What kind of adolescence did you have?

[Mystes]

Yeah, the subject is an answer to that question. I noticed that after watching the opening of Mayo Chiki! (bittersweet to me) and after playing Little Busters! (which is where the title comes from).

The more I'm approaching the end of the school year, I'm happy for the summer vacation, of course. However, I feel bitter at th fact that I'm only a few years before attaining the status of adult...

I don't need you guys to talk about personal stuffs that you don't want to say, but just about how did you feel about your teen years.

[shichinanatsu]

hmm.. my adolescence was practically a decade ago, so its kind of fuzzy.. objectively, its the kind that makes me laugh and wince, probably because i was this immature emo bookworm.

but probably the central element to a teenage guy's experiences would be the raging hormones. you don't really know what to do with them, and a couple years on you wonder why your life never quite came close to that of an eroge 主人公. aside from that, thinking of the future - careers and such, friends that you hope would last a lifetime, and to some who did get lucky, getting involved in a relationship..

[darcwizrd]

Being almost 17 I look back at the past years and think. "What the f**k have I been doing!?" In middle school I was thrown into a lion's den that was adolescence.

Mind you before I was a pseudo-shut in because my mom would never let me go outside because she always had work. Middle School would begin to change me into a full time shut in. Anyway, while others would act like it didn't matter I took offence to most insults and would have to once be physically restrained by my classmates. I took it all personally and it all mattered to me since I didn't have that social awkwardness removed because I really thought about stuff. And my being overweight and inability to speak well wasn't all to helpful to that end.

In the end I hated middle school and have either forgotten most of it or blacked it out. It's in high school that I met the bunch of freaks that I call my friends and the class of 2013. I have been with the same group for almost 3 years now but that is just how it is at my vocational school, except that my class, the engineering dept., is separated from everyone else because of the classes we take. So instead of being together 4 have the day it's 3/4 of the day(aside from lunch).

So because of this we have become a sort of family that we never wanted. We have our inside jokes, our stories that we would only tell our "family", and we have gotten to the point where we can ask if we're circumcised or not(except for the 1 girl who might as well be a guy). When we first met we all thought we were all scary monsters ready to eat each other. But now we enjoy ourselves for the most part, but really want to meet other people.

But even now that I am in this clandestine group my like of most things Japanese is a foreign thing to them that they can't comprehend with. Like how I only listen to anime songs. They always say that I don't understand what they're saying so it doesn't make sense. But then I just change the subject or tell them to poke off. Since Japanese stuff is my thing it's hard to talk about to a bunch of people who don't care. So I end up with all this pent up emotion that I want to talk to someone about. And no one I know irl watches stuff every season (since they're primarily hetatards, and the casual anime watchers (whatever the f**k that is)) I only have the internet to rely on. Same with middle school.

Now the only thing that I have left is my lack of participation in the "real world". I can only say that i don't do that because I have no idea what to do about it, I have no money, and I have no ride. I freak out at the idea because I don't want to disturb people with my presence and what am I supposed to do if I don't get home by dark. Which is why I have little to no social life. And my massive insecurity of having no special skills to speak of too.

But that is how my adolescence is right now. Sorry for War and Peace up above. But if you read this far you are somewhat interested in what is me. So good job, and +15 concentration and understanding points to you.

[shichinanatsu]

@darcwizrd: your story sounds like genshiken material actually, in a good way of course.. being a student otaku does have its charms though - in a way you're pretty much in the same age group as all those manga, anime, LN, and VN protags, so imagination powers MAX..

besides, being a salaryman otaku is as bad as how its portrayed in say genshiken and genshiken 2. you look forward to some sort of financial decency, but you have fight with your budget over all those merchandise (DVD/BD, figures, games, posters and itasha, etc.)

[hobogunner]

Hmm....I shall give the story to you later.

But, there are 3 main things I learned from my teen years:
1. Every girl has a motherly side, but don't abuse it.
2. Excuses are wasted breath. Accept what you did, even if you didn't and move on.
3. If you said it, then you meant it when you said it, it's wasted breath trying to take it back, just hope you can make amends somehow.

[Cosmic Eagle]

The fact that Kira is supposedly 15 and a 17 year old is looking at the period of their lives they are currently in as "looking back" makes me feel like an ancient relic......

Also....otaku stuff is meant to be savioured alone. I can talk about anime and Jap music with most of my friends since they are all semi-otakus too. Come to manga and LNs, the language barrier drops that to "no one". Come to eroge they all auto change topic....see, you just have to enjoy your biggest passions for yourself only

Spoiler! :

besides, being a salaryman otaku is as bad as how its portrayed in say genshiken and genshiken 2. you look forward to some sort of financial decency, but you have fight with your budget over all those merchandise (DVD/BD, figures, games, posters and itasha, etc.)

Well it's the same for normal people....only instead of otaku stuff they give themselves heart attacks over family finances, cash for their life partners etc....I would say that they have it far worse than us actually....

[shichinanatsu]

The fact that Kira is supposedly 15 and a 17 year old is looking at the period of their lives they are currently in as "looking back" makes me feel like an ancient relic......

Also....otaku stuff is meant to be savioured alone. I can talk about anime and Jap music with most of my friends since they are all semi-otakus too. Come to manga and LNs, the language barrier drops that to "no one". Come to eroge they all auto change topic....see, you just have to enjoy your biggest passions for yourself only

Spoiler! :

besides, being a salaryman otaku is as bad as how its portrayed in say genshiken and genshiken 2. you look forward to some sort of financial decency, but you have fight with your budget over all those merchandise (DVD/BD, figures, games, posters and itasha, etc.)

Well it's the same for normal people....only instead of otaku stuff they give themselves heart attacks over family finances, cash for their life partners etc....I would say that they have it far worse than us actually....

that's why we have communities like here! in hopes of filling in the lacking aspects of desired otaku-to-otaku conversation.. but yeah, i get your point. there was a time when i had flesh-and-blood otaku cohorts as well, but as most of them were manga/anime-only, sadly to none of them could i broach LN/VN topics, particularly eroge plot amidst the lady otaku..

the weird thing was, we were all very careful of ever broaching the topic of YYH (yaoi, yuri, hentai).. we could start and be hard-pressed to stop, but ultimately we were aware of the opposite gender..

[Cosmic Eagle]

The only female I have constant communication with....was intoduced to eroge by me as a "Jap practise tool" started, and never looked back....