/lit/ - Literature

>>12241458
Welcome to the NHK is basically Notes from the Underground: The Anime

I say this without ever having read Notes from the Underground

Fuck off to your containment board for developmentally disabled, retarded piece of human refuse.

>>12241468
but he's already on /lit/

>>12241468
Where do you think you are?

>>12241468
>hating anime on an anime website

>>12241458
Time out of Joint by Philip K Dick

>>12241530
Blindness by Jose Saramago

I've already read the obvious.

>>12241563
The Bible

>inb4 Foundation trilogy

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>>12241616
you gotta give peoble reccydeccys if you want reqs in return

>>12241514
>anime website
It's 2019, sweaty. This is an nazi incel frog website.

>>12241458
tfw neet

>>12241620
don't tell me what to do

Hyouka
Sora No Woto
Girls Last Tour

>>12241601
Brave New World

>>12241458
That girl in the middle with only her socks on? I want to leave her barefoot and lick her feet.

>>12241468
this
>>12241458
i recommend some hot lead to the temple

>>12241468
This. Most of the good posters on /lit/ are not anime posters.

>>12241563
idk, gr has some explicit loli shit if you're looking for that

>>12241458
my diary desu
>>12241616
War and Peace
>>12241530
Przyjaciel by Stanisław Lem
not sure if there is an English translation

>>12241649
Fantastic taste

>>12241707
I generally only browse /lit/. But that anime is the only one I've ever felt deeply.

>>12241649
>Hyouka
garbage/10
>Sora No Woto
garbage/10
>Girls Last Tour
garbage/10

>>12241458
first response is correct, NHK = Notes from Underground but worse

>>12241711
welcome to the NHK is quite similar, but sadder and not as pretty
check out Yuasa's other stuff, especially Ping Pong and Kaiba

>>12241458

>>12241692
My life's work will be to find books that made me feel the way Haibane Renmei made me feel.

>>12241465
I have read Notes from the Underground, and I have to agree that it basically is.

Any books like Picrelated?

>>12241468
based

>>12241692
>>12241825
The setting of Haibane Renmei was deliberately similar to Hard Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World. My print of the series actually name drops Murakami and the title on the back of the box.

Otherwise, try the Divine Comedy, its the only thing thats come close to me.

>>12241458
Welcome to the NHK was originally a book

>>12241814
This is both /lit/ and garbage

>>12241563
The quran or Alice in wonderland

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>>12242164
Thus spoke zarathustra by Neetchi

>>12242164
Journey to the West

>>12241814
Really? I'm waiting for the next idiot to post Trinity Blood, Fate/Zero, Haruhi Suzumiya or some other shit.

>>12241458
cardcaptor sakura + kafka = ????????

Suggest me something good

For now I've only found Heller's humor to be somewhat similiar to that of Kumeta.

>>12242215
Madoka Magica?

>>12241716
>Girls Last Tour
Would also like to see a rec for this
>>12242311
Me Talk Pretty One Day, The Trial, The Crucible
>>12242075
Battle Royale

I've read The Road.

>>12242228
>I'm a big fan of Monster myself
Eternal Sabbath

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>>12242422
/lit/ surprisingly have a good taste

GochiUsa

>>12242333
A Farewell to Arms
The Mill on the Floss

>>12242050
Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc - Mark Twain

>>12242448
/lit/ having better taste than the other media boards is nothing new
especially so with /a/, since most anime watchers are human garbage

>>12242460
Chocolat
The Opportunists: a Novel about Uzbekistan

>>12241707
Seconded. Please recs for Yojouhan that are not its own book (read it if you haven't, it's slightly different and it has its own charm).

>>12241685
You owe your existence to anime so show some respect.

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>>12242418
How is this series so morbid, yet at the same time spiritually uplifting?

>>12242556
>yet at the same time spiritually uplifting?
It's not

I would like to know a book about a man who is obsessed with his art and mostly lives to perfect his skills to the highest point of achievement.

It would be preferable if this man suffers a lot to overcome major defects, and experiences some humiliations and disappointments on the way, when –for example - the talents he thinks he has are proven to be nothing compared to the talents of others, others that he eventually need to struggles to surpass. Of course, in spite of the disillusionments and humiliations the protagonists keeps moving forward and forward, resisting to let go and submit himself to all the weaknesses of this world, like laziness, fear, envy, hate, satisfaction with mediocre-levels of achievement, abandon of the mission in favor of a common life, etc. It’s not that he doesn’t feel such vices weighting on top of him, but he simply refuses - with a lot of teeth-gridding – to let himself be possessed by them.

If the book shows the evolution of the protagonist’s art with examples (showing, not merely telling) than would be even better (for example, a poet whose initial works are mediocre but keeps moving forward and forward until he has reached great levels of excellence).

>>12242630
There seem to me to be many excellent practical reasons why nobody has done this, not least the enormous arrogance you would need to think your own writing suitable for the task and the fact that you'd need to master poetry and the novel to the reader's satisfaction.

If you want that story it's surely better to read around an author and get the picture of their actual success. De Maupassant is notable for having a long mentoring period before publication, Proust for appearing to be a mediocrity for an extraordinary amount of time, Penelope Fitzgerald for eventually getting published - being just okay - but polishing herself to become great at the end.

>>12242711

Thank you, that makes sense.

>>12242630
Flowers fro Algernon

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>>12242560
Yeah I didn't think it was spiritually fulfilling at all. It's full of released energy and movement but ultimately crushing. What makes you think of it as uplifting?

>>12241458
Particularly the movie, though I'm including the tv series as well (season 1>season 2)

>>12242846

Could you say more about this book? What do you think of it?

>>12242242
Just watched the first season, ended up being one of my favorite series.
Closest that comes to mind is White Noise by Delillo because of its professor protagonist and commentary on American society and its flaws. It has sort of a dark humor edge to it much like SZS, but not of the random, quirky sort.

>>12241530
PKD's VALIS

Really looking for anything dystopian or noire in a sci-fi or fantasy setting

Mouryou no Hako is the most /lit/ anime I've watched, and it's lamentably unknown.

>>12241458
Is manga allowed? I don't watch anime.

>>12241468
Based

>>12243085

Altered Carbon maybe?

>>12243089

I've seen it. Very cool series and one of my favourites, the PTSD train scene in the first episode was shot really well in my opinion. Shame Mouryou no Hako barely receives any love despite Nisio Isin praising it to high heaven.

I want something surreal and dreamlike

>>12243085
If you like Psycho Pass you would probably like contemporary sci-fi from the YA section

>>12243113
unironically this
that series is so overrated, it's really just a mediocre action anime with a shit plot disguised under a facade of recycled cyberpunk ideas and middleschool edge with the "misunderstood genius" white-haired villain who quotes entry-level literature while cutting people up with a razor

>>12243163
Kogami has a sexy midsection though.

>>12243112
>altered carbon
Looks interesting, I'll check it out.
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>>12243163
It's been a while since I've watched it and I was relatively new to anime back then so it seemed like a step up from the generic shounens I had watched prior to that. What is so bad about it in particular? Edge and ripping off the Minority Report?

loved the characters in this, after reading the manga I felt the director of the anime knew more what the series was about than the actual manga writer
>>12243112
I'm reading the LN right now, and it's really strange how it's contextualizing all of this show for me, novel is completely missing the mood of the show though, disappointingly

>>12243217
>What is so bad about it in particular? Edge and ripping off the Minority Report?
big amounts of edge and intellectual pretense without much actual substance and with lots of plot conveniences
it's not absolutely terrible, but it presents itself as more profound than it actually is, which is one of my pet peeves

>>12243231
which anime is this? img search gives me nothin

>>12241825
>>12241692
As someone else said, the world of HR is very, very close to Murakami's "Hard Boiled Wonderland" which I think is his best work. That's not a bad place to start.

Give me something outdoors, comfy, and a bit thoughtful, /li/. inb4 Walden.

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>>12243348
If they had died at the festival, it would have been a masterpiece for me. After that I only enjoyed the final chapter from Nakamura point of view.

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>>12243348
The obvious rec would be its namesake, but if we're talking about books full of strange people and an atmosphere that is genuinely awkward and uncomfortable, I think I'd say something like "Let the Right One In" by John Lindqvist or:Nick Laird's "Glover's Tale"

>>12243318
悪の花

>>12241458
Nichijou

>>12241616
Dune

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>>12241883
i love those animes
what others do you guys like?

Nobody posted THE /lit/ anime, what the fuck happened to you /lit/?

I also already heard of Demian by Hesse, which I believe influenced this, so I am going to make your life harder

>>12241685
But a good sizeable amount of those people are leeches from /pol/

>>12244029
So read The Glass Bead Game, which is Hesse's superior work

>96 replies
>completely utterly totally average plain milquetoast vanilla pedestrian taste
>no one has posted Spicy Wolf pic related

_p_a_t_h_e_t_i_c_

>>12244029
>muh Ikuhara
Utena is fine, but its so overplayed. Sailor Moon and Rose of Versailles are better shojou.

Bernard-jō Iwaku is the official anime of /lit/ anyway.

>>12242954
Zorba the Greek

>>12244114
Before that aired Utena was /lit/'s favourite anime

>>12244097
spice and wolf is the absolute patrician anime, thank you based anon

What's the Proust of /a/?

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>>12243327
With all due respect I already know about Hard Boiled End of the World. I was looking for something with more friendship, faith, mystery, and what not.

>something outdoors, comfy, and a bit thoughtful
The Tao of Nature, or any Tao book by Chuang.

>>12244097
Sacred Book of the Werewolf. Or if that is too on the nose, the The Marble Faun by Hawthorne.

>>12244214
>something outdoors, comfy, and a bit thoughtful
Anne of Green Gables is the first thing that comes to mind then. Also deals with moving forward in a similar way that HR does

>>12244214
Whatever the Japanese equivalent of Infinite Jest is

>>12244200
>something outdoors, comfy, and a bit thoughtful
Anne of Green Gables is the first thing that comes to mind then. Also deals with moving forward in a similar way that HR does

>>12244214
Whatever the Japanese equivalent of Infinite Jest is

Technically not an anime but fuck it
Rin best girl forever

>>12244214
Something Pynchon.

>>12241663
yeah now that i think about it

>>12241627
Based and frogpilled.

>>12243048
Thanks for the recommendation! For me the pinnacle of Kumeta's humor is word play and commentaries on society, so it sounds up my valley.
PS. Be sure to watch the rest of SZS and then read, if I remember correctly, at least last 10 chapters of manga. And if you like it, check out that Katte ni Kaizou OVA (or Joshiraku, it's written by Kumeta) or some manga from Kumeta (I think they're translating Kakushigoto pretty often, but I didn't check it since long time). I think the guy is really a gem in the manga scene and SZS is probably the most experimental series by SHAFT. It's a shame they didn't finish it (I bet it sold poorly, though it seems like everyone involved enjoyed the process of making it).

>>12241814
Lolita, obvs

Armored Trooper VOTOMS

>>12241530
NEUROMANCER

>>12242630
I hope you realise that Vagabond is an adaptation of a novel

Kino's Journey

>>12243101
tsumi to batsu

>>12245144
I started watching this for the beautiful shots of natural scenery, and was disappointed to find out it was about lesbians. What the fuck?

>>12241530
Fanged noumena
>>12245144
Fun home

Is there a good complimentary book to Oyasumi PunPun?

>>12241468
Based

Is there an anime that is actually good?
I watched death note and the majority of the series was pretty bad.

>>12242418
Anti-Oedipus

>>12245220
Unironically the greatest anime ever

>>12245745
Try ghost in the shell and everything else that was in this thread

>>12245745
>Is there an anime that is actually good?

No, it's a all a big ruse.

pic related

>>12245873
Ok.

>>12244559
Will do, am torrenting the rest of SZS and will have the rest of the Kumeta works in mind.

whats the most /lit/ anime? I want some deep dark existential preferably something with technology as a central theme.

Alternately if there is no /lit/ anime what is some good fapnime. I want some deep dark existential preferably something with technology as a central theme.

>>12244114
Sailor Moon is for plebs.
Rose of Versailles is better than Utena though.

>>12246067
Bernard-jo Iwaku

aka NGE or Haibane Renmai

>>12244097
Spicy Wolf is milquetoast itself.

>>12246067
>Deep, dark, existential with technology
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>>12243327
Moby Dick

>>12245293
This I would also like to know

>>12245719
Bump for an answer to this

>>12245719
The Sorrows of Young Werther

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>>12242498
Or any book By Me.

>>12244013
Hamlet?

>>12246101
yes, hence the conspicuousness of its absence from this thread

>145 replies
>no Urusei Yatsura

>>12245818
terrible anime but great manga

>>12246191
Thanks a lot, man, I've been meaning to give Goethe another go

I hope these fictional girls are forever happy.

Utena

>>12242448
>anime from the meme 3x3
>good taste

>>12246651
Anne of Green Gables

>>12246729
yes it is

>>12246729
>basing your anime taste on memes
yikes!

>>12246729
Daily reminder that using the Haibanes for shitposting is morally wrong.

reddit is that way
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

>>12245146
Kino no Tabi (the books).

>>12241468
Fucking based
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>>12241514
Animefags need to be sterilised

>>12241814
This show always reminds me of Waiting for Godot

>>12241458
Lucky Star?

>>12245293
>>12246117
Solaris
>>12245745
death note is just a thriller for edgy teens, nothing all that great
don't rely on the average anime fan for recommendations or you'll end up watching SAO

>>12246095
NGE is fucking /lit/
>episode 16's original title is "Shi ni itaru yamai, soshite" ("In sickness unto death, and...")

>>12247182
NGE is a ticking time bomb of an existentsial crisis waiting to happen. I used to absolutely despise anime till I gave it a chance, hit me harder than any book ever has. If you would consider yourself a mentally weak person, its best that you watch it and learn from it. The inevitable realizations will hurt though.

>>12247249
>Anno creates anime about what it means to be a human
>all fans see is "muh waifu"
To be honest, he should've seen it coming by looking at Kierkegaard's example, with the only book his contemporaries liked being "Diaries of the Seducer"

>>12241458
In the mood for some fantasy...

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>>12246931
Based on what?

>>12246651
The summer book by Tove Jansson

>>12246670
Angela Carter? But she's shit.

>>12247324
A TRUE STORY

>>12244957

Yes, I know. Honeslty, I prefer the manga.

>>12243274

> it's not absolutely terrible, but it presents itself as more profound than it actually is, which is one of my pet peeves

agree for s1, s2 was much better conceptually

>>12246651
Aria is the purest and most beautiful piece of art ever to be made by human beings.

Please don't let me down

>>12247508
the manga

>>12247512
done

>>12244013
honestly Berserk the only manga worth reading, best chinese drawings.

>>12247508
>that ontario license plate
???

This thread needs mushishi

>>12247877
Yeah but how about just posting the better one?

>>12243327
extreme sleeps, about a woman hike/campers adventures, non-fiction

>>12247877
Walden, maybe? Mushishi's a tough one.

>>12247508
Faust?

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>>12247508
Macbeth, aspects of it are taken from tales of Sigurd and the nibilungenlied - but that is minor.

>>12248118
Watership Down :^)

>>12248135

Surprise me.

>>12248246
Bushido: The Way of the Samurai

>>12248246
Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)

>>12248257
>>12248249
Enter the Bushido (36 Samurai)

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>>12241514
Inaccurate but also irrelevant. Animeposting usually equates to shitposting, lack of reading, and infantile opinions. It is reasonable to oust animeposters as the cretins they are without even involving anime itself.

>>12248246
this is the only anime ive ever watched all the way through but i really loved it, more like it and is it pleb taste?

>>12248307
>Is it pleb taste
Entry-level, yes. Pleb, absolutely not.
>More like it?
Cowboy Bebop- Space Western with jazz by the same staff.

>>12248307
check out Cowboy Bebop, it's by the same director and is very similar (both are episodic adventure series about travelling mercenaries with great soundtracks that somehow fit the setting even though they shouldn't)

>>12242461
Seconding this one. I'd love to read a /lit/ equivalent of RoV.

Please don't say Les Miserables. That's a boring answer.

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>>12242461
The Red and the Black - Stendhal

>>12248305
Remember that all of the boards you use on 4chan were created with the intention of being places where anime-posters could discuss their other interests.

>>12248276
Something from Pratchett

>>12242538
Fanged Noumena

Inuyashiki

>>12241458
I got convinced to watch this anime thanks to the anon who is shilling it, but cannot find for my life a proper HD source. Any links?

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>>12248522
14 year old cancer newfags spotted
It was an anime website when the only boards were a for anime and b for hentai
when other interest boards were added in 2004 they were not interest boards for anime fans but interest boards for [interest] fans and it was not an "anime website" anymore
lately i have had to explain this so many times i think ill make a pasta to save some effort or just finally leave normiechan alltogether.
/lit and /b are the only boards that still somewhat interest me here anyway since 2013 ruined everything on the internet

>>12248609
>being this objectively wrong despite such confidence that you're right

Anything that combines the supernatural with a lot of musings on power and governance the way Gasaraki does?
Keeping in mind I've already read Dune.

>>12248616
>be brainlet
>claim someone is objectively wrong without providing the objective counterevidence
your pic and your post go well together

>>12241468
based

>>12248305
nice

>>12242215
BUMP
looking for European magic realism, preferably kafka-ish

>>12244214
what's this?

>>12244259
>>something outdoors, comfy, and a bit thoughtful
>Anne of Green Gables is the first thing that comes to mind then. Also deals with moving forward in a similar way that HR does
Sure, I'll check that out for the YuruCamp rep. Then I'll check out the Anne anime.
>>12248066
Thanks, I'll look that up too.

>>12242242
SZS is my favorite series, bar none. Another anon mentioned Delilo, and I think that's a good place in terms of the socially satirical elements. I'd say something by Hesse too - his protagonists often feel, at least to me, about as overly dramatic and self-involved as Nozomu. Obviously, "No Longer Human" by Osamu Dazai is important, because that was Kumeta's inspiration for Nozomu.

It's really hard to find anything with a similar style of humor, though. I'm honestly not sure where to look. George Saunders, maybe, because there you're getting the social commentary too. Or "60 Stories" by Donald Barthelme

>>12249706
Notes from Underground

anime is racist and sexist

>>12246824
The fact that no one has responded to this shows that /a/ and /lit/ is full of posers myself included

>>12248811
Teito Monogatari sounds like it would be perfect for you but sadly it's never been published in English.

It's a long shot sorry but maybe try 'Vathek' by William Beckford or Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole.

>>12249719
The fact that people post animes without giving recs means you're probably right

>>12249711
so are a lot of things

>>12241616
Romance of the Three Kingdoms

>>12247508
Gay swordsman, low-fantasy, cute brown girl?

The Steel Remains

>>12249851
>GitS
The obvious one is "Neuromancer" or "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep", but any thoughtful cyberpunk will do.

>>12248121
>>12248133
Thanks but already read (liked both).
>>12249851
Those aren't the reasons I liked that but thank you.
I expected someone to recomend me something simmilar to Robert Howard, but I guess /lit/ is just to biased.

>>12242538
What is this from

>>12249942
>filename

>>12249942
probably tylo be chillin

No genre fiction please.

>>12248834
You've given nothing but your word. I don't need to provide evidence.

>>12249976
Then pic a nongenre anime.

>>12249851
William Gibson's Sprawl Trilogy.

I didn't look if NGE got posted already but if it did I'd recommend Robert Musil's Man without Qualities.
I rewatched it last summer and noticed that like Musil, Anno tried to save his protagonist but didn't find a satisfying way to do so.

>>12249851
>gay
>entire existence is protecting the woman he loves.
Unless you were taking about Griffith. That guy's a huge faggot.

>>12249996
The most interesting thing about NGE is Shinji (mostly his mother) ultimately stopped instrumentality instrumentality from completing. Mankind just didn't want to wake up and reform the way Asuka had, or at least it wasn't ready.

>>12250002
imo the only thing griffith was gay for was power

Go on.

>>12247877
Only thing I can think of is Odd Thomas, but only because it has a likable, chill main character who sees ghosts.

Mushi-shi because the recommendations don't fit and I'm also a different anon, and I really want to know! There should be silence, it should be beautiful, it should be simultaneously incoherent and insightful (causing frisson all the time), it should be full of tragedy and catharsis, it should have a feeling of connectedness with nature, and it should depend on folklore (preferably japanese folklore)

>>12244269
Rin was OK but nobody could top my studious elvish blind girl.

>>12241883
Please I need something like this. Favourite show oat.

>>12250048
By your standards, Roadside Picnic and I Am Legend.

>>12249941
If you wanted Howard then read Howard already!
His Solomon Kane series is based as fuck.

>>12250020
I was more thinking of NGE as a stand alone work without EoE. Anno really wanted to get Shinji to have that happy ending he did in NGE but didn't find a way to justify this. That's why the last scene felt so abrupt.
That's is the reason I was recommending Man without Qualities. Musil and Anno both worked themselfs into depression. Only the later didn't take it quite so serious in the end.

10 minutes to solve the fucking captcha. I hate this site so goddamn much.

>>12245719
No. It is the perfect medium for what was intended from punpun.

Your lie in april
Focus on the deep aspects too like Kousei's constant failing and learning, about his steady changes and shifts of perception, about his naïveté, about him having deep insights, about his inner troubles, about the slice of life and coming-of-age, about his metacognition, and all the meaning surroudning this anime

>>12250109
Use the non java captcha. 4chan X offers that option.
I personally can't think of NGE's finale without EoE being intrinsically a part of it. Too many visual cues during the finale, like the flash of Misato's fate, tied them both together so well for me. I took it and always will take it as two perspectives of the same event.

All this and no ones posted kaiji?

>>12249979
burden of proof is on you because you tried to invalidate the facts which i have given
but you wouldnt understand since youre a normie retard child who is not older than 15

>>12250158
You made a false statement with no evidence and was called on it. Your ad hominem won't help change that.

>>12250149
Tins of underdog stories out there. Akagi style stories are harder to come by.

>>12250149
yeah best boy hands down

>>12250069
Thanks for the recommendations, they are very good for certain aspects like the supernatural or that they are beautiful or in connection to nature, perhaps also these depend on japanese folklore? however I feel like they lack the catharsis aspect. Mushi-shi cleans you each time you watch it, so to speak, it makes you cry and be filled by warm despite the initial depressing scenario, because somehow there is always an understanding and resolving. I haven't read those books, though I've seen the movie of the first and read the wikipedia article of the second, but I don't feel like there is much of a catharsis: it feels more like if there was a depressing mood that was their constant companion, but tell me, why do you think it fits the catharsis part of my description?

>>12250233
Try "Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things" by Lafcadio Hearn

>>12250258
Thanks, I like this, it's pretty good for the japanese folklore aspect, its beauty and connection to nature; it's weird, mystical and I suppose also profound and it adds many other aspects that I overlooked that also correspond pretty well to mushi-shi but still, most reviewers describe Kwaidan as scary and not cathartic but I'll try it nonetheless!

>>12241468
Why does reddit hate anime so much? You have an entire website as a safe space, why don’t you just stay there?

>>12250322
>>12249711

>>12250149
I like that series, but don't think it would work well in book form because it's main strengths lie in the presentation.

>>12250322
r/anime has 828k subs so your bait doesn't make sense
>>12250364
0/10

>>12242185
the lies of locke lamora
not really that similar and is also (((genrefiction))) but it covers themes of friendship and you haven't gotten any other replies

>>12241458
No Longer Human by Osamu Dazai

>>12247064
I was enjoying it until about a third of the way through and then it takes a massive nosedive and becomes absolute shit. Even before that they had the fucking blonde girl fucking shitting all over the tone, why the fuck do japs have so little respect for tone?

I was genuinely shocked because i had only heard praise.

>>12241468
Wrong website, Reddit.

>>12248609
>14 year old cancer newfags spotted
>>12250158
>but you wouldnt understand since youre a normie retard child who is not older than 15
ask me how i know you're an 18-19 year old child

>>12242448
It's literally cookie-cutter 3x3 taste.

>>12241530
Prometheus Rising

>>12250322
>>12250821
https://www.reddit.com/r/anime
Don't come back.

>>12250048
Kusamakura

>>12250956
The Last Temptation of Christ

>>12241669
Fuck off foot fag

>>12250807
it's common knowledge that the second half is shit, yet people still say it's one of their favourites
probably because it was one of the first anime they've seen and they liked the premise and MC so much that they didn't notice the flaws

a pretty good example of why trusting """anime fans""" for recommendations is not always a good idea

>>12250826
>it's widely accepted as amazing, that means it's bad

>>12242630
Afro Samurai desu

not exactly an anime but here i go

>>12250826
Fuck off digibro

>>12251038
>>12251052
Cringe and cringe.

Three books instantly pop into my mind.

>>12251091
Which ones?

>>12251121
On Nature
Siddhartha
and of course the Pali canon

>>12251091
Then why post

>>12251146
I am wondering what books come to mind in others. Why did you make your post? My answer isn’t very difficult to assume.

>>12241707
Naked Lunch

>>12251162
Industrial Society and its Future

>>12247913
What is that?

>>12250048
Thanks for putting it in words anon ;)

>>12250048
Also check out "Herman Hesse - Narcissus & Goldmund". Not extacly like Mushishi, but that's hard to do anyway.

>>12251703
not this time, Teddy Bomber

>>12241616
if you've already read War and Peace, the Red and the Black by Stendhal.

>>12247508
Fëanor did nothing wrong

>>12251704
Mononoke.

>>12251091
This one's hard, because you can take it in the Buddhist themes and try to offer recs there, or take it as Phos' trauma train rolling down the tracks as they try to do the best they can and still fuck up and make the wrong choice almost every time.

Siddhartha, definitely, for the first kind of thing. Not really sure about the second, unfortunately, though I'd like recommendations for it myself.

>>12251162
Mao II, Delilo. It's not his most popular by any means, but I actually think its my favorite of his.

>>12241616
War & Peace
Romance of the Three Kingdoms

>>12241707
It's based on a proper novel. (Though there is only a fan translation available. It seemed decent enough. Had a weirdly pompous, ironically pseud tone, just like what a college student would write)

>>12242242
If you are looking for the Taisho aesthetic with some social commentary then I'd say Natsume Soseki's books. Though they are not funny.
No Longer Human has the misanthropic aspect down to a T.

>>12248858
That? Joshiraku. A comedy anime.


What do you faggots have for "The World God Only Knows"?

>>12248305
CringE

>>12252297
>What do you faggots have for "The World God Only Knows"?

Ready Player One.

>>12252369
I guess some things were just never meant to be.

>>12252389
It's not like it's totally wrong
>Main character is a know-it-all and uses his niche knowledge to "win" things
>The knowledge is based on video games and media
>They're both trash

>>12248601
pirate it you nigger

>>12252539
No, I mean I don't know what I expected.
I just liked the anime and the manga too.
RPO I read when I was around 13-14, and in retrospect, it was total trash.
Maybe some concepts were never meant to be written down in a book.

Kinda off topic, do we post light novels here, /jp/, or /a/

Anime posting: A place further than the universe

>>12252850
If you consider light novels to be literature, then consider deleting your account

>>12252850
/jp/ or /a/

>>12252850
Spice and Wolf was the only good LN ever published so any discussion on LNs would be brief.

>>12241468
Kill yourself

>>12252850
We've had light novel threads before. NHK ones even.

>>12250029
Hiroshima, by John Hersey

>>12252888
how good is this, and will I like it if I liked ping pong?