Why does Japan have so many arcades while they are gone in other countries?
i'm the father btw
>>697697724They still have soul.
Asia has more women gamers
>>697697724japan still has a high bust society
>>697697724>Ultra Dense Urban Sprawl>Extremly Walkable>Many people live in small enough places to lack space for a TV or computer setup>High trust lowers likelyhood of vandalsIt's like the perfect cultural mix to have somebody stop in after work or on a break, put a couple credits in their fave game, then keep walking back to the train station. Throw in the lack of chimps to destroy the arcade and jack up running cost and it's an easy, if small margins business.
Girl is red is literally my wife
>>697697724they still have vestiges of community
>>697697724thick and shapely nerd girl legs...
Why didn't the taikotard set up the camera somewhere where people could see the screen
>>697697724female chigyu...
>>697699619everytime i see a Marissa cosplayer I just think of jeanette mcCurdy
>>697697724its all fucking rhythm games
>>697697724their culture is so tied to tradition that they still walk everywhere
>>697697724Be honest chat, if I was to scour Japanese arcades for 4/10 women, then say "hey, that was pretty good" when they finish their round, would I have a chance?
>>697697724she's perfect
>>697700124And that's fucking based. Hop on DDR or preferably PIU, you fat rhythmlet.
>>697697724The father? me
>>697697724how do you get a japanese gf?
>>697697724one of the last civilized nations in the world.
>>697697724Having fun in public is cringe these days. Been this way in the west since millennials were of age. Also, there's an ITG dedicab in a bar near me and it keeps getting fucked up by drunk chicks in heels.
>>697697724>must consume>must spend>must not go home and spend time with family
>>697699728>Throw in the lack of chimps to destroy the arcade and jack up running cost and it's an easy, if small margins business.what will arcades futures be like if they continue with their "labor shortage" and subsequent foreigner import?
>>697699978/thread
>>697700357>Be honest chatGo back
>>697700357Make sure to wear a trench coat and fedora. Also stream it.
>>697700871Isn’t that actually a serious problem with salarymen, they basically have to go out drinking with their coworkers every day after work instead of going home?
>>697699450the one in red is already caring her white husband’s baby though
>>697697724First let's get something straight.Western Imagination:Arcade = Place where you can play Fighter like games.Japan:Arcade = Place where you gamble money on toys, might feature some actual games but less and less. Now thats out of the way, Japan has a culture of fanboyism where materialistic pursuit of something isn't looked down upon. You wanna buy 400 can badges for your favorite character and then put it in a can badge bag you can, most people won't find it too weird. Second Japan has developed an industry to cater to female gamers, the west has absolutely failed at this as they've tried for over 20 years now to convert female gamers into playing male centric video games. Women do not care for your shooters, your strategy games, your factorios. Women care about mini games, male characters, romance and female fantasy fufilment. Wow almost like men and women prefer different types of games! Japanese arcades are 90% full of trash UFO style machines where females gamble their money to win toys of popular IPs or cute currently popular shit. After that you have rhythm games that everyone can enjoy. The stinky males have their own corner with fighter games and stupid ass card games and so on. I lived in Japan. I have seen a girl from Sapporo spend 12,000 yen trying to catch a Golden Kamyu Genjiro figure doll keychain thing that isn't even 7 cm tall. The whole set sells for 30k on mercari now https://jp.mercari.com/item/m70948985802>>697699619So this anon here is right. The Japanese arcades you see are mostly financed by women chasing current fads or characters they like.
>>697697724There are almost no real arcades in Japan.99% of them are just halls full of UFO claw games and rythm shit.They are for women, and have nothing to do with classic game arcades. There is one great one left in Takada no Baba.
>girl in red was crossing her arms way before the nerd girl was moving back>she keeps her arms crossed out of shockOH SHE IS OREGNANT SHE IS OREGANTN I AM A A DETECTIVE SHE IS OREGNANT MY NAME IS SHERLOCK HOLEMS THUS AND IQ IS 170 THUS I DECLARE THIS GIRL IS PRGENANT AND I AM LE FATHER
>>697701783There is quite a few left but they're specifically made to cater to the old fighter game crowd or nostalgia bait.But long long gone are the days when you could walk into Sega Akiba and play Melty Blood with someone.
>>697701491>Women care about mini games, male characters, romance and female fantasy fufilmentWRONG.pngWomen like three types of games:>social management with zero stakes (Stardew Valley, Animal Crossing, The Sims)>Match 3>Dance
>>697701783My Osaka V-On bros used to talk about Avion, is that still around?
>>697702498Thats exactly the issue, the western gaming market is not satisfying women. There is almost a total absence of the romantic fantasy in the west.Shit like Ensemble Music Stars, Twisted Wonderland, Promise of Wizard, Idolish 7, Hyposis Mic ARB, Token Rambu, Ikemen Sengoku There are all games making 100,000,000$ a year in Japan PER GAME. Just from in game purchases, not counting the merchandise. And I would bet the concert tickets, merch and shit doubles that easily.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLCQSpCJLyk7.7M Views. You never heard of this. You never had any contact with this.
>>697702498>>social management with zero stakes (Stardew Valley, Animal Crossing, The Sims)They also like ones with stakes. I'm always surprised by the amount of women playing Rimworld on Twitch.
>>697699728This seems about right. You can't invite over friends in your tiny ass apartment for gaming sessions so you go to an arcade instead.
>>697703014>I'm always surprised by the amount of women playing Rimworld on TwitchTrannies and simp farmers aren't representative of female tastes, retardanon.
>>697702991Anon..., why are you so 詳しい?
>>697697724You just know she smells like sebum and saliva.
>>697697724Now if only they were cool. They’re getting worse and worse. Smaller arcades are shutting down, the big ones are 75% ufo scams, the others are medal games, games that are available to play on console, and the rest are card related literally only Japanese people would play them gamesAlso every game costs a minimum of $1 to play
>>697697724They seem to just hold onto shit for longer than other societies, it took Japan longer than anyone to let go of CRTs while ironically being the biggest manufacturer of flatscreens. The only exception to this rule are vehicles which the government taxes the fuck out of people driving something that's not even that old so they're constantly getting rid of them.
I love Japanese women and androgynous men so much.
>>697697724Japan is so overworked at times they have enough time to just play games at the arcade before going home to sleep.People in japan also have walking friendly cities meaning you can encounter arcades shops and cheap places to eat on your way to and from work or school.Compared to how in the rest of the world an arcade would be out of the way making it a chore to go to.
>>697697724I hate autists because they are incapable of having good manners.
>>697702498>>DanceNah. That's not women, thats me. Women will hop on for one credit then fuck off. I pull up to the arcade with a headband, weight lifting gloves, and a sweat towel, none of which have been cleaned in 10 years. Pushing D23s on a busted ass D&B Pump XX for hours while getting hit on by drunk negresses and harassed by gen alphas.
>>697700901Those people don't play arcade games niggaThey just work
>>697704204>tfw no gyaru gf and her younger otokonoko brother bf to cuddle and hold hands with
>>697704992You and I are of one soul.
>>697701783You have to go to the second floor.
God damn I want to fuck an underage Jap girl
>>697705605H-HOLY BASEDD
>>697705335These days it's 3rd or 4th floor. Sometimes even 5th
>>697700453I reject and play iidx instead
>>697700357>chatkys
>>697701491It's sad reading about arcades in japan being more and more filled with ufo catchers. You read a lot of recent financial reports from arcade operators and they always mention giving more floorspace to UFO catchers, and less to arcade games.But I get it, it pays ridiculously well and keeps the lights on and there's not enough developers making compelling arcade games that aren't just updates to existing ones.
>>697697724Look at the DUMPER on that fujoshi.
>>697699731You married hideo kojima?
>>697706371If there's something I've learned with how insanely popular gacha games are, how much claw machine arcades thrive in Japan and how vtubing has exploded in popularity, is that Japan is an extremely materialistic society with a lot of money to burn.
The only arcade game I've ever played was House of the Dead.
rhythm games ARE real arcade games and i'm tired of seeing them lumped in with the prize medal / claw machine / gambling / gacha sections in people's minds. STOP the persecution
>>697706668always has been, it just manifested itself in different ways prior to all of that
>>697706863Based.>>697697724I used to go to the Isle of Man with my Grandad until he died.They had a few arcades there with timecrisis, hotd, area 51, super pang and a bunch of other stuff.Was devastated to learn they have pretty much all been torn down.Must be so boring actually living there.
>>697697724Because japanese are actually pleasant to be around.
>>697706668Japan is seemingly more open about it but the rest of the liberalized world is already headed down that path.In the US they also have had gacha for years, you just gamble on NFL players or gun skins or whatever the fuck instead of anime girls.Hell even China has all that shit nowadays complete with anime girl vtubers and they're communist
>>697706863my wife
>>697697724I find it a bit bizarre that arcades have disappeared.You'd expect that in today's world where adults are into Nintendo and stuff, people would think it's cool to go to a bar with friends and have some arcades there, but they've completely disappeared.In my city there are only two or three for the millions of inhabitants, and the prices you pay to play each game are so ridiculous that one fucking “coin” is basically the price of buying the same game on Steam during a sale.
>>697706371There's still a fair amount of them.Back 3 years ago there were already like 27 places that had Exa Dodonpachi cabs according to 5ch and Exa is doing well enough that they're now rolling out their own viewlix clone horizontal/vertical mount Arc-32 cabs. Taito Hey is a major one i'd point out since they held location tests there recently, much like they did Mikado earlier.
>>697707492Eh, even if arcades toughted it out and held on for what is effectively now a gacha craze (imagine the deals with actual gacha games, live draw machines and merch)I doubt arcades would have survived covid.
>>697697724>>697699654Somehow jp birth rate keep dropping.
>>697706889They are there because they appeal to everyone.
>>697697724Is having a fujoshit wife more optimal for your financial expenses than a tradwife?
>>697701491It was sad to enter into a giant taito building and find out everything it's claw and gacha. I think it was in akihabara where there was a building with a shop and some floors, no notice anywhere and in the last one there were arcades, very soulful place
>>697697724Foot traffic.People stop into arcades when it's convenient to do so. If you're in a car, then you're not typically going to find a parking spot just to walk into an arcade and spend money to play some video games. If you're walking past it on the way home from work, tho, it's more common to walk inside for a few minutes and maybe play a game. Japan is mostly foot traffic and trains while U.S. is mostly cars and busses, so arcades don't work in the U.S. but still do (barely) in Japan.There's other reasons as well why Japan works well for arcades as well. JP people tend to have the attitude of "try your luck once" and so are more likely to spend a bit of pocket change on something, while U.S. tends to be more in line with "spend until you win" and so are more likely to go in only once they've committed to it. I'm not sure how well Europe works for arcades these days. Most other countries have their own reasons for having/not having arcades but have a lot less global impact.
>>697699572>>697700357Women don't want weak incel betas
>>697707251People gamble on NFL games because they think they're the one guy smart enough to actually make some money off of itJapanese people gamble to get plastic slop to put in a room and upload a picture to Twitter. It's not the same kind of consumerismOne is a retard hoping to get rich, the other is a retard who KNOWS he's retarded and just wants to cumsoom.
If I went to one of these arcades I'd literally be number one on the Crazy Taxi scoreboard. My best default settings score is 100k. I'd like to try one of the sitting cabinets though because my back does get sore after about thirty minutes.
>>697706668It always was it's just that you're seeing it for the first time. You didn't have this kind of access before.People used to buy 20 of the same plastic toy of Gundam because there was a rumor that Gundam was about to be canceled. This was in 1979. Like I said Japanese are actually passionate about their series and stories and deeply care about them, so much so that they build their entire personality being around on thing.I myself have fallen to that as well. Yurucamp is to me one of the pinnacles of anime, I have made more friends, visited more places, experienced more then I ever would have ever in my life had I not watched that show and made Japanese friends who like it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LfgvScDyCK0&list=PL27ABE573026DA8C0Take Ranma Doco https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DoCo_(pop_group)They had the voice actresses of Ranma sing songs, released them on VHS and Laserdisk as full feature actual music videos. People bought tons of it. There was literally every imaginable merch produced for it. Pachinko, Games for SNES, PS1, Arcades, PC Engine. And I'm specifically using Ranma because it from 1989 to 1994 it was a minor series compared to the Juggernauts of Dragon Ball, Sailor Moon, City Hunter, Lupin, Maruko Chan, Crayon Shinchan, Yuyu Hausho, Slam Dunk, Patlabor etc...Ranma is popular outside of Japan but in Japan is just one of many series from that period.
>>697700453PUMP IS GAYPLAY DANCERUSH STARDOM.
>>697709705No matter how good you are at the game, these arcade dwellers will beat you. You know the joke about JP Virtua Fighter players and how they're unbeatable?It's because all they do on their weekends is go to the arcade as soon as it opens, play on the VF cabinets all day, then at closing time they go home and play the console versions until they pass out. Imagine that, every weekend, every week, for almost thirty years.If you don't no-life a game and invest your entire life into it, someone will always be better.
>>697699728First three are true the fourth is bullshit. The population of black people hasn't skyrocketed since the days arcades were at peak popularity in the west. Just obligatory /pol/ bullshit shoveled in to vice signal.
>>697707679In the words of a random Japanese zoomer I was talking to at a bar, Japanese men are cowards around women
>>697708948Akiba now is a how would I describe it. International Anime Town. You won't find any of the actual stuff there these days. There still some remenants but it's maybe 50% of what these was before. https://collabo-cafe.com/events/tag/akihabara/If you look at events in Akiba these days it's competing with Ikebukuro, Shinjuku and Shibuya for anime stuff. Tons of popup shops are moving around. The actual stuff for Japanese people is slowly moving outside of Akiba.And I think no other proof of that is needed when Akiba Hobby one of the let's say premiere Touhou shops has also opened a branch in Ikebukuro. https://shop.akbh.jp/en
>>697701491>You wanna buy 400 can badges for your favorite character and then put it in a can badge bag you can, most people won't find it too weird. This is hilariously incorrect and out of touch.Japan is a country of ~125 million people. Just because a percentage of them are hyper-materialistic fanboys doesn't mean all or even most of the population is.There are plenty of manchildren in the US. A Japanese guy that's equally as clueless as you could look at one of those manchildren and make the same exact claim you did. You both lack the larger context due to having no real knowledge of the other society beyond what you pick up through internet cultural osmosis.
>>697710681Did he explain the cause behind this cowardly behaviour?
>>697708893Excuse me ma'am, I left my bottle of Coca-Cola underneath your seat. Oh, there's no need to move, I'll simply bend down and retrieve it when your done infusing the sea- I mean, using the seat.
>>697706371Aren't a lot of the big Arcade producing companies in japan like SEGA really fucking shitty too? Like their machines are loaded to fuck and back with all sorts of DRM and clauses that basically inhibit arcades from making any profit from the machines at all, like a crazy 50% of money made on them HAS to go back to the manufacturer or something like that.
>>697699654Why is the video game a front loading washer?
>>697707679I really need to move to Japan and fix the birthrate
>>697710490Nah, trust me bro, my high score on the Dreamcast version is only a little less behind the actual world record. It might have been the WR at some point, but there are a couple of players who are better than me and I've only been playing the game on a cabinet for a few years. The chance of me walking into one of these arcades and setting the high score is very likely.
>>697710920Considering what bootlegs did to SNK, is it that suprising? Also, those sytems run the live service portion of the games and pay for continuous upgrades and new content.
>>697711057It's a video game for women.
>>697697724The game center usual offers a better gaming experience than at home. A lot of japanese don't have a lot of space at home for a large TV or PC.
>>697697724I've seen them in Singapore, Hong Kong and even one or two in Macau. It's just a population density thing. Though there are some arcades around Cincinatti that aren't too bad, but it's mostly old stuff.
>>697700357>some gaijin walks up and starts randomly talking to youThey'd probably be so weirded out that their top priority would be ending the interaction immediately.
>>697710898I can't believe the GDQ chair sniffer made it to Japan.
>>697700357JBW
>>697710490>JP Virtua Fighter players and how they're unbeatableNot even remotely true. All the best VF players are in North America. This has been true for about fifteen years.
>>697697724Video game rentals are illegal in Japan.
>>697710576Blacks congregate in areas. This is why malls shut down. Because blacks would go there and just hang out and deal drugs and cause problems. They would do the same for arcades.Hell we have to lock up public restrooms at night because of them.
>live in australia>mfw all the arcades are located in shopping centres which are a 30 minute drive awayi hate suburban sprawl and this dogshit housing crisis that is swallowing up literally everything else in this country
>>697711634>Le Black'sFunny enough, most of the blacks in arcades would play games unlike /v/.
>>697711808Weve had over a hundred years of living around them. We know how they act and what they would do if you give them the chance.
>>697710701There's still plenty of stuff in Akiba like Hey Taito, TamTam, Trader, Surugaya, Sofmap, Yellow Submarine, Leonardo, Yodobashi etc it's just that the rising costs from maid cafes/red light business, gaijins and ultimately the covid bs drove out the branches of some stores like Toranoana.
>>697707679From what I understand the root is that their extreme schooling and work culture results in a lot of people focused on their careers not having enough time for relationships and starting families.
>>697697724Cause most people who live in the cities travel by train all the fucking time and walk everywhere.
>>69771175630 minutes is nothing, what a retarded thing to cry about. Unless you live in the city, it's going to be a drive no matter what.
>>697711542that's weird because I've never seen them win at the beat-tribe cup
>>697710920Yes, they take a percentage on top of having to pay out the ass for the machines when it comes to popular new games and requires always online due to it. That's part of Exa-Arcadia's whole business plan to be the "buy one keep all the profits" option.
>>697710824First of where did I say everyone? Stop putting words in my mouth mongoloid retard I said it's tolerated. You clearly never lived in Tokyo or any big Japanese city. You will find girls with this shit walking around almost everywhere but especially in Ikebukuro, Shibuya and Shinjuku. They will go to eoo cafe in Ikebukuro for a week to get their desired merch.https://eeo.today/graffartcafe/Picture is me waiting with friends for the Genshin Stamp Rally in Shinjuku New Years. As you can see it's mostly girls. Some kids with parents. You sounds exactly like the twitter retards that never experienced Japan. This is very simple.日本の文化を理解するには、日本語をちゃんとわかってないとダメだよ。でも君には無理だよガイジンにはね。In large cities consumerism around brands is EXPECTED in Japan. You have girls where their entire being and personality is going to Disney Land. Dressing up as Disney princesses and buying Disney march. It is fully expected for them to grow out of this phase once they get serious with life but in your 20 and early 30s it's seen as normal.You have 60 year old men that have an entire warehouse of built models and will gladly show it to you. You have otaku cafe everywhere, designed for like minded people to drink and fuck around. I personally am friends with a guy that runs a small private cafe out of his second house hes a CEO of a small company and he runs it for people that like Yama no Sususme where he has a circle of friends that come around to chat, have fun and occasionally climb mountains while nerding out.
I was looking for arcades to visit and they all look pretty empty
>>697697724Japan is very densely populated in 5 cities
>>697712283>what are work hours
>>697712478i thought the nips worked 24/7
>>697710576Maybe it's region-dependent.Where I live the worst you'll encounter is some black child screaming and mashing the keysThe only other black dude I've seen is this guy who plays mid-level 12s on iidx on weekends
>>697711808sure they do, dontavius
>>697710576>>697712546People seethe every time it's brought up on /vr/ but it was definitely part of it.You don't need many bad actors to ruin open spaces like arcades and their presence will silently drop a lot of your customer base who don't want to deal with that or won't allow their kids to hang around it.
>>697710701>IkebukuroI remember the first time being told to avoid akihabara and instead check out Ikebukuro where all the ACTUAL stuff wasWell, they weren't wrong, the only thing is that it was all stuff almost entirely for women. Like holy fuck just entire floors and shops everywhere filled with nothing but women
>>69771212430 minutes sounds like nothing but that's:1. 30 minutes each way, so a total of 60 minutes and fuel and wear items for cars gets more and more expensive each year2. that's in purely optimal conditions with little traffic3. that's just for me - what about kids or the elderly or people who can't drive?the problems of urban planning, when looked at in written form, are blown up exponentially when looked at in real life
>>697712986>3. that's just for me - what about kids or the elderly or people who can't drive?They can die.
>>697697724Arcades started going in decline when home consoles were released. It's just not as profitable anymore.Japan still has them but they're also slowly going away. They have more crane games since people can win prizes from them. And even worse is pachislots.
>>697701491>Golden Kamyu Genjiro figure doll keychainHOLY FUCKING BASED
>>697707251Japan's materialism is a means to an end, you grab an ufo catcher plushie for your gf, you roll on the gacha for vidya power, you do pachinko for socializing, etc.Westoids are soulless and the materialism is the ends, not the means.
>>697707679Smarter people have less kids
>>697713364>hecking SOVLful materialism and gambling, Japan :OSEAnigger-kun, I...
>>697712890Yeah they tend to selectively neglect to mention that. You shouldn't be avoiding Akiba anyway specialist stores like Beep are all still there and plenty of anime and figurine ones like Lashinbang, Amiami, Kotobukiya, Animate, Mandarake, Mulan, Volks etc.The big change is that the smaller stores aren't quite as prevalent (still exist including old junk electric ones hidden in multi-store buildings) and that prices have gone up thanks to tourists and mercari/yahoo jp auctions.
>>697710701When I last went to Japan, there wasn't much in terms of anime in Shinjuku. Where specifically in Shinjuku? People just say to go there if you want to fuck a crossdresser.
>>697713314:(
>>69771175630 minutes away is considered very lucky if you can believe it.For a lot people it's a 1hr+ drive both ways
>>697709705As someone who knows what a 100k default setting score is, it would be interesting to see what you could do on arcade hardware, in a place that has actual serious crazy taxi players.Maybe you could even improve your score after watching some other good players.
>>697712214>tfw I understood that sentenceMOM LOOK I'M GETTING THERE
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>>697711756>has an arcade in his country>has any sort of culture around fighting games/ arcade games etc. in his countryFUCK YOU ANON I HAVE TO HOP ON A PLANE AND CROSS MANY BORDERS TO EVEN SEE AN ARCADE MACHINE
>>697714752made for my massive gaijin cock
>>697714328yep, i do believe it... that's just how it is these days and each month it keeps getting worse and worse and worse and...
>>697697724I just wish I had more walkable stuff near me. Everything is just roads now, every building is for business and has to generate profit, there is no space to just hang out since line doesn't go up.
>>697712214I don't think you even grow out of it, but switch to older people brands. Parco, Uniqulo, Satochan.
>>697697724No white shitters to ruin the place and steal shit
>>697714752my coworker looks almost exactly like this
>>697714012https://collabo-cafe.com/events/tag/shinjuku/You need to check websites for offerings. It's all in small shops or some obscure locations. Sometimes it's in big malls. https://collabo-cafe.com/events/collabo/nier-automata-anime-karatetsu-2024/Take this newest one it's a Nier colab with a karaoke bar. So here.A thing to understand with Japan is you need to check you favorite series social media and some websites that list these colabs to participate, some even need lottery tickets and shit.https://collabo-cafe.com/events/collabo/heroaca-pop-up-store-base-yard-shinjuku-2024/Heres another random one.The "static" anime shit is usually found in a few places. Some examples will be the area around the Surugaya Shinjuku Marui Annex Store thats the C1 exit.You have the Kinokuniya Book store.Then you have music shops so Disk Union, Tower Record, HMV, etc...Shinjuku MYLORD Mall has always some anime shit going on. Pop Up Stores or Cafes or stuff...Donki always has something in Kabukicho but thats mostly the same as all the others.For Shibuya you haveShibuya MODI - Events, Pop up stores new stuffShibuy Parco - Classic stores, area around it has Animate, Mandrake, Rashinbang, Capcom store and so on... Search for MAGNETbySHIBUYA109 you have tons of small stores hereBut once again best check some sites like https://collabo-cafe.com/events/tag/shibuya/For example theres going to be an Inital D event here at Medicos Shop ShibuyaFucking 4chan won't let me post google maps links.
>>697712890Next time go to Nakano.
>>697710576>>697712546It's region dependent. And it's low probability, high severity. The black weeaboo with a PINKY CRUSH isn't the issue. Just ONE fucker with 90 seconds and a screwdriver and your 2dx machine, your sound voltek, your Godzila Kaiju wars, your dance around and your NBA superstars machines need $3000 in repair costs each. JP arcade machines tend to not be hardened as much for combat as US ones as well, with touchscreens and pryable doors everywhere.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jgdyhe0OZXw
>>697701491>Wow almost like men and women prefer different types of games!Be careful anon, monke dev got targeted by the entire western game journalists for saying that.
>>697715080>collabsIt's all slop.
>>697714796>>has any sort of culture around fighting games/ arcade gameswe don't really have any of the classic japanese arcade games here like street fighter or crazy taxi or whatever - it's almost entirely just those highly forgettable on-rails shooters (some of them aren't even violent, like waterpark games), pseudo-gambling machines like claw machines, sports machines like air hockey or mini basketball hoop shooting, and a handful of racing gamesit's really nowhere near as good as it used to be in the 90s/2000sbut yeah, sorry to hear that anon :(
>>697697724wife
>>697700357>chatshut your fucking gourd shave it off and save it thanksgiving
>>697701491>I have seen a girl from Sapporo spend 12,000 yen trying to catch a Golden Kamyu Genjiro figure doll keychain thing that isn't even 7 cm tall. There's no fucking way unless she just REALLY didn't want to talk to the staff, there's no fucking way anon>>697708948The entire top floor of the Taito akihabara arcade building is literally Fate Arcade and Kantai Arcade, I was there last March. Floor below that was classic arcade games, then rhythm games, and then the ufo catchers for the first two floors because duh, foot trafficListening to a /v/ thread about the state of japan when we have a board full of people is madness. /jp/ might be full of weebs but at least they question bait, christ.
>>697701491>I have seen a girl from Sapporo spend 12,000 yen trying to catch a Golden Kamyu Genjiro figure doll keychain thing that isn't even 7 cm tall.Stupid Matagi cow only good for milking female fans with his big tits and huge dick...
>>697711921Faggot, I'm from New York and grew up during the fighting game craze.>>697712717I know you hate reality doesn't fit your pol dream but do understand not everyone is a stereotype
>>697711215>>697711057lold
>>697715487It seemed to me at the beginning too. But there a certain enjoyment in it keeping up with new trends, visiting these places with friends, most of these places are designed like that. Like a few month ago there was an Onimai... okay I checked it was fucking a year ago time flies fast.https://collabo-cafe.com/events/collabo/onimai-cafe-new-type-shinjuku-2023/ - This oneAnyways we went to this cafe and there was other guys there, we traded some of the cards we got from ordering some guy was going there every day collecting it, so we all looked at his massive collection. You chat, see what people are up to. Get to know some people. Anyways my point is in Japan you make friends based on interests. In the US or Europe say you have a friend group. You all have different interests but you're friends. In Japan people have hmm "activity friends". So when something both my friend and I enjoy comes out we visit it together, I barely know any of his friends, he knows barely any of mine. But we like Onimai and other anime shit so we go to these every once in a while. This one I remembered because the presentation was fantastic and I got Mihari on the first try. TL;DR this shit is a group activity for a lot of people. A way to get out of the house and enjoy what you like. >>697715835She had it moved 4 times and still didn't get it. I was in awe. But she fucking kept trying.
>>697716254Don't bother, anon. You're dealing with that type of retard who thinks everyone else is manipulated by media, espouses racist ideology while claiming to be a realist, and is actively afraid of any minority he comes across. You already know this. He's not worth the effort.
>>697716254I take it you hung around in a big arcade in a gentrified area or one of the go-to places for fighting games after they were cleaned up. Late-90s lots of them had become 'hangouts' for drug dealers.
>>697715330Those games don’t have screen covers because the Japanese aren’t wild animals and having covers ruins the picture
>>697697724when I worked at a mom n pop arcade for a bit I learned that maintaining a pinball machine is a huge pain in the ass. Also parents became shitters and used them as daycares but didn't want to put up much money which caused a lot of them to end up going the ticket dispenser route
>>697706889I tried this in Thailand. bretty kool
>>697716631hell in a handbasket, man. Four times? I got a miku plush in 3. I probably would've done more but those fucking KanColle cards, man. Never even played the actual mobage game in my life, but those fucking cards...Anyways, about your materialistic pursuit bit- it is indeed present in the US, just in a different form. It's hypebeasts over here. That's all hypebeasting is, really. A lot of the central US like my lovely shithole don't have much of it, because, uh, well, the country's fucking massive, so it's mostly confined to the coasts because there's also a desire to flaunt your stuff. But our puritan progenitors did a massive dent to what people, as adults, are even allowed to openly enjoy and display interest in. It's changing, it always is, like everything else, but it's still pretty deep in our psyche (and not in a psuedoscience way), people will always want something to shame others about and it's an interesting crossover between cultural demands to fit in and our weird brand of hyper-individualism, really.ps nice Google Pixel. can always recognize it from the filename.
What are some NEW arcade games that Japan has been making these days?The last thing I ever heard of was pic related but I think it didn't do too well
>>697716680I went to all kinds: a couple of big ones, pizza shops, laundromats, game stores and the odd one that had shit no where else like Dead or Alive++
>>697716631Ah I though of a perfect example most people here saw.In Kobayashis Maid Dragon you have Makoto and Kobayashi. They outwardly seem normal working salary men/women programmers that participate in society, dress normally, just you average workers. But then they get together have a drink and fucking sperg out about some maid shit whats a better maid. Thats literally what Japan is like. You have your "otaku" friends, you don't want your cowokers, your family maybe or whoever knowing your powerlevel, they maybe outwardly let people know oh I like anime yeah, I listen to idol songs sometimes. So you pretend, but when some event or shit happens. You are there in full otaku gear ready to do some shit. I have a guy I do Trains with, Train otaku in Japan are the lowest of the low maybe there with lovelive fans. They will fucking stop trains, jump on tracks and generally be menace to society. So you really don't want people to know you're Tetsudomania. We went to the Opening of the new Utsunomiya Tram right visited stuff like Saitamas Seicomark and shit was a fun trip anyways nobody except me and a few other dudes know he likes trains. He keeps his power level as low as possible. Yet half his apartment is train models. But he is your proper and prim salary man white shirt and all.
>>697717338There's a bunch you never see mentioned outside of 5ch's arcade board and some youtube clips.Eiketsu Taisen, Mahjong Fight Girl, Wonderland Wars, Quiz Magic Academy, Sangokushi Taisen, Monster Retsuden Oreca Battle 2, etc.
>>697717167What can I tell you it was a fantastic price, Yodobashi guys are good shills. Everyone and I mean literally everyone has an iPhone but I can't stand em I'm used to Android and Pixel became pretty big in Japan. I mean >massive dent to what people, as adults, are even allowed to openly enjoy and display interest in. This is also true for Rural Japan but in big cities it's mostly youngish people and the old ones are gone so displaying stuff like this has become the norm. Most people like to do it discretely. Heres some examples. Like one of my friends walked in with this https://www.1999.co.jp/eng/10541523To any normal person it's just a poloshirt. But damn sadly it's like a 10 year old shirt but fuck me. Why don't more people make this discrete power level shit? Like if you know it you instantly know it. The same things happening now with Yurucamp, If you see that Cable Knit Watch Cap #2 DGN https://www.montbell.com/jp/en/products/detail/1118583?fo=0&color=DGNYep thats a Yurucamp fan.
Is this thread fill of bots? It seems like many replies are artificial
>>697718176just like your post
>>697718176I take it you've never been in a real 4chan thread before.>people are actually talking about real things and not just repeating old twittershit? oh noez!
>>697697724It's a hangout/leisure thing for the Japanese students, otherwise they'll be 100% suicidal>study all day >come home late, sad, depressed, wanna blow off some steam>luckily there's arcades fucking everywhere and other similar places
>>697707679All birth rates keep dropping, word wideIt’s what happens when you educate your population and give rights to women
>>697718176Ice cream? God I love ice cream!
>>697718108>Why don't more people make this discrete power level shit?The normoid cannot understand subtlety
>>697718309More like what happens when you lose everything including your pride as a people and become a colony to a greater power.
>>697718176I'm sorry that your buzzword addled culture war addicted brain can't follow a thread fill with discussion.
>>697718340God I wish they'd stop being dumb.This is the type of shit that needs to be made. Instantly recognizable no need to spell it out, normies think it's some weird color design, everyone interested knows.
>>697697724arcades are comfy
>>697718176>fillHello redeemful sir
>>697718494I mean to some screaming out their interest is the whole point.Personally i'm way more on your side though. I loathe wearing merch clothing in most settings and only make exceptions for a select few things, like while hanging out with the boys and playing retro games or AD&D or going fishing.
>>697718267>>697718283>>697718320>>697718436>>697718575Nothing to dop with in depth discussion, its like the whole thread is being spoken about by one person, look at the line spacing, I think there is some psyop or shilling for something going on. Who knows though I guess my hunch could incorrect
>>697718875Genuinely and without irony kill yourself.
>>697717338Off the top of my head. Music Diver. That korean game that's a clone of the front loading washer, this time with a rotating watch dial.Dance A Round, which is effectively parapara with optical camera sensors ala xbox 360There's a new Taiko no Tatsujin.CHUNITHM, which is sort of keyboard fantasia but not from konami.A new sega racer, Apex somethingA naruto chip collector, coming out in english as well,A remake/revival of that namco pirate big cabinet ride shooter with the joystick gun. Bladestorm pirates or something like thatAnother Gundam game, but that barely counts as new.Wangan midnight 6. or 6+ or whatever number we're on.A new namco game, ala prop cycle where you're a doordash bicycle delivery boy.There's initial D/MFG.I remember seeing a 2d space shooter starring robots with rotating weapons the name of which escapes me. STREET FIGHTER 6 TYPE ARCADE. Something Toho with a lot of bullets. I can't tell one from the other, because I'm a casual.Some new ex arcade shit. AXEL CITY 2. Omen of Sorrow, which is like discount mayaed darkstalkers. A revival of Fixeight, if you are DEEP into obscure run and gun shooters, Cotton is coming back again tooI remember a location test for Samurai Pizza Catst. Old Arcade infinity player.
they are still in korea
I enjoyed Akiba when I went there last year but I couldn't shake the feeling that I had missed out on its golden days and would never be able to experience them.>arcades are mostly claw machines, pepakura machines for girls, online gacha games, rhythm games and if you get lucky there may be a floor with fighters/light gun games>pachinko fucking everywhere>most merch shops only carry whatever is popular right now, hard to find old stuff or unpopular seriesI enjoyed Den Den Town in Osaka much more, it felt way more authentic.
>>697702498women don't like husbandos?
>>697718685Same. I feel the same about clothes in General I'd rather buy a Uniqlo/GU T-shirt that is simply black then have big fucking letters adidas or SUPREME or whatever the fucks popular these days.adidas has a good idea with the stripes, there no need to write your company name, just fucking make stripes. >only make exceptions for a select few things, like while hanging out with the boys and playing retro games or AD&D or going fishing.Yep same here. When it's fun time, I go full retard. But for normal occasions hide powerlevels. ck a perfect low key design for this stuff.
>>697697724A lot of Japanese arcades have died though.
>>697719318>ck a perfect low key design for this stuff.And such a perfect show to boot. Really ought to buy one of those patches.
>>697700357kys
>>697697724You can tell the nerd girl has a big butt.
>>697719587that's how we LIKE them!
>>697712214>You have 60 year old men that have an entire warehouse of built models and will gladly show it to you.i mean people build model kits in the west too
>>697719410Some closed down but there are still several tower arcades and a lot of those rhythm games are leased for 50% profits so the arcade needs to be busy to have those games there.
>>697697724>arcade in america>in a city: try to go to arcade, get shot for your shoes on the way there>in the suburbs: arcade too far away for target audience to reasonable access>culture of irony dissuades being sincere in your passion, enough that going to a dedicated building to be social and play games with people would definitely be considered "cringe" by todays standards (This isn't why they originally failed here, but would definitely aid in preventing a revival today)>arcade in japan>safest country on the planet, a child could walk across the city on foot if they wanted to and not have to fear for their life and avoid certain areas>efficient and reasonably priced public transit system is available everywhere in the country. Can leave school and be at an arcade in minutes. If you live in the sticks you could STILL get a train to a city if you really wanted to>still allowed to be sincere in their passion and interests without having to fear being socially exiled for itI fucking wonder why
>>697719020I mean a fair amount of the 90s otaku felt the same about the electronics aspect of it dying even if there still are plenty of junk electronics shops you can go to. You're not really wrong on missing out partially, and in some cases new shit being forced in like 3DPD/non-jp gacha/crane game sprawl, but in all fairness you're probably more likely to find a new figurine for an old show now than before since GSC and others started making lower cost throwbacks for 80s and 90s stuff that's on average higher quality than what you got back then and there's still arcades that focus on actual games. (and old merch is more easily gotten ahold of through online or denden)
>>697697724What's her youtube channel?
>>697711921You literary bombed yourselves over wealthy blacks.
>>697707679They don't actually, they're about 1:1 to white birthrates in western countries.
>>697719504Man I bought everything the Tea Cup, the Jinbei, Beads, Suica Cover, Wallet, Bag, Shirts, Stickers... https://www.cospa.com/essentials/detail/id/00000123667 - Jinbei Haori is especially fantastic. I just hope that one day we will get S2. I even bought all the manga volumes.
>>697707070>hotdmy man. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WaqlEKNMbww
>>697720284God-tier taste.I picked up a few stickers and just started looking at getting the manga only yesterday. But a patch, a tea cup and the enamel cup might end up being added to that order. The show was so good in music/mood/animation and the VAs in particular deserve massive credit. Eda's voice alone could have sold that show.
>>697719687I don't know how to explain to your the magnitude of difference. These hobbies in Japan are so normalized and accepted. This is the current prime minister of Japan showing off his collection of stuff to some reporter years back while he was some some random politician dude.Japan has an entire economy that caters to people and hobbies. You really need to live here to experience it. I'm from Eastern Europe and nothing even comes close in all of Europe and I lived in Germany for a short time too and I can speak German too. Like yeah sure you go to Muller or Saturn and you'll have some models and stuff there, but nothing on the scale of Japanese kit stores and the Japanese model fanbase.
>>697697724Far greater walkability in cities + Japanese culture is more in tune with the appeal of challenge-based gaming.
>>697720641Based as fuck anon. I swear the tea cup is one of the best things I ever bought in term of merch, that and the yurucamp toaster.
>>697710576The last time I was at a Round 1 I was having some good fun with this unique "light gun" game that actually shot like airsoft pellets at the screen. After a few rounds we stepped away to check the claw machines, play some rhythm games, and other shit. Literally the only other two groups in the arcade at that time were black, and when we came back to put some credits into that machine again the guns had been ripped off the cabinet and thrown into the wall with enough force to leave a dent.
>>697714481we're gonna make it.
>>697721469We all gotta learn now.
>>697720737i don't know about eastern europe but in western europe i could absolutely see a politican showing off his model kit collection to seem more relatablecertainly there are quite a few celebrities known for their model railways etc
>>697721760I can tell you in scandinavia politicians are the most unpersonable people ever. The only hobbies ever shared are football and it's usually a politically convenient team to boot.
>>697721554I regret not learning earlier. I'm doing great now, but I'm fucking 30 and a sansei who's mom nor myself never learned the language. It's brutal. gomenasorry bachan.
>>697714752this is my type btw
>>697721760How about participating in multiple train related shows?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ip84L9IDxYhttps://www.youtube.com/shorts/J1a1TjZOCJshttps://www.youtube.com/shorts/34Dbd6Ru39Yhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gEKtt1wwsWghttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=25Ty61A1CCMhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zfKuQZdbAD8It's fucking endless. Hes a real otaku.
>>697701491so true yet so based.
why does japan like apex so much
>>697722618For a while it was a way for geeky men and women to find dates, not even joking, and it became bigger after minor net celebs latched onto it for the same reason.It being popular there attracted people who just play it for fun too. That said I think the hype has died down a lot at this point.
>>697722863>discords/v/ told me japan avoided that crap. was i lied to?
Population density
>>697722618It peaked in 2023 it isn't as popular in 2024. It's simply Japans first FPS for a whole generation. I think I saw a total of 2~3 colabs this year but like 10+ last year. I even went to one here a picture. This was uhh Solamachi at Skytree I think? Basically timeline is like this. Corona hits. People can't go out.Vtubers explode. People start buying PCs because the PS5 is sold out everywhere. Everyone already has a Switch. Vtubers play so they shine a spotlight on it. It's easy to play and understand. A whole generation gets hooked on it. Basically there is a whole PC shift happening now in Japan with Vtubers playing PC games and then people wanting to play them too. Steam Deck is also selling like Hotcakes because it give you access to all of these games in a Switch format. I couldn't find a Steam deck for MONTHS. It was all lotteries to even get the privilege to preorder it.
>>697723105I mentioned it and deleted it because i've only seen a few youtubers use it for their groups and that's more down to their companies using it imo. I don't actually know if their regular scene used it or just share line groups or something because I never cared enough to find out and mostly heard the jokes and explanations second-hand.
It's called a Dave & Busters, retard.
>>697721760>to seem more relatableNot that guy but i disagree with you because of this line. I'm from spain, and if any politican shows his hobby on tv, everyone will think he did'it for votes, look relatable or any other sinister reason. Just like you did.What I understand from the other anon is that hobbies are a lifestyle more akin to religion than "just" consumerism. God creates them and they get together to nerd out.
i like that they brought round 1 to the states for the bowling, karaoke, and the arcade
>>697723406They only have beat up 20-year-old machines and mobile games blown up. I don't want to play doodle jump on an arcade machine.
>>697723771Half the games are from Japan. I went to Dave & Busters last year. They had DDR, that lame drumming game that weebs like, and House of the Dead. Newer versions of all them
>>697710576In my country arcades (at least with fighting games) were already mostly populated by minorities and died because online play became a thing
If Japan anon is still here, how profitable is Konami really? I heard they have the fitness industry by the balls.
>>697700106>Jeanette McCurdy, that name sounds familiar, I wonder who tha->
need a jap gf
>>697724942This, but a Thai gf
>>697697724Because arcades are now a social experience. Most American gamers, aren't.
>>697725027>thai """gf"""
>>697697724time to go to Japan and met a cute Japanese girl at Sega arcade and beat her up while playing Street Fighter
>>697725027This, but a Thai gf(male)
>>697724217the dnb i live by is lame. hadn't been to it in 17 years and it's changed completely. they took out the shooting gallery, which i really liked, and all the pool and air hockey tables were gone. they don't have anything cool like DDR or HOTD and guarantee if there was a cabinet you wanted to try the day you go there it will be broken.
>>697714752I need a woman like this
>>697725746this is brilliant, but I like this
>>697724483They are indeed the number 1 "sports club" in Japan. I think Aeon Sports Club is the second one I think?If you look at コナミグループ they're doing some mad shit with stocks, it like doubled sine 2022. There many reasons there like shit people in the west will never see. Like Baseball mobile games, football mobile games what was it called eFootball 2024 or something, then theres Momotaro Dentetsu that also exploded recently. I don't know if you've been to Odaiba but they're making a massive building over there called Konami Creative Front Tokyo Bay. It's been under construction since man what 2022? Let me check my photos and there it is. Probably completed next year. Basically they had many casual hits.
>>697718108Oy oy oy pipe down you little snitchIt's a good hat. The shimarin nendoroid in my cabinet is unrelated
>>697725102I think like some anon above said it's due to the way of life. Nobody is going to go from the suburb in the US to an Arcade, but it costs you next to nothing to hop on a train to Akiba, an Akiba is Akiba because it's a major transpiration hub so it's incredibly easy to get there by 1~2 trains from anywhere in Tokyo. Hard to understand how big Akiba is in terms of transpiration since Tokyo is such a massive Train city. Nothing in Europe or US can compare, only Chinese cities do. It gets 211,998人/日 (2023) Thats 211,998 people a day. 77,379,270 a year people visiting it daily.
>>697726136Based and Shimapilled.
>>697726814Seeing otaku play the small kids machines and kids waiting in line is so fucking hilarious.
>>697727160>playing the mediocre ass arcade game that takes an eternity for 1 play>gameplay is easier than the easiest level of the easiest rhythm game you can imaginewhy would you even bother when アイカツ anime is meant to be watched? I could play a beatmania or DDR if I wanted my money's worth instead.
>>6977003574/10 women don't go for 1/10 men, sorry
>>697726814>transpiration hubimagine the smell
>>697697724Japanese are so fucking autistic.
>>697728306https://x.com/toreka_birth/status/1639537446579998720Woudn't be the first or the last time kek
>>697712214>In large cities consumerism around brands is EXPECTED in Japan.I've gotta be honest, bros. As I grow older the insane consumerist mindset in Japan is starting to depress me a bit. I'll finally get to visit the country in 2025 after years of being a hardcore weeb, but there's this gnawing feeling in the back of my head that it's fucked up that the people there are spending all their paycheck on plastic garbage that is constructed by experts to pander to their wallets while they lose touch with their humanity. Maybe I should skip Tokyo entirely and just go to the middle of bumfuck nowhere Shikoku and hope for the best. Whenever people post pictures of their Japan trip 90% of it is merchandise and products and IPs and shit. I get that taking a picture of Mount Fuji instead isn't very original but still.I thought Miyazaki was just an old bitter kyoto leftist faggot who bitched about society but the older I get the more I understand him. Maybe I'm becoming the bitter faggot in his place. Thanks for reading my blog
>>697725746I could fix all of them.>>697697724Because of consoles and pcs. And because Barcades suck
>>697728915I recommend Yamanshi, Shizuoka, Izu and Nagano. Tons of amazing nature, while Tokyo or Nagoya are still close by.Shikoku is good but it really is meh it's not the best in nature, it's not the best in cities, castles, gardens, nothing. In Hokkaido you have real fucking nature. Big Cities have well big city stuff. Smaller cities like Kanazawa have fantastic old stuff. Yamanashi and other volcanically active places have nice onsens. Sakurajima is awesome with it's active volcano.
>>697729364I'll be going this autumn. Yamanashi sounds dope and I hadn't really considered it. Hokkaido sounds dope but it seems a bit costly to take the shinkansen or fly there from Tokyo
>>697699728most japanese people are childfree, they have enough disposable income for arcades and entertainment.
>>697729798There this place called Oigawa (Oi River) Railways. 10 out 10 for autumn trips.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30g8I9g-gjwhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3M1b4WU5UUhttps://oi-river.com/features/%E5%A4%A7%E9%89%84%E3%81%AE%E9%9B%BB%E8%BB%8A%E3%81%A8%E3%83%90%E3%82%B9%E3%81%A7%E8%A1%8C%E3%81%8F%E5%A4%A7%E4%BA%95%E5%B7%9D%E3%81%AE%E7%B4%85%E8%91%89%E3%82%B9%E3%83%9D%E3%83%83%E3%83%88best5But do consider this in Japan leaf color change is really late. It's more winter the autumn.If you go in September or October it's all goign to be Green as if it's Summer.
>>697697724Japan still values "the third place", people in other countries just sit at home all day and watch TV or post on social media.
>>697701491>Japanese arcades are 90% full of trash UFO style machinesUFO catchers are a scam for tourists. Japanese citizens get the same toys directly of Amazon
>>697728915The true soul of the Japanese people is in the 田舎 people. They're nature fuck farmer people at the heart of it all and the further they get from that, the further they get from what they really have to offer.
>>697706863I always see this in lots of anime and I dont understand, animators doest know about Bra extenders?
>>697729798I mean if you're up for a 5 day trip with 2 days traveling you can get a 7 day JR Pass. You can also visit one of the best castles in Japan with it. Hirosaki Castle.
>>697697724>while they are gone in other countries?Same reason the middle class has abandoned all public venues and transportation.
>>697728915I always find touristy places depressing desu, just rows of shops where you can buy the exact same cheap shit as every other shop and overpriced restaurants serving frozen food.Cheap air travel was a mistake.
>>697730592>implying white people didn't invent the public prankJackass crew is a bunch of honkies for a reason whiteboi.
Because arcades in the West attracts the negros and it is not safe around them
>>697728915>I thought Miyazaki was just an old bitter kyoto leftist faggot who bitched about societyHe is.Consumerism is 1000% worse in the west.If you want to bitch about Japan then complain about how fucking insane their celebrity and idol worship is.
Rather worship idols than worshipping a negro criminal like George floyd like America
people in the west still think japan is like it was in the 80s with life happening everywhere. but its not. nowadays its mostly old people and lethargy
>>697730126Once again corrections are needed. Every UFO catcher toy has a lifecycle legally mandated in a contract, so the companies need to keep them in the UFOs for X amount of days. These are flexible contract if say a toy is too popular and gets sold out. After that price drops.So the lifecycle of a toy is like this. 1. Gets made and positioned in a UFO2. Has X days remaining3. Scalpers that win them by being really experienced UFO catches or staff sell them off at a high premium since they're new.4. Time expires the toys go out of the UFO machine5. They're resold to reselling agencies and second hand stores6. These stores then open listings on Amazon etc... 7. As time goes by the price drops below 1000 yenLet's take a currently trending toy. HUNTER×HUNTER Memorable Saga Special-キルア- Release date 2024年11月第4週We got to Mercari.https://jp.mercari.com/search?search_condition_id=1cx0zHGsdSFVOVEVSw5dIVU5URVIgTWVtb3JhYmxlIFNhZ2EgU3BlY2lhbC3jgq3jg6vjgqItYep most of them are selling for 2,000We got to amazon https://www.amazon.co.jp/s?k=HUNTER%C3%97HUNTER+Memorable+Saga+Special-%E3%82%AD%E3%83%AB%E3%82%A2-&__mk_ja_JP=%E3%82%AB%E3%82%BF%E3%82%AB%E3%83%8A&ref=nb_sb_nossYep it's over 2000 yen, meaning the scalpers didn't change their original premium pricing. If you wanna buy these toys you buy them on mercari.
>>697731195 How is the West any better with the constant blacks and lgbtq worship
>>697730592Why are they like this?
People are afraid of going outside in the West because of blacks
>>697730884What you don't like being in a 5 kilometers long snake of people to Mount Inari?
>>697731402
>>697712214>You have girls where their entire being and personality is going to Disney LandIsn't it the case with all asia born women ? My girlfriend is chinese and made me spend 600 usd on kiddie trash when we went to Disneyland HK
>>697711057>japanwashing machine arcade games are relatively normalwait till you see the Gancho Assassin arcade games
>>697719964The culchad like to break games and smell like the devils lettuce. Best you can do is try to emulate the games or buy the cabinets for your home make your own arcade.
>>697731195every industrialized nation is growing rapidly growing older without any outlook on how to sustain a society made of pensioners, it's not just a japan issue
>>697731402>>697731520
>>697731567I sure as fuck didn't see any girls acting like that in Inaka Japan. It's the city people that need something to make their personality. Inaka women do well normal women stuff, like raise plants, animals, do DIY hobbies and whatnot. Thats at least my experience. Obviously there is that in Inaka but like usually family members or the community are there to control it. When the girls go to Tokyo/Osaka/Nagoya etc... they go well 0 self control.
There is no point going outside in the West when you can just order everything for cheap off amazon unless you want to wait in lines with a pack of negros
>>697731789
>>697731747It's talked about more in Japan because they aren't stupid enough to think you can fix it by importing the third world, well they were anyway :(
>>697697724>Be adult>have irl and online friends>not Japan, so can't visit online friends via 2 hour train ride>not Japan, so irl friends only want to play Call of DutyI like my irl friends but Arcades are "kiddy shit" to most adults, most likely the association with Chuck E. Cheese, and nobody I know wants to go to Dave and Busters when you can just go to Rob's house over the weekend.
>>697706889you can see into my mind?
>>697697724They're based I guess.
>>697731747People like to hype up Japan but both Croatia and Serbia have lost over 20% of their population. We're 20 years ahead of Japan. Japan would need go below 100 million people to reach our levels.
>>697700357>chatKill yourself.
>>697732012Holy shit, what a bunch of assholes. No wonder the Japanese are racist.
>>697732012>when he didn't redeem the code
>>697731919You can't hide from it, the whole culture is negrified, even the reopening ceremony of the Notre Dame had a pack of screeching Ella Fitzgerald lookalikes present.Civilisational Ashes.
>>697697724Japan is also losing a lot of arcade business
>>697730884>Cheap air travel was a mistake.And the internet. It's not even just in Japan, either. Its depressing watching vibrant national cultures being slowly stamped out in favour of making everywhere conform to New York sensibilities.
>>697732097At least you aren't being invaded by third-worlders while people pretend it's fine like here in scandinavia.Nothing I hate more on earth than immigration humpers.
>>697732402Internet was fine before third worlders, nonwhites/non Japanese, and women started using it
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>>697732402I used to think China's great firewall was an Evil but honestly I get it now.
>>697723693>Looks good from the back>Turns around>That ayy lmao tier caked up faceJesus.
>>697732402>to New York sensibilities.
>>697732538>Internet was fine before third worldersBefore the smartphone & social media as a platform desu, thirdies are an issue but so was the influx of normalfaggots post-2007.We just need a contraction in internet users. We could have a perfectly functional internet if we went back to 1998 & 99 levels, you could put all of Africa online and they'd stay in their own space without bothering anyone.
>>6977322791500 join some Palestine bullshit in Shinjuku in a city of 38 million. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p0JXWYL2Zh4Gundam in 1981 declares the start of a "New Anime Century" expects 2,000 people to show up, 15,000 people show up event is almost legally declared a riot. https://canmom.art/films/animation-night/94-the-new-anime-centuryhttps://criesinnewtype.wordpress.com/2020/02/29/declaration-of-a-new-anime-century-our-shinjuku-scramble/
>>697697724You know why
>>697732698>New York sensibilities>>697732726Normalfags were another issue but I think women encapsulates the problem well enough. Both fall for the same clickbait/social media shit
>>697732585Thats probably at 5 AM
>>697715582even the arcades people say are good suck so you aren't missing anything>either kids running around or basedboys drinking ipas>unsanitary machines with unreliable coin register that eats your nickels>all the new machines are bullshit, all the sega/namco/capcom machines are old as fuck>various wastes of space, time, and money
>>697732593>I used to think China's great firewall was an Evil but honestly I get it now.Anyone who's in the mid-millenial age gap or older (35-40yo) who was online before the mid 00's understands why it was necessary to gatekeep the internet.
>>697706863is there a single isekai that isn't bad? Im genuinly asking, from what I've heard its an entire genre that is bad. Id like to know if any of it is worth a damn
>>697732448Ahahaah oh sweet child Yes we are. 80% of the Zagreb food deliveries are done by Nepalis.
>>697732893>is there a single isekai that isn't bad?YesKamikatsu is one that came out recently that was actually goodYoujo Senki is goodThere are a handful of other good ones too but I don't want to spoonfeed too much.99% of them are shit though
Japanese women
>>697701491based japan maximizing revenue from degen femcel gambling addicts
>>697732893That's not an isekai.
>>697732893The problem is that the vast majority of Japanese slop that is put to paper is bad. There's no better indicator than reading Light Novels and Web Novels. People want to write stories that weren't ever going to be good in the first place and use isekai as an excuse to avoid having to deal with actually writing, or fall back on any number of Japanese writing tropes/devices that don't make for interesting reading.This isn't to say that there aren't good 異世界 and ラブコメ out there but they're the genres that invite the most unskilled writers imaginable because they are given too many ways out of their contrivances instead of having to face them head-on. Those aren't the only affected genres - most Japanese writing that is on store shelves right now is at a lower level than its equivalent in western fanfiction.
>>697732538If you're American, you're probably blind to it, but hearing a child speak with an American accent they learnt from their favourite YouTuber or Twitch streamer fills me with visceral disgust, not even getting into the casual use of ebonic slang terms, etc.I'm watching my culture rot away before my eyes, becoming a sanitised and commercialised shell of what it once was.
>>697707070GOD why did the remake lack the OST?I could forgive the jank if it had the original OST.
They're held up by the first 3-5 floors all being gacha machines
it seems like japan is actually a very degenerate nation behind closed doors>work all day>consoom the slop>never reproducei thought we hated stuff like this?
>>697711057>>697711215
>>697705605Based.My gf is 23 but looks like jailbait, she's tight, always wet, calls me Papabear (I'm 36), and makes cute moans when I kiss her inner thighs. You haven't truly lived until you kiss a cute girl's navel, softly sinking your teeth into her neck, your fingers covered in pussy juice, and cover her body with your tongue and slighlty smelly saliva. I mean, just imagine what life was like for one of those Muslim sultans, having young concubines wrapping their bare bodies against yours every which way each night, eating your ass, a mouth on each nut, a warm, virgin pussy in your face, strands of different hair tickling your nose. Super jelly of those bastards.
>>697733327Not entirely blind to it considering how negrified slang and language has gotten. But yeah, I don't like the destruction of other nations' culture either just because America is the most important economic zone for kikes
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>>697733498i doubt this is true but i'm still jelly. congrats faggot
>>697732754>Sign written in English Every time.
>>697727448You wouldn't get it..... probably.
>>697700357adding chat to sentences always makes me laugh, makes me laugh even harder seeing how many it pisses off
>>697732206>>697732267
>>697733429Why would we hate this when this is exactly what 99% of the board is. If you actually work and post on 4chan you life is >consoom the slop>never reproduce
>>697717480>Train otaku in Japan are the lowest of the low maybe there with lovelive fans.I feel like it needs to be emphasised how little of an exaggeration this is. When Japanese authorities do preliminary psychological evaluations, they will literally ask point blank about any interest in trains because of how strongly it correlates with anti-social behaviour and violence.
I really want to play taiko no tatsujin but no arcade near me has it, the official drum you can buy as a controller is ass, and replications of the arcade drum run you about 600 dollars before shipping.
>>697733752WAIT A MINUTE THIS ISN'T AN ARCADE THREAD AT ALL
I live in Tokyo and had an actual arcade nearby. Not one with UFO catchers but one with actual fighting games.One year ago it suddenly disappeared and became a small super market. Not even a cheap one, nor an upscale one with good products, but just a slightly more convenient place to get basic groceries at a markup. Fuck this shit. I'm still mad about it.
>>697732206I thought the japanese liked shit like that? Or is it only morally correct when it's the americans, germans and brazilians?wtf was that MOOOOOOOOOOOT
>>697733234>than its equivalent in western fanfiction.No. I agreed up to this point but no.Western literature hasn't been in a more dire state in it's entire existence than right now.
>>697733752>replications of the arcade drum run you about 600 dollars before shippingNo they don't.>$466https://yuancon.store/controller/taiko>$329https://www.gamo2.com/en/index.php?dispatch=products.view&product_id=381
>>697711057That's a washing machine emulatorprops if you get reference
>DEI eye slantsIt's literally okay when Japan does it.
>>697733739https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJh8k7zDmtwhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJtoUqO-PlEhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UaeYxVr_VloAnd of course the Gaijin++ King of Killing Toritetsuhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVGhtpvSDfc
>>697707679>goyim, trust us. your birthrate is falling. yes, we ran the numbers and we are telling you the truth. What? No, it's not a percapita hoodwink with semetic math. Pay no attention to those millions of immigrants we imported, trust us goy your birthrates are heckin fallerino and its really super duper bad! If you dont race mix then you will go extinct! You are down to 1.9 children, you use to have 2.3! Dont question it!
>>697734132I thought I remembered the taikoforce being more expensive and I've never heard of the Taikoller
>>697697724I always thought NPC reactions to you bumping into them were strange and lacking realism but that women has the same exact mannerisms.
>>697734262Oh I would like to say I proudly ate his Buritos very good cook and great guy.https://home-taco-bar.jimdofree.com/
>>697701491I SING FOR YOU
>>697733806What the fuck is wrong with people lmfao
>>697704443what a chad
>>697732608That ain't makeup. Phones can just *improve* girls faces in videos now thanks to AI
>>697733806Isn't that sociopathic behavior? She's treating that women like a Disneyland mascot intead of an actual person. Japan isn't an amusement park.
>>697733705
>>697701491So you're saying japan doesn't have touhou cabinets?
>>697730886>implying jews didnt invent causing problems and pretending to be white while pretending its just for tvim real tired of your bullshit.even that jonny somali nig is a jew. his real name is fucking Ismael.>>697734454>peopleliteral goblin jew.
>>697734873I'm saying their not around every corner. But you can find them if you know your stuff.
>>697730337shut up, incel
>>697700501All this time I never noticed she was pregnantThat nerd girl must have felt so bad
>>697734262So they are indians except their healthy diet actually let's them evade the trains?
>>697735364They can also somehow afford 10k dollar camera gear.
Home consoles killed arcades in the west, they do exist with barcades, mostly as a restaurant combo or a bar thing.Unironically Japanese fucking love arcade and food machines, they have so much effort it's insane. Honestly I want to buy one in the future
>>697735534yeah less people = more income and more quality of life so it's not surprising.
They don't have fast food like we do in the USA. They have 24 hour vending machines for freshly cooked dinners
>>697702498actually female gamers play three types of gamesFPSLoLDbD (99% of them)
>>697735723Why would you ever use one of these when Sukiya, Yoshinoy and Matsuya are open. 500 yen for Matsunoya Katsu at 3:30 AM. God damn I enjoyed that.
zoomers prefer kpop merchandise nowthey play gatcha with kpop looking characters
>>697718320ICE CREAM YUM YUM
>>697699494Father of her nuts?
>>697699619>gamers>touhouLMAO YOU STUPID MOUTH BREATHER, TOUHOU "FANS" DON'T PLAY TOUHOU
>>697735996I have to go to Japan on day...
>>697728915>there's this gnawing feeling in the back of my head that it's fucked up that the people there are spending all their paycheck on plastic garbage that is constructed by experts to pander to their wallets while they lose touch with their humanityyour intuition is right but unfortunately it's difficult to pull them out of that mindset. only way I can see it is banning and enforcing that stuff on a societal-wide scale. which should happen but good luck convincing those worried that it'll affect the economy or some bullshit like that.
>>697733806I can't even finish it too cringe
>>697730337how are they going to sell fanservice if they didn't pretend this didn't exist>do animators not know about burqasfucking retard
>>697736169I honestly thought the shitposts about the game being secondary central was a joke at first
>>697733672I was near one, their chants are all in English too
>>697697724Walkable neighbourhoods unironically.
>>697697724I can't see her tits, shame. Also the red one looks demure
>>697697724Fujo vs Himejoshi
>>697733574>Yogi
>>697697724>Why does Japan have so many arcades while they are gone in other countries?niggers
>>697724745damn it sure does fit them
>>697717480I fucking love the Japanese. Honourary Aryans indeed.
>>697736312>nooo they have to go back i.e. do the same terrible work as always but without being allowed to have fun or have their interestes be sated in any way, shape or formGo fuck yourselves. You're never the type to actually go out innawoods or make a life in the countryside without a massive internet and uber eats addiction.
>>697701491>>697712214Everything about this sounds ungodly vapid as fuck.Japan needs real solutions to their societal problems, not this gay game of pretend where they spend their life's earnings on plastic merchandise, made by corpos who see them as nothing but piggy banks with legs. All so they can pretend for a short while that simply ignoring life's problems works through consoomerist behavior
>Grow up during the height of the arcade era>Tell myself when I get a job and make money I'll always swing by>They don't fucking exist anymore>Move to a different area>The only ones that exist just have claw machines and other shit, no traditional games>The one that had games closed downThe world I grew up in doesn't exist anymore and it PISSES ME OFF.
>>697737538Calm down rabbi.
>>697697724I kind of wish pizza places in the US would at least do something like build cabinets with a screen and RaspberryPi running MAME, hooked up to a coin slot.
>>697737538>vapidOh no people enjoying themselves in the company of others in relation to something they already enjoy.Do you subversive fuckwits listen to yourselves.
>>697737626They're the ones pushing this garbage, if anything.Projection much?
>>697733574>2012
>>697727160if the JSLs are still here please tell me what this sign is aboutit's too blurry to decipheri find this kinda content so fucking funny where turboweebs cuck the intended audience from playing their little girl games and the thought of this dude just ignoring the "no old dudes -- all day. -mgmt" warning is just extremely based
>>697735723They have fast food everywhere and love McDonalds and they even have their local clone equivalents. Ramen and Gyudon are fast food and ramen is pretty much just as unhealthy as McDonalds.Those vending machine foods are withing going to serve you a frozen package you cook elsewhere in a microwave or have an integrated microwave so you will awkwardly stand there for a few minutes before getting shitty microwaved food, or if you are lucky a curry retort pouch you could have just purchase at any cobini.I worked at places that had the equivalent in the US over 20 years ago (along with machines that had fruit, bananas, muffins, sandwiches, and boiled eggs) along with thr microwaved stuff. No one used the microwaved stuff as it was just junky overpriced food.
>>697737678>Jews are pushing people to enjoy themselves in the company of others over a shared interest
>>697738081>that had the equivalent in the USThere's your problem.America is particular has a dire problem of businesses seeing citizens as marks to scam with low quality junk, unlike in other countries where there's much more solidarity and respect for customers.Like when you mention Mcdonalds, you don't even take into account that pretty much every other country's version of it is leaps and bounds above the American equivalent.
>>697735534>They can also somehow afford 10k dollar camera gear.To be fair to them, camera gear isn't so bad. The body is the worst part and that is replaced by better senses. If you buy into a camera system with a nice lens, that's you mostly set and in this age you can use it on another mirrorless platform too.The L lens he's using has a tripod mount, he's not using a decent rail there either, just a decent tripod. If there's anything we could shit on him for: It's not weighing down the centre column for stability while using a lens mount or at least a shutter release. The lens itself is alright but canon L are dime a dozen too. At most that 70-200 will set him back around £1.5-2k and the second hand market is still alright so long as you don't go to a store that sells on ebay..
>>697697724Maybe small(er) business has something to do with it.Japan is the land of vending machines filled with cool stuff you never heard of. And there's tons of manga magazines, ect.
>>697701491I've blown so much money on おぱんちゅうざき...
>>697737567Go to Japan.
>>697709705I recently got a chance to play a Monkey Ball arcade and fell in love again. If there was one near me locally I would probably be going there to play it every other weekend. The GCN stick is nice, but the banana control stick takes it to a new level.
>>697697724I raise >>>/wsg/5761883
>>697707679they'd rather commit seppuku than be overrun with filthy gaijins
>>697701491western devs (and entertainment in general) were better off when they made games strictly for males rather than trying to be "inclusive"gimme more of that doom with all that male power fantasy
>>697707679they're gonna introduce a 4 day work week system next year so maybe that can solve it
amazing how /v/ complains about white american women being social media addicted whores yet most japanese women do the same exact thing. this girl isn't playing this game because she enjoys it, she's doing to for brownoid likes on tik tok
>>697718309not in brown countries they're not. the things the jews are doing to white countries are to decrease birth rates so they have a plausible excuse to import violent brownlings for cheap labor.
>>697702991if i was a game dev, i'd make a game catered to womennot the way those modern cali devs try to be "inclusive," but actually add pretty colors and pretty dresses and things like that
>>697740102it's okay when japs do it>>697740098we need something like that here in the usnot because of birth rates or whatever, i just hate working
>>697700357No, because they're probably filming themselves for social media. Women don't do anything for themselves.
>>697734773Why do they still solo travel in India? Maybe they like this sort of thing.
>>6976977241. No niggers vandalizing machines2. Most arcade vendors are japanese3. Walkable cities
>>697740249There are hundreds of games like that. You really think devs haven't tried making games specifically for women? Either they make tone deaf shit like cooking mama or animal crossing, or the game winds up with troons making up most of the revenue because they think it looks like women should like. Most women just really don't play games and all of those polls that say 50% of gamers are women are disingenuous. If the percentage was of FEMALES instead of WOMEN, it would probably be closer to like 15%
>>697700357One whiff of your inferior brown genetics and they'll be screaming for the police.
>>697697724>So manyWhat? They have been getting less and less of them, a bunch selling their place or consolidating with arcades nearby. Its been a slow death and more of a zombie now.
>>697740359Just because they're japanese doesn't mean they aren't still women. Japanese women don't have any better self preservation skills or danger assessment than white women do.
>>697712283>tfw no gf dayo
>>697736550Because they're paid by Israel.
>>697733894If this was in the context of a JAV it be based actually.
>>697701491I remember seeing this girl, who looked Japanesse, trying to win Pop up parade figured from Round One. She really wanted one of them JJK. She kept going around doing the crane game and eventually asking staff to reset the machines. It makes me wonder if there was a thrill of the win motivating her, becuase you could buy those figures for about $20 each. I imagine she spent way more of her time and money than needed. It was kind of cute seeing her go to different machines giving up after a few attempts.There was actually a Mirko figure I wanted, but after looking up how much she cost I decided to walk away.
>>697699619lol this is somewhat old, also its from taiwan i think.
>>697733894bet both girls have shitty behavior and that dude puts up with it because he wants to fuck one of them, and they both just see him as a sister
>>697697724Because it's safe to be outside in Japan.Not in countries with shitskins.
>>697706863I mostly only ever played light gun games. All of the house of the deads, time crisis, the dinosaur one with the huge cabinet you sit inside and the diving one that's the same. Our biggest airport had all of them. I remember my dad grabbing me by the legs and holding me up so that I could see through the scope of pic related until I failed.I get a little sad when I hear there's an "arcade" somewhere here now and when you go it's all mobile game ripoffs or shit like flappybird. Maybe that's what kids like now. I don't see how they'd prefer that over popping terrorists with what looks like a life sized UMP/MP5 in something like Ghost Squad.
Im worried the nips will treat me like shit when I finally have the finances to go there in like 2-3 yearsgaijin bros did you have a good time in japan recently
>>697742429They're just regular people, like anywhere else. Going by what you see online it seems like you have to adhere by some strict set of rules to avoid some kind of massive shame.Don't be a cunt, be respectful, even if you break any kind of social rules you're a foreigner and people will understand. Assuming you abide by the don't be a cunt rule you'll get along swimmingly as you would in any other country.
>>697742429Yes, just dress modestly
>>697742429Don't be a faggot and you'll be fine
>>697697724she's cute! CUTE!
>>697697724Japanese work culture often requires people to travel around the country a lot, so they don't have a lot of time to game at home, making things like arcades and internet cafes as a side activity during breaks popular as a result. There's also the fact that their more "efficient" living conditions might not allow them to have the space to set up a video game system. As for why arcades died in the west, well despite anons in here meming about blacks ruining things, the actual reasons for that are:1. People don't want to waste money on that shit2. Hardly anyone is interested in going outside for shit anymore now that we have computers and mobile devices that allows us to do and get whatever. There's a reason why Nickelodeon was so invested in getting kids to go outside back then.
>Click thread about cute Japanese girls playing vidya webms>A grand total of 4 (Count them, four) webms about cute Japanese girls playing vidya>One of them is a JAVGod damn you all.
>>697742429Just be decent, polite person and learn enough Japanese to be able to get around and be polite. That is what I did and it worked out well. Helps to learn and adapt to the culture and manners so you don't do anything weird. The bad apples get attention, but there are surely 200+ to 1 ratio of good tourists to bad ones that you never hear about.
>>697742429Just don't piss on their coin lockers anon, isn't that hard.
>>697720248>they're 1:1 to other shitty birthrate countries
>>697697724density makes lots of businesses more viable, larger customer base to pull from
>>697697724cheese gyudon lookin ass girl
>>697697724fuck! her mannerism is so cute it made me diamonds o.O
>>697699619Poor Alice
>>697699654she forgot her shoes
>>697697724lack of american gods
>>697744849jews?
>>697707679JP rates are higher than western countries if you discount immigration.
>>697699978>tfw in 10 years all these comfy little arcades will be smashed up and made into drug dens
>>697700836>Having fun in public is cringe these days. Been this way in the west since millennials were of ageIt started with Gen X.
>>697744849niggers?
>>697710063How do you meet japanerse friends as a filthy gaijin?
>>697707679I always found it weird how fixated you see things about JP birthrates dropping. You don't really read or hear about that for other countries. If it is a concern, that is good to address by increasing incentives and motivations to increase the native JP population. But it seems like its always accompanied by fear mongering tactics like we need to import foreigners or concerns for doing so. Again you don't really hear this concern with other countries, like Egypt, or Spain? or somewhere else (that I see online at least).
>>697731450Jesus that makes me sad, I went there in 2007 and it was no where that crowded.
>>697701491>the west has absolutely failed at this as they've tried for over 20 years now to convert female gamers into playing male centric video gamesWho needs female gamers when you can just invent new crimes against humanity and psyop millions of male nerds into becoming "women" that still play male centric games.
>>697730236I hear the country sides are dying. Are there areas with a flourishing rural community?
>>697712214確かに言うことは大体間違っていないんですが、そんなぎこちなくて欠点だらけの文章で日本語力をああ言う程度に見せびらかすと思ったのかマジ恥ずかしくないのw
>>697746625自分がどれだけ下手なのがわかってないだけじゃないか
>>697746398Yeah My family's tomato patch in SE Kyushu.
>>697746625>>697747105go home yankee english teacher
>>697699619>cosplay thots>gamers
>>697710681they have every reason to be cowardly. Japanese women are harpies that drive their husbands to either work 70 hours a week and/or kill themselves so that they can continue to live the same single life they enjoy while leaching off their husband's money.
>>697742429Just don't be an loud obnoxious gaijin, be polite and try to learn some Japanese before you go
>>697747121I was hoping for towns or prefectures but good on you.
>>697697724It's really a shame that arcade and mall culture died.
>>697744170Why act as if there aren't tons of retards who think that low birthrates are some uniquely Japanese problem? Same thing with suicide rates.
>>697697724Walkable cities. Europe never had an arcade scene and America murdered third places in favor driving 1 hour past dozens of dead strip malls that occasionally get filled with a spirit halloween (our economy would crumble without them) In the midwest it's this but instead of strip malls it's corn.More east/south it's that but mountains and scrap metal towns and trailer parks.
>>697747865Just fucking with you bro I'd say if you get a chance go visit Miyazaki prefecture. Hyuga specifically. Absolutely gorgeous small coastal town. You will need to drive to get around. Just as a general rule for getting around once you leave the cities you're also leaving the public transit.
>>697748185The only two arcades I know of exist in an area of a town that was completely refurbished to BE walkable to promote small business and revitalize the area (worked amazingly well) and the others are all on boardwalks. Other only arcade is shit like dave and busters or chuck-e-cheeses etc if those even count
>>697746073South Korea's birth rate is even more fucked than Japan's (0.72 vs 1.20), but nobody ever talks about it because they would have to acknowledge the harm done by the 4B feminist movement and that's a no-no.
An arcade opened up fairly recently in my city. I've been there twice in the past week and on both occasions it's been pretty empty. I fear it isn't going to stay in business very long because of how empty it is, but I'm really happy it's here and I'm going to keep giving them business. As a matter of fact, I was there today playing Jubeat. It's a lot of fun, it's actually a rhythm game I'm not horrible at.
Fuck boomers and millennials for making arcades go out of business
>>697740559>>697740249Women do play games, but it's almost entirely mobile stuff.
>>697702286Anon you can clearly see a baby bump.
>>697697724Perhaps they don't have to insert $5 to play a game for 2 minutes
ill consider this a rhythm game thread so where do I get more iidx converts to play on bms? I can only find up to cannoballers
>>697697724Japan has been stuck in the 90's for 40 years.
>>697734013>>697733234Japanese lit is generally low effort slop, roughly comparable to pulp mags from the old days. It's shameless escapist slop that people enjoy.Western lit is that exact same thing but devoid of any enjoyment because the people who publish and encourage western writers care more about politics than actual stories, so right now the western lit scene is extremely catered to women and women alone.
>>697748376SK is basically if all the overblown memes about japan were true, coupled with truly insane amounts of feminism.
>>697748226We had a sister town that is now this. Worth a visit if I want a rural experience?https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seki,_Gifu
>>697750113Can't say, never been. Depends on what kind of environment you want. Coastal? Miyazaki Prefecture. Mountainous? Nagano Prefecture. Innawoods? Not sure. Not that well traveled bro.
>>697750341Well, I know I want to hit up Hokkaido someday. I used to dream of doing the JET shit but higher academia is kinda fucked so I can't qualify for a work permit. Maybe I'll visit after my country collapses.
>>697697724Isn't there a Jap style arcades in America called Round One?
>>697750808>Maybe I'll visit after my country collapses.Great plan. Remember to always ganabaridoyourbest when studying glorious nippnongo.
>>697697724MOGGED by the wagie
>>697699619>Think it's some fat dude creeping on girls>Pans down>See dress
>>697750951Your sarcasm would sting if I wasn't all out of laughs. You can only laugh so much.
>>697697724Why the FUCK can't I find a Japanese gf like this? I'd do anything for her, including giving her my Round 1 card loaded with $10,000 worth of credits.
To counter vandalism you can 1. Demand people to make a decent deposit upon entry. Nothing huge, but like 10 or 20 dollars (higher would obviously be more effective, but you wouldn't want to filter out too much of what could be legitimate customers) that they can get back upon exiting. Just enough to filter out people who have no interest in actually being there from walking in and then disrespecting whatever machine they might decide to try out anyway. 2. ID people upon entry, and then fine the ever living shit out of anyone that is caught on harming a machine on your security cameras, that should be everywhere.
>>697742429You won't be "treated like shit", not by any stretch of the imagination, but Japan's big cities (especially Osaka) seem to be pretty fed up with tourists (or at least just bored by them). Something about post-covid zoomer social media-addicted tourists seems to have really caused a relatively negative perception of tourists, whereas when I went on vacation back in early-mid 2010 I feel like cashiers and waiting staff were much nicer and some randos even struck up conversations with me (trying to speak English with a foreigner).The other anons are right, just don't be a sperg and learn some basic Japanese so you can order food or ask where the bathroom is and you'll be fine. At the same time though, expect to basically be treated as though you're invisible and be pleasantly surprised if someone is actually nice to you.
>>697752052I dunno why I said Osaka, I meant Kyoto. Those niggas are fed up with tourists (and I don't blame them).
>>697701491very good post
>>697733337Literally just seething over these chads stunting on them and making japanese pussies wet
>>697752087Aren't Kyoto people assholes in general?
>>697749328It's just disappointing, because reading Japsloppa can be entertaining if you view it from a lens of>what if they did (THING) instead of (what was actually written) and the story was good?Writing tropes and devices are tools in a writer's box, but there's a whole slew of extremely Japanese ones that need to be thrown in the trash can, but simply cannot be because Japanese writers and readers are like 40 years behind the rest of the world in terms of everything. Your story is EXPECTED to have certain things no one actually likes in them because it's... EXPECTED to be there, because why? Who the fuck knows.As if it's any better in the west, but at least western writers fucking go through actual paradigm shifts. You can watch the western entertainment "meta" evolve in such real time that it's absurd just keeping up.
>>697697724This is the 1000th time this thread has been posted.
>>697697724N-
>>697752295That's the stereotype, yeah. Tokyo are used to foreigners since there's actually jobs there so they don't notice them much and Osaka doesn't see relatively as much tourism so there's still a bit of novelty when foreigners walk around. Meanwhile Kyoto basically only sees tourists and they're specifically the kind who want to walk around and treat the people living there like they're funny looking dolls (eg the webm in >>697733806 happened in Kyoto). It's honestly hard to blame people living there for kinda being dicks, sort of like Parisians.
>>697704443I saw some nerd girl in glasses absolutely destroy a dance machine after I got off who was probably practicing that song for weeks
>>697742429Don't come we're full, sorry.
>>697752314The japanese tropes that are 'expected' rotate out and change over time. Are the stories formulaic? Yes. But as said, it's generally low effort wish fulfillment slop, and to that end I understand it. It's not as fun to me personally as old fashioned pulp magazines but it fills the same purpose.I refuse your notion that western lit 'evolves'. Western Lit is the pub of evolution, selectively bred by assholes. Western lit right now is exclusively the domain of bitchy women because the writer's associations and publishing groups promote women for political purposes. It is fucking putrid and joyless if you aren't in the target demographic.And it's not like Japan where you have various genres with various audiences. Western lit, and indeed most of western entertainment has been politically driven to appeal to a hypothetical 'modern audience' in all fronts. Sci fi? Girl boss bullshit. Fantasy? Girl boss bullshit. Fucking mystery? Girl boss bullshit.
>>697737664I mean you can do that shit and not revolve it around buying dumb plastic shit can't you? It's not like they are going out fishing or something
>>697701491Imagine UFO games in the west with exclusive pop vinyls in them, holy shit.
>>697752665I'M GONNA COME!
>>697708893HOW MUCH TO SNIFF THAT SEAT
>>697697724sega closing it's premier arcade should tell you the industry isn't healthy.that being said, small homes and urban areas are good for things like arcades
>>697697724arcades died in america because the people in them
>>697752553Parisians have no leg to stand on given they live in a third world country wearing the peeled skin of a dead first world one.
>>697718309They're only dropping in civilised countries. Browns continue to multiply and then move to civilised countries.
>>697752553>and Osaka doesn't see relatively as much tourismNice- that is where I want to go in my next trip. My first time I most hung around Shinjuku. The people there were nice. Some of the best customer services I ever experienced was during that trip too.The one thing I was let down by ironically enough were the arcades I visited. They were insanely loud, and most of them were either:>pay-2-win card game thing>pachinko machines tied to IPs (think the Silent Hill pachinko machine)>rythym games you use your hands forI was expecting more fighting games or stuff like Silent Scope (>>697742329). Also I got a headache after a couple of minutes from all the loud music. It wasn't what I was expecting at all. That could have just been a cheap arcade though.
>>697753000How much did the trip cost you, anon?
japan has cities still designed for pedestrians (in part to how their zoning laws work and in other part because they just have a single mega metropolis), an avid social culture that revolves around things other than attempting to fuck each other (for better or worse), little space at home for rigs, and no nogs or homeless scum to destroy everything constantly.
>>697753085>no nogs or homeless scum to destroy everything constantly.Words cannot describe how big of a difference this makes. Even in whiter parts of the UK you couldn't have an arcade because white trash would destroy it in days.
>>697720248No they arent. Jap birth rates are 1.26 per woman. France is 1.79, Germany is 1.5, America is 1.66, theyre a solid .3-4 lower.
>>697710867As it turns out, when you create a legal and economic system that simps for women at every level instead of trying to create families, women don't ever settle down and men don't have the resources to incentivize it
>>697731402blackie chan
>>697753478That sounds very similar to why west birth rates suck, too.
>>697753027Like in total? This was like a month before Covid lockdowns so bear that in mind:>$1.5k per plane ticket (may have been less actually, can't remember)>$600ish for air bnb for 10 days (I heard something about Japan banning air bnb recently, but I don't know how true that is) >$300ish on food (ate out and got curry a lot)>$300 on weaboo merch stuffSo about $3.5k for a little over a week I think it was? I may be missing an expense somewhere in there.I think plane tickets are about double now sadly lat time I checked. I don't know what lodging would be like.>>697753085>an avid social culture that revolves around things other than attempting to fuck each other (for better or worse)This is a huge key here. It all starts with raising the kids right and teaching responsibility. They should make chores mandatory at schools in other countries like they do in Japan. I know the US especially would benefit from this speaking from personal experience. If we were forced to help each other out throughout school via mandatory chores/cleaning/etc. that'd make a big impact. Of course not everyone would be on board with that sadly.
>>697753000Osaka is incredible, hope you have a good time there. Eat a shitload of food and hit some bars if you're comfortable with it.And yeah the arcades are cool to check out literally one time, ideally in a group (and there are better group activities imo). It's a cool and unique atmosphere, but so is going to a pachinko parlor, and I wouldn't exactly say that's a fun way to fill an itinerary. Every would-be arcadegoer should be shown this guy's post >>697701491 as they're collecting their luggage and going through customs.
>>697740330If she ends up doing good that then it's acceptable in my book. You get to show off however you want if you're actually skilled
>>697728915I have a very large backlog of models and a few statues (some lewd) and I've reached critical mass of knowing that it's going to take me like 10 years to work the backlog down.As for the statues they've been in their boxes since I bought them because I don't have a display setup and the lewds I bought some 6 years ago at this point have lost their appeal. I don't even know what I'm supposed to do here, just toss them? Surely nobody wants to buy open titty statues and I'm not sure I want to deal with selling illicit materials either.
>>697702683There is so many Virtual On fans in Japan I kept seeing large groups playing it at HEY in Akihabara
>>697753850>Surely nobody wants to buy open titty statuesAnon slowly realising he's been ripped off.
>>697753606Thanks anon! I'm looking to the food especially. I love crab and seafood in general, so hoping to get it good there. Also my one regret last time was to see more natural sites since I was in the city most of the time.>>697728915Make sure to do activities while you are there. It shouldn't just be shopping. Like I said in this post above, my one regret in my last trip was to not see enough nature. The parks there are nice and relaxing from what I've seen online. I look forward to seeing them and more.That said, I'm totally a consoooooomer and buy plastic crap I probably shouldn't buy. Granted it is mostly Godzilla and Yugioh related stuff, but still its good to be in control.
>>697712986>what about kids or the elderly or people who can't drive?How dare you want people to have independence without being able to drive! They need to pay shekelstein for the privilege of living life!
>>697697724Man the strip shirt girl is hot.
>>697697724Higher population density to make it profitable and a low enough amount of certain people
>>697754809She looks like a flabby fujo.
>>697752295Assholes is not the right word. Kyoto is the historical seat of goverment, and is pehaps the most traditional. They're the most blue blooded, perfect ettiquite, expecting the absolute best behavior from you, and being dissapointed when you can't or don't know how to behave kind of attitutde. One example, the kyoto way of letting you know that it's time for you to leave is to offer you tea.
>>697753584Correct. Disproportionate female rights always negatively impact birthrate by turning the government into their husband that they can drain for all it's worth. Franchise needs to be earned not given.
>>697712214You mean分かってなくてはダメだよ
>>697728915Bro even the last Japanese WW2 soldier though Japan was going down the drain culturally which is why he booked it to Brazil. But there's more to Japan than fucking consumerism slop and you can visit places outside of that sphere
>>697755101Why is it 分かってなくて instead of something like わかるじゃない?
>>697753601>It all starts with raising the kids right and teaching responsibility. They should make chores mandatory at schools in other countries like they do in Japan.I'm sure it would help but it's just a thing that even before, when chad was still outwardly trying to get into stacy's pants, there used to be a veneer of being normal human beings hanging out with friends. They used to do shit like watch movies or attend concerts and barn burners and shit. Between the enshittification of media, government overreach (shit like raves are fucking dead because sleepy joe passed laws saying if any drug dealing happened the property owner is held responsible too), horrid public infrastructure for pedestrians, and a complete destruction of purchasing power for the young, there's literally nothing kids and teens can do that's actually normal. Kids can't even just go to a restaurant on their own anymore with how little money gets filtered down to them unless they're rich cunts. So all they have is online shit or hookups which create disgusting subcultures based purely around sociopathic pursuit instead of basic tribal socialization.
>>697755356The death of malls was the death of American culture.
>>697755356>>697755557We live in the worst cyberpunk dystopia ever.
>>697755214じゃない is the negative plain form that follows a noun, you'd have to nominalize わかる into わかるの or わかること, but わからない is more natural. He's specifically saying わかってない because it's the shortened form of わかっていない, meaning to actively be in the state of not understanding. I specifically corrected it to 分かってなくては because て form + は is typically used to denote a negative outcome, it's like a type of conditional.For example>そんなに他の人に話しかけては誰にも愛されないよ
>>697755214Because Japanese hates everyone that uses it.
>>697733429You think 4chan is full of Mishima types? Bro, that's just lipservice for the LE BASED crowd that they pretend to be when they want to get political when they're still slopslurpers
>>697755735>>697755837I guess that's what I get for trying to learn a non-romance language. I still need to get a better grasp on jap grammar.
>>697755356I do legitimately feel bad for teens from now and the covid era. They absolutely got cucked out of a "teenhood." A LOT of them went to VRchat which is hell to even think about. Some of my favorite years were inviting all my retard friends over for tekken tag 2 fridays. Aka tekken fridays. Was a small private school and even then we got the two girls worth shit to come over and join in too. Good times. None of us scored, wait, except for evan. He scored. With like two of em.
>>697755927Verb nominalization is N4ては is N3
>>697755837THE TE-FORM IS FOR TENGU, AND THAT DICK NOSE IS SAYING IT'S KANCHO TIME.
>>697756000I have no idea where I'm at in the jap leveling system. Just been doing anki and talking to japanese streamers.Fuck, the wa/ha shit still gets me.
>>697756085Check out Shin Kanzen Master. It's really hard and you'll have to brute force lessons for weeks before you really get the format, but you'll understand Japanese better than actual Japanese by the end. Also check for grammar examples via Twitter or something.
>>697756152I don't aim for mastery, just enough to talk to japanese people, play japanese slop and read japanese manga.Fuck I'm barely a master at english.
>>697733056SOURCE???????
>>697755994>>697755557Part of me has hope for them because they realize they got screwd out. I think once the NIMBY boomers start going and the zoomers starting to get power, it'll get a bit better. They are going to be nostalgia for a more tangible society, leading to pushes for more socialable places like malls and walkable places. I hope.
>>697756000I'm with this anon >>697756085It sucks being self taught because you end up with your shit all scattered like this. I can conjugate ichidan and godan verbs into the te and ta forms for the purpose of active and past tenses. I can also add the "i" stem for masu and masen shit plus making things negative with the "a" stem all thanks to cure dolly.
>>697755557>>697755994Older millenials also got the stick. I think once 2008 happened it was a very rapid downward plummet, culturally.
>>697756350How'd you learn verb conjugation, anon? I'm about at that step now.
>>697756416Cure Dolly's videos on it. She absolutely NAILS it. In a 10 minute video and a bit of repetition I had no trouble remembering her memory aids for godan verbs. She really is amazing. Shame about the death part.
>>697756000Grammar is learned through immersion. You cannot effectively textbook it.
>>697756497Man, I guess I'll just have to nut up and stomach the voice. I've heard nothing but good things about them. Do we know what killed them?
>>697756152NTA, I found a dl for N4 - N1 Shin Kanzen that I'm gonna check out. Thanks for the suggestion anon
>>697756585Yeah, those are them. There's no N5 for whatever reason, I own the whole series physically. They're not beginner friendly, but they'll get you there.
