This isn't the first time I've observed this, I've seen several drawings of Alyosha as a blushing Anime boy. What is the reason for this? I understand why he is popular in the West, and always has been among younger readers, Dostoevsky (in translation) is incredibly readable and accesible, while providing psychological and moral musings which are just deep enough for teenagers as a stepping stone on the way from genre-fiction and the like. But why the anime lovers? Is it because his characters are cartoonish and are engaged in melodrama and long emotionally charged dialogue? Thoughts?
It's women and autistic fags just happening to pick up some of the world's greatest literature, because it's in every list from the past 50 years.
>>25290816I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, The Idiot is a precursor to romance anime.
A lot, and I mean a lot of mangakas are Dostoevsky fans and directly influenced by him (the Death Note guy and at least 10 others)His characters are also very mangaish, in that they are over the top lively and expressionable, for example when Alyosha meets Dimitry in his cell the latter grabs him by the shoulders and shakes him while talking to him, the exact shit you see in anime
>>25290816One word: autism
I asked Gemini to make me a composed list of Dostoevsky mangaka fans and their influenced work1. DIRECT ADAPTERS* Osamu Tezuka ("Crime and Punishment", 1953) - Direct, 1950s manga adaptation of the novel by the "God of Manga."* Naoyuki Ochiai ("Crime and Punishment: A Falsified Romance") - Modernized seinen adaptation reimagining Raskolnikov as a hikikomori.* Kosuke Maruo / Variety Art Works ("The Brothers Karamazov", 2008) - Visually intense, structurally faithful manga adaptation of the classic text.2. PHILOSOPHICAL & THEMATIC INFLUENCES* Naoki Urasawa ("Monster") - Uses the cat-and-mouse psychological tension of "Crime and Punishment."* Tsugumi Ohba & Takeshi Obata ("Death Note") - Explores Raskolnikov's "Extraordinary Man" murder theory via Light Yagami.* Makoto Yukimura ("Vinland Saga") - Deconstructs "The Grand Inquisitor" theological debate via Prince Canute.* Sui Ishida ("Tokyo Ghoul") - Manifests the psychological alienation of "Notes from the Underground."* Satoru Noda ("Golden Kamuy") - Captures the prison-camp survival morality of "House of the Dead."* Hiroshi Hirata ("Satsuma Gishiden") - Infuses gekiga samurai tales with Dostoevskian grit and existential misery.3. LITERARY HOMAGES & INTERMEDIARIES* Kafka Asagiri ("Bungo Stray Dogs") - Features an antagonist named "Fyodor Dostoevsky" with the ability "Crime and Punishment."* Junji Ito & Usamaru Furuya ("No Longer Human" separate adaptations) - Illustrate Dostoevskian "Underground Man" syndrome filtered through Osamu Dazai.
>>25290816>Dostoevsky (in translation) is incredibly readable and accesibleYou just answered your own question.The topics in his works are rather straightforward. They aren't hidden behind deep metaphors or whatever, so they leave little room for interpretation and don't need extremely hard thinking. But at the same time, they are beautifully written, so they carry a sensitivity that other works who are direct about their topics don't. This makes them accesible to anyone. Anime lovers just happen to be one of those groups. Not to mention anime art style is a current trend, the alternative is calarts.
>>25290877>They aren't hidden behind deep metaphors or whatever, so they leave little room for interpretation and don't need extremely hard thinking. But at the same time, they are beautifully writtenIsn't his writing rather bad, at least in translation, but also famously capable of moving a reader to deep emotional feeling? I'm not sure how you've reversed the usual criticism of him, but I can't say that I haven't done something similar before when trying to talk about things I don't really understand.
>>25290847>i dont read
>>25290877To elaborate on this, autists love anime because the facial expressions are unmistakable.
>>25291465am autistic. Can confirm; clear facial expressions help a lot.
>>25291472Slightly off-topic, what happened to autismchan? It was a dedicated imageboard for autists but it's offline now.
