I’ve lived in Japan for awhile now. And although I often go to game centers (To play WMMT4), I find absolutely NO appeal whatsoever to the crane games.

I see my friends, and they all drop 100 yen coins like they’re skittles into these machines. It can cost quite literally, 1500-2000 yen for one of those little action figure things, depending on how lucky you are, that I can buy for 400 yen in a store somewhere else.

Not only is it a waste of money, but it’s a waste of time, and the cute little Japanese girls monitoring the game center will be the first ones to tell you behind closed doors that the crane games are geared to lose (I should know, as I slept with a game center employee awhile back).

My current girlfriend doesn’t like to even go to game centers, let alone play crane games.

At least with her I feel like I’m dating a grown up.

To all those who compare kyary with lady gaga &co- the whole concept of kawaii, which kyary represents differes a lot from western pop culture. Lady Gag in fact is the typical western, oversexed, semipornographic, shapeless, aimless, accumulation of “breaches of taboo”.

The japan concept and discourse of kawaii is a real ideal of beauty, that can stand alone for itself without the permanet, vulgar presentation of ones genitals. In fact this is true erotic.

There are no framerate issues. It’s a deliberate choice to simulate the look of traditional 2D animation.

Yeah, that’s pretty much why I don’t go to anime cons –

I might enjoy it if they were attended by a bunch of reserved, demure intellectuals getting together to help financially support + spread the word about artists who work in an art form they like.

Sad that people, thinking like you exist, who only wants to destroy/change things outside their understanding. Seriously, no reason for all this hatred towards NK everywhere, be it East or West.

I respect them for being able to follow their way for decades under such a pressure, not collapsing to what’s now considered to be best.

I say it’s world’s duty to preserve this country the way it is. This is like museum, like world’s national park. Think of it this way - can you live in Yellowstone? I doubt, the conditions are too harsh, but this is not the reason to raze it to the ground to build another block of supermarkets and skyscrapers over it. These conditions make it unique - just like social system in NK makes it the most peculiar country.

The collapse of this system under everyone’s pressure would be a huge loss and a disgrace for the mulicultural world.