Hey /YOU/. What turned you into a japan-loving weeaboo?
Post stories and discuss others. Is there some common trait we all share? What brought you to this country mentally?
What turned YOU into a Weeaboo?
Christian Long
Nolan Nguyen
When I was a little kid, say 6 or 7, there was a TV channel that used to broadcast animes.I used to watch all day.After that, the channel closed down, and I forgot about them.Fast forward, in my early 20's, I one day sit at home and remember how much I used to like them and I decide to give it another shot.I wouldn't call myself a weaboo, simply because I'm not as into it as other lads around here, altough I like Japan as a country and their culture and would hope to move there in the future.This has less to do with anime, and more with the fact that I want to travel a little before finding a place to settle down.And the idea of moving there and starting with a clean slate sounds rather romanting to me for whatever reason.
Caleb Cox
dunno really. I guess I watched dragonball z and pokemon back when they were new and hip without really knowing what anime was. Also the stuff that used to air on fox kids back when that was a channel like sailor moon and gundam wing. I more or less grew out of watching cartoons when I was like 11 or 12, but then somehow got back into anime hard when I was 16 or so. I guess I naturally gravitated back towards it after realising I was an irredeemable loser.
Jose Roberts
It's kinda embarrassing I guess.
I'm on 4chin since mid 2015. One and a half year in I finally decided to give anime a try, because it was posted everywhere on this site. Really enjoyed the first few shows I watched. Then I discovered that they use lots of German words in some anime and also other references to Germany. I'm German so that kind of intrigued me. Also I was kinda a nationalist at the time, identifying with my country and such, so the fact that these Japanese people seemed to appreciate my country made me feel like they actually appreciated ME, which was something I was rather hungry for. Well, the whole Japan-Germany WW2 bromance played into that as well. That's kinda a basic story, something that happens to me with girls too: Show me a bit of attention, appreciation even, and it's quite likely that I'll fall in love with you.
That said, they are probably lots more reasons for my weabooism, but that's maybe the most notable one and it's really quite embarrassing.
Jeremiah Brown
I'm not sure one thing in particular started it all, I used to watch dubbed anime on TV when I was younger, initially stuff like Sailor Moon, Cardcaptors, Digimon, Pokemon, YGO and DBZ (and then random less popular stuff which somehow got dubs like Medabots, Flint the Time Detective, Monster Rancher, Zoids and Shinzo) and then as I got older I'd watch whatever dub they played on TV which ended up being stuff like Tenchi Muyo, Big O, Outlaw Star, Cowboy Bebop, Gundam Wing and various movies. When I was really young I used to prefer the CN/HB cartoons because they were funnier but as I got older I preferred more action oriented series which is why I liked anime.
Around about the age of 14 I met a guy who was the only other person in my school who was into anime at all and he introduced to subbed shows and that's when I started getting into subbed anime/currently airing anime. He also introduced me to Touhou and Doujin music/J-Core which I liked since it referenced series I'd watched/games I'd played. I'd say around 16-18 were my peak weeaboo years where I mainly only listened to J-Core and watched shitload of anime.
After a while though I realised it was all the same shit and started to get really bored of anime in general apart from the odd series and I started watching only about 1 or 2 currently airing things a year. My music taste also changed from J-Core/Doujin Music/Hardcore to other things which further distanced me from weeb shit. But around this time (I was in uni, maybe 20 or so) I started reading a lot of manga and that's probably the only weeb thing I still regularly do, I listen to the odd doujin album here and there as well and maybe watch one new anime a year.
Jackson Garcia
Replacing human companionship with anime since I was 10
Matthew Powell
Damn, man, I think sometimes that I just needed another secret. I had a lots of secrets till I was 21. Feelings I never talked to anyone about, mental illness, suicide attempts, extreme political viewings, violent thoughts, contempt for family members, you name it. Then I made the plan to just lay it all out in one go, tell my family everything there is to know about me. Thought that'd give me some kind of closure. How that went is another story.
But not even half a year later I started to get heavily into anime and other weaboo stuff, changed my tastes in a lot of fields and even changed my political viewings. And all of that stuff now is my new secret identity. I guess I already got so used to hiding everything I do and think that I just couldn't tolerate the situation I had created with my heroic attempt. Felt like being stripped naked and defenseless. And Weabooism just seems like a thing that's natural to become something you do in secret, just like extremism is. But maybe I'm talking bullshit.
Landon Brooks
watching what they glorify in media, like stability, structure, calm neighborhoods, small but interesting portions, mixing discipline into cooking, fun cartoons, interesting culture, good aesthetic design, interesting history that wasn't dominated by sects, safe cities, safe rural areas, polite people, a society of cooperation and function, clean public transport, cool and interesting entertainment, I don't like the omg so genkii fake soft girl thing their women do but all good otherwise
i think their work culture is fucked tho
compared to the above, what do we glorify in media over here?
Nolan Miller
Being extremely poor is what made me a weeb unironically.
I for a long time just enjoyed console video games, but as we were extremely poor my mother would constantly I couldn't buy any games but it just so happened my local library had a small collection of console games to pick up. So I did and would play them and this would be my introduction to the library. I'd end up being so poor we wouldn't have electricity so my mother sold my game consoles and I had nothing to do. SO I did the only thing a 13-14 yr old could do, walk 2 miles to go to the library to at least have literally anything to do and I'd just hang out on the computers there. But there computers had time limits of like 90 mins so after that was done I started browsing the book section just for any interesting tales. While scrolling through the books I discovered my first manga and that would be what corrupted me forever more.
Ranma 1/2.
For those who don't know ranma 1/2 is a RomCom Shounen manga with lots of uncensored titties. The comedy was on point, the fights were great, and every character felt unique and special. It wasn't anything like super hero comics where 90% of them feel the exact same most of the time. This was something new, so I did the only logical thing and took volumes 1-20 (20 being the book limit at the library) home. I'd then walk the 2 miles there and 2 miles back every single day getting new volumes to read and if I was so lucky to have my electricity on I'd rent anime they had which naturally the first one I picked up was ranma 1/2 as well. I was a teen boy going through hard ships and wanting to runaway (eventually did at 16) and ranma was a character I could relate to in the fact he hated the way his life turned out and he couldn't control any of it as well. Also manga titties really helped when no access to porn of any kind, fapped to pretty much any titty I saw in a manga back then no matter how unimportant or nonsexual.
Probably why I became a tit man.
Charles Gonzalez
Can we get a few (you)s in this thread? I hate it when everyone posts something, but nobody is commenting on anything. Yet, I never now what to comment about myself. Fuck.
Tyler Thompson
Damn these images, for whatever reason they really make me fucking sad and nostalgic.
Benjamin Martinez
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David Johnson
I you want this thread to live you better start giving eachother some of those sweet (you)s
Carter Phillips
I'm not a weeaboo and I never have been. I just love Japanese media.
Sebastian Kelly
Was busy writing my blog post first and ran out of character limit.
We glorify capitalism and everyone can be successful if they tried cause you have the freedom to do so and our military. We do things big and better cause 'merica.
Don't get me wrong I do believe we are a great country, but as an insider it's hard to tell what outsiders see.
>revealing everything is a bad idea
Good to know, I've been in similar shoes and I nearly did spout everything once in angry/depressed drunk rant. People still tell me thinks I said that I don't remember telling them but overall they still don't know the half of how bad I am mentally. Always use to think therapist are a joke but guess they do have a purpose.
You ever write half a post and forget for an hour then come back to it? Thats me
Thats one of the reasons I do love japan is their own nationalism. So often you see countries that rather talk shit about other ones than just appreciate their own. It's one of the reasons I like big olypmics/world cups cause I love it when other countries are as patriotic as americans are all the time.
If you move to japan take me with you, I love the idea of a fresh start as well and japan would be my country of choice as well "namely cause of yellow fever".
Michael Hill
>yellow fever
Guilty here mate, but that's not the only reason I wanna move there.
>take me with you
Always thought the easiest way to move would be either to move there with another "gaijin" or bait some 28 yrs old christmas-cake into liking me and marrying my way into the country.If you really mean it, where are you from?
Tyler Foster
From KY but live in cali. I've traveled all over america and seen the sights and I'm at the age (24) where I shoudl start seeing other countries before I get too old and have to settle down. I'll probably get myself my passport for my birthdya gift to myself so I can at least start exploring the local countries like canada and mexico.
Landon Bennett
I guess it's a good start, and being an american kinda makes it easier.I'm a fucking prick from Eastern Europe so my options are rather limited.
Brody Flores
I ran out of good western media. Anime is by no means some kind of smash hit consistent incredible thing but hot damn does the west make a lot of total shit.
There's the occasional good TV but good, or at least conceptually interesting anime is far more common I think.
Gavin Lopez
It was 8th grade, my friend told me to watch an anime, i said no, but after a few weeks of him asking I finally did. I thought it was pretty good, my social life was slowly destroyed and i became a weeaboo
Wyatt Edwards
That's a cute anime girl, user. Thank you.
Bentley Reyes
it's always nice to see people who appreciate cute anime catgirls
Cameron Brown
how does being american make it easier? some sort of strict passport laws in your country?
anime coffeegirls are where its really at though
Michael Johnson
dumb me assuming that perhaps the fact that you live in the USA would mean that you have more money.
also, in the case of moving to Japan, I believe that being an american would help a little more than being eastern-european
also, cute anime girl
Anthony Price
I know the album this image is from. It seems like a good one but I never listened to it