>it looks much more low-budget and shabbier
i noticed the same when watching vlogs from japan. zoomed in irl its not as pretty

did you fuck some girls?

Tangentially related to the spiritual thing were the crows. There's pigeons there (they're everywhere), but the bird that stood out the most for me where the crows (or maybe they're ravens?). They seem to be in every city, and they give a more civilized vibe than pigeons, that's for sure.

>>196807
>scary gaijin
I think the thing they're most scared of is having to speak English. Outside of the tourist service industry (and even then), their English is surprisingly severely limited. If you look like a fucking American chad, you will be instantly stereotyped as someone who will behave like a dumb pigeon trampling everything while you shit all over the place, but otherwise you just need basic Japanese and showing you're as language-vulnerable as they are, and they relax. Coming from a non-English speaking country, this was easier for me. In my country, people who know English are proud to display it, but those who aren't are terrified of speaking to tourists. Just don't assume English is the lingua franca of the world (even if it is).

I was hoping to get the perspective of other anons who have been to Japan to help me make sense of my experiences.

One afternoon, I had to take a regional train to visit a nearby town. The station signage did not make sense to me and I suspected I was waiting at the wrong spot. I saw a couple of local women waiting there, and that reassured me at first. Surely, they knew what they were doing.

But after a short while, and seeing as my suspicions did not disappear, I decided to approach them and ask.
>sumimasen. eigo dekimasuka?
When I walked towards them I could see they were startled, but as soon as I said "sumimasen", they visibly relaxed.
>dekinai!
One of the women almost proudly declared she did not, in fact, speak English.
I proceeded to try to communicate my worries to them in very broken Japanese and a lot of gesticulating and pointing at my and their tickets, and they assured me we were in the right spot. However, as the time for the arrival of the train approached, reading some signs with the aid of Google Translate I was almost sure we were not at the right spot, so I tried to make them know.
It turns out we weren't, and thanks to that interaction we avoided missing the train. They tried to strike conversation with me, but I completely dropped the ball and they probably thought I was being rude or uninterested, because we ended going our separate ways. I probably gave them the wrong non-verbal cues, but I did my best (another thing I noticed is that they are very perceptive to this kind of thing; picking up on subtle body language and running with it).

>>196809
>i noticed the same when watching vlogs from japan. zoomed in irl its not as pretty
Right? I went to a cultural event/training thing for foreigners where only another two people turned up. It was in a rented room in some shitty building where there were some escort pubs (the event had nothing to do with that). The thing is, the hosts behaved it was the most normal thing. Like the venue we rented was totally appropriate. It's like you can see the sanitized pieces of the experience they pick out when depicting it in anime and they obviate everything else that sticks out like a sore thumb to us. IDK if that makes sense. It's difficult to explain if you haven't experienced it.

At one point I was in a crowded event with other foreigners, and I experienced the anime trope of the couple that gets separated by a torrent of people as if it was a river. I've seen that scene a hundred times in anime, but only after the fact I realized what I had experienced (especially in Tokyo crowds seemed to move in relentless streams). Over the span of my stay there I realized most of the tropes in anime that seem so characteristic to us outside of Japan are actually taken from IRL situations that at the time look nothing like the anime depictions.

I only scored 171 this time. Gotta work hard on raising the number

225 WOOHOO! Highscore!

u see, I can avoid the points like "never had a relation until high school" or "rarely get invited to parties" of this ttlly-none-of-that-trolling-bullshit charter

Only 139, I'm a Heyuri disappointment... (´～`)

268

>>196496
w-what's wrong with haibane renmei?!

>>196762
i think its the anime for tiktokers who grew outta lain

Don't bring the "that's the <japanese media> for that <western community> people" crap on heyuri plz

I tried watching haibane renmei many times (before tiktok was even a thing I think), but I could never get into it. Maybe I will try again soon.

>>196801
this is the best season but also its the best marathoned while a little sad. i think i watched first episodes in a 1.2 playback speed

no, fuck off DESU

id sex the doll

>>196747
friends u can be brutally honest with help. i think imaginary friend counts too (i am optimistic). i found more and more power over fapping by just channeling the energy really hard even if it just meant becoming turbohorny like i used to around my sexual awakening because it helps you break cycles you are conditioned into and makes you feel more present

ok, what helped me:
1. realizing that fapping is wrong. that the coomer meme is real and getting into paraphilias
2. i do read semen retention reports. they help with motivation. i posted the two ive saved in lounge https://dis.heyuri.net/lounge/koko.php?res=16000&page=1#p5_16000
3. deleting all porn from my devices
4. filtering porn boards from heyuri and stopping being active in places where nude imagery is common
5. phone block - digital wellbeing on android. ive set it up in such a way that i cant use the phone after 9pm except for literal life saving apps like phone or maps and also i cant use it for longer than 10 minutes straight
6. exercise - i started running and weightlifting. i think it helped me the most. especially the shame after fap when you still have to see the cute gym clerk that day... i dont want to experience it ever again

7. it wasnt easy to stop lurking harmful websites but leechblock extension helped both on pc and android
8. i also use a habit tracker with over a dozen of daily things so that i dont run out of the things to do before i think about fapping

>i think it helped me the most. especially the shame after fap when you still have to see the cute gym clerk that day
ur doing it wrong, try fapping while seeing that clerk-chan the next time!

>>196795
i just came back from the gym and the sweetest smiles the girls there give me make me so happy

this one

doppio espresso

Looks like normal cat behavior to me.
┐(ﾟ～ﾟ)┌

what if i like futa x girl!?

ｷﾀ━━━(ﾟ∀ﾟ)━━━!!

>>196688
Futa on male is actually HETEROSEXUAL since male and futa are two different sexes. Same goes for futa on female.
Only futa on futa can be considered homosexual.

>>196769
looks extremely gay to me

>>196769
"i want to suck dick but guys I SWEAR I AM NOT GAY OK"

What the hell am I looking at?

>>196630
all teh way to outer space

let's upload vns and warez since theyre allowed

https://yuibox.yuisuki.net/f/7ad516a7-cfb4-4bbb-b9ab-606a0b9dfe13

:3

the fuuka night theme is unreadable with the saya wallpaper
regular fuuka text is readable with the wallpaper

your egg is so overdone ><

white man's eggs - i do them the same

>>196741
nope, this is awsumm

biting into that egg yolk would be like eating sand

give me them im hungry

Happy birthday!!

holy fukking wow~wowow you still here~! GOOD JOB!!

>>196701
I have no life, XD

me neitehr~ u will be here forever

ｷﾀ━━━(ﾟ∀ﾟ)━━━!!

( ´ω`) i would have sex with both at the same time

>>196714
Imouto 2 looks like she would enjoy headpats more （　´∀｀）つ

Happy yesterbirthday!

Happy Yesterbirthday! Good Job

very merry unbirthday

Happy exbirthday!