/jp/ - Otaku Culture

[Anonymous No.]

Dear /jp/, I have an honest question for you: no, I'm not a troll. I'm actually a first time visitor, and I just have to ask. How do I become an Otaku?

I know it's a stupid question. I've been a nerd all my life: mainly video games, technology, and literature with dabbling in anime. However, my new girlfriend is a huge Otaku, and I don't know anything about them. All my friends growing up were video game nerds like me. Where do I start?

[Anonymous No.]

you start here *grabs dick*

[Anonymous No.]

Try starting on
>>>/v/
We aren't hardcore otakus like them. We just discuss Touhou whole day and night, discuss floor cleaning or onions. But /v/ is on whole different level they watch anime and play gamez.

[Anonymous No.]

The fact that you want to become something for someone else disgusts me. If she likes you enough to date you, it shouldn't matter if you are an otaku or not.
So go back to wherever you came from and quit trying to change yourself to impress others.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7143162

OP here. I'm an old-school /v/irgin. And you're a dick.

[Anonymous No.]

spend more time around her and you'll learn quickly
good luck
most "huge otaku" girls are batshit

[Anonymous No.]

Watch anime, try searching stuff like myanimelist for genres you find interesting. Try playing visual novels, you can find stores that sell digital downloads or you can torrent them. Try reading some manga and reading normal novels as well.

Probably the easiest way to get your toes wet I guess..

[Anonymous No.]

>>7143170
Reported.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7143169

I'm not trying to "become" something for her, I'm trying to get to know more about her and her interests, which are mainly Otaku.

I just figured knowing people's personal stories would help me get to understand that side of her better. We've been dating for a while, so we mostly understand each other, but all the obscure references to anime, manga, and Japanese culture as a whole sometimes leave me confused/intrigued.

[Anonymous No.]

You don't.
Also, if your girlfriend actually describes herself as an otaku, you might as well dump her now and save yourself the trouble later.
Taking an interest in your partner's hobbies is all fine and well, but devoting yourself to them just because it's something she likes is fucking retarded.
If it's just you that thinks that she's an otaku based on her interests, and you think it's necessary to change who you are just for her, then go ask /a/ for help.
/jp/ is as bad a place to ask something like that as you can get.

[Anonymous No.]

> All my friends growing up were video game nerds like me.

video game nerd = one kind of otaku

[Anonymous No.]

if she tries getting you to go to a convention you might want to double take on that. conventions will make you hate things because of the high amounts of stupidity contained within. imagine the worst parts of /v/, but in real life, but about anime/manga instead. that is an anime convention. yes, there is fun within, but there is a lot of bad.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7143181
If she calls herself "otaku" and has social life that means she is just something like "gurl gamer" if I get /v/ language right.
>>>/a/
>>>/cgl/ are full of those types. I'm serious and not trolling. Now please delete this thread if you aren't troll yourself. /jp/ is for different kind of "otakus". (NEET/Hikki/Mental Problems/Depression/Suicides). We just spend time playing Touhou, and /jp/ tittle is just trolling and inside joke.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7143181

[Anonymous No.]

Got some news for you.

You are already an otaku. You are a game otaku.

Enjoy yourself and your anime loving girlfriend.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7143187
>Also, if your girlfriend actually describes herself as an otaku, you might as well dump her now and save yourself the trouble later.
This. When someone calls themselves an otaku they really mean "weeaboo."

[Anonymous No.]

>>7143181
"I'm actually a first time visitor, and I just have to ask. How do I become an Otaku?"
You are asking how to become an otaku. You have a girlfriend who is one, and you want to understand them.
Chances are, if you'd never met this girl, you'd have kept on living your everyday life without ever thinking of "becoming" an otaku. The fact that because you met her you want to become one, implies that you want to do it for her. Regardless of whether you consciously deny it or not.
Besides, if you're that damn curious, ask her about them. Don't be afraid to look like a newbie in front of her. Get her to explain her hobbies to you, not some random guys on an imageboard you have no connection to.

[Anonymous No.]

/jp/ is for social isolates, people with mood or personality disorders, people that have been ostracised by society, misanthropes, recluses, lonely people, and other such excluded or stigmatised (singled out) people.

If you have a girlfriend then you shouldn't really be on /jp/ unless you suffer from the aforementioned disorders or unless you and your girlfriend are social isolates yourselves.

Isolation also refers to online social networks. So if you have lots of friends online and spend a lot of time with them (and are close to them) then you don't really fit the bill... although this last requirement is extending it a little bit (there are residents on /jp/ with extensive online networks).

[Anonymous No.]

>>7143222
This.
I was wondering when someone would bring it up, or if OP was going to realize it himself.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7143234
/jp/ can be quite insular. I'd say plenty of /jp/sies play touhou/doujin games and VNs and also have enough online friends on IRC, or at least 100-200 of them, whatever our total is.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7143146
You start with downloading this OP

http://btjunkie.org/torrent/Touhou-Project-rar/37802f9fc11e5327c1d8be1b25090ed4d6d59de4411f

Once you have beaten 6 and two other games, then come back.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7143245
Hmmm yeah.

But not me.

I only have one friend in the entire world. And he isn't really my friend since he's barely listens to anything I say... probably because we have entirely different interests.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7143231
OP here. I guess I should have worded it as "How does one become an Otaku," not, "how do I become an Otaku"

My girlfriend doesn't actually label herself as an Otaku: she actually considers it kind of an insult. She's rather shy (as am I) and we usually talk about other things than her Japanese interests, but I know she's secretly hiding her power levels from me and she's much more interested in that kind of stuff than I am. It kind of runs in her family: her brother is a total recluse with a manga collection that could fill an entire library (not that I'm judging, as my video game collection is nothing to scoff at).

I guess I'm just trying to say, what are the steps people usually go through to become and understand the Otaku subculture. I'm not trying to become Otaku myself, I'm just curious.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7143446
you have to get more involved with the material for starters
read some manga, watch some anime. if you can prove you are trustworthy to her brother that you won't fuck up his books you have a perfect source for mass reading without having to download a thing mangawise. they'll be months if not years behind in some cases but they'll give you a starting point. ask girlfriend for recommendations for anime to watch. if she reacts badly to that then maybe she doesn't want you getting into it. if she seems happy to name a few things then proceed.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7143482
er, forgot to put

it's easiest to understand it if you are part of it. something you're figuring out since as an outsider you have no idea what is going on

[Anonymous No.]

>>7143225
i disagree. they're usually like that. but 'otaku' is still a good world to describe people like /jp/ dwellers, and i can't think of a better way to call it. people just need to learn the difference between 'true' creepy otakus and normal weaboos. and i'm gonna call myself an otaku, because it's the fastest way of comunicating that i'm a VN obsessed hikki.

[Anonymous No.]

OP should watch America's Greatest Otaku as an introduction to the wonderful world of weeaboos.

[Anonymous No.]

why is this thread still here?

>>>/soc/
>>>/adv/

reported

[Anonymous No.]

bump

[Anonymous No.]

>>7143885
Reported.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7143893
Retorted