/lit/ - Literature

From the way his dull protagonists inexplicable hook up with multiple chicks, I'd say Murakami novels

is there anything at all lower than anime

>>7000991
Journalism?

>>7000991
modern and postmodern academical art?

at least you need to be good at drawing to make anime.

>>7000991
Light Novels, easily, especially recently.

>>7001003
nice.

>>7000991
but evangelion is great anon.
:/

>>7001020
one anime that barely reaches the level of an above average television show doesn't excuse the other 99%

>>7000991
no

>>7001003
10/10

>>7001015
>ranobes
So basically YA fiction in general?

>>7001025
99% of books and music are garbage.

anime is just another medium, the potential is there.

compared to what west does in animation, anime is pretty interesting.

there's anything in anime, from soap operas to gore and porn.

>>7000978

Lolita.

>>7001039
>99% of books and music are garbage.
the depths that anime reaches is abysmal
go downstairs in any Akihabara manga store and tell me any commercially released literature or film is that bad
>compared to what west does in animation, anime is pretty interesting.
but not really

>>7001037
No, specifically in Japan. Like LNs are so bottom of the barrel that they're not even in the barrel, they're a disgusting growth on the underneath.

Like I wish I could put into words how shit like 99.5% of LNs are but I can't, its beyond my abilities.

>>7001066

Are you from Japan or someone who dislikes it in general?

>>7000991
A few seinen series were usually better than your shonen or moe shit. At least that's the only form of anime I was able to sit down and actually enjoy or think about.

>>7001037
Nope, YA books don't need music, dub, and drawings to stand on.

>>7001057
sure, when the market is done by horny teens who only read animu or mangu is pretty shit.

just like generic metal done by metalheads is garbage.

But the potential is there, just imagine a GOOD writer and a GOOD manga artist or a GOOD artist (overall) doing manga stuff.

It's not the fault of the medium the only people interested into it are shitty otakus and weebs.

The potential is still there.
Evangelion is proof.
There's good jewels there like ghibli stuff, akira, cowboy bebop and berserk I enjoyed.

>>7001039
There's very little quality art done with it.
It's commercial trash to distract people from their shit lives.

>>7001070
Someone who dislikes it in general.

>>7001079
I don't give a fuck about potential I care about what exists
it's garbage, most of it being pedobait waifu shit (Evangelion doesn't escape this)

>>7001066
ok, but the same phenomenon has always existed. Juvenile fiction hasn't been new for over 120 years, and the language, extension and themes all you can find in those silly "Light novels" correspond to modern Young adult fiction because that's the age segment more predominantly cared for. Don't be mad just because a few japs have found a middle ground between YA and literary fiction.

>>7001080
sure, but I still believe a GOOD artist could produce something of worth and that good art could be translated to other mediums.

>>7001090
I dunno, I like to draw and anime is pretty interesting at least visually.
>inb4 some faggot complaining about generic anime art

>>7001080
There is literally nothing wrong with fantasy and escapism.

>>7001080
All of art and creativity are meant to distract people from life, and quality is entirely subjective, in both art and life. And if you dislike Miyazaki, I feel really deeply sorry for you.

>>7001090
you need to lurk moar fagget, is not my fault you only know about garbage that weebs fap.

look up seinen manga, not animu.

>>7001099
I looked it up and this is apparently the most popular seinen manga
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weekly_Young_Magazine

>>7001108
>ad populum argument
I'm sure I'll critique music by only looking at top 40 music, right?

>>7001025
>what is Angels Egg
>what is millennium actress
>what is grave of the fireflies

>>7001121
It's scrapped princess good?
I fucking love it.

>>7001121
seen the first two
Angel's Egg is pretty bad and Millennium Actress is pretty good
once again that doesn't make up for the rest (episodic anime is by far worse than films though)

>>7001134
just because 99% is bad doesn't mean a medium is bad.

It's just a medium, same as the tools used to make it.

would you blame the pencil for crappy art?

>>7001134
>Angel's Egg is pretty bad
And Solaris is glacially slow, right?

Just admit you're a pleb

>>7001153
no Solaris is good
Angel's Egg is just something anime fans cling to in the hope that they will get taken seriously

>>7001157

So you are the kind of guy who stares at a painting that is trying to get you to think. Which you instead proceed to call it shit?

>>7001094
I do agree, I just don' think 99% of it has lived up to this potential.

>>7001095
>>7001098
I love fiction, fantasy, escapism, but there's an imbalance in people's lives right now.
Miyazaki is the best

>>7000991
>what is welcome to the nhk
>what is fooly cooly
>what is paranoia agent
>what is angel's egg
>what is evangellion
>what is serial experiments lain
>what is samurai champloo
>what is akira
>what is ghost in the shell
>what is tatami galaxy

>>7001238
A mistake.

>>7001250

>>7001238
Akira is pretty great.
Used to like the GitS manga, but those animes sucked.
Why do you list only one Satoshi Kon? And what's with the no Ghibli?

Rest is trash. Not lit. >>>/out/

>>7001250
>

I watch Anime but only because I like shitposting on /a/.

Learn to embrace the filth that is anime and manga.

>>7001258
>lain
>trash
>welcome to the nhk
>trash
>evangelion
>trash

just lost a lot of respect for you there butterfly, get acquainted with the metaphysical

>>7001268
Observing some of your posts you seem to be of the right leaning persuasion. Did you ever have respect to begin with for this oft admitted anarchist atheist?

>>7001258
It's by no means a comprehensive list, I missed out a ridiculous amount of anime.

Those that I did post are definitely not trash.What makes you dislike them?

>>7001258
You know that 'anime was a mistake' pic is fake, right? Yet, retards like you like to parade it around as some objective truth about the medium.

>>7001279

>atheist
>doesnt like eva
Oh
btw the worlds about to end

>>7001289
This.

Miyazaki's true gripe with anime is that the industry is full of otaku who "don't spend time watching real people" and are "humans who can't stand looking at other humans."

>>7001289
He said it here >>7001080 did he not?

>>7001290
>the worlds about to end
I know. And it has nothing to do with Revelations

>>7001212
no
>>7001238
I've watched a decent amount of those and it's a mixed bag
that being said while decent anime exists, it is perfectly acceptable to judge a genre by the lows and the low end of anime is really, really bad
this is the catalog of /a/ at the moment

>>7001334
Oh lord. /a/ was a mistake, clearly.

>>7001328
>He said it here >>7001080 did he not?

No, that gif's subtitles are also fake. The only time he said anything close to 'anime was a mistake' was talking about Otaku and how the industry panders to them and the detrimental effect it has on anime.

>>7001328
bro he didn't actually say it bro it's a troll bro

>>7001334
So I can argue that literature is trash because there's shit like twilight and YA?

JAP SHIT = THRASH

THE ONLY GOOD THING TO EVER COME OUT OF JAPAN IS SUICIDE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FckkZihQUaU
ITT: snobs and contrarians fags talking shit about evangelion because isn't muh deep high ancient classic culture

>>7001348
>>7001350
Hm. I wondered about that.
So if he said these things why if this a fake?
And if this is a fake what is he so pissed about in these gifs?

>>7001366
BEAUTIFUL

>>7001382
I always wondered how good would be anime if the MC were alpha western chads rather than the japanese beta mentality.

>>7001328
seeing as revelations (like the rest of the bible) is an allegory with over 9000 layers of complexity, perhaps it does have something to do with revelations

But even if not, it definitely has something to do with degeneration

>>7000978
it makes me feel slightly better about myself than i'm not entirely sure what this is

>>7000991
contemporary art

you can't go lower than smearing shit on the wall and declaring that to be genius

>>7001370
If you google image search those gifs, you'll find
>The troll quote stems from the transcript of Miyazaki's interview...

It's literally a meme to misattribute 'X was a mistake' but the Miyazaki edit is the most prolific one and the one most widely believed to be true. (It isn't)

>>7001334
>it is perfectly acceptable to judge a genre by the lows
I think Miiyazaki is correct in his assertion that Japanese animation is in danger--or "facing a dead end"-- due to okatu within the anime industry pandering to otaku outside the anime industry, and there's a great deal of completely worthless anime, manga, and light novels as a result.

But judging a genre by the lows isn't at all acceptable--according to Google as of August 2010 130 million books have been published in modern history, that number is obviously higher five years later.

How many of those books are absolute trash? The majority. You often see posts on /lit/ complaining that literature is 'finished' or in a rut, the majority of literature being worthless does not mean that literature itself is worthless.

>>7001353
>>7001399
how many of those books are about children being raped

>>7001390
not all of them are betas, some of them are indifferent

>>7001406
>erotical fanfiction doesn't exist
>implying books aren't just fanfiction published
>implying good literature isn't just good fanfiction
>implying shakespeare isn't a fanfic writer

there's shit in fancfiction like rapping little sussy that is worse than lolicon.

>>7001412
fanfiction isn't commercially viable
lolicon is accepted and profitable (as well as any number of disgusting fetishes)

>>7001396
miyazaki didn't say anime was a mistake, but he did complain about otaku and said that a big problem in the industry is that the people involved in it have no interest in real life

>>7001413
>shades of turd and turdlight wasn't profitable
>harry potter isn't profitable
holy kek

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dAbq2jgw6y8

>>7001370
He was pissed because he thinks the modern industry is fucked.

"You see, whether you can draw like this or not, being able to think up this kind of design, it depends on whether or not you can say to yourself, ‘Oh, yeah, girls like this exist in real life. If you don’t spend time watching real people, you can’t do this, because you’ve never seen it. Some people spend their lives interested only in themselves. Almost all Japanese animation is produced with hardly any basis taken from observing real people, you know. It’s produced by humans who can’t stand looking at other humans. And that’s why the industry is full of otaku!"
this is what he actually said in that interview

>>7001391
>degeneration
Yes, the degeneration of the theistic mindset that allows for the minority greedy to rule them like they were some ancient tribe. Greed is destroying the world and religion aids it.

AZ is an Auzzi with abo issues. Figures.

>>7001363
your post is poking me with its edges

>>7001422
That anime is shit.
Not far off at all.

>>7000988
Underrated post.

>>7001309
And he's right. The same is true about literature though. A lot of people like to read books with perfect self-insert protagonists that don't have any real flaws. The moment they're confronted with a character that has the character of a real human, they find it unpleasant and just stop reading for the most part.

Even more than that, I'd say it's a pretty universal issue. People don't want to look at ugliness or sadness, or any of the unpleasant sides of life for that matter. Otakus don't want to love a real girl, but neither do most 'normal' people. they just get a girlfriend because it's normal. They have friends they don't really care about and stick around them so they can delude themselves into thinking they're not alone, but the moment those friends have difficult times they'll be quick to abandon them. The sad truth is that people hate themselves and eachother, and they only use fiction as a way of escaping that reality.

>>7001420
and once again they're nowhere near as bad child rape

>>7001421
right now I want to write a novel about the adult life of the powerpuff girls.

it'll be fun.

>>7001434
>all lolicon is about rape
>most lolicons don't want a love relationship and raise his bride
nigga you dumb

>>7001423
>religion = spirituality
kekkekekekekekekekekekek

American btw

>>7001098
>All of art and creativity are meant to distract people from life
No, a good part of it is meant to be a mirror of reality, something for people to see themselves from a different perspective and find out new things about the world and their view of it by confronting themselves.

>>7001429
but that isn't what he said at all
he thinks the industry is in a bad place because it's full of otaku and as a result 'almost all japanese animation is produced with hardly any basis taken from observing real people'

you can take that to mean 'most anime is pretty shit tbh', which is true and what i and other posters have been trying to get across but not 'the medium of anime is shit'

I really like the music in Anime, not the OP or ED mind you, but the actual soundtracks are generally great for playing in the background while you read.

The japanese have mastered the art of comfy music.

>>7001440
this is exactly what I'm talking about
no other medium would go to this length to defend it's immorality

>>7001456
>pedophilia
>inmoral
ok retard.

>inb4 pedophilia is the same as child rape
kek

>>7001442
So posting the Aboriginal woman was an illustration of the idyllic past when a purer more naive form of spirituality existed amongst the various tribes. I see now.
Seriously, web Christians with anarchism. Proudhon I think is best for that.

>>7001474
wed*

>>7001451
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J8cTncUup7o

Yeah, I wonder if you can get any comfier than this OST playing in the background.

>>7001465
if you have sex with a child you are raping it

>>7001504
>childs can't consent about sex
>but they're developed enough to ask about sex change
lol

I don't think you should judge by the lows, but I do agree that Anime lows are the lowest of the lowest. Nothing can beat them.

/a/ must be mad with jealousy of c/lit/'s high-level discussion exhibited ITT.

>>7001509
They cannot. Either.

>>7001526
We're judging the percentiles, which is very high.

>>7001497
The composition is fine, but this genre exists independent of anime, soundtracks and Japan.

>>7001406
How many anime is there about erotic gay dinosaur fanfictions?

>>7001395
Is that a challenge?

Because I could paint you a crude picture of a man raping a dog, in menstrual fluid, on the back of a court summons.

>>7001256
>>7001262
Worst namefag, please leave.

>>7001406
Not enough, tbh.

>>7001413
Lolicon in manga is only commercially viable as it's extremely cheap to produce, usually the magazines only commission 1-3 chapters maximum, and is bought by a devoted fanbase of men who have their needs met through harmless paper, rather than real life child pornography. Lolicon in anime is nowhere near as succesful, and besides ova's never made.

The /lit/ equivalent is literally the same thing but old and greek

>there are people who think all anime is garbage a priori

If you judged literature by the novels people publish for $0.99 on Amazon, I reckon you'd draw the same conclusion.

The fact that you are too much of a pleb to find genuinely good pieces of art in a sea of mediocrity does not invalidate the good art that is out there.

pic not related

What is the literary equivalent of "Digimon Adventure 02"?

hello, reddit

This series is better than 99% of the things /lit/ likes.

>>7003048
lolicon is somewhat popular and accepted in Japan and 4chan is infested by these degenerates (though they're Westerners)
>is bought by a devoted fanbase of men who have their needs met through harmless paper, rather than real life child pornography
they're not needs and this doesn't make it any less pathetic
>>7003460
we've already been through why this is a dumb point

>>7003549
>we've already been through why this is a dumb point

You think you've been through it, but that was really just confirmation bias masquerading as an actual argument in your mind.

What you are doing to anime can easily, EASILY be done with books. Anyone saying "muh percentiles" or "muh average" has no idea how many shitty books are out there right now. You are way behind on the statistics, and in fact, there are probably MORE shitty books than there are genuinely shitty anime.

>>7003549
also while lolicon may be somewhat of a minority, popular anime still appeals to the lolicon crowd (see K-On, Live Love Live)
even if all the girls were of age, having fanservice in almost every anime says a lot about the genre and its fans

>>7001095
fuck off

>>7001238
those are all shit

>>7000991
Video games
Genre fiction
Vlogging

>>7003578
>popular anime still appeals to the lolicon crowd (see K-On, Live Love Live)
>fanservice in almost every anime
You're a fucking idiot.

>>7001434
>>7001406
The main character of Twilight is 16/17

>>7000991
Let's plays
"Artistic" web comics
Many video games
Genre fiction focused mainly on plot
>>7001504
>If a fictional character consents to sex, it is being raped
Mah childens

YA novels. Both are about wish fulfilment

>>7000991
Nothing because anime isn't a fucking medium.

Who's your favorite mangaka /lit/?
Mine is based Fukumoto.

Sage for not being literature

>>7005095
Araki because I'm a westaboo fan of dadrock and muscular, manly men.

>>7004739
>>7004763
>>7004926
>>7004946
pathetic

>>7005131
Steel Ball Run is the best work Araki has done. I really liked the friendship between Johnny and Gyro.

>>7005141
none of those posts have anything in common

>>7005177
they're all replying to me
thanks for the (You)s lads

>>7004662
how about you post some good anime, big boy?

>>7005293
K-On! Obviously

>>7005293
Barakamon
Cross Ange
Etotama
Fate/Zero
Gatchaman Crowds
Girls und Panzer
Hitsugi no Chaika
Houkago no Pleiades
Inferno Cop
Jinsei
Kill me Baby
Love Lab
Majimoji Rurumo
Maria Holic
Mobile Suit Gundam 0080: War in the Pocket
Nichijou
Non Non Biyori
Ore, Twintails ni Narimasu
Rail Wars!
Seitokai Yakuindomo
Shiki
Shirobako
So Ra No Wo To
Sousei no Aquarion
Strike Witches
Sword Art Online
Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann
the iDOLM@STER
Turn A Gundam
Witch Craft Works
Yuru Yuri
Yuyushiki

>>7005337
>no Naruto
>no K-On!
>no Lucky Star
>no Oreimo
>no Kill la Kill
>no Code Geass
>no Boku no Pico

This is obviously a troll list

>>7005337
maybe two good ones here, nearly all complete trash

>>7005337
>I started watching anime last year: the post

>>7005293
ughh

>>7000991
New books made from past the year 1980

>What are the /lit/ equivalent of harem animes?

...

>>7005183
non cominciamo a portare quel cancro pure qui dio stronzo

>>7005293
>good anime
no such thing

>>7000991
Your brow ridge.
I bet you're one of things edgelords who gets mad at cute things.

>>7003465
What is the literary equivalent of "Digimon Adventure 02"?

>>7001258
>Akira is great
>Evangelion is trash

>>7001258
your age is showing dear

>>7000991
Young adult novels

>>7005337

Jesus I hope this is a troll. Are you actually >>7004662 because that was a pretty edgy and trollish post in the first place.

>>7006897
>>7006830

fuck off anime

>>7006897
Nah, not that tryhard faggot.

Just grabbed a bunch of anime I enjoyed from my completed list at random.
No idea why you people make such a fuss about rating them. They're cartoons. Mass entertainment. You watch it for the same reason you watch Hollywood movies, HBO series or read SF/fantasy novels - for fun.

Not everything has to be about expanding your horizons or learning new ideas and concepts. Sometimes it's about enjoying fun things. Fun things are fun.

I did legitimately enjoy watching every single one of the show on that list, if that's what you're wondering, and I pity anyone unable to do so.

>>7007015

I don't make a big deal about what people enjoy but I assumed you were the guy that said "all those suck" so I found it ridiculous that you would list Sword Art Online as better than anything on that list. You're not that guy though so carry on. For the record I enjoyed SAO for what it was but I'm not gonna pretend it's something people should think is good.

>>7000991
It's made for and by manchildren. There are a few positive aspects to that, but it's ultimately irredeemable.

>>7000988
Halfway through Norwegian Wood right now and loving it. I know its fiction, but you DO NOT get to fuck and fall in love with beautiful women by semi-deliberately having no friends, group interests, and eating alone at cafes. I guess it only irks me because I can only imagine how many virgin losers that's given false hope to. Its the same type of detrimental empowerment as fat acceptance.

See also: Drive

>>7007116
>For the record I enjoyed SAO for what it was but I'm not gonna pretend it's something people should think is good.
See, that's the thing.
SAO is entertainment. The point of entertainment is to entertain you. You were entertained by SAO, it fulfilled its purpose.
SAO is one of the first anime I recommend to my normalfag friends when they ask me about anime, and I've yet to have one of them tell me they didn't enjoy it.

So why whip yourself and constantly bring up "yeah I l-l-liked it but I admit its bad!"-esque excuses? Who cares if its the weeb equivalent of Twilight or however you want to call it? It entertained you, and that's all that matters. What kind of faggot is going to start watching anime and only look for deep, intellectual and mature anime? Read a fucking book instead, nerd.

>>7007168
>you DO NOT get to fuck and fall in love with beautiful women
Don't interpret that literally. You can fuck and fall in love with women if you are lucky enough and happen to find another lonely loser with low standards who whores herself out of despair.

>>7007203
sorry, meant to say "don't interpret that beauty literally".

>>7005337
Please kill yourself.

Is this the thread for the bitter and insecure part of /lit/ that has to defend why its medium of choice is superior to all others?

>>7006797
>What is the literary equivalent of "Digimon Adventure 02"?

>>7001003

top laff

>>7001258

>>7001003
sick

>>7001250
i laffed

>>7001289

>Lauded animated film director Hayao Miyazaki says anime suffers when the people making it can't stand observing real people.

>Hayao Miyazaki spoke out against the anime industry in a recent television interview. He recently retired, making The Wind Rises his final film, with many of his previous works such as Spirited Away becoming popular even outside of Japan. According to Miyazaki the quality of anime is suffering because industry staff is made up of "otaku," or people who obsessively love anime.

>The term "otaku" has a rather negative connotation in Japan and is used more to classify fans who obsess over something (this need not be anime). Miyazaki's specific concerns are over the lack of attention paid to people in real life. He said people in the industry "don't spend time watching real people" and can be characterized as "humans who can't stand looking at other humans." He then called the industry "full of otaku."

>Miyazaki approaches animation by observing others. In the interview, as Miyazaki sketches, he explains he's able to create art because he spends time watching others. "Whether you can draw like this or not, being able to think up this kind of design, depends on whether or not you can say to yourself, 'Oh, yeah, girls like this exist in real life.'"

>With plenty of anime portraying characters without development or capability of change and agency, Miyazaki has a point. In order to create compelling stories and characters, a person needs to both have well-rounded experiences and meet different people.

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/131872-Hayao-Miyazaki-Anime-Suffers-Because-the-Industry-is-Full-of-Otaku

>there are grown boys and girls on /lit/ who unironically watch chinese children's cartoons
>they post in other threads and consider themselves intellectuals.

>>7000991
No

>>7000978
harem literature
guess book

It's thoroughly boring to me.
I have seen Evangelion 10 years ago and liked it, but shit like Cowboy Bebop was really dull

>>7007313
bro this has been posted multiple times in the thread
you should read before you post

>>7007402

I'm just here to piss people off, I really don't give a fuck about your discussion or anything on this godawful board

>>7000978
nah

>>7000978
I'm sorry about your thread OP, but people here haven't actually read enough to give you a proper answer.
Including me. Or well, I haven't read any english books about harem-settings at least.

>>7007252
People don't realize that a medium is something you use to create something. Not per se something of itself.
And /lit/ is always bitter.

>>7007397
narcisus and goldmund? looks like the guy from the gene wolf cover too

>>7007397
lmao. saved for posterity.

>>7007409
If you're going to shitpost you should do it properly. Your post agreed with the one you responded to, too, so you were very far off the mark. There's no excuse for poor shitposting.

>>7007397
fuckin name of the wind

>>7007252
>defends anime
>posts one of the worst examples of the genre

>Evangelion
Reminder that this is the equivalent of calling Catcher in the Rye the best book ever. For fucks sake. It is Ultraman+Devilman+Gundam+Mazinger. Literally the only things that makes that show stand out is Shinji being a reluctant protagonist. Everything else is copied from older shows and manga which you would fucking know if you werent the biggest morons ever that know NOTHING about the history of anime. Read the Devilman manga and come back and apologize for being such fucking plebs. Pathetic.

Also, no shit shonen and moe are terrible! Watch some seinen or 80s OVAs, ask /m/ for good shit to watch. Quit being Noobs and quit going to /a/ that place is a shithole.

>>7007553
And FURTHERMORE, if you read his interviews ANNO AGREES WITH ME. if you pay any attention youll notice that every Gainax show is just a remix of other shows, and NGE is no different.

>>7007553

>>7007565
Fuck off you probably dont even know who Go Nagai is, plebian Shitposter.

>>7007422
whoa getting close

>>7007448
does that mean you know what its from?

>>7007493
no sry

>>7007564
>not contemplating the deep mysteries of EVA

>>7007579
What did you expect, it's a NGE fan posting a F/SN meme. The guy probably hasn't seen more than ten anime in his life.

>>7006890
This and genre fiction

>>7000991
>FLCL
>Tatami Galaxy
God tier.

>Cowboy Bebop
Tarantino tier.

But, yes, a lot of it is shit.

>>7001003

Best post in the thread

>>7007581
>does that mean you know what its from?
why, ofc. That's Dorcas, Thecla, Severian 2.0, Jolenta, and... idk, she looks peasant-ish and I can't tell who of the 2 remaining sexcapades I'm missing.

>>7007647
wow nice. it was meant to be agia

>>7007317
>there are grown boys and girls who unironically post on 4chan.
>they hold conversations with other people and consider themselves intellectuals.

>>7000978
The Wheel of Time by Robert Jordan fits your bill.

>183 posts

>>>/a/

>>7007529
>fsn
>anime
>not a visual novel

>>7001025
The appeal of NGE comes from its dark humor and pisstakes of anime and the culture developed around it.

It's actually poorly executed, besides that.
>>7001057
Please go back to Reddit.

You likely listen to popular music, watch trendy television shows, and follow trends in general. Your pretense is sickening, you arrogant teenager.
>>7001090
It's taking a pisstake at that, by the way.

Also, 14-year-olds are adolescents, finding them attractive isn't pedophilia.

>>7007597
The sad thing is NGE was created for the types that watch too much anime, and watch it all day.

>>7001090
>Evangelion
>pedo bait
Did you miss the point about
>I'm so fucked up

>>7008202
It was created in the mid 90's as a response to Akira. The culture hadn't even developed yet.

>>7008527
Otaku culture had been around for decades.
Hell the same studio that made Eva made a fucking qusai documentary about it called Otaku No Video.

I agree.

>>7000991
Vidya

>>7007602
>Tarantino tier

So...shit tier?

>>7000991
LNs. They've been consistently feeding a stream of shit to anime for years, and technically it's literature.

>>7011497
Content-wise, LNs are pretty much just Japanese YA novels.

Look at stuff like Hunger Games. If you didn't know about it and were just told the summary, you'd assume it was a LN.

Even if you're of the opinion that all anime is trash, Legend of Galactic Heroes has a shitload of Mahler to listen too.

>>7012247
*to.

>>7012247
But I could just ignore LoGH and listen to Mahler directly.

LoGH is how I got into romantic music though, so I'll at least give it points for that.

>>7011497
>I was just an ordinary highschooler
>until one day a girl fell out of the sky or some shit!
>now I have to juggle my new magic powers with school!
>and all the girls want my dick!
Fuck Light Novels.

>>7000978
my diary, tbh

>>7013043
fucking drawings isn't something to be proud of.

>>7001238
You forgot

>FMA
>Cowboy bebop
>Trigun
>Elfin lied
>Kannon
>Code Geass
>Wolf's Rain

>>7013078
Cowboy bebop was like 80% filler, Samurai Champloo is way better

>>7013078
there's a reason we "forgot" those

>>7013131
>filler
Kill yourself.

>>7013078
>Code Geass
Geass is fun. But it's not "literature"
It's not like it's got any sort of deep meaning, or impressive direction.

>>7013131
Filler isn't inherently bad.
Some of Bebops best episodes were filler
>Pierre Le Fou

>>7001334
>perfectly acceptable to judge a genre by the lows
Why? Why not just ignore it? You've got no reason to watch the lows.

>>7013707
Just because an episode doesn't advance the main plot doesn't mean it's filler. You often have these episodes that are very important for character development even if they don't directly advance the plot itself.
In anime, the term filler is generally only used when talking about adaptations, as those have filler content because they're adaptations of already existing works. Cowboy Bebop is anime original, so the term doesn't apply to it.

Granted, this has become an /a/ blather a-go-a-thon.

Still, in the interest of dragging this back into a semblance of /lit/ thread ...

>>7013143
keking hard

>>7005095
inio asano or fukumoto tbh

>>7013078
Are you trying to make fun of him by saying he's a pleb or are you actually retarded ?

>>7001366
>Michael Bay's Evangelion
>Implying the Rebuilds aren't exactly that