Japan: It's Not Funny Anymore
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Japan: It's Not Funny Anymore
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#2> if a guy doesn't want to go to a party and get terribly drunk with everyone else in the company, then he obviously has some element of his outside life — a girlfriend, a hobby, et cetera — that is more important to him than the company
god...
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#3I'm eagerly awaiting patio11's comments on the smoking/meat/Sararīman culture.
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#4Wow, this guy sounds like a lot of fun!
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#5"When you buy Super Famicom games in used game shops, the gray plastic is very often stained deep, ugly yellow from existing in houses packed to bursting with cigarette smoke. Sometimes, the consoles themselves are so yellow."
That's actually due to the plastic used, it's not from smoke.
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#6I can't imagine living in Japan as a vegetarian teetotaler. There's nothing wrong with that lifestyle but, man, pick your battles. Those things—the working, drinking, and meat eating—are part of the culture and it's not exactly a well kept secret.
I know that I love booze and meat so I'm not going to relocate to Bangalore any time soon.
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#7I can't imagine living in Japan as a vegetarian teetotaler. There's nothing wrong with that lifestyle but, man, pick your battles. Those things—the working, drinking, and meat eating—are part of the culture and it's not exactly a well kept secret. I know that I love booze and meat so I'm not going to relocate to Bangalore any time soon.
Might not be a bad idea to relocate to Bangalore. It is the so-called Pub capital of India.
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#8The problem with anime and animation becoming dumbed down and trashy is a global one.
(incidentally did anyone else struggle to read the start of this article - it didnt flow very well)
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#9The problem with anime and animation becoming dumbed down and trashy is a global one. (incidentally did anyone else struggle to read the start of this article - it didnt flow very well)
The whole thing seemed amateurishly written. Left me thinking: does Kotaku not have editors? Why did he suddenly directly address the reader as "man" three times in one paragraph? Why did paragraphs seem rambly and disconnected? If one's going to take the "asshole" tone, one needs to be likable or at least amusing... maybe the author should read some Bukowski.
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#10 Long ago, manga aspired to be like Dragon Ball Z: graphically iconic, with a story more coherent than it probably needed to be. Now there's the ADHD-addled Dragon-Ball-Z-inspired One Piece, a manga for the Twitter age if there ever was one.
I remember watching DBZ after school, and while it is certainly "graphically iconic", there is no legitimate way to claim it has a coherent plot. It seems like the author is remembering his Saturday morning cartoons through some rose-tinted cokebottles.
I won't even touch "Anime is terrible. It used to be okay."