/jp/ - Otaku Culture

[Anonymous No.]

Is there a purely Japanese or cross language, relatively international otaku culture or 非リア充-atmosphered forum in existence where a large proportion of the userbase is actually based in Japan?

4chan, 2ch and 2chan aren't cutting it at all but I can't find anything that matches the above. At any rate it seems like people who become fluent in Japanese and makes the move end up not posting so much here which makes me wonder where they end up.

[Anonymous No.]

Esperanto maybe.

[Anonymous No.]

There was 10chan, but shitposting Finns and viral ads fucked it all up.

[Anonymous No.]

hold f11 for a history lesson

[Anonymous No.]

I hope I have the courage to kill myself if I ever become as weeb as this OP.

Wow. I think I'm going to go burn some of my otaku merchandise just to be on the safe side brb

[Anonymous No.]

>>11431824
>which makes me wonder where they end up.

An office cubicle for 12 hours a day.

[Anonymous No.]

If they have motivation to learn Japanese, they probably have motivation to live a proper life in the real world and potentially end up abandoning this culture. Of course there are always exceptions, but I doubt there are enough such cases to create a big enough userbase for satisfactory traffic. All the people that I know who learned Japanese are normalfagging it up without looking back. Some even hate their past selves.

There's also the option to stay on the internets but to go to other places to talk about things. Like shii. He posts on reddit instead.

[Anonymous No.]

Closest thing I can suggest would be to look for forums targeted at expats or JET English teachers. Thing is, if you're dealing with people that actually moved to and work in Japan, they're most likely going to be normals.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11431849
>If they have motivation to learn Japanese, they probably have motivation to live a proper life in the real world and potentially end up abandoning this culture. Of course there are always exceptions, but I doubt there are enough such cases to create a big enough userbase for satisfactory traffic.

You're probably right. ;_;

>Some even hate their past selves.

I don't know how anyone can have such low self esteem to feel ashamed over a very common hobby here.

>>11431854
The trouble I find with most other Westerners in Japan is that they're not very integrated (not to the point of completely abandoning their international heritage but at least enough to fit into Japanese society to some extent) and so it's hard for me to relate to them.

[Anonymous No.]

There was a strange image board somewhere that had country flags and an automatic English-Japanese translator. I think the idea was that it was to bridge the gap between the Japanese and English image board communities.

I forgot its name.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11431871
Why doesn't 2ch cut it?

[Anonymous No.]

>>11431871
WEE-A-BOO
WEE-A-BOO

[Anonymous No.]

>>11431849
http://www.reddit.com/user/shii/submitted/

lol what a fuckin weeb

[Anonymous No.]

4-ch is fairly slow but it has a Japanese language board, and the other boards seem to attract Japanese posters who make weird threads in broken English.

I never get why so few Japanese posters come to /jp/. It would be cool to just shoot the shit and compare notes, assuming it was allowed by the powers that be.

[sage No.]

>>11431871
That's because westerners have this "look at me i'm a gaijin" mentality.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11431881
http://10ch.org/gazou/

[Anonymous No.]

>>11431884
I guess there are just times I feel it would be nice if there were a board with a somewhat higher quality community comprised of a more diverse set of backgrounds than 2ch/2chan.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11431899
The Japanese board on 4-ch gets like one post in 2 or 3 weeks

[Anonymous No.]

>>11431899
Maybe in like, old /jp/. I don't think they'd mesh well with the all the irony that dominates the board right now. Also the culture barrier has always been pretty clear. It's the same thing with Russian chans when compared to English/Japanese ones. Completely different atmosphere and attitudes. It's interesting though, that based on when the region's chan culture was established, there is a number of jokes that are imported and integrated in their own fashion - often losing their original context because of aforementioned differences.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11431914
That was the one, cheers mate.

[Anonymous No.]

Do you guys really believe that the Japanese forums are so much better than the English ones, and that once somebody learns Japanese he "moves" to a better place? Weebs please ...
not to mention all gaijin blocks.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11431914
Ah, the translations are such a good idea. This seems to be the perfect board for this kind of exchange.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11431933
I for one think that Japanese forums are better since you don't need to register. I wish text- and imageboards were more popular in the west

[Anonymous No.]

>>11431933
Japan is nirvana you baka gaijin.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11431944
I'm going to ask moot why he made 4chan an imageboard instead of a textboard next Q&A. Hopefully he answers it. It could be that he saw world2ch fail at grabbing people's interest... that's one explanation I've thought of.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11431933
No, did you even read the thread?

Personally I'm always switching between western and international cultures both offline and online and I just thought it would be cool if there were a community that was somewhere in the middle.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11431915
What, do japs feel too much alike? Does the lack of individuality become bothersome? What are you looking for, exactly.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11431951
Maybe having images is more attractive to users. But I think he made it an imageboard since, well, Futaba is also an imageboard and he modeled it after it. World4ch is just a home for all the VIPPERs and DQNs from world2ch who've lost their home

[Anonymous No.]

>>11431914
why is there a korea board, lol
was that made for containment or something?

[Anonymous No.]

>>11431961
A Japanese based international message board where I can talk about the things that interest me.

Analogy: If I were a Japanese person interested in British things, for example, I would want an English based forum where I can talk about these things, but frankly a forum filled with nothing British people would be awful. 2ch and 2chan suffer from the same issue.

They're full of garbage posts too.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11432027
nothing but*

[Anonymous No.]

>>11431951
Going by log excerpts and anecdotes I think the Raspberry Heaven IRC were just like "Lol waps check out this cool site its called 2chan" and probably didn't even know or care about 2channel. Futaba Channel is more oriented at loser manchildren anyway.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11432106
But moot knew about world2ch at that point, didn't he?

[Anonymous No.]

>>11432265
Didn't he learn after?

Like I remember someone saying they pointed it out to him. And I think Shii said he had to explain the difference between Futaba Channel and 2channel.

There was some "drama bomb" page from world2ch on that guy's site that might explain it. I forget his name, 0037 or something.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11432302
http://www.world2ch.org/dramabomb.html

[Anonymous No.]

what the heck

[Anonymous No.]

>>11431899
>I never get why so few Japanese posters come to /jp/.

because /jp/ is full of losers
because japs can't into english
because japs don't like foreigners

[Anonymous No.]

>>11431899
There’s quite a few Japanese posters on /int/. They usually just shitpost about Koreans though, using Google Translate. Normally followed by a not-this-shit-again reaction from the other countries, a Japanese poster stepping in in Japanese telling them to stop it which then results in a lot of Japanese back-and-forth Korean-calling.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11432625
But there's also the Japanese thread circlejerk/whatever.
>>>/int/15147497

constantly spammed by some dedicated tripfag and by people who are new to learning Japanese. It's just a little chitty chat

[Anonymous No.]

>>11432625
Those are just westerners pretending to be Asians.

I would know. I used to pretend to be a Japanese pretending to be a Korean.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11432652
or pretending to be a Korean pretending to be Japanese. I forgot.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11432652
>Those are just westerners pretending to be Asians.
Sure, some are. Most aren’t.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11431914
>5yo DVD(5 yo DVD)
Ok

[Anonymous No.]

>>11431824
>a large proportion of the userbase is actually based in Japan

Why would you need that...

>非リア充-atmosphered forum in existence

...when you want that? Japan is a リア充 place.

[Anonymous No.]

I'm on Nicovideo a lot. And ー surprise surprise ー Twitter. Also, Pixiv.

There is no Japanese equivalent of /jp/. Well there is (Futaba), but you can't post there without a Japanese IP and no proxies I try ever work.

I'd like to post in Japanese here (I enjoyed the Kansai-ben thread) but there aren't a lot of threads for it.

[Anonymous No.]

Sup gook lovers. Now fuck off back to /int/.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11431824
what a weaboo.

[Anonymous No.]

Lol
Weeabs

[Anonymous No.]

>>11432625
/int/ is just a bunch of kids with Japan/Korea/China proxies throwing shit at each other.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11433380
Proxies are banned on 4chan.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11433407
And that stops people how?

[Anonymous No.]

>>11433380
That‘s largely a myth, seriously.

[Anonymous No.]

So you can't see the "sage" now? A retarded change.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11433414

By automatically refusing every post which is made with a proxy.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11433407
If I had a 4chan pass I could use my proxy here.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11433577
No it doesn't.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11433547
Blame the other boards, but I admit it, I used sage to piss off /a/ and /v/ here.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11433547
The fuck are you talking about? Sage.

[Anonymous No.]

どこ行ってもニワカが多すぎてしょうがないな
正直言うと、海外で一番オタク文化に詳しいのは/a/だろうな
plebアニメスレから離れるといい雰囲気のスレがあるよ
咲スレでは皆最新のネタとかを知っててビックリした
/jp/の糞池沼共は絶対認めねーけど/a/は本当に面白いぜ

まあ/jp/は所詮オタク文化の板じゃなくて東方専用トイレだからなｗ

[Anonymous No.]

>>11431944
There's SAoVQ, 4-ch (kind of dead), neet.to, wizardchan, 7ch and the new bbs.progrider.org. Maybe if you looked hard enough you would find more.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11433626

Yes, it does.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11433677
Why the fuck am I supposed to understand that fucking rice gibberish?

You're on the AMERICAN board. And if you can't type all of your damn sentences outside of the fucking /int/ in the damn AMERICAN language, then I suggest you get the fuck out, urineskin.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11433745
LMAO get a load of this mullethead

[Anonymous No.]

>>11433787
الموت للكفار بــســم الله الرحمن الرحـيـم

[Anonymous No.]

>>11432625

[Anonymous No.]

There isn't really otaku anymore to speak of in Japan.

Ever since it became a trend it just pushed the original otaku away, there are some still on the more obscure boards on 2ch but they post sparingly.

I think the reality is that most of them are just far more engrossed in their hobbies than caring about having a 'community' to talk to others. My Japanese otaku friends started their own projects, some are trying to make games. Anime at present disgusts them so they are watching old Toku series, one of them moved out into the suburbs from working in Akiba and just spends his days alone travelling to Osaka and building Future GPX models

[Anonymous No.]

>>11433745
10/10 would nominate for kuso post award

[Anonymous No.]

>>11434522
>Anime at present disgusts them so they are watching old Toku series
All of them?

[Anonymous No.]

>>11434541

All of what?

[Anonymous No.]

>>11433838
Oh good China's not in the picture and is free to make boatloads of dollars.

Foreign devils pls go.