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1. your favorite book
2. your favorite anime

the bible here

>> No.6651495

>>6651492
I want Asuka to dominate me and call me worthless until she lets her guard down then I fuck the shit out of her

>> No.6651503

>>6651495
we all do my friend

what's your favorite book and anime?

>> No.6651505
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>>6651492
Neuromancer
Asuka is my favourite anime.

>> No.6651507

i can't be the only one who hates anime here

>> No.6651508

>>6651507
>he said, shitposting on an anime imageboard

>> No.6651510
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Phenomenology of Spirit or Paradise Lost
Asuka

>> No.6651513

>>6651508
>implying this board is about that degeneracy

>> No.6651517

>>6651507
People who don't like or know or care about anime aren't posting in the thread.

I can't even name an anime, tbh.

>> No.6651521

>>6651513
It's got every other kind in spades.

In for a penny, in for a pound, as they say.

On-topic:

>Shardik - Richard Adams

>Jin-Roh Wolf brigade

>> No.6651523

ABSOLOM, ABSOLOM!
Monogatari series

>> No.6651527

>>6651507
You're not alone. Degeneracy everywhere.

>> No.6651528
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6651528

journey to the end of the night
perfect blue

>> No.6651534

>>6651513
>>6651527
>degeneracy
>>>/pol/ lads, there's a containment board just for you

>> No.6651546

>>6651534
I'm afraid internet colloquialisms won't fix your unhealthy existence

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>>6651546
spook_town.avi

>> No.6651557
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Infinite Jest
Ultra Maniac

>> No.6651558
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6651558

Tristram Shandy
Venus Wars

>> No.6651571

>>6651558
nice on both

>> No.6651583

Yeah, what the hell.

1.The Quiet American.

2. Uchū Senkan Yamato 2199.

>> No.6651596

willful disobedience and to love ru

>> No.6651668

1. Gormenghast
2. Hunter x Hunter, if only for Killua and its soundtrack

>> No.6651739
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Zarathustra
lain

>> No.6651745

>>6651739
Runner up for me was Night on the Galactic Railroad, if you wanted fiction.

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>>6651739
I don't know who labeled Zarathustra as an essay, but it's very fine fiction alright.

1. Les chants de Maldoror
2. Evangelium

>> No.6651803
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6651803

>>6651492
>Anne of Green Gables

>Wings of Honneamise

>> No.6651830

Bakemonogatari
Infinite Jest

>> No.6651836

The Gay Science
Ponpoko

>> No.6651860
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1. The Brothers Karamazov
2. Legend of the Galactic Heroes

>> No.6651863

Brothers Karamazov
Seinfeld

>> No.6651868
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1. À Rebours
2. Jojo's Bizarre Adventure

>> No.6651874

The Holy Innocents

I have seen just two pieces of anime: Akira and Perfect Blue.

>> No.6651880

>>6651874
If you enjoyed Perfect Blue you should definitely check out Satoshi Kon's other films. Tokyo Godfathers and Millenium Actress are both masterpieces of animation.

>> No.6651884

>>6651874
Your choice of book sounds interesting.

And those are both pretty good pieces of animation: Satoshi Kon, who directed Perfect Blue has some other notable works to his name.

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>>6651880
Beaten to the punch.

Or. . . . Hivemind?

>> No.6651895

1. The Divine Comedy
2. Anne of Green Gables

>> No.6652366

>>6651492
The Complete Shakespeare
.hack/SIGNS

>> No.6652386
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Brave New World
Texhnolyze

>> No.6652444

Marlowe's plays
Magical Girl Madoka Magica

>> No.6652465

>>6651492
Why are her arms so long?

>> No.6652498

Naruto.

Lord of the Rings.

>> No.6652501

>>6651880
>masterpieces of
Only 5 year olds speak like that

>> No.6652502
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Leaves of Grass

>> No.6652504

Gravity's Rainbow
Akira

>> No.6652506

>>6651787
What are books do you like?

>> No.6652509

>>6651492
johnny got his gun
flcl (does magical realism better than marquez)

>> No.6652513

>>6651492
Brothers Karamazov
Yu Yu Hakusho

>> No.6652516

>>6651507
I'll hold your hand anon.

>> No.6652524

>>6651492
Brothers Karamzov
Seinfeld

>> No.6652525
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>>6651492
Lolita.

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1-Red Pear's Grief (not released yet)
2-Ergo Proxy

>> No.6652613

>>6652501
How so?

>> No.6652617

>>6652605
>Ergo Proxy

Pseudo-philosophical rubbish.

>> No.6652628
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>>6652617
Life is pseudo-philosophical rubbish for me. Ergo Proxy best represents that.

>> No.6652646

Oughtn't the point of this thread be to identify the stylistic and thematic similarities, or even more nuanced connections, between posters' two choices? For example, the common theme of antagonism as a requirement for culture in >>6652386

>> No.6652704

Ma nigg >>6652504

Seventeen Contradictions David Harvey (for now)

GITS

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The Fifth Column and the First Forty-Nine by Ernest Hemingway. Cowboy Bebop.

>> No.6652763

>>6651880
Perfect Blue is his only solid film. His other stuff looks nice but storytelling-wise and thematically are a mess.

>> No.6652784

>>6652763
I'd agree that Paprika is a narrative mess and arguably his worst film. But Tokoyo Godfathers and Millenium Actress are both solid films with amazing storytelling. I honestly don't see how you could like Perfect Blue and not like Millenium Actress.

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>favorite book
Cities of the Red Night
>favorite anime
Desert Punk

>> No.6652793

>>6651507
I like some of the miyazaki films, and akira was so good I took the time to find the Manga and read it. But yes, overall anime is garbage.
>book of the new sun
> I guess porco rosso.

>> No.6652801

>>6652793
Just like every other medium ;^)

>> No.6652864
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>>6651492

Hyperion
Nagato Yuki-chan

>> No.6652867

>>6651507
>preferring mangas over anime

There has never been a good manga adaptation of an anime, EVER.

>> No.6652891

>>6652867
there has never an anime adapted from a manga that surpassed its source material

>> No.6652909

>>6652784
perfect blue and paprika are basically the same.

>> No.6652931

Brothers karamazov
Ghost in the Shell

(Manga is not bad, movies are good, Stand Alone Complex is amazing - I watch the whole series about once a year. Fun note, the revolutionary literature of Patrick Slyvester in the 2nd season is based off Mishima, they could not use his name and work for legal reasons)

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>>6651492
Critique of Pure Reason
K-on

>> No.6653010

>>6652954
Fitting.

>> No.6653014
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>>6651492
Augustine's Confessions

>> No.6653021

>>6652954
having 4 cans fall on your head would actually hurt like hell.

>> No.6653024
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6653024

One Hundred Years of Solitude.

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>>6652867
>>6652891
What is Aria?

I just started getting into reading so ... 1984

Pic is my favorite anime

>> No.6653046

>>6652909
Not at all.

>> No.6653058

tai peh by tao lin

dragonballZ

>> No.6653067

>>6653058
kill yourself

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>>6653035
I like Madoka, but this isn't even 1/10 bait.

>> No.6653073

>>6653069
My pool of books are really limited tbh.

>> No.6653078

Don't have favourite book per se so let's just say Echopraxia and GITS

>> No.6653088
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>>6653067
>implying dragonball isn't god tier and basically one of the main reasons anime got popular in the west

>implying tao lin isn't the most interesting prose stylist of his generation

>> No.6653096

>>6653035
>Aria
>Surpassing the source material

>> No.6653106

>>6653096
>that 10/10 music and VA

My only complain is that they didn't animate my favorite manga chapter

>> No.6653147

>>6653106
The anime is visually subpar compared to the manga art. The manga fully captures the beauty of Neo-Venezia.

>> No.6653153

>>6653035
Modoka is unironically one of my favourite animes.
>stylish art direction
>flawless pacing
>great build up
>satisfying conclusion

And then rebellion happened.

>> No.6653177

>>6653147
I agree but you cant deny the music (especially those by Chrono Club) contributes to the GOAT atmosphere of Neo-Venezia. It is a whole new level that the manga can't really compete in. It is especially so for Aria since it has always been about the atmosphere and the setting

>> No.6653220

The hobbit
Needless.

>> No.6653227

>>6653153
is there any other anime as good as modoka?

>> No.6653231

>>6653177
Sure, I listen to the soundtrack while reading the manga though.

>> No.6653238
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>>6653227

>> No.6653246

Absalom, Absalom!
Haibane Renmei

>> No.6653247

>>6653227
Nichijou was breddy gud.

>> No.6653249

>>6653227
This better be bait, there are tons better: Utena, Tatami Galaxy, Texhnolyze, Angel's Egg, Mononoke (series)

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>>6653227

>> No.6653251

>>6653238
coelho-tier-just-do-it!

>> No.6653252

>>6653238
"The plot must go back on!"
Eh

>> No.6653257
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>>6653153
I liked rebellion for the animation and music. Loved how Sayaka and Nagisa can interact and wield their witch form. Ending is rather conflicting for me

Assuming QB would be able to manipulate Madoka eventually, then Homura did nothing wrong. But Madoka will probably forgive Homura IF S2 comes. Really hope S2 comes

>>6653231
That is a decent compromise I guess.

>>6653227
Aria.

>> No.6653261

>>6653088
>>implying dragonball isn't god tier and basically one of the main reasons anime got popular in the west
No one cares.
>muh popular must mean something besides popular

>> No.6653268

All the best animes are based on books and light novels.

>> No.6653274

>>6653261
that wasn't the argument

>> No.6653303
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1.The Beach
2.Berserk

>> No.6653324

>>6653303

You're supposed to read Berserk baka.

For me I'll say Rose of Versailles and In Search of Lost Time.

>> No.6653358

120 days of Sodom
Midori: Shoujo Tsubaki
Favorite manga: Les Fleurs du Mal

edge/10?

>> No.6653378

>>6653303
>k-on
stopped reading

>> No.6653394

>>6653303
>Anime for the Elite
>Approved by Weebteam

What's next, Fast Food for the Foodie, Approved by Suburbanite Slobs?

>> No.6653434

>>6653378
>being so insecure that you can't enjoy low-brow entertainment

>> No.6653436

>>6653303
Whoever made that list has either bad taste or is a kid.

>> No.6653439

Mother Night

Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex

>> No.6653450

>>6653378
Its new sincerity.

>> No.6653474

One Hundred Years of Solitude

Paranoia Agent

>> No.6653483
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Blood Meridian

>> No.6653487

>>6653303
Not the biggest fan of that list, but I'm glad they understand which Full Metal Alchemist series is superior

>> No.6653518

>>6653487
They're both shit. Shounen shit.

>> No.6653527

Snow Country
Spice and Wolf

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https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=YQYPmtK03c0

A Short History of Decay.

>> No.6653545

1. East of Eden
2. Shinsekai Yori

>> No.6653607

1. Labyrinths
2. Angel Cop
>>6652386
Very nice.

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Lain/Non Non Biyori/Eva/Ping Pong/Tatami Galaxy in equal measure.

>> No.6653651

1. Don Quixote
2. The Tatami Galaxy

>> No.6653678
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>>6653378

>> No.6653730

1. I dont have one, i have several
2. I dont have one, i have several

these two posts are a double match though
>>6652386
>>6653439

>> No.6653983

Mason & Dixon
Trigun

>> No.6654023
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>>6651492
1. Mason and Dixon
2. pic related

>> No.6654142

Ulysses
FLCL

>> No.6654217
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The Stars My Destination

Planetes

>> No.6654341

mind game
ulysses

>> No.6654347

>>6653651
>>6653632
>Tatami Galaxy

Mah fuckin niggas.

>> No.6654778

>>6653257

Rebellion is bad. Full stop.

>> No.6654808

>>6654142
mon negro

>> No.6654857
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>>6651492
Blood Meridian

>> No.6654869

>whot's yore favorite anime book
>they are colled mengos

>> No.6655450

>>6654778
why?

>> No.6655866
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Watership Down
Sora no Woto

>> No.6655947

>>6655866
>Not One Piece

>> No.6656820
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1. A Confederacy of Dunces
2. Tokyo Godfathers

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Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
Watamote

>> No.6656880

Anime is absolute garbage and not worth your time.

The other day on /tv/ i destroyed some f/a/ggot with several paragraphs of anime beatdown, i wish i had saved it

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>>6656880
>thinks anime is garbage
>watches tv and films

>> No.6656937

Foundation
Spice and Wolf

>> No.6657428

>>6652801
Very true, there's more shit anime than good and it's the same with books. So much shit.

>> No.6657467

>>6652864
How does it feels like knowing the anime is complete garbage?

>> No.6657586

>>6657467

Eh, it's better than The Fall of Hyperion.

>> No.6657677
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Lain

Dark Tower: Then Gunslinger

The pretentious litcore fag in me wishes this wasn't my favorite book, but it is. I reread this shit every year. It's the best damn shit in the world.

>>6656880
>The other day on /tv/ i destroyed some f/a/ggot with several paragraphs of anime beatdown, i wish i had saved it

Several paragraphs, here? Yeah, you're not a retard at all.

>> No.6657691

>>6653303
Death Note, really?

>> No.6657716

Siddhartha, Steppenwolf, In Search of Lost Time

Mushishi

>> No.6657990

>>6654023
>>6651860

You are cool guys.

>> No.6658063

Siddhartha
Mushishi

>>6657716
great taste anon

>> No.6658086

>>6657691
Death Note is fun. D-don't you like fun, anon.

>> No.6658200

Invisible Cities
Haibane Renmei

>> No.6658217

1. Gravity's Rainbow
2. Cowboy Bebop

>> No.6658219

The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With The Sea.
The Leopard.

The Tatami Galaxy.
Serial Experiments Lain.

>> No.6658470

>>6651492
Monster, Shigurui

Books are for faggots.

>> No.6658482

Ferdydurke and Welcome To The NHK

>> No.6658486

Complete Works of Raymond Carver.

Maison Ikkoku

>> No.6658491

>>6658486
just realized that both carver and ikkoku are both heavy on realism. no heroes no villains no world to be saved etc etc

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>>6651803
>Wings of Honneamise

>> No.6658705

The Secret History

Tatami Galaxy

>> No.6658764

>>6653153
>animes
>muh rebellion ruining muh Homu
Go back to tumblr.

>> No.6658793

>>6653268
Good anime original
>Beboop
>Evangelion
>Meduka Meguca
>Texhnolyze
>Mawaru-Penguindrum
>Dennou Coil
>serial experiments lain

Good based on mango
>Utena
>Nichijou
>Gekkan Shoujo Nozaki-kun
>Yuru Yuri
>FMA Brotherhood
>Sailor Moon
>Cardcaptor Sakura

Good based on LNs
>Tatami
>Baccano!
>Kino's Journey
>????

Japanese LNs are garbage genreshit for high school boys and otaku, mostly.

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Toss-up between One Hundred Years of Solitude and Heart of Darkness (I'm aware I'm a huge casual). Although, if we're allowed to include short stories, then Langford's BLIT quartet is also in there.

Toss-up between Kino's Journey, Last Exile and Blue Submarine No. 6. Today I'm feeling Blue Sub, though.

>> No.6658798

>>6657691
Most people on /a/ agree that DN was good up until the timeskip. Which it was, if a little overly edgy.

>> No.6658883

>>6656880
>Anime is absolute garbage and not worth your time.
>spends his time beating down anime on an anime imageboard

simply epic

>> No.6658913

>>6658793
But Tatami and Kino's Journey outclass literally every other anime on there because of their deep literary themes.

Also, you forgot Welcome to the NHK.

>> No.6658982

>>6658913
>Tatami
>Baccano!
>deep
Mate Tatami is deep but it's a very simple story with more or less one message. It's more character-based than anything. Baccano! is just a pretty good action show with some vague moral questions tossed in. Lain and Texhnolyze are better than both for literary merit, especially the former because it did social commentary that anime of its time (1995-2011, sekaikei type) generally avoid like the plague because of the disintegration of Japanese from Japanese society following the housing burst-bubble, 1.17 Hanshin Earthquake and sarin gas-attacks. Japanese fiction until recently focuses almost exclusively on man and the world and fellow man rather than man and society.

Kino is exceptional for the same reason.

>> No.6659006

Catcher in the Rye
Evangelion

>> No.6659038

>>6651492
>>>/a/

you fucking cartoon cuck cunts

>> No.6659106

>ctrl+f
>no Monster

You guys must've not seen it.

>> No.6659112

>>6659106
monster is the most pretentious anime ever made

>> No.6659116

>>6659038
I enjoy being a cartoon cuck cunt thank you

>> No.6659123

>>6659112
It is is it? Or is it projecting...

>> No.6659126

The Impossible
Not sure, probably Gegege no Kitarou or Tatami Galaxy.

>> No.6659148

>>6658793
Romeo Tanaka is a good LN writer, though I prefer his work in the VN medium. But yeah, LN are for the most part incredibly shitty.

By the way, I've enjoyed most of the anime you listed, but I really hate Madoka and Texhnolyze.

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>tfw /a/ will never be this patrician

>> No.6659162

1. Gravity's Rainbow
2. Kaiba

>> No.6659197

>>6652954
my sides are in orbit

>> No.6659205

>>6659123
It is lad, and it's boring to boot.

>> No.6659209

>>6656909
films have much better quality (in general) than anime

>> No.6659213

>>6659209
Noooooooooooooooooo no no no no no.

Both are mostly garbage.

In fact, most of everything is utter garbage.

The best you can do is distinguish different grades of garbage, and even then, your preference is arbitrary.

>> No.6659219

>>6659209
Films have 10-50x the budget of anime so it's p pathetic if they didn't

>> No.6659226

>>6659149
True patricians only watch moeshit.

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1. Suzumiya Haruhi no Yuutsu
2. Suzumiya Haruhi no Yuutsu

>> No.6659296

>>6659213
Kubrick, Godard, Coppola, Scorcese, Fellini, Bergman, Jodorowsky, Welles, Hitchcock, Kurosawa, Malick, Lynch, Polanski, Lean, PTA, W. Anderson, Renoir, Tarkovsky, Herzog, Altman, and Soderbergh have a lot of movies under the belts. And there are plenty of individual films from shitty directors that turn out great. Anime has who? Oshii and Kon's corpse?

>>6659219
This doesn't make any sense.

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>>6651492
For this month, or rather, recently:
1. Meditations on the Peaks
2. Yama no Susume

I don't really have any #1 single favorite thing

>> No.6659304

>>6659205
No, it's not boring. It's just that there are no mechs, it's not the same thing. And you better be in your fucking thirties.

Monster: Real character progression, real characters overall, strong and unusual narrative, set in very believable 90's Germany, not boring but sublime and intelligent. It's a one of a kind, and I don't think you have even seen it, shitposter.

>> No.6659349

>>6659296
And these directors, fantastic as they may be, are still but sparkling gems in an ocean of mediocrity.

Furthermore, "Anime" being a regional animation movement, at best influencing outside productions, has a far smaller pool of great names to draw from than world cinema.

99% of films, and directors are categorically poor.

>> No.6659356

>>6659296
Are you seriously comparing decades of worldwide film directors with a niche product from a single country

>> No.6659360

>>6659304
yes i have newtrip, the character development was shit tbh even by anime standards and johan was an awful "villain"

>> No.6659363

>>6659356
It's a credit to the output of that single country that he feels he has to.

>> No.6659367

Is any light novel patrician?

I really like Utsuro no Hako to Zero no Maria, it'd be my pick

>> No.6659378

>>6659349
And yet there's still more quality in there. You didn't fire back with names, you didn't suggest there's a lot of great anime series or films within the last 10 years, you're just standing there saying there's a lot of crap. Sure, I don't like Bay or whoever either, and yet I can immediately name several impressive films off the top of my head and I have a really hard time thinking of anime series that I really like. The only ones that really come to mind are Cowboy Bebop, Kaiba, Kemonozume, and maybe Ghost in the Shell: SAC. PTA's output is larger this list, Welles doubles it, etc. The same thing goes for music. There are so many stellar records that more or less everyone likes and that are only an hour long or so. Anime's typically of a poorer quality and takes a significantly higher time commitment to complete on average. That sours a lot of it in comparison to film, music, literature, etc.

>> No.6659381

>>6659378
This sounds more like a spoonfeeding bait

>> No.6659388

>>6659378
That's because you're comparing an entire medium with a 100+ year global history to a niche market that only came into it's own in the last sixty-odd years.

There is no comparison to make, learn to think in terms of comparative scale.

Say, compare the cinematic output of a given nation within a comparable time period.

>> No.6659412

>>6659360
Johan is not even a character, he's a complete caricature. It's not about Johan. Isn't it interesting how "pretentious", "boring" often substitutes for "beyond me", "went over my head".
If you didn't like it, you can just say so. No foul - but the need to attempt insist the world to correspond with your emotional content is childish, and Monster is a very good anime even if you never watched it. Anywayz I gotta split cuz this headache is not going to drink itself into a migrane.

>> No.6659413

>>6659388
Yet there's almost nothing worthwhile in that 60 odd years and there're mountains of great things in almost every other medium I can think of off the top of my head.

>> No.6659425

>>6659412
>this much cognitive dissonance
it's an anime lad

i don't think something as simple and straightforward as monster could go over anyone's head

>> No.6659436

>>6659425
>that's not cognitive dissonance
and I am not trulldxxxxddddd
laters, buddy!

>> No.6659454

>>6659436
this post is a great example of cognitive dissonance

>> No.6659462

>>6659413
It seems to me that you simply do not like Anime.

This is fine, but you could express that without being intellectually dishonest and attempting to denigrate the whole shebang.

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>>6659367
>Reading picture books
>Reading a TRANSLATION of a picture book

>> No.6659501

>>6659485
>implying I can't read moonrunes

>> No.6659503

>book
Le proces Verbal

>animu
Lain / Tatami Galaxy / Code geass / Nodame Cantabile

>manga
Bartender / Dragon Ball / Death Note

I've pretty much stopped watching anime, I seldom read manga (maybe once a year). I've been checking amazon twice a year for the past 3 years if the original novel the tatami galaxy anime was adapted from was translated into english..
Never been a full blown weeb but I'm seriously considering learning japanese just to read that book. Honestly I find it tragic that the whole anime/manga medium never really crossed the mature line.

I hate that it's socially acceptable to watch Scrubs but not Code geass, let's not pretend the former is more mature than the latter.

>> No.6659504

The Stand
Haibane Renmei

>> No.6659832

>>6652867
What is FMA Brotherhood?

>> No.6659969

>>6659388
That's generous. Started 60 years ago sure, but anime has really only come into its own in the last 10-20 years.

>> No.6659994

>>6651492
>being a degenerate

>> No.6660107

>>6651492
1. toss-up between Infinite Jest and Life a User's Manual
2. Legend of the Galactic Heroes

The similarities should be obvious I guess.

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The Sound and the Fury

>> No.6660471

>>6651492
1.Dune
2.Naruto

>> No.6660561

Underworld
Evangelion

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>>6651492

>> No.6660583

>>6651492
>Wind-up Bird Chronicle
>Eden of the East

>> No.6660618
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6660618

Gravity's Rainbow
Sayonara Zetsubou-Sensei

>> No.6660723

>>6651492
Crime and Punishment
NGE

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>>6651492
>Heart of Darkness
>Full Metal Alchemist: Brotherhood

>> No.6661678

>>6651492
1. The Fellowship of the Ring, J.R.R. Tolkien

2. Golden Boy (English dub)
>Seriously, it's fantastic.

>>6651507
I get what you mean. I liked anime as a kid and teen, but now I can't stand it. I love stuff like Princess Mononoke, Ghost in the Shell, Yu Yu Hakusho, etc., but now it seems like all anime is just cutesy, obnoxious crap like Lucky Star or other kinds of Moe garbage.

>> No.6661728

>>6659367
Kino. That's about it.

>> No.6661732

>>6659413
This is perhaps because you don't watch anime and thus are talking out your ass.

>> No.6661738

>>6660583
>liking Eden of the East
Shit taste detected. M80 that was one of the most poorly-written, plothole-ridden, inconsistent mess I've ever seen. It has cute art, I guess.

>> No.6661750

Infinite Jest
Cardcaptor Sakura or Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei

>> No.6661760

The Waves
Wolf Children

>> No.6662258

why do i get the same feelings from NGE and Infinite Jest? and to some degree the catcher in the rye? any others that fit on that list?

>> No.6662309

I'll ask this on /a/ later, but do you people of /lit/ have recommendations for classic or very good anime that is either intended or appropriate for children under the age of 14?

I don't want them watching just any old shit thing they find on television but I don't know a damn thing about anime myself to tell them what's good and why.

>> No.6662312

>>6662309
boku no pico is a heartwarming tale of friendship

>> No.6662315

>>6662309
Oh, and I'd prefer answers from people old enough themselves to understand the importance of not exposing youth to degenerate and Jewish influences in media.

>> No.6662319

>>6662258
You are an idiot, therefore things that are art (NGE) and things that are pure hackery (DFW) seem the same to you.

>> No.6662322

>>6662315
So, in other words, no responses like this one: >>6662312

>a Japanese series of hentai shotacon anime OVAs produced by Natural High

>> No.6662331

>>6662322
Lurk until you can at least spot basic memes, newfriend.

>> No.6662349

>>6662331
Like I give a fuck about memes. Especially some anime reference when I wrote I don't know shit about anime.

>newfriend
Yeah, it's my first time on reddit. please don't downvote for missing the joke.

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>>6662349

>> No.6662390

>>6662258
Because both DFW and Anno were trying to tell you to live differently.

>> No.6663320

Raptor Red I wish I was a paleontologist
Spirit Circle

>>6652366
It's .hack//SIGN, anon

>> No.6663375

>>6659503
Not an official translation, but this is probably the best you're ever going to get: http://tatami.cadet-nine.org/

Only stuff that's really popular in the west gets translated, like Log Horizon and Haruhi. Tatami Galaxy just isn't accessible enough to the preteen anime crowd.

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>>6659503
>posts on a Malaysian watercolor appreciation board
>日本語がわかんない

>> No.6663470

>>6651492
This is bait

That said:
1. Dubliners
2. Spirited Away

>> No.6663480

>>6651492
either the hobbit or "Capital" volume 1
either legend of the galactic heroes or cowboy bebop

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willard&his bowling trophies/yu-gi-oh cuz i suck at weeaboo
>>6651596
hey bb why u actin like i owe u shit when u cant even pick me out of a line up and give no recs. wakefield has pic related 'the creator', ill. by kubin, for surreal.
show u some of my feet& a b&d memoir where u hav2 pretend b the girl if u gib recs 4bklog

>> No.6664974

The Diamond Age
Kino's Journey

>> No.6664983

>>6659503
>Honestly I find it tragic that the whole anime/manga medium never really crossed the mature line


Its called New Sincerity

>> No.6665103

>>6659503
>Honestly I find it tragic that the whole anime/manga medium never really crossed the mature line
You're talking shit, and it's obvious why judging by your taste. Go watch Serial Experiments Lain and Kino's Journey, or read Saikyou Densetsu Kurosawa and Oyaji.
Who the fuck do you think you are, saying what crossed the mature line and what didn't? Let me guess, the only mature mediums are literature and movies?

>> No.6665107

>>6665103
>Serial Experiments Lain
no, you are the shit taste anon

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>>6653088
>>the most interesting prose stylist of his generation

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>>6651492
Gilgamesh.
Not sure if Neon Genesis Evangelion or |Legend of the Galactic Heroes.
Rei is the best girl btw.
>>6651507
Pleb.

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Favorite Book: Crime and Punishment probably. Or maybe The Stranger? It's tough.

Favorite Anime: Tatami Galaxy

Favorite Show Transcending the Anime Label: Legend of the Galactic Heroes

>> No.6665566

>>666555

>> No.6666920

>>6665103
I meant in "general". Like 95% of anime/manga is shonen/shojo.
Seriously if you read my post you will find "lain" in the anime section.

I never intended to imply manga can't be mature, quite the contrary. Thanks for the recs I guess. It is indeed quite hard to find good anime/manga once you go through the first batch of usual suspects.

>> No.6668580

>>6661678
>I get what you mean. I liked anime as a kid and teen, but now I can't stand it. I love stuff like Princess Mononoke, Ghost in the Shell, Yu Yu Hakusho, etc., but now it seems like all anime is just cutesy, obnoxious crap like Lucky Star or other kinds of Moe garbage.
You probably can't even name 1 anime per year from the era you claim is better. People, mostly westerners, have been complaining about 'kawaii' anime since the 80s. These people cite about 3-5 masterpieces that were contextual products of their time and claim current anime would be like this if they stopped making 'moeshit'.

There are numerous contemporary anime that try to be serious. Most of them have even worse plots and writing than the average formulaic moe.

>> No.6668588

>>6651523
>>6651523
>>6651523

YOUR FAVORITE BOOK, but you don't know how to spell the title

>> No.6669606

The Hobbit
Maria-sama ga Miteru

>> No.6669895

>>6658764
>>muh rebellion ruining muh Homu
Shit just ruined the show in general. Everything they did in the series was just made redundant because they wanted to go after the "2deep4you" Eva audience.

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>>6651492
1. Master and Margarita
2. End of Evangelion

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>>6671267
Since I'm an undecisive little bitch I'll add Brave New World and Kaiba.

>> No.6671301

>>6651492
What anime could I like if my favorite books are Solaris by Lem and Ice by Dukaj.

>> No.6671304

>>6671301
evangelion

>> No.6671315

>>6671304
I've seen it and liked it quite a bit, I liked Lain quite a bit too. Anything a bit less known?

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American Psycho
Nichijou