Has /lit/ read or watch welcome to the NHK? Is there any serious lit that tackles the same themes?

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Anonymous Tue Aug 5 23:30:00 2014 No.5247330 [Reply] [Original]

Has /lit/ read or watch welcome to the NHK? Is there any serious lit that tackles the same themes?

>>	Anonymous Tue Aug 5 23:30:58 2014 No.5247333 >>5247330 NFU, the original NHK

>>	Anonymous Tue Aug 5 23:31:52 2014 No.5247338 >>5247330 Notes from the Underground

Anonymous Tue Aug 5 23:32:49 2014 No.5247340

>Is there any serious lit that tackles the same themes?
Not in the same manner, or about the same worthless faggots.

Welcome to the NHK is such absolute fucking tripe I don't know why it gets held in such high regard. Is it just the weeb dream or something? To be a worthless sack of shit that gets involved with some emotionally damaged girl?

Anonymous Tue Aug 5 23:34:55 2014 No.5247350
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>>5247340
The majority of weebs mostly overlook how the girl-from-nowhere is a horrendous human being herself though and think the ending to NHK is a positive one.

Anonymous Tue Aug 5 23:35:45 2014 No.5247351

>>5247340
>Welcome to the NHK is such absolute fucking tripe I don't know why it gets held in such high regard. Is it just the weeb dream or something? To be a worthless sack of shit that gets involved with some emotionally damaged girl?

What are you on about? The whole point of the romance and Misaki's character was to setup a metanarrative concerning anime/mang/vn and such things in the otaku subculture. It's even paralled to in the beginning when they begin to write the ero game.

>>	Anonymous Tue Aug 5 23:36:53 2014 No.5247354 >>5247351 That has literally nothing to do with anything You're looking at pine needles.

>>	Anonymous Tue Aug 5 23:37:17 2014 No.5247357 >>5247330 the novel is fine. the manga is funny. the anime is fuckig horrible.

Anonymous Tue Aug 5 23:41:55 2014 No.5247368

>>5247354

It couldnt be more obvious. Yamazaki explains to Sato what the ero users (ie. Otakus and the such) want in the ero games girls. He tells him, the girls arent suppose to be based on reality and are suppose to bring about a sense of innocence and comfort that they'll never betray the user. When Sato hears this he and us (the viewer) immediately notice the parallel between the kind of game the users (the otaku) want and the kind of girl Misako appears to be. It's meta as fuck.

Anonymous Tue Aug 5 23:42:53 2014 No.5247372

>>5247340
>Is it just the weeb dream or something? To be a worthless sack of shit that gets involved with some emotionally damaged girl?
That is a dream for many that indulge in anime, games, etc and it is fulfilled, but not in NHK. At least not in the usual manner.

Anonymous Tue Aug 5 23:43:40 2014 No.5247377

At first I was watching this thinking it was the one where loli aliens come out of nowhere for the ending and make the whole thing some kind of fucked-up metaphor for losing WWII and being bombed irreparably destroying the Japanese gestalt psyche, but then I learned it wasn't and lost interest.
What's the one I was talking about? I kinda want to watch that a bit now.

>>	Anonymous Tue Aug 5 23:45:27 2014 No.5247384 >>5247377 2deep4u. You're not ready.

>>	Anonymous Tue Aug 5 23:47:07 2014 No.5247388 >>5247357 The anime wasnt bad by any means. It had quite some QUALITY, but it was as good as an adaption as it gets. It's not just to compare it to the novel.

>>	Anonymous Tue Aug 5 23:47:45 2014 No.5247393 >>5247377 This sounds intresting.

>>	Anonymous Tue Aug 5 23:50:57 2014 No.5247408 >>5247388 i mean bad because there were a lot of parts that were cut. like yamazaki and the qt trap.

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 6 00:00:23 2014 No.5247438 >>5247377 neon genesis evangelion

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 6 00:06:08 2014 No.5247456 >>5247438 That's been on my backlog for too long, currently watching The Melancholy of a Stuck-up Cunt.

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 6 00:15:22 2014 No.5247490 >>5247456 >calling Haruhi a cunt wow rude

Anonymous Wed Aug 6 00:15:39 2014 No.5247491

>Welcome to the NHK

Okay, I hate anime in general already, but holy fuck, NHK is up there with Madoka and Haruhi Suzumiya as the worst things I've ever sat all the way through. Its thanks to those three things I pretty much realized that the anime industry is fucking stupid, so I guess they aren't all bad.

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 6 00:16:49 2014 No.5247495 >>5247491 >Its thanks to those three things I pretty much realized that the anime industry is fucking stupid That was Metal Gear Solid for me. But for vidya. I'm still thankful for it.

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 6 00:17:52 2014 No.5247503 >>5247495 I'm sorry, MGS2.

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 6 00:18:52 2014 No.5247510 >>5247491 >hate anime >post in an anime image board damn

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 6 00:19:01 2014 No.5247511 >>5247491 did you like Cowboy Bebop

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 6 00:19:24 2014 No.5247512 >>5247495 Oh, I actually have fun with MGS because of the gameplay, but yea, I compeletely dropped vidya pretty much as well. Its /lit/ and patrician films all the way from here, and I couldn't be happier.

Anonymous Wed Aug 6 00:19:40 2014 No.5247514

>>5247491
>Madoka
>worst things I've ever sat all the way

You couldn't be more pleb. Honestly, you're already pretty low on the totem pole for watching anime, but Madoka is easily the best it has to offer in terms of direction, music, and subtext, and if you can't see that then you're an uberpleb

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 6 00:20:48 2014 No.5247519 >>5247514 >Madoka is easily the best it has to offer in terms of direction, music, and subtext No that would be Satoshi Kon's movies and some other stuff. Madoka is alright but it's nowhere near the best.

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 6 00:22:32 2014 No.5247524 >>5247514 Back to /a/, babbie. Madoka is above average at best.

Anonymous Wed Aug 6 00:22:54 2014 No.5247526

>>5247514
>Honestly, you're already pretty low on the totem pole for watching anime
Why is this a thing? I'm not some otaku or anything. I've seen Akira, and when I was a kid I saw DBZ and Rurouni Kenshin. Everyone I knows did, because we all had Toonami.

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 6 00:24:53 2014 No.5247535 File: 54 KB, 1280x720, [OLAnime]PP04.mp4_snapshot_21.13_[2013.08.19_16.14.25].jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] HEY GUYS DO YOU LIKE PSYCHO PASS? IT HAS BOOKS ON IT!

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 6 00:25:42 2014 No.5247536 >>5247535 Welcome to the NHK is a novel.

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 6 00:28:15 2014 No.5247543 >>5247524 >Back to /a/, babbie. I better not be hearing that from some AoT/Sword Art Online underaged faggot >>5247519 No Madoka will forever be referenced to as the new Evangelion

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 6 00:29:13 2014 No.5247550 >>5247524 Post a better one.

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 6 00:30:09 2014 No.5247553 >>5247524 It's a good illustration of the concept of reincarnation-as-hell in Buddhism and a different perspective, maybe western influenced, of reincarnation-as-challenge to be met.

Anonymous Wed Aug 6 00:30:14 2014 No.5247554

>>5247526
probably because a majority of anime is dreck

You can pick one from a list of what people think is good, but if you had a list of anime series from the last two years and picked one from a random draw, it's very likely you'll pick a shitty one

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>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 6 00:31:15 2014 No.5247559 >>5247535 how does one get smiles from the ladies?

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 6 00:31:40 2014 No.5247560 >>5247554 But that's everything. In fact, I'd say that books have a far higher percentage of dreck, considering the lower cost of entry.

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 6 00:31:46 2014 No.5247561 >>5247553 ...note that when I say "in Buddhism," I mean something closer to "Buddhistdom," the culture produced by both interpretations and misinterpretations of the Buddhist religion.

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 6 00:31:50 2014 No.5247562 >>5247377 when they cry?

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 6 00:32:22 2014 No.5247564 >>5247512 What would you consider a patrician film from this year? Just curious.

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 6 00:32:48 2014 No.5247565 >>5247550 Penguindrum

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 6 00:33:18 2014 No.5247569 >>5247565 Penguindrum is nowhere near as good as Utena.

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 6 00:33:33 2014 No.5247570 >>5247564 Not him, but Guardians of the Galaxy.

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 6 00:34:01 2014 No.5247571 >>5247569 That's better too.

Anonymous Wed Aug 6 00:34:16 2014 No.5247572

>>5247511
Cowboy Bebop is decent. Not one of my favorites, but not bad at all.

>>5247514
Shut the fuck up. All of you faggots that like that gay loli witch shit are just giving it a pass because its an anime. Madoka isn't even good at being a dark take on the Magical Girl genre. Go watch Revolutionary Girl Utena, one of my favorite anime. Utena surpasses Madoka in everything from "direction, music, and subtext". Utena actually takes many elements of Magical Girl and bi-shoujo works, notably Sailor Moon and Rose of Versailles, such as the one-per-episode transformation and the seemingly evil body of class presidents who all get their own arc. The allusions and art style, such as the transitional shadow puppet, also goes to show how much more thought went into the direction of Utena than Fagica Madorka.

The music in Utena is amazing and filled with allusions to works ranging from Paradise Lost to William Shakespeare, and synch to what is occuring in the show gracefully.

"A wet-nurse and a midwife in a dark desert
A gold-gilded Shangri-La
Day and night turning in on each other
A time-gilded lost paradise"

Would take ten of these posts to rant about the subtext in Utena. Mainly Freudian concepts, but sex is never explicity seen. The show itself is about a girl who wants to be a prince and themes on gender and transgenderism are often brought up.

This is why I hate anime but especially anime fans. They waste their time bothering with the lowest of the low medium and they don't even bring up any of the actual good stuff.

>>5247564
Tarr Béla: I Used to Be a Filmmaker

Anonymous Wed Aug 6 00:34:33 2014 No.5247573

>>5247560
>In fact, I'd say that books have a far higher percentage of dreck
Shhhh you'll give /lit/ an even harsher existential crisis

That's why pseudo intellectuals try to splinter it off into categories
>n-n-no that's g-genre fiction
>n-no that's a short story collection
>n-n-n-no that poetry
>n-no that philospher was a hack
etc etc

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>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 6 00:35:07 2014 No.5247575 >>5247553 Cute

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 6 00:36:21 2014 No.5247582 >>5247572 >Tarr Béla: I Used to Be a Filmmaker 2013

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 6 00:36:30 2014 No.5247584 >>5247553 is more like faust.

Anonymous Wed Aug 6 00:37:44 2014 No.5247586

>>5247572
>This is why I hate anime but especially anime fans. They waste their time bothering with the lowest of the low medium and they don't even bring up any of the actual good stuff.

Like two or three people have already mentioned Utena and Penguindrum in this thread though.

Also somebody has to waste time with the shitty stuff when sifting through everything to find out what's good and what isn't. How are you supposed to know if something is good if you haven't seen it first? You don't, you just listen to what the people who came before you say is good. The same people you criticize for wasting time on what isn't good.

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 6 00:39:14 2014 No.5247592 >>5247572 >Revolutionary Girl Utena That shit is old and not kawaii.

Anonymous Wed Aug 6 00:40:32 2014 No.5247597

>>5247582
Oh my bad, could have sworn it was 2014. I guess I wouldn't consider any of the 2014 movies I've seen patrician. If you want to see something that's probably still in theaters and is kinda smarter than the typical popcorn flick, go watch Edge of Tomorrow. Don't turn away just because of Tom Cruise.

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 6 00:41:40 2014 No.5247598 >>5247597 >edge of tomorrow >watching that shit >not reading all you need is kill Fucking dumb fucker.

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 6 00:41:51 2014 No.5247599 >>5247377 Strike Witches?

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 6 00:42:39 2014 No.5247605 Worthwhile anime series of 2014 so far: >Ping Pong: The Animation >Mushishi >Kill la Kill >Zankyou no Terror >Samurai Flamenco I might have missed one or two though.

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 6 00:42:42 2014 No.5247606 >>5247598 Yes, but we were talking about movies released this year.

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 6 00:43:11 2014 No.5247607 >>5247597 I've seen Edge of Tomorrow. It was good but you should know it was based on a light novel. You see Snowpiercer or The Raid 2? Thanks for not saying Under the Skin by the way.

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 6 00:43:45 2014 No.5247611 >>5247605 gb2 >>>/a/ No one here is autistic enough to like any of that shti.

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 6 00:44:17 2014 No.5247615 >>5247605 I liked Knights of Sidonia.

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 6 00:44:31 2014 No.5247616 >>5247611 What? Everyone in this thread is talking about anime.

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 6 00:44:41 2014 No.5247618 >>5247605 >Kill la Kill >Samurai Flamenco That's 2013, d00d.

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 6 00:45:36 2014 No.5247622 >>5247535 The hilarious part about Psycho Piss is while Whitehair guy and Black hair guy ramble on about how edgy they are the fucking moe detective actually has to go and fix everything

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 6 00:46:06 2014 No.5247625 >>5247618 like over half of them aired in 2014 so I counted them as 2014.

Anonymous Wed Aug 6 00:47:11 2014 No.5247630

>>5247572
>Utena
Ugh and here we have the typical /a/ hipster who has to hate because weaboos have this obsession with skeret klubs

>Utena surpasses Madoka in everything from "direction, music, and subtext".
>argues by saying "well the music is AMAZING in this"
>on an imageboard
I'll leave it to anyone who cares to compare the two

>The allusions and art style
Were excellent in Madoka, you had Russian imagery all over the place, and German folk influences over the rest to coincide with the witches space.

>The show itself is about a girl who wants to be a prince and themes on gender and transgenderism are often brought up.
Yes I can see how you'd relate

>Paradise Lost
Can be applied to Madoka
>Shakespeare
Can literally be applied to anything thanks to Hamlet

It just took one post to mention THE single biggest anime hit of the decade to get a sperglord to pedantically attach everything that was complimented to one popular work and to find an earlier work in its genre to shout "Look at me! I knew of this first!"

This shit happened way back during Gurren Langann as well, you had everyone praise it then the autists shouting
>muh Getter

>This is why I hate anime but especially anime fans
The irony is not lost on me

I'm sure you would've impressed an unread teen with your allusions to muh Shakespeare without them knowing how universal he is. Fucking ridiculous.

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 6 00:48:33 2014 No.5247636 >>5247630 Utena isn't the same genre and isn't anything like Madoka, but it is better.

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 6 00:48:42 2014 No.5247638 >>5247491 It's an apt example of the hikki lifestyle, I don't get why you think it was stupid.

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 6 00:49:06 2014 No.5247641 The lack of Bakemonogatari is sad. Nisioisin is probably the closest anime author that's /lit/ relevant, but with the least amount of translations.

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 6 00:49:42 2014 No.5247643 >>5247641 monogatari is just fanservice tho

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 6 00:50:22 2014 No.5247649 >>5247636 Yes but I had to reply in the same context that this edgelord did

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 6 00:50:48 2014 No.5247651 >>5247630 Put some work into it, nigga.

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 6 00:51:21 2014 No.5247655 >>5247607 No, those aren't really my types of movie. >>5247630 >thinking I care enough to read your post about some gay moeblob little girl witch shit

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 6 00:51:51 2014 No.5247658 /a/ is shit, what are some 2deep4u animes that will keep me enthralled the way NGE did (I don't care if that makes me pleb, I watch anime for fun). Adding Utena to the list. I've seen Madoka already.

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 6 00:52:50 2014 No.5247661 >>5247655 >I wanted to smart smart on /lit/ about my animays but I have to eat my words now >I can at least try to save face and say I don't care

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 6 00:53:24 2014 No.5247662 >>5247658 None of them You might try Texhnolyze but keep in mind the first 15 minutes of the first episode is pure directorial masturbation and the first word uttered doesn't come until 17 minutes into the episode.

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 6 00:54:04 2014 No.5247664 >>5247643 If that's an unironic post then that just makes me even sadder

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 6 00:54:14 2014 No.5247665 >>5247658 serial experiments lain

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 6 00:54:21 2014 No.5247666 >>5247662 Neat. This is the kind of "omg so deep" I'm in the mood for.

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 6 00:54:33 2014 No.5247668 >>5247658 Serial Experiments Lain

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 6 00:54:46 2014 No.5247671 >>5247655 You don't like Bong Joon-ho?

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 6 00:55:26 2014 No.5247674 >>5247658 Add Chaos Head and Steins Gate to the Lain posts and Kaiji just for fun it's not realy thought provoking

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 6 00:55:34 2014 No.5247675 File: 25 KB, 480x640, TEITO2v2.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Go read teito monogatari all of you fucking plebs.

Anonymous Wed Aug 6 00:57:53 2014 No.5247682

>>5247658
Serial Experiment Lain, Paranoia Agent and really everything else Satoshi Kon has done, Monster, FLCL,

Besides some of Monster, I don't really like any of these. I'd recommend either not getting into anime or if you really want to get into anime/manga, which I don't know why you would, just read the Jojo's Bizarre Adventure manga.

>>5247675
I've actually been learning Japanese so that I can read this or at least attempt to.

Anonymous Wed Aug 6 00:59:32 2014 No.5247686
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>>5247675
As a fan of SMT, my interest is piqued.
>>5247674
>>5247668
>>5247665
I'm actually about halfway through Lain right now! I've heard of steins gate but never checked it out, but I will now.

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 6 01:01:32 2014 No.5247689 File: 295 KB, 704x1024, Quantum_Avatar_Turner_English_cover.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>5247686 >As a fan of SMT, my interest is piqued. You know what to do then.

Anonymous Wed Aug 6 01:01:41 2014 No.5247691
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>>5247510
I just come here to read about books or whatever and when it turns out everyone on every board is a weeb it's a bit of a shock, even though yes I should know better. But if you want to downboat anyone who criticizes your precious ultra violent porno cartoons I'm sure r/anime is welcoming.

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 6 01:02:23 2014 No.5247692 >>5247682 Monster is lame I don't get how it's always on lists

Anonymous Wed Aug 6 01:03:25 2014 No.5247696

>>5247692
You have to consider the state the anime medium is in
I mean, monster tells a complete story, that's a fucking miracle in and of itself, then the characters go the extra mile to actually have more than one facet, and dear god there's an actual plot!

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 6 01:03:35 2014 No.5247697 >>5247689 Are these stand alone? I keep seeing this posted on here but I haven't played any of those games

Anonymous Wed Aug 6 01:04:33 2014 No.5247699

>>5247689
I read the first teaser chapter of that. Wasn't bad nor good. DDS is my favorite sub-series though (and I've played every single major English game) so I may check it out at a later date.

>>5247697
Digital Devil Saga is stand alone from the main series. That book is just a novelization of the original idea for the story of the DDS games iirc.

Anonymous Wed Aug 6 01:08:26 2014 No.5247708

>>5247671
Okay, this is an admittedly stupid reason but I can't stand the look of many Korean films. They make me physically ill. I can't really put my finger on it. Something about the weirdly desaturated colors mixed with the porno look of all of those Korean films and expressions on most Koreans just rub me the wrong way. "Memories of Murder" is a good example of what I'm talking about. I suppose with a movie like that, 'uneasiness' is what I should feel, so at least it accomplishes what it sets out to do.

>>5247692
eh, not really gonna disagree with you there, but still better than 99% of what anime has to offer

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 6 01:11:48 2014 No.5247716 >>5247691 I don't think you know what a weeb is, but keep generalizing it makes for good shitposts here.

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 6 01:11:51 2014 No.5247717 File: 25 KB, 338x277, 1282908922326.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>5247692 >Monster is lame Maybe you should just tell everyone this and then they'll stop putting it on lists.

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 6 01:12:05 2014 No.5247720 >>5247691 >it's a bit of a shock People trend towards other hobbies. Like the other earlier anon said, lots of people got into anime when Toonami was on and that was years ago, plenty of time for people to get in and out of it

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 6 01:13:45 2014 No.5247722 >>5247691 Damn nigga 5 star post

Anonymous Wed Aug 6 01:15:05 2014 No.5247724

>>5247708
>Something about the weirdly desaturated colors mixed with the porno look of all of those Korean films and expressions on most Koreans just rub me the wrong way.

Do you really think any given movie shot on digital looks better? At least the guys in Korea still use Kodak.

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 6 01:15:57 2014 No.5247726 >>5247605 >Mushishi >2014 Good shit though

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 6 01:17:09 2014 No.5247729 >>5247726 Season 2 aired in 2014.

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 6 01:20:13 2014 No.5247734 >>5247658 Kaiba Kemonozume Planetes

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 6 01:25:37 2014 No.5247751 >>5247724 >Do you really think any given movie shot on digital looks better? This came out way more accusatory that I intended. I meant to say something along the lines of "You can't say etc." English isn't my mother's tongue.

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 6 01:29:58 2014 No.5247757 >>5247605 >Ping Pong narrowed it down for you Sam Flam was only good when watching it with /a/

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 6 01:38:24 2014 No.5247778 >>5247757 Ping Pong was good for how ridiculously bad it was. Only reason I included it in my list. Note that it's not a "good" anime list it's just anime that's worth your time.

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 6 01:46:47 2014 No.5247801 >>5247778 Oops my bad, I meant Samurai Flamenco is good for how bad it is. Ping Pong was legitimately good.

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 6 01:51:50 2014 No.5247817 >>5247611 >mushishi >shit

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 6 02:41:34 2014 No.5247952 >>5247675 Has this actually been translated? I can't find it anywhere

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 6 02:54:13 2014 No.5247975 >taste And this is why this website continues to be shit

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 6 03:28:32 2014 No.5248033 >>5247377 Hes talking about needless

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 6 03:32:04 2014 No.5248038 i just remember being relieved that the "hikikomori" was a thing somewhere. i knew i wasn't alone.

Anonymous Wed Aug 6 05:08:45 2014 No.5248268

>thinking NHK was bad

Seriously, no one ever comes up with a good reason for why they dislike it. It's legitamedly the most self-aware anime made. It's true metafiction with a reason to be one. If watching NHK doesnt convince somone to rethink their lives and identity as an Otaku/NEET then they were probably not an Otaku/NEET in the first place. It captures a millenial condition in millenial fashion. It's sad that there's not a single piece of lit that has accomplish nearly as much this century.

Anonymous Wed Aug 6 07:24:44 2014 No.5248575

I have only read the novel but i liked it.

I read it after a more serious as a fun little break and it was just what i wanted. Something short and funny to just relax with, and if thats what youre looking for then you shouldnt be dissapointed. Espeecially if youre a little geeky and have watched some anime.

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 6 08:38:33 2014 No.5248774 >Best anime: Tatami Galaxy NGE Utena Princess Tutu Satoshi Kon's films Lain Haibane Renmei Flcl Gunbuster Kemonozume

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 6 08:43:40 2014 No.5248801 >>5248774 kaiba where ;_;

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 6 09:30:11 2014 No.5248940 >>5248774 >no Bebop

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 6 09:32:36 2014 No.5248945 >>5248774 >no JoJo, Berserk, GaoGaiGear, Demonbane, Gun/Diebuster, lupin the 3rd or Baoh IMMA CRUSH IT

Anonymous Wed Aug 6 10:02:15 2014 No.5249024

This whole thread is pleb as fuck.

If you don't enjoy watching cute girls doing cute things then you don't understand anime at all and are probably an edgy teenager.

If you haven't sat through every episode of at least a few shows like Love Hina, Oh My Goddess, and Ranma 1/2, you don't understand anime at all and are probably an edgy teenager.

You are all watching "gritty, dramatic" anime that is literally worse than even mediocre Hollywood TV series and masturbating about how countercultural you are.

Pls get a grip.

>>	Charles Bukkake !!dbC6x/DQFYo Wed Aug 6 10:04:21 2014 No.5249032 >>5249024 I'm glad someone said what I was going to say before I said it.

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 6 10:05:10 2014 No.5249036 >>5249024 i agree. i have this feeling even though i only watch the latter. i know i'm only watching western-friendly shows, and every time i even try to watch something like haruhi, i'm cringing every second. i'm really a western piece of shit...

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 6 10:05:21 2014 No.5249037 >>5249032 If you make your tripping career out of snarky, sarcastic remarks and agreeing with sperglord rants then you won't last.

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 6 10:06:13 2014 No.5249038 >>5247564 Haha, silly pleb, everyone knows they haven't done any good films in the 2000's.

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 6 10:32:03 2014 No.5249102 File: 125 KB, 654x537, image.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>5249024

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 6 10:41:14 2014 No.5249136 >"Naive. Super" by Erlend Loe >"Notes from the Underground" by Fyodor Dostoevsky >"Whatever" by Michel Houllebecq

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 6 10:41:32 2014 No.5249137 >>5249024 >calls thread pleb >lists Yahoo articles tier anime that everyone knows about, two of them not even about cute girls doing cute things Get this fuccboi outta here. School Rumble. It was that simple.

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 6 10:41:44 2014 No.5249139 >>5249024 >If you don't enjoy watching cute girls doing cute things then you don't understand anime at all and are probably an edgy teenager. No, you're just an elitist weeb trying hard to justify shit taste. >>5249032 Oh look, so are you.

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 6 10:42:26 2014 No.5249143 >>5249136 >"Notes from the Underground" by Fyodor Dostoevsky This is probably closes to what you're looking for, OP.

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 6 10:42:28 2014 No.5249144 >>5247330 Look into Oblomov. It's about a 19th century Russian aristocrat who doesn't leave his apartment and does nothing all day.

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 6 10:44:31 2014 No.5249155 >>5249139 Thank you It's refreshing to be reminded I'm out of /a/

Anonymous Wed Aug 6 10:48:59 2014 No.5249182

>>5249024
>You are all watching "gritty, dramatic" anime that is literally worse than even mediocre Hollywood TV series and masturbating about how countercultural you are.
can say the exact same thing about you and replace 'gritty, dramatic' with 'moe, lolsorandum' and it would be a lot truer

Steki YUNG LEAN !!PuHUWgNu6I+ Wed Aug 6 11:07:05 2014 No.5249282

>>5247717
>>5247692
Monster dragged too much for me.
Only chink cartoon I've dropped.

Starts really good, really interesting, timeskip happens, even more interesting stuff, then he just starts chasing the fucker with the other fuckers and sometimes older characters come back and shit but that's about it.

Didn't like the tone.
ED is so shit too, opening is ok as far as openings go, but goddamn that ED is one of the worst.

Not hating, just statin'.

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 6 11:15:51 2014 No.5249326 Moe is infinently better than any "serious" anime. Stop being such casuals.

Anonymous Wed Aug 6 11:20:56 2014 No.5249356

There is a difference between good moe and bad moe, faggots. You've got stuff like aria, cardcaptor sakura, heartcatch precure, lain, and azumanga daioh for good moe; and stuff like yuyushiki, k-on, crappy generic harems, and every other seasonal copy and paste for bad moe.

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 6 11:35:46 2014 No.5249410 File: 51 KB, 300x450, image.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>5249356 >There is a difference between good moe and bad moe

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 6 11:44:10 2014 No.5249429 >>5249410 Just like there is a difference between good and bad everything else

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 6 11:45:16 2014 No.5249431 >>5249356 >lain >moe ok.

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 6 11:48:54 2014 No.5249441 >>5249429 >Just like there is a difference between good and bad everything else You mean a self-imposed arbitrary difference? Yeah, I know that. It just feels like you think your opinion is some kind of law everyone adheres to.

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 6 11:55:42 2014 No.5249467 >>5249431 Lain is extremely moe, the show doesn't revolve around it, but it is obviously moe as fuck.

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 6 11:58:46 2014 No.5249477 >>5249467 >the show doesn't revolve around it Then it's not moe.

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 6 12:07:50 2014 No.5249524 Man, Utena is just as good as I was led to believe by the internet. I have 6 episodes left and it's blowing my mind. Gorgeous looking show, too

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 6 12:17:43 2014 No.5249565 >>5249477 Do you not understand the word moe? It's not a genre.

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 6 13:18:51 2014 No.5249855 >>5249524 The last few episodes are the best.

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