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Davincie posted:you can't do a bingo with after dark, unless im forgetting a lot I recently read it and I think you're right on that one. After Dark doesn't have much of what the bingo thing does. I've been on a Murakami binge after introducing myself to him with IQ84, and so far I've also read After Dark, Tsukuru Tazaki, and am reading Wind-Up Bird Chronicles right now. He definitely likes to repeat some of the same kind of motif's in his work, but I always feel like he's saying different things with all of them so I'm totally okay with that and they've all been incredibly fascinating reads since I started in February. If anybody should make a bingo card, make one for Makoto Shinkai.
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I'm another recent fan of Murakami after discovering him via Tsukuru Tazaki in the new books section of my local library. Currently reading Wind-Up Bird Chronicles. With the temporary lifting of the paywall at the New Yorker, a few of his short stories are currently accessible online. Here's a link: http://www.openculture.com/2014/08/read-five-stories-by-haruki-murakami-free-online.html
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LORD OF BUTT posted:Are the Gundam novels actually good reading, or are they mostly just for fans? I've been looking for decent military SF that isn't written by people with Heinlein-level war-boners so they sound like a good candidate. I've only read the first one, and I thought it was pretty good.
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Seconding "Kitchen" by Banana Yoshimoto. It's a relatively quick read, but emotionally resonant. I'm a big fan of the older Japanese horror lit, with Edogawa Ranpo coming up with some really interesting concepts. There's also "Out" by Kirino Natuso, which is kind of an urban horror without the supernatural elements.
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The Black Stones posted:If anybody should make a bingo card, make one for Makoto Shinkai. Eh, it's not like the dude's ever been prized for his writing skills, his stuff is just really really pretty and technically impressive.
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Neeksy posted:Seconding "Kitchen" by Banana Yoshimoto. It's a relatively quick read, but emotionally resonant. I sound like a broken record, but read Junichiro Tanizaki, all of his stories are about sexually menacing women that want to gently caress you to death Case in point, The Tattooer
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gonna start norwegian wood this week, let's see how many i hit also random book rec: Kokoro by natsume soseki
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Outer Science posted:gonna start norwegian wood this week, let's see how many i hit http://www.harkavagrant.com/index.php?id=359
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Smoking Crow posted:I sound like a broken record, but read Junichiro Tanizaki, all of his stories are about sexually menacing women that want to gently caress you to death I'm going to read that after I'm done with kitchen.
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K. Flaps posted:I'm going to read that after I'm done with kitchen. Read Arrowroot or Naomi Arrowroot is about a boy getting a taste of real (read: mythological) Japan out in the country Naomi is about a modern woman in the taisho period and by that i mean a woman who dresses western and fucks a lot of men while her husband watches
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talking books and anime, has anyone ever seen aoi bungaku? its a series that adapts 6 different books of which i've only read run, melos! (and mostly because its short and i like the kashiwa daisuke song named after it). i was wondering if its any good
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Davincie posted:talking books and anime, has anyone ever seen aoi bungaku? its a series that adapts 6 different books of which i've only read run, melos! (and mostly because its short and i like the kashiwa daisuke song named after it). i was wondering if its any good Yes, it was actually You know? Despite having read all of his books and him being my favorite modern Japanese writer, I can't help but chuckle about this bingo being a thing.
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think there was a simulwatch of it
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Butt Frosted Cake posted:think there was a simulwatch of it Sure was, if you have archives you can read the thread here (we watched it alongside Gunbuster) http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3489193
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I've started reading journey to the west because I'm too poor to afford dragon ball xenoverse
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Butt Frosted Cake posted:I've started reading journey to the west because I'm too poor to afford dragon ball xenoverse That's Chinese doesn't count
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Have any of you read Parasite Eve? Is it good?
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Smoking Crow posted:Have any of you read Parasite Eve? Is it good? like, the plot is way worse than the game's
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Endorph posted:it's really bad How
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I saw the film and it was bad. It's probably less dumb than The Third Birthday though.
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A) the translation is very bad. actual sentence: 'there were data on file' B) tons of the book is just various medical explanations. like a five page diatribe on japan's attitudes towards kidney transplants. it's technobabble, the book. You know how in the game Eve would yell about mitochondria? imagine if that happened, but also the story stopped to explain what mitochondria were, in excruciating detail. it literally feels like a medical textbook at times. in spite of this, the story still feels completely disconnected from reality. there's no explanation of all the magic bullshit that actually makes any sense, so it's still just 'basically magic.' It's the worst of both worlds, basically. like the dude explains mitochondria in an exact medical sense, and then has some lady make poo poo catch on fire and somehow these two things are supposed to be related.
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May 5, 2015 00:25
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my mom is a nurse and i showed the book to her and she made this face: 
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The book was bad, all you need is kill was worse than the firm. I don't remember what happened in loups garou other than the twist at th end
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All I remember about parasite eve was that stuff kinda happens and eventually theres a femblob that makes itself a clit to finger
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the all you need is kill manga was decent, but the western comic is incredibly ugly and manages to gently caress so much up. i've had anime haters seriously call it better looking that the manga though which was a serious lol. good 3/4ths of a movie though wait i got confused on which thread this is, im talking about the manga here and not the ln
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Davincie posted:the all you need is kill manga was decent, but the western comic is incredibly ugly and manages to gently caress so much up. i've had anime haters seriously call it better looking that the manga though which was a serious lol. good 3/4ths of a movie though  
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What is that foot standing on. e: this goes for all the feet in that image.
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Endorph posted:A) the translation is very bad. actual sentence: 'there were data on file' I read that it's better in Japanese and that the medical references are easier to parse
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i could see it being better in japanese, because like i said the translation is poo poo, but the 'tons of medical explanations that don't really relate to anything' problem seems like it'd be there either way.
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Endorph posted:i could see it being better in japanese, because like i said the translation is poo poo, but the 'tons of medical explanations that don't really relate to anything' problem seems like it'd be there either way. It won awards in Japan so it has to be bettet
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Teh japs love clitfingering, presumably
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Namtab posted:Teh japs love clitfingering, presumably Hell, so do I.
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I finished Kitchen so now I'm going to make this post and then click on my post history in this thread to find the post of Crow I quoted with recs for what I should read next.
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Smoking Crow posted:Hell, so do I. Sakurazuka posted:same good
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Smoking Crow posted:It won awards in Japan so it has to be bettet the fault in our stars
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Endorph posted:you know what else won awards? I like the guy who wrote that
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Endorph posted:eh, ill peep the [Brave Story] anime instead Allarion posted:Never seen it. Heard it has trippy animation and stuff. It got a psp rpg too, which follows a different kid with different problems I think No idea about the psp rpg, but the movie doesn't really play up Wataru's trauma about the divorce. There's a point in the book where Wataru meets his dad after the poo poo went down, and they hash out why the divorce happened. The movie skips straight to the mom's suicide attempt and to Wataru going to Vision. It's more focused on the fantasy world than the real, compared to the book, and I feel that's to its detriment.
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