http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2008-04-22/american-anime-fan-disappears-in-japan

:psyduck::suicide:(literally?)

Damn truncated links, I really wanted to hear about pears in Japan

I hear the Yakuza loves to lure foreign women into Japan and then use them for prostitution and/or porn.

That's my theory on this.

BUT JAPAN HAS TEH ANIMU AND TEH NINNTENDU!

How could they ever be an evil bunch of people?

voting to merge this with the nihongo thread

lol at pommies choice of emoticon. but I do think that there was probably something wrong with this girl. I mean, not many people buy one way overseas tickets without informing their family.

Yep.

Weeaboo.

If she believed she didn't "fit in" within America, I hope she must have realized it would be worse in Japan.

With a country that populated and the fact that she's a foreigner, I'm surprised that they couldn't find many witnesses.

The Japanese language has a unique system of politeness levels, ranging from close familiarity to exaltedness. The chosen level of politeness when speaking of any subject or object is an imprecise function based on your relationship to the person you are speaking to, and a complex system of "in groups" and "out groups."

Japan being the "in group" and the rest of us being the "out group."

What's worse is that nobody, unless they are born in Japan, will be able to use politeness levels properly. This girl probably killed herself after realizing she sounds like a 7 year old. Or, she killed herself after Japanese people laughed at her, because they find it hilarious when we use their language. Or, she killed herself after realizing there are no giant robots in Japan.

Or she got raped like nanking. lol

Well, being half-Korean, half-white American, I'm pretty sure I won't be welcomed as soon as I set foot in Japan.

they will likely launch Neo-Tokyo 20X7 into space to evade you

You'd be surprised.

Also, one of the worst things a weeaboo can do is learn Japanese from animus. It'd sort of be like learning English from watching Clint Eastwood in Westerns, except a hundred times more awkward.

my point was more that I was wondering just HOW a teenage girl doing poorly at school somehow managed to buy a ticket on an international flight, and do so without informing her parents.

>.> <.<

...because she is 21 years old.

She wasn't doing poorly because she was stupid, she was doing poorly because she was an emotional train wreck. Book smart, street stupid, that sort of thing.

Thats what you GET for liking ANIME!!!!D:

if(getThingFlags(source) & 0x8){
  do her}
elseif(getThingFlags(source) & 0x4){
  do other babe}
else{
  do a dude}