Talk:Wendelin von Benno Baumeister/@comment-103.91.232.18-20200618235409/@comment-45880342-20200620153043

Whether it's a problem is a personal thing. From what I'm told, there are very few differences between the LN and the WN both before and after the Empire Rebellion Arc. They amount to minor grammar and phrasing differences, most of which translation groups have already taken care of in the process of making a translation at all, minor shifts in the sequence/timing of a few events for the sake of making the plot hit its story beats a bit better, a removal of some of the writer's over-zealous repetition of certain comments, and correction of a few continuity errors. None of that's really all that significant. But during that arc, there are much more significant differences. Several sub-plots are moved around, sometimes quite a bit, including one that the LN moves to after the arc entirely. One major show-down that happens right near the end of the WN translations is split into two showdowns in the LN. And there's a side-character referenced starting in LN 9 all the way through at least 11 that isn't in the WN at all (so the first time you hear of that character, and they refer to seeing them again, you're left wondering where the hell they even came from). It's thoroughly confusing if you aren't aware of the differences. But if you can get past that one big speedbump, the LN is then much better constructed overall, largely because that's one of the major roles of the publisher's editors in serializing the content to begin with.