/jp/ - Otaku Culture

Yoshitoshi Abe is one of the artists who I think really defined the aesthetic of the time.

>>43850476
Nice pick.

>>43849956
IIRC his father didn't let him touch manga or anime as a kid. Pretty cool how he developed his iconic artstyle without that early influence.

>>43857481
Huh, never knew that. I suppose I can see it in some places, like with facial features.

>>43849909
Manga thread?

>>43863214
If you have something, then sure.

>>43849909
Are early 2000s Japanese films allowed here? One of the many things I love about the early 2000s besides anime, manga and games are Japanese films.

>>43849909
is there any anime or media in general out there for that early 2000s summer feel?

The future is now old man, stop clinging to the past and embrace the inevitable

>>43868701
There was an elegance to that era of otaku culture that you can't find anymore, wonder why.
>>43873063
The first thing that would come to mind would be Azumanga Daiou. While it goes through all the seasons, it has a summery tone all throughout. Then again, I watched it during summer '06. so I'm definitely biased.
>>43871167
Go ahead. I really like the film of Suzuki Seijin from around then, but I suppose that's more late '90s.

pre 2000 mangas are better

>>43876842
>elegance
that's one way to put it

>>43881091
I also did this.

where'd everybody go?

>>43895461
Sorry, I was in a coma.

>>43876842
Azumanga was great

>>43881091
That's genius.

>43895461
Got any more PCB art?

>>43901584

https://youtu.be/Gl5L3gyDGXA
Let
me
be
with
you~

The past twenty something years have been... interesting.
However, I think it's time for us to go back now.
The only thing left now is longing. So if we could, let's get on with it.

>>43914110
You don't have to abandon the past to embrace the future.

>>43914110
You can go back to the past whenever you want, but nobody's there anymore.

>>43849909
This might not really fit this thread, but I was looking around for Patlabor shit, and stumbled upon Mr. Ben C. Cheng's website https://www.hitokiri.com/archives/anime.html

I figured you guys might enjoy looking around this time capsule of a website... Its truly amazing.

>>43925721
Here's his homepage, classic.

>>43925721
Thanks anon. It’s nice to visit one of these sites to reminisce, since most of the ones I frequented are gone by now.

Bump. Post or Kobayakawa does her thing

>>43925721
http://www.sognadigitalmuseum.com/home.html
Came across this site recently. Kind of surprised it still gets updated.

>>43932657
I actually remember finding this when I first got into '90s anime, go figure.

>page 10

>>43873063
Play Air.

Dropping some things from my 2000s folder

I will focus on real life pictures or interesting stuff besides fan-art

>>43942385
I feel it's been long enough since I watched K-On! that I may have well been lobotomized and am able to experience it for the first time again.

>>43942397
I have never watched K-On... I really should...

I miss all those nights playing the korean mmorpg "Shaiya"

>>43942403
You really should. It's a wonderful experience that will heal your soul. Plus, it's got that wonderful feeling of early 2000's life right before everyone jacked into the matrix. All the girls using flip phones to text and such.

>>43942447
Yeah, I know I'm gonna really like it. I'm currently on a "travel" watching early 2000s anime, Last year I watched Azumanga Daioh and really loved it

>>43942485
We're similar in that sense, because I still haven't watched Azumanga Daioh and I know I will love it once I do. Hopefully soon!

This wallpaper came in a CD from 2007 japanese anime magazine. I also recorded the software that it had inside
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bY1aCBLlmAs&t=3s I have to move it to my personal channel

>>43942502
2000* this also was in it

>>43942417
That can't be from the 2000s. That's clearly windows 10

>>43942750
yep, my bad. I have to organize my folders

When you think on the 2000s, which characters come to your mind?

>>43942838
Konachan

This seems like a good place to ask.
Anyone know what version of After Effects MADs like this could've been made in and where I might find it?

https://youtu.be/-FtSzVkwR1s
https://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm2609979
https://youtu.be/5bt2JkQVCmM
https://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm2615665

>>43942838
Who else could it be?

>>43942838
In addition to Haruhi and lucky star, FS/N and Higurashi obviously.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zzgy3cje3PQ

Rate my playlist https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLPVRBbmPJfj0qY0N4vCfv0kAxMNDBeWPG
also recommend videos to add and download, 3 videos already got deleted...

>>43950473
Very cool hololive videos, Reverse.

>>43950840
thanks, I was experimenting a little bit with MMD, I think I prefeer making AMVs desu

Don't know if this count's but there is a music producer called yabujin. He makes music videos similar to what 2000s youtube vids looked https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2ASa6Z2y5A

>>43955564
I didn’t really understand it, but that was interesting.

>>43871167
Dang, I haven't seen this movie in a long, long time.
Thanks for reminding me.

>>43950473
very nice there aren't a lot of playlists that compile this kind of stuff

There was something melancholic about how they used to draw eyes and colour back then

>>43960064

>>43878539
list some you'd recommend please, I'd like to get into some from that time

Great thread, found many interesting things. Sadly i don't have anything to contribute

can you please remove these posts? i archive many 2000s otaku culture media and i do not allow for several of these images to be reposted outside of my blogs

>>43970873
If you cared about archival then wouldn't you want this stuff spread as much as possible?

>>43970873
*farts on you*

>>43971222
just because someone preserves something doesn't mean it's free to use
otherwise museums would be stores

>>43971478
Museums tend to be free

>>43971478
disregard this. I suck cocks

you are thieves

>>43979394
you are a faggot

>>43979394
Could you link to your blogs so I can steal some more?

Are you guys into denpa music? There used to be regular threads for it here, but I hardly ever see any now.

>>43979394
先ほどの片言英語からするとおまえ明らかにそのことを書かなかったんだ

>>43849909
Good times ended with Abe

>>43942485
This remind me of Kirino's stash

>>43942784
Is this air?

>>43849936
>>43857481
LOVE

>>43971478
Begone Jew, you didn't take those pics to begin with

>>43971465
Back in the day people can watch masturbation vids on YT

>>43979394
Theft is the guy tries to monetize pics taken by someone else

>>43983380
Yes

you didnt expect this

>>43988010
Didn't expect what?

2djk

>>43871167
Any 2000s movies you recommend?

>>43994068
These are some of my favorites
Also note these filmmakers, not just for 2000s films:
>Takeshi Kitano
>Mamoru Oshii
>Sion Sono
>Katsuhiro Otomo
>Gakuryu Ishii
>Hideaki Anno
>Toshiaki Toyoda
>Hitoshi Matsumoto
>Shinya Tsukamoto
>Takashi Miike
>Kiyoshi Kurosawa
>SABU
>Iwai Shunji
>Minoru Kawasaki
>Nishimura Yoshihiro
>Kitamura Ryuhei
>Murakami Ryu

>>43994424
Wasn't expecting that many, thanks

I browsed the reddit space for AMVs and this was on its megathread, this it's from the 2000s and still mantains that style
https://www.animemusicvideos.org/members/members_main.php

>>43849909

>>43942430
I miss franku

>>44001075
Nice to see someone remembers it.

https://youtu.be/yInlZVzj-hI

>>44007736
I'll dump all the SZS stuff I have. If you check the /a/ archives theres a MEGA with way more shit than me

That's it
Tragic hard drive failures have left me in despair

Every single day I yearn for more low-budget Shaft masterpieces.

>>43849909
it was better back then in so many ways

>>43895553
Disliked this show. And absolutely annoyed by these two's antics.

>>43895553
Liked this show. And absolutely blessed by these two's antics

>>43857481
Haibane Renmei holds a very dear place in my heart

>>44010796
reki got me to start smoking so it's win lose.
i love haibane

Does anyone here remember Bokurano? I thought it sucked back then but might give it another try after all those years.

>>43970873
sue us then

>>44015672
I remember liking it but I don't remember much else about it besides the 10/10 opening.
https://youtu.be/LhNUn9Jicbo

Love hina <3

Noir

>>43849956
i thought it was Nihei from blame, or may be they both at the same time

>>43950473
thanks mate, feel like i am discorvering the void century

Ignaju Cross Gates Station the No.00

Absolutely stellar art and unique atmosphere, I enjoyed the plot too.

>>43971478
what the fuck, can museum copy and paste things?? do someone lost something ?

>>44012572
ha same here

>>43849956
I love Abe but KEY's works seem more influential for the general aesthetic of the time. Kanon especially, even though it was released in '99.

Bump, early 2000s threads are always the best and it's way too early for this one to die

>>44010796
Same here. For me nothing else matches its melancholy and cozy atmosphere.
>>43983397
Very naisu, all I have is an imported soundtrack CD.

>>44037630
so much peak...
I do wish his stuff took off more, but at the same time, I like how little-known the haibane are.

>>44023059
One of my favorite anime

The first 2 years of the 2010's were able to mantain that 2000s sovl https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UalufwgcRig

>>44022995
Love Hina altered the course of my entire life.

I love finding interesting manga from 2000s. Started reading Chrono Crusade few days ago.

>>44054282
Good

When I was a kid recently discovering what is love and relationships I was obsessed with this Inuyasha Cumbia AMV. It's basically a song about a man being in love with two different women
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bpn2kXe2kuI&list=RDGMEM2VCIgaiSqOfVzBAjPJm-ag&start_radio=1
I used to go sing it loud in a Cyber Café, I don't know how I was never kicked out lmao

>>44064358

Are cybercafes still a big thing in Asian and developing countries?

>this thread
it hurts bros

>>43950910
Please keep making AMVs, anon. It's a dying art, but I love them so much. Something I cling to from my early years on the internet

>>44064672
I'm from south america but there are still some. They're usually just used by boomers or for people in a hurry that need to print some documents for their work. In San Bernardo (A beach tourist city) I saw some "GAMER" Cybercafé. it was slightly overpriced and it didn't have any pirated games (Weird, considering we're in fucking latinoamerica). I've heard that in Asia they are still strong because they always update their hardware, so you can play the newests games.
And well, In Japan they're still big as ever

>>44065020
Don't worry, I'll keep making AMVs. I recently released this one https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7h8_wsJwyI , AMVs are still being made but the ones that usually get all the views from normalfags are those that don't try to tell a story or anything and are just a compilation of dozens of current anime with shiny effects. Some are cool but most of them are just boring and just an editor flexing their After Effects skills

Buuump!!!

Damn, what a beautiful thread. Honestly, I have always watched anime at my own pace, so after more than a decade deep in this (formerly) niche subculture, I still have so many legendary shows of that period to watch in the backlog. But looking at this thread, I also think I am very fortunate to have that many gems left to enjoy. There were so many great shows from the 2000... thanks for this thread is what I want to say, I guess.

>>43942502
could you rip it ?

>>44080930
You mean upload the software?

>>44080930
>>44080951
Already did
https://mega.nz/folder/31YjgRgI#zdfDfhnJRxlk1EwbVs5pwg

>>44080964
thank you very much anon, people like you are why i think there's still nice things in this world

>>44050041
I agree with that and holy shit this rules. Dense with that referential, period-specific, passionate subject matter you don't get in AMVs anymore. Like >>44069759 mentioned they're mostly just After Effects tools timed to shonen action sequences. No thought whatsoever given to the community who might be watching it, no sense of humor, and much less anything substantial like expressing a story or theme.
Thank god some of the good stuff is still hosted
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SfMN-TxoL50

>>44079639
> I have always watched anime at my own pace
I do this too. It's nice to watch anime from different eras and get a taste of what the culture was like across different time periods.

I miss the 2000's... I just feel completely detached from modern otaku culture these days.
All the stuff that gets popular I don't understand at all and the current anime art style just disgusts me for some inexplicable reason.

>>44007844
where can I get this?

>>43871167
there's a one shot manga adaptation of this movie with an alternative story. the opening scene may be the only thing the movie and manga have in common though.
both come up with a different explanation on the origin of the suicide epidemic.
i don't think one is better than the other, both are good.

>>43994424
i'm surprised to see suicide club in this list, i think it's one of sion sono's weakest movie. love exposure is so much better.

alright i just noticed it's a 2000's list

LIVE

>>44087767
I love all of his works and think they're masterpieces (yes, even his experimental works from the 80s and the 90s) but Suicide Club is my absolute favorite of his. It's everything I want from that genre. From its surrealistic yet never random plot, to its still-trenchant commentary on the horrors of modernity and 2000s issues, like the alienation and isolation by the realities of religious cults, pop culture and the early internet culture from that period of time in Japan, it's a masterpiece. Sono pulls out all the stops and hits us with dark humor, genuine suspense, and a remarkably fleshed-out set of characters. I was a part of that period of time so this film hits me personally and hard and was also my first film of his, discovering it in the year 2006 when I was in middle school, so you can imagine my shock at the time when I first watched it. Its sequel/prequel Noriko's Dinner Table is just as impactful, as it continues with related themes but in a different, yet somehow, similar tones.

Been listening to a lot of SHIKI lately. His music was one of the things that defined this era for me and it's a shame he died as early as he did.

https://youtu.be/UBHs6f0G0SI
https://youtu.be/rjYF9FSoVNM
https://youtu.be/cx2FMTxQ98A
https://youtu.be/QNfzbs9KxY8
https://youtu.be/fB-aGzClw7U

>>44096466
>Those hands
Holy shit

>>43965260
Aww, this one is super cute.

>>43981285
I once used to come here just for those threads. I haven't been to /jp/ in a long time, I just wanted to visit suddenly.

>>43981285
Those threads and songs made /jp/ forever nostalgic for me. Sadly, I think the denpa scene has slowed down quite a bit. There's a thread up for it now though.

I wish I knew how to replicate early 2000s coloring style

I love Japan so much it's unreal.

>>44119911
I want to go back.

Why does early 2000s coloring look so distinct, is it because of painting software?

>>44122332
It's an upgrade version of the 90s. Then came 2006...

>>44122332
Default Photoshop brushes.

>>44009074
my doodle is in there
I think SZS is a perfect condensation of late 00s culture and especially this specific subculture

Any interest in a late 2000s - early 2010s thread covering around 2007-14, or is that not distinct enough? I do love the 2000s look, but also the glossier and brighter early 2010s variation that came around before the current mainstream style. The kind of look that nightcore thumbnails used a lot.

I'm watching this Channel's videos, I used to watch his Shaiya Gameplays a lot when I was a kid to see what was the endgame like. It feels like a time capsule
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Zi9AvSDwCw

>>44140024
If anyone wants these threads to continue, then I'm sure people would be interested to focus on in more specific criteria. I like the early 2000s more, but your timeframe is good as well.

>>44140024
I feel like the 10s are too recent.

(+Rozen Maiden)

>>43849956
It was "an aesthetic" of the time
Not "THE aesthetic"
I would personally say many of his works were rather niche beyond lain for most 2D consumers

As someone who was an ``otaku'' in the early 2000s, I personally feel the aesthetic of Di Gi Charat, Hand Maid May, DearS, Elfen Lied, Galaxy Angel, etc. as the defining aesthetic of the period

Brightly colored outfits, vibrant blue skies, lots of colorful hairstyles, frilly/overdesigned outfits with accessories, etc. Almost all series had a character that had some sort of "head accessory" sticking out. Lots of girls with pink and purple hair and "hair vents"
Lots of pink and pastel colors like light aqua or light orange.
Moe was in it's heyday

>>43881091
I still live like this

I have given up on wire management

>>44152503
Desu!

LIVE!
…I ran out of unique pics, so someone will have to cover me.

I wish I had archived all those links that were posted on the old Internet pages threads

I'm glad people liked the original touhou 2000s art thread I made, I literally came back to make one. Happy to see a thread up :D

This art makes me feel so odd it's hard to explain, it's not even nostalgic, there's something so special and attractive to it.

I scan across boorus for these image and often look at attractive artists catalogues.

You notice going into 2011 or so the art starts to become ''sterile'', there is a level of colour and life to 2000s fan produced images that is so awesome.

Another aspect is the graphic design, it's definitely maximalist, filing the image patterns and designs on gradient or patterned backgrounds, it's utterly stimulating to me and I was and still am obsessed which is why I made the original thread, I needed to express my love for this art

This is a good example of the ''graphics design'' element I'm talking about, it's just awesome.

My images won't be as cool as they were because I need to move my ssd from laptop to desktop. Over 3 years I've collected some of the absolutely best stuff produced.

One of the styles I love the most is the handrawn pencil stuff, which is a mostly dead art when it comes to anime. I'll post some of that when my ssd is online.

Another 2000s anime favorite, Nazi girls!

Stuff like Hetalia popularized military gear so much you could find western girls group on deviantart centered all around Nazi art! What a different and irreverent place nerd culture was then.

One of the funniest ones I saw on 2000s deviantart is a number of girls cosplaying as the boku no pico boys, fujos were so big in the west then and they seem to have disappeared.

>>44162443
Wrong image

I'd like to end this effort/blogpost with my idea for the future.

I would like to see a online group created dedicated to creation of similar and sharing of this old art.

The problem we can get is that a group like that may be steeped in is nostalgia and fetishization, I would like to see a group of creators who genuinely love the art and want to create new and novel things carry on the artstyle. I suppose the first step would be myself to learn this old art perfectly.

But yeah I love this shit

Oh one more thing, I thought it was interesting that the digital age of anime produced the greatest era of fan art and yet actual anime productions massively degraded.

Compare most 90s actual anime to 2000s, usually 2000s character designs are less attractive, the shading, line art and look isn't as cool. This is especially noticeable for companies that decided to cheap out and instead of colouring and inking scanned pencil drawings on pc they'd just do all the art on a drawing tablet.

This is in contrast to 2000s fan art which is aesthetically awesome and a massive cut above the 90s, because of exposure to digital equipment. One anime I can think of is the intros to the Wild Arms jrpg games, you can see the 2000s character designs and quality of the aestheticism has degraded over time from 96 to 2002

Wild arms 1 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1PdszXldT_g

Wild Arms 2 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3JfCYgxrQ_M

Wild Arms 3 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zPSWn-8km-g

>>44162548
UDON CHAN!!

>>43942447
>>44162443

I thought your post was very interesting. Getting into 2000s anime you come across a simple truth, the art of the time is not so ''distinguishable'' from the time and culture of it.

Back then the anime community was genuinely full of nerds, ready to share irreverent art and have irreverent jokes which is how like anime Schrodinger and Hetalia became popular in the west without any nazis or extremism being in the community.

People would like cool things regardless of taboo, the whole landscape was irreverent and different. It was FREE

When I look back and appreciate 2000s art it's not just the art that makes me love it, it's a reminder of the pre smartphone internet age, when nerd fandoms really were full of irreverent people coming together to love art.

Nerd culture being popular has been horrible and destructive. And now ignorant normalfags impose western sensibilities on japanese artists. They're cultural tyrants when the anime fans that came before them truly loved the produce of japan fully

>>43979394
>>43970873
>>43971509

Glad this guy is carrying on the *worst* part of the 2000s web by acting like some cracked out forum moderater.

IMAGE IS MFW I OBLITERATE THIS NIGGER

>>43981285
Love me some good denpa
https://youtu.be/9jvsAI1V7Fo
https://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm15008947
https://youtu.be/62PT8aY33u0

BUMP

>>44162929
It's not a larp, it's some retarded aussie girl who tries to DMCA people over anime pictures but she can't into 4chan

>>44174308
>autistic girls trying to police people on the interwebz
Aw yeah
I'm thinkin' we're back

>>44162454
People knew how to take it easy back then. Now everyone gets pissed at everything instead of ignoring things they don't like.

>>44176246
This is a very very cool image anon, thank you for posting it!!!

>>44162410
If you like that kind of style you should look up Beatmania IIDX or other rhythm game UIs from that time.
https://youtu.be/21MJfcZmy9s

I want to go back

>>43942385
super cool

>>44119883

>>44179452
You can't go back.
https://youtu.be/D4lQ8-07hXk

>>43942502
Fuck this anime makes me so nostalgic I watch it like at least once a year. Never seen that wallpaper thanks.

>>43950910
>Tales of Symphonia
Great game. Brings back memories. Though I was always a Tales of the Abyss kind of guy

>>44182977
This is now an Aria thread.

>>43898098
I WISH I WERE A BIRD

>>44206608
aids should make a comeback

>>44079639
>youmu reflejada en el agua
Please be in Buenos Aires

What a thread, so many stories.
I just want to say that I does feel quite nostalgic but at the same time I was never part of this culture.

I had a friend in High School who used to frequent this site and would talk once in a while about the magic of /b/, touhuo, weird japanese shit, aniki and more. Of course I would just giggled and maybe I visited this site once or twice but I couldn't understand most of what it was posted. I wasn't until /mlp/ that I started visiting this place and then I started watching FMA: Brotherhood

Just a few years ago I started playing touhou btw.

Well, what I want to say is. Looks nice, friends. Kinda wish I would have been part of this staff when I was younger, or at least, being able to understand some of it.

So much consumirism tho. Reeks of goyslop but I'm sure there's hidden gems.

>>44221203
Otakus are defined from their consumerism, so it's par for the course.

>>43849909
You would like the Tower of Power then.

https://towerofpower.org/

>>44221203
i'm kind of the same way. i'm probably much younger than a lot of the anons here, so i only vaguely remember stuff from the mid/late 2000s, and it's not like i was a huge anime otaku as a small child, but seeing some of the photos in this thread like >>43942442, >>43942434, and >>43881091 fills me with a sense of longing, since it's still not far off from my own childhood. >>44162443 and >>44162853 are also super cool to me, since i actually very vividly remember fujoshi and hetailia fans being around, and looking back, i think they were cool, it sucks that a lot of the geuinely nerdy aspects of otaku culture got bullied into obscurity.

not sure what you mean by "goyslop", anon, >>44222149 is right, this subculture is mostly consumerism. i don't think that's a bad thing inherently, i think people who are this devoted to their favorite things are cool. also i geuinely don't know what that word means, i know that /v/ uses it a lot but screw that place

bump

>>44240634

>>44227344
Think about pigslop but for americans

>>44119883

>>44267679
who?

>>44268326
kys

Is for thread's like this for why I keep coming back to jaypee

>>44268378
even with all the vtumor and camwhores shit, I still think this board is the comfiest one

>>43970873
>>43979394

Can someone link this person's blog so I can save all their pics and share them

Is for thread's like this for why I keep coming back to jaypee

>>44240634
>>44241010
I love Aria.

Slightly off-topic but I have such a deep nostalgia for jp movies and dramas from the mid 00s to about 2012. A lot of the new shit just doesn't tickle me the same way as the older series. I thought maybe it's because I'm now in my 30s, but I rewatched My Boss, My Hero and it was still as funny as I remember.

I recently binged Alice in Borderland, and couldn't stop wondering why the fuck it was so popular.

Nostalgia fagging is bad.

>>43890574
the fkin OP theme

>>43895553
I hated this show because it was stupid, but it is based on a very soulful video game.
I wonder if he ever got Mia to sniff his aromatic grass?

>>43914110
i'm still trying to find the trigger that will open the time portal anon, these things take time

gotta wait for this garbage to finish before i can watch cowboy bebop XD

>>44285175
img related

the first few eps of this show were so fkin soulful it's unreal. Just a gang of street rats tryin' to make their way and fightin' rival gangs

choose.

>>44285180
Boogiepop Phantom is good but you're probably going to get filtered by it since it's a sequel to the light novel. Watch the 2019 anime or at least the live action adaptation first for context. Or don't. In a way it's more fun to try and figure out the context yourself.

This was a good thread

>>44286424
/jp/ server when?