Anonymous
7/3/2025, 6:42:00 AM No.24516528
Japanese /lit/ recs, please. No normie shit. Doesn’t matter if not translated.
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Anonymous
7/3/2025, 7:15:50 AM No.24516566
>>24516528 (OP)
>No normie shit
Okay I don't know what counts. I'll just rec a few I've liked.
>Kokoro by Natsume Sōseki
Depressing read. You may or may not come out of it feeling doomed, though I liked it a lot.
>ME by Tomoyuki Hoshino
Recent-ish. Neat premise: what if there were people who couldn't be told apart from you? Nothing incredible, but good.
>Fires on the Plain by Shohei Ooka
A soldier during the Imperial Japanese Army's retreat from the Phillippines. Really gruesome. Really liked it. There's a good epub/azw3 copy in here from an anon that digitised a bunch of books a few years back:
https://mega.nz/folder/m8tgkSJI#xwfcX6zMBtG9RFT4wMpNUQ
Actually there are a few other Jap books in there, but I haven't read them. Might be good, and the anon was specifically digitising books that no-one else had yet (some on rec from other anons on /lit/).
>Riichi Yokomitsu - Love and Other Stories
>Shiga Naoya - The Paper Door and Other Stories
>Shusaku Endo - The Girl I Left Behind
I also read In the Miso Soup by Ryu Murakami. A thriller, more or less.
>No normie shit
Okay I don't know what counts. I'll just rec a few I've liked.
>Kokoro by Natsume Sōseki
Depressing read. You may or may not come out of it feeling doomed, though I liked it a lot.
>ME by Tomoyuki Hoshino
Recent-ish. Neat premise: what if there were people who couldn't be told apart from you? Nothing incredible, but good.
>Fires on the Plain by Shohei Ooka
A soldier during the Imperial Japanese Army's retreat from the Phillippines. Really gruesome. Really liked it. There's a good epub/azw3 copy in here from an anon that digitised a bunch of books a few years back:
https://mega.nz/folder/m8tgkSJI#xwfcX6zMBtG9RFT4wMpNUQ
Actually there are a few other Jap books in there, but I haven't read them. Might be good, and the anon was specifically digitising books that no-one else had yet (some on rec from other anons on /lit/).
>Riichi Yokomitsu - Love and Other Stories
>Shiga Naoya - The Paper Door and Other Stories
>Shusaku Endo - The Girl I Left Behind
I also read In the Miso Soup by Ryu Murakami. A thriller, more or less.
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Anonymous
7/3/2025, 10:59:15 AM No.24516832
>>24516528 (OP)
Currently reading I Am a Cat. Surprisingly funny in places. Tale of Genji is good in you like classical stuff. Pillow Book has been of my TBR for ages. Convenience Store Woman if you want something modern and less lit-ish. Avoid Murakami like the plague.
Currently reading I Am a Cat. Surprisingly funny in places. Tale of Genji is good in you like classical stuff. Pillow Book has been of my TBR for ages. Convenience Store Woman if you want something modern and less lit-ish. Avoid Murakami like the plague.
Anonymous
7/3/2025, 11:12:05 AM No.24516848
Define normie shit
Kenzaburo Oe always manages to make me feel simultaneously empty and filled with dread every time I read his stuff. Really liked A Personal Matter and Nip the Buds, Shoot the Kids
Kobo Abe is another personal favorite. Woman in the Dunes really makes you feel like you’re chewing on sand when you get to that part, and The Box Man is entertainingly disorienting
Why do so many people love Murakami
Kenzaburo Oe always manages to make me feel simultaneously empty and filled with dread every time I read his stuff. Really liked A Personal Matter and Nip the Buds, Shoot the Kids
Kobo Abe is another personal favorite. Woman in the Dunes really makes you feel like you’re chewing on sand when you get to that part, and The Box Man is entertainingly disorienting
Why do so many people love Murakami
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Anonymous
7/3/2025, 11:25:00 AM No.24516861
Anonymous
7/3/2025, 11:27:37 AM No.24516865
>>24516528 (OP)
Read RYU Murakami, in the miso soup and piercing are pretty cool (they're about serial killers in Japan) Almost transparent blue is also good, about decadence in the post war Japan
Read RYU Murakami, in the miso soup and piercing are pretty cool (they're about serial killers in Japan) Almost transparent blue is also good, about decadence in the post war Japan
Anonymous
7/3/2025, 11:29:09 AM No.24516868
I would also like to request good Japanese poetry from the 1950's onwards
Anonymous
7/3/2025, 8:16:00 PM No.24517779
>>24516566
>>24516848
By normie shit, I’m trying to exclude the recs everyone already knows like Murakami. Also don’t want manga, VNs, etc.
>>24516848
By normie shit, I’m trying to exclude the recs everyone already knows like Murakami. Also don’t want manga, VNs, etc.
Anonymous
7/3/2025, 9:57:53 PM No.24518175
>>24516528 (OP)
https://www.kodansha.co.jp/book/products/0000137088
https://www.kodansha.co.jp/book/products/0000137088
Anonymous
7/3/2025, 11:34:35 PM No.24518502
>>24516528 (OP)
Glad this jew killed itself.
Glad this jew killed itself.