/jp/ - Otaku Culture

>My friend spouts random phrases in Japanese
>Pretend I have no idea what he's talking about, when I'm 300x more weeaboo than him.
>He feels really awkward
>He references an anime he knows I've watched
>Still feign ignorance
>He stops doing that shit and grows the fuck up.

How I wish the last bullet was true.

Went to a hobby store with tons of figurines for sale.

Go inside, I'm the only one there looking like a complete nerd, everyone else is a hipster fag. I buy every figurine in stock, nearing a couple thousand. Hipsters started talking to me, I brush them off because they are fags.

I have an IRL friend who likes eroguro, listens to experimental Japanese music, and plays im@s like I do. I feel sorry for fucks who hang out in anime clubs.

I heard some random people while eating talking about one-piece one time.
Pretty much it.

>go to kinokuniya
>guy took his 5 year old daughter there
>"Look! Books! Lots and lots of books!"
>"Look! Toys! Sexy toys"

I remember listening to a classmate of mine in high school talk about One Piece, this was before I ever watched a chinese cartoon or hotglued a figurine. He was a total bro though barring the wan piss faggotry.

Anyway that's my story of real life otaku culture.

My anime club decided to watch Pokemon Mahoromatic, Grenadier, and DRRR!!. The only fun one is Pokemon because everyone just makes jokes about how fucking stupid it is and how little any of the show made sense even in our childhood. Mahoro is just fanservice, meh.

Grenadier...where do I start. The kid who suggested it is one of the most fucking weeaboo people that I know. First, he reads and recites simple Japanese JUST AFTER THE CHARACTER SAID IT. Second, he brags about how his series got the most votes. Our club has no real taste, we turned down Excel Saga and Spice & Wolf for this shit. Third, he makes retarded statements about shit nobody cares about such as the production secrets or voice actors or some shit. It doesn't help that before he practically worshipped Evangelion, and then after (and only after) seeing Gurren Lagann in the same club, started worshipping that. I'm pretty sure he didn't even know what it was until then. I really want to hit this fucker upside the head with a shovel.

Other than that, I don't do anything there except make stupid jokes, which is all anyone ever does.

I reported my neighbor for not moving his car for over a month. It was in the street blocking people turning onto the street. His car is now parked in his driveway.

This thread is reported.

>>6102985
>My anime club

A friend and I spend the time before class starts playing Touhou. We would play more but this subject is quite difficult. A friend of mine recognized my Haruhi Suzumiya avatar I often use on forums. He also copied Shakugan no Shana to my hard drive. Another friend of mine has watched every single Vocaloid video out there and went to a con with me and a bunch of people, one of them was a squealing anime fangirl but I forgave her because her attitude was quite similar to another girl from my major (only without the anime fanaticism).

Outside from that, no major otaku experiences since high school, when we had our little otaku club and exchanged DVDs of downloaded animu while talking nonstop about animu and torrent. That was the shit... ^^

>>6102985
>he practically worshipped Evangelion, and then after (and only after) seeing Gurren Lagann in the same club, started worshipping that.

that... can't be real

I didn't get into the whole chinese cartoons and comics thing until after I graduated high school, so I never really realized that some of the biggest "freaks" at my school were in fact massive weeaboos. Two really stand out in my memory. Both took art classes (where I assume they drew anime characters and the like) and one of them was a dude that constantly wore a trenchcoat. Both of them just had this vibe that told you they were just plain strange. So when I got really deep into the whole Japanese media thing (to the extent that I taught myself Japanese, although it may actually be that teaching myself Japanese was the reason for getting into anime/manga to such a degree, hard to tell at this point) I suddenly realized that I had become an entity of such weeaboo strength that I dwarfed them completely, and yet I showed none of this on the outside.

I may end up going to an anime/manga club at some point in my life, just to see for myself, but every story I have ever read involving an anime club has ended in complete and utter shame at the stupidity of the people in said club.

>>6103029
If you like the language join the Japanese club if you have one. Much better people generally, ours has lots of exchange students to practice japanese on/take silly pictures with (why do japanese girls need to take so many pictures of people.

>>6103008

Trust me, it is. I was talking about him and using his first name and my one friend said "Oh, you mean Eva kid." then I inferred from that he was someone who only talked about Evangelion.

Oh, and probably the weirdest thing, I was in an English class, bored out of my mind so I started playing Touhou since...well, it just looks like a generic shooter. The guy next to me (someone who looks ALPHA AS FUCK) was like "Is that Touhou?" Apparently he wrote something about its music for some video game site he works for.

Good job OP, this is bringing out the /a/ fags nicely.

I remember back in my senior year of high school, days before the end of classes, I was watching our school's morning announcements (we had our announcements take the form of a mock news show in the mornings). One of the students was doing an interview of the anime club, and it was pretty much what you might expect. Hipsters, stereotypical weeaboos who proclaimed how much they loved Naruto, Bleach, and other shit, and social rejects that made even me go, "wow, what losers." Then they had the audacity to play a clip as they were watching some shounen shit, and it was downright horrible. Couldn't help but make this face through out that entire interview.

Thankfully, that was the only exposure to any form of anime club I ever had and likely ever will, given the fact that I'm a year away from graduating university and don't know nor care if we have one here.

I never personally experienced anything of this sort but I cringed when I found out my University (a Uni with 50k+ students, seriously) had a UPPER level course dedicated to "Japanese Anime." I fear what that class is like.

School clubs must be nice.

>>6103063

Yeah...it's a popular culture focus course. I took a course on anime and another on manga...and had a 10 page paper due in manga. I decided to write a paper on the accessibility and popularity of doujinshi...which pretty much amounted to me writing 10 pages about Touhou. I was the only one who got an A.

I've never watched any anime after I've watched Lucky Star cause I'm sure that any will ever be better than LS. True otaku story.

>>6103086

Also I have blue hair and eat lots of rice cause I'm chinese like Soryu Asuka Langley from Lucky Star.

>But like Wayne Rooney in front of a goal
like what
I'm assuming this is some kind of sports reference so I'm reporting you for /sp/ material

I never talked to animefags because I always assumed they were pretty much like the fags at /a/.