Hey /jp/, I'm not a normal poster here but I've been watching a lot from this series:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4nw3x-DfT1s And I feel like I've come to the conclusion that Japanese culture lacks originality, but is instead extremely good at incremental improvement.
For example anime is just the Japanese attempting to perfect the style of animation created by Disney.
It seems that nearly everything famous about Japan is just japan taking something that existed somewhere else and attempting to perfect it.
Am I right /jp/?
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Nothing exists in a vacuum in the age of globalism.
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>>14261571 Not a complete vacuum but a partial vacuum can still exist within a country. Companies like Sony perfected the television and are the primary brand for many electronics today not through innovation, but through incremental perfection.
Meanwhile the U.S. and many western countries seek for sudden jumps in innovation.
The current trend in the global economy is innovation by the United States, improvement and perfection by the Japanese, and manufacturing by China.
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>>14261614 The current trend in the global economy is innovation and perfection of modern products and services by the west, manufacturing by China and Japan further slipping into irrelevancy
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>>14261515 >For example anime is just the Japanese attempting to perfect the style of animation created by Disney. Beyond the first animations ever made in Japan, this isn't true at all, and they weren't trying to "perfect" anything. That the US keeps being "inspired" by anime makes it clear that it's its own unique style. That Hollywood keeps trying to push for LA adaptations of anime/manga makes it clear that their stories are original as well--at least, more original than the typical Hollywood bullshit. Japanese classical film is some of the most influential and highly acclaimed in the world. That we continue to import Japanese cultural products is not due to their lack of originality or creativity; they're literally making things we can't here in the West. Given time, cultural separation/isolation, and "incremental improvement," original things end up being created; that's the pattern Japan continually goes through, though less so now thanks to globalization.
Given the way culture works, nothing is truly original. New things are built from old things. And so the label is just something that is arbitrarily thrown around to legitimize things at our convenience. That it's even something inherently good is begging the question. The truth is that most people like familiar, generic things and are afraid of things that are different.
>tfw when falling asleep at 10am
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what kind of loser can't fall asleep whenever
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>>14265850 What's the point of fixing it? Night is the comfiest time of the day anyways.
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>>14267827 I agree. I stay up through out the night and go to bed at 10-11am. That way you can wake up in the middle of the night and no one can possibly annoy you. Not to mention that it is quite.
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>>14267827 Yeah I love that time but it makes it so hard to do anything. Besides, isn't the sun nice too?
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>>14267498 I'm always tired and I can't fall asleep. Send help.
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>>14268079 From the beginning she seemed to me like a pocket Tomu acting like Komi, so no surprise there. It's all trash these days.
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>>14265421 It certainly does fill a void. I often daydream about spending time with my oshi who you happen to have posted.
Also I really like the kinds of personalities that idols have and wish that more girls would be like that instead of acting as sluts.
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>>14267748 But you just posted Aiai. Though I do agree they look slightly similar.
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>>14267588 How are wereship of all things awful?
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>>14267598 It's a joke about how he wasted a ton of his free time sleeping. Come on man.
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>>14267594 Ten bucks says toblerone.
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>>14267598 Well at least by how they were written in the Monster Girl wiki they came across as rapists who get violent if you shear them.
>>14267602 And I'm actually right back where I started, being awake at 8am after not sleeping at all the preceding night
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What are you watching /jp/? Anything good on?
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I find modern japanese televission stale and it isn't stale its just one ironic comedy.
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What are some good recomendations for comedy?
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>>14264252 >Satomi Shinobu and Inokuma Yuki work as detectives in the Mobile Investigation Unit of The Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department. The two are assigned as partners on the job and consider each other as rivals. However, once off the job, they are a couple but they keep their relationship a top secret. One day, Shinobu and Yuki were at the site where a dead body was found. There, they encounter a mysterious beautiful woman named Tachibana Kara. Soon, a series of bizarre crimes involving gruesome murders begin to occur; and strangely, Kara always appears at these crime scenes. Together, Shinobu and Yuki attempt to find the truth behind the serial murder cases and uncover Tachibana Kara's identity Sounds kinda procedural
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>>14265794 You might like 'Fuben na Benriya'. It's another one of the 'Drama24' shows (i.e. Aired on TV Tokyo, Friday night).
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>>14265843 >Sounds kinda procedural It is.
There's focus on the hunter-prey relationship if you're into that kind of stuff.
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>>14266892 I'm sure they've at least heard of JAST.
And MG probably never expressed their interest in localizing Flowers directly to them, so they might've assumed they weren't interested as those games are nothing like Kara no Shoujo series.
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>>14267032 Fuck off, furry
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>>14267042 >Skeletons >Furry Boy, I wish this board required an IQ test so retards like you could be kept out.
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Post 2hus in cute contemporary clothes! Something that would look really good for a date.
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Maybe not exactly related, but this is quite clever.
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>decide to finally finish a VN I downloaded a year and a half ago >won't start and my saves are deleted
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lmao @ computer illiterates
