The pics thread

[Dak]

I find 99% of asian culture boring and/or pretentious. The other 1% is Kung Fu

 

[Einherjar86]

Sick shirt mate!

 

[damnromulans]

You obviously haven't been exposed to much. Nothing boring or pretentious about tentacle porn and eyelid surgery, not to mention beating up Falun Gong followers and Hinduism

 

[Anticitizen One]

There are kids (shut-ins, I should say) who have seen something like Welcome to the NHK and then decide that "hikkikomori" and "NEET" are things they can relate to, yes. Anime fandom is full of disturbing things.

I'm in school right now, and kind of leaning toward something in journalism perhaps focusing on these interests, among others. So who knows where I may end up, but going abroad some day would be awesome.

 

[Srontgorrth]

I find 99% of asian culture boring and/or pretentious. The other 1% is Kung Fu

What about sushi?

 

[damnromulans]

I don't know what NEET is but hikkikomori is not cool, what a fucking burden on your family

 

[Anticitizen One]

I don't know what NEET is but hikkikomori is not cool, what a fucking burden on your family

Yeah, they're basically the same thing.

I guess this is pretty much why a lot of people don't want to talk about having an interest in this sort of thing at all — there's all this weeaboo stigma caused by severely obsessive fans. I'm pretty into it, but I'm a functional human being with plenty of other interests, y'know? This is actually part of what I'd like to study — how it seems like anime fandom is still creating a generation of lazy shut-ins, even in America... and in a way especially in America, because kids who can't identify with their own culture find something unique and weird and they become obsessed. I guess it's the downside of this particular cultural exchange I mentioned. There's a lot of interesting art out there that satirizes this sort of behavior, though...

You are far more weeaboo than I am, the only anime I've seen is "Interstella 5555" which hardly counts.

And I thought pretty much everybody had seen at least some Miyazaki/Ghibli.

Couple of pages from How to Suicide:

 

[zabu of nΩd]

That would be pretty interesting, if you could just walk up behind someone and unzip their skin and all their shit would fall out.

 

[V.V.V.V.V.]

Whatever fuck you guys.

 

[V.V.V.V.V.]

u mad?

 

[waif]

So I guess this makes WAIF's attempt at "Can you really not tell she's not Japanese?" all the more silly and obvious.

Not really, I can tell the difference. Chinese and Japanese are easy to tell apart; Koreans are sort of in the middle and can be a little tricky. I can't tell with all the little shitty countries like Laos and Cambodia, but I can tell they're not Japanese.

 

[Pessimism]

Mad u ain't sucking that nob.

Oh shit.

 

[Dak]

What about sushi?

Even Saki isn't that good. It will get you fucked up, but so will a million other better tasting liquors.

Teriyaki sauce (or what passes for it in America) isn't bad, but I couldn't take it on a regular basis.

@Krampus: Porn and some historic religious intolerance isn't exactly what I would call "culture"

 

[damnromulans]

what about temples, imperial conquests, unique languages, and inventing lots of stuff? surely there is SOMEthing of value in asia

 

[Dak]

I said culture, I don't think the inventions from a thousand years ago count as culture. (But yes, the Chinese are to be thanked for at least Gunpowder, Paper, and the Compass).

It doesn't help that all the aforementioned disenfranchised American kids cling to the lamest parts of Japanese pop culture (anime, etc.) or cheapen anything that was cool (Samurai swords, etc.).

 

[SentinelSlain]

imperial conquests

Are you a fan of my country then?

 

[damnromulans]

have you lived in Asia outside of a military base? surely there is "culture" everywhere you go

 

[damnromulans]

Are you a fan of my country then?

yeah your country has the best music of any country

 

[SentinelSlain]

If were going to critique Asian culture, I have to say this is one thing I am not impressed with:

original:

copy:

That's BAD korean culture. Well it's just distastefully copying European work, but I haven't visited Korea myself, so I'll shut up.

 

[damnromulans]

BoA is GOOD Korean culture