What is it about Japan you most like?

What is it about Japan you most like?

  • I'm an Anime freak and all good animation comes from Japan!

    Votes: 2 3.8%
  • I simply need to make my Video Game buying/playing pilgrimage.

    Votes: 6 11.3%
  • I want to dip my wick into some hot Japanese Poontang.

    Votes: 8 15.1%
  • I know in a previous life I was Nipponese and wish to return to my native land.

    Votes: 1 1.9%
  • I have always loved their culture stemming from Samurai ethics to Underworld Yakuza, to video games,

    Votes: 12 22.6%
  • I'd say ALL OF THE ABOVE!

    Votes: 24 45.3%

  • Total voters
    53
  • Poll closed .

Mike Shagohod

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Okay POLL TIME. *Inspiried by 5thlion5thlion's original thread that got the fire lit under certain members asses here about going to Japan as a group, it got me to thinking. What is it really that most of you like about the Japan?

For me it's their culutre overall, but the video games are no doubt a big reason for teh love of the land of the rising sun.

MERCENARY X99
 

Baseley09

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I'm not 100% sure but i think it stems from Japan's influence on America's 1980's teenage popular culture, and the movie Gung-Ho.
 

Atro

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The same as any other country.

The obviously opposite sex.
 

ClassicMode1985

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*about to burst with excitement*....:D Read my mind...you know why I want to go to Japan...

Seriously, I want to see all the Sega fans who play VF4 to death over Tekken....I want to see rows and rows of Saturn games and DC games still for sale...I wanna go to a local shop and see Famicom shit piled like a damn garage sale..I wanna see all the famous locations...SEGA CLUB...Nintendo Of Japan..NEO GEO LAND..do the whole fuckin dork thing just to please my unsatisifed hunger of games...indulge into the fruits of what we miss...see Dragon Quest being praised highly more then Final Fantasy...Watch how badly Xbox is trashed..and GameCube is praised...I wanna see the economy..I wanna see the people walking down the street...

Hell to be frank it would be as equal as

Me Going to Japan = Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (for you Jimmy Stewart fans)

nuff said...
 

slerch666

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I picked... Anime of course. Though many of the other options were tempting, with a collection of DVDs like mine, it was hard to justify picking anything else...
 

galfordo

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ClassicMode1985 said:
*about to burst with excitement*....:D Read my mind...you know why I want to go to Japan...

Seriously, I want to see all the Sega fans who play VF4 to death over Tekken....I want to see rows and rows of Saturn games and DC games still for sale...I wanna go to a local shop and see Famicom shit piled like a damn garage sale..I wanna see all the famous locations...SEGA CLUB...Nintendo Of Japan..NEO GEO LAND..do the whole fuckin dork thing just to please my unsatisifed hunger of games...indulge into the fruits of what we miss...see Dragon Quest being praised highly more then Final Fantasy...Watch how badly Xbox is trashed..and GameCube is praised...I wanna see the economy..I wanna see the people walking down the street...

Hell to be frank it would be as equal as

Me Going to Japan = Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (for you Jimmy Stewart fans)

nuff said...

ClassicMode1985 for president - '04

:buttrock: :buttrock: :buttrock: :buttrock: :buttrock:
 

RAINBOW PONY

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my favorite part about japan = the stores

least favorite part = prison/justice system/human rights violations
 

TonK

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DashK said:
my favorite part about japan = the stores

least favorite part = prison/justice system/human rights violations

I bet you wish you were born Japanese
 

GunstarHeroblack

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If It wernt for that Japanese history, culture/ Anime and Video games overall I wouldnt have gotten into sketching and drawing in the first place-

the attention to detail in most anime are simply amazing definately Highest standards for 2D animation......so i guess I choose option 1.:rolleyes:
 
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Kiel

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I sez all of the above.

I do find it kinda weird that we want to be like them and they want to be like us.
 

neobuyer

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My favorite thing about Japan is how bad ass and evil they were up until the mid 1940's.

Nanking baby! :buttrock:

They are such pussies now though.
 

galfordo

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neobuyer said:
My favorite thing about Japan is how bad ass and evil they were up until the mid 1940's.

Nanking baby! :buttrock:

They are such pussies now though.

Yeah, nothing like a couple of nukes to tame the savage beast.

They were pretty damned aggressive way back when, but they seemed to really have their heads screwed on straight these days.
 

kobylka68

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Its all good. I've been there 3 times for about 2 years altogether and returning again in september. Japan rules all over.
 

eight one

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xRealNinjuzx said:
I truly do wish I were born Japanese -_-

-Kris

No you don't...unless you want your chances of getting play reduced by half (or something).
 

RAINBOW PONY

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eight one said:
No you don't...unless you want your chances of getting play reduced by half (or something).

aint that the truth, america gets all teh sex. getting play in japan is hard if you're japanese.
 

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Rare 40-50cm Bandai robo-mech toys made 20 yrs ago, such as: Voltus V, GodSigma, Dynaman, Mazinger, so on.
 

SonGohan

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I love the culture. Before I even got into anime and stuff, I thought they had a real cool culture. I wish I could go back some time soon.
 

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my reason for liking Japan isn't listed.

really, for me it's the television and food.
 

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RisingKnuckle said:
Explain please

http://www.marcus-clark.com/hr-japan-contents.htm

You really thought Japan was all shiny and happy like their tourist retail image suggests? I guess you don't read up on your pre-WW1 history, since not everything has changed in Japan. Pray to god you never get in legal trouble while in Japan. I like Japan, but it's not a perfect country, not that the USA is either, but I'd rather serve jail time HERE.
 
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slerch666

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DashK said:
I like Japan, but it's not a perfect country, not that the USA is either, but I'd rather serve jail time HERE.
I'd rather not serve jail time ANYWHERE...
 

RisingKnuckle

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DashK said:
http://www.marcus-clark.com/hr-japan-contents.htm

You really thought Japan was all shiny and happy like their tourist retail image suggests? I guess you don't read up on your pre-WW1 history, since not everything has changed in Japan. Pray to god you never get in legal trouble while in Japan. I like Japan, but it's not a perfect country, not that the USA is either, but I'd rather serve jail time HERE.

Hey all I asked was why. I dont know much about Japan hence why I asked.
 
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