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The story
On 5ch’s live-commentary board, a 35-year-old thread starter posted a running account of his Sunday: Okinawa soba for lunch, a music festival in the afternoon, and then a meal at a dog-themed event near the festival venue. While some praised him with comments like “sounds like a full life,” other users grilled him about going out alone and being single, and the thread spiraled into his romantic history and body image issues. Reactions to his solo day off were split between sympathy and skepticism.
What people said
Music festival from noon until 6:40pm
Now grabbing food at a dog event near the festival venue ← right now
Yeah!
Say it more!!
Is that so?
Well, different people have different values, so…
For now it's still fun in various ways, so I guess I'm safe
Tried pachinko once but didn't get what's fun about it
Never been to a sex club (fuzoku) though
Buy horse racing tickets
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Go to a sauna
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Eat a seafood rice bowl
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Go grocery shopping
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Head home
Did your horse win?
Guess most people would rather go with someone
Well, sometimes I go alone, sometimes with friends
A festival… alone…? (lol)
Whoa
Why's that?
Yep
And on top of that, I'm a virgin who's never even had a girlfriend
Whoa… a virgin at that age…
I can barely handle alcohol, but I drank a Heineken at the festival
It was awful
I've never seen a guy like that in his 30s
I've got a body complex and can't get naked in front of others
So I can't go to hot springs or pools
Once people get married they all get less available to hang out, right?
Most are, a few aren't yet
I figured it'd be like that too, but it hasn't changed that much
Though sure, it's changed a bit, can't be helped
Why's that?
Do you have eczema (atopic dermatitis) or something?
Yeah
It's gotten a lot better, but there are still scars left
I've only been confessed to by two people, and I turned them both down
Don't pull a bait-and-switch on us like that
And here I thought you were one of "us" 😡
Hmm
The 1st, 2nd, and 3rd from the left!
Work 8:00–17:30
That's it, makes me want to cry
Well, you'll get a compensatory day off eventually, right?
What kind of dish is this?
Why are you posting so many times lol
Ugh, fine!
Just take them all!
There are stalls selling all kinds of stuff for dogs, like food and clothes
Background and talking points
“Jakusha danshi” (弱者男性, literally “weak man”) is online slang men use to self-describe limited financial means or romantic experience — it is not an official statistical category. The original poster used the term himself while live-narrating his Sunday, and going to a festival or dog event alone is not especially unusual in itself. That said, self-deprecating posts like this tend to draw both casual chit-chat and users eager to pry into someone’s single status or lack of romantic experience, and this thread split along those lines too. It’s worth reading this as light banter based on information the poster volunteered himself, with no more backing than his own self-description as a “weak man.”
*This article is excerpted and summarized from the 5ch (Nandemo Jikkyō G) thread “[Good news] My (35, weak man) Sunday lol.”
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