海外オタクと英語で何か！？コミュの海外vs日本　–　文化の違い

トピ立てありがと、Eviljapさん〜

Thx for making this thread.

海外vs日本ということで、それじゃあ、ウチがオーストラリアで思った事が一つあるので、それを紹介するね。

Let me introduce one interesting thing I found in Australia on this point of Foregin Country vs Japan.

海外のオタクの部屋は日本刀率が高い！
（カタナ持ってる人がめちゃくちゃ多いってわけじゃないけど…日本人より多い！！）

I felt that most of Otaku(especially male Otaku) got Japanese sword (KATANA)in their room！！

I don't think its NOT most though,there are many compare to Japanese Otaku.


>>Eviljap-san
Please let me know, if you find strange expression on my English..（´ω｀*）

ちなみに、Eviljapさんの日本語はカンペキでした。（笑）

海外アメリカのアニメコンでは「Weapons Dealer」が普通にいますね
Weapons Dealerはサバゲーの物だけじゃなく、
日本刀、ファンタジー物、映画のレプリカ、木刀、竹刀など売っています。

At the US anime conventions, weapons dealers are the norm.
Wepaons dealers not only carry airsoft gear, but Japanese Katana, fantasy swords, movie replicas, bokuto and shinnai as well.

日本刀って言っても安物ですけど
http://youtube.com/watch?v=6gHtf4IIYNY

They are all usually cheap and low quality
http://youtube.com/watch?v=6gHtf4IIYNY

近所のアニメ店を調べたらやっぱり木刀を売ってる
http://www.aaaanime.com/item/Martial+Arts+Supplies/W005.html

A quick check of my local anime store shows them carrying bokutos as well.
http://www.aaaanime.com/item/Martial+Arts+Supplies/W005.html

逆に日本の方では、サバゲーや軍のオタクが多いようですね。
On the other hand, it seems like there are more survival game and military otakus in Japan.

>> キヴン・ショートさん
>> I don't think its NOT most though, there are many compare to Japanese Otaku.
Be careful of double negatives

I don’t think its most thought, but there are many compared to Japanese Otaku.

日本でアニメの放送は毎週に続く。
In Japan, anime continues every week.

アメリカでは再放送(rerun)が多いい、それに続かない。
In America, reruns happen often, and anime is shown out of order.

＞Eviljap-san
>>Be careful of double negatives
(´；ω；｀)gaaaaa しまった！
Thank you for the Correction^^

＞J.G.Yu-san
>>having Japanese sword.
It must be kind of the Otaku symbol..

Speaking of Otaku symbol,I think most of Anime and Manga fan have "キャラクターの下敷き" the celluloid board of anime and managa charactor.(People laid it under written paper.)

日本のアニメ・マンガ好きな人はキャラクターの下敷きをけっこう持っているような気がする。。。

＞J.G.Yu-san
>>pictures!
超期待。
I'm very looking forward it!

>キヴン・ショート さん
Character shitajiki collecting in the US is an interesting phenomenon.

In the 90s,the US anime goods market was practically non existent. There were many bootleg items but shitajiki was one of the few things that importers brought over that was authentic and cheap. It was easy to transport and take care of compared to cels and didn’t have the money value like phonecards. At about 250yen, an importer could sell them for about $5 and easily make a $3 profit.

There was also a small shitajiki community that gathered at conventions and did panels, but there was a shitajiki boom around 2000 that inflated prices of shitajiki forcing many old collectors out, and when the boom busted a few years later, many collectors that payed premium prices during the boom were upset and quit collecting.

Now a days, there seems to be fewer importers of anime goods from Japan as more merchandise is licensed and available for cheaper prices. Ebay and Yahoo Auction Japan, became a competitive source for shitajiki and many importers no longer carry newer shitajiki, only older stock. Interestingly, there seems to be many DVD that comes packed with a mini shitajiki as an omake.

I really can’t gauge how many people are collecting shitajiki these days any more.

９０年代にアニメグッズはアメリカではあまりありませんでした。アニメグッズとは、殆ど偽者でしたが、下敷だけは本物でした。下敷は簡単に持ち歩けるし、テレカとセル画に比べたら易い。輸入業者 は２５０円で買って＄5で売ったら＄3の利益。

下敷のコミュもコンベンションとかで会ってました。でも、２０００年くらいに下敷ブーム(boom)があって、下敷の値段が急に上がりました。ベテランのコレクターたちに値段が高すぎて、止めた人が多い。一枚の下敷が＄２００〜３００。Boomが終わって値段が急に下がったら、新しいコレクターも怒って止めた人が多い。

今は、アニメグッズは良くライセンスされてアメリカでは安くなっています。色んな人はEbayやYahoo Auctionを使っているので、輸入業者はもう新しい下敷はあまり持ってないそうです。でも、DVDおまけとして下敷付きが良くあります。

最近は、下敷を持っている人は多いいですが、集めてる人は少ないです。

Hmmm… this somehow got very long… I like talking about shitajiki…

＞Eviljap-san

whoa...You're kind of Shitajiki freak!
That's interesting for me,I enjoyed the aricle~

おぉ。。すげぇ。シタジキの歴史や！
興味深く読ませていただきました。ありがとー

>キヴン・ショート さん
I am a bit sad that I have not been able to find a active anime goods community on Mixi. It seems that the Japanese Otaku community puts very little emphasis on anime/manga goods, either that or it is a very quiet community (closet otaku?).
The majority seems focused on either cosplay or doujinshi.

My old comment in this community. As for manga.
http://mixi.jp/view_bbs.pl?id=12894664&comm_id=480494


As for the adding color thing, it is much more important for me.
Colored manga often loses its original...um...筆感(pen-touch?), so usually I don't like the colored manga.
I have joined some anime forum(not Japanese one), and I have seen many colored pic made by some menbers called "colourer". They usually vanished the "筆感". So I would dislike the flipped and colored manga, if they are colored in that way.
It seems foreigners like colored manga better than b&w one...

>Kwalva san
It seems that the general American market is finally accepting black and white graphic novels as well as non-flipped manga. Few black and white graphic novel such as Naruto and Fruits Basket has reached very high on the US bestseller lists.

Something interesting I saw was the rerelease of Parasyte (寄生獣). In the original Tokyo Pop version, the pages were flipped and thus the alien was called Lefty, in the new Del Rey version, they are not flipping pages so they reverted back to the original name of Migi (ミギー righty).

＞Eviljap-san
>>ミギー
umm.That's interesting!