/jp/ - Otaku Culture

お誕生日おめでとう

Thats amazing, Hoopdog!

What is with moot and being active on 4chan during this time of year? Then he goes into some kind of hibernation for the rest of the year.

>>8588727
Okay, I chuckled.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_eyUVVcgc8
Gotta need an update on this after 4years.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0tfS8gO0gU

Let's all chip in for a nice present.

>>8588727
Holy shit, it's jumping 4 rings.
Happy anniversary /jp/

/r9k/, IT'S YOUR BIRTHDAY?!

AWW, COME HERE AND GIVE ME A HUG!

has it seriously been that long? fuck.

Did thread number 1 disappear forever when easymodo died?

So, are we supposed to post all our /jp/ related pictures in this thread or something?

>>8588764
It's been almost two years that we've lived like this on the verge of complete breakdown.

Time sure flies.

Happy Birthday /jp/

>>8588773
It's not like the first thread was anything special.

>>8588798
>I'm going to axe this board immediately if it doesn't turn out well and becomes a hassle to moderate.

I still chuckle every time I read that.

>>8588798
It's good to have a concrete definition of this board that isn't "ALL THINGS OTAKU WELCOME".

>>8588798

damn moot really hates touhou

i wonder if he still has an overt hatred or just doesnt like it.

Japanese bird reminiscing of the old days.

It's not funny because Arc is gone.

I miss /jp/ - Japan/General.

>>8588798
>Nothing non-worksafe.
>I'm going to axe this board immediately if it [...] becomes a hassle to moderate.
>No more ronery~ threads, no more bullshit.

Four years? So /jp/ is still a loli then.

Happy birthday /jp/. Time has flown by.

I hope you all do something nice to celebrate.

^____^

Time for a celebratory oldest archived thread.
http://fuuka.warosu.org/jp/thread/10

And a glorious 19905 pages and almost nine millions posts.
http://fuuka.warosu.org/jp/?task=page&page=19905

You must now read every single one of these pages to the present or you are not allowed to ever post here again.

How far we have come.

O brave new world. That has such people in it.

>>8588798
I can understand his hate of Touhou, but if he likes anime and manga, I can't really grasp why he'd hate VNs and figures. I'm not really a fan of either but I'd think anyone could see the appeal, or see that they're just different forms of media.

I imagine he probably disliked them because of the fanbase. Or was joking to some extent.

>>8588807
I laugh at the "don't let one thing dominate this board" part too. I remember for the first year or so this board was 9 pages Touhou and 1 page everything else. I didn't frequent it as much as I do now but that's what I remember.

>>8589439
MEE TOO ;_;

>>8590743
/jp/
the english futaba

>>8590760
indeed the excessive amount of touhou on /jp/ is nuts

Who else still thinks of /jp/ as "one of the new boards"?

Happy birthday /jp/ etc

sparky4 <3 /jp/

Enjoyee your lifetime, /jp/

>>8590760
Moot doesn't like anime or manga any more.

>>8590772
In my mind, /jp/, /fit/, /fa/, /sp/, etc. are all brand new.

It really makes me wonder...

Inevitably, everyone who is passionate about Japanese games/manga or whatever will try to learn Japanese. /jp/ was created in 2008. The people who started learning in 2008 and 2009 should be more or less fluent by now. The people who started learning in 2010 and 2011 should be getting there.

Assuming they didn't stop browsing /jp/... eventually, the board will be full of people who can read Japanese with no effort, and this will increase the amount of translated materials we get each year.

Who knows... by 2016, we might be getting one fully translated VN a month.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9gLN3QoN-q8

>>8590796
New userbase, new generations. Look at those survey threads. Granted they're not representative of /jp/ since a lot of bored lurkers from other boards post in them, but the average age is surprisingly low. Usually about 19-20. I'm not naive enough to say kids don't visit /a/, but chances are these people haven't been on 4chan for more than a couple of years.

Anyway, I first decided I wanted to learn Japanese when I was 12. I looked up some hiragana charts and practised writing them. That is the furthest I have gotten, and that was 15 years ago.

>>8590812
>Granted they're not representative of /jp/
Yet you're still speculating from it. What kind of logic is that?

My, but it has been awhile.

Time to get drunk on soda because I don't drink alcohol

Happy birthday, /jp/.

>It's been four years

Are you serious?
I still consider /jp/ a new board....

It feels like yesterday he was recruiting janitors for the new boards.

>>8588740
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRsrJvoupFo
This is he true /jp/ theme. Get that fake shit out of here

>>8590818
Well my basis is the quality and volume of the posts. You could post about earth shaking news relevant to everyone on /jp/ and it would get a lot of replies, but from no more than a couple dozen people. Make a survey thread, you get 100 unique posts within a relatively short timespan. Many of them quite clearly from off-boarders, since they use stupid memes. And post in survey threads. Like LOSERS.

Four goddamn years. Why do I keep coming back?
Perhaps just because this feels like a home, even as things shift around.

>>8590846
Because you're a faggot.
Has your tumor gone yet? Are you feeling any better?

Happy bird day

>>8590773
Yeah, we need more idols.

>>8590854
SUGOI SUGOI

>>8590840
I was 14 when I first came to 4chan.
It's been 6 years since then and I am still here; I have been going here everyday. That's like one third of my life. In total I have probably wasted over 9 years on the internet.

>DON'T FORGET, YOU'RE HERE FOREVER

>>8590859
I told you about 4chan, bro.

Four years? Feels like yesterday. Time sure flies.

>>8590859
Damn, I was 11 when I first found 4chan and it's been seven years since then. Get on my level.

>>8590796
>this will increase the amount of translated materials we get each year

ARE YOU KIDDING ME?!
BACK IN THE DAY WE HAD LIKE MAYBE 3 TRANSLATED VN, AND THAT WAS IT. And we all liked them.
Now there are hundreds of them, the fan translation group is huge. Those threads that list all the VN being translated blows my mind every single time I see it.

I remember that there was a time when I honestly thought to myself "Well I pretty much read every VN that was translated, that's it I guess. Maybe a year from now another will be translated."
And now there are so many I get overwhelmed and hardly read any. I can just pick and choose those which cater to my interests.

I can get anime that is still airing translated in under one day, that also blows my mind. We have come a long way.

I practice Japanese so that I too may one day become a part of the translation machine. It's pretty amazing.

If only Kircheis were here to celebrate /jp/s birthday...

>>8590893
When was this? Tell me more about this section of the dark ages. I totally missed out on it.

>>8590902
Probably around 2006/2007.
I still remember the rage over the F/SN translation and how it took 6 months for some fag to finish coding the UBW patch installer. Good times.

>>8590866
No one told me back then.

We were just kids in school showing each other the latest funny things we saw on Newgrounds, Albinoblacksheep, YTMND, and Something Awful.

No one warned me about the internet.

>>8590902
Reminds me of when kids ask there parents if there really was only 3 channels on tv when they were growing up. Kids today can't even imagine it.

>>8590897
>not watching the BD rip

>>8590915
Wow, I thought you were going to say 2002/2003. 2007 was like, last week.

happy birthday /jp/!

important timeline of /jp/'s history:

1996: ZUN creates first pc-98 game
2002: ZUN creates first win touhou game
2008: /jp/ is created on 4chan
2012: /jp/ celebrates 4th anniversary

>>8590893
I was completely in the dark before coming to 4chan. The only VNs I played before discovering this place were Bible Black and Divi Dead. Back then I had no idea at all of how many got translated each year, but it's not hard to tell it's much faster now, and that it will only get faster from now on. Isn't it great? I should start learning Japanese myself soon, or I'll never be able to contribute anything

I've been playing VNs since they were better and called "adventure games" and "interactive fiction".

>>8590948
in before the 2007 proto /jp/ kids get angry at this post

>>8590955
No one cares.

>>8590957
Everyone else was bragging, and you ``cared enough to reply''. I guess you're just mad jelly that my older, superior Western e-penis is bigger and better than your shrivelled decades-behind Wapanese one.

>>8590963

>>8590955
I played those too, but, were they really any better?
I don't want to sound like a weeaboo but they didn't really have the adult themes and engaging stories that some VNs have. Most adventure games were designed for 11-12 year olds and were not meant to invoke any deep feelings.
Of course there's a lot of shit VNs too (anything with slice of life or mecha) but the good ones make it all worth it

>>8590968
>adult themes
Only children need adult themes.

/jp/ - touhou shitposting culture

>>8590915
No, even before then.
I'm sure some guys here had to deal with only having True Love and Nocturnal Illusion. Back when you could buy Hentai at Blockbuster, next to the Dreamcast games.
Most translations back then were official ones.

Brave Soul was translated in 2003.
Back then, the gameplay was fucking amazing for an eroge. It was one of my favorites.
Recently I recommend it for a good game for beginners and was told the gameplay and graphics looked too old.
Why.....

>>8590968
I can't think of any super emotional adventure games, though that one adaptation of I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream explored some pretty interesting themes.
Interactive fiction is better for this sort of thing. Go hit up ifarchive.org or play some XYZZY Award games. It's amazing how many games that consist of typing "go east" over and over can you make you laugh and cry.

I didn't like this shitty board when it was created.
It hasn't gotten any better.
I'm still here.

Fours years already, eh?
You have always been "my" board, /jp/. No matter what.
Happy birthday.
>>8590893
>BACK IN THE DAY WE HAD LIKE MAYBE 3 TRANSLATED VN, AND THAT WAS IT
Yeah, I remember the amount of translated VNs a few years ago and look at how it is now. It is pretty nuts.

>>8590980
Why do people Photoshop these things?
You know you can (*gasp*) edit HTML locally, right?

I started majorly posting on the internet in 2004, when I finally got non-dial up internet. I went to all the weeaboo sites except 4chan. 4chan scared me, and still does.

Why on earth am I here right now? Fuck.

never knew about 4chan all these years, too busy with wow

I still remember when this was alt.4chan.japan.general. Really went to shit in 1993 when the newfag AOLers came. I was never a fan of Robert's decision to hand the board over to "moot" on the "World Wide Web", but I think it worked out quite well.

>>8590933

>>8590893
Here.

I did mean around 2002-2004. You would get most of your stuff from official Peach Princess and G-Collection translations. Obviously I didn't buy them even back then, but that was more because I was a kid still with my parents. I bought all my video games back then but I couldn't find a way to buy hentai games. VNs actually taught me to torrent.

I would get my VN fix from the Simgirls forum.
Also talked about them on the WoW Offtopic Forums.

I was there.

Happy birthday.

>>8590992
Enjou is that you?

>>8590992
Most of us were.
We can never leave.

I started posting regularly here only about one year and a half ago and it already feels like an eternity....
Happy birthday.

>>8590796
With stuff like ACTA getting passed the free internet won't be around that long. Yeah, real pirates and the computer/networking literate will always find ways around it, but most translators, and most people currently uploading today, do not fall into that group.

lets all thank ZUN for bringing us this wonderful board called /jp/

FOUR MORE YEARS!

>>8590999
An interesting thing about /jp/ is that even with the shitposters, a majority of the old posters are still here and haven't moved.
Probably because we just can't leave and haven't found anywhere else to go.
It's not like how a lot of old /b/ went to /v/. However, they have long left /v/ too. We can't do that.

/jp/~

>>8591016
I dunno, I find /jp/ is a lot less anal now than it was around two years ago, at least. People aside from Derek never used to get away with emoticons, sometimes I'm absolutely shocked when they go by without people saying anything these days.

>>8591012
>most translators, and most people currently uploading today, do not fall into that group.
Uh, these are people who hack games and use IRC which would be untouched by bills like ACTA. In fact I doubt these people often use the Web for translation-related tasks at all.

>>8591012
People won't allow ACTA to do shit. Europeans are about to hang people over it.
>>8591016
How surprising, they have Hello!Online... and Doujinstyle... so many wonderful places to go!

>>8591030
Maybe /jp/ just loves each other/their board and can't bring themselves to leave.

glorious jp ~~

>>8591035
Heh.
Heh.

Omedeto, /jp/~

>>8591027
Well, by "bills like ACTA" I meant legislation against copyright infringement that would require knowledge to get around if it were implemented the way our governments want. If such legislation were to be implemented successfully, as they seem to be pushing, I would doubt that the status quo would remain in place for pirating.

Especially for translators; no offense, but you sound like you think they can do/know everything themselves. I don't know if that's what you really think, but I'm fairly certain most of them just translate what is passed to them. I am a translator myself(not VNs) and I'm more or less just a cog in the wheel. You don't need any knowledge but Japanese, and I know many current translators are teenagers(you can tell just by the way they write). At the end of the day things aren't going to get translated if the translators don't feel safe, and I refuse to believe that most translators are particularly tech literate(if that's a point you strongly disagree with then we'd might as well not have this discussion).

I won't deny that as long as IRC stays as a safe option they aren't going to stop anything, however.

>>8590796
I remember I started learning Japanese even before /jp/ was born, and I still can't do JLPT N2 without help, but that's because I'm a really *really* lazy motherfucker. I sometimes lose my motivation even for music, which is the thing that I love the most. I guess I'm not passionate enough.

Happy birthday again /jp/

Hoopdog is my facebook profile picture since 2009.

>>8591121
I agree with what you're saying, but consider this:
The lobbyists are stupid. They don't know what they're doing. Senator John doesn't know the difference between the Bill and the Internet. The Bill authors may use some technical jargon, but it's still far too narrow or far too wide to have any effect. They could ban BitTorrent, IRC, even all unauthorized HTTP traffic, but a week later every teenager on YouTube would know how to use FTP. I have no doubt that translators aren't the most tech-savvy people in the world, and I didn't mean to imply that the people who translate are also the people fiddling with hex editors and extraction tools. But even then, they know how to use IRC and FTP and whatever else. They know how to hide their real life identity online. Even if some law made it so complicated to pirate that it could only be done by some crazy wizardry that involved routing your traffic through twelve different countries and sending files using IP Over Avian Carriers, groups like the EFF would write a program to automate it by the end of the month.
People are smart and fast. Companies are dumb and slow, but unfortunately very powerful.

Four more years!

>>8590760
Jewt is a complete normalfag with little interests outside of Facebook and Twitter.

Yup, still here. Happy Birthday, /jp.

>>8590927

Happy birthday, /jp/.

please, try to contain your massive amounts of faggotry in one thread.

>>8591264
Oh God, that picture is glorious. I laughed my ass off.

Happy birthday, you piece of shit.

Four years, huh. It feels like I was playing /jp/RO just last month.

Damn, has it really been 4 years? Happy birthday, /jp/.

This'll always be my home.

Happy birthday /jp/.
I love you all!

happy birthday /jp/ ~__~
*has a HELLa fun time partying*

>>8591398
Impostor!!

I think /jp/ was fun when suigin, arc, BOOF and such were still hanging around. I wonder if they still lurk anonymously or if they just grew tired of all the crap we like to obssess over and started doing something productive with their life. I hope so.

>>8591458
I started visiting again a few days ago, albeit I don't post as much.

>>8591480
What do you do when you're not here?

>>8591458
All of them still post.

>>8591493
Play games, watch animes and study German.

>>8591458
wasn't arc trying to join the army, but got turned down because he was crippled?

>>8591527
No, he got turned down because he was black.

>>8591027
Japs are already using fucking Freenet for their .ts rips. ACTA will change nothing.

>>8591458
Yeah, right, back then I was the only one who thought Suigin and Arc were cool.

I can't count the times someone has called me samefag.

>>8591541
Always enjoyed watching Arc's rampage.

Happy Birthday /jp/.
Goddamn, it really does feel like /jp/ was created way more recently like that, but at the same time the board feels very different than it did in 2008.

>>8591458
No. Just no.
BOOF was a fucking disaster of a poster. I've never felt such a disgust against any other tripfag than that sack of dumb shit. Even the pre-captcha spam script had more intellect in it than him.

Happy birthday /jp/.

I love you.