Night on the Galactic Railroad

A novel, by Kenji Miyazawa.

It'd probably help if you could read moon, senpai.

It's in fucking japanese, how did you want to understand anything?

It has more in common with the traditional writing of the country, I heard so.
Japan is weird of you are an outsider.

>>9985014
i liked the anime. it has a soundtrack by haruomi hosono

I don't think you can successfully interpret Kenji's unique style into other languages. He has fetishism for Kanji and onomatopoeia, which will be totally lost in translation.

>>9985719
They are fucking children's stories

>>9985763
You're not really saying anything because this applies for pretty much every work of Japanese literature.

>>9985019
>>9985487
I read it in English though, and I still didn't understand shit other than that the train was taking people to the afterlife. All the symbolism and drama was lost on me.

>>9985014
is that the train from the background of those no-fludd-allowed special levels in super mario sunshine