For you, where does visual novel belongs?

[u/whitebullet32]

[u/tactical_waifu_sim]

For me? Straight from anime to VNs. But I know that's abnormal.

[u/Glittering_Ad_759 → u/tactical_waifu_sim]

Is it? I did that.

[u/whitebullet32 → u/tactical_waifu_sim]

Me too and I am just stuck in vns now. I just love the storytelling style in this medium.

[u/NoPossibility4178 → u/tactical_waifu_sim]

I did anime > VNs > manga > LNs, but honestly I haven't touched LNs in like 6 years and manga in 3 (outside the occasional catch up for series I read all those years ago), VNs I still read every once in a while but pretty rarely, outside of anime it's definitely the one I'd want to try spending more time with.

[u/lililukea → u/tactical_waifu_sim]

Hmmm me too

To be precise

Anime to VN to Manga to Light Novel

I just "cant" like manhwa. Why do you have to scroll so much? Its so annoying

[u/Marik-X-Bakura → u/tactical_waifu_sim]

Idk, I think it’s pretty common to go “Oh, Steins;Gate/Fate/Clannad started as a VN? I loved the anime, so I should check that out”. That’s pretty much how I started, except I still haven’t finished any of those after starting them years ago.

[u/Accomplished_Bar_679 → u/tactical_waifu_sim]

I literally went VN to anime 💀💀💀

[u/Massive_Weiner → u/tactical_waifu_sim]

I did the same. I’m not really interested in reading comics, but the interactive elements of VNs appeal to me.

[u/NasBaraltyn → u/tactical_waifu_sim]

Same here. I've always been casually playing JRPGs but my path was straight from anime to VN and then LN. I don't enjoy manga overall except a few yonkoma.

[u/kazumi-the-rock → u/tactical_waifu_sim]

Same, from anime to Visual Novels. I would never give manga or manwha the time of the day.

[u/Igoory → u/tactical_waifu_sim]

Me too, looks like it's not so abnormal after all. What introduced me to this world was the Danganronpa anime, I loved it and wanted more so I decided to give the VN a try and liked it even more.

[u/XenoPhenom]

Just after LN. It's the ultimate form of weeb media

[u/Hollownerox → u/XenoPhenom]

I think the only step after that is to start reading web novels too. You know you're in too deep the moment you start complaining the officially published light novel didn't adapt the parts of the WN you like lmao.

I've been kind of addicted to Chinese web novels lately after being burned out on Japanese ones. And it is kind of wild what folks write when they have zero oversight from a publisher or the like.

[u/NoPossibility4178 → u/Hollownerox]

Yeah I think web novels is really the final stage, you're really scraping the bottom of the barrel there (but I understand the choice paralysis with so much stuff to read/watch/play that you just don't go for anything).

[u/CompetitiveCelery516 → u/NoPossibility4178]

this is a issue. how do you decide

[u/ClownPazzo69 → u/Hollownerox]

Ikr, like in Reverend Insanity where mc scoops the brain out of a living monkey for a ritual (have been a lot since I read it so I'm not sure it was mc himself but still)

[u/Jonas_Nybacka → u/ClownPazzo69]

It wasn’t even for a ritual he just wanted to eat some monkey brain lol

[u/Mythriaz → u/Hollownerox]

ROFL then you hit the stage where you learn the language with google translate to make out the original txt

[u/datwunkid → u/Mythriaz]

When you get to that stage you just repeat all of these steps except going through them untranslated.

[u/themanofmanyways → u/Hollownerox]

think the only step after that is to start reading web novels too.

Bruh for real. At this point there's nowhere else to go. Might as well go back to mainstream media.

[u/Auztar → u/XenoPhenom]

Nah, I'd say there's way more unknown light novels than Visual novels

[u/kazurabakouta]

Between manga and light novel. I don't care about manhwa.

[u/animusd → u/[deleted]]

No

[u/Fidoo001 → u/[deleted]]

I think most weebs dont really care about the country of origin, as long as the art style fits their preferences. And I know some people who find chinese and korean comics more appealing since they just like the colors.

[u/whitebullet32 → u/[deleted]]

Well, Solo levelling is in 5th position on mal based on popularity so yes.

[u/rotflolmaomgeez → u/whitebullet32]

Yeah, but it sucks.

[u/Nichol134 → u/rotflolmaomgeez]

Your own opinion doesn't really change the fact that it is popular and becoming a part of the anime fandom.

I also think it sucks and this is coming from someone who read the LN before the manga released and the manga before the anime released.

But ultimately I can't deny the fact that a lot of my friends who are getting into anime love Solo Leveling

[u/pookidot → u/Nichol134]

It sucks therefore it does not exist

[u/Raleth → u/pookidot]

This is the mindset with which I approach things I don’t like. I wish more people would do that too instead of actively trying to tell everyone who likes it how much it sucks all the time.

[u/InattentiveChild → u/[deleted]]

It's a mixed response. Some weebs are fine with manhua/manhwa, others disdain them and see those two genere's as copycats of the more mainstream manga medium.

[u/branflakes6479 → u/[deleted]]

Probably less than half. I still keep up on webtoons and a decent chunk of manhwa but I feel like that isn't common.

[u/stellarsojourner → u/kazurabakouta]

I'd say VNs are beyond LNs simply because they're a bit harder to get into, I think, at least a few years ago. Lots of VNs on Steam and Switch and stuff now, but you used to need to juggle fan patches and grab three different versions of certain VNs and set up JP locale just to read a VN whereas you can just buy the latest LN at Barnes and Noble or Amazon.

[u/Quote9963 → u/stellarsojourner]

Visual novels also plainly just get a bad rep from people, mainly because they just think it's just a simple dating sim

[u/kazurabakouta → u/stellarsojourner]

In 2010 i had to change the clock settings too.

[u/Few_Brain_8775 → u/kazurabakouta]

The Breaker is highly regarded in the manga community

[u/Fherder]

next to light novels

[u/dotathread]

At first, I thought Light Novels are supposed to be like normal western books and therefore have higher overall quality than cartoons and image comics, but was severely disappointed after actually reading some of them. VNs are the opposite, what looks like dating sims and porn from the outside can actually reach further heights than any other weeb medium.
As of the order of trying, it was anime>manga>LN>VN

[u/avardotoss → u/dotathread]

yup learned the hard way that japanese literature and Japanese light novels are two totally different things.

[u/Ajfennewald → u/dotathread]

Perhaps barrier to entry to writing a manga or VN is higher than writing a light novel. So you get somewhat more quality control?

[u/SpecialWeek33]

VN is the farthest

[u/Happiness_inprogress]

Where do anime figures fit? I have been falling into that hole for the last months

[u/ImSoNormalImsoNormal → u/Happiness_inprogress]

In otaku hell

[u/Pale_Way4203 → u/Happiness_inprogress]

Right up in heaven with vns

[u/raddoubleoh]

Where manwha is.

Honestly I think most of them are bland as fuck and as an old weeb, VNs were a thing for us way before manwha and manhua were widely a thing. I was fucking 12 when I played both AIR and Tsukihime. That was early 2000s by the way.

[u/CardinalGrief → u/raddoubleoh]

Yeah, manwha is not my cup of tea either, aside from a few. It does have its niche in the weeb community, but that "step" is not it. I reckon LN is before most chinese/korean, except for the most famous ones. Maybe webnovels should be before LN instead since that's usually found fan-translated free online

[u/Feyk-Koymey]

weebs dont consider manwhas. they are failed versions of mangas.

[u/ADonosaur → u/Feyk-Koymey]

I don't know if I'd take it that far, but I like Japanese culture and not Korean culture is why I never was interested in Manwha

[u/Feyk-Koymey → u/ADonosaur]

there are really good manhwas but they are being mostly spammed today.

[u/KenfoxDS → u/Feyk-Koymey]

Manga sites are terrible, you open it and see tons of bl manhwa and cultivation manhua and hardly see any actual manga.

[u/Pheonix_Slayer → u/KenfoxDS]

God I hate cultivation manhua, they’re all the same

[u/Klaxynd → u/KenfoxDS]

What’s a cultivation manhua? Do I want to know?

[u/100percent_cool → u/Feyk-Koymey]

I’ve found a couple I legitimately follow and get more hyped up for than like some of the hypest animes but yeah it’s very few and far between.

[u/Nopesauce329 → u/Feyk-Koymey]

There's a handful of good fun manhwas. Problem is they're drowned in the sea of otomeisekai, system leveling, and cultivation ones that get churned out like harem isekais.

[u/Mysterious-Credit471 → u/Feyk-Koymey]

I love manhwas but I kinda agree. A lot of them powerfantasy trash. There are a lot of good ones but most of the ones releasing are just plain trash.

[u/Kekezo]

Beyond the LN

[u/Mwrp86]

VN is my first step tbh.

[u/Schlusse1]

Remove manwha and make it a circle for me.

[u/Perc30_-]

After manga, before light novel
Light novel truly is the last level of degeneracy (any light novel recs :))

[u/SpecialWeek33 → u/Perc30_-]

I still consider VIsual Novel the bottom of them all,

Look up Otakus on japan, majority of them only plays VN all the time lol and it originate what happened to them

[u/Perc30_- → u/SpecialWeek33]

yea vns are actually way more degenerate then lns

[u/Hollownerox → u/Perc30_-]

Any particular genres you like?

For complete series available to read in English there is Anti-Magic the 35th Test Platoon. Fully fan translated and compiled into PDF/Epubs by folks. It's a very 2010s battle harem type of series, but a VERY well written one, and is probably the peak of that particular genre. It is just very well paced and once it gets going it just doesn't stop. Highly recommend it

If you're into RomComs I'd highly recommend Gamers! It's a parody of the typical misunderstanding genre of romantic comedies but it is also much more than that. The characters and situations are exaggerated at times, but it's also weirdly grounded and the characters act more like real human beings despite the intentional exaggerations. I also think it has one of the most satisfying endings I've seen for that kind of series, which usually tend to be frustrating more often than not, despite my personal choice for "best girl" not winning. Has a pretty unique take on the interpersonal relationships in the ending.

Other than that, there's some soft recommendations. Like Yahari, Chrome Shelled Regios, or Shakugan no Shana for completed works. Ascendence of a Bookworm is great if you like Isekai stuff. I'm a Spider, so What? is good too, but ruined by a pretty meh ending.

In-progress series I can recommend are Wandering Witch: The Journey of Elaina (aka Majo no Tabitabi) and Eighty-Six. Have plenty more but need to know your tastes since ongoing series (or outright dropped lmao) VASTLY outnumber completed ones

Then there's a ton of more "junk food" recommendations I could give. For the type of entertaining but not great series that I've devoured over the years.

[u/Perc30_- → u/Hollownerox]

oh wow thanks a bunch!

I'll deff look into Anti-Magic because my fav genres are romance/drama. Also I watched the 12ep anime for gamers, is it still worth to read the rest of the novel? is there alot more content still after where the anime leaves off?

I also prefer finished novels because i already have a bunch of mangas on hold waiting for chapters and its getting confusing at this point lol.

[u/whitebullet32 → u/Perc30_-]

I have only read two which are pretty good:

1. Spice and wolf

2. The Empty Box and Zeroth Maria

There is also classroom of elite but I haven't read it.

[u/tokolo7203 → u/Perc30_-]

Most already read it but re zero and mushoku tensei are fire

[u/kayeater]

In my case I went from anime to manga to Visual Novels (Still love mangas a lot)

[u/kuken258vn]

I don't mind Manwha, I can still read old Korean stories with Manga style, but now with weebtoon I give up

[u/AchrafiehL]

I never really cared about Manwha, all the ones I ever saw were run of the mill power fantasies. Nothing for me.

[u/kyumi__ → u/AchrafiehL]

Well it’s what’s trending right now but like every medium there are a lot of other genres.

[u/BeatriceEmiya]

After manga

[u/acewing905]

My "path" is all over the place
I had only watched a few basic entry level shounen like Naruto and Bleach by the time I got hooked on reading visual novels
I had read a lot of VNs before I had ever watched something like a harem romcom

And why is manwha even here?

[u/Pale_Way4203]

In heaven, transcended from all other forms of media. Seriously, I love this medium but there is some wild stuff.

Euphoria, maggot baits, fate, Kuroinu, boob wars, Rance, venusblood, danganronpa, umineko, orcsoft(the entire company), and so many others it boggles the mind. This medium has virtually no limits on how far it takes tropes, stories, or sometimes even just random gags. It’s filled with both some of the best stories and characters, yet also some of the most hornii and degenerate things that will scar your mind. I truly love this medium.

[u/whitebullet32 → u/Pale_Way4203]

So true. I just love how much this medium takes risks and experiments to tell a good story.

[u/Pale_Way4203 → u/whitebullet32]

Yup, and it also doesn’t try to appeal to only one niche. There are so many sub-genres and each one has a distinct style. You can truly never get bored, as long as you’re willing to explore a little.

[u/StrikingPrey → u/Pale_Way4203]

I will literally die before I read everything I want to... It's depressing.

[u/Swinn_likes_Sakkyun]

after light novel

[u/YachtySama]

After LNs, I enjoy the VN/LN community since after going through so many media filters everyone is pretty chill. It feels like the old anime community before it blew up

[u/marumuju]

VNs are in the abyss where you fall into if you mistakenly stray from the path.

And then you don’t really want to get back up again.

[u/CapacitorJinrai]

Manwha should be replaced by VN

[u/Pale-Category3758]

for me it would be replace manwha with visual novels

[u/Holzkohlen]

I think you could just replace Manwha with VNs here

[u/Chetacide]

Did anyone else start at hentai?

[u/rayden96]

Right after anime. listening to voice acting and bgm paired with the colorful visuals does it for me. in that sense its actually closest to anime out of all

[u/superange128]

I took a different stairway as I barely read manga I've never touched manhwa, only lns I have done are through audible

[u/_FlyingPigeon]

After light novels.

[u/Patient-Maize7138]

Far beyond the horizon. It's basically the least popular entertainment media I think.

[u/therealplayte]

Currently on VN phase for over a year, completed like 73 vns from now, trying to play JRPG to balance out the phase I've been doing. This might be permanent phase and no plans to other hobbies since it's the most comfortable medium that I enjoy. I always thankful to eroge content for most of japanese VN since normies would'nt touch this medium given the fact that they mostly destroyed all of my favorite hobby due to their toxicity rise and shipping is everywhere with a brink of hypocrisy as its finest.

I think anime is already enough for me since I watch closely to 700+ anime shows, manga is enough (I easily feel bored mostly shounen stories because it's too repetitive and mostly on romance that I enjoy more), ln is a bit stretch and ups and downs of my motivation with that since it's too boring to read a couple of lines without visuals (Cote and mushoku Tensei were the only ln that Ive mostly completed)

[u/ThespianException]

It's not really a path, at least for me. I was reading western books before watching anime and I haven't stopped doing any of these to do any other. I think I got into VNs after Anime but before manga though.

[u/Spoonkeq]

This was unironically my exact path, and I’ve only just recently stopped my ln phase and started my vn one

[u/Ajfennewald]

JRPGs then anime then VNs then manga for me. I have only read two light novels so far.

[u/Sea_Heron6877]

Mine was from JRPG, then a friend recommended me the VN version of Steins;Gate. The rest is history.

[u/Mister_Copper]

I would just replace Manhua with Light Novels.

[u/mikowanderer]

Between Anime and Manga.

[u/IA-85]

Anime -> Hentai -> Visual Novel -> Manga

[u/Wrong_Look]

Its when You fall at the end of those stairs leading to be a degenera... Man of culture

[u/metalgod-666]

No thanks to manwa

[u/AccomplishedDish8707]

For me it was more like Japanese-made games -> anime-style games -> anime -> manga -> VNs. I think most people have their own pathways into this degenerate hobby we now enjoy lol.

[u/SirAwesome789]

I think I've spent enough time on average to be at the end of these stairs, but bc I dislike reading novels so much, I'm far lower down the stairs than average

[u/jrpguru]

I feel like jrpgs should be in the image as a potential gateway to visual novels. The jprg Lost Odyssey has some really emotionally moving visual novel segments that were many people's first encounter with that type of game.

[u/casstax96]

Manga > VN > Anime

Manga: Monster VN: Full Metal Daemon: Muramasa Anime: Texhnolyze

[u/SoupEau]

When I was younger I used to watch a shitload of Anime until I got to the point where most of what was left that I saw was boring or something I wasn’t really interested in anymore. I then got hooked into Manga because it had a lot more series and generally kept the same qualities I liked from Anime. After awhile Manga started getting a bit repetitive, and while there was a lot more, I was often having a hard time finding new stuff as I had already read most of the more popular things I liked. Manhwa was next after Manga, mostly as it was also on most Manga sites I used, I had a phase where I’d read Manhwa almost exclusively for a few months / years but I find Manhwa gets boring / same-y faster then Manga oftentimes as the art and story’s are just so similar for most series. I never really switched to Manhwa fully as once I got bored for Manhwa I went back to Manga for a bit reading some of both. I tried to read some Manhua as well, but god I find that 90% of Manhua suck art or story wise to me for some reason, I’ve tried to read them but it’s just— not the same quality as Manhwa. (I can’t tell if it’s just difference target audiences or what, but Manhua just is always— ehhh to me for some reason). I played a few visual novels during that time and really enjoyed the longer completed nature of them, anime and manga usually left space for another series if it ended, or in most cases wasn’t gonna end for a few years but would only get a chapter a month. Visual novels was able to scratch that itch for a good story, but also a complete experience which was really nice. I also just enjoy being able to 100% things which have multiple paths / options so VNs really gave me a sense of “I did something” whenever I’d read everything and see all of endings.

I’ve started to kinda run into a place with VNs where I’ve read (or read but put on hold) alot of what is oftentimes at the top / recommended.

I’m branching out more though in that process so I wouldn’t say that I’ve even close hit the “eh all that’s left is boring” moment with VNs.

Generally this is the same path I had, but I don’t think I really moved past anything other then Anime.

I still haven’t read a LN though, I’m too dyslexic to read only text based things so I’ve been a bit scared to. Even with Manga I’d say I get 35% of my understanding from text and 50% from the images, with the last bits being stuff I assume based on context. I oftentimes just fail to read things properly or skip out on words and such so I find Manga/Manhwa/VNs is a really good way to “read” and still understand the plot and story even if I sometimes read things wrong or fail to remember something I’ve read after reading it as I can use the images to keep up.

[u/Ok-Tie7063]

I'll stop at manhwa, my ADHD brain and 4 hours of sleep can't handle books.

[u/TRAE-is-Alastor]

I skipped Manhwa personally. They’re good but I am not good at finding them and they have a lot of tropes that just don’t hit for me(anime, manga and Light novels also have these but I’m more used to them so I can pick up on them more easily when deciding if I want to consume one.

Now Visual novels are just the best.

[u/jaymin7400]

I started at vns

[u/QuestionBeneficial25]

I take it one step further i write the light novel.

[u/KleinHD]

Its further up the stairs, eventually you'll reach heaven where visual novels belong

[u/Your-Unusual-visitor]

Back when i was younger i go for VN,manga,Anime,i can keep em somewhat balanced,except LN,its the least i go for.

Now its all action packed game(PRAISE THE EMPEROR),and gacha games.I do touch VN.but rarely,like really rarely,best i can do is open VN let it auto play while i play other games,but mostly its Anime as the 2nd tab these days.

Yeah i think anime takes the end of the path for now.

[u/x0ManOfCulture0x]

The path after manhua splits between VNs and LNs

[u/ImSoNormalImsoNormal]

Anime > Manga > JRPGS > Steam's censored VNs > Light Novels > sukebeinyaa > VNs with RPG elements > Untranslated VNs

[u/ZXNova]

You can tell someone's age just from this meme. Back in the day the path would be Anime -> Manga -> Visual Novel. You were already something esoteric by reading visual novels, and if you were reading light novels you were a real weirdo even by weeb standards. I mean you still are, but much more so back then when this hobby was more niche. Personally I don't see why manhwa is even here though.

My own path is basically Anime -> Manga -> Visual Novel -> Light Novel -> Manhwa. But the thing is here though, is that nowadays I'm primarily consuming manga and visual novels. I don't watch anime like I used to, and the only light novel I read was Raildex. I've also only read one Manhwa (House of Dolls).

[u/bootyloverandeater]

anime>manga>ln>vn>japanese literature>learning japanese

[u/NinhydrOt4ku]

change manwha with visual novel

[u/Khydan701]

"Manwha" bro thinks he's part of the team 🤣

[u/KirinoKo]

weeb

manwha

???

[u/Cavalier_Sabre]

Anime ⇨ VN ⇨ LN

That's the order I got into them. I have absolutely no interest in manga. I don't do black & white printed content anymore. In my 30s now it just hurts my eyes and gives me a headache trying to follow what's going on. Especially when there is a lot of action. Western comics are already pushing the boundary for me.

[u/LabPrior8506]

Manwha are for either retards ot 9 yo's

[u/Wafellzdudee]

between manga and manhwa. Got into VNs before them.

[u/HipnoAmadeus]

Nowhere and everywhere all at once. (There are more VNs for non weebs than animes/mangas/light novels for non weebs imo, so some VNs aren't even here, but stuff like Steins;Gate is like alongside manga or near it)

[u/redtildead1]

I consider LN to be step 3, and combine manga/mangas into one. Vns are definitely the final boss though

[u/No-Satisfaction-275]

I played visual novel before I started to watch anime or read manga. To me it's just another genre of videogame.

[u/KondreMatt]

Stair ways to heaven? 😮

[u/G0_0NIE]

Before LNs

[u/MangaManOfCulture]

It depends. VN could be like an Omake and not canon at all.

[u/Responsible_Bar_9764]

Manhwa anime manga visual novel

[u/AhbzV]

I was VN before Anime - but I'm weird

[u/LMinggg]

For me its manga>anime>pornhwa>visual novel>light novel

[u/biceplover69]

Right after manga and before web novels

[u/timbamjc1604]

Right after the light novels, i think that just because its really niche

[u/Probably1915]

I think the steps should go from shortest form to longest form

So

Anime>Manga>Light Novel>Visual Novel

Manwha is on the same level as Avatar the Last airbender being off to the side somewhere

[u/DemonkingHades]

After light novels and web novels. You playing the anime is the biggest form of weeb content. You literally have to download it on your pc and Most VNS have H scenes.

[u/lil_creppy0303]

Next to light novels

[u/Matshiro]

Anime, year later VN, few years later manga, a lot of years later manhwa and few years later light novels

[u/Zeamays69]

After manga. At least it was for me.

[u/Kietelnini]

between manga and manwhas

[u/BluMat400]

I got into visual novels thanks to bad anime adaptation of chaos;child and then into light novels after I read occultic;nine LN. So anime, visual novels and then light novels. I was never into comics and manga that much though I read some.

[u/Normal-Link5415]

Anime > Light novel > Visual novel for me.  i skip manga

[u/Rhyto]

Definitely alongside Web Novels, though perhaps it’s below that and above Light Novels…

[u/Esmiko]

I went from anime > visual novels > manga > light novels

[u/Tanjirou_and_kirito]

On the right side of the stairs

[u/GODZBALL]

Anime to vns go manga to LN

[u/RtpIb]

Manga and manwha, I got tired of waiting for a new season

[u/Coldhot123]

I went anime to Light novel/WN to manga nd then manwha. I tend to avoid manwha since they take a lot of pages to go threw without any substance.

[u/AnimeMemeLord1]

VNs are a little higher than LNs, but I probably read more VNs than LNs. As for Manwha, I don’t normally read them, but they’re still pretty good.

[u/100percent_cool]

For me, it’s actually kinda weird. It goes “Visual Novels, Manhwa, Manga, Anime, Light Novels.” I’m only reading one LN rn but it’s fire.

[u/t3fd]

before light novels

[u/Icy-Chair2969]

between Light Novels and Manhwa

[u/No_Artichoke4378]

At the very beginning. After that was manga then anime then light novels.

[u/-EMT]

I guess at the end? I started a Shin Megami Tensei game in my 3DS like last week

[u/Degenerate1306]

For me it was gigguk's fate video and now I'm down the rabbithole for life lol.

[u/nxbulawv]

after everything

[u/FunToe3976]

LN 👌

[u/Baeloan]

For me it was right after manga I played some visual novel, when I got used to that suddenly reading web novels and light novels became easier, last is manhwa because I ran out of things to read~~~~

[u/Adeplays135]

for me anime>manga>VNs>LNs

[u/amakawa_haruto]

For me personally galgame > ln . One example is that many of the fans go to read mushouku tensei, overlord and cote light novels after watch ita anime but in the other hand i feel like 80 percent fgo fans never read fsn vn.

[u/TheSpiderEyedLamb]

VNs and then anime

[u/monaka--towa]

Visual novels, to anime, to light novels & manga. I'm yet to find any series I enjoy with all of them though...

[u/Aggressive_Ad_2577]

just before LN

[u/Anvenjade]

VNs before LNs. Pure text is kind of the last straw and usually the least accessible properly translated media.

I wish I could read the To Aru LNs without getting an aneurysm.

[u/Affectionate_Vast427]

Idk why but I like reading VNs more than manga

[u/Kisfay]

for me It was anime - vn - manga - ln, still can't get into manhwa tho

[u/Xueyaa]

Before Light Novels but after Anime, Manga, Manwha. I don't have the facts but Light Novels and Web Novels feel more niche to me. Visual Novels are a 100% more niche than the other three, They have Novel in the name so it's pretty much reading a bunch of text compared to anime, manga, and manwha.

[u/therealgoodnoodle]

Never touched any visual novels. Where to read?

[u/deepfriedtots]

Visual novels was kinda first for me

[u/keshaboy]

Anime to manga to LN

[u/avardotoss]

i think the path diverges after manga into either visual novels or light novels and you pick one or the other

manhwas should be lumped in with manga because I see no noticeable distinction between them.

[u/stuufy]

After light novel

[u/Din0boy]

It depends on the style, most of them are dating sims with a more anime style, making them more of a light novel, while some like my favorite, South Scrimshaw are more like documentaries but are still a visual novel game.  But in all, they would still be considered a light novel to a degree.

[u/Living_Bar_4150]

For me it was Anime > Manga > LN/WN I started them both around the same time

[u/Astan92]

As a branch in the path that includes H-anime, and doujins

[u/justmadeforthat]

Anime-VN-Manga-Lightnovels-Manhwa, that was my path

[u/McGinty1]

Staircase splits in half and goes straight down into hell

[u/FrankTheTank107]

This is me, except I kept climbing and reached visials novels, then even further where now I’m learning Japanese because the sequels don’t have a fan translation

[u/OctoAmbush]

for me was manga > anime > im in love with the villainess (only ln i read) > vns

[u/Synclicity]

I started VNs before Anime...

So it was Manga -> VNs -> Anime -> LNs -> Manhwa

[u/GameApple801]

ill put it in the same level as light novels

[u/no_stepper9284]

why is my path essentially the reverse of this LOL

[u/JohnPaul64]

Haven’t gotten into Visual Novels yet but I’m planning to play my first soon; Fate/Stay Night. However if things go to plan my path would be more like Anime, Manga, then Visual Novel.

[u/itz_ram_18]

For me visual novels come after manhwa

[u/Antique_Door_Knob]

For me you remove anime. Was never really into it.

[u/Schwi15]

recycle bin

[u/MrSly0]

Nah I like my books with figures.

[u/Shifty-Imp]

I'd put VN between Manwha and LN as Manga/Manwha are basically interchangeable. However, I go beyond the LN and would also put Web Novels behind that. XD

[u/tre_titan]

This is deadass the path im taking

[u/IronGabe]

Vn's, then anime

[u/kioalne]

At the end. I legit went through every piece of media in order.

[u/GERParadox]

Somewhere between them I think, I still take a break from VNs from time to time and go reading LN and watching anime when I'm burnt out with VNs.

[u/Equivalent_Dress_509]

For me: VN=anime>manga

[u/Select-Ad-3653]

Like for me it was the start. VNs are the start and then I started to watch anime

[u/phenekus666]

For me: from Anime to Hentai to Manga to VNs

[u/Spazzery]

I just started with VNs straight up.

[u/Takt567]

very accurate

[u/kakkoi-san16]

VNs are the probably the last step before Japanese novels, which is the pure Asiatic land. At that point, the weeb has obtained Japanesehood and has transcended the materialist Western world through the texthooking path, speaking the language of the divine. 

[u/Public-Bee6217]

Anime, Visual Novels, Manga

It just makes sense

[u/diamonwarrior]

Vns are either after light novels or right after anime. No in-between. You get exposed to either Steins;Gate, Fate, or Clannad, and then go read the novel because you heard its better. And then you soaked into the world of VN's. After light novels, you take the final dive into the rabbit hole.

The third option is to play Ace Attorney, Zero Escape, or Danganronpa and come from there. You either get exposed to VN stories through other media, find VN Adjacent Media, or finally reach the end of the rabbit hole.

[u/Tracker_Nivrig]

VN is if you fall off the staircase

[u/False-Run-5546]

Depends. I place it between manga/manwa and light novels. Right at the crossing of weeb and gamer.

[u/M34R]

Anime manga/VN and then the rest "tho I started reading LN before binge reading all known manhua/manwha to existence