Does anything that happens in Japan actually surprise anyone anymore? I could turn on the TV and see live footage of Godzilla (Gojira) attacking Tokyo and not be shocked.
Jeez, ya drop a couple nukes on a country and next thing you know, their grandkids are licking each others' eyeballs.
Driving into Pearl Harbor Naval Base this morning I saw a license plate that read... HENTAI I just thought...really? Even if you like anime porn...WHY would you advertise it?
The truly hilarious thing is when you see the back covers for their porn videos and how the phallus-like images are whited out, but in a way that still keeps the shape intact. Never mind that the chick's usually barely pubescent boobies are right in the costumer's face. But on the flip side, if the crew of the Fitzgerald is to be believed, Japanese women are more than willing to try a LOT of things that many American women would need a whole fishbowl of tequila to entertain, and will also clean your house and cook you a bento lunch for work to boot.
I've never understood the way the Japanese censor images...it often seems to not really hide anything. As for sailors and their sexual claims...I take those with a whole ocean of salt
Sorry, I've just been waiting literally for years for teh baba to go entirely off the rails and post something like that. He's just not getting around to it, for some reason.
No, but they did have this fad of getting plastic surgery to resemble Cardassians for a while last year. Whatever happened to that, anyway?
.... Damn, I should've gone out to Roppongi and Shinjuku more often. I went during the day, and all I saw were the generic ol' Lolitas that Gwen Stefani's entourage tried to imitate when she went solo.
I think it's just a result of the fact that in Japan, conformity is demanded (at least on the outside) and in settings like work and school, deviation from that is just not accepted. It's expected from an early age, too--like, out of the womb ten minutes ago early, because unless mothers of newborn children never leave the house for the first six months or something, I can only think of maybe one time I've even seen any Japanese child throw a fit, and have never heard a newborn baby crying on the subway. Ever. But because of that strict expectation to blend it, in the few acceptable outlets to actually stick out, they'll do it with relish--hence, your Harajuku girls, cosplayers, your WTF fads and nice, quiet "nice" girls becoming kinky freaks in bed.
