/jp/ - Otaku Culture

Dunno, how about you ask >>>/int/?

Just as cherry blossoms are a symbol of spring, cicadas are of summer.

it's a soothing sound

Why do Americans like explosions so much?

>>7209218
Lol'd hard. Thanks, anon-kun.

>>7209218
>implying you dont like explosions

>>7209225
Cool guys don't look at explosions.

i bet its because there are fucking noisy
it's even a meme in korea

>>7209226
'cause they're too busy causing more explosions.

>>7209211
they dont like them..
it's just that cicadas are such attention seeking fuckers that the japs find it hard not to include them in any form of media.

OP here,

i personally hate cicadas, the're fucking gross looking.

It's part of the Cicada Conspiracy.

>>7209225
I don't like explosions.

>>7209257
did someone say conspiracy?

>>7209218
Canadian here, I fucking love explosions. Those 2,000 lb JDAMs, man.

Someone shop that picture of Suika saying "I can't hear you over the sound of my tits!" so that it says "I can't hear you over the sound of my BZZZZZZ (or whatever the sound cicadas make) and insert a cicada face on Suikas face.

do it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fqDTgrgn3O0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n994dwjwlYk

>>7209310
Why?

>>7209318
why not

>>7209323
Because it's stupid.

>>7209325
NO U

Brain parasites

Because they are a symbol of the transcience of things. There's like a billion poems and haiku on the matter.

bump for >>7209310

>>7209380
No, it's a constant reminder for japanese people that they live in a climate comparable to the armpit of your average american and that even their bugs are fucking annoying as shit

>>7209211
They looks fine and make me happy. They big and sing in the night, so I`m not alone. Big things might to be friends...

I, for one, fucking hate cicadas, they are too noisy and they make it hard to sleep.

I hate you all. I love cicadas. They are soothing to hear, almost therapeutic.

>>7209681
What are you, a hippie?

>>7209681
Oh, hello, Wriggle.
Now get out.

How much shit would I get into with customs/USDA if I ordered a shipping container full of various Japanese cicadas? Just a fine, or would there be prison involved?

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>>7209681
I agree, cicadas are adorable. Especially since many species tend to shiver during the evening hours to warm themselves, as the males' chirps do not reach necessary intensities below a certain temperature (it has been shown that Tibicina species cannot chirp below 22-24°C, for example) and the females likewise require a certain body temperature to properly recognize their mates. Thus, if you married a cicada girl, she'd be unable to endure cold winter nights in your absence; so you could come home after a day's hard work and find your near-frozen wife huddled in your bed, her wings shaking rapidly in a vain attempt to warm herself. Needless to say, as a good husband you'd hug her gently and share your body heat with her under a warm blanket, molesting her delicious flat prosternum while she blushes and lets out cute moans. And once her body is warm enough for her to freely move, you'd get to consummate your love with your devoted monstergirl wife until dawn, since matings can last over 10 hours for cicadas (Magicicada septendecim to be specific) in poor weather, which winter definitely qualifies as.

Also of note is that fungal pathogens of genus Massospora are able to reverse cicada behavior, forcing the males to act as females (and quite successfully - those "crossdressers" are about as sexually attractive as real females.) Female cicadas generally respond to a male's courtship song with a characteristic wing flick and infected males behave the same, even though normal males never respond with wing flicks. Since the fungus presumably feminizes the insect by decimating the abdomen (which also sterilizes both genders), you could think of it as waking one day as a little girl in both body and mind, your instincts as a male having been altered by the fungus alongside your penis.

I wish I was castrated by a fungal parasite that turned me into a perfect crossdresser. If only ;_;