What should I read if I'm a zoomer that has only really consumed anime and manga as fiction?
>>24689444visual novels. you're not ready for literature yeti recommend muramasa and subahibi
>>24689462I want to consume western works of fiction
>>24689444Plato
Stories featuring Kindaichi Kouske, because you can easily imagine him going >AAAAAH, GOMEN GOMENLike your favorite chinese cartoons
>>24689444Read William Gibson's Neuromancer and Snow Crash from Stepenson. Those books are, to put it bluntly, anime in book form.
>>24689444Cookbooks
>>24689490Start with the Greeks.
>>24689444Animal farm and 1984. so you arent one of those retards pretending to have read them.
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>>24689444Depends. You can try jumping into classics and lliterary fiction. Or you might find it more fun to read novels, e.g. the Witcher series. Or read both. If you don't know what you like yet, why not?
>>24689444Start with "Welcome to the NHK" novel, followed by Dostoyevski's "White Nights". Then read Dazai's "No Longer Human" followed by Mishima's "Confessions of a Mask". After that much reader it's time to take a rest, so read the manga "Oyasumi Punpun" as an interlude. Finish your zoomer intro to literature by reading and becoming one with Cioran's "On the Heights of Despair".
>>24689444I'd suggest that you give Harlan Ellison's short stories, anything by Cormac McCarthy or Erich Maria Remarque a try.But first, maybe try out a sort of transitionary period where you read "high effort" comics (I'm going to be dismissive and assume you refer to typical, mainstream anime for strawman/reccomendation purposes).Preacher by Garth EnnisCalvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson (yes, the newspaper strip)Fourteen, the Drifting Classroom and My Name is Shingo, all by Kazuo UmezuThe Rose of Versailles and Oniisama E by Riyoko IkedaShamo, Give my Regards to Black Jack and Ikigami (too lazy to look up the mangakas' names)
>>24690116To bounce off of this guy, I recommend reading the Hagakure (roughly 120 pages, can be done in a weekend) before diving into Mishima for the purpose of historical context
