/cgl/ - Cosplay & EGL

>picture comes up on here somewhere
>jimmiesrustled.png
>post to my FB feed: Nice copyright infringement VS.
>Everybody asks why?
>They coppied off an anime plug-suit design
>10 replies of 'Which one? Looks like Buzz Lightyear to me..."
>4 of them are "otakus"
>Not even remotely close
>Fuck you all

>volunteering at dealers booth
>booth has a bunch of plushies, most are Pokemon with a few random anime tossed in
>teenage weeaboo wanders over
>starts pointing and naming each one to friends who aren't even listening
>gets to Ghibli movie plushie, stares at it and checks for a tag (tag has fallen off)
>"It's a fake Pokemon... It's a Fakemon!"
>voice keeps getting louder as she tugs at it and tries to point it out to her friend
>keeps repeating "It's a Fakemon!!" to the point of shouting
>friend and I are right across the booth table from her, staring at her
>want to tell her to shut the fuck up and go away but don't want booth owners to get mad at me
>her friends pay her absolutely no mind and wander off
>she stares after them before just walking off after them

>>6723152
Still pisses me off thinking about it because half of the underaged attendees at that convention are just like her.

Mine are usually just people seeing my drawings and being like "Oh, you draw anime!"
Like that sentence even makes sense

And when I was in middle school, I was a huge weeaboo and it's influenced my drawing style, I am still to this day trying to move away from it. I want to be more than just.....someone who "draws anime".

>>6723144
>10 replies of 'Which one? Looks like Buzz Lightyear to me..."
All of my rage. How does that even look anything like Buzz's space ranger outfit?

Does it count if I'm annoyed and slightly disgusted with how mainstream (American) culture still bases all knowledge of Japan on wacky gameshows and weird pop culture stuff and thinks that it's just a crazy, kooky country where everyone accepts those things as the norm? And not the reality that they're insanely conformist and conservative?

Does anybody feel like Gainax designed Panty and Stocking to be exactly what westerners think all anime is about?

>>6723144
WHY do the most loudmouth "otakus" always have the most embarrassingly low powerlevels?

>>6723187
Uh, no, they pretty obviously designed it based on western cartoons (that were in turn inspired by anime, but...)

>>6723187
No, it's more of a satire of both western and Japanese media.

>>6723176
It bothers me too, and I feel like a big ol' weeb for getting rustled about it.

>>6723176
I, too, don't like people basing their knowledge of other countries based on what movies they were watching. I could say that about any country.

>>6723152
maybe she has ass burgers or is autistic

>>6723176
alot of the wacky game shows are actually featured on adult television in japan...so they are just basing their knowledge on things that aren't even publically accepted in japan

>>6723163
Oh! Its the girl who can draw anime! Hey anime girl!

>be in bookstore
>manga/comic book section
>other customers come over and start talkn about their favorite mangas
>"omg I love fruits basket! Kee-yoh is the best!"
>"no way, sheeguray is the best bishie!"
I know the english dub is to blame for this

>>6723122

There is an excellent rage over here >>6722702 if any anons are interested

I have this friend who insists on going to only comic conventions.
He won't go to anime conventions.
He watches some anime like if they are on adult swim. Nothing else. Says he is the biggest anime fan ever.
Plays lots of video games, mostly TF2
Has never picked up a comic book in his life.
Please for the life of god explain to me why this child goes to comic conventions.
He also thinks it is a good idea to not buy comic con tickets until the week before, and is freaking out at his girlfriend because she would rather go to her cousin's wedding then fucking comic con and she has even less interest in anything there then he does.
I DON'T UNDERSTAND.

>be with new male friend who has a huge thing for a half-wolf half-human character
>decide we want to play video games
>he goes to turn on the system, "sitting" like a dog in the process
>he's clearly waiting for me to say something
>I don't
>after a few seconds he pipes up with "wow, I didn't even notice this until now, how totally dog-like my pose is lolol"
>he has this "I'm so proud of myself" tone, as if his having ~dog-like mannerisms~ is the coolest thing
>keeps going on about other various dog-like mannerisms he has while fishing for compliments in the process
>"I guess I'm more like the character than I thought!"

And another story with the same type of idiocy, a bit more toned down.

>going through Facebook newsfeed
>acquaintance who is obsessed with a certain character posts status update
>"My name on AIM/Skype/etc is the same as this character name, and when I talk to people, they ask me if I'm RPing her! I'm not even trying to RP! XDXDXDXD I guess I'm the irl version!"

TL;DR:
I fucking can't stand when people think they are the embodiment of a character they like simply because they have taken to (clearly) forcing themselves into having similar mannerisms. They always expect to get so much attention and praise because they're so "lolrandum xD", still acting like a character ~without even trying~

>>6723779
how old was this person

I literally never encounter anyone like this offline

>>6723571
>Kee-yoh

Every non-Japanese Dir en grey fan ever. It's either that or "kh-yow". Like how hard can one syllable be, really. And "Sheen-yah", "Cow-rew", "Toe-SHEE-yah", "Dai-SOO-kay".

In a DEG line once in ATL I was talking to a girl that couldn't pronounce any foreign name at all, really, including Till Lindemann- "Tile Linderman, you know, from Ram-steam".

>mfw

>>6723163
Oh this, this.
I will never be able to get all of the Ainmu out of my art, no matter how much i dial it down. I just want it to be a bit more Mucha and a bit less Peach Pit.

> tfw in a crit in Art school someone outright says "It all looks like that Japanimation stuff".

>>6723787
First one is about 23.
Second one is 18.

I never thought I would encounter anyone like this offline either. All of my rage feels.

>>6723790
>Dir en Grey
Mah nigga

>>6723122
Related:
>middle school presentation about art and art history (in 30 minutes, lol middle school)
>doing it together with funny little short fat pink foreign girl I met earlier that year
>my part is a short overview of art history
>her part is contemporary art
>make presentation together, everything is dandy
>day of presentation: "oh I changed some things in my bit lol don't worry"
>okay.jpg
>"TODAY I AM GOING TO TELL YOU ABOUT MANGUH"
>oh no
>"MANGUH IS JAPANESE CARTOONS WHERE EVERYONE HAS BIG EYES AND SUPERPOWERS"
>fuck shit
>"MANGUH FOR ADULTS IS CALLED 'HENTAI'"
>kill me
>she proceeds to show the class some of her ~artist boyfran~'s godawful traced "manguh" drawings (fortunately no hentai, but I think there were furries) and then directs everyone to deviantart
>the end

I didn't even know she was a weeb. Since that day I have been neurotically suppressing my powerlevel so anyone who met me after that point has no idea I have weeby tendencies at all. She broke me.

>>6723805

Shit, I thought there were no more DEG fans on /cgl/

>>6723844
I go to every local show, have seen them in Japan, and just made a huge order of a bunch of old merch. My crazed obsession makes up for those who hopped off the bandwagon after they left VK. I can't wait any more patiently for their new CD!

>>6723865

I feel like mr. opposite because I didn't give two fucks about their VK phase. I prefer my men looking like men so now they're all deliciously attractive. Too bad about the manwhoring, though.

When are they gonna come back to the US???

>>6723865
They sound too much like BMTH or something now. I really miss the VK.
Definately off of that bandwagon.

>>6723868

Sorry, dropped my sage

>>6723869

What's BMTH?And hey as long as they don't go to dubstep like Korn did I don't see how they can do any worse than "I'll".

>>6723869
actually i like them more now than their vk era

>>6723865
I dont care whether they are in vk or not. I like the music, not just the looks. But for the most part, i did stop listening to deg after they came out with child prey and obscure. I just didnt care for their style of music now. Been a fan of theirs since 1998, so i enjoyed them ripping off kiyoharu more than their newer shit.

>>6723873

If you stopped listening to them after Child Prey and Obscure then how do you know their newer stuff is shit? Have you listened to Dum Spiro Spero or Uroboros?

>>6723868
I have no preference over VK or their newer stuff, aside from a limited number of songs I really just like everything they make. I saw they released EU tour dates but nothing for the US yet.

>>6723883

Yeah, I saw that too. It's like they can't tour the US because their only fans here are weeaboos and their money isn't worth the crazies.

>>6723779

I knew people like this...she insisted she had a "wolf spirit" for the longest time, and I was going through my own hippie dippie totem crap, so I let it slide.

A few years later, she "comes out" to me... as a furry. Are you fucking kidding me? Why would you tell me this? Why would you tell ANYONE this?!

"IT'S A PART OF WHO I AM, ANON!"

Fuck, she really thinks being a furry is like being gay, and she told everyone she works with and everyone in her family, because HER IDENTITY DESU~

I unfriended her on facebook and stopped talking to her after that completely.

>>6723144
This, that day on facebook....ugh

>>6723878
I guess i meant to say i stopped caring. Yes, i have heard their newer stuff. Dont like it.

>>6723912
I've never met anyone like this even though I constantly hear about it. Where do you people live?!

>>6723989
I live in KY and have known multiple furries, many weebs, possibly one otakukin, and some neopagans who though they could summon video game magical powers. IDK maybe it's the unique college town hippies and ignorant white trash mix we've got going on.

>>6723989

White trash nowhereville. I think the key to it is to live in a town large enough that they think their inbred selves and level of poverty is normal, and not small-town BS.

But there is SOMETHING about poverty and this nastiness. A lot of people I knew who behaved like this came from homes that were dirty, disorganized, too many kids, lots of favoritism, and the TV was the babysitter.

>>6723815
oh, middle school assignments, y u so time constrained?
I think my favorite was a world history test that featured the question:
>Explain World War II.
>Do not go over 1 page.

>>6724070
>The Nazis were bad the end

>>6723791
SAGE for unrelated to actual topic but I had that problem for my whole first year in my department. And considering I am in the Sequential department is is essentially professors telling you to stop drawing that japanese shit.

Just do realism all summer and then go back and stylize. Helped me get rid of all my animu influence. I can still draw it if I want, but it isnt the default anymore. Goodluck anon.

>>6723163
>>6723791

"It's Sailor Moon!" is what I got constantly in middle school.

>>6723176

Amen. Same goes with Japanese memes and videos from NicoNicoDouga.

My boyfriend tells me to stop using terms like "manga" and "anime". Apparently, they're just comics and cartoons. There's no difference at all to him.

>>6724159
>facepalm

>>6723790

Sadly thats how I pronounce his name... Have I been saying it wrong this entire time?

>>6724160

He's right though

>Be in school for special snowflakes because I had some "issues"
>90 something students
>A lot of them watch anime, the rest are niggas and white trash that have been arrested several times
>Ask me if I like bleach, naruto, pokeman, anything on murrican tv
>Say no
>All of them shame me for not liking their shit taste
>Feels bad man

Two of them are legitimate weeaboos though. One never showers and is creepy and the other shoves furry porn in peoples faces. What hurts is that both of them actually know what a weeaboo is but don't realize they are.

>>6724287
Jesus Christ, are you me 10 years ago? This was the exact situation I was in. I feel for you, anon.

>>6724287
God, weeaboos that can't identify themselves as such.

>Art school, meet socially retarded weeaboo chick
>Yaoi, yaoi, all the time
>Memefaces!
>Try to teach her about lolita, she's incapable of doing research on her own, wants to buy all the DoL replicas because she loooves AP
>Believes she is the reincarnation of a gay Japanese man
>Constantly hitting on the international students, doesn't get why they're put off by her\
>Draw yaoi in public, rages about people judging her
>Always accuses other people of being weeaboos

...


She left my school because we don't have a sequential art major, and she wants to draw manga and move to Japan and become a teacher and draw yaoi. Last I heard she was engaged to a forty something Japanese man who travels the world making sushi that she met over the internet.

>>6724249
Yes.

>>6724313
Sounds like she's living the dureemu~

There was a similar kind of girl in my high school class, except she wasn't bitchy, just really naive. She was really pretty at the time so some of us were worried that something similar would happen to her, some Asian creep taking her as a trophy wife. Then after puberty she had a weird growth spurt and turned into a linebacker. Oh well. She's in art school too, now, and constantly pursuing random men who she thinks look like her husbando (Kakashi from Naruto).

>>6724311
A kindred spirit!
It hurts that the creepy one is complimented for her shitty traced art. The other one asked me to draw a "neko". fuckthisshit

>>6724313
>>Believes she is the reincarnation of a gay Japanese man
What the hell. I never understood this.

>>6723790
>that feel
As a long time fan of those guys, I have not once heard the pronounciation right from anyone by myself and my best friend.

I'm sorry you had to hear that.

My encounter with weebs teaches me one important thing, BE LOW KEY WITH YOUR INTEREST.

>Was talking to a guy at a friend's party
>Accidentally slipped the word 'manga' when talking about some topic
>The guy went all happy and start talking about Hentai series
>Even tried to make me look at some pictures on phone
>Flipped out, went to my friend's side and hide
>Before he left, he shouted at me that HE WANNA MAKE ME GO YAMETE *insert pelvic thrust*
>Imagine me and my friend's face when we saw that O___O

>The 1st day of college
>Self-introduction session, went on as usual
>Until a girl stood up and introduces herself as "A COSPLAYER AND KAWAII PRINCESS!"
>The whole class actually applauded!
>And then throughout the year this girl tried to get our whole class to cosplay series like Vampire Knight or dress in some itarori stuff
>Everyone starts to ignore her due to her insistence on EVERYONE SHOULD BUY KAWAII STUFF FROM ME (& she definitely overprices stuff)
>Can't do much besides letting her to go on her merry way

>>6724249

Yes. "Kyo" is one syllable, It's like saying "kyu/Q" but with an o sound. I can't imagine how it makes the poor man feel to hear westerners constantly calling him Kiyo.

Shit, wait are Dir en grey coming out with a new album soon? I thought it was a single.

>>6724396

Where I live me and 2 other people even know of DEG, and if I try to pronounce "Kyo" properly I get called a weeaboo by them, yet they still say "deeroo" (like the way the Japanese fans say Dir).

>>6724397
What the hell kinda class are you taking

>>6724407
A mini album. The majority remakes of older songs

>>6723871
BMTH = Bring Me The Horizon (or, sometimes, Bring Me The Hairspray).

If you don't know them, you might have heard of Oli Sykes, the guitarist.

>>6724500
Oli is the vocalist you twat. I'm not a big fan of them but they were pretty popular when I was in highschool. Even I know this.

>>6724500
Oops, yeah. I even thought vocalist when I wrote it. What the hell, brain?

I need to go to bed.

>>6724518
Meant to reply to
>>6724508

I really need to go to bed.

I used to be friends with a girl in high school who acted like she was the biggest nerd ever. Pissed me off cause she didn't know any anime other than what used to air on TV years ago like Inuyasha, FMA, Digimon etc and never bothered to look into anything that's aired over the past 6 years and still continues to rewatch them while being all "OMG I'M SUCH A NERD I LOVE ANIME." Same with gaming, she had only ever played KH and FF7 (on the easiest modes) and claimed to be a hardcore gamer when really, all she knew about most of the games she talked about was either from tumblr or watching walkthroughs on youtube.

Since then she became a Homestuck and drama happened because of it, not sure what happened to her.

>>6723163
This.
My life drawing classes in college have definitely helped to pull me away from anime proportions, but ugh eyes. I don't know, no matter how hard I try, there's a small hint of anime in them. Oddly though some of my profs find it "quirky" and adds a bit of uniqueness.

>>6723144
This so many times. My ex that said it was obsessed with eva too... Ugh

>>6723791
And this.
>drawing in class
>professor asks if I draw anime
>say I used to
>he treats me like a aspie weaboo the rest of the semester

>>6723815
I was that girl, I once put one of my shitty animu arts in a presentation. She was making a peace sign and it was on lined paper.
>mfw someone complimented on it

>>6724948
forgot my face

Every fucking time I mention something to this girl to see if she likes it, she says, "OH YEAH I LOVE THAT SHOW!"
Western cartoons, various anime and sometimes even games.

>L-let's talk about it then. Can we talk about it?
>SURE!
>What's your favorite episode?
>Oh I haven't watched it yet but it's SO GREAT!

Cue 30 different links to tumblr, deviantart, and facebook pages with fanart on them.
How did AT become your favorite show of all time when you only saw the genderswap episode? How is Kuroko your husbando when you never even watched his show? WHAT HAVE YOU BEEN DOING ALL THIS TIME? NO, YOU ARE NOT THE 3D VERSION OF EVERY ONE OF YOUR FAVORITE CHARACTERS! AND I HIGHLY DOUBT THERE ARE DEMONS IN YOUR HEAD WHO JUST HAPPENED TO BE NAMED AFTER DEMON CHARACTERS

My butt hurts so much.

>>6725031
Maybe you just attract shitty people like a magnet. Damn, I've been conventioning like 5 times a year for years and I've never met anyone like that.

Maybe stop talking to 15 year olds?

>>6724287
i feel like i know you

>>6724313
She'd be ripped apart in a Sequential Art major anyway. Any good professor will rip you to shreds. I have seen many a weeb dream crushed.

The only thing remotely close to everything else in this thread is when I was in my Drawing for Sequa class. The professor for that class has worked in the industry, and created lots of characters for DC including Stephanie Brown's run as Spoiler.

So we all have to do realistic and then american comic style drawings for this class, really informative and interesting. This one girl refused to draw anything but Anime and kept getting F's on her assignments because of it. One day she publicly goes up to the professor and calls him a racist anda biggot because he wont let her use a superior style. She goes on for a few minutes before the professor tells her if she wants to be homeless and not get a job she can continue to use her style, but she would need to leave the class and never come back because he didn't want to teach a failure.

She never came back to that class. Thank god though she was terribly obnoxious.

i've never actually posted on here before so this might be shitty

>be in school for special snowflakes
>pretty much the same as the school >>6724287 described
>wear a zelda shirt one day
>kid with fedora who badly smells like shit approaches me
>"I LUV ZELDUHHH BEN DROWNED LAWL"
>oh shit oh shit oh shit

>he sits next to me
>he's looking at his phone screen and says
>"IM READING KINGDOM HEARTS YOHWAI"
>try not to cry

>starts telling me how he's such a nerd and how he trolls on 4chan all the time

>he comes up behind me everyday and screams in my ear

>one day i'm playing pokemon at lunch time
>"THAT'S A FIRE TYPE"
>mfw it was snivy (how do you even fuck up that bad)

>talking with friends
>he's sitting near us
>all of a sudden hear
>"OH EM GEE WTF BBQ, I'M SO RANDUM LAWLS"
>i can hardly believe he said that out loud
>everyone around visibly cringed

>he shows me his drawings
>slender man OCs wearing fedoras
>i try so hard not to laugh

>he attempts to make Cloud's sword from final fantasy out of clay
>looks exactly like pic related only worse

>>6725341
How old are you that this happened recently?

>>6725341
>>be in school for special snowflakes

I have to wonder what's wrong with you and >>6724287.

>>6725377
Not them, but when I was in Middle School, once I week me and a couple of the other smarties would get driven out to another school in the board for the "Program for Gifted Learners."

We learned absolutely nothing of value, and I'm pretty sure I wasn't much smarter than the other kids in my normal class, so I don't know why I was there.

>>6723703
>He also thinks it is a good idea to not buy comic con tickets until the week before
even for cons that aren't sdcc that's a bad idea

>>6725402
From "special snowflakes" I assumed special ed, as in delinquents, learning disabilities, autism, etc., not gifted kids.

I went to a high school with separate courses for gifted kids - "enhanced" classes, vs. "academic" (higher tier regular kids) and "applied" (lower tier regular kids). I wouldn't really think of it as special snowflake stuff; they just gave us more challenging coursework so we wouldn't be bored. There were more geeks than the normal kids classes but not the horror story weaboo kind, generally. My circle of friends was probably considered weaboo-lite (J-rockfags mostly).

>>6724948
>he treats me like a aspie weaboo the rest of the semester

Fucking hate this. I had to do a mock portfolio interview with profs outside of our college for a class and my original prof said it's recommended to show progress work for comparison so the interviewer has a sense of your progression through the years (and specifially said anime is acceptable to show).
>interviewer asks if I drew anime alot
>I used to, rarely now if not for cosplay mockups (didn't mention the cosplay mockups part though).
>lectures me like I'm a child who draws anime all the time saying I won't get a job, only children draw anime etc.
>keep explaining that I understand that and DON'T draw anime anymore, it was for comparison
>still doesn't understand and keeps lecturing
>ignores the rest of my work for ONE anime related thing
>gives me failing feedback because "she draws anime"
>why you fucking deaf old man

Just my luck that I got the one interviewer that has a raging hate for anime artists.

>Make friends with lady 12 years my senior.
>We become pretty good friends
>Slowly realize how crazy and selfish she is. Remember she was writing her own hentai series named Cybercats(She even apparently copyrighted it) where all the characters were mutants that could shift into animal forms that looked like Thundercats Though most of the characters were based of of either house cats or domestic dogs. One female(named Jellylorum), multiple male characters, all named after anime characters. Like Gojyo, Orphen, etc.... Oh and she said that the female character was a representation of herself. Tthe female character got raped a lot. She also said she'd draw the whole series herself so they "couldn't make weird changes like the hair and eye color"

Pic related. Some of her "art" which was pretty much copied off anime screenshots or artbook stuff. She was seriously shocked when one day I was sketching something that wasn't being copied off something and literally asked me how I did it.

Oh and I should mention she was already in her 30's when I meet her.

>>6725458
Most portfolio interviews for art schools won't want to see anime and will outright lose interest if you show them that. It's not "the one interviewer." It's a shitload of them; art profs won't see animu as showcasing any real skill unless it's immensely detailed and well-proportioned with a solid background, and isn't just an obvious stylistic ripoff. You just kind of have to accept that even one piece like that can sink your whole interview. At least it was just a mock one.

>>6725456
A lot of schools have AP classes for sciences and stuff, tends to be first-year university level.

>>6725458
God damn it.
I'm an animation major and my art clearly takes some references from anime. I blame my weeb days in elementary. I've strayed from it enough now, but I still have problems with eye placement, sizing, etc.

Next year I have to do portfolio review and now I'm terrified of failing.

>>6725472
Yeah I understood that afterwards and realized definitely not to do it again (despite my prof saying it was okay and having an anime related piece had praise in my interview into the school).
It just pissed me off cause I knew a bunch of other people and weebs who had 50-75% of their portfolio being anime or shitty superhero related and got praise from their interviewers.

reading these all makes me cringe. I'm going into digital art classes next year and hope to shit i wont experience too much like this... ugh

>>6725474
Ah, apparently my classes were considered AP, we just called it enhanced/gifted. Our area had placement tests for gifted programs in grade school. They were pulling me out for those in kindergarten.

Doesn't mean a lot when you're in your 20s and didn't apply yourself towards really challenging fields, though. sadfrog.jpg

>>6725479
There may be some leeway since it's animation, I have a friend in animation as well and some people have some cartoon/anime influenced work and there's no problem with it from what I've heard. It all depends I guess.

Good luck on your interview though anon!

>>6725495
Worst class you could possibly take for insufferable sperglevels is Comp Sci. There's a massive amount of people I absolutely can't fucking stand.

>>6725497
I was in some kind of "Gifted" program for High School, which meant that I got access to a whole bunch of special resources, scholarships, and opportunities that the other kids didn't. It was really some fucking bullshit, because I was a lazy shithead in highschool, and other people who were probably smarter than me and worked harder didn't get the same kind of options. They just put people in to the program based on your score on some standardized test.

>>6725501
Really? Seems like Digital art would be WAY more prone. Especially with weebs like "IM GOING TO BE AN ANIME ARTIST ^_^"

>>6725045
She's two years older than I am and I'm 18.

Why yes, I do attract shitty people, like fat cousins to birthday cake. I've tried to come off as a different person, but nothing works. They can smell it.

>>6725458

The funny thing is, I'd always heard that, so when I went to a 2 week summer session at an art college before my senior year in HS, I brought some of my anime shit with me but I didn't show it in the portfolio review session. But then, one of the reviewers saw one of my unused anime-looking pieces lying around (er, we had to set up a display of pieces to be judged, I had a stack of extra shit with me) he asked to see more and then gave me a lecture about how art schools don't hate anime, they just don't like generic shit or fanart. Not that my stuff was particularly good, I'm still shocked he had such a positive reaction.

I'm sure it's still true that a lot of schools have a heavy bias against it though.

>>6725495
My digital drawing class had a few bronies and weebs all with their tablets and "LOOK AT MY MLP GIJINKA ON DA. Ohmahgad I love Paint Tool Sai!!11!" I hope none of your classes are like that.

>>6725509
Less weebs probably, but still a fair amount, and more generally insufferable people of all kinds. Lots of very socially awkward autists, lots of arrogant fucks who feel the constant need to get a word in edgewise while the prof is lecturing. It's horrendous. And God help you if you're one of the 5 or 6 women out of 300.

>>6725519
I-I like Paint Tool Sai...Is that a bad thing?

>>6725519
Dont u talk shit about sai. It's less prone to have filter abuse than PS. (Though i understand what you mean if people are only using it because JAPANESE DESU ^_^)

>>6725520
I got into AP Digital art, seems like it might be less prone to that. (God I hope so...)

>>6725522
>>6725533
I wasn't meaning to diss it, I love Sai as well, I meant more the type of people who are like you said "OMG it's such a kawaii Japanese program desu~" and have never heard of using anything else.

>>6725544
Oh, yeah. I know this one girl who has a good version of shop (spoiled weeb, parents bought it for her.) and only uses sai because it's more japanese and thinks that she's more likely to be a mangaka because of it.

>>6725513
Yeah, it all depends. But yeah, one of profs said the same thing about them hating fanart. He (and my digital arts prof) love to see original work and thinks anime is a pretty interesting way to express ideas digital art if used nicely.
Another art school in my area apparently rejects students right away upon seeing anime in their portfolio, yet one of my friends had an interviewer who was intrigued by her work and got in. /shrug

And shh let me say I like this thread and want to hug you all.

>>6723779

>Meet one kid at a con who thinks they're Alois Trancy
>Keeps insisting how Alois IS them, and how they're soooo alike
>Mentions changing name to Alois Trancy
>Wants to start dressing like him and dye their hair and shit
>Dates Ciel RPer who thinks they ARE Ciel
>Tell them they need therapy so they stop talking to me
>Find out they're now in the Homestuck fandom (I'm a Homestuck, I am sorry)
>Now they identify as Dave and their name is Dave and they're such a cool kid dates only John cosplayers cause OTP
>So much more embarrassment

that one weeb friend who tries speaking in broken Japanese to the waiter at the Asian restaurant

even if it's not a Japanese restaurant

I just fucking can't

and even if it is a Japanese restaurant it's still not okay to assume that your waiter is from Japan/knows Japanese/ or might be able to translate if you try to say all of the words on the menu really fast because you want to sound ~fluent~
Had a girl do this through the entire evening once at a Chinese place, and when she got up to go to the bathroom we apologized to the waitress (who had been really sweet and pretended like she understood "aishiteru your food, it's so oishii dess!!") That poor girl, she said it happened a lot too. UGH.

>>6725567
I'm enjoying this art kid derail.

>>6725567

I think a lot of it has to do more with what you do with it (along with the specific biases of whoever you're talking to of course). I think my lineart and shit was pretty awful back then, but the pieces the reviewer liked a lot were really design heavy, complete pieces (you know with like a background and composition in mind instead of a character on a blank white background).

>>6725574
Oh god, I'm a homestuck too and i met this really nice jade cosplayer at a con. get her skype, she seems nice. She starts claiming her name is literally Jade Harley and she found homestuck through it. (Who knows, maybe its true, but unlikely i suppose.)
She rabidly HATES other Jade cosplayers, and refuses to even go near them, and won't take pictures with them. Basically thinks shes the best jade ever. She also kind of thinks shes 'dating' her imaginary friend Karkat or some dumb shit like that. Also faked depression.

>>6725507
Gifted doesnt mean smart or that you worked hard. I was in a gifted program too and actually paid attention to why they have it. If the program is good it isnt bullshit as it should be a change in teaching style to go beyond the normal stuff to keep the kids engaged. It isnt the same as AP because you are tested on the stuff on AP, where as enhancement here is just extra info or more opportunities to shine.

Some people are like super smart. Others just work really hard, and some just learn differently. Motivation seems to be a big difference, 98% of the people I know from the program went to Uni afterwards, and went to grad to do the diploma thing, where as most of the other kids didnt bother with that shit and not even close to that amount went off to more schooling afterwards.

It does attract the nerds and the social retards though.

>>6725574
I used to know a girl (well now FtM, nothing against it, just think it's stupid because her reasoning for doing so is to be more like John and a better John cosplayer) who is actually in the progress of trying to legally change their name to John Egbert. Crazy fans sometimes.

>>6725579
Large majority of artists I've met in AA don't take up art in school and it's just a hobby to them. Didn't think so many actual art kids frequent this board haha.

I should be packing for SC but whatev. I'll green text it

>Be 13/14
>Applying for Semi-private art highschool
>Major in Visual Arts and minor in Orchestral shit
>Do a slight weeb but pretty original animu portfolio
>Orchestral audition was fucking Zelda
>Head of the Visual Arts Department tears me to shreds because anime but praises me because its original
>Four years later and my style is still a lot anime but its a lot better
>Not going for any anime dreams but I'd like to be a fashion illustrator/ desiger

>>6725458
Something similar happened to me...

>Applying for an art program.
>Brought a several portfolio pieces. Paintings, pictures of sculptures, even some textile work I did...
>realize all my human figure is female, bring one picture with a guy...
>Kinda cartoony, not anime by any means, but obvious influence.
>They have loved all my stuff so far, really positive about it all.
>Getting comments about how they love the variety and such
>Show them picture as sort of an off mention
>Just want you to know I can draw the male figure too, this isn't anything big just wanted to show you
>Try to slide it by
>Their faces drop, they give me disapproving looks
>"You don't draw like this OFTEN do you?"
>"Naw it's an old drawing I just wanted to show I could draw more than just women."
>They don't look convinced
>Later get a letter denying me for the program

Like, what the hell? I've seen people get into COLLEGE off pure anime.I can't get a summer program for one pic?

>>6725588
I've heard of her, from my knowledge she changed her last name to Harley and shit. Idk, HSG would have more information on it.

>>6725600
People who suddenly come out as trans because they want to be like their favorite character make me feel embarrassed about being trans....

I guess here's one where I'm the one being raged at.
>Picked on in Middle School for having high power level
>Suppress power level throughout high school, go through it being quirky but socially acceptable, have my moments in private
>College rolls around, get a pretty chill roommate, we hit it off right away.
>Her side of the room is anime posters and whatnot, but she's no weeb, just likes what she likes.
>I have anime posters too but I refuse to pull them out, honestly don't even know why I brought them
>too scared of judgement
>Roommate keeps encouraging me to put them up, that there's no shame in liking anime
>One day, I come into my room and all my posters are hung up on the walls
>My roommate put them up in desperation and anger at my closeted anime side.

This was five years ago...We got into Hetalia together when it was still a teeny tiny fandom and just when I told myself that it was okay and nice to be in a fandom, that I really WAS missing out this whole time, the Hetalia anime comes out and the whole thing blows up in my face.

To this day I'm still terrified of joining fandoms and I'm back to my closeted self.

>>Older weeb that comes into my work constantly corners me to talk about shit
>>hears I can speak a little Japanese
>>tells me "I'm going to get nerdy on you and talk about anymee"
>>proceeds to explain there are four genres: Showgo, Shownone, Mech and Moe
>>Appears to mostly like entry-level harem/fanservice animes, stereotypical moeshit, stuff involving mechs and shows that spend most of their time talking about power levels
>>Seriously believes series like Ruroni Kenshin, Samurai Champloo and Inuyasha are an accurate portrayal of historical Japan and Japanese mythology
>>Thinks Witchblade was originally created by the Japanese and ripped off by Americans
>>Continually confuses Outlaw Star for Cowboy BeBop and vice versa
>>Earlier stated to be a fan of both
>>Told me Code Geass is superior to all other mecha related anime.
>>Can only assume he has never heard of literally every other mecha related anime ever
>>Appears to like Yu-Gi-Oh! Zexal un-ironically
>>Believes that Hayou Miyazaki doesn't make "real anime" because the art style is too "Westernized" and doesn't exhibit any of the "classic" traits we have come to associated with anime.
>>Doesn't like anime series that tries to hard to be "deep" for Western audiences like Ergo Proxy and FLCL
>>Called Goku the most symbolic anime character ever

I could go on.

I'm trying really hard to suppress my power level and pretend I don't know what he's talking about.

Also:

>>Found out I read detective fiction
>>Suggested Milky Holmes to me as a "first anime"
>>"because you should start off with a series that has some quality"

>>6725672
>>>Found out I read detective fiction
>>>Suggested Milky Holmes to me as a "first anime"
>>>"because you should start off with a series that has some quality"
I'd really like to know what he considers low quality. At what point does he say, "No, that shit's a derivative shitlump, grasping at straws for any breath of originality."

Friend of a friend in highschool, I had no backbone and I was nice to her because she was obviously lonely. She graduated highschool at age 21 when I was a sophomore.

>>She's 26 now and still up to her weeby ways. Any friends she had have grown out if it, and are concerned for her.
>>Uses Google translate to flirt with Asians online.
>>Has a dozen OC multiple personalities "living inside her". Demons, dragons, cats, British men. She'll spontaneously act like one of them is possessing her.
>>Can't stop wearing horrible ebay "kimonos" and never washes her hair.
>>Lies about her name to sound more Asian.
>>Still draws pic related after all these years and gives her drawings to guys she thinks are cute (Asians).

I recently noticed that she added every Asian-looking boy on my friends list on facebook. Including this kid I used to babysit (he's like 15 now jfc). And she always invites me to her holiday parties that consist of creepy as hell guys who reek of BO, and she gets all sad when I decline. She's really beyond help.

>>6725715
>dreaming of you
nothing could have prepared me for that.
You owe me new sides, anon.

>>6725031
oh jfc i feel ya man
my friend is like that. every time me and a different friend get into something new, she pretends she knows all about it when really she's just seen a few gifs on tumblr of whatever we're into. it's the most annoying goddamn thing, i mean is it really that hard to just watch the actual show/movie/whatever? or even just skim a fucking wiki page?

>>6725672
Good. God.
I'd be trying to make it look like an accident after spending 10 minutes with guy.

>>6725715
>Has a dozen OC multiple personalities "living inside her". Demons, dragons, cats, British men. She'll spontaneously act like one of them is possessing her.

If she's legit, sounds like the way people with Disassociative Identity Disorder act. On Tumblr they call themselves "multiples" and talk about how their "headmates" interact with each other. I think whichever character the person takes on while speaking at a given moment is "fronting" or something? I ended up in that weird branch of Tumblr one night and wasn't sure how to feel about it. They consider trying to force a person with this disorder to consolidate their "headmates" into one single personality via therapy to be something like what happened to Nina in FMA: putting people in a blender and making them into some kind of monster. The idea of it horrifies them.

I'm sure some of these people aren't legit but the person you're talking about sounds like they're really far gone, so it's a possibility.

>>6725751
>>6725715
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7TlYGivBGYE - here's what I mean. Kind of an extreme case.

>>6725659
I had so many anime posters and wound up getting rid of them when I moved into my current apartment, I just feel too old to be putting them up for some reason. Although I have some gorgeous art from artist alley based on the game Ico which I'll proudly display. It doesn't exactly scream "this person is an anime freak", it's just pretty. I'd love to find more amazing artist alley pictures to hang up here and there.

>>6725751
I don't have DID but from everything I know about the disorder that sounds like total bullshit. The base personality is only very rarely aware of other personalities (until their psychologist tells them). They disassociate when the other personalities take over, hence the name. So someone able to "interact" with a personality in their head is more likely suffering from maladaptive day dreaming or some sort of hallucination.

>>6725751
Oh no she's obviously faking it. It only happens when she wants attention from other weebs. Never around parents or teachers. I once watched her write a love letter to herself in the cafeteria from one of her OC ghost men. She was trying so hard to be obvious about it.

Though I do think she should seek professional help sometimes.

Here's a screenshot of more of her art.

>>6725768
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXuG2zI39yA

This guy seems aware of his other personalities, as does the woman in the other video I linked. Awareness of or between personalities seems to vary from case to case. Idk, I find the whole disorder fascinating in a really sad sort of way.

>>6725778
Ah yeah, I think some weebs latch onto the idea of DID/MPD and try to adopt/mimic those symptoms instead of just treating whatever characters they like as muses in a more objective way. Some of them get really into it in a way that reminds me of otherkin.

>>6725778
Ignoring the art stuff that's more conceptual than actually relevant to the disorder, here's the Tumblr tag where a lot of these people seem to congregate: http://www.tumblr.com/tagged/multiplicity

>>6724313
>travels the world making sushi

yes.

>>6725790

While I'm pretty sure DID is a legitimate disorder, I highly doubt most of these people actually have it. Its like what happened with the Autism/Aspergers tag. All these people read the list of symptoms and think, "Oh hey this sounds like me! I obviosuly have it and I don't need to get a professional disgnosis!".
In my opinion, unless you actually have a diagnosis from a professional, then you can not say you have a disorder.

Sorry about my rant but this is just one of my buttons. Being a person with Autism/Aspergers, it just really pisses me off seeing all these idiots trying to fake a disorder just so that they can feel accepted somewhere. Especially the ones who are bent on not getting a diagnosis from the proper professional because they can't afford it. I wasn't able to afford it but I actually went out and got a job so I could.

>>6725778
plaese tell me thats not her writing japanese

>>6725791
Also I saw pictures of this guy and despite being middle-aged looks 17. I mean, I know Asian young genetics are a thing, but it was pretty extreme. Maybe it's all the the sushi? Anyway, it's mostly the engaged to a middle aged man over the internet that's the creepy bit.

>>6723815
>mfw manguh

>>6725465
>Jellylorum
Oh my god, I know who this bitch is. She was literally the only weirdo I ever met in the Saiyuki fandom. Can confirm for having a few cards short of a full deck.

>>6725465
I'm fairly sure Jellylorum is a name from the Cats musical, as well.

>>6725465
>asked me how I did it
my sides

>>6723815
>"MANGUH FOR ADULTS IS CALLED 'HENTAI'"
anon you have my condolences
that would have traumatized me too

>>6725672

I actually like Milky Holmes but to categorize that as an detective fiction? Plus adding "quality" to it?

He must be a newfag in /a/ or something.

>>6723791
Ughh that feel. Second year of college my cartooning teacher calls my comic manga and asks what way it's supposed to be read. I tell him it isn't manga and he looks at me funny

>mfw he's the one teacher that knows about and respects manga
>mfw I try so hard to get it out of my system and fail
>mfw my art is cartoony and gets compared to Tezuka and never anything else.

>>6725577
>aishiteru your food
>aishiteru

>>6725458

>Have sub for class because teacher is in another country for his new book.
>Sub seems ok.
>I have to give a presentation on a cartoonist I like.
>I pick Naoki Urasawa because I was reading Monster at the time.
>Start my presentation. After a minute, I mention that his stuff is a bit more realistic than typical stuff people think of when they think of manga.
>Sub fights with me on this stating their eyes are still too big.
>I realize the dude hates manga/anime stuff.
>Other guy gets up for presentation.
>No one in class likes this guy. He only spouts pretentious nonsense.
>Guy shows geometric painting of dead cow in river. Sub loves him.
>Time for art critique.
>He realizes I don't draw manga. He says he likes my work and I draw well but is still a dick to me for the rest of the class.
>Talk to friend months later. She had him for thesis.
>She tells me he is just a dick in general and everyone in the class hated him.

sorry for off topic i had to get that out of my system

>>6725684
He's dumped on things that are actually GOOD several times for the stupidest reasons. (See his comments on Miyazaki) I think that's the thing that gets me the most. He acts like he's this elite nerd that knows all there is to know, but he's wrong half the time and he has such overwhelmingly shit taste.

He's really condescending into the bargain and talks to me about these things like I'm half-retarded or a child. I suspect he would do stuff like that even if I revealed that I also watch "anymee" and read "mainjah".

>>6725734
He really tests my patience and my boss finds this hilarious. I'll be trying to ring another customer out and he's standing there telling me all about CLAMP but if I ever read any of their works, I should avoid a series called "X slash 1999" because it "might be too much for me".

At times like that, I fantasize about going off on this long winded rant, but in reality I would probably just tell him that everything he knows is wrong and walk away.

>>6726019
He probably did that because all the main characters are named after famous detectives.

I raged so hard at that show you have no idea. Not just as an anime fan, but because I enjoy stories about 3 out of the 4 detectives the main characters are named after.

>>6725458
this is just strange...

people should just accept any 'anime' drawing styles. Anime is where the money is at these days. people will pay by the loads to have prints. etc. etc.

>>6725715
>lies about her name to sound more asian
Da fuck?

>>6723122
weaboo raging about weeaboos on a weeaboo board. Please just kill me.

>>6726131
>weeb that know how to hide their power levels complaining about weebs that do not on a weeb board
Ftfy bud.

>>6725751
You CAN be aware of your other personalities with DID, and that's part of your therapy. How much you feel they hinder your day to day life decides if you should actively get rid of them (that's if you don't mind them at all, some people live comfortably with it).

DID is a disorder stemming from abuse where you disconnect and disassociate with the situation and a new personality will form and take life that will be able to handle your situation. Sometimes more will be created for different forms the abuse winds up taking.

Now, the whole 'multiples' thing on Tumblr... half those shits are full of it. From my knowledge you cannot have the personality of an existing character, you cannot interact with your personality on a personal/mental level. People who are aware will usually set up a writing system to keep up with what all of them have been doing. You are not aware when the other personality is 'fronting', also. Because it's DISSOCIATIVE Identity Disorder. According to my friend who suffered from it, his mind would rebuild the setting around him and he'd continue doing whatever it was he was doing in his mind while the other personality took over until he came back in control.

That and like I said, the personalities are created from abuse/to help you cope with certain things, so you can't really just wake up like 'I think Castiel from SPN moved in! Cool' BECAUSE THAT'S NOT HOW IT WORKS.

Sage for no real contribution.

>>6723144
The paper that reported it called it a Buzz Lightyear costume too. Some of them were probably going along with the joke, hopefully.

>be 14
>in high school anime club
>most people there are pretty chill, there are some people who are a little weeby but nothing horrible
>one day this alum starts coming to meetings
>he's one of those "I'm such a troll lel" types, constantly screeches HEIL HITLER etc.
>he talks about how Japan is the master country all the time too
>not long after he starts attending, he starts getting really creepy towards me
>constantly comments on my breasts, says he's gonna get into my pants, made creepier by the fact that he's 22 or so and I'm 14
>one day someone in club is drawing a werewolf, he freaks out about it and starts screaming FURFAG and cold shoulders them for a couple weeks after
>i have an idea
>find tail and ears from an old halloween costume
>quickly fill up my sketchbook with a bunch of poorly drawn furry shit
>go into club wearing ears and tail and a sketchbook full of naked furries
>creepy alum promptly freaks the fuck out, screams YIFF IN HELL and spend rest of meeting avoiding me
>he never creeps on me again and goes out of his way to avoid interacting with me
>mission succesful

>>6726123
Its always something though. The art world is so full of pretentious dick bags. Used to be comic book style drawing every professor hated and now its moved on to anime.

>>6725996
Yep it is. Threw me off when I read it and now I'll never unsee.

>>6726215
you either die a hero or live long enough to see yourself become the villain

>>6726220
comic book style drawings are actually pretty fucking amazing too.

I don't get what's the big fucking deal, as long as what you're drawing will get you $$$, nothing should be 'taboo' when it comes to art.

>>6726215
should have reported him to the cops, nigga was a flat out asshole for sexually harassing you

>be azn
>greeted a friend at college
>friend is a bit of weeb
>"oh hey asian!!"
>we hugged
>suddenly hear a loud squeal from behind me
>"you mean me?! I heard someone say asian!"

pic related, the girl who thinks she's asian

>>6726249

>azn
I wish people would stop using that. It makes me cringe.

>>6726249
>closer inspection
Holy fuck. Did she actually try to shoop her eyes blue-green? Awful.

>>6726249
>>"you mean me?! I heard someone say asian!"

Wow, I've never heard such a blatant, desperate admission of Wapanese-ism.

>>6726282
these types of scenarios only ever end in chronic second hand embarrassment

>>6726292

I want to hear moar of them. The closest I've got is a friend who is friends with an ambiguously brown chick who swears up and down that she's 1/4 Korean based on the 'fact' that her grandpa spent most of his time in Korea during WWII "fucking Korean women".

She never has explained how this led to her being born to non-Korean parents in the USA, though. Both her parents and grandparents have told her and her friends multiple times that she is not Korean/Asian, but she fucking insists, and uses it an an excuse to whine about people being "racist" to her for being "azn".

>>6726282
I was pretty shocked when I heard those words coming out from her mouth...she seem pretty proud about it.

she also insist I look EXACTLY like another asian that went to the college...and I had to argue with her that not all asians look like spitting images of one another...

>>6726303
I love them too hahaha

I've never understood why people claim to be a race that they clearly aren't? and even if you are say 1/5th Chinese who actually gives a shit? Your distant relatives ethnicity means fuck all to me and won't impress anyone with half a brain cell

>>6726320

Who knows why anyone on Tumblr claims to be all the shit they claim to be. I guess they just can't handle the thought of being regular girls? Oh well.

>Boy with Naruto headband sits next to me at luch.
>Looks directly into my face
>"You don't look Asian enough"
>raise my eyebrow
>"You can get surgery,you know! You're halfie, right?"
>respond yes with spoon in mouth
>"Half what?"
>"Half German..."
>"I knew it!" Narutard interrupts
>"...Half Sherpherd." I continue
>"Oh! A German sub-ethnicity! My Grandad is one too!

I bent my spoon.

>>6725577

>aishiteru your food
>it's so oishii dess!!

My sides have ascended to another plane of existence.

>>6726215
>in high school anime club
>he's 22 or so and I'm 14

What kind of high school is this?

>>6726249
dat huge jew nose.

CLEARLY OF KAWAII AZN DESCENT DESU~

>>6726249
>>6726347

>German/Irish/English heritage
>blonde haired white as fuck
>happen to have dark brown eyes, small flat-ish nose
>so, so many weebs asking if I'm halfu
>MFW

I will never understand.

>walk into Mickey D's
>see 3 black kids about age 8 wearing Naruto headbands at a table
>they are playing with Naruto action figures and agreeing that Sauske is the best character
>mfw
>order ice tea and and a McGriddle and walk out

>>6726438
What's horrifying about that? They were only 8 years old right? I mean, if they were like 20+ I'd be kind of worried.

>>6726438
Dude, 8 year old boys enjoying cartoons for 8 year old boys is not weeaboo shit. Damn. Grow a childhood.

>>6726438
That's pretty adorable.

>>6726438
>agreeing that Sauske is the best character

That's the only cringeworthy part about it, and even then it's a stretch because 8 year olds probably don't know any better.

>>6726438
I mean, who doesn't judge the thought process/actions of 8 year olds right?

Jesus man what's up with you.

>>6726215
>>one day this alum starts coming to meetings
>he's 22 or so
WTF, how does that even work? The youngest kids he knew as a senior had already graduated and moved on. He was in a room full of kids he didn't even know.

>Oh look! An announcement in my local comm!
>"there a bunch of stores selling off brand lolita looking things and its mostly on sale this week.
Hottopic, Wet Seal, Forever 21, Claire's, Icing, and H&M has all sorts of things."
>mfw

>>6725588
flstuck?

>>6726527
>Hottopic

nope.desu

>>6726527
Real talk though F21 has a lot of cute loliable blouses

>>6723790
...How do you say the names then? I no longer want to be one of those mispronouncing plebs!

>>6723779

That reminds me...

>have shoulder length red hair
>a weeb with long red hair starts following me at a con
>turns out she thinks she's Grell from Kuroshitsuji and I'm "her Madam Red"
>girl is obviously insane and still keeps stalking me at every single con

>months later
>hair still red, grown long past my shoulders
>got new red framed glasses
>weeb somehow finds me and looks at me with pure disgust
>never follows me around again
>turns out she threw a massive temper tantrum because "I'm stealing her identity" and now hates me

>>6724031
>college town

WKU or EKU? Louisvillefag here, we don't have nearly enough weirdos. At least outside of the highlands.

>>6726551

http://www.csupomona.edu/~pronunciation/sounds/japanese/female/kaoru.wav
http://www.csupomona.edu/~pronunciation/sounds/japanese/female/kyoko.wav (omit the -ko)

Basically where non-Japanese get in trouble is trying too hard to mimic Japanese intonation and it just sounds ridiculous. Use this: http://www.kanachart.com/

You don't say To-SHEE-yah, It's more like "Tosh'ya".

Kyo is "K'yo", one syllable and with no I sound.

Kaoru is as above but in a less Japanese yet still correct way, the K is a bit sharper and faster than the C in "cow", and don't forget the A sound before the O.

Shinya, avoid saying "sheen", this happens when over pronouncing the Japanese I sound. Cut the I sound in half instead and don't drag the last A out so much. Think Shi-nya instead of Shi-n-ya when you're saying it to yourself.

Die is easy, pronounced the same as Dai basically (which is why that's his stage name iirc), as for Daisuke, just start with Die and add "-skeh" because the U is silent.

/weebmode

>>6725510

I do too anon. It seems like weebs can smell my powerlevel and my desire to avoid confrontation.

Goddamnit.

spent forever on this but none is replying :[

guess who inspired some of these /cgl/

>>6725577
>work at a Japanese restaurant
>white as a ghost, but fluent in Japanese
>one time a full table's worth of jap 101 weeaboos come in
>a couple try to speak Japanese to the (Filipino) server, keep doing it even when she makes it clear she doesn't understand what they're saying, clearly feels harassed
>I deliver their food and speak to them in quick, conversational japanese, wouldn't switch to english

The look on their faces was so worth the slap on the wrist from my manager

>>6726595
>>white as a ghost, but fluent in Japanese

tell me how, you glorious bastard.

>Be LARPer
>Go to reasonably good American game, nothing like the European ones, but still fun.
>Play giant tarantula person, full bodysuit, homemade latex mask with inserted eye lenses, everything.
>Eating my dinner in character with my Dark Elf squire brother
>New player walks over
>Morbidly obese in a 'lolita dress'
>HI, ARE YOU A FURRY?
>....No?
>WHY ARE YOU A SPIDER? IS IT YOUR SOUL ANIMAL?
>I really like doing intricate and complicated costuming. Plus, spiders are cool.
>YOU SOUND LIKE A FURRY. DO YOU LIKE ANNAMAE?
>I don't really- can you get back into character? We were kinda in the middle of something.
>I'M A NEKO. THAT MEANS I'M A CATGIRL.
> Squire brother looks like he's been shot in the face.
>I'VE ALWAYS KNOWN I WAS A CATGIRL. I GO TO FURCON EVERY YEAR, YOU SHOULD GO TOO.
>I'm not-
>NYA! NYA! SEE? IT'S BECAUSE I'M AN OTHERKIN.
>Squire brother mutters "omfg" under his breath and facepalms.

Please, I just want to stay in character ;_; this is the kind of nonsense I see on /cgl/ about larps all the time.

Luckily she got carded shortly thereafter for being out of character and cheating on her hit points.

>>6725751

I laugh in the face of people who claim to have DID, because it's extremely, extremely rare--rare enough that if you got diagnosed by a real doctor, they'd be flying you to conferences in New York to have the whole profession talking to you about it.

Secondly, there's been a serious pushback against the diagnosis at all. A lot of the early work was based on Freudian ideas of the psyche (which are often just wrong). One of the pioneering cases, known as "Sibyl" (there's a book) has come under fire for being conducted unprofessional, for using hypnosis/regression to convince and implant memories, and for being, in general, crap.

People with DID often had abusive childhoods--abusive like gang raped at age 3 and made to eat shit and kept under a bed to puke and shit on themselves for days. Seriously fucked-up stuff. Someone who's been through "normal" abuse isn't going to develop this.

More often, DID is mistaken for a lot of emotional disorders, where the person has such uncontrollable emotional changes they feel like different people. Some people with serious delusional disorders may claim they have DID, because they can feel their "souls" moving or whatever, but they're just the same as the people who hear ghosts in the walls or think aliens can read their minds.

DID is bullshit, basically, and either a lonely, slightly disturbed person looking for attention or a profoundly disturbed person being honest about their delusions/experiences, but still doesn't have DID.

>source: bachelor's in psychology, mental health case manager

>>6726617
>dat ginormous claim/generalization
>bachelor's in psychology

>>6726597

The middle one kind of annoys me. The Ultrahard Feminist phase is something a lot of girls hit in college, getting an education and figuring out who they're going to be in the world. They either get really in to the movement and become lesbians or find a nice life/ideology balance and go on to be perfectly decent people who change their facebook profile picture in support of gay marriage.

These other people are stupid lifers, she's just intense.

>>6726597
"The Phoney" is so obviously a self-insert it's not even funny.

>>6726527
I know which comm youre talking about. So glad I left

>>6726634
not really though. It's just a humorous meme type thing. you can't really put people in such neat categories.

here's the original version.

>>6726622

Wiki isn't the greatest source, but they support pretty much everything I just said, with linked studies/publications:

" Diagnosis is often difficult as there is considerable comorbidity with other mental disorders. Malingering should be considered if there is possible financial or forensic gain, as well as factitious disorder if help-seeking behavior is prominent."

"DID is one of the most controversial psychiatric disorders with no clear consensus regarding its diagnosis or treatment...No systematic, empirically-supported definition of "dissociation" exists."

"Dissociative disorders including DID have been attributed to disruptions in memory caused by trauma and other forms of stress, but research on this hypothesis has been characterized by poor methodology. So far, scientific studies, usually focusing on memory, have been few and the results have been inconclusive"

" The unusual number of diagnoses after 1980, clustered around a small number of clinicians and the suggestibility characteristic of those with DID, support the hypothesis that DID is therapist-induced."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dissociative_identity_disorder

Go look at it yourself, and read Sibyll. It's good to have background.

>>6726609
I started learning it in 6th grade because weeaboo phase. I'm 27 now.

>>6726639
I meant that it's just one of those categories girls who don't want to look at themselves in a bad way would say they're most like.

>>6726644

Self taught? If so then holy shit I am jelly. I started in 6th grade and I'm 20 but aside from kana, particles, some basic kanji and some modest grammar/sentence structure I don't know shit. I'm unfortunately not one of those lucky shits that are able to teach themselves another language.

>>6726614
that was the point where you should have stabbed her to death and sacrifice her to whatever gods you were worshiping at the time. Either IC or OOC.

>>6723869
>>6723871

DEG are really big on the metalcore and deathcore sound now.

The problem is, their current US record label has pretty much stopped pushing them and most of the big metal blogs won't even touch them because that particular sound has fallen out of favor.

It also doesn't help that they go out of their way to be unavailable to US music media to a hostile degree. How do you expect to mount a tour if you're not making an effort to reach out?

They've tried to break into the US market since 2006 and every effort has fallen flat, mostly because their promotional efforts have been really scattered.

Their only hope at this point is to get signed by a US label that specializes in extreme metal, like Metal Blade, Century Media or Relapse Records, who have signed other Japanese bands before. Now, a polite sage

>>6725230
>One day she publicly goes up to the professor and calls him a racist anda biggot because he wont let her use a superior style. She goes on for a few minutes before the professor tells her if she wants to be homeless and not get a job she can continue to use her style, but she would need to leave the class and never come back because he didn't want to teach a failure.
So this actually happened in front of the entire class?

>>6725988
Yeah. She was REALLY bad. I have stories of how pants on head stupid she was. This is only some of it.
>Like how she told me she went home and cried because I didn't go to the beach with her,
>that all the fat guys she dated "only wanted her for her body"
>Kenji, the guy that I guess ran AX masquerade years ago kept her from getting into the masq. because she wouldn't sleep with him.
>She was freaked out that people would think she might be a lesbian. I think she should have been more worried what people were thinking of her walking her cat around in a baby stroller in the middle of Long Beach.
>She also messaged a cosplay gathering organizer(It was a birthday party at a park for the organizer's kid) and demanded the lady tell me not to bring my dog because it might bite somebody.
>My dog is a toy poodle

I should have abandon ship but stuck around for two years. I was a doormat and when I finally got sick of her, told her she cared more about cosplay then she did about people. No wonder the bitch didn't have any friends besides me and another girl in the CATS fandom.

Also she was one of those types that exaggerated stuff and made others look like the bad guy. She would message somebody we were mutual friends with, saying that a person was saying something mean to her, then he'd go look at what she was talking about and see that it wasn't anywhere near as bad as she was saying.

>>6726675
walking her cat in a baby carriage.
my fucking sides

I have a weeb in most of my art classes and she is just terrible she can't draw and when she does she only uses art supplies from glorious nnippo that manga artist use. And she draws the most shitty chibis but draws them with so much pride like everyone in the whole fucking class is suppose to bow down to her shit chibi drawings.

She speaks broken japanese phrases and has the most annoying typical japanese nerd weeb voice. Ugh I just hate her so much, I just want to kick her in her throat.

>>6725230
While that bitch did act like a spoiled obnoxious brat in front of the class, the professor was also rude and inappropriate as fuck for calling her a failure. Professors should encourage their students, not fall to their level and bash them out of the whole class. I hate how you can completely rip off a generic American comic style from any author you want and fuck up the technicalities of your artwork yet still be more appreciated than someone who draws with a manga-influenced style and actually pays attention to the realistic parts of the artwork (anatomy, proportions, perspective, colors etc.).

Also why does a sequa class only allow realistic and american styles?

>>6726714
Professors are not highschool teachers: they're there to teach, not coddle. If you don't want to learn what they're teaching don't take their class.

I'm extremely glad that I chose a career with actual significance and employment options instead of following my teenage dreams of becoming an artist. I can just draw my generic animus all day to please myself and laugh at all the bitter art students who have to work a shitty minimum wage job to pay off their student loans. Does someone really take art colleges seriously?

>>6726731
Way to not address that anon's point at all.

>>6726738
Someone doesn't know what anyone can do with kinetics/animation/fine arts/graphics degree. That's cute.

>>6726738
I intend to work at the CA state capitol. I hope they don't take issue with me hanging anime posters and/or torrenting.

>>6726738
What did you choose?

>>6726571
Lexington. Lexington is full of this shit.

>Attend second con. I'm 13 at the time, socially awkward, just getting out of my weeb phase.
>After playing games, meet random dude with a shitty roxas cosplay in the game room.
>We talk, seems nice at first, he's 17.
>As we hang out he starts getting weird
>Tells me he's a vampire, my thirteen year old self calls him out on his bs and says he's being dumb
>He pushes me up again a wall and asks if I want to find out
>I push him off and just kind of stare at him, nervous and not used to guys being creeps
>He apologizes, I give him the benefit of the doubt and we keep hanging out
>Sit down on couch at the con
>23 year old guy I met from earlier sees me and starts to hit on me
>stuck in between two guys who want to fuck my thirteen year old self
>feel really uncomfortable, look to the friend I went to the con with
>she ditches me to go make out with a 26 year old
>sit there awkwardly for ten minutes
>strategically saved by a really nice ezio cosplay who knew when creepers were being creeps
>apologized to and watched over by him until my friend was done being whore
>leave con

in short, my con community sucks.

>>6726738
So much this. I changed majors halfway through and haven't looked back since. Stable job, great salary to fund my nerdshit, and no one cares if I watch or draw anime as a hobby.

>>6726816
>Tells me he's a vampire
>I give him the benefit of the doubt
wat

>>6726816
I don't mean to be that person but...

>Ezio cosplayer
>you were 13 at the time
>AC2 came out in 2009
>currently 2013
>that would make you 17 or so currently?

Underage b&?

>>6726843
I was thirteen at my first animu con, and I was a total pushover + bad at being too much of a bitch to anyone. Obviously if I were my age then, I wouldn't have even confronted him in his shitty ass cosplay.

>>6725520
Oh god are you me? I'm one of three girls out of our class of 300. The amount of icebreakers that start with "do you like anime because I want a kawaii girlfriend to do hentai with" is unbelievable. And constantly trying to counter a lecturer's points with their own that aren't correct or are a stupid way of doing thins.

>>6723779
People acting like their life is an anime I fucking HATE these people, reading this made me super mad because it reminds me of the weebs of my school. I always wanted to tell their stories but I just never find the time to do so.

>>6726886
It is the polar opposite here in my country. Even though the gender ratio is the same, it is always the women who feel the need to prove something and I swear every semester begins with them putting pressure on everyone else by skipping chapters and asking questions not pertinent at the current point in time.

>>6726886
>tfw no one will ever ask you if you like anime because they want a kawaii girlfriend to do hentai with

>>6726647
I dunno, I think I'm probably halfway between the why me and the phoney and found the phoney a fuck of a lot more damning. I'd rather be a virgin out of politics or wizardry than cowardice.

>>6726652
It sure did. Most of us sort of just sat there gaping.
>>6726714
What
>>6726731
Said.

Drawing for Sequa is an entry level class were you have to learn the basics of the industry. After that, you are allowed to explore into whatever given style you want, however this class is SPECIFICALLY about learning to draw for American comics and learning the basics of proportion, realism and the like in order to better stylize it.

There are a few really great people in my year who draw in a more manga influenced style and don't get crapped on because their stuff is legitimately great and they know the basics of anatomy and proportion and can therefore stylize it accordingly.

>>6726942
Also generally as long as Manga isn't the only thing you draw, the professors don't mind. All the ones I've taken actually really like manga/anime but when it comes to students who will only draw that and are adamant about becoming a manga artist in Japan is when they whip out the tough love.

Saw a guy on the subway today with a bag covered in animu pins, and a tonfa in his back pocket. That's illegal here, but like I'm going to fucking say anything to a weeaboo with a tonfa.

>>6726236
i laughed so hard i snorted pretzels and nutella through my nose

thanks anon

>>6726747
>currently working for the state if CA

They don't.

>>6723865
What?Where are all you DEG people hiding?Mad jelly of seeing them by the way.They've been near me once and I was in school at the time so I missed it.

>>6724031
Holy what.I thought it was just up here in the Kentuckihiodiana clusterfuck where the freaky furries and otherkin swarmed.I guess it's just Kentucky.

>>6727021

904 represent! (FL)

>>6726848
Post said they were 14. Not 13.

>>6726993
the hell is a tonfa?

>>6727021
NYC. A few of us deg fans still reside here.

>>6727088
Read it again, it says 13.

>>6727098
Excuse me anon, my eyes went retarded.

>>6727028
I can kinda sympathize with their need for something more magical and meaningful in life than living in KY. If you live in the country, you can at least do country stuff, but everybody in town has nothing to do but work and drugs. However, I think going fandom nutty is a poor coping device.

>>6726575
Wow, the only one I was butchering was Toshiya, apparently. Thanks, anon!

>>6726993
>Tonfa
I had to google that to see what it was and then said a big NOPE to the idea of someone talking to some crazy dude carrying that illegal shit around with anime pins on his bag

>>6727092

These things

>>6727158

Glad to help out a fellow fan

>>6727158
rofl i've been correcting people on saying Kyo's name with one syllable, not two for yeeears. It's the same with Yoshiki from xjapan.

>>6727255
>Yoshiki

Yo-SHEEK-ee. Oh my god, yes.

Especially his model bitches that hang out with him can't even say his name right. Do Japanese guys just not give a fuck or what? They feel correcting them would be a lost cause?

>>6724159

Late I know but is your boyfriend related to Tom Preston or something?

>>6727407

I've worked registration people at work and have had Korean business guys come up to me with a totally different name on their ID versus their sign up sheet. It's so very sad that Americas in general dont want to take the time to learn how to say something as easy as "Jung kim" and make the poor man change his name to James just to be in America.

>>6726131

>Caring about who tells the story
>Not just taking it in for its glorious/hilarious/cringeworthy content

>>6727452
I'm in a very Asian uni right now, and it's pretty sad when our TAs take attendance.

Every three students, this happens:
"Wiiiiin...chyaoooohhh...shiiiinnnnngaaaa"
"...Just call me Bob."
>student's name ends up being something simple like Jang Shen

>>6725612
I know I sound like a total douche here, but I'm guessing this is all mostly a Art and Design or Animation crew here.
Anime's a dirty word in Fine Art.

>>6727021
>>6723790 here

Have a pic from outside the hotel I was staying in, one block from the venue.

Yes, it is. Yes, they did. Same goddamn hotel.

>Be Japanese major on my second year (Yeah, I know...)
>First year is about 70% weebs
>Every year our department has a Japanese culture festival
>First years want to do a Japanese dance
>One girl in the second year suggests everyone getting together and learning some traditional dances
>"Lol no! We're doing hare hare yukai!!!"
>tfw All the people from the Japanese embassy have to endure five weebs doing that dance three times that day

It gets worse every year, I mean I'll admit my year had a bunch of weeaboos but at least they knew how to hide it and tried to stay professional with the festival.

>>6726215
>22
>high school anime club
wat

>>6724287
>What hurts is that both of them actually know what a weeaboo is but don't realize they are.

So... they're just like everyone on 4chan then?

Search your feelings. You know it to be true

>>6727538
>alumni

>>6727021
They actually toured the UK a bit with Kerrang. Twice or so.
I got to see them before all that though, whilst they were still pretty much VK.
Kyo cut and spat blood on the audience, it wasn't very Health and Safety friendly.

>>6726886
>Oh god are you me?
[pretendthisisinspoilers]I'm not one of the 5 or 6, I am but a witness. I also have my sister's accounts of similar situations in her game design course.[/pretend]

>And constantly trying to counter a lecturer's points with their own that aren't correct or are a stupid way of doing thins.
A thousand times this, this happens all the fucking time. A couple of my profs are based enough to shut them the fuck down when they try to pull this shit. The amount of asshats who do this is large enough that we've started giving the group nicknames.

>>6726617
>bachelor's in psychology
>bachelor's
>selectively cites Wikipedia

yes I completely trust your opinions

>>6727614
>I also have my sister's accounts of similar situations in her game design course.
Can I hear a few of these?

>>6727627
Nothing particularly interesting or specific, just that she was 1 of 3 or 4 women in a class of 100 or so, one of whom was MtF, and a bunch of them were spergs being spergs. She did make a fair amount of friends in her course though, so they weren't all autist lords.

>>6727598
he still pulls that?

>sigh

>>6726993
Don't worry anon, I would bet you all of my burando that he has no idea how to actually use those.

>Reading Memoirs of a Geisha in the Car
>Grandma see book
>Asks if I want to be a Prostitute
>Mon Visage
>"Well that's what Geisha Girls are"

>>6727702
That would make me rage so hard. Those women have to train so hard. It doesnt make it any better when you see the 'geisha' costumes at rickys nyc for halloween each year. Basically a low cut 'kimono'

>FUCKING AMERICA RUINING BEAUTIFUL CULTURAL STUFF

>>6727668
Well, like I said, it was when they were VK.
So no.

>>6727702
Oh god that reminds me of this
>Looking at lolita dresses online back when i was first getting into it
>Mom asks what I'm up to
>Show her a dress I'm planning on buying
>Her word for word reaction:
>"Oh, that's pretty! It looks like something a french hooker would wear."

My shitty weeaboo rage story

>in high school
>old professor weeaboo
>he need a pendrive, I give my pendrive (sword pendrive)
>he ask where I buy it,
>I said I buy it in some store of Chine
>oh shit
>he started talking about japanese and china culture, especially japanese
>talks about Evangelion as the Japanese see the bible
> c'mon
>and started talk about hentai
>and the history of hentai, and the types of hentai, and more hentai
> pls STAHP

Other story, same professor

>ask me if I have a nekomimi for her daughter
>because she need them for a custome party
> the daughter want to custome X thing, the father (professor) wants her daughter cosplay a "cat girl" because is more fun

>>6727021
>What?Where are all you DEG people hiding?

A good slice of the DEG fans are on Tumblr and they're catty as fuck.

>Mad jelly of seeing them by the way.They've been near me once and I was in school at the time so I missed it

They release an album every two to three years now & tour extensively in and out of Japan, so I wouldn't worry too much about not seeing them (unless you don't have the money, that'll always put a damper on things. But their concert tickets have been pretty cheap for the past three tour dates they've done in California in my experience).

>>6727715
>yfw thats the view most of japan has towards them these days
it's a dying "art"

I'm going to post this here since I know you guys will love it.

1/4

>>6727776
2/4

>>6727776
>part 1

Don't unleash this evil unto the world.

>>6727731
Haha well at least she thinks they wear pretty dresses?

>>6727777
3/4

>>6727776
>>6727777
context?

>>6727781
4/4
>>6727785
It's a Resume.

>>6727787
Well that was fucking depressing.

>>6727616
This is 4chan. Nobody is going to write a scholarly medical journal here. You can verify their claims with a simple internet search.

>>6727787
>It's a Resume.
Well yeah, but where did you find this?

>>6727787
The last line is slightly terrifying.


...Did she get the job?

>>6727787
Where did you acquire such a gem?

I work in hiring...honestly if I got this resume, I'd invite her into an interview just to bitch at her about how laughably unprofessional this is, and then have her removed.

>>6727776
>>6727777
>>6727781
>>6727787

There are no words

>>6727781
"a lot necessary skills"

this more than anything else made me rage. Don't you know how to proofread your filth?

Not like any employer is going to spend more than two seconds looking through this.

>>6727816
I disagree. I think any employer would have to read through just out of horrible morbid fascination.

>>6727797
Internet
>>6727801
I assume that since they scanned it in and posted it on the internet that she didn't

>>6727776
>>6727777
>>6727781
>>6727787
Thank you so much. I love reading these.

>a little something in return

>>6727832
Uguu, my aching ass.

It's like, I think I'm a weeaboo, then tards like this pop up and I go back to being a normalfag with a high power level.

>>6727777
I have more than competent IT skills
>Microsoft Office
>PowerPoint
>Photoshop CS3
>Gimp
>EZworship (apparently a podcast maker)

Are... are you fucking kidding me?

>>6727832
The sad thing is, if you remove all the "uguu"s, they're actually semi-legitimate posts.

>>6727832
>DnDizzle
>WoWzers
...

>>6727832
I was convinced this was a dare or something until I got to his explanation. God damn son, I can't imagine how people interact with him normally.

>Be 15, foreign as fuck
>Moves to USA private school
>Is 2 years younger than rest of class
>Teacher says I moved from Tokyo but I moved from HK
>Girls at the back of the class begin to whisper loudly, "anime" and "otaku"
>Left alone all in class; Engrish skills didn't help
>One of the whispering girls approach me at break
>Slides hand up the back of my shirt
>I freak out and shove her
>She starts crying and her friends approach me and start to smack the shit out of me
>Heavily bruised for the next month, but no serious injury
>Later find out that the girl who touched me was 18; 3 years older than me, 1 year older than class
>Is now 19 and terrified of highschool girls

>>6727858
Looks like one of those annoying ass people that needs to post on facebook for every single minuscule daily event.

>15, Freshman in highschool
>Wearing Pokemon shirt
>Chick who sits in front of me in Algebra compliments me on it
>Say thanks
>Slowly get to know her
>She seems sane enough
>As our friendship grows I slowly begin to realize how much of a weeaboo she is
>She quotes anime in the most inappropriate of times and draws terrible fanart on lined paper that she colors with crayons
>Too deep in the friendship to break it off now and I'm too nice to tell her to fuck off
>Act passive aggressive toward her for the rest of the year
>She doesn't get the hint
>Stuck with her until we graduate when we finally lose contact

She and her other weeaboo friend wrote this terrible fanime called the Knight Creatures that was somewhat of a ripoff of Sailor Moon. I think I still have copies of the second and sixth episodes lying around somewhere.

>>6727745
>????

>>6726595

>I deliver their food and speak to them in quick, conversational japanese, wouldn't switch to english

ur awesome.

>>6728200
>ur awesome

You must be 18+ to use this website.

>>6726614
fuck that shit, I would've told her to fuck off immediately

>>6727996
Uhhh, you should probably post those episodes, then... You can't just... say that and then not post...

>>6726816
your 13 year old friend was making out with someone that could be her dad? what the fuuuuuuuuuuuck.

>>6726848

nice, good catch on that

>>6727255
>>6727407

I don't get you guys at all on the correction of name thing. And somewhere out there some Japanese probably can't even pronounce a band member name right that is in English, are you guys going to fly over there and rag on them for it as well?

>>6727715 those women had to be oppressed so hard.

>>6728201
quit being a faggot.

>>6726622
except this is true? what, do you think you have it or some shit? I seriously thought DID was basically forbidden to diagnose now cause it's so astronomically rare

>>6726347
>Half German...
>...Half Shepherd

Mountain Dew outta my nose.

>>6727811
>den-o gif
I love you anon, please go out with me.

>>6727745
>>talks about Evangelion as the Japanese see the bible

>>6727777
>>chuffed
die in a fire

>>6728220

It's different for the Japanese pronouncing English, much more so than Americans pronouncing Japanese.

Japanese is seriously the easiest fucking language to pronounce, and fucking up one syllable to the point where it's not even the man's name anymore is even more pathetic as a result. Especially when it's done by their "hardcore fans".

>>6727821

I'd print out several copies and stick them to all the notice boards, myself.
Fuck, I want to start a business and rent an office building just to do that.

bump for MOAR

>>6725341
HE TRIED TO MAKE A FUCKING BUSTER SWORD OUT OF CLAY?

HOLY SHIT PLEASE TELL ME IT WAS A SCALE MODEL BECAUSE I CAN BELIEVE THIS NIGGA, NOT EVEN AN ACTUAL BUSTER SWORD WOULD WEIGH THAT MUCH.

>>6727996
Is this it?

>>6727858
Did he like, even watch the last couple episodes? Though that's completely irrelevant. He's still going around saying uguu.

>>6727858
Oops, wrong anon. I lose.

>>6731446
wut