I recently heard that backpacks are considered to be otaku wear in japan. When I last went to japan, i took my backpack with me, but backpacks are normal in US, everyone uses one, right? Was I inadvertently giving out the wrong impression in Japan that I'm an otaku? I mean, I am an otaku, but if i'm going to another country, I don't have to advertise it. Should I go back to a messenger bag?

Yes. Messenger bags are the "thing" in Japan because they are more stylish, and everyone in Japan is ten times more subconscious than in America.

>>subconscious

lol

I use messenger bags, not because I'm an otaku but because I like the way they look/work. Just use whichever you like better.

>>3
Yes, subconscious. There are customs and traditions embedded so deeply within the collective Japanese psyche that they may be very difficult to unravel, thus effectively making them a central motivation for most, if not all actions. Need I spell it out for you? Or is your attention span too short for your constipated thought process to shit more than "lol" every time you object to something?

>>5
No.

>>5
You said that the people in Japan were more subconscious than Americans, not that their subconscious dictated their behaviour. There is a big difference.

Also, I don't know who >>6 was.

>>7
It's the same as saying ocean animals are wetter than land animals. I do not see the distinction.

Who could not love backpacks!?!?!?!? I have been shocked into a state of complete cultural confusion.

messanger bag -> hurt one side of your shoulder, makes your posture imbalance (lef or right downed)

backpack-> give balanced weight for both of your shoulder, make you "bow".

got the idea?