/lit/ - Literature

The Very Persistent Gappers of Frip
Now get pit

>>14526266
It's already a rip off of Gravity's Rainbow lmao

>>14526291
Name 5 ways that this is true

>>14526321
Have you read it?

Watch Gundam or read Getter you /a/bsolute pleb

2666
now leave

>>14526347
>this shit again

>>14526367
>/m/
>Getter

>>14526266

>>14526382
>2666
>>14526266
>266

>>14526266
Cities of the Plain

>>14526266
Los detectives salvajes (Roberto Bolaño)
I consider that book, Rayuela (Cortázar), Evangelion and the whole Filthy Frank channel at the same level of artistic importance.

>tfw never watched an anime ever

What's an anime to watch?

>>14526382
>>14526415
>>14526483
>>14526488
>spic novels
Also:
>Filthy Frank

>>14526492
Gurren Lagann
Code Geass

>>14526497
>spic novels
still better than your chink cartoon

>>14526497
>Your aesthetic taste is wrong reeeeeeeeee

>>14526492
Don't bother. Anime is trash and so are its proponents. Even "good" anime that has won awards (like Princess Mononoke) is dogshit.

>>14526511
No
>>14526522
Yes

>>14526492
Neon genesis. Don’t bother watching anything else

>>14526545
>No
YES.

>>14526266
Infinite Jest

>>14526756
This, but also watch these

Serial Experiments Lain
perfect blue
rin daughters of mnemosyne
mardock scramble
dead leaves
akame ga kill
angel's egg
trigun
cowboy Bebop
Ghost in the Shell

>>14526832
Oh god I forgot Berserk

>>14526266
I've always felt like NGE would have made a good novel.

>>14526832
akagame ga kill is shit, mc should have sided with esdeath and used her to create an empire.

>>14526977
Naw, if anything he should have had a fling with his big bro

>>14526832
>akame ga kill

Having this exposes your inner edgelord, and discredits your entire list, sorry.

>>14526291
i get that they have similar themes (sex, abuse, postmodernism, generational trauma) but i don't see justification to call one a rip off of the other

>>14526849
You read the Berserk manga, you don't watch the anime.

>>14527118
I like both

>>14526347
yes I have and the comparison is a meme

>>14526832
>trigun
>cowboy bebop
>Ghost in the shell
basic bitch/10

>>14527246
then post your list of what a never-seen-amine-should watch

>>14527267
not him but
>keep
NGE
Serial Experiments Lain
Perfect Blue
Angel's Egg
>add
Rose of Versailles
Anything by Masaaki Yuasa
Revolutionary Girl Utena
Galaxy Express 999
Pale Cocoon
Kino's Journey
Crest of the Stars
Texhnolyze
Oniisama e...
most World Masterpiece Theater stuff
Ashita no Joe

this is the only anime that isn't a complete and utter waste of time

/FFwRXKq

>>14526266
NGE is unironically lit

>>14527295
add hainbane renmei my dude

>>14526832
Nigga dead leaves is 4/10 it's rick and morty humor 2004 edition

>>14526776
Anno has discernible talent tho

>>14526758
No

>>14526492
The only ones worth anything at all are Lain and Eva

>>14527776
Texhnolyze is better than Lain.

>>14526531
Mononoke Hime is one of the weakest of the Ghibli films. It's basically an attempt to create a 'more balanced and mature Naussica' (one of the earlier films based of a Miyazaki manga) but it ends up effectively preaching in favor of neutrality in a fairly dull manner. Porco Rosso and Spoiritied Away are the best the studio has produced.

>>14527295
Ok, I'll admit you do have better taste in this instance.

>>14527786
every ghibli film is a narrative mess.

>>14527786
>Saying Mononoke Hime instead of Princess Mononoke
+1 weeb point
>Saying Porco Rosso instead of Kurenai no Buta
-5 weeb points
>Saying Spriited Away instead of Sen to Chihiro no Kamikakushi
-10 weeb points
Total of negative 14, what a shame. Try harder next time okay?

>>14526291
Japs would not have read Gravity's Rainbow

>>14527822
Translated into Japanese in 1993.

>>14526266
Evangelion is garbage, only edgy teenagers think it's good.

>>14526492
Legend of the Galactic heroes, it's long but it's a masterpiece and it's the only anime you should watch, the rest is dispensable.

>>14527844
forgot to mention it but watch the original, not the 2018 version.

>>14526291
spbp

>>14527830
Anime when?

>>14527146
Now read it again

>>14526291
>>14527945
>>14527869
>>14527830
>not a single argument

>>14527840
>pleb filtered

>>14527844
Chad's Choice

>>14526492
Lain, Girls Last Tour, War In The Pocket

>>14528248
>War in the Pocket
Based 0080 anon

>>14526832
fuck off with this anime shit. Whilst Akira and other works produced during Japans short lived Golden Age is a remarkable technical feat, no anime comes close to a decent piece of literature. Japanese literature is pretty poor to begin with and it would be a waste of breath to deliberate on the inferiority of manga and anime as art forms. If you can indulge in Japanese stuff unironically, you are inexorably immature.

>>14528413
>whilst
>deliberate
>inexorably
yikes, what a pseud

Reminder that she pooped the tub
>it's period blood/muh lighting
Cope. It's 20 freaking 20, time for Asukafags to finally accept their precious waifu needs diapers so she doesn't shit herself

>>14527757
YES

>>14528498
Looks like shitty anime visuals from the 90s to me. Not even fan of the character/show.

>>14528413
Akira isn't even good

>>14528505
>he isn't even a fan of asuka

Bruh... what are you doing here?

evangelion ripped off a book called childhoods end by arthur c clark

>>14528413
>Japanese literature is pretty poor to begin with
>hasn't read Soseki, Kawabata, Mishima

>>14527830
hey that cover is actually cool

>>14527844
Came here to post this, brilliant show

>>14528413
>no anime comes close to a decent piece of literature

lmao step aside faggot, chad coming through

The fact that an Eva thread can last this long on a board for BOOKS but Lain seems to be a virtual unknown despite being the most thought-provoking story made in decades is sad af. Plebs, the lot of you.

Has Evangelion actual philosophical themes besides the fun shounen stuff? Maybe it's the autism but I don't remember anything like it.

>>14526492
Votoms, texhnolyze, penguindrum, one outs.

>>14528724
yes, if you got a background in it

http://minagahet.blogspot.com/2006/03/lacan-avec-evangelion.html

>>14528733
I am seeing Lacan on the link, I pray to Buddha that it isnt going to be pretentious as fuck overanalysis of everything

>>14527118
Everyone says this, but the show's better

>>14528498
How many times have I told you. HOW MANY TIMES HAVE I FUCKING TOLD YOU. IT'S THE LIGHTING ACTING UPON THE RUST. THERE IS BARELY ANY WATER THERE HOW MUCH SHIT DO YOU THINK SHE HAS IN HER BODY. KILL yourself for spreading these vicious lies about a vulnerable young girl.

>>14528785
i would rape her poopy butt too

>>14528717
Lain had been listed twice already gayboi

>>14528858
I'm talking about discussion. We could be having multiple bump limit reached threads on the amount of things to discuss on Lain relating to philosophy, spirituality, technology, futurism. The list goes on and on.

Where are the Lain threads????

>>14528910
Make one then you dumb cunt, by god

>>14528919
I have bitch. They never get any replies. I would go to Lain/Arisuchan but they're both slow af and have discussed the show to death at this point

>>14528780
Not even close. Shit taste.

>>14528910
Why not make one then? I'll post in it

>>14528925
Make one now and I'll reply to it

>>14526492
>Berserk (97)
>Jin-Roh The Wolf Brigade
>Neon Genesis Evangelion (the tv series, not the movies)
>Ghost in the Shell (it's average)
>Legend of the Galactic Heroes (original)

Are some. But 99% of anime is degenerate japa-ape girls cartoons with sexually perverse underlying themes.

>>14528780
based

>>14528971
>Neon Genesis Evangelion (the tv series, not the movies)
Shit advice. Avoid the last two episodes and watch The End of Evangelion instead. It's the ending the creators intended but didn't have resources to produce.

>>14527295
>Perfect Blue
utter garbage.

>>14528975
cringe

>>14528978
I meant the rebuilds but the series ending is cosier than EOE. They're synonymous though.

>>14528982
based

>>14528979
Why? I just downloaded it and now feel bad for not confirming to 4channel lit consensus.

>>14528978
>Avoid the last two episodes
Those were the best part of the series

This was such a weird fucking show in retrospect.

>>14528717
Lain discussion seems to always attract mostly absolute pseudo-intellectual subhumans with zero taste or zero ability to understand a story. It's a shame too, because the anime is quite good.

>>14528978
>Avoid the last two episodes
why?

>>14529074
don't stop there you just about to say something interesting

>>14529042
Why would you honestly feel the slightest need for conformity on a place like this.

Watch it if you want, but you'll just be disappointed at every turn it could of been something good.

>>14529085
because they are only meant for patrician eyes.

>>14529094
>Why would you honestly feel the slightest need for conformity on a place like this.
Because generally this place is divinely guided in terms of the consensus among more autistic/niche works.
>you'll just be disappointed at every turn it could of been something good
That's what I really despise. Can you briefly explain without giving too much away?

>>14529085
They're lame and were only made because the producers didn't have money for more. They consist mostly of voiceover narration, cryptic messages and static images. The End of Evangelion is the intended ending.

>>14529113
>They're lame
wrong
>were only made because the producers didn't have money for more
So?
>They consist mostly of voiceover narration, cryptic messages and static images.
Yeah and it was great

>>14529122
It was okay at best. EoE, on the other hand, is peak anime kino.

>>14526756
>>14527776
>>14526832
>>14526849
>not mentioning and whole heartedly recommending Naoki Urasawa's Monster

>>14529128
Other way around EoE is only useful to understand the last two episodes

>>14529137
How does it hold up compard to Pluto and 20th Century Boys?
I didn't hate them but i'm far from being an Urasawa fan after reading those

>>14526266
OP, read "Blood music" by Greg Bear. For some aspects is really similar to Evangelion

>>14529100
I think its great, but because of the story you basically can't explain it with giving the whole thing away

>>14529145
Only because they're vague rough sketches of the true fully-fleshed greatness that is EoE. It's like watching a final film and then saying it can help you understand the test footage or the storyboards. Well, no shit.

>>14526266
The Bible.

>>14529089
umm, the Kabbalistic elements completed it as a sanctification of the unknown, still as the unknown, in the visible confusion of the unveiled "negative" which is nothing less than the spirit of Kabbalah?

Think your father, your mother, childhood dreams, and that person always lingering at the back of the unconscious which you think new as a child. And now that you look to the peripheral, he is not there, but a door, now the door has become foreign to me.

This is all literal and not symbolic.

>>14529197
>tfw storyboards and test footage are better

>>14527146
>Protagonist destined from childhood to be a central pawn in the development of a superweapon by an occult religious fringe group running the world from behind the scenes seeking to destroy it for the fulfillment of their spiritual escatology while running all kinds of psyops to hide this truth and convince the general population it's a legitimate, important struggle
>Superweapon is tied intimately to sexual development of the protagonist in ways he tries desperately to avoid understanding

>>14529100
>Because generally this place is divinely guided in terms of the consensus among more autistic/niche works.
true enough

>That's what I really despise. Can you briefly explain without giving too much away?
It's like in trying to show the mundanity of life, itself becomes mundane... then ridiculous.

The high emotional moments which initially led one into thinking they had some symbolic value in the trailer are indistinguishable from everything else in the film. Except the ending which is just as bad as the start.

>>14529239
getting too abstract...

>>14526492
I like Akira a lot and I guess Miyazaki but otherwise I agree with >>14526531 that you should stay the fuck away from it.

>>14529137
>Monster
garbage

>>14526492
I don't watch anime but I liked Cowboy Bebop.

>>14526492
Basilisk

>>14529302
But that's a rightwing anime.

>>14529083
That is not the body of a 14 year old...

>>14526492
Macross Plus

>>14526492
.hack//Sign if you want to watch something heavy on dialogue and masterful character development

>>14529083
good god I wish that were me

>>14529891
how?

>>14526492
Samurai X:Trust and Betrayal

Only 4 episodes and a masterpiece of film without a doubt

>>14530026
this. I want to be the girl on top too.

>>14530022
GOD I'M CRINGING SO HARD MY BALLS ARE DYING AND MY ASS IS AS HARD AS A ROCK

>>14530076
Okay

>>14527776
based

>>14527777
take it back

>>14529287
Bait

>>14529154
Not tried them myself but Minster is my favourite mnga and anime and surpasses most anything. Eva is close though.

>>14530009
how so?

>>14530028
gender norms

>>14530377
>Bait

>>14530377
>Bait
I forgot this was 4chan.

It is bad though.

>>14530486
clearly you haven't seen it, Ed and Gren are not gender normative. Besides gender norms aren't 'right wing' just because breaking them is 'left wing'

>>14528519
Having good taste, asukafag

>>14529287
I cannot sanction your buffoonery

>>14530518
It was a joke anon.

But I am serious about it being right wing.

>>14530680
It's just a cartoon dude.

>>14530718
K

>>14530486
>gender norms
>bait
Oh shit ironical bait

>>14530493
Wrong it is a kino story of dualism and the value of human life and set to a real and believable backdrop that is the fall of the Eastern Bloc. It is at the same time a great fulfilment of John's Apocalypse that is neatly tied in with its mundane story. It is a truly great and layered narrative with strong and likeable protagonists and nuanced villains. It is... dare I say... kino.

>>14530539
>faggotfag

>>14526266
>Unironically name me a single book written in the last 25 years better than pic related, I defy you
Let me rewrite that for you to remove redundancy:
>name a book written in the last 25 years

>>14530871
weak and predictable

>>14530718
Why?

>>14531078
Shut up

>>14530856
Yes

>>14530919
>predictable
Because you know it to be true.

>>14526492
Only mushishi
Evangelion for pseud cred

>>14528248
Based /m/ poster, /m/uh /lit/ a thing?

I keep the two interests separate but they are my two prime boards.

>>14531078
Is about the cavaliering cowboy spirit that has a that’s life attitude. It’s not about breaking the system or reform, but about idealism and personal struggles not materialism and class/group struggles. It’s very American do it yourself cowboy feel.

>>14527844
This, starting with the OVA being My Conquest is the Sea of Stars.

Disregard the mouthbreathers drooling after anime girls, they'll never make it.

>>14526266
>evangelion
>means literally the good news
>kids being brought to Christ by cute girls and mecha
yup i'm gonna call this OP based

>>14531583
Holy shit she's perfect

>one of the mods is a spic

>>14531596
she's a dumb narcissist who sells suggestive pictures to fat incels. and she has pointy elbows. she's trash.

>>14531655
I don't care about her lack of moral standards anon you big faggot and also her elbows are cute

>>14531655
>pointy elbows.

Yes, fetish department?

>>14526492
A gentleman should be able to find a couple of respectable recommendation lists on the internet on his own, and dismiss the plebeian ones with ease.

>>14527844
You might as well just read the books at this point since they're being published in english, they might all be out by now.
The anime's good but it doesn't do enough to distinguish from the book plot to really justify standing on its own if you have the choice between the two. Plus there's small differences like Reinhardt actually ordering the nuking of that one planet, whereas in the anime they changed it so Reinhardt's a goody do-nothing-bad Sue who just gets tricked by the meanie Oberstein.

>>14528498
What? Absolutely retarded, there's nothing scatalogical in the show and yet you come to that inane conclusion? It's either lighting of she slit her wrists.

>>14529113
Look at this peasant hurriedly building the high walls of his peasant castle from shit and straw.

>>14526492
Keijo, Prison School, Shimoneta, Azur Lane, Heavy Impact, Queen's Blade, Highschool of the Dead, Highschool DxD, To-Love-Ru and the Monagatari series

>>14532957
So much ecchi...

>>14532968
Name one (1) other thing anime is good for.

>>14531558
Individualism and independence.
That’s not necessarily either left or right. Both side have their individualists and collectivists

>>14532978
Ghibli

>>14532978
yaoi, Yuri, hentai