/jp/ - Otaku Culture

>>41668119
Little journey. Initially, it was purely through the music, in a way that was completely disconnected from the girls or the anime aesthetic, not like Bad Apple or Geddan or Japanese Goblin. Instead, it was that Touhou has a history with black MIDI tracks. I found the franchise a decade ago through this exact video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ycf6fuhKkwU

Check out the other tracks on this guy's channel; they're pretty old but super nice.

From the comments on the several "Death Waltz" Synthesia videos that are out there, I learned that a lot of it was from Touhou but still wasn't sure what exactly Touhou was, so Google brought me to /jp/, where I was shown this video (by the same guy who would later go on to create the "prangent" viral video):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7lHJXPKoX0

From this, I played the games (white refusing easymodo and consequently not beating them back then), participated in silly shit, and learned a little about art & music. I never really got into the whole waifu or daughteru thing, but the "devil's little sister" being this little girl who was "more powerful than the devil" was, on a conceptual level, something that sounded cool as shit to me, which got me wondering what else I'd find in the games.

There was a sort of death & rebirth here, though. I took a long break after Moot made some statements at AWA that shat a bunch of people onto /jp/, then the pandemic several years later brought me to computer development communities, which brought me into making aesthetically pleasing Web sites instead of the sanitized corporate shit, which brought me to Serial Experiments Lain communities, which had an overlap of people that brought me back to Touhou. This time, I'm actually reliably beating & EX-clearing games and reading the print works in chronological release order. I can appreciate a good or otherwise charismatic fan work, but most of my engagement is still going through the primary works, which there's surprisingly a lot of. Also, Fumo plush, which I do not buy unless I've beaten her in-game.

>>35592311
Same, except I sometimes like to watch old Hollywood movies from the 1920s-40s. Especially anything with Lillian Gish, she is so beautiful and could communicate so much emotion without even saying a word.

Western media just kept alienating me more and more until I felt no interest or attachment in it. Everything the west produces lacks soul and seems singlemindedly manufactured by a committee to push some agenda. There is no real heroism in western media, no romance, no optimism, no hope. Just cynical ugly demoralizing trash that reinforces weakness and complacency with the status quo. When I come home from work I don't want to be lectured at by some irritating zealot that hates me because I am working class. I want media to help me escape from the shittiness of my life; to provide dreams and wonder to help me get through the ugliness of daiy life and work towards a better future.

Any advice for doing 2hu lunatic? I have some harder CAVE and Raizing clears, so I feel like it's time to cross this off the bucket list.

Hi /jp/.

I've been away for about three or four years now. What's changed?

>>9868903

>>9764387

It's like you've given up completely, Anon.

>>7135562

AYO WADDUP RAYMOO

oh look it's reimu

Discuss

>>2369930
Them are some fucked up teeth, Taymoo.

>>1502037

Hey, just the guy who I wanted to see!

MOO I SAY

Obligatory

Cows?

mue

>>743649

EX-Reimu