/jp/ - Otaku Culture

Elfen Lied, no joke it was my first anime.

>>11514735
Don't call me an otaku you fuken nerd.

>>11514735
Horo

Probably Chobits.

Hmm, or Haibane Renmei when I really started getting into it.

DBZ and Macross when they first aired on TV. I was a huge DBZ nut when I was seven. I even bothered my mom to buy me those DBZ numbered figures.

The Broly one was cool.

>>11514735
SAO

When I watched Lucky Star like 5 years ago, it was a slippery slope.

I think I always had the qualities to be one before then though since I would get really involved in my hobbies and shy away from friends and school work so I could do them more.

Anime and Touhou

Electronic Gaming Monthly made me aware of anime but it wasn't until Pokemon (like 1998, maybe?) that I got into collecting things. I still have my old hoodie with a pikachu keychain on the zipper. Good times, man. Little did I know then how horrible this addiction would be come. It was such an innocent start....

I didn't choose the otaku life.
The otaku life chose me.

Being bullied at school.

In retrospect it wasn't that bad. If someone offered me an opportunity to go back and do things differently, I'm not sure I'd take it. If I had had a social life and outdoor hobbies I probably wouldn't have discovered 4chan and otaku culture, at least not until recently. I value my 4chan memories very much and there are very few things in the world I'd trade them for.

Lupin III and Heidi girl of the alps.

>>11514751
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>>11514887
I want to not be bitter, but I can't help getting trolled. And chances are, at least one of these is serious.

It's a sad day when I'm not deriding the guy who said DBZ.

Social anxiety.

>>11514904
that dude looks cool

>>11514933
He's a model for the Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hikikomori

>>11514735
Excessive consumerism.

Social anxiety, depression, and failed relationships.

>>11514947
He smokes Lucky Strikes but someone (his mom) bought him a pack of Marlboros by mistake.

Do you think he beat her across the back with that sword for getting him the wrong brand?

I do.

• Sheltering mother

• Toonami

• Internet

Hanafuda and Lafcadio Hearn in the late 1800s.

nigga i aint otaku

My dad showed me Evangelion when I was 12 and we started watching anime together after that.

>>11514971

what a fag

>>11514735
>otaku
what?
Is that some club for cool people?

>>11514971

Did you suck each others' cocks after that, gayboy?

>>11514971
>1995 or later
>12

...

>>11514977

It's the new social trend sweeping the world, like all those before it.

You'll accept these normies in your hobby and you'll like it, scum.

>>11514928

Why would any of those make you feel that way, besides SAO?

>>11514982
?

>>11514984
You know that you don't really have to socialize to pursue a hobby, right?

It's not like people stopped gardening because Hitler did it too.

>>11514956

I'd hit anybody who tried to buy me a pack of Marlboros

>>11514994

You can't use the Internet and not socialize, at the very least passively. There are comment sections all over everything. Socialization is a basic human need anyway, and where am I gonna get it except here?

>>11514998
I always compare it to The Sims, how you can get the Social meter up by chatting online

We all need that validation, whether you like it or not.

>>11514992
Because he is the oldfag.

>>11514984
>I dropped out of EngSci@UofT to pursue my dreams and become a professional DotA 2 player.

I almost choked on my tea while laughing

>>11514977
Hai! It's a kakkoi bukatsu which does kawaii things houkago.

>>11514998
>Socialization is a basic human need
What are you? Some kind of smelly neurotypical?

>>11515003

he's been doing this for 2 years and hasn't won any tournaments

it's sad

he also has a giant following in the dota 2 scene though as 'that zany otaku guy XD'

>>11515008

Why do you come here if you don't need socialization?

Exit the tab, and don't ever return. I dare you to do this right now.

>>11515013
Maybe he just needs validation, or information.

Holy shit this could be one of those electronic dance songs.

>>11515013
Huh? I just come here to make fun of you?

>>11515016

>validation

Stop using semantics make yourself sound less retarded.

>information

There's no information here which cannot be gotten elsewhere, without having to talk to people to do it. "He" (you) comes here to socialize.

Probably Star Trek and GURPS.

*is the only person in this thread who knows what ‘otaku’ means*

>>11514971
Did your dad know that Evangelion is r-17+ ?

>>11515023
I always wanted to get into GURPS, but the huge amount of reading required kinda turned me down.

>>11514735
Antisocial tendencies and a fascination with the internet. It was amplified several times over after coming to 4chan, though.

>>11515020
>cartoons
>not for children

i love cartoons, but come the fuck on

>>11515031

Just because something is animated doesn't mean it can't cause harm to children. Evangelion has a huge amount of fanservice and violence.

I don't believe either of those things harm children, but if you think they're any different just because you cloak them behind the label of a 'cartoon', you're wrong.

>>11515020
Yeah, probably. I guess he thought I could handle it.

It was my family. Our strange way of life and mybinner demons was a miniture reflecting portriat of Japan through the centuries summed into less than a decade of my life. The social norms, tragity, pride, loss, guilt, strong sense of rightiouness, our God, and ancestory wrapped around me in a blanket contradicting existance. I sought to understand myself and saw the glimmers of self in the history and cultural patterns of Japan.
I read Samurai books of honor, rightious blood lust, and death. From there I made the teansition to seeing Japan progress into the state of otaku, thus I sort of became Otaku. Collecting and watching Japanese movies and movie merchindice. It really was Japanese delinquent movies that got me involved in their cinema mor than the Samurai at first. All that pain and anger I carried as an adolesent was poeticly pictured in the sorrows of Japanese delinquency. I fought in brawls and such while maintaing secrecy.

>>11515019
>Stop using semantics make yourself sound less retarded.

Screw you, I dropped out of a psychology degree. I know what I'm talking about.

>There's no information here which cannot be gotten elsewhere, without having to talk to people to do it. "He" (you) comes here to socialize.

Maybe he shares /jp/'s esteemed taste and wants our opinions?

Me, I'm just here for the NEET threads.

>>11514977
It's saddening to see people labeling themselves as otaku as a status symbol, not knowing that it means you have an unhealthy obsession with something, and is by no means something you should be proud of.

>>11515028
I love role-playing games for exactly that reason. It's so exciting reading about both game mechanics and campaign settings. I must have read hundreds of sourcebooks I've never actually used.

Unfortunately, actually playing RPGs is a horrible experience. I try to be open-minded, but people either take it too seriously or not seriously enough. It's a board game where you crack a few jokes and don't really care about the rules, or it's something where everyone is the bad kind of autistic who meticulously plans everything and very awkwardly acts in-character.

Who knows, maybe I'm the problem. But who cares, reading is enough fun for me.

>>11515023
>*action*
And there goes any credibility you might have.

>>11515041
>the label of a 'cartoon'

Why are you saying this, and are those scare quotes?

Are you saying Evangelion isn't a cartoon?

Post one of the following sentences:
"Evangelion is a cartoon."
"Evangelion is not a cartoon."

Type it out, don't just copy + paste, and don't do any gimmicks like "The following sentence is false:". Just tell me what you truly believe.

>>11515031
Watch Jin-Roh and tell us with a straight face that cartoons are for kids.

>>11515044
It's saddening that you don't even know what otaku means.

>>11515044

Few misconceptions here.

Otaku does not mean 'someone having an unhealthy obsession with something,' it means 'someone having an obsession with an activity they can do from within their home'

It is not necessarily unhealthy, and you obviously cannot be an otaku for an activity which takes place outside. You can't be a partying otaku or a sports otaku.

The reason it makes people with similar interests angry is because it's primarily used by people who do not actually have an obsessive interest with an activity they can do inside - most often it's used by people who just have a casual interest in these things, or who don't care about them at all, but want to ride the 'trend train' of previously 'nerdy/weird' activities being cool now.

>>11515054
>paraphrasing through greentext
And there goes any credibility you might have.

>>11515063
>'someone having an obsession with an activity they can do from within their home'
nope

>>11515074

Sorry that you're wrong.

>>11515063
>from within their home
>you obviously cannot be an otaku for an activity which takes place outside. You can't be a partying otaku or a sports otaku.

Why are you making up these rules? And yes, I'm familiar with the root of the word.

There are people I would definitely consider car geeks or boat nerds and actively pursue those (that is, they don't just sit on their computer and look at pictures), so I don't see what the HELL you're saying.

Anoraks with clipboards meticulously observing trains aren't train otaku? That's nonsense.

>>11515075
Comiket isn't otaku event then...

>>11515076

>There are people I would definitely consider car geeks or boat nerds and actively pursue those

And? Those people are not otaku.

>Anoraks with clipboards meticulously observing trains aren't train otaku?

No, they're not, unless they do it from inside their home - which is totally possible.

>>11515078

You're right.

>>11515080
The hell are you saying? Train Otaku are a well established thing.

>>11515082

Yep. Just not the ones who go outside and stare at trains.

Like I said, if your activity takes place outside, it's not an otaku activity.

>>11515085

Both can be done inside.

>>11514928
dragonball z

maybe you better find a site that isn't for late teens and early twenties.

>>11515063
military otaku. train otaku. you're wrong.

>>11515080
You are wrong and you can go back to /a/ right now.

>>11515088
you're retarded. please leave.
otaku, hikkikomori and neet are all seperate things. stop trying to combine them.

>>11515097

The definition of otaku doesn't have anything to do with NEET or Hikikomori. Those are totally different things. Nobody has mentioned combination of the three except you.

hikikomori, otaku only exist in japan.
NEET only exist in japan and british.
please use "shut-in" "nerd" "unemploy"

>>11515105

No, that's wrong.

>>11515098
you're the one saying they don't leave their homes, you fucking retard.

http://www.nri.com/global/news/2005/051006.html

>>11515109

Actually, I didn't say that. I said you can only be an otaku if your activity you're obsessed with is done from within your home.

>>11515112
You're full of shit. Train spotting is widely regarded in Japan as an Otaku activity.

>>11515105
Human, only exist in UK, US, and Australia.
人間 only exist in japan,
amirite?

>>11515114
Stop being trolled so easily.

>>11515112
Which is wrong.

You know what? I'm going back to taking it easy instead of talking to a fucking retard like you, because apparently basic research is something you cant do, and you feel the need to pull some bullshit definition out of your ass and sit on it like king of shit mountain.

Please kill yourself out of /jp/ and never come back. And avatarfagging is against the rules.

>>11515120
Huh, I didn't know that being wrong was regarded as trolling now.

>>11515123
human only exist in japan, gaijin else where

>>11515114

Widely and wrongly regarded. A lot of people can believe something and it can be wrong.

>>11515122

>Which is wrong.

Sorry, you will have to provide some reasoning for that.

>avatarfagging

This type of vernacular isn't OK here. Remember to rub your feet on the doormat and discard your native board's language and culture when you come to /jp/.

>>11515063
Okay. I'll bite.

Military otaku. Railfan. Wota go to watch idol gigs. Cosplayers (the ones who actually work on their costumes and or somehow involved in the process of making them). Ani-ota also watch available anime in cinemas. Game-ota can now carry games with them thanks to mobile phones, Vita and 3DS.

TCG players aren't otaku then despite their knowledge of the game they play, because they have to "go out" and socialize to play it?

I always watched DBZ and Naruto when I was a young'n and it aired on Toonami.

The first thing that I truly recognised and registered in my head as "Japanese entertainment" was School Rumble, and that's what got me interested in other Japanese shit.

>>11514735
ikkitousen

>>11515134

I don't understand your point. What are you trying to say?

None of those things you listed are otaku interests.

>>11515133
No one cares if a smelly autist on /jp/ thinks that something isn't Otaku, since it's just an umbrella term for people, usually Japanese, with certain obsessive interests and activities, which might or might not be indoor.

>>11515153
you're full of shit.

>>11515133
Hide the troll and move on, people. This guy is full of shit.

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>>11515063
Hello /a/ kun, nice subjective definition you've got there, it's a shame that people are owning you like i owned your mother.

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>>11515154

Actually, definitions aren't relative. You can't decide that 'apple' means 'an orange-skinned citrus fruit', just like you can't decide that 'otaku' doesn't mean 'someone with an obsessive interest in an activity which is done from inside a house.'

>>11515161
No one said that those activities are done within a house to begin with.
Except you.

>>11515168

I don't understand what you're trying to say. Can you state your point more clearly?

>>11515161
Look up the difference between prescriptivism and descriptivism.

Damn /jp/ you guys usually can spot trolls and shitposters a mile away but you fell for this one like a pitfall

>>11515154
As another denizen of /a/, even we're not that this inept. And for fuck's sake, everyone, stop feeding the troll.

>>11515183
Nah. I'm pretty sure this guy actually believes that people who don't spend all of their free time indoors aren't truOtaku like him.

>>11515183
Isn't that cute! He got told so hard he has to pretend he was trolling.

>>11515183
/jp/ demographics changed. Now retards from other boards are replying to obvious trolls.

>>11515183
Right, because /jp/ has NEVER fallen for 17-year-old trolls before, except for Suigin, Tokiko, I could go on.

(Retard...)

>>11515200
Hi moot.

>>11515200

Didn't the unique page views go down back to normal a few hours after that con stream?

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>>11515203

Look at these nerds pretending they weren't just trolled like a cobblestone bridge

>>11515234

Sorry, you're right, I don't. That fairy tale was the only one that came to mind!

>>11515213
> trolled like a cobblestone bridge

Confirmed for not knowing shit about troll folklore.

Go back to TV Tropes, faggot.

>>11515133
>Sorry, you will have to provide some reasoning for that.

>>11515109
http://www.nri.com/global/news/2005/051006.html

>>11515237
I was bluffing, you're probably more on the mark than I am.

Sorry if I offended you!

>>11515237
>>11515240
just fuck already

>>11515181

You weren't clear enough. For now I'll leave your post alone so you can think about how to word your point, then you can reply to me when you're ready.

>>11515193

I didn't say anything about spending all of your free time indoors. If you need to re-read my definition of otaku, it's a few posts back in post >>11515161.

>>11515235

That article doesn't specify if the 'railway otaku'/etc partake in their activity outside or not, so there's no way to know whether or not their definition is right or wrong. Also, this is a good opportunity to talk about the often-misidentified fallacy, the 'appeal to authority.' A fallacy of this kind happens when people try to draw credibility from an authority which isn't actually an authority on the subject - e.g. an appeal to pure authority rather than any expertise, which would be relevant. This is what you did there. Your source is not an authority on words or new-age Japanese culture, and even if they were, this would not make them unable to be wrong.

So completely out-of-character here, how many of you feed trolls to see how far they'll take a certain gimmick?

A lot of the time I feel like I've bonded with people this way.

>>11515254

Why does everyone just start calling the other guy 'troll' when they realize they've lost an argument? It's pathetic.

>>11515256
>It's pathetic.

Great argument, there.

Maybe you need to play this game:
http://pbskids.org/arthur/games/factsopinions/

>>11514962
Yeah, had a very coddling mom too. Very stereotypical jewish mother. Also I had no kid friends growing up so I had to do solitary activities like video-games, watching anime/cartoons and stuff.

>>11515263

I'm not arguing with you, I'm calling you pathetic.

>>11515264
>Very stereotypical jewish mother

I cringed.

>>11515254
I just stopped when the "troll" didn't provide a "good argument". Why don't we talk how 90s anime was so cool and how today's otaku culture reek of niwaka instead?

>>11515256
That same person.

>>11515273

>That same person.

did u just do a crossie meme

in MY fucken board

>>11515271
"It's not an argument when I say it's not an argument!"

I bet you were the kid who threw a hissy fit during debate class, ran out, and decided they'd won.

LOL

>>11515272
you know it

>>11515278

Did I say you could talk to me?

>>11515275
ya i did bro XD

>>11515275
Is this an off-board meme? I'll be sure to look out for it from now on.

Thanks son, you're doing God's work.

>>11515285

hey kid

out

You can easily tell that a person is a faggot when you see him post screenshots from KyoAni anime

>>11515289
I can't tell that because I don't want what that is.

>>11515289

You can easily tell that a person is a crossie when he doesn't know who Big T is

>>11515203

>17-year-old

UNDERAGE B&!

How do I get better at arguing? I don't mean stuff like, "You just used an argumentum ad hominem!", I just mean making trollproof arguments that are so sound people can't refute them, but without me sounding like a douchebag.

I once saw a video where a racist man argued against Muslims with a TV man, and the TV man shot him down quite effectively. I want to be something like that, but on the internet.

>>11515310
Read some books about lawyers.

>>11515313

No, that will teach you how to mislead juries into ruling how you want. Not how to arrive at accurate conclusions collaboratively.

>>11515310
Try this

Allow me to play doubles advocate here for a moment. For all intensive purposes I think you are wrong. In an age where false morals are a diamond dozen, true virtues are a blessing in the skies. We often put our false morality on a petal stool like a bunch of pre-Madonnas, but you all seem to be taking something very valuable for granite. So I ask of you to mustard up all the strength you can because it is a doggy dog world out there. Although there is some merit to what you are saying it seems like you have a huge ship on your shoulder. In your argument you seem to throw everything in but the kids Nsync, and even though you are having a feel day with this I am here to bring you back into reality. I have a sick sense when it comes to these types of things. It is almost spooky, because I cannot turn a blonde eye to these glaring flaws in your rhetoric. I have zero taller ants when it comes to people spouting out hate in the name of moral righteousness. You just need to remember what comes around is all around, and when supply and command fails you will be the first to go.
Make my words, when you get down to brass stacks it doesn't take rocket appliances to get two birds stoned at once. It's clear who makes the pants in this relationship, and sometimes you just have to swallow your prize and accept the facts, instead of making a half-harded effort. You might have to come to this conclusion through denial and error but I swear on my mother's mating name that when you put the petal to the medal you will pass with flying carpets like its a peach of cake.

>>11515310

>and the TV man shot him down quite effectively.

tv and news debates are rehearsed

>>11515322

I kek'd heartily at that /v/ meme (also known as a /v/eeme.)

>>11515324
No the man was just on the thing:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFyO9s07Jgs

The man obviously rehearsed a few lines but he was wrong.

>>11515333

i think you are slightly retarded and young
sorry

>>11515335
But the man was just invited to the programme, sat down, and Pac-Man asked him questions.

How is this wrong? Is he an actor?

>>11515320
But he wants to mislead people to agree with trollproof arguments. Lawyers do that but with judges.

>>11515336

i don't feel like explaining this to you

just go forth and be dumb

>>11515341

Lawyers don't try to convince judges. Judges just decide the punishment. Juries are who you're trying to convince as a lawyer. Judges are also mostly able to see through common deception tactics used by lawyers so it's bad to target them.

>>11515344
Not all trials have juries.

Do you have to be neurotypical to be a judge?

>>11515349

Probably discovering DBZ in the mid-90s when I was 8 or 9 years old.

I wish I had taken better care of my DBZ figures. I'm not even completely sure where they are now.

>>11515354
Lewd!

>>11515350
Well you have to go through nearly 7 years of schooling which isn't cheap in order to get the degree and then spend multiple decades working your way up the hierarchy struggling against nepotism and corruption
So yeah I'd say you need to be pretty fucking neurotypical to come out on top.

>>11515350
You'd have to be pretty autistic to remember all of those laws.

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Wow, what happened in here while I was gone?

>>11515360
If Patrick Bateman can pretend to be neurotypical and become an investment banker why can't /jp/ do similarly?

Don't tell me you guys have literal autism.

>>11515360
>you need to be pretty fucking neurotypical to come out on top.
Nah. Neurotypicals end up average.

Considering how cutthroat the world is, those that come out on top are most definitely sociopaths. If we're optimistic, they're idealistic and good at sublimating negative impulses into something beneficial, but seeing how much corruption there is, this is clearly not the case. People in power are some of the worst criminals.

OP, those toys and books look familiar, you aren't Canadian or buy those from a Canadian in Ontario did you?

When I was 6 I started watching Sailor Moon and I fell in love with Sailor Jupiter; I guess you could call it a waifu before I even knew what that (or even love) really was. I like real women nowadays, but I still have a thing for girls with their hair done up. Anyway, that was my first japanese thing I guess. I don't know if that's that unusual, but I became pretty full blown when, around 12, I started jerking off to hentai manga sites whenever I possibly could. It got pretty bad, to the point where I'd do it in the middle of the afternoon when my family were in the adjacent lounge watching television (the office didn't have a door, instead a wall partition blocked the line of sight so they'd only be able to see me when they went to the bathroom or to their bedrooms.) I also used to fake sick days so I could stay home and jerk off. I ended up missing 1/10th of the days in my first highschool year. I thought it was all excusable compared to real porn, as I would always have an allibi that I was just looking for comics or whatever.

It's weird though. I've consumed so much Japanese shit throughout my life (porn/manga/drama/literature/anime, in that order), spent time living in Japan, tried to learn the language, but I still don't consider myself an Otaku. For me JP stuff is just like an extension of my western porn/literature/movie addictions, and I don't participate in the culture at all (I stop by to /jp/ once a month to browse the JAV threads; there's none atm).

This is pretty tangential to the thread but has anyone come across a hentai-manga where a dude's talking to a girl with a bandage around her head, the lighting is all dark, and then he undoes the bandage and fucks her eye socket? I'm not into Guro or anything, but I saw it as a kid and I've been looking for it for years.

>>11515273
I still think that guy is a genuine retard and not a troll, because he actually sounds like he's trying to score points and defend his opinion, even if he degenerates into "you don't know what you're talking to so I won't explain myself" a lot.

>>11515755
>If Patrick Bateman can pretend to be neurotypical and become an investment banker why can't /jp/ do similarly?
Well, he's a fictional person. But then again in real life the financial world is full of psychopathic coke creeps.

>>11516510
Who Ontarian Otaku here?

>>11516094
>Nah. Neurotypicals end up average.

Absolutely this. Though it's not necessarily a matter of being sociopathic - normals can be plenty greedy and backstabbing. Rather, normals feel satisfied as long as they're roughly as successful as their peers. People like us have no one to pace ourselves and can easily end up overtaking (or falling behind) them.

Honestly, people get more interesting on average the further up in the world you go, not the other way around.

>>11516585
I've met plenty of otaku in the financial world, at least.

Let's just say back in the motha fukin neon 90's was where it started

>>11515755
He isn't pretending, he really is normal. Those "murders" are just him daydreaming.

>>11514735

4chan. 7 years of exposure and having watched anime as a child lead me to where I am. Anime was the start and now I'm into most aspects of otakuisim.

>>11517553
Please don't start this.

>>11514735
Pokemon, this and only this. It shaped also my obsession over completeness. DBZ, CCS and Gundam Wing made it grow faster but it was pokemon which started it all in 1998.

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>>11517607
Is this about the end of the book right after the chapter where he’s the craziest and then everything is normal?
I don’t remember clearly but please explain.

I was a poser and liked anime girl wallpapers before I had ever even watched anime. Then I met some dudes in my dorm in college who were into anime and it was all downhill from there.

Sailor Moon started it and Tenchi Muyo sealed the deal.

I'm happy to have you back, /jp/.

>>11517684
I don't see how pokemon would make you obsessed with completeteness when you can't catch all 151 original pokemon without cheating.

My Japanese spirit.
It couldn't be helped

I'm not entirely sure what the criteria for " 'taku" are, but I suppose I might have become one once I started browing /jp/ predominantly.

>>11517684
I miss those watercolor artworks.

Did you see the new cartoon? Major nostalgia.

>>11514889
Did I not tell you there were /vp/ crossies?
But noone listens to the crocodile, do they?

>>11514928
You dislike touhou?

>>11517684
I miss those watercolor artworks.

Did you see the new cartoon? Major nostalgia.

The guy who rescued me from autism was an Otaku so I became one too

The combination of deciding to learn japanese for non-otaku reasons, and being on 4chan for non-otaku reasons.

>>11514735


i was never otaku, i dont even play 2hu.

im not quite sure why i come here, but i do like playing with you guys

>>11517840

Do you think this is a game anon?

I was always a light otaku. I liked playing video games, and dabbled in anime. I started homeschooling in highschool, and that gave me a lot more time for me hobbies and I went full-on otaku from there

You can't become a house, dude. Lay off the reefer.

>>11517691
The author intentionally left it open-ended as to whether or not the events of the book actually took place.

>>11514735
My son was playing with that same purple Invid you have on that shelf this evening. That is to say mine, not yours. Got it when I was 14.

Sitting inside all day with no job or school for an extended period of time which led me to imageboards which led me to wonder what the big deal about all these super cute moegrills was.

The first anime I watched I think was Lucky Star.

>>11517772
Different flavors of autism.

I was always meant to be an otaku. My whole life prepared me for solitary foreign-based activities.

I was born to be a jaypee. Thanks for believing in me. And to all the people, Conglomerations.

>>11525469

Y... you made it bro. Congratulations.

Pokemon.
I discovered it at age 7.

As soon as I started playing I went full Pokeautist.
I spent every free hour endlessly grinding Pokemon after Pokemon to lvl. 100, I collected every damn card in existence, I watched the shows on airing and bought all the dvds/tapes, I hoarded all the merch I could get my hands on.

And then after a few years of that I discovered that Pokemon was from Japan.
So I started onto other Japanese stuff.

Japanese birds.

>>11525469

>>11525469
congrats

homu

I was naturally drawn to Japanese/Asian things altogether. It was just meant to be I guess. I actually first started enjoying the food and music though. Then I got into anime and art shortly after.

i'm not an otaku

i'm a neurotypical but i spy on you

i hope you don't mind