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5384876 No.5384876 [Reply] [Original]

What is the Neon Genesis Evangelion of literature?

>> No.5384885

The Bible

>> No.5384893

>>5384876
When will these stupid threads stop?

>> No.5384894

I know that you know that I know this is a meme but:

>Introduction to Freudian Psychoanalysis
>Introduction to Kierkegaard
>The Book of Genesis

Then some run of the mill sci-fi book for dressing

You could probably pick up a book a book on the relationship between post-war Japan and Mecha as well: something like >The Anime Machine

Staple it all together and that's your evangelion of literachurr

>> No.5384901

>>5384885
this is actually a pretty good answer

end of evangelion is obviously revelations

>> No.5384908

>>5384894
>the relationship between post-war Japan and Mecha

Is there actually a link between these two things? I never thought about it much before other than "the Japanese are manchildren".

>> No.5384915

>>5384901

I suppose you could read Revelations as well but why would you read any of the other books?

>> No.5384919

>>5384894
>Kierkegaard
>not Schopenhauer

>> No.5384920

Ender's Game

>> No.5384924

>>5384893
i feel like they stopped for some time

but now they're back

you sure missed out

/lit/ was so much better

>> No.5384930

>>5384894
>>5384924
>>5384893
OP here. Sorry, I didn't intend it as a meme thread, I actually wanted insightful discussion.

>> No.5384943

>>5384908

Well Japan only started to use technology a la the West at the end of the 19th century when it was brought over by them and since then it became a kind-of accelerated process. While that in itself isn't damaging, their relationship with technology is one that encompasses the destruction of the Japanese spirit at the point that the US dropped those big-ass bombs on them during WW2. So in many ways the themes that the Mecha genre tends to illustrate is at once a kind of trust-mistrust paradigm. The mecha-units (whether goodies or baddies) are effectively stand ins for super-technology which humans barely seem to understand. As such there's a significant lack of control at place, especially in Evangelion.

I fear that I might be conflating Mecha with Sci-Fi but they are part of the same strand. Japan's relationship with robots as in mechanical human forms is something I'm not so clued up on.

>> No.5384944

>>5384930
there's nothing insightful about making cross-medium analogies

it's the most pleb-level type of thinking there is

it makes it so you don't have to look hard at either one or the other. you just list various similarities and differences like a third grader. NGE is an anime. it should be first be understood in that context. if you don't get how anime operates as a medium, you're not going to map that onto "literature".

not to mention how cinema functions as a medium versus language.

i really hate people like you.

>> No.5384948

>>5384919

I don't know where Schoppy fits in which Eva except for the episode entitled The Hedgehog's Dilemma, but that could be because I have scant knowledge of his philosophical views.

>> No.5384955

>>5384948

although I suppose that theme concerning the problems of human intimacy runs throughout the show

>> No.5384972

>>5384919
>Episode 16
>"Splitting of the Breast"
>"Shi ni itaru yamai, soshite (In sickness unto death, and...)" (死に至る病、そして)
>In sickness unto death

>> No.5384990

>>5384948
The Hedgehog's Dilemma is probably the backbone of the entire series / films.

>> No.5384993

>>5384943
Interesting, thanks.

>> No.5384996

>>5384944
>not to mention how cinema functions as a medium versus language.

Cinema is a language.

>> No.5385000

>>5384972
>one episode title is randomly named after a Kierkegaard quote
>in a show where almost every episode title is randomly named after something with no real relation to it
>in a show where a large portion of the symbolism and metaphor is yanked from a plethora of difference sources without any real significance

Read the "Hedgehog's Dilemma", then Kierkegaard, then watch NGE and tell me which one influenced NGE more.