I don't know if I would wanna CTB if I had the money to finally (!) travel to Japan
Like that's one of my big wishes and the aspect of never being able to go there is one of the reasons why I'm suicidal in the first place
If I could travel to Japan life would be definitely good enough to cease those ctb thoughts for a good amount of time
i felt a legit wave of grief when I found out about it as I always thought that Japan was the last bastion of hope and happiness. Clearly not if CTB is so rampant that there is a legit suicide forest. Makes u think just how intense/bad life is over there. And how much quietly suffer everyday. I still hope to visit Japan one day. My inner otaku demands it
I mean enough people corrected you already on that one, but besides your dial up internet stories (I know that, I've been there): have you never read manga? Or watched any anime besides the Weekly Shonen Jump stuff? You have a pfp of Oyasumi Punpun, did you read that? Because the problems with Japan and Suicide are not a topic well hidden in anime and manga
You have a lot of works that protray the bullying problem, but also what parents expect of their children and the intense workload even students already have with normal school, school clubs, Cram schools and homework having them occupied deep into the night
Then getting into university is combined with more Cram school, and again: bullying and workload
And then there's the work life: working oneself to death is so common place they even have a name for it: Karoshi
Your workplace *is* your family, the one waiting at home doesn't matter. You are supposed to stay longer than your senpais because it's rude leaving before your senpais. You're supposed to not take your holidays but work for your workplace. And whenever the chefs wanna go out drinking you're not allowed to decline. And if you miss the last train home? Well sucks, guess you gotta sleep on the street
Another thing: If you haven't married until 25? Well guess what, you're a suspicious loser now and probably never will marry! If you're living in an apartment you've gotta deal with super cramped living spaces and super thin walls, making you and your neighbors intimate with each other. But being loud is super frown upon anyway, so best be as silent as possible – if you're at home, that is.
If you want media covering those topics that aren't documentaries I'd recommend mangas like NHK ni Yokoso, every more mature romance manga (like Kare first love or anything from that artist), stuff from the Oyasumi Punpun artist, and honestly there's a lot out there if you're not focused on your Weekly Shonen Jump manga and anime.
they can vary massively, and the forest is massively overgrown so you may not know you're about to step in one.
people that go into the forest to CTB often attach coloured ribbons to the trees, in order to find their way back if deciding not to go thru with it - i have heard that it's hard to navigate even for frequent visitors due to the terrain.
It's not only the terrain, it's also the magnetic field, making compasses and devices like phones or even flashlights go haywire, and the forest has it's way to turn you around and around until you've lost all your sense of orientation
They also believe that the ghosts of the passed and other Yokai's/Oni's try to convince even non suicidal people into commiting, making it dangerous even for the people that go in there and search for bodies and belongings
