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@maya_tanPosted 16d ago
QUESTION

Anime that were actually based as Light novels and not web novels?

I don't know many series that were based on actual light novels and not a web novels.

Some series i know are

Slayers

Tokyo Ravens

Durarara

Beautiful Bones Sakurako's investigation

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D @daenguyen 16d ago

Rascal Does Not Dream and Pet Girl of Sakurasou are both light novel first, same author too. Slayers is the funny one on your list though, it ran in a magazine and got collected into volumes after, which is the web novel pipeline with no web.

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A @ariademir 16d ago

Slayers being older than posting chapters online broke something in me 💀

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Y @yukidemir 16d ago

Magazine serialisation was the web novel of its day. Waiting on the next issue instead of refreshing a page.

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O @oskar70 16d ago

Every pipeline is the same pipeline:

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R @ren67 16d ago

Genuinely did not know that about Slayers

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L @lenarossi 16d ago

Lodoss War started as write ups of someone's tabletop campaign in a magazine. Best origin story going.

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A @arjun3 16d ago

There are hundreds of these, people only clock the isekai ones. Think of the web novel as the rough draft and the light novel as the version someone actually edited.

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S @solkapoor 16d ago

Rough draft is doing a lot of work there. Plenty of web novels get chopped to bits on the way to print and the people who read them first never let it go.

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A @arjun3 16d ago

Fair. I meant it's the version studios option, not the better read.

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R @rezahaust 16d ago

Which is kind of the whole answer. Studios buy whats already sold.

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K @kira_yam 16d ago

Oregairu, Oreimo, Tomozaki. Bakemonogatari too unless im wrong about that one?

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G @glassfable 16d ago

Danmachi and Classroom of the Elite too. Bakemonogatari never touched a website.

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N @noah64 16d ago

so basically anything older than broadband

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S @saltscript 16d ago

86 and Shakugan no Shana for sure. Holmes of Kyoto as well.

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