Lol no lots of people watching foreign films rather watch it in its original language.
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What does "weeaboo" (weeb) mean to you?
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An otaku is just a fan with an above average interest in a hobby. All of us would be label as a video game otaku in Japan by the amount of time we spend in this board. It doesn't take much to be label as one, as just discussing DBZ power levels on twitter will make you an anime otaku, and it doesn't matter as the word stopped being a degenerate word in the last yen years. Similar to how the word nerd and geek was normalize in the west.
In my experience, a weeb is someone who touts Japanese language, "culture (aka niche pop culture things within Japan)," people (usually women, more usually asian women in general), and so on as better than their own versions of these things just as a matter of fact. Their entire perspective of Japan (once again Asia/Asian people) is skewed by whatever perceptions they get from anime or games. They rarely know any actual tangable facts about Japan and everything they say is usually shockingly misguided or down right weird and wrong.
Or you know, just people who thought Evangelion was deep
Or you know, just people who thought Evangelion was deep
Fight me, I would rather say Boku no Hero in conversations instead of Hero Acca.
Someone not from Japan whose media consumption consists mainly of anime, manga or Japanese games.
Someone who views Japan as an idyllic place that doesn't have any "issues" of the west.
Buys anime avatars on PSN (before you grill me, mine is from a Korean music game lol)
Someone who views Japan as an idyllic place that doesn't have any "issues" of the west.
Buys anime avatars on PSN (before you grill me, mine is from a Korean music game lol)
No, they don't mean the same thing at all. Even more because otaku is a word with a varied spectrum of interests going from idols to manga to guns to trains.
All of those are correct terms to be used lol People will use the first one they read/heard if it's easy to write.
Don't care, I rather be label a weeb than use the stupid abbreviation that is Hero Acca.
It works online, but when talking to people face to face it gets confusing, and in my opinion it is weird to say in conversations.
People who, mainly because of anime, proclaim that Japan is some sort of Utopia that can do no wrong.
Yeah. This seems to be the case to me when I see the term. I'd probably jokingly call someone a weeb if they get home from work and bring up Crunchyroll instead of Netflix on the regular.
Buddy, please don't equate "my feelings were hurt" with "generations of slavery, violence, and discrimination". That word is literally the most loaded/hateful word we have (in the west at least), and just because you self censored doesn't make it any less distasteful to throw it around like that.
It'll always mean the original definition to me.
Someone who brazenly praises all facets of Japan and see it as superior with either a rudimentary understanding of the country or an understanding based almost entirely in video games and cartoons.
Someone who brazenly praises all facets of Japan and see it as superior with either a rudimentary understanding of the country or an understanding based almost entirely in video games and cartoons.
Yeah, insisting on using Japanese, but not the actual abbreviation used by Japanese people (hiroaka) is weird lol.
While other types of "Otaku" do exist, the word "Otaku" is most commonly used in reference to "Otaku" obsessed with anime, manga and games. In other words, "Otaku" is most used in virtually the same manner as "weeaboo" in the West. You can check out online videos of Japanese people reacting to "weeabos", and most of them just call them Otakus, or foreign Otakus.
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The irony is that the names "Attack on Titan" and "My Hero Academia" are "Engrish" names. Using those "Engrish" names is no better than using the actual Japanese names. I prefer just calling them "Attack of the Titans" and "Hero Academy".
Yeah that's how I take it.
People that go on about how superior any country is brush me the wrong way. Any place will have good and bad aspects, and not just one but a variety of cultures. Declaring a country as unilaterally better just screams of ignorance. Especially so when their whole exposure to that country comes from cartoons.
Attack on titan is a bad translation of the Japanese title and was actually intended to be read as 'the titan that attacks on (and on)' haha
I'm a degenerate weeb, but I ascended weeb status by actually learning Japanese (I did this before I even started watching anime). I'm not 100% fluent or work in a Japanese company, but all the media I consume is in Japanese pretty much other than the odd American show.
I would never put random Japanese words into an English sentence, if I was going to speak in Japanese I'd type in Japanese. I also have a big interest in Japanese history, geography and general culture, not just pop culture.
I would never put random Japanese words into an English sentence, if I was going to speak in Japanese I'd type in Japanese. I also have a big interest in Japanese history, geography and general culture, not just pop culture.
All I'm saying is that, if you're a native English speaker living in the west, as in English is your first language, calling it by its Japanese name is just weird considering the official English name is in the freaking title/logo. Like, I get it for series that don't have the English name in the title like Demon Slayer or Quintessential Quintuplets, but MHA and AoT don't really apply here.
Ultimately, I'm just taking the piss, but I do find it kinda funny.
You're absolutely right about AoT, though it's part of its charm.
My Hero Academia actually does make sense though. Academia means "the life, community, or world of teachers, schools, and education." So the title is essentially "My Hero School Life".
Fair enough. But it still sounds weird, because people don't usually talk like that in English. "Academia" is usually used in reference to university, rather than high school.
Yakuza is definitely weeb shit. Japanese wrestling is probably weeb shit.
Genuinely interested where I fall...
Is Miku anime? I love rhythm games and after playing the Project Diva games I started to like Vocaloid in general which is why I have a Miku avatar...
I don't really watch anime at all.
Not regularly, but I have read Yotsuba for Japanese reading practice. If I weren't studying Japanese I probably wouldn't have read it at all.
I'd say more like 50%.
Depends on the quality of the dub. Ni No Kuni was far better in English, for example.
Not really. I have souvenirs that I bought from a trip to Japan but that's it.
Nope. But I would like to go to Hyper Japan in the UK.
Absolutely not.
Not in school but I have been studying it for the past four years in my spare time.
Absolutely not.
I should probably clarify why I'm studying Japanese too. A few years ago me and my wife were going to New Zealand and decided to spend a few days in Tokyo as a stop on the way. We both ended up loving it and want to see more of the country. So I started trying to learn the language as it will make things much easier when we do (although it will be a few years away now as we have kids). Most of the Japanese media I consume now is as a result of me learning the language. So I imagine how many people start learning the language to consume the media, I've kind of done in the opposite way around, I use the media to help me study the language. I listen to Japanese radio on my drive to/from work, for example. In reality, learning Japanese is kinda pointless for me because I'm getting on (I'm 36) and have zero plans to spend any significant amount of time in Japan. But what I learnt was that I really enjoy learning the language so whilst it may be pointless it's just become a hobby. Something I enjoy doing, even though I'm terrible at it.
Is Miku anime? I love rhythm games and after playing the Project Diva games I started to like Vocaloid in general which is why I have a Miku avatar...
I don't really watch anime at all.
Not regularly, but I have read Yotsuba for Japanese reading practice. If I weren't studying Japanese I probably wouldn't have read it at all.
I'd say more like 50%.
Depends on the quality of the dub. Ni No Kuni was far better in English, for example.
Not really. I have souvenirs that I bought from a trip to Japan but that's it.
Nope. But I would like to go to Hyper Japan in the UK.
Absolutely not.
Not in school but I have been studying it for the past four years in my spare time.
Absolutely not.
I should probably clarify why I'm studying Japanese too. A few years ago me and my wife were going to New Zealand and decided to spend a few days in Tokyo as a stop on the way. We both ended up loving it and want to see more of the country. So I started trying to learn the language as it will make things much easier when we do (although it will be a few years away now as we have kids). Most of the Japanese media I consume now is as a result of me learning the language. So I imagine how many people start learning the language to consume the media, I've kind of done in the opposite way around, I use the media to help me study the language. I listen to Japanese radio on my drive to/from work, for example. In reality, learning Japanese is kinda pointless for me because I'm getting on (I'm 36) and have zero plans to spend any significant amount of time in Japan. But what I learnt was that I really enjoy learning the language so whilst it may be pointless it's just become a hobby. Something I enjoy doing, even though I'm terrible at it.
Weebs are typically unhealthily obsessed with Japanese animation and view Japan/its people with a skewed lens of reality.
And DBZ can definitely be weeb. Does Jalen going Super Saiyan ring a bell?
And DBZ can definitely be weeb. Does Jalen going Super Saiyan ring a bell?
To be fair they probably don't know how else to articulate themselves. Weeb is a pejorative, the other word isn't - it's a destructive word by design. Just because they're both venomous doesn't mean they should be clumsily compared and hopefully they learn from this.
Someone who is obsessed with Japanese Culture, on that note is there a "weeaboo" term for Korean Music Fans?
I am literally surrounded by those fuckers in my every day life and it's fucking annoying
Anime Fans ain't got shit on them
At least with anime fans if you say you dont watch anime, they will just probably stop, saying you don't like KPop will get you hit with an instant "GEE" Video on the spot
I am literally surrounded by those fuckers in my every day life and it's fucking annoying
Anime Fans ain't got shit on them
At least with anime fans if you say you dont watch anime, they will just probably stop, saying you don't like KPop will get you hit with an instant "GEE" Video on the spot
I think it's a word that's lost meaning as people started using it to describe anyone who watches anime or reads manga.
I think initially it was more about extreme obsession and a defining point of one's identity being anime and Japan. Someone who would use random Japanese words and honorifics completely unprompted and eat, sleep and breath Japanese and otaku culture while not being Japanese.
It doesn't mean a person who owns an anime t-shirt or is an anime fan but that's what people use the word for nowadays.
I think initially it was more about extreme obsession and a defining point of one's identity being anime and Japan. Someone who would use random Japanese words and honorifics completely unprompted and eat, sleep and breath Japanese and otaku culture while not being Japanese.
It doesn't mean a person who owns an anime t-shirt or is an anime fan but that's what people use the word for nowadays.
Oh my god get over yourselves. Weeb is just a self-deprecating term to cover anyone who enjoys "japanese media" as a specific hobby. It doesn't have to be some toxic and unhinged level, stop trying to disqualify yourselves so that u can shit on other people lower on the "geek hierarchy"
Why don't you put all that energy you spend on cultivating your image away from toxic geek culture into actually helping steer the culture around media you consume to be more inclusive and less ignorant?
Why don't you put all that energy you spend on cultivating your image away from toxic geek culture into actually helping steer the culture around media you consume to be more inclusive and less ignorant?
Yup they fetishize the language. I remember in the Zelda dub thread they were using authenticity as an excuse for wanting to hear it in Japanese dub with English sub as some are doing in here but that changes real quick when you ask them if they played the Witcher 3 in Polish with subtitles. All of the sudden that's different and hearing it in English is acceptable.