/a/ - Animu & Mango

>>929955

I read the book. You're the nigger who read the manga instead.

Novel Misaki is an angel who needs to be saved.

I'll die alone.

I want to knock on her cervix

I don't even have it in me to save myself.

Everyone is the same person, you all feel the exact same feels. Misaki was no different from Satou.

>>929955

The book and the authors life are suffering. NHK should be mandatory reading material to post.

>>930230

Amen.

>>929959

Is there some character and plot differences between the manga and book? I know the anime really toned down the sketchiness that the book had.

>>930267

Last I read about the author he was pursuing spiritualism and the occult as a Hikki NEET while living off the royalty money from his books.

>>930328

No kidding. What's he going to do when he realizes it's all bullshit?

>>930332

Probably nothing. Just like always.

>>930328

You're only a hikki neet if you're broke, he's just an "eccentric recluse".

>she

Heh

>>930267

Anime and book are very similar in characterization. The anime takes like one little story arc from the manga that wasn't in the book, the one about the pyramid scheme I think.

The manga is dogshit. All the characters are different. Literal actual NTR. Nothing like the book or anime at all.

>>930480

Anime is the best adaptation by far.

>>930511

Liking melodrama bullshit does not make you inherently superior to anyone.

Read the Manga, I like the point it was desperately trying to make, but the stories and all of the characters are absolute dog shit with the exception of the MC at the very last chapter. It seemed that only Satou got close to what the answer to all of this shit is, but it was lost on everyone else yet somehow it manages to work itself out in the end which makes absolutely no fucking sense. I feel like the point though was a little lost on some people here, though.

These people are fucking delusional, as many people who live in such a society are, but more so in the fact that they have obsessed over these delusions to the point in which they’ve overcomplicated everything in their lives and have become socially withdrawn and inept as a result. Life is simple and has little meaning at all. Trying to find something deep in a puddle will only lead to you hitting dirt. These characters try to come up with these elaborate, insane ways to become happier and/or explain their emotions, but its all fraudulent and pretentious. Misaki is guilty on all counts of this, she’s just an edgy schoolgirl whos deluded herself into thinking she’s something more, that her emotions are deep and clever when they aren’t. Satou and her love each other, thats all. They feel for each other and want to be together, they rely on each other, like each other, and enjoy each other because they are so much alike and we like shit thats similar to ourselves. The only thing leading to her dissatisfaction is her insanity trying to find a point in their love, as if it’s got some sort of philosophical purpose, as if there is some sort of divinity to it, whatever. When she inevitably can’t find this deeper meaning, she is convinced that the love simply doesn’t exist and its just a parasitic relationship and that they truly hate each other. This type of thinking is what is trying to be pointed out, and is the root of all the problems these people have. Life isn’t divine or philosophical, there is no deeper meaning. Once you break that mindset of complication and just do shit because you want to, things will get better.

>>930664

Have you read the novel? The manga is the worst adaptation.

>>930667

No, I haven’t, just going off of what I read and gathered from the manga. What did the novel touch on?

>>930669

It's completely different. In fact, it might be the exact opposite of the manga.

There is no meaning in life and the characters fully grasp this horrifying reality straight from the start. The entire point from then on is coming to the realization that delusions are necessary, otherwise there's nothing left to live for. Misaki came to Satou not to save him, but so he could save her by giving her a reason to live, to be needed. Satou tries to give his own life meaning by dying for her in dramatic fashion, but real life caught him in a net. There's no drama for people like us. NHK is the god you can blame for your life so you have a delusion to keep you going. In the end, Misaki and Satou sign a contract to join the NHK organization with the one goal: you can't die first. If you do, there's a 100,000,000 yen fine. This is the NHK they choose to believe in so they can keep living. They never start dating. Misaki isn't a crazy bitch. She's just a sad lonely girl who felt that maybe once in her life she could find a reason not to kill herself. Satou gives that to her by giving her a conspiracy, one they both created. Welcome to the NHK. Nothing ever gets better. There is no point in living. So give yourself a delusion to believe in, give yourself something to blame. The final boss is life and the only way to beat him is to turn off the game. Until then, the great Demon Lord NHK is lording over the corrupt world from a castle slightly out of view.

All in all, the characters are much much smarter and down to earth and real.

>>930663

I take it you haven't read it.

>>930693

Jesus christ thats depressing, but you are right, a lot more down to earth and a lot less olympic level mental gymnastics. The manga portrays these characters as severely out of touch with reality, to the point of psychosis. The novel appears to just show the other side of the great realization. Thanks for the summary.

>>930696

Read the book. The summary doesn't do it justice.