/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.12055415]

>the greatest work of art to come out of Japan is Evangelion
Prove me wrong.

[Anonymous No.12055424]

It's great in how it symbolizes the death of Nihon.

[Anonymous No.12055427]

>>12055415
>Prove me wrong
Kid

[Anonymous No.12055432]

>>12055415
>Prove me wrong

JAV mother/son incest game show movies exist

[Anonymous No.12055439]

>>12055415
Proved.

[Anonymous No.12055500]

>>12055415
You're wrong because it's Umineko

[Anonymous No.12055548]

I can't, EoE is the greatest film of all time and the relationship between Shinji and Asuka is brilliant tragedy

[Anonymous No.12055557]

>>12055415
I don't know, I've never watched Evangelion and I never will.
Why ?
Not telling .

[Anonymous No.12055579]

>>12055548
Do I have to watch the series before I watch the film?

[Anonymous No.12055605]

>>12055415

[Anonymous No.12055611]

>>12055415
Kurosawa’s filmography is superior in every way, Kobo Abe, Mishima’s works are all superior in every way please go back to >>>/a/ or >>>/tv/ and don’t return to this place thank you.
>>12055548
You are a mentally ill human being
>>12055579
Yes

[Anonymous No.12055613]

>>12055548
it's good because shinji is an incel and most men in japan and soon the west will relate to that, women will feel superior to you and you will never get laid and you will be depressed. there is no growth there is only pain and futility.

[Anonymous No.12055621]

>>12055415
anime is derivative kiddie trash
I am actually very pissed off and your post undermines the breadth and sophistication of the japanese literary canon.
Akutagawa's suicide note has more literary merit than all your shitty cartoons have combined

[Anonymous No.12055623]

>>12055415
Spoken like someone who doesn't know 日本語

[Anonymous No.12055645]

>>12055415
Hokusai's The Dream of the Fisherman's Wife

[Anonymous No.12055671]

>>12055415
>it isn't Gojira
>soundtrack isn't Ifukube

[Anonymous No.12055677]

>>12055424
based

[Anonymous No.12055737]

Besides Mishima, what is some other essential Japanese lit? Is there a Jap reading chart around somewhere?

[Anonymous No.12055779]

If Eva were a novel, at least in America, it would have been a seminal moment in American literature. People would have hailed it as the fulfillment of postmodernism. A fucking Freudian, Lacanian fever dream of giant robots that are ACTUALLY giant people who are ACTUALLY giant mothers animated with the souls of the dead mothers of the horny teeangers that pilot them, all the while everyone involved in the secret paramilitary organization that operates these walking, roaring Oedipus Complexes is bursting to overflow with daddy issues, penis envy, repressed tension, and clash of the parts of the soul.

Evangelion, the novel, would be 1500 pages long and would be hailed as a masterpiece. DFW wouldn't have had the balls to write Infinite Jest, he'd have been shamed into oblivion by knowing he could never have matched with his own work what the Eva novel did.

[Anonymous No.12055793]

>>12055737
Natsume Souseki, Osamu Dazai and Akutagawa Ryuunosuke

[Anonymous No.12055810]

>>12055737
Kawabatam Abe, Dazai, Tanizaki, Issa, Basho, Murasaki, Kitaro Nishida are all pretty essential.
>Is there a Jap reading chart
I haven't seen one but there should be desu. For such a small nation with a relative absence on the world stage until recent times it still managed to create its own distinct literary aesthetic and canon.

[Anonymous No.12055880]

>he probably thinks this thread is meant to praise Eva, when in fact it is primarily meant to insult Japan

[Anonymous No.12055885]

>>12055621
>japanese """""""""""""""literature"""""""""""""""""""""

[Anonymous No.12055890]

>>12055880
WHY WON'T THIS FROG GO AWAY

[Anonymous No.12055893]

>>12055890
>why won't the face of the four chins go away

[Anonymous No.12055895]

>>12055779
This but unironically

[Anonymous No.12055902]

>>12055893
>>12055890
forgot my frog :^)

[Anonymous No.12055910]

>>12055793
>>12055810
I'm aware of Dazai and Basho and planned on reading them sometime aswell.

Is there any book that gives a good overview of Japan's mythology/shinto beliefs and folklore?