Someone know some native forum about akb48, "gaijin-friendly"? Even better if it's a facebook page. I want to use lang8 more and I think I'll be more motivated if I have some real forum where I can post my corrected post. It's good ecen if it's not about akb48 as long as is gaijin friendly but not a resource specifically for japanese learners. I need this so bad in this period of depression ._.

The only major AKB and sub-group forum is the 2ch board: http://mastiff.2ch.net/akb/

Theres also http://www.casphy.com/bbs/akb48/ but the site seems to be aimed at students.

vix86 Wrote:The only major AKB and sub-group forum is the 2ch board: http://mastiff.2ch.net/akb/

Theres also http://www.casphy.com/bbs/akb48/ but the site seems to be aimed at students.

Thank you!

You can only post to that board from a Japanese IP btw. If you have any luck getting around that please let me know =).

You can try the English fan forum:
http://stage48.net/forum/index.php

or this AKB 2ch matome blog:
http://blog.livedoor.jp/akbip/

You can purchase a VPN if you are that die hard about it and get around the IP block. There are also free VPNs which may not be blocked (but probably are).

In truth I was aiming for something less big, something more easygoing with less members... sort like this forum, not a big forum where your messages get lost but with something with a few but good members... for example I'm in a facebook group called "Unko グループ" where there are allways the same users so you have the opportunity to be part of the group... also if those forums block non jp members I don't know how much are they open to tolerate a gaijin who talks like a retarder robot xD because of this I was thinking more of facebook groups, maybe the fact itself it's a international website makes more probable they are open to talk with a gaijin and not to ignore him xD
But if it's not specifically about AKB48 it's still ok, as long as it's something correlated to or where there is a possibility to catch other fans. I don't know why but in lang-8 I get corrected only by old people and the maximum they said was "oh akb48, also my nephew likes them" ahahaha

You can join fan communities on Google+, some of them are fairly active. (AKB and their sister groups actively sponsor Google+ and many members have Google+ accounts, so that is why the fan communities might be active.)

2ch and AKB matome sites tend to just be trolly comments. They're more like 4chan/reddit than anything, they're not communities so much as they are just places to write funny things and tired comments about おっπ　and such, but they're also the best places to get news.

You still have to be careful, not all fans are similar, some are more tolerant than others. I remember for some member's birthday the G+ group posted a birthday shirt design with some English and my friend saw it and said, "Oh, the English is incorrect, it should say this..." and then the post was deleted and it was never heard of again and I think they started acting cold to her, lol. Granted, her Japanese was bad so maybe she said something wrong.

You just gotta look for the friendly fans, which I bet is hard enough for native speakers as it is.