/lit/ - Literature

Why do I love Evangelion so much. I love it so much it hurts. I have never felt this way about anything before.

>>14507405
Because you’re a little faggot who thinks that Shinji is “literally you”, failing to realize that you’re similar to one of the most hated characters in anime history.

Shows good though.

>>14507411
>most hated characters in anime history
Who gives a fuck, normie?

>>14507418
Right and who gives a fuck about how you’re perceived by society as a whole when they’re just normies. I give you 5 years before you start transitioning to tranny.

>>14507405
it is the harem fantasy as he has about ten hot women to himself in an apocalyptic setting, and IRL these women would each have 50 other guys he is competing with and he would be invisible

>>14507434
Based trannies making normals seethe

>>14507444
t. retarded speedwatcher

>>14507405
Anno hates you

>>14507411
>not realizing I do realize and don't care
>>14507444
based retard
>>14507457
>muh anno hates nerds meme

>>14507246
Fuck Shinji was such a faggot, especially on the first watch. Won't screaming and cying like a little girl, and missed the fresh puss right in front of him. Asuka is better btw.

But Kaji is the best character. It's a shame he didn't have a series of his own.

>>14507601
Apex normalfag cringe

>>14507246
>Shinji : No Longer Human
>Rei : Kritik der reinen Vernunft
>Asuka : Lolita

>>14507246
I don't think Shinji is much of a reader. He probably has read some midbrow stuff like Treasure island, the rest of the time he is complaining about himself.

Rei looks like she is into Sylvia Plath or Emily Dickinson. She might pick up a book and read the whole thing in a sit, then have a cup of coffee and never utter a word about what she read.

Asuka looks like an avid reader, at least because of the pressure for performance. I don't think she reads fiction at all, probably biographies of successful people and things like that.

Also remember they are all 14 or something.

>>14507616
>confident extroverts are just normies
Sure you aren't jealous?

>>14507246
Asuka:
>Lolita, Nabokov
Shinji:
>12 Rules For Life, Jordan Peterson
Rei:
>Insights into Christian Esoterism, Réné Guénon

>implying their troubled minds would retain anything from any reading

their lives are reduced to seeking attention or just cry alone if they fail to get it.

>>14507444
>and IRL these women would each have 50 other guys he is competing with and he would be invisible
This is the element that is always removed from Japanese escapist media. They can include whatever else they want that makes it "realistic" but there's always this: there's no male competition. Not that I have a problem with that, but it's the single most fantastical thing about any of this stuff and I think a lot of people don't recognize it.

>>14507927
In Eva's case the element is (fe)male competition for Shinji, this is made clear with the introduction of pic related.

>>14507411
Your autism is showing.

>>14508000
Let me rephrase. Irrespective of gender, the protagonist has no competition regarding his potential romance interests. They may compete against each other for the protagonist, but the protagonist never has to compete with anyone else.

>>14508025
That's because he's Chad, you wouldn't get it

>>14507405
Evangelion is unironically greatest work of art made in the last 25 years.

>>14508033
It's just weeb GR

>>14508025
>the protagonist has no competition regarding his potential romance interests
That's retarded though. He competes with Kaji and his father for Asuka and Rei respectively, also he he competes with his own heterosexuality for Kaworu.

>>14508036
Not an argument

>>14508051
It's true

>>14508041
Uhh Asuka would NEVER choose kaji over best boi

>>14508052
It's nothing like GR. Also, even if it was, how is
>Evangelion is greatest work of the last 25 years
>nah it's just the anime version of the greatest American novel of the post war era
even a coherent point?

>>14508033
This is the same conclusion I came to after a couple of years of contemplative prayer.

>>14508069
Wrong

>>14507246
It's over Asukafags. It's 2020, time to admit that your waifu pooped in the tub. Your waifu needs diapers so she doesn't poop herself.

>>14508182
>period blood is gross
What are you, a faggot or something?

>>14508182
IT'S LITERALLY JUST THE LIGHTING YOU LYING CUNT

>>14508179
Prove it

>>14508258
Think about it

>>14508269
>can't offer any proof
>can't back up retarded claims
Uh oh

>>14508343
The proof is in the pudding as they say

>>14507636
accurate /thread

It's known that Rei reads Oscar Wilde.

What does HE read?

>>14508410
There is no pudding and that is a man

>>14508025
Lots of anime has the stereotypical love triangle drama where a new guy comes in part way though the story and after mogging the mc still looses.

>>14508444
Remind me again why everyone jerks over this manipulative eldritch abomination in faggot form

>>14507246
i want to cuddle rei

>>14508452
Name 3 haha

>>14508454
Because they, like anno, possess a deeply repressed homolust.

>>14508472
Anno is full het liar

>>14508454
He's literally Jesus.

What does she read?

>>14508495
>Nyarlathotep but mincing queer
>anything like Lord Jesus Christ

>>14508500
stupid meme, always was, always will be

>>14508512
But what does she read?

What books do they read?

>>14508519
>she

>>14507246
A: something YA like all unstable females
S: memerson
R: DFW
>>14508500
the bible, and hitler

>>14508500
>she

>>14508527
>A: something YA like all unstable females
She's literally a child prodigy anon, more like Schopenhauer.

>>14508444
Sefer Yetzirah ( ספר יצירה Sēpher Yəṣîrâh, Book of Formation, or Book of Creation)
Sefer HaRazim (ספר הרזים, "Book of Secrets")
Sefer Raziel HaMalakh (ספר רזיאל המלאך, "the book of Raziel the angel")
Sefer HaBahir (סֵפֶר הַבָּהִיר, "Book of the Bright")
The Zohar (זֹהַר, lit. "Splendor" or "Radiance")

>>14508505
>literal incarnation of God
>died for our sins
>came back
>literally the hope that people will one day understand each other and we are the words 'I love you'

Yeah, I'm thinking he's Christ

>>14508581
>Yeah, I'm thinking he's Christ
This, considering he originated from Adam (pbuh), the Qur'an confirms this view:
>The similitude of Jesus before Allah is as that of Adam; He created him from dust, then said to him: "Be". And he was.

>not reading the Dead Sea Scrolls

Not gonna make it

>>14508581
>literal incarnation of God
No he isn't
>died for our sins
No he didn't
>came back
No he didn't
>literally the hope that people will one day understand each other and we are the words 'I love you'
Incorrect interpretation of Christ's message peddled by secular boomers.

>>14508662
Seethe

>>14507246
In episode 9 you see Rei reading (a book with text from) Simplicissimus by Johann Grimmelshausen.
Also in R*build you see her with Wilde's Happy Prince.

>>14508714
>refuted
You may cope now.

>>14507246

How do you think she (Rei) comes?

>>14507411
you are such a fucking faggot holy shit kys

>>14508182
Does anyone else find that her tits are too big for her age?

>>14509133
Bruh u gay?

>>14509133
14 year old girls often have big tits so I'm told

>>14508524
The Time Machine, duh

>>14508069
>>>14508052
>It's nothing like GR. Also, even if it was, how is
>>Evangelion is greatest work of the last 25 years
>>nah it's just the anime version of the greatest American novel of the post war era
>even a coherent point?
Whats this GR ? im clueless

>>14509309
Ghost Recon by Tom Clancy

>>14508662
>Incarnation of God
He literally is the bearer of God's soul, at least Eva's version of God. You can even associate Kaworu's nature with the Holy Trinity: Body of a human, heart of an angel, soul of God
>died for your sins
This one doesnt make much sense, but I'm all for this meme desu
>came back
He did, watch End of Evangelion, nigger.
He will also come back in Eva 3.0+1.0, he's in the fucking trailer.

Plus, he is cute and a fagget icon. Cope harder, Eva is gay as fuck

>>14509309
Great Rexpectations

>>14509587
no ur gay lol

>>14509587
>He literally is the bearer of God's soul
He literally isn't.
>He did
His physical body did not come back to life. Faggot still dead.
>Eva is gay as fuck
And yet who does Shinji end up with in the end. Hmm... Think it's time to stop projecting your own faggotry onto anime.

>>14509639
He didn't even fuck best girl. gay.

>>14509309
Good Riddance by Tomas Piñón

>>14509609

>>14509659
Ummmmmm

>>14507457

>>14509639
Dude, Kawoshin is everywhere in official merch by both Gainax and Khara, every fucking Eva fan knows it's an official couple . You all Asukafags must accept it and shut the fuck up

>>14509683
I really do despise clinically depressed people. Their insularity is nauseating

>>14509678
are you having a stroke?

>>14509699
>official merch
What is it with bumboys and their need to have their perversions justified by chinese cartoons?

>>14509712
No just proving you wrong again

>>14507246
They don't read. Gendo probably read esoterica though.

>>14509722
oh yeah? where?

>>14509704
their insularity is caused by depression besides you have little control over it like any other mental illness.

>Eva thread derailed by retards once again

>>14509738
>an unironic misatofag

>>14509749
Who cares if they don't have control. They're still repulsive. Neck some pills and get a grip for the love of god. Imagine being at the height of your career and performatively moping about hating yourself to children.

>>14509771
remove depression and you remove the creativity

>>14509790
The art Anno got out of it is the only saving grace. Most depressives don't produce anything and when they do it's a dirge.

>>14509814
You're right about most of people.

>>14507246
This is a board for literature not your tranny, weeb garbage.

Dilate you fucking faggots and keep anime off the board

>>14509840
This is a thread about literature. Your post is off topic and inflammatory

>>14509749
>you have little control over it like any other mental illness
as a formerly "clinically depressed" person let me tell you that this is 100% a excuse made up to justify lack of effort on the part of the depressed person
the entire illness is simply not real, it's a mindset you get trapped in but can escape at any time, you have complete control but you don't realize it. it's like when you stay up late after getting lost on wikipedia, it's 4am and you keep thinking "just one more article", except you don't snap out of it when you get hungry or have to take a piss or something, you just stay in it day after day, even though the solution is the exact same - just stop doing it

>>14509863
>escape any time
what do you mean by escape?

what is the literary equivalent of Asuka?

>>14508733
Huh, that's pretty interesting, I remember reading from somewhere that it was a biology textbook and that she was essentially trying to learn more about her own existence and life/humanity in general.

>>14509897
nastasya filippovna

>>14509897

Moreover, how do you think she comes?

>>14508790
>>14510363
Seconding these important questions.

>>14510624
14 years old

>>14510815
A little old

>>14507246
Rei reads Fantasy
Asuka reads only Nietzsche
Shinji goes in the eva

>Shinji: Confessions of a Mask
>Rei: Aphorisms on the wisdom of life
>Asuka: Moby Dick in public, Lolita when she's alone

>>14508577
Jewish mysticism is literally the only good thing about Judaism. I despise the dumb fucking new wave Jews that are just retard commie atheists. Orthodox Jews that just want to chill with their Jew homies and don't lust after political power are cool and they're the type to study Kabbalah. But the disgusting Kibbutz niggers straight up need to die.

>>14509309
The Great Recession

>>14509771
Any "mental illness' That can be cured is cringe.
Severe autism and schizophrenia are incredibly based

>>14509859
>Your post is off topic and inflammatory
You're literally just coping for someone insulting your hong kong cartoons

>>14510954
>"Asuka: Moby Dick in public, Lolita when she's alone"
This is so true it hurts

Why is it that /a/ can discuss NGE in an intelligent manner, focusing on the details and writing 1500 character long posts about the meaning of a scene, but the fucking literature board is incapable of discussing anything, let alone a metamecha show?
Shame on all of you posers, shame on you!

>>14511057
>But the disgusting Kibbutz niggers straight up need to die.
They shall be the first to get cleansed by G-d's luminous truth.

>>14511118
The discussion here is actually quite in-depth. You just need to learn to see this, look past the mere surface. For example, I discovered a new facet of both Asuka and Rei's characters today from reading this thread. I'll do a reread when it's archived and I'm sure there'll be other nuggets of wisdom to be found. Pic unrelated emotionally.

>>14510363
Annoyingly

>>14511118
>writing 1500 character long posts about the meaning of a scene
Because we read Guénon's Reign of quantity and realized that it's better to switch to seemingly more "primitive" 4chanian symbols and modes of communication.

>>14510363
She comes to school with her backpack and some stationaries.

>>14507246
Rei: Twilight
Asuka: Harry Potter
Shinji: Some yaoi manga

>>14511088
Incorrect

>>14511118
Because faggots like you clog up the discussion with your moaning

>>14509309
Getter Robo

>>14511088
Anime weebsite

What would she think of Asuka?

superior girl

>>14512011
Literally whom?

>>14511962
>oh wow! she is cool! i want to be like her, anon! thank you for showing me this anime!
>*gets distracted*

What does she read?

>>14512018
Mari
Makinami
Illustrious

>>14512034
My diary desu

>>14509587
>fagget
Pic related is the canonical ship.

>>14512421
Oh boy Dad's not gonna like this

>>14509309
>work
Gravities Rainbow

>>14509309
Guenon, René

>>14512034
Fanged Noumena

>>14512421
isn't that in some sense incest?

>>14507246

Asuka: Histories, strategists and light romance trash. You'd as likely to see Clausewitz in her hand as Jenny Colgan.

Rei: Genetics, Nietzsche and Camus

Shinji: Boys on the slope, catcher in the rye, all's quiet on the western front

>>14508182

She slit her wrist. She's trying to kill herself. Another bit of Anno fucking with standards and practices.

"You can't kill kids, Anno."

"OK, but I can have one try to kill herself and fail, right?"

"You bastard."

"Oh, look I just blew up Rei!"

"You piece of shit. Cut the feed!"

"Juuuust kidding. Here she is."

"FUCK."

>>14508343

Is that shane? The scene of which Bill Hicks told that joke?

>>14508444

Whatever Shinji writes below his own belly button.

>>14511962
She'd probably identify more with Rei.

>>14507405
I'm the same way.
I think it's because, even though it's not really a good show, even though all the philosophy is sort of cringey, it's the kind of show I know I would make if I were asked to write an anime.

>>14507728
>>confident extroverts are just normies
Uh, yes? That's the definition.