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how to tell if youre an otaku
TiYlER:
--- Quote from: TMRNetShark on May 05, 2011, 08:10:56 PM ---I would like to live in Japan... but I would more rather have Japan come here. I would like to have shops that aren't ALL corporate, public transportation be easy to get to with a simple walk or even less with a bike ride, and I love Japanese food. I like the way building designed and I love cherry blossoms. To actually go to Japan, live there, learn the language, and make a living would be too much. I would much rather than US start emulating the cities they have over there... here.
Oh, and make women more moe... cause women in the states are bitches.
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+1
I know, right?
TMRNetShark:
--- Quote from: TiYlER on May 05, 2011, 08:15:23 PM ---
--- Quote from: TMRNetShark on May 05, 2011, 08:10:56 PM ---I would like to live in Japan... but I would more rather have Japan come here. I would like to have shops that aren't ALL corporate, public transportation be easy to get to with a simple walk or even less with a bike ride, and I love Japanese food. I like the way building designed and I love cherry blossoms. To actually go to Japan, live there, learn the language, and make a living would be too much. I would much rather than US start emulating the cities they have over there... here.
Oh, and make women more moe... cause women in the states are bitches.
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+1
I know, right?
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I mean come on, why do you think the US has the most hooker-to-death ratio? Cause women are bitches and drive men nuts to start killing them... even when the women are giving them sex! Hahaha
ajslayer:
--- Quote from: AceHigh on May 05, 2011, 01:50:54 PM ---
--- Quote from: ajslayer on May 05, 2011, 09:54:19 AM ---this post made me think a little. ok so the deal is before i started watching anime, i already found japanese women to be attractive than most and i already had an interest in japanese food, for example.
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Personally I already knew that Japan made good electronic and cars before watching anime, but only that is not enough, is it? However then it goes as following:
--- Quote ---but now, since i started watching anime regularly, ive been a little obsessed with the culture and whatnot.
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Natural reaction. After all through anime you are literally getting influenced by Japanese culture export. Not very unlike people wanting to learn German language just because they like Rammstein or learn more about shaolin monasteries just because they are impressed by martial arts performed by the monks.
--- Quote ---now my dream is to move to japan and maybe open an italian restaurant or something. (studying to be a chef) i hope to possibly start a family and raise my kids there as well.im even starting to study rosetta stone japanese.
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Yes, learning Japanese and moving to Japan is another wish which is also natural after being influenced by Japanese culture through modern mediums like anime, manga and j-movies.
--- Quote ---well i dont think my obsession with japanese culture is unhealthy or anything but im just a little worried. i dont have anything physical in my room like dvds or figurines or anything like that though. and yea thats about it. your thoughts?
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My thoughts are: nothing to worry about at the moment. For most people it will pass as soon as they find something more interesting to do than watch anime all day and after some time the interests about Japan will go more stale and the ideas of moving to Japan will seem less realistic.
Another thing that can influence you to snap out of Japanophilia is to dig too deep into their culture and find a numerous dark sides about it. I will not mention which, because rabid Japanophiles will eat me alive if I do, so that is up for you to discover. Hell, even I went through a similar phase about 6 years ago. However as there became less and less quality anime to watch, all the fascinations about Japan became stale and after a while I got a more objective view about Japan and their culture. Nowadays anime is just another form of entertainment for me and little else.
The question is, what if you continue spending most of your time watching anime and thus never snapping out of the fascination about Japan? Well, then you are an otaku, right? ;)
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probably one of the only dark things ive seen out of japan media was this movie, all about lily chou chou. but its nice to hear my reactions are relatively normal. as for the dark aspects of japan, do you mean something along the lines of the gender gap and equal rights? because slums are basically the same all over, whether youre in japan or britain or mexico.
AceHigh:
--- Quote from: TMRNetShark on May 05, 2011, 08:10:56 PM ---I would like to live in Japan... but I would more rather have Japan come here.
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You live in US. Would it be too far fetched to assume that big US cities have a "japan-town" just like Chinatowns?
--- Quote from: ajslayer on May 06, 2011, 03:58:35 AM ---as for the dark aspects of japan, do you mean something along the lines of the gender gap and equal rights?
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Hmm... among other things. I certainly didn't mean slums or organized crime etc, because that shit is everywhere. Ok, it seems that people did not rage at my previous posts, so I will give a few examples. They are off-topic, so here is a spoiler:
(click to show/hide)Fucked up justice system. Because of divided social class between defence attorney and a prosecutor, being a defendant lawyer in Japan is probably the hardest job on this planet. If you are accused of crime in Japan, you are fucked. According to statistics the conviction rate is 99%.
Funny thing is, this darker side is also reflected in the popular game series: Ace Attorney, in which you get a hard job of being a defendant lawyer.
Another dark side is the whole mental state of Japanese society to get good grades at school or to die. I am talking about the phenomenon of mass suicides among students in Japan. Is the Japanese society pushing their kids too hard? I would say, yes they do.
Some people would also mention the infamous Japanese xenophobia as a darker side, however my opinion is that it is their right to be xenophobic in their sovereign country. However if you plan to move to Japan, that might become your problem.
Hiding their past atrocities from the younger generation. I don't believe it is right to hide or manipulate the history, like taking out their past atrocities and war crimes out of the history school books. China is especially bitter about it btw.
There are other things that I will leave to people to discover for themselves.
Oh, there is another thing about otakus. They wear their "otaku" badge proudly, even though it is a derogatory term in Japan. ;D
james123hous:
more aroused to 2D girls than 3D girls
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