Ok, which one of you /lit/ weebs know some essential books to

play shin megami tensei

Something something second season of Darker Than Black

>>9857951
>>9857967
I came to /lit/ for a reason; I'm looking for a book, none of this other weeb shit.

>>9857846
I think you need to read a book about what Shinto is before you try learning just a bunch of gods. Shinto is a very vague ill defined set of ideas that is difficult to distinguish from Buddhism, Confucianism, various folk practices and Meiji era propaganda. I would recommend either A New History of Shinto by Breen or Shinto (The Way of the Gods) by Aston.
I think if you go about it just wanting to know about the gods you will have an extremely impoverished and one sided understanding of Shinto and probably won't even have a very good idea on what Shinto is.

>>9857977
>weeb weeb weeb
Maybe reading isn't for you.

>>9859875
This is more than I could have asked for, thank you.

>>9859875
These seem interesting, thanks.

>>9857846
The Life Changing Magic of Tidying (actually)

Is there anything intellectually interesting about Shinto thought, or is it really just a nature religion with gods for every pebble on the side of the road?

>>9860972
The Japanese art of decluttering and organizing. I never knew Jordan Peterson was actually japanese, kek.

>>9860983
There are, alegedally, over eight million gods within Japan; but it sounds to me that it goes deeper.

>>9860983
Not really. The Japanese as a people aren't inclined towards systematic rigorous thinking. They don't really a philosophical tradition, at least by western standards of what philosophy is. What little of that stuff they have is all Buddhist but even that is pretty insubstantial if we compare them to other nations with a strong Buddhist tradition.

>>9861228
Let's be fair, they literally practiced two different forms of Buddhism because of a prince and a rich hipster; gotta expect that they have some similar beliefs.

>>9857846
The books of Breen and Teeuwen.

Shit thread so far, by the way.

>>9861385
Any better recommendation, smart guy?

>>9861385
>recommends the same author as someone else
>clearly hasn't read the thread
>says thread is shit