Lucas Blogs About Paprika
Add caption So, what's this book's deal? Have you seen the 2006 anime adaptation directed by Satoshi Kon ? Is it possible for me not to have seen a movie you've seen? Well, doesn't the "Hypothetical Reader" conceit rrequire that you haven't read the books I have? Let's not examine that too closely. Yes, I've seen Paprika . Well, the novel isn't all that different. I mean, there are differences, but honestly, if you've seen the movie, I wouldn't say that reading the source material adds that much to the experience. Yeah, about the novel, this is theoretically a review of that and not an Oddaptations , right? Oh, right. So Yasutaka Tsutsui's Paprika is a Philip K. Dickian sci-fi psychological thriller about a psychotherapist who is able to enter her patients' dreams. The therapist in question is Dr. Atsuko Chiba who's been using PT (psychotherapy) devices to treat patients since before the devices were legal...