bruh everyone knows hiroshimaWell I was talking about how Japan lacks any famous landmarks that even average joes on the street uninterested in foreign cultures, geopolitics, and history can name like the Great Wall or Teracotta Warriors.
bruh everyone knows hiroshimaWell I was talking about how Japan lacks any famous landmarks that even average joes on the street uninterested in foreign cultures, geopolitics, and history can name like the Great Wall or Teracotta Warriors.
Anime is not made for normal people. They are made for weebs. That's always the case in Japan. Some just happened to be popular outside weebs community but weebs are always the prime target audience.agreed, i feel like theres some sort of institutional incest at play here, like anime is now just so deeply buried by its own conventions it has lost its ability to connect with anyone but a peculiar breed of people who have similarly lost connection with the real world.
i couldnt shake a feeling of uncanniness when i was in japan, like it was less a nation and more a nation-scale giftshop. but maybe thats just the effect of being stuck in tourist areas coupled with illiteracy.
Yeah, I used to enjoy anime once but once you watch enough and have seen its general formula, you would have seen everything as one of the main issues with anime are is that the majority do not have anything that is really thought provoking about them and are literally just trying to fill out a tv tropes quota sheet. Also they seem to lower the bar as to how perverted they make the characters, how people celebrate this is beyond me. I struggle to find an anime now that can capture my interest for a lengthy period of time and the last show that did, (To be hero X) is in fact an animation made in China. Everything this year alone honestly suckedAnime is not made for normal people. They are made for weebs. That's always the case in Japan. Some just happened to be popular outside weebs community but weebs are always the prime target audience.
Imagine that, the CPC isn't banning anything, Chinese people themselves are turning away from Japanese travel and products of their own volition.
In addition to this article saying that a lot of Chinese products nowadays are just as good and cheaper than Japanese ones, perhaps its just my algorithm but even before the current tensions a lot of young Chinese travelers always post about their disillusionment with Japan travel on social media. To sum up, the impressions they share is that even if Japan is overall still more wealthy and developed than China, its major cities are really not much different than Tier 1 Chinese cities nowadays. In most of those major cities too there's not much to do outside of eating and shopping. And Japanese food is losing its appeal amongst Chinese since its just raw fish, fried meat cutlets, even most ramen soups are essentially liquified pork or chicken fat with flavored soy sauce. (Thank you! That's all it literally is, its only because of marketing they charge Michelin prices for that shit) Kyoto and Nara have some nice looking temples, but once again its stuff you can find in China as well.
In short, the fascination with Japan always stemmed from its pop culture exports and being the wealthiest Asian nation, so poorer Asian nations looked up to them as an example for how to develop. Today though, take away the appeal of modernity especially as the rest of Asia catches up and Japan isn't all that different from China. I've always had these impressions of Japan tbh and if Chinese want to travel abroad for history they're for sure better off going to Russia, Central Asia, Iran, and Cambodia too if it wasn't for the current crime issues. I'd even throw in India if they can improve sanitation and public safety.
As a former weeb who still appreciates Japan for what it gave at its peak, I do not actively boycott anything Japanese out of some patriotic duty.
I just am not really interested in what they have these days. Simple as.
Like I can't remember any anime made in recent times that made me want to actively go out and watch it. Or video games for that matter. And this is supposed to be a soft power superpower.
Like their product offering kinda sucks now and offers nothing new. It doesn't help it tends to be quite expensive. I was talking to some relatives the other day about visiting Japan and we suddenly came to a realization that for most part you can effectively see the same stuff in China for a much lower price and little language barrier. When you pay more, there should be a justification for that premium and it's kinda hard to find one.
I'm of the belief that most people who visit Japan only do so under the guise of cultural appreciation. Food is legitimate, to get sushi that's fresher and cheaper but you'd have to be an extremely gluttonous person to think it to be worth it to fly to the other side of the world to eat.Japan and Korea are to me the ultimate examples of nations whose tourism resources are massively embellished by their pop culture image. Take away those, Japan has less and Korea has nothing.
Even with Japan though, you'll hear weebs stating their appreciation for Japanese architecture. But back when China was bottom of the barrel poor and destitute, ask any average joe on the street to name a Chinese landmark and even people in hicksville USA could at least name the Great Wall, Forbidden City, and Teracotta Warriors. Japan though? Most people who did not take a university course in Japanese history would struggle to come up with anything. Osaka castle? It's a modern art museum with a historic castle facade, nothing actually historical about it. Closest I could think of then is maybe Fushimi Shrine, but that's more of an instagram famous destination rather than something that's ubiquitous like the Colosseum or Great Wall.
Yeah but they don't necessarily know it's a place; they think it's an event LOLbruh everyone knows hiroshima
Yeah, I used to enjoy anime once but once you watch enough and have seen its general formula, you would have seen everything as one of the main issues with anime are is that the majority do not have anything that is really thought provoking about them and are literally just trying to fill out a tv tropes quota sheet. Also they seem to lower the bar as to how perverted they make the characters, how people celebrate this is beyond me. I struggle to find an anime now that can capture my interest for a lengthy period of time and the last show that did, (To be hero X) is in fact an animation made in China. Everything this year alone honestly sucked