Japan
I really don't get the obsession with it.

Sushi's fine, but ridiculously overpriced.

Anime and manga - ultra dull - read a proper book.

People from China/Hong Kong who think because they lived near Japan (or their parents did) it gives them automatic rights to being cooler and being the authority on everything.
(deadly_sinners, Fri 16 Oct 2009, 22:36, 13 replies)

FUCK
Anime
(mymilkshakebringsallthemongstotheyard poison hearts, poison minds - joining hate, Fri 16 Oct 2009, 22:55, closed)

May I offer one potential reason?
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(Super Jet Shoes, Sat 17 Oct 2009, 0:22, closed)

That doesn't explain why girls like it so much as well does it?
Or does it? Hmm
(deadly_sinners, Sat 17 Oct 2009, 0:41, closed)

KILL IT!

(Astatine, Sat 17 Oct 2009, 2:37, closed)

白痴
not exactly loved by everyone is it.
(batteryoperatedlettuce Soon to be nine b3ta yrs old, Sat 17 Oct 2009, 1:36, closed)

We all got suckered in the 90s
I consider myself a recovering Weeboo
( Cadmus has teh uplikn coeds at, Sat 17 Oct 2009, 2:07, closed)

Mediaeval Japan and samurai-era stuff? That's got a certain cool.
Kurosawa? Pretty awesome director if you've got the time.

But animé and manga? What the shuddering fuck is going on with that? Why do they insist on giving every character big watery eyes, arc-like mouths and no nose? Fucking creepy, that's what it is.
(Astatine, Sat 17 Oct 2009, 2:11, closed)

Amen brother.
Worse thing is that annoying YouTube yank who does all his videos with in hideous Japanese interludes. Yuck.
( rjmrjm, Sat 17 Oct 2009, 2:38, closed)

it's a nice place to live
I couldn't give a shit about all the anime or manga crap. Oh, the sushi is cheap over here too.
(knackerz is skinning up, Sat 17 Oct 2009, 3:40, closed)

.
I've lived in Tokyo for 10 years and it's a great place to live but, I find it impossible to understand what is good about anime/manga, which should be called cartoons/comics when you're speaking bloody English anyway.
It's for fucking kids!!
The adult stuff is just for people who are childish twats. I feel like cock-slapping them on the train when I see them reading it. You're in your 30's and you have NO problem with people seeing you reading a comic on the subway?!? What a fucking knob-end!

Japan is a good place to live in though, but I'm not wapanese and I have no interest in Japanese music/films or any of that martial arts or samurai crap that retards seem to love.
(Mr.Dog was in love again on, Sat 17 Oct 2009, 6:48, closed)

I like how they call them 'graphic novels'
to cover up the fact that they're reading COMICS.
( Major Turd for tonight only, Sun 18 Oct 2009, 10:45, closed)

Inscrutable little bastards
The reality of anime, or manga, or most Japanese video games is they make no fucking sense whatsoever. They make no sense in English and I bet they make no sense in Japanese either.

The point is illustrated in game series like Gundam, Final Fantasy and Metal Gear Solid. They have fairly understandable game mechanics wrapped up in hours of exposition, with so many contrivances it hasn't just disappeared up its own arse but actually done multiple loop the loops. Gundam is the worst since you sit through all this shit and the actual game just consists of button mashing through hordes of robots.

Westerners who rave about these things really need a hard slap or two. They're just comics for man-children with the pretentiousness dial turned up to 12. I wonder if Japan has their own sad bastards raving Bugs Bunny, Harry Potter or whatever and how doing so qualifies them as an expert on all things Western as well as being justification for wanting to move there.
(MagicMoose, Sat 17 Oct 2009, 11:26, closed)

In certain demographics in Japan
Mickey Mouse is more popular than Hello Kitty.

Just thought I'd mention that.
( Bats, Wed 21 Oct 2009, 8:43, closed)