Thread 280120712

When I first watched it, I didn't realize that the weird noise that could sometimes be heard in the background of Evangelion were cicadas, and that in Japan they can only be heard in the summer, meaning that the fact that they're around all year long is a sign of Second Impact causing climate change.

A lot of SoL shows really threw me off at first until I learned Japanese high school only lasts 3 years.

Retarded threads like these are why /a/ is rapidly dying.

>>280120712 (OP)
>Woman has to leave her job and become a housewife as soon as she gets married.
>Younger students have to worship the ground their upperclassmen stand on and treat them with "respect" forever.
>Teachers don't even have to pretend to do anything about bullying, like punishing both parties. They just ignore it.

>>280120773
How new are you? This is called a bait thread

>>280121064
The entire catalogue is bait. Bait threads are not the standard. If these are allowed and we want to be le heckin epic old skool then sage bombing should make a return and newfags can see how it really was here.

>>280120712 (OP)
I thought it was just shitty writting or the target audience were just girls when in anime some characters remain totally shy, and even avoid expressing themselves in manners that matter.
Until I met real Japanese people. Turns out Japanese people are really like that, motherfuckers could be dying and they would remain mute because "not making things uncomfortable for others".
If anything, Anime characters are unrealistic because they're way too talkative and sociable.

>>280121091
4chan itself isn't old enough for someone who's been a part of its "culture" from day one to be anything more than a newfag tourist because that's how far the goalpost can shift in these pointless arguments. Sage away, you're not going to show anything besides the fact that this board has always been for people to whom anime and manga means almost nothing to scream and seethe at eachother about what they have "achieved" by having a certain opinion about it because they have nothing else to measure themselves by.

>>280121064
How is this a bait thread?

>>280122009
>not making things uncomfortable for others
That's a good attitude to live by, honestly. Wish we had that in America instead of everyone being loud, obnoxious assholes.

>>280120712 (OP)
>The heat from the rice cooks the egg

>>280120712 (OP)
Understanding the concept of keigo and how honorifics work helps you understand the relationships between characters and their personalities.
For instance, Dio Brando speaks to everyone with an extremely rude and condescending manner of speech, like he's always talking to insects who are beneath him. He however speaks to Pucci more respectfully, because he views him as a friend.

>>280122016
The real anime fans decided not to put up with the festering mess that is 4chan and moved to Twitter and vetted Discord groups (they still come here to use the board as a public toilet from time to time)

>>280122889
We never left, we're just drowned out by drooling retards worldwide who think shitting where you sleep is acceptable behavior

>>280120765
What was weird to me is discovering that every year classes are shuffled around for no discernible reason. Some Anime acknowledge this, others don't, but main characters conveniently all get to be in the same class for all 3 years.

>>280120712 (OP)
It turns out, the Japanese genuinely believe that having 4 seasons makes them special. It's one of the reasons they wank everything involving seasons and changing seasons so much.

Cicadas have hatched here where I live in the US and they are non stop. Never really considered them that special, but the way nips constantly wank them I wonder if they aren't in Europe and mainland Asia?

>>280120712 (OP)
I never caught that detail even though the bugs only show in summer here too.

>>280122791
What truly made me realize just how stupid Japanese culture is with its hierarchies and honorifics is that when there's twins, the younger twin is forced to always refer to the older sibling with an honorific. In the rest of the world, "I was born first" is something dumb kids bring up when they're having childish arguments with their twin, not something that actually matters.

>>280120773
/a/ is dying because nu anime dosen't make for interesting questions.

>>280120712 (OP)
But /a/ told me anime was Chinese and had nothing to do with Japan, because the Chinese own the planet and animation or something

>>280120712 (OP)
I'll add that classic Chinese works like the journey to the west and the romance of the three kingdoms are very important to Japanese culture. Anime/manga often drop reference to certain characters known for strength or intelligence in those works.

>>280125052
It seems to me that Japanese works are fine with referencing ancient Chinese culture but avoid anything from modern Chinese culture. And with Korea, they just ignore everything.

>>280124088
Compared to mainland SE Asia? Yeah it’s pretty special. Over there it’s just hot and dry or hot and wet. But compared to literally anywhere else with a temperate climate? Kek no.

>>280124946
You heard this on a joke anime or a retarded comment on the internet and believed it is true. Nobody does that.
(Now if you're talking about some ancient shit...)

>>280125114
>And with Korea, they just ignore everything
well unlike China and Japan, Korea has no culture

>>280124088
Yeah, it's just temperate climate, it's on the warmer and wetter side but still well within what you'd experience in 'urp or whatever. I don't know where they got that idea.

>>280125414
Korea and the areas of China that Japan is closest to have distinct seasons though.

>>280120712 (OP)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MyUjSPjfPPw

>>280124088
Yeah, they believe most countries don't have the 4 seasons and because of that they make a big deal of seasonal products to the point of recalling them after the season is over.

>>280125471
But it's true, the younger Japanese twin has to refer to the older one as onii-chan or onee-chan as a sign of respect while the older one can just refer to the younger one by their name.

>>280120712 (OP)
I find it strange how despite Japanese society's love of obeying the rules and trust in their Government institutions, they still hold on to these outdated beliefs about the Yakuza being noble defenders of their neighborhood and Japanese values.

>>280120773
>perfectly okay thread
>"Omg /a/ has fallen!!!!"
Shut the fuck up, you wannabe oldfaggot.

>>280120712 (OP)
>he needs anime to know about cicadas
Oh how I pity you, you did not experience a proper childhood, you did not spend a summer at the countryside with your grandmother, you will never understand how it fells, okawaikoto

>>280127930
>/pol/tards immediately needs to make it into a Japan bad thread
I don't know what I expected

>>280125114
Western works do this too. Countless prominent media based on Japan and China or aspects of their culture. There's always a not!Japan and a not!China in the far east in European fantasy worlds, but a not!Korea is never mentioned.

>>280129512
I mean, what is even there to draw from. Not even being facetious. Admiral Yi and rocket carts? The most perfect writing system in the world hangul that they are super proud of but nobody else gives a shit.

>>280124088
As someone who lives in a subtropical Shithole I can assure you that it is.
Actually living in any temperate region already makes you special and better than anyone who lives outside of said temperate regions
Humans are an ideal temperature were they perform their best, living in tropical, desert, or cold environments is a complete meme

>>280125114
Korea is the only country on earth that can rival the US in being a land almost completely devoid of any culture

>>280130001
K-pop, plastic surgery, Incels, and Political witch cults

>>280125114
Qipao dresses are actually a 20th century invention, not traditional Chinese culture.

>>280120712 (OP)
Do you not have cicadas in your country?? I hear them outside my window almost every day these days. How sheltered are you?

>>280121178
what percentage of mangaka were in the student council? that shit feels like a power fantasy

>>280130348
That's true, but that's modern stuff. K-Pop while popular by itself is not something you'd really make media about. Though I know there exists a manga about a jap girl going to korea to become a specifically kpop idol, so at least one thing exists.

>>280127651
>But it's true, the younger Japanese twin has to refer to the older one as onii-chan or onee-chan as a sign of respect
This doesn't only apply to twins. It literally applies to everyone

>>280124088
Having hot summers and snowy winters might as well be considered special nowadays. My country supposedly has a "temperate" climate like Japan, but we've gotten like 1 day of snow a year in the last few years, and it barely ever sticks to the ground
Now winter just serves as the season with decent temperatures while summer is heatwave hell

>>280131017
It makes some amount of sense when they're years apart, but when they're just minutes apart it's just stupid.

>>280120712 (OP)
AAAWEEEEOOOOOWEEEEEOOOOOWEEEEEOOOOOWEEEEEEEOOOOOOOOO

>>280130233
This. It might not be special in the sense of being rare but people shouldn't take it for granted. I've lived a few months near the equator line and it was hell.

>>280120712 (OP)
>eeeeeeeeeeeeWEWEWEWEWEWEEEEEEeeeee...
Your response?

>>280120712 (OP)
I'm reading Higurashi and now every time i hear cicadas in other animes i get a creepy feeling, it kinda ruin some scenes that are supposed to be light, it happened sometimes on this season

>>280131216
Is Japan not also feeling the effects of climate change?

>>280120712 (OP)
Missing the true meaning of cicada buzzing hich is that they are the voice of DEMONS.

>>280122083
you're probably the same person who complains about the bystander effect when bad shit happens
>>280127930
For Mainland China that is true because it criminalizes any negative depiction of their government, but for Korea and Japan absolutely not. Even their Yakuza is portrayed as scumbags in a lot of their media

>>280132861
>he's that guy who thinks it's his duty to yell 24/7 a day because if he stops someone will fall to the "bystander effect"
>clearly this is ordinary day-to-day situation right now... but think of the bystander effect??
>that's why I'm being this obnoxious loud faggot on ordinary days
>sure there was that news of a Japanese person saving someone but uhh no?? they physically can't do that
>oh and because as a spoiled rich faggot who traveled to Japan and didn't like it, I now have to ruin this thread for everybody else too

>>280132024
There's no practical difference between two brothers 1 minute or 2 years apart.
Also what the fuck is wrong with being respectful to your brother?

>>280134132
>There's no practical difference between two brothers 1 minute or 2 years apart.
Are you a moron?

>>280124088
One good thing you have to give localizers is explaining that they couldn't call it "Fire Emblem: Four Seasons".

>>280134245
Why not?

>>280134318
Because everyone will just think of the hotel. It sounds commercial mundane, not the same effect.

>>280125114
I do notice that they're all about the 3 Kingdoms but the Chinese Civil War and that whole period is like, such a huge, epic, interesting era in the same place and they have zero interest. You could even extend it to include the Korean war. Its not just about being anti-communist either cause they also have zero interest in like the Taiping Rebellion and that period either.

>>280134422
They don't like media depicting the "century of humiliation"

>>280120712 (OP)
Japan doesn't think they did anything bad in WWII. The war is just a thing that happened because wars are normal, but those mean Americans then dropped a nuke for no reason and Japan are the real victims.

>>280125114
Because they're scared that one day China is going to fuck them up in retaliation for Nanking. Japanese cultural trauma over how WW2 panned out is subtle but once you see it, you can't stop seeing it.

>>280134422
The Taiping Rebellion isn't very cinematic. Its just horrible brutality without greater meaning.

>>280120712 (OP)
Has anime ever referenced these guys?

>>280120712 (OP)
Through hentai manga I learned that the Japanese don't understand how foreskins work or function.

>>280134593
>Nanking
Japs are doing some serious coping over that one. Regarding the nuke in general they seem to be malding how they suffered a unique evil for absolutely no reason.
This is the sort of lines they are putting in an official museum.

>>280135373
To be fair, I think that one is just a poor translation.

>>280120712 (OP)
>t the fact that they're around all year long is a sign of Second Impact causing climate change.
And also a convenient excuse to not have to give the characters winter uniforms or animate the changing of seasons. Thus saving what little budget they had.

>>280135440
Well it's possible it doesn't come across as weird in japanese. Still, I'm not sure I'm willing to give them the benefit of the doubt it's not on purpose.

>>280135373
Good on them, better than eternally beg forgiveness for the Holocaust like you do in the west, based japs just don't care.

>>280132402
>>280127350
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fSWDEXZdSoA

>>280120712 (OP)
Nothing is more noble in Japan than sacrificing oneself for society. That's why readers there loved the end of Hero Academia and those here think that MC failed. We are a very individualistic society in comparison. For us, status matters more than sacrifice.

>>280136240
Go back to your bait thread >>280129580

Which culture worships Jesus Christ again?

>>280136240
Sort of related, revolutionaries are wrong, system doesn't get overturned, the solution is to just put the right people on top of it, no structural change is made.

>>280127930
Da fuck? Japanese anime always shows yakuza as being scumbags. At best you get honorable scumbags who have some criminal code of ethics - like not shitting where they sleep. At no point has anime showed yakuza doing some samurai bushido shit.

>>280120712 (OP)
There are a ton of anime and manga that take place in the Japanese summer countryside despite the country having a low percentage of the population. Part of urban Japanese culture is glorifying how great the countryside is (especially in the summer) and it's all over every kind of media there.

>>280136417
They made one of the most soulful anime series in the last 15 years with iron blooded orphans and they had a civil war in the production team because the director didn't like that paramilitary revolutionary rebels were being portrayed as extremely cool and pretty much in the right.

>>280128396
/pol/tards aren't anti-Japan, so that's a little misaimed

>>280136542
What Anime?

>>280124988
>as of 2015 the Chinese Ministry of Culture listed Devilman Lady among 38 anime and manga titles banned in China.
China can't handle real anime/manga

>>280134571
Correct, the entire bigging up of WWII is just because of scale. The reality is that atrocities and massacres have occurred throughout history. People just get triggered and think it's special because it's "industrial" or whatever, but rest assurred ancients would have genocided on that scale if they could. They just had to settle for razing cities and burning everyone alive, or maybe just half and then taking the rest as slaves.

>>280136542
That's cool. Imagine an American thing where the revolutionaries were the bad guys. I can't think of one, but maybe I'm not thinking hard enough.

>>280136542
>IBO
>soulful
What a faggot

>>280124988
>>280136831
Chinese cartoons won't ever be real Japanese animation, they don't even have Manyuu Hikenchou style ecchi shows
>inb4 Japan doesn't do those anymore
Wrong:
https://desuarchive.org/a/thread/280002771/#280002771

>>280136786
Gundam: Iron Blooded Orphans. Its its own new stand alone universe so you can watch it without knowing any other gundam stuff.

>>280136913
Plenty of modern media portrays the Revolutionaries as flawed (usually because of all the slavery and the treatment of Native Americans), but I also can't think of any where they're the bad guys. Hard to be considered a bad guy when your enemy is the British Empire.

>>280120712 (OP)
>mahjong
>go
>shogi
>pachinko

>>280136952
What anime do you like retard.

>>280136998
revolutionaries not "THE Revolutionaries" there has been more than one revolution, just like there has been more than one civil war mutt

>>280137017
Zeta. Now kill yourself immediately.

>>280137000
>two of those are chinese

>>280120712 (OP)
>Japanese culture
>looks inside
>basic cicada facts

>>280137023
Ah, OK. In that case, it's easy. Take any American media where the bad guy are "terrorists" in a foreign country. Those guys are revolutionaries, but they're just called something else.

>>280137110
Technically true, but they are usually not framed in the same way as revolutionaries are. Arab terrorists are technically revolutionaries, but usually they are just guys who blow people up to be scary in any actual depiction. I mean more if there was a classic democratic revolutionary group that was portrayed as bad.

>>280121091
It's really gay that even hinting at sage can get you banned. Why the hell did that rule even start?

>>280137042
Oh my fucking god that's worse than anything I could have predicted you'd say. You could have at least have dodged the question by picking something everyone thinks is good.

>>280137226
Everyone other than redditors think Zeta is good.

>>280137086
cicadas are very neat!

>>280120712 (OP)
When I was in middle school I didn't really get why certain nationalities would consistently get more "foreigner character representation" in anime and manga vs. others. Russians, Americans, and Chinese being amongst the most common. Once I learned more about world history and Japan's political relationships to other countries it started to make more sense why I would so rarely see Korean or Taiwanese characters in settings they would be more relevant. It's funny that now Koreans are only safe when depicted in works relating to Kpop and Taiwanese people can't be mentioned as being Taiwanese nor can their flag be shown or else the work can't be exported to China

>>280137168
Yeah, at worst you'll get stories where the Revolutionaries start out with good intentions, but as time goes on it becomes a "he who fights monsters situation". Or they show that after the Revolutionaries won they don't live up to their ideals.

>>280137531
Very common trope is they have the revolutionary "go too far", get stopped by the hero, but then positive change is enacted by a scared establishment that wouldn't have been enacted if the revolutionary didn't do what they did so it unintentionally wraps around to kind of saying going too far is good. Korra syndrome.

>>280136417
It is very disappointing how One Piece consistently just resolves all of an island's problems by putting the "rightful king" back in charge.

>>280124285
Same here, I grew up thinking that cicadas were just a normal part of summer. It wasn't until I came to /a/ that I came across people going apeshit over them. I suppose if there is an aspect of Japanese culture involved, it's the fact that they consistently include bug sounds in the first place, which is fairly unique to Japanese TV and film.

>>280137728
It's very fairy story ish/LOTRish but it doesn't mash with how detailed One Piece's politics are elsewhere. G.R.R.Martin may have been asking too much to inquire about Aragorn's tax policy, but that's only because LOTR is deliberately vague and mystical so you yourself can imagine how Aragorn is righteous. You can't have a halfway house though; you can't have reveries and treaties and slavery and policies passed based on the heavenly tribute and so on, and then also just have some kings be good, because... they just are okay. The setting itself raises the question.

>>280138096
>>280137728
I am already dreading that Elbaph is going to end with Hajrudin becoming King, or even Loki becoming King once everyone realizes he did nothing wrong.

>>280138460
On the other hand, someone's gotta be King (or President/PM/whatever but democracy isn't necessarily part of Elbaph culture), and we know the world government is run by evil demons, so putting the guys who fought the evil demons in charge certainly simplifies things.

>>280138594
Elbaph hasn't had a king in years and they seem to have been doing great. I wish Oda had gone into how the Elbaph government was ran during this time, but I doubt he will.

>>280138846
They still have someone in charge like a council of elders or something.

>>280137110
>>280137168
Mad Stan was unambiguously presented as a villain and still has fans.
Magneto is probably an even better example since he's not just an army of one and leads an organization explicitly trying to overthrow the current system.
Still not quite "democratic" but eco-terrorists pop up from time to time as revolutionary villains, with varying levels of nuance.

>>280120712 (OP)
>meaning that the fact that they're around all year long is a sign of Second Impact causing climate change.
Did the show even take place over more than just a few weeks? It's entirely believable that it was self-contained within one summer.

>>280123403
japanese companies also regularly shift their low-tier employees around between branches which i think the class shuffle is intended to mirror

>>280124285
different cicadas, they hatch every summer in japan as opposed to the 17 year cycle in america

>>280137728
the overall plot will be that too

>>280127930
yakuza follow outdated clan rules like the mafia but are differ in having developed from powerful merchants in the tokugawa era. the idea is that they represent a retrogressive version of the organizational tendencies that created japan's corporate titans. an obverse reflection, if you will

>>280125114
has a lot to do with japan conquering a large part of china when it was literally a shithole ripe for the picking. similar thing exists in the west with germanic countries about rome

>>280140890
Institutionalization

>>280141033
not a thing with western companies, if you're a low-performer they'll just fire you or move you into such a pointless position you quit on your own. finance is notorious for firing the lowest 10% ever quarter

>>280130618
Probably more like they wish they were since they seem to regard them as some all powerful beings

>>280125114
Commies are not worth referencing.

>>280120765
?
isnt that the case everywhere? My HS was 10-12

>>280120712 (OP)
>meaning that the fact that they're around all year long is a sign of Second Impact causing climate change.
It didn't cause climate change you fucking idiot, it literally shifted the planet's axis.

>>280124088
It is, 4 seasons climates arent as common as you'd think.

>>280142055
Here it depends on when you enroll and it can last 4, 6 or even 8 years

>>280124285
theres cicadas and crickets where I grew up every summer. Our forests are quite noisy. I'm in western Canada

>>280140931
There are more than one types of cicadas in the US. We had a double spawn last year in the south and it was a pain in the ass.

>>280124285
only certain places in the east coast have several overlapping broods like Pennsylvania and New York will get yerly cicadas

>>280142055
In America, and most western countries, it's 4 years. In contrast I think most Asian countries have it at three years.

>>280142182
here in the interior PNW we have these
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Okanagana_canadensis

>>280142207
here we had 3 schools
Elementary k to 6
Middle School 7-9
HS or Secondary School 10-12

anime seemed the same so I thought that was the same everywhere

>>280134422
There's no way to have a show about the Chinese Civil War without discussing Japan's direct or indirect involvement, which is EXTREMELY controversial. A giant can of worms very few mangaka, let alone anime studios would want to touch. Not impossible, but it would take a dedicated and visionary mangaka to pull off. Someone who knows how to make that kind of story appeal to modern audiences.

>>280137210
Because people would make posts saying "sage" just to troll and beg for attention. If you have nothing to say, don't post anything. Not posting anything will have the same effect as sageing (not bumping). You can't bump if you don't make a post at all.
Same thing with posts just saying "reported". It's just feeding the trolls. The mods see your report anyway, you're supposed to ignore the troll after reporting and make meaningful posts, otherwise you're contributing to the problem.

>>280142233
Where are you from?

>>280142364
>modern audiences
When I see this phrase all I can think of is woke trannies.

>>280142531
I've gotten banned for reminding people to sage
I think whatever the problem was originally, it's gone and even jannies have no fucking clue.

>>280124946
Correct me if I'm wrong but does Japanese even have a generic term for siblings? IIRC there's no word that would simply mean "brother" or "sister" without the added seniority

>>280142605
What do you think is 兄弟? Is there even a language in the world that doesn't have a specific term for the concept of sibling?

>>280142233
That's secondary and primary school shit. You're probably from the Commonwealth.

>>280142068
>it literally shifted the planet's axis.
Which caused climate change...

>>280142364
Different time period but I like how Manchuria Opium Squad doesn't glorify Japan at all, and the MC ends up becoming Walter White. The story seems to be inspired by Masahiko Amakasu, who became a bit of a kingpin in China.
>>280142233
Let me guess, SEA?

>>280127651
They don't, it varies from family to family. Some families makes theirs call it, others don't.
Sora don't call Haru oniichan ever in the anime, just his name. In fact, most twins I can remember call their sibling by their name.
Only anime where the twin called the older one oniichan is Oshi no Ko where they are actually decades apart mentally.

>>280124285
EU: I've only heard crickets in the wild (forest, grassplains). I guess it is special to have them in cities

>>280134571
I think that's a healthy attitude to have, everything wrong with West today's can be attributed to WWII being such a definitive Ragnarok level event or something of fight between ultimate Good and ultimate evil lmao.

>>280124088
I don't see how they could possibly think that when the Tang court was in Central China where it's no fucking different, and the Nips imported all their base High Culture from there.

>>280121021
That last one's apparently true from what I've read. School bullying in Japan sounds brutal.

>>280124981
lol no its because everyone switched from funposting to bitterposting. Even I am guilty of it. I'll keep it real, 15 years ago everyone posting on here was a child just trying to have fun. Now its a bunch of 30-50 year olds and they are proving that becoming a fucking boomer really does tie in with being bitter. I want to try to have more fun again, and I'm going to, but when I see stupid posts that make me mad I end up just posting bitter shit, and when I think about funposting I just clam up. It's pathetic isn't it? I hate being 30.

>>280121021
When you find out that teachers have to work overtime like 6 hours every single evening filling out long, unnecessary reports for the ministry of education, a LOT of common scenes in anime begin to make more sense.

>Men get randomly sent to work on the other side of the country and don't see their families for months at a time.
>Occasionally the whole family will just up and move when husband/father is transferred.
>Sometimes both parents work away from home and their kid/s spend months living alone at home.

>>280142975
>>Sometimes both parents work away from home and their kid/s spend months living alone at home.
I think that one is just a made up plot device.

>>280120712 (OP)
Cicadas are just background noise, like grasshoppers. You don't need to understand what it is at all because it's never relevant beyond background noise.

Only thing you need to know is that all bugs should be squished.

>>280120712 (OP)
Students has 3 semesters a year, in my cunt there are only 2.

>>280142233
Australian here. In my state it goes straight from primary school into high school. Middle school doesn't exist. HS is 7 - 12, though the last two years aren't mandatory.
A school year also basically follows a real year, starting late Jan or early Feb and running to December
Because of that I've always had a hell of a time trying to figure out how school years work in Japan. In America too for that matter. Seems crazy to me that you could go to school in 2025, then go to school in 2026, and still be in the same year level. Or that things like Christmas and New Years are just like regular days that you might have a day off for and then your back to school the next day rather than them being part of a major month long holiday.

>>280125114
Does korea even have any culture besides kpop, they seem like a shittier version of Japan and China. Even the birth rates are worse

>>280124285
>>280120712 (OP)
>>280137815
>>280142108

When I was a kid I thought the cicada noise was made by the sun from some kind of unique interaction that happened during the summer. When I got older I realized that couldn't be a thing, but didn't connect it to cicadas until I started watching anime in my teens (I thought grasshoppers made the noise).

>>280130364
So are most 'traditional' dresses. Did you know that 'traditional' Indian saree was created during British era when some upper class Hindu woman was denied entry to some club consisting of mostly British and westernised Indian women because she didn't wear any upper garment. Traditionally, Indian men and women both just wrapped and tied a long piece of cloth around their bodies like a bath towel.

I don't know how true it is in real life but in so much manga and anime the characters seem to go to university just for the sake of going to university and not because they have something specific they want to learn that they then want to turn into a career. Then they just go an join a company where their job has nothing to do with whatever they studied.
It's super rare to see a character go "I want to be a vet so I'm going to vet school", or "I want to get into media editing so I'm going to film school" or anything like that. It's always just "I'm going to get into top university!" and then afterwards they go on to be a nondescript salary man working in some vague office job.

>>280143375
So... just like everywhere else?

>>280120712 (OP)
The millions upon millions upon millions of pop culture references https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eu54_SSCQaY

>>280142975
I've went just two states over and didn't see my mother and sister over 2 years. While I kept in touch with my mom I never called my sister ever. I was actually flustered when I saw her again because she was a completely different person, taller, bigger ehem and all and much less playful from I remember.

>>280143404
Actually this is probably a better link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0JsCrbTJT0

>>280142557
Probably some SEA shithole

>>280124285
Japanese people tend to have a weird obsession with bugs in general, although to be fair the reseems to be a broader diversity of species.
Where I live cicadas aren't considered particularly special, but I doubt there's more than two species, whereas Japan has a laundry list of them.

>>280137110
The implication in such stories are usually that they're The 'old tyrants' or 'religious fundies ousted' or something who want to force the population to bend to their will so don't really count.

>>280134897
I remember seeing it in one scene of Sakamoto kun where everyone stripped their clothes while Sakamoto duels it with a pencil.

>>280134897
Terraformars did

>>280143391
No. No one does that. You go to university to study a specific subject so you can pursue that subject as a career. No one goes just to go. That's weird.

>>280124285
>>280143483
It's not like cicadas are some crazy significant part of Japanese culture, they're just really easy seasonal signifiers, like Uguisu are for spring. When Basho revolutionized poetry in Japan signifying the seasons with single words or concepts became an even larger part of written culture in Japan, really just like how red leaves and snow are seasonal signifiers around the world.

>>280143534
Like millions of people do that. I don't know if you've just never been to college or managed to ignore everyone while you were there, but this is the prevailing mindset. Like 90% of the people who said "I want to be a vet!" growing up are working in offices.

>>280143534
Most people go to university because of credential inflation because jobs that don't even need a high school education demand you require a degree at least.
Maybe what you said maybe true about a law or stem or some shit where the degree is required to do the job. But I'm sure majority wouldn't choose to go to university if not for that.
Your country might be the anamoly where there's no credential inflation occurring.
Though now we've went past credential inflation to experience inflation where jobs ask years of experience for entry level jobs and pay.

>>280143612
>managed to ignore everyone
Most of this thread is just a bunch of autismos who think japs are weird when it's just them being autismos who rarely talk to people or never leave their homes.
Like imagine needing anime to know about cicadas lmao.

>>280138096
Yeah, exactly there is a place for rightful king returns stories but of you do touch on politics you kinda need to adress it. It's not like west never has revolutionaries are wrong stories but I've seen way too much anime where the solution to the main conflict is protagonist becoming the president giving some mild concessions and not oppressing people as hard, but nothing about the circumstances that led to the situation to begin with isn't really properly addressed

>>280143612
There's a difference between wanting to be something as a kid and not being able to fulfill that dream as an adult, and spending tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands to go to uni just to get a degree in nothing.
I have a masters. My sister also has a masters. My mother has a masters. Everyone in our respective uni classes were in the courses they were in because they wanted to get into the field. Not all of them did of course, but that was still the aim. They didn't spend years studying a certain thing just so they could type spreadsheets in a cubicle all day.

>>280120712 (OP)
>the moon is beautiful isn't it?

most houses have the toilet and bathtub in different rooms

>>280143222
>Because of that I've always had a hell of a time trying to figure out how school years work in Japan.
It probably doesn't help that Japanese school years are divided into three parts with very few translations acknowledging it.
>And thus I entered the third semester of my last year in high school
A semester is half a year ffs! Third semester makes no sense whatsoever. It's the third trimester.

>>280143483
They have a bunch of big bugs there and kids play with them from a young age. Japanese schools have assignments in elementary schools that's just bug catching/identifying. I lived in Japan for a year in the 5th grade and there was a similar assignment where they made us go outside, catch 10 different types of bugs, kill them with alcohol, then handmake a clear display case with their pinned corpses. None of the girls in the class had any issue with it.

>>280120712 (OP)
I love it whenever the cicadas come back where I live. It just doesn't feel like summer without them. I remember shaking the trees and always wondering why I'd get showered in a mist.

>>280144039
Yeah, it took me a while to notice because the third term is just not mentioned explicitly that often. Also that the school year starts in spring, it's more obvious but I didn't connect the dots at first.

>>280120712 (OP)
Young japanese girls acting very close to each other is normal and not gay
Boys too to a lesser extent

>>280144367
That's not specific to Japan at all. That's how it is in most of the world.

>>280144419
Yes and that’s how it used to be everywhere, however the modern west specifically has a problem with that notion and it just so happens that’s where most of the people browsing this site live

>>280144455
That was some pretty good bait. It's been a while since I've bitten one.

>>280144109
On that note, Pokémon was created based on the creator's love of catching bugs growing up.

>>280144520
You just reminded me of pic

>>280120712 (OP)
What is the japanese obsession with spirals? Where does this originate from? Is it in their religion?

>>280144487
What

>>280144186
it like getting "pissed" by cicadas
what an odd fella

>>280132513
It's not as bad as Europe. Europe is getting fucked by the heat dome squatting over the continent and sucking in hot air from North Africa. In recent years it's also been bringing in sand from the Sahara desert and blasting it all over Europe.

>>280144035
Japanese bathing culture is also quite unique.

>>280144109
>>280144520
Tezuka was also a huge bug guy, he illustrated insect catalogs as a kid. Pic related is from when he was 15. I imagine bug catching as a kid hobby was really ubiquitous before the 2000s, not so sure about it now that kids spend more time indoors.

>>280120712 (OP)
The top of a girl's head is an erogenous zone. Patting girls on head is an erotic act that arouses every girl. Western media and literature hides this fact.

>>280120712 (OP)
I looked into this a bit and found out today that Americans only get cicadas every 17 years (If I'm not mistaken) and Europeans just don't have them
What? Do people not hear loud cicadas every summer?

>>280140625
They literally mentioned it in Eva that the second impact messed with the climate and got rid of the four seasons

>>280143534
It's like getting a high school diploma at this point.

>>280130288
>that can rival the US in being a land almost completely devoid of any culture
You're a fucking moron, America is a VERY big place with many local cultures. You're thinking specifically of California
t. Californian

>>280120773
Dying oldfags like you that complain about perfectly fine threads are the real tumors here. Fuck off.

The reason why anime is never that funny is because almost all anime mimicks the comedic timing of manzai acts.
Manzai is just a vaudeville style, stand up comedy, double act where one person tells a story or a funny joke, usually drawing on surreal humour, while the other reacts in an over the top, theatric reaction. Usually presented in a rapid fire format. It's a very basic formula, and is good for drawing out a chuckle in small doses.
You may have noticed that a lot of anime follow this similar format.
The truth is, Japanese comedy can be varied, subtle, clever and hilarious, and the Japanese public do appreciate comedy from a wide variety of local and foreign traditions.
However, anime has the tendency to be samey and trend-following, so the humour ends up being bland and uninspired.

>>280140931
Do you not live in the US? The seven year cicadas have multiple broods to where they hatch every year. Just go outside in the summer time.

>>280146745
They only live in the eastern US, west of the Mississippi you won't hear any cicadas.

>>280146586
That's why NinKoro was so funny. It was dark humor you don't see often in anime.

>>280146340
I hear bugs, but not cicadas.

>>280142077
This is a Japan hate thread

>>280142629
Latin based languages don't have it. We literally just use the term "brother" for a male sibling, but if I were to refer to my brother and sister, I would say "I have two brothers". Kind of how in english you can say "mankind" to refer to the human race.

https://translate.google.com/?sl=en&tl=la&text=sibling&op=translate

>>280142925
Man people got fucking murdered at my high school. I refuse to believe japs don't just blow shit out of proportion and Marquis de Sade tier evil shit isn't actually happening

>>280142569
Go back, faggot.

>Hair color dictates your personality/temperament

Learned this after taking some personality test a work and I realized anime uses this a lot, too. https://blog.insights.com/en-gb/blog/the-essential-guide-to-insights-discovery-colour-energies-and-how-to-use-them-at-work#:~:text=Understanding%20the%20Insights%20Discovery%20Methodology,Earth%20Green%20and%20Cool%20Blue.

>Character's name is some word play based on their hair color (i.e. Midoriya from MHA has green hair, midori means green).

>Character's name is a play on words of their whole character/role/talent in the series.

Kuroko no basket is insane for this one (see pic related)
I'll go from left to right.

>Taiga Kagami, The MC's best friend/other part of their basketball duo even has a double word play in his name: ka (fire) gami (god). He's very fiery and really good. But Kagami also means mirror, and his talent is that he acts like a mirror, reflecting his opponents strengths/moves. Also has red hair.
tai (great) self (ga), he has a huge ego.

>Baby blue haired guy, the MC, is called Tetsuya Kuroko, Kuro (black) ko (child) as. Black is the color of unseen stagehands in a play, designed to be ignored/invisible, just like how he plays basketball. Makes sense if you've ever seen kabuki theatre. He basically makes himself unseen and passes really quick

> Blond guy: Ryouta Kise. Ryo (cool) ta (great). Ki (yellow) se (rapid, as in rapid flowing river). This guy thinks he's a cool hotshot and his talent is literally copying someone else's talent. Literally "be like water, friend" as bruce lee said. Formless and adaptive.

>>280146340
European here. The only bugs I hear in the summer are crickets, flies and mosquitos. And they usually only show up at night. Especially the crickets.

>>280151050
> Green haired guy
Shintarou Midorima. Shin (genuine/sincere) tarou (usually just a common boy name idk). Midori (again, literally means green) ma (space/between). Green is a calming color. This guy a calculating nerd and calm. His schtick is that he's a long-range shooter, he scores from the middle of the court.

> tanned dark haired guy

Daiki Aomine. Dai (big/great) ki (shine) Ao (blue) mine (peak/mountain summit or something). Cocky motherfucker. Also, he's tanned because he ... plays street ball in New York city. Plays very individualistic and doesn't pass to nobody (btw this is why the MC of blue lock and free! also have dark blue hair, very individualistic and introspective characters)

> purple hair guy

Atsushi Murasakibara. Atsushi literally means kindness/honesty, which is funny because he's really honest but not kind, he just says it like it is with no filter. Muaraski (purple) bara (field). He's the tallest in the series I think he's like >2 meters or some shit like that. Ofc plays a center and just dominates the field.

> last guy

Akashi Seijuurou. Aka (red) shi (to rule/govern). Fiery personality, a very controlling ruler, he's the captain. Sei (to conquer) juurou (some kind of old noble name). This guy is basically the series' Madara. He's all about "strong must rule, weak must perish". His schtick is ridiculously OP: can see 6 seconds in the future, which is insane for basketball. Basically has sharingan.

Shoto Todoroki
Sho (to burn) to (freeze)
Todoroki is the sound thunder/explosions make

>>280151050
What does white hair mean?

>>280149540
>I refuse to believe japs don't just blow shit out of proportion and Marquis de Sade tier evil shit isn't actually happening

Wait, so which one are you believing? Are they blowing shit out of proportion or is Marquis de Sade shit actually happening?

>>280151822
alien/otherworldly or purity

>>280151822
Sometimes just wisdom/experience
> Hitsugaya (Bleach) kinda acts like a wise old man even tho he's like 13, or Near from Death note

Sometimes purity/innocence
> Tachibana from Angel Beats! and I imagine most girls in your pic. Rukia's bankai

but other times it means being being from another world/non human. Like Dante and Vergil being semi-demons. Inuyasha having white hair but it turns black when its the full moon and becomes full human, another semi demon. Sesshomaru always has white hair because he's a full demon. I think the chick from Frieren is supposed to be an elf, right? Never seen that show

Japanese media relies has so much in jokes and references
So many mundane things you wouldn't think of have some wild history or cultural reference to it
>>280146340
>Americans only get cicadas every 17 years
that isn't true, that's only a specific kind of cicada

>>280142557
>>280142776
>Let me guess, SEA?
no I am from British Columbia
west coast canada

>>280143294
In 80s Japan, the Mao suit was just associated with China rather than communism.