I picked up some award winning writer and people were just like 'he's proust' and they were right...

I heard manga is the prefered form of reading in japan,but I don't want to fall for the memes.
>saying an entire culture group is shit
Don't do that

How hard can it be to read a bunch of vertical lines?

LNs are considered 'trash' by most japanese. They have girls on the covers for that reason, and it's widely acknowledged that LNs are only sold based on their covers.
However, you have serious literature types who also write LNs, it's a japanese thing only really. It would be like stephen king writing a YA-oh wait.
As for 'asian culture is shit', it's mostly how their market operates. They cater to nearly every niche possible and can make games and VN off no money and sell them for slightly more money, which is also driven by the vast rabid fanbase. If you've heard of it, it's generally something that was shoved through a grinder and the industry itself is amazed the whole thing is even coherent at the end. This is for animated works, the japanese do the highest quality art in the world, indisputable.

Great works of Western literature:
Ulysses, In Search of Lost Time, Gravity's Rainbow, War and Peace

Great works of Eastern literature:
Book about some guy named Lu Bu and Cow Cow, and a book about a guy with two swords.

>if I say it in a dumb way it will become dumb
Nice strawman

>if you're a faggot, you're gay

Whoops, I guess that's exactly how it works, fag.

So if I say ulysses is worthless trash it becomes worthless trash?

No, it only works when I do it.

At least now I know you are just a baiting faggot.
Should have thought about it when you mentioned GR.

You're gonna have to work harder than that, senpai.

>However, you have serious literature types who also write LNs
LLLLLOL

The only anime I'm watching this season is Keijo!!!!!!!!

Keijo!!!!!!!! is a genuinely good sports story using ecchi to filter out the masses.

Is Psycho Pass Veeky Forums approved?

lolno

The only Japanese animations worth watching are the works of Miyazaki, Takahata, Oshii, Otomo, Hosoda, Yuasa, Kon and a few independent directors like Kihachiro Kawamoto, Koji Yamamura, Kunio Kato and Atsushi Wada. Everything else is junk

You mean using it to bring in them asses

>Nakamura
>Anno
>Shinbo

Just off the top of my head. You're full of shit.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA no.

If you're writing off Mononoke entirely, then you're either not taking the question seriously or you're just trolling.

The only TV anime worth watching are the works of Yuasa (Paranoia Agent is one of Kon's weaker works, btw).

>No Ryosuke Takahashi

I was actually being charitable and assumed you meant Ryutaro Nakamura. Now your post is even worse.

Feel free to present any serious criticism of it.

Visual style makes me nauseous. Other than that I hardly remember it.

This is just obviously not true.

>serious

Damn, son, you got me, I thought you were for real.

There are almost no American TV shows worth watching either, to be fair. Maybe 5 or so

I actually kind of want to add Hiroshi Hamasaki to this, but solely for Shigurui which desperately needs a second season.

>Gravity's Rainbow
You're a faggot and a cuck.

I keep hearing about it here; is it a meme or is it actually good?

>Kanbayashi will never be your gf
I bet she's as passionate in the sheets as she is when talking genre schlock.

Anyone who's read Gravity's Rainbow will tell you it's either brilliant or markedly above average at the very least. The people who spam Pynchon hate are meming.

i have never watched anime but im going to watch this lol does that make me a degenerate?

>i
>lol
>degenerate
no, but this post makes you underage

It's a bit of a mixed bag. Sometimes you don't really know what's going on, most of the Slothrop plot is pretty hilarious, there are weird stories like the one of the immortal lightbulb, chases by limericks reciting guys, and lots and lots of sex scenes

Overall it's pretty entertaining

im not underage anymore ok

>serious literature types who also write LNs
Still want to know who these are, since they dont' actually exist.

dumb haglover

lol

anime

>Tfw no Kanbayashi gf

Just fuck my life up

She's just reading a bunch of straight line lmao wtf.

>Miyazaki
>worth watching
*le black rapper cringe face*

Like Thomas Pynchon hasn't churned out some sci-fi/fantasy under a pen name and we just haven't picked up on it yet

I'm probably a bit nostalgic about his work, but he's still a hell of a lot better than most.

Some of his books are already sci-fi. Sci-fi and fantasy aren't inherently bad in themselves anyway, it's just that fans of those genres almost exclusively read garbage.

This is not the case for LNs btw, which are shit by their very nature. I'm not convinced a single legitimately decent or readable one exists.

Ok just finished my first anime ever, was really nice, are more animes similar to this?

So you're talking about a genre thats completely dominated by juvenille fantasy fulfillment and Miyazaki isn't worth watching? Go ahead tell me what is worth watching

Similiar to nothing? Cant think of anything.

similar to Bernard.

Basically any high school comedy anime

I watch it for the memes

Most of the memes are sci-fi shit, sadly.

>Americans are """"literally""""" this stupid

Japan is extremely literate, you should probably kys.

>muh muric'n edoocaytion

They discussed translations in the Murakami episode.

>not reading it in French

The literary references are pretty on-the-nose "hey look I read this," but I found them weirdly endearing.

Overall the first season is a pretty good sci-fi cop show, though it was clearly setting up for a sequel that might not happen (the movie is canon but kinda to the side, season 2 was everything that could've gone wrong and then some).