Quote Originally Posted by Colino View Post
It's a great culture with lots of interesting things to learn from, but they're far from perfect and amazing.
From what I understand 'Otaku' sort of translates as 'obsessionist', it's not actually relative to anime or anything, but it's more commonly associated with it. (A bit like how 'Neko' in america means 'cat-person' when in Japan it just means 'cat')

I can understand what you mean. to be honest the one thing that really made me kind of be a fan of them is this thing I read saying it's traditional that parents only give presents to their kids on christmas if the kid still believes in santa claus, and a lot of parents try to keep their kid believing for as long as they can. It sounds stupid but I think it's really sweet, in the U.K most parents would tell the kid that santa wasn't real the moment the child was born.

Then there was the other thing where it's considered bad luck (I think it was bad luck, or something like that) for a woman to be single during christmas, so it's traditional to ask out a girl/guy you have a crush on leading up to christmas.

I dunno if any of that is actually true or not, but if it is I really envy them. Sure they do have problems, but at least Christmas there feels like christmas, here nobody even bothers putting up decorations anymore, art and culture festivals barely even exist in schools. It's like every day is a monday in the middle of may, everyone's lost their sense of what festivals and holidays are meant to be like ; ;

but yeah I'll stop now... or at least I'll TRY to stop now...