/jp/ - Otaku Culture

let me solve this for you. it's because people who are interested in moe are man-children who never grew up and matured to handle real relationships and contact with people. so they escaped into the bullshit you're talking about.

>>12338538
It's popular but it's not really something everyone appreciates.

Most of the population has nothing against anime. You know how you'll see alot of those anime girls on ads and stuff? Those are normal and people don't mind them at all. It's just that if you're an otaku like literally all you do is watch anime, play games and wear those otaku clothing then.....yea

people will think you're a loser. So Basically it's okay if your hobbies are anime, videogames, whatever. Just don't act like a hikikomori otaku and you will be fine

>>12086933
>After Eva, "otaku" began to lose its stigma (I mean, look around today, it's mainstream now),
I don't think that started around Eva. To the best of my knowledge. Densha otoko was the beginning, Haruhi was a landmark, then there was the birth of NicoNico and then came more KyoAni and blah blah until we get to this point with children growing up with niconico and 2ch, and then we have the super popular anime like K-On, T&B, Madoka continuing the trend. Today if we go on nico news, older people still use the obsessive stereotype, and younger people will use otaku to mean "anime fan" and they might use "kimi otaku" to refer to the obsessive type like pic related.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UOm-EgLI4 japan valentinez youtube style

Ignorance is bliss, and the comfortable lie is an easier pill to swallow than the uncomfortable truth. With weeaboo having exceedingly bad connotations and 'anime fan' being too casual for many, there is a small sense of satisfaction from calling oneself 'otaku'. To know that someone out there in Japan can relate to your shameful anime obsession and could potentially be an ally, to strip people of this label is to strip them of their safety blanket.

Even those who don't go around calling themselves 'otaku' feel comfort in being able to relate to the stigma, many people can't deal without labels and these people are often those who label others the most.

When somebody comes along and says "Everything you know is wrong, here's how it actually is" with proof, not many people will take kindly to this. But slowly, over years people have to either adapt or die in ignorance.

The Neo-Nazis of today do not represent the Nazi Party of Nazi germany; essentially they are very different from the Nazis of the pre-war era and today's rendition of Nazis have no right to call themselves such, but people use the label anyway for convenience and because of the similarities.

In this way, otaku is the same. The 'otaku' of today probably have no right to be called so, yet convenience and comfort allow people to gloss over the past and pretend nothing has changed while they change the biggest part of all.

The importance of this however, is that the past can never be changed - but the future can. Otaku will evolve into whatever otaku shape their evolution to be, we clearly have some intelligent 'otaku' here who refuse to be part of the current generation. Does this perhaps signal a change in the waters? Perhaps this debate and similar ones all over the internet will reshape the future of otaku into something that combines modern otaku technologies with retro otaku sensibilities.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oi_l9Cza-1A

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wzxH-nvzfu4

>>9970935
Off with the hat! Off with the hat!

I just made friends with a Japanese otaku who's on foreign exchange here in the US. We talked about Lucky Star, Hidamari Sketch and Yuruyuri. We barely understand each other's languages, but we understood each other better than either of us understand the normalfags around us.

How jealous are you, /jp/?

Somebody help!

I used to play all kinds of games, fps, mmo, etc. even read novels and shit, but now I'm constantly depressed unless I'm reading a visual novel.

the fuck is wrong with me? am I going insane?

I guess I'm officially a piece of shit?

>>8384348
Yes I did. But then I grew up.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FuJMjnpUap0&feature=feedu

This you /jp/, all of you

>>8046416

You have no place in /jp/.

>Reported for underage
>Reported for Spam.

What does /jp/ recommend for a new okatu to play (mmo's to be precise.)
Noticed a few, but what is the mainstream game.

As an outsider, what is it about Japanese culture that fascinates you so much? Anime is all well and good, don't get me wrong, but why is it that the Japanese are so appealing to you?

No, they all look like this.

>>7016287
Well too bad I wanted a father that played video games with me, watched anime with me and jacked off to drawings when I don't see him.

Too bad.

I'm sure they're find 3 things in their search.

The most obnoxious otaku,

The most fat otaku.

The most mentally disabled otaku.

Basically they'll find gaia otaku.

What they won't find is /jp/ personnel and people that are normal.

They're basically finding just the people that fit the japanese "otaku" stereotype or the western neckbeard weeaboo fatlus guy. Also super whale yaoi fangirls.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0UqjvVaU7B4
Sums up /jp/ in terms of weeaboo faggotry

>>6766587
>implying she would fuck the average /jp/ browser

How come at almost every place I've worked... there is some fat, balding, disgusting middle-aged looking who loves to show off the fact he likes anime and manga by having desktop wallpapers, manga, etc at his desk?

I mean... I like the occasional anime, I watch maybe 1-2 series a year, read a manga I find interesting now and then... but I have good personal hygiene, I'm 5'8" 160lbs and take decent care of my body and personal appearance and don't plaster my workspace with fucking moe shit and anime.

What the fuck is wrong with these people? Does no one wonder WHY people look down on otakus?

YOU RIKE AKIHABRA?