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Like many of you /lit/, I don't read actual books and instead immerse myself in the labyrinthine, tantalizingly exotic worlds of Japanese mangas and their animated adaptations.

Unlike most of you though I recognize this as a flaw.

And so I seek your aid. Which books are most likely to be enjoyable to me, a fan of things like the manga adaptation of Neon Genesis Evangelion, and "Hunter x Hunter", while simultaneously having the mysterious and most desirable quality of "literary merit"? Is Welcome to the NHK good?

I'm desperate here. Prove me wrong.

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YMMV on these, but the chart above for Japanese lit should at least interest you, for the most part. Particularly Kobo Abe, Akutagawa, Kenji Miyazawa, Edogawa Ranpo and probably Murakami.

>> No.5728940

>>5728896
Welcome to the NHK
Light Novel>Anime and both are good
Mango a shit though

>> No.5728966

I'd think you'd like:

Robert Fagles translation of The Odyssey

William Shakespeare's Macbeth, Hamlet and King Lear (And Kurosawa's Japanese film adaptation "Ran")

Dr. Faustus


>Is Welcome to the NHK good?

Uh, no not really. Try some Natsume Soseki instead, Sanshiro's a good starting point.

>> No.5729845

I just wish LOGH were translated...
I want so much to read it.

>> No.5729853

>>5728940
obvious troll is obvious

>> No.5730105

The Deepgate Codex series by Alan Campbell has a very anime feel

So does The Coldfire trilogy by C.S. Friedman

>> No.5730955

>>5729853
It's one of my favourite anime and the light novel was good too. Never could get through the manga. I think it's the medium for me.

>> No.5730963 [DELETED] 

>mangas

>> No.5731021

Welcome to the NHK is pretty good but it doesn't have "literary merit."

Instead read Notes from the Underground and The Stranger for character studies of outsiders.

For labyrinthine worlds read Kafka and Borges. They're challenging but if you're reasonably smart you'll be ok. Maybe look into them after reading the two short novels above.

>> No.5731105 [DELETED] 

Read lolita you weeb

>> No.5731114

>>5728940
Manga > Anime > Light Novel

I didn't think someone could be so wrong.

>> No.5731148

>>5731105
Speaking of Nabokov, Pale Fire would be great for "tantalizingly exotic worlds" but it'd rek a beginner.

Oscar Wilde's fairy tales have a similar quality of creating fantastic worlds through rich imagery and imagination, while being more accessible. They're criminally overlooked in my opinion. Read some of those, OP.

>> No.5732988

>>5728896
but why do you consider it a flaw ??
do you understand that there is a unlimited number of series that started as books and then became live action series,anime,manga,video games etc.
and when you play a open world video games for example if you do all the side quests that exist and you read all the is to read in it its more text then any book in there

>> No.5735430

>>5729845
There's a fan translation by sone random blogger. Google it.

It's kinda amateur though, and the prose isn't anything special

>> No.5735636

You know you can read manga and books, even in the same day, right?
I'm reading Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou, watching Layzner and finishing Storms of Steel while skimming some pages of Viva La Música.
What is your problem?

>> No.5735645

>>5735430
If you can read at least two books there's little point in an expanding universe like that.

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>>5732988
>a unlimited number of series that started as books and then became live action series,anime,manga,video games etc.
>when you play a open world video games for example
>if you do all the side quests that exist and you read all the is to read in it its more text then any book in there

please just stop

>> No.5737069

Im working through the same problem. I suggest reading some modern works for young adult. Although they are mostly shit some of the similarities will help re-adjust you to more western style books. Maybe re-read harry potter?

>> No.5737146

>>5735430
>>5735645

I've just now decided to make it my life's work to turn LOGH into english prose that reads beautifully.

I will have to check out the translation first.

Thank you anons, for your quest.