Thread:Luxartisan/@comment-5785681-20190623152354/@comment-5785681-20190624190101

I don't mean to be contentious, but I was wondering if you'd had a chance to read the article I provided? I know we agreed to wait until the group review, but the data in the article is clear and factual, making waiting unnecessary, imo, and allowing us to knock this item off the "to be decided" list.

To summarize the article: it's an in-depth interview with Shinichiro Hatta, a Kyoani producer of long-standing. In 2015, just prior to the release of the HS movie, he states that the light novel served as the inspiration not only for that film, but for S1 and S2. That's factual and referential. That being the case, the light novel can't be viewed as a subcategory to any media in the franchise. If anything, S1, S2 and HS-SD are technically subcategories of the light novel (as its precedent). I don't think that's a good idea to implement, but it allows for the light novel to remain independent, at the top of Top Nav for Books and where it is on the Category Tree, as originally outlined.

We've always turned to Kyoani as the final arbiter for things like this and I believe this interview provides sufficient evidence regarding the light novel to justify its classification as a stand-alone category and unique media item. It deserves it, don't you think? And as mentioned earlier, I thought the listing you provided for both the CT and Top Nav re: Books was about a fanbook resulting from the movie, not the novel or I would have mentioned this earlier. Truly.

Angelle 19:01, June 24, 2019 (UTC)