/jp/ - Otaku Culture

>>11085285

>How can we really spend this much time obsessed with anime, VN, games, and all the stuff we buy without actually developing such an interest in the culture it comes from?

Japan has one of the highest depression and suicide rates in the entire world. Their forms of entertainment are almost completely based around pure escapism and is intentionally made to be as detached from the reality of life in Japan as possible.

If I wanted to be a suicidal and alcoholic salary man that has to deal with an overwhelming amount of stress and soul-crushing depression each day then maybe I would like to visit Japan.

>>10289383

>Japanese is the undisputed king of taking it it easy.

>Japan has one of the world's highest suicide rates, and the Japanese government reported the rate for 2006 as being the ninth highest in the world.
>Karōshi which can be translated literally from Japanese as "death from overwork", is occupational sudden death. Although this category has a significant count, Japan is one of the few countries that reports it in the statistics as a separate category. The major medical causes of karōshi deaths are heart attack and stroke due to stress.

Definitely sounds like Japan is taking it easy.

>>10223601

The fate of every Japanese person.

This is no life worth living. Living lives of depression inside of the concrete prisons that we call cities. Freedom is living in a big open space where there aren't any humans for miles and miles and you can bask in the beauty of nature.

>>10175346

>Living in Japan
>Living the dream