/lit/ - Literature

>>9858524
If you weren't too pleb, you could have read the Japanese and discerned the artistic talent present in the panel, which would have piqued your interest immediately. Alas, you are pleb, and so made banal implications as to the young anons intelligence as an all too garish attempt to distract us from your own ignorance.

You only succeeded in distracting yourself.

>Don't take my post seriously, kiddo. I didn't.

>>9857477
How has no one said Akira? Sure, it's well known, but it is at the pinnacle of artistic merit - especially within the sphere of manga/anime and film.

No one has said Deathnote either. Sure, sure, it's entry level, but it definitely has literary merit.

>top tier art, albeit with a genre-specific style (though an original and influential one)
>well constructed structure
>well executed concept
>big-picture themes
>layered symbolism
>philosophic bend

Even the number of episodes has meaning. Definitely literary, especially within the target audience - shonen.

And what about content like Osamu Tezuka's Buddha? I only read two volumes, and it was quite sometime ago (I rarely read manga anymore), but it still seemed quite literary to me then.