Hey guys, I really need some help.

My problem, in a nutshell, is that I have no friends.

Let me clarify, I do have friends, in fact I have a lot of friends. However, they're currently 8000 miles away. I've moved to a place where I don't know anyone, and all the people are retarded and shallow. I hate it here, and so I turn to the internet.

I found 4-ch about 10 months ago. I fell in love. I really love the place. I love the atmosphere. I love having a place to come and just chill or totally relax. It's simple and fun communication, with people who share my own semi-silly sense of humour, my own infatuation with Japanese culture, my own strange mix of joviality and affable mischieviousness. Above all, with people who, in the majority, seem intelligent, coherent and witty.

But alas! As I'm sure you know, 4-ch is sparesely populated, and while our numbers are growing, it is not yet the metropolis that it should be.

So, I ask you, my dearest e-friends, are there any places similar to this on the internet? Any messageboards, of any kind, or irc channels, or chat applets, or web communities or social networks with this kind of dynamic, with a friendly atmosphere, perhaps a dash of japanophilia, perhaps a touch of SJIS art, perhaps without those things but still friendly? Does such a place exist apart from here? Do similar places exist?

Thank you my friends.