/jp/ - Otaku Culture

yea but that's because im a faggot

It's not edgy and cool to be an otaku in Japan so no.

If I was to grow up anywhere it'd be a rural town. But the few times I've visited my aunts house where she's like a whole state away and the vast difference between the suburb I live in, and her house which just has acres of land and a forest in the backyard was really wonderful as a kid. Rural japan sounds really nice in that regard.

But then I'd have no internet and at that point there'd be no point to anything.

obviously

>>28125029
nope. not one bit.

>>28125029
No

>>28125029
I don't think Japan would really be as interesting if you grew up there, it's the outside viewpoint that makes it cool.

>>28125029
No but I kinda like the aesthetics of their houses.

>>28125029
yes, but around the 70~80s to experience the bideogames evolution, specially the arcade shit.

Not after living there for a year as a grown up and talking with the Japanese. School is hell, university and part time jobs are the dumbest shit, appartments are tiny, work culture is again hell.
If I were an artist or writer or someone who earns money from working from home I would love to move to Japan though, the country itself is lovely.

god no, if I could change my birthplace I would go straight north

>>28125108
>Rural japan sounds really nice in that regard. But then I'd have no internet
Even shit tier Eastern European countries have fast internet in their most rural holes, is this real?

>>28125029
Yes (but as a gaijin)

>>28154617
You get god tier internet close to or in the cities. I don't know about urban.

>>28154617
I mean I'm kinda just assuming. Source; have bummed around in rural towns with no cell phone reception a couple of times.

>>28155783
in japan?

No. Living in an eastern country is absolute shit and japan has a fucked work system.

Yes but only if I could be a cute girl

>>28154617
>Even shit tier Eastern European countries have fast internet in their most rural holes
Can confirm that. I have 100Mb fiber optics in my home, in a small city with a population of ~50k.

Maybe a rural part, but at that point I could just move anywhere country bumpkin since there isn't much difference.
Also the social culture doesn't seem that great, but I also never grew up in it so I don't know how I'd feel about it if I had engaged with it as a child.
I'd like to think having such hardass strict rules would normify me a bit instead of this western "be what you want" and then you accidentally cause irreversable damage to yourself.

School would be way too hard

>>28125029
I don't want to grow up ever again, anywhere.

Nah, I want to grow up in America again, but this time near the end of the 70s so I can experience the 80s and 90s in full and maybe visit Japan while it is still cool and before 9/11 fucks everything up for travel.

If I was born there it would hold no fascination, and if I were to visit I would just be another dumb cracker shitting the place up. I prefer it to remain a place that exists only in my imagination.

Yes, everyday.

>>28125029
kinda yea

>>28125029
no because I am living way better life with my lazy tendencies where I am now than what I would ever be in nipland

Yes, I dream going to akihabara in 2000s golden age

>>28125029
I've been living in Japan for the past 11 years.

>>28194861
Can 50 year old white dudes get laid there easily if fat/balding?

>>28125029
nope, growing up in europe was pretty comfy, better than japan anyway

live there so that I can become an useless overworking bitch salaryman of a company. Fuck yeah dude.

>>28194904
I am interested in the answers provided to this query. For research purposes.

>>28195025
I agree with this Anon. My country is comfy, too. When people say they want to live in Japan, they forget that there's a lot of shit that's just as bad as in other countries.

>>28125029
hell no japan is one of the worst places to be born into and raised in

Working there sounds like hell, but what about retiring?

>>28167700
This, especially with a childhood friend that comes from the same rural town as me, we both go into the city for college, meet lots of people but realized we shared too much when we were young to be comfortable with other people and kinda end up together

>>28125029
I always see stories about how it's nicer to visit than it is actually living there. So I don't know

>>28194904
No idea, since I'm not fat or bald, nor 50. Funny that.

>>28209973
But do you see fat old bald dudes with pretty girls commonly?

>>28154617
Sugita complained that back when he lived at his parents (rural Saitama), their service provider called them and asked why they are still using ISDN. Sugita told them he wanted something faster and asked for options, but the operator laughed at him and said the whole village would have to ask for a fiber for them to act.

>>28168147
>city
>50k
That's not even close to rural.

>>28210055
Lose weight tubby. Being overweight is not appealing, even when you pay someone for it. Just diet well and eat fibrous, leafy, intensely coloured veggies. The darker the hue the better the food. Help you push to 80 too

>>28211608
Don't listen to this queer, vegetables cause mucus to build up in your lower intestine and causes inflammation. Just eat meat and fruits.

>>28212372
>fruits
bruh

>>28125029
No that sounds like shit. Maybe if I had a cute osananajimi. I'd live there now though.

>>28195280
lol stop taking internet drama queens so seriously it's in no way worse than the vast majority of this planet

Not growing up, but lately I have been daydreaming of living there. Things have been kinda bad in my country or state, highly organizated crime, gangs and we are experiencing a drought for years with a constantly dry and hot climate. So Japan looks very appealing, but my line of work it's one of the hardest ones for migrate.

>>28211608
fat people do have girlfriends

Growing up in Japan? No, but growing old there? Yes. I can't really picture myself growing up elsewhere, I might as well be a completely different person at that point. Almost like wiping your memory to win a prize; I wouldn't be me.
Now, as for growing old there... I pretty much gave up on my life for a few years, but I've recently picked myself back up and am working towards a dream now. That dream being moving to Hokkaido, preferably a rural place near Asahikawa. I've always been into woodworking, and that's pretty much the woodworking capitol of Japan. I want to study and work comfy at a workshop in my free time till I can manage on my own without relying on TEFL for income. Living off being a writer who does woodworking in his freetime would be ideal, or the reverse. But living off those? That's not something you can just plan to happen, a lot of hard work, skill, and luck involved. Will keep pursuing the dream though.

>>28125029
Japan is hell for a gifted person who has too many abilities and stands out just by existing.
I am certain I would have become a NEET there if I didn't manage to leave the country.

All I wish for is for a white ethnostate without jews...

>>28125029
Yes. I always dreamed of growing up/living in rural Japan. But unfortunately its one of these things that better remain a fantasy. Because for all the glamour that we see, life in Japan isn't as colorful and their society and culture are very rigid.

tfw never growing up in a small town with particular traditions that the greater world would frown upon like those naked pearl divers or lewd festivals or Japanese Carnival.

honestly, no

this board is fucking weird

Not really. As much as I love what comes out of the country the work culture scares me. I did too poorly in highschool to succeed there as a child. I'm thinking of doing the JET program and teaching english after I finish my bachelors.

No, just because of the fact if I performed in Japanese school the same way I did when I was in highschool I would probably be a fast food worker there.

Growing up in the later Showa era (60s-80s) seems pretty comfy to me desu.

>>28125068
it's not edgy and cool to be a otaku anywhere

>>28125029
>eat nothing but rice fish and vegetables and die of the common cold
No thank you

>>28282696
Why would they die of the common cold?
And what forces you to eat just rice and fish? And vegetables is such a broad category, exactly what's bad about 'vegetables'?

>>28282994
>Why would they die of the common cold?
You obsess over Japan and you don't even know they have weak immune systems?

>>28125029
No. Asian parents are fucking insane.

>>28283049
Why are you so eager to believe a false statistic?

>>28282696
>>28283107
2 (two) people that misread the OP and thought being born in Japan means you change race too.

>>28283319
>means you change race too.
Well I'll be double fucked because i'll be a minority in japan so hella no.

>>28283049
They have the among the longest life expectancy in the world.

>>28283319
>2 (two) people that misread the OP and thought being born in Japan means you change race too.
Seems like the reasonable interpretation though. I doubt anyone actually wants to be a foreigner born there.

>>28282696
not only did no one say this, but no one does this either

Maybe if I was, I dunno, a poor Vietnamese person? I grew up in an English speaking country and I'm white, can't beat that.

>>28125029
>growing up in japan?
why?
that shit consist of nothing but school, school clubs and cram school, because generation after generation is brainwashed into believing that this is the correct way to do things

>>28324169
That's not brainwashing, that's culture. Where you live it might be normal to put ketchup in macaroni and cheese, but in another part of the world you'd get mocked by everyone for not putting ranch or buffalo sauce or whatever in instead. Only the worst can have it be called brainwashing, and while Japan's got a bad case of the no-life-after-your-20s-itis, it's certainly not as bad as some other countries in that regard. You probably know at least the five or so big ones.

>>28125029
Yeah I kinda wish I did. Growing up in rural japan sounds pretty comfy. Moving there as a 25 year old doesn't sound appealing to me. Perhaps I'd do it if I was already rich and didn't had to work there.

>>28324476
Oh please, they're working themselves into exhaustion and extinction.

has the stance on beard changed or is it the same? I'll be working in a factory and was wondering if i should go a year clean shaven and just grow it after or could i keep my beard from the get go?

>>28329051
why cater to their tastes?
unless its required from work, just be yourself and keep your beard

>>28329051
gaijins are expected to be weirdos anyway, so whatever

>>28125029
I was an adult before I really learned a lot about Japan or began heavily consuming their media. At this point I don't really think about growing up anymore since it's not something I am able to ever do again (physically at least). I have wondered what it would be like to move their for a time. I imagine teaching English in Japan in my early to mid 20s would have been a good experience, but I fucked up collage so that wasn't possible.

>>28176784
Agreed! Life, never again

>>28142743
Exactly.
>Grass is greener...

>>28335867
>I imagine teaching English in Japan in my early to mid 20s would have been a good experience, but I fucked up collage so that wasn't possible.
Garsh! Darn it! that's me. How do you cope with that regret/mistake?

>>28125029
not really no. i dont know much about growing up in japan but from what little i have seen it seems like it kinda sucks

>>28335867
>>28343817
>tried to be an english teacher in japan but fucked up in college

my brothers! i studied nihongo and intercultural communications for three years, but im now a dropout who works at a warehouse and is no closer to living in japan than i was when i was in school

I notice most of you dislike the rigor of school, clubs and cramming. And as it stands now that's something I wouldn't gel with very well. But, theres a large part of me that desires having all of that. A part that despairs for libertine freedom and longs for strictness and coercion. The alternative is being 20 and having no goals, no organizations, and no friends, no purpose. I wish I had the urgency to care like a young jap upstart.

>>28125029
fuck no japan is urban hell

>>28344113
its not like it gives japanese people any real sense of purpose either. it just turns them into work mules, generic salarymen in an endless sea of other salarymen, dedicating their lives to being a corporate slave. thats the kinda life japanese school culture creates. hardly inspiring

>>28344180
It's better than the alternative, at least one is forced to befriend their coworkers.

>>28282994
Vegetables are icky

>>28125029
No not really

>>28345665
Eat your vegetables, anon! Or your boobies won't get nice and big like my wife's!

>>28344113
>>28344180
discipline is good, but it should come from the self, not from your stingy-ass boss.

I worked there for a bit and I think I'd hate it. The rules upon rules upon rules for the most simple shit and if you break one you're an outcast.
Also having to put in 12 hour days is shit.

>>28142743
True enough but 80s Japan just seems really fucking cozy especially the first half of the 80s because you'd have the great economy without the excesses of the bubble.

>>28249508
>ywn grow up in Hinamizawa and take part in the yearly Satoko Butt-Humiliation Festival
It's simply mindblowing....

>>28346106
that is very true, japanese rules are far too rigid with discipline and servitude. either you become a mindless slave or are seen as a failure. i dont see how japanese work/school culture is good at all

op is 12

>>28344042
You Ouuffeedd! hard. I just gave up and moved on with my life. Once in awhile I imagine getting rich and just moving. But an more bothered anymore.

>>28347530
Mayyynnneeee! All we can do is just close our eyes and imagine we are there at that time.
>So much hope!
>So much action!
>So much nostalgia!
>So much to like!

>>28344113
I'm the same anon, I wish I was more coerced into other activities. When I was a kid my parents made me sign up for tae kwon do, I didn't like it a lot but I was active and had good acquaintances and the only reason I stopped was because my arm was in a cast for 3 months (unrelated to the tae). I even tried to enlist in the USMC because I wanted some semblance of control over me and in my time at meps I made some friends (couldn't contact them after since our phones were being held by the liaisons and everything was happening fast).

>>28343817
Most of my existence has been regret and self loathing. At some point all the things I worried about became too much and so I latched on to the idea of not worrying or dwelling on things outside of ones control. To focus on the moment and doing the best I can in that moment. The past is not something I can do anything about, and therefore I should not worry about it. I just try to remember to do the best I can at any one moment and keep moving forward. Some times I fall back into old ways of thinking and I regret all the things I fucked up and feel bad about what could have been or all the time I've wasted, but that happens a lot less now.

>>28125068
you can't be both edgy and cool

>>28125029
Show me the interior and you will get my answer.

>>28125029
What would have changed in your life if you grew up in Japan?

Yes, Japan or Korea appeal to me. I know the working culture sucks, and school life is very stressful, yet I don't want to live with a white girl and raise kids in Europe. It's a shithole here, the community here makes me very unhappy. So yeh, definitely looking for a different place in the near future. It better be soon, cus my 30s are nearing soon.

>>28125029
I often think my mentality and way of thinking suits the more formal and reserved way of Japan. But if I were born there, then I would never have known my amazing mother or wonderful dogs. So if I had to choose, I would still grow up in Europe and just put up with being the "quiet one".

>>28125029
fuck no, but i do wish i had a time machine to go back to 1980s japan and just fuck around there

No idea about growing there. I didn't hate my life in this third world country. I've been working as long as I can remember so when school ended I just kept working.
I should have a degree in psychology but due to third world shenanigans there is no way to prove it. So now I'm just having a degree in administration that should be done when I'm 33. Yep kind of old fart. Since my country is going to shit and for some odd reason I starter learning Japanese (basically so an ad for Japanese and started studying the language) I wonder if there is something I could do there.
Teaching is not something strange to me I've done it for some time, so things like Jet are tempting, but my third world ass is worried that is some kind of forced labor after the first year end.

>>28181816
Based and grunge-pilled

>>28344113
What an absolute bootlicker

>>28125029
No, I feel like my highschool days of playing basketball and spending summer meandering between parties in rural Texas towns was endlessly more fulfilling than cram school. Now moving to Japan and marrying a Japanese cutie? Yeah that’s something I’d like but it sounds like a fantasy.

I genuinely wonder how my profession would translate. I know I’m highly trained (ICU RN+Certifications) for my profession but standards vary widely in the medical field in different countries. I’ve always thought about learning japanese and just traveling to a military hospital if I can’t escape the Deep South aimlessness I’ve fallen into. Anyone know what that nursing’s like in Japan?

>>28344113
You can have self discipline in America it’s just not something instilled in you without a father or mother that parents by setting a good example.

Or just have have older siblings who fuck up and put a chip on your shoulder to work hard

>>28125029

Not sure about growing up there, but living there instead perhaps. Work-life balance there is pretty shit to be a citizen.

And that's coming from a guy that has to do 2 years conscription, reservist until 50 years old and yearly physical examinations to ensure that I am 'combat-fit'.

>>28210055
not with good looking girls, Japanese girls like the pretty, androgynous looking guys like the Korean BTS style, it is annoying to see actually, the ideal guy these girls are into almost look like women, cute, perfect hair, not a single wrinkle, a bit of makeup, stylish clothes and like dancing as a hobby, etc ... we look like nasty barbarians in there eyes and most of them are actually scared of us

>>28335427
this sums it up, gaijin are seen as inferior, and it is expected that they be seen as something to laugh at (not in front of them luckily)

>>28453603
you have zero chance at being a nurse there, you need above native language skills and have to be schooled there to get certified ... and nursing is a low paid job in Japan and they are overworked with unpaid overtime

>>28125029
No. I am jealous of the ethnic homogeneous society they have though. I just want to live in at least 95% white county. Instead I live in America where minorities resent white people and will soon make up the majority of the population here.

Hell no, i fucking hate the thought of having to respect any elder regardless of how much of an asshole they are and i hate the shitty parenting of Japan. Demanding their sons to be the best of the class and humiliating them if they don't, fuck that. Jap parents are fucking cunts, i would immediatley gtfo of that household and become a hobo then die of aids.

>>28535591
I agree with you, multiculturalism always turns bad