Which Japanese writers are most worth reading?

So far I'm going to read some Murukami.

Don't bother, you just want to read it because you're a pathetic weeaboo and want to convince yourself that it's because you're genuinely interested in Japan and not because you like jacking it to cheap cartoons,

Just humour me why don't you.

Can't I do both? It's not my fault those Jap cartoons make me diamonds.

Almost Transparent Blue is cool if you want a tale of drug-crazed counterculture types but don't feel like reading the beats.

Kobo Abe
Kenzaburo Oe
Yukio Mishima
Yasunari Kawabata
Osamu Dazai
Sushiloo Doopoopooki

Last one got me

I recently finished and quite enjoyed The Buried Giant by Kazuo Ishiguro. It's a 'fantasy' novel but more of a literary fable really.

Apparently it's very unpopular with his fans and a lot of reviewers have condemned it as boring, so maybe I have bad taste. I'd definitely read the first few pages and see if they appeal to you.

MISHIMA NOT MURUKAMI

FOR THE LOVE OF KEK DON'T MEME YOURSELF OP

>Don't bother, you just want to read it because you're a pathetic weeaboo and want to convince yourself that it's because you're genuinely interested in Japan and not because you like jacking it to cheap cartoons,

This is complete true of me, but I just started reading the first few chapters of IQ84 and I'm genuinely interested so far.

I can also actually read Japanese.

Mishima
Tanizaki
Kawabata
Soseki
Dazai

I read Never Let Me Go by Ishiguro; didn't feel too strongly about it. The prose was a little dumbed-down, I felt.

Well, Buried Giant is unpopular with his fans because it's supposedly very unlike his other work, so take from that what you will.

Though, the prose is deceptively simple, I can aver. Personally I found it effective, but if you're looking for something super florid or complex, definitely stay clear.

Ishiguro is basically English

Ah, yeah, I guess I hadn't considered that. I was blinded by the name.

>Kobo Abe

My man

Hirohiko Araki

The man, the legend, Shusaku Endo. He's amazing.

Always wanted to give Oe a spin. Then I picked up one of his books. There's probably something there, but it's far too culturally removed. The sensibility of a dour old serious Japanese man is far from mine.

Ryūnosuke Akutagawa

He wrote a bunch of cool stories about medieval sengoku jidai material. Samurais, dusty villages, sword fights, stuff like that. Perfect for weebs.

He also wrote the story the movie Rashomon is based on.

Check out 17 And J
The latter involves jerking off on a subway.

The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu
Kokoro by Natsume Soseki
Snow Country by Yasunari Kawabata
The Makioka Sisters by Jun'ichiro Tanizaki

I'm not sure what "worth reading" means, but here some popular contemporary writers I like.
Asada Jiro
Miyabe Miyuki
Isaka Kotaro

Why are asian pubes so much better than other pubes?

user how come some people say abe is shit? also some jap posters say even in japanese he's a shit writer or that he's a joke in jp. i like his novels but why the fuck

So basically if you like Kurosawa movies you should read his stuff?

>can read japanese
>waste time reading murakami

because they don't shave

His books just bubble over with no payoff; if you want Japanese literature go with Soseki and Akutagawa. People in Japan seem to love Dazai Osamu, and I think Abe Kobo is a better existentialist writer than any of the French meme trio (Lady in the Dunes and Wall are incredible). There's lots to love in Japanese lit, and they still have an honest to god book culture and industry here so there's a real chance of another classic writer emerging.

He gets slightly worse as he goes on, but his first few novels are second only to Kafka's in the style he writes in.

Did you mean Murakami? Norwegian Wood is a good start, so wise choice OP.

>tfw white gf doesn't shave either

Feels good senpai.

Love when bitches expose they pubes

Read Yukio Mishima and channel your inner facist homosexual

You fetishize straight hairs.

Shaved is absence of pubes

I wanna lick some qt pubes