Could be. I’m not that into anime, really, but I admit I haven’t read the books you listed—though I like to read, my respect for “literary canon” has been dead since high school, so my knowledge of it is patchy—so I’ll concede the possibility.
But the best books I am familiar with tend to be a great deal more subtle about it. Of the top of my head, I don’t remember that stuff in Crime and Punishment, or Lord of the Rings, or Solaris, or Pharaoh, or the Great Gatsby, or The Trilogy… and of course I’m not talking about allusions, meaningful hints and figure-it-out references, I’m talking about peppering your work with literal namedropping, of the kind that breaks the fourth wall and only seems to be there for the sake of itself.
Could be. I’m not that into anime, really, but I admit I haven’t read the books you listed—though I like to read, my respect for “literary canon” has been dead since high school, so my knowledge of it is patchy—so I’ll concede the possibility.
But the best books I am familiar with tend to be a great deal more subtle about it. Of the top of my head, I don’t remember that stuff in Crime and Punishment, or Lord of the Rings, or Solaris, or Pharaoh, or the Great Gatsby, or The Trilogy… and of course I’m not talking about allusions, meaningful hints and figure-it-out references, I’m talking about peppering your work with literal namedropping, of the kind that breaks the fourth wall and only seems to be there for the sake of itself.
Immersion matters.