light novels

"The light novel is often a novelization of a manga or anime story, but completely separate stories appearing in no other format are common as well. The popularity in Japan is no surprise, if you think about it. Die-hard fans of popular series will read just about anything that includes their favorite characters, but despite the fact that light novels usually have a handful of illustrations, the fact it is prose means the readers use their imagination when thinking about how the story unfolds." (emphasis mine)

Thank the lord the children are finally moving away from those trashy comic books into picture books real books. You know they're good because they have fewer pictures and more words. Pictures bad! Words good!


Man, I never thought I'd see the day when people extolling the virtues of reading and prose would make me want to smack them with shovels. I guess it's a context thing.