/jp/ - Otaku Culture

I just really like meatballs.

4chan. Before 4chan, I thought japanese culture was the gayest thing ever

>>12029606
You still think it is gay, you are just now a gay pee.

>>12029604

Meatubaroo... ;_;

>>12029611

Want to be my friend, fellow meatball lover?

Anime, video games, manga,

Video games, 4chan, and anime.

My dad is a huge weeb. Like father, like son I guess.

>>12029598
Sup with that pillow?

>>12029633

>>12029646
You are a disgusting Pokopen.

I like porn I jack off to jav about 3to 5 times a day

>>12029654

>>12029653
Haha that was great, anon.

Dbz as a kid...then seeing a few anime on TV late at night. I posted a question about eva on /b/ and got directed to /a/. 4chan had already made me kind of weird, but after discovering /a/ before i went to college, i ended up falling back to that kind of world. It was a nice escape from the pressures and bad memories of my teenage years. I never truly fit into the culture i was born in, and never had a strong family, and was depressed by it, because it only got worse as I got older.

I thought, "why can't I fit in, why am I only happy when I'm on the computer, on 4chan, watching anime, playing japanese video games,?"

If I'm not meant to be happy with my own life, maybe I can be happy living another life in another culture. So, here I am.

This.

I like Japanese culture because it has things not present in Western culture.

probably seeing dbz around 2nd grade and getting my first gameboy the same year
by 5th grade i was into drawing manga (horribly i must say) and attempting to learn Japanese. i was not forcing it down anyone's throats or publicly being an aspie, so i wouldn't say my weeb level was too high

then it escalated quickly with the angsty jrock years

one time when i was kid, i cant remember how little i was, but i was very small.

I found a ad or a page from a mail order catalog for anime or manga or something.

i was completely captivated by the artwork and the characters, had no clue what it was and i was too young to know how to read the page.

I kept the ad with me but not long after i accidentally dropped it down a grate and it was the last time i saw anything anime or manga related until many years later.

I was about 12 when i saw some kind of anime on the tv, and as soon as i saw it, it awakened that fascination within me, the same fascination i had when i was little finding that ad on the ground, finally i knew what anime was, and i knew it was for me.

A random piece of garbage sparked a life-time interest in japan. pretty crazy.

I don't have a fascination with Japanese culture. I use read eroge and watch cartoons because it's very good for escapism, but I actually hate it.

>>12029701
Like cute, sexy anime girls!

Pokemon, Digimon, DBZ, and Sailor Moon when I was a small kid.

But then somewhere around late 2006 I found /a/ and it ruined my entire life.

video games>4chan>anime

Pokemon probably started it.

>>12029684
More pictures like this?

>>12029736
Too bad they're not real.

>>12029619

That's awesome you can have a mutual interest like that. My parents just don't understand why anyone would be into it at all.

>>12029728
me too ;_;

>>12029752
but they are.. in my heart

>>12029752
Define reality. I can see them well enough when I open files that contain images of them. I can formulate thoughts about them when I'm away from such images. Are they fictional characters? Yes they are. Does that mean they aren't real or don't exist? Definitely not.

>>12029757
That's not real though, also human cognition has nothing to do with your cardiovascular system.

WW2 allies

>>12029763
Cool, i guess unicorns exist, because I can say all the same things about them. Also russel's teapot. Some damn sweet brunch tea that makes.

>>12029765
why do you have to be so cynical

>>12029775
I'm not cynical, I'm realistic and scientific

>>12029711
What angsty jrock did you listen to?

>>12029766
Pfft, WW2 allies? We were COLONISED, we literally had loads of yamato cum bukkake'd all over our gene pool.

The earliest memories I have of Japan are of my friend from a long time ago. We used to pull our pants down and sniff one another's buttholes. I don't remember if our parents found out but we were very young at the time so I don't know if they'd have done anything about it.

I think his name was Nayoki.

>>12029807
Friggin japan mang.

My mom is a massive weeb and a lot of my relatives watch anime to some extent or another. I remember watching stuff like Record of Lodoss War and Tenchi Muyo with my mom and some cousins in 1996-ish and liking them a lot. SNES-era JRPGs definitely contributed as well.

For a long time, I had the same attitude towards anime that I have toward ponyfags now (negative, in case that needs clarification). Then I started watching anime dvd's rented from the local public library, and it was a slippery slope... but I've managed to climb back up a bit of that slope and broaden my horizons to OTHER JAPANESE THINGSSS! when people ask me what I'm interested in, what I spend all my free time doing, I just say "sleeping" or "masturbating" because I don't want to admit the ugly truth...

>>12029756

Yeah, it's pretty nice, but it gets better. My dad somehow convinced my mom that if I was born a girl, I would be given a Japanese girls name. He even wrote a list of names he preferred. He was really looking forward to having a daughter.

>>12029833
>masturbating" because I don't want to admit the ugly truth

What?

>>12029780
Not him, but probably Gazette and Girugamesh.

Finding a ton of unusual Japanese porn on AOL newsgroups back when I was a kid.

>>12029848
Some of these names please

>>12029881

WTF? 15 years old?

>>12029893

I know Natsumi and Natsuko were on the list. I can't remember any of the others.

Video games. I still remember just blowing off middle school to sit and play Final Fantasy 6. When I was younger I'd even dream about Megaman. How couldn't I be interested in a place that made some of my favorite games? It faded a little as more western games began to grab me and eventually anime roped me back in.

Mangas and anime like Saint Seiya when I was pretty little, 5 or 6. Then discovered otaku forums when I was about 11, cons and shit and I was doomed forever.

>>12029900
Yeah, that one is a photobook from the 80s. Lots of those were made back in the day.

>>12029945
She doesn't look 15 to me.

>>12029606
this.
I thought you'd have to be a manchild to watch this stuff.
I was kinda rite ;_;

>>12029945
I'm confused. Photobooks from the 80s? About what?

>>12029969
As in like gravure of today? Did they have teen idols in the 80s?

>>12029972
Kind of, a little more innocent I think. They did have teen idols, but these books are more artistic nude and less about idols in general.

>>12030020
>underage
>nude

Enjoy your partyvan.

>>12030040
Bookstores in the US sell books of pictures of nude children. Child nudity is not the same as child pornography.

Anime and video games as a kid. a distant relative hooked me up with dbz tapes and I remember taping shit off toonami.

On a related note I found old fansubbed Eva tapes at a local thrift store. Pretty cool stuff.

Anime, Code Geass to be specific.

>>12030114
This. I had a friend in high school who would NOT shut up about Code Geass. Another friend got me into Lucky Star shortly after that. That one-two punch fucked me up good.

>>12029962
I stopped watching anime because my friends made fun of me for it. Now I don't have any friends and now I'm back on that grind.

>>12030114
>>12030125
I want to talk shit, but I won't. I guess we all need to start somewhere.

Tokusatsu, Toho films.

Sailor moon when I was in elementary school. I told all my friends i watched gundam and dbz but that was just a cover. I want to go back and watch it because I barely remember anything about it. But im afraid of ruining my nostalgia.

The idea that Japan was somehow ahead of the world technologically. Gundamu as well.

Read a friend's >Naruto book in school and got interested in the way it was set out. So I started watching the anime then I was interested in hentai so I came here for the porn boards and boom.

aw my posts about books got blown away :(

>>12029724
<3

yes

There was this active Japanese community in a game I played. They made interesting Japanese themed maps and modifications and ran their own server and were very friendly towards me.

Used to watch Chinese dubbed Anime like Granzort, Bakusou Kyoudai, Doraemon, Ikkyuu-san, Sailor Moon, Sakura, Digimon, etc. They used to show a lot of them at prime time in the 90's, but now they've all been replaced by Chinese domestic rubbish.

My dad was also a fan of Miyazaki, so I watched most of his moves on VCD. I also had a original imported Famicom, but it's broken now ;_;

I came here from /f/ a month ago because I liked the touhou flashes
h-llo all

When I was in elementary school a kid from Japan whose parents were working in the US told me about jerking off. We'd go to his house after school and just rub our cocks without really saying anything. He didn't have any porn obviously so we looked at his family photo album and masturbated to pictures of his sister on the beach. We were pretty young so nothing even came out, but it still felt good. Anyway I was there so many times that I became interested in Japanese stuff, but it was mostly about jerking off.

actually going there and learning what it was really like. didn't have much interest beforehand

>>12030210
I fucking love my Famicom

watching j-vloggers' take on daily life and culture in Japan:

https://www.youtube.com/user/Gimmeabreakman
https://www.youtube.com/user/Hikosaemon
https://www.youtube.com/user/RoninDave
https://www.youtube.com/user/bobbyjudo
https://www.youtube.com/user/kanadajin3

I'm from the pokemon/dragon ball z generation

and a natural extension the pokemon cards/video games

It was inevitable. As a kid all the best tv shows, toys and games were from japan.

I studied japanese in an Australian high school. My high school had a curriculum designed in the late 1940's to educate students to learn how to speak german & japanese as a precaution if ww2 ever repeated it's self.
At the end of 1st semester we had the option to pick btw the languages. I had a major crush on the female japanese teacher & was fascinated with samurai culture. On the other hand the german teacher was an old burnt out husk of a teacher who gave everyone A+ & let you do whatever you wanted in his class as long as you didn't wake him unless the principal came down the hall. So it was a tough choice to make for a 13. Crush-samuri won. How was I to know that Japanese was possibly the 2nd hardest language to learn with the exception of english. I stuck it out though with disappointing success.
Then i worked in a comicbook shop that sold anime/manga. Back then it was Akira, Appleseed & Grey. My family had a japanese exchange student live with us for a year. At age 15 i went to japan as an exchange student for 3 weeks. Went to school there & lived with a japanese family in tokyo. I have been fasinated with japan ever since.

>>12029598
oh hey I have that TV

samurai pizza cats

Pretty typical for me. i used to like DB(Z), Pokemon, Sailor Moon and Detective Conan and stuff so that that the initial thing. Over the years I progressed further into it and eventualy got into manga and whatnot.

I used to think that the Japanese are easy-going people. At least that's what I could gather online back then

Escapism.

I dropped out of school in grade 8 and haven't left my house in 14 years (except once for emergency surgery and the rare doctors visit years ago).

I fucked around on SA, fapped to hentai games that were reviewed, migrated to 4chan, and I am still here... escaping.

My mom used to let me watch the Japanese business news channel that aired here and thought it was fucking hillarious that I started uttering phenotics, apparently I liked the word "Ko". I was a samurai fan when I was 7 after I did a report in school on Japan and fell in love with it as this mysterious place.

Now I just edge to Pixiv 8 hours a week, DLsite games, and watch anime.

I only watched a few anime on adult swim. I played video games but didn't distinguish between Japanese and western. I was mostly normal.

Somehow I started beating it to 2D at a young age all the same. I came to 4chan for /h/, later browsed /b/ for awhile, then settled into /v/. Eventually checked out /a/ on a lark, started watching Haruhi, and it was all downhill from there.

I've been about that weeb life for 6 years now.

Mostly Dragon Ball Z and Pokemon when I wad a kid. Then I stopped going to school when I was 11 in 2001 and I'd stay up all night watching, watching Bebop, Trigun, and Inuyasha. In 2003 my family took a trip to Hawaii and it seemed really neat how Japanese was like a second language over there. Tours had Japanese interpreters, some signs were written in Japanese, and yen was accepted in some stores. That trip had a huge impact on me. Somewhere along the line I heard Simple and Clean and got into Japanese music through that and things were fairly slow until 2005 when I found 4chan. At the time Azumanga Daioh seemed to be popular so I decided to watch it, and that was basically the beginning of the end for me. It was just series after series after that and album/song one after the other. I unintentionally immersed myself in Japanese music and anime because at that time I was speaking very little and spent most of my time in my room due to depression. There are some specific moments that I do remember, like watching Love Hina during a summer, and being excited for the anime version of Death Note. I also remember playing Yume Miru Kusuri when it was released and realizing that I would probably never stop enjoying Japanese media. Some time around 2007 I learned kana and began to study kanji after that. In 2008 I got my GED and in 2009 I took a Japanese class so my parents would stop pestering me to either get a job or go to school. I passed the class with a near perfect score and was constantly showered with praise by the teacher, but by that point not socializing with anyone had taken its toll and I felt the classes were too stressful to continue.

That was five years ago already, huh. Things haven't really changed much. I still enjoy anime greatly, still listen exclusively to Japanese music, and try to learn new kanji whenever I see one that I recognize but don't know the meaning of. I guess it's been a big part of my life for a very long time.

Sorry this is so long.

it hurts to hear how some of you had weeaboo relatives who showed you early anime and vidya, my family were very racist, i remember distinctly my grandmother and mother talking badly about "chinese" and "japs" and spreading their eyes with their fingers to make fun of them the few times it was brought up.

im glad their insecure racism didn't reflect on me. or maybe, it was so against what i felt i went in the entirely other direction and embraced everything asian, the language, culture, etc. if they knew just how much of a weeb i was, i could very well be disowned. at the moment, they just assume im a "rebel"

>>12030301
>Escapism.
Pretty much this.

At the time, I was a loner, bullied at school and couldn't make any friend. Thus why I got really moved by shonens and stuff, it got me emotionally moved by stuff that I wouldn't be able to attain in real life.
I think I got into /jp/ mainly because it was the only place where I could get infos on otaku stuff and cute little girls™ while being able to talk with people, shitposters included, about my hobbies. Tried /a/ once back then, just couldn't related to it, and was way too fast for my tastes.

Now I'm pretty old and I feel out of place with all the youngsters, but /jp/ still feels like a home since I've spent literally half of my lifetime here.

Vidya. I loved ancient jrpg as fuck. And anima which I used to like since Pokemon and Sailor Moon.

>>12030273
BROTHER!

My god that was such a fun thing to watch as a kid. It seemed like nobody knew what it was.

Yay for meta janitor approved meta threads.

>>12030717
I'm surprised this hasn't devolved into a neet thread by now tbh.

>>12030731
This thread smells like /a/, doubt there are truNEETs.

1. Watched big three
2. Played RS so needed something to watch while AFKing skills
3. Watched anime until I hit 100 days watched
4. Learned Japanese for eroge
5. Play eroge every day

Friends got me into the Touhou fighers.

Doraemon and Sazae-san. I'm the odd man out in a sea of DBZ/Pokemon/Sailormoon 90's kiddies here.

Porn. Duh. H anime is pretty hot when you're 15.

Nowadays, I can't look at that low-quality animation shit anymore. How times change.

So this is the official /jp/ blog thread now?

On topic, my middle school geography teacher lent me some old anime bootlegs because he "thought I'd like them". I looked for more, started lurking IRC and eventually got linked here.

Up until I was in grade 10 we had dial up internet in our home, so most nights I would sit up in front of the TV channel surfing because I was bored. One night in grade 7 (12yrs) I caught a Miyazaki movie on SBS (Australian channel), Laputa: Castle In The Sky. I couldn't tell you why, but I was captivated. I loved everything about it. It made me feel a certain way, and I'm 99% sure I'll never be able to articulate it properly without sounding like a fucking retard. Let's just say it was immersive.

Fast forward a year or so (13-14yrs) and, channel surfing again, I caught episode 2 of Death Note (the one with the Lind L Taylor twist) on ABC2, and I was floored. Well enough for me to stick around week after week and watch the entire thing, anyway. Not long after that, I caught Perfect Blue and End of Evangelion on SBS, and not long after not long after that I got cable, which had the Sci-Fi channel, which had the Animax block, which had Stand Alone Complex, Cowboy Bebop and Black Lagoon, which had me hooked like nothing else ever had. I read the Wikipedia page, which lead to the Evangelion TV series, which led to the me I am today. Kind of.

In grade 12 I was drunk every second day, and eventually burnt out completely and quit. I had my own computer with decent internet now, so nothing was stopping me from watching all the anime I wanted. Anime lead me to Hentai, which lead me to Visual Novels (G-Senjou, Ever17), which lead me to video games in general (Persona 4, Okami), which lead me to Touhou, which lead me to JAPAN.

/blog

When I was 7 years old I would wake up early with my grandma and watch the early morning cartoons on cartoon network. All the shows were good but the one I loved the most was Cardcaptor Sakura. I was traced by it and ended up buying all the manga to read it. At the time I didn't even know that it was anime.

Flash forward a couple of years and I'm a little pre-teen(12ish).All I would do on my friday nights was watch tv in my basement. While channel surfing I caught YTV anime special going on and watched bleach and Stand Alone Complex. Again I was traced so I watch it ever week, even skipping out on friends to watch.

As I got older I started to feel disconnected with modern culture so I went back and re-watched CardCaptor online.This lead me to re-watch Bleach, read Bleach and then expand into the other manga I cam across as a kid but never really read to far (Rosario + Vampire and To Love Ru). By this time I was just hooked and couldn't get enough of Japanese culture. I started eating Japanese food, reading Japanese books, playing VNs and so on.

My life story as to how I became the person I am today XD

>>12030900
I watch Doraemon Sazaesan, and all of those.
Also Shinchan, Shimajirou, Okaasan to issho, nihon mukashibanashi, and tons more.

Thanks, mom.

>>12031010
Is your mom Japanese or just a classic wapanese?

>>12031012
Japanese. I don't think a wapanese would even know okaasan to issho.

watching tokusatsu, in 1988. algo games with nes and master system. in the early 90's, anime (dbz, ss, eva etc). japan products are great, but the japan way of life (language, writing and costumes) is definitly shit...

>>12031034
Like the Jew controlled "American Dream" is any better.

Memoirs of a Geisha, the 2005 film. No joke.

a lotta blogging going on in this thread...

>>12031041
We at least pretend to like freedom. They don't even bother with that.

>>12031144

Newgrounds and 4chan, I was a relatively normal high school kid before.

>>12031127
I like it, it's pretty cool to see where everyone is coming from.

touhou, 4chan.

Two things: Street Fighter 2 and my Uncle who was stationed in Japan (Marines)

In the stage select of Street FIghter 2: Special Champion Edition (I htink the other versions had this as well), there were these flags of each character homeland (Japan, China, USA, USSR, England, Thailand, etc.) which I thought it was cool at the time since it sorta help me learn these name of the countries and their flags. I was (and still am) a Ryu player and played on his stage a lot (Japan).

MY Uncle, when he had time off from being stationed in Japan would come and visit my family and I. When he did came over, he would tell stories about being stationed in Japan and the culture of the Japanese. This caught my attention given I was very curious about different nations and cultures but Japan came up a lot, so that culture stuck with me ever since.

I would tell more but I'm kinda tired and I'm tryng to learn a song on my violin.

I notice most of you don't list Japanese film. In the '80s there was a ton of karate and daikaiju on Western television.

>>12031440
Were you under the delusion that /jp/ were tried and true "oldfags" and not just 90's kids masquerading as one?

Anime, history, and later food which helped me discover what I want to do as a career. The only problem is I've never gone to a real Japanese restaurant.

Everything in Canada and America basically has to be a buffet, or else business wont be good. I don't think it's normal for people to plow through giant plates of maki rolls within minutes, the food is supposed to be enjoyed and eaten slowly.
But nope, everything has to be fast and filling, no questions asked.

Pokemon and Sailormoon on tv were my gateway anime, and for as long as I can remember I recognized that Japan made cool stuff.

>>12029833
> the ugly truth...

Videogames.

Everything else they do is shit.

Morning Musume and japanese video games in the late 90s. It just went downhill from there.

The widespread racism and xenophobia appeal to me as a /pol/ack.

> What started your fascination with Japanese culture?
1) http://vndb.org/v112
2) http://g.e-hentai.org/g/112130/76f1366943/

80's Japanese Hardcore
And then Gundam 08th MS Team shortly after

Japanese schoolgirls in their uniform.