/jp/ - Japan/Anime

>>27376
You know, Flan is a name for a dish.


Two dishes, even.

>>39726
Good grief, Yukari was supposed to be the "running this whole house" sage.


Now, there are 4 sages tho


>>40322
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Thanks to Zenerat, I find Sekibanki t b rather interesting to watch

>>40322
Sekibanki is kawaii :3

TouHou fan material makes up like less than 10% of anything at Comic Market now. Reiteisai is still 99.99% TouHou.

Hold on but what about anime and manga that aren't just depressing but also try to convey something important? I mean, lain isn't pure depression, it's also trying to relay some ideas to you. Granted, I may still have no frickin clue whatsoever what the hell it is that it's trying to tell you, but there's definitely a message in there.
So yeah, what about anime or manga that both fits the atmosphere and the symbolism?

>>44172
what changed?

Happy birthday, Lain!

(First aired on 06.07.1998, although past midnight though)

>>44195
Yeah I couldn't get into lain either and got bored of it, not enough titties and skirts

I'm watching freezing now, it's got a great balance of story and titties

>>44357
For me, Lain's story was a bit "too normal" to treat it as a proper existential horror movie.

The guy in VR helmet from layer 07 was spooky, though. Hadn't it been for him, i would have forgotten the very fact I, in fact, did watch some pieces of S.E.Lain back in late 2000s.

Did a jeet write this?

>>44374
Look into how the Japanese were able to prevail in the Russo-Japanese War i.e. British support and Jewish loans.

>>44370
Serves them right then lol

>>44369
That explains why the Imperial Palace was not sold when Tojo died in 1989 (when the price of the land was TO THE MOON high)

>>44100
I'm the one who posted the pictures
I'm not claiming to be an expert but central tokyo seems to be fenced up indeed, a lot of them near roads and houses (in that one pic at night, the left part of the pic was actually houses) and of course near cliffs and lakes and stuff
In the countryside (especially in between cities) there were much less sidewalks so not so much

I went to Japan back in 2012 with my dad because my Japanese grandma wanted to visit her brother there. She stayed with her brother most of the trip while my dad and I only stayed in Shinjuku. We both didn't have smartphones and didn't speak Japanese so we were too afraid to ride the trains because we knew we'd get lost and not know how to get back to our hotel room. We did have a nice time wondering all over Shinjuku and eating tons of delicious food everywhere. My dad and I's favorite food is fried rice so we got that almost everywhere we went, easily the best fried rice I've ever had, dad agreed. We also loved the gyoza and ramen there. Even the convenience store food blows most American food out of the water. I loved those convenience store sandwiches with perfect white bread and no crust, I could literally eat those everyday every meal. Anyway, eating was mostly all we did.
We also visited some card shops and random malls. My dad tried getting directions to a card shop off the internet and we got lost and wondered through some dark alleys at night, luckily we were in Japan because they seemed liked the kinda place you'd get robbed anywhere else. I remember wandering into this hole in the wall manga store and seeing some crazy doujinshi stuff, I don't even know how it was legal and how someone could just sell it in a store, lol.
Anyway, overall fun trip, Japan's a pretty interesting place. In the US I live in a rural area so the first couple days I was there felt overwhelming at times with all the people.

I'm a wizard who's been living in Japan for about 5 years now.
I'll give a brief rundown on my experience.

Prior to going to Japan, I was a college student in the US, and had studied Japanese as a sort of minor to my degree, ended up being the first exchange student post-covid to go to the country from my university.
Ended up in Shizuoka for about two years, and I definitely wasn't prepared as I thought I was.
Language, culture, etc. None of my ability was up to snuff, and I ended up isolating myself in the atelier of my college, painting and slowly getting more and more unhinged.
Had a hard time communicating with my classmates, and when they found out I was older than them, they were noticeably colder and showed me more half-hearted respect.

Anyway, the foreign exchange ended, and since I was on track to finish my American degree in a semester, I applied to be a research student for an extra year to graduate while abroad and prepare myself for a work visa. I graduated without issue, and continued my painting research under a Professor Urabe (love this man), but I was mentally breaking from the stress and isolation. I tried to make friends, but I was always a loner in the states and never learned how to make friends with my own people, let alone foreign people.
During the last stretch of my student days I had a full manic episode, got fired from my part time job, and ended up violently threatening my coworker, who I was roughly twice the size of.

Having burnt my bridges in Shizuoka, I took the cash I had remaining, got on a train with CVs in hand, and only 3 months left on my student visa, and went job hunting.

Went to Aichi, made a pit stop in Nagoya to inquire on work, then onto Gifu City, and from there, Ise. Spent a few days in Ise having a mental spiral and eating fried oysters and drinking beer (shoutouts to the folks at the Naiku Isekadoya Taproom, took good care of this insane whiteboy).
Not having much luck, I went from Ise to Nara, and finally to Kyoto, where I had found work surprisingly with the cold approach. It wasn't good work, but they managed to get me a working visa using my oil painting degree from the US and my certificates from Shizuoka.
Worked there for a few years and actually became N2 level fluent in the language thanks to the constant interaction with my peers. Mentally, I chilled out and began working through my issues, after receiving a bipolar 2 diagnosis. MPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

>>44376
How do you feel about your time in Japan? What are the pros and cons of living there for a long time as opposed to in the West and are you planning to stay indefinitely? I've been told that for job-searching native english speakers are more valued than an ESL from Europe, specially for language teaching, also heard japs value degrees and work experience a lot so if I have neither it might not even be worth trying? I'm young but not too young.

>>44377
Honestly, my continued residence here is done purely out of stubbornness and pride.
Logically I know it's not where I should be, but I've done and given up so much to be here and get gud at the language and customs that going back now feels like a waste.
Pros are simply that it's safe, homogeneous, and easy to navigate physically. Life is stable, no upheavalor anything like that, and the employee protection laws are strong as hell and will keep you employed, even if you don't deserve it. It's stable, though in my case I'm the unstable element and just have to hold it together.
Cons are… harder to list. A lot of it is little things that add up, and for fellow wizzies they would likely mostly be insurmountable (language, social skills, general life and job skills, etc.) being of massive importance. Stigmatization and ostracization from our own native societies makes life for our types more difficult than need be, so imagine it x100. I'm isolated, and there is next to no support. Only reason I'm still standing despite it all is because I was born under a lucky star and am an idiot savant in my field (language, art and design). Most people like the ones on this website wouldn't last a year due to how crushing the adjustment period is. I've known gaijin who were otherwise healthy completely spiral into addiction and psychosis their first couple years and never recover.
I do plan to stay indefinitely, mostly because like I said, I'm stubborn and prideful. I feel like… at some point, it has to pay off. My hard work and sacrifice can't be for nothing. There HAS to be something at the end of it. I don't know what I'm looking for in all honesty however.
Not sure about the ESL stuff. Like I said, lucky star and an idiot savant, I managed to skip that grind and work in a more specialized field. I don't even use English very much, just some interpreter stuff for my company occasionally.
You say you have no degree, which means… basically you can't even get a CoE or Working visa. Unless you're from like Vietnam or SEA and get a technical intern or specialized worker visa you've got to be a college grad or have 10 years in a single field of work experience.
Sorry, it's strict, but them's the rules.

>>44271
the shoulders, legs and arms fit perfectly

>>44271
>How does one learn to draw a body while making it look natural?
I am by no means good but I improved a bit from copying and deconstructing poses on websites like quickposes.com. I also like the vilppu drawing manual and how he breaks things down is extremely useful.

>>44271
Drawing "noodle people" is okay as long as you aim for the "noodle people" aesthetics. However, if you are still learning the normal body proportions, your skill probably requires buying a tiny mannequin… ah! "Lay figure"!

Look up "lay figure doll" online.
Its a finy faceless doll that has the proportions of a human being. You can put one right before you and then draw your character.


Bonus points for taking pics of yourself and the doll while drawing - it may help you to beat *those* dreaded allegations.

oh, I wish I could draw as well as some people. I've tried this but it isn't for me I think, cannot do it well :(
I see how people draw with so much admiration

A.I slop

>>44129
this
>>44099
AI kewl stuff goes to /hob/ to Stable Diffusion threda

>>44129
Care to draw better since you think the image of Liru is so poor.

Liru will live forever!

No. Dear gott no.

>>44359
Population decline causes many problems.

>>44361
I dunno, humans could survive if they got by with less and quit exploiting cheap labor. I cheer on the decline myself; I live a simple life.

>>44361
leveling the japanese grandpas will vanish the problem.

>>44362
Economic crash leads to unpredictable outcomes, we live in a competitive world and just because it's "wrong" for a struggling declining power to be taken over by a stronger one doesn't mean it won't be the way things go.

>>44363
No, killing old people regardless of your edgy sociopathic ideology doesn't fix the problem of reduced demand from a shrinking population causing economic crash. The wealthy will see their investments plunge in value and will follow the natural incentive to increase immigration to prop up real estate prices, consumerism, etc.

Here it is spelled out:

https://nailheadtom.blogspot.com/2024/09/the-real-resson-for-mass-migrations.html

>>42113
I've read it, was it necessary? it's only 30 page long and add nothing of value. I would even say nothing has change between this one and the LN. why did he wrote that?
I've read The LN, the manga and watched the anime. all of them had differents things that make them unique: you had different point of vue (for example, the manga was more comical I'd say). but rebuild of NHK…what is he trying to do ?
also,
>first chapter
does it mean rebuild isn't over yet? I thought it was just a chapter. of 30 pages only but it seems it will have a chapter 2, am I right or wrong??

Is Welcome to NHK closet book that really capture the ethos and mind of a NEET and almost wiz?

>>42124
Delete this post and never ever post anything like this ever again you pathetic little worm. You pestilent tumour. You rancid fart.

>>42125
what wad the post about, I want to know please

Randompost rescue bump to augment the /dep/ anime thread's idea

>>44308
who is she?

>>44337
I think it's Illya

>>40178
eat shit and die you fucking subhuman stfu

>cringe
you have to go back

>>40497
well, stay ignorant