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Why do people refuse to read the source material of a series? Anonymous 10/01/2025 (Wed) 10:58:00 Id: c92a78 No. 73472

This insistence seems eternal (has been a problem since at least the early 00s) and only keeps getting worse as time passes. It doesn't matter if someone loved a specific series to death and literally cannot wait for a season 2 (that may never come), they will not read the source material. If the source is a LN, at most they will read the manga adaptation, catch up to the TLd manga chapters and completely forget the series ever existed afterwards. Somehow shit like MT are extremely rare exceptions that confirm the rule and even then the amount of people that actually read the novels are a drop in the bucket in the fandom of said series. >But anon, you are forgetting shounenfags! And that's where you're fucking wrong, shounenfags don't read manga, they follow twitter leaks and then get a summary of the chapter from their eceleb of choice.

Anonymous 10/01/2025 (Wed) 12:32:58 Id: 22c425 No. 73474

>implying he has a good measure of the demographics You're looking in the wrong places, for the incorrect activity, using wrong methods and with the misled assumption that people reading would be interested in posting there. Even nyaa torrent is a better reference to see popularity. >inb4 but that ignores stream watchers Irrelevant. Generalist and dopamine ruled websites tends to segregate different than slower and more specialized websites, if you want a dopamine-ruled website about LN and maybe manga I'm not sure what to say, even manga only exists as reaction pic (and people rarely asks the source unless it's H).

Anonymous 10/01/2025 (Wed) 13:10:21 Id: 3ba1fb No. 73475

>>73472 >Why do people refuse to read the source material of a series? Because they insistance that they either "Don't have the time" or "The anime is just like the game/manga/LN/VN so there is no need to waste time experiencing the 'same story' all over again". Actually encountered one of these people recently, and I think I unironically argued to the point of making the person cry. And how I got to that point was backing him into a corner by asking him to address his apparent implication that there is "zero difference" between playing Lego LotR and reading the actual Tolkien novels. Even brought up recent instances like the Bocchi The Rock anime being blatantly censored on the screenwriter's demand, and asked if people should be watching that version or experiencing the original manga.

Anonymous 10/01/2025 (Wed) 20:44:18 Id: bc7ca1 No. 73482

>>73472 I don't see the issue, they like anime for both its contents and its format, and the source material despite having the same contents has a different, higher effort format If people didn't like animation they would hardly ever start to watch japanese cartoons, as they are heavily outnumbered and frequently outdone by very old books. I really cannot imagine why a the best japanese books written in the last 30 years of their tradition would compare to the best western books written in the past 300 years Most people don't even claim to like anime writing, outside of rare cases. if jjk or any other shounen was a book I would not have been able to read it, the lack of depth would depress me

Anonymous 10/01/2025 (Wed) 20:46:34 Id: bc7ca1 No. 73484

>>73475 >Lego lord of the rings I.... Anon, do look out for the little guy

Anonymous 10/01/2025 (Wed) 21:52:07 Id: c92a78 No. 73492

>>73475 >Don't have the time I never really understood that excuse when the people that use it would instantly turn around and start wasting their entire day on tiktok/reddit/4chan/twitter/etc.

Anonymous 10/01/2025 (Wed) 22:10:31 Id: 055299 No. 73494

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>>73472 The average normalnigger doesn't care about actually getting immersed in anything, they only want distractions so their own thoughts don't eat them alive. >>73475 Picrel honestly. Which mind you is a completely different can of worms, because once you start you never end until you are fluent in japanese. If you are watching anime may as well use the sub instead of the abridged parody dub. If you are using subs may as well check on the manga to see what the anime skipped. Whoops, turns out the manga is not the source material, it's either a VN or a LN. May as well try translate that on your own as well given okamalators are not to be trusted. For those that endure it. it's a fun journey, but even outside normalfags, most people tend to settle for reading the LN in english and calling it a day.

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