Anonymous
10/11/2025, 8:44:33 PM
No.2831802
>>2831081
Tokyo. I never believed all the "propaganda" after my disapointments with Germany, France and the UK. When I went in 2016 for the first time I was very much at the end of my anime phase.
I had been watching anime since basically 6 years old all the way till 27 when I first visited. The charm of Japan long faded, the youthful teenage view of the world crushed with reality. Sure I wanted to visit Japan once in my life but all my childish fascinations with big cities in Europe were crushed by then. London a shithole, Paris a shithole, Milan a shithole, Germany as a whole seem to be a ghost of a time I never witnessed when trains were cool came on time and ran on time. I never felt safe, welcome and these cities never felt modern. I adored the ICE3 trains as a kid they looked fantastic. By the time I rode them they felt very dated and used from the inside. It felt like DB wasn't putting any effort into good looks or apprentices. It felt very utilitarian.
You'd expect such a mega city to honestly dystopian. Too many people, issues everywhere just outside the nice exterior, there gotta be some real damn shit happening. Look at them Homeless near the Arakawa river, Adachi, Katsushika. I've watched enough shows and anime to see a very ideal version of Tokyo. In the TV shows everyone lived either in the poor mans 1R in some downtrodden part of town or they were in some fantastic 1LDK up some tower mansion.
Jesus Christ when I arrived it was frightening. Everything works exactly as intended. All the small things I'm used to not working like reclining seats or the small button somewhere or train announcements not announcing in some trains. Everything fucking worked. Society was structured exactly like it was supposed to be and run. They had compared to Europeans an almost autistic attention to detail. How your fucking onigiri wrap opens, how your train door opens, every single vending machine out there in the world works and isn't robbed or stolen.
Tokyo. I never believed all the "propaganda" after my disapointments with Germany, France and the UK. When I went in 2016 for the first time I was very much at the end of my anime phase.
I had been watching anime since basically 6 years old all the way till 27 when I first visited. The charm of Japan long faded, the youthful teenage view of the world crushed with reality. Sure I wanted to visit Japan once in my life but all my childish fascinations with big cities in Europe were crushed by then. London a shithole, Paris a shithole, Milan a shithole, Germany as a whole seem to be a ghost of a time I never witnessed when trains were cool came on time and ran on time. I never felt safe, welcome and these cities never felt modern. I adored the ICE3 trains as a kid they looked fantastic. By the time I rode them they felt very dated and used from the inside. It felt like DB wasn't putting any effort into good looks or apprentices. It felt very utilitarian.
You'd expect such a mega city to honestly dystopian. Too many people, issues everywhere just outside the nice exterior, there gotta be some real damn shit happening. Look at them Homeless near the Arakawa river, Adachi, Katsushika. I've watched enough shows and anime to see a very ideal version of Tokyo. In the TV shows everyone lived either in the poor mans 1R in some downtrodden part of town or they were in some fantastic 1LDK up some tower mansion.
Jesus Christ when I arrived it was frightening. Everything works exactly as intended. All the small things I'm used to not working like reclining seats or the small button somewhere or train announcements not announcing in some trains. Everything fucking worked. Society was structured exactly like it was supposed to be and run. They had compared to Europeans an almost autistic attention to detail. How your fucking onigiri wrap opens, how your train door opens, every single vending machine out there in the world works and isn't robbed or stolen.