/lit/ - Literature

Taiyo Matsumoto's stuff is pretty damn good. Read Go-Go Monster. It's pretty affecting, has some relevant commentary for neets and extended adolescents, and it's also one of the few comics that has actually made me jump back in fear.
I don't get the fuss over Tekkonkinkreet though.

I' m probably going to seem like a pleb for answering with a comic, but Go-go Monster by Taiyo Matsumoto is probably THE book most important to my growth from teenager to adult.
It's a coming-of-age story that I read at just the right moment of my life for what it was expressing to mean something for me deeply. The religious themes worked really well for me, as I had had some conflicting feelings about religion after having gone to Christian School for a good few years but was always skeptical. It's also the only book I've read that made me legitimately afraid, as in having a real physical jolt back.