/jp/ - Otaku Culture

Why didn't the banning of guns prevent this?

>>19179287
i knew someone was going to make the thread about this but didn't want to do inb4 it for fear of writing a self-fulfilling prophecy

>>19179287
If the guy had gun do you think it would only have seven death?

>>19179313
Please answer the question. Why didn't banning guns prevent this?

Damn, I remember being on 4chan back when this happened.

>>19179335
Stop being a miserable agenda-pushing shitstain. There are a dozen boards that you can argue about this in.

>>19179335
Because gun is not used in this crime? Are you guys American so delusional that think a measure is not worthy to conduct if it cannot prevent crime and reduce damage totally, and being so full of yourself that you must turn a thread about tragic event in other countries into a debate for your own shitty internal politics?

>>19179287
Because the Japanese are a superior race. Even if you gave them guns they'd still have less violent crimes than most other countries.

>>19179287
I literally saw a gunstore just on the outskirts of Akiba when I went in there and even chatted with the owner a bit, about the differences in gun law and how the situation is in America. The guy was pretty cool and I wish I could've discussed more with my weak Japanese.

>super strict gun laws don't prevent massacres
Who woulda thunk?

Here's a (archive-constructed, completely fake) screenshot that I assembled from a thread last year about how Akihabara changed over the years. Give the whole thing (or the original thread) a read if you have time, for me it felt like a glimpse into a culture that had long since disappeared by the time I got there. Relevant highlight from >>17318725:

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And a bit about the massacre that I think is important and relates to this - I know the stereotype of otaku in the west is this gloomy Japanese male with a plaid shirt and coke-bottle glasses and that was to some degree true, Akihabara itself was a very jolly place to be. The anti-social stereotype mainly comes from online and it's not that it's incorrect, but it's in contrast to how Akihabara was; kind of like the equivalent of talking to a nerd outside a convention compared to inside a convention - they turn into different people because they're surrounded by people like themselves.

When the massacre happened it cast such a shadow that it felt like the bubble of safety had been burst. A lot of people laid flowers for the victims for a long time after the massacre had happened and maybe this sounds poetic or metaphorical, but I believe that the disproportionate amount of flowers to victims was down to the fact that many people were laying them in memorial of the Akihabara spirit, because it felt like it truly died from then onwards, almost like how 9/11 seemed to abruptly end the vibe of the 90s and force a more serious attitude onto the world.
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>>19179409
Who are you quoting?

Here's a (archive-constructed, completely fake) screenshot that I assembled from a thread last year about how Akihabara changed over the years. Give the whole thing (or the original thread) a read if you have time, for me it felt like a glimpse into a culture that had long since disappeared by the time I got there. Relevant highlight from >>17318725:

>And a bit about the massacre that I think is important and relates to this - I know the stereotype of otaku in the west is this gloomy Japanese male with a plaid shirt and coke-bottle glasses and that was to some degree true, Akihabara itself was a very jolly place to be. The anti-social stereotype mainly comes from online and it's not that it's incorrect, but it's in contrast to how Akihabara was; kind of like the equivalent of talking to a nerd outside a convention compared to inside a convention - they turn into different people because they're surrounded by people like themselves.

>When the massacre happened it cast such a shadow that it felt like the bubble of safety had been burst. A lot of people laid flowers for the victims for a long time after the massacre had happened and maybe this sounds poetic or metaphorical, but I believe that the disproportionate amount of flowers to victims was down to the fact that many people were laying them in memorial of the Akihabara spirit, because it felt like it truly died from then onwards, almost like how 9/11 seemed to abruptly end the vibe of the 90s and force a more serious attitude onto the world.

>>19179435
The moe boom, mobile/browser/gacha games, and the normalization of large parts of otaku culture would have happened regardless of whether the massacre happened or not.

Individual events can accelerate the process, yes. But the root causes of the hollowing out of akiba were economic and already in motion before 2008. There's a scene in Lucky Star that references this shift from an otaku community to a blob of individualized, atomized customers of otaku goods. Some prick gets into a fight with kyoani booth staff at comiket and Konata says how more and more people like said prick, who only view themselves as customers, are showing up and ruining things for older otaku. These truotaku understood that comiket was supposed to be a collective effort by both circles and readers of dojinshi.

Warosu archives go back to 2008. Gotta check if there are some threads from when it happened.

>>19179435
Between 2015/16 I lived in Tokyo close enough to Akihabara to visit somewhat often.

Initially it was really exciting, but soon the commercialization of everything got really overwhelming. I especially disliked how full of tourists and generic shops aimed at them it is.

>>19179435
It definitely felt a lot smaller when I went 12 years ago. Visited again last summer and it just felt like other city centers with tourists and anime.

>>19179816
What was it like back then?

>>19179767
Here we go.

>>/jp/thread/S781199

>>19179823
Thinking about it now, I probably arrived just as Akiba was changing because I was able to take the train straight into Electric Town.

>>19179934
Yamamote line was always there. What the article accused was the Tsukuba Express line that terminate at Akihabara for now. The Tsukuba Express line is a commuter line that connect all the towns along the line from Ibaraki direction into Tokyo, so Akihabara become the gateway to Tokyo metro for residents along the line and the area then develops accordingly.

>>19179980
Ok thanks for clearing that up. I wasn't an otaku when I went so some memories of my time there are fuzzy.

This is why I always carry a katana with me, you never know when a baka ronin would go stabby stabby all of a sudden.

the lack of gore in this thread is disturbing

>>19183336
>>>/g/