Talk:Re:Zero Light Novel Volume 24/@comment-24727405-20200915163336/@comment-44261938-20200915201305

The LN is not adaptation to being with, it is a revision.

Yes, it is an adaptation. To this day, all volumes of the main series have followed the same arcs and same event structure to tell the story. The volumes contain countless paragraphs that one-to-one copypasta from the WN and even the chapters borrow the same names. Nothing of significance has been changed yet, just like with the anime, that's because they're both adaptations. Tappei has stated before that the anime did some things that he wished he'd done in the LN, does that mean that the anime now supersedes the LN in terms of canonicity?

By this logic WN is just editiorization of the very first verisn of Tappei's story which Arc 2 & 3 was vastly different & characters like Rem ot  mattering beyond Arc 2.

No, these are vastly different from some editor making him cut out or rearrange events or making him introduce plot device crystals for the sake of lowering the amount of pages the story takes up. An example of this is arc 1's battle between Reinhard and Elsa. In the LN, Reinhard didn't use the DP of Arrow Evasion and instead dodged her knife at the end. Tappei has confirmed though that this was only cut out due to the page count and is in fact still canon, it was even in the anime. Same goes for that Puck and Subaru scene that was readded in ep 26, it was clearly only cut due to the page count and so have many others.

Tappei still wrotes both of them and his editor is barely relveant beyond planning.

Tappei's editor literally told him "less words, more events", meaning he told him to cram as much into as little as possible and that is definitely what resulted in a lot of scenes getting cut. Writers don't have as much creative freedom as you may think.

Its just an excuse to dislike the LN & scapegoat someone else to avoid the truth that Tappeii doesn't think the WN is perfect even if you do nor is his final version.

It may not be perfect, but it's way better than what's for sale, which is the same exact product but with actually less content.

He thinks the LN is better WN thanks to the changes.

The author is not the one that gets to decide which is the better version, it's the readers that judge the story's quality (otherwise every author would give themselves a 10/10).

''If hadn't even read the WN firs this absurd discussion won't be happening since no different than manscript many authors turn into get refined before publishing. You just don't normally see them.''

It seems you are using 'refine'  to mean 'cut down'. I've heard that the first volume draft he submitted was 1000 pages long, the final product is 300. And maybe he did have a lot of new ideas, arc 1 did have new scenes introduced that do not just replace already existing ones, perhaps I would have liked to see some more of those. Unlike with arc 4 where a lot of good scenes were cut out for no appearant reason. It's not like they were even retconned, Subaru still stabbed himself in the throat in the LN, but we're only told "this happened" without being shown the scene. Goes for many other scenes, too. It's literally just abridging the story.

For that matter any prof writter would easily be able poke holes all the issue of WN, hell Tappei does himself so he's aware of the problems.

That authors make mistakes is besides the point, and a lot of them still slipped through even with these proof writers. But glossing over a scene in the LN while only telling us "this happened" only to have that scene later be shown in the anime adaptation is definitely not error correction.