Bang Osaka
10-13-2013, 01:58 PM
Kyōto and Ōsaka:
I recently made another day excursion to Kyōto, during which I later met up with Scotch, went to a bar, had a few drinks, approached some girls, and had another insta-date with a girl I later approached after Scotch and I’d parted ways. I’ll give a more detailed description of those later, but during this recent trip I couldn’t help but notice striking differences in the overall mentalities of Ōsaka and Kyōto that I hadn’t given much thought to before and which seem relevant to gaming women in these two cities (warning: generalisations following)...
The Overall Quality and Style of Women:
Generally speaking, a lot of Osakan women are extremely sexy, wearing clothing I usually refer to as ‘stripperific’: very short skirts or anything that’ll show off the legs and ass, ridiculously tall high-heals, generally sexy and revealing clothing overall. On the downside, many of them are extremely high maintenance and lie more on the slightly trashy end that flirts a bit with vulgarity. Expect to see a lot of fake nails, fake eyelashes, colored contacts, hair extensions, bleach-blond hair, inch-thick makeup, and just a generally ditzy vibe to them. This is especially the case with girls in Shinasaibashi and Umeda. You find a lot of extremely hot women, but few classy ones, in my opinion. A few times, during my first month in Osaka, I would see a woman in a mini-skirt with gigantic high-heals and wonder if she was a prostitute or an escort of some kind. It was only after a while that I realized they were just regular girls out on the town.
In Kyōto, on the other hand, while you find fewer girls who look ultra-sexy and generally fewer girls whom you’d have this nearly uncontrollable urge to fuck on sight, they more often than not tend to be much classier than the masses of Osakan girls. Sure, they wear heals, but rarely of these ridiculous proportions. They often dye their hair, but you see few who are bleached to the point of seeming too unnatural. In general, you simply find far fewer girls I’d regard as trashy. I more often than not noticed girls who were more pretty than hot. Again, they take great care of their appearance, but most of the time their attire isn’t as hyper-sexualized as a lot of the girls you see in Osaka.
Nampa-Paranoia (or Lack Thereof):
Ōsaka certainly seems to have a much stronger Nampa culture than Kyōto, leading to much more paranoia among local women towards being approached by men they don’t know.
I still need more data to confirm this, but walking around the train station and the Sanjō 三条 area, which is filled with shops, bars, restaurants, coffee shops, more bars and more coffee shops, there’s one thing I found missing entirely: the groups of nerdy young guys with their hair greased back, loitering at corners, nervously fidgeting around crowded areas and creeping up from the side on every woman who crosses their paths before trailing after them like some sick homeless puppy and desperately leaning in, only to be ignored completely the moment the first syllable exits their mouths. Had this been a crowded area in Osaka, you would have found these guys everywhere, but in these two busy areas of Kyoto, I saw none of that; not even a glimpse.
The effects of this are quite visible as well: on the street, I approached two women and struck up conversations with about three or four others. Not one of them seemed in any way apprehensive about being approached by me. One even went directly into a coffee shop with me. Obviously, six women isn’t a very good sample, but normally if I approach six women in a crowded area in Umeda or Dōtomburi, I can expect at least one of them to ignore me and run off the moment I open my mouth, while at least two others will seem apprehensive to talk to me. Again, I need more data to confirm this, but it seems interesting nonetheless.
In one of my earlier posts I mentioned ‘not vibing well’ with Japanese women and getting negative body language from them upon making eye contact, though I wasn’t able to put my finger exactly on what exactly it was, upon which Dreambig suggested I was mindfucking myself due to my bad experiences. This I largely agreed with, as it's easy to see how my perception could have been warped into interpreting things that weren't there. However, upon returning from Kyōto to Ōsaka it appeared this wasn’t entirely in my head. You do notice a clear, almost immediate difference getting off the train in Ōsaka: upon eye-contact there’s an immediate wariness in the eyes, the face immediately looks away, the shoulders and the neck stiffen oh so slightly, and the body is directed in a way that would make darting off easier, almost like you’re a potential mugger or rapist. It’s subtle but still there nonetheless. With some women (particularly the hotter ones), this wariness in the eyes manifests itself as a slightly arrogant look, almost a sort of instant dismissal you’d normally see in club girls with attitudes and bitch shields. That’s kind of what places like Hikkakebashi and Dōtomburi remind me of: they’re clubs with bad ratios, just on the street. This is certainly not universal, but walk around a crowded area and I seem to notice it often enough.
There’s one other place I’ve seen this frequently: at Kyōbashi, in the wide open space between the station’s West Exit and the Keihan Mall entrance, or ‘Nampa Square’, as I call it. I’ve recently taken a liking to watching these guys in action -- not only them but the body language of the women as they speed from one end of the Square to the other, trying to dodge the nampa-otoko camping out there day and night. These men seem like the Real Social Dynamics guys I recall Roosh mentioning in Toronto, and you see a very similar reaction among the women to what I’ve experienced. I’m still not certain whether or not this is in my head, but the fact that it was conspicuously absent both times I went to Kyōto seems to indicate there’s something to it.
To sum things up, Ōsaka has much sexier but also much skankier/high-maintenance women (for the record, I’ve never mixed well with really ditzy, ultra-high maintenance chics), who on average at least seem to be more paranoid towards guys due to a much stronger prevalence of nampa than is the case Kyōto. I’m sure this cannot be the sole cause of this dry spell I’ve been experiencing, but so far it seems to be playing a role. I definitely plan to come back to Kyoto, mainly because I like the laid back atmosphere of the place as well as the temples and culture, so I’ll be able to test this little hypothesis further. If there’s something to it, then it could mean my problem lies more with Ōsaka than it does with Japan as a whole, making the issue easier to remedy. Kobe and Nara are also places I need to check out more to get a comparison. More info coming soon...
Ōsaka delenda est!