I wanna be a better otaku

[Anonymous No.]

Hi jp,
Its a silly question but how do I become a better otaku? Sometimes when im browsing jp I think that all of you guys know a lot more about all the japanese stuff than I do. Im not very long into otaku things yet. Maybe 1 1/2 years, but I do my best to improve. Im only watching animes, I even feel embarassed that Ive watched things like the big bang theorie and how I met your mother a few years ago.
My favourite music has become Jpop and Kpop.
But how can i improve? I didnt play any touhou games yet, I dont even really know whats all the touhou stuff is about. Ofc I started to learn japanese a few month ago.

So maybe a question to everyone: how long did it take till you where as "otaku" as you are right now?

[Anonymous No.]

Find a touhou you want 2 fug.

[Anonymous No.]

Be a nerd.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGMN-gNfdaY

[Anonymous No.]

[Anonymous No.]

Don't worry about Touhou, that's casual stuff. Just continue exploring your current hobbies.

[Anonymous No.]

no offence but you're going a little over board with the 'wearing your kimono's around town', you're not in japan right now so there would be no need to get used to wearing them since you would be going to a country that always wears them, so you wouldn't stick out... plus you can't just go to japan and go to a high school, you have to get a learning visa as well as passing the national japanese language test, and you'll also have an entrance exam to take which will most probably have words that you haven't ever seen nor understand, also the teaching in japan is so different that if you go there with a standard education that you'll fall straight to the bottom of the class...
also, you don't call yourself -sama, the japanese don't refer to themselves with -chan -san -kun or -sama, its just plain rude and childish to them, also gomenasai mean 'i am sorry'... so you'll be saying 'i am sorry, my name is ken'
and lastly... people don't repond to you when you speak japanese because they don't understand you..
oh and otaku means geek and you can't go to high school if you're 27...

[Anonymous No.]

Same thing you do with every medium: consume classics.
Too boring? Not moe enough? Then you're not a true otaku.

[Anonymous No.]

>>10277143
>>>/colonydrop/

[Anonymous No.]

I'm a gaijin and also an otaku and it would seem that you don't know quite as much about current Japanese culture as you think. As already mentioned in other answers, you don't use honorifics with yourself, especially -sama, as that would make you out to be very arrogant. To be honest, your question (which isn't a question) also projects arrogance, which probably wouldn't go over well, once you got to Japan. It probably doesn't go over well here in America, either.

That's nice that you already know the history, writing, and spoken language. Do you know about their culture, though? They aren't in the feudal era anymore, like in Rurouni Kenshin, but honor is still important. Very few people (mainly the elderly and those wishing to preserve tradition) still wear kimonos. Are you sure what you're wearing is a kimono and not a yukata? Kimonos are for formal occasions and yukatas are more casual, like for a matsuri. An American walking around in Japan in a kimono or yukata would probably raise a lot of eyebrows. For the most part, the Japanese culture is assimilating with the American pop culture. They think anything from America is cool while otaku think anything from Japan is cool.

Also, good luck with the process of moving to another country when the time comes.

[Anonymous No.]

Jpop is shit, it's only worth it for the idols. Acid Mothers Temple is the best Japanese band today.

[Anonymous No.]

You will always be a casual if you don't know Japanese. People here may say otherwise because they are too stupid or lazy to learn, but it's true. If I told you that I was a student of French literature but that I didn't know French, would you take me seriously? Of course not. It's the same here. If you don't know the language you don't have a serious interest in the hobby.

[Anonymous No.]

>>10277146
I'm not like those old farts.

Basically I think of it like when people say, "I am a Trekkie."
Great, what's your favorite series?
"I dunno, I've only watched the 2009 movie."

It's fine to be a fan of the reboot, but you are not a Trekkie. Stop trying to turn "Trekkie" into a status symbol, pseudork.

[Anonymous No.]

>>10277141
>>10277148

wtf, what has this to do with anything here?

[Anonymous No.]

Is anyone a fan of what could be called Japanese high art?

[Anonymous No.]

>>10277167

Just watch/read everything on the recommended charts first.

[Anonymous No.]

>>10277173
You mean like Ura-on?

[Anonymous No.]

>>10277173
ya dude i love watchin anime while high xD

[Anonymous No.]

>>10277178
http://animu-mango.wikia.com/wiki/Anime_Recommendations

http://animu-mango.wikia.com/wiki/VN/LN_Links

(to be honest, haven't even watched a fraction of whats on there because I spend all my time here).

[Anonymous No.]

You can learn a lot about anime, VNs, games, etc just from lurking 4chan and reading 200+ reply threads about them.

[Anonymous No.]

Who is jp?

[Anonymous No.]

>>10277220
Simply epic.

[Anonymous No.]

>>10277227
Thank you, thank you.

[Anonymous No.]

>>10277220
you are not jp, you are gay

[Anonymous No.]

>>10277178
>>10277186

I'm not motivated to read VN's because I have no one to talk to them about.

All you pricks do is talk in your little circle-jerk about untranslated VN's, to talk about vn's with /jp/, I pretty much have to know japanese.

[Anonymous No.]

>>10277250
thats why you should learn japanese

[Anonymous No.]

>>10277250
Nobody likes those guys. Just make a thread about whatever you just finished.

[Anonymous No.]

>>10277256
Watch out, your jealousy is showing.

[Anonymous No.]

>>10277250
Learn Japanese then. I've been practicing Japanese for little more than a month and I can already play some untranslated games, nothing too text-heavy of course, but I'm sure I'll have no problem in a year or two.

[Anonymous No.]

>>10277096
Stop watching anime adaptations.

[Anonymous No.]

troll thread, right?

[Anonymous No.]

You're that anon that was asking plenty of questions about learning japanese, right? Look, anon, just read the main VNs, play some doujin games, watch anime, and then start lurking some japanese sites. For example, to learn more about doujin circles and games, I've decided to search for lists of comiket games, play the games, search for the doujin circle name if I like it, and then download other stuff from it in case I do like it. It's all about forming your own plans and finding you way around. Just remember that if you're not enjoying yourself, just, you know, stop doing it. All in all, this is just entertainment. You don't need to be an otaku for the sake of being one, you just become one naturally after becoming obsessed with it. Don't do it for the brand, do it for the fun.