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Fun With Numbers: (Admittedly Arbitrary) Qualifications for Significant Print...
I’m about to dive headfirst into the manga/LN print data I’ve gathered and check how much the series that got adaptations benefited from them. It’ll take a week or so, but when I’m done, I’ll have...
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Fun With Numbers: Anime as Light Novel Advertisments in 2013
While light novels work a bit differently from manga in several key ways (stronger second-week showings, lower thresholds, etc.), they similarly often see big boosts after and presumably due to from...
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Fun With Numbers: Print Sales Bumps and Poking at the Demand Curve
It’s fairly common for manga or light novels getting an anime adaptation to receive some sort of boost in sales after the anime airs. However, both the presence or size of those bumps varies widely....
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Via Newtype USA: Various Novelists Interviewed (Various Issues, 2003-2004)
I wasn’t able to find anything particularly interesting about these articles, but I did scan them, so I figured I’d just post them in case they were something anyone else cared about. Two of the names...
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Fun With Numbers: Anime as Light Novel Advertisments in 2010
2010 was a year with fairly thin pickings in terms of light novel/novel adaptations. I counted less than 15 new series with books as a source, and 4 of them (Tatami Galaxy, Katanagatari, MM, and Shiki)...
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Fun With Numbers: Print Boosts’ Effect on Sequel Odds
It’s been well-established that an anime adaptation of a manga or light novel can be a huge boon to the source material. What’s a bit less obvious is whether or not boosting print material can fuel the...
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Manga/LN Chart Archives Updated
Just a quick heads up that my chart archives for both manga and light novels have been updated through the month of August.
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Fun With Numbers: The Long and Short of 2013
“How many pages long is the average light novel?” A friend of mine flat-out stumped me with this question a few days ago, and I’m willing to bet even odds it stumped you too. Neat, right? People...
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Via Anime Insider: Light Novel Adaptations (June 2008)
An article on the rise of light novels as a prominent source of anime source material.
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Weekly Light Novel Sales Charts for 2015 (January-April)
These are the weekly light novel sales charts for the first four months in 2015, via myanimelist news, continued from the 2014 post. I’ll be doing one of these updates every 4 months; if you want more...
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JinTai Staff Live Event Talk (Animate)
This is a translation of an animate article about a small-scale screening event for the first episode of Jinrui wa Suitai Shimashita where the director/writer/lead actress showed up and talked for a...
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Weekly Light Novel Sales Charts for 2016
These are the weekly light novel sales charts for 2016, via myanimelist news, continued from the 2015 post. If you want more recent data, there are other places where charts are available (e.g. the mal...
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Fun With Numbers: Some Visuals and Thoughts on Light/Serial Novel Adaptations...
Compared to manga adaptations and original anime, which tend to be all over the map, I used to view light novel adaptations as more of a solved problem – popular light novels almost always become...
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