So I finally had a saturday night off and decided to go to the city and go sarging in some of the clubs. Arrived at about 11PM and went into my first club which had maybe a total of 12 people in the club mostly men. I was with four of my friends (I'm the only one who went in smiling) and they had gone to the bar to get their first round of drinks (i followed to not be stranded by mesle dont drink during sargeeither). So as we were at the bar I positioned my friend in front of me that way I have a 180 degree view of the club (japanese clubs are extremely small). There were still around 12 people in the club but I had noticed a 3 set siting by themselves in conversation across from the bar. Now I began to think on my approach in order to keep my social value in the club because more girls were arriving. I decided rather than approach them and have the possibilty of being rejected while the club was still rather empty which would damage my social value I told my friends to follow me and sat to their left, but instead of opening them right off the bat i began to get into conversation with my friends. After about 10 minutes I opened them with the "what do you think about girls and tattoos" routine. However this is Japan so they said they do not speak english which was fairly common so i ejected momentarily. I was hell bent on opening this set however so I re-opened i guess you would call it asking them if they liked magic and spun and took one of their seats. I had opened them now from there we just broke into general conversation "at the best of my ability because it turned out they did know a little english but it had still been broken english" and began to neg my target and kino escalate also I had found out my target was married and I wouldn't consider myself that advanced in the game yet. So i decided to use them as a kind of pivot and began to take pictures with the three of them to social proof myself for other girls who had been arriving at a club, which worked because i kiss/ number closed with a cute japanese girl named Miwa whom i went on a date with recently that crashed and burned but thats a story for another time.

-I would be very greatful if i could be evaluated by you guys to find out my mistakes and have an outside eye on this set. Also if anyone can give me advise on how to overcome this language barrier I would be very greatful.

-EPIC

Good job not giving up. Did you just talk about magic or did you show them some trick too? Maybe adding a neat trick could help enhance this opener.

Japanese is a hard language and I'm actually learning it a little right now. One thing I have heard about is Blood Type Theory. This is like Astrology, but it is dependent on what Blood type you are. According to Japanese culture certain blood types have certain temperaments. So maybe you could make a false assumption neg like "oh she's so blood type A." Here is an excerpt of Wikipedia that shows it's basically chick crack:

Discussion of blood types is widely popular in women's magazines as a way of gauging relationship compatibility with a potential or current partner. Morning television shows feature blood type horoscopes, and similar horoscopes are published daily in newspapers. In addition, a series of four books that describe people's character by blood type ranked third, fourth, fifth and ninth on a list of best selling books in Japan in 2008 compiled by Tohan Corporation.[5]

Or Karaoke is a big thing and it's good if you can ham it up during a song. You don't have to be a good singer. And Karaoke is not just about singing either, those that aren't singing usually talk a little amongst themselves and there is a certain etiquette to the setting.

Basically try and learn some things about their culture so you can relate a little and form some common ground. That's all I can think of for now. Good Luck