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Rec me authors who argue that anime and Japanese culture in general is disgusting

>> No.11365617

>>11365599
god hates japan by douglas coupland

>> No.11365672

Why?
Why won't you challenge yourself by reading something good by a Japanese author instead?
Reaffirming beliefs that are based on little if any information is bad.

>> No.11365677

>>11365672
'sup weeb

>> No.11365682

allah - the qu'ran

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>>11365677
'sup /pol/ack

>> No.11365685

>>11365672
The trend of Americans obsessing over literature centered around katana fights on subway trains and Asian capeshit bothers me. What anime or manga will ever compare to Donne's poetry or a Nabokov novel?

>> No.11365698

>>11365672
this

>> No.11365707

>>11365685
>Asian capeshit
Are you talking about Wuxia literature?

>> No.11365712

>>11365707
No. Gay shit like Dragonball Z. It's literally Elder Scrolls in cartoon form.

>> No.11365720

>>11365685
>comparing manga and anime to poetry and literature
huh... why doesn’t Futurama compare to Mishima? I guess american culture is just worthless

>> No.11365722

Learn about traditional Japanese values by reading books written before the Meiji period in order to be disgusted by everything that came afterwards. It is impossible to love both otaku culture and Shintoism/Japanese Buddhism.

>> No.11365723

>>11365720
google pearl harbor death tolls you commie

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>>11365599
Sure friend I actually cataloged all of my anti-anime copypastas and turned it into a neat book. Pic related is the cover!

>> No.11365726

>>11365712
Dragonball and its relatives are made for boys from around age 9 to 16.
After DBZ was introduced to the west in the 90s, it became a staple to a lot of people's media diets and left a lasting impact solely because of its availability in an age where it was harder to get anime. You hear the echo of this 90s uproar as a generation that's getting older and growing up reminisces about their "good old days".

If I wanted to defend it, I'd say at least DBZ has some really minimal origins in literature, namely in "Journey to the West", where it lifts a lot of character names and concepts from.
Otherwise I don't particularly like the series myself, I just find it inherently boring because of the elongated fight scenes. Maybe I tried watching it past its zenith.

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Haibane Renmei is the greatest television show to ever air, and it is vaguely literature related.

The creator name drops Murakami's Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World as inspiration, but all they sahre in common is a really similar setting. Similar enough that they mention the book on the back of the DVD box though.

>> No.11365863

>>11365723
What did he mean by this

>> No.11365896

>>11365723
What did he mean by this

>> No.11365902

>>11365599
The best short, readable, layperson-friendly, widely surveying introduction to Japanese culture is Lost Japan by Alex Kerr, and besides being an amazing book it has some unsparing criticisms, like that the Japanese had no native concept of charity and learned about it for the first time from Buddhist missionaries.
Also check out war pulps like Japanese Destroyer Captain by Tameichi Hara or Samurai by Saburo Sakai, they show very ugly aspects of Japanese culture (albeit in its late wartime militarist extreme).

>> No.11365913

>>11365902
>the Japanese had no native concept of charity
Based and redpilled.
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