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Why is there a sudden uptick in discourse around Vaush?
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I think it's worth noting, a lot of the most popular anime's in Japan are fairly boring normie slice of life shit or Mecha stuff. A lot of the really weird Pervy crap is more popular in the west than domestically. Not saying otaku culture in Japan isn't creepy and gross in its own right, but it is a niche subculture over there that just happens to have amplified popularity abroad and so ends up looking reflective of Japanese culture more than it actually is.
Japan is in actuality, a fairly boring normal country.
I wouldn't call Japan boring, there's plenty to see and do there, and Japanese food is very good too. But for some people who think Japan is just about anime/manga and bideo gaems, they may be in for a shock when they actually visit Japan or talk to a real Japanese person.
Back in school, I used to have some Japanese immigrants as friends, they were pretty chill people, usually never talked about anime or manga, they knew the more popular ones. But they did really enjoyed fighting games and talking about sports.
Yeah from what I understand manga is kinda like comic books here. Most people are familiar with them, it's not really even weird for people, especially younger people, to be kind of into them and read a decent amount, but the turbo fans are considered weirdos.
Plenty to see and do, including some number of museums connected to the history of the country's left!
Apparently, to the extent that some Japanese women show interest in foreign men, one of the reasons is "oh nice he probably doesn't watch fucking cartoons"
Probably not the smartest logic there since most western men who visit Japan are huge fucking weebs
I think probably about as many are tired businessmen and dads on family vacations
Idk how many American families go on vacation to Japan unless they're nerds?
Japan like knows this, they literally have stands to sell tickets to the Studio Ghibli museum in the Tokyo airport cuz they know that's what tourists who come to Japan are gonna wanna do.
Mind you I say all this as a guy who rather likes anime himself, there ain't no hate here.
I'm not in Amerikkka rn but I can at least say that one of the staff guys at my jawbbbb skillzzz classss plans to go to Japan soon, and he's being real weird (read: kimochi-warui) about the geisha. But I guess he's more granddad age than dad age, anyway...
Yeah I used to live in an area with a lot of Japanese tourists and so I took Japanese classes for like, employability
Later I moved and when I would tell people I knew some Japanese they'd be like OH DO YOU WATCH JITSU NO KAIDENSUPPU NO BAKKURERUDAI no no I don't know what the fuck that is, I have seen like 5 anime movies, and Dragonball and Cowboy Bebop in the 2000's