I wonder if these semiheptagonal Japanese plastic bottles pack better or something, like you can fit more on a flat on the back of one of those tiny pickup trucks to restock your konbini
I like how even with Nintendo setting per-publisher quotas they would just localize whatever they had on hand on the NES era. “Does anyone in America know who Golgo 13 is? No? Great, here’s a Golgo 13 game.”
i learned that there’s a Japanese beetle that when eaten by a frog will haul ass through its digestive system and escape out the back end unscathed (x)
you eat me and i perfectly dodge all of your digestive enzymes and stomach acid and i sprint out your asshole fully intact
I like that in Japan the “you stop masturbating long enough to give your fantasy more backstory than it really needs” phenomenon is responsible for several major media properties
Hot take: insofar as it represented domestic capital and labor overcoming divisions to cooperate in a project of national uplift amidst liberal use of canned slogans and mass gatherings and the suppression of leftist mass action, Japan’s postwar recovery was more fascist than its interwar period
This is what I’ve been talking about when people don’t appreciate Japanese summers: setting aside all the beach swimsuit vacation episodes and the “visit your grandparents in the hot southern countryside” ones, notice how every anime has a heat wave episode aired in the summer where the (relatable) theme is just “it’s hot”?
So when I talk about how you can go to Seattle and tell Japanese from Japanese-Americans on the street by subtle personal style touches—
Look at that 6th picture, from philtrum through ribcage. No way is that lipstick a Japanese style, yet that hair definitely is.
Which how do you explain that? Well, looking it up she’s a model in Tokyo – where she gets the hair – who works the Insta/OnlyFans online pinup circuit, which is the international community she takes shoot makeup cues from.
