/lit/ - Literature

>>10425056
Unironically eva.

Probabaly Monogatari or Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei

Eva utena lotgh

>>10425056
what's the most /a/ light rat chore?

>>10425056
Also this is relevant.

>>10425118
>basic btich taste

>>10425118
nausicaa, yesss. I'm getting that for Christmas

Naruto and Yosuga no Sora

>>10425123
Feel free to recommend us some of your advanced taste, anon.

Bernard-jou Iwaku is /lit/ personified

>>10425131
see
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>>10425134
Op asked for /lit/ anime, not gay anime that has a /lit/ character.

logh
msg
ping pong
gits

>>10425142
>In her own words, Sawako finds it too much work to actually read, and would rather just make others believe she spends a lot of time reading.
Literally this board.

>>10425056
Almost anything from Dezaki or Ikuhara, with Utena being the crown jewel. Sailor Moon S, Mawaru Penguindrum, Versailles no Bara, Ace wo Nerae, and Oniisama e... are all strong picks.

Woke:
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Joke:
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>>10425214
Is Utena's quality mostly a result of the manga writer or did Ikuhara really bring something special to it when he directed the anime?

>>10425284
Ikuhara without a doubt.

>>10425284
all ikuni. if you google a bit some people have written about the differences, and the anime is superior in every respect.

>>10425291
>>10425346
huh, that's cool. And this whole time I was thinking a girl actually made a great toon.

>>10425353
>I was thinking a girl actually made a great toon
Well, kinda?

>>10425214
>mawaru is a top pick
This is how I spot the pseud

Mononoke. A few select Yuasa ones depending on who you ask. In my book, Kaiba, Tatami Galaxy, and The Night Is Short are pretty /lit/, though the last one should have been more like Death in Venice, but you can't expect too much 20th century European bourgeois material in your Japanese cartoons

>>10425375
>Yuasa
Fucking pseuds

Eva

>>10425381
>4chan is /a/

I watched The Tale of the Princess Kaguya this week. It was somewhat poetic.

>>10425383
>SEELE = Elders of Zion
>Absolute Terror Field = Autism
There is literally no doubt about these

>>10425373
i said strong, not top. what's wrong with it? it's definitely /lit/ by anime standards, and stronger than Yuri Kuma Arashi or Treasure Island...

>>10425056
>looking for literary anime and manga instead of works that exemplify the medium
kys yourselves
anyways it's probably pic related.

>>10425398
>>10425383
>Asuka is pregnant
I saw anons discussing this on /a/ seemed very plausible. apparently the official subs for eva aren't very accurate translations.

>>10425405
Forced drama with some surreal imagery, found it way inferior to Tatami galaxy. Maybe because I watched them with not much time passing between me finishing them both.
I still remember /a/ spazzing about the ending though.

>>10425416
But then you can just read the original.

>>10425434
yeah so what's the point of """""literary""""" anime you fucking pseud

>>10425438
Maybe to find the best each medium has to offer and not be a narrow poophead?

For some reason I've always thought Parasyte to be pretty /lit/ within the bounds of manga. It's pretty much a genre-definer and genre-defier within the medium. Same goes with something like Devilman with the same themes even, though that's due in part to its stellar artwork

>>10425431
>he looks at /a/
there's your problem
it's also nothing like tatami galaxy, which is cute but hardly /lit/, it's literally groundhog day

>>10425444
Literary anime is not the best anime, because then it'd be adhering things that make literature great, not things that'd make a good cartoon. Nobody asks for the most literary Bugs Bunny cartoon, the best films aren't "literary", so why the fuck are people asking for the most "literary" anime? It's not like the words really matter a whole lot because you'll probably watching fansubs from a guy who only reads Star Wars novels. Good aesthetics don't make something "literary" so don't fucking use /lit/ to ask for anime recs you dumb baby. You don't go to /ck/ asking for the most "umami" book do you?

>>10425383
>>10425398
>Absolute Terror Field = Autism
There is literally no doubt about these

It's The Gaze so close enough

>>10425480
Its a meme dipshit

>>10425487
>>>/lit/

>>10425480
Okay, fuckboi autist, if it makes you feel better replace the the term 'literary anime' with 'patrician anime that gives off the level of quality a literary work would'.

>>10425480
OP asked for /lit/ anime
/lit/ just means 'that good shit'
hence, we're telling him that good shit

>>10425492
hmm so why is this thread on the books board then?

>>10425495
different guy, but because /lit/ is the only board with taste, obviously.

>>10425495
/lit/ has had some good cross-art threads, and it's cool to try to discuss some other art with /lit/'s somewhat more knowledgeable disposition, especially since /a/'s a brain-fried shitfest of misapplied elitism. Also we had a shitpost /soc/ threads that reach 500 replies the other day. I don't see the big deal with this thread as long as it's contained.

>>10425118
>no death note

Guy literally kills people with his diary

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>>10425513
>just posts the same old manga and anime that literally anything will tell you is good
And it turns out that the board that only recommends the same ten books only knows the same 20 anime.

>>10425532
Maybe cause only a limited number of works in a medium are actually worth consuming?
But if you watched 12000 more anime than everyone else and can contribute something to the thread do so, otherwise stop being a whiny autist.

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>>10425552
ebin

>>10425524
>anime
>art
if it was art /a/ wouldn’t be porn, pedophilia, bestiality, meme’ing and beta fantasy fulfillment. don’t compare animu to film even, much less lit, poetry, dance, music, sculptor, painting, engraving/drawing etc. Its not even remotely on the same plane as them. You’re well aware that most of you are pseuds and get nothing out of these shows and movies, otherwise you’d have a rich thread filled with critique and analysis. But, that’s not the case is it? No, of course not, but i bet there’s lots of pictures of girls and images of the series cover art and people going “oh, me too! i like that too!” and “patrician taste desu” because that’s what you’re all about as a subculture. You don’t even appreciate the little meaning that can be wrenched from the depths of vapidity that is animu and mango. Pretentiousness is the whole game, that’s why you randomly pick on things like Akira, EVA and GITS as if they’re any worse than your “””””patrician””” trash which you all of course don’t watch, you spend most of your time watching haram, moe, slice of life (the most reprehensible of them all) and shonen like retards. Oh but don’t forget, hours upon hours pouring of mango comics, instead of reading lit or lookin at real art. “B-but this is an animu board” is it? What’s the place famous for? memes, shitposting, porn and annoying people. Who cares if animu is shit on, its hardly a loss if its wiped from the cultural psyche.

>>10425532
>>10425552
cringe

>>10425578
is this a pasta

>>10425578
Yeah I literally don't do that, dickwad. In fact i bashed /a/ in that very post. I'll admit before anyone that it's a medium that pales to others, but it isn't completely full of shit.

>>10425578
You sound butthurt

>>10425601
no fuckwit, i can type quickly and your optic nerves attached to that lump series of cortices you call a brain doesn’t deserve gud formatting. nigger
>>10425602
>yeah, i literally
effeminate cum guzzling pseud

get off this board if you want to shit down people’s throats. make a fucking thread ANALYZING the literary elements of anime, or CRITIQUING an anime using a literary consciousness and lens, then you can be an adult. Otherwise >>>/a/ faggot and enjoy the pedos and cucks and beta ass sniffers. gud company im sure

>>10425578
>>10425607
>anime raped my house and burned my dog!

>>10425607
>tells me to analyze
>all he's done is be a flaming faggot autist
Yeah I could do some serious talk; like I said to an anon earlier (you might be the same one) if you have something to offer or any great anime knowledge the others don't have feel free to contribute, otherwise fuck off with your pointless ragetarding.

>>10425383
>Rei is a Time Lord
Just take my bank details

>>10425622
Use a different board, check their archive, or better yet use the searching machine in front of you to find something that interests you.

>>10425632
>comes in to throw sad bitchy tantrums while supposedly possessing higher subject knowledge and discourse that will fix this gripe that he won't contribute
Sounds like a troll or cancer.

Shin Sekai Yori
The Hour of the Mice
Crest of the Stars
Shut Hell
Fire Punch
LoGH

>>10425649
>Check the wiki, the catalog, and the archive before asking for advice or recommendations, and please refrain from starting new threads for questions that can be answered by a search engine.

>>10425468
Your problem was thinking that mawaru was a good anime that disguised fanservice and cliches with being vague or pseudo-deep.Tatami didn't have anything t do with gd aside from a similar premise.
Fuck your attitude and your imlplication that Mawaru is /lit/. Fotns is more /lit/ than that, it alures to epic heroes.
/a/ is fun in sensible doses.

Haibane Renmei

>>10425653
Pleb

>>10425632
other guy is right, post something or fuck off.

>>10425660
this post is 73% incoherent. what fanservice is there in mawaru penguindrum? which cliches? and how does any of that detract from the show?

Also brother Tatami Galaxy is self-evidently Groundhog Day [Japan Ver.]

>>10425655
Pretty sure none of that shit is going to give me something like '/lit/'s views on quality anime'.

>>10425673
Soujuu Senshi Psychic Wars

>>10425673
my mistake, this is the most literary anime: Ankoku Shinwa

>>10425673
>fanservice doesnt retract from a show
>seizon senriaku, naked guys, scantily clad underaged v& doesnt retract.
It detracts when the show is trying to trick you and failing spectaqularly at every turn.
Still waiting for you to say anything else than hur dur grondhog

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>>10425673
no critiques beyond the most shallow kind of anime club autism, no analysis of anything. a fan theory about asuka, a short summary of an anon’s surface level thoughts about Parasyte
>>10425686
please fucking leave you’re not sapient and shouldn’t be allowed on this board at all. you don’t want to think or create, you’re a consumer and nothing else. I asked YOU and the others to post YOUR critiques and analysis. I don’t have to do anything, I didn’t make an off topic thread on a slow board that gets brigaded by rw niggers and reddit scum. This is the only tasteful board and you’re ruining it. Go away animu fag, go baq to your memes and porn. Nothing to add, no thoughts of substance, just pretty little girls, guns and splosions, blood and cliches. Fuck you and fuck off

>>10425706
>I don't have to do anything
Such a toxic mentality really, to justify your ineptitude with unwillingness. Feminists would be proud.

>>10425706
>>>/int/

>>10425706
I haven't seen someone this mad on /lit/ since that vorefag. At least you can put all that inflated smartboi drive into complaining.

>>10425712
>no you
lol what a specimen, what vermin you are. you make a thread sliding other threads. then multiple posters tell you to get off the board. you’re asked to justify its existence, you backpedal and try to foist the responsibility onto the board to defend anime, when of course you should be the one doing that. then, you’re asked to show that anime is intellectual and you, an intellect, can analyze or critique it and then in classic ironic sociopath fashion “no you”

faggot
>>10425742
oh thank you honey

>>10425755
You're literally making up the sliding, lack of justification, and 'multiple' posters telling him to get out. If this isn't some ebin troll just wew lad. You know this threads really still up because of the fuel your anal-pain is giving it?

FUCK ANIMEEEEEEEEEE
FUCK ANIMEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
FUCK ANIMEEEEEEEEEE
FUCK ANIMEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

>>10425700
if you consider that 'fanservice' i cant imagine that youre particularly familiar with anime, and your fluoride-stare reaction pics gives me the impression that youre someone who took the 'Anno hates fanservice and otakus and that's why he had Shinji masturbate to Asuka in EoE whoa it's so meta'-thing way too much to heart. anyways, im not really interested in conversing with you because i can tell youre a pea-brain.

>>10425706
one of the dumbest posts ive read recently. why the fuck would i bother typing up an analysis nobody asked for in a thread that's probably going to get pruned? If someone started nitpicking Utena in a sensible manner I'd make an effort to reply, otherwise, nah.

why are anti-anime 4chan users such a bunch of schizophrenic losers

>>10425056
If you watch anime or play video games you don't belong in this board.

The only anime that felt thematically coherent and complete to me on a level approaching a work of literature are a few short ones like FLCL and Cat Soup. Maybe Wasurenagumo which basically adopts the template of a Grimm fairy tale.

Longer works that I see mentioned often for "/lit/ anime" like Eva, Utena, Tatami Galaxy, LoGH feel more like the television they actually are to me because of the more obvious ways the serialized episodic form displays itself, like monsters/baddies of the week. It's strange that off the top of my head I can't pinpoint exactly what separates them in my mind from serialized literature like Dickens or, say, The Count of Monte Cristo (versus the loose Gankutsuou adaptation) except possibly characteristics that might stand out about the standard conventions used in anime as a niche subculture medium.

>>10425118
>Kaiji

>>10425879
my personal conception of '/lit/ anime' is not 'anime that feels like literature', but anime that can go toe-to-toe with some of what are generally considered great books in terms of artistic achievement. this is how i feel about all /lit/ (artistic medium of choice here). For that reason, I don't see any formal aspect as getting in the way of something being /lit/ (e.g. stock footage, episode templates, etc.)

Do you have any major gripes with Utena in terms of content? I can't imagine that anyone would seriously consider FLCL to be 'better' than SKU.

Boku no Pico

>>10425383
>rei is inside shinji's walkman

>>10425899
I guess I value a sense of coherence and sense of total conscious artistic control that is much easier to pull off in short form as an anime than it is in a written work, while at the same time I appreciate but put less stock in stuff like subversion and the use of symbolism and imagery in themselves.

I mean, for something like Utena the frequent use of stock footage and the "enemy of the week" format for a significant portion of the work, no matter how artistically justified, I can't help but view as a very noticeable response to the real-world financial and artistic constraints of a rigid televised medium, however well Ikuhara pulls it off, along with the unavoidable echoes of the many children-targeted cartoons that use the same surface techniques for purely commercial reasons.

In addition, works like Eva and Utena are responses to formulaic genres that don't quite fully escape the conventions, limits, and expectations of those genres by virtue of their very focus (for example, think about the idea of a "literary" superhero novel in terms of artistic achievement, no matter how well-executed). I enjoy magical girl and mecha, but using established genre conventions from magical girls and mecha automatically places a work in a more pulpy artistic context by their very premise. I do feel this is a bit narrow and unfortunate of a bias, but it's also undeniable the topic and genre of a work are subject to these kinds of cultural overtones and judgments.

>>10425859
Just another post where you feign superiority without making any sense, using ad hominem, and making stuff up so you can insult me without really saying anything.
No wonder you got so buttblasted when I dissed your oh so precious penguindrum.
>y-your reaction image
You type like a redditor and you probably suck cock like one.

>people get this mad over shitty anime
mawaru is shit
eva is shit
you weebs are shit
bebop is shit
watch some fucking films you dense retarded weeaboo scum
Oh my japanese voice acting! Screaming and yelling is art! Being gay is art! WEIRD NONSESICAL SYMBOLISM IS DEEP AND ART! KAWAI!

>>10425965
You could say that Japan has a....narrow point of view when it comes to art.
Hehe narrow because of te eyes man

Gekiga is the most /lit/erary genre of manga.

Read everything you can find by


Tadao Tsuge
Seiichi Ayashi
Kazuo Kamimura
Suehiro Maruo
Shintaro Kago
Osamu Tezuka
Yoshihiro Tatsumi

>>10425977
It's shit actually.
Tezuka being a codifier doesn't make him good; his most entertaining stories put me to sleep, and I have survived reading War and Peace so....I would be careful when you try to argue with a patrician like me.

>>10425058
Eva is overrated. Its influence spawned some of the worst cliches in anime such as tsunderes and kuuderes

>>10425991
What a poor bait.
Unempressive for the least.

>>10425118
>No Hoshi no Samidare
>No Chikan Otoko
>No Onani Master Kurosawa
>No Billy Bat
>No Shin Angyo Onshi

>>10425578
Do you realize half of /lit/ is porn (>pic unrelated), memeing and beta fantasy fulfillment (>what are some books about dealing with being a loser bros)?

>>10426020
Made you reply.