Are you an otaku?

Even though I know that elevens use lolicon for pedos, I hate seeing those words used interchangeably in English.
Please stop doing that "kudasai".

>>1579983
I'm in Japan right now and I can say for certain that walking through Akiba dispelled any considerations of Otaku-like notions in my personality.

>>1579983
>>1580172
Plus Itadatakimasu doesn't have anything to do with food.

>>1580172
>dispelled any considerations of Otaku-like notions in my personality.
Can you re-phrase this?

>>1579983
>16.5
????

>>1580176
I thought I was an otaku until I saw that otaku culture and everything that comes along with it was disgusting and repulsive in the otaku-mecha of Akihabara.

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>>1580181
Secret SoA porn chapter written by the author. I don't think Japanese people actually use it, just facebook weeaboos. Relevant captcha.

>>1580186
why would you have to physically enter akihabara to figure out what akihabara is like

it's not like people don't depict and talk about it all the time

>>1580186
Maybe you just don't like commercialism.

>>1580187
Hmm, literally never heard of it and I'm on a sekret porn tracker for weebs.

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>>1580192
I'd say that it's quite well known.

>>1580189
>>1580190
Its not the same. An enclave of sweaty disgusting perverts does not discuss its negative aspects. And its not 'commercialism' (even though I dislike that aswell), its hedonism and perversion of the santicty of sex.

>>1580199
>>1580189
>>1580190
I'll refer to this post I made in /trv/'s japan general
>>1301543

>>1580199
>its hedonism and perversion of the santicty of sex.
Lol. You know the Japanese entertainment industry has close ties to the Yakuza, right?

>>1580199
>Its not the same. An enclave of sweaty disgusting perverts does not discuss its negative aspects.
basically anything about otaku lampshades that most of them that they're sweaty disgusting perverts

>And its not 'commercialism' (even though I dislike that aswell), its hedonism and perversion of the santicty of sex.
it is actually completely fucking astonishing that you didn't realize that akihabara is the eroge and H-doujinshi capital of the world before physically entering the district for the first time

have you actually ever consumed any media that featured otaku in any way

>>1580204
Like ths
>>> /trv/1301543

>>1580207
Thanks.
>>1580204
Fuck the Yakuza and mafia integrated with government. Its better than italy but I disagree with it on an ideological level.
>>1580206
Yes, I have. I've jerked off to hentai and watch JAV. But interacting with it physically is different. To see it presented before you, accepted, normalized, and still shamefully purchased. To realize that those strange lolicon doujins, depicting vile sex acts to characters that are supposedly over 13, that I've only seen in online pictures, exist in reality; that they are displayed openly, expecting to be sold. To see fat sweaty men and lanky sex-craving virgins peruse these articles as one would produce at a supermarket, inspecting it, judging it, checking the price, weighing its value; and cashiers who look and act just as mechanically and happily as those in a corner store, dealing in smut; that is what disgusts me. These are the parts you don't see, the things which they hide.

>>1580214
>But interacting with it physically is different.
so the real problem here is that you're actually just too fucking stupid to realize that the things you read about correspond to reality

>These are the parts you don't see, the things which they hide.
that's like saying that the shameful act of shitting in toilets is hidden: if you are actually unaware that it happens despite that it's depicted all over the fucking place, everywhere, the problem here is your own dumb ignorance

do you also visit brothels in cambodia to see the underaged whores so you can wring your hands about them too, even though you've read about them but didn't expect them to actually exist

Where was this abomination made?

>>1580218
No its not that. I wasn't suprised by it, like if I walked into a toilet and found someone shitting; I wouldn't be suprised by the shit, but by the person. By the same notion, I wasn't suprised to find the porn, I expected it. What disgusted me was the culture surrounding the porn.

>>1580221
4chan, hopefully. If thats the case, then atleast we can awkwardly play it off as an ironic joke.

>>1580224
so you were... expecting them to be secretive and shameful about it? acting embarassed and hiding their pornographic doujinshi betwen all-ages books? cashiers and customers avoiding eye contact when conducting a financial transaction? i mean you went out of your way to open the toilet door and see the person shitting inside and it really begs the question of why you even bothered to do so

you can be disgusted with whatever you want to be disgusted by but what i don't understand in the slightest is why you would claim to be a member of a subculture you didn't understand the first thing about and then go out of your way to a place where you would be disgusted by

>>1580230
I didn't claim to be, I thought I might've been. And I didn't go out of my way, these places are not that hard to stumble into in Akiba.

>>1580235
i'm asking why you decided to go to akiba at all given that it's the anime otaku capital of the world and you seemed to know full well the aniota reputation for being a bunch of sweaty fat perverts. like if you just happened to need a station change between visiting actual cultural sites like tokyo sky tree and mt. fuji that's one thing but i'm assuming you decided to go to akiba specifically

that said i misunderstood you - i thought you were one of those awful young proto-weebs who proudly proclaim themselves to be otaku despite not knowing shit about it, which is where most of my complaint comes from

enjoy the rest of your trip

Isn't modern Akiba supposed to be a full-blown tourist trap?
Not like I'll ever find out for myself since I'm poor and have no means of leeching off the Japanese government. Oh well.

>>1580190
But commercialism is the very core of otaku culture. Just like Western "geek culture", it all revolves around movies, comics and related merchandise.

>>1580239
No I did go directly there, although it is on the same metro line as mine.
>>1580243
Yea something lile that, its kind of a shithole
>>1580248
Referring to those so called geeks who have never even read a philsophical text?

>>1579983
LOL should be "wwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww"

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