Is Haruki Murakami Actually Overrated? 🤔📚 #harukimurakami #debate #booktok #vtuber

Added: 2026-06-01

[00:00:00]People say, "Oh, you've got to read Haruki Murakami. All of his female characters are manic pixie dream girls.

[00:00:07]They are all there solely to give motivation to the main male character or to further his plot in some way." Like, I don't mind surreal fiction, but Murakami's surrealism feels like it's for the sake of it. He doesn't actually have a plot in mind. He's just writing whatever nonsense comes to his mind.

[00:00:25][music] I was kind of reading his books because I felt like I had to. That was when I was an idiot, though. And nowadays, I just read whatever the hell I like.