/jp/ - Otaku Culture

I'd buy real estate

Do I know about the bubble economy, internet, subsequent dot-com bubble, and so on, or am I as doomed as everyone else?

>>10518250
>>10518251
Is the only thing you guys care about is money?

>>10518251
>>10518250
You have all knowledge of your past life, so yes.

Truly the greatest era

>>10518279
Nothing else matters since all media is available in the present.

>>10518238
buy as many computers and games as i can!
and wear cute frilly dresses!

>>10518279
Livelyhood comes first.

In which case, I start hitting the books so I can get into a nice university for CS during the bubble, then start a web-hosting and network consulting firm by the time Lain airs. I might even be able to contribute to the first version of Apache.

>>10518300
You're 15 with parents that provide for you though.

You will never own a 1980's Sukeban fig. Can anyone tell me more about Sukeban please, the live action only?

Kids can't be otaku, idiot

I choose to be a cute girl to cosplay Lum.

>>10518328
Don't be baka. Yes, they can.

>>10518238
Cool question, OP. I would immediately create a voluminous "zine" with the plot details of Akira and all post-Akira Japanese media. (I imagine I would be able to complete this "zine" soon after the Akira teaser was released in 1987.) The wide dissemination of this "zine" would be inevitable due to social media strategies I have developed in the present (of this timeline). Japanese media creators, in fear of reproducing plots detailed in my "zine", would come up with different plots. (I imagine Akira and all post-Akira Japanese media would be affected.) Living large on "zine" profits, I would enjoy the resultant Japanese media. Come 2013, I would return to 1986 and create a two-volumed "zine" with the plots from both two timelines, etc. Living even larger on "zine" profits, I would enjoy the resultant Japanese media, etc.

>>10518352
What will actually happen: "Oh wow this guy made up all of these plots for us. This is great, let's just use these so we don't have to worry about figuring it out ourselves."

>>10518382
Then think of all the royalties you would get.

>>10518317

being a burden to my parents during the bubble collapse would be awful. I've had enough of that for one lifetime.

>>10518347
But it's not weird then.

>>10518391
The dot com bubble collapse? I thought only unmarried young people screwed around with that.

>>10518238
No, Sean.

>>10518279
"money doesn't buy you happiness but without money it's easy to be unhappy"

>>10518397

Japan had two: first an asset bubble that popped in 1991, causing spiraling inflation, then in 2000 with everyone else when people started to realize you can't put a website on the books as an asset like you can a plot of land.

>>10518238
Man, Godzilla merchandise looked like shit back then.

The cat in that picture is probably dead now ;_;

>>10518281
YES ww

i cannot be any more happy

i must find a cute boyfriend!

>>10518449
He'll live on in all otauk hearts.

Oh God, I'd be a guy and I can watch Bubblegum Crash/Crisis in all it's glory! Also I'll study to be a mechanic since that's one of the few jobs still in demand in this crappy economy.

Also...

>>10518347

Fucking awesome cosplay!

80s were a/m/zing!

I would watch vintage loli ero anime.

Come to think of it, vintage loli ero anime is the only loli ero anime that exists.

So no change.

>>10518476
Have another, but don't tell.

80's sucked, no panties, lolis, and incest. No hot character designs either.

>>10518503

Thank you very much sir, you are a gentleman and a scholar!

Do I get to keep going back in time or am I suddenly going to become 14 years older?

I don't want to be 42.

>>10518495
loli is too mainstream to have an ero market nowadays. You can find lolis shaking their naked butts on like 2 or 3 anime a season.

>>10518238
Invent tablet computers, smartphones, Google, Facebook, the list goes on...

I will illegally immigrate to Russia assassinate Gorbachev and ensure the USSR's victory in the cold war. NEETs will never exist.

>>10518571

And I thought I was old. Feels good man.

I bet I'm the only one on this board that actually was 15 in 1986.

>>10518564

I CALL DIBS ON 2ch AND 4 CHAN!

>>10518552
But isn't like half the ero market loli?

>>10518546
It's 15 and you can choose to go back to your old life, once you hit 18 years old and graduate high school. You can continue to grow, but you still have the option to go back to your old life no matter the time past 18.

>>10518569

>>10518571
You could have become a God of the 80's, but you're here on /jp/. What the fuck happened?

>>10518593
90ies and internet.

>>10518238
>It's the greatest era of all time: 1980's.
stopped reading right there.

I would tell people to avoid speculating on real estate and assets right away.

After avoiding the bubble popping and learning of subsequent economic inefficiencies that are quickly dealt with, japan would become the economic and cultural superpower of the world during the 90s.

Now all of you get to learn japanese as gradeschoolers no matter where you live. The world advances even more rapidly. Otaku is seen as a sound lifeplan and investment strategy by the 2000s.

>>10518627
>The world advances even more rapidly.
you got my attention!!!

>>10518627
>I would tell people to avoid speculating on real estate and assets right away.
Nobody would listen to you, nerdhomo

You don't have what it takes.

>>10518576
Half the ero market is yaoi.

One of the only things I miss were the actual proper school uniforms and the longer skirts.

You dont see them any more. Nowadays its nothing but sluts with centimeter long pieces of thread around them.

>>10518645
>>10518645

As a 15 year old girl with thousands of research papers detailing everything about the bubble that I take with me from this era, and show to every major corporation, they will have no choice but to listen.

In fact, being a 15 year old girl will make them even more likely to listen, since everything I'll be telling them is correct and the truth of the future.

>>10518627

Don't listen to >>10518645, with GUTS AND HARDWORK you can do it!!!!!!

Would be nice if Gainax would actually make a series from one of their first projects

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rzy1RNJBUo4

>>10518584
Oh well, then I'd collect legal nude photobooks of girls my age and save them for the time when they'd no longer be allowed. Then I'd live until like 60 and jump back to my life with all the knowledge of the future.

Also I'd make sure to knock up some girl and have a cute daughter that I'd train to be interested in my normal self and seek me out. That means... I'd have to do it by '94 if I wanted her to be able to move freely on her own.

>>10518250
>I'd buy real estate
you have any idea what interest rates for mortgages looked like then?

>>10518696
They were amazing.

One of the best if not the best times to get real estate in all of history.

>>10518702
bourgeoisie please die

>>10518710
Just kidding. I am not that guy you replied to. In truth I dont know much about real estate or economy for that matter. I just felt like saying that and see if it was true or not.

>>10518588

Сраный славный

It was mostly mecha garbage, so I wouldn't even be interested in anime or manga.

I would have instead developed into a relatively normal person. I would purchase gold and buy up as many rare video games as I could and seal them away for sale later on. Also, real estate and lottery.

I would become so fucking rich.

Ohhh, man. To be a weeblord in the 80s you had to really want it.

I remember getting VHS tapes recorded off of Japanese television from my penpals and then having to 1. try to figure out what the fuck was being said or 2. trying to get subtitles edited onto those tapes from the supreme fart commander that worked at my local comic shop. Always yellow. Always inaccurate.

There were domestic releases sporadically, usually of extremely high quality, though. The prices were outrageous and often released on bizarre formats like LASER DISC.

You had to want to go for the gold.

>>10518721
The Jap real estate industry crashed 1989-1990, it still hasn't "recovered" to the inflated pre-1990 price levels.

＞Become one of the original Otaku's
＞1986
＞It's the greatest era of all time
＞1986

Ｉ ＷＩＬＬ ＢＥＣＯＭＥ ＴＨＥ ＯＴＡＱＵＥＥＮ！

>>10518660
Disgusting.
That is not a proper uniform.

>>10518775
wwww

this thread give me yukko syndrome.

>>10519086

thanx for share. is always really interesting, hear how OTAKU culture exist before the internet.

I get on a plane to America, the greatest country on Earth, and watch superior Western cartoons like ROBOTECH.

That one faggot is going to accuse me of being that one faggot who advertises, but
http://www.magcloud.com/browse/issue/220526/

The zine is now free to download. It has some neat articles on otaku fandom back in the day.

[X] Take a fat ogre shit

>>10519927
No worries, mate.

It was weird back then because anime was actually getting some recognition as a legitimate art form. Major motion picture distributors were making some of the higher concept stuff and a lot of the classic OVAs from the time period available to the West by way of the exploding home video market.

Niche shows were hard to come by, though, and just like today, only a small fraction of series ever made it to an English audience.

There was an anime club that was around in my state (that I occasionally see members of at different events) who were G1 pre-internet fansubbers. They were all older than me. I was too young to actually be in the club, but I looked at these guys as gods, and tapes could be found if you were earnest in your search or were contributing raws, which I did quite a bit because of my trades with penpals in Nippon.

Back then there were no strictly anime conventions (at least not in my section of the country), but at comic and science fiction conventions you would be able to find bootlegs all the time. When the anime industry took off stateside, people frowned on the bootleggers, but at one time - they were the most reliable connections anyone had.

Watch maison ikkoku and LOGH every week and then cry when its over. then prepare for retarded shit anime forever and ever.

>>10518690
They're still allowed to posess really. I'm sure you can still find them.

>>10522433

I know this is kinda taboo to ask, but could you give me some recommendations or list of some of your favorite shows from around that era? The history of the fandom really interests me, and there's not much to go on other than things like Akira, Astro Boy, Gundam Wing, Lupin the Third, and a select few others that get mentioned now days. Are there any series lost to time that you really enjoyed, forgot about, and are well worth the watch even today?

Thanks ahead of time.

>>10522510
Yeah, there is a loop whole in the Japanese law with that. You can't sell, buy, or create any nudes, but you can owen them or something like that. This includes lolis. I have to look at the law again to completely remember what it says.

>>10522571
What a stooge. You're a stooge, dude.

>>10522836

Don't even fucking talk to me nerd.