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Weeaboos and other Japan spergs
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MysticMisty
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Japanese guys like their girls young and needy (and large breasted). Prior to Other M Samus was everything but young (by their standards) and needy. That's really all there is to it, unfortunately.
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Don't they at least like butts?
Japanese people have bad taste, mang.
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That dA user I keep digging up dirt on for this grave, Keytee - Chan, just keeps this shit up... We really should make a page for that person here. They deserve it - both for the weeaboo BS, the bad art, and the all around patronizing attitude he has toward women that's really uncomforting... You should see of this person's art to hopefully get what I'm trying to say, but haven't had the courage to do, for fear of them NOT being enough of a lolcow.
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Am I a weeaboo? I'm doing Japanese as the language for my linguistics course, and I also collect manga, figures, anime posters and all that stuff. But I try to keep the two seperate, and most of these stories sound like people who think that Japan literally is anime.
Gothicserpent
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Nah. I consider a weeaboo as someone who never shuts up about japan or manga/anime. If you just have an interest in those things, it's perfectly fine. I mean, I took Japanese for all of Highschool because I found the language interesting and it was a fun class.
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You both have healthy respect for wanting to learn about other cultures like the one in Japan. Nothing to be ashamed of. I honestly wish I learned some myself - that, and Japan does have some interesting cuisine (food) worth savoring...
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Liking anime makes you as much of a weeaboo as drinking the odd beer makes you an alcoholic.
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Yeah, liking anime doesn't make one a weeb. In order to be one, you'd also need the mindset that Japan is the best nation that it can't have any flaws such as having done war crimes. There would also be the mindset that thinking anything from Japan has to be the best compared to other countries and cultures such as thinking anime is always better than western cartoon's, even though the former has just as much terrible animated shows as the latter.
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Yeah, I wouldn't say that liking Japanese culture, language or even anime in and of itself makes you a Weeaboo. I don't speak Japanese, but I certainly think Japanese history is interesting and I do like several animes. The key difference is that I don't think Japanese culture is perfect, let alone that its some sort of futuristic anime paradise. I find lots of other cultures and places interesting too. Thailand is interesting, Lithuania is interesting, Brazil is interesting, Uganda is interesting... that doesn't mean I need to sperg out over it.
I think the best way to describe it is to say that Weeaboos fetishize Japan and Japanese culture, sometimes quite literally and blatantly. Quite a few seem enamored by the idea of Japanese women, either viewing them as meek, submissive playthings or as living proxies for their anime schoolgirl waifus. But it goes beyond that. They'll ramble on about how katanas are the best weapon in the world, able to cut through anything. They'll dismiss or even try to justify Japanese warcrimes during WWII. They'll talk about Tokyo as a wealthy, futuristic paradise where overweight basement dwellers like them would be perfectly at home without realizing that Japanese culture has its own set of norms and (yes, unfortunately) prejudices.
Being a normal person who is interested in Japan is different from being a Weeb. It's just hard to see because Weeaboos are so prominent. There are far, far fewer people who sperg out over, say Spanish or Namibian culture, than there are Weeaboos. Unfortunately that means many people who just have a casual interest in anime feel guilty mentioning it because they don't want to be seen as obsessive spergs.
I think the best way to describe it is to say that Weeaboos fetishize Japan and Japanese culture, sometimes quite literally and blatantly. Quite a few seem enamored by the idea of Japanese women, either viewing them as meek, submissive playthings or as living proxies for their anime schoolgirl waifus. But it goes beyond that. They'll ramble on about how katanas are the best weapon in the world, able to cut through anything. They'll dismiss or even try to justify Japanese warcrimes during WWII. They'll talk about Tokyo as a wealthy, futuristic paradise where overweight basement dwellers like them would be perfectly at home without realizing that Japanese culture has its own set of norms and (yes, unfortunately) prejudices.
Being a normal person who is interested in Japan is different from being a Weeb. It's just hard to see because Weeaboos are so prominent. There are far, far fewer people who sperg out over, say Spanish or Namibian culture, than there are Weeaboos. Unfortunately that means many people who just have a casual interest in anime feel guilty mentioning it because they don't want to be seen as obsessive spergs.
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I was an admin for a relatively large(~1,000 members) anime forum in 2000-2001. Toonami was in full swing and Adult swim was just around the corner. The biggest weeb we had was a fansubber who called herself washu-chan. Holy fuck, I hated her so much. She'd crap up every thread about anime by starting arguments about sub vs dub and how "official" subs are just as inaccurate and censored as English dubs. When she wasn't hawking her "superior" fan subs she was in our general Japan thread harping on about "grorious nipponu" and it's superiority. We had a Japanese language thread run by a native Japanese speaker that I had to lock because washu-chan would chime in after every post "correcting" him. When I learned she was spam PMing members soliciting her fansubs, (which were in 144p and quarter screen on vhs, and had about 3 spelling errors a minute, naturally) I dopped the banhammer. Of course doing so started off a bunch of drama, but that was the only ban I ever needed to make, and it felt so damn good.
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I've touched upon Tv-Nihon, one of the largest fansubbing groups in the toku community, before in the personal lolcows thread (more specifically, their white knights). The head translator, Takenoko, once made a post that gave his translating philosophy. Namely, he mentioned preserving the Japanese language as an excuse to lead in honorifics, Japanese phrases, on screen translators notes that require people to pause the video and lines that read poorly. It doesn't help that TV-Nihon's work are full of translation errors to the point a professional translator said their subs of Kamen Rider Blade were 60-70% accurate per episode. This is what they look like at times
MysticMisty
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I hate fansubbers who refuse to translate half of the dialog and maybe include an explanation of some things, like, once. I stopped using a Pokemon Special (an awesome manga quite different from the TV series) fansub because they were translating less and less as time went on. Same thing with a fansub of the Sailor Moon manga seeing as how they refused to translate effectively half the dialog. It's one thing when there's a cultural reference and you give a quick explanation in the margins. It's another when you refuse to translate "the legendary silver crystal" because reasons.
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This is the horrors of TV-Nihon
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TV-N screenshots are a never ending source of hilarity.
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This is the horrors of TV-Nihon
If your aniki isn't Cho Aniki then get the fuck out.
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