Comments by "Im Caj" (@KratostheThird) on "‘Japan still feels like Japan’ How Horrible" video.

  1. Japan doesn't need to be America either. All of the Anglo speaking countries are stewing in the same pot.
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  2. We had Clinton and George W Bush here in the States, so we really weren't better off either.
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  3. I watched Monty Python and had the time of my life. That era of British entertainment is long gone.
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  4. The UK just followed what the USA started. At this point they're both in the same melting pot together.
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  5.  @jakublulek3261  Part of the problem is western audiences, particularly younger people, see Japan as a powerhouse of entertainment. It's pretty easy for me as a Millennial to find people in their early - mid 30s who grew up on Sailor Moon, Dragonball Z and Pokemon. We all collected Pokemon cards back in the 1990s. Then there's video games which Japan has undoubtedly made a killing off of for decades at this point. Arcade cabinets dating back to the 1980s which came from Japan brought a new generation of consumers, of all different types. At 36 years old I was heavily influenced with Japanese products. Played Nintendo, Sega, and at this point have seen more than 100 animes, spanning from the 1980s to the early 2000s. Older Americans do not see Japan in the same light as we do. If you're wondering why so many people have anime avatars, it's probably because they enjoyed an anime or two that Japan produced. All this to say that few of us actually care about traditional Japanese history or traditional Japanese culture. Most of us don't know anything about what happened in World War 2 let alone what happened to Japan during the Post War Era (1946 - 1963). The Japan we knew and loved stems from the 1980s and 1990s, which is as you said, its prime. You already know that 80s and 90s era represented the "new" Japanese culture, one that became more dependent and obsessed with high tech. The "old" Japanese culture is largely unknown to us.
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  6. Kudos to Japan for still making great video games like Elden Ring.
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  7. I hate Boomers.
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  8.  @basilbaby7678  Boomers ruined everything good in America.
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  9. Face it, we already lost.
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  10. Definitely not the UK I loved when Father Ted was a hilarious sitcom.
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  11.  @rachelar  I think people in the West like Japan simply because they think it’s different. The United States has been in decline since the 60’s - 70’s, so it’s been in rot for over half a century. Japan around this time was finally getting a break after they spent decades recovering from WW2. In the 80’s they were a cultural powerhouse, producing anime and other works that were influential and innovative. Today, anime is rather dull. It’s basically where modern music is. Some good stuff, but mostly garbage. It will never hit the peak it did. The Beatles was the peak of mainstream music, and there is nothing today that remotely compares to it. Doesn’t come close to the quality and longevity of that music.
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  12.  @DavidSharpMSc  Funny enough, there’s a video game franchise named Yakuza that has recovered my interest in Japan.
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  13. What did you expect when the young people there are completely detached from the real world and live in a fantasy?
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  14.  @rachelar  American woman “looked at me funny” is the result of entitlement and sheer narcissism. Which shocker, didn’t start with Millennials. Their parents were definitely to blame.
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  15. You mean Artificial Intelligence Robots?
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  16. Completely different than playing something like The Last of Us Part II where you just feel disgusted the entire game.
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  17. Because the West favors radical liberalism.
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  18. Britain is looking more like a secondary landing zone for the Middle East.
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  19.  @InkDropFalls  Queen, The Beatles, we can’t deny the impact the British Invasion had on Rock n Roll.
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  20.  @jakublulek3261  Perfectly describes Millennials and Zoomers in a nutshell.
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  21.  @jakublulek3261  I was watching an old anime named Akira. Released in 1988 in Japan, but did not reach the United States until around 1993 - 1994. It eventually became a big inspiration for the film The Matrix. If you ask me the 80s and 90s was the prime of Japanese anime. Cool and awesome, but niche enough to where it hadn't been corrupted by the mainstream. Wasn't easy to find, you had to go to dedicated video stores that carried VHS tapes of anime to find it. And even then the English dubs were usually laughable. But the production and animation were top notch.
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  22.  @jakublulek3261  In today’s western culture, you couldn’t get away with half the things Andrew Dice Clay said in his comedy shows without hordes of people getting up in arms about them.
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  23. USA, UK, Canada, Australia, they're all infected with the woke virus.
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  24. I hope Japan can push out the WEF before it's too late.
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  25. Explains how America went from having good blue collar jobs to having almost none at all.
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  26. California is a lost cause.
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  27.  @jameskazd9951  What country are you speaking of?
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  28.  @Jay_in_Japan  If you're talking the Trump conservative Americans, then yes. They're patriotic for the wrong reasons.
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  29. If the woke get Japan, everything is lost.
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  30. Japan > America
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  31.  @jitblues  I hate that you have to title the word "s0domized" so the YouTube algorithm doesn't automatically remove yout comment.
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  32. In America you work overtime and still become homeless if you spend more than the bare minimum.
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  33. California is a good example of this.
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  34. Sucks for you guys in the UK.
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  35. British culture has declined in the last 20 - 25 years.
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  36. So basically Japan was never good to begin with. If it has been crap all this time, why did you even bother living there?
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  37. Meanwhile America has rude and angry people. High crime. No national identity. No gender identity. No sense of community spirit. A torn down culture. Masculine trans women everywhere. Terrorism by the likes of the Far Left.
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  38. LA is a dystopia.
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  39. They did.
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  40. Why do you think Slavery and Segregation were a thing in America for so long? That's multiculturalism for you.
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  41. The United States and UK are at the bottom of my list. Sadly France and Germany are going downhill as well.
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  42. Those guys are everywhere here in America.
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  43. That's not the only thing. There's plenty of stuff that contributed to a decline in US tradition and culture.
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  44. America hasn't been American since the 1950s - 1980s.
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  45. Japan loves fetishization of women.
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  46. Japan > America
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  47. California hasn't been good in decades.
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  48. Because it is.
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  49.  @bardoomguy  Japan has a real fetishization problem.
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  50. It's pretty convoluted isn't it?
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  51.  @sevenproxies4255  After the past few years of insanity, little if anything surprises me anymore.
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  52. British people hate Irish people. This is common knowledge.
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  53. Why not? You play their Japanese video games on release date.
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  54.  @rachelar  How long ago was that?
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  55.  @rachelar  So why did you live there?
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  56.  @DavidSharpMSc  What’s wrong with being Japanese?
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  57.  @rachelar  Interesting.
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  58.  @rachelar  I know a guy who still lives in Japan. Moved there in 2005 after he lived in the UK. He often tells me Japan has been in decline, but he generally says it was better in 2005. I don’t know whether or not he says this because Japan was new to him then, or whether it was objectively better 20 years ago.
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  59.  @DavidSharpMSc  Obviously, the Beatles was before my time. But my Boomer parents had their albums, and I gave them a listen. The UK is never reaching that high point ever again. That time came and went. The Millennial and Zoomer members of the Lotus Eaters seem quite blackpilled, to say the least. I cannot blame them.
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  60. Nobody is going to read this giant block of text dude.
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  61.  @rachelar  So are you a Gen Xer?
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  62. Japan needs to stay Japan.
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  63. Leave America or UK if you live in either country.
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  64.  @Yummynomnom123  Any chance he's being racist towards you?
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