/lit/ - Literature

>>23159205
Wrong board

I read Journey to the West because of his adaption

>>23159205
>>23159206
Nigga nobody was posting on /a/ when Corman Macdonald died. Stop it, please.

>>23159223
Anime website, newfaggot.

>>23159223
Because Cormac McCunty is irrelevant. Toriyama is way more popular.

>>23159223
Manga is also literature, you imbecile.

>>23159223
Also, who is this Corman?
I never heard of him in my life.
What books, did he write?

>>23159225
>Anime website, newfaggot.

>>23159235
Cringe.

>>23159233
Gay Cowboys: Red Asscheeks
Gay Cowboys Part II: Pale Asses
The Road to My Asshole
Stella the Brave Trans Girl

>>23159205
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4TKkgPfJeTI

>"Yes, we had the magic To make the visions we drew into reality.. it’s true!
>To my friends: If we keep on believing in tomorrow, Even this desert will turn into a paradise!
>To my friends: We’re hurt , so let’s learn from it and go on!
>Now, love’s bud is blooming in my heart!"

RIP

>>23159289
Based beyond measure

Goku was the ubermensch

>>23159205
who

>>23159223
manga is a subcategory of literature
it wouldn't make sense to post threads for dead american novelists on /a/

either way, toriyama is one of the most influential manga authors of all time and probably the only one who'd get a thread here anytime within the next decade.
if you don't like it you can shut the fuck up and go post in one of the other hundred threads on the board right now, wannabe janny.

>>23159413
manga is not literature, just because some manga artist is influential in country where nobody can write to save their lives does not mean he automatically becomes a writer of literature

F
Came here to pay respects when I heard

Stop posting anime shit, regardless of the context.
This board barely gets any actual discussion of literature and the last thing we need is the sub-70 IQ Mongoloid whoresons to come in and ruin the remains of this shitpile. It might be a shitpile, but it's OUR shitpile.

>>23159494
>IP count doesn't go up
Dude if it triggers you that much just hide the thread

>>23159205
Woah, R.I.P., thoughts and prayers to the family...he will be solely missed...absolute legend from land of the rising sun, see you space samurai...

>>23159429
How do you read manga, anon? If not books, what are you using? Holographic projection? Are you Paul Atreides?

>>23159803
This board has a weird hatebone for anything Japanese.
I noticed everytime you mention something like that, they get fucking angry and say the most retarded shit you'll ever hear for some reason.

>>23159205
>manga

He should have been publicly executed years ago

>>23159237
not him but anime is literally the peak of cringe, also tranny psychology

>>23159924
Probably because Japanese literature is horrendous and anything else the Japanese do otherwise (video games, cartoons, eating live animals) is a race to the bottom and only imbeciles ever seem to enjoy it.

>>23159933
>>23159933
If you think anime is cringe, you clearly showed that haven't watched ANY anime.
>tranny psychology
?????
What does that even mean?
Is everyone retarded here or what?
I thought this was the smart board, not a stupid one.

>hating anime openly on an anime website
do newfags really?

>>23159936
>Japanese literature is horrendous
>only imbeciles ever seem to enjoy it.
Wow.
Is that what you really think?
This board really has people that are beyond retarded.
Lol.

>>23159939
>If you think anime is cringe, you clearly showed that haven't watched ANY anime.


HAHAHAHAH you're a joke bro you have no idea how much of an autistic retard you are get the fuck off my board, also tranny psychology

>>23159924
Not hate, but retarded weebs like undermining other literature. Also, the number of people spamming manga, light novels, and anime, and calling them literature isn't helping either. It creates a weird divide between what counts as Japanese literature and what doesn't. Some people that hate Jap literature are probably only thinking of light novels.

He took inspiration from Homer for some of the stories in Dragon Ball. Goku was partly based on Odysseus

>>23159957
Anything printed on of-white book paper with a soft or hard cover with some words qualifies as literature. Your qualifications remind me of when /tv/ had an influx of people from twitter saying "this isn't a film, it's just a movie."

>>23159963
Based on your logic I can just say that almost all Japanese literature is shit, and I technically wouldn't be wrong.

>>23159974
Well, an opinion is just an opinion. I'm not talking about opinions. I'm trying to define what is literature and what isn't.

>>23159974
>and i technically wouldn't be wrong.
You would actually be, though.
You clearly have a giant soliptstic ego.
You are retarded.

>>23159954
You are the real joke, you child.
You have to be 18 to post here, you immature idiot.

>>23159958
>Goku was inspired by Homer's Odysseus.
???
???????
????????????
You mean, he was inspired by "journey to the west".
Does the /lit/ board, not know the right books?
This is a disgrace of a boardxif you can't even get the right story Toriyama was inspired to create DB.

>>23159987
>says people are underrage
>watches jap cartoons

>>23160029
>says people are underrage
>watches jap cartoon
Yes, and?
Any problem with that, you immature imbecile?

>>23160029
>“Critics who treat 'adult' as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves. To be concerned about being grown up, to admire the grown up because it is grown up, to blush at the suspicion of being childish; these things are the marks of childhood and adolescence. And in childhood and adolescence they are, in moderation, healthy symptoms. Young things ought to want to grow. But to carry on into middle life or even into early manhood this concern about being adult is a mark of really arrested development. When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.”
― C.S. Lewis
So shut up, you immature imbecile.

>>23160051
HAHAHAHHAHA imagine coping this hard, uhhh talking lion jesus man said continuing to do childish stuff is actually le mature and doing adult stuff is actually... childish. Mega cope from a guy who wrote shitty children's books. You consume mindless effiminate tranny jap cartoons purely because you are a stunted coomer retard. No other cope required you know its true.

>>23160071
If that quote from Lewis is considered a "cope" from you retard, then i gladly cope.
You still cannot change the fact, that you are an immature child and i am not, as much as you want it to be the opposite.

>>23159946
Thank you for the infirm woman response but I am correct. Go press the reset button on your Playstation and pray it will change anything.

>>23160083
No, you are not correct, you soliptstic cursed human.
You have a giant destructive ego.

>>23160071
CS Lewis and Akira Toriyama have hit closer to the alchemical gold, and purified–not only themselves–but the entire world, in more profound and sincere ways than you could ever hope to achieve if you never leave this childish and spiteful path. The people in this existence who destroy, belittle, and abuse this place more than anyone else are confused and philosophically inept people like yourself (or others ITT). You should be deeply ashamed of the kind of person you've become. If your parents raised you to be this simplistic, impudent, and hateful then I shame them too and their entire legacy. You're nothing but a coward, and you're only running from yourself. Keep punching air, you pathetically desperate individual.

AY CARUMBA, NOT SENOR AKIRA TORIYAMA! DIOS MIOS ABEDDADADADA

>>23160094
It'd be funny if your whole mutt race was exterminated.

>>23159205
Why does anime being on an anime website scare newfags so much?

>>23160109
Why are YOU brown?

>>23160105
You are clawing out your own eyes.

>>23160105
>Reads a great truthful post.
>Thinks about exterminating an entire race.
WTF???
Why are you so hateful?
Did Toriyama kill your family or a person of that race kill your family, or what?
You are a schizo.

>>23160088
My giant destructive ego is like a cock and a sword all at once, arriving first like heavy meat meets a butcher's slab, then severing you as the butcher's blade might. This is what happens when you worship little yellow monkey men and are exposed to the white man's scrutiny. You won't be able to cope.

>>23160113
Christcuck trash like Narnia and a anime aired on the Toonami block means nothing to me.

>>23160117
Then you are a soulless individual, with no indication of life, basically indistinguishable from an AI.

>>23160117
>CW Lewis
>Christcuck
You just lost any hope of credibility you could have hoped to attain ITT kek

>>23160123
You ingest the entertainment equivalent of McDonalds and you're calling someone else soulless? Go back to watching drawings punch each other.

>>23160115
You are not as strong as you think, you pathetic immature imbecile.

>>23160133
>You ingest the entertainment equivalent of McDonalds and you're calling someone else soulless? Go back to watching drawings punch each other.
Are you braindead or something?
You sound like an actual parody.
Im convinced you are not a real human, but an AI programed to be retarded.

>>23160111
Why are you?

I live in brazil and dragon ball is bigger than christianity. there are people crying in the street

>>23160102
I ate my shorts because of you white devils mocking me and shooting me in Space Pope Avenger 3: Green Go Getter Chief Sendemback

I am so oppressed, white man

Its all jur fault ese

Ju killed the flood

>>23159997
Are you trying to imply it can't be inspired by more than one thing? The Journey to the West was only the start of Dragon Ball

>>23159205
died young from the vaxx. sucks. we will lose more people from pfizer in the coming years

>>23160152
Show me the interview or something where Toriyama said, where it shows that Goku was inspired by Odysseus.
If you don't find it, then you just made it up.
So show it.

>>23160133
I want to see a distilled moments of dragon ball that is JUST the heart warming east praising west shitting philosophical greatness that is Dragon Ball and Akira's greatest messages in Dragon Ball. Unfortunately as you said, like McDonald's, there is a similar business model but such is the cost of reproducing mass media for so many years at such a scale with so many squeaky hinges getting expensive grease.
Us fans aspire to be like him in the marketplace but we are crowded out by the church and industrial bores.

>>23160157
Dragon Ball lets touchy subjects breathe without being explicit and plow driving the point home. It's a kid's cartoon with a philosopher's library smuggled subliminally. You're not the person to discuss this with all cynical and hostile. Thats why the Jews invented Jesus for you to steer your Philistine asses away from their libraries (and take your money and women and companies for 2000+ years)

Why do weebs always come on this board to ruin it. manga has nothing do with literature. weebs don't need to pretend that manga is high tier art or sophisticated, manga is fine for what it is.

Wow, people on 4chan sure are mean.

>>23160164
What has the jews and christianity to do with this????
Now you're just covering the fact that you made up the conection between goku and odysseus in your head, with no proof, and that's why you can't find any interviews or anything that confirms your made up headcanon.

jannies do your fucking job. It sad passing but this zero to do with lit.

>>23160167
>4chan's literature board should not discuss manga
Dont make me tap the sign

>>23160173
>a website wholly dedicated to anime manga imageboard discussion of other topics
Wow you sure know how to spit in the face of your host
Praise Moots 1 2 3 all the Moots

>>23160183
I wish I was a tech lord like Moot-sama whomst made 4chan possible

>>23160167
>>23160173
Confirmed 4chan newbies.
You should all get out, if you don't get thst manga is technically literature and it belongs, here in a primarily anime forum, you retard newbies.

>>23160172
Subtext. I will not dirscursively elaborate to you to make a painstaking case on something that is EVIDENTLY OBVIOUS for anyone familiar with Dragon Ball.
See you're demanding suggestions become explicit anchors like Biblical laws.
Japanese have no JudeoChristian obligations until their media is alleged this kind of wearisome interaction by Western powers.
Laughing in Japan and copying that in the west is not possibru in your board meeting, Bank-san.

>>23160172
>le alchemy riddle is fake because i can't solve the riddle!!!
kek. every time.

>>23160196
Defensive of your made up headcanon.
You are definitely a toxic fan headcanon retard.

>>23160196
I can tell you're a fan of Geekdom101. I am too

>>23160196
I just asked for an interview confirming the BS you said.
You couldn't find anything like that, because it's fake, and now you are coping and figthing a strawman you made up of me, because you are a schizo retard.

>>23160202
>fan imagines off screen suggestions left open to interpretation
Color me shocked that Dragon Ball is not on the periodic table of elements or Constitution of the United States. Where did you find the sola scriptura on Dragon Ball?
Yknow Superman Clark Kent officially appears in Drsgon Ball in episode....
There is a Superman parody but the Superman theme is a huge deal in Dragon Ball. I see no Odyseey connection myself but the imaginative heroes journey itself lends itself to that.

>>23160202
You really should be ashamed of being a dismissive little loser who has to go to 4chan to get attention just because he's to functionally inept to understand the nuances in art

ITT: Mature is when screeching about things I don't like
peak /lit/
Welcome to the anime website, newfriends. We discuss anime here.

>>23160210
>>23160212
Still no interview confimation, though.

>>23160222
I didnt bring up The Odyseey nor do I care about it. But I do care about Dragon Ball being insulted because there is no works cited to jack off literature majors at American Liberal Arts Tyrants R Us

>>23159205
Such a happy guy, I wish I could smile like that.

>>23160234
Kill yourself.

>>23159223
/a/ is representative of 4chan as a whole basically when you have a JAPANESE (styled) ANIME DISCUSSION WEBSITE host your discussion.
CHAN meaning dear in Japanese, basically. ENDEARMENT. The thing you filthy reddit brained newfags don't have here.

>>23160238
Lead the way.

https://youtu.be/qiNOdt8JcNs?si=hHjKOk394m09WuPP

>>23160252
LOLOLOLOLOOLOLOLOL.
GOT THEM.
/lit/fags just got destroyed.

>Akira Toriyama
>Quino
>Albert Uderzo
>Christopher Tolkien
>Francisco Ibáñez
Why have so many people that brought me joy during my youth passed away in the last four years?

>>23159205
Not a single person bothered to ask his vax status. The absolute state of this board

>>23159943
Tranime is for underage retards. You will never be a woman

>>23160264
Are you one of those people that blame his death on the covid vaccine?
Really?
I have no words.
You are an actual idiot.

>>23160266
>Tranime is for underage retards. You will never be a woman
Tranny projection.
You will never be mature in mind.

>>23160257
I for one blame the jews.
>>23160266
Boy anon, you sure are angry about people talking about anime on an anime website. Have some spider tits to calm you down.

>>23160266
I don't desire to be. I'm a grown hairy man with a cock. Fuck you and your baby face, you faggot. This isn't high school. Bullying anons and asserting your stupidity wil rightfully get you smashed and BTFOd by any vaguely rational person. I hope you come to realize this some day.

>>23160272
go get your booster, bitch

>>23160257
Boomers were a massive cohort, in case you forgot. What's bad about it is all the knowledge is going with them as many didn't pass it on.

>>23159205
Not real /lit/, take it to /a/ were it belongs r*ddittroon.

>>23160290
>IP count didn't go up
you're so mad lmao

>>23160290
Nice self portrait.

>>23160290
Youre done here bro

>>23160295
>>23160302
>>23160304
You will never be a real woman, doesnt matter how much you spam faggot. Take it to /a/ nigger.

>>23160308
Diogenes would punch your ugly face, if he was still alive.

>>23160308
ESL detected. nice seethe.

>>23160308
you're really gay lmao

>>23160314
I dunno, Athens was a pretty strict place, for one thing they didnt allow niggers and foreigners to vote. And contrary to belief faggots were actually lynched in ancient Athens.
>>23160317
>>23160321
You will still never be a real woman.

>>23160308
>>23160290
>>23159235
>ugly

>>23160324
What's your point here?
That you are a retarded faggot?
Yeah, we already knew, that so tell us something new, you imbecile.

>>23160324
Anime website, faggot. Seethe harder.

>>23160329
>>23160334

>>23160337

>>23160324
>muh Athens
You are the foreigner in this example. Nice self-own, retard.

>>23160349
And you are the nigger.

>>23160355
Retard.

>>23160355
Nope, that's still you given the make up of what foreigner represents in your example.

>>23160094
crazy how deluded weebs are

Everyone is united by Dragon Ball and in honor of Toriyama except /lit/. Shameful. If there was ever a work of fiction that created peace between peoples it’s Dragon Ball

>>23160400
Insane that low-IQ zoomer redditfaggots like you are on a website created for anime and manga discussion

>>23160407
It shows how schizophrenic and newfaggot /lit/ is now. It's kind of shocking.

>>23160400
>Reads a well written truthful post.
>Says that "you weebs are deluded"
What???

>>23160417
He felt addressed and went like this >:(

>>23160417
Reading long posts are hard, and I'm challenged mentally.

>>23160421
You are ESL and can barely write a few words in a row without error, lmao.

>>23160423
But this is the /lit/ board.
I would understand it on other boards, but this board is all about reading shit.
So im confused about that anon's response.

>>23160433
>implying /lit/ knows how to read
that's like implying /v/ plays video games

>>23160431
Thank you for projecting how you feel for us. It genuinely helps us understand the mind of the desperate which in turn grows our strength in culling attention seeking behavior. Your contributions to human knowledge will live forever. Consider lurking more and posting less, newfriend. *kisses forehead*
Also, imagine taking pride in writing words in a row in the age of chat GPT, how embarrassing.

>>23160431
???
I don't even see a sign of ESL in here
>He felt addressed and went like this >:(
What are you even saying?
Are you actually braindead?
Or just coping because you got called out?
I dont understand you /lit/faggots.

>>23160452
kek the fact that this nearly killed the thread after he finally fucked off says wonders

>>23161015
>kek the fact that this nearly killed the thread after he finally fucked off says wonders
What does it say?

>>23161018
Very few intelligent posters on the reading and symbolism board.

>>23159205
>Chinaman
Nothing of value was lost.

>>23159235

>>23159205
Wrong board

I really don't know how weebs pretend tranime is anything but the most stupid effeminate consumer shit. I watch Seinfeld but I don't pretend it's anything but a low brow comedy. There's something about anime that really poisons people's mind.

>>23162064
That's because it's intentionally a low brow comedy. Just because you reduce something nuanced to a simplistic summation doesn't actually entail that thing lacking nuance, depth, maturity, allegory, or valuable themes. All of which are prevalent in Dragon Ball. If they weren't, there would not be BILLIONS of people who value the series. It's more popular worldwide than Superman by now, anon. This isn't meant to be argumentative. I'm trying, in earnest, to tell you the truth of this.

>>23160417
>well written

he's literally just spouting them most absurd shit and calling childish and egotistcal. I mean most of the post was literally just insulting him.

>>23162103
Something can be offensive and well-written, simultaneously. As well, it was accurate.
t. the guy who wrote it.

>>23162095
BILLLIONS of people value the Avengers and Coldplay. That doesn't mean shit. In fact pop art is almost always worst because it appeals to the unwashed masses. You're obviously not from this board and don't read serious literature but have some obsession with defending anime in this thread. You really don't understand how laughable it is you're calling Dragon Ball "high art".

>>23162108
You don't understand what the term "well written" means I've read through this thread and I'm certain you have autism. You talk a lot but say nothing, usually just calling someone an "imbecile" over and over. Yet it seems in your head I'm sure your logic is flawless.

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>>23162140
This is even more embarrassing anon and proof that anime literally corrupts young autistic boys minds.

>>23162135
Well-written entails structure. I don't care what you feel of my prose.

>>23162143
post your books then, faggot. with timestamp. if you don't, then you're just cementing yourself as an audacious attention-seeking pussy who doesn't actually read.

>>23162145
lol there really is no hope for you. Just redefining words do brazenly.

>>23162152
>muh semantics
>no real opinions
(you)

>>23162149
No I'm not as petty and insecure as to "prove" myself like you. To be fair its not even an impressive stack, with some of it being total rubbish and some very pedestrian. I'm not actually suprised a weeb is into silly occult stuff, Stoicism and Huxley. Defintly some autistic 95 IQ latino weeb lol. Anyhow as I can see you're totally autistic and seem to be staying up for days straight to autistically screech against any post that shits on anime. I'll be going now.

>>23162166
Thanks for your concession. You just cemented yourself as an audacious attention-seeking pussy who doesn't actually read.

>>23162166
I accept your concession topkek

>>23162166

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>>23162175
Apparently Joseph Conrad is mentally retarded

>>23162182
The conch has spoken.

>>23160167
The only people I see chimping out are the pseuds seething and posturing over cartoons being below them.

>>23160218
NO! SHUT THE FUCK UP.
I CAN'T JUST CLOSE THE THREAD! HELP ME MODS, KILL EVERY DRAGONTARD IN THIS THREAD NOW!

>>23162264
You're not above them for shitting on something people value while they're mourning the creator's loss.

>>23162264
>>23162278
Woops misread. Continue anon

>>23162064
There is nothing that hasn't been vulgarized into low brow consumer garbage. The vast majority of books praised on this board were written decades if not centuries ago. The only modern works people here (pretend to) care about are borderline memes like ASOIAF.
I don't blame people for watching anime, even chinkslop is a preferable alternative to the garbage you can find on netflix. At least it tries to be fun with what it does.

>>23159205
>>23159225
Wrong board

>>23162511
The jannies approve. Move along.

>>23159205

>>23162523
>The jannies approve.
>t.

>>23159205
manga is the top /lit/ around
bookcels can't process images because they sniff their own farts

>>23162551
Problem?

>>23162561
Nigga did you just post a fucking trollface
>>23162559
Neck yourself retard

>>23162565
Issue?

>>23162568
I'm not the one who likes those braindead Dragon Ball cartoons.

>>23162568
>>23162561
Based

>>23162575
Essential malfunction?

>>23162576
Fuck off stupid chimp. Anime cartoons are shit.

>>23162580
mega based

>>23162511
Did your janny application get rejected?

>>23162580
This nigger loves a foreign country's lowest form of entertainment and is proud of it LOL

>>23162582
Oo Oo Aa Aa?

>>23162587

>>23162588
>>23162589
What are you going to do monkey idiot.
>Watches anime cartoons in his free time
>Wonders why he is depressed

>>23162593
ESL DETECTED

>>23162593

>>23162594
>ESL DETECTED
Yet he sucks Japanese dick LOL. As I said monkey retard. Also I have a 120 IQ monkey

>>23162602
I wish I had a 120 iq monkey.

>>23162602
ESL LMAO!

>>23162602

>>23162604
cope

>>23162604
kek gottem

>>23162608
Newfag

>>23162606
>>23162605

>>23162613
Nice 120 IQ monkey, ESL.

>>23162613

>>23162612
LOL keep coping and seething.

>>23162616
>>23162615
Just more cope and seethe LOL

>>23162619
>dat ESL limited vocabulary

>>23162619
>t.

>>23162621
I bet I also type more WPM than you stupid ass retard trollface poster chimp ass motherfucker.

>>23162626
Yup just keep coping and seething.

>>23162628
>can't even write proper English a single time
LMAO. Ask a refund for those classes, ESL.

>>23162619
>>23162620
>>23162631
>the ESL mind: keep repeating easy phrases over and over again
AHAHAHAHAHAHA

>>23162632
Nigga retard says I'm ESL yet he is still sucking foreign Japanese schlong and probably doesn't even know Japanese.

>>23162639
Monkey ooga booga mind keeps sending trollface LOL

>>23162640
>commas, how do they work?
KEK ESL

>>23162641

>>23162645
Nigga believes he is based for using commas in the proper place yet doesn't realize I don't give a fuck and I am more based than he will ever be in his retarded nigga life.

>>23162657
Kek, ESL brownoid trying to imitate blacks now. You're so cute!

>>23162652
Monkey ooga booga keeps sending me rage comic memes from ages ago to prove a point. LOL nigga doesn't know we are in 2024.

>>23162664
>LOL nigga

I really wish I had a Jannies privileges today. Imagine just banning all these asshole schizos, the pretentious /lit/ citizens who don't know comics is literature (who also don't read), the unfeeling dopamine addicts, and the /pol/ tards. IP banning them forever...

>>23162662
>Monolingual NPC keeps using ESL as an insult
>Tried to learn Japanese and gave up
I won't use commas just because it makes you so angry like a fucking chimp.

>>23162669
>impotent retard troon fantasizes about having power
holy shit I've never seen this happen before

Are you a special troon that can do things no other troon ever does? Do you also molest children, harass women, break your father's heart and kill yourself?

>>23162664
>seething rage at troll face and web comic classics
>newfag doesn't realize they were more hated than the disgusting zoomer pantheon in their hayday

Successfully fucking derailed this thread.

>>23162674
I like how that I have obviously better English than you and you're grasping for straws, . I do know that you write terrible English grammar, reuse words like a parrot, and don't know how to use commas. You are an ESL brownoid who can barely write English.

>>23162683
No, fren. We derailed the derail. We are the secret conductors.

>>23162686
>Hello from Pakistan!

>>23162689
Oh, you're a seething Poojeet angered by a manga thread. The turd world getting the internet was a mistake because newfaggot indian schizophrenic ESLs like (You) are now destroying this website.

>>23162693
Wrong guy anon. I just thought it would be funny to say.

>>23162677
Projecting much. You can just transition anon. Your dad can't beat you up anymore

>>23162693
We have manga threads?