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You know, watching anime for the first time has been a sort of culture-shock for me. The post-industrial, metropolitan setting that apparently embodies Tokyo is a long way from my home of swampy plains and spread-out, worn down towns.

Who am I, one might ask? I'm some dumb hick who is nineteen and still a junior in high-school, living in the good ol' U.S. of A. I make a decent dime doing work here and there, but I've never really amounted to all that much.

I'm quite the elephant in the room, though. No one that I know, I think, would ever expect that I watched (and enjoyed) anime (of course I did soin secret taking great care to make sure no one would ever find out), whereas I imagine that the physical and social appearance of some of you may reflect your interests a bit better.

I like the U.S. pretty well. It's pretty easy to practice simple living here, which is something that my family has instilled in me since day one as well as something that brings me great relief. But I see now that there is a world beyond. I've done some further reading on Japan.

I get this funny feeling every now and again that I might actually enjoy living in a big city like Tokyo. It seems like it fits the bill, at least to a degree, of simple living. Not to mention the fact that anime is more accepted and much easier to acquire.

Thanks for reading, and thank you all for helping me find a new dream to dream.

>> No.11024625

#southernotakuproblems

>> No.11024628

Whenever I lust after little sisters, people assume it's because I'm southern and not because I'm a siscon otaku.

#southernotakuproblems

>> No.11024626

Find a city in the north. Problem solved.

>> No.11024631

Move to Osaka.

>> No.11024635
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>> No.11024640

People laugh at me when I homebrew sake instead of moonshine.
#southernotakuproblems

>> No.11024638

>>11024628
Haha, oh wow. That's a good one.

>> No.11024639

>feel when starting out on animal crossing but apparently you can't do anything for an entire day when your house will be finished

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>> No.11024642

I read this in a Southern accent.

>> No.11024644

Japan is a workaholic shithole. Unless you want to work from like 8am to 8pm 6 days a week while dealing with subtle racism directed against you, you would probably do better to just move to a city in the northern U.S.

>> No.11024653

>>11024642
I read that in a Polynesian accent.

>> No.11024655

>>11024631
>>11024626

Why should I move to these places? Are they more accepting of Americans or something?


>>11024635

I feel you.

What do the Japaneese think of yankees? What do the Japaneese think of rednecks?


>>11024642

You'd probably think I have one, too.

It's normal in this neck of the woods but I usually understand it when people comment.


>>11024644

How do you think I live without a high-school education? I have this magic elixir that helps one to rake in the cheddar.

Labor.

>> No.11024664

>>11024655
Are you wearing nothing but overalls with the rest of your naked body slathered in grits right now?

>> No.11024666

> nineteen and still a junior in high-school
How? Shouldn't they have just kicked you out by now?

>> No.11024672

>>11024666
You don't get kicked out until you're 21.

>> No.11024674

>>11024655
>How do you think I live without a high-school education?

You probably won't be able to get into Japan. Even their shitty English teacher program requires a BA.

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>>11024664
How is the rest of his body naked if overalls are over all?
Checkmate, linguists!

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>> No.11024683

>>11024675
It's because you are supposed to wear them over your clothes. It ends up being over all.

>> No.11024682

are you a cowboy
do you own a horse
do you wear cowboy hats
do you say "howdy"

>> No.11024689

>>11024664

I'm afraid not.

I'm wearing athletic shorts and a t-shirt. I pretty much wear clothes like this always unless I'm at school or I'm going somewhere important.

I'm not a disgusting mountain-man, either. I shower twice daily and I wash my clothes after a hard day's work, mind you.


>>11024666

In this State, you can stay until you turn twenty-one.


>>11024674

Arts? You don't need arts to work.


>>11024682

I'm not from Texas.

>> No.11024695

>>11024683
That's a good overall explanation.

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>>11024682
Why did the south increase the legal drinking age to 40?
They wanted to keep alcohol out of the schools!

>> No.11024702

>>11024691
What do you call a pretty girl in Alabama?

A tourist.

>> No.11024697

>>11024689
>Arts? You don't need arts to work.

10/10

>> No.11024703

A feel thread on /jp/ now? Summerfags really are the worst.

>> No.11024716

>>11024697

Had I spoken it, I might have said, "Arts? You don't need no damn arts to work!"

I try to appear at least a somewhat well-spoken when I post online.

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>>11024716
Better to be artful than artless.

>> No.11024734

>>11024723

Art doesn't really factor in for the work I do. Illiberal finesse is required for stocking shelves and shoveling dirt.

I appreciate art in a more formal setting.

>> No.11024735

>>11024703
I think everybody assumed that it was ironic.

>> No.11024751

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