Watch/read western fictional work about sad and depressed characters

>watch/read western fictional work about sad and depressed characters
>there's drugs, alcohol, sex, couples, break ups and more normalfag stuff
I'm gonna sound like a huge weeb here, but why is to so much easier to find relatable stories for robots coming from Japan?
Watamote, Onani Master Kurosawa, My Lesbian Experience with Loneliness, Koe no Katachi, etc. I just want a story about actual anti-social losers, not failed normies. Even in stuff that do have drugs or sex like NHK or Punpun, it's presented as something important and extravagant, not just another thing they're used to. Of all the countries in the world, why is weeaboo land the only place where I can find these things.

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I don't read literature that much but there are tons of novels/poems/short stories about depression, alcoholism, etc

The west fucking sucks at making entertainment, more news at 11.

Can't show that stuff in a kids cartoon dude

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western men are getting more and more beta, so maybe something will change in the future.

or not, seems like americans are always entitled.

Read notes from underground, Dosto-sama was secretly autistic

>4U
Orifk

am interested in this.
can I get a quick rundown?
also, what do you think of the stranger?

Being a robot is heavily shunned in the west, especially in America where there's an obsession with success and improvement. Obviously the media won't be robot-friendly because no one will watch or read that kind of stuff. The Nips just understand us better and there's way more NEETs/hikis there, which is probably why we're all drawn to anime.

>implying asians aren't obsessed with success

Being a robot is quite shunned by the east too, that's why you hear about social recluse hikkis and NEETs so much from there.

Sure, but I guess the difference lies in how the culture treats it and how the people react. In America, you're told you can be anything as long as you work hard. In Asian countries, and from my experience being Chinese (I don't know if it applies to other Asian countries), you're told you're worthless unless you succeed. I guess that creates a difference in how people react to success and failure, with some people striving to improve and others giving up and becoming NEETs.

Didn't read camus. Notes from the underground is about a russian public servant who struggles with nihilism. The novel has two parts. First part is a philosophical rant about what makes "men of action" and "underground men" so different and they deal with the natural laws. Second part the underground man talks about his life. He didn't have any family, his favorite hobbie is to jerk off at night in st. petersburg's streets and is afraid of a security guard just because he's taller than him. At some point he meets a prostitute and she makes him realize how degradant the human condition is and how virtue is a mean to overcome this.

There seems to be at least some sympathy or understanding at least. Shows like NHK really highlight what it's like and try to portray it in a realistic manner. In the west, that'll never happen or the reception will be negative because everyone thinks those types of people are lazy bums.

Because it's made for children.

Ok? That doesn't answer anything tho

It means you relate to it because you're mentally a child.

But the west does things for Children too and it's nothing like that

This ^. Also fuck yeah happy fourth of july all you freedom-deficients

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>watch first episode of Mr. Robot
>has sex with his neighbor early in the episode

Dropped and will never look at again. Although OP you would have sex if you could, we're all failed normies deep down inside

>although OP you would have sex if you could, we're all failed normies deep down inside
You're not wrong, but as I said it's still treated like something foreign to the characters and really relevant for them (because, well, you need to have an interesting story, you can't just have an mc sitting in his room all day). It's something that happens after the setting is established, not in fucking episode one.

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I think maybe it's because the Japanese have a stricter work ethic? A depressed Japanese person is maybe more likely to create a work that speaks of their life than a depressed westerner. The media you speak of for the west is just using depression and sadness as a crutch to prop up another shitty show and to draw the crowds of dumb women who care so much about people "mental health"