/jp/ - Otaku Culture

[Anonymous No.]

How can I explain what 中二病 is to a foreigner who has no interest in Japanese subculture whatsoever?

[Anonymous No.]

Feed them a Japanese person.

[Anonymous No.]

Explain it to us first

[CurryButt !CIELBE/jzM No.]

wat

[Anonymous No.]

>>1903177
Ok, here goes:

Chuuni-byo （中二病） is a mock-disease/insult derived from 中二, literally "second year of junior high" and 病気, disease.

It points to strange actions done by adolescent boys (although recently seen in girls) which is seemingly influenced from a twisted vision of what they think is cool and "mature".
These "cool and mature" actions intertwine with the adolescent need to appear special, and creates hilarious outcomes. It should be noted that these actions are usually inspired from anime/manga/games that the child was exposed to recently.

These actions include:

- Thinking you are actually not who you think you are, and that you are special (chosen one, messiah, child of a god etc)
- Thinking you're a ninja/mercenary/soldier/knight/vampire etc.
- That you have few dozen personalities, and act them out when you feel like it, because multiple personalities makes you look unique.
- Drinking black coffee with no sugar, since it's "cool and mature".
- Saying things like: "All adults are filthy. They are full of lies." and "I'm not going to be a salaryman when I grow up. I ain't gonna be a small cog being used by society."

[CurryButt !CIELBE/jzM No.]

>>1903248
This isn't a Japanese thing, its just called being a faggot in highschool. Now gb2/b& for underage.

[Anonymous No.]

>>1903248
>- That you have few dozen personalities, and act them out when you feel like it, because multiple personalities makes you look unique.
What's wrong with that? People are boring and static

[Anonymous No.]

>"All adults are filthy. They are full of lies.
This is basically true.

[Anonymous No.]

>>1903262
I guess I failed at explaining it then, since it's different from western kids being fags in high school.
Also, most Chuuni-byo kids move onto Kouni-byo when they move to high school, so it's a different problem.

It's... damn it, I give up, I curse my lack of English skills.

[San !qViqzs/8cU No.]

>>1903262
High school? What are you, a retard?
Think elementary school.

[CurryButt !CIELBE/jzM No.]

>>1903272

You would know.

[Anonymous of Bangkok !SLUT6eLWCk No.]

Nanaya is the epitome of 中二病.

[Anonymous No.]

>>1903272
i actually knew someone in high school that exhibited those traits.

she thought she was a spiritual warrior
she would often pretend she was in pain from being involved in a psychic attack
she thought she had invisible wings
she thought that if she tried really hard she could use magic like Lina Inverse.

So yeah, High Schoolers can ben just as retarded as elementary kids.

[Anonymous No.]

>"I'm not going to be a salaryman when I grow up. I ain't gonna be a small cog being used by society."

Even in University, I still tell myself this.

[Anonymous No.]

>>1903290
good luck with that hippie

[Anonymous No.]

＞思春期にありがちな微妙にずれた自意識過剰、それから転じて起こる数々
の「中学二年生（14歳、ティーンエイジャー）くらいの頃にありがちな言
動」を「症状」として比喩したもの。

子どもが大人になろうとして、「大人が好みそうな（と子供が考える）格好
いいもの」に興味を持ち、子供に好かれるようなもの、幼少の頃に好きだ
った幼稚なものを否定したりなどする。「もう子どもじゃない」「（格好
の悪い・汚い）大人になりたくない」という自己矛盾が、実際の大人から見
ると非常に「ずれ」ており、滑稽に見えることが大きな特徴である。

さらに、生死や宇宙、自分や他人・身近な物体の存在に関することなどにつ
いて思い悩んでみたり、政治や社会の「汚さ」を批判してみたり、殊更に
偽悪ぶってみせたりするものの、結局何も行動を起こさないでそのまま収
束するといった性質も「中二病」の「症状」として含まれる。

[San !qViqzs/8cU No.]

>>1903287
We call those people "mentally handicapped" or "mentally challenged"

[Anonymous No.]

>>1903299
except she wasn't and it was no more than a phase

[Anonymous No.]

I read the Wiki for it, and it seems to be barely different from the kind of teenage phases in the West

[Anonymous No.]

>>1903162
pseudo-adult, adolescence, growing up, etc...

[Anonymous No.]

I had a period like this... WHEN I WAS SIX YEAR OLD!

[Anonymous No.]

so did the girl from "my megabusters" doujin have this issue, seems like it.