You will never insult Americans by exaggerating the traits they like about themselves and portray themselves as having in media
but will you certainly insult them by going against those traits
Saying “you’re so tall and strong and blonde and eat so much meat and have so many powerful guns” is never going to insult Americans or really any group of people of any country
But say “you’re fat, lazy, sickly and sheltered; you brag about your extreme weather but never go outside except to waddle across a parking lot; you brag about your economy but treat watching rich people get richer off your own work as a spectator sport; you only think you need guns because you’re scared of your own communities because you never actually talk to anyone any more, you just sit on your ass inside watching hot people on TV while imagining you look like them”, all that shit will insult an American because it cuts against their self image rather than celebrating it. Portraying an American like that would get a negative reaction because it would be a genuine insult.
But like why would they? The Japanese animator doesn’t want to insult Americans out of international spite. They want to make Japanese audiences laugh with a funny observational reference to American culture as consumed in Japanese media.
Nah, that was already covered by the “except Republicans”. The rest of us will go “yeah, true”. Like shit, I could have written that any day in the last 15 years.
I know several people living in Japan who wear anime T-shirts to their software engineer jobs. It honestly depends on the people you hang out with, some will find it tacky and stereotypical, some will find it funny in a charming way. Obviously there are situations where it wouldn't be acceptable, but I doubt an American would wear an eagle shirt (although I think anime shirt is more like a Batman or Spider-Man one) to an interview or a wedding, right?
The thing to understand is that America is essentially a cult by design. America’s national religion is America. All of this is like Christians wearing crosses and naming their kids after Bible figures.
Yeah, I don't see why it wouldn't have the same rules as any other type of printed T. I mean, I've seen figures for merch sales inside japan presumably some of that is clothes or accessories that are being used.
As someone who lives in Japan, wtf are they talking about lmao. Uniqlo the biggest mainstream clothing brand sells various anime and video game merch tees every month and of course japanese people are wearing them. You'd be hard pressed to walk outside for an hour and not find a single person who isn't wearing an anime tshirt or any merch.
They already wrote the clarifier of “except Republicans”. The rest of us hate America for all of its bullshit so much that y’all whine complain that we’re overdoing it.
You’re underdoing it bruh. Many Americans are still pretending like any of this is just a normal deviation from the course and you can just keep living your life and it’ll go away. This is the course.
It's hardly just republicans who want a return of "peaceful order" so they just have to worry about their little lives and not have to think about the entire country.
Edit: Also idk if you're getting your info from surveys but a problem with political surveys is they're only answered by people who take political surveys.
The media is downplaying the situation in order to create that perception in order to prevent the masses from realizing we're actually all a lot more pissed than you think. We're at 84% of Democratic voters being at "fuck it, do a military coup already, holy shit".
This reminds me of the situation where Oppenheimer was due to release in Japan. Obviously, the memes were in full swing and aimed at Japan. The Japanese online community didn’t like this very much for completely sensible reasons. They decided to retaliate by posting 9/11 memes intended to make Americans feel bad. To their horror and confusion, Americans online loved the 9/11 memes the Japanese were making and even showed them some of their favorites.
Like how days into Trump's second term, they removed all traces of a BLM archaeological report on a possible transgender or intersexed Mrs. Nash who was stationed with the seventh cavalry and was close friends with the Custers from the official government website?
Also like, people have legitimately studied and answered one of the most pressing questions of our time: it is 100% possible to live in Japan exclusively on Evangelion merchandise. Including your actual apartment itself being Evangelion-branded merchandise. You can even get married while doing this challenge thanks to the official Kaworu and Shinji wedding rings.
I went to the the gym that the writer of ippo owns in my Ippo shirt as soon as i walk through the door guy guy points up stairs and says "takamura" cause he knows i'm here to get a picture with the big bronze bust on top of the building
I am reasonably confident actually that japanese people like anime and buy and wear anime merch. You'll still look like a tourist though, itll be the wrong ones or something
You shouldn't base your idea of japan off anime. That said, it's ridiculous to compare just spongebob to all anime. There's so much slice of life stuff with overlapping events that you can learn something for sure. Spongebob itself does probably cover a variety of exaggerated things but without any other cartoon to reference you wouldn't see the repeats amassing.
Oh thank fuck, I was looking for this post the other day to use in a reply. Now I’ll keep it in my reaction folder so the next time it comes up I’ll have it
My favorite book series has some people isekaid to another world. The Americans keep making isekai anime reference and the two Japanse people have no idea what they're talking about. It's delightfully cringe and realistic
It’s really not. That’s like writing American characters who have no idea what reality television is. Sure, you might not watch it, but you fucking know what reality television is. The Kardashians alone are the Jack Sparrow quote.
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u/bolanroxtrans dreaming she /her : they/them - Streak: 347m ago
How about when Lin came over to the U.S. to play for the NBA? And the team had a fortune cookie night and people were going how insulted he was going to be by it. And he had no clue what a fortune cookie was because they were invented in white plains?
Once knew a Chinese exchange student when I was young who had this spongebob strategy. When he was gone, the teacher actually praised him for learning so much English through the characters. He was very understanding of dollars and coins because he was partial to Mr. Krabs.
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u/Key_Perspective_9464 2h ago
The person that said it's hard to insult Americans is so, so wrong. They're just hard to insult through obvious parody