/lit/ - Literature

Fuckin Isekai trash

>>9899792
How the fuck does the illiad read like an anime?

>>9899792
If you aren't picturing JoJo bros and at girl goddesses then you are missing out.
I like to imagine Athena as a stoic loli who's armor is too big.

>>9899813
*qt girl goddesses

>>9899798
It really kinda does when you get into the heavy battle scenes later in the book. Goofy comparison but I couldn't help but think of DBZ a few times.

Also all the goddesses were qt anime grills too.

Athena best waifu.

>>9900185
no it doesn't fucking weeb kys

>When Diomedes gets a massive STR buff.

>>9900238
Yes it does fucking normie kys

I would watch Moby Dick anime

Paris: "You're so Kawaii Helen ~uguu ^_^"

Achilles: "I'm sorry sensei, I know you told me never to use this technique, but I have to, just this once"

Zeus: *squeezes hera's tits*

>>9899813
>I like to imagine Athena as a stoic loli who's armor is too big.

>>9899792
What is the most /a/ approved translation?

>>9899798
Book 5 is straight up Shounen

>>9899792
sweet. Been meaning to pick it up.

anybody read Gilgamesh? If so, is it worth a read? Always wanted to, myself.

>>9899792
Literal Nothing Personnel Kid! and **teleports behind you** moments.

>>9899792
It's just that your mind is rotten and everything you see is rotten.

Every one of you should stop reading.

>>9899792
>>9899797
These, and this.

infinite jest

>>9901952
>REEE STOP BRINGING YOUR PAST EXPERIENCES INTO LITERATURE

actually lmaoing at you

>>9901952
> he said on an anime imageboard
anon I...

>>9900651
Fagles, easily. Lattimore and Fitzgerald are more classical (in both style and attempts to not be so 20th century-feeling) but Fagles gives a smooth contemporary reading that lets the big moments shine.

best shonenshit ever

>>9902014
Anime isn't a past experience

>>9900185
DBZ and Dragon Ball was inspired by Chinese mythology, I'm pretty sure, so it's not surprising that mythology reminds you of Dragon Ball.

>>9899792
It reads like a comic book, not an anime.
>>9901517
Yes and fuck yes. I prefer it to Homer myself.
>>9901716
He invented the emo edgelord. I don't think it's one of his finest accomplishments.
>>9902032
>it's another "it's another episode" episode
yes

>>9902032
Mr. "I'll have a dude in my book called 'Demon Carver'" is also pretty anime.

>>9899798
>>9902032
That one I agree

>>9900281
i want this kino

>>9902032
literally the first anime

Candide, Voltaire by far. Surprised that no one posted it.

>>9902032
well, this is actually anime

the bible lol

>>9900258
Why did he constantly get buffed

>>9903263
More like a season of Curb Your Enthusiasm than an anime.

>>9903291
His waifu was pissed of because Paris took Apfrodites bribe and started the Trojan War.

30% or so of the stories are basically the mc fucking a beautiful spirit/fox.

>>9904690
While this is true, it's nothing like anime. But you can see anime taking a hell of a lot of inspiration from it or maybe just Borges and Kafka,
who were themselves both inspired by it.

>>9899798
It doesn't but if youve spent most of your energy consuming anything thats what you'll refer to, ie the endless retarded allusions to Harry Potter

>>9903263
>be samson
>be a prisoner
>be forced to entertain captors
>"sensei, strengthen me. Let me go all out, just this once, to revenge myself on the philistines."
>power levels off the charts
>screams of terror all around as the pillars come down

"Now the temple was crowded with men and women; all the rulers of the Philistines were there, and on the roof were about three thousand men and women watching Samson perform."

Heh, nothin personal gentile.

>>9906403

Grandpa once said I had a "Samson complex".

Never in his wildest dreams could he imagine the self fulfilling prophecy he cursed himself with.

>>9904690
That is kind of hot

I really like it but I am finding the story extremely difficult to follow without reading chapter summaries online.

>>9906839
The Iliad?

>>9906846

yes

>>9906839
>Rick and Morty reaction image.
>Brainlet

What a surprise

>>9906839
You're probably just a retard

This right here.

You've got the Soul Society Arc and everything.

>>9906887
>>9906882

stop bullying me

>>9906899
Why are you here?

>>9906908

to engage in discussion with fellow readers

Dance, dance always remember this special 4 u n everyone there luv u (:

Proto Isekai

>>9901925
The original soulsborne

How anime is the Quran? Genuinely curious

>>9906951
It's a typical shitty battle harem
I haven't actually read the Quran

>>9906824

>>9900185
>Hurr my only cultural touchstone is anime and pop culture so I have nothing to compare the Iliad to except for that

Everything by Murakami

Literally just bakemonogatari

>>9906910
Stop using the picture of jerry for your threads and posts. Just namefag already you gronk.

>>9908020
t. triggered
>>9908047
plebshit alright

>>9899792

the iliad doesn't read like an anime, you stupid faggot.

it reads like a catalogue.

>>9899792
Marfisa a cute.

>>9908548
wait a moment... is that...

>>9906951
Deviantart tier.

>>9902032
Is "Monkey" an acceptable abridgment?

>>9908615
is that really a boy?

>>9908216

Underrated

>>9899792
sports anime

>>9900185
I sincerely believe some shonen manga series is gonna be considered mythology hundreds or thousands of years in the future. I don't know which one, it may even be some composite of several series, but the appeal of epic battles and trickster gods really isn't that far off from what you might find in Shonen Jump.

>>9901716
Pretty much the original Sephiroth fanfic.

Wheel of Time is pure anime but somehow ended up in the wrong medium. It has fucking everything.
>tsunderes
>yanderes
>LITERAL harem
>tomboy
>cowtits
>warrior women
>magic battles and powerups
>swordfights
>fanservice that gets even fetishy at times
>waifus
>brown empress loli that knows kung fu
>misunderstandings and sexual tension and drama
>increasingly high stakes and a plot that just didn't know when to end
>graphic violence and gore

Snow Crash

>>9906839
Are you reading a poetic or prose translation?

>>9906899
trans faggot

>>9899792
>read like an anime
like right to left?

>>9910850

poetic

>>9910880

I am a proud straight male

>>9911168
That'd be where you're going wrong then. Try a prose one first, by all means. I recommend Rieu or Fagles.

>edgelord characters
>infinite power-ups
>over the top action
>are-are goddesses
>loli spoils of war
>pseudo-political themes
Truly the first anime

>>9899792
Anything by R Scott Bakker
Elric of Melniboné series

>>9908958
No.
If you don't read the entire Journey to the West then you're a brainlet

>>9906930
Damn. Twain making yet another genre

>>9911184

Thank you for the advice! I just downloaded Fagles' translation version.

I had no idea that there was a prose version, I will see how this affects my comprehension of the story/characters. I had just taken out the copy my library had.