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Post by trashcanman on Mar 18, 2011 21:03:08 GMT 2
xbox360.ign.com/articles/115/1156373p1.htmlRomero directing Resident Evil? A parade of musclebound homosexuals? Devil May Cry with actual crying? Farts, spankings, epic cosplay, cooking competitions, musical numbers and a commercial for a gory action game that centers entirely on a gag involving boobs? This is where weeaboos come from, my friend. Also, it turns out martial arts legend (and subject of Akira Kurosawa's first film) Sanshiro Sugata was not only a gamer, but is FUCKING SANTA CLAUS. 
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Post by The Curmudgeon on Mar 26, 2011 13:31:35 GMT 2
Living in Japan (before, like, 2 weeks ago, of course) probably wasn't, but must just have been a 24 hour assault on the senses, with bizarre, twisted fantasies burrowing into your subconscious. I get the language/cultural barrier that prevents us "getting" a lot of this stuff, but Jesus what the FUCK is going on in some of these?
Those two guys sitting naked around the TV? The Zelda dance troupe (yep, that's really make me want to buy an RPG) That fucking horrendous PsOne mask thing? Saying that, the Resident Evil one was kinda cool.
This sounds like an offensive question, but has Japanese culture always been.. well, nuts? Or has it just become more bizarre as technology advances?
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Post by trashcanman on Mar 26, 2011 20:24:23 GMT 2
I actually had a discussion about that at work the other day. For a long time, Japan was isolated from the rest of the world (as in they literally ran off anybody who landed there with swords, spears, and arrows and then after WWII we took the option of having a military off of their hands so they've just concentrated on education and technological advancement and the like and as a result they've somehow become a very self-centered and detached culture. It may be a combination of these things, or it may be something only a Japanese person can comprehend, but with this bizarre stuff, the hikikomori phenomenon, massive suicide rate, dudes marrying video game characters and life-sized anime girl pillows, there's something going on over there. Then there's this story: www.usatoday.com/news/world/2004-06-02-japan-women-usat_x.htm So Japanese people have overcome the most base, natural, and common desire in nature now? That is fucking unnatural. One of the things I complain about in Japanese entertainment is the endless "awkward phase" in the romantic relationships they present, with the couple beating around the bush and barely even touching each other (much less kissing or copulating) or the man turning down fiercely aggressive hotties in favor of....well, nothing. Turns out there actually is something to that after all. And here I just thought they were being annoyingly coy. |
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