/lit/ - Literature

Try 'I Gargle Miles Of Nigger Schlong' by OP

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There's no need to be rude

>>9039199
Paranoia Agent

Otaku: Japan's Database Animals by Hiroki Azuma

Read anything you can by Susan J. Napier.

When I was a student I remember searching for 'anime' on the online academic journal database and finding a few interesting papers

>>9039710
Thisbname rings a bell

>>9039722
I pulled her books when I was initially scheduled to give an academic style presentation at a convention. I'll probably be seeing how this thread goes throughout the day and chime in with other suggestions of authors and texts.

>>9039426
Underrated post.

>>9039188
Literary Analysis and Film Analysis.

Just read works on those subjects, and read philosophy. The same rules apply, generally.

>>9039778
Any suggested reading list or key texts worth looking at for starters?

>>9039287
Good suggestion. Satoshi Kon died way too young.

>>9040100
All of the legends are either dying off or retiring. FeelsBadMan

>>9039188
I bet the one on the left is a guy

>>9039188
on waifus by me

i prove a priori why rei is best girl

>>9040438
good taste

>>9039188
THIS

>>9040067
I'll ask my roommate and get back to you. That is his field.

I imagine he'll recommend entry level textbooks on the subject, however.

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You could also try Beautiful Fighting Girl by Saito Tamaki

>>9040896
dat cover

read Simulacra and Simulation

>>9040855
Try to also get more advanced texts as well?

>>9039188
This is definitely worth a read regardless of your political leanings: https://atlanticcenturion.wordpress.com/2016/12/03/anomie-anime-and-the-alt-right/

Napier
I found Roland Barthes book on Japan helpful in understanding Japanese visual culture.
Frames of Anime
Postmodern philosophy.

The book of "anime is for children and pedophiles" by Yorfa Therhateseux

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4nXUOixv3hc
this is the only anime philosophy you need

Opinions here, but most anime is Japanese, right?
Try to understand the themes of Japanese culture. I've realized that they are obsessed with protection. They see themselves as defenders, hate aggression, and can justify anything as long as it falls under the ideals of self-sacrifice to "protect" something. They REALLY stretch what protecting something means, it's not just the physical, they want to protect emotions, standards, expectations, memories, you name it.

Family and obligation, as well as their social expectations for each other are all common cultural themes. Their language has many dedicated words for specifying grades of familiarity and they read between the lines in social interaction with a great intensity because their social practices are extremely repressive and constraining.

This creates a fascination with the rebellious hero who is unburdened by those standards or satisfies them in alternative ways such as humiliating themselves to protect someone else's secrets, etc.

Once you start recognizing these behaviors, it isn't too difficult to start putting together a picture of their general philosophy.

>>9041270
>Family and obligation, as well as their social expectations for each other are all common cultural themes. Their language has many dedicated words for specifying grades of familiarity and they read between the lines in social interaction with a great intensity because their social practices are extremely repressive and constraining.
Just shut the fuck up idiot weeb. You don't know the first thing about Japan. Anime is marketed to NEET losers like you who pretend they know what constitutes Japanese culture in a shitpost thread on a literature subreddit of SJWchan.

>>9041270
>most anime is Japanese, right?
>most
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You don't get to have an opinion nigger.

>>9041309
Sure, whatever you say. I'll delete the rest of what I said too. Will that make you happy?

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BTFOtaku'd

>>9039188
Bleach Vol. 53

>>9041359
Now spam gay porn on sfw boards to get a week long global ban

>>9041769
Why Vol. 53 in particular? No spoilers please.

>philosophy
>anime

Oxymoron

>>9041809
You are a moron.

>>9041824
You are a moron.

The Soul of Anime - Ian Condry.

>>9041827
You are a moron

The Anime Machine: a Media Theory of Animation - Thomas LaMarre

>>9040350
since when is ikuhara retiring

"The Deep Mysteries of Eva" by the dad from FLCL

>>9040896
that was a great book, but I found the genealogy section to drag on quite a bit.

>>9041154
this is fractally wrong

>>9040855
Do you not see your roommate hardly at all or something?

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Thanks for these posts guys but I made this thread for pictures of cute anime girls

>>9043506
Sorry, here's an extremely cute anime girl as an apology

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>>9043516
Oh well I hijacked it with a love of anime and manga studies?

>>9043525
You can make up for it with cute pictures of anime girls anon

>>9043540
where is this from if I may ask?

>>9043506
I actually saged the thread, and will again because you just acknowledged that this isn't a lit thread and you just wanted 2d drawings.

>>9043553
That guy is clearly frauding, real OP here

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>proof

>>9043553
congrats Mr. Self Righteous?

bump because I enjoy the scholarly literature on muh waifus

>>9044210
kek

>>9042546
You're wrong.

Reading Freud and Jung will get you very far

>>9044788
Whatever this book is I am intrigued.

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Ulysses

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underrated post