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[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 13 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago) (1 children)

Oh I get it, Americans read left to right and Japanese read right to left.

Interesting variant of this - somebody tried swapping the reels of the movie Passengers - I think they moved the first reel toward the middle, so it starts when Jennifer Lawrence wakes up. At this point Chris Pratt is concealing that it was him who woke her up, and a lot of his behavior is very sketchy and sinister because you don't see what led up to it. Then after she finds out and hates him you see reel 1 as a flashback, and it flips the whole tone of the story. After thinking about it I really wish the director had told the story that way.

[–] chiliedogg@lemmy.world 3 points 14 hours ago

I hate how it was resolved so much.

Dude basically murdered her and in the end when given the chance to go back to her planned life she chooses to stay with him. It's apparently okay for someone sentence you to death and deceive you into sleeping with them as long as they're handsome.

[–] Sidhean@piefed.social 4 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

I'm not sure of the hidden information that changes the context of the meme from :( to :)

(if its just reading direction, then bad use of meme formats but very funny joke)

[–] BreadOven@lemmy.world 3 points 16 hours ago

It took me a while to get it. But yes, it's the reading direction. After realizing I like the format.

[–] dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world 1 points 13 hours ago

Yes, but Manga reading order aside: isn't this particular woman also a yokai, and a rather malevolent kidnapping one at that?

https://en.tocana.jp/2025/09/japanese-legend-hachishakusama_entry.html

She exclusively preys on children and young adults, tapping into a primal fear of child abduction.

[–] _lilith@lemmy.world 38 points 1 day ago (1 children)

[–] MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.works 9 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago) (2 children)

9 inches and 5 feet?

Feet use '

Inches use "

[–] idiomaddict@lemmy.world 10 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Pssh, I’m 10”5’

[–] kopasz7@sh.itjust.works 5 points 22 hours ago

1"6' here. I be smol now.

[–] DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 1 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

You're reading it the wrong direction.

[–] LostCarcosan@lemmy.today 2 points 14 hours ago

funny so You're ...hat the With

hat the with feet 8 inches 9... ?feet 5 inches 9 Like... Ummm

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.Winters Ethan ,you found I've

[–] MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.works 1 points 13 hours ago

I think you've misunderstood, usually you're not meant to explain jokes but I'll act in good faith and do it anyway.

The comic uses 9"5' which is obviously meant to mean 9 feet and 5 inches.

But in actual notation ' is for feet with " for inches. Meaning that what is in the comic actually reads as 9 inches and 5 feet if taken literally.

So the way it should've been written for it to mean what it was meant to is 9'5".

[–] Jankatarch@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago* (last edited 23 hours ago) (1 children)

Unrelated rant about search engines
I am going insane because I was just curious if Persian speaking countries also read comic books right-to-left too, and despite the amount of specifying, my search engine just fucking insists that I am looking for the Manga reading directions. What happened to the internet?

[–] 87Six@lemmy.zip 1 points 17 hours ago

This cool project I found might get you that info

http://neosearch.org/

It's new, free and open source, for now

[–] inconel@lemmy.ca 32 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

As someone educated in Japanese subculture I thought it was testing knowledge of hasshaku-sama (urban legend of 8 ft tall mistress, you may also find spicy contemporary interpretation too).

[–] EldenLord@lemmy.world 8 points 21 hours ago

"Japanese subculture"

[–] cannedtuna@lemmy.world 1 points 18 hours ago

Could be second layer to the meme that went over my head. Seems a lot of commenters agree with you.

[–] shneancy@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

i thought it was about some yokai who would then haunt that boy forever or something

[–] Solrac@lemmy.world 7 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago)

Me knowing exactly who that is, knowing full well that kid is most likely gonna be less safe from now on

[–] barkingspiders@infosec.pub 55 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I appreciate how we're all ignoring the unnaturally large lady in this meme

[–] lyralycan@sh.itjust.works 93 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Oh, we're not ignoring her, we're imagining a life with her

[–] uber_chicken@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I would upvote this but your currently at 69 and I didn't want to ruin that

[–] Sidyctism2@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 18 hours ago

We ruined it for you. On to 420 we go!

[–] Inucune@lemmy.world 49 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Nope, someone is going to have to explain this to my American brain.

[–] cannedtuna@lemmy.world 133 points 1 day ago (5 children)

American comics read left to right.

Japanese manga read right to left

[–] FreshLight@sh.itjust.works 1 points 14 hours ago

I was about to comment how the bottom pictures are supposed to be the other way around but when I thought about it, it's correct in the manga spirit.

[–] Leviathan@fedinsfw.app 42 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Jesus. Thank you, I was straight confused. Also drunk, but straight confused.

[–] Cris_Citrus@piefed.zip 31 points 1 day ago

I was gay confused 😔

[–] Flames5123@sh.itjust.works 4 points 21 hours ago

To be fair it doesn’t look like it was a comic so my brain didn’t go there either.

[–] CultLeader4Hire@lemmy.world 18 points 1 day ago

Ah I didn’t realize the two on the top were meant to be read together thought it was a side by side

[–] forgetfulmeat@lemmy.world 1 points 16 hours ago

I'm so stupid. I saw this yesterday and couldn't wrap my head around it and moved on. Your comment proves my mind has a blind spot.

[–] Static_Rocket@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Thought this was supposed to be the other way around since the Japanese have Hachishaku-sama.

[–] foggy@lemmy.world 2 points 20 hours ago

I didn't get it but I do now.

Left to right the woman takes the ball from a child and places it up in a tree, and there child cries.

Right to left, the woman gets a stuck ball from a tree to relieve a crying child.

But yeah that woman is like 11ft tall, I think.

[–] blueberry_tart@piefed.blahaj.zone 9 points 1 day ago

If I had to guess, it would be the order in which the top row is read. Left-to-right vs right-to-left.

[–] sad_detective_man@sopuli.xyz 13 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Wait isn't this a scary murder-cryptid of some kind?

[–] Zarobi@aussie.zone 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Po

[–] sad_detective_man@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Is that her name? What are the rules with this one? They're all supposed to have rules for you to escape alive

[–] Zarobi@aussie.zone 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

It's a bit hard to find non-Japanese information since it's a relatively new and lesser known yokai, but this site does a pretty decent breakdown.

Tap for yokai

Ms. Eight Feet Tall (八尺様, Hachishakusama, also informally called Hasshakusama) is a type of main Japanese spirit (Yokai) that takes the form of an impossibly tall female specter often rumored to have a deep, masculine or an attractive, feminine voice in which she repeats the interjection "Po" [ぽ] repeatedly, and has a habit of preying on children, usually those who are nine to eleven years old.

It is said that Hachishakusama catches her victims by stalking a select child she takes a liking to for a few days or even months. After a certain time has passed, she takes the child away from their family members and their whereabouts are left completely undisclosed ever since. It's unknown how or why she chooses to abduct them, but it can be assumed that like most spirits, she can also just teleport to the child's location and take them away with her that way too.

However, there are a rare few of people who have been "liked" by Hachishakusama and lived to tell the tale. Those who are fortunate enough to have survived the spirit's wrath have to leave Japan and reside in a different country; they cannot return to Japan due to the risk of being hunted by Hachishakusama once more which also prohibits them from seeing their families by extension even under urgent situations, like a relative of theirs passing away.

Basically, don't reciprocate her affection or pity her too much. If she finds you interesting and you see a tall dark woman watching you intermittently, flee the country immediately. She stalks people to see if they're a good replacement for her lost son, and "adopts" them.

Source: https://villains.fandom.com/wiki/Eight_Feet_Tall

[–] Sidyctism2@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

"New and lesser known yokai" i honestly always thought yokai would all be at least ~200 years old. Now it seems to me like yokai are basically just SCP that have been written over hundreds of years

[–] Zarobi@aussie.zone 2 points 18 hours ago

Yep. Stuff like The Ring girl, the slit mouth girl, along with the ancient ones like Yukki Ona, all sorts of Yokai exist. It basically encompasses all ghosts and fairy tales, though many are taken very superstitiously and seriously.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Y%C5%8Dkai#In_popular_culture

[–] cannedtuna@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

Idk. Looks like the lady from Resident Evil to me. So maybe?

[–] Impractical_Island@lemmy.world -2 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

Yea, imagine what it's like being a dagerido like my pimp made me walk the plank, which is euphemism for a tolerance reduction ontological overload which I am demonstrating in some redundant fashion. This provides the creature a large enough dazzle to razzle tf outta all them bitches who get them stitches. This is Peter Marker Four on dommy down six, I got sticks, and imagine if you didn't know who I was and you came into contact with this virility in the forest before dawn at noon, six on Sunday coming at a theater near you. This week I went and gone and did and so it came back to me and we really ought to get that reduction. Time plasters the mind. Minutes to midnight, wait we've been hear me no I don't mommy go home.

Right, like you'd think that's a buncha hooey if you didn't know who my retarded ass was. Fucking idiots. I love all of you.

[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 1 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Cocaine is an interesting hobby, isn't it?

[–] Impractical_Island@lemmy.world -3 points 15 hours ago

No just practicing. See,y'know how if you do something, your neurons fire, and thus you entrain them? Yea, I'm working out lateral based thinking skills through free association recollection in a free writing exercise, dummy. Nah just kidding. I'll jib your jab OH SHIT THERE'S A BUG ON ME GET IT OFF

[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 1 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago) (1 children)

I'm only saying this because I care - there are many decaffeinated brands on the market today that are just as tasty as the real thing.

[–] Impractical_Island@lemmy.world 0 points 15 hours ago

Bro I'm just jacking off on shoelace powder, like gramma gunna crimp my style in a piledriver inside her infertility from disability as I got pride as wide as a buffalo shit sandwich, ok? Nah, it's cool gramps, we'll get you caught up. You eat crab cake? We got crab cake for days, made with real artificial crab meat. This is just how I am and I choose to be it, and I do it for the youth of the nation, praise God, valahalla, and all of the men and women in law enforcement in Reno, amen.

[–] darthsundhaft@piefed.social 2 points 1 day ago

It's a matter of ignorance is bliss.