How to not become a weeaboo

[Himu]

https://www.wikihow.com/Avoid-Becoming-a-Weeaboo

too late

[I'm a Puppy!]

...well fuck.

[Rusty Shackleford]

Wouldn't know Anime Kawaii from Anime Moonrune if they spitroasted me in the shower as part of a sex cult.

Normality 

[toku]

even weeaboos need love

[Let's Cyber]

No, you are not a weeaboo if you simply enjoy anime and manga

safe

[Nabbis]

You beat the weeb out of the person.

[Valkyrie]

https://wikihow.com/Be-Okay-with-Having-a-Communist-Friend

https://wikihow.com/Know-if-a-Woman-is-a-Cougar

https://wikihow.com/Deal-With-a-Boyfriend-Who-Is-Obsessed-With-Your-Butt

[desert punk]

https://wikihow.com/Be-Okay-with-Having-a-Communist-Friend

https://wikihow.com/Know-if-a-Woman-is-a-Cougar

https://wikihow.com/Deal-With-a-Boyfriend-Who-Is-Obsessed-With-Your-Butt

 


https://www.wikihow.com/Become-a-Cougar

https://www.wikihow.com/Be-a-Gold-Digger

https://www.wikihow.com/Admit-to-a-Foot-Fetish

[MMaRsu]

No weeboo shit here

[hungrynoob]

I was born white but I identify as Japanese. You cant stop whats natural.

[Valkyrie]

Look up "weeaboo stories" (only for the brave).

[HardcoreRetro]

Watashi wa Hardcore-kun.

Sugoi, desu ne?

[Great Rumbler]

[zomgee]

[chronovore]

I'm not a weeaboo, but most of that Wiki How fails to work for me just from my context. For just one example, I'm largely forced to prioritize Japanese goods. And I find myself using Japanese jargon out of necessity to communicate with my family.  :'(

[BlueTsunami]

Hey, if youre a female and want to dress like Tifa Lockhart by all means.

[bork]

Watashi wa Hardcore-kun.

Sugoi, desu ne?

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Couldn't find a clip of this in English.

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[HardcoreRetro]

[Mr. Gundam]

How not to become a weeaboo? Visit somewhere in Japan other than Denden Town or Akihabara and try to act like a weeaboo. Problem solved.

I still want to punch the guy I overheard on the ferry from Miyajima talking about how he needed at least five days in Akihabara. You can do it in like two fucking hours. Get out and go wander cool neighborhoods and eat some goddamn ramen.

[hampster]

You can meet new friends and boost your creative capacity through role-playing specific characters and fantastical scenarios

Not a bad idea. Sunday I'm going to role play a normal adult and NOT someone who read all of Black Clover last Sunday

[eleuin]

even weeaboos need love

https://twitter.com/turiron/status/934409584327794689

[bork]

I still want to punch the guy I overheard on the ferry from Miyajima talking about how he needed at least five days in Akihabara. You can do it in like two fucking hours. Get out and go wander cool neighborhoods and eat some goddamn ramen.

Maybe he was over there to buy stuff to resell for his business?  My boss did that once or twice way back in my game shop days.

even weeaboos need love

https://twitter.com/turiron/status/934409584327794689

Can Japanese be weeaboos? 

[eleuin]

Project your fantasies onto what you want to be

[Himu]

How not to become a weeaboo? Visit somewhere in Japan other than Denden Town or Akihabara and try to act like a weeaboo. Problem solved.

I still want to punch the guy I overheard on the ferry from Miyajima talking about how he needed at least five days in Akihabara. You can do it in like two fucking hours. Get out and go wander cool neighborhoods and eat some goddamn ramen.

If I visited Japan Kyoto castle would be first on my list. Am I just a higher class of weeb?!

[CurseoftheGods]

https://twitter.com/Amir0x/status/822263971688435712

[Joe Molotov]

[bork]

https://twitter.com/Amir0x/status/822263971688435712

So I guess even pedos have their own hierarchy and weeb-pedos are lower on the chain?   

And that guy was totally on point with the hypocrite comment!

How not to become a weeaboo? Visit somewhere in Japan other than Denden Town or Akihabara and try to act like a weeaboo. Problem solved.

I still want to punch the guy I overheard on the ferry from Miyajima talking about how he needed at least five days in Akihabara. You can do it in like two fucking hours. Get out and go wander cool neighborhoods and eat some goddamn ramen.

If I visited Japan Kyoto castle would be first on my list. Am I just a higher class of weeb?!

I dunno...Kyoto is the home of Nintendo.  WEEB TOTAL

[D3RANG3D]

https://twitter.com/Amir0x/status/822263971688435712

[Himu]

Yeah but that's Kyoto castle, not Nintendo Hq. If I were to visit Japan I'd visit Buddhist temples for their historicity, visit museums on warring states period, visit castles, go to different arcades to fight Japanese competition, and eat food. Go to Akiba and buying manga or games I'd only find in Japan would certainly be on the menu but number one?

[Valkyrie]

Akiba-weebs are terrifying.

[Raist]

https://www.wikihow.com/Avoid-Becoming-a-Weeaboo

too late

They forgot one:

- Don't write wikihows on how to not become a weeaboo

[Great Rumbler]

I bought an anime figure this weekend.

[tiesto]

I lasted all of 2 weeks at my job (I work with lots of Japanese expats) before I outed myself as a weeb:P

[bork]

I bought an anime figure this weekend.

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I was Best Buy today and they had some NENDOROIDS!  Holy shit!

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[bork]

Yeah but that's Kyoto castle, not Nintendo Hq.

Sorry...not seeing a difference here.
 

[bork]

Akiba-weebs are terrifying.

The crazy otaku-types in general are terrifying.  I saw a Japanese guy casually walking behind a maid cafe worker, trying to take upskirt photos, one of the the last times I was there. 
 

[chronovore]

Akiba-weebs are terrifying.

The crazy otaku-types in general are terrifying.  I saw a Japanese guy casually walking behind a maid cafe worker, trying to take upskirt photos, one of the the last times I was there. 
 

You should've flat-footed him.

Wait… wasn't his phone making a shutter noise?

[bork]

Akiba-weebs are terrifying.

The crazy otaku-types in general are terrifying.  I saw a Japanese guy casually walking behind a maid cafe worker, trying to take upskirt photos, one of the the last times I was there. 
 

You should've flat-footed him.

Wait… wasn't his phone making a shutter noise?

Good question; can't remember.  Maybe it was video?

[samfish]

I’ve been to Kyoto castle AND Nintendo HQ. Funny story, my ex, who was Japanese, and I were at Nintendo HQ, some lady came out and started asking her questions. Apparently they were ready to let me in because they thought I was some important visitor they were expecting and assumed my ex was just my translator. I was kinda mad at her for not running with it and see how long we could’ve kept the con going.

Instead they just threw us out of the premises.

Honestly, the nerd shit in Japan got old real quick though. It’s like once you’ve seen one store, you’ve pretty much seen all of them. I was able to get my hand on the Japanese version of God Hand, which included the soundtrack. That was pretty neat. Clerk gave me a thumbs up when I bought it too. That motherfucker knew what was up, lemme tell you guys.

I also got called a chicken loving gaijin by some guy on a train apparently. Don’t know what prompted him to say that.

Anyway, I have nothing relevant to add to this topic. Japan is beautiful. After going there just once, if you come back still with the impression that it’s all anime shit, you’d have to be a complete dummy to have missed everything else around you.

[chronovore]

I’m also a chicken-loving gaijin.

[naff]

How not to become a weeaboo? Visit somewhere in Japan other than Denden Town or Akihabara and try to act like a weeaboo. Problem solved.

I still want to punch the guy I overheard on the ferry from Miyajima talking about how he needed at least five days in Akihabara. You can do it in like two fucking hours. Get out and go wander cool neighborhoods and eat some goddamn ramen.

Maybe it's because I was a dumb tourist, but when I was there we stayed in Yotsuya in Shinjuku, and it was great. Spent a lot of time in shimo-kitazawa and I think my fav plc in shinjuku was nonbei yakocho... Tl:dr spent a lot of time in neighbourhoods around Tokyo, but when we were bored we'd often go to this arcade we found in akihabara which, to me being fairly uninitiated had an anazing range of old arcade machines and you could smoke inside. Didn't find anything like that elsewhere.

[chronovore]

It's totally fine to be a tourist, have fun, stumble around in wonder, and rejoice in it all. Everyone loves seeing someone appreciating what they've got right in front of them, drinking it in. There's so much great about Japan, it'd be a crime to be blasé about it.

The weeb factor comes in when foreigners seem to think they're Paul Atreides meeting the Fremen for the first time: "He will know their ways as if born to them!" when in actuality they're just being annoying, a kind of queef-shit shat-a-rock. I want everyone to come and enjoy their ride, but don't want them fooling themselves that they're like Admiral Perry and his black fleet.

[Himu]

The weeb factor comes in when foreigners seem to think they're Paul Atreides meeting the Fremen for the first time: "He will know their ways as if born to them!" when in actuality they're just being annoying, a kind of queef-shit shat-a-rock. I want everyone to come and enjoy their ride, but don't want them fooling themselves that they're like Admiral Perry and his black fleet.

Huh? Mind extrapolating this?

[chronovore]

A lot of people show up fed fully on a junk diet of manga and anime, and then overlay that knowledge over what they experience in Japan. Rather than being open to what’s actually happening around them, they’re accepting of only the most narrow overlap of what the culture is and what they expected.

[Himu]

A lot of people show up fed fully on a junk diet of manga and anime, and then overlay that knowledge over what they experience in Japan. Rather than being open to what’s actually happening around them, they’re accepting of only the most narrow overlap of what the culture is and what they expected.

Oh. Those people. Well I'm already not one of those people.

[Mr. Gundam]

How not to become a weeaboo? Visit somewhere in Japan other than Denden Town or Akihabara and try to act like a weeaboo. Problem solved.

I still want to punch the guy I overheard on the ferry from Miyajima talking about how he needed at least five days in Akihabara. You can do it in like two fucking hours. Get out and go wander cool neighborhoods and eat some goddamn ramen.

Maybe it's because I was a dumb tourist, but when I was there we stayed in Yotsuya in Shinjuku, and it was great. Spent a lot of time in shimo-kitazawa and I think my fav plc in shinjuku was nonbei yakocho... Tl:dr spent a lot of time in neighbourhoods around Tokyo, but when we were bored we'd often go to this arcade we found in akihabara which, to me being fairly uninitiated had an anazing range of old arcade machines and you could smoke inside. Didn't find anything like that elsewhere.

Shimokitazawa is my favorite neighborhood in Tokyo. Yanaka is a close second. Just cool areas to wander around and pop into little shops.

[bork]

A lot of people show up fed fully on a junk diet of manga and anime, and then overlay that knowledge over what they experience in Japan. Rather than being open to what’s actually happening around them, they’re accepting of only the most narrow overlap of what the culture is and what they expected.

When I was a college freshman in '99, my Japanese class was filled with these people. 

98% of them didn't make it past the first semester.    Too much interest in anime and cosplay and not enough in anything else.  I wonder if anything has changed?

[bork]

Weeaboo image commentary read aloud.

  language

[Valkyrie]

Nyanners 

[chronovore]

Honestly sounded exactly like Kristen Schaal.

[Great Rumbler]

Nyanners 

Nyanners 

[bork]

Is Nyanners well-known?  I stumbled on some videos today and found some LOLZ.

Honestly sounded exactly like Kristen Schaal.

She sounds a lot like the little girl character in Persona 3.  I thought the video Rumbler posted really was that voice actress. 

[eleuin]

A lot of people show up fed fully on a junk diet of manga and anime, and then overlay that knowledge over what they experience in Japan. Rather than being open to what’s actually happening around them, they’re accepting of only the most narrow overlap of what the culture is and what they expected.

When I was a college freshman in '99, my Japanese class was filled with these people. 

98% of them didn't make it past the first semester.    Too much interest in anime and cosplay and not enough in anything else.  I wonder if anything has changed?

nope

[Great Rumbler]

Is Nyanners well-known?  I stumbled on some videos today and found some LOLZ.

I don't know if she's really that well known, she's just been around for a while so people who do a lot of internet tend to have heard of her/seen one of her videos floating around before.

[Mr. Gundam]

Oops. Wrong thread.

[Nabbis]

Oops. Wrong thread.

Run as far as you can and never look back.

[Mr. Gundam]

Oops. Wrong thread.

Run as far as you can and never look back.

Hah. I meant to post in the Japan thread, but this is incredibly fitting.

[chronovore]

Oops. Wrong thread.

Run as far as you can and never look back.

Hah. I meant to post in the Japan thread, but this is incredibly fitting.

Yeah, it's appropriate reaction to the weaboo affliction.