Are anime writers well-read?

yes they've read all the classics by natsume souseki

yes
pic unrelated though

>>280308285 (OP)
How many wuxia novels has he read for his puppet show?

Oda and Tsukushi at least are legit fucking autists, yes

>>280308560
he's at least read plato and nietzsche

yes, they've all read tezuka

>>280308699
that explains why his anime are so bad
the only greek worth reading is epictetus

>>280308285 (OP)
You would be surprised how well read they are even compared to Japanese literature writers.
I remember an interview with Akiyuki Shinbou, years ago, where he was talking about his literary influences and namedropped a bunch of old Japanese classics like Natsume Souseki; and in another interview Haruki Murakami said that he never read Souseki and gave up as an adult because he found it too hard and not very interesting.
Truth of the matter is, a lot of geniuses got into anime back then because the industry was so small and unregulated, compared to the cinema industry where you needed money and connection to make what you wanted; and so they went on to make anime instead of live action because they had the freedom to who mostly whatever they wanted with their geniuses instead of making Samurai Action #345 for Toho

>>280308772
>philosophy of top g

>>280308772
The only Greek worth listening to has no surviving texts

>>280308774
>Truth of the matter is, a lot of geniuses got into anime back then because the industry was so small and unregulated, compared to the cinema industry where you needed money and connection to make what you wanted; and so they went on to make anime instead of live action because they had the freedom to who mostly whatever they wanted with their geniuses instead of making Samurai Action #345 for Toho
did you come up with this conjecture based on those two examples alone

>>280308285 (OP)
The good ones are.
Are you well-read enough to recognize the good ones?

>>280308344
Describe their contents without calling yourself a cat.

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>>280308285 (OP)
they don't even watch other anime because they fear it would change their own writing lmao tomino is on record saying this. you'd be surprised at how little so many writers read. for most of them it just comes from the heart and real life experiences i believe. but there are insanely well read writers too, like chiaki konaka for texhnolyze

>>280308986
Diogenes was so based
I was reading Meditations and saw he got a mention

>>280310035
Was he well-read

>>280308285 (OP)
lol no
in the past maybe, but nowadays all anime and manga is just rehashed, human centipede like

anime writers dont know shit about literature nowadays

>>280310353
thanks miyazaki
what was the last anime writer that knew about literature

>>280310394
Everyone shits on Miyazaki cause now even Chad likes anime thanks in part to ghiblis success, but atleast Miyazaki gave a damn about telling a worthwhile story and did actually fucking read and interact with others

>>280311052
he should've gatekept harder