/jp/ - Otaku Culture

I dont like japan.

cute girl

Why would I want to go to Japan? It's shit.

Why haven't you moved to a flat above a baker's in Berlin?

Makes about as much sense as your question, and it's just as on-topic to boot.

I'm poor.

I would be too embarrassed to ever go to akihabara. Same reason I don't go to conventions.

>>10651802
Yes, because the bakery district of Berlin is know worldwide as an Otaku hub

>>10651796
probably a high school dropout though. No respectable girls end up with a job like that.

>>10651811
Bread Otaku, I'm sure Berlin makes the best pimpernickel and poppy seed bloomers.

Whats with the 75% boring as fuck shopping baskets?

Give me a visa and I will.

>>10651822
pretty sure japan has bloomers covered.

>>10651830
And a cute dress to work a job like that too amirite?

>>10651823
she hands out the colored baskets to guys she thinks are cute. On the off chance one of them will save her from her wretched existence. The others are for gaijin.

I don't want to live in Japan

I want to live in Japan.

>>10651838
>>10651840
getting mixed messages here. stay consistent.

>>10651828
>japanese
>aryan white

I'd rather not live in Akihabara.

>>10651837
Guess that makes sense. Most gaijin wouldn't be able to appreciate the colored baskets anyways.

>>10651849
Well why the hell would you want a colored basket? Look, it's even smaller than the black ones. If on the off chance she did pass me a colored basket I would ask her for a black one instead.

>>10651854
See? Typical gaijin. I for one would love a cute little colored basket.

>>10651846
Japan is a beautiful country. Who doesn't want to live in a beautiful country?

>>10651854
It's not like you're gonna fill an entire basket if you're shopping in an electronics store.

>>10651854
rejecting a gift from a girl like that.
stay pure.

>>10651865
I would probably live there. But it's not like I wouldn't ever want to live anywhere else.

I would put my goods in her basket, if you get my message

>>10651865
black people.

>>10651802

>Akihabara
>not board related

Confirmed for madfag who wants /jp/ to be "/jp/ - Feels/Random"

Why would you want a colored basket? They look dirty

NVM,i forgot this is /jp/,home of the ADHD

Rather live in Kyoto.
It has an Animate shop for my needs.

>>10651875
I would copulate with her, if you know what I mean.

>>10651875
>>10651886
I don't know what you guys mean.

>>10651878
Why not Osaka?
Or a place between the two, that way you don't get to live in an overcrowded area and living costs would be cheaper,

>>10651889
They just want to put their plug in her socket, nomsayin

>>10651890
Seems like the best way to go. Probably wouldn't take you more than 2 hours to get to Akiba either. Dem trains.

>>10651893
Nah man I don't.

>>10651889
they want to have sex with 3dpd

>>10651890
Not been to Osaka and I don't know an awful alot about the place.
Plan on going there when I stop being a freeter and get some cash.

>>10651828
why are their names blurred out? why do nips do this?

>>10651896
2 hours is a pretty damn long time still. Depends on how often you want to go I guess.

>>10651896
Make sure you know decent Japanese before buying a train ticket. If you select English at the terminal all the Japanese girls will laugh at you because it's loud as fuck.

>>10651916
If you are either planning long stays or infrequent trips it really shouldn't be a big deal.

>>10651924
Sounds like fun. I'll have to try it some time whatever my Japanese competency level is.

>>10651924
Buy it online before you go out there if you wanna stay manhood intact.
All other train/underground systems are pretty simple.

>>No.10651916
Just need Tokyo for conventions or fueling being a buyfag. Then again you could probably get that shit delivered.

>>10651916
That even.

>>10651924
>decent Japanese
>anything related to navigating Japan

Dude, if you think that's DECENT Japanese, then you got a long, long, LONG way to go.

Japanese major 2nd year grad student here.

>>10651980
I was able to navigate Japan with a phrasebook and a bunch of printed maps. I didn't even know kana at the time.

>>10651804

You're self-conscious?

>>10651980
>Japanese major

>>10651896

I've just noticed... why does this loop? Why is it the same three people in the subway car over and over again?

>shitty aparment

Have you seen how much fucking rent is on an apartment in Akiba?

>>10651980
Navigating in a foreign 1st/2nd world country is easy as fuck. Took me a month in Russia and I was fine on my own afterwards. I couldn't speak a single word let alone read anything when I got off the plain. Knowing even a little of the language before hand goes a long way.

>>10651998
Gaps man. Gaps.

>>10652007
By fine I meant above average. Just doing touristy stuff like taking the train is easy modo.

>>10651998
Gaijins can't into reflections

>>10652007
What is Russia like?

No money, no visa, no idea how I would make money.

If I somehow got there, I would probably go straight to Aokigahara though.

>>10652006
being that poor.
during this economic depression.
how will you manage to stay alive these coming years?
>http://www.sakura-house.com/en/B00005/8/room.html

>>10651924
I'm glad you told me, because now I'm going to do it on purpose.

>>10652016
Most people were very welcoming and hospitable. The public transportation was amazing. You really don't need a car. Ups and downs like anywhere else I guess. The food was really good too.

>inb4 >>>/int/

>>10651811
Who gives a fuck? Otaku breathe, let's have a Breathing General.

>>10651822
This makes more sense.

>>10652037
>Who gives a fuck?
Being this mad. On the internet.

>>10652050
Yeah, dude, he used a R-rated word. It must mean he's super angry.

>>10652054
>he

heh, you are not fooling anyone, /a/

>>10652024

That's Tokyo for you. I'm sure there are other parts of it that are far more expensive for even less space and amenities.

>>10652079
>band
Bang*

Do I have to fucking band and marry a JP chick to get a motherfucking visa or what, Jesus Christ Japan, fuck you.

>>10652035
I assume you were in a city?
Was it Moscow?
W-was the subway art nice?

>>10651869
Hey speak for yourself!

>>10652101
That's terrible fucking work but yeah I guess it's the easiest way.

>>10652079
get a college degree and teach english

>>10652088
do you want to be his boyfriend or something? don't be shy

>>10652101
But I'm not a native English speaker, does it matter? I'm Italian, but I lived 4 years in America so I can speak pretty well (my accent isn't like super Mario's)

>>10652116
Japan is a first world country. They enjoy learning languages besides English.

>>10652129
I know that, I also know that they love Italians, but that doesn't mean that there are going to be tons of Italian schools there, or at least not as much as English ones.

But I am curious right now, do they accept also non native teachers for teaching a given language?

>>10652139
>I also know that they love Italians

Jokes aside from what I've heard they actually are pretty tenuous about hiring non native English speakers.

>>10652139
Sad reality is that some places will hire you just for looking white. There are probably plenty of better qualified English teachers in Japan that a lot of the people they hire. Do you look white?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris_syndrome

>>10652147
White as fuck.

I'm also a 9/10.

>>10652153
For what it's worth, I taught English in Japan for a year while improving my Japanese so I could get a new job and I'm not a native English speaker.

I don't know if they could tell, though. My home country being Canada probably made it harder for them to tell, it's not like I lived in France.

>>10652247
What kind of job did you move on to?

>>10652247
Didn't they ask you? How did you get hired?

>>10652252
Got my CS degree in Canada while learning Japanese on the side. I wanted to immediately go to Japan and work as a programmer there but it seemed impossible. All the jobs asked you to speak native-level Japanese and 80% asked you to already be in Japan (they sponsored your visa, though), so I decided to teach English first to improve my Japanese significantly and then I moved to a software development job at the end of my contract.

>>10652153

ahaha oh shit is this bitch serious?

"next time without the Italians!"

okay, hirohito, whatever you say.

My only chance to be in Japan would be working in a Mexican restaurant but I don't even know how to make mexican or texmex dishes. And I'm pretty sure Japanese preffer real Spanish teachers over shitty Mexicans like me for spanish.

Is there another option?

>>10652291
Well get an actual degree and learn fluent Japanese for one.

>>10652291
You can be a server. You rarely need to have cooking knowledge to work at a restaurant if they have decent training.

>>10652286
You write the weapon firmware for mechs and stuff? That's so cool.

>>10652286
Wierd, I'm doing the same thing. Except my CS degree is just so I can get an easy degree to get hired to teach English abroad (maybe Japan). Seems like the opposite to your story.

>>10652274
ECC. I didn't tell them I wasn't native.

>>10652322
Why not go for an actual joke degree like Communications if your only goal is to teach English?

Anyone knows anything about the merchant navy in Japan?
I heard that it is hard for baka gaijin to get hired for a japanese vessel but these people are always negative about everything relating to the job so there is that.

I would like to move for a few months in the future to meet someone but I guess I should probably stick to teaching english like most people that move there.

>>10652348
I like CS and it would be a great fall back if teaching isn't for me.

>>10652312

Don't you need to be good-looking for that?

>>10652362
Yes, but that is no problem for /jp/.

>>10652362
Just by being the right ethnicity the locals wont actually care how you look. Just don't try to get a date with the other staff...

>>10652362
Trust me. I've seen ALOT of ugly maid girls whenever i'm in Akiba. The only requirement its seems is to be thin, or relatively decent body and being able to speak in the most degrading form of Japanese to customers and pretend to enjoy it.

>>10652421
The thing is, when you see how ugly some of customers are, even 'ugly' maids looks decent in comparison.

>>10652421
Are you one of the people who taught English in Japan? I hope that ALOT is just a typo and that you know it isn't a word.

>>10651896

Is that train shopped? Because I saw the same people 4 times.

>>10652312
>implying they'll get you a visa

>>10652475
Don't know if he is, but it's not like you actually need to be good at English to teach English in Japan.

What's the point of living in the center of akihabara?
Can't you just order stuff online or go there by train?

Why is gaijin so stupid?

>>10652494
The only point is being able to go to the Taito HEY arcade until 1AM (or should I say 25:00), without worrying about missing the last train to go home.

I lived right down Akiba for about 6 months, and that was the best part. Around 23:30~24:00 you see everyone rushing to the station to get back home, while you can enjoy playing until closure of most arcades at 25:00.

>>10652475
I've seen indians with THICK as fuck indian accent teaching English in Japan.

>>10652526
As a non native English speaker myself, I find indians people speaking English way easier to understand than an average american person.

I live in the UK now, and Indians/Pakis are also easier to understand than people with a strong british accent.

>>10651804
I haven't ever gone to a convention where I live because I'm too self-conscious, I don't like neither the people who attend them (many of them just think "lol so nerdy I'll spend the day here so I can take tons of pics to upload to my twitter" and most of the actual anime fans are obnoxious retards) nor the commercial, corporate atmosphere. However, I wouldn't mind going to a Comiket, because I won't ever see again anyone that I meet there and there seems to be a familiar atmosphere full of original content that I'm interested in.

>>10652537
That's probably because they aren't as fluent as native speakers and the language is easier to understand that way.

>>10652537
Indians with a heavy accent are horrible to talk to, I struggle to decipher what they're saying and have to ask them to repeat several times, as do our lecturers when this one fucker keeps asking stupid questions with his heavy Indian accent.

This is why everyone hates contacting support, the person on the other end is some guy in India being paid a couple cents per hour to be useless.

>>10652537

ugh seriously? that's the first I've heard anyone say anything like that.
I seriously can't understand 50% of what Indians say. Same with Jamaicans

>>10652545
My friendd why you offendd india? India not gord my friend? Gord gord?

>>10652547
I have a much easier time understanding Indian accents than Jamaicans though. I struggle to figure out what language they are speaking half the time.

>>10652526
I feel like pronunciation isn't the main point of their teaching. Mostly semantics.

>>10652597
India, gang rape and NTR central. There's been that case where the woman on the bus got gang raped when she was with her husband/boyfriend, and that Swiss tourist who got gang raped when she was camping with her husband.

>>10652612
I've heard of two separate exchange students that both were raped my either members, or family of the hosts of the exchange programs they took part in. I'm pretty sure a lot of countries stopped exchanging with India for a while.

>>10652626
by either members*

>>10652538

(currently residing in Japan)

I have been to comiket about 5 times so far, and I really enjoy it. If you like hot weather, I suggest you go to summer comiket, but I find it to be absolutely unbearable. I highly prefer winter comiket in this respect.

>>10652626
There was that British tourist who asked for a wake up call and instead got the pervy Manager who woke her up and offered a massage, then wouldn't leave when she closed the door.

She jumped from the balcony and ran to the police.

>>10651779

Akiba is pretty nice. If given the choice to live there, and not live there (all costs equal), I would definitely choose to live there.

Every time I visit Tokyo, it is on my go to list.

Realistically, everything in akiba is fairly expensive, and the maid cafes while entertaining, tend to be quite the money sink if you frequent them.

This may come as a surprise to some, but you will find in maid cafes, a decent portion of the girls have no otaku interests at all, and do it for the money. This was an interesting discovery that I made while visiting a few with my Japanese friend.

But, having actually been acquainted with real otaku, they are just like anyone else you would meet, (if you thought otherwise). One person I talked to would ramble on and on about anime, characters, latest fads, etc, and I could not keep up. He was a really good test to Japanese listening proficiency though, because he talked blazingly fast.

>>10652668

Another guy I spoke to has a 'salary' position, and just loves the older anime. He talks about how the newer anime has no substance, and its all about the 'moe'.

And one older striving artist dude I talked to was pretty cool. He told me that he really doesn't appreciate the 'low quality' of the anime style in artwork these days, and how he is trying to go 'against the grain' in the respect of having detailed Japanese style artwork (a la Berserk/Vagabond).

>>10652597
>gord gord
Goddamn I lol'd

>>10652690
Read the comics, dude.

>>10652683
Will there ever be a continuation of the Berserk anime? Polite sage for off topic.

>>10652690

I saw the first and second movies in person (didn't get to see the third movie due to bad schedule timing), but I am waiting for the release of the BD now. If they do anything like their previous schedule, it should be out within a month or so.

>>10652692
I am, I was just windering about the actual anime.>>10652703
What are the movies about? Do they show the actual story or is it non canon stuff?

>>10651779
because I dont have reading steiner.

>>10652757
that feel when no reading steiner

>>10652348
I am actually doing the same thing that guy is doing except I am majoring in Philosophy. Funnily enough, I learned that while it has the reputation of a joke degree, it actually isn't.

>>10652770
>I learned that while it has the reputation of a joke degree, it actually isn't.
Do you mean that in the sense of there being a heavy workload, or in the sense that there are a lot of job opportunities for you. Because every one I know holds that same reputation to be true.

>>10652770
It is in many ways. It's useless, everything is subjective and just about anyone could get one (plus there's no work for philosophy majors).

It isn't in the sense that you actually need to put work into it because you're considering writing gay essays and doing stuff from waht I haerd.

>>10652742

They cover the golden age and eclipse, so basically the whole anime in movie form.

>>10651998
all look same

>>10652285
It's from hetalia fandom

>>10652538
Comiket is full of obnoxious retards too.

Otaku are generally socially maladjusted obnoxious retards.

>>10652475
hahaha I find that funny because I initially came here to teach English but wasn't accepted, so I went to plan B and now I'm a private English tutor at 9am-3pm then DJing 11:30pm-1:30am and just last week one of my clients corrected me on the words 'as well'.
>>10652471
True. You see a lot (lol) of creepy business dudes.

>>10653471
Do they really talk enough to be obnoxious? I thought everybody was just rushing from place to place.

>>10651819

How do you she isn't just going through the motions to get through college?

>>10651980
>Japanese major
You mean those losers that can't even pass JLPT1 after getting their degrees?

>>10651924

being this insecure

beta as fuck

I'll wait to move when their old people die and the housing market crashes, then buy a sweet house for $2000.

>>10651980
>japanese major

lel ur the lord of weeaboos hahaha

:D

1. don't know enough moon
2. don't have enough education
3. probably shittons of paper work
4. probably going to get weird looks
>"aren't people from Holland supposed to have blue eyes and blond hair?"
other then that I would jump at the chance to jumps this shitty continent.
>>10651980
>Japanese major
how are the weeabo's treating you?

>>10658838

It's going to be so easy and cheap to move to Japan in 20 years.