/jp/ - Otaku Culture

>Are there "westaboos" in Japan? Do they have boards called "nerd culture"? Do they download, translate, and redistribute our media? Do they randomly insert mutilated English phrases in inappropriate times like their weeaboo counterparts do to Japanese?

For the most part yes.

>Do they randomly insert mutilated English phrases in inappropriate times
They do this in their media, of course there's people that do that to each other.

I imagine some of them do. Why do pop songs always have some English in them? Do they think it's cool?

There are people there that like American media, but it's not really a big deal. That sort of thing is common in many parts of the world. It's only really the English speaking countries that think it's weird to like foreign stuff.

you get these ones that praise british comedy, they are normally from shitty countires though.

>Do they randomly insert mutilated English phrases in inappropriate times

They (almost) all do that, or at least their media suggests they do, and I'm sure that it is a 100% accurate depiction of life in Japan.

Artist is the best example of a westaboo I can think of.
>>7849475
is right too though

Westaboos are probably more common, by percentage of population, than Weeaboos are in English-speaking countries.

English is lingua franca and American entertainment is hugely influential, so most of those things do go on without there being anything weird about it. Of course you got your weirdos who dress like cowboys. I don't know if there is a mass equivalent to western otakus. Like when you see a Japanese guy trying to speak english in a video it's just "Oh how nice he's trying to improve himself"

>>7849510
What about guys like this?

>>7849546
Even Westerners would find that creepy.
Or they'd be mistaken for actual soldiers.

bkub is a major westaboo

people in japan like western media, but there aren't really such a thing as westaboos. what japan does have is koreaboos who think that everything korean is awesome and are constantly in conflict with 2ch rightists who think they should be killed for treason.

>>7849551
You talkin' shit?

>>7849546
gun otaku, they probably have SS uniforms too

Japs love european countries
There has to be some people in japan going crazy over french baguette, castles or w/e

>>7849594
It's more common with Germany.

>>7849603
England too.

>>7849568
The flag patch is backwards.

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>>7849469
Howdy /jp/, my name is Kenichi Smith.

I'm a 27 year old Japanese Toonaholic (Cartoon fan for you foreigners). I draw cartoons and comics on my tablet, and spend my days perfecting my art and playing superior American games. (Halo, Gears of War, Call of Duty)

I train with my 1911 every day, this superior weapon can shoot straight through steel because it kicks ass, and is vastly superior to any other weapon on earth. I earned my gun license two years ago, and I have been getting better every day.

I speak English fluently, both the Midwestern and the East Coast accents, and I write fluently as well. I know everything about American history and their Constitution, which I follow 100%

When I get my American visa, I am moving to New York to attend a prestigious High School to learn more about their magnificent culture. I hope I can become an animator for Nickelodeon or a game designer!

I own several cowboy outfits, which I wear around town. I want to get used to wearing them before I move to America, so I can fit in easier. I keep cool to my elders and seniors and speak English as often as I can, but rarely does anyone manage to respond.

Wish me luck in America!

I went to high school in Japan. I can't speak for the nerd culture, but FUCKING YES they have gratuitous broken english all over the fucking place.

Also, a lot of the Japanese people I met while there were more familiar with the state I came from than the prefecture I lived in. And they put white people in all of their ads. The entire fucking country is westaboo.

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>>7849510
I don't know what's horribly wrong about cowboy outfits. then again I'm Texan so I guess it's a lot more acceptable

>>7849649
Really? I've never seen anyone where a cowboy outfit in my entire life. It may be because the cowboys were chased out of Houston by the blacks and white trash though.

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I train with my 1911 every day, this superior weapon can shoot straight through steel because it kicks ass, and is vastly superior to any other weapon on earth.

This line gave you away (not that it wasn't thinly veiled in the first place).

.45ACP has inferior penetration compared to 9mm Parabellum or 5.7mm (inb4 Marisa etc) as far as pistol cartridges are concerned.

>>7849631
>I train with my 1911 every day, this superior weapon can shoot straight through steel because it kicks ass, and is vastly superior to any other weapon on earth.

This line gave you away (not that it wasn't thinly veiled in the first place).

.45ACP has inferior penetration compared to 9mm Parabellum or 5.7mm (inb4 Marisa etc) as far as pistol cartridges are concerned.

Yes, they're the general population.

>>7849656
it's certainly a bit of a rarity to see someone wearing a cowboy outfit, and when it does happen, it's usually not 100%, but it does happen if you aren't in south or east Texas

>>7849638
>And they put white people in all of their ads.
I thought their ads were all full of anime mascot characters.

>>7849664
They're both good at what they were made to do.

The 1911 was designed to win fights. The beretta was designed to sit on your hip and do nothing.

I've noticed that they sometimes use loanwords from English when a Japanese word would work fine. Like saying girlfriend instead of kanojo. Interesting.

Perhaps this is similar to English's usage of French derived words over German derived words for formality? Or am I just notice this because I only see it used through their media and online, and the users are reverse weeaboos?

>>7849689
I mean ads for clothes, make-up, electronics. Products that people are using, especially things that are aesthetically based.

>>7849698
before there were weeaboos there were francophiles. it's just carried over a little

>>7849475
>Film has subtitles
>PRETENTIOUS FUCK ASSHOLE NIGGER

Most of the Japanese people I listened to quietly as they drew porn on Stickam JAPAN used to love randomly saying "fuck!". This was before Panty & Stocking, too.

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>>7851484
I don't get it. What are you trying to convey?

>>7851501
Metaphysical nihilism.

Alternatively, a Japanese Powerpuff Girls collection.

No. Yes. Yes. Not exactly. No. No.

English is common in Japan. You won't find it hard to find words, terms and phrases in English all over the place in Japan, including in daily speech, movies, songs, shows, etc. Unlike there, you will be hard pressed to find Japanese in America. Since it's so common there, calling the majority "westaboos" would be as retarded as the word itself.

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>>7849664
Seriously, don't tell me that you don't realize where that comes from?

Assuming you don't, I wouldn't even bother telling you to get out. You wouldn't listen anyway.

>>7849478
Like Britain. *ba-dum-tish!*

>>7851568
Texan here. sorry for taking it seriously. Yes, I am quite well-versed in all the variations of the Ken-sama copypasta.
sorry for making small-talk. won't happen again.

America has a huge influence on their pop culture, being Americanized to a degree is pretty much mainstream.
Asians also love Europe. They're not lazy eternal losers like Arabs or Blacks, do they don't even have any hard feelings about the colonial days anymore, they prefer to marvel at the beautiful architecture the Euros left behind, while listening to Wagner and reading Sherlock Holmes.

I don't get why everyone marvels at england and germany so much. they basically copied their entire civilization from rome, and they from greece.

I'm greek and it's kind of annoying to see civilizations who would be as backwards as africa without us take all the credit.

>>7853055
I mean until 1600 a.d. britain was horribly filthy, full of what we would regard today as savages.

>>7851559
This gets close to the truth without taking too long.

My 2c: The Japanese don't have the attention span to be weaboo in the same way that Westerners are. When something's popular in Japan, it's there, and then it's forgotten. TV celebrities exhaust their relevance in about a year or so, and their name recognition virtually disappears after three. There are Japanese with interests in Western culture, and they do try to hide their power level (?) from their friends... but it's done like a hobby. It's just another thing for them to get good at and move on.
I'd say you'd never see a Western culture convention here the way you see anime conventions etc in the West, but... the Japanese will gather in droves to hear someone talk about the merits of an active ingredient in chewing gum for the elderly. So nothing's off the table there.

Why would they?

They already have a more ancient and superior culture: music, film, games, etc.

>>7853055
because Europe and East Asia have only had regular contact for a few hundred years, and most European achievements in the last couple of centuries came from Germanic Europe, mainly Britain and Germany.
The ancient Romans and Greeks do get plenty of credit for what they did, just look at how their thinkers and entire societies are idolized in Western culture.
But modern Greece just isn't very impressive. Should've focused more on stopping the Turk filth rather than letting your country get taken over due to Byzantine infighting.

>>7853114
Go back to troll school.

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>>7853061


Then they surpassed everyone else while your country is in debt right now.

Congratulations.

>>7855227
>Then they surpassed everyone else

Cool story bro. They haven't "surpassed" anyone in centuries. A wounded lion can still kill a healthy rat.

Both countries are utter shit anyway, filled to the brim with elitist retards that know nothing about any other country in the world but still proclaim theirs as the greatest. We're laughing at you both over here.

>>7851484

sup lenny

How did Youmu die?

>>7858838
Fuck to death

>>7858838
She only half died.

>>7858838
She was licked to death by a rabid Youkai.

>>7858860
How many licks does it take to get to the center of a Youmu?

>>7858903
I volunteer to find out.

Ｎｏ！　Ｓｔｏｐ！

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>>7858933
Youmu stubbornly accepts your challenge.

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>>7849546
are /k/-ing up this thread?

>>7859188
you had the original image , tha miku is lovely an badass

>>7859188
you had the original image ? you can post it? that miku is lovely an badass

>>7859666
got it from pixiv
you can search the gun and miku tag to find the artist im sure

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>>7859666
>flood detected
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>>7859724

my very thanks , good sir

>>7849469
We call them Bananamen.