>>10160957>Which novel adaptations do you have in mind when you say this?I'm mostly generalising, but the first examples that come to mind are NHK, Aoi Bungaku and LOGH. They all try to be just a visual representation of the novel they are based on, and that makes them much worse that they actually could be, taking into account that they don't need to be reflecting the source as close as manga-based anime does, for instance. I'm not arguing that they are necessarily bad (although that's precisely the case for LOGH and NHK in my opinion), but they are ultimately lost possibilities. When I'm watching a manga-based anime, I don't expect it to surprisingly get all artsy-fartsy if the manga itself isn't such, but I expect it to polish the weak sides of the manga and add a couple of dimensions into the piece's inner world, or at least to make the already existing ones more detailed. But when it comes to novel-based anime, since it's essentially even a different form of art, I don't expect it to reflect its source's ideas as accurate as in the former case, but I expect it to recoup with the visuals and narrative. But since most anime directors have different priorities, I usually end up not getting what I want. The only exception I can think of is Gankutsuou, but even then I personally found its visuals to be sort of repulsive despite being interesting, so even then I didn't enjoy it at its fullest. But maybe I just haven't watched enough of novel-based anime, honestly.
