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Wikipedia calls it a Light Novel, so shouldn't it go under the LightNovel/ namespace?
Keet cleanup
It's unfortunately normal that you're running in circles on the subject. Due to various disagreements on how to approach it, and a still-existing tendency for Light Novel adaptations to have a better chance of making it out of Japan than the works on which they are based, even examples from actual Light Novels can be currently be found under both Literature and Anime/Manga on trope pages. What ends up where tends to be dependent on whether the Light Novel is available in English and sometimes the extent to which the troper themselves assimilates Light Novels to Anime and Manga.
I personally, am on the side of "if it's (currently) book/novel-only, it goes in Literature". My reason for this stance is that Western books frequently get adapted into movies and sometimes series, and we trope the original books under Literature without a second thought.
Edited by Nazetrime
Thanks for everyone’s input! I think I agree with the idea of the examples mentioned going under the Lit section, especially when faced with the example of Western book to movie adaptations.
(Re: the classification of this book, I’m not surprised Wikipedia calls it a Light Novel, but it’s technically not classified as such in Japan.)
Okay, I’m thinking about The Case Files of Jeweler Richard specifically, but I’m sure this isn’t the only work with this problem (a non-manga, non-light novel work getting an anime adaptation.)
First 6 volumes were roughly adapted to an anime. Volumes 7-10 do not have an adaptation (yet? I guess we don’t know).
If I were to list something from volume 9 on a trope page as an example, would it go under the Anime category, or under Literature?
How about something that wasn’t in the anime at all, but was in volume 4?
I keep running around in circles and just want to catalog stuff, dangit.