/jp/ - Otaku Culture

>be calliope
>ihaveadream.mp3
>you can sing, draw and write your own songs, surely you can do this
>take a massive risk and move to japan in 2018
>immediately get slapped in the face by reality
>xenophobia in every aspect of life, limiting your opportunities
>can't even find a place to live other than a shitty rundown apartment with leaky windows
>and a neighbor who has a noisy fucking motorbike that wakes you up at 11pm without fail every night
>justpartofthegrind.wav
>work your ass off, songwriting and drawing your own music videos
>struggling to break 50k subs on youtube
>run out of money because of course
>gotta find a job now
>no one wants to hire a foreign girl for a "real job"
>end up having to take shifts at the convenience store
>can barely make rent so all the time you should be songwriting you're just sweeping the fucking floor because you need as many shifts as you can get
>fuckthisinconveniencestore.flac
>and when you get home you can't sleep because of motorcycle-kun
>you need to get your big break but you're just so tired after doing your banal ass job for scraps all day
>your american ass ends up swearing in front of customers one day and you get into massive trouble
>trauma.m4a
>now you spend your days making yourself as small as possible, censoring yourself, just trying to get by
>crash on your bed after another long day of japanese customers giving you fake smiles but judgmental stares for being a foreign girl working the cashier
>it's been 2 years since you moved here
>do they think you're a failure
>maybeiamafailure.aax
>go on twitter because the only respite from the monotonous, toiling wageslave hellhole you've inadvertantly gotten yourself into is some based memes
>see a rt
>huh, hololive EN auditions
>you've watched vtubers sometimes at work, maybe...?
>not like you can do any worse if it doesn't work out right