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20015948 No.20015948 [Reply] [Original]

Can I read Dragon Ball manga instead of Journey to the West?

>> No.20015963

>>20015948
Yeah you'll still get all the important points

>> No.20016008

>>20015948
Play Saiyuki: Journey West.

>> No.20016023

>>20015948
No. Start with the Greeks before reading Japanese comic books, or else you won't understand the underlying themes and subtext.

>> No.20016367

>>20015948
Yes. Just because the original dragon ball was so whimsical and good compared what came after. Very fun show. I’ll admit I never read the manga though

>> No.20016377

>>20016023
No amount of reading Western literature will prepare you for the Buddhist themes and Chinese aesthetic standards present in the Journey to the West.

>> No.20016399

>>20016377
Even Xuanzang was on a journey to the Western canon. He wanted to start with the Greeks

>> No.20016530

>>20016399
The Greeks claimed that they learned magic from the Persians, writing from the Phoenicians, and philosophy and geometry from the Egyptians. Why would you encourage others to start with the Greeks instead of what the Greeks themselves started with?

>> No.20017422
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20017422

>>20016023
>>20016399
>>20016530
We should start at the very beginning – with the Sumerians

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20017992

>>20017422
Start with the stone tools

>> No.20019794

why not both? kinda the point dont you think? getting little jap kids into old eastern literature?

>> No.20020329

>>20019794
Came to say.