/jp/ - Otaku Culture

>>16698758
I live in Holland and tattoos are nearly always associated with at least one the following:
person was drunk
person is retarded
person is of lower class
person is in a gang/MC

Really the only exception would be if you had an extremely well made "classy" tattoo, but even then it would be weird. As for having a weeab tat, you'd honestly just be better of getting a shitty tribal on your fucking neck than having Flandres or what not in XXL size on your arm. The tribal tat is "you are an idiot lower class pleb", the 2hu cartoon on your arm is "you are a fucking weirdo stay away from my kids", especially when combined with the presumed decidedly non-/fit/ physique of your average /jp/ user.

Now this is Holland, a country trying its best to "out liberal shithole" Sweden and Germany, I can only imagine what it must be like in Japan.

I would have a massive sprawling tattoo of Reimu, but I would have to stop getting changed at work (hospital) or be prepared to answer a whole bunch of questions.

>>16698185
Well I just found that once I started learning the radicals I was "seeing them everywhere" and made me grasp their roots and shared origins/relations better.

Also small things like the kanji for winter containing the radical for ice, or spring simply being the radical for sun with the icon for "higher" drawn over it. Rather than having to remember every single kanji as a single standalone character I started understanding the patterns.

I mean, I guess sitting down and starting and just cramming all the radicals and what kanji you can create with them along with all their readings and various meanings would be retarded if only for the sheer scope compared to its usefulness. However learning vocab and then simply looking up the kanji you are seeing is hardly time consuming yet gives me a far better grasp of the meaning of the kanji.

Any time lost in looking up the kanji is easily gained by reducing the amount of repetitions I need per word. I have EASILY halved the amount of lapses I have by simply checking up on the kanji.

Like I said, I was pretty annoyed with myself at not having done this earlier.