as an honest to God otaku, horror media and cuisine are by far the most overrated aspects of japanese culture. have any of you actually sat down and watched any of those j-horror flicks? theyre slow, uneventful, and ultimately goofy as hell. theyre the precursor to the a24 slop everyone mocks nowadays.
same goes for the vidya. ain't nobody scared of silent hill, resident evil, fatal frame, yume nikki, etc. in fact the main reason ppl like them is cuz theyre somehow chill af LOL

the scariest game ever made is from the west, and it's called alien isolation. you need jumpscares for horror to work, and japs always seem to eschew them