Yahallo and welcome back to Kinda Neet I'm here today to settle the age-old
debate and answer once and for all why real life japan
is exactly like anime japan number one have people the ship just wait for the
field trip slice of life anime comes in all shapes and sizes
from a nerdy guy forced to choose between a buffet of beauties to
oh um i guess that's actually about it but no matter how many girls are in the
harem there's two main tropes that we can always count on
the ever-present beach episode and the highly anticipated field trip arc and
unfortunately for you degenerates today we're just
going to look at the field trips now i don't know about you but growing
up in snowy canada i've never once heard of an entire class taking an overnight
trip across the country but if anime is to be trusted not only
are these trips common but they're an essential part of the school experience
and well the concept is real because anime doesn't lie
very often in japan school trips like these are known as shugakuryoko
and typically take place during the graduating year of elementary school
middle school and of course high school much like school festivals and
class duties the trips are intended to promote teamwork and leadership
blah blah blah but really they're just for the pillow fights
hot goss "forget about ghost stories i want to hear how far you've gotten Togashi"
and love confessions
schools from big cities will often head out into the country while schools for
more rural areas go to antarctica just about every time i've been inside
of a major japanese train station i've seen huge crowds of uniformed youths
huddled together on the ground talking quietly amongst themselves
while one kid gets scolded by the teacher for sneaking a cell phone inside
of a bag of chips or was that i spend so much time
watching anime these days that i'm starting to lose track of reality
"hey big brother" sorry one sec i'm filming wait i don't have a little sister
number two your intentions to follow social conventions
might be a little bit cringy or is it if you've watched as much anime as i have
then you're probably around an n2 level japanese speaker (joke)
you know all the essential words like "Baka" and maybe even "itadakimasu"
which is what's called the set phrase which is just a socially expected
response to a given situation often times one that doesn't actually
make any sense when broken down into words
there are a ton of these in anime that you'd probably recognize
like "kon'nichiwa" which while usually translated as hello
it literally means as for today
"ittekimasu" meaning i will go and come back "tadaima" usually translated as i'm home
but actually meaning right now and of course "itadakimasu"
which is always translated to let's eat but actually means
i humbly receive but receive from who you just made that food yourself but my
point here isn't haha japan's so quirky it's haha language so quirky after all
we have plenty of set phrases in english like you're welcome you're welcome to
what all of a sudden what's a sudden last
time i checked that wasn't a noun so to speak like what the **** does that
even mean
basically what i'm saying is language is totally fluid and
words just mean whatever the majority of people agree they do
which is totally poggers when you think about it and according to a study done
by j-town in 2015 over 90 percent of people living in
japan perform this pre-meal ritual i'd love to learn about some set phrases
from other countries so if you know of any good ones make sure to let me know
in the comments number three when you're done memin it's
time to get dreamin when looking back at iconic protags
there are a few dream jobs that seem to come up
again and again musician game designer anime artist
and hokage but what do real kids in japan want to be when they grow up well
thanks to a 2019 study by sony life insurance
we have the answer coming in at the number one spot
with a whopping 30 percent of middle school boys dream job
is youtuber
what am i even doing here i can't compete with
millions of japanese children my parents are right
i should just play it safe and become a professional esports player
ah for **** sake number three video game designer
four programmer and number five ceo the only job less likely than youtuber
and as for the shojo number one musician two manga artist
and then a bunch of selfless real jobs so it seems to me that
anime is just trailing several years behind real life so things like youtuber
and esports gamer aren't really talked about but all the
more traditional dream jobs are well represented
the only anime i've seen to actually feature a youtuber
was the abysmal japan sinks 2020 which had a
paramotor piloting dj turned rapper "yeah hey hey let's get it" so this is how the
world ends not with a bang but with a "don't forget to subscribe, smash the like button and buy my merch"
number four don't be afraid of the cicada if you've watched
yeah any anime ever then you must be triggeringly familiar with a certain
soundbite that goes a little something like
it's basically the anime equivalent of the wilhelm scream
the sound you're hearing is actually the mating call of the terrifying bugs known
as cicada which can attract a
girl cicada from over a mile away initially i just assumed that this was
just an anime trope used as a way to convey the summer heat
through sound but after doing some research
i've discovered that not only is this sound an important part of japanese
culture but one of the biggest struggles the
island nation faces is the ever-increasing number of cicada
bombs people are boarding up their windows and
locking themselves inside out of fear of encountering one of these
cicada bombs in some twisted form of psychological
warfare the conniving critters flip onto their backs
and pretend to be dead until approached by an innocent passerby
at which point they flip over and skirt around screaming at the top of their
lungs for no other reason than to **** with us
a problem so prevalent that news organizations run instructional videos
on how to spot the fakers but what about the non-psychopathic cicada well they're
actually quite beloved in japan when you think
about summer you probably have some nostalgic
sights smells and sounds that bring you back to your childhood
spent seeing other kids play outside while you sit at home and watch anime
while in the japanese countryside summer just isn't summer without the
constant chirping from off in the distance
so much so that they even gave it a name higurashi
meaning evening cicadas does that mean the anime is
not about higu getting a rash it's even a common pastime for japanese children
to grab their nets meet up with their squad and hunt them
down which is actually the origin of pokemon
its creator satoshi tajiri's nickname as a kid was bug-san
very creative the hotter it is outside the more intense the sound
so for anyone who's grown up in japan the quickest way for an anime to convey
its setting is through
number five who needs a degree when you've got coffee
whether you're hikigaya level obsessed with the beautiful bean brew
or have terrible taste like nishkata it's hard to argue with coffee's magical
ability to make you forget that you're completely exhausted for a few hours
until
much like in anime there is a great deal of pressure placed on adults and kids
alike to excel at their endeavours which most
of the time in anime means studying for exams participating
in clubs and kicking it with your harem but who
has time to sleep when you're busy juggling
3 4 10 girls at once not anime protags that's why it's all too common a sight
to see them ordering a steamy cup of joe from family restaurants cafes and most
commonly vending machines but is coffee actually
as popular as it seems back in the simpler time known only as
2012 when our biggest worry was that the mayans
couldn't count very high it really wasn't too common to see my teenage
brethren drinking straight coffee it certainly did happen but nothing
compared to now when my body is more bean than man but being
such a common anime trope i was shocked to learn that despite
their vending machine overlords japan is a pathetic number 43 when it
comes to coffee consumption drinking less than half
of what canada does sitting proudly at number 19.
no big deal or anything just sitting top 10% in the world but that doesn't
necessarily mean that anime is wrong due to its incredibly convenient
availability i still have to imagine its purchase by
high schoolers is much more common than the rest of the world
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