The rest of her isn’t worth writing home about, either. Can’t sing, can’t dance, can’t talk well, boring body, boring face. She’s a serious dud and the only reason she’s “popular” is that the management keep forcing her up the front to be the #1 girl. Fans don’t like her, they say she’s as fun [...]

I’ve even seen this shit in Nagoya and Tokyo, big protest signs spreading lies (Osprey are so dangerous etc). Fucking useless cunts, get real jobs and support Okinawa instead of wasting everyone’s time.

Japan men have awful, awful fashion. Every second guy I see has a fucking handbag. Not a manbag, a real genuine handbag that only a woman should have. It’s fucking horrible. That being said, Japanese women have fucking terrible fashion too. When will the giant glasses with no lenses trend die? Ugh, ugh ugh. Fucking [...]

“Problem with Japan is it’s never been occupied at the end of WWII”

You don’t know your history. Allied forces occupied Japan for years afterwards and helped “modernise” the country as a capitalist country; why do you think Baseball is the national sport???

It changes completely from an action show to a harem comedy. No, really.

I imagine that’s because the first two episodes were fucking awesome, and then it became a shitty harem anime from 3rd episode onwards.

I’m not sure you remember it right, they killed all but one character in the second episode and then it became a completely different show in the 3rd onwards. Only like one vaguely important character died the rest of the show.

Most (decent) girls don’t give a shit about your hobbies… as long as you’re not obsessed and consumed by them. Being a fan of anime is one thing, having “your waifu” body pillow is another. I do things like Gunpla models and girls think it’s impressive that I have the talent for it etc. But [...]

It was announced for Vita aaaages ago, but has been in limbo since. Glad it’s finally being announced, nicely timed after the Final Fantasy 50% off sale on the PSN recently!

Picture #003 isn’t her.

I remember during the 2008 G8 summit in Hokkaido, all the major train stations in Tokyo had their bins sealed up to stop bombs being left etc. People just left their trash piled up/around the bins anyway, the train stations were a fucking trash heap, was like a 3rd world country.

Lied to? By their own equipment? They all had geiger counters. Pretty sure they’d have known right then and there if it was dangerous. Not to mention the NUCLEAR-POWERED SHIP was parked 100 miles away from the reactor.

Theatre versions don’t count towards Oricon charts.

The only photos that come with the CDs are bonuses for buying from a certain store, so they are quite common. The photos that get traded are monthly releases that are sold directly from the shop in a blind pack (5 random ones for x amount of yen). So it’s pretty much identical to how [...]

They’re all part of the same franchise. AKB48 is from Tokyo (Akihabara), SKE48 is from Nagoya (Sakae), NMB48 is from Osaka (Namba). AKB is the original which is why it’s the most popular, the others are spin-offs.

Looking beautiful is expected of Japanese girls. I’ve had female Japanese friends who I’ve never seen without makeup despite knowing them for years. They all say the same thing, society expects them to be beautiful, they can’t find a man if they’re not skinny and fashionable, etc. The pressure Western women feel is 1000x stronger [...]

Putting aside the absurdity of the whole comment, it’s amusing that he thinks Japan’s modernisation wasn’t directly because of Europeans bringing their technology to Japan, and the Japanese essentially copy and pasting European culture to suit their needs. Japan copied modern civilisation, they didn’t develop it themselves.

Article is bullshit, it’s physically not possible to use that many tickets in the amount of time (you have to leave a handshake event and come back inside to go again; this process can take 10+ minutes). Dude is obviously going to resell them… I had 15 tickets to an event and it took me [...]

Oh yes, they certainly do have prisons. The courts have a 99% conviction rate too, because the police have 20 days that they can try and torture a confession from you before they even need to press charges. Moral of the story: don’t do anything suspicious in Japan. Especially if you’re a foreigner (which is [...]

I’ll note for those who haven’t been to Japan that it’s incredibly common to wear a mask during the colder months, thanks to cramped conditions on trains etc.