And there's nothing wrong with only watching the anime, since it's basically the same as watching only the anime of a manga original (which is pretty much all I do nowadays). And then there are those that just want a text-based experience, one that they want to read rather than watch. Heck, maybe they don't like anime at all and have a thing for VNs (and possibly manga). In the end, they're just alternative media.

Though personally, my favorite VNs are the ones that engage the player and generally don't gain adaptations, such as 999, Virtue's Last Reward, and the Ace Attorney series. Though then you get into the gray area of what qualifies as a game and what doesn't in terms of VN.
 
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I can certainly agree with most of that. Although there are undoubtedly cases where cutting content can also be seen as cutting bloat, not everybody agrees but I enjoyed the Clannad anime far more than the VN. Of course I'm glad I went back to the source afterwards just to do the other routes.

If the anime becomes unwatchable due to cuts it is of course a different issue altogether. I remember 11eyes and Higurashi being somewhat like that. Lucky the manga is okay for Higurashi as the VN looks horrendous.

Only heard of one of those games.

Despite my predominantly negative feelings towards the format I do genuinely believe that there is potential in the medium. Kind of like how the PS3 game Journey has so much impact despite being an extremely simple puzzle game under the hood. If any of you ever find a VN which is breathtaking do tell me and I will play it.
 
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