Really wouldn't mind it if this guy would show up right now
i humbly ask for someone to help me (as a newcomer too) to get into otaku culture. i want to step it up as i'm also trying to learn japanese now. what qualifies (or qualified) someone as an otaku? i've mostly been an outsider in the technology and vidya sense and that's what i usually stick to in the imageboards i've been, but i've never really got into watching a ton of anime or manga besides some old stuff like SEL and monster. (nice place btw)
You're actually interested in animanga, vidya games, vns, ect. You're not into them because you're an otaku, you're an otaku because you're into them. >>1408 I personally don't think you could call yourself an otaku if you've only watched one anime...
thank you for the replies anon 
i guess i was just feeling down cause i basically ever only watched depressing stuff and i need some change of air
(also sorry if this thread came out weird but i wanted to reply to that other otaku culture thread and i accidentally made a new thread 
my fellow man's of culture in /jp/... HOW TO LEARN JAPANESE? I think some here already can read and understand some basic level of japanese.
I don't want to do grammar books because most of them are... A bit of waste of time? I dunno. And I am veeeryy lazy to do anki cards. I was learning the kanji radicals but I stopped by one day and I lost my streak 
currently I only know Hiragana.
I really wanted to learn because there is a lot's of japanese media that simply isn't translated, and I can't enjoy because:
>oopsie your nihongo level is N minus 6, owari da
Anyway, how do you guys learn? Don't recommend me Duolingo. 
I HATE this partyvanrd.
>>683 >step 1 memorize the kana brute force memorize the kana this should only take a day or two a week max https://djtguide.neocities.org/kana/ progressively add another kana column until you have no trouble recognizing all the kana if you still have trouble write down each kana 50 times >step 2 learn some grammar grammar has 3 parts: Sentence Structure https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5PD1lORiwk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iyVZlaEqU24 Particles https://imabi.org/table-of-contents-%e7%9b%ae%e6%ac%a1/ https://matrix.org/_matrix/media/r0/download/matrix.org/GqYvdEhgKNOcBDSZnDDGsWGc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwcTI9qvO-U&list=PLg9uYxuZf8x-FpkArMEoVVfw10TDT9I1h Verb Agglutinations https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KIPhvGxp43c https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FhyrskGBKHE https://wkdonc.github.io/conjugation/drill.html >step 3 Learn kanji together with basic vocabulary via premade sentence cards install anki install and configure kanjigod addon the only good piece of migaku software https://github.com/migaku-official/Migaku-Kanji-Addon start on this anki deck, 40 new cards a day, reviews before showing new cards https://tatsumoto.neocities.org/blog/basic-vocabulary#anki-deck > step 4 Start mining sentences from actual media https://arbyste.github.io/jp-mining-note-prerelease/ https://github.com/Ajatt-Tools/mpvacious
>>683 Sharing experience : I had one half a year break when I was learning and it took 1.5 weeks to catch up. If you feel like you literally cant go on anymore you can try taking a break but keep thinking about japanese so that your brain will automatically motivate you to pick up again in some time, i cant promise it will work for you but thats the tactics I use for everything i learn I also used https://jpdb.io/ instead of anki because it has cool features sch as going through each word of a videogame or an anime chronologically
>>683 https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLA_RcUI8km1NMhiEebcbqdlcHv_2ngbO2&si=-Lnu0SCwBnNQuCxE i enjoy TokiniAndy's videos going over Genki 1 grammar. he explains the concepts in a way that's easy for me to understand. good supplementary material me thinks.
>>729 >>1381 my fucking god i can't even imagine putting this much effort into something. all i did was read a few guides on the internet and then just started figuring out the grammar and vocabulary piece by piece through reading and listening. took me a while to be able read much but i could never do shit like memorizing anki cards or studying kanji because i fucking hate studying. though i started doing all of this when i was young and not long after i really started caring about anime so maybe it's different for people who started learning as an adult because of brain stuff. i do want to have a fun discussion about japanese grammar with you so please talk to me about anything you find interesting. also explain the n levels shit to me because i don't get it.
>>1384 Your japanese level is measured from n5 to n1 n5 is the first and most basic and then n1 is cooler then an average native I think. U need to take an official test somewhere to determine what level u are and get a certificate so u can put it in ur resume or something Your learning way is pretty cool when it works because it means you probably percieve the language similar to japanese people. I wonder if you can understand bits of chinese text though?
i missed making the last few threads for reasons. 4/a/ is dead and it seems like discussion is scattered. other altchans shittalk currently airing things too much for me to want to talk about them there, so i'm posting a thread here. what're you all watching? post about it here.
I usually never watch more than 3 airing shows at once and there's always some 4 cour baby anime thrown in the mix so it doesn't really count. This is new
>>1341 i haven't really been watching much of anything honestly. kinda thinking of watching the dark elf anime, but are any of these actually good? which do you recommend the most out of them?
>>1342 I'm enjoying the second season of Shoushimin. I miss the single episode mysteries of the first season, but I'm enjoying the build up of the larger mystery so far.
I just found out about this now Does anyone else here know about it? The art style looks cute!
>>42 The Melancholy of Haruhi- chan Suzumiya It's a parody ONA all on YouTube
>>44 this and Nyoron Churuya-san were very popular while we were all waiting for season 2 of haruhi to air lol
haiii hikarin i'm getting back into anime after a while of not watching it
i'm looking for suggestions for slice of life and comedy anime similar to watamote, k-on!, or lucky star. id love to hear ur faves!
yuri undertones or honestly overt yuri preferred 
>>1318 Shakunetsu no Takkyuu Musume should fall under what you're looking for
>>1318 if you haven't seen Bocchi the Rock then i'd recommend that one. it's pretty popular, kinda like K-On. it's about a socially awkward high school girl who joins a band.
体操服でお気に入りの女の子を投稿してくださいぃなの～ スクール水着も大好評です！ありがとうね
スレッドを脱線させるな 
体操着姿の女の子をもっとアップロード！
>>1270
>When internet users were kids it was better.
This so much 
I have no idea where these other millennials acting like geriatric old men from the 1950s came from. Though it isnt an age thing alone it is the corporatization of the internet and social media algorithms mass brainwashing users into toxicity and stupidity 
はう～ お持っち帰りっ！！！
DECO*27と32kiは私の感情を呼び起こしてくれる、本当に素晴らしい https://youtu.be/kbNdx0yqbZE https://youtu.be/19y8YTbvri8
>>1330
i think the art for this video is quite nice 
not my cup of tea in terms of the song itself
bros why is she looking at me like this...
>>1305
i think she might be into you hikarin 
are you gonna say something to her?
baka you should be running
quintessential/iconic Japanese/otaku webcore images thread i want to save some new fun pictures...
>>416 A classic.
