First thoughts upon hearing "Japan".
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Tentacles, cartoon characters with eyes the size of fists, panty machines, those flowering trees, trains, Godzilla, Capcom games, the rising sun emblem and WWII - specifically the POW death camps and the nuclear bombings.
Roughly in that order.
Roughly in that order.
I think of technology and future and science fiction. I think of vivid colours and lush harmonics blistering all around me.
I think of a country that nerds bring up way more often than normal, my least favorite east Asian cuisine, and a friend of mine from high school.
Very first thought. I tend to identify what we're talking about first.
After that, Mt. Fuji. And then a lion and a phoenix, though I'm not sure why on those.
Anime, giant robots, Godzilla, sushi, pocky... and that's just off the top of my head!
...I hate Weebawoos, though...
...I hate Weebawoos, though...
I always made the distinction that Otakus in Japan are people who are obsessed with one particular thing to the point that they wont leave home, preferring to spend almost all their time obsessing over whatever it is they are obsessed with. Its also generally used as an insult in Japan, essentially its like calling someone a "basement dwelling, nerd-fanboy".Vault101 said:
Where as a Weebo is a westerner who obsesses over Japanese culture (usually just manga and anime though), usually declaring it better then western culture as well as believing that they are more elite because they like the Japanese culture.
I'm gunna give you another answer, further confusing the definitions.Vault101 said:
An Otaku in western terminology is traditionally a fan term used to attribute nerds to hobbies with Japanese origins. Before recently I would've called it what weaboos like to think of themselves as since it is a generally derogatory term refering to a japanese version of nerd with a massive fixation on anime and manga, and rarely leaving the house, so it's easy to see why western people adopt this, but I always thought it was a bit weeabooish until recently since it seemed like an attempt to want to be Japanese.
I'm forced to think differently since my uni's anime club is called the Student Otaku Society, but that may still have weeaboo connotations since I'm about one of two people who even tolerate dubs.
But weeaboos are quite simply people with manic fixations on japan. Not them merely liking several Japanese things, but believing Japan is the greatest place on earth, has all the best things, and they have aspirations of learning Japanese and living in Japan.
This doesn't sound incredibly bad unless you have to be in a conversation with them, if they have to compare everything to how Japan does something. But they're the kind of people that name their RPG characters some pseudo-Japanese name because they think it's exotic and therefore cool.
From what I hear about you, you enjoy collectibles and don't get out much, so possibly. Althoguh I'm not sure of whether it requires specific interests. I may think more that you may just be a Hikkikomori, a person who never leaves their house, but from what I've learned, I believe that has to do with mental problems rather than interest, so yes, you may be classified as an otaku in Japan.Vault101 said:
Edit: Just realised I can sum this up better.
Otakus like things from Japan
Weeaboos like things because they're from Japan.
Anime, manga, Japanese schools, Ganguros in school uniforms, then people who identify as ("Westernized") Otakus, i.e., the ones that took what was supposed to be a lonely shut-in slur, dropped the actual meaning, because fuck it, and made it into some kind of badge of honor, and would probably be honored if Japanese people in the street called them Otakus. Then I think about a sushi bar, the kind with the rotating table.
Edit: I also then imagine how people would react to me, a black guy, if I went to Japan. Someone brought up racism earlier, and I'd be curious to see how they react to a black dude, and if they run away out of fear when I enter a room that I will beat the shit out of everyone and gangbang them, then inject them with heroin.
Edit: I also then imagine how people would react to me, a black guy, if I went to Japan. Someone brought up racism earlier, and I'd be curious to see how they react to a black dude, and if they run away out of fear when I enter a room that I will beat the shit out of everyone and gangbang them, then inject them with heroin.
Neko girls. Kitsune (Fox girls). And the Empire of the Rising Sun.
Thats what I think when I hear Japan.
Thats what I think when I hear Japan.
Poor Iron deposits (origin of the myth of awesome swords, the blades are pretty good but they're designed to a way different spec than western ones as they didn't have large quantities of armour to deal with, and nothing like the heavily armoured Knights of Europe) and this:
Eddie the head said: