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733079 No.733079 [Reply] [Original]

I enjoyed Saya no Uta more than any other story I've heard thus far.

While I know at least it's atmosphere is reminiscent of Lovecraft's work, I haven't come across anything remotely similar to the story.

What books would you suggest to someone who enjoyed Saya as much as I did?

>> No.733086

Op, here

I'd like to note that I know its a long-shot considering Saya was a visual novel and japanese, but I'd love to find a book even somewhat similar to it.

>> No.733088

I think assuming we know anything about it is a bad idea.

What's it about?

>> No.733102

>>733086
>visual novel
no u

>> No.733109

>>733079
>What books would you suggest to someone who enjoyed Saya as much as I did?

Leaving childhood Behind, by U. R. Animefag

>> No.733119

>>733088
From wikipedia:
Fuminori Sakisaka is a young medical student, whose life is changed when he gets in a traffic accident which kills his parents and leaves him heavily injured. Fuminori undergoes experimental brain surgery to save his life, but the surgery has an unintended side-effect - it creates a form of agnosia, causing his senses to become "warped". Everything he sees looks as if they were made out of flesh and human organs, people resemble monsters of rotten flesh in appearance and voice, and food that normally appeals to him tastes disgusting.

As he contemplates suicide in the hospital, Fuminori meets a beautiful, human looking girl among the flesh-covered walls. She introduces herself as Saya, and is apparently looking for her father. Fuminori does not want to be separated from Saya, and asks her to live with him.

However, just as Fuminori sees normal things as flesh and blood, the reverse is also true. Saya is actually an intelligent creature from another universe. Though her actual form is never directly shown, it is described in the text, and an apparently identical being appears onscreen toward the end - and, ironically, is similar to the raw-looking, misshapen monstrosities which haunt Fuminori's world. The ultimate goal of her life is to spread her life-form into this universe through the original life-form with the highest level of intelligence: the human being.

>> No.733130

>>733119
Everyone knows that dolphins are the most intelligent beings on Earth.

>> No.733171

bump

>> No.733178

>>733119

Sounds neato, but I can't think of anything similar.

>> No.733200

>>733178
Its kind of a Romeo and Juliet story with heavy emphasis on Horror and Insanity.

>> No.733202

>>733200

That sounds less neato.

>> No.733213

>>733202
Well, romeo and juliet in the sense that they fall in love against all odds (i.e. him essentially going insane) and even when a cure is presented, he doesn't want it because then Saya would stop being who he sees her as.

>> No.733277

.bump

>> No.733371

bump.

>> No.733791

bump

>> No.733832

b.ump

>> No.733840

sage

>> No.733852

>>733840
/retaliation

>> No.733860

Sage for anime bullshit

>> No.733868

>>733860
age for fuck your shit

>> No.733875

sage for same person

>> No.733876

Saya no Uta is inferior to Hachimoto no shiri atama. You need to look that up.

>> No.733894

>>733876
http://vndb.org/v/all?sq=Hachimoto+no+shiri+atama

No results.

>> No.733901

>>733894
Anime is shit. Grow up, Yugioh.

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>>733901

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733933

>>733894
>he thought the anime thing was real

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733935

>>733079
>He still likes anime

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733941

<--- OP

>> No.733942
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733942

>He still does the laughing girl thing

>> No.733948

Maybe you should start reading more instead of playing Japanese sex cartoon games, son.

Also this is a typical "WHAT A TWIST" story, there's tons of those.

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>>733942
>He compares shitty anime to shitty Lovecraft

>> No.734062

>>733963
derp

>> No.734311

>>733119
>traffic accident

>student aged person surrounded by scary shit

Stephen King's autobiography is a good bet

>> No.734314

>>733119
Horror/fantasy, eh?

You may enjoy some of Caitlin R. Kiernan's writing, especially Silk and A Murder of Angels.

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734316

go back to /jp/, you walking piece of cancer.

>> No.734326

Why are the cartoonfags so desperate that we respect that stuff as literature?

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>>734062
OMG HE SAID DERP YOU ARE SO TOLD!!!

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734335

ITT: Young adults trying to be more grown up by denouncing and mocking things considered childish.

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>>734326

>implying Visual Novels aren't superior to regular novels in every way imaginable.

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734363

>>734337

>suggesting that Cartoon Picture Books aren't for children

>> No.734464

bump

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734467

>>734464

why did you do that

sage

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734483

>>734335
ITT: Cartoons. They aren't just for 8 year olds anymore.

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734495

Christ, /lit/, don't be so damned snobbish. Not everything to come out of Japan is childish hentai crap. Pic related.

>> No.734506

>>734495
It's not literature, it doesn't belong on /lit/. Go to the cartoon board. It doesn't matter how mature you think giant robots and Japenese teenagers in tights with Gargoyle shoes are, your cartoons will never belong here. There's a separate board entirely devoted to your passion. No one will make fun of you there. Everyone will want to discuss your cartoon there. They will have watched and will have insightful comments to make. Here on /lit/, we don't give a shit. It's not literature, it's not something we want to talk about. It's not elitism, it's understanding that there are different boards for different storytelling mediums. Your preferred medium has it's own board. Go there, use that.

>> No.735592

>>733079

Holy shit look at all the retards wasting text and time here. You could have said "none" and been done with it.

>> No.735606

>>734506
agreed. Go to /a/, /c/, /d/, /e/, /h/, /m/, /u/, /w/, /i/, /y/, /cgl/, /jp/, /po/, /tg/, or /toy/

Let us have this one board. Take your pick of those others.