/jp/ - Otaku Culture

>>12176070
Why would I bother going there?

Why would you go to Japan for otaku culture?
You literally have 95% percent of the content at your fingertips.

Looks like you didn't get any extra credit

>>12176114
>95%
Just because you can't see something doesn't mean it doesn't exist.

Hopefully within ten years.

Next spring. Who's coming with me?

>>12176126
Call my a pessimist, but I am pretty sure most of that content can only be found if you are in-the-know, and quite a bit harder to obtain if you are not Japanese.

>>12176163
What are you after? Print works? Most software people care about is uploaded eventually.

I applied to have my passport renewed so I could go back this summer for Comiket 86.

>>12176070

Who made this guide?

>>12176174
Doujinshi
I just get whatever is on Ex though, so I would not consider myself an expert on anything.

>>12176177
Me some months ago, ebin isnt it?

>>12176184

Yeah, dude.

I like it.

I just went for the first time this March. Since I've come back, I've dreamed about going back 4 times.

>>12176184
dude nice

>>12176245
Did you go to a maid café? Was it as awkward as I imagine?

>>12176070
When I'm ready to die. I will go and sit in the forest and fall asleep. I'll never wake up.

>>12176184
"ye it's le ebin win :^)))) " - Something A Retard Would Say

>>12176322
that sounds like a nice sit!

>>12176349
why aren't you greening?

>>12176114
I want to visit Aokigahara some day, maybe the countryside and Mt. Fuji as well.

That's more because I like outdoorsy stuff though, and the possibility of running into a corpse and/or Yakuza organ harvesters spices things up a bit.

>>12176315
Yes. Note that I also can't form a sentence in Japanese and I was ALONE.

I went there on my last night in tokyo, just in case something went horribly wrong so I wouldn't become "Spills-scolding-hot-tea-and-ruin-girls-face-Sama" or something.

I was unsure if I even remotely wanted to go to one, but I ended up doing it cause there were ninja girls handing out fliers for their shinobi-themed cafe, and that sounded much more fun and less embarrassing for myself. Like many shops in Akihabara, this one was up a suspicious looking flight of steps to the third floor of a random building. Upon walking through the door, I was in a claustrophobic, windowless room and greeted by the staff, who were girls mostly covered from head to toe in ninja-garb, including masks to cover their face which I thought was hilarious.

I asked if my English was going to be a problem, to which I was told by one of the girls "ENGLISH, OKAY!!" I was then seated by my waitress named "Asumi." As expected, not a single one of them spoke English, but by god did they try and it was fucking adorable. Every time my waitress fucked up her English, she covered her face and went "OOOH NOOOOO!!!". They frequently used their phone to try and translate things. I was able to pick up a couple things, like when I heard her use "doko" in a sentence, I could tell she was trying to ask me where I come from. I tried to understand what was on their menu, but none of us were getting a word through to each other, so I just said "ramen" which worked. When they brought my drink out, I was signaled to do a mystical ninja chant with them while doing gay naruto hands to bless my ginger-ale with ninpo. I had to shout "VIMI VIMI VIMI VIMI!!" 3 times along with my Asumi, after which she clapped at me while jumping up and down going "YAAAY!!".

>>12176418

When my food came, they randomly switched waitresses on me, so now I was with "Bambi" My 19 dollar bowl of ramen came. I started eating and it was really mediocre. Not only that, but since you're basically paying for a cute girl to accompany you while you eat, there I was with Bambi just silently standing there waiting to somehow interact with me while I'm too focused on my food like some sort of awful dinner date.

To commemorate my final evening and get the full maid-cafe experience, I paid for a souvenir photo with the one of the girls. Bambi brought out another menu with the price to take a photo with each girl. Ironically they all varied greatly in price, despite every one of them nearly decked out in burqa. I wanted to have my picture taken with Asumi who greeted me, but not before finding out that costs 1500 yen, so I settled with my current waitress, Bambi, who was a respectable 500.

With a fucking 5500 yen bill under my belt (charged extra for being with the GIRLS for longer cause I actually finished my food), I was finally ready to leave. While descending down the stairs, every single one of the girls peered around the corner of the door like cartoon characters stacked ontop of each other and shouted "GOOD BYYEEE!"

It was really cute and kinda fun, but good god I'd never do it again holy shit.

>>12176418
>>12176421
I really enjoyed your story!

I hope one day I can travel to Japan with someone like you.

>>12176070
Her name is Matsudoki? I always thought it was Madotsuki.

Same thing with
Hana Kanazawa inst of Kana Hanazawa
Ujishima inst of Ushijima
Polinareff inst of Polnareff

God knows what other names I have wrong.

>>12176421
>>12176418
Outside of the novelty of the first time I have no idea why anyone would frequent maid cafes. If you're gonna pay a woman to spend time with you, you might as well get a hooker so you can at least touch her without getting the shit beat out of you by a bouncer.

>>12176421
>>12176418
Sounds a bit like my experience at a maid cafe. It was much cheaper though. 2500 yen for food, drink, desert and a photo with one of the maids.

It was also located in a backalley of sorts, had to sit in school benches when me and my friend entered and was handed papers with the rules in english (no touching etc) while a girl in teacher cosplay stood and watched us.

Once we were done there we could order, I chose omurice and the girl asked what she should draw with ketchup, and of course the chanting over the drink. They even had a little live performance while we ate and this older gentleman in a corner had glowsticks that he started waving around. Very cliche.

It was an interesting and awkward experience.

>>12176418
>>12176421

I liked your story

>>12176458
Her name is Madotsuki
The other one is the misspell.

>>12177578
*misspelling

>went to japan
>talk with people in japanese
>screw up sometimes and they giggle

Japan is what I was hoping to experience and the experience was absolutely great with the food, hotels, stuff to buy and the citizen especially the schoolgirls at shibuya because somehow they really tried their best to speak english to you when you clearly can speak jap with them...no idea why it feels like im like in Italy where they some are also tried their best to speak english to tourist haha.


but yea, even with all of these great things Japan had to offer... at the end of the day, I still love my country.

What is the cheapest and legal way to get there?

Going in December, because fuck summer weather.

No idea how I'm going to bring most of the stuff I buy back though.

Every year I say the same thing "this time next I'll be living in Japan".

>>12176322

You and me both Anon.

>>12177649
Join the yakuza, they ship you to Japan

>>12176322

That's what cats do.

>>12176459
Because they get infatuated with one of the waitresses. Just like the people who regularly frequent hooters on the US.

>>12176322
>>12177823

Anons, the boat I'm in is also headed towards such an end. If you want to suicide pact, or just talk about whatever's on your mind, add me on skype marslockhotel

For those who may not have seen it, here's an Eng-sub'd doc on the Aokigahara Suicide Forest in Japan:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4FDSdg09df8

It is so very peaceful there...

>>12176070

Why would I do such a thing? I'm already hated and rejected by my home country, so going to a country that outright hates gaijin would be utterly retarded.

Don't forget that people who like "Otaku" stuff are universally hated in japan. They are the biggest boogie men for all Japan's problems. You can get all the good stuff from Japan delivered straight to your door, there's no need to go there and bother the natives.

>>12178627
But there are cuddle cafes... you can sit down and have a cute JK stare you in the eyes... or lap pillow... if there's money in the bank, may as well use it up having experiences than leave it for the government crooks...

I'm in Nippon for a few weeks, anyone wanna meet up?
No eastern Europeans please, there's enough at the hotel.

>>12178661
CYKA BLYAT

>>12178661
Where are you staying?

>>12177729
Mail it to yourself!

>>12180031
New Koyo near Minami-senju.

I have 5000 dollars saved up from doing crappy contract jobs in offices. I want to go ride trains around in Hokkaido with no real sense of direction other than seeing the most northern point in Japan. Is that a good idea for a trip or will I get bored going from small town to small town?

I also wonder if the small town Japs speak better English or not. I bet they do because they want to get the fuck out of there and see learning another language as an escape.

>>12180264
That sounds like a fantastic idea for a trip. I also love trains and the natural scenery of northern Japan. I would like to do something similar to that next spring, when I go to Japan.

>>12176418
>>12176468
man yall had some lame first time maid cafe experiences
my first time at one in akiba i got to sing and dance with the maids while they did their singing thing, was invited over to sit with a group of japanese and converse for half an hour after two of the girls kept saying "kawaii" over a hundred times when they saw my food, got pictures with my maid and another with the group of japanese, got a seperate personalized polaroid from my maid, and then the group of japanese bought me a maid calendar before we went our seperate ways
the food at the cafes is pretty meh but the maids and the customers are fun!

>>12176184
10/10

>>12178414
The corpse at the end is fake as fuck.

I still like that video just because it has a kind of human hunting feel and the forest is very pretty though.

>>12176114
>>12176112
You could literally walk into a store and buy eroge.That has to count for something.

>>12180591
Not really.

>>12180591
It's worthless.

However you can show up to Comiket personally and get a chance at delicious doujinshi which you'll almost certainly never see scanned otherwise.

>>12176070
Hopefully never.

>>12180608
>>12180598
Well,I want to buy physical eroge so I can get the bonuses,but I don't have a credit card. Also,I don't want to go to jail because some frothing feminist/bible tumper sees a porn game at customs.

>>12180612
How you expect to live and work in Japan when you can't even get yourself a credit card is beyond me.

>>12176070
I'm going with one of my mates late next year for either the itasha festival or the winter comiket. I also plan to see some exchange students that I met back in high school again, as well. One of them said that she'd show me around Akihabara, so that should be nice. We're only going to go to Osaka and Tokyo at this stage, but we might stop by Kyoto.

I'll probably also go and do the JET program for a year after I get my uni degree as well.

>>12180044
That's what I'm thinking, just use surface mail but I'm not exactly clear on the the process.

>>12180264
not a bad idea at all because 99% of train rides are enjoyable

but sorry mate i'm sure they speak even less english

>>12180264
If anything they'll be less well educated and hence probably won't be able to speak English. That's why you don't really get the full experience till you speak Japanese and visit the rural places.

What's the go with temp jobs? I want to go during my end of year semester break (jan-mar 2015). I'm pretty proficient at jap just not quite fluent yet. Ideally, I'd save for tickets, rent and food here then just make a bit of side cash while there.

I've lived in Japan for almost 2 years now, no plans on leaving any time soon.

I don't feel like I have anywhere else I can call home..

>>12176070
Madotsuki is not a touhou...

>>12177837

Is this true? Can i really become a badass Yakuza? I thought only Japanese could be Yakuza.

>>12176114

Why would you go anywhere if you have 95% of everything you need at your fingertips?

>>12180967
There was a japanese government official here looking for gaijin NEETs to come to japan for subsistence farming if you want to do that.

>>12181071
She's Renko as a child.

Shit's expensive. I'd love to visit it one day.

I just got back from spending three weeks there, two in Kyoto and one in Tokyo.

I just got back from spending three weeks there-- two in Kyoto, one in Tokyo.

I just got back from spending three weeks there; two in Kyoto, one in Tokyo.

>>12182212
>>12182214
>>12182236
Seriously?

>>12176070
Maybe I will if they won't be rude to me due to my race

>>12181609
It wasn't in an official capacity, wasn't subsistence farming, and probably wasn't real. Nice try though.

>>12182240
I'm a big shot since I was actually there.
Pay attention to me.

>>12178694
PRIPEKLO?

>>12181453
Most of the Yakuza are actually Korean.

On the 30th of this month.
One week in Tokyo and one in Kyoto.
Its going to be awesome.
Can anyone recommend an Onsen in Kyoto?
I want to spend one night in one.

>>12176459
There do exist maid cafes with no cover charge, where the cafe is simply a normal cafe except for it's considered okay to openly take out doujinshi/anime magazines/computers with otaku shit on them and have discussions, and the girls wear maid outfits. In fact, that's how almost all maid cafes used to be just 10 or so years ago; unfortunately, such cafes are now a minority compared to tourist trap type places and/or places that charge a steep cover as if they were some kind of whore house.

>>12183259
Do you know of any such cafes and their locations?

>>12183052

So can American Gaijin Yakuza actually be a thing then?

I'll be there from July 1st til September 1st. Had to plan to stay for Magical Mirai 2014

>>12181038
What do you do for a living?
Where was your original residence?

>>12184395
Hahahaha no actually that is a thing.
Mind you, you would not be IN the yakuza, but whatever business you ran/helped run would have yakuza connections, and you have a mutual relationship with the appropriate underlings.

The Koreans don't want gaijins to be in the yakuza proper as much as the Japanese do not want the yakuza to actually have influence.

>>12183271
Yes, Jam in Akihabara is a nice maid cafe like that.

I don't want to go to Japan because I don't want to look like an even bigger tool than what I already am.

>>12180591
>implying i actually buy those, rather than downloading
>implying i buy anything

I really want to go to a hot springs with the boys trying to peek at me from their side of the bath, and then we go inside and play table tennis and drink coffee milk and say "Ahh, there's nothing like drinking coffee milk after a bath!"

None of us here will ever visit Japan nor any place special for that matter.

We are all wasting our lives here and throwing away the little time we have left day by day.
This will never change, no one here will ever amount to anything and we will all die without having fulfilled our dreams.

The sooner you nerds come to terms with the harsh bitter reality and stop cloning to false hopes the better you will come to understand that in the end it all is meaningless.

Just take it easy and have a ice cream. You'll feel better.

>>12185314
Who are you quoting?

I went back in 2009, after my junior year of high school. My town had a Museum/Japanese gardens and through that I met a professor from the local university who taught basic Japanese. She ended up planning a trip that was me, another guy my age, and herself as our guide.

I ended up going for 16 days. Did a couple of homestays wither her family/former exchange students.. It was amazing.

I didn't retain any moon ;_;

>>12185345

>>12185347
How do I do this?

>>12185345
I wish I had a story like that happen to me, only that your teacher was a girl and seduced you.

end of this year, for my birthday.
bringing my 3d waifu

Finally, I just got a ticket to Japan!!! I've been to Canada for 3years .

>>12176070
Been there twice for holiday already, going there in October to study for four months.
Time to see how Kyoto varies to Tokyo.

Never.

I only learned their language to be able to read their stories and comics. I don't need to go there.

>>12176418
>>12176421
>there I was with Bambi just silently standing there
Well that's just horrible
I would probably cry if I was you

Never.

I used to be excited about the idea, but then I thought about it carefully because of the ridiculous price on the plane tickets.

I can't understand Japanese, can't read Japanese, my face is a pus volcano, I'm timid and scared of everything, I crumble at the slightest bit of pressure.

I have no business in Japan.

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>>12188408
>Wir haben zu unserer BWL-Klausur[...]
do something productive with your life and stop wasting your time with BWL.

also:
>:)
NO

>>12180591
Why would I buy something that I can view online fpr free?

>>12188392
$1200 roundtrip airline tickets are ridiculous?
Have you ever bought plane tickets?

>>12188507
>Why should I buy things if I can just steal them

>>12188478
Yeah become an engineer, just like everybody else.

>>12188750
I used to work for an university when I was younger. It might surprise you that roughly only 45% of all engineering students make it to a degree (compared to, say, 80% who make it in any business degrees), and you could probably fill ten to fifteen complete engineering courses with people applying for, say, business economics each semester.

I'm arriving in Tokyo 29th of July..

This is my so-so plan:

1 - Leave home
2 - Home -> Tokyo
3 - Tokyo
4 - Tokyo (Akihabara)
5 - Tokyo
6 - Tokyo -> Mt Fuji (Climb)
7 - Mt Fuji -> Tokyo -> Nagoya
8 - Nagoya (Korankei + Science Museum)
9 - Nagoya -> Kyoto
10 - Kyoto
11 - Kyoto (Day-trip to Nara)
12 - Kyoto -> Osaka (Castle/Aquarium or Nipponbashi)
13 - Osaka (Day-trip to Koya-san)
14 - Osaka -> Okayama (Kibi plain)
15 - Okayama -> Hiroshima (Peace Memorial Park) (Fit Itsukushima in here instead, because of Miyajima Fireworks)
16 - Hiroshima (Day-trip Itsukushima)
17 - Hiroshima -> Fukuoka
18 - Fukuoka (Canal City Hakata)
19 - Fukuoka -> Kagoshima
20 - Kagoshima -> Yakushima
21 - Yakushima
22 - Yakushima -> Kagoshima
23 - Kagoshima
24 - Kagoshima -> Tokyo
25 - Tokyo -> Home

Do I have too much time in Tokyo?

>>12189028
You could easily spend the whole trip in Tokyo.

I go to japan yearly for work,

Not that I consider it work.

I get paid to have fun :)

>>12189235
What are some fun things to see/do in Tokyo?
Only thing I can see I'd find particularly interesting is Akihabara and the fish market.

>>12185332
Never lose hope, Anon. There's still time to change the road you're on.

>>12185332
I, for one, am going to Japan (booked a 45 days trip) and I have a stable job as well, in the country I live in.

Sorry, anon, it's just you

>>12185332
I hope you get better anon

>>12189316

Pokemon Center, so I heard?

>>12189334
>Sorry, anon, it's just you
ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha

When the U.S. becomes "culturally enriched".
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qBUQTcHPQg

>>12176070
Maybe in a few years.

I have other, more important, costs to worry about right now, but I am always putting away a little bit for my travel plan. I've got a bit over 2k right now.

>>12185332

>>12189817
shit meant to post

I don't kno but /prog/ is dead and htat makes me sad

>>12189817
>>12189821

/g/ please..

>>12189469
I can't say I'm interested in Pokémon.
Thanks for the tip, though.
(crossboarder, not usually from /jp/)

I see a lot of people telling me I could spend much more time in Tokyo, but none can come with any things to do there except for one or two things, and they're usually small things that can be done in a couple of hours.

>>12176458
Before I watched Deep Space Nine I pronounced Jadzia "Ja-day-zi-a"

>>12176070

Not for at least another two years or so. I'm sure the time will fly by. ;_;

>>12190194
>;_;
ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha

>>12190223

I know. It's a real shame, but it can't be helped.

>>12188531

n-no

>>12189906
Maid-Cafe dude here. Shibuya alone was an all day thing for me. You can also go see Harajuku (on Sunday in particular). I spent a lot of time just wandering around every day, going into random restaurants and shops. Although it's not Kyoto, Tokyo has it's own array of large, beautiful shrines and temples worth seeing.

My hotel was incidentally less than half a mile from Akihabara which I pretty much walked through everyday and played arcades and looked figures/2hu merch, so if you're a weeblord, you'll probably never run out of things to do there, otherwise you might get bored of it in a day.

Also PLEASE go up the Tokyo Skytree at night. It's 3000 yen to the top, but it's well worth the view.

>>12185332
This hit really close to home.

>Just take it easy and have a ice cream. You'll feel better.

Thank you, I needed that.

I will not go to Japan because I'm afraid of earthquake. The chance of me going to Japan is 0.000000001%.

>>12190884
Thanks a lot for the advice.
I'm not too much into the whole anime/2hu thing.
I do like anime and I watch a couple of series every season, but I don't think that Maid-Cafés and the like panders to the kind of anime I watch, haha..

Thanks a lot for the advice, will definitely look into visiting Tokyo Skytree at night, I actually imagined a lot worse than 3000 yen, heh.

Cheers.

>>12176070
Guise. Watch the world cup. First goal is own goal and nippon referee giving Neymar yellow card.

>>12176070
How do i japan alone? backpack? where to stay? how to long? how to travel? bike?

>>12191253
>How do i japan alone?
Buy a passport then a plane ticket, then cram a bunch of words and phrases.

>backpack?
That's what I did, but I made sure to drop it off at my hotel ASAP the moment I got to a new city.

>where to stay?
Wherever you can afford/what evers close to public transport or what you want to see/has wifi.

>how to long?
However long you want, as long as it's under 90 days I suppose.

>how to travel?
Train and subway.

>>12190884
>a lot of time just wandering around every day, going into random restaurants and shops

Probably a silly question but how much time can one spend eating and shopping.

What is the cheapest month(s) to buy a ticket to Japan in advance?

>>12193828
Just order it a couple of months in advance and remember to set your leaving date and arrival date on a week day instead of in the week end.

>>12176070
September 1st, this year, I have the ticket beside my laptop. How about you?

Lucky for me someone in my family fot stationed in Japan so I get to visit.

Too bad it's Okinawa, which seems boring as fuck.

Hopefully flights to Tokyo are cheap

秋に行くよ(・∀・)

>>12188552
>steal
stealing would mean the company no longer has the game or rights to it. for example, snagging a copyright from them so they can't produce or sell it anymore would be an actual theft.

downloading a game off the internet is more like walking up to a painting in a museum and taking a high quality photo of it. you now have your own copy and don't have to pay the artist/museum for the right to see it again.

>>12176070
When the technology is developed to learn Japanese by downloading it to your brain.

I can't into the moonrunes

>>12194859
What are you doing in /jp/?

>>12194879
maybe he's taking it easy.