/jp/ - Otaku Culture

You actually take Hideaki Anno's amateur sociology seriously?

People with equally weird culture features when you look at them from another point of view?

Sup Ethan Todras-Whitehill. Your powerlevel is pathetically low.

This article is dumb and stupid.
I bet it was writen by a 14 years old kid.

>April 19th, 2007
What's up with the fags reposting stuff from 2007 today?

>>2994984
that was phrased a bit oddly, but I think you meant weird is point of view. Yes, while weird is subjective, so are good and evil. I'm not trying to get on all that though. For the sake of not sounding like stoner hippies that killing is evil eating your greens is good and certain things (Japan) are weird.

>>2994985
Please elaborate.

>>2995036
I found it on google. Why must the year matter?

>>2994996
The reference escapes me.

>>2995024
Dumb and stupid? I believe it to be smart and smarter.
I bet a 14 years old kid did not right it.

Gentleman you must at least admit there's at least a grain of truth to this article. In the world's history Japan was always respectable nation. Now... well people often point and laugh. For the record I do enjoy me some Japanese peculiarities.

>>2995081
No OP, you're the peculiarities.

>>2995040
What you're trying to say is that Japan is objectively weird. I hold that as naive. They're just subjectively bizarre when compared with most of the world, so they run on their own frame of reference.
Meanwhile, every cultural group has differing features that would make it weird and strange to anyone else. Like, say having to eat everything you're served on your plate. Other cultures just stop when they're full and leave some food left, instead of forcing themselves to finish it all.
Or the cult to celebrities. Or how companies can get away with prosecuting and suing their own customers and hardcore fans.

How does a frivolous lawsuit like arguing that coffee was served too hot goes through, or why are there people dedicated to collect every piece of paraphernalia from some pop culture aspect.

And Anno is not the best reference as to why the japanese are so weird. The japanese think Anno is weird, along with most of their otaku. Actual japanese values aren't so far from the modern western way of thinking.

Except that, you know, it's acceptable to just shrug away most japanese things and say "Japan is so wacky!" than thinking about their different modern culture. Same with most nations.

I still don't get why it's so hard for people to realize that most things are subjective.

>>2995095
No, I am actually quite average. You could say boring. The most abnormal thing I do is browse the chans.

>>2995098
Differing cultures is one thing. Example. Canadians like mayonnaise with their fries. Americans like ketchup. But the Japanese are not small steps such as though, but a good mile away. American hippies name their kids after plants or animals. Japanese hippies name them after symbols. Like ampersand. and indeed the point of this is subjectivity. Being outside the norm is weird. The cult to celebrities exist world wide. And the more 1st world countries often manipulate the legal systems.

>>2995081
Your article sucks bro. It's just "lol japan is weird cuz they have cartoons and cartoon porn" and then an old as fuck Anno quote. You could have mentioned some of the truly weird or disturbing stuff about Japan, but it's obvious that you don't really know anything about the country.

>>2995127
Not a bit. But perhaps you'd like to share some of these "truly bizzare" things.

Also, slightly off topic, western culture does have cartoon porn, but it isn't nearly as worshiped.

This thread is dumb, but bump for Suehiro Maruo. My hard copy of New National Kid arrived just the other day.

>>2995160
I have no idea why you would bump this topic with that. What is that anyway? Any good? I doubt it... I'm also too lazy to use google.

>>2995169
It's surrealist ero-guro, of course it's good you faggot.

>>2995173
I do like the surreal, but what's ero-guro? You mean just guro with a plot or what?

>>2995135
I don't profess to be an expert on Japanese culture, which is why I don't write blog posts about it. But I'd stay stuff like kigurumi, child modeling, and some of their fetish porn is a lot more weird than just anime and hentai. Or just watch some of their non-anime television like their game shows and variety shows. Also they don't "worship" hentai in Japan.

>>2995135
>Canadians like mayonnaise with their fries.
Canadian here - Someone has fed you a line of crap and you have swallowed it hook, line, and sinker.

>>2995200
All guro is ero guro, and most guro is awesome.

>>2995201
Oh. That's common internet knowledge. No new shockers there.

>don't worship hentai

Oh, fuck you. I've seen pictures of the amount of booths for conventions that are just BRIMMING with amateur and professional doujin.

>>2995235
Yeah because otaku represent the entire country of Japan.

>>2995235
The western world has a higher concentration of furries. Are we all furries? NO.
Don't generalize a region by extremist minorities.

>>2995228
milk in bags

>>2995235
Because it's not like otaku aren't marginalized even more in Area 11 than they are here, right? Oh wait.

>>2995228
Well, when I visited Winnipeg, whenever I went to a restaurant they gave me a mayonnaise bottle with my burger and fries. Every time I had to ask for just ketchup and the waiter looked at me oddly.

>>2995232
I am jus confus

The only thing I understood from you was, "yes, it's guro" My friend would love you though. He loves him some guro.

>>2995232
I also own the book version of this in hardcover. Not the American printing though, shit is so expensive :(

Wow that's kind of silly. The crazy Japanese commenter is unfortunately in the right.

>>2995254
I wouldn't really call it extremist minorities. Besides we're talking about one country; a small one at that. One person there means a lot more than one person in England or America. Statistically speaking, of course. Anyway, I'm too tired and if you didn't guess from my second pic I'm a troll. I'm going to play some Saya no Uta before hitting the hay. Night weaboos.

>>2995270
Manitoba is a shitty province. They should serve cheese and gravy with fries.

>>2995293
>One person there means a lot more than one person in England
There are ~51 million people in England.
There are 30 million in Tokyo alone, and 130 million in the entire country. A few people don't mean shit.

>>2995293

Japan is the tenth largest country in the world, with 128 million people.

Based upon what I've learned from the internet, Canada is basically America DOING IT WRONG.

>>2995300

Poutine is originally from Quebec, not Manitoba. Also, poutine is only marginally more bizarre than the patriotic American invention that is Cheese Fries.

>>2995293
>LOLITROLU

Post reported, he himself admitted to being a troll - I encourage you all to do the same.

>>2995325
How do you pronounce Poutine?

According to that article it makes me Big Daddy. Fuck yeah, time for some rape my children!

>>2995333
Poo-Tea-n
>>2995325
What makes it bizzare?

>>2995343
it's "put-in"

>>2995328
>IMMA THE INTERNET POLICE

>>2995325
Cheese fries?

>>2995343
You're making me so hungry right now.

>>2995355