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Why is Japan infatuated with this edgelord?

>> No.16241102

>>16241094
Probably because suicide is the only rational response to being born a Japanese

>> No.16241142

>>16241102
Whats up with japan and suicide?

>> No.16241144

>>16241094
they have a hard on for anyone who rebels against traditional japanese culture (this was true even pre ww2)
post ww2 the aforementioned culture was basically dismantled and degenerates like dazai garnered even more undeserved fame in its wake

>> No.16241169

>>16241142
It's a social hellhole.

>> No.16241173

>>16241142
Ever wonder why they're obsessed with high school?

>> No.16241176

>>16241102
b ased

>> No.16241198

>>16241142
>>16241169
>>16241173
But doesnt japan have a cultural fetish for it to doe? like comit sudoku and stuff.

>> No.16241235

>>16241144
So they view mishima as a crazy trad?

>> No.16241240

>>16241142
try living there for a year and find out

>> No.16241245

>>16241235
modern japanese do ya

>> No.16241251
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>>16241173
I have wondered that and I dont know why. Pls explain

>> No.16241257

>>16241094
They're not. Foreigners are the ones obsessed with Mishima and Dazai.

>> No.16241290

>>16241240
Did you live there?

>> No.16241298

>>16241251
Because life goes swiftly downhill after high school for them. They watch high school anime to reminisce about the best years of their life.

>> No.16241335

No one in Japan gives a fuck about him. He's a western meme.

>> No.16241339

>>16241169
>>16241240
By that logic, murrica should have a 80% suicide rate.

>> No.16241349

>>16241339
give it time

>> No.16241395

>>16241335
Wrong.

>> No.16241441

>>16241298
And Americans watch schlocky high school pap for the same reason. They're all the same yet resoundingly popular.

>> No.16241444

>>16241441
Those aren't really a thing anymore.

>> No.16241620

>>16241094
Only women are. Mishima Yukio and Natsume Soseki are higher status.

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>>16241102
>>16241142
>>16241144
>>16241169
>>16241173
>>16241198
>>16241245
Where do you people come from?

>> No.16241650

>>16241625
you are on an anime website dipshit

>> No.16241691

>>16241650
1. 4chan is no longer an anime website.
2. /lit/ is not an anime forum.
3. Everything you guys have said is wrong. No one in Japan is obsessed with high school, and no one likes Dazai Osamu because he was a rebel. Rebellion against the pre-war order is fetishized by the cultural elite, because most of them are either Marxists or were trained by Marxists, but at the time people basically loved the military. Anime tend to be about middle and high school because they are children's cartoons. They are made for children, and mostly children watch and read them.

>> No.16241816

>>16241691
>forum
Imageboard, dipshit.

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>>16241816
>Imageboard, dipshit.

>> No.16241855

>>16241298
I just thought they were all pedos

>> No.16241868

>>16241855
hehe I can say whatever I want because this is 4chan xDDDD

>> No.16241925

>>16241691
Many Japanes films are about high school

>> No.16242006

>>16241925
Unfortunately for you, those films are also aimed at children and young adults.

>> No.16242018

>>16242006
Unfortunately for you, you have been sentenced to 1mi llion year tickle torture

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>>16242018
>Unfortunately for you, you have been sentenced to 1mi llion year tickle torture

>> No.16242171

>>16242033
Fucking incel.

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>>16242171
I live with my girlfriend.

>> No.16242219

>>16242194
Just because he cut his dick off doesn’t make him your girlfriend

>> No.16242225
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>>16242219
She's a woman.

>> No.16242258

>>16242225
I’m sorry but he will never be a woman anon

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>>16242258
She was born a woman and is capable of giving birth to children.

>> No.16242286

>>16242279
Sure buddy.

>> No.16242375

>>16242286
>>16242279
Can y'all shut the fuck up?

>> No.16242393

>>16242375
That wasn't me.

>> No.16242485

>>16241335
>>16241257
how the fuck do people like you even scoop up the gall to post your uneducated opinions? Dazai is HUGE in japan. he's as big as dostoevsky or tolstoy is in russia. he's taught in schools, he's part of their canon. just last year they even made another movie about dazai's life. references to him are everywhere. there are snack cake brands named after him. he has a museum in his hometown. he's the fucking shakespeare of japan.

imagine going on the internet to write words you pulled out of your hairy butthole.

>> No.16242500

>>16242485
>he's the fucking shakespeare of japan.
Uh, no he's not. I agree that he's very popular, especially among young women, but he is not at all equivalent to Shakespeare. There is no equivalent to Shakespeare in Japan, because the history of the Japanese language and its literature do not map at all onto those of English.

>> No.16242585

>>16242500
>autism
take meds, seek therapy

>> No.16242590

>>16242585
Why do you insist on being stupid?

>> No.16242617
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Because reading "exotic" authors is apparently a sign of higher culture among pseuds. No Longer Human is trademark jap literature and Yozo is "literally me". The subject matter also lends itself to mass appeal since it's ostensibly profound and "tortured".

That said No Longer Human was a really pleasant book, and I enjoy his writing. I plan to start The Setting Sun once I can actually get my hands on it (unlikely).

>> No.16242625

>>16242590
>interpreting everything literally is a sign of autism
seek help anon

>> No.16242642

>>16242625
I'm sorry, anon, but you might actually be terminally unintelligent. Your comparison was silly. I pointed it out. You can accept that you made a poor comparison, provide a counterargument, or continue behaving like a buffoon in this thread.

>> No.16242763

>>16242500
>There is no equivalent to Shakespeare in Japan, because the history of the Japanese language and its literature do not map at all onto those of English.
the actual reason for this is because the average Japanese only cares about literature on a very superficial level. Most exclusively "read" light novels and manga nowadays.

>> No.16242802

>>16242763
Have you ever been to Japan? The country is chock full of bookstores, both new and used. If you hang out with people who only read light novels and manga, that's your own problem.

>> No.16242821

>>16242617
How is it exotic if it's trademark

>> No.16243173

>>16241142
They're Godless people

>> No.16244463

>>16241142
It's a problem, but not as mind mindbogglingly unique of a problem to Japan as stereotypes might have one believe. Look up the suicide rates of other comparatively developed OECD nations. Japan is on the higher end, but not necessarily an outlier. People saying it's uniquely a hellhole (especially compared to the US lmao) are wrong.

That being said, one can find repeating themes of suicide or confusion in post war literature. Im sure losing the Pacific death struggle has something to do with it.

>> No.16245031

>>16241094
Hot topic of gossip and drama for that era. They are a culture of superstition and gossip.

>> No.16246228

>>16241094
I want dazai to cum in my pussy
i dont even care if he gives me consumption just fuck me and fill my pussy with his thick creamy cummies

>> No.16246245

>>16241094
allows them to realise how soulless they are

>> No.16246455

>>16243173
Kikeless you mean? Mutts live under Jewish heel and think they believe in "god"... always exciting to spot a wild one tho!

>> No.16246481

>>16246245
It's the next logical step in pansocietal-psychological development from abstracting into being a superficial "soul" like the Hellenics.

>> No.16246565

>>16241102
This but unironically. Japan lost its soul after getting their dicks knocked in the dirt by America. Such an embarrassing end...

>> No.16247804

bump

>> No.16249130

>>16242219
kek