What are some good books on the philosophy of anime?

Literary Analysis and Film Analysis.

Just read works on those subjects, and read philosophy. The same rules apply, generally.

Any suggested reading list or key texts worth looking at for starters?

Good suggestion. Satoshi Kon died way too young.

All of the legends are either dying off or retiring. FeelsBadMan

I bet the one on the left is a guy

on waifus by me

i prove a priori why rei is best girl

good taste

THIS

I'll ask my roommate and get back to you. That is his field.

I imagine he'll recommend entry level textbooks on the subject, however.

Came here to say this You could also try Beautiful Fighting Girl by Saito Tamaki

dat cover

read Simulacra and Simulation

Try to also get more advanced texts as well?

This is definitely worth a read regardless of your political leanings: atlanticcenturion.wordpress.com/2016/12/03/anomie-anime-and-the-alt-right/

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I found Roland Barthes book on Japan helpful in understanding Japanese visual culture.
Frames of Anime
Postmodern philosophy.

The book of "anime is for children and pedophiles" by Yorfa Therhateseux

youtube.com/watch?v=4nXUOixv3hc
this is the only anime philosophy you need

Opinions here, but most anime is Japanese, right?
Try to understand the themes of Japanese culture. I've realized that they are obsessed with protection. They see themselves as defenders, hate aggression, and can justify anything as long as it falls under the ideals of self-sacrifice to "protect" something. They REALLY stretch what protecting something means, it's not just the physical, they want to protect emotions, standards, expectations, memories, you name it.

Family and obligation, as well as their social expectations for each other are all common cultural themes. Their language has many dedicated words for specifying grades of familiarity and they read between the lines in social interaction with a great intensity because their social practices are extremely repressive and constraining.

This creates a fascination with the rebellious hero who is unburdened by those standards or satisfies them in alternative ways such as humiliating themselves to protect someone else's secrets, etc.

Once you start recognizing these behaviors, it isn't too difficult to start putting together a picture of their general philosophy.

>Family and obligation, as well as their social expectations for each other are all common cultural themes. Their language has many dedicated words for specifying grades of familiarity and they read between the lines in social interaction with a great intensity because their social practices are extremely repressive and constraining.
Just shut the fuck up idiot weeb. You don't know the first thing about Japan. Anime is marketed to NEET losers like you who pretend they know what constitutes Japanese culture in a shitpost thread on a literature subreddit of SJWchan.

>most anime is Japanese, right?
>most
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You don't get to have an opinion nigger.

Sure, whatever you say. I'll delete the rest of what I said too. Will that make you happy?

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Why Vol. 53 in particular? No spoilers please.

>philosophy
>anime

Oxymoron

You are a moron.

You are a moron.

The Soul of Anime - Ian Condry.

You are a moron

The Anime Machine: a Media Theory of Animation - Thomas LaMarre

since when is ikuhara retiring

"The Deep Mysteries of Eva" by the dad from FLCL

that was a great book, but I found the genealogy section to drag on quite a bit.

this is fractally wrong

Do you not see your roommate hardly at all or something?

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Thanks for these posts guys but I made this thread for pictures of cute anime girls

Sorry, here's an extremely cute anime girl as an apology

Oh well I hijacked it with a love of anime and manga studies?

You can make up for it with cute pictures of anime girls user

where is this from if I may ask?

I actually saged the thread, and will again because you just acknowledged that this isn't a lit thread and you just wanted 2d drawings.

That guy is clearly frauding, real OP here

bump

>proof

congrats Mr. Self Righteous?

bump because I enjoy the scholarly literature on muh waifus

kek

You're wrong.

Reading Freud and Jung will get you very far

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Whatever this book is I am intrigued.

Ulysses

underrated post