Thread 713291326

Why do Japanese video game companies only make cool exclusive stuff (like Kirby Cafe) for Japan and not for the Western audience which is 95% of their revenue?

>After wanting to go for 62 years
wut

>food
:I
>food, Nintendo™
:O

>>713291326 (OP)
Go to Disney World. It's the same shit.
>Hurr racist comments
All of these events in the US are held in places with shitloads of private security

>>713291326 (OP)
Westerners are more refined and would be embarrassed to be seen in a place like that.

>>713291326 (OP)
Because:
1. It is expensive, restaurants in Japan are seen as occasional treats and not something you go to every day. McDonalds in Japan is like 2-3x the price of American McDonalds even with the weakness of the Yen
2. Americans don't appreciate this shit. I am American. We only care about deep fried burgers and oreos. This is novelty food based off of a game made for kids. It would not be profitable here. Not to mention Americans are just gonna make a mess of the place.

>>713291326 (OP)
Where's the big titty Asian girl using a tourist attraction as a chance to not-so-subtly show off her tits on social media?

>>713291673
This, especially number 2. I bet you the posters, mascots, plastered characters on the windows and the themed utensils will all be gone in a week

Because being a westerner is pure suffering. We aren't allowed to be proud of Jack shit. Just consoom in private and keep your shit to yourself. Wow it's almost like being in a low trust nation means you can't have any fun at all

>>713291326 (OP)
america is big and not very interconnected, for a gimmick restraunt your audience is basically all of japan vs whatever state you build it in

>>713291326 (OP)
Man that omurice looks really good

>>713291326 (OP)
That's what the Orlando Nintendo land park is

>>713291326 (OP)
>I ate way too much
That's a fairly small amount of Kirby food for an average-sized person, I'd say?

>>713291326 (OP)
>having anything nice in the west.
The chef would personally piss on your meal

>>713291326 (OP)
Western countries can't control the brown populations from destroying these businesses.

>>713291326 (OP)
Extremely niche. They'd probably open one at nintendo world.

>>713292791
Was having the nig hair on the outside of the headwear really necessary?

>>713292979
Would you know that he was Black Spiderman if it wasn't?

>>713292979
YES
its day culter after all

>>713292791
Multi-Million Dollar super hero costume...
Hoodie

>>713291326 (OP)
Damn western swine is your trough not enough for you

>>713291326 (OP)
It would be ruined by "minorities."

>>713293260
And

>>713291487
I think its a video from the most monotone sounding retard weaboo who has reddit humor

>>713291673
McDonald's is cheaper in Japan than America.
A Big Mac meal will net over 10 USD in Burgerland, while in Japan its a little over 1000 yen, which is over 7 USD after currency conversion.
Don't have a pic of a japanes McDonald's menu, so have Wendy's instead.

>>713293885
I quit fastfood in America years ago. It was already getting too expensive. And everytime I ate fastfood I would feel sick afterwards. People really don't understand what they're eating.
Take for instance DairyQueen. We all know it's not real icecream because it's not enough milk fat to be called Ice Cream in the USA. However DQ's softserve is mostly made of Polysorbate 80. And it wrecks the lining of your small intestine.

>>713293485
I'm still in awe of how retarded this marketing stunt was
I hope no one actually bought the irl shoes

>>713291326 (OP)
Japan has a much better and different service culture than America.
The food at these places also isn't great, its good but nothing special, you really get upcharged because of the themes.
It just wouldn't work in the west where most people just don't care about this kind of shit.

>>713291326 (OP)
I mean America does have exclusive things in Round One arcades. The rest of the world is third world so I doubt they have arcades to give stuff to.

>>713294257
That's because the niggers stole them instead.

>>713291487
I think it's a stupid boomer telling everyone how old they are.
Stupid people will say they've been waiting their whole life for something.

>>713292791
I went to my usual arcade after work and was shocked to see they had a few security guards. Then I saw the evening clients and knew what was up.

Imagine niggers there, Western companies have to make places on the understanding that Niggers will go there, and cause a huge fucking scene, and jip on the bill and not tip ect ect.

you can't have a nice place with a gimmick because niggers will turn it into shit.

>>713293071
His suit is literally black.

>>713291326 (OP)
>Don't give holy things to dogs, and don't throw your pearls before pigs, lest they tread them under their feet.

Amen.

>>713294804
japan needs to sex segregate trains because their men can't control themselves. No american city needs to do this. cope weeb

>>713293885
Ameircan fast food (and everything else) inflated in price during Covid, simply because they "could".

the doordash rush let them facilitate it, among other things, things are up 120% and more in fastfood, and that's just fastfood.

its literally cheaper to go to Chili's than Mcdonalds, hell its cheaper to go to my local Mexican Restaruant than Mcdonalds.

living in America is the ultimate juxtaposition of having everything at your finger tips, but also living in an managed decline, economic decayed, structural and road decayed, dystopia, I can't imagine how its going to look when it gets real worse... soon.

>>713291498
I often see normal people using this for any depiction of Japan that shows it in a beneficial way now. Seems kind of strange.
What's so wrong to idolize a country and its positive qualities? I'd like my country to have those positive qualities as well.

and yes, I did have the bunless burger. Tasted like the Wendy's back in The States except without bread.
>>713294109
Japan is eating the same garbage as Burgerlanders are, if not more of it. My theory why they're all slim is that they burn it all off by walking everywhere. The lack of the average Japanese owning a car and the combo of walking plus public transport is why they're so healthy.

>>713295067
buddy, in American mass transport, people get stabbed, set on fire, choked to death, and tons of people are doing meth and crack on the train.

the terminals and the trains look like they are in a state of post-apocalypse decay, the difference is Japan has the wherewithal to do something about their train molestors, and America would do absolutely fucking nothing about it, and actually, they'd support the KANGS who did it and get them out of jail and give them money if it became a viral video.

>>713295224
>What's so wrong to idolize a country and its positive qualities?
because the positive qualities are more often that not made up.

>>713291326 (OP)
Kill ALL travelniggers blogging about their misadventures. Hurr durr look at me I'm here and you're not!! Fucking kys

>>713291326 (OP)
looks foul

>>713291326 (OP)
niggers, spics, and influencers would ruin it.

>>713291326 (OP)
>>713293519
i like japaneats its one of the few good yt shorts spam.

>>713291326 (OP)
>Why do Japanese video game companies only make cool exclusive stuff (like Kirby Cafe) for Japan and not for the Western audience which is 95% of their revenue?
>western
Japan is a high trust society. The rest is not. Put two and two together and figure out what would happen if such a café pop up would open here. Sanrio has to have body guards whenever a pop up shop comes up. This isn’t an American problem, it’s a gaijan problem

>>713295270
nice fiction weeb. you can make shit up all day, objective fact still stands, america doesn't need sex segregated trains.

>>713295441
I dare you to go on a New York Metro for the entirety of the day.

>>713291673
>It is expensive, restaurants in Japan are seen as occasional treats and not something you go to every day. McDonalds in Japan is like 2-3x the price of American McDonalds even with the weakness of the Yen
What universe do you live in, anon? Kirby cafe asks a lot more than a real restaurant for obvious reasons but it's still cheap compared to western restaurants.

You can easily have lunch for 400-600 yen. If you go all the way up to 1000, you can even get a lot of fancy shit.
That's 6.8 dollars. No tips. Water/tea is always free, plenty of places let you refill salad/rice for free.
In what asinine universe do you live where that is expensive by the famously overpaid and uberexpensive American standards?
Aren't your meals like 20 dollars before tax and tip?

>>713291326 (OP)
japan worships brands more than america. Americans won't spend 500 dollars on a waifu jpg nor would they spend the same on a gimmick meal associated with said waifu.

Japan has many flaws, but its cleaner, nicer, and liviler than most urban areas in America.

you wouldn't dream of walking around the city in a "Dem Run big City" like you could in Japan, you'd absolutely get fucked.

>>713295441
At least Japan is trying to alleviate the problem.
In the States I would like race segregated trains so I wouldn't get stabbed by Tyrone and robbed by Chavez when I go to my wage slave job everyday.

>>713295880
>At least Japan is trying to alleviate the problem.
the problem is the problem. their men can't be trusted to not molest women during their daily commute. apparently this is fine to your weeb ass(just treat the symptom).

>>713291673
>It is expensive, restaurants in Japan are seen as occasional treats and not something you go to every day.
Absolute completely utterly wrong, eating out in japan is cheap and turbo fast, everything is focused on throughput so that as many people can eat as possible. There's a fuckton of restaurants and they're all full, and regularly have lines.
McDonalds is expensive because it's foreign food. Also it is higher quality than US McDonalds.
The real reason why all of these cafes exist is exactly because so many people go to them. It's more expensive than normal, but JP nerds are consoomers who put their money where their mouth is. For many of these cafes you have to reserve in advance because they're always full.

>>713295316
You should kill yourself, ESL faggot.

>>713295880
well Dem's worship the outgroup, so that will never happen.

Repub's just won't do anything about it because they won't expend the political capital for the Proles.

America is one of the most socio-economic cutthroat places in earth, with the facade that you can make it, when in fact, you likely can't.

>>713296002
>Also it is higher quality than US McDonalds.
of course, they flip their burgers over a million times.

>>713295986
America has that problem 1000 fold, so its irrelevent.

if there was a white chick in a train with a bunch of Jeets and Niggers, she's absolutely getting beat up and molested, if not raped.

its just in America, no one cares, Apathy is the rule of our nation.

>>713296184
>glorious nippon requiring sex segregated trains is fine because uhhh uhhh something something jeets??

>>713296342
I'm telling you that both can be bad, Japan admits there is a problem, in America, you are on your own, always.

Cops are there to either stop a crime in progress, arrest someone after the fact, or clean up the mess, you will not be protected, not in the moment, and not with preventative measures.

>>713291326 (OP)
Because taxing gaijiin to fund the experience of Japanese citizens has been the modus operandi since 1945, anon.

>>713296496
>in America, you are on your own
in america people stand up for each other. If they did in japan they wouldn't need sex segregated trains.

>>713296681
The sad part is I think you actually believe that

>>713291673
>Not to mention Americans are just gonna make a mess of the place.
Just say niggers, we're not on r_ddit.

>>713291326 (OP)
It would never work. Unlike Japan, America is an uncivilized hellhole.
It would be a waste of effort on a culture that doesn't respect anything. Besides, waiters don't receive wages in America, so clients have to pay them with ""tips"" on top of paying for food.

>>713292074
that's not really relevant, nobody is going to go out of their way to eat gimmick shop slop. they focus on putting these pop up cafes in the big cities regardless of which country it is. the real difference is the way spaces are utilized. in asia you have 10-story retail buildings which are easily accessed with public transit and walkability. it's simple enough to rent out one of thousands of empty stalls in the city to set up any kind of business you want at a reasonable rate and for customers to get there.

in the US there's been a larger dying off of retail spaces due to a number of factors. we never had 10 story retail here, we at best have sprawling 2-story malls that are super expensive to rent for businesses because of greedy corporate landlords who own all land. and the spaces are inaccessible to customers without driving and drivers have to deal with crowded parking lots, and more people are just choosing not to go. it's for these reasons that US retail is in trouble which has secondary impacts on local businesses like small cafes that rely on the foot traffic brought in by the big stores.

to get profitability in the US you need something like a self-contained food truck and target only the densest leisure areas where people are already primed to overspend on bullshit. this gives you the ability to move or rebrand at a minimum of cost when the current fads die out.

>>713291326 (OP)
this place looks really cool

>>713296681
Half of you want to kill the other half, every single way to systemically support eachother is cut, or has to be closed or set up in an unhelpful way because one of you files a lawsuit, a solid quarter of you are convinced the world is going to end, and you'll be the kingpin of your region because you have an unventilated basement with two weeks of expired food in it instead of doing anything about it, and you employ a police force more interested in asset protection than civic well being, who also kidnap your citizens to put them in for profit prisons, that are penalized if they're below 90% occupancy.
No, Americans do not look out for eachother. Americans fuck eachother so much and so often that it's an international meme that you motherfuckers are the orcs. The skaven.

>>713295986
>better to do nothing than something

>>713296681
lmao this guy is out of touch

>>713296681
>people in the States only stand up for each other when it's only for Jamal or Pedro
If you don't have a shade of skin you're fucked

>>713297150
>that are super expensive to rent for businesses because of greedy corporate landlords who own all land
As someone who dealt with asset management, this is definitely the biggest reason. Our client landlord is a greedy pos like the rest of them and no one wants to rent for exorbitant prices

>>713291326 (OP)
Uh... The cafes run since 2016 and the kirby franchise is only 24 years old... How can he wait 62 years for it?

I dunno, we have plenty of fancy restaurants in the west... These arguments seem pretty stupid.
The real answer is that the way is viewed as a secondary market, yes even if it makes more money, and also because Nintendo likes to oversee these kinds of things very personally and that's too hard to do from the other side of the globe and in a different language than the restaurants they're going to be working with. Also will probably a lot more expensive and just overall risky I'm not sure the market for this kind of thing exists, no one cares about Kirby much here, it would be seen wholly as a children's thing.

when i was in japan last year i went to every stupid cafe there and the food was average at best...i went the hello kitty pokemon kirby cafe and cinnamoroll
i did think the kirby cafe stuff was probably the best out of all them though.

>>713291326 (OP)
There was a persona cafe in california.

>>713298131
Imagine the smell.

>>713291326 (OP)
Honestly the whole thing is just kind of depressing for me, there’s something meaningless and hollow about it. I’ve heard that the food is all arranged well in advance and just kinda reheated, looks nice but doesn’t actually taste that great and sometimes comes out lukewarm. It’s more about taking photos of the food than eating it, may as well be some ridiculous dessert for instathots to put on the internet.

>>713298092
I'm jelly anon. I wanted to go to a Pokemon, Kirby, and Capcom Cafe but you needed a reservation and the wait was too long.

Japaneats is the only tiktoker/influencer who shouldn't get rapped and be headed on sight

>>713294886
Venom is Black. And yet it's on a White guy.

>>713295438
America used to be a high trust society. You used to be able to buy dynamite at a grainery or hardware store. All you needed was a legitimate reason for purchase. My grandfather used to buy dynamite to blow up stumps and rocks.

>>713298506
i actually just checked every day on the sites while i was there and got in when i saw openings...i was pretty diligent about it though. i will say the pokemon cafe just feel to much like a kids thing though because they have a sing along in the middle of the meal with chef pikachu... kirby was the least embarrassing plus had cute girls eating solo also.

>>713292979
>it's ok when Kid Flash and Impulse and every single female suoerhero show their hair

>>713299295
there is a fee hello kitty cafes in the states and they don't have body guards.

>>713294635
Spiderman wears a full bodysuit retard.

>hey you ever notice how america doesn't have novelty restaurants?
>BLACK PEOPLE BLACK PEOPLE BLACK PEOPLE
Please go a single thread without being so fucking obsessed

>>713299581
I don't know any of these characters.

>>713296681
Dude, you have lived a very sheltered life.

>>713291487
Engagement bait. Reply to my post for a chance to win $500.

>>713299295
I misread that as I was able to buy dynamite so I can blow up grandfather clocks.

>>713299718
Okay wise guy, give us the true reason why we can't have these nice things.

>>713299718
Sorry anon, it's either that or trannies. There's nothing else we could possibly discuss.

>>713291326 (OP)
God I WISH being a consumerist whore in America was at least fun

Eggs

>>713292979
>put on mask to protect your identity
>immediately narrow possible identities to 13% of the population

>>713299909
Not him but >>713291673 is pretty on point, especially point 2. Americans just don't appreciate things like this.

>>713298413
>It’s more about taking photos of the food than eating it, may as well be some ridiculous dessert for instathots to put on the internet.
Truth
Was mentioned in an /a/ thread a couple weeks ago
They have a problem with people just going to buy the food to take pictures and then not even eat it

Here found it
https://desuarchive.org/a/thread/279350916/#q279358436

>>713291326 (OP)
Not Deserved for Gaijin

>>713292049
>He is not proud of his achievements
>He is not proud of having grown up to become a source of joy and pride for his parents
>He is not proud to be there for his friends when they need him
>He is not proud to be kind to people in need
>He is not proud about not giving up on life
>He is not proud about the life he leads and choices he makes
Never gonna make it.

Japanese omelettes are fucking disgusting. Cook your fucking eggs holy shit

>>713301316
Right back at you with your bloody disgusting raw steaks

>>713301419
nonsense like this only exists to cater to streamers. all novelty cafes should be built in warehouses outside of town and "content creators" could be brought there in cattle trailers to make their videos.

>>713299718
Where do you think we are?

The West is the most fickle and undeserving of audiences. Loyalty means nothing to them. They dont deserve shit the more you pander to them the worst it gets

>>713291326 (OP)
Do you get to keep the ceramic Kirby's on the plates?

>>713291673
I'm joining the other Anons in telling you that eating out is a lot more affordable in Japan than in America. It's a lot more affordable in all of East and Southeast Asia, in fact. Going to a restaurant in America is basically a humiliation ritual at this point (same in various European countries).

>>713292049
Just make your own cool shit that is the envy of the world.

The West used to know how to do that.

That jap girl deserves to be impregnated with my baby

>>713302049
OP, if you want an actual answer it's because America is full of people like this Anon.

>>713301895
stupid baka westerners and their lack of loyalty to consooming and muh branded gimmick pastimes.

>>713291326 (OP)
Because they're based. Nips are focused on nips even if everyone else is paying them.

>>713291326 (OP)
niggers would go there, make a mess and not pay for the food

>>713295274
To an extent, sure. However the subject of these kind of character cafe's are far less common in the US, even for IPs that would otherwise be largely popular. Part of it is geographical issues, but I think wanting that kind of thing to be more commonplace in the US isn't simply overlooking US character cafes.
Then again, maybe it's just a matter of no one's tried it here in the US outside of themeparks.

>>713302165
I sincerely doubt she's done anything to deserve that punishment.

>>713302281
The issue is they never take things with a bow. Once you give em a bite they expect that theyre the guest of honor and must be catered to

>>713291498
Yes, themes are fun. It can be food: pirate-themed and that would make it automatically more interesting.

>>713301261
This stinking hole was the last place I expected to find anybody with some guts.

>>713302445
Well, when the Barbie movie came out there were all kinds of little collabs going on and people (well, women) were pretty into it. I don't think there are very many properties in the US that enough adults look fondly on that also lend themselves to something like a character cafe. Maybe Harry Potter?
Anything like a Kirby cafe here would just become a Chuckie cheese

>>713303083
Yeah, you're probably right. I think some IPs like Fallout/Elder Scrolls, maybe Halo, shit that's been around a while and become popular, but even then with the cost of opening a space, I dunno if you could meet profit margins.
Thinking about it, it may also have something to do with the mascot culture. That's not something present as much in the US than it is in Japan. Mascots are huge over there.

>>713301491
Well done steaks is the only way

>>713291487
Kirby's Dreamland was released in 1992, which is only 33 years ago.

>>713299718
Maybe it is the black people?

>>713300540
What the hell is that game console by the television?

>>713306147
That's a woman

>>713301154
Stupid right to left BS makes everything so fucking confusing.

>>713306251
No, on the TV stand.

>>713299718
The reason for lack of civility is absolutely shitskins. Maybe leave mom's basement once in a while?

>>713306262
newfag

>>713306262
Kill yourself

>>713299718
niggers

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNGbfxbh-bY

>>713295093
>of having everything at your finger tips
this is increasingly not the case either. idk if this is happening elsewhere but my grocery store doesn't even have a candy aisle anymore, and the 711 got rid of all the single-serving icecreams, they only sell 9 dollar pints. i honestly cannot tell if this is just incompetence of if price gouging has gotten so fucked that it makes more sense to upsell someone a pint than to have ice cream sandwiches and kitkats

>>713308438
>Meanwhile in Japan
>combinis are filled with single serving treats, foods, and refreshments
>buying for the week is impossible
Not sure if the convenience of purchasing food on the daily is a good trade off of buying in bulk.

>>713309027
Not anymore. Normies, Niggers,Nerds and pajeets are already living in japan. It's literally just a manner of time.

White peeople be like shieeeeeeeeeet japan is good maybe i should ruin their homogenized society by moving jeets, niggers, and myself into it SHIEE


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>>713309027
Japan has walkable and safe cities with a conbini in every corner. So, no, it is not a problem.

god I can't wait to move to japan and eat at theme cafes. it's going to be so sugoi.

>>713309949
Not anymore, too many foreigners live on Japan now. White people love things so much they kill them.

>>713309783
>pajeets
Amusing how you mentioned that. The 7-11 and Family Mart are staffed with them in the midnight hours.
>>713310069
Chinks are the worst in Japan. They are literally the polar opposites of Japanese people.

>>713295224
Low IQs want to feel transgressive in the most safe way possible.
They think they're clever and rebellious for fighting against the strawman of weaboos they've created but they end up just being annoying.

>>713311251
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>>713311537
the pot calling the fucking kettle black
the worst part of you insufferable weebs is your superiority complex and your ironic lack of any self awareness

>>713311630
Point to a post in this thread that fits your own description

>>713311630
name 1 extant nation better than Japan

>>713291326 (OP)
This is retarded. So you pay triple to have a Kirby face on your sweetroll? Fuck people are retarded.

>>713299295
>"high trust society"
Is this the new cope meme? America used to be a lawless hell hole where you'd be killed because some guy thinks you have money. And tack on to that how many times corporations and your own government has fucked you over for money.

>>713311765
what do you do for fun, huh? play video games like a nerd probably.

>>713311765
What? Can't have fun?

>>713291326 (OP)
>>713291673
>>713292130
>>713293885
>>713300540
>>713301419
Japan does NOT season their food. Everything is cooked perfectly, the food looks beautiful, but they do not put fucking salt on their dishes. And I'm not asking for aggressive spice mixes, just adequate salt.

Anyone who has actually travelled to Japan knows this.

>>713311765
>3x much
More like 1.5x much. Food is still cheap in Japan.

>>713312020
for now. prices are increasing faster than ever. Japanese will probably be extinct by 2075.

>>713311910
>Japan does NOT season their food
They use a lot of fish based ingredients for flavor because of the MSG that occurs in fish naturally. Onions sauce is seasoning don't @ me.
They also don't use a lot of salt for the above reason. Their flavor modifiers taste salty enough. They also have a serious issue with goiters because many of them don't have any iodine in their diet. You will see relatively decent women just walking around with walnut sized bumps on their neck.
Also curry is literally just a roux made out of spices.

>>713311765
Japanese food is super cheap and great. I kept gorging myself with food over there and still lost weight after a month.

>>713311910
thank god there are tons of indian restaurants in japan

>>713311910
The only things Japanese know how to salt is broth and fish. Everything else assume there's no seasoning. Rice taste like pure nothing.

>>713311854
Yeah! For free! I heart videogames

>>713311910
>no salt
>meanwhile all the ramen broth, pork cutlets, and french fries from Mos Burgers are drowned in salt
Salt is everywhere in Japan anon.

>>713312278
>Rice taste like pure nothing
tch nantoiukoto baka

>>713312271
You could probably hire a maid to cook this for you for a year with how much you spent travelling there. It's just ridiculous.

>>713291326 (OP)
Here is your answer OP >>713311765

"Westerns" just can't appreciate this kind of stuff.

>>713312363
>ramen and pork cutlets drowned in salt
God I fucking wish. I can understand not oversalting specific dishes, but when it's fried it NEEDS salt. Famichiki is cooked so well but lacks flavor. Karaage would be godtier if they just put more salt on it. Katsudon is probably the most disappointing to ever taste in Japan, they do NOT season that shit. And I've been to all types of restaurants, cheap and fancy. Even been to a local's home and the way they cook it, also has zero flavor. What the fuck. If it's fried, put fucking salt on it.

Americans are fundamentally incompatible with Japan because they're raised on the core value of freedom, and more often than not, freedom is intrinsically focused on the self (自) and is therefore selfish. Japan is focused on harmony (和), it is about working together as a society, unity, structure.

When a company screws you over in Japan, it makes the news and they're publicly shamed into righting their wrong.
When a company screws you over in America, it's a day of the week that ends in y, you're stupid for expecting otherwise, they're only out to get your money. Enshittification is the standard of society. Currently grifting is huge, people want money, cheating is rampant in all walks of life, there is no empathy or respect. No one is going to look out for you but you, so why should you play by the rules?

It becomes harder and harder to trust around here. Hackers, scammers, school shooters, shareholders, it's all the same tragedy of the commons. If you don't play along, if you believe in a moral code, you get fucked over by those who will. And people are angry, they're getting more violent, and the pressure is building.

Not to mention most Americans just can't fathom the idea of sincerely dedicating yourself to something. Sincerity itself is out of fashion. Japanese work culture is strict, an American could never and would never subject themselves to that, their self-respect is too great. Japan is some kind of miracle society in the sense that it's a highly functional society.

>>713311910

>Furikake
>Onions sauce
>Mirin
>Dashi
>Sesame oil
>Mayonesse
>Gari
>Ka-rashi
>Rayu

Yeah, Japan does not season their food. Since you have travelled to Japan, you know they don't use ANY of these condiments in any food at all.

>>713291326 (OP)
>Wanting places like these in fucking America of all countries.

No thanks, I don’t want fat sweaty white pigs making a mess of the place or ratchet loud black monkeys brawling like it’s the next Waffle House.

Besides, it’s finically a bad idea to devote such money, time and construction to a place that’s based off a specific video game IP which wouldn’t appeal to most of the West, these restaurants stay Japan-only for a (very good) reason.

>>713312752
In America, "freedom" is the default setting: individual autonomy, self-expression, and doing what you want as long as no one can legally stop you. This produces innovation and endless hustle, but also breeds low-trust environments where grifting becomes meta and expecting fairness makes you a naive zoomer. Institutions are often seen as pay to win, and moral frameworks get treated like optional DLC.

Japan, by contrast, runs on group harmony, social responsibility, and keeping your head down. There’s a kind of unspoken social contract that still functions, at least on the surface. Companies get publicly shamed when they mess up, customer service doesn’t feel like PvP, and people don’t default to combat mode in public. Of course, the flip side is soul crushing work hours, conformity speedruns, and emotional suppression that would make a Catholic nun blush.

The clash between these systems isn't just surface level culture shock. It's baked into how each society sees the individual’s place in the world. America buffs individuality at the cost of cohesion, while Japan nerfs the self for the sake of order. Neither is a true utopia or dystopia, just different meta picks with their own tradeoffs. If you try to import one set of values into the other’s game engine, you’re going to get frame drops at best and total desync at worst.

>>713301261
This implies I have any of those qualities.

>>713295441
I'm happy that you don't have to use public transport

>>713312752
>>713313125

>>713312752
>>713313125
Nice posts

>>713313125
I've found that I'm more wired for Japan, and not even in a weeb way. I've tried both ways of living, and it should say something that I feel like an outsider more where I was born than in a fairly homogenous society that I don't physically resemble whatsoever. Some people around me grew bitter when they couldn't pull off the things they did back in the west, but not me. I took to it like a fish to water, it was refreshing and I apparently made a solid impression on Japanese people (and also Koreans, they're pretty cool).

Of course everyone back home thought I was crazy, why would I give up my "good enough for us" lower quality of life where I never felt like I belonged for somewhere I actually was doing well? Better to live paycheck to paycheck as a garbageman and have no prospects in life because that's where I was born and my family is, right?

>>713312752
>>713313125
Amusing. I had this very same conversation with my relative in Japan when we were discussing how on how orderly things were.
>In Burgerland, we're taught to be unique and embrace our differences
>In Japan, they are taught to move one as a group and do what's good for everyone
>If we want vending machines and not have candy behind glass all the time, we have to ditch individuality and unite
>If we want to express ourselves and have more freedoms, we need to focus on ourselves
Fug, I want my vending machines every 20 steps damn it. I'd gladly give up being a special snowflake if it means I can get my bottle of coke just down the street.

>>713312423
Had the time of my life there :)

>>713306147
thats a toaster, idiot

>>713312968
if youve been to most restaurants in the world, to say nothing of japan, you'll know most places do the bare minimum and will not add any of these to their dishes. though at least in the rest of the world lazy chefs will still use salt at least

>>713291326 (OP)
It wouldn't be viable from a money perspective. Better to have small collaborations with already existing and established food companies instead. I am sure the way the food industry works here is much different than Japan as well.
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>>713313949
I want to say we could have both, but that requires sacrifice that not many are willing to do. Too many bad eggs wanting to ruin things for temporary gain for themselves. The book 'Utopia' by Thomas Moore explores how a utopia society is impossible. It is mostly because people have a tendency to be selfish or lazy, leading to small cracks that propagate and ruin the whole thing.

>>713305564
>only
Gosh why am I so old ;n;

>>713301261
Personal pride =/= Collective pride
People like belonging to something larger than themselves that they believe is good. It creates a sense of belonging. We have evolved to form small groups with tight bonds. The overwhelming majority of human history was spent in disparate village-sized groups.
Our current society completely deprives young, straight, white men of anything that allows us to feel this. Can't have pride in your race. Can't have pride in being a man. Can't have pride in the things you do because male interests are either demonized or monetized. You can technically have pride in the place you live in, but there's really no reason to because most people don't live in the place they grew up in anymore so there are no ties. People rarely stay in the same place for more than 5 years because of jobs.

>>713291326 (OP)
hooters went bankrupt.

>>713301545
Novelty cafes have existed well before the internet.

>>713299581
It's not, they all look retarded.
But at least they're not black.

>>713314692
I think pride over external factors outside your control is masturbatory. Proudly saying "I was born here" or "I was born white" is the equivalent of proudly saying "I'm rich because my great-grandpa made a fortune when he was young and I was born from his lineage". It's asinine, there's nothing you've personally achieved, it's demanding deference and (non-mutual) respect despite having done nothing to earn it. Where society has gone wrong is not in "stripping" us of pride, but in going too far and shaming your very existence for what you are. It's the same damn problem, the attribution of pride or shame to factors outside your control.

Mutual respect should be a given, but admiration is earned, and feeling pride is a normal response to doing something achieving admiration. This is not to be confused with yearning/desire, for someone can yearn to be in the same position as someone who was born rich, while having no respect or admiration for them as a person, only their position and only because they want it for themselves.

>>713311910
>Anyone who has actually travelled to Japan knows this.
They don't put sugar on anything either. I ate some donuts once from Mister Donut and it just tasted so fucking blade. Japan can't into treats.

>>713315948
>blade
Meant bland

>>713291326 (OP)
it's often solidly less than 50% of their revenue. depends on the company and game etc

>>713315780
This is why nobody likes you retards
You can't even conceive the concept people valuing their heritage
Midwit

>>713311910
retard

>>713316457
Don't call me a retard, retard.

>>713292979
It obviously wouldn’t fit inside the costume
Peter Parker’s hair looks way more squishable
>>713313949
This happens

>>713316379
>Valuing their heritage
Stop claiming the success of others is yours, it's lazy. If your grandfather was a serial rapist/child molester/murderer, would those sins apply to you? No, because you didn't do those things and your blood is blood, not an achievement list on Xbox Live.
Everyone is born at 0, and how they live their life determines if they deserve to feel pride

>>713299718
if you ask any black dude who worked in food service they will tell you to be aware of nogs, they are rude, violent and don't tip

even blacks have nigger fatigue

>>713297150
You're just saying the same thing in a more retarded way. America not being as interconnected is the reason why we have malls and drive everywhere and all that shit. Meanwhile Tokyo has 30 million people shoved into it. That's more than even the biggest STATES
It's entirely a matter of population density allowing for these things to be viable. You even say it yourself when you mention Food trucks targeting dense areas so I don't understand how you completely miss the population density being the key factor. Even when talking about more retail space, dense cities will obviously have more buildings and high rises

>>713305564
>>713299813
>>713294602
>>713293519
It's called exaggerating for effect, is virtually everyone here autistic or just retarded? I think even autistic people can identify blatant sarcasm in text

>>713316593
>success
The success of every person on earth is built upon the success of those who came before. That's how civilization works. No man truly stars with nothing. Your absurd individualism is gay and retarded.

>>713316593
Not that anon, but you should feel inherit pride for who you are at a basic level, especially if you are improving yourself. I'm not saying you should go around touting 'I'm a proud anon from Anonysville, AN' as if people care, but that is part of who you are. If you contribute positively to the community you live in, I don't think there's anything wrong with feeling pride for said community in general. Its the same as if you spent a lot of time on a game or art piece, you feel a sense of accomplishment and pride investing your time doing that.
Again, I'm talking simple identity and how you spend your time. It is kind of goofy to move somewhere, not contribute to it (at least not in a positive way), and be like 'I'm proud of this community'. Kind of like if you don't play a game and then say you are proud of yourself for beating the game (when you didn't)- you'd just be lying to yourself.

ive been to one of these "themed" cafes they shill so hard but it was for ffxiv
it was literally not even a full sized cafe but a sub section. the gift shop wasnt even 1 half of the room, but 1 corner with fuck all to buy
also you have to book ahead of time and sit and wait there for literally hours to get your turn because so many people

>>713316761
I am not taking credit for Tim Berners-Lee for making the world wide web just because I'm able to do things with it thanks to him. He's the one who should be credited and admired, not me or you or anyone else here. If you refine the car, great, you deserve praise, but you didn't invent the automobile and you should not be treated like you did. The accomplishments of our forefathers are no less great than when they were accomplished, even if said accomplishments seem primitive to what exists today. That's only relativity, the Shinkansen may outclass a locomotive from 200 years ago but that does not diminish it.

I'm not going to praise YOU for having a relative that did something.

>>713317340
That's what I'm saying. If you yourself do something, that is something to be proud in. If you work out and tone your physique, if you start a business, if you contribute to your community in a positive way and help raise the standard, if you learn a language, if you get a degree, those are things you should feel pride for. You did all those things, it's hard work. I can appreciate it if I grew up in such a community, but to feel pride for it is nonsense to me. It's a gold star for attending, a participation prize. Pride is about what I can do to make things better, what I can achieve.

>>713317757
You are are joyless, spiritually dead faggot. Kill yourself. No one will mourn you.