I didn't get this scene until I found out that in Japan, they believe that blood types influence your personality type, kind of like zodiac signs. I also finally understood why so many supplementary material databooks felt the need to say what the blood types of characters were, always felt odd to me.
ITT: Scenes that require knowledge of Japanese culture to understand
Jayden Howard
Grayson Fisher
Japanese cicadas are only around during the summer, so the fact that you hear them all year long in Neon Genesis Evangelion is supposed to be a sign of how Second Impact caused climate change.
David Bailey
i understand
Andrew Gutierrez
Logan Wood
Nah. Cicadas = childhood nostalgia. Also, Anno = hack.
William Clark
I lived in Fukuoka for ten years.
there is a WIDE AS FUCK disconnect between japanese culture and what Any Forums actually believes about japanese culture.
It chaps me sometimes when some self-proclaimed """expert""" armchairs out some arbitrary bullshit as actual fact, but all they have to go off of is cartoons and comic books.
Gabriel Edwards
storytime?
Isaac Cooper
>It chaps me sometimes when some self-proclaimed """expert""" armchairs out some arbitrary bullshit as actual fact, but all they have to go off of is cartoons and comic books.
Could you hit me with some examples? I'm intrigued.
Parker Rivera
>my anecdotal evidence trumps yours!
Oy vey. Save the storytime faggot.
William Gomez
Pretty much, take this page. This is done by a Japanese man making a critique of Japanese culture and comparing it to America. When I posted it on Any Forums, most replies were "but what about Luffy and all those other action Shonen heroes who fight the power", which shows how limited Any Forums's frame of reference is. There's more to Japanese culture than Anime and Manga, there's live-action TV shows, movies, theatre, traditional stories and books that most of us have ever heard of, but are what Japanese audiences are constantly exposed to far more than Anime.
Nolan Long
I've noticed this in light and web novels. Even in the edgiest stories where there's bullying and revenge between classmates... the teachers and school staff seem completely absent. Almost unassailable, as if.
Aaron Cook
well the suicide rate is one of the highest in the world for a reason, you either become a cog in the machine or be condemned by it
Eli Cox
Once you understand how fixated Japanese culture is on seasons and seasonal changes, you'll understand a lot of scenes better.
Bentley Young
Could you elanorate? I only know that the pink tree blossoming out is related to romance.
Charles Hughes
Could somebody explain to me why every town in Anime has a river that looks like this?
Colton Hall
It is required by law
captcha: JPNAD
Zachary Taylor
Why? The fact that other countries don't do it tells me it probably isn't that useful.
Justin Ward
The first panel was basically true all the way up until the economic bubble burst.
Older anime revolved around adults. Professionals. People at the peak of their craft, be they starship pilots, scientists, soldiers, cops, et cetera.
With the collapse of the zaibatsu and the economic fallout, the shift has been away from adults to youthful heroes who will save japan/ the world.
the hikki-neet lifestyle began as a passive-aggressive rebellion against the government and corporations that failed them.
Caleb Bell
Joseph Fisher
other countries don't have anime
Gabriel Ross
Japanese flood control and runoff redirection systems basically required that they reinforce the banks on every stream leading out of Tokyo IIRC
Dylan Myers
Sounds like the author has the same issue, his frame of reference for American media seems limited to capeshit. American "heroes" (excluding superheroes) are often ordinary cops in extraordinary situations. Americans also want to believe that the government will protect them from terrorists or whatever country the US is currently on bad terms with (same reason why every bad guy used to be Russian during the cold war, and Muslim during the war on terror).
Ryder Jenkins
>Americans also want to believe that the government will protect them from terrorists
No, they want to believe in a loose cannon individualist cowboy saving the day while the ineffectual/corrupt government is either helpless or actually tries to stop him. You have to understand that Americans love their country but very few like their government. Most cop stories are about cops defying orders and regulations to get their man.
Brandon Moore
It's complicated.
>It is required by law
not really.
There's a few key points you need to know:
>"river stabilization" was a project created in the 90's as part of "putting people back to work".
Partly this: and also partly because prefectural budgets are determined by expenditure. If you spend all your budget, then you get the same amount of money next year, so they justify it by basically pouring concrete over everything.
"""Supposedly""" it's for flood control, but
a: concrete disintegrates in water, so they have to keep replacing it.
b: a concrete-sheathed river will flow faster because there's no resistance
and finally, the japanese like to think they're imposing control over the environment and making it "pretty", although concrete isn't particularly attractive.