CATDOLL: Japan Kadokawa President Kawakami Yosei: The routine of writing "Dragon Aotian" type light novels

Speaking of light novels nowadays, the plot patterns of many works are almost the same, and they all follow the same routine. Among them, although there are many "similar" works of the "Dragon Aotian" type, the popularity has not decreased much! On the contrary, it has a tendency to become more and more addictive!

Recently, Kadokawa's president, Kosei Kawakami, mentioned the issue of the creative routines of light novels when discussing artificial intelligence. President Kawakami believes that light novels such as Long Aotian are not written by authors forcing readers to read, but are the result of self-selection by the huge group of light novel readers.

President Kawakami believes that "If the protagonist of a light novel nowadays works very hard, it's over, because readers can't project themselves into the protagonist and bring them into the work, while the heroine is developing in an increasingly convenient direction. Many light novels now have settings where superpowers are unconsciously attached to the protagonist."

Someone asked, "Although light novels nowadays won't sell if the protagonist doesn't get abilities and a lover without working hard, the protagonist's hard work is the essence of the story."

President Kawakami said this time, "Today's readers are unable to transfer their emotions to characters who become great people through continuous efforts. From the reading perspective, the protagonist of the light novel is the reader of the book himself, so the development of the light novel story is towards the direction of exposing the protagonist, and the traditional literary works also have the same tendency. This is really because the influence of the Internet is too great. Internet users will choose their favorite media and choose their favorite stories to start reading. Of course, from the past to the present, people have chosen media that they feel comfortable with, but readers did not have many choices at that time. But now the media is becoming more and more personalized. Through the Internet, readers only want to see the news they believe in and will only gather the information they want together."

Of course, President Kawakami’s purpose is to bring up his own views on the impact of the development of artificial intelligence on real interpersonal relationships. President Kawakami believes that humans may eventually become addicted to the information environment created by artificial intelligence, and the interaction between individual humans will gradually be replaced by the interaction between humans and artificial intelligence, because artificial intelligence will only push the information you want to see, which will eventually cause all of humanity to become frogs in a well in terms of thinking. The president’s words can be seen as readers actually like light novels like Long Aotian, and they will read them if they like them. If the novels sell better and better, then works with similar themes will continue to appear, just like the current intelligent recommendations of information clients, but there is no factor of artificial intelligence here, but rather a positive feedback from the market and creators on readers’ preferences. However, there are many light novels under Kadokawa that are not about Long Aotian. What do you think of those works when you say this, President?