One of the creepiest things I've ever heard from about Japan was something Az of Gaijin Smash fame wrote about a couple of years ago. It was a "comedian" named "Hard Gay" who was (at least in-character) an extremely flamboyant gay dude whose comedy hook was that he dressed in S&M gear and ran around dry-humping underage children. And somehow the entire country thought this was hilarious instead of deeply disturbing and grounds for being put in a fucking jail.
Hard Gay is one of the creepiest things you've seen come out of Japan? Hard Gay is a really popular comedian there, and some of his stuff is hilarious. If you think that's bad the creepiest things I've seen come out of Japan would make you cry.
Edit: Also, the thread title promised me NSFW. This thread fails hard.
Well, I know there is creepier stuff in Japan - the really disturbing stuff like tentacle porn, rape simulation games, incest games, pedophilia games and all kinds of other fucked up shit.
This was not, apparently, the case with Hard Gay. The most disturbing thing to me was that the dude quite literally starting rubbing his crotch on an elementary school girl on TV once and this was just accepted and considered OK. And that's really, really fucked up.
Yea that was messed up. As for the tentacle porn and all that, most of that is just animated. I'm talking about the real deal. Not to mention the pictures of animal abuse, or kids performing human experimentation on other people. Have you ever heard of the Rape of Nanking?
Edit: Why on earth am I talking about this stuff? I'm going to go watch some TV or something.
...dude, I was talking about stuff in the modern-day Japanese entertainment industry, not war crimes. I know all about Nanking and Bataan and the experiments the Japanese did on american POWs back during the war.
That's not the sort of thing I was talking about. I'm talking about the frankly creepy social mores that we see reflected in their popular culture today.
I find this "outrage" pretty funny given that most of us live in a culture that gets their jollies from violent crime simulations and just repeatedly killing other people. The more giblets, the better. Bonuses for shooting them in the head.
One of the creepiest things I've ever heard from about Japan was something Az of Gaijin Smash fame wrote about a couple of years ago. It was a "comedian" named "Hard Gay" who was (at least in-character) an extremely flamboyant gay dude whose comedy hook was that he dressed in S&M gear and ran around dry-humping underage children. And somehow the entire country thought this was hilarious instead of deeply disturbing and grounds for being put in a fucking jail.
Hard Gay is one of the creepiest things you've seen come out of Japan? Hard Gay is a really popular comedian there, and some of his stuff is hilarious. If you think that's bad the creepiest things I've seen come out of Japan would make you cry.
Edit: Also, the thread title promised me NSFW. This thread fails hard.
Well, I know there is creepier stuff in Japan - the really disturbing stuff like tentacle porn, rape simulation games, incest games, pedophilia games and all kinds of other fucked up shit.
This was not, apparently, the case with Hard Gay. The most disturbing thing to me was that the dude quite literally starting rubbing his crotch on an elementary school girl on TV once and this was just accepted and considered OK. And that's really, really fucked up.
Yea that was messed up. As for the tentacle porn and all that, most of that is just animated. I'm talking about the real deal. Not to mention the pictures of animal abuse, or kids performing human experimentation on other people. Have you ever heard of the Rape of Nanking?
Edit: Why on earth am I talking about this stuff? I'm going to go watch some TV or something.
...dude, I was talking about stuff in the modern-day Japanese entertainment industry, not war crimes. I know all about Nanking and Bataan and the experiments the Japanese did on american POWs back during the war.
That's not the sort of thing I was talking about. I'm talking about the frankly creepy social mores that we see reflected in their popular culture today.
I find this "outrage" pretty funny given that most of us live in a culture that gets their jollies from violent crime simulations and just repeatedly killing other people. The more giblets, the better. Bonuses for shooting them in the head.
Also, the reason people including myself think games like this is inappropriate isn't just because of the strange sexual angle of it all - which is probably no worse than any other comparable product - but because we think using extremely serious historical events, like the bombing of Pearl Harbor or the rest of WWII in general - is too gravid to be used as material for an anime-fetish game.
Personally I think the realistic games are more offensive. I guess you can say it's homage, but isn't simulating the wars for the enjoyment of the mass public and profits pretty bad? I would think turning the casualties of war into a game also belittles the memories of those who served and died... Just my opinion though, I don't actually feel too strongly either way.
EDIT: Also, because the strange stereotyping going on - such as the girl representing Italy being shown with pasta or whatever - is also kind of unsettling. If this were an American game and the black girl was represented as constantly running after fried chicken and watermelon there'd be a lot of people who'd, justifiably, have a problem with it.
At time Japanese representation of other cultures seems like the weird spacey homeschooled kid on The Real World who asks if high school was really like it was in the movies, "with cheerleaders and car chases and stuff".
Have you played the new Punch-Out? People seem to love it. It's also japanese, but I haven't heard any controversy about it, even though everyone in the game is a stereotype.
One of the creepiest things I've ever heard from about Japan was something Az of Gaijin Smash fame wrote about a couple of years ago. It was a "comedian" named "Hard Gay" who was (at least in-character) an extremely flamboyant gay dude whose comedy hook was that he dressed in S&M gear and ran around dry-humping underage children. And somehow the entire country thought this was hilarious instead of deeply disturbing and grounds for being put in a fucking jail.
Hard Gay is one of the creepiest things you've seen come out of Japan? Hard Gay is a really popular comedian there, and some of his stuff is hilarious. If you think that's bad the creepiest things I've seen come out of Japan would make you cry.
Edit: Also, the thread title promised me NSFW. This thread fails hard.
Well, I know there is creepier stuff in Japan - the really disturbing stuff like tentacle porn, rape simulation games, incest games, pedophilia games and all kinds of other fucked up shit.
This was not, apparently, the case with Hard Gay. The most disturbing thing to me was that the dude quite literally starting rubbing his crotch on an elementary school girl on TV once and this was just accepted and considered OK. And that's really, really fucked up.
Yea that was messed up. As for the tentacle porn and all that, most of that is just animated. I'm talking about the real deal. Not to mention the pictures of animal abuse, or kids performing human experimentation on other people. Have you ever heard of the Rape of Nanking?
Edit: Why on earth am I talking about this stuff? I'm going to go watch some TV or something.
...dude, I was talking about stuff in the modern-day Japanese entertainment industry, not war crimes. I know all about Nanking and Bataan and the experiments the Japanese did on american POWs back during the war.
That's not the sort of thing I was talking about. I'm talking about the frankly creepy social mores that we see reflected in their popular culture today.
I find this "outrage" pretty funny given that most of us live in a culture that gets their jollies from violent crime simulations and just repeatedly killing other people. The more giblets, the better. Bonuses for shooting them in the head.
We also as a country have far more violent crimes. Japan has a really low crime rate, though that may just be because they go unreported.
I find this "outrage" pretty funny given that most of us live in a culture that gets their jollies from violent crime simulations and just repeatedly killing other people. The more giblets, the better. Bonuses for shooting them in the head.
So are you saying that the social acceptability of crime/violence in Western media is a social problem?
Would you agree that, if Japan indeed does have the rather unhealthy attitude toward sex and gender that seems to be manifesting in this (and worse) products, then that too is a social problem?
American police officers have to carry guns whereas most police officers in developed countries (including Japan IIRC) do not. Likewise, we have a fairly well-documented problem with police brutality and a prison system in desperate need of reform.
Americans, on the other hand, haven't had to install grope-free zones on the subway, schoolgirls do occasionally prostitute themselves but it is not organized, and someone looking to buy used underwear from underaged girls would be considered a deviant, not a market sector.
I consider these social problems analogous. I don't think they're rooted in their respective entertainments industries, though, at least not primarily. Rather, I think that the entertainment we consume reflects our greater culture of which entertainment is only a part.
Not the worst ive seen. I remember being linked to a youtube video of a first person "shooter" where the player character would go up to the chicks and start shooting semen at them. He then chased the girl around shooting her and hitting her... Japan is just weird.
Japan has little or no standards really when it comes to media. Hell, it didn't bother them to play Medal of Honor: Pacific Assault and kill Japanese people with an American soldier. I'm not sure if it kept the racial slurs either. I'm kind of surprised World at War hasn't been released there.
If we're going by that standard I'm a pretty sick bastard cause I killed a lot of my countrymen with American soldiers in videogames.
I find this "outrage" pretty funny given that most of us live in a culture that gets their jollies from violent crime simulations and just repeatedly killing other people. The more giblets, the better. Bonuses for shooting them in the head.
So are you saying that the social acceptability of crime/violence in Western media is a social problem?
Would you agree that, if Japan indeed does have the rather unhealthy attitude toward sex and gender that seems to be manifesting in this (and worse) products, then that too is a social problem?
American police officers have to carry guns whereas most police officers in developed countries (including Japan IIRC) do not. Likewise, we have a fairly well-documented problem with police brutality and a prison system in desperate need of reform.
Americans, on the other hand, haven't had to install grope-free zones on the subway, schoolgirls do occasionally prostitute themselves but it is not organized, and someone looking to buy used underwear from underaged girls would be considered a deviant, not a market sector.
I consider these social problems analogous. I don't think they're rooting in their respective entertainments industries, though, at least not primarily. Rather, I think that the entertainment we consume reflects our greater culture of which entertainment is only a part.
EDIT: And RayofAsh beat me to it.
Actually I do think there is a bit of correlation as you've both pointed out. If a society finds it acceptable to do something, well, people in their society will do it. Though my point was more of a pot kettle black thing.
The US also houses like 25% of the world's prisoners.
Guys, this is coming from the country that introduced shitting-dick-nipples to the world. I'm hardly surprised. I've heard stories from my Marine friend who's based in Japan. One that sticks in my mind is the arcade/bar whose change machines were women. Instead of them nicely handing you change, they would shoot it out of their cooter. Yeah...exactly. Although on the other hand, America did produce two girls one cup.
Oh well, even if I could understand Japanese, I don't think I would play this game. I hate turn based strategy. Now, if it was a third person shooter in which your character could willingly transform between vehicle and girl mode, then that'd be something.
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This thread has gone off way past the rails, collided with several propane trucks and then tumbled into an chasm.
Thank God I got popcorn.
Also it's so amusing that Japan produces such things when they have one of the less sexually satisfying sex lives according to statistics. The term "cold fish" pretty much applies.
This thread has gone off way past the rails, collided with several propane trucks and then tumbled into an chasm.
Thank God I got popcorn.
Also it's so amusing that Japan produces such things when they have one of the less sexually satisfying sex lives according to statistics. The term "cold fish" pretty much applies.
Wait , people actually keep track / poll for that? Why?
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This thread has gone off way past the rails, collided with several propane trucks and then tumbled into an chasm.
Thank God I got popcorn.
Also it's so amusing that Japan produces such things when they have one of the less sexually satisfying sex lives according to statistics. The term "cold fish" pretty much applies.
This thread has gone off way past the rails, collided with several propane trucks and then tumbled into an chasm.
Thank God I got popcorn.
Also it's so amusing that Japan produces such things when they have one of the less sexually satisfying sex lives according to statistics. The term "cold fish" pretty much applies.
Wait , people actually keep track / poll for that? Why?
If I had to guess it was some psychologists/sociologists doing surveys or other kinds of research.
It goes on all the time in the US, too, but unless you're interested in that sort of field you'll probably never hear about it.
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This thread has gone off way past the rails, collided with several propane trucks and then tumbled into an chasm.
Thank God I got popcorn.
Also it's so amusing that Japan produces such things when they have one of the less sexually satisfying sex lives according to statistics. The term "cold fish" pretty much applies.
Wait , people actually keep track / poll for that? Why?
If I had to guess it was some psychologists/sociologists doing surveys or other kinds of research.
It goes on all the time in the US, too.
If I am thinking of the same survey it was one that listed what developed nations had sex the most. IIRC Japan was dead last.
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This thread has gone off way past the rails, collided with several propane trucks and then tumbled into an chasm.
Thank God I got popcorn.
Also it's so amusing that Japan produces such things when they have one of the less sexually satisfying sex lives according to statistics. The term "cold fish" pretty much applies.
Wait , people actually keep track / poll for that? Why?
It was one of those things they did for most of the nations of the world to rate the most satisfying sex lives, which nations had the best and which had the worse etc. They probably asked other questions too but this one was reported and yeah Japan was horribly placed. They just lack a little something, maybe it's why they make up so much odd stuff to cope.
This thread has gone off way past the rails, collided with several propane trucks and then tumbled into an chasm.
Thank God I got popcorn.
Also it's so amusing that Japan produces such things when they have one of the less sexually satisfying sex lives according to statistics. The term "cold fish" pretty much applies.
Wait , people actually keep track / poll for that? Why?
If I had to guess it was some psychologists/sociologists doing surveys or other kinds of research.
It goes on all the time in the US, too, but unless you're interested in that sort of field you'll probably never hear about it.
Makes sense , it just stuck me as odd .
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The top five nations on scale of rates of sexual satisfaction reported to University of Chicago researchers:
1. Austria: 71.4 percent satisfied with their sex lives.
2. Spain: 69 percent.
3. Canada: 66.1 percent.
4. Belgium: 64.6 percent.
5. United States: 64.2 percent.
Go Austria I guess? I know where my next vacation will take me. :winky:
In Japan, by contrast, just 18 percent of the men and 10 percent of the women answered positively about their sex lives. And in China's Taiwan, only 7 percent of the women said sex was very important in their lives.
edit The article I found was in China's Daily, hence the laughably cute "China's Taiwan" comment.
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This thread has gone off way past the rails, collided with several propane trucks and then tumbled into an chasm.
Thank God I got popcorn.
Also it's so amusing that Japan produces such things when they have one of the less sexually satisfying sex lives according to statistics. The term "cold fish" pretty much applies.
Wait , people actually keep track / poll for that? Why?
It was one of those things they did for most of the nations of the world to rate the most satisfying sex lives, which nations had the best and which had the worse etc. They probably asked other questions too but this one was reported and yeah Japan was horribly placed. They just lack a little something, maybe it's why they make up so much odd stuff to cope.
You can probably find it if you do a search.
It's a cultural thing going back at least a few centuries though, if not more. All the East Asian countries kind of hate sex.
There's also the fact of simple overreporting (ie, a lot of people whose sex lives are unsatisfying aren't going to admit it) so even those numbers are probably padded by a decent margin of error.
I never imagined Japan's scores would be that bad, though. And since it's the University of Chicago I'm going to assume that it's credible research.
Japan has little or no standards really when it comes to media. Hell, it didn't bother them to play Medal of Honor: Pacific Assault and kill Japanese people with an American soldier. I'm not sure if it kept the racial slurs either. I'm kind of surprised World at War hasn't been released there.
If we're going by that standard I'm a pretty sick bastard cause I killed a lot of my countrymen with American soldiers in videogames.
Isn't most of that content filter there though? Did World at War have the Nazi swastika present? Was it even released? Not trying to sound hostile but I'd like to know considering how much the German government cracks down on video game violence.
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There's also the fact of simple overreporting (ie, a lot of people whose sex lives are unsatisfying aren't going to admit it) so even those numbers are probably padded by a decent margin of error.
I never imagined Japan's scores would be that bad, though. And since it's the University of Chicago I'm going to assume that it's credible research.
My guess is they asked a bunch of questions that determined whether or not your sex life was satisfying.
I am not a researcher, but it seems like you would get a bit more truth then "Do you have awesome sex: [YES] [NO] [MAYBE]"
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There's also the fact of simple overreporting (ie, a lot of people whose sex lives are unsatisfying aren't going to admit it) so even those numbers are probably padded by a decent margin of error.
I never imagined Japan's scores would be that bad, though. And since it's the University of Chicago I'm going to assume that it's credible research.
My guess is they asked a bunch of questions that determined whether or not your sex life was satisfying.
I am not a researcher, but it seems like you would get a bit more truth then "Do you have awesome sex: [YES] [NO] [MAYBE]"
But the very nature of such surveys means that overreporting is almost inevitable. Just about every, having a good sex life is considered good and having a bad sex life is considered embarassing and shameful. Barring special situations like convents or a Buddhist monastery this is one of the few things that holds up cross-culturally.
So, no matter how well-constructed your survey is, there's always going to be a degree of inaccuracy because most people don't want to admit these things about themselves - even to themselves, let alone to a stranger. It helps a lot when you replace "stranger" with "piece of paper/computer survey", but there's still going to be some people who make their sex lives out to be better than it really is. Much the same way that the vast majority of people, when asked, consider themselves to be of "above average" intelligence.
The extremely low numbers makes me think the Japanese were probably more honest than most, but really, when you've got numbers like 18% and (especially) 10%, it's not like it can get much lower.
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There's also the fact of simple overreporting (ie, a lot of people whose sex lives are unsatisfying aren't going to admit it) so even those numbers are probably padded by a decent margin of error.
I never imagined Japan's scores would be that bad, though. And since it's the University of Chicago I'm going to assume that it's credible research.
My guess is they asked a bunch of questions that determined whether or not your sex life was satisfying.
I am not a researcher, but it seems like you would get a bit more truth then "Do you have awesome sex: [YES] [NO] [MAYBE]"
But the very nature of such surveys means that overreporting is almost inevitable. Just about every, having a good sex life is considered good and having a bad sex life is considered embarassing and shameful. Barring special situations like convents or a Buddhist monastery this is one of the few things that holds up cross-culturally.
So, no matter how well-constructed your survey is, there's always going to be a degree of inaccuracy because most people don't want to admit these things about themselves - even to themselves, let alone to a stranger. It helps a lot when you replace "stranger" with "piece of paper/computer survey", but there's still going to be some people who make their sex lives out to be better than it really is. Much the same way that the vast majority of people, when asked, consider themselves to be of "above average" intelligence.
The extremely low numbers makes me think the Japanese were probably more honest than most, but really, when you've got numbers like 18% and (especially) 10%, it's not like it can get much lower.
The point of my post was that the surveys were probably designed so the people taking them did not know they were taking a survey about how satisfying there sex life is.
Granted, there is still a margin for error, but I would but faith in the U of C to account for such things.
Or I could be totally wrong, still its not the only institute to release such numbers.
edit- The fact the the U.S. was not number one leads me to think the survey is pretty accurate. Though that is just my opinion.
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Voiced by: Noriaki Sugiyama
A nation that was once a pirate and tormented Spain, England is a self-styled gentleman who is known for having terrible cooking skills, a foul mouth, and huge eyebrows. He does not get along well with France or Russia. He can sometimes be cynical, particularly towards America. Despite being mocked by the other nations for it, England is a strong believer of unicorns, fairies, and magic, going so far as to literally curse his enemies. England cannot hold his liquor well and is a very unhappy sort of drunk. He once formed an alliance with Japan because he felt lonely. He is classified as a tsundere character.
Eerily accurate, no? :P
Edit 2- Man, the title means Useless Italy. They get no respect, no respect at all.
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The more I see this stuff the more I easily believe how Japan really does buy into how it was innocent and an victim in the war instead of an aggressor. But then considering how they pretty much blame the States saying they dragged them into it, that they never did any horrifying acts and then use the nuke complaint against everything else...well yeah.
The more I see this stuff the more I easily believe how Japan really does buy into how it was innocent and an victim in the war instead of an aggressor. But then considering how they pretty much blame the States saying they dragged them into it, that they never did any horrifying acts and then use the nuke complaint against everything else...well yeah.
The more I see this stuff the more I easily believe how Japan really does buy into how it was innocent and an victim in the war instead of an aggressor. But then considering how they pretty much blame the States saying they dragged them into it, that they never did any horrifying acts and then use the nuke complaint against everything else...well yeah.
And americans don't exploit world war 2 as well?
It's just that japan exploits it in weirder ways.
No, just that Japan denies doing anything wrong at all.
Most other countries be it America, Canada, Russia, Germany etc have all admitted to doing some pretty horrible things, Japan though lives in denial. When a high ranking man in the military over the recently said that Japan might have been at fault in some part it proved to be so scandalous he got removed. They really do believe they did nothing wrong at all and were innocent.
Well, I'm not too familiar with it, so I can't say much.
But I really don't think turning the countries involved in world war 2 into humans in a show with strong gay overtones = denial of war crimes.
There is a blog, started long before "blog" was a word IIRC, of a black American dude who went to live in Japan and teach English. Very interesting and somewhat disturbing look into Japanese society. One part of it he talked about while teaching the kids is that they actively tried to grab his junk.
Anyway, one entry he talks about their history books and how they barely mention WWII at all and when they do, it only talks about the Atom bomb. Never Pearl Harbor and the reasons for the war.
I need to find a link to that blog. I think he eventualy moved back to America after years in Japan.
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Well, I'm not too familiar with it, so I can't say much.
But I really don't think turning the countries involved in world war 2 into humans in a show with strong gay overtones = denial of war crimes.
They deny many things.
Read up about it some time if you can, it can be interesting stuff. Most countries have at least admitted to their faults even if they don't live up to them for what happened during WWII, Japan though outright entirely denies doing anything wrong. They simply can't face the fact they did some horrible things but then after WWII Japan's psyche as a nation was pretty screwed up, probably why it's the nation it is today in some part and why they attache themselves to everything that's cutesy and charming.
Well, I'm not too familiar with it, so I can't say much.
But I really don't think turning the countries involved in world war 2 into humans in a show with strong gay overtones = denial of war crimes.
There is a blog, started long before "blog" was a word IIRC, of a black American dude who went to live in Japan and teach English. Very interesting and somewhat disturbing look into Japanese society. One part of he talked about while teach the kids is that they actively tried to grab his junk.
Anyway, entry he talks about their history books and how they barely mention WWII at all and when they do it only talks about the Atom bomb. Never Pearl Harbor and the reasons for the war.
I need to find a link to that blog. I think he eventualy moved back to America after years in Japan.
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I find this "outrage" pretty funny given that most of us live in a culture that gets their jollies from violent crime simulations and just repeatedly killing other people. The more giblets, the better. Bonuses for shooting them in the head.
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Personally I think the realistic games are more offensive. I guess you can say it's homage, but isn't simulating the wars for the enjoyment of the mass public and profits pretty bad? I would think turning the casualties of war into a game also belittles the memories of those who served and died... Just my opinion though, I don't actually feel too strongly either way.
Have you played the new Punch-Out? People seem to love it. It's also japanese, but I haven't heard any controversy about it, even though everyone in the game is a stereotype.
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We also as a country have far more violent crimes. Japan has a really low crime rate, though that may just be because they go unreported.
Would you agree that, if Japan indeed does have the rather unhealthy attitude toward sex and gender that seems to be manifesting in this (and worse) products, then that too is a social problem?
American police officers have to carry guns whereas most police officers in developed countries (including Japan IIRC) do not. Likewise, we have a fairly well-documented problem with police brutality and a prison system in desperate need of reform.
Americans, on the other hand, haven't had to install grope-free zones on the subway, schoolgirls do occasionally prostitute themselves but it is not organized, and someone looking to buy used underwear from underaged girls would be considered a deviant, not a market sector.
I consider these social problems analogous. I don't think they're rooted in their respective entertainments industries, though, at least not primarily. Rather, I think that the entertainment we consume reflects our greater culture of which entertainment is only a part.
EDIT: And RayofAsh beat me to it.
Actually I do think there is a bit of correlation as you've both pointed out. If a society finds it acceptable to do something, well, people in their society will do it. Though my point was more of a pot kettle black thing.
The US also houses like 25% of the world's prisoners.
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Oh well, even if I could understand Japanese, I don't think I would play this game. I hate turn based strategy. Now, if it was a third person shooter in which your character could willingly transform between vehicle and girl mode, then that'd be something.
Thank God I got popcorn.
Also it's so amusing that Japan produces such things when they have one of the less sexually satisfying sex lives according to statistics. The term "cold fish" pretty much applies.
Wait , people actually keep track / poll for that? Why?
Actually, I think that explains why.
If I had to guess it was some psychologists/sociologists doing surveys or other kinds of research.
It goes on all the time in the US, too, but unless you're interested in that sort of field you'll probably never hear about it.
If I am thinking of the same survey it was one that listed what developed nations had sex the most. IIRC Japan was dead last.
It was one of those things they did for most of the nations of the world to rate the most satisfying sex lives, which nations had the best and which had the worse etc. They probably asked other questions too but this one was reported and yeah Japan was horribly placed. They just lack a little something, maybe it's why they make up so much odd stuff to cope.
You can probably find it if you do a search.
Makes sense , it just stuck me as odd .
The top five nations on scale of rates of sexual satisfaction reported to University of Chicago researchers:
1. Austria: 71.4 percent satisfied with their sex lives.
2. Spain: 69 percent.
3. Canada: 66.1 percent.
4. Belgium: 64.6 percent.
5. United States: 64.2 percent.
Go Austria I guess? I know where my next vacation will take me. :winky:
In Japan, by contrast, just 18 percent of the men and 10 percent of the women answered positively about their sex lives. And in China's Taiwan, only 7 percent of the women said sex was very important in their lives.
edit The article I found was in China's Daily, hence the laughably cute "China's Taiwan" comment.
It's a cultural thing going back at least a few centuries though, if not more. All the East Asian countries kind of hate sex.
I never imagined Japan's scores would be that bad, though. And since it's the University of Chicago I'm going to assume that it's credible research.
The chinese, anyway.
Isn't most of that content filter there though? Did World at War have the Nazi swastika present? Was it even released? Not trying to sound hostile but I'd like to know considering how much the German government cracks down on video game violence.
My guess is they asked a bunch of questions that determined whether or not your sex life was satisfying.
I am not a researcher, but it seems like you would get a bit more truth then "Do you have awesome sex: [YES] [NO] [MAYBE]"
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But the very nature of such surveys means that overreporting is almost inevitable. Just about every, having a good sex life is considered good and having a bad sex life is considered embarassing and shameful. Barring special situations like convents or a Buddhist monastery this is one of the few things that holds up cross-culturally.
So, no matter how well-constructed your survey is, there's always going to be a degree of inaccuracy because most people don't want to admit these things about themselves - even to themselves, let alone to a stranger. It helps a lot when you replace "stranger" with "piece of paper/computer survey", but there's still going to be some people who make their sex lives out to be better than it really is. Much the same way that the vast majority of people, when asked, consider themselves to be of "above average" intelligence.
The extremely low numbers makes me think the Japanese were probably more honest than most, but really, when you've got numbers like 18% and (especially) 10%, it's not like it can get much lower.
The point of my post was that the surveys were probably designed so the people taking them did not know they were taking a survey about how satisfying there sex life is.
Granted, there is still a margin for error, but I would but faith in the U of C to account for such things.
Or I could be totally wrong, still its not the only institute to release such numbers.
edit- The fact the the U.S. was not number one leads me to think the survey is pretty accurate. Though that is just my opinion.
Meet Japan, Germany and Italy.
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Is that one of those weird psuedo-homosexual animes?
Oh my God. I must watch this.
Eerily accurate, no? :P
Edit 2- Man, the title means Useless Italy. They get no respect, no respect at all.
The more I see this stuff the more I easily believe how Japan really does buy into how it was innocent and an victim in the war instead of an aggressor. But then considering how they pretty much blame the States saying they dragged them into it, that they never did any horrifying acts and then use the nuke complaint against everything else...well yeah.
And americans don't exploit world war 2 as well?
It's just that japan exploits it in weirder ways.
No, just that Japan denies doing anything wrong at all.
Most other countries be it America, Canada, Russia, Germany etc have all admitted to doing some pretty horrible things, Japan though lives in denial. When a high ranking man in the military over the recently said that Japan might have been at fault in some part it proved to be so scandalous he got removed. They really do believe they did nothing wrong at all and were innocent.
Well, I'm not too familiar with it, so I can't say much.
But I really don't think turning the countries involved in world war 2 into humans in a show with strong gay overtones = denial of war crimes.
There is a blog, started long before "blog" was a word IIRC, of a black American dude who went to live in Japan and teach English. Very interesting and somewhat disturbing look into Japanese society. One part of it he talked about while teaching the kids is that they actively tried to grab his junk.
Anyway, one entry he talks about their history books and how they barely mention WWII at all and when they do, it only talks about the Atom bomb. Never Pearl Harbor and the reasons for the war.
I need to find a link to that blog. I think he eventualy moved back to America after years in Japan.
They deny many things.
Read up about it some time if you can, it can be interesting stuff. Most countries have at least admitted to their faults even if they don't live up to them for what happened during WWII, Japan though outright entirely denies doing anything wrong. They simply can't face the fact they did some horrible things but then after WWII Japan's psyche as a nation was pretty screwed up, probably why it's the nation it is today in some part and why they attache themselves to everything that's cutesy and charming.
Gaijin Smash! He's still living in Japan, still blogging and is now married.
EDIT: http://www.gaijinsmash.net/