/jp/ - Otaku Culture

>>39218835
Isn't it just an edited Mokou reaction?

>>18191417
>>18191426

After finding all those articles I don't know how to feel about YUA...

Hold me /jp/

I stumbled upon To Love Ru randomly in high school, and that was love at first sight, but it ended. I also played the hell out of some SNES roms.
In any case, around that time I convinced myself that Chinese was the most geopolitically useful language to learn, and I legitimately loved reading the classics. I was too naive to understand how fucked Mainland China had gotten under communism, and it never occurred to me that Japanese is just as good as modern Chinese for reading those classics. I took a year of Japanese, alongside five other languages, and had a blast with Sensei and his subtle Cool Japan sensibilities, but it was too little too late.
In college I continued with Chinese, finding it increasingly boring. I flirted with Chinese girls until I got bored with that too, so I started smoking weed and watching a shitload of cartoons. I watched all of Jackie Chan Adventures on top of a few titles like Initial D and the Ghibli movies.
After three semesters I washed out and came back home to be a NEET. Somewhere along the way I found out that TLR had returned years prior, and the monthly scanlation went onto the short list of things I had to look forward to.
Two summers ago I wound up on 4chan and bounced around the boards until I learned about nyaa. I jury-rigged something involving AceStream and got the TLR anime playing. The first few episodes sucked, and helpful /a/nons correctly told me to skip to Motto. It was like cocaine, and I've had cocaine.
I slowly began watching a few episodes a week. Bebop was a good on-ramp. GuP taught me what an OVA was. I watched FMP and read Sigma in a day. By the next spring I picked up Haruhi, solely because it seemed like one of the keys to understanding /a/. I watched Endless Eight in one sitting. By the end of the month I had read all of the novels and knew with absolute certainty that I had to become fluent in Japanese and that I should write fiction for a living.
I started with the TLR raws off the goddess and painstakingly went line-by-line with a dictionary and grammar guide; no dedicated kanji study, just furigana and a familiarity with traditional characters that I kept as a souvenir from three years of Chinese. It stuck, and now in addition to being able to read Jump without issue, I can rewatch shows sans subs and plod my way through LNs.
That more or less covers the story of how I became an otaku with nyantype posters on my wall and a note reading S3 tied around a bamboo plant in the garden. I've also developed quite a taste for Tanizaki and nigori, and I do a good job of being a well-rounded Japanophile. However, for me it's continuously the case that only two things in life are real: cute girls and cartoons.

>>17417313
Not that kind of hurting.