This, only much vaguer.Aris Khandr said:
Second thought was Bayonetta. Should really get that game.
First thoughts upon hearing "Japan".
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Second thought was Bayonetta. Should really get that game.
Sushi, samurai, trains, bayonets and prisoners of war. The last two are only that dark because I'm still reading the book of Burma accounts.
Ramen. The good kind with real food in it that costs more that 20 cents. I plan my errands around the possibility that I can somehow end up in the one corner of town with a good ramen place. If I'm within 30 minutes of that place, I go there.
Also Shiba Inus and Toshiro Mifune
Also Shiba Inus and Toshiro Mifune
For word association, it's "nippon," oddly enough. I don't speak Japanese and am not a weaboo, but for some reason the first thing that comes to mind is the proper Japanese word for the country.
The second thing is anime.
The second thing is anime.
Literally just think of the country itself. Like, the landmass. I think Japan and just see the shape of the country.
After that comes the bustling streets and neon signs of Tokyo, and after that the culture-rich city of Kyoto.
I guess I'm weird.
After that comes the bustling streets and neon signs of Tokyo, and after that the culture-rich city of Kyoto.
I guess I'm weird.
Vault101 said:
Yes. A weeaboo is a westerner, typically white (the w is for west), who wishes he was Japanese or at least a Japanese citizen living in Japan, an attitude they typically have because of misguided perceptions of it gained entirely from imported Japanese pop culture.
An Otaku is pretty much just a "geek", someone whose into something (anything) to the point of neglecting other parts of societal function. Like most geeks this can actually be pretty useful when oriented on technology/engineering/computers in a practical sense, but oftentimes applies to people whose base of obsessive knowlege has no practical use like comics, video games, etc...
A Japanese person can be an Otaku (that's where the word is from) but could never be a Weeaboo, who is by definition an outsider who basically worshops Japanese nerds.
A weeaboo is incidently not someone who just likes Anime/Manga/etc.. I'm interested in those things as part of a broader interest in science fiction and fantasy for example (I'm more of a general geek), but someone who is into that kind of thing paticularly and obsessively and takes it to the point of say ordering and raving about Japanese snacks, using pigeonhole Japanese (Baka, Kawaii, etc...) in general conversation, oftentimes in appropriatly, and pretty much loudly pines over not being in Japan despie havign no idea what Japan is actually like. A weeaboo is the kind of person who will tell you that in Japan common adults will prefer to read Manga rather than newspapers, and there is no interest in sports or current events, and just geek culture, and in doing so they will mean it.
Weirdness.. I know Japan has a huge history and vast and interesting culture so I kind of feel bad saying it but Japanese consumerist culture is scary.. It unintentionally parodies American culture like the aliens from Mars attacks that try to imitate humans poorly.. I love Japan but anime terrifies me.. Except Hellsing.. Hellsing I can deal with..