/jp/ - Otaku Culture

browse /jp/ from your hotel the entire time

If you're going to Big Sight for Comiket, then you might as well go to Akihabara. It's only about two hours by bike. Take the Harumi bridge. Just watch out for trucks.

But Akihabara's not really for moe otaku, but computer/electronics otaku. They also probably won't have any IBM 5100s, in case that's what you're looking for.

>>7434748
So where should I go for moe otaku / regular anime otaku stuff?

>>7434748
I see what you did there.jpg

OP, go to Comiket and buy doujinshi to scan for us. Go nuts.

>>7434756

jail

>>7434756
That entire post was a Steins;Gate reference.
No, Akihabara really is the otaku tourist trap.

Tokyo summer? You really want to go?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urban_heat_island

>>7434761
Do this. It would be a bit like a deputy service.

Definitely go to Comiket, especially days 2 and 3.
Unless you want the limited edition stuff, just walk in around 10~11am and you'll have enough time to look around everywhere. After comiket you'll still have the afternoon/evening to check out areas like shinjuku/ikebukuro (if you like anime, you can try to find anime locations and shit to make it more interesting).
Two spots I'd recommend as far as "otaku stuff" goes are Akiba (obviously) and Nakano Broadway.
It's always worth checking out the big stores along Chuo-doori, but for me the most interesting places are the Raido Kaikan (although I heard this is under construction, true?), the smaller shops a block west of chuo-doori, and the big Book Off. Check out White Canvas for touhou stuff and eat Kyushu Jangara ramen. Also, they have pedestrian paradise again right?
Nakano Broadway will have weirder, more wacky stuff, you get out the North exit at Nakano (chou line) and go until the end of the shoutengai, Mandarake and all the shops start at the 2nd floor I believe. Don't go too early, and might be better to go on a weekday since it seems to become a family place on weekends. You can buy more rare stuff there (or just check it out, since some things are auctions/require some japanese to figure out).
If you're into fujoshi stuff, go to Otome Road in Ikebukuro.

Check out the fetish maid cafes, I hear they have trap maid cafes, that should be your number 1 priority while you are in Japan

oh and no need to register or anything for comiket, might be a good idea to plan a big with the web catalogue though. Also if you plan on buying shit, take a messenger/shoulder bag, backpacks are a pain in the crowd. Be weary when taking photos, probably best to ask, the crew will give you shit for taking photos without permission and make you delete photos of the cosplay garden taken from the walkway above.
Also, take the yurikamome into odaiba rather than the rinkai line. rinkai is loud, expensive, and has no view.

if all you're going to do in your visit to Japan is be a huge fucking otaku then I think they'd rather you not come at all

>>7434873
Yes, because normal tourists are so much better.

>>7434857
>>7434842
Thanks for the info :)

>>7434904

given they are generally not a legion of horrific deviants who belong to a rightly hated social group, yes indeed they are

additionally they spend money beyond the hotel and the con so a wider subsection of society

oh and i imagine for all their ignorance and clumsiness the regular tourist is still infinitely better to be around and does not fill the air with some cloud of shame

>>7434967
To be fair, what else to check out Japan other than their pop media?

All they got are shrines the eyes can see. Stop self-hating, you'd feel much better.

I was also thinking of taking a trip to Japan

See some Japanese MMA or Perhaps a Sumo tournament maybe visit Aokigahara and some shrines.

The only thing that kinda bothers me is how rediculous I'd look compared to everyone else

6'6 290 pound Linebacker build

The sun is hot.

Mosquitoes come to suck your blood.

>>7435423

I cant remember is Bug Spray on the allowed list of carry ons or no?

>>7435428
under 3 ounces or whatever? I'd just plan on buying some genuine samurai bug spray.

>>7435130

hmm the history, the scenery, fine dining if you want that sort of thing, or just to expand your horizons slightly of how another culture works

that is of course excluding your bizarre shrines statement

also I would argue that self-hatred can be very healthy, as it can spur people to self-improvement: i mean if you were a self-hating otaku you'd work to quit being that, wouldn't you?

August is a big mistake. Airfare will be very high because of obon week and you don't want to be in that Japanese humid heat. Go in Spring or Fall, it will be much more pleasant.

Don't go to Japan to go to Comiket. It will be an awkward waste of time.

>>7435456

would just like to add that the japanese will also hate you with a passion exceeding anything in your silly games or caption slideshows

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7FYuYkPgDkk


I'd recommend not going

>>7435504
What the hell are they saying?

>>7435521

"White pig go home!"

>>7435504
did that pickle ever go horn? sauce?

>>7435521

you don't need a translator to tell that they don't want your kind there and that's pretty much all that matters

>>7435521
>Boku Pico go home!

when you are in akiba check out as much stuff OFF the main street (chuo doori) as possible. You can find plenty of neat shops (doujin & second hand) up small stair wells and in small nooks.

the arcades in akiba can be fun, but are generally more expensive then elsewhere. If I remember correctly the best arcade is on the top floor of this building
http://maps.google.ca/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=akihabara+chuo+dori&a
q=&sll=35.702433,139.775316&sspn=0.085173,0.196724&ie=UTF8&hq=chuo+dori&
hnear=Akihabara,+Taito,+Tokyo,+Japan&ll=35.700917,139.771502&spn=0.00134&#44
;0.003074&z=19&layer=c&cbll=35.700819,139.771495&panoid=ON9IVKFf8J5d7V3t-SkPaA&a
mp;cbp=12,115.94,,0,-39.74
It's is the quietest/least busy and you get more plays per 100yen then most other arcades in akiba. You should definitely give jubeat a shot, was my fav arcade game.

nakano broadway is a huge old mall that has more or less been converted into a massive Mandarake (with some other otaku shops as well) It's not directly in tokyo but I remember it being less then an hour train ride away and well worth a visit.

Be sure to carry a camera so you'll get arrested.

>>7435549

simply 'existing while not japanese' should fulfill this requirement

man is it going to suck for their nation when the ageing really hits, hahahaha

serves them right though

>>7435521
It's it's just a stupid protest about some butthurt Japanese people. From my 11 years of experience (due to relatives and that jazz) in going to Tokyo, I've never personally seen, or heard any notion of this.

Seriously, if your main concern is that you are a white man and Japanese xenophobia, don't be. There are a good number of white dudes in tokyo, and hell, a number of black people too. Don't let your race really determine your experience.

Eh ... that's odd, last time I was literally shopping with a camera in hand and the only 'negative' response I got was "no camera ください" or some such. I'm not Japanese, of course.

captcha: (Japan) willyste

>>7434700
Don't take pictures of the maids in the street, its rude. Definitely check out Mai Dreamin no1 or 2, though I think 2 is the best. Should go with a friend so its less intimidatingly alien.

Hey there, this thread is actually quite useful for the scenario I am in.
I will be traveling to Japan with a couple friends, One Japanese, but has only gone to Tokyo because of family, so he's an expert for Tokyo navigation, but not much else., one Chinese friend whom has been to Japan twice, and has traveled across the north parts of Japan along the shinkansen. This time, I will be joining in and we will be traveling across the south eastern cities alongside the shinkansen.

I'm open to any suggestions whether it is otaku related, food related, history related, sight seeing related, or any known festivals. I know too little about the southern parts of Japan to suggest awesome locations.
Our timing window is Mid July to Mid August, so We will be hitting Comiket near the end, and hopefully the Mizuki Nana concert in July.

>>7435530
I think those guys had been spray-painting make-pretend gang shit on cars or something obnoxious like that, though, and were in the process of getting deported or something.

There is a faction in Japan that's a little like the teabaggers, stormfront, or the korean dog-eating pride guys, but they mostly do things like picketing outside of elementary schools and terrorizing little korean kids. And they're just one of a vast array of different types of cults, most of which are more easy-going.

>>7435565

yes indeed, don't let your race determine your experience: the japanese will do that for you

>>7435584

the difference from these movements being that there is no significant resistance to japanese anti-foreigner movements and the sentiments they hold are shared by an incredibly broad spectrum and large percentage of the population: the difference is merely that they act much more upon it

>>7435592

oh man that is some awkward writing, what the fuck was i thinking when i wrote this

>>7435565
Pretty much, if you respect them they will respect you back, And try not to impede on anyone else's business unless you really have to.

>>7435598
Yeah, I read it twice and I can't really figure out what you were trying to say

>>7435580
Ugh, I messed up as well.
Suggestions as in locations or events. We have lots of time, and I just don't know enough to make any good suggestions. Heck, I don't mind stereotypical ones. Hotsprings, Mountains, Beaches, Shrines, anything. I just more or less need suggestions for cool places to visit. I'm probably the least knowledgeable about Japan of the group to be honest, but I just really want to have fun/ have a unique experience.

>>7435607

might as well go for take two

Japanese far-right movements are unlike their western counterparts in that they do not face any significant ideological resistance. The sentiments they appeal to (ideas of an ethnically homogenous state) are, by and large, accepted by a a large spectrum across Japanese society. Additionally, unlike the west (And especially Europe) there is little in the way of a historical stigma attached to these groups.

Ultimately, what seperates a member of one of these movements from the general populace of Japan is not any significant ideological difference, but the extent to which they are willing to actively voice these ideas or act on them outside of the ballot box. Japanese notions of citizenship and rights are still largely constructed on the racial, not the civic, level (NB Many nations within Europe are also constructed thus, but have been making moves to ammend this)

Do people really fall for the Japanese people hate foreigners troll still? It's impressive to take it this far still, though.

I had a great time when I went OP, everyone was really helpful when our group didn't know exactly where we were going and such.

>>7435628
You're right, Japan isn't multicultural and doesn't seem to want to be. This has nothing to do with tourism though, and unless you want to move there they're not going to give a fuck.

>>7435632

Japanese racism is also directed heavily against tourists.

Also I fear you have misunderstood: many western countries (most notably France) do not pursue policies of multiculturalism (the belief is that anybody can become French through allegiance and adherence to the Republic) and yet opened themselves to significant immigrant populations. This has been problematic, but it has been problematic on a civic level much more than on an ethnic or racial one.

In contrast, Japan seeks neither a multicultural policy nor one of civic citizenship or immigration: the policy is no better thought out than 'no non-Japanese' outside of an outlying population of South Americans who are now busily being 'encouraged' to 'return home'.

>>7435632
>doesn't want to be multicultural

Good for them fucking kumbaya shit is fucking up the world. people like that slut that married the nigerian nigger need to be deported or publicly stoned.

>>7435647

yes yes you're very cute and edgy no you can't have any candy

>>7435647
I like the way this guy thinks.

>>7435653

but uh he doesn't?? you're imitating him anyway and that's the highest form of flattery sooooooooooo

>>7435653
Personally, I think immigrants should be forced to swear supreme allegiance to whatever country they emigrate to.
That nigerian fucker is muslim and gues what? He popped out five kids. Sure it seems cute when it's just five ,less so when it's five hundred thousand and you're being overrun and you're culture raped.
>>7435650
I don't like sweets and am actually mellow and not on edge.

>>7435657
You're up early.

>>7435665

question to you: in this fantasy can immigrants, if they swear loyalty to the state and its values, become citizens of the state? does this prospect cross all racial, gender and religious boundaries?

>>7435642
I don't think I misunderstood, though I mightn't have worded it correctly. Most western countries at least tolerate mass immigration from culturally different countries. Japan doesn't. My understanding is that we agree on that, sorry if I'm mistaken.

I don't think that's a bad thing in and of itself, as multiple different cultures coexisting in the one society can cause problems, as I see in my own country. I don't know the specifics of any Japanese policy so I'll defer to you on whether it's thought out well or not.

As for racism directed towards tourists, I've been twice and never noticed anything like that - people were mostly friendly or uninterested. It's possible that it was just too subtle for me to see, but if that's the case then it's really not an issue for a tourist.

>>7435682
I'll address this question to myself, if that's okay.

It is possible through rigorous integration and acceptance of the values of the nation that an émigré from another country must adhere to. To me, it would make a lot more sense to integrate on the basis of family or for business advantages, not because "it's always been a dream of mine". Also, before you emigrate, check the diplomatic ties between the two nations so you won't be instantly detained or regarded as a traitor by both countries.

While I'm in this grumpy mood, what nation on this fucking planet considers gender as an obstacle to citizenship? Places like Saudi Arabia and Pakistan do not count on the basis of being even less accommodating to Westerners with killings and horror stories left and right that dwarf any kind of loudspeaker abuse you would encounter on an extended stay in Japan.

>>7434700
oh my gah

I can assure you'll regret it, i'm warning you.
Japan during August it's the hottest place i've ever been, and the humidity will kill you, assured. Maybe it's because i'm from Italy and the mediterranean climate is much more temperate, but i suffered a lot during those 2 weeks, even thou i enjoyed the trip, well i where still in Japan after all.

w/e warnings aside, i stayed last year from 8 August till 21 August, 8 days in Tokyo, 3 days in Kyoto then the last 2 days in Tokyo again, we moved a lot, and when i say a lot i mean it, by foot, we mostly got the subway just to reach far places then we moved mostly by foot to catch the most possible and "live" more the city, it was a lot hard to keep up 8hrs of walking under the sun but in the end we managed and saw a lot of stuff, we even got lost a lot, but that was the fun part of the trip.

For the stay i can recommend you the ryokan Edoya http://www.hoteledoya.com/ , it's between Ueno station and Akihabara, you can reach both by feet in 10minutes from the ryokan, the stay was wonderful, we choose the classic japanese room, it had everything (tatamis, futons, small tables) an anime fan would want from a japanese room. Also this was one of the only ryokans with a thermal spring on the top that the customers could user for free all afternoon and night. I'm seriously recommending it since the price was affordable, if you check-in on monday they'll let you pay less, read on their website.

>>7435709
Post part 2, i wrote too much.

Another tip i can give you is to request the Suica + Nex card when you get off the airplane, you just go down the escalator and go straight to the Suica stand, it costs 5k yen but they also give you 2 tickets for the bullet train from/to Narita, they expire after 2 weeks, AND a Suica card with 1500 yen, if you run around Tokyo with a Suica you'll pay less the subway, trains and other stuff, also is good to have it since you can use it to buy stuff from the dispensers around town.

For the Comiket plan... well i've been there, i wasn't planning, and me and my friend didn't plan the trip to visit it but we ended up there while following some japanese guy that we helped while walking in the ueno station.
I wouldn't say it was the worst experience in my life, but i was about to faint after 3 hrs of walking in that sea of people, the heat, the smell, i can't understand how they can manage to walk in cosplays in that heat and umidity, we managed to reach the top floors where the cosplayers show off but the sun was so freakin hot. I even run around it for 1hr just to search for a couple of doujins a friend requested me but i could only get one because for the others you had to get in line, but the lines started from outside, meh.

I don't think i'll ever visit it again during summer, but surely was something to do to "feel" the otaku side of japan. The only thing i'm regretting is that i missed all Miku stands to buy her discs, during that C78 a lot of great albums were released, but i "discovered" this otaku side of me only after buying her PSP game in Akiba, last summer they released Project Diva 2nd, her ads were everywhere so i felt like "woah, everyone is buying this game it must be great" so i bought it, and christ, i liked it so much that started listening to Miku songs.

>>7435712
Post part 3

But, otaku experiences aside, if you're a guy that can stand well under the sun just go, but, personally i'd go there during March, April or May since the climate is more temperate, you can watch Hanami.

>>7435715

How hot is hot, exactly? Got any specific temperature values?

>>7435721
http://www.japan-guide.com/e/e2273.html

>>7435721
30-32°C (don't know the exact value in F) but the humidity during day was around 89% and 110-120%, is a pacific island after all, so the "felt" temperature was a lot higher.

>>7435728
hong kong is just as bad, i am sure that I can handle it

>>7435733
Just go then, i wasn't used to that much heat because here in italy during august the temperatures reach higher values (30-35°C) but the humidity is lower, so walking around is fine.

>>7435728
That doesn't sound at all like a horrific departure from, for example, Floridian August weather that I am accustomed to.

Are these supposed racist, homophobic Japanese right wing groups going to mutilate and spray graffiti all over my sun parasol while I'm strolling outside?

>>7435694

I believe it was regarding the use of the term 'multiculturalism', although given how poorly this term has been defined I'm willing to just drop it here.

I would imagine this racism to take on more subtle forms, yes. Some of it may not even be intentional: work done into western societies qua the idea of 'white privilege' shows that a lot of discrimination doesn't really take place at the conscious level and can generally be missed. One also supposes it would depend upon where you went. More problematic for me is the seeming lack of any ideological resistance to these prejudices.

>>7435737
I think in Japan there's more "racism" than any other country eastern country, but i saw a lot of "white" people there, working, studying or just hangin out with japanese people so integration is possible.
A guy i know is studying in sendai at the moment and he even got a japanese girlfriend, and he's far from being a stud, so everything is possible, you just have to go there with the right mindset.

Holy shit people are actually caring about "racism" while travelling as a tourist. Hilarious. Western people are much more close to the definition of "racist" than Japanese.

>While I'm in this grumpy mood, what nation on this fucking planet considers gender as an obstacle to citizenship?

I don't know exactly why I threw that in; I must have been thinking of refugees at the time (single adult male is not something you want to be when seeking asylum)

>>7435747

Curious as to your definition of 'racism' here. What examples do you draw from, that westerners are so much worse than Japanese?

Thanks to white guilt and all the crap, westerners have become too sensitive to what they consider racism. Japan simply doesn't have the same standards.

Please consider focusing on the maliciousness of a person's action, rather than how racist they are. I don't see why anything other than "malicious behavior towards another race" should be considered racism.

>>7435682
I'm the guy you actually asked.To answer:
1.Gender-I assume you mean male or female and yes it does cross that line.
2.religious-no ,Because these Values can conflict with society at large and the nation state.
3.racial-In theory yes, but you would actually have to abide by these values ,something I suspect would give many people trouble.

Also any immigrant should be forced to undergo STD screening. People with diseases should be in a public register.

so how hard is it to boink a japanese girl?

>>7435747

I know, right? It's not like Japan still allows businesses to put "NO FOREIGNERS ALLOWED" signs on their doors like America.

>>7435766

If you're Asian, just bow and apologize a lot.

If you're white, you'll get arrested for looking at them.

>>7435771
>If you're white, you'll get arrested for looking at them.
how come?

>>7435766
Japanese girls are not a hive-mind they all have different personalities.If all you want to do is have sex just pay some random kogal (Most of them don't have jobs and are supported by parents/boyfriends or by doing porn)

>>7435772

No real reason.

But "I saw a bunch of Nip neckbeards snapping shots of some cosplayers in Akihabara so I thought it would be cool if I took one to show everyone how silly Japanese people are but then I got arrested after I pulled my camera out" is a common tourist horror story.

>>7435774
where would be a good place to find them? (Tokyo Area)

>>7435774

You have to buy them a handbag or something first.

They put out like machine guns if you give them something with a designer label on it.

>>7435776
You're going to have to explain this one further.

>>7435776
>common
I have never heard that before.

Comiket is pretty cool.

I went on Saturday and Sunday last year (C78), and there was an awesome fireworks display down by the Tokyo bay that evening, so I just hung around the place after Comiket ended.
They'll probably mention that on the speakers in the Big Sight, so you'll know if it's there or not.

The heat is the worst thing about Japan.
My being from relatively cool Scandinavia and staying in my room a lot doesn't really help my adjusting to temperatures.
So drink and eat a lot.
And for the love of everything sacred, bring something to wipe your sweaty face with - if you buy wipes from a convenience store, buy a couple of different kinds and test them before you bring them out in public.
I made a mistake of not doing that and spent a day getting even more weird looks than most white guys normally would because my stubble was full of white fluff from the shitty wipes I bought..

Everything I said was a lie.

Take lots of pictures of Japanese girls.

Nothing bad will happen.

Just be polite and ask people if you can take pictures of them. It's common sense, really.

And it's probably one of the phrases I used the most. The "is it alright if I take pictures?".

On cameras:
When I went to a quiet lake temple in Kamikochi (上高地 - it's absolutely lovely there, nice cool and clean air) I heard a girl mention to her boyfriend that my camera didn't have a shutter sound.
I guess that isn't normal in Japan with all the weird stuff you could get away with by having a camera like that.

>>7435793

Probably a stupid question but when you asked if you could take a picture was it in English or Japanese

>>7435769
libertarian utopia.

can someone tell me the name of the street in tokyo which is know as the sort of "dating central"

i once saw a documentary in which they mentioned that every weekend men and women are sorta just waiting to be picked up there

>>7435751
Westerners are much more extremist, and they take the whole racial "supremacist" bullshit to a whole new level. Sure, the government is lenient towards foreigners, but the government doesn't really represent the opinions of its citizens. Racial tensions are still lingering in the US despite what the media would like to make you think. Not to mention that there are several right-wing extremist political parties gaining popularity in Europe. Japanese aren't really racists, they're just xenophobic.

OP, GO TO A CAT HOTEL AND PET CATS FOR AN HOUR. YOU WILL NOT REGRET IT

>>7435809
Japanese.
People seem to get a bit friendlier when they find out that you aren't completely illiterate.

But generally I didn't experience as much unfriendliness as I expected.
Some people made fun of me, but I guess it was my own fault most of the time.

Like when I wanted to get a sandwich from Subway, and I ordered one of the "base models". Then I was supposed to choose what to put in it, and the first 3 ingredients I mentioned were already in the base models.
The girls working there thought it was pretty funny.
Then I just told the one taking my order to put everything in it.
But yeah, they looked at me with a smile when I left after eating.

>>7435819
>GO TO A LOVE HOTEL AND PET PUSSY FOR AN HOUR, YOU WON'T REGRET IT!

fix'd

>>7435817
>Japanese aren't really racists, they're just xenophobic.

pretty much that. They might not be good at dealing with foreigners, most of them are not hostile at all or anything like that.

>>7435822
reminds me that japanese twat is usually not well groomed or shaved and beware of their hygiene as their cooter will likely be filled with piss and their anus reeking havoc to your tongue. Fuck them in the shower to be safe.

going to japan sure sounds fun
but it would be even better if you know someone who lives there...
has anyone on here ever tried one of those penpal sites?

>>7435826
>their anus reeking havoc to your tongue
Is analinguis with newly met girls such a normal practice in Japan?

>>7435831
have you not searched "japanese" on motherless before? obviously that's the case. rape is like hello in Japan after all.

>>7435829
I tried once to find someone to practice Japanese with. Took me like 3 days to work up the courage to message two people from there, and none of them replied.

>>7435793
iirc It's actually illegal for you to take pictures without having a shutter.

>>7435835
the only 3 sites i've been to lately is george and keiko but they charge money, maggie-sensei (very informative, you can find people through his youtube account), and jappleng which seemed to have cleared their forums earlier in the week for their upcoming release. I prefer to use IRC channels, they seem to work really well at finding people etc...

you will want to fuck a nice whore there. you can even decide for your fetishes

>>7435820

Would this be the correct romanization

shashin wo tottemo iidesuka?

just remember that school girls put out if you buy them stuff op

Nobody has redirected OP to /trv/ yet. /jp/, are you sure you're not ill?!

>>7435875
I don't see any problems with it.

Tottemo ii sounds annoying to say, though, because it sounds like you're saying "very good".

>>7435883

what would be a better way to say it?

>>7435881
we can let it slip because he asked about comiket
/trv/ doesnt know what they are talking about when it comes to that

>>7435786
Man we missed the Hanabi for 1hr, that saturday we had the great idea to visit Hakone but except for the fact that during the day a tornado passed by the north of japan so the time was shit, we got a lot of water, couldn't visit anything of the attractions around the lake and when we reached the top of Mt.Hakone there was a sort of tornando on top so we ended up wasting a day.

< pic related, it's mt.hakone that day.

>>7435890
It's amazing how much of a difference it makes when people inquire about the kind of stuff that's actually discussed here. Most people asking about traveling to Japan treat us like we're a goddamn tourist office or something.

>>7435887
内側に出していいんでしょうか？ would probably be a good way of phrasing it.

Uchigawa ni dashite iin deshou ka would be how you pronounce it. Try it out next time you get a chance.

>>7435900
This makes me realize something. /jp/ is actually very welcoming to foreigners, they just need to lurk a bit and not to be rude.

>>7435905
The posts that start with "Alright you fucking weeaboo faggots, I'm going to Japan next month and..." certainly don't leave a good impression, yeah.

>>7435905
>they just need to lurk a bit and not to be rude.

if people would have done this to begin with 4chan wouldnt be the piece of shit that it is today

>>7435905
Depends a little. Some will throw a fit if you admit that you haven't been browsing the board for very long. But admitting that in the first place could just be seen as a failure to lurk and adapt, since it's very easy to avoid this by just lurking a little first and realizing that it's better to avoid doing this.

So yeah, I think most new people here who have decent judgment and think a little before posting in order to not make a fool out of themselves, aren't met with that much hostility. Personally I think these people are much better than "veterans" who let their egos get inflated by how long they've been here and no longer considers whether their posts are of acceptable quality. For instance, ZUN!bar.

>>7435902

Don't do this

essentially means What should I stick in?

>>7435947
No, it doesn't. It means, "can I exit inside?".

i ll be going to Japan next summer for four week
have fun op

judging from the replies you already got all your answers

it would be cool if you could post some of pictures (comiket) on here after you get back

also buy shit, scan and upload it

>>7435947
>>7435954
Further proof that /jp/ doesn't really speak Japanese.

>>7435929
I thought all new people did their best to pretend they are oldfag while talking out their ass?

>hey guys I been on /jp/ for at least five years and remember when we used to play Halo all the time yeah lets have a Halo thread!

You know the kind.

>>7436003
You see, anon, those are the only new people you notice. You don't notice all those who actually manage to blend in.

And it's been ages since I've seen a post like that which wasn't trolling or joking around.

>>7435902 is supposed to mean something like "Is it OK to cum inside?". The sentence is erroneous though.

since this thread is already off topic i am gonna throw in a question as well

for those who have been to comiket, how many weeaboos did you see/meet and what was the worst experience that you had with them?

>>7436029
Meet a fuckload, discussed only with one since i was taking a video with my phone and he asked to stop filming, don't tell me why.

>>7436029
i meet a group of hambeasts who also were narutards

they wanted to talk but i didnt

it was fun seeing how insecure they were about their appearance

fat ugly hambest < slim Japanese Girls

>>7435528

White people go home.
Then they go to say they don't belong in japan.
Then continue to chant "White people go home"

Having been to Tokyo numerous times, I recommend you never go during the summer months unless you really like hot very humid weather.

>>7434700
Sorry to tell you this but 4 days are not enough and if you have no Japanese friends you will just exp Japan as a tourist.

>>7436150
I don't know where in his post he said he wasn't going to be a tourist.

>>7436029
I actually talked to a Japanese guy and his friend for about an hour between Comiket ended and the fireworks display was about to start. (>>7435786 here).
I just asked him on Saturday about whether there was going to be different stuff the next day (I didn't know an awful lot about Comiket at the time), so we started talking about random stuff with my not-so-good Japanese.
At least I was easy to understand because of my pronunciation, and a lot of Japanese told me that actually.

We write an email to each other every now and then.

I was too shy to try and chat up a maid cosplayer who stood next to me and looked at the harbor area near the station even though she was standing there for a couple of minutes.
I think I looked more beat than her - mostly because of the white stuff from the wipes I bought.

I didn't talk to any foreigners during my entire 1-month stay in Japan apart from some loose conversation in a Kamikochi ryoukan and some guy in my Tokyo hotel with whom I discussed stuff to do without money (because my Visa limit was hit ($4000 in a 30-day period - which I used in 20 days..) and it took a day for my bank on the other side of the world to fix it).

>>7435836
Cool.
At least I didn't run into trouble - they could have just told me to enable the sound again.

>>7436013
I think I'd just go with something like 中に出してもいい？
I guess it comes down to how you tone the いい, though. いいか, いいの, or other variations would be fine as well.

>>7436256

This is the only thing I could find on it

"According to Japanese blogger Nobuyuki Hayashi, the annoying clicky shutter sound of the Japanese-bound iPhone 3G cannot be switched off, even in silent mode. Why? Because perverts cannot be trusted not to shove their phones up some poor girl’s skirt and snap a picture. So big is the problem of upskirt photography (coupled with 5-plus Megapixel camera phones) that almost no Japanese phones can have the telltale sound disabled.

>>7436269
>phone
Then what about real cameras?
My camera is a Canon Ixus 800IS - it took this pic: >>7435786

Canon is Japanese, right, but do the settings differ depending on the laws in the country where the camera model is sold?

>>7436269
What's funny is that those perverts are probably also the ones who despise so-called 'otaku'.

>>7436288
They probably all get lumped into that category because they don't have any social interactions and stay in their rooms most of the time.

I can't believe that the whole "handjob on a crowded train" thing from ero manga actually happens in reality.

>>7436285

No idea I only found things pertaining to phones so I think it should be ok

>>7436256
>$4000 in a 30-day period - which I used in 20 days
holy shit what did you buy?
eurofag here so i dunno how much your dollar is/was in yen back then but 4000 is still a lot

>>7436321
Food, transportation, accommodation, books, one of those electronic dictionaries, etc.

I guess that's just my way of going on vacation and not really worrying so much about money and stuff back home.
If I've saved for it, I'll spend.

If I had had more money, I'd have spent more, probably.

I think traveling with someone could cut a bit of the accommodation seeing as you could split the cost and such.

>>7436334 also;
I'm from Denmark, so prices seem affordable when I go abroad since everything is expensive here.

And I guess I'm not as tight-fisted as a tourist as I am when I'm at home.

>>7436334
>Food, transportation, accommodation, books, one of those electronic dictionaries, etc.

thats makes sense
out of curiosity which dictionary did you buy?

>>7436334
>If I've saved for it, I'll spend.
i do the same
i wanna go for a month next year
i am gonna save up about 3500-4000 Euro
hopefully that will be enough

>>7436338
Sharp PW-AC910
Not super high-end or anything, but it's pretty neat.

I got it for 20,000 yen, and the guy at the store in Akihabara helped me with configuring the touch input and such.

>>7436351
thank you

so what places did you visit anon?

>>7436360
Started out in Tokyo, then went to Kyoto and took day-trips from there to see Hikone (castle), temples a bit outside the city (Ohara, Fushimi Inari, etc.), Himeji (castle), and Osaka.
Then I went to the Nihon Travel Agency to get some help with getting into the countryside (because I'm not so fond of looking through all those websites if hotels and such), and there was a girl who got me a place in Takayama where I could spend 3 days and one of them went with taking the bus to Shirakawa (Hinamizawa).
Then I went to Kamikochi to get some mountain action, and that was really nice with the cool air and all.
Then I headed back to Tokyo where I went to Comiket and walked around town a whole lot to see museums and little shops in Ebisu and such.

That's a pretty brief description, of course.
The pic is from Shirakawa, by the way.

>>7436407
cool story and nice picture
a brief detour through the countryside sure sounds like a good idea

>>7436431
It's well worth it, I think.

Just be aware that it's not everyone out in the countryside who's keen on speaking English, so if you know a little Japanese it'll help you.

>>7435766
>so how hard is it to boink a japanese girl?

easy

but keep in mind that these girls are sluts just like the women in your area

>>7436445
i will
thank you

>>7436449
No.Most Japanese girl are xenophobic and soo shy.I'm always wondering.../ a / is a saying that jap is xenophobic.
Why do Japanese boy and girl think differently?

>>No.7436805
sorry,×/a/→○/jp/

>>7435834
>rape is like hello in Japan after all

this is why japan hate foreigners.

>>7436887
I bet they decide to isolate Japan during the Edo era because they were sick of those Portuguese traders cracking jokes about the rape porn produced in Japan.

>>7435834
>rape is like hello in Japan after all??
...Why U.S. soldiers rape became a problem?

>>7436903
Wow! What a stupid joke! !lol

>>7436903
christian shit.

>>7435712
>>7435715
Hey anon can you post more pictures from your comiket trip? Especially of the artist tables?

I love seeing that kind of stuff.