Oh HELLS YEAH!!! If I had the dough, I'd get one and give it to my dad and FORCE him to play "Fly Me To The Moon" on it... In front of Madarake in Osu or in America-Mura in Osaka. ...It is his birthday, so he might welcome the gift... LOL.
first maid cafe, elegant theme
Otaku Magazine vol.6: The End of the World:
HC isn't solely for individuals who live a hikikomori-lifestyle.
I've read posts on various boards where people criticize the site, saying things such as "the people on HC aren't even hikikomori". HikiCulture isn't only for people living a hikikomori-lifestyle though; it is for people who live a reclusive lifestyle to any degree. Even non-reclusive people can sign up to HikiCulture - they probably won't get much out of the site though. The user Syppress of the forum said the following in this forum topic: "I'm just getting tired of posts saying that you have to be a "true" hikikomori to post here."I responded with: "Don't let those kinds of posts make you mad.People who say that you must be a true hikikomori to post here are likely just Japanophiles who cringe upon hearing people using non-Japanese terms such as 'recluse' or 'seclusion'. Don't let their foolish mentalities get to you.The 'hiki' part in 'HikiCulture' is just a derivation of the word hikikomori; that's all it should be looked at as being. Maybe only 10% (if I'd have to guess) or less of the users here are true hikikomori. While it is a fairly significant amount of people, it is still a great minority.When I created this site, I initially used the slogans 'A Place For Hikikomori' and 'Hikikomori Support Forum', but eventually changed it to 'A Place For Reclusive People' and finally 'A Forum For Reclusive People' (which is gonna be the final slogan, I promise). The reason why I changed the slogan was because I was nervous that people from AnonIB and HikikomoriForum who view the hikikomori phenomenon as being a 'cool' thing would show up here. This place simply is not for people who view an extremely reclusive lifestyle as being 'cool'; the most extreme hikikomori of Japan or elsewhere would never view such a thing as being 'cool'. One more reason for changing the slogan was because I wanted to let people be aware that this place wasn't only for people who live extremely reclusive lifestyles (hikikomori), and realized that the initial two site-slogans were somewhat misleading, considering that such a small minority of the users here were really living hikikomori-lifestyles. From the very beginning, I allowed people on any part of the reclusive 'spectrum' to join up here; hell, even non-reclusive people can join if they want to - I just don't think they'd get much use out of this place."I hope that it's now clear to people that HikiCulture isn't only for people who live a hikikomori-lifestyle.
