/lit/ - Literature

>Moby-Dick
>either Neon Genesis Evangelion or Azumanga Daioh

I hate the fact that we can't meaningfully talk about a connection between anime and literature. The mods always delete any threads on here that we have which are anime-related. They do this despite leaving all the blatant /pol/ threads and /r9k/ threads up.

I'm actually fascinated by what interplay might exist between /a/ and /lit/. For my part, I love anime and manga, but I also love literature, and I find myself reading manga one moment and then reading a book from the Canon the next. I'm a writer myself, and if I'm honest with myself my exposure to anime and manga has bled into my work. Sometimes when I am writing interactions between characters, and go back and read it later, I am surprised by how much it feels like certain slice of life anime I have watched. Not in any exaggerated or cartoony way, but in the way that some anime, like Azumanga Daioh, tend to be extremely skilled at capturing moments in time and stretching them out into infinity. This is definitely a sensation that, in its own way, creeps into my writing. Not exactly, of course, because you can't precisely translate something from a visual medium into a written medium. But the sensation does seem to translate, or it does to me.