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Serious Why are people in the west so obsessed with Japan?

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Title. I just don't get it.
 
It started with anime (and especially shonen anime) going mainstream in the West during the lockdown. Then normies started taking Japan trips, which prompted a travel vlogger/Tiktokker craze, and now NPCs all literally do the “place, Japan:” meme
 
Muh anime ethnostate
 
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It started with anime (and especially shonen anime) going mainstream in the West during the lockdown. Then normies started taking Japan trips, which prompted a travel vlogger/Tiktokker craze, and now NPCs all literally do the “place, Japan:” meme
It’s spread worldwide though. Look at jeets for example being obsessed with JJK. Japs need to close their borders ASAP from all non-Northeast Asians. However bad the birth rate is, just hold out till automation and artificial wombs
 
It started with anime (and especially shonen anime) going mainstream in the West during the lockdown. Then normies started taking Japan trips, which prompted a travel vlogger/Tiktokker craze, and now NPCs all literally do the “place, Japan:” meme
 
It started with anime (and especially shonen anime) going mainstream in the West during the lockdown. Then normies started taking Japan trips, which prompted a travel vlogger/Tiktokker craze, and now NPCs all literally do the “place, Japan:” meme
I remember it was a thing even before 2020. I mean i like some Animes - watched a couple of the classics one has to watch. Never got obsessed over that Anime culture though. Some of that waifu, soyboy e-boy, e-girl, uwu shit is just beyond me really. I think Japan is struggling a lot with work culture and birth rates. Cool country, but massive problems. Besides they were pretty big barbarians in the second WW
 
Large amount of media originating from there even before anime went completely mainstream + at least some types of people are fascinated by the concept of a non-white country that's modern and West-tier despite not being a white Western country, and for a long time Japan was the only country like that.
 
I remember it was a thing even before 2020. I mean i like some Animes - watched a couple of the classics one has to watch.
Weebs definitely existed pre-2020 but they were more niche. Anime was slowly creeping into the mainstream ever since shows like Attack on Titan, One Punch Man, and Sword Art Online were released on streaming services, but the lockdown played the biggest role in accelerating it.
Never got obsessed over that Anime culture though. Some of that waifu, soyboy e-boy, e-girl, uwu shit is just beyond me really.
“Waifus” can be a good cope for truecels, but yeah the rest of what you brought up is absolutely ridiculous.
I think Japan is struggling a lot with work culture and birth rates. Cool country, but massive problems. Besides they were pretty big barbarians in the second WW
Agreed. This idealized image normies have of Japan comes from tourism; the natives living there are actually miserable (hence the suicide rates).

In regards to their actions during WW2, the barbarism is less what I have an issue with compared to the slave-like devotion to the Emperor. The expectation was to kill or die for him at all costs, leading to shit like Kamikaze. It’s like Islamist suicide bombing but without the promise of paradise. While I acknowledge hierarchy being natural and respect it, that extreme level of top-down rule enforcement is subhuman (though essential for certain populations)
 
man i am that ugly and short its geniunely over and im that down bad for everything, just to experience even the slight bit of love, also im obv joking. thank you for ruining my only good (this forum). gave me even more motivation to ropemax
 
man i am that ugly and short its geniunely over and im that down bad for everything, just to experience even the slight bit of love, also im obv joking. thank you for ruining my only good (this forum). gave me even more motivation to ropemax
 
because of anime
Le anime
 
Weebs definitely existed pre-2020 but they were more niche. Anime was slowly creeping into the mainstream ever since shows like Attack on Titan, One Punch Man, and Sword Art Online were released on streaming services, but the lockdown played the biggest role in accelerating it.

“Waifus” can be a good cope for truecels, but yeah the rest of what you brought up is absolutely ridiculous.

Agreed. This idealized image normies have of Japan comes from tourism; the natives living there are actually miserable (hence the suicide rates).

In regards to their actions during WW2, the barbarism is less what I have an issue with compared to the slave-like devotion to the Emperor. The expectation was to kill or die for him at all costs, leading to shit like Kamikaze. It’s like Islamist suicide bombing but without the promise of paradise. While I acknowledge hierarchy being natural and respect it, that extreme level of top-down rule enforcement is subhuman (though essential for certain populations)
Interesting take in the last paragraph. I am gonna look more into that.
 
Large amount of media originating from there even before anime went completely mainstream + at least some types of people are fascinated by the concept of a non-white country that's modern and West-tier despite not being a white Western country, and for a long time Japan was the only country like that.
I always found Japan to be a semi-cyberpunk shithole. Most of their inhabitants definitely don't have a West-tier lifestyle. They do have West-tier Infras tho, but that's also true for China and Korea. I think Japan just aesthetic-mogs (in media).
Agreed. This idealized image normies have of Japan comes from tourism; the natives living there are actually miserable (hence the suicide rates).
Westerners usually get a rude awakening after they settle there. I think it's not even about Japan. Only if you're a wealthy and private person can you afford the time to adapt to a foreign culture. Otherwise, you’re just gonna be miserable.
 
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I always found Japan to be a semi-cyberpunk shithole. Most of their inhabitants definitely don't have a West-tier lifestyle. They do have West-tier Infras tho, but that's also true for China and Korea. I think Japan just aesthetic-mogs (in media).
That's a part of it for sure, since the place (Japan) soyjack meme is very much true:feelshaha:, though I guess a better description of what I said would be that they have, and for decades were the only non-whites who had, development similar to the West at least, having comparable salaries, car ownership rates, tech jobs, skyscrapers, indigenous multinational tech companies, and so on. For people who have never seen non-whites having any of that, Japan must've been quite interesting.

This is pretty recent data well after Japan's lost decade, and the gulf between them (plus now the other advanced EA countries) and the vast majority of other non-whites is still pretty sizable:

 
Because Japanese people still have manners.
 

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