/lit/ - Literature

>La vie de Gargantua et de Pantagruel

That cover is from the manga. NOT the Anime. You are fatso.

>>14090729
I thought it looked cool

>>14090725
YO I fucking loved reading this book as a kid. Bon recommendation pour OP :)

>>14090725
>>14090762
Should I read it in French? Je parle et comprends pas mal, sauf si c'est dans un langage très archaïque

Gimme a protagonist that loses everything and everyone betrays them

anime fans are so insufferable. I hate /a/ and fuck their mods

>>14090713
shin sekai yori

>>14090784
Attack on Titan is kino though

>>14090776
Not even sure if it exists in English so I say stick to French. Some of the vocabulary is pretty old style so maybe sortve hard to understand depending on your comprehension level. It's a pretty funny series so maybe some of it might be lost to you. Hopefully if you are interested you can appreciate it.

>>14090811
Oh so it's satire? I thought it would be something gruesome like Attack on Titan but I could give it a try
Is it perhaps political?

>>14090802
attack on titan is most objectively NOT kino, no current shonen is. Most shonen in history is not.

>>14090829
Oh no it's not remotly close to AoT. It's about a father and son giant. It's mostly just 16th century satire stuff with some political commentary here and there. It's a subtle critique for the era. It's pretty funny.

>>14090835
Nope, it's pretty great! I dare say it's kino!

>>14090878
you must not know what kino is. Kino is not "i like it xD"

the only shonen I can think of that is kino would be yu yu hakusho

>>14090921
I think you mean Hunter x Hunter. Yu Yu Hakusho isn't remotly kino

>>14090835
>>14090921
>shonen
AoT isn't shonen, it's seinen. Eren is a shonen character trapped in a seinen series, and his progression throughout the story makes him interesting. If you're an anime-only, I understand why you wouldn't like the series because up until season 3 Eren is outright fucking unbearable imho

Kino recommendations only.

>>14090779
count of monte cristo

Looking for recs for Casshern Sins, Princess Tutu, and Revolutionary Girl Utena
>>14090795
Of Mice and Men (obvious)
>>14091773
A Tale of Two Cities (it involves two groups and it's something other than War and Peace and you should have read it by now)
>>14090827
Finnegans Wake (Phenomenology of Spirit could also work)
>>14090713
E.Y.E. Divine Cybermancy (I had a dream linking these two, it's not a book but I am unsure the message in the game could be effectively delivered in book format, also I'm still unsure of the exact thematic message of AoT, though I see a few directions it's likely to go)

Theres nothing special about hunter.

>>14090713
That's a manga.

>>14090779
Not everyone, but Guts gives me an Achilles vibe. I'd say Iliad for Guts and Moby-Dick for Griffith.

>>14090713

Not The Bible, Faust or Paradise Lost, please

Recc me something other than Rebecca for pic related please.

>>14090713
The Illad by Homer.
>>14090827
Cat's Cradle by Vonnegut.
>>14091773
It's a cliche answer, but War and Peace is literally LOGH with pro-Christian undertones.
>>14091889
For Utena, The Magic Mountain by Mann.
For Tutu, The Little Prince by Saint-Exupery.
Not sure about Casshern.
>>14091920
L'Morte du Arthur by Malory.

>>14091950
Animal Money (Watch Rebellion first)

If you can find me a similiar coming of age story I'll go to your house and kiss your ass

>>14092030
>muh yuasa shit
eat a bullet retard

>>14092039

something kino for kino

hardmode: no Japanese lit (and especially not Dazai)

>>14092087
dazai

>>14091950
the picture of dorian gray (i guess it is a faust, but not one of the traditional, famous ones)

>>14092066
on the road, the adventures of marco polo

>>14092276
Deleuze and Guattari

>>14091754
Should I watch season 3? I kinda forgot to pick it up after the Armored Titan reveal

Anime is shit

>>14092969
some fiction?

>>14093021
S3 is peak AoT

vinland saga

Not only my favourite anime, but my favourite TV series of all time. The manga is pure /lit/ too and if you don't read graphic novels/manga, you should give this one a try.

Please rec me a book anons.

>>14093532
would have been better if johan actually did something important or interesting

>>14093685
>He forgot all about the Ruhenheim arc

>>14091773
LoGH is literally just Tesco Value War and Peace.

>>14093532
Pluto and Billy Bat is better imo. Asadora is also shaping out to be pretty good but it's too early.

>>14091773
>>14093696
Go read Enders game or some YA space shit because its more akin to Logh than any classic, that overrated shit has some of the most horrendous writing Ive seen in an anime.
>Reindard :"I'm gonna send a traitor with a paper outlining my plan to start a coup d'état in the FPA while I wage my civil war at peace, whats in the paper you say? Hehe I cant tell you that just trust me bro:
>Empire goes from a feudal shithole filled with civil unrest and massive inequality to a peaceful heaven because Reinhart seized the throne
>arresting corrupt officials because some newspaper told him who they were, no due process whatsoever
>Yang reconquers Iserlohn thanks to a fucking computer virus he left there
And don't get me started on the earth cultist shit.
Fuck you /a/ faggots and your shit medium

>>14093509
The very hungry Caterpillar, special Ed edition.

>>14093708
No, fuck you. I said it's W&P but worse. A lot worse.
I read the second volume of W&P and LoGH side by side, and LoGH is just a really weak W&P Three Kingdoms mashup.

The anime is good. It's a one of a kind show, if for the sheer volume of it, but the books are subpar and mediocre at best.
But they do carry the possibility of leading the reader onto greater works like Caesar's memoires or the aforementioned War and Peace.

>>14093679

Dempsey (by Dempsey).

>>14090713
HARD MODE>>>>>>>>>> NO PHILOSOPHICAL WORKS
I'm listening

>>14093851
You weren't getting any to begin with, eva is shit

>>14093532
this is legit the most boring and unnecessary edgy manga/anime that I have ever watched. It is just pure fucking fantasy on how much the people in it behave. I think the author is either extremely autistic, or he legit never visited Europe.

>>14093922
Fucking low iq pleb

>>14093922
The author is a fucking hack

Give me something that's so edgy that it becomes a comedy

Hard mode: Incorporating aspects of the characters portrayed in the English dub.

For your listening pleasure:

https://youtu.be/JJYLBzBh4ZI

https://youtu.be/E3XjEUHRMTU

>>14094491
>gantz
recc me other shit where an author builds a world for ten thousand pages just to end it in TWO. CHAPTERS.

Some interesting takes on war like pic related?

>>14094669 I watched the series first and then tried the manga but couldn't get into it. There's a really fun, surreal energy to the anime that gets lost in translation for me when reading the manga.

As for a recommendation, River of God's third act feels like the last 30 pages or so of the novel. Very well-realized world though, some good sci-fi concepts if you're into that.
To further tie it into the anime discussion it features a new "gender" of people born from a kind of idealization of the Evangelion, skinny, androgynous look. Or at least that's one characters obsession with these new people.

>>14092030
Demian

>>14090713
Spengler, Jünger, Schmitt, Karl Marx.
>>14090827
Reza Negarestani, Nick Land.
>>14092276
Deleuze
>>14093851
Hesse (Demian)

>>14093748
I read Championship Fighting and it was good

I posted this >>14092986 and nobody gave me a suggestion. To clarify, I mean only the ova in the pic, not the series.

>>14093532
In the manga do we get more actual detail on why Johan is the way he is. I just rewatched this for the first time since freshman year of highschool which was nine years ago. I feel like Grimmer and a lot of other secondary characters had more development/explanation than the Lieberts.

I never read Dostoevsky. Are his works similar to Kaiji/Kurosawa? I heard he wrote about gambling and most of his books are emotional

>>14098018
I would not say so

Psycho Pass?

>I've read The Minority Report

>>14091773
Non fiction, particularly Napoleonic

besides Lolita

>>14091773
The go to answer is War and Peace, but History of the Peloponnesian War and The Histories by Herodotus are good too.

>>14090779
Notes from the underground

>>14093851
Ironically, the bible (to understand the concept of angels and all this shit)

>>14092066
Based anime
I'm also interested in get recommendations about this

>>14092066
Samefag >>14098175
My recommend is invisible cities, by Italo Calvino

>>14090779
the tatar steppe

>>14091754
It's in Bessatsu Shōnen Magazine. It's always been shonen and remains shonen.

Battle of the minds between two geniuses

>>14098067
Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said

Looking for books similar to Mushishi or Samurai Flamenco
>>14092986
The Border Trilogy
>>14095475
Little Big
>>14098477
The Demolished Man

>>14093532
Someone please recc something related to Kinderheim 511

Erased

>>14098818
Just read the filename wtf rude

>>14092276
Permutation City by Greg Egan

i mostly read economics books.

This and Monster please

This

Stop posting the same anime

>>14098067
Extrem good and will get more important if our states move the way they move right now !

>>14093922
Nice bait :)

>>14093532
Based

>inb4 kaczynski

>>14090779
Winston and or Julia, 1984

Tatami Galaxy

>>14099108
Proust was referenced in Lain, maybe something to look at.
>>14099299
>NATURE GOOD
>TECHNOLOGY BAD
literally kaczynski
>>14098575
Oku no Hosomichi
>>14098173
Yokohama is fucking based, Murakami might be that feel but then again I haven't read shit so who am I to talk?

Something evil tribelistic barbairan manly as hell mad screaming black metal dungeon synth fantasy big muscular brain dead guys JoJo bizarre adventure or hokto no ken schizophrenic out of control savages premitive menatlety horse riders big swords dark time Dio or diavola style

>>14099424
https://lmgtfy.com/?q=schizophrenia+center+near+me&s=g

>>14099370
Surely there are other authors than kaczynski. How about something in the fiction genre?

You guys have the most entry level taste shit I have seen

>>14099513
all anime is entry level because all anime is accessible.
only /lit/ would find smug anime girl superiority in inaccessible works.

it's anime, fight me

>>14099370
>Yokohama, or YKK
I'm thinking about any Slice of life novel

>>14099299
On the Marble Cliffs

Recommendations for Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind + Castle in the Sky?

>>14099299
>b4 kaczynski

>>14098078
Closest I've got is Ada or Ardor, sorry anon. I can't think of many books that focus on the incest taboo

>>14099475
it's already /lit/

>>14092066
Read the light novel but check The Gormenghast novels too.

>>14100020
Gormenghast trilogy.

>>14099400
"Honestly, and people are gonna rag on me for this, Infinite Jest. When I first watched Monogatari, I thought to myself, "this is what you would get if David Foster Wallace was kidnapped in the mid-nineties and forced to watch Tenchi Muyo in a bunker for five years straight."

Both works are dialogue-heavy and have large, twisting plotlines. Both have that taste for ironic sensibility and anticlimactic endings. Both have a bit of a perverted streak that contrasts its sincere, self-help ethic. Both have a disaffected high school senior as the main character. The similarities go on.

Gravity's Rainbow is also a good answer, but not nearly as much as Infinite Jest, IMO. There's a reason why these two books are part of the 4chan meme trilogy, they appeal to our kind."

I'm in love with Hunter x Hunter's battle system, some time ago some dude on /a/ recommended books that supposedly had similar systems as nen, but I wasn't into reading back then, I would love recommendations

>>14099793
Any wuxia novel

>>14100698
Who are you quoting?
I had the same thought, but with V./Gravity's Rainbow. Directionless bum of a protagonist, convoluted plotting, constant references to the lowbrow and the occult, sex pervert shit, etc. Nisio is a complete hack and nowhere near the level of DFW or Pynchon, but there is definitely a surface level similarity.

who is the Ryukishi07 of literature?

>>14099513
What are some examples of non-entry level animu?

>>14101360
bible black
boko no pico

>>14100711
same, I like how the rules for nen are established at the start and maintains consistency (mostly) throughout the series

>>14093511
this, come on.

>>14100698
>>14101225
How accessible are those?

>>14101716
Infinite Jest is fine if you read the classics with any regularity. The only thing daunting about it is its size. V. or GR are a bit more complex in prose, structure, etc., but can be tackled with earnest effort and a visit to the Pynchon wiki if something confuses you outright.

>>14098880
I fucking love this shit so much. Why can't anime have more unique design? Kaiji is so emotionally confrontating that it's basically the reason for its unpopularity

>>14101225
Just quoting some other anon from long ago. I saved his post for the inevitable revival of "Post anime and get book recommendation" threads, or "What is the Evangelion of literature?" threads. I'd be glad if anons interested in some of the philosophy explored in shows like Lain, Utena, Eva would take an interest in literature as a result.

>>14101927
Unfortunately, it's because anime is largely a consumer product. It costs a ton of money to make, and studios need to recoup their investments. Shows like Mushishi, Kaiba, Mononoke, Rakugo are all potential losses. Better to adapt some generic work (isekai rn) that you know will sell. Not to mention, it's infinitely more marketable. Idolmaster has a ton of cute waifus you can make figs of and sell to nerds. Does Kaiji have any cute anime girls, hell, girls at all? Maybe one, but with a fucking Pinocchio nose lol

If you want creativity in Japanese media, just read manga / play indie games.

>>14099365
The light novels, apparently there's a good English translation floating around on the net.

>>14100637
Miles Davis' autobiography.

>>14101360
This guys always move the goalposts when you ask them. Honestly, it's stuff like Boogiepop Phantom, Texnolyze, Lain, Utena, Rose of Versailles, Dennou Coil, Ghost Hound, Now and Then Here and There, etc. All the shows that are hard to watch / lengthy / have something beyond stock anime cliches and tropes / were made by directors and studios that care / beyond mainstream shonen shlock, and so on and so forth. Think, "Could someone with no knowledge of anime enjoy this as a TV show, and not an animated show?"

The Monogatari series

>>14102051
See
>>14100698
>>14101225

Steins;Gate

>>14102027
Thank you anon, I'm gonna check these out

>>14102004
It's not a light novel. It's a proper novel.

>>14102204
The manga is great and worth a read.

>>14090779
Either one of the four gospels in the New Testament.

>>14102242
How close is the anime to the manga in terms of narrative and art style?
Also where can I cop the manga?

>>14100220
Thanks anyway, Ada is one of my favourite books so I would have enjoyed that recommendation if it were new to me.

>>14102910
Literally the same in art style, Yuasa nailed the look and the most important shots. Narrative wise it gives a bit more development here and there, it's worth a skim, but not really a read if you've already seen the show. It's on Mangadex for free.

>>14102204

>>14102135
Anything written by Nye, Tyson, or Dawkins because fuck your pedestrian STEM tastes.

>>14090827
Literally 'Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep' same novel Blade Runner was based on

>>14101988
that girls cute

>>14103082
>no potato head qt gf
why live
Also, the road
Any novel recommend for Haruhi?

>>14099108
if you like Lain, read some of the Gnostic writings, both by Marcion and from the library of Naj Hammadi.
Also read up on the Ken Thompson Hack, which presents a possibility of how Lain might be with us right now:
http://wiki.c2.com/?TheKenThompsonHack

>>14101927
>the reason for its unpopularity
Very few season 2 announcements get stickies in /a/. Kaiji is extremely popular.

>>14101988
>Does Kaiji have any cute anime girls
no but it has a moe protagonist and every type of attractive antagonist from moe to bara to the other type.
You shouldn't underestimate the fujo market.

>>14099215
The Unique And It's Property

>>14102914
Us incestchads gotta stick together.

>>14090795
The Chrysalids

>>14103359
She is indeed

>>14095504
Acquired taste, anon. Good job this is a great series. Honestly tough to find anything similar or fantastical as FSS.

Any ideas?

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