No.143
As much as I'd like to drop a book recommendation I am a retard of sorts, because I read little and usually it's some juvenile well known fantasy which I don't even enjoy half of the time. I haven't found a book to blow me off for quite some time. I thought about writing my own but of course with my level of skill and knowledge about life I don't even want to try because it's just sheer embarrassment.
No.147
>>139This is just an excuse to post anime on the literature board, isn't it?
No.148
>>145>>146The Andromeda Strain
>>147This board is just an excuse to post literature on an anime site!
No.150
>>149Ancient Futures: Learning from Ladakh
No.151
>>148I posted evangelion. Got any more classic literature or philosophy or psychology type stuff? That's more my target range for reading.
No.152
>>148We're a containment board damn it.
No.153
>>151Evangelion is a tough one for non-fiction. I guess Freud's book Civilization and its Discontents?
No.154
>>153That actually does fit well, thanks! I've never read Freud. Interpretation of Dreams has been on my list for a long time.
No.155
>>154Freud is a cruel joke. Don't read Freud. You're wasting your time.
No.156
>>155Most philosophy is. Finding the worthwhile is hard.
No.157
>>155Freud is wrong about a lot of things, especially in that book, but thematically it fits.
No.158
>>156You mean psychology? Philosophy isn't that bad.
No.159
>>158Yes philosophy is that bad.
No.161
>The capitalist cult initiates an irreversible movement of increasing guilt, blaming even "God himself", leading to hopelessness and angst, and ultimately to the destruction of the world.
No.164
>>163I really have to proofread before I post but I meant to sat "sometimes learning about a philosphy from a distance of just educating yourself can be fun." I gotta admit reading about the secret desire of wanting to have sex with ones own mom sounds pretty absurd and funny to me,
No.166
>>163Like all people, you'll find things in Freud you'll agree with and stuff you won't. I sometimes like his discussion of child sexuality but that's the main thing that makes people call him a quack.
No.167
>>165You cared enough to reply.
No.168
>>162Uhh this is a hard one. I guess something by Kierkegaard? Manga is fine too.
No.169
>>162I haven't read this series, but the synopsis reminds me a lot of the original arc of Dragon Ball, which is based off of the novel "Journey to the West," so if you somehow haven't come around to the most popular Chinese book ever written, here is a good excuse to. Just be careful you don't grab an abridged translation.
P.S. manga supremacy for the win
No.170
>>168Kierkegaard has always sounded interesting but I hope he's not one of the philosophers you need a big foundation to read. I've never gone farther than the Greeks.
>>169That's a good idea and somehow I haven't come around to it yet. I'll probably have to wait a bit before my bookstore gets a good version.
Thanks anons!
No.172
>>169This one also works
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No.173
Here is my anime.
>>171Then beg.
No.175
>>174Have any recommended Mishima, anon? I've read Sailor Who fell from grace, temple of the golden Pavillionm and confessions of a mask, and confessions is my personal favorite. I'm actually rereading it rn.
No.176
>>175Not Mishima, but I do recommend I am a Cat by Natsume Soseki. It'll make you realize that Japanese literature is above manga.
No.188
I might just be a pseud, but I've been thinking there's a correlation between Mishima's obsession with "a beautiful death" and Ashita No Joe's whole thesis on life. Planning to write a paper on the subject too, after I do some proper research.
No.189
I might just be a pseud, but I've been thinking there's a correlation between Mishima's obsession with "a beautiful death" and Ashita No Joe's whole thesis on life. Planning to write a paper on the subject too, after I do some proper research.
No.190
I might just be a pseud, but I've been thinking there's a correlation between Mishima's obsession with "a beautiful death" and Ashita No Joe's whole thesis on life. Planning to write a paper on the subject too, after I do some proper research.
No.191
I might just be a pseud, but I've been thinking there's a correlation between Mishima's obsession with "a beautiful death" and Ashita No Joe's whole thesis on life. Planning to write a paper on the subject too, after I do some proper research.
No.192
I might just be a pseud, but I've been thinking there's a correlation between Mishima's obsession with "a beautiful death" and Ashita No Joe's whole thesis on life. Planning to write a paper on the subject too, after I do some proper research.
No.195
>>188The idea of an honorable death has been around in Japanese culture for centuries. You're looking too narrowly at your subject.
No.198
>>188Pretty sure Ashita no Joe's creator had Marxist sympathies and the Japanese new left had an interesting relationship to Mishima.
>>195Yeah, but by traditional Japanese standards, Mishima's death and his obsession with death would have been strange. That kind of public performance would have been seen as ostentatious and scandalous. Mishima was a romantic individualist whereas in traditional Japan a good death or suicide was really tied to collective belonging and a sense of obligation to a group e.g. you commit suicide to protest the mistreatment of your family, you die honorably in combat to serve your lord's clan and make a name for your family etc. Mishima's individualism would have been alien and probably very offensive to the samurai class he was obsessed with larping as.
No.214
>>200Live action version with Jackie Chan when?
No.216
>>145STEPPENWOLF
RIGHT NOW.
I am 100% convinced Evangelion is inspired by it but nobody talks about it and it's driving me insane
No.218
>>216Steppenwolf like the band?
No.219
>>218Like the book by Hermann Hesse. You cannot read a band, I think.
No.221
>>216Two Hermann Hesse suggestions in one thread. Spicy.
No.222
>>188There's definitely some connection.
Joe's writer was on some level of the same ideological line as Mishima, and the artist was a communist.
So you got a strong mix of the two where you have this sense that the only real end for greatness is death, but this death is itself a form of personal revolution. The greatest thing the working class can achieve is a good death.
No.223
>>222Japanese new left and the ultra nationalists had a strange relationship. Mishima used to visit left wing student groups often. They both shared a hatred for the Japanese establishment and a romantic heroic attitude that idolized martyrdom hated the flabbyness of liberal democracy. For Mishima it was a personal individual thing, for the new left it was dying for the socialist cause or something.
