KAWAII NEKO DESU~ 8D
 

Oh, I think I used to be one of these people when I was thirteen. Glad I got over it. I really don't know any, but yeah, it gets annoying. It's one thing when you're actually learning the language, but if you decide to randomly insert "Kawaii" or "desu ne" then it's irritating, very much so.

:XD

I read that with a very big 'WTF?' expression on my face. I haven't met anyone like that, (since it is an Asian country I live in so I doubt we'd all consider ourselves as cosplayers and lolitas as it is obviously not so) though I did had a classmate back in high school who thought yaoi is the ultimate religion that everyone should worship. She wouldn't stop telling me how 'awesome' Harry and Draco are together, and even showed me pictures she drew of the two. (and with quite intimate postures too) Uh. Right. I really wanted to see that. :roll: She's also only obsessed with people who exist in the 2D world and nothing else. She considers all 'real life' men ugly and disgusting. She swoons over anime/manga/novel BL/yaoi pairings, but completely looks down on RL pairings. Hypocrite much? :|

I've met quite a few of people similar to the one you described on GaiaOnline though...and I've also been mistaken to be one when I was chatting in Chinese with someone in Towns one day. The guy just randomly walked up to me and called me a Japanese weeaboo. I was all, "...Wtf?" At that time I had no idea what weeaboos are so I asked him. He told me it meant white people trying to pretend they're Japanese. It was funny as hell considering that I wasn't even speaking Japanese nor am I anywhere near white.

I think I got into Japan at first because I knew Japanese people at a young age and a lot of their personalities and such rubbed off onto me.

I speak and read about 3rd or 4th grade level Japanese...and I don't even randomly say "kawaii" or "baka!". @[email protected]; If I can' say the whole sentence, I don't want to say it at all. Usually I just keep to myself and keep learning instead of randomly blurting things. I think the term for speaking some English and Japanese in the same sentence is "Japanglish".

I never thought (ok, I'm old school...) Sailor Moon or Ronin Warriors was the only anime... or TV show for that matter. I was constantly looking for more interesting shows to watch. @[email protected]; Yeah, you can start off with Naruto or Bleach as a "different" cartoon... but being obsessed with one series to the point of.... annoying everyone else... that's kind of... immature.

Yes, I love anime and (vegetarian) sushi. But I'm also more open minded about things that are not Japanese. Anime is a cartoon. People acting like anime characters are just acting like cartoon characters. @[email protected]

lol I've seen signatures with those Asian people in it...though rarely '4EVER', mainly more things like, "_____ IS MY MUSE. TOUCH HIM AND DIE." or "_____ is hot. PM/comment if you support!" etc. xD

Haha, butthurt indeed. They start harping all over you saying that you don't understand or am 'discriminating' on them and stuff...it's quite ridiculous. >__> The AMC forums is practically full of people bitching at each other about weeaboos or that some thread is 'full of fail' ._.

I also noticed something...that the weeaboos are generally people who cannot spell or use proper grammar and punctuation. Sometimes I'd joke with a few of my friends on Gaia that it was because they were so concentrated on learning their Wapanese, they ended up failing their English too in the process >.>;

UGH, I hate people who randomly use stuff like that... It pisses me off because I actually study Japanese and Japan's Culture.

The only Japanese that ever slips out for me (yaoi and yuri do not count, as they are genres) is stuff like "kawaii" and other small sayings because I've been studying for so long they have become stuck. It actually confuses me and makes me angry sometimes.

I love Japanese anime, I love American cartoons. There isn't much of a difference except that most of the anime you see is better thought out and better drawn than most modern cartoons *coughJohnnyTestcough*.

The least they could do is, you know, LEARN about this stuff before they kill it.

@ RetroTV- I like SOME CN shows. Like The Secret Saturdays. Not anime style, and even trying to be. That is what drew me to it. It is well drawn, looking more like classic cartoons than an anime, and very well thought out.

Avatar was amazing. At first I just thought it was going to be like other anime styled cartoons are rely on the anime visuals to make up for the crappyness of the stories. But it was GOOD <Understatement.

I was a weeaboo when I was 8 years old and just getting into anime and manga. I grew out of that quickly as I started learning about the complexities and beauty of Japanese culture.
However, I'm very guilty of saying "kawaii" a lot... I also curse in Japanese. X3
I do have somewhat of an understanding of the language, however, so I'm not going around saying
"OMG KAWAII NEKO CHAN DESU!!!! KYAAAAAH" That really pisses me off...

I think its impossible to not meet someone like this on a forum or site such as Gaia. :sweat:
I don't talk like that, thank the lord :P I'd only call someone Insertnamehere-chan if they are a fictional anime character from a show that I've watched (in Japanese) and its usually by accident, since maybe one character would always call them that XD I don't even really feel comfortable saying it.
It does get annoying when people talk like that, but I just ignore them.

I've only met about two people who talk like that at my school and I don't even know them, they just sit by me and my friends. It makes me giggle a bit :lol:

I know several, but they're all teenagers and I try to get them to use their heads. Most of the time it works. Personally I don't feel comfortable using a foreign words that I don't know perfectly well. I actually had to Google "weeaboo"; I have honestly never heard that before.
It actually irritates me to no end when people behave like that. To me, it's disrespectful. I can't believe it's become such a trend. I can't help but wonder; are there people who ape American culture and totally screw it up? Besides Americans, I mean.

I hate those people! I gained a deeper hatred after having 3 of those people in my Japanese class in high school for 3 years. If I'm with my friends that understand Japanese (due to culture or taking classes) then sometimes we'll sit around and throw out random phrases like that to see what each other remembers. I actually learnt most of my Japanese by watching anime with English subtitles (also most English voices suck so it's the better choice for me), and trying to connect common words or phrases. It took a while but it worked.

I don't even notice, but I'm a prettying accepting person.

I just remember that everyone I meet is an idiot, on some level, even me, and that these kids probably have redeeming features behind their gurgled foreign phrases, just like me.

They are -learning-. Somewhat. Give them patience. And educate them.

GO TO AN ANIME CON!

These people are everywhere =.= I swear to god. And I hate how they pronounce Kawaii! Ugh.
it is (ka-wa-e) not (ka-wai), if I do remember correctly saying "ka-wai" is actually meaning scary.
Ugh, and I also hate how people try and argue with me about it, saying they learned it from anime... Hahaha, like what.. Naruto? XDDD

I also hate how alot of people think that Japanese cartoons are all for the smaller children. Well sure there are so anime that is juvenile, but like they should watch Elfen Lied, or Higurashi no naku koro ni, or even School Days! The Japanese have their animations, like we would have Bevis and Butthead, Metalocolypse, etc. Which are not for young viewers.

What also ticks me off, when I talk to my friend Micky, she is a foreign exchange student that I became very well friends with (and who taught me alot of Japanese) Who I talk to. Sometimes we talk back and fourth in Japanese, and then some of my other guy friends walk over to me and say that I sound like asian porn =.= ugh. People like this need to die XD

I feel your pain.

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I'm not saying I like those people or anything but...

Well, what I am saying is that its not really hurting anyone. Among all the other kinds of people I don't agree with like racists, rapists, warmongers, trolls, and murderers... I'd say those sort of anime kids are deserving of hostility the least.

So as long as they don't bother me, I don't bother with them. It makes them happy and its never done me any real harm. They might make some weird racists assumptions now and then, but not with the intent of alienating a race, but instead in a way to try and relate it to something they're familiar with, in this case, the stereotypes in the forms of anime they are exposed to. Asian countries aren't harmed by the stereotype. In fact, it just brings into sharp relief for all of the rest of us how untrue said stereotypes are.

People tell me stuff similar to what your friend says, but I think it's just to bother me because they know I have strong ties with China. I love China. XD <3 I don't think I've ever used 'kawaii' in a sentence, now that I think about it. My photobucket username has kawaii in it, though. But it's not like I abuse it or anything. However, I have been like 'desudesudesudesudesu etc' online to be a troll. XD But that's totally different. ;-;

Reminds me of the times when I see people referring to Bakura from Yu-Gi-Oh! as ''Kura'...Bakura is 'Baku' and 'Ra', not 'Ba' and 'Kura'!! DD: This is one of my main pet peeves concerning people 'shortening' Japanese names D:

@DarkxLorelei
Ahh.... cons. I got to then 2 or 3 times a year. After a while you just get used to people yelling "KAWAII" and eating Pocky like it's some kinda delicacy. @[email protected] Th only thing that REALLY annoys me more than anything at a con... everyone cosplaying the same thing! >_< There are way too many main stream anime cosplays... I wish people would strive to do something different.

@chiiruchan ::

I know what you mean. I have to go with a huge group of Naruto Cosplayers, XD And I refuse to cosplay from that anime. I mean I have nothing against it, but like I have seen it all before. And Surprisingly you don't see too many Kikyous or Mikos rather at the cons I go to. XD I was the only one this year and that made me really happy. I just try and make my cosplay unique and a little personal. :3 I am not afraid to play with it a litt.e.. I guess that just shows how creative I can be XD

Yes! In fact I have met many of people like that everywhere! Online, in bookstores. I admire their love for Japan and anime, however I feel that if they truly feel passionate about it they need to learn how to pronouce things, explore anime and manga outside the normal American channels and appreciate the country their interests come from.

Just a small step, but I started a Anime and Japanese club at my college. At this club we would watch anime and share manga, but all the anime we watched was in Japanese with English subtitles. Even the international students didn't complain and watched the english subs. A lot of people started to understand the importance of the original shows and the original language and even went on to learn basic Japanese and study other aspects of Japanese culture.

I think a lot of them just need to be shown the broader horizon.

I used to know quite a few people like this back at my old high school. It grated on me so badly that they were so ignorant to Japanese culture. It made it great for me when they tried to discuss things with others though - I distinctly remember a discussion I overheard between an animu kid and a gangster-type kid, both were in about 9th grade. The gangster kid was telling the animu kid about all the hats he owned. The animu kid was trying to explain to this gangster guy about how he'd bought an OMG hat (cough cough other avatar site), and the gangster guy was like, "... what?" So animu kid keeps trying to explain, and he's just making himself look like an idiot. I'm sitting at a nearby computer just trying not to laugh too loud.
But yeah. It's even more painful when they try to tell you about how awesome Naruto is. The best counter to any Naruto discussion, as I discovered, is to say "Believe it!" at every pause point until they either give up or get frustrated. Or both!
Saddest thing is, NO ONE at my old school knew about non-mainstream anime. There was one kid who knew about Loveless, which is moderately not mainstream... oh man, it was just so painful how little they knew. x_x And I didn't feel as though I could help them.

Man, where did the days go where we had just Pokemon and that was cool or whatever?