Anime is awesome.
Anime used to be awesome. For me, it stopped being cool sometime back in the late 1990s, when it went mainstream.
Japan: It's Not Funny Anymore
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#62I am really disappointed in the HN commentary on this one. A quarter of the commenters seem to have stopped reading when they saw the anime criticism. Half came in here to say that the guy sounds boring. And the remainder is split between talking about patio11 (what the fuck is that?) and how long the article was. Most of the criticism here seems to boil down to the same "you're not Japanese" bullshit the author ment…
"American corporations do make people do some incredible bullshit, but nothing on the level of the official greeting he mentioned."
Wal-Mart makes their employees do this every morning, and they are the largest private employer in the US. IIRC there is footage of this is The High Cost of Low Prices.
I agree with your comment in general though. This article should pretty much be required reading for everyone in the US, since at least to me it's pretty clear that in another 20 years life here is going to resemble either Idiocracy or Japan depending on your socio-economic status.
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#63I only read about half that article before losing interest, but one argument jumped out at me: the mandatory office parties and drinking outings. This, IMO, is not a Japan-only phenomenon, although I'm sure the Japanese put their own cultural twists on this lovely concept. After college, I went to work in a bank in New York. The in-crowd in my group went out for drinks, together, at least three times a week. I never…
Hahaha. I used to work at a tech company that constantly had happy hours and even dinners out at restaurants together. Eventually I stopped going to all of them because I couldn't handle all these nerds getting drunk and trying to talk faster and louder than the next one. They still tolerated me.
But one day the boss bought some shitty Chinese food for the company lunch and I just went out and got myself a gyro and came back. It was never the same after that.
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#64He should move back to the U.S. for a while. I bet he lasts two weeks before he's screaming for Chokukuro.
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#65Earlier quoted context omitted.
You are completely justified in complaining about the article's negativity. It's not like he announced in the title or the first paragraph what it was going to be about.
It's not a complaint, it's a joke.
I suspect you and the grandparent poster both need to replace the batteries on your sarcasm detectors ...
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#66I am really disappointed in the HN commentary on this one. A quarter of the commenters seem to have stopped reading when they saw the anime criticism. Half came in here to say that the guy sounds boring. And the remainder is split between talking about patio11 (what the fuck is that?) and how long the article was. Most of the criticism here seems to boil down to the same "you're not Japanese" bullshit the author ment…
Well since the audience here probably hasn't changed just for this story may I suggest that the lack of coherent commentary reflects the unfocussed and meandering style of the source article.
It does have some interesting snapshots of Japanese culture in there but they are bookended by too many personal rants based on the author's peculiarities so the result is part travelogue, part social criticism, part gaming commentary, part manifesto.
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#68Long 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. Pop culture was best when you, the reader of this sentence, were 12: http://i46.tinypic.com/1625ims.gif I remember watching DBZ after school, and while it is certainly "graphicall…
What are you talking about? They have, e.g., 30 eps in a row of goku fighting frieza. it's an extremely slow plot, but every episode follows after the next. (except after a saga ends, then they just do a time skip to the next big fight)
Man does this bring back memories from back when I was still a young hackling... Watching in eager anticipation what will happen next. For four straight episodes it was Goku with his hands in the air constipating, and somehow I loved every minute of it.
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#69Are people really so harsh to non-drinkers? That's sad. What about people who don't drink for religious purposes? Are they better tolerated?
I can only relate to my own experience (6 years in Japan now), but I have never been in a position where I had to drink. I have never been in a very big Japanese corporate company, but in both University, gvt labs and start up, there have always been people who do not drink, and that has never been an issue.
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#70Did anyone actually read this novel?
Haven't finished yet, but I find it a surprisingly entertaining read.