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How much time have you spent in Japan or among Japanese people?
Iirc he lives in Japan. At least part of his position is true though -- the education system really doesn't cultivate critical thinking or original thought (other than the elite prep schools which are great at fostering individuality).
And of course, the only person in this thread who knows what they’re talking about gets downvoted to oblivion.
Never change, HN.
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I only watched the first season, but wasn't it the reverse of the suggestion?
The later seasons explained things a bit more if I remember correctly. There was more to it than what was in the first season.
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You should check how Dollhouse ends then :) .
Suddenly and without resolution? :)
Went into reading this article expecting it to be a one-off, rental boyfriend type deal (that kind of trope is used very frequently in movies/tv shows/manga there), but this way way deeper than I expected. I'm pretty mind blown at how far they are taking this fake/real replacements. Pretty close to some dystopian scifi actually. >If the client never reveals the truth, I must continue the role indefinitely. If the dau…
Can someone confirm that this is real? It reads like (dismal) satire.
It's fake IMO. The story is probably real but the implication that this is a crazy Japanese thing or that it is common is fake, just like most stereotypes about Japan. Want to see cosplayers? There's way more in the west than Japan. Want to see people dying their hair colors like anime characters? That's a western thing, not a Japanese thing. The article is about a single company not nationwide trend. Let me also add…
see:
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2016/mar/05/everyth...
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Having been living in Japan for 4 years, i doubt this is fake. Loneliness is huge problems in Japan, you just can't become friends with stranger
Would a 1.9m blond bloke find a role or would be considered too foreign? Few gigs would help with travel budget.
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Iirc he lives in Japan. At least part of his position is true though -- the education system really doesn't cultivate critical thinking or original thought (other than the elite prep schools which are great at fostering individuality).
> he lives in Japan. And of course, the only person in this thread who knows what they’re talking about gets downvoted to oblivion. Never change, HN.
We already have commercial close day to day relationships like daycare, teachers, taking care of elderly. Then we have therapists and prostitution. Many lonely people have only workplace friendships that are more artificial than the importance they have in the life of lonely people.
But these are all fundamentally honest relationships with defined roles in the society. If a mother wants tho hire father figure for her child, I think the relationship should be honest towards the child and not based on lie. "Hired uncle" would be honest.
A danish director made a film on the topic: he follows a Rent-A-Friend business boss who hides what he is doing for a living to his own family Imdb: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3242460/
Also check out his newer movies like The Lobster... really good movies!
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It's not lie if everybody accepts and supports it, merely a convention. There's father-by-birth, and then father-by-adoption, and then father-by-convention.
Sorry, but it's just terrible. The mother is paying $200/month for a service that could disappear at any moment. The daughter thinks the rental is her real father. That's highly likely to unravel sometime in her life time. Certainly at his funeral...he is using a fake name and personna.