/jp/ - Otaku Culture

[Anonymous No.]

What's the difference between collecting stamps and collecting figs and shit? My aunt has enough beanie babies to open her own mall and nobody get's their panties in a twist over it.

[Anonymous No.]

You idiot. That's because no one is wearing panties.

[Anonymous No.]

>>3052811

Coins - Gentleman tier.
Stamps - Retired math teacher tier.
Beanie Babies - WOMEN AND CHILDREN tier.
Figs - Creepy loser nerd tier.

[Anonymous No.]

Go away.

[Anonymous No.]

>>3052811
Because beanie babies don't hurt anyone.

Figures of girls promote rape and violence against women.

[Anonymous No.]

>>3052823
I'm a retired math teacher? ;_;

[Anonymous No.]

>>3052823
Oh wow so you say I'm awsome just because I collect coins?

[Anonymous No.]

You don't see hot glue over coins/stamps (unless you know your imouto is going to lick it)/dolls etc.

[Anonymous No.]

>>3052837

Only if your organize them into handsome displays, preferably velvet lined boxes in a finished wooden frame.

I bet you put yours into a jar.

[Anonymous No.]

>>3052833

Yes. Retired math teacher moe.

[Anonymous No.]

Stamps have more "historical value". Often many of them commemorate influential people or milestones in history.

>>3052820
It's hilarious to interpret idioms literally, innit?

[Anonymous No.]

>>3052823
i'm collecting all of those

[Anonymous No.]

>>3052872

Then you have fallen to "depression-era old woman tier."

[Anonymous No.]

>>3052875

"DON'T YOU THROW AWAY THAT TIN FOIL! WE SAVE THAT IN THIS HOUSE!"

Oh Grandma... ( ・_・）

[Anonymous No.]

My uncle collects beer cans from around the world. What tier does that put him in?

[Anonymous No.]

I was just thinking on what's exactly the difference between romantic paperback novels marketed to bored housewives and visual novels, besides one having Fabio on the cover and the other having what are perceived as cartoons.

Perhaps that's the thing that makes the whole figure collecting and anime watching so sleazy in traditional eyes. There's still a heavy interpretation of these things as childish and for younger audiences, and to see them not only perverted with sexual themes with young characters, but with the connotations of Japan as a weird, demented country, is enough to label anyone that indulges in such things as perverted and a manchild.
Sort of what happens to american comic book collectors. They're seen as men that never quite grew up. Plus hygiene and social interaction problems linked to the stereotype.

Stamp and coin collection have always been there. They're safe and perceived as a harmless hobby. But there's a boundary that separates it from "step away slowly" levels. Like said beanie babies collection, that could be unnerving.

[Anonymous No.]

>>3052904
BRO tier

[Anonymous No.]

>>3052904
Awesome uncle tier

[Anonymous No.]

>sexual themes with young characters
this

it's that simple

[Anonymous No.]

>>3052964
I blame moralfags and christianfags. Oh wait