We may have to nuke Japan again…
I have become something of a Japan-O-phile. I’ve become fascinated by the little yellow nine irons in spite of myself. Their cooking is often intriguing and ghastly. They’re unfailingly polite and courteous. They don’t have the rampant crime that’s killing us. There’s a lot of Jap programming on Nutflix and most of it is just awful. Maybe not as bad as the CBC…but close.
The other day I was trying to watch their version of The X Files. It’s a Japanese cop show where they go around investigating horrible occult murders involving Jap folklore spirits and hobgoblins. Long story short - two young Japanese girls get murdered in a “maid cafe”.
So the first thing I ask is, “What is a Maid Cafe”? Because I instantly thought of some kind of unsavoury vibe involving a themed cat-house for filthy unwholesome kinky perverts like Texson or Jack. Where the incels go in, hand over a billion ¥ and get a gummer or a ride if ya catch my drift.
So I did a web search and it turns out that my gutter suspicions were totally unfounded. I guess maid cafes are just cafes where the waitresses dress up in maid costumes and call the customers by archaic honorific titles like “lord” and “lady “. Their costumes aren’t particularly slutty either. Apparently you take your old lady into these places and she gets the Royal treatment too.
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What in hell is wrong with those people? Oh well - in the show the perp got murdered by a vengeful spirit that uses humans the way our witches us familiars like evil black cats. The girls got kilt by an eeeeevil school teacher, and the perp was then kilt in turn for the crime by the spirit. Justice is served…👍
Maybe I should put a pin in this? Another thing I don’t get is the obsession their girls have with wearing animal ears on their heads? What’s up with that? Is that a perv kink thing too? Is it the Jap equivalent of our “bronies” and “furries”? (For the record I don’t understand our perverts and generally don’t want to)… but are they perverts or just goofy kids?
Yup… maybe there’s a lot of things I don’t need or want to know…
They call the cat ears "Neko", which means cat. In anime characters with the ears are the cute and quirky friend that the hero eventually falls for. Its a way for the audience to know the role that character takes, just like hair color and hair style tell you the characters 'role'. We don't have anything like it in our culture except maybe in Star Trek you always knew the red shirt was going to die.
ReplyDeleteI suspect Japanese girls wear them to suggest they are the cute and quirky to Japanese boys.
Exile1981
I kinda thought it might have something like that going on, E. As far as Japanese theatre goes they are hopelessly stuck in tradition and originality is largely beyond them. But... when they DO strike out in new directions... they can produce better stuff than our best here in the west. We are sinking in arts and literature too. Original thought is getting harder and harder for us too...
DeleteMaid cafes are not a sexual thing, they are a way for people to get out and feel special as opposed to just another sardine in a mega city. There is an even bigger culture divide between rural and urban in Japan than here.
DeleteMy opinion is high density urban living is bad for human minds, look at the ratopia studies. Its why cities tend to be far left and into various perversions.
Exile1981
LOL this 73 yr old rocker's favorite band, having only all my oldies to listen to prior ( Zep, Rush, BOC, Metallica, Bowie, etc ,) is Band Maid who use the maid cafe motif but rock like you would not believe.
ReplyDeletehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6ZSvmnkS00
I've always had a bit of yellow fever, just never moved on it. My main thing is shape, since my wife is built like the 2 above, but with smaller boobs, I'm good. That type figure seems to be burned into my DNA, though I DO appreciate other fine figures too.
ReplyDelete"Fat bottom girls make this rockin' world go round!"
That's a cartoon I can get behind! Nasty girls. They shall be punished right away!
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