/jp/ - Otaku Culture

The OP pic is from https://seifuku.neocities.org/..

>>23293330
I've wanted to post this image in response to something for a while, but then I found out this shit manga actually had an anime a little while back and haven't wanted to anymore.

I'm enjoying topical Touhou artwork.

>>23294171
Speaking of artwork, it's been long enough since there was a draw thread. I wonder if quarantined anons are in an artistic mood or if it'd just be full of off-topic shitposts from anons that would normally be in school.

>>23294248
I think it's quite likely to be both.

There isn't a photography thread up like there sometimes is, of like street views and whatever sceneries of Japan so otherwise I'd post it there but lately I've been looking through the Shibuya Meltdown twitter account where they post mostly pics of people sleeping on trains and in public in Shibuya and also being drunk and whatever but a lot of the pictures themselves are quite nice in terms of composition

>>23294406

Weird question, but Japan loves lolita fashion and Ronald McDonald. Has anyone ever seen some female lolita style Ronald cosplay?

>>23294413
I'm not gonna dump all the pics I've saved, there's quite a few though.

>>23294413
>>23294406
You are right. These photos are surprisingly well-framed and have beautiful almost neo-noir color.

>>23294514

>>23294496
Out of curiosity I went to warosu's /cgl/ archive looking for Ronald McDonald EGL. Instead I found stuff like this.
>>/cgl/thread/S9224045#p9228485
>>/cgl/thread/S9368587#p9372370

>>23294548
This one goes a little too far. The scene looks artificially lit, like there is a spotlight on the man.

>>23294587
He's sitting underneath a street light

>>23294496
There was one official Japanese McDonalds TV commercial where Ronald was a hot girl with long hair, but she was still wearing the classic clown outfit.

>>23294635
>He's sitting underneath a street light
It still looks like a spotlight. You almost expect him to raise his head and sing.

>>23294653
same vibe
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WmtIrkR6O7I

>>23294572
>>23294496
>>23294635
nips love ronald

>>23294496
>but Japan loves lolita fashion
Isn't lolita fashion caput in Japan.

>>23297859
Maybe.
http://www.tic-web.co.jp/en/column/the-shrinking-lolita-fashion-market-in-japan-has-business-opportunities-in-china/
>The Shrinking Lolita Fashion Market In Japan Has Business Opportunities In China.
>2018年03月27日
>Lolita fashion, which was common in Shinjuku and Harajuku more than a decade ago, is now almost extinct. Shinjuku Marui ONE, which sell lots of the Lolita brands, was closed on September 25, 2013. “KERA,” a monthly magazine based in Lolita fashion, stopped publishing print magazines after the June 15, 2017 issue, and released only electronic versions. KERA’s sister magazine, “Gothic & Lolita Bible”, which is scheduled to be released on May 24, 2017, has also been cancelled. There are several reasons why Lolita fashion has declined in Japan. First, the so-called “meeting place” disappeared. In the past, there were fewer places to sit and chat like the clearing in front of the gap. Second, Harajuku Fashion is in decline. Harajuku changed from “the streets of the young people” to “adult streets”, and Lolita’s most popular place Takeshita Street has become a tourist destination for foreign tourists. Third, the first generation of Lolita fashion girls got married and went to job, they can no longer continue Lolita fashion. At the same time, the younger generation in Japan cannot offer much money and time on Lolita fashion as the first generation. Lolita is in decline in Japan while rising in China. There are many Chinese students who come to study in Japan because love of Lolita fashion. Recently Lolita fashion girls speaking Chinese can be seen frequently in Shinjuku, Harajuku. Lolita fashion popular in China for the following reasons: Firstly, China’s women fashion was cared about the surrounding views before but today’s China women who effected by global fashion want to show individual character through the clothes fashion. Lolita’s fashion style satisfies this demand and popular among young people. Second, Japan’s ACG culture (animation, manga, games and other subcultures) is well-known all-around China. Besides first-tier cities like Shanghai and Beijing, girls in Lolita dress can also be seen on the streets in second-tier cities such as Wuhan and Hangzhou. With the development of economy, the increase of personal income makes Chinese people have certain economic ability to purchase expensive Lolita clothes. Therefore, Japanese Lolita brand should spare no effort on exploring Chinese market while Japanese market is shrinking. The TIC’s new group, TOKYO business bridge (TBB), supports Japanese companies exploring market in China (Dalian).

Do you have any cute medical masks? I regret not purchasing a few before the plague.

>>23303029
Thank the plague for saving you from being that much bigger of a fag than you already are.

why are there so many Vtuber theads?

>>23303977
Competition with the idolfags for the most obnoxious generals

>>23303615
The Japanese youtubers who wear them are entirely heterosexual.

>>23303977
Because generalfags like to exclude what they don't like until threads fragment. Be thankful the monstergirlfags are so autistic they've never fragmented but instead just murdered whoever liked what they don't like until they're only left with hetero animalgirls in 1:1 pairings.

>>23304475
>1:1 pairings
Do you mean only one anon liking any particular monstergirl or just no harems? I don't see how you'd get the former

Towelket 6 TL is 50% done

>>23306786
> I don't see how you'd get the former
Then why the fuck would you even think it? Yes I mean harem hate.

>>23307203
Could you tell me what is good about this series?

>>23308435
it varies by game, but what all the games are good/great at: humorous writing and emotional endings. The wealth of cute girls in them is another boon. The combat is middling, but you don't actually fight that much so it doesn't get in the way.

>>23308391
That makes sense.
>Then why the fuck would you even think it?
I try not to underestimate the insanity of Internet communities. I am pretty sure I have seen a person driven off a web 1.0 forum for lusting over the same video game character a mod did. Something like that happening in a stable, long-running general is only a little more farfetched.

>>23293341
They should have self-hosted.

Recently found out that Blasterhead probably killed himself in 2013 because he mismanaged the spiritual sequel to the VN ジサツのための１０１の方法, 末期、少女病 - Lyrical pop World's end-.
Apparently, he went through the budget too fast and couldn't pay the artists and the whole thing went to shit. It's a shame too since the script was complete and most of the voices were already recorded.

I've only known him for his music before now so this whole situation is wild to me. I just thought he lost interest like a lot of doujin artists do.
At some point he tried selling CDs to raise funds. So all that's left of 末期、少女病 are some PVs from before Duke went defunct and Blasterhead took over the project, and a couple of soundtracks for a VN that doesn't exist.
https://youtu.be/JZQFeVjL_3Y
https://youtu.be/OLCEPtI3Ll8

Someone wrote an article that covers the whole incident if anyone's interested.
https://blog.omaera.org/what-happened-to-shoujobyou-blasterhead-and-orochi/

>>23293341
Thanks, that was a good read

>>23308653
If I could kill every man on this planet who lusts after the same girls as I, I would.

>>23311023
You'd kill most /jp/sies?

>>23293330>>>/vr/6302934

>>23312751
Two decades ago I wanted a Wonderswan pretty bad.

/jp/'s infection level of "minimal" suggests the posters here really do avoid the larger, most pozzed boards.

>>23317200
Fuck you! En garde!

>>23319980
Post "it"

>>23319853
based umakun

Hey /jp/, anyone here speak Japanese and mind giving this a quick listen?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ASJoaK6oS4Y

I'm curious to know what the theme of the song is about (I don't expect a full translation, just if anyone can identify some repeating/related words from it).
It's from a lesser known PS2 game called Sky Odyssey. Has a great soundtrack.

>>23326673
>>23326391
It sounds somewhat like a Slavic or Baltic language, but I know a few Slavic languages, and I don't recognize the words.

>>23311023
What about lesbians who would take the girl you lust?

Are there english translations of the other Boogiepop volumes not already translated by 7seas?

>>23331818
I don't care. It's not cheating unless its with a dude. Obviously the girl has to be of top quality though.

is this a general for general topics thats so weird did it go full circle gosh

[Silly Walker] 樹界世くちゅーる
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1bAE7X1sAiy4PMYfeWeFFh5Tx_l3D9NFc/view?usp=sharing

Etrian Odyssey arrange album. This one is pretty old and rough around the edges but it's a fun listen.
It's also a nice look back at doujin music styles from 10 years ago.

[Pomexgranate.] うみねこのなく頃に アレンジ作品集 Akoustika アクスティカ III
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1kZWHu_7TKoWFr9vB9vXV9vtSVFcNJyKy/view?usp=sharing

Acoustic Umineko arrange album by xaki and CAP. Also includes a few unused Umineko tracks.
This whole series is amazing and absolutely worth listening to if you're a fan of xaki's tracks. I just wish the other 10 albums were easier to find.

>>23293330
I like watching 東方 MMDs, but I avoid anything with yukkuri voice though. Channels like ゆきはね, あろえチャンネル, 9bluewind9, 長月チャカ, 午後の緑茶 are still active and actually put effort into their stuff. Why are there never MMD threads on /jp/? I mean, it's a fairly big part of Touhou.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n103sOYowXg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6LIbE4bY3c
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3xVKeEaoMIc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1PeW0cUU2Gk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8LwUry8VBh8

>>23340460
doesnt /h/ also host MMD servers? Thats probably why /jp/ doesnt have them anymore. we did have them a while back, but the effort subdued as it just became a video dump thread

speaking of, whatever happened to the OC thread?

>>23340460
Not /3/, but you can just take a model, take a movement set, drop it in those programs and tinker a little and be done. /3/ would probably just
>Blender
at you.
Besides that, you don't make the models in the former programs.

>>23342408
You missed this one.
>>/jp/thread/S22458383#p22852150

>>23342412
Congratz man

>>23339735
>>23339735
I guess the MMD scene is becoming quite repetitive, uninspiring and not as motivated and adventurous as it was in the early 2010s. It's getting hard to find great content with true effort put to it and not mere bandwagon. Also, it's creators making "great" (subject to debate as anyone has its own definition of "great") and inspired content who typically melt down, go on hiatus and leave pretty early. Showing support to them and leaving them kind words ain't enough (some are really of mentally fragile nature). Series and action videos aren't a thing anymore.

It'a also the same ones having ambitious and interesting projects who tends to cancel them pretty early and hastily hide them under the carpet just as if nobody will notice (too bad, I'm one the rare to watch the Japanese MMD scene pretty carefully) or because of an "unfortunate" accident ("oh noes my HDD crashed I has no backupz sorry i must cancel evrythnig bye").

Here's a selection I made recently of (mostly Touhou) works I consider with effort put to it with no bandwagon: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLKgdFr9KN4QV8bSl2DKUc3mcFnb6C3j_h

Also, personal opinion here but I think creation isn't really encouraged when people who make MMD resources (models, stages, etc.) are so fan of locking them down so that only rubbish people with plenty of free time will spent time and effort only to be able to get them.

>>23340298
Yukkuri voice is hardly a sign of a refined work with a high production value. It pretty much kills and dumbs down any production which has no valid justification to feature it (anything that is not even made to be remotely funny). Also irritating overuse (not counting the classics and a good fraction of works which make actual good use of it).

>>23357306
cookie is a mess

>>23357074
Why are you so bothered by the voices? That's the real problem, and it's a personal one.

I like the way anime looked in the late 80s/early 90s. I really hate certain artists' late 90s styles. I dislike early 2000s styles but they're quaint in a way. I really hate styles afterwards that aren't based on older manga.
I really hate the megatits obsession nowadays where like F cups are considered normal and a big breasted girl has breasts each larger than her head. I really hate the stick thin but big boobed style of the late 90s, but I like elongated more than short, chubby or SD styles that were more present in the 70s and 80s. The one thing I'm thankful for is that thighs and butts look nice nowadays. Anime girls used to never have asses.

I don't know what it is about modern storytelling either but it feels so empty. More now than ever, I feel I could read/watch some random ero series from more than a decade ago and get more story in a few chapters/episodes than a whole series of anything nowadays. Speaking of, why is everything so pornographic? All this stuff getting aired nowadays, they might as well take some old ero manga and animate them with a little censoring and a decent budget.

>>23293330
I'm gonna start using twitter since so much stuff is on there nowadays. What kind of /jp/ related stuff should I follow on twitter? I've never used the website before at all.

>>23373924
dont use twitter

>>23382875
Oh right, I forgot you can do that. Still shit out of luck for R-18 though since Paypal won't do those.

>>23375564
Hinekurebow has a bunch of great shit which is only tempered by the fact that I can't reasonably buy about 90% of what they're showcasing.

>>23383545
Why is it like 2020 and there is still no business that deals in porn transactions? They would take all the money and become the biggest banking service overnight.

Someone in one of the older threads was wondering where to find music with compressed, synthesized vocals.

It seems like NES covers are where it's at for that kind of sound.
https://youtu.be/c4kU5vbsYzk

>>23391610
>>23391805
Does /vr/ have threads about digitized voices? It makes me nostalgic hearing digitized, synthesized, and robotic voices
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RoGF08SwJ24

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cpd87e2PJnE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDIH8GTcz54

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4jvG4K5oeeM

>>23391805
Also "what?"

Probably in all Japanese media together there's no singular thing I like more than character songs (broadly construed, including all songs sung by characters that might not technically be character songs). There's something heartwarming about imagining the song being sung by its characters, almost independently of whether the show itself was any good, and often they encompass an underlying narrative or else express a character's personality and pride. This isn't to say that a lot of character songs aren't just sort of quickly manufactured gimmick syrup pop, but everything out there is going to be hit or miss.

Some of these songs are objectively great, others are just personal preferences, but some of my favorites off the top of my head are - the heartwarming embrace of My Home Town from Konosuba, the sensitivity and longing in You... and all its character image variants from Higurashi, the burning and falling meteors of FIRST LOVE SONG and distilled character arcs of Ashita no Atashi and Akatsuki no Sora from Symphogear, the whole-hearted pride in the definitely-not-IJN found in Kagamisaki and Hana no Nuisuisen from Kancolle, and countless "spirit of everyday" songs from half a hundred slice-of-life shows.

I've listened to a lot of songs but even now there are plenty of shows I watched long ago where I am only just now going through the character songs (some of which have become rather hard to find). Shows end, but their music continues. Just listening to one can transport you through time.

>>23399600
My brain just exploded from the fact that someone can starve character songs let alone like them.

>>23392219
>>23391805
Since we're talking Western and offtopic, I love the "cyberpunk band" 386 DX. There is something great about the way the crude computer voice sings to MIDI tunes. (The voice is a direct descendant of DECtalk, the program Stephen Hawking used to speak.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZYoGj8D8pY
http://www.easylife.org/386dx/
It was like Vocaloid covers before Vocaloid even existed. All the songs are really performed on a 386-DX PC running Windows 3.1. I'd really like to hear Vocaloid songs covered in this way, with MIDI and an antiquated Japanese speech synthesizer.

>>23399847
if you don't like character songs you probably don't like anything

>>23400030
But it's like a surprise box for URLs!

>>23403677
I am not sure I understand your question. Do you mean if anyone still uses the original first version of Vocaloid? A few producers do.

>>23405558
heh

>>23375480
>>23411170
What's a good site for gif? Pixiv still does that retarded thing where it seperates it into images instead of letting it be a gif and other sites turn them to mp4s.

>>23413943
>I don't speak Japanese but I still enjoy their tweets
???
You're just looking at the pictures I assume?

>>23419379
more or less lol
also if there is something I *really* want to know I use google and then some guesswork

>>23413943
Familiar with classic im@s or with the crud mobilem@s?

>>23424483
Both, really. For me it started with the OG anime, and my realization that you can have a good idol anime unlike some school girls
Then it kinda snowballed from there, found some albums, put like a solid 20h of music on my phone, played some SP I should visit Chihaya again, then decided to get ML, but since I don't like mobages, I only play it like every third day or so.
So yeah, fun stuff. Also, Chihaya best.

>>23425381
there's no real plot to puchimasu so once you have everyone's personality down the show makes as much sense as it's ever going to make, and also everyone's personality is probably turned up to 200% so it comes pretty quickly

i did read it before i watched it and i guess i've listened to some of the discography

I guess this is the best place to ask this.
When i went to Tokyo i was at a random idol group's concert, how come everyone agrees on a color for the penlights, are them smart penlights? The ones i brought just have a button to change color

>>23425895
it has, i'm not super oldfag but i feel like theres more consumption of content with idol and hololive threads instead of touhou theory discussion or anons doing things together. maybe i just have rose tinted glasses from like 6~ years ago.
>>23422086
glad to know i'm not the only dumbass who does this only add an extra second of trying to read it before giving up and checking google.

You think there's gonna be any quarantine inspired anime?

>>23425895
Necrobumping. /jp/ is fast as hell these days. Slow generals are stunned because of the speed. There are several fake Touhou threads that only serves as bump folder and if you make a thread that they don't like they will simply bump the whole board and kill it.

>>23425895
Because you're just aware enough to be skeptical of your surroundings but not aware enough to objectively analyze your past. Things were never as good as you remember.

>>23430053
unlikely as it won't look good for public image.

>>23433260
Penguindrum used the 95 attacks as a motif 16 years later. Tokyo Magnitude 8.0 was probably inspired just as much, if not more, by the Kobe earthquake 13 years before, as it was by the great Kanto earthquake of 1923. I expect we will get doujins of mask-wearing girls within this year, with anime maybe having references a couple of years down the road.

>>23433916
Me on the right.

>>23435896
see shit like THAT is what i want more of, not image dump #2538213 on [random 2hu/im@]

>>23435752
i used to hate gachatrash but a lot of artists i like got on board with it so i gave up the good fight and consume trash with everyone else now

>>23436160
too frog, didn't read.

I wonder how long it'll be until all the boob/leg/whatever bodypart fetish threads get a free pass on posting nudity like the JAV and Onahole threads do.

>>23430053
Definitely. Maybe they'll even adapt Biomega into anime.

>>23442060
I wish I could like denpa. I've tried it several times because it's an interesting culture and cute songs with darker themes are fun. However, in the end I just don't enjoy how it sounds. While I like Vocaloid voices, human denpa voices leave me cold.

>>23444265
>cute songs with darker themes
I'd say the vast majority of what gets a denpa label lacks anything remotely dark. Rather than "cute and dark" denpa much more often operates with "cute and erotic", though even that is a minority of songs. If I were to say what constitues the biggest part of denpa it would be "cute and funny", meaning the lyrics are quite humorous.

>>23445995
I still don't understand what separates denpa from anime music in general. It always just sounds like some anime or VN opening or character song but apparently those aren't denpa themselves.

>>23448882
Sounds like the 2hu fandom, but they don't spend all their time whining about discord drama and trannies and namedropping each other and stalking. They're at that point of a dead /vg/ general where they just post a bot-like post every minute. It's only a matter of time before they start posting cat dicks or something.

>>23449064
it's an autism containment thread, though with the discord drama and trannies it doesnt feel too different from the kigurumi threads.
though i do wonder why rhythm game generals havent been moved to /vg/. can a general be too retarded even for /vg/?

>>23454136
Well if the majority of people think it doesn't belong, then yes, whether it should be moved is up for discussion. It's not like they have any actual power to move it. Although if anything, the threads should just be deleted due to falling into the dramapile death throes of generals.

>>23471845
Aside from the waste and disease, what's wrong with sewage?

>>23472244
>That keeps the focus on the topic of discussion instead of on our personal and group identities.
Cute, innocent guy who's never been inside a general thread.

>>23482988
There's a level of Icon to her, but people aren't gonna discuss her if there's nothing left to discuss.

>>23482988
Have recent years been producing fewer net characters than the 2000s and the early 2010s?

>>23485470
>there's those recent meme youkai that have commonly accepted designs for internet purposes
Which ones?

>>23486490
Like the tall chick and the slit mouth chick and so on that got popular recently because of the monsterbitch fad and people started making porn of them and stuff. I don't know any of the names of them, and they probably aren't so much recent as gained popularity with lewd images. Some mermaid thing was popular recently, but I don't know a thing about it.

>>23486958
I like this person. Nice "kh" sounds!

>>23471845
I got banned for saying fag twice. Pretty dumb social media system. cant even make a new account unless i have a new phone number

>>23492915
If you move to a totalitarian regime because of their lucrative content mines you must do your research and learn to speak carefully. You must learn to think like a dissident and not to let your guard down at any time. Consider every line tapped. Anyone you talk to many report you to the secret police. This is the mindset you need to cultivate to survive Twitter... Or just never post anything in English. That also seems to work.

good thread

>>23339714
The guitar stuff isn't really my thing but I like the last three tracks.

>>23492449
/jp/ is hornier than ever now. It has simply lost the ability to express it in interesting ways.

>>23494688
It really has.
I've been looking through old archives trying to find that thread and I keep coming across just the best old shit.

>>23494925
>I keep coming across just the best old shit.
Don't keep it all to yourself, anon-kun.

>>23499396
This isn't your blog, go back.

>>23498689
>>/jp/thread/S1775691
>>/jp/thread/S5206764
>>/jp/thread/S7471453
>>/jp/thread/S8204930
Last ones really good

Old thing I found in an image folder

Do you still consider and/or call yourself an otaku?

I am a sucker for every Nico medley of any kind that comes along and this one from last weekish is no exception:
https://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm36647531 【オールスター】ニコパーク【ニコニコメドレー】

Shitposter version: https://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm36660497 【音MAD】ニコパーク合作

I started compiling the lyrics in an attempt to be able to sing this one from memory. One day I'll get there.

>>23524914
jesus christ how horrifying

>>23509054
we're mostly losers

>>23541866
I really just want to know what's the general jist of the joke and why they sometimes all say different things

>>23545214
its because people who like Vtubers are either SEA or total fucking youngsters who think thats anime

>>23545225
>total fucking youngsters who think thats anime
Wait, what?

Touhou isn't anime either

>>23539576
I'm more intrigued by the taberungo meme and why anyone finds it funny.

It's not even a catchy song but dumb parodies of it get voted to the top of nico basically every day.

>>23545214
I think a lot of the posters in that thread come from /v/. People have been making threads there and linking back to it.

huh
https://twitter.com/hapijelly912/status/1251117737142706184

>>23565747
I see you haven't checked these guys dumoing all of アバンティ！ アンツィオ高校, https://twitter.com/dentsuma/status/1253987115240615938
Somehow, being the actual publisher makes it worse in mye eyes.

>>23574719
This sure has a healthy dose of "hurr loud sound funny!"

>>23585371
Kinda the same as https://twitter.com/uWyZyOMD0fOiBD2/status/1252475154078158848 from that original link

The thing that bothers me though, is isn't the parrot gif itself a really old meme image? Why did someone suddenly make it into a weird penis colored version?

>>23598450
Is Cirno delusional?

https://youtu.be/3zQZpZyHd9g

The latest episode of The Reisen is out. It's a series of MMD videos with Reisen as a stoic killer doing jobs for Erin, and it's pretty good.

The story won't make any sense if you start with the 4th one so watch the rest first.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJRWJ3wOXjs&list=PLh-pcSFVi5UtySf0zaxYnynAvbFhNXCRA