/jp/ - Otaku Culture

[Anonymous No.]

I want to thank you, /jp/. <- tl;dr

LONG FUCKING POST AHEAD!

For the last four years or so, I've been living more or less free of emotion. I'd been pretty emotionally scarred at a young age, but not to the point of ceasing normal human function. These last few years, however, had been extra difficult. I'd stopped wanting anything. Nothing was important to me anymore, nor could anything matter. I resigned myself to letting fate or whatever the hell it is that makes the world turn take the reigns. Every day, I get up, go to work, browse /b/, go home, browse /b/, and then sleep to start the cycle once more. It wasn't until about two and a half years into this cycle that I realized I had stopped feeling happy or sad altogether. Everything just was. There was no positive or negative to it. It just was. Like before, I shrugged it off. It was inconsequential whether or not I could get upset or mad or happy. Emotion hurt me more often than it helped, so I didn't care if it was gone. It was strange, I thought, that I could stop feeling, but I accepted it as life, and went on. It was about this time that I stopped talking to people for anything other than my required daily tasks. (cont.)

[Anonymous No.]

Over the past few weeks, I'd started going to /a/ just to see what was up. I sort of like anime and manga, but not to the extent of these people. When /jp/ emerged, I decided to check it out. It was pretty alright, and several threads proved to be relavant to my interests, more so than /a/.

I hung around and lurked. I'm a natural lurker. No matter where I am, I sit back and take in any information I can. I never participate with other people either; I only watch intently, observing the methods of each persons involvement in the activity, and how they differ from height, age, gender, etc. If I've nothing else to do, I'll go on Wikipedia and find a random page. From there, I read as much as I can as long as I can, opening a tab on anything that interests me. Unfortunately, I digress.

Yesterday, I saw a thread asking for a recommendation on a good first Visual Novel. One of the suggestions was Narcissus.

[Anonymous No.]

I'm not sure why I did, but I found the game and downloaded it last night.

I started playing today, and at first, it seemed like a crappy teen drama show. Still proceeding, against what I considered to be my better judgement, I continued through, and then it hit me like a fucking ton of bricks. Like a Falcon Punch to the Uterus, or the foot of The Goddamn Batman to the head of some poor chocolate ice cream loving bastard. Setsumi was me. Even though she retained her basic ability to express emotion, she still reflected almost everything I was: Complete and total apathy on the grounds that feeling was no better, and only meant pain later.

By the end of the story, I realized that in the back of my head, my conscious was practically screaming for her not to walk into the water.

As the epilogue and credits rolled, I could honestly say that I felt strongly about something. I'm still not sure what it was that I felt, but I know that it was there, and that I liked it.

I want to thank you today because you helped me feel something more than what I've expected out of the world. Just like Setsumi: Nothing.

I'm going to look for more things that can make me feel this way in hopes that maybe I'll find I like emotion after all.

Love, (as much as we are able to give)
Anonymous

[Anonymous of Alabama !.p44NyTsCo No.]

Not your blog, but please continue.

[Anonymous No.]

is this sum cp?

[Anonymous No.]

>>143981

go post this shit in /b/ or even better, go post it in your pathetic blog. Nobody gives a shit about you or your stupid emotional problems.

[Anonymous No.]

PLAY PLANETARIAN

[Anonymous No.]

>>144001
Idiot, this is /jp/. Of course we care.

[Anonymous No.]

Has nobody else considered that this could be a troll?

If it is, 6/10.

It's way to long and too many people could care about something like this on /jp/. Go try /b/.

If not, good luck?

[Anonymous No.]

>>144001
gb2/a/

[Anonymous No.]

gb2/a/

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>>145916

if only that were real...

[Anonymous No.]

>>144007
CLANG CLANG CLANG

[Anonymous No.]

>>143981
Setsumi ;_;

[Kelrey No.]

>>145916
i loved that part. Sage goes in all fields. Except the password.

[Anonymous No.]

>>145929

Its real. It happens every day... no, every minute. It is the heart and soul of /jp/.

[Anonymous No.]

>>145932
it's the world that's broken ;_;

[Disconnection !10.9/2taLY No.]

>>144053
Haven't seen this on /jp/ before, and threads don't disappear like it used to (lol fast updates). Probably not a troll.
>>145969
so, heart and soul of /jp/ = oldfags going "so ronery ;_;" with Rainbow Girl playing in the background?

[Anonymous No.]

>>143981

Story of my life

Also try some kana ls

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[Anonymous No.]

Kinda a threadjack but whatever, what would /jp/ suggest for my next visual novel? I've already played through planetarian and narcissu which were both awesomeness.

[Anonymous No.]

/a/ is not your blog, however /jp/ is. moot agreed.

[Anonymous No.]

>>145929

it is real i played through it earlier today. the imouto route is the best

[Anonymous of Colombia !pkzejWGkfw No.]

apathy for the win.
Since my empathy is working as a Chinese Room right now, at least it allows for better responses. The extra layer of rationality is like a shield that protects you from the rest of mankind.
And holy crap, this thread is from last night

[Anonymous No.]

OP: I know man, I felt the same way. Only, for me it was Tsukihime that 'broke' me emotionally. To be specific, Hisuis route. I'm so much like her it's incredible.

Some time after that I watched AIR and now I feel like my emotions are like that of any other human. I finally broke out of my hard, silent, stoic shell and became a real person.

Now ... now I'm not afraid to feel alive anymore.

[Anonymous No.]

Oh lawd, is dat sum awesome as fuck copypasta? Cause i think it is

[Anonymous No.]

>not really

[Anonymous No.]

>>147284
ha, air had only 1 or 2 sad scenes, overall it wasnt sad at all

[Anonymous No.]

>>143981 OP

I might start this post with 3/10 GOOD EFFORT, but that doesn't apply here. In /jp/, you don't get props for being an asshat.

That said, it was nice to hear that. I don't care if the OP is a troll. If he's not, nice for you and best of luck. If yes, who cares.

Now go play Kana.

Then try Yume Miru Kusuri. It's not as good, but it'll certainly make you feel something.

[Eurofag !ZGDkLBXQ0Y No.]

>>147576
RRRRage? I gotta start that one...

But wait. Which one first? Ever17 or YMK?

[Anonymous No.]

>>147614
save ever17 for last, or else everything else afterwards feels like crap

[Anonymous No.]

>>147614

YMK is a bit on the short side, so do that first.

[Anonymous No.]

>>147614

Leave Ever17 for later, you will never shit as many bricks as you will shit with Ever17.

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>>146240
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>>146237
Oh my god MORE