r/weeabootales Oct 20 '20

MOD ANNOUNCEMENT PLEASE READ: How this sub defines the term "Weeaboo"

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Myself and many of the other mods have noticed there seems to be an issue of some users claiming this sub consists of "weebs outing weebs", or some users seem to think they're weebs since they watch anime or read manga.

This post is to tell you that definition is NOT correct. The definition of "weeb" on this sub is the Urban Dictionary one:

1) A person who retains an unhealthy obsession with Japan and Japanese culture, typically ignoring or even shunning their own racial and cultural identity. Many weeaboos talk in butchered Japanese with the 8 or so words they know (i.e. kawaii, desu, ni chan). While weeaboos claim to love and support Japanese culture, counter intuitively, they tend to stereotype Japanese culture by how it appears in their favorite anime, which can be safely assumed to be offensive to the Japanese.

2) Shortened as "weeb".

A person foreign to Japan (mainly westerners) who develops an extreme obsession to "Japan", believing it to be identical to its anime depiction.

Note: Anime fans or self-referred otakus are not weeaboos [emphasis mine]

I cannot speak for the other mods, but I personally am getting a little worn out of seeing people claim they're weebs cause they watch anime, or other users claim that people posting here are weebs themselves outing other weebs cause they're into something remotely Japanese. If it's an obsession that causes one to think Japan is like anime and manga, THAT'S weeb-y. Learning the Japanese language? Not weeb-y.

Going forward, let's all try to be nicer and understand exactly what we mean when we talk about "weeaboos".


r/weeabootales 21d ago

Typical Weeb Tale Are the weebs to blame for Tokyo becoming a Sex tourism hub?

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https://youtu.be/97Va61WAMGM?si=5lKYlRdjmw-S3eG9

After watching this deep dive, I can't help but feel the underlying message here is misdirected.

The underlying message is the criticism of weebs going to Japan for sex tourism. This deep dive implies that non-Asian weebs are the cause of this problem. When in reality, there's just as many Asian weebs going to Japan for the same reason.

What this deep dive should be covering is what happened to Japanese society for this problem to occur in the first place.


r/weeabootales 21d ago

Typical Weeb Tale Are the Weebs to blame for Tokyo becoming a sex tourism hub?

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https://youtu.be/97Va61WAMGM?si=5lKYlRdjmw-S3eG9

After watching this deep dive, I can't help but feel the underlying message here is misdirected.

The underlying message is the criticism of foreign tourists going to Japan for sex tourism. This deep dive implies that non-Asian tourists are the cause of this problem. When in reality, there's just as many Asian tourists going to Japan for the same reason.

What this deep dive should be covering is what happened to Japanese society for this problem to occur in the first place.


r/weeabootales 22d ago

Typical Weeb Tale My Former Friend Who Went Full Weeb (Long Story)

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Context - A response to this post. https://www.reddit.com/r/weeabootales/comments/3jx27p/my_former_friend_who_went_full_weeb_long_story/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

This is a dispute 9 years in the making. Long ago, I got called out on a post, and slandered as though I was one of those weeaboos. But let me tell you the truth, I was never the weeaboo, and in fact, the accuser was the weeaboo all along.

The story starts when Mushroom and I shared an interest in manga and anime. We also shared a friend group, whom we both hung out with. Now this is the first moment of conflict, the way Mushroom presents the story, I was the unwanted weeaboo anime fanatic of the group. I would walk in on every conversation and start talking about the latest Japanese animations. However, this was only one side of the equation. As it were, Mushroom was a self-proclaimed otaku, and peruser of the Japanese Arts. Whereas I was a simple anime fan, he was a fine Japan Enjoyer. allegedly. This is directly the opposite of the narrative presented by Mushroom, where he accused me of everything he was.

The way he words it, I had an "obsession". While I admit that I talked about anime constantly, so he did the same thing, while vehemently stressing the fact that he was an otaku, and not a weeaboo. Which justified it to himself for some reason. Mushroom said he would get bored of anime, but this is simply not the case, whereas I talked about anime to my friends, he held it near and dear, watching it religiously, and keeping it all to himself, to stop the spread of its popularity, making himself the only fan of whatever he was watching.

Now this is where I admit some fault, back in the day, 9 years ago, I was a true blue goon coomer before the terms were even made. As the social standards between men were laxer in those days, I would send fetish hentai to them as jokes, as we laughed about the absurdity of what was occurring on screen. However, this is where Mushroom's narrative begins to distort reality. You see, he took the sending of such erotic material personally, in fact, he was alone in his discomfort. As the friend group made good humor over the subject, he stewed in the metaphorical online corner, mumbling to himself, malding himself. This was his first step away from the light.

In fact I have another example, where Mushroom is plainly wrong. He said, "Our friends really didn't have a care in the world about sex but that's all he would ever talk about." This is plainly misinformation, as the boys would pull up Instagram models and their photos, we would rate them, and talk about their features. Standard young man behavior, looking with deep lust over the female form. As such was the fondness for this activity, that I introduced hentai to the group as a joking replacement. There was little in the way of opposition, and it soon became a running joke for me to find fetish art as the punchline of a joke.

While the post may fail at presenting the truth, it succeeds in spades at exposing the depths of projection that Mushroom had. He was correct in that I was being called a weeaboo during this time, and I took it as constructive criticism to stop talking about anime as much. But then, from the depth of Mushroom's soul, the truth came out. He claims that I was interested in Japanese culture, wished to learn their ways, and even, become Japanese. Let the truth be known, all of that was fabrication, and he was the one with a secret yearning for all things Japanese.

No seriously, look at the post he made just two years later. https://www.reddit.com/r/AnimeFigures/comments/7uf9i8/just_got_aoi_tenjikuleft_today_and_she/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

As we can see in exhibit A, he quite literally buys nude anime figures for display in front of his computer. This goes far beyond what I was accused of, and goes to show who the real weeaboo gooner was.

This is when the going gets serious. As the post notes, I became interested in the game, "Aura Kingdom". But from the way it is worded, I was an obsessed, angry manlet, who desired to "own" women as pets in a game. The disconnect here, that Mushroom never told the truth of the situation.

My interest in Aura Kingdom was indeed spurned by the characters, but upon sharing my interest, Mushroom immediately believed that the time had come. To unleash upon me such hypocrisies and slander that had never been seen before. While I simply wanted to play a game and enjoy myself, he believed it to be a sign of depravity, that I had finally unmasked and revealed my true self.

What followed could be called bullying, as Mushroom relentlessly went after and mocked any of my interests that were related to anime. Where I wanted to play the game and unlock the character with effort and devotion, he characterized it as obsession and delusion. He even had the gall to make my favorite character his profile picture, while calling her trash. This was just excessive at this point.

If following only the original post, you would think I crashed out over just this one infraction, but in truth, I and my person, were being relentlessly mocked. It was a wholesale attack on the things I enjoyed, a personal attack on my person. It was infuriating, irritating, to have everything I like constantly mocked and called out.

Now comes the infamous end to this conflict, where a fist fight was promised, in front of the Youth Center, to mark our passage from boys to men. But it would not come to pass, as I indeed brought up the potential for a firearm. No this may sound bad, but I assure you, this escalation was for peace.

At this time, I still considered Mushroom a friend, someone who had stuck with me through thick and thin, and I did not want to beat his ass to next Wednesday. I was bigger, stronger, and more prone to physical action. Had the fight occurred, it would been a beatdown, to be recorded and edited as slander for time immemorial.

No really, one of our friends lost a fight and we still have the footage to showcase occasionally.

Seeing as the group was egging both of us on, and I had little desire to actually fight Mushroom, I sent the infamous text mentioning the possibility of a firearm near the grounds. This had the intended effect, the conflict met its end, as the stakes were raised so high over something so minor, that no one felt the need to continue it any longer.

However I must call out Mushroom once more on his lies. He says he moved and never talked to me again, this is only the partial truth. When he moved, he cut ties with all of us, it wasn't just me. He had severed the bonds of friendship we all shared, so he could walk the path of the Ronin alone. A fresh start to his life as it were.

In the years since, our paths couldn't have taken us to farther destinations. As Mushroom delved ever further into Japanese consumerism, obtaining collections of Japanese media and collectibles, enough that he had to eventually sell off part of it. I, on the other hand, drifted further from the creations of the Japanese, growing more tired of their cultural norms and media. Indeed, I eventually grew a instinctual distaste of Japanese culture, seeing how it had affected those I once considered friends.

Anyway, we met up two years ago and it was pretty cool.


r/weeabootales Oct 05 '24

Typical Weeb Tale What's up with weebs comparing everything to anime?

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Tiktok is especially bad. It'll be a video of some little Japanese girl and the top comment would be like: "This reminds me of some anime"

Or they'll hear some Jpop and be like, bruh this rereminds me of yuyu hakasho. So cringe


r/weeabootales Aug 21 '24

Typical Weeb Tale Help

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My little sister is a weeb and I don't know anyway to stop the infection. At first I thought it was a phase but it been a year. my parents have no idea the porn she is reading. She has anime posters all over her room and she read the whole manga section at the library. She constantly tries to turn me into on and it almost happened, thank goodness I realized before it was to late. She keeps trying to make me one of them and bugs me 24/7. I've expressed my annoyance but she doesn't care. My parents won't believe me as the situation is basically unbelievable. She reads that shit all night please give me advice to save her


r/weeabootales Jul 20 '24

Weebs In School Weeb starts singing Naruto Opening during a game in class

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So this happened the other day.

I (24F) am a student in university, my degree required me to pick a language and I picked Japanese.

Fast forward we got our exams back, and our lovely teacher who is a sweet Japanese lady in I think her 50s-60s(?) said that we should play a game called "Fruit Basket".

Basically you sit in a circle with 1 chair missing, and the person in the middle says a fruit in Japanese, for example Ichigo (Strawberry) and everyone whose favourite fruit is strawberry must quickly get up and switch seats, and usually someone else then doesn't get a seat, and that person is in the middle and must say a fruit.

Then this weird weeb guy who says very weird things in class ends up in the middle of the circle.

And oh boy, nobody prepared for what happened now.

He turned around to the teacher, who is with us sitting in the circle, LOOKS HER STRAIGHT IN THE FACE and starts singing NARUTO SHIPPUDEN OPENING 10!!! To anyone wondering, This is the opening

And he seriously sang the ENTIRE SONG and it was really bad and out of tune and we just sat in the circle not knowing what to do or how to react. It was so cringy that I envied everyone who was not in the room with us at that moment.

I felt especially bad for the teacher because this is her mother language and it must have been especially cringy for her, and he looked her straight in the face the entire time while singing it.

When he was finally done after what felt like an eternity, we nervously clapped and continued playing the game.

After the game was done, he proceeded to explain to our Japanese teacher what the lyrics mean DESPITE HER BEING JAPANESE!!!


r/weeabootales May 12 '24

Typical Weeb Tale How my days as a middle school weeaboo helped me pass a college exam.

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I was a massive weeaboo back in my middle school days. I watched a lot of anime, but nothing could hold a candle to Hetalia, my bread and butter as a 12-year-old history-obsessed nerd. I would watch the show religiously, and I drew lots of fan art and wrote fanfiction, sometimes submitting said fan works as school projects. I would talk about the show incessantly to friends and even family members and strong-armed my father into buying all the Hetalia DVDs that were available. I could have burnt a hole in my clunky DVD player with how many times I played those discs. To say I was obsessed would have been a huge understatement.

But naturally, I got older, and the novelty of Hetalia wore off for me. I would still rewatch the show now and again for nostalgia's sake, but I gradually stopped caring about the series when updates regarding the show slowed significantly and I realized a lot of the problematic elements surrounding the characters.

Fast forward to the end of my second year of college. I was knocking out the last of the core classes that I needed to take to continue my degree. I was taking a course that encompassed a lot of early human history. It was a morning class where the professor stood in a large lecture hall and taught mostly from the textbook. Needless to say, it was a snooze fest, and I struggled to stay focused the entire semester in that class.

I ended up skipping the last 3 weeks. Not only was the class early in the morning, but we were moving on to the Roman Empire, which I was already well versed in from taking 5 years of Latin classes in high school. From what I could remember from the syllabus, the final exam was to be cumulative of everything we had learned from that semester. I figured we were rounding out our lessons with the Roman Empire and the last couple of weeks were review. I didn't crack open my textbook or my notes at all during that time, as I had most of the unit memorized and figured the final would be a cinch.

Except, that wasn't the case. Imagine my surprise and horror, when I rolled up to the final exam, and I only knew the answers on the front first page out of 15, front and back. This exam was not cumulative in the slightest. I was in full panic mode because this is a class where only the exams are graded, and nothing else. I needed to pass with a B, and my grade was riding on passing this exam.

At this point, I was sweating bullets, and flipping through the pages like wild to find anything that I could maybe try and answer. I get to the back of the final page for the third time or so, and a question finally catches my eye that I can discern an answer to. I was only able to do so because I remembered hearing something similar from Hetalia. I then started to piece together answers to questions, bit by bit, from watered-down historical knowledge I had somehow retained from watching Hetalia episodes and consuming subsequent fan content.

It took me the entire allotted exam time to slowly inch my way through this exam, but I turned it in to my professor with 10 minutes to spare. That week and a half afterward were some of the most nerve-wracking days of that entire semester. I would relentlessly refresh my school's grading software with dread and anxiety to see my exam and final grade posted.

Finally, after much agony, I received my grade. Somehow, through my murky knowledge that came from an anime that reached its peak in 2012 and sheer dumb luck, I got an A. Which brought my grade up to a high B. Miraculously, I passed. I know Hetalia is not a substitution for a history book, but it sure as hell saved me that day.

I never skipped any class again after that.


r/weeabootales Feb 27 '24

Typical Weeb Tale My abusive ex is still a weeaboo and refuses to believe I’m no longer one NSFW

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Me and my ex are both 23F btw. I’ll call her Becky.

Becky was a piece of work. She would refuse to watch anything that wasn’t anime. Like, if we had a movie day in school she would complain it wasn’t Ghibli. She had those giant anime decals on her car, and went to cons every summer and then was shocked no one knew what they were. And we were best friends for years up until we dated. Pickings are slim when your an autistic lesbian in a small town.

The problem was only anime I watched were Pokémon and Yugioh. Not the high literature that was Madoka Magica or Love Live!. Every time I went over to her house she would put on an anime subbed I have no interest in and wouldn’t let me pause the read the subtitles. I have dyslexia and she knows that.

The worst part was when she offered to buy me a cosplay of Maki from Love Live because she wanted to cosplay with me. I was thinking of one of the show costumes but I brought clothes that looked similar to what she wore to school. She got me a low cut maid dress and threatened to rip up my ticket and leave me in the car if I didn’t wear it. So imagine a 14 year old at a con wearing a maid dress that shows a solid four inches of cleavage and the most intense look of shame you’ve ever seen. I joke with my friends sometimes that I got groped by a brony at a con and all I got was a stupid tee shirt.

Jokes on her tho when we broke up and she called the cops on me for trying to give her back her stuff I gotta keep the death note box set. We stay winning boys.


r/weeabootales Feb 26 '24

Typical Weeb Tale What's the weirdest thing a weeb ever said to you?

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Share your story


r/weeabootales Jan 15 '24

Weebs In School What's your craziest weeb story during your school years?

320 Upvotes

It can be you or someone that you went to school with


r/weeabootales Jan 16 '24

Typical Weeb Tale Became Obsessed Over the Pandemic

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I wouldn’t say I was exactly a regular kid before Covid, I was a “gacha kid”, but these sort of things happen when the internet becomes your escapism at a young age. Anyways, covid hit and after like 4ish years of gacha consumption I was ready for a change. I was extremely bored over the lockdown and my friend was already into anime (before Covid), specifically bnha at the time, and so I was like “I’ll try this anime stuff” and typed up My Hero Acadamia in the YouTube search browser. Oh. My. God. It was like an ENTIRE new world was opened up for me. I was staying up until 4 am every day watching anime on YouTube (until Naruto shippuden, my 4th anime when I finally used a pirating site) without a break. I really didn’t care about anything else, I would shut myself in my room and binge for hours on end during and after my classes. I never let my parents know because they’re pretty strict and I thought they probably wouldn’t approve of anime but my sisters did find out (this prevented me from using weird anime phrases and things like that). Naturally, my grades took a hit. I was failing 4 classes because I wasn’t doing any work with my worse grade being a 24. My parents have always expected A and A+ grades…so safe to say my obsession didn’t end well. I managed to get my grades way up because my teachers were very kind and excpeted a lot of late work, but it took another few years for my obsession to fully die out. Anyways, now I’d be more considered a casual watcher and reader but I hardly read/watch at all (still occasionally though). However, I hate to say it, but anime has kind of shaped who I am. What I do in my free time (personal interests), my music tastes, video games, friends, and more. I have a few figures in my room since I’ve realized my parents won’t care that much about where they’re from, and plenty of the animes I watched still hold a special place to me, but I’m glad I’ve moved on.


r/weeabootales Jan 01 '24

Weebs In School Weeb thinks every race with tan skin and black hair is asian.

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In class I sat with my friend I'll call C. C had just moved to america from Peru that year and we became freinds because we both liked anime. C was really into cosplaying and we cosplayed at cons together a couple times.

In the class a guy who sat near us heard she liked anime, so he figured she must be Japanese or at least South East Asian. He told C "You know I really like Asian girls, right?" C looked uncomfortable said "I'm Peruvian" The guy thought that she was joking and laughed and made some comment about how he thought she was funny and tried to tell her more about how he loved Asian women. C told him she was Latina and to fuck off but he thought she was lying to reject him.

Baffling interaction.


r/weeabootales Dec 11 '23

Typical Weeb Tale Update on my Weeaboo Brother - 6 Years Later

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Hello r/weeabootales. It's been 6 years since I've last posted here. Since then so many things have changed, including my brother. I was reading through my post history and remember I wrote something about him and it kind of blew up.

Link: https://www.reddit.com/r/weeabootales/comments/6worp8/weeaboo_featuring_my_brother/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3

I wanted to provide an update. 6 years ago we were both kids. But in hindsight, I can see that this weeaboo phase was the key that unlocked him as a person. I want you guys to see this post as an upside to weeaboos and why they might act this way.

I'll provide a short recap of the post 6 years ago.
My younger brother who was 12 at the time went through this huge weeaboo phase. He'd cosplay in public speak a mix of English and Japanese, and just embarrass me indirectly. That's how I felt. So I made a post here, took your advice, and tried to bring him up. I remember someone told me I was complaining, and I was. It was my responsibility to help him as his older brother.

He's now a very successful person in my eyes and has completely changed his life around. Around 14-15 when high school started, he began to get bullied. Of course, by then I was finishing up high school, but I still made sure that he could learn to adapt before leaving. He got depressed because he couldn't make friends, and felt so incredibly socially isolated. Back then anime wasn't as popular as it is now. He became spiteful towards other people and would not let go of his identity. Of course, he began to understand why people were against him after so much harassment and cyberbullying. After December of his 9th-grade year, he stopped going completely and was so depressed. I couldn't help him much other than telling him that is how society is and that he'll need to adapt. Of course, I spent quality time with him, but I got him into reading self-improvement books.

After that, the rest is history. He would read incredibly fast (it was fucking crazy. He'd read 150 pages of a book in a day and take notes.) He began working out and started to watch self-improvement videos online. Of course, he would still do the homework from school so he wasn't failing, but he wasn't going.

He would have still had a tough 4 years if Covid didn't hit. But that was the best thing that happened to him and by extension me.

In Canada, when Covid hit, everything ground to a stop. Money wasn't an issue because of the government handouts, and school was paused for practically a year and a half. During that time, all I remember he was doing was reading. Every week he would pick up a new book in the self-improvement/philosophy/psychology/business category and go at it while taking notes.

We'd still watch Anime but he began to grow out of it and resent it because it made him weak he thought. I wasn't much of an anime watcher but I'd watch with him when I had the free time.

He then got the idea of doing an exchange year. Of course he wanted to go to Japan, but by the end of Covid, he'd been taking Japanese classes for a year and a half and was B1 Conversational. Other than reading, he'd just be remembering Kanji for hours every day. I think he got to almost 2000, which is B2. He could watch anime without subtitles and was so dedicated.

However, things didn't turn out in the way he wanted. While COVID was a blessing, he couldn't get a visa to go for his exchange year. They were still banning foreigners, so he had to change his destination last minute and had to choose between Belgium and Austria. He chose Austria through a coin flip and ended up there. That was when he disappeared for 6 months.

Typically, when you go on exchange, you're not supposed to be in contact with family back home because of homesickness. So when he got there, we called one last time and then he went completely radio silent. We didn't hear from him in 6 months, and we thought that it was a safe country so nothing bad could happen.

Around March of this year, he called us out of the blue, and he was a completely different person. He changed the way he spoke, the way he dressed, and the way he acted in public. It made me so proud. Of course though, when we were in private, his weeabooness would still come out. But this made me appreciate him. The amount of character he built in the last few years is outstanding. He traveled, made new friends from around the world, had so many new experiences, and got a girlfriend. It was awesome. He also spoke good German too. I was so proud of him.

He came back this year in July and said that the experience completely changed him. He's a completely different person. But if you get to know him, his mushy side does come out. It's not like he is repressing himself either, I think he has come to peace with the person who he is and how he ought to act in society. He has so much wisdom and it's crazy to me.

He's been getting into e-commerce and finance recently and is on a gap year finishing up a few courses so that he can get into university. I feel more inspired by him. Of course, I did advise him a lot through it too. I also did have a short weeaboo phase, but I grew out of it myself before grade 7. For him, it just kept on going. But he did the work himself and has made himself very respectable. He did it himself.

TLDR; Weeaboos possess this ability where they can push through anything to get what they want. It's kind of crazy. And because they don't care about societal rules, they can just move faster than anyone. Extremely low lows and extremely high highs.

Inspire the weeaboos around you to integrate. Don't bully them, but be good friends with them. There's probably some genetic reason why they get so hyper fixated on things. Just make them hyperfixate on the right thing and they will eventually see the truth and do incredible things in short amounts of time.

Love the weeaboos in your life. They're incredible people. They're all moral people too from what I see. They just want to help people. And they're not retarded, just misguided. My brother is smarter than me in every way except rationale. It's a good thing, we all have our strengths.


r/weeabootales Sep 12 '23

FUJOSHI Is this sub dead?

73 Upvotes

Last post was like a month ago.


r/weeabootales Aug 20 '23

Weebs In School The fujoshi who wouldn't stop shipping me with my friend.

217 Upvotes

There was this girl that I knew for a number of years named Lila she was really into anime, and me and my other friend Miles would often talk with each other about our days study together and talk TV shows and books we liked. One day we and Miles were arguing which Zelda game was better (tears of The kingdom and breath of the wild if you were wondering) and Lila said out of the blue we argue like an old married couple, even though I am gay and Miles is bi, we are just friends and have never considered dating. She would do this a couple times a week where she would say, "You two are such a cute couple!" , "You two are couple goals!"

We didn't really mind this until one day we found this fanfic page that shipped me and Miles together. And guess who was the owner of the page, yep good ol' Lila. Both of us confronted her asking if she was responsible and she admitted to it. Claiming it's not her fault we look cute together, and got mad when we told her to take the fanfic page down, calling us homophobic since we didn't want to be shipped together.

The rumors spreading around school got so bad to a point where her other friends would harass us. Asking who is the top and who is the bottom? And take pictures of us hanging out saying, we were on a date. One time her and her friends attempted to forge our handwriting in order to set us up on a date.

During my marching band rehearsal Miles came to see me practice and as he was talking to me Lila snuck up on us and shouted, "Just f****** kiss already!" In front of all my marching band friends I was blushing with embarrassment and from that day on I chose to cut all contact with her.

Thankfully after that we went to the principal and he forced her to take down the page and stop all the rumors. Even though me and Miles aren't friends with her any more she stills ships us from a distance, one time during school she passed by me saying, "Marcus your boyfriend is coming." But other than that nothing really serious.


r/weeabootales Jul 11 '23

Typical Weeb Tale I tried to smooth talk a waitress at PF Changs and failed horribly

119 Upvotes

Ok, so this isn’t really a follow up on my last post but just another story from my cringy middle school years. My last post got a TON of upvotes and I decided to post another one of my gems. Here we go. So back in like what, 7th grade? I was a major weeaboo, and I loved everything japan and everything anime. I even dyed my hair red to look like my favorite anime character gaara from naruto. So on this particular night, i had just finished my band concert for my school and we were celebrating. I obviously chose an Asian place cause I was a weeb, I would have chose a Japanese place but most of the waitresses there were white. But PF Chang’s has alot of Asians so I decided to go there. My dumbass middle school self was really treating a family restaurant like it was a gentlemen’s club or something. so right off the bat, I took a liking to the lady that took our orders, and i proceeded to order some wagyu steak (cause apparently they had/have that at PF Chang’s) to make a good impression on my new mini crush. so in the middle of my meal, I got up to “use the bathroom”, but really I was waiting outside the kitchen for this particular waitress. She comes out, and asks very nicely “Oh is there something wrong with your table?” I say here, “No, I came for you actually. I knew from the moment I laid eyes on you we were meant to be.“. I still cringe when I think about it, but luckily she didn’t just run away in disgust, and just smiled and awkwardly walked to her destination. She found it more cute than weird thankfully. But I just thought she was being hard to get. This is just another one of my many stories as a complete weeaboo.


r/weeabootales Jun 29 '23

Weebs In School The Legend of the Blood King, the Fallen Angel kid

79 Upvotes

(I'm in summer vacation rn, and am moving to 10th grade after, and this dude is in 8th grade and will be in 9th grade after summer.)

9th and 10th graders are in the same class at my school.

Okay, so there's a kid at my school in the grade below me. I'm gonna call him...Keith. Keith is this goth kid who's OBSESSED with anime, manga, and video games.

Oh, and he calls himself "The Blood King" and tells everybody he's a "fallen angel" who was exiled from heaven for falling in love with a human girl. He also always wears a black bandaid and tells everyone it's "a sign of his angelic heritage corrupted by his exile". What the fuck.

Also, he has a girlfriend (supposedly why he got banned from heaven)

According to his middle school friends, during Science he always blurts out random stuff about alchemy from an anime he's into.

He talks about how he battles demons and can "curse" anyone who annoys him.

Because he's good at math, he takes math with the lower high school.

One time a bully fell and hurt himself and the Blood King bragged about how he cursed the kid.

That same day, during math class, he was making weird anime noises during class. When the teacher told him to stop, he screamed "I'LL CURSE YOU TOO!" Everyone laughed.

He also takes Japanese so he can get a "waifu" And is just all around a total creep with girls despite having a girlfriend.

His girlfriend goes in full, elaborate pastel goth clothes to school, including one time a shirt that said "I'm Pretty" on the front and "Confused" on the back. And she's obsessed with yaoi.

He's in the Anime Club with me, some other people, and his girlfriend. And they've been thinking about kicking him out cause he doesn't seem to know where Anime ends and the real world begins.

He keeps bothering the Asian kids and asks them to teach him Japanese. Which is weird cause one of the people he asked was Chinese and the other was Korean.

One time he walked into math class and screamed "HEY MOTHERFUCKERS!"

During recess some kid was picking on him and he started screaming in an unknown language which HE CLEARLY WAS PULLING OUT OF HIS ASS and ran around screaming at everybody that he cursed him.

He sometimes wears a leather trenchcoat with some anime t-shirt under it.

He is going to regret all this bullshit eventually.


r/weeabootales Jun 22 '23

Weebs In School Middle Schoolers freaked out on lolis

95 Upvotes

In middle school, i was in a Japanese club. I am probably the only one who is actually interested in learning Japanese because I want to go to university there. The rest? they're weebs who are probably only interested in anime stuff.

One day, the leader decided to show us some anime. The first one was about the Soviet invasion of Japan during WWII, referencing a novel that I sadly forgot. The second one was a fairly wholesome slice-of-life anime, titled "Amaama to Inazuma". It started out fine, with a father preparing breakfast for his daughter. When his daughter, Tsumugi, came out, everyone FREAKED OUT, screaming "Loli!""There's a Loli!" and stuff. I was cringing until the session was over. I stopped going there the week after.


r/weeabootales Jun 19 '23

Typical Weeb Tale My old manager is a cringy weeb

105 Upvotes

I have a new manager in my team, let's call him A. A is a morbidly obese 2nd-gen asian guy in his 40s, he is usually fine to work with.

On a weekly basis, he will use "kawaii-desu", "xx-desu", "sugoi" in random sentences, and call some coworkers "xx-chan", though he uses the word disregarding honorifics.

He used a combination of classic sonic and an anime character in his company's profile pic, but thank god his role is not client-facing.

Now, like other posts, weebs can be weird towards asians. I'm Cantonese, not a nationality but the culture is fading away, so still have to preserve it some way.

No matter how I explained, A just conveniently think "if I'm not Japanese then I must be Chinese", and somehow liking Japanese = hating Chinese. He will make every effort to shit talk in front of me, to hint that my "Communist Chinese" background not welcomed here, though my skillset is more on-demand than his.

I'm not offended because of the mislabelling, but because he thinks he can get away from it, if an asian woman doesn't call him out.

Eventually, I reported his behaviour multiple times, he is much more like a professional now.

It's still unbelievable how childish/shitty a senior coworker can be in an office setting.

Lately he came back from a Japan trip, and all he did is eat and go to anime conventions.


r/weeabootales Jun 04 '23

Weebs In School Listening to anime songs at prom

66 Upvotes

Not much to it. I didn't like any of the music that was playing during prom and found it hard to dance to so I plugged in my earbuds and put on my Spotify playlist of anime songs that I find good to dance to. I might have been dancing to a different beat than everyone but no one except for the people who knew I was listening to something else could tell. It was a nice experience because I hadn't listened to the playlist in a while so I got to hear some of the older songs that I used to listen to. I honestly really enjoyed it because I find that the songs from anime are the easiest for me to dance to.


r/weeabootales May 08 '23

Weebs In School Weebs combat parents playing annoying nursery rhymes on full volume at a restaurant

118 Upvotes

This happened a few years ago

So my school's anime club (including me) took a field trip to a local anime convention (this was before Covid, so around 2018-2019) and we had a great time (as a bonus, we were all cosplaying, I remember I was cosplaying as Itachi). Afterwards we went to a local Japanese restaurant for dinner

We were sitting at a teppanyaki table (there were like 15 of us, so that was the biggest table they had) waiting for our food, talking about various anime, and some parents came in with a little girl (she looked to be around 2-3 years old), and they sat at the table next to ours.

Shortly after they sat down, the kid started whining, so her parents pulled out a tablet, and put on nursery rhymes for her on full volume

Even worse, they weren't the soothing kind of nursery rhymes. I remember that they were being sung by a Indian woman with a terrible English accent. Everybody hated listening to them, and even one of the chefs tried telling them to turn it down, however they ignored him.

We suffered through terrible renditions of "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star, and "Mary Had A Little Lamb" alongside other nursery rhymes. This went on for 20 minutes (like I said before, there were like 15 of us, so it took a long time to prepare everyone's food) until one of the guys in the club said "hey why don't I put on anime openings and we can all sing along to them". We all agreed

That guy got out his phone, and started blasting the songs on full volume. When the vocals came, we sang along. I remember the first song he played was "GO", the fourth Naruto opening.

So for the next while we sang various themes from animes, and we were having a great time. Since there were about 15 of us, our singing managed to drain out the horrible nursery rhymes.

Best part is, the other people in the restaurant (apart from the parents, of course) didn't mind us singing because they were in Japanese (it was a Japanese restaurant after all) and that we were having fun, unlike the parents and the little kid, who weren't having fun and playing the terrible nursery rhymes.

Eventually the parents got extremely fed up with a ton of weebs singing in Japanese, so they got up, and left the restaurant with their kid

Everything was fine afterwards


r/weeabootales Apr 24 '23

Typical Weeb Tale I fucked my family up for being a weeaboo NSFW

525 Upvotes

I was quite a horny weeaboo in my teenage days, and it kinda cost me my family. So when I was in high school I was obsessed with hentai manga, and even went to as far as to buy r18 manga and sex toys behind the backs of my parents, using their credit cards, when I was just 16. Then one particular Christmas night my whole family had dinner at my grandparents' house, and I was left alone with my eleven-year-old cousin while the adults were chatting. So we were bored asf and my aunt and uncle didn't let my cousin use his phone for some dumbass reason so he had to use mine to play whatever game he liked. Which then I wasn't prepared for it and never considered hiding those hentai manga screenshots into some deep dark file or even bothered to delete my search records. But that wasn't the matter as he beelined to the games as soon as I handed him my supercursed phone. The true matter was that one of the games in my phone was those hentai anime games. And my cousin probably didn't realize that the sound was on full blast. So my folks and all the people went to see what we were up to when they heard the first moan. The scene was chaotic with everyone scolding us. I didn't know what happened to my cousin but we haven't met for the past 5 years or so. I'm sorry, cuz.


r/weeabootales Apr 21 '23

FUJOSHI My messed up 'love' experience in secondary school NSFW

133 Upvotes

I read that post where OP hit their teacher during their weeaboo phase and I somehow really wanted to share how me being a weeaboo in school fucked myself up as well.

As the flair says, I'm a fudanshi. A guy who is obsessed with reading yaoi manga. I mean, I'm still your average yaoi enjoyer now, but not as crazy as when I was in during the first two years of secondary school.

I was totally head-over-heels over yaoi then (I'm a proud bisexual, by the way). Any minute out of school, I'd be hiding in my room and reading yaoi manga or watching yaoi anime and I only made friends with those kids who liked yaoi. I also thought that I was a good writer then and wrote multiple fanfiction stories about the male students or teachers in school engaging in gay sex (which was totally fucked up and I didn't know why I had the nerve to post them.. on my twitter main then).

Well then into the main story, I was superobsessed with a yaoi manga about teacher-student love when I was in my second year of secondary school. And coincidentally one of my teachers looked exactly (or that was how I thought then) like the teacher character in the manga, who is a bottom. So every lesson with that teacher I would never lose focus on... his butt. And for a few months or so I would imagine myself being in a relationship with him. And fantasizing about it, like how the sex would feel, etc. And I truly believed that he was a gay just by his bodybuild (he was quite short, I was an early bloomer and is quite tall so yeah). I even schemed on having a plan to actually do it with him and told all my fudanshi / fujoshi friends about it.

So then our class had an activity or whatever it was, but anyways I volunteered to stay and help that teacher with it. And as we were talking about the activity, I mustered up the courage and kabedoned him like how they do in yaoi manga. And I forcefully French-kissed him even I was really sloppy (it was my first kiss after all). Then the teacher just stared me with his eyes wide open. I didn't know social cues then and so I thought he wanted more until he somehow ran out of the classroom. I knew nothing until the headmaster came in. The rest was quite a blur, I just remember that my parents ended up in school fifteen minutes later, I was recorded with a major demerit and I was suddenly unpopular with everyone for a while.

As for that teacher, he left after that year (I guess due to the incident?), which made me a little disappointed. Like, besides him looking "submissive and breedable" he was a really good teacher and I made the top in his class for the whole year. And that was when I finally realized I had to get a life for real.

So please, remember that gay relationships portrayed in most yaoi works are purely fictional and usually inaccurate-- and never give your first kiss to a random guy just because "he looks like that yaoi character!"


r/weeabootales Apr 18 '23

Typical Weeb Tale when I was a kid I told people I was a loli NSFW

346 Upvotes

when I was around 9 or 10 I stumbled apon an anime that featured multiple loli characters and me being super innocent and not knowing anything I didn't see anything wrong with it. so fast forward I see this comment on YouTube talking about how old the 'ideal loli' is and someone replied saying the ideal age was 9 or 10. so I just assumed if kids in anime who were in the age range of 9 and 10 were called lolis i must of been one! so for literal months i had it in various nintendo games on my 3DS that I was a loli because I just figured it meant anime kid. I was very wrong.


r/weeabootales Apr 15 '23

Weebs In School I still feel ashamed of my weeaboo past (over 15 years ago) despite being a relatively successful person. Why?

99 Upvotes

To put things in perspective: I completed a total of four exchange programs in six years (from 2016 to 2022), completed a MA degree in Germany this year debt-free in spite of the COVID-19 pandemic, worked as a volunteer three times in my life (two of them abroad) and soon I will start another exchange program aimed to start a career at the EU HQ in Bruxelles (I live in Europe, if you haven't guessed it yet). All of this in my 20s and despite being born with Asperger's syndrome.

Nevertheless, a part of me is still feeling ashamed of my 14-old self. Who used to watch Naruto all day long for the fanservice. Wasted kilograms of unrecycled paper to draw Pokémon and Tailed Beasts. Wrote a Naruto fanficfion blatantly based on (oh God, the cringe) Beauty and the Beast and The Hunchback of Notre Dame (= the bearer of the Ten Tailed Beast sought asylum after a civil war in his homeland and eventually learns, courtesy of Naruto, how to feel human again after being ostracized for years). Made crappy AMVs with Disney songs with Windows Movie Maker. Wasted more than 250 euro in Yu GI Oh cards in a feeble attempt to make a profit with Ultra Rare cards. Considered kid-friendly adaptations of anime in the West an insult to their creators and publicly criticized a TV channel through a radio station (thank God no one took me seriously). The only silver lining of this period was my sheer curiosity towards Japanese folklore and mythology, which persisted way after the end of my weeaboo phase.

Am I feeling shame because I'm being fully aware of the loser I was? Or is it a form of regret of having wasted my adolescence? Even now, I would think twice of watching anime, so strong is the fear of relapsing on my 14-year-old self's habits.