What is the weirdest thing from Japan?

[Monkfish Acc.]

I just... I give up...

Nobody gets it...

Spoiler: Read this, something I posted not 1 or 2 hours ago, in another thread, PLEASE.

*facepalm*

What is this thread I don't even

*references to specific things in other thread snipped*

I just have to say this:

[HEADING=2]STOP IT[/HEADING] with the false assumptions that these things are even remotely mainstream in Japan, or in Japanese gaming, or that they reflect anything on mainstream Japanese culture. It's just getting ridiculous.

THEY DON'T.

Nobody here will likely believe me because they haven't been here for longer than a week or so, and probably spent the majority of their time in Akihabara, the one place in Japan that could be considered "geek Mecca", where these kinds of things are flaunted in every store window. Akihabara is one ward of Tokyo. That's it. If you were to take just about anything like this to another area of Japan and show it off openly, as if it were some mainstream thing, you would probably be socially ostracized and likely laughed out of the country. I keep repeating this, but I have to in order for it to get into people's heads. The truth is that really, the only thing we Westerners get from Japan that geeks love so much that is really mainstream here, that people past the age of 15 spend time with, is manga. Primarily, just like in the West, anime and video games are viewed by the majority as kids' toys. Those adults that play video games are considered otaku, (which is as bad as a "4-letter word" in this context) and, as mentioned before, socially ostracized. *More specific references snipped* Meanwhile, the rest of Japan moves on like any other modern industrialized culture.

Stop passing judgment on an entire nation by the actions of its social outcasts. And why is it only Japan you guys tend to do this to? Shall I do the same for Europe? I spent three and a half months there. How would you guys like that?

Call me a weeaboo if you want. But seriously, I can't stand them because they just perpetuate this false idea of Japan because the vast majority of them haven't been here either, and those that have also probably spent their time in Akihabara or in the manga shops all day. What's worse, is that a good number of them actually like this stuff.

EDIT: P.S. Don't go to Sankaku expecting an accurate picture of Japan at all either. But that should be a given.

Thank you.

Anyway, there's much weirder shit in Germany.
That's not mainstream either. But still fuck loads weirder than anything the Japanese have come out with.

 

[DJDarque]

Creepiest. Shit. Ever. I haven't even seen x-rated stuff this disturbing.

In all honesty, though. While this is strange, it's probably not the strangest thing I have seen.

 

[MikailCaboose]

These were always strange to me.

 

[cWg | Konka]

everthing that has ever come out of japan is weird, its like an alien world

 

[newfoundsky]

There is something seriously wrong with that country. Do they think we do weird stuff?

"You see these weird Americans!? They make paper airplane... WITHOUT ANY SQUID FIGHTS!"

 

[Brian Hendershot]

I think this picture sums everything Japanese up....

http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://media.ebaumsworld.com/picture/wmfirefighter99/Asians.png&imgrefurl=http://www.ebaumsworld.com/pictures/view/397377/&usg=__F31kTTSJa69EXZcjNYRwE1Qe2j0=&h=520&w=650&sz=250&hl=en&start=0&sig2=tHv78V0jXQuPr9L-sDxiuA&zoom=1&tbnid=LJdMaJRGkhRnrM:&tbnh=144&tbnw=193&ei=HG3fTOzhFoPKnAef7KnhBQ&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dasians%26hl%3Den%26biw%3D1111%26bih%3D496%26gbv%3D2%26tbs%3Disch:1&itbs=1&iact=rc&dur=228&oei=HG3fTOzhFoPKnAef7KnhBQ&esq=1&page=1&ndsp=11&ved=1t:429,r:0,s:0&tx=139&ty=48

 

[Tartarga]

How can there be a thread about the wierdness of Japan and there not be any Cromartie High School in it?

Spoiler

 

[Marik2]

snip pic

WOW I never seen something like that before :O

Just wished I knew why they have octopuses in their heads...

 

[kouriichi]

Please..... please make it stop.....
Im never going to beable to sleep again because of this thread.....

 

[Deku-Miguel]

I must say either the vending machines that dispense used panties, or the toliet that you need a college degree to understand

 

[Nalesnik]

WARNING! This is NSFW! No, actually, this is not safe for anyone!
If you value your sleep, then DO NOT WATCH THIS! It may cause repeated nightmares!
Not even joking...

Spoiler

 

[Brian Hendershot]

snip pic

WOW I never seen something like that before :O

Just wished I knew why they have octopuses in their heads...

If I knew I would tell you...I just randomly typed in Asians on Google Image search...

Tip of advice: Don't do it.

 

[Gindil]

The problem I have with it is that not everybody sees it the way you do. There are plenty of people out there who don't grasp that this is not the way Japan is all the time. I see it all too often in some people I know who wish they could come here, or I get asked by friends outside the country about the latest stupid thing they saw and going, "You live THERE now?" It does have an effect on people, maybe not on you, but on others, yes it does. And perhaps I should clarify that I am not saying we can't have a good laugh at the insanity, but with other things, we simply say, "that was weird". With Japanese things, people seem to say "that was weird... Japan is so weird." Why is it that with Japan you link the weird stuff to the country's culture, while with other things you don't? That's the question I have.

I lived there for 7 years. Yes, they have some weird shit over there. But it ain't all like that. Just take this thread as "this is some of the crazy stuff that they can do without access to Youtube" and laugh. It's better than pulling your hair out.

 

[vento 231]

The people from there.

 

[Amethyst Wind]

Square watermelons. They're just so angular.