Weeaboos and other Japan spergs

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A Random said:
It's not like samurais were particularly honorable until after the fact. Bushido was invented by a guy who cheated on a duel and refused the ritual suicide, and it was spread around Japan once the samurai were forced to take on bureaucratic jobs because the new Emperor didn't want them getting too uppity.

Why do you think we don't hear of 'modern' samurai after the 1800s?
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While true that samurai were corrupt, like knights despite their romantic imagery, bushido from what I remembered was created as a way to convince different regions to not kill each other after they just got finished with a civil war. Here's some trivia for you, the whole bushido thing Japan adopted right around World War 2? They just cherry-picked the ideas they wanted to use for their propaganda.
 
c-no said:
As far as I know, the kampilan and kalis (both Filipino swords) would be the weapons of Mindanao. Considering these blades going against the Japanese in WWII, it would make one wonder if they could break through the shin gunto's used by the Japanese (Said swords, the shin gunto's, may of not been made from good \M/ETAL iirc but I could be wrong.)
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Yeah gunto aren't even really swords, they're decorative pieces. Like one of my relatives was put in a POW camp during the Japanese occupation and when the war was over one of the guards there gave them their gunto. It's a beautiful piece but it wasn't even sharpened, like the blade is really just a hunk of metal.
 
Yaoi Huntress Earth said:
I've heard that there is a way to get a weeboo or japanaphile (especially if they're going into a "Japan is best country" rant) to shut-up with two words: Issei Sagawa.
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You can probably bring up the controversial experiments the Japanese did on people in World War II as well as their ongoing discrimination against Koreans and it still won't stop them from fawning over Glorious Nippon.
 
Ultimate Grisby said:
You can probably bring up the controversial experiments the Japanese did on people in World War II as well as their ongoing discrimination against Koreans and it still won't stop them from fawning over Glorious Nippon.
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It won't. They'll either accuse you of lying or respond with "America did worse in World War II" (and when asked to give an example, usually results in a blank stare, stuttering to come up with an answer and failing, or something along the line of "well isn't it obvious?").
 
Mogambo said:
It's actually kind of disappointing. I mean, how awesome would it be to see a bunch of nerds sperging out and dressing like Vikings, Aztec jaguar knights or Zulu warriors?
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Well...

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TRUE and HONEST Vikings did not wear horned helmets, nor did any other warriors. These things would direct the energy of any sword impact right into the brain. The horned helmets that have been found were purely for ceremonial purposes.
 
Saney said:
What happens if you bring up Tsutomu Miyazaki?
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Aum Shinrikyo. There's still a thousand of them nuts running around.
DykesDykesChina said:
TRUE and HONEST Vikings did not wear horned helmets, nor did any other warriors. These things would direct the energy of any sword impact right into the brain. The horned helmets that have been found were purely for ceremonial purposes.
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...The Japanese helm, the Kabuto, are known to have some level of flourish and decoration. A good number have horns resembling deer antlers attached. One legendary samurai, Honda Tadakatsu, supposedly wore an antlered helm into every battle so he would be recognizable to his opponents.
 
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Yaoi Huntress Earth said:
I've heard that there is a way to get a weeboo or japanaphile (especially if they're going into a "Japan is best country" rant) to shut-up with two words: Issei Sagawa.
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To be fair, there's scarcely an industrialized country that HASN'T produced an infamous serial murderer or cannibal. How fascinated has the western world been with Jack the Ripper? Ted Bundy and Richard Ramirez had GROUPIES for god's sake. They still do. People were trying to get book and movie rights to Aileen Wuronos's story while she was still on trial.

Crazy people become celebrities all the time by virtue of being, well... crazy. It just happens that that particular guy is out walking around bragging about what he did by failure of a corrupt justice system, but it's not like that hasn't happened elsewhere.
 
c-no said:
Considering his last name is Miyazaki, weebs could confuse him as a relative of Hiyao Miyazaki, right?
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At first, they might, but trust me: I doubt Hayao would want to be related to him in any way.

For the uninitiated, he was a serial murderer who targeted prepubescent girls. When police investegated his home, along with child pornography, they found horror movies and anime. The resultant media coverage resulted in major social backlash against otaku.

So if a weeb were to go to the glorious homeland of pocky and yaoi and boast about being an otaku, it would be like shouting "LOOK AT ME! I AM AN ANIME-OBSESSED PEDOPHILE!" All because of Tsutomu Miyazaki.
 
I have a story:
My childhood friend is a math-junkie. He studies acoustic-designing and math in University. The university shares rooms with other schools, it's like a huge complex of math, art, history etc. so there got to be some weird people. My friend also have passionate hobby for astronomy. One night when he was out with his buddy star gazing a wild weaboo group appears. My friend is extremely protective for his costly equipment (which is understandable). Friend buddy intervene when one of those weaboos tries to touch the huge ass telescope. He explains that it's not in its positions so don't touch it, but they can stick around and watch from the distance if they want. Weaboos answer with interest making high pitching "aaaaaah" sounds like it's cute or something. Then the shit hits the fan. One of the weaboos sneak closer, cause my friend now thinks they are harmless watchers, and ask what do you see now? My friend takes a quick look at the computer screen and nothing special. Weaboo smiles and ask to look at the telescope. My friend is baffled and takes a peek trough alignment scope and sees black. He tough that his friend has replaced the dustcover for the alignment scope but then he sees it. A fucking kawaiii-loli sticker was glued to the objective. Moment of silence and the friends buddy comes to take a look. He sees the sticker. All hell broke loose. My friend was the calmer one, but he collapsed in to anger and worry how can he remove the sticker. The buddy pushes the weaboo away and the weaboo group becomes verbally hostile. The buddy threatens to stab those weaboos with a pen, if they don't leave. "It's only a joke, hurr!". They managed to remove the sticker with a expert, which paid good money. But at least they got it done. Lens had to be recoated but everything in the end was fine. We wonder how costly it would have ended if the weaboos had glued the sticker to main objective.
 
dickwad said:
I have a story:
My childhood friend is a math-junkie. He studies acoustic-designing and math in University. The university shares rooms with other schools, it's like a huge complex of math, art, history etc. so there got to be some weird people. My friend also have passionate hobby for astronomy. One night when he was out with his buddy star gazing a wild weaboo group appears. My friend is extremely protective for his costly equipment (which is understandable). Friend buddy intervene when one of those weaboos tries to touch the huge ass telescope. He explains that it's not in its positions so don't touch it, but they can stick around and watch from the distance if they want. Weaboos answer with interest making high pitching "aaaaaah" sounds like it's cute or something. Then the shit hits the fan. One of the weaboos sneak closer, cause my friend now thinks they are harmless watchers, and ask what do you see now? My friend takes a quick look at the computer screen and nothing special. Weaboo smiles and ask to look at the telescope. My friend is baffled and takes a peek trough alignment scope and sees black. He tough that his friend has replaced the dustcover for the alignment scope but then he sees it. A fucking kawaiii-loli sticker was glued to the objective. Moment of silence and the friends buddy comes to take a look. He sees the sticker. All hell broke loose. My friend was the calmer one, but he collapsed in to anger and worry how can he remove the sticker. The buddy pushes the weaboo away and the weaboo group becomes verbally hostile. The buddy threatens to stab those weaboos with a pen, if they don't leave. "It's only a joke, hurr!". They managed to remove the sticker with a expert, which paid good money. But at least they got it done. Lens had to be recoated but everything in the end was fine. We wonder how costly it would have ended if the weaboos had glued the sticker to main objective.
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I am rather baffled socially stunted spergs get to go to University. Unless these were outsiders?
 
Ryan Rash said:
So if a weeb were to go to the glorious homeland of pocky and yaoi and boast about being an otaku, it would be like shouting "LOOK AT ME! I AM AN ANIME-OBSESSED PEDOPHILE!" All because of Tsutomu Miyazaki.
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Ironically, anime has been more acceptable outside of Japan for normal adults than in Japan, from what I've gathered. Manga is a different story, as you'll soon see.

According to the Wikipedia article on "otaku", the stigma is dying down, so it would seem, and liking anime in Japan as an adult is becoming less odd. Also, the Japanese people don't automatically think otakus are pedos, but they have often thought of them as really undeseriably weird. An example of how otakus have been viewed in Japan can be seen in the first volume of "Oh My Goddess!". tl;dr: fat asocial unhygenic guy in glasses who spends all his time obsesively watching anime intended for kids and tries to molest Belldandy.

I've posted this before, but I've talked to a guy from Osaka awhile back when he was visiting my country. According to him, anime was a kids or geek thing ("geek" was how he translated "otaku" into English), while everyone reads manga*, and vidya (aside from eroge, that is) was acceptable for adults according to him as well. The impression I got from him was that he really disliked otakus.

*Manga sales are about 40% of all book sales in Japan, so he's at least right about manga.
 
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ToroidalBoat said:
Ironically, anime has been more acceptable outside of Japan for normal adults than in Japan, from what I've gathered. Manga is a different story, as you'll soon see.

According to the Wikipedia article on "otaku", the stigma is dying down, so it would seem, and liking anime in Japan as an adult is becoming less odd. Also, the Japanese people don't automatically think otakus are pedos, but they have often thought of them as really undeseriably weird. An example of how otakus have been viewed in Japan can be seen in the first volume of "Oh My Goddess!". tl;dr: fat asocial unhygenic guy in glasses who spends all his time obsesively watching anime intended for kids and tries to molest Belldandy.

I've posted this before, but I've talked to a guy from Osaka awhile back when he was visiting my country. According to him, anime was a kids or geek thing ("geek" was how he translated "otaku" into English), while everyone reads manga*, and vidya (aside from eroge, that is) was acceptable for adults according to him as well. The impression I got from him was that he really disliked otakus.

*Manga sales are about 40% of all book sales in Japan, so he's at least right about manga.
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Still, proclaiming oneself to be an otaku is a bit of a faux pas in Japan. Even if anime has become more socially acceptable, the term "otaku" still conjures visions of your average Wizardchan user bronies lonely socially-inept adults who obsess over kids stuff.
 
Ryan Rash said:
Still, proclaiming oneself to be an otaku is a bit of a faux pas in Japan.
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I wouldn't be surprised. Even if the stigma has gone down, it's still there. The "otaku murders" weren't too long ago, so it may take awhile for the stigma to vanish, if it ever does. And even then, "otaku" may still very well be seen as really awkward and weird, even if there's no negative connotations in the future.
 
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