Personally, I treat the anime endings as a 'good enough' ending in that I'm not actually going to go read up on the source material. It's often EXTREMELY unsatisfying and that prevents me from doing any searching. It might be the nature of the source material, though, as LNs in general seem like a step down in manga adaptations and of course the treasured VN adaptation that has mostly become a thing of the past.
I wonder if it's a financial risk thing that studios would rather adapt 20 different shows at 12 episodes each instead of having some longer runner shows, as you need to rely on audience engagement and investment instead of novelty. People just treat it as a momentary thing instead of something they'll remember and talk about years later. It's easier and less risky as a company, but it does weaken fandoms and the formation of financial and cultural juggernauts.

I think I'd much rather so fewer shows, but with longer runtimes. The world doesn't need 50 LN adaptations every season. The ones that are popular enough can do the story split like the older times and I think that's COOL.

I do NOT like it when the anime starts to diverge from the source material and comes up with its own dumb unsatisfying incomplete-anyway ending. Tegami Bachi I'm looking at you.

Maybe it's best to pick up anime for the journey; not the destination.

I like LN adaptations. Any author must be overjoyed when they hear their LN is being made into an anime. Also, the studio doesn't have to worry about comparisons to the manga.

>This leading to the entire anime somewhat suffering for it because it feels more like you wasted your time watching a "Read more by buying the source!" ad than anything.
I don't mind this, to be honest. It's gotten me to read the LNs for KageJitsu, Honzuki, and Mushoku Tensei, LoGH, and Re:Zero. KageJitsu became very unsatisfying, and I think the author bit off more than they could chew with a publishing contract and didn't know how to continue the series... Mushoku Tensei, I really have enjoyed. I'm currently on the 10th volume. Honzuki is also really enjoyable! I love Myne!! I'm currently on the 13th book of her series. I also tried the first volume of the LoGH VN years ago, but... I'm not sure if it was just me at the time, but reading it was giving me a brain aneurysm. Not sure if poor translation, or if the author just had no regard for pacing, but it felt very choppy and like "Reinhard von Lohengramm consulted with Kircheis" *Next paragraph* "Ten thousand ships lost" *Next paragraph "Thank you, Kircheis, we won." I'll have to try re-reading, because I absolutely adored the OVA series. I also tried reading the Re:Zero LN a few month ago, but it was also giving me bad vibes. I read a reddit posts saying the official translation was garbage, and I noticed the series constantly switching translators, so... Dunno, but the writing felt very stilted and I wasn't really enjoying it. I only really read like the first chapter though.

>>137268
classic tuuli

>>137268
this.
If you've ever watched something and thought to yourself that you really want more of it immediately, there's very little chance you won't enjoy the source material.
it is a bit of a cultural shock when you start but after reading a couple volumes from a series or two you really just begin to wonder why you were so afraid of reading text for so long. It also makes learning japanese a lot easier when you've got the motivation to read the novel a show you liked is based on, and makes it easier too since you have a general idea of how it's supposed to go

>>137263
>The world doesn't need 50 LN adaptations every season
Streaming services do. They want numbers so they can advertise their diverse portfolio of content always coming out. But even if they didn't, the profitability of an adaptation is the combined sales of the adaptation and the boost in sales of the source material, so a bunch of short adaptations getting people to buy a bunch of manga/LN/VNs is going to earn more than going all in on a handful of series. Most adaptations are also of ongoing things that they intend to keep ongoing for as long as sales keep up, so full adaptations are a huge and uncertain investment that is 100% going to see a big drop off in interest later on.

Artistically, I strongly dislike the tendency to stay on That's How It Was In The Original Avenue. Anime is a different medium and requires different considerations, expected runtime being an important one of those. I'd rather see more adaptations that take the story and adjust it to fit within the allotted time with a complete story, but too many people have fucked that up and it's safer to just do exactly what the instructions say and get a mediocre product people are generally accepting of than to risk putting your own artistic vision of it out there and certainly catch flak from at least some purists.

>>137268
>the LoGH VN
What? The original is a series of actual novels. The OVAs are a complete adaptation and are much more well regarded than the far more faithful DNT version.

>>137270
what was the piccy

>>137271
>The original is a series of actual novels.
Sorry, I meant LN. If I remember right, there is a PC game, but that's neither here nor there.

>>137281
Not LNs, actual novels.

>>137284
Whatever you want to call them... I have them sitting on my bookshelf.

>>137285
LN is light reading, nta but it's considered a novel because it isn't light reading.