Aghhhh...
You ever tried to get in an online relationship? Good stuff. xD
But it depends on who you 'get' with.
Then the problem is: You start to like the guy.
What the hell am I to do??
I'm ignoring it now. No need to stress on it. =]
Sometimes I wish we could act out my sick fantasies in real life. rofl
I do, though. You don't know cuz I didn't explain WHAT fantasies LOL
(Yeah, I went there.)
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Subcultures In Japan
Modern Japan is a fast-moving, highly volatile environment, with a strong sense of neophilia amongst the Japanese people. Combine that with the easy adaptability of the youth, and you get a veritable breeding ground for new and altered subcultures based on behaviours, clothes, music, whatever.
A short list of subcultures include:
Gyaru - "Gal" culture, very consumer and fashion oriented. This includes kogal, ganguro, and yamanba groups. A male version is gyaru-oh.
Bosozoku / Hashiriya - car and motorcycle enthusiasts, particularly in regards to street racing and illegal modifications. This group is becoming more visible due to movies like The Fast And The Furious: Tokyo Drift, due to the links to drift racing. A related subculture is those of yankees.
Lolita fashion, including "Gothic", "Sweet", "Classical", "Punk", and a number of other variants.
Cosplay, in several forms. Anime and J-rock (Japanese rock music) cosplayers and lolis gather around Yoyogi Park in Tokyo on Sundays.
Kigurumi — Also called animegao, this is the practice of cosplaying human and humanoid anime characters using masks and body stockings. The effect is often rather creepy, as it seems to back into the Uncanny Valley from the human side; that many of its devotees are males who crossdress as female characters makes it just a shade creepier. Doubly so since, with the body stockings, you can't tell.
Ero kawaii, another fashion subculture.
Hikikomori - Young people who withdraw from active life outside their home. They often withdraw into isolated existences with no face to face contact and a refusal to leave their homes or rooms. While not specifically a subculture per se, their behaviour and living styles tend to follow similar patterns. Many of them hang around the notorious 2ch (ni-channel) web boards. Most anime is aware of the subculture, but because it also often includes some otaku it's a sensitive topic to address.
Otaku - In the Japanese sense, obsessive enthusiasts of a particular hobby — not necessarily anime. Generally follows the same tone as older, more derogatory meanings of the Western word "geek". Still, these enthusiast groups are extremely organized and, at least within their own area of interest, highly social. Recently some otaku have taken to calling themselves Akiba-Kei or "Akiba style", in reference to the Tokyo neighbourhood of Akihabara where electronics shops, anime merchandising and maid cafes abound. Female otaku, and especially those interested in BL, are called sometimes fujoshi or otome, the latter because they cluster around Otome Road in Ikebukuro and the former being a derogatory term for a Yaoi Fangirl derived from an alternate reading of "unnatural woman".
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Examples:
Super Gals is focused around a trio of gyaru, with occasional conflicts slash comedy relief from three ganguro/yamanba girls.
Initial D focuses on drift racers.
Great Teacher Onizuka's eponymous character was a leader of a bosozoku gang.
Rozen Maiden has a protagonist who is at least strongly implied to be hikikomori, though they never outright use the term. For an example of how strongly they imply it, in one episode he has to visit the school library to get a book. Entering the school and walking to the library is treated as a Metal Gear-style sneaking mission, and involves no less than two flashbacks. If he had simply walked in the front door and directly to the library, it would have taken less than a minute. Instead, it takes half the episode. (It's also the only outdoors scene this editor can recall. Everything else takes place in his house or other planes of existence)
There's also an episode early on where Jun goes outside to get Hina Ichigo's favourite snack, which she had been bugging everyone about since the episode began. Jun's fears of his classmates and the outside world are greatly emphasised- even the short walk to the door suddenly looks like a mile away.
Many examples of cosplay can be found in the page for Cosplay Otaku Girl.
Several of the main characters of Welcome To The NHK are otaku or hikikomori. The show delves into many of the darker social trends in Japan, and treats being a hikikomori as a mental illness.
Pretty much every single Japanese man from the film The Fast And The Furious: Tokyo Drift is a hashiriya.
Puni Puni Poemi briefly showed a Gyaru on a subsi-date before the title character violently showed her the error of her ways.
Chaos;Head the protagonist is a hikikomori and batshit insane. Well, it could be a mystery plot and there could be paranormal forces toying with him, and so he might actually not be a schizophrenic serial killer, but the fact that he has an imaginary girlfriend who is an anime character speaks a different language.
The light Japanese novel Kamikaze Girls (which has an excellent translation available in English) is about the unlikely friendship between a yanki and a Lolita.
Genshiken has a Gyaru: Keiko Sasahara, Kanji's Annoying Younger Sibling. It was, however, more of a subversion of the endearing little sister trope.