/jp/ - Otaku Culture

I've built them and have a 4000 point Space Marine army I built over 10+ years, but I love cars so I'm doing that now.

sup /jp/, got one of these today. Anyone else build itasha model kits?

Black is pretty well screwed. You could connect at the top to make life, but white will have alot of influence on the rest of the board, I probably wouldn't be able to make a win out of it.

>>2014052

Get three pennies and a dime and lay them out on your carpet next to your bed. Put the dime on the edge of your bed and the pennies on the ground next to the bed. The floor of your bedroom is a two dimensional plane where the pennies exist, the dime is not on the same plane because it is not on the ground. Now arrange the pennies in a line parallel to the edge of your bed. Get a book or a piece of paper and lay one edge touching the pennies and lay it so it touches the dime. Congratulations, the dime is now on a two-dimensional plane with the pennies.

So your problem is that they are worshiping a kid because of an accident of birth rather then any earned merit? Well I have good news for you OP, its blindingly obvious that they aren't worshiping a person, they are worshiping an office and a title. That the office is held by a person rather then a deity, an event, or an ideal is irrelevant.

Bitching that its not fair that royals exist is as meaningless as weeboos crying themselves to sleep for not being born Japanese.

>>957464

I've never looked up or asked about the first so it would be more accurate. Never heard the second one used though so I did a quick google, I guess it could be closer because its nastier even though the literal is "nun".

>>957419

So do you want words Japanese people would consider offensive or Japanese translations of English offensive words?

For example referring to a female simply as "onna" in Japanese when speaking to or about them is pretty much the equivalent of referring to them as "bitch" as in "Whats your problem, bitch?" By itself the word isn't dirty, it basically means "female", but when used in that context its dirty. Literally saying "bitch" would be "onna no inu" or maybe attaching "-inu", which means dog, to their name as a sufflix, even though thats actually calling them a dog.

Are you trying to insult Japanese speaking people, insult people in languages they don't know, or just want to know dirty words?

Hell, we used to have a Morning Musume store in Waikiki

Save yourself some money and fly over to Hawaii instead. You'll get just as many Japanese people (although most of them will be tourists too), you don't need a passport, and you can still get your $50+ plates of Kobe beef.

Seriously, we could use the extra tourism.

I read an article about Japanese case workers trying to make contact with several hikikomori. After weeks of trying they finally got one to open the door and speak to them. They walked inside the apartment and its empty, no TV, no computer, just a bed and empty walls. He sat in his room all day staring at the wall.

That is what hikikomori is, not just feeling anti-social once in a while.

One thing they notice is the size of our pastries. A slice of cake you buy for desert is nearly as big as one of the cakes they buy for an entire family. Another thing they notice is the flavor of our candy, usually they say its too strong. Japanese candy tends to be milder in flavor.

Here in Hawaii $10.xx for 20 lbs. bag, but limited to one per customer.

Ah, I read it as "ka" instead of "chikara" also.

Still don't know the kanji on the second line though.

>>502301

Feel free to add in your translation. I have no idea what that kanji is or what the context of the sentence is.

On a second look ittai on the third line could be used with nan to mean something like "what the hell" or to make "what" more emphatic.

Hakase no itteta
ojiichan kurai tsuyoi don(dunno the kanji)tte
Ittai nan na no ka?

I'm not sure exactly what the translation would be because its not really making sense to me. My best guess is:

Professor's move
Grandfather is strong (Dunno what)
What hurts?

I don't know what the last word in the second line means and I don't really have much experience using kurai so I might be translating it wrong.

Sup, /jp/ first night of Kawaii-kon is over, went to the Mari Iijima concert. Second row, center stage, and the VIP seats in front were empty.

First thing to remember about kendo: you will smell afterwards. Which is why the cat fainting after smelling the bogu in Bamboo Blade is so funny.

I borrowed a bogu and shinai from the club so it wasn't expensive. I bought the gi and hakama though, eh I've blown more money on other hobbies.

>>456232

During the Olympics there was some debate on the correct way to pronounce it. So a news crew went to Japan during the Olympics and started interviewing Japanese citizens on the correct way to pronounce it. In most parts of Japan they pronounced it "Na-ga-no". In Nagano they pronounced it quickly as "Nagano".

>>456419

I'm not sure how much of an accent I have. I'm a 3/4 Japanese 4th gen living in Hawaii, with our large Japanese population and mixture into local culture. Also the Hawaiian language is a pretty close to Japanese, it uses the same consonant-vowel syllables and about 2/3 of them match up, many Hawaiian words would be pronounced correctly by Japanese tourists.

>>456461

Isn't the verbalization of the 'u' more of a Kansai thing? I've only heard that though.

>>455860

Well you have to watch about little things like the almost silent 'u' in names like Kensuke, Ryusuke, Keisuke, Asuka, etc. Anyone remember the mess about how to pronounce Nagano? Japanese is a tonal language, pronunciation does matter.

First anime was Dagger of Kamui a long time ago on VHS. Watched Gunbuster, Bubblegum Crisis and Appleseed at a neighbors house. Then nothing for a long time until Viz released the first Ranma 1/2 movie.

Pick up a few japanese manga, you can usually get them cheap if they've already been released in the US translated. To improve your reading speed go to a karaoke place that uses Japanese machines, everything will be in hiragana or kanji. You could also try a Japanese PS2 and Dream Audition/Karaoke Revolution.

Look, go ahead and download fansubs and so will I. I'm not saying fansubs are evil or you shouldn't watch them. What I am saying is that anyone who claims a moral high-ground for choosing fansubs is full of crap, we do it because its free, we get it now, and we don't want the extra stuff that comes along with a licensed copy since we are streaming it to the tv from our file servers. I am also explaining that licensing companies are neither stupid or incompetent, we simply aren't their target audience and most times they don't care about us and our fansubs as long as we keep a tight rein on it.

>>392682

So they should abandon a business model that works, price DVDs cheaply in bulk to an audience that won't buy it anyway, driving away retailers and ignoring the kiddie market which makes the bulk of their money, far later then the series premiers in Japan because negotiation, dubbing, translation and packaging takes time? Sorry, I think the shitting away money management style ended with the 90s.

>>392684

The point is that they DON'T air it here. When you watch something on TV the network makes money from commercials and the company that licensed it receives a cut, which pays for the licensing fee they paid the company in Japan, the translation work, the dubbing, the marketing, the administrative work, etc. Similarly, DVDs and other merchandise they sell generate revenue to pay for their expenses and turn a profit. If licensing companies didn't exist and the Japanese firms retained all rights to the series in America, there would still be someone on our asses about IP violations. If fact, if they don't defend their IP, they could lose the rights to it in the US. Now why should they voluntarily surrender their rights and a potential source of revenue?

I'm sorry but no one owes us anything and licensing companies have every right to exist and to defend the licenses they paid for. I appreciate the companies they take a lax approach and consider fansubs free promotion but that is their choice.