/jp/ - Otaku Culture

I'll probably eventually grow out of it to a degree, but I figure even when I'm old I'll still watch an occasional animu.

You're just being gay. If you 'grow' out of the hobby, what will you replace it with? Nothing? Sounds boring.

I've been into this stuff since I was about 6. My tastes have changed and broadened, but I've never gotten tired of it.

I've kinda outgrown anime. Back in high school I used to watch every new anime that came out that season. Now I just watch 1 or just watch old animes I've missed. But I'm still good with Vns. Just wish I know moon so I can continuously play them instead of wait for translation patches. FFFFFFFFFFFFFFF where is my Narcissu 2nd side?

You'll grow out of it then replace it with something that's just as big of a waste of time

>>2679395

Maybe you just burned out? The summer before fall 08 semester I was basically watching anime, playing VNs, practicing 1cc runs for Touhou and playing the shit out of Medieval 2: Total War. When winter break hit I didn't want to do any of that shit. I just browsed /jp/ for a while and eventually whatever we were talking about got me interested back in VNs again and then that led to some spring season anime. You'll get your second wind back.

I don't think I ever will.

Are you sure you're just not depressed? Depression tends to make you lose interest in the things you like.

I don't wanna grow up, I'm a weeaboo kid.
A million animes to choose from, that I can enjoy.
From visual novels to manga and video games,
its the biggest hobby there is. GEE WIZ!
I don't wanna grow up, cuz baby if I did....
I wouldn't be a weeaboo kid!

If you're like me you'll go through a dry spell where you spend time working on your "life" and then when that becomes stale you'll retreat to your otaku side of life again.

I don't want to be a weeaboo past 35.

>>2679425

Maybe. I have been getting frustrated at my inability to find a summer internship and worrying my ass off for my future career.

>>2679438
Ah, I understand the feeling. I tried to enroll in summer classes, but administrative errors messed that one up and I haven't gotten a job yet so I'm basically idling around all day.

I've been a hikki NEET for the past two years and back when it all started I was marathoning anime all day and playing video games occasionally. I'm becoming bored with everything. Recently I have rarely watched more than one episode if any at all per day and I play video games maybe once a week. My latest hobby is watching movies. I hadn't seen a new movie in years and then last month I begin to download eight or so a day and watch them all. For a while I was learning Japanese but I got bored at the 350 kanji mark and just dropped it.

I don't enjoy much of anything anymore, not even those movies I watch. I tried starting a VN yesterday, but I didn't last five minutes before I put it down. I feel like I need to move on with my life, but it's not like I haven't tried that before. Problems have a way of showing up when I'm around other people. I'm just not a social person. I don't know what to do now.

>>2679395
This has always scared me.

I don't think I can replace my current hobbies so I look at it like that right now. I burnout really easy and my hobby cycle keeps growing so something I like now then put down will be picked up at a much later date. Like, really late.

I really hate that because I can't complete a cycle if the circle keeps expanding. Fuck it, I'm going to go to bed early and actually do something tomorrow morning. None of this 4chan browsing bullshit.

>>2679430

I go through that alot. Just this spring I've been working on networking my ass off to find a job or an internship. Didn't play any VN or touch Touhou since Dec. Now that my classes ended I've been on a binge. Just hit up fanime last week and let myself go. At night me and my friend would head up to his hotel room with some guys that needed a ride to Fanime from the Bay Area and we all played a drinking game while watching Lucky Star. Shit was awesome and I know we were being total weeaboos but I didn't give a fuck.

I've been trying to change things little by little...but I'm still the same person I was before. I'm just not good with people I don't know, and even with friends things can get awkward now and then.

I got my licence, have tried to be more sociable and some other things which are /r9k/ material...but I don't know...

>>2679395

You probably need to do something fresh within the hobby. It looks like you've probably gotten tired of SRPGs in general if you can't play the super robot taisen series. Just wait til Blazblue comes out then obsess over it or something. You'll get tired of that and then maybe you can move back to super robot taisen. Seriously finish Alpha 3 even if you have to push yourself. You won't regret it.

>>2679448

>>drinking game while watching Lucky Star

I've always wanted to try something that was both normalfaggy and otakuy. But I don't have enough any friends that skirt those lines. Either they are hardcore normalfags and can't talk about anything but hitting up clubs and banging bitches or semi-shutins obsessing over the next moe moe anime.

I don't think I will outgrow anime. I've been on that shit since kindergarten when my mom bought bootleg VCDs of Sailor Moon for me to watch. I didn't understand enough Chinese to know what the fuck was going on but I was hooked. When it came to UPN 44, fuck I made my dad record that shit for me. Now at 21, I still love sailor moon and most mahou shoujo and basically the whole VN scene. I hope I never come to a point where I get tired of it.

>>2679395
>>When do you think you will grow out of your weeaboo hobbies or your /jp/ related hobbies
Here's your first problem. Don't think of them as hobbie but lifestyles. because in terms of the average /jp/ level otaku it usually is.

All of you are traitors. Get out, normalfags.

RECENTLY, I"VE BEEN MORE AND MORE ATTRACTED TO 3D WHITE WOMEN

WHAT'S HAPPENING TO ME

PLZ HELP

>>2679395
I've been pretty busy with school for the past few weeks, and now I have my free time back, I still don't feel like watching anime, playing touhou, and I can't find a new VN that doesn't bore me.
However, I'm an OCD'ing faggot who always needs to have something to to. So I downloaded a shitload of literature to read while I hang around /jp/. It's a pretty good replacement for now, and I know that my interests in /jp/-related stuff will shift back in a little while.

I think I should grow out of it by the time I'm 30 otherwise I'll look like one of those creepy oldtimerfags that go to cons.

Otaku-ism is my life so I don't see it ending anytime soon. It might get scaled down if my life makes some drastic changes (lolyeahright).

If I ever get a girlfriend(here's hoping that I will...;_;) I'll probably cut down on it. Unless she is some sort of fujoshi I don't think I could maintain both things at once.

I haven't been able to get back into anime for over three years now. I download on episode of something that looks interesting and then watch the first ten minutes of it and never finish it.

>>2679441

Yeah I've been idling around all day too. I didn't enroll for summer school because I was keeping my days open just in case I could get a job or an internship. But...that fell through and all the classes I need have been taken up.

>>2679498
You should get a portable video player. I got a Zen and it's surprising how easier it is to get through shows when you can watch it anywhere you want. Not very fond of the eyestrain-o-vision though, but that's portability.

>>2679504

You should've just signed up for classes anyways. But I dunno if your school makes you pay first before you register. If it does that then you were pretty much fucked from the start.

>>2679512

I already have one and like hell will I watch anime in public. I never want to become one of "those" people.

This fucking topic is a reeking shithole of CLOSET NORMALFAGS.

Reported.

>>2679550

Oh man don't remind me. Just the other day on the train there was this neckbeard watching K-on with fucking speakers so the entire compartment could hear it. I haven't raged that hard since my mom threw out my Nanoha fig.

>>2679555
I don't understand why people do this. Makes me want to strangle them.

>>2679555

Did he actually have a neckbeard

>>2679567

Yes. He even had anime pins on his messenger bag.

>>2679572
Reminds me of when a guy wore a Haruhi armband to my English class, and was telling everyone about it.

>>2679578

The worst I've seen was some girl cosplaying as Temari at my community college. It wasn't even for Halloween. She just picked a random fucking day. She even had the big fans.

>>2679550
Haha. You're implying that I go outside. By anywhere I mean the kitchen, under the covers, or even just the stairs. Sometimes it feels nice to just pace around while walking.

>>2679587

Did you go to CSM for community? I remember there was a girl that cosplayed as some girl from Naruto complete with headband and giant fan. Maybe it's the same girl you are talking about.

If I ''grow up'' from this, I will lose all my friends. I got all of them by playing pokemon TCG..If i would stop playing it and going to tournaments and such, I would probably never meet any of them.
+ ''weeaboo lifestyle'' fits me better than ''weeaboo hobbies''.

>>2679619

Yes I did. And from what I gather from some friends that still go there, she stopped cosplaying when she goes to school. I saw her at fanime though. She wasn't Temari.

Weeaboo is to /jp/, what casualfag is to /v/.

Just so you know --- weeaboos.

>>2679648
Yeah, if you use the original meaning of ''weeaboo''.
But if you use it as you would use the word ''otaku'' in its westernized meaning, it basically means what /jp/ users should be.

>>2679648

I don't think anyone knows what weeaboo means.
It's been routinely used interchangeably with "otaku", probably just because "otaku" sounds weeabooish.

>>2679665
>>2679662

/jp/ sucks.

;_;

>>2679673
yeah i kno y arent we having sanae is a slut and epic lulz threads, eh, anon?

>>2679673
Yes it does, but those 2 posts you quoted are pretty good so I cant see your point.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bkfVjSd9PnE

>>2679665

I'm already starting to grow out of my hobbies, choosing to spend more time writing and editing instead of watching anime, playing Touhou and VNs. I used to have tons of animu downloading and watching, now I only watch a select few for the season that have caught my eye. I used to play Touhou games (PCB then SWR mostly) most of the day, but I can't even pick it up anymore. I haven't read a VN except for KS Act 1 for over a year.

I still play video games though.

I know that I'm starting to grow out of my hobbies since I'm talking more and more responsibility in other things, and I accept that. I'll never truly grow out, and I will still enjoy watching and playing stuff I liked before. I just won't do it as much.

Strive to achieve Satori, free your mind from these pointless desires.

>>2679425
I thought I grew out of the hobby too, but I saw a psychiatrist and she gave me meds and here I am.

I thought I was growing out of it some months ago, but my addiction just came back recently, worst than ever.

Never, most likely, because I don't consider it something to 'grow out of'. I go through phases where I might lose interest in things, but sooner or later I'll come back to them.

Lost pretty much interest in anime, because VNs offers better escapism than anime could ever give.
Still play vidya here and there.
Started learning how to play an instrument out of the blue because I felt like it.

I think whenever I'll achieve a speck of self-esteem for myself I'll probably stop playing visual novels as well, though I don't see that happening anytime soon.
It doesn't help that I'm majoring in japanese so it's not like dedicating myself to studies or something like that wouldn't achieve much in growing out of this.

If I ever found something which fulfilled me I'd probably do, but I haven't found something I'm that passionate in in my whole life, I suppose this won't change.

I never feel like watching anime anymore, but if I force myself to watch 30 seconds I end up marathoning it all.

I keep several pastimes (Shooters, RPGs, VNs, roguelikes, comics, very rarely anime though) at hand and play whichever I feel like. I can't get bored of all at the same time, after all.

I have no reason to "grow out" of them. I look at anime, video games, etc. just like I do movies. Of course I probably won't watch as much and maybe stray a way from certain genres, but there's no reason that I would stop completely.

If you do something for 10 hours a day you will get sick of it sooner or later. Just find something else to do and you'll feel like doing your weeaboo shit again in a few months.

>>2679395
>>2680586
I 'GREW OUT' OF VIDEOGAMES..
NOBODY GROWS OUT OF THINGS..
PEOPLE ONLY LOSE INTERESTING IN THINGS..
I LIKED 1 PLAYER GAMES AT FIRST BECAUSE THERE WAS A STORY AND HATED 2 PLAYER GAMES BECAUSE THERE WASNT A STORY AND IT WAS POINTLESS
THEN I PLAYED ONLINE GAMES AND TRIED TO BE THE BEST IN THEM
BUT HAD PEOPLE SAY LAME INSULTING THINGS TO ME SO I SAID COOL INSULTING THINGS BACK TO THEM AND I WAS BANNED FOR NOT BEING LAME NERDS LIKE THEM AND COMPLETELY FUCKING DESTROYING THEM
BUT I KEPT MAKING ACCOUNTS
I TRIED TO AVOID CONFRONTATION BUT THEY KEPT BANNING ME
AND TEASING ME BY STEALING KILLS AMONG OTHER THINGS
SO I DECIDED TO USE MY WORDS
GOT BANNED MANY TIMES
MADE MANY NEW ACCOUNTS
TIL I REALIZED I WASNT PLAYING FOR THE GAME ANYMORE
I WAS PLAYING FOR THE CHAT
THE PEOPLE
SO I GREW OUT OF VIDEOGAMES
AND GREW INTO CHAT
THATS WHY IM CHATTING WITH ALL OF YAW
>>2680586
>you'll feel like doing your shit again in a few months.
I WISH..