/lit/ - Literature

anime

>>16308769
From you greentext I can deduce that /a/ has shit taste, which we already knew.
Get back to effortposting.

>>16308769
what's the book, weeb-kun? now i'm curious

>>16308769
What book?

Is it The Fan Man? I know it's not but a brother can hope

>>16308769
Fuck you, fucking weeb, this is the complete opposite of the truth, /a/ is filled with degenerates who watch nothing but ecchi anime and make posts about their fetishes, they neve discuss good anime. even /tv/ has better discussion of their medium.

>>16308769
Dare you imply that Hidamari is, and I quote here: "a shit anime"?

>Watch shit anime
>Go to /a/ and find a thread with 300 posts
>All the discussion is about "best girl" and memes only fans of the anime understand, 50% is pornography or sexual fantasies since there is actually nothing to discuss about the anime itself because it's brain dead entertainment for manchildren and masturbation addicts
>Actual discussion is often discouraged as it signals you as a newfag
BASED BASED
BEST BOARD.

>>16308841
>>16308871
Go back

>>16308882
Go back to your shitty entertainment board.
You don't want to be labeled as a crossboarder, do you?

>>16308871
Literally the worst media board. /tv/ and /v/ are actually funny and have far better discussion and recs than /a/, /a/ might be the most reddit board on tbis website, "hhah so wholesome", "hhha anime is so weird"' "hhahah cat girls, anime boobs." fuck'em.

>>16308769
which book was it?

>>16308841
based speedread of op

>>16308769
Reading is a much more solitary activity, there's just too many different books people are reading. Unless you're posting about something super well known odds are people just haven't read it. I doubt anyone here has read the 3 books I'm reading right now, and that's ok.

>>16308920
When he says they discuss shit anime, it is trivially implied that they discuss good anime at least from how OP phrased things.

>>16308769
People actually watch anime on /a/
No one reads on /lit/

>>16308908
>>16308871
>>16308841
>t. fresh off the boat fags

>>16308933
>it is trivially implied that they discuss good anime at least from how OP phrased things
first of all, not really

second of all, you literally said "this is the complete opposite of the truth", yet you affirm exactly what op states in the first 2 lines

like i said, based speed read

>>16308969
What boat? you're not funny, you're delusional, this is anonymous twitter, we come here to talk to advanced chatbots about our favorite hobbies. fuck you and Fuck your board culture.

>>16308989
return. go on. shoo.

>>16308769
Nobody wants to admit it, but all 4chan boards share the same userbase of nerds who know more about video games, anime, and TV than they do about literature, history, or science. The very thread is only attracting people because the OP post contains the word "anime."
You can only get replies on /lit/ by assuming the people reading your OP post haven't read the book you're talking about. I find that including a summary of the plot or a quote people can argue about helps. The truth about this place is that while most of the posters aren't well-read or even intelligent, they come here because they think it's 4chan's "intellectual board" and that they can learn something from lurking.
If you want replies, you have to give them what they want and act like an intellectual with something to share. Don't start threads with open-ended questions about a book you've read when you could be sharing statements instead. If you say "I read ___, what does /lit/ think of it?" all you're going to get is a bunch of replies from either people who've heard the book is pretty good and want to read it, or people who've read it and think it's pretty good.
One of these days I'm going to start following my own advice and get people on this dump to start memeing about my favorite books instead of just what's popular on twitter, just you wait.

>>16308769
>There are more books than anime
>It takes longer to read a book that watch a show
>People will have read less of an even larger pool of possible discussion subject
>/lit/ is flooded with newfags who haven't read much
>There has been a degradation in board culture so there isn't a "meme trilogy" or common expected to read list anymore.
>even those who do read are reticent for whatever reason or don't coincide on the board at the same time
>/lit/ has become a fast board so the above returning before thread dead is less likely.
So there many factors are conspiring against decent discussion about specific books on /lit/. But a thread also quickly dies on /a/ if the show is 4+ years old and not a fan favourite.

>>16309070
>You can only get replies on /lit/ by assuming the people reading your OP post haven't read the book you're talking about. I find that including a summary of the plot or a quote people can argue about helps.
I do the opposite to keep the plebes out--I have no interest in discussing a book with a wikipedia scholars.

>>16309070
This is not the case for /lit/ alone, every board is awful anw filned with low I.Q animals but /a/ is especially terrible.

>>16308841
Anime is tedious and dull.

>>16308769
Because there are many midwits on /lit/ who don’t read anything, they only wish to discuss abstract concepts and broad simplifications of philosophical topics that they read on Wikipedia or watched some histrionic video about on YouTube. The problem is that there is not strong enough gatekeeping to make sure people have actually read what they wish to discuss.

>>16309241
This is true. Also anime is for midwits so it's not as hard to discuss >>16309077 and thus you get more replies no matter what.

There need to be a newfag general. The fact so many people here are talking about how they're only just now reading the Iliad is astonishing.

>>16309205
it's just as good as cinema.

t.have good taste in both.

>>16309340
Equally bad. Liking unknown movies is not a personality.

>>16309340
Anime and cinema are copes for people who are unable to appreciate and distinguish true beauty.

>>16309398
>unknown movies
nah, i like good movies being obscure has nothing to do with it.
>>16309420
that is?

>>16309398
criterion consoomers are shameless dilettantes just like nyrb consoomers

The medium is the message.

The medium is the message.

Let me say that one more time for the uneducated weeb faggots in the back.

The.

Medium.

Is.

The.

Message.

>>16309477
And your chosen medium is 4chan

>>16309477
What?

>>16309477
tee bee aech, McLuhan was a bit of a pseud.

>>16309489
The medium of communication is more important and influential than the content of the medium itself. Thus, in OP’s quandary they are not taking into account the obvious differences in long form literature and writing when compared to a visual short form animated medium. The rate of consumption of these two media are performed at dramatically different rates. Their target audiences are radically different. The point of discussion of these mediums are different as well. Which brings us to the preferred medium of communicating one’s interest in the media itself, as the previous poster so graciously pointed out, 4chan. What fundamental constraints and frameworks do you think 4chan as a medium of communicative exchange extols? How does it’s make up drive discourse and how does it fundamentally force posters to interact with it in certain ways?

>>16308769
Because you can't post cute screenshots from a book!

>>16309420
Anime has transcended true beauty. I wonder if someday art historians will study the strange phenomena that is the anime art style, and how a large number of people became so obsessed with it that they threw their lives away for the sake of consuming it.

>>16309557
You could say the same about kpop, they are the same type of entertainment intended for Low I.Q thirld worlders.

>>16309580
You could. They are both centered around portraying humans as something better than they really are.

>>16309620
just like literature

>>16308769
/a/ users are shiteater, it doesn't surprise anyone. /lit/ users may not be the smartest, or best educated, people in the world, but are surely not as retarded as /a/ weebs; so they are mostly afraid to sound like retards in some threads (or I want to believe that). But yes, I hate when non-meme content dies without comentaries.

>>16308841
those shows (and everyone you like) have been talked to the bore on /a/ since its creation

NHK was a great animu. People hate the ending, but I think it was brilliant. Satou had all those heroic phantasies, but in the end his suicide didn't work, which was his final attempt at at doing something extreme, something that in his mind would elevate his life. And then in the end he became a traffic officer, very mundane job.The contrast between his delusions of grandeur and the boring, mundane and harsh, but only harsh in a boring way, reality.

>>16308784
>Get back to effortposting
I don't think I've seen a single effortpost by an animefag.

>>16308769
The dumber something is, the more likely people want to talk about it.

>>16308769
That might suggest a sitewide bias in favor of low culture media. Of course a mere two data points isn't nearly enough to reliably model that.

>>16310121
This get said so much it might as well be a meme

>>16310147
I guess that answers why no one wants to talk about books on /lit/. And that IQ thread confirmed it.

>>16310121
>>16305653
>>16305658
Go back.

>>16308841
quintessential newfag post

>>16309557
in the future, when there are objects and people of any appreciable reverence again, i think that the artwork devoted to them will look remarkably similar to the aesthetic of japanese animation. it's a global maximum, it can't be surpassed, i've never seen any drawn artwork with an aesthetic that came as close to capturing the essence of the human form. i don't care if this is a cringe opinion, i am completely assured of this

>>16309540
It’s funny how no one has yet responded to my post.

>>16309540
Its a better medium than Twitter or Reddit for effort posts because you're not gonna get dragged or down voted for saying controversial or unpopular thingzzzz

>>16308781
fpbp

>>16310550
What do you want to hear, you attention whore? Regurgitating your Semiotics 101 textbook doesn't make you a visionary.

>>16310550
Congratulations anon! Congratulations on your post!
That's what you wanted right?