Thread 23279695

It's been 9 years now and I like it a lot. It really is just like anime (within reason, of course). But I think it's not for most people. You really do have to give up everything to make it work. Your old culture and way of doing things, ties in your old country, literally everything. You have to live like a Japanese person, work at a Japanese company, and do things the same way as everyone else or else life here would become hell. And fluency in Japanese is an absolute must.

But it's all worth it, at least to me it was anyway. A few years back I gave up my hamburger citizenship and became a Japanese citizen so I even have a Japanese name now. I get teased online by foreigners for it, but irl I feel more accepted after changing my name. It's hard to explain but attitudes are different.

Unfortunately Akiba sucks now though, so some of the otaku stuff I used to like in the old days is dead now and everything either went online or moved elsewhere, but the newer hubs don't hit the same level as Akiba used to :(

And I don't know what happened but it seems like overseas anime fans changed a lot during covid or something? I didn't used to, but I get a bad taste in my mouth from them these days. What happened?

Your life is not anime, Ken-sama
>>>/int/

>>23279696
Posting about something you did because of anime seems pretty on topic for the anime board. In this case, going to anime land.

>>23279695 (OP)
Anon I told you
Just because all the locals call you "Baka Gaijin" doesn't mean its a new name.

>>23279698
Nobody calls me baka or gaijin. They just call me my name unless I'm in a shop or something and they call me okyakusama.

>>23279698
they don't call him baka gaijin they call him okama geisha that somehow he heard as white takeshi.

>>23279697
The first time I went to Japan I went to every ferris wheel in Honey & Clover and then I went to a bunch more just because.

>>23279701
Are you on the spectrum?

>>23279695 (OP)
>OP Caught in japan
i know your filthy way of writing....

>>23279700
People call me by my name that I introduce myself with.

>>23279704
Take your meds. I'm a hairy white man with a big floppy dick.

>>23279706
i found your pic.

>>23279695 (OP)
>I moved to Japan because of anime

>>23279701
based! that sounds fun. how did you travel between them?

>>23279708
>picrel
A reincarnated eleven returns back to Nippon.

I prefer Japan for Japanese people

>>23279707
do you post weird pseudo-offensive stuff because someone else is living your dream?
>>23279708
I sleep in a big bed with my wife.
>>23279711
I agree. I'm Japanese.

>>23279695 (OP)
>Gave up the chance to fuck the spicy Latinas and ginger sprinkled blondes that anime makes all their characters based on to move to Japan

You have nothing but my pity retard lmfao.

>>23279712
You're not Japanese. You're a white guy living in Japan.
Change your name
Speak the language fluently
Cope and seethe all you want, but everyone can tell with just one look that you're a white guy living in Japan.

>>23279713
>that anime makes all their characters based on
Imagine believing this bullshit.

I plow my Yamato nadeshiko wife instead. I'm glad I never dirtied my rod on such ugly, disgusting creatures like the ones you praise. Japan unironically has the most beautiful women in the world.

>>23279714
How would being white disqualify me from being Japanese? You don't have any clue as to what Japanese even is. It's always funny when losers from Ohio or wherever try and gatekeep Japan.

You don't know anything about Japan. You don't know how Japanese people feel or think about any topic, especially this one. I am Japanese, by all definitions of the word.

>>23279695 (OP)
hey I've been living in Tokyo for a year now.
about to leave next week.
nothing really changed since coming here, still a worthless neet. except I stopped watching anime once I moved here.
sad to part from my gf though.

akihabara really does suck.

>>23279695 (OP)
How's the job market for whatever you're doing? Do you find that being a non-native significantly reduces professional opportunities?
>it seems like overseas anime fans changed a lot during covid or something? I didn't used to, but I get a bad taste in my mouth from them these days
See attached pic. It was bad before covid but forcing the normalfags inside where they had nothing to do but binge netflix for a year made everything a lot worse

>>23279717
I don't know what I'm supposed to be looking at.
>>23279719
Why are you leaving? But also did you expect you would be a different person or something after arriving? Why would you think that?

>>23279718
That poor E-Type

>>23279695 (OP)
>And I don't know what happened but it seems like overseas anime fans changed a lot during covid or something?
Anime fans used to be isolated nerds (who were often bullied for liking anime, hence why "hide your power level" became a thing).
This was the case for years even with anime airing in english dubs on TV (Inuyasha, Yu Yu Hakusho, Trigun, Cowboy Bebop, etc.)
Then the popularity started spreading and it became popular for normalfags and browns.
>Yes, Mexico and Brazil had their own fans from the 'start' as well, but in the online sphere they kept to themselves due to the language barrier, and I'm focusing on the English digital sphere here.
As the "what's acceptable to bully" list started shrinking more and more due to various reasons I won't bother getting into here, the current bottom of the barrel (pedophiles) started absorbing the lion's share of hate. However most people don't advertise that sort of predilection, and such content obviously gets removed from social media, so the people who get joy and pleasure from being mean to others drifted over to the next best thing: lolicons and even tangentially people who watch anime with lolis that they (the audience) don't sexualize purposes (fans of Made in Abyss, Maid Dragon, etc.). Those who care about social reputation (i.e. faggots) then are quick to denounce such interests even if they have them so the roaming digital pitchfork squads leave them alone. Many artists have had to delete their accounts to stop harassment even for simply taking a random commission of someone who wanted a loli piece.
Now mix in some of pic related.
And then youtubers became more a of a thing and a somewhat legitimately organic occurrence of "negative press sells more" started happening where they began to shit on certain anime which bridged the gap between "hating on those losers who like it" while also exposing them to the material. This is almost solely the cause of the early hatred of SAO for instance. 1/2

>>23279716
I don't have to live in Japan to know that when someone talks about a Japanese person, they aren't thinking of a fat hairy white guy.

this is always the cheap choice for dinner, if you haven't gone there you are lying.

good for you op, btw can you dump one or two maybe three photos of mostly empty Japanese street? real one not google

>>23279714
But Japanese are honorary

>>23279722
crashed it a few minutes ago, baka gaijin thinks he is allowed to be here.

>>23279695 (OP)
White people are ruining Japan. Thanks anime for prostituting out what was once a beautiful country to bottom totem pole men who think they should be accepted for being losers in their home countries.

>>23279716
>How would being white disqualify me from being Japanese?
When we say "Japanese" we mean ethnicity you dumbfuck. You mean nationality. The former is inherent to you, the latter can change every week and is thus meaningless.

>>23279723
Watching how the negativity spread about whatever show / hobby made me understand why Japan seems to clamp down on such things hard. I always thought it was odd and a little off putting, but seeing the alternative I have to concede. I think negative feedback and be important (constructive criticism) but the way most people in the west go about it is absolutely not the case.
Anyway, that's a short summation.
All you have to do is go on twitter and search for any anime in english and see the kind of stuff I'm talking about.
Then again the entire reason anime started appealing to most normalfags is because western entertainment (hollywood) is completely shitting the bed right now due to various reasons i won't get into, so a simple comparison means that even with the cultural disparity anime is still more appealing to the western normalfag than the slop they were used to. This has been noticed and is one reason payment processors are acting uppity trying to regulate people spending their own money.
It remains to be seen what the outcome will be but I'm not hopeful.

>living in Japan for 9 years
Prove it with pic of yourself there

>>23279729
ah yes, white guys 'losers back home' coming to japan to teach english and shit is a recent phenomenon lol

>>23279695 (OP)
Current anime is dogshit, only Anime fans you're getting now are dogshit enjoyers. You're also a faggot.

>>23279695 (OP)
>But I think it's not for most people. You really do have to give up everything to make it work. Your old culture and way of doing things, ties in your old country, literally everything. You have to live like a Japanese person, work at a Japanese company, and do things the same way as everyone else or else life here would become hell. And fluency in Japanese is an absolute must.
You're telling me I have to assimilate in another country?!?!? That's FUCKING CRAZY dude, I would never have known had you not told me with your experience.

>>23279715
pretty based. don't argue in this thread tho brotha share happy stuff instead. it's a rare chance to spread joy.

>>23279719
how did you stay there for a year as a neet??? sucks that you'll have to leave your gf homie.

>>23279732
I didn't say it was recent

>>23279720
In my industry there's a shortage of talent so it's easy to find work. I've been working at the same place as a seishain since I was 22, but I often get contacted with offers to go elsewhere but I like where I'm at now.
>Do you find that being a non-native significantly reduces professional opportunities?
As long as your fluent, there's no reason why this would be the case unless you're doing something extremely specific that relies on some kind of nuance that L2 speakers probably lack.
>It was bad before covid but forcing the normalfags inside where they had nothing to do but binge netflix for a year made everything a lot worse
I see, so we picked up tourists. Studios aren't just catering to global audiences, they're catering to tourists... I think I get it now... How do we get rid of them?>>23279723
>And then youtubers became more a of a thing and a somewhat legitimately organic occurrence of "negative press sells more" started happening where they began to shit on certain anime which bridged the gap between "hating on those losers who like it" while also exposing them to the material
I think this is just wedtern culture. A lot of people seem to define their personality by what they hate instead of what they like.
>>23279724
Maybe in America, but most people there think that Japan is somewhere in China. How would they know what a Japanese person is? Japan is a pretty diverse place, and there's even one Japanese ethnic group that's literally white people descended from explorers who set up shop on an island before it was taken over by Japan and they were integrated into the population.

You don't know jack shit about Japan. Everything you know about Japan comes from anime, but all of the anime you watch is censored in translation and localization. Then you walk around saying stupid shit like "aniMe ChaRACyeRs R wHiTE"
>>23279725
I don't eat Chinese food.
>>23279726
I posted one in my OP. I'm working right now but I've gotta run an errand later

>>23279738
>How do we get rid of them?
They're the same as you. You are quite literally a tourist, the biggest one of them all.

>>23279695 (OP)
Their hate for foreigners is growing immensely. You will never be a local, you will always be a faggot.

>>23279723
pretty good summary.

>>23279740
Dubs confirm OP will end up crucified

>>23279695 (OP)
This looks like Nerima, yes?

>>23279742
we have one that posted pic of him crashing a gaijin in japan, that's enough to know the end of OP.

>>23279738
>there's even one Japanese ethnic group that's literally white people descended from explorers
You didn't, though. You moved there 9 years ago because of anime and now you're coping and seething because you will always be a dirty gaijin.
>Everything you know about Japan comes from anime, but all of the anime you watch is censored in translation and localization. Then you walk around saying stupid shit like "aniMe ChaRACyeRs R wHiTE"
Hilarious projection considering the OP topic, thanks for the laugh, dumbass.

>>23279743
>, yes?
Just curious what country you're from that's a cute way to ask a question that I don't find often.

>>23279729
The Kurds, Vietnamese, Chinese, Nepalese, Sri Lankans, Indians, and Uzbekistanis are doing way more damage than a handful of annoying tourists could ever dream of doing. And I wasn't a loser back home, I was just a kid. I came here right after high school, I didn't have time to become a loser. Keep projecting though.
>>23279730
>When we say "Japanese" we mean ethnicity you dumbfuck. You mean nationality. The former is inherent to you, the latter can change every week and is thus meaningless
You should learn what the word ethnicity means. You're referring to phenotype, ethnicity is related to social groups and changes as people undergo acculturation. Phenotypical features are genetic and don't change, but Japan is pretty diverse and has multiple native groups so there's a broad variety of phenotypical features that are common.
>>23279732
I don't teach English. I don't think anyone could realistically do that beyond a year or two, it's not a career.
>>23279733
Yaiba was pretty good
>>23279735
Thanks, Tyrone. What do you want me to share?

>>23279739
Learn English before using English websites.
>>23279740
That's not even Japan. Look at his nose.
>>23279743
Nah, I don't live in the 23ku.
>>23279745
>you will always be a dirty gaijin
Gaijin don't have 戸籍 or kanji names. It's in the name 外国人.
>Hilarious projection considering the OP topic, thanks for the laugh, dumbass.
There's a very wide margin between thinking something is cool and then moving to the country it's from and assimilating, and getting all of your information about that country through censored localizations while never leaving your mom's basement in Rhode Island. You are the latter.

YWNBJ

>>23279747
you were a loser there is not other explanation あほ！ for example if it was "i went because of job" or "i went to study or medical treatments" then yes is withing posibilities.
you didn't fit in your country and you don't fit in japan バカ!!がいじん

>>23279712
>I sleep in a big bed with my wife
Is she a JC or JK?

>>23279730
I really hate the virtue signalling culture that social media created. It's so dishonest, and full of deeply insecure people seeking validation by asserting their moral superiority over random strangers while secretly indulging in their own degeneracy.
I wish people could just embrace their hobbies without all the cynicism and faux-irony. Anime is a fictional medium, none of it is real, it's all just drawings and harms no one except the US comics market

>>23279751
is a phillipine troon that fucks him while he is asleep, are the only ones that get along with gaijin.

>>23279751
god the JKs are really something else here.
you think anime is weirdly obsessed with the high school uniform because it's made by lonely perverts but then you come here and you're surrounded by them constantly and think "wait, I shouldn't be fixated on this, am I the lonely pervert?"

>>23279748
You're a fat hairy white guy who moved to Japan because of anime and now larp about being Japanese on /a/
>mom's basement in Rhode Island
Keep guessing, gaijin, that's 2/50. Maybe you'll get my state right on the 50th try.

>>23279750
>i went to study or medical treatments
My first visa was literally a student visa. I came here to study after graduating high school and then transitioned into the workforce and got married.
>you didn't fit in your country
I fit in fine in my old country. I had friends at school and church, did pretty alright on the basketball team, never got bullied or anything.
>you don't fit in japan
I literally do though. I have friends from work, I have friends I still talk to from school, my neighbors around my house like to chat with me, I have friends at the book club at the library, the other parents often talk with me when I take my kids to school. Socially I'm doing just fine. And as for work, I started as an engineer when I was 22 and now I'm a project manager, so I'd say things are going great there as well. I'm a permanent employee (seishain) with good benefits and a salary that beats the average for mg age and industry. And as for love life, I've got a wonderful wife and 3 kids. Together with my wife I also own my own home without debt or loans. There is nothing about my life that could be defined as a loser or someone who doesn't fit in. You're angry and are projecting your own insecurities because someone on the internet is living the life you want to live. Well if you want it so bad than get off your ass and make it happen instead of shitting up this board.

>>23279695 (OP)
I lived in Tokyo for 2.5yrs
Didn’t integrate at all
Fucked lots of Japanese women
Had lots of fun partying

10/10 Would recommend, big highlight of my 20s

>>23279755
I don't need to get your state right, they're all the same. You live in a slum that's full of brown people, there's no job prospects except for retail and fast food but even those are hard to get, there's a drug problem and the druggies walk the streets like zombies looking for their next hobby. There's nothing to do in town except maybe go see a movie, but the movie theater will probably close down soon because nobody goes anymore since it's too expensive now. Your parents keep telling you to get a job but there are none and you don't want one anyway because you'd rather stay at home and fap all day.
>You're a fat hairy white guy who moved to Japan because of anime and now larp about being Japanese on /a/
I'm not fat and I don't larp, but yeah I am hairy and I am white. Cry harder.

>>23279747
>ethnicity is related to social groups and changes as people undergo acculturation.
Your parents aren't Japanese, you weren't born there from whatever you consider Japanese stock. However you define it, you weren't Japanese since birth and that's what most people mean. You know very well what I mean too and are trying your best to skirt this acknowledgement on technicalities.
There are drugs that work better or worse for certain ethnic groups, and it has nothing to do with "appearances (what you call phenotype)" or social groups or what language you speak or where you were born, it has to do with genetics.
I don't even know why you're arguing this.
If a random faggot was showed a picture of a group of people and asked "pick out the japanese guy", you're not going to be what he picks. He'll be more likely to pick a Han Chinese over you.

You know nihongo and live on the archipelago. Cool beans. That's not what anyone cares about when they use the word Japanese.

>>23279747
>You should learn what the word ethnicity means. You're referring to phenotype, ethnicity is related to social groups and changes as people undergo acculturation.
The common use of "ethnicity" is just to differentiate groups of the same common race. Saying you're white doesn't really identify you to one specific group or ancestry like saying you're British does. You'll still never be Japanese.

>meanwhile anti-immigration protests in Japan that ousted a minister
It is unironically over for you.

>>23279756
you don't get student visa unless you are level 5 on japanese test, workforce well moguris are well paid but illegal as any country sadly foreigners can't get a full time contract due to japan laws so i would bet moguri living in a park (not that hard to do, i lived on park when i was 12 years after running away from the institute, japan has a good weather, lot of edible plants and you can ask around things to eat like pan crust, day old baguettes or pastry or pick up bento that is expired by a day and was kept on a fridge, lot of ways of survival).

>>23279759
>If a random faggot was showed a picture of a group of people and asked "pick out the japanese guy", you're not going to be what he picks. He'll be more likely to pick a Han Chinese over you.
Ethnic groups are social groups. Membership into ethnic groups is decided based on acceptance by members of that ethnic group, not by outsiders to the group.
>There are drugs that work better or worse for certain ethnic groups
Only in America where ethnicity is a PC term for race.

There's no technicalities at play here.

>>23279695 (OP)
Based anon following their dreams.

>>23279758
>people point out he's not Japanese and never will be, no matter how much anime he watches
>instantly throws a temper tantrum and starts seething at everyone in the thread
>actually you're the ones who are angry and projecting
Wow, that's incredible, gaijin. How much anime did you have to watch to become a full-blooded Jap who doesn't larp? Was it 200 shows? 500?

>>23279763
>Ethnic groups are social groups.
In part but also by common ancestry i.e. race. You cannot take out the racial component.

>>23279761
I genuinely have no idea what you're talking about. The only protest we had recently was over fake news that spread on social media and that has absolutely nothing to do with why Ishiba stepped down.
>>23279762
>you don't get student visa unless you are level 5 on japanese test
I don't know what you're talking about. That may or may not be the case now, but it wasn't the case in 2016 when I moved here.
>workforce well moguris are well paid but illegal as any country sadly foreigners can't get a full time contract due to japan laws
I have only ever worked legally. Again, no idea what you're talking about.
>living in a park
Never done that

Please take your meds

>>23279765
It's literally just you. And I'm not giving you any more (you)'s, so you better enjoy this last one. I'll be enjoying my life here in Japan while you continue crying about being a loser in America.

>>23279768
wow your seething lol, i was with you at first but this is kinda sad

>>23279695 (OP)
please tell me you behave in the most obnoxious weeb foreigner ken-sama style way possible because that would bring me immense joy

I think you're going to burn out. You'll never be Japanese. The people that burn out are the ones that really think if they're extra goodie two shoes and 110% the Japaneseness of the average Japanese they'll be fully accepted. But you never are. And when faced with all your effort being rebuffed eventually the cognitive dissonance will get to you.
The people I've seen succeed in Japan long term are people that came with the expectation that they'd be Dhimmi at best. That even if they got their citizenship they'd always be second class. People who were content with that from the get go, or at least arrived at that understanding after doing the JET shit for a few years and realizing it was their only real option, those are the people I know that will probably live their forever.

Exist in the niche the Nips are willing to carve out for you or resent that niche never being what you want it to be.

>>23279695 (OP)
Begone, non-virgin!

>>23279768
Thanks, gaijin.
I want you to know that I won't spend them all in one place.

Anon, can you tell me what tricks you used so I can bag myself a cute cake?

>>23279747
>Thanks, Tyrone. What do you want me to share?
Just stuff that made you happy over the years. Being careful of doxxing, idk stuff like, your first job. Your first promotion. Your wedding day. Etc. Or if that's too big-scale just small fun things you like about life in Japan my nigga.

i want to believe(c).

can you at least post a photo with "hello 4chan" near something japanese or something?

>>23279767
takeshi doesn't know? i thought you said "i'm lving in japan for 9 years".
the full time contract only applies to japanese citizens either from first to third generation born outside the country while retaining japanese citizenship, full timers can't be fired under any circumstance but can be demoted from workplace to force them to quit.
also foreigners can't apply for a work visa for more then 90 days and in case of one they need to register in the local police station to register their address and part time work place and extend the visa.
if you live on the park you don't need to worry about police they don't get close thus lot of foreigners live there and seeing you couldn't get a full time contract for obvious reasons (being a baka gaijin) it was either you worked part time or moguri.

>>23279763
>Membership into ethnic groups is decided based on acceptance by members of that ethnic group
Oh ho. How does this work? Majority vote?
If you meet a nationalistic Jap who says "iie" do you have to find another one in an hour or you lose your J-card?

>>23279695 (OP)
Based anon living the dream. Don't listen to the haters in this thread they're just seething because they ain't you.

>>23279768
Nah, I was one other.
BTW I"m black, I recognize you as one of us too.
Does that mean you're black now my nigga? Because you earned the recognition of one of us?

>>23279754
yeah i legit dunno if it's cuz anime primed me for this or if the seifuku were designed to be sexy as fuck
i can understand those sneak photographers who take pantsu shots and shit now

>>23279781
It's the skirts. Women always have and always will look best in skirts.

>>23279695 (OP)
Congrats OP. I decided to move to Japan because the fact some countries in the west criminalized loli sounded like a red flag. Years later we have UK doing the ID thing and credit card companies trying to ban all fictional porn as well as horror, violence and who knows what else. I just didn’t expect them to try to force their hand to ban it in Japan as well.

>>23279782
that and also just there's so much bare leg exposure mane

>>23279771
>The people that burn out are the ones that really think if they're extra goodie two shoes and 110% the Japaneseness of the average Japanese they'll be fully accepted
I have never lived my life that way.

When I arrived, I lived my life with the attitude of "when in Rome, do as the Romans do" and I tried my best not to stand out and live harmoniously in society. This worked fine, and I adapted my lifestyle to my new home and continued on with my life. As I understand it, I would call this assimilation. I wasn't trying to be Japanese, I just didn't want to be a burden. And then after I got citizenship my name changed, I did it because my ancestors changed their names when they went to America so it felt like the right thing to do. Like a stamp to say "this is my home" and nothing more. But after that the way people treated my changed a little and suddenly I felt more accepted. To my surprise, people who had not known me prior started assuming I was hafu since it's rare for foreigners to get citizenship. And I guess the reason people were treating my different was because they assumed I had a Japanese parent or something, not that I was a temporary guest (it sounds weird, but there's a lot of hafu celebrities who just look white, so I can understand).

I just wanted to live a normal life here and not cause problems by forcing a square peg through a round hole and doing everything the American way, so I assimilated. But then after becoming a citizen people changed their attitudes because of my name. That's all. But people here don't mind foreigners if they try to follow the culture, so I think that difference in attitude is that they assume you can communicate fluently and understand cultural nuances, and I'm fluent so I can and do. It's more like the other person seems more relaxed than anything. It's not something that I did.

>>23279774
Just be yourself. Speak the language fluently. You'll find someone.

>>23279786
dye your hair black and tell people your dad was white. pretend to be native.

>>23279778
You would have to search pretty hard to find someone like that. We've got some famous naturalized people here and even right wing groups consider them Japanese. The new group that doesn't like naturalized citizens is a minority group and the percentage of people who voted for them is even fewer than the percentage of foreigners in the population.
>>23279781
The uniforms themselves are very nice attire. Anyone wearing nice attire will look good.

>>23279788
There's no reason to do that. People hear my name and they hear me speak fluently and they relax knowing they can communicate with me, or they know that they don't have to censor themselves to foreigner sensitivities. It's nice.

Dying your hair, getting some kind of cosmetic surgery, or anything like that is just mental illness. I like my hair, I like my face, I like who I am. I don't need to pretend to be a native in order to get along with people.

>>23279787
>Just be yourself
But that's the problem!

>>282152529
Nah. Seethe harder.

>>23279695 (OP)
>>what happened?
two too few.

>>23279779
So true, xister-sama!

>>23279695 (OP)
I dont get the point of giving up citizenship instead of just getting pr and changing your name is low key kinda trannyesque
The recent sanseitou shit basically proves naturalization means very little more for your right to be in the country if they ever go full japan first mode
Im just here on the spousal visa atm waiting for pr

For anime and manga it seems more convenient to live in Europe or America. Manga is released at midnight in Japan so for Europe that's 4/5 pm, allowing you to read new releases in the evening. Similarly you don't have to stay up all night for anime.

>>23279695 (OP)
How is the dating culture there? Are people romantically inclined?

How do people feel in comparison to Europe? Are they more down to earth, or more silent, or more LARP'ing style?

How often do you meet an otaku?

japan isn't that big of a deal

Living in japan sucks unless you're rich like Pewdiepie when you move over there.
Working a 12 hour shift 6 days a week half unpaid and always being "not one of us" sucks no matter how you put it.
Unless you already have a good safe career lined up there's no point in moving over there with the intention of working as a full time employee.

>/jp/ thread
That's nice and all, but if you're going to force your blog you might as well shill whatever anime you like so we can make fun of your Guy Jin taste

>>23279801
i work way less than that because my wife is rich and most of the discrimination is positive as in people treat me better than the treat other japs simply because im white and rare

>>23279804
plus you're probably packing compared to them right

>>23279805
idk i havent seen any erect japanese dicks irl

>>23279806
but you probably know. you're a smart guy and you know. right? be honest.

>>23279807
i dont
my wife says im big but i doubt its anything special
multiple japanese guys have alluded to me probably having a big dick out of nowhere and it makes me uncomfortable ngl

>>23279781
well yeah they look great (and there are strict uniforms rules that everyone follows and everyone takes care of their appearance to try to fit in)
but it's more about how omnipresent they are.
I went to a catholic school with uniforms in the west and no one really though about them, and took them off as soon as soon as school was over.
here?
girls wear the jk uniform everywhere.
after school, weekends, 10pm in shibuya, summer vacation. somehow it doesn't matter.
also they're super visible and everyone uses the trains to get to school so you always see them in city centres.
but I live in a trendy city in Tokyo that they love to visit to shop/hang out in so maybe they're over-represented or I'm just too fixated.

>>23279695 (OP)
To anyone going to Akiba just know OP is kinda right. I mean there's still obviously stuff there even old stuff if you're willing to buy second hand but for specialized stuff you'll have to look for the smaller hubs which normally only hold the specific stuff, so no more one stop area for everything but you'll still find it if you look.

>>23279695 (OP)
20 year japanfag here and i think anime is pretty shit
i'm sure there are other expats here but taking on a japanese name is pretty faggoty and kinda makes me doubt
i briefly thought it might be interesting to take on my wife's family name when we got married but she actually hates it and wants it to die out because her family is the old boss hog of her town and there's a lot of drama and bullshit in its history.

>>23279740
it's always fascinating on a sociological level to see stunted retards who've never left their murkan suburban hideyhole thinking they're somehow the "guardians" of japan and know what japanese people think. like it's just so weird that a person can be this emotionally undeveloped yet still think they have any opinions that matter

>>23279738
>You don't know jack shit about Japan. Everything you know about Japan comes from anime
>>23279695 (OP)
>It's been 9 years now and I like it a lot. It really is just like anime (within reason, of course).
ain't no way bro said that with a straight face lmao

>>23279805
I was considered very big back in the west and here.. man I bought some boxers from uniqlo/muji and the waist is fine but they crush my junk, like they're made for a totally different body type.

>>23279810
it's not even worth visiting imo. I only went when a 4chin friend visited the country and made me go.
just go somewhere like Nakano Broadway instead

>>23279804
unko...

>>23279811
i would like to take on my wifes family name if they didnt make foreigners spell it in katakana anyway

>>23279738
>l2 speakers
You know level 2 would be those that kinda understand a bit but barelly can talk it, level 4 would be those fluent that can read a bit (there are several japanese yankees that are in this level).
You aren't fooling anyone specially the whole "in my area there is a shortage of talent" which would be hard to believe specially if you don't say your speciality but we can guess from job offers.
>kindergarten spanish teacher.
>primary school spanish teacher level 5 certification.
>US military base access guard l2 requirement security clearance check for previous offenses.
>kitchen assistant requirement l4
>assistant in children show as tokusatsu villain.
>assistant on bento factory l4 required.

>>23279817
its language 2 speakers retard

>>23279797
>I dont get the point of giving up citizenship instead of just getting pr
Why own a house when you can just rent an apartment?
>changing your name is low key kinda trannyesque
Trannies change their name because they want to push against society, not to join society.
>The recent sanseitou shit basically proves naturalization means very little more for your right to be in the country if they ever go full japan first mode
Considering how much of the vote they got, and voter turnout, there's literally nothing to worry about. It's like 1% of the population. A lot of the nationalist groups don't like Sanseito.
>Im just here on the spousal visa atm waiting for pr
So you're here temporarily?

>>23279695 (OP)
are you that software engineer guy who posted here about moving to japan because of his love of anime?

>>23279819
no i eventually want permanent residency but i also like the having the option of going back ( i have 2 citizenships) and i dont really see the benefit to 帰化 other than voting which doesnt matter in japan and not having to renew pr card

>>49988744
/a/

>>49988744
Why, /a/ of course!

>>23279821
Oh I see, you're an opportunist.

>>23279817
L2 means fluent speakers who speak it as their second language, retard.
>You aren't fooling anyone specially the whole "in my area there is a shortage of talent" which would be hard to believe specially if you don't say your speciality but we can guess from job offers.
I literally said earlier in the thread what my job is.

>>23279825
vocaroo yourself speaking japanese
a brief summary of your op post

>>23279819
do you ever fear you may be murdered for being white by an ultra nationalist or the yakuza? or taken advantage of in some way?

Why do gaijins move to other countries just because they can't get laid in their own one?

>>23279826
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7h7bnYA1LXE
https://vocaroo.com/14cEZ45fIu3q

>>23279829
https://voca.ro/1gSJ99gLnoMf

>>23279695 (OP)
>Akiba sucks now though, so some of the otaku stuff I used to like in the old days is dead now
Please don't tell me this...

>>23279829
bro...
https://desuarchive.org/a/thread/278402797/#278406464

>>23279826
No
>>23279827
No
>>23279828
It's not a matter of getting laid or not getting laid, it's a matter of living in a good town and being happy.

>>23279834
why not?

>>23279833
Fraud.

>>23279723
Why are you acting like lolicons and pedophiles aren't the same thing?

>>23279757
>Fucked lots of Japanese women
How loose are japs? Did you just meet randos off the street and be like "im big boy for us, biggu huwaito meat steek for yewww" or are you seriously bragging about fucking escorts?

>>23279695 (OP)
How fluent were you before you made the move?
How difficult was it to find good work?
How much money should one have set aside before coming over?

>move to japan
>witness a group of jews and japs plotting to take over the world by spreading child porn, pedophilia, and all sorts of sexual degeneracy to get people porn addicted

How do I make the first step into being offered a job in Japan?
I'd imagine they won't give work visas to just about anyone, so how do I as a foreigner get offered a job there?
Asking because ever since I came back from Japan I made it my personal duty to go back there for good, and speaking the language.
As for teaching, I have N2 level, experience teaching English and generally like it, but I hear that most people that do programs like JET don't know a word of Japanese and still get offered jobs. Does knowing the language make things easier for me in this aspect?

>>23279860
Get employed at a shipyard

>>23279698
the locals called me kuronbo when i was there? does this mean anything

(it's literally japanese for nigger)

>>23279695 (OP)
>Unfortunately Akiba sucks now though, so some of the otaku stuff I used to like in the old days is dead now and everything either went online or moved elsewhere, but the newer hubs don't hit the same level as Akiba used to :(
we're all going to hell
20th century was the last renaissance for a while

>>23279695 (OP)
>And I don't know what happened but it seems like overseas anime fans changed a lot during covid or something? I didn't used to, but I get a bad taste in my mouth from them these days. What happened?
anime became popular here is what happened

>>23279695 (OP)
I'm looking for a bento box, it cant be pinku (that's Japanese for pink) or any girl color. It has to be of 2 or more kotoba (that's Japanese for 2 compartments) and has be be chibi (small) sized. And has to be really kawaii (cute). Also It has to be about 10-20 bux. And you have to post pics of it first (i want to make shure it's kawaii [cute]). And it would be nice if it came with matching chopstick holder (WITH chopsticks). OH! and it CANNOT have any cartoon pictures, or be made out of plastic. It has to be made of ceramic, or something like that. Also it would be nice if it was made in japan. and not in china or corea (Korea) or whatever. I have found a bento box similar to the one im describing in e-bay, but it was 1 kotoba, and i don't want my gohan (rice) to touch my other things (it can get wet and i would not like that, plus 2 compartments looks more kawaii)

test

>TWO thread moves
lmao
>>23279816
>wife's name
>makes me spell it in katakana
Let me see if I'm understanding you correctly.

You take wife's name. Wife's name is spelled with hiragana or kanji, whatever.
But YOU, with the same name, have to spell it with katakana because you're not a local?
If so lol

>>23282360
last names are pretty much always kanji (if not always idk) but yeah
you cant have it be in kanji even if its literally a japanese name which makes it retarded