/jp/ - Otaku Culture

[Anonymous No.]

Why are things like this as popular in Japan as they are? What is it about modern Japanese culture that drives so many people to shun actual social contact in favor of alternatives like this or more typical eroge that there are entire industries built up around them?

Where did the whole "otaku" phenomenon come from in the first place? Can anyone link to some good in-depth articles breaking down the history?

I'm not trolling or trying to shitpost or whatever, I'm genuinely curious.

[Labarador !!iuszTExGCNs No.]

Jews.

[Anonymous No.]

I'm not going to do your assignment for you Timmy.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8206201
I'm not doing this for a paper, though it would be an interesting topic. This started more specifically as me wanting to know why Love Plus even exists, and gradually blossomed into a more general "why is Love Plus not seen as more bizarre than it is".

[Tokiko No.]

Japanese tend to be very introverted. There's a lot of peer pressure and social rules are strict. You know how Japanese businessmen tend to be identical? That's because Japanese schoolkids tend to be pretty similar. Outside of school, they may go to the movies or whatever, but no kids smoke or drink or curse at their parents. Japan is a "shame society", one that uses shame and guilt as tools for shaping its people. Otaku are just basically people with Asperger's. Japanese mothers are very supportive of their kids (well, they're basically spineless) so they'll support their kid's weird habit. A lot of otaku are pretty normal and succeed in their environments aside from a few of their quirks. A businessman can easily be a train otaku on his days off or a car otaku can be a good mechanic. What we tend to see as otaku stereotypes in the west are usually the worst otaku traits brought out to the extremes.

In the 90s (maybe 80s too) they thought otaku were crazy and violent. Check out the wikipedia article on Miyazaki. He was into pedophilia, necrophilia, cannibalism and all kinds of rotten things

[Anonymous No.]

>>8206217
Just so you know, there are probably more normal people in Japan that think shit like Love plus is wack as hell.

[Anonymous No.]

Love Plus gamers don't have to prove it's not bizarre, you have to prove that it is bizarre. So why is it?

[Anonymous No.]

>>8206222
>no kids smoke or drink
Have you been to Japan?

[Anonymous No.]

Fun things are fun

Relax

[Anonymous No.]

>>8206229
Please, ignore the poster known as "Tokiko".
He is barely an aspergers kid and a brain-dead imbecile who labours under the delusion that he is a great poster.
His life consists of shitposting and imagespam, denying responsibility and leaching off his father.
Truly, he is a laughable figure.
The state of his motherboard is worrisome.
I would not desire him as a comrade, nor as my friend on the internet.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8206242
I like the irony in the fact that a shut-in with no experience of the world is trying to provide wisdom on shut-ins with no experience of the world, and getting it completely wrong.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8206224
Oh I'm not saying there aren't, and I'm not saying there's no such thing as porn games outside of Japan, but Japan is still the leading manufacturer of similar products. It's very much a Japanese thing.

>>8206225
Bizarre might be too strong a word. I guess it could just be a "practice girlfriend simulator" or something, but its sole purpose is still as an alternative to actual physical social contact and, more importantly, was considered profitable enough to have had three iterations published by a major publisher (Konami), rather than just existing as a doujin game at Comiket or something.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8206183
Have you ever tried living in a box with 100,000,000 people who all look the same?

Try that. That's what being Japanese is like.

[Tokiko No.]

>>8206242
Steam group I get that you don't want me in your chatroom but you really need to chill out ok

[Anonymous No.]

Socializing sucks even more when everyone is repressed into acting a certain way.

That'd be my guess anyway.

[「ロリあき」 No.]

>>8206251
Dating simulators have existed for years before this one, though. Granted, Konami is a big name, but it's not like the genre was exclusive to doujin gaming at all.

[Anonymous No.]

Oh look, it's the daily "I've never been to Japan or talked to a Japanese person but I feel like psychoanalyzing 128,000,000 people collectively and waxing philosphical about their social structure" thread. Great.

What exactly are you supposed to say to the girl in LovePlus mode? I can't even understand the types of phrases she's supposed to recognize.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8206290
>>what's your favorite food?
>a food
>>what's your favorite color?
>a color
>>what should i wear?
>a swimsuit
>>do you love me?
>no
but you have to say them in clear japanese without neckbeard muddying your annunciation

[Anonymous No.]

I think Japan is just the prime example of the emotional and mental deteriorating around the world.

The only difference is now, that antisocial people starting to reach a critical mass (and they have money) it's only natural that the market try to satisfy the needs.

The media is trying to marginalise these people.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8206315
What experience do you base this from?

[Anonymous No.]

>>8206315
>I think Japan is just the prime example of the emotional and mental deteriorating around the world.

What the hell? That doesn't make any sense.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8206300

Well fuck. I was hoping to discuss philosophical rationalism or late-era Akkadian orthography with her.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8206328
i'm always up for discussing early semitic languages

mom and dad are out tonight, no one has to know~

[Anonymous No.]

>>8206339

Actually I have nothing to discuss but I've put this on my Christmas list to my family and I do intend to pick up the basics:

http://www.amazon.com/Manual-Akkadian-David-Marcus/dp/0819106089

I was mostly attracted to Cuneiform and I figured with the time I've dumped into Japanese there wasn't any reason to at least read up on another (mostly) logographic language. The only issue with it is that there seems to be dearth of actual written content, even though Babylon and Assyria were such successful civilizations. I can't find anything besides instructional material anywhere.

[Anonymous No.]

Tokiko is the new White Ren.