Over the last few years, there’s been a huge boom in Japan’s light novel industry.
“There are some light novels which are written by editors, but the royalty payments go to the authors.
However, a light novel editor, who prefers to remain anonymous, recently spoke with web magazine Nikkan Cyzo about what he sees as a major problem with this method.
Industry veteran blames Internet talent scouting for massive young adult literature rewrites by people who aren’t supposed to be writing.