Or a woman for that matter. This is a 30 year old man acting like he's 14.
I enjoy watching Japanese cartoons once in a while but holy shit just delete the entire industry if this dweeb is the target audience.
Or a woman for that matter. This is a 30 year old man acting like he's 14.
I enjoy watching Japanese cartoons once in a while but holy shit just delete the entire industry if this dweeb is the target audience.
I watch a lot of Japanese videos on youtube and niconico and they talk like normal people, just in Japanese. Cartoons are cartoons and not indicative of reality.
No dude Japan is where all the submissive waifus are!!! I'm taking a course on Japanese on Rosetta Stone as we speak, can't wait to move there. I'll instantly fit in with my knowledge of anime and REAL Imperial Japan history. :le-pol-face:
Oh these types of dudes absolutely exist and I'd imagine they become instantly disillusioned the moment they get there.
I went to a conference in japan, and one of the guys on my team was a weeb. He got real upset when we used the trains to get from the hotel to the centre instead of driving there. Can't combine car-centrism with useful public transportation.
What they hell did they expect? People living in the cities in Japan mostly use the train right?
Guy literally never went anywhere without his car, and expected it to be the same there. I explained to him the route and stops we'd be taking by train, but he didn't like the idea of that. Rented a car the entire time, and was late every single time. The worst was when he tried to drive to ishikawa while we took the train (3hr by train, 6 and a half by car). Absoluely baffling behaviour.
Americans slavish devotion to the car in full display.
I had two highballs and some okonomiyaki by the time he got to our hotel in ishikawa. It was very funny to hear this guy comparing our day to day to what his cartoons look like.
Please give us more stories this is absolutely hilarious
So, i was part of a group sponsored by komatsu to come to japan. We were there to go to an expo that was full of mining farming, oil field, etc. equipment. I didn't know this guy at all, but he was part of the group i was in. I got seated next to him on the flight from bc to tokyo. He asked me if i was interested in japan, its culture, whatever. I said i liked watching movies from there, like kurosawa and Naruse. He asked if i liked anime, which i said not really, but i liked yamato, akira, stuff like that. He then listed off nearly a dozen series that he'd been watching to get ready for the trip. I ordered two beers. He then spent the rest of the flight reading this english to japanese manga book on his tablet. When i woke up, i found out he had designated himself to be the translator for our group. The pain started immediately as we got off, as he stiffly thanked the staff as we got off the plane.
Did he say Ah-ree-gattow?
Not only that, but it was an air canada flight. I don't think the staff spoke japanese.
deleted by creator
From what I've heard from people I know there is that the culture is so much stricter than you could possibly imagine. If you're a punk in Japan (like, the dirty kind) you are just straight up banned from working, renting a place, or doing pretty much anything. Like, they are essentially banned from the rest of society along with refugees and general undesirables. If Hitler had modest success in WW2 and didn't have super unrealistic goals then it's how I picture Germany being now
:japan-cool:
You could listen to this welsh voice actor describe his experience with moving apartments in Japan and how much of a nightmare that is for a foreigner even with a company backing him
Quite a few were from refugee families going back to the Korean War and to this day their children and grandchildren for ever onward can never be citizens and are at a lower caste than even illegal immigrants, they're literally called Slave Class people. Pretty much any venue that will do punk shows are run by the Yakuza, which led to a side effect of most Japanese punk bands being being really really tight, cause you had to actually bring money in or you'd be in trouble with very dangerous people. Of you spike your hair and stud a jacket and really like Discharge and Antisect in that country you will be subjected to third world conditions
Today I learned. Yakauza are such scumbags also.
I mean, a lot do join as well. If you just aren't allowed to get a over the table job those can be the breaks. There is a more allowed pogo and streetpunk kind of thing but dirty crusty punks are just not allowed, especially because they're explicitly political and there are mu h greater restrictions on criticizing the government there as well
Here's Asocial Terror Fabrication playing a gig to raise money for search and rescue efforts a couple days after Fukushima.
https://youtu.be/n5jPhK9HncA
If punk isn't a threat, what's the point?