i went in to a cells at work thread on 4chan’s /a/ because i can’t help but immerse myself in sludge and the whole thread was anons talking about how they’ve been eating better and drinking more water because they want the anime girls that live inside of them to be happier
shinzo abe you son of a bitch, you did it.
cells at work is an anime about anthropomorphic cells living in a human body, depicted as a large city
otaku on 4chan watched the show and, in a desire to make the cells in their bodies happy, have started to live healthier lives
shinzo abe, the prime minister of japan and noted son of a bitch, actually managed to get anime viewers to start taking care of themselves through anime
Don’t let people make fun of you for liking japanese culture.
I am living in japan right now and let me tell ya:
There are people here who can’t speak or understand English who play nothing but Missy elliot and ludacris, even in businesses like housing offices and restaurants.
There are people who have cowboy hats and dead cow skulls in their home because they idolize what they assume American homes are like.
There are people who learn English strictly through music videos and American television shows.
There are entire karaoke bars with english songs often sung by people who have no idea what the lyrics mean.
Japan often takes American shows like the powerpuff girls and make japanese versions of them.
They often mistake common Americans for celebrities. I have been mistaken for Micheal jordan, tiger woods, Shaquille o’neal, Tyler perry, and saddest of all: queen latifa.
The act of sprinkling English into your japanese sentences is considered cute and cool and is popular with teenagers. Bonus points if you happen to use it correctly.
Japanese stores sell shirts with english on them and people buy them not knowing that most of those word combinations are nonsense.
Don’t let someone shame you for singing an anime opening, using japanese in your sentences, wearing clothing with japanese on it, ect. If anything, this is just one more thing that you have in common with them.
The American/Japanese cultural exchange is so pure and wonderful and I love it so much
OK BUT RESONATE WITH THE SHIRT THING THOUGH
My Chinese relatives buy me shirts from China with English letters on them hoping I think it’s cool
I have a shirt that says “Hi Quality Uality”
It’s amazing
It happens alot.
And then what’s really great is Americans getting tattoos of Chinese characters thinking they mean one thing when they really don’t
Also a topic where the reverse happens.
lemme tell you..i have been in a grocery store in Japan and heard the unedited Get Low playin over the intercom..it was literally a Katt Williams moment
Oh, unsensored songs are pretty common.
I should not be hearing an unsensored ‘Magic Stick’ playing at a family restaurant.
And the best thing is when literally no one shows that they understand what is being said.
I was in a Chinese cafe one time and they had obviously put on their “fuck you” playlist. I mean, uncensored versions of Fuck You by Lilly Allen, Fuck You by Cee-lo Green, etc. No one else had any idea.
Oh, also, I got my favorite shirt ever in a little tchotchky store in Sichuan:
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that last one got me holy shit.
I have one from Korea that says “I didn’t know angles cloud fly so low.”
I honestly don’t mind if the FFVII remake takes a while because it’s more time for the little assholes in Voltron fandom to outgrow their pseudoactivism and conservative moral policing, or even outgrow fandom entirely because nobody would miss them, and I sure as fuck don’t want them arriving in Aeriseph and Seph/Cloud to be giving us grief over something over two decades old that clearly hasn’t made abusers and murderers out of us.
My take is fairly simple: we’re dealing here with a canon which starts with at least two of the major characters undergoing canonical, non-consensual biological experimentation before the age of eighteen. So at that point, if you’re getting all exercised about sexual relationships between characters and the ages they are when this happens, I’m just going to point, laugh, and tell you to go to Bunnings, buy some lumber, build a fucking bridge, and get the fuck over it. Because there are definitely better things for you to be getting upset about in Final Fantasy VII canon, the original writers of said canon did them first and harder than any fanwriter has done before or since, and you’re just going to have to deal with that.
Oh, and on top of this: the whole of the Final Fantasy VII canon does not take place on Earth (happens on a planet called Gaia), and this means that planet may not have a year which is 365.25 days long. What happens if the year is, for example, 469.3 days long?
The different world is very important, imo. If people can run off to legally join the military at fourteen, clearly their social rules are different. We’re simply writing within the bounds of a fictional universe. These things aren’t even a constant on our planet, with some ages of consent going as low as 12, for better or worse. I still recall early uproar from Americans about Tifa running a bar when “she’s not even old enough to drink”, when she certainly was old enough outside the US and apparently on Gaia too.
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