What is the literary equivalent to Neon Genesis Evangelion?

What is the literary equivalent to Neon Genesis Evangelion?

Childhood's End by Arthur C. Clarke

*ahem*
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Twighlight

It's Franny and Zooey. People get lost in the imagery and forget that it's just about the existential crisis of an introvert.

DIARY

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DESU

This. Very similar fan base obsessing about a love triangle and faux symbolism with a bland protagonist in the middle that is held as an example for the genre.

Lolita by Vladimir, Nabokov.

Could you summarize this book for me in two lines of greentext please?

>bitches are not chill
>nobody can resolve the central thematic juxtaposition of chilledness and bitches
>whether you are chill or not is of no consequence for those of the receiving end of passive income

evangelion hardly has a love triangle, and twilight doesn't have symbolism.

>I never saw EVA

>and twilight doesn't have symbolism
Neither has Evangelion, as the author confirmed; didn't stop the neckbeards from imagining their own shit, just as the whole Asuka vs Rei cancer.

>evangelion hardly has a love triangle
Neither has Twilight. Jacob was just some cuck.

It's basically a connected short story and a novella told from the perspective of two sibling from a wealthy, intellectually gifted family. Franny, a young female college student, suffers a breakdown because of her inability to connect to the reality of campus life and a strong spiritual crisis, a desire for authenticity and a higher entity. The novella is told from the perspective of Zooey, a older spoiled and jaded television actor that tries to cheer his sister up, in consequence reaching for some pretty interesting realizations about spirituality and an artist's connection to his audience. It's pretty great imo.

So when the fuck does headcanon reflect on the actual work?

Dude he just said the crosses and trinity shit was just there to look cool. There's tons of imagery that's intended - the Eva's are a mother's womb, Kaworu as a messiah, the whole Human Instrumentality scene, and the whole fucking ending of EoE.

Shouldn't it play a part, given how it affected the cultural view on each of the works and helped them to retain their impact?

>Eva's are a mother's womb, Kaworu as a messiah
That's as much symbolism as the typical "hero raises new from water" scene ... or the whole vampyre baby crap.

Also where did you get the idea what it wasn't there just to look cool too? The whole thing was clearly made by a depressed dude, who couldn't be bothered with anything beyond that.

No it shouldnt. View the work itself. Fuck fan opinions.

>Also where did you get the idea what it wasn't there just to look cool too?
Because the imagery ties in to important part of the actual back story. Also, whatever is wrong with making cool things for the sake of being cool, you wouldn't be able to interpret more avant-garde works with the desire to analyze everything.

>Jacob was just some cuck.

Didnt he ummm... like fuck her..... child daughter so....what....

So is he still a cuck or?

I have no fucking idea, only read the sum up of the first book, did watch all the movies after a rough break up though, and he sure didn't get any pussy in the movies.

You have missed the best part.

The authors slow degeneration into sexual self-flagellation. C-sections performed with teeth, fetus love-fest, deau ex machina everting incl additional super powers.

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>Bland protagonist
Kek now that is b8
He didn't ask for your opinion on what you believe the fan base to be