Silver Tongue

jitterbugjive:

why are digital novels in game form called visual novels
while comics are called graphic novels?

Don’t games use graphics and aren’t comics more visual than text, unlike visual novels?

  1. masqueraccoon said: I think it may be a translation thing, given VNs are mostly Japanese in origin.
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  4. naomiknight-17 said: I guess it’s cuz graphic novels came first and hogged the more appropriate name?
  5. thedenofravenpuff said: One was picked first for marketing, when the other became a thing they had to name it differently to avoid mixups on brands. I think. I guess.
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