/lit/ - Literature

>>17224963
>Serial Experiments Lain
>1984

Favorite prose work is a tie between Seraphita by Balzac, Gods of pegana by Dunsany and the Chymical wedding of Johannes Valentinus Andreae
Favorite poem is Dante’s divine comedy
Favorite anime is a tie between legend of the galactic heroes, revolutionary girl utena, monogatari, lain and yu yu hakusho(and a couple others)

I'm more of a type for manga, but of what anime I've seen I can't decide between City Hunter and Kekkai Sensen as my favorite. Maybe former, first season of KS had a problem with a pair of OCs that were a bit too Mary Sue-ish.
Favorite book is Fantômas.

>>17224963
> FMA, Monster, YYH, Dragon Ball, Bleach
There is some other anime that I can't really remember the name. That is about some guy making a dictionary, can't get more /lit/ than that. I can't really remember the name. But I can't really choose, there are too many options and it is a bit like the same with books. And I'm more of a manga person.
> Freud's Intro to Psychoanalysis, Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, Friedan's The Feminine Mystique, Mihaly's Flow.
Those are mainly what I got 'spinning' in my head atm. Not really favorites or anything.

>>17224963
Let’s all love Lain!

Lain makes my peepee twitch

>>17225068
>logh
based

>>17224963
Mushi-shi
Walden

>>17225577
Lain
The Holy Bible

>all this shit taste

you will never be a woman

>gake no ue no ponyo
>cannery row

>>17224963
I have absolutely no comprehension how someone's taste in anime can be vast enough for their favourite to say much about them, or good anime be vast enough for anything positive to be said about the anon who knows as much.

>>17224963
texhnolyze
journey to the end of the night

is boogiepop phantom good /lit/bros

>>17226198
It’s just a veiled recommendation thread, anon

>>17226186
>calls people trannies because they like anime on an anime website
time to go back, faggot

>>17224963
based Lainposter

>NGE
>Book of Disquiet or War and Peace

>>17226244
I figured it would become that, but a consciously recommendation thread, figure?-- Never!

Does anyone know of any books that are similar to Urusei Yatsura Movie 2: Beautiful Dreamer? Specifically, a surreal story that captures the melancholic mood of the film, with themes such as resistance to change and the fleeting nature of life and its moments. Right now, I am trying out Borges' short stories to see if they suit what I'm looking for but it would be cool if any anons have recs.

>>17224963
Ping Pong the Animation
Which book would be similar to that Anime?
My favorite books so far are: Absalom, Absalom by Faulkner, Moby Dick, Infinite Jest and the Frolic of the Beasts(Mishima)

>Cowboy Bebop
>Call of the Arcade

I refuse to believe anyone unironically considers Lain their favourite anime. it's just a sad attempt at projecting a chic, /lit/ persona.

>>17224963
>anime
LOGH

>book
The Lord of the Rings

>>17226829
>nooo! people cannot genuinely like something i don't!!!

>>17227135
Except for the OP and the unique aesthetic it's not that great. Maybe around Cassern Sins in terms of literary quality and enjoyment.
>but muh subjective taste
Your subjective taste is objectively shit

>>17227163
>Except for the OP and the unique aesthetic it's not that great.
your point would be valid if it weren't for the fact that the 'aesthetic' of Lain encompasses such a broad spectrum as to be the primary communicator of substance. it is a series chiefly grounded on 'atmosphere', 'aesthetic' and half-suggested questions based on those - it accomplishes its goal with exactness. not liking Lain because it is 'not that deep' is a fundamental misunderstanding of its qualities, a misunderstanding which newfags such as your self desperately try to hold on to to exude an air of good taste

>>17224963
>Serial Experiments Lain
>Middlemarch

>>17227244
>babby's first encounter with subtext

>>17227257
>purposely missing the point this much
might as well just admit that you're baiting

>>17227282
I kneel, Lainfag

>>17227302
>t. haruhishitter

>>17227327
try again, the species of fish that would have taken this bait is already pretty much extinct

>>17224963
>The Picture of Dorian Gray
>Perfect Blue

>>17227340
your regurgitation betrays your obvious newfaggotry, chump

Mushishi
The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt

>Poetic Edda
>Memories (1995)

>Millenium Actress
>The Phaedo

>K-On!
>God Emperor of Dune

>>17225068
>logh, monogatari, lain
BASED
>utena
is it that good? I got seven or eight episodes in and wasn't particularly captivated like I was with logh/lain

>>17229006
I really really like it but here’s the thing, while you can really enjoy it without understanding the references, the whole thing is one big Rosicrucian/occult allegory. Each of the rose-characters have their color scheme and personality literally designed off of a sephira, the anime is literally about the chemical marriage; the scope of the allegorical nature doesn’t become apparent until the final episode. But even stuff like the music in it will reference Swedenborg, Christian mysticism and world forth. It’s just absolutely subtle and not in your face with the occult allegory. You can find the entire dub on YouTube in a playlist, I’d recommend watching it all if the above interests you. Also the repetition/ritual of it becomes really comfy. But if you don’t like it I wouldn’t say force it.

texhnolyze
ulysses

>>17229034
>You can find the entire dub on YouTube

>Tatami Galaxy
>Leaves of Grass

>Legend of the Galactic Heroes
>Catch 22

>>17225068
What do you think of the Chymical Wedding of Christian Rosencreuz, as compared to Andreae?

>>17224963
>Welcome to the NHK
>Petersburg - Andrei Bely
>>17225210
>>17227364
Perfect blue made me incredibly anxious
>>17228717
cute!

>>17224963
Neon Genesis Evangelion & Thus spoke Zarathustra

>https://youtu.be/PNDs2dwyZcQ

>>17228299
>Memories
Didn't know there were many of us around.

>The Brothers Karamazov
I don’t watch anime

I'd also like to add:
FUCK THE REBUILDS & Misato best gril

>The one who deserves to survive is the one who has the Will to make it happen
>Your Survival is not a mistake

>>17224963
Favorite book: The Metamorphosis

Favorite anime: Oregairu

Future Boy Conan
Carrion Comfort

Are there two versions of lain? I see gifs from time to time which were not in the one I saw, lile the gif of her eating a gun, they suggest a much darken anime free of that terrible happy ending, or are these gifs just fan art? It is an ok anime, that ending really ruins it for me and it relies on dialog a tad much, certainly better than most anime.

>>17229272
From my understanding, there was a lain ps1 game that had cutscenes with a darker tone. I wouldn't assume that all the things you might be seeing are from that though.

>>17229349
Ah, thanks anon. I could overlook the over dependence on dialog if it were not for that ending. One of the worst ever.

>>17224963
Mushishi
Growth of the Soil

Also, >>17225577 nice

>Kill la Kill
>The Will to Believe

>>17224963
>FLCL
>A Farewell to Arms

>Koi Kaze
>Of Human Bondage

I've seen a lot of anime that is better executed (including many of the titles listed in this thread) but I love the drama

>>17229170
based and lifepilled

>Madoka
>Loloita

>>17229034
I plan to finish rewatching LoGH + I have a few shows to watch, but I've had Utena on hold for a few months so I might revisit it.

>>17224963
>Monster or Legend of the Galactic Heroes
>Devils by Dostoevsky
>tfw Johan is just Stavrogin

>>17228299
the stinkbomb episode, right?

>Either Kill La Kill, Baccano!, 91 Days, or Made In Abyss
>Meditations on The Tarot, Moby Dick, and the Grand Inquisitor segment of the Brothers Karamazov
>>17226201
>>17227508
>>17229048
>>17229382
>>17229384
Lain and LGH aside, good taste everyone

>>17226472
Interested as well

>>17226472
>>17230615
I can't do it bros. There's nothing like this movie. Even the series isn't like it (except for the odd surreal episode). I need a book to make me feel the same way.

>>17226703
kys

>>17224963
Cowboy Bebop
Ulysses

They're not at all related

>>17228717
exquisite taste

>>17230761
I have not seen it but that other anons description is strongly reminiscent of Dandelion Wine.

>>17224963
>Herodotus
>Kaiji ultimate survivor

evangelion and the magic mountain
>>17229048
>>17226201
based tex enjoyers
>>17228717
I still haven't found anything on the level of K-On when it comes to SOL

>>17230335
Magnetic Rose is Kon's best work.

>>17230470
>not liking LGH
Win.
>not liking Lain
Fale.

>>17224963
Non Non Biyori
I don't read

>>17224963
>Anime
Samurai Flamenco
>Prose
Thomas Brownes Religio Medici
>Novel
Resurrection by Tolstoy
>Poem
Thomas Weelkes’ Madrigals of Six Parts

>>17231534
Based!

>>17224963
YKK
City of God

>>17226690
Ping pong is God tier
Try Demian by Hesse

>>17231572
>Samamenco
a wild ride but i thought it played the same twist escalation a few times too much. I understand what it was doing and parodying, but ended up exhausted around 3/4 through.

>Anime
Asobi Asobase
>Manga
Imawa no Kuni no Alice
>Book
Anna Karenina

>>17231846
>Anime
Devilman crybaby
>Book
Nostromo

>Angel's Egg
>The Harps That Once... Sumerian Poetry in Translation

>>17231110
>>17231391
>>17229155
Good to know this is a Ritsu board

>>17227244
>it is a series chiefly grounded on 'atmosphere', 'aesthetic' and half-suggested questions based on those
i dont get it

>>17224963
>anime
Ashita no Joe and Ping Pong the Animation
>book
Watership Down and Augustus

>>17231391
K-on is trash, at least watch or read Aria pleb

>>17224963
>Anime
Samurai Champloo
>Manga
Yokohama Kaidashi Kikō
>Book
Anna Karenina
>>17224972
makes sense
>>17225068
A little pretentious but very nice
>>17225130
kino
>>17225637
absolutely based
>>17226157
Contribute then, fuckface.

>>17225555
checked and based

>>17224963

>JoJo
>American Psycho

>Legend of the Galactic Heroes
>The Brothers Karamazov

>>17231250
Thanks

Manga/Anime: Hunter x Hunter

Book: Thomas Mann - The Magic Mountain

>>17229384
>Kill la Kill

is that you kill la kill anon?

>>17224963
>anime
Death Note
>book
fiction: Battle Royale
nonfiction: Night Falls Fast: Understanding Suicide / A Mother's Reckoning

>Ghost in the Shell
>Roadside Picnic

>>17232339
Aria is good but it doesn't give me the same feeling

>>17232945
holy fucking based

>>17224963
>Tatami Galaxy.
>Metamorphosis
I don't get why many of you like lain. The aesthetics are cool but is a quite pretentious anime.

>Zhuangzi
>Honneamise

>>17224963
>Post your favorite anime and book.
Dunno how you lot can just pick one.
>Manga
Vinland Saga, 20th Century Boys, Palepoli, Me and the Devil Blues, and Historie.
>Anime
Juuni Kokuki, Monster, Hinamatsuri, Perfect Blue, Welcome to the NHK, and Hyouka.
>Books, poetry collections, dramatic works, etc
The Good Soldier Svejk, The Selected Prose of Fernando Pessoa, The Canterbury Tales, Love Poems (Pablo Neruda), Poems and Prose by Gerard Manley Hopkins, and The Complete Poems of John Wilmot.

>>17234401
>Juuni Kokuki
Holy fucking shit, get me the based department
Are we ever going to get a new season?

>>17229829
Cunny Chad

>>17234471
I'm often a pessimist anon but I'm holding out hope. I haven't read the novels yet so maybe if waiting forever gets too tiring I'll just finish the novels.

>>17234514
In any case, excellent taste all throughout your post, I'll check the stuff which I haven't watched or read.

>>17234519
I posted a few more than I needed to in hopes of introducing someone to something they might enjoy, hope you'll be pleasantly surprised.

>>17234561
Thanks, anon

>>17233072
Don't lose your way

>Berserk (manga) or Texhnolyze
>Book of the New Sun or Brothers Karamazov

Favorite Anime: Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam
Favorite Book: Around the World in 80 days, by Jules Verne

bump

>>17234401
>Hinamatsuri
based

>>17237439
I think it's the best modern comedy anime at the very least, season 2 is going to be pure kino.

>>17237470
I agree, i thought it was hilarious. There's a season 2 coming out?

>>17237492
I hope it will but no it hasn't been greenlit and there isn't enough source material yet.

>>17237508
And to be clear I mean we have no cule if it's even in the works, but I'm holding out hope for a post-COVID announcement. As I'm sure you know, the coof isn't making anime production any easier.

>>17237508
Didn't the Hinamatsuri manga end earlier this year? If they don't have enough source material they aren't going to be getting any more. Maybe they'll make a movie instead of a full season if that's the case.

>>17237550
It has almost completed but it isn't yet. Plus I think the lack of material was one of the reasons there wasn't a second season earlier on, and other thibgs like economic conditions due to the coof are more related now. I don't know to be fair, I couldn't say.

>K-On
>A Confederacy of Dunces

>>17228717
>>17231110
>>17231534
>>17232302
>>17232311
Yeah based

>>17232339
>K-on is trash
rude

>>17235256
>>17229384
Unironically I really like this one and im not one for anime or fanservice. the actual fanservice shit actually worked thematically and it had an actual visceral but fun energy that felt raw and dramatic but also not afraid to cross that line into absurdity while also having some real gravitas to it.

>>17224963
>.hack/Signs
>Dream of the Red Chamber

>>17228299
>memories
very based

>houseki no kuni
>solaris

>>17224963
>Texhnolyze, Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei, Monogatari Series
>The Castle, the Man without qualities, Extinction (Bernhard)

>>17225068
Pseud redditor without a single original thought.

>texhnolyze
>book of disquiet

>>17224963
>Anime
Don't waste time with that trash, manchild.

>>17225188
>> FMA, Monster, YYH, Dragon Ball, Bleach
"I'm 16 years old" the taste.

>>17238795

>>17238417
>>Dream of the Red Chamber
absolute win

Bump

>>17238858
fAGGOT

Baki the Grappler
Storm of Steel

>Welcome to the NHK
>Industrial Society and it's Future

>beckett trilogy
>hajime no ippo

>>17224963
>Serial Experiments Lain
>Foucault's Pendulum
Lainfriends read that book.

>>17238808
There's nothing wrong with FMA and Monster at least

>>17229265
Based

>>17229207
for me its
the brothers karamazov as well

but i do

>>17226829
There are unironic hebephiles on this site, who might like the show because of the little girls it depicts. There are also people who like science-fiction and technology in general and view the show as a particularly prescient depiction of certain possibilities it would allow for in the future (i.e the internet as an entrance into a virtual copy of physical reality). I personally saw it years ago and barely remember a lick of plot, but found the desaturated visuals and the melancholic atmosphere pretty cool, and the main character endearing in her own way. The opening theme in particular, is a favorite of mine within anime, even if the series as a whole isn't. I agree that the series does seem to have become used a signal of "sophisticated" taste in some circles, but it's distinct enough to justify the cult-fanbase it holds.

Though I haven't watched anime in many years, and probably shouldn't try to analyze it much anymore given my lack of background.

>a storm of swords
>gintama

>>17241898
>There are unironic hebephiles on this site, who might like the show because of the little girls it depicts.
The character designs are probably the most unattractive of any anime, Lain herself looks like a beady-eyed toad. While the show does seem to attract a lot of computer nerds who want to self-insert as a late 90s hacker, I don't think it's a sexual kind of thing.
I think the rest of your explanation is more accurate. While the show's actual story is kind of a mess and the ending is a lame cop-out, the ideas behind it all are still very prescient. Konaka, the writer, was pretty knowledgeable about early hacker and internet culture and it shows. The problem, which some would-be deepfags treat like one of the show's strengths, is that the presentation is so incoherent that you can't really pick up on this unless you've seen it all twice. Texhnolyze has the same problem, but worse because they were working with a smaller budget.

bump

>>17226829
What's anime you'd recommend as better than Lain? I intentionally watch little anime because I can tell I won't like it. I liked Lain because I was going into it expecting a theme of hyperreality and it delivered that nicely enough.

kaiba / the tombs of atuan

>>17245047
reminds me I still haven't watched it

>Haibane Renmei
>The Opposing Shore

Welcome to the NHK
Don Quixote
>Film: Nostos Il Ritorno

>>17243099
>>17241898
Well put.
There's a real autogynephillic energy around the fanbase though. Not sure what that's all about but if you go on /g/ or leftist circles (I don't) you know what I'm talking about. (>>/lit/thread/S14845873))
I liked this video about it though if anyone thinks the anime is just nonsense: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XIr6TPrqRds
That being said
>Evangelion (maybe Steins;Gate)
>Finnegans Wake (maybe Lolita)