Mainichi Mess
jamie | July 9, 2008For those of you who haven’t been following the whole Mainichi mess, let me explain. A bunch of whining Japanese otaku fucks got a little upset by the fact that saucy stories from tabloids and porn magazine were being reprinted in a supposedly respectable online news site. Mainichi then sacked everyone who was related in some way to aforementioned WaiWai column, and everyone who may have ever come into contact with those people as well as their families and second cousins twice removed. The otaku of Japan still weren’t happy, and video with bad Engrish grammar like this continue to haunt youtube.
Well, fuck you disgruntled otaku scum of Japan. WaiWai was the only part of Mainichi worth reading, even if you knew half of it was rather embellished, and now you’ve fucked it all up. Giving Japan a bad name you say? No, I think the legalized child porn does that job sufficiently, you dicks. A false impression perhaps? No, having lived here for 5 years, I can honestly say Japan is as fucked up as WaiWai and this very site suggests.
Luckily for you guys, most of the WaiWai archives are being reprinted at stippy.com.
You can also read a more in-depth analysis of the whole issue over at JapanProbe, though I think I summarized it rather well truth be told.
I’m almost tempted to start a new gallery for user submissions relating to how much Japanese otaku suck. What do you think? In the meantime, if you’re wondering why I’m being so hard on otaku, perhaps you’d like to take a look at my Help the Otaku campaign page.
I'm rather apathetic about the issue with WaiWai, but I
fh | July 10, 2008I’m rather apathetic about the issue with WaiWai, but I must say, the stronger the impression Westerners have about how fucked up Japan is, the more likely they are to come in and try to change everything to their own liking.
Yes Japan is fucked up in many ways, and tabloids do have some amount of (factual) truth in what they write. But the problem is -how- they write it, whether or not they give deference to the cultural differences that make things in Japan seem fucked up in the first place. For the uninitiated Western reader, WaiWai could easily give them the impression of a land filled with rapists (for instance) when the statistics frankly are quite the opposite compared to, say, America.
Japanese otaku are certainly taking it too far, but it doesn’t mean they’re wrong. Unfortunately, it still means that people who can understand the culture and the humor lose in the end (regarding cessation of WaiWai). But you don’t have to -read- about Japan being fucked up to still enjoy it’s fucked-up-ed-ness.
I believe you get the prize for the most well
jamie | July 10, 2008I believe you get the prize for the most well thought out comment we have ever had here @fuckedup.
I can find no fault with what you are saying, but I think it is indeed sad that some people couldn’t understand the particular blend of dark humour and yet factual base that made WaiWai what it was. I thought they always made it clear that the stories came from the tabloids and may have been somewhat embellished. Just another case of something being taken far too seriously…
I write this site not out of hatred, but out of love for Japan and it’s quirks. Every country has its fuck ups and downfalls, but Japan just seem to do it so stylishly, whether it be the ultimately cutesy fail of a hello kitty vibrator or the cases of extreme geekdom otherwise known as otaku. And just for the record, whenever I come across some n00b talking about all the fuckedup stuff that goes on here, I do instinctively jump to defend Japan.
Denying that freaky things happen in your country just makes
kancho | July 21, 2008Denying that freaky things happen in your country just makes it look like you’re trying to cover-up said freaky things. It’s fairly obvious that only a small minority is actually doing these things (though after so many random creepy things it might be adding up). Furthermore, we all know news sites lie constantly and try to make their headlines and stories more sensational. Seriously, if you didn’t know this stuff was partially bullshit, you’re a danger to sociaty.
That being said, 2 things:
1. Jamie, there’s an opening on the internet for a site collecting freaky Japanese news and spinning sensationalist headlines for it. Here’s your chance to make it big!
2. A Japanese friend of mine read your “10 questions” post, she was thoroughly disgusted by your attitude. So good job on that. *thumbs up*
I feel rather proud of that, thank you! btw readers, the
jamie | July 21, 2008I feel rather proud of that, thank you!
btw readers, the kancho is referring to was a japan blog “meme” that went round a while back.. http://www.fuckedupjapan.com/2008/japan-memejapan-meme/
sadly, pictures from that post and many others have been lost because they were stored on my old server which died a few weeks ago.
I tried looking in the internet archive to see if
kancho | July 21, 2008I tried looking in the internet archive to see if I can recover your old posts but I recall you changed your website URL a while back.
http://www.archive.org/web/web.php
Worth a shot, I can’t remember the old URL.
Awesome idea Kancho, hadnt thought of that one. archive shows
jamie | July 21, 2008Awesome idea Kancho, hadnt thought of that one. archive shows a little from the old address at http://web.archive.org/web/20070626183813/http://www.eigoninja.com/secretjapan/ , but not images and no CSS, so it really looks nothing like the old site at all! Oh well. The text is archived here on this site, so if I ever decide to be really cheap and start reposting things from 3 years ago (actually, thats not a bad idea!), ill just go off and find the pictures again. Pictures of japanese otaku are a dime a dozen. Which reminds me, I got some hot monkey photos from arashiyama monkey park (great date spot) that need to be made into lolmonkeys or fail pics…