Venkatesh Rao ☀️
@vgr
My writing break has accidentally turned into an Asian mini-sabbatical. Read some Byung-Chul Han and some Yuk Hui (both Asians in European-philosopher disguise) and just watched some Miyazaki movies for the first time (Spirited Away, Princess Mononake, Howl’s moving castle). I guess I’m late to the (East) Asian century. I have a first manga lined up to read next. (Blame by Tsutomu Nihei). Not sure quite what to make of it all. A lot of things are clearly popular mainly because millennials grew up with them, but I’m too old for. Gotta find an age-appropriate/interest-appropriate sampling strategy. I don’t think giant robot sagas and what seems like a surfeit of Bildungsroman fantasies are for me.
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Eric Platon
@ic
Are there specific aspects you’re interested in? The manga world is really rich, as well as cinema, with great names in Japan, HongKong or Singapore just to list a few. There are recurring themes, but also nice gems in history, cyberpunk, evolution of society.
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@na
this anime list by a younger gen-x might be age-appropriate (filters out a lot of homogeneity). if you filter interest-appropriate on top of the Overall it's likely you'll get next to nothing (which is nice) mangas need more aggressive filtering, like starting with some kind of award (otherwise it's niches on top of niches) https://www.mediafire.com/folder/79oe2z08c4we3/ANIME+RANKING https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_manga_awards
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Paul Millerd
@pmillerd
what kind of stuff are you looking for? orphan of asia was an interesting read sort of putting into context the early 20th century shifts that shaped east asia
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Sachin
@sach
The Vegetarian by Han Kang is pretty good fiction from south korea alas pretty depressing
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Ri
@rithikha
Satoshi Kon's Paprika is worth watching https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paprika_(2006_film)
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