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March 13, 2009 in Asians, Celebrity, Thoughts by Moye | No comments

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This whole “kawaii” thing in Japan is getting out of control, especially when Japan appoints three girls as their new “ambassadors of cute” to help boost tourism and provide more jerking off material for awkward white otaku guys.

Shizuka Fujioka dresses as a schoolgirl, Misako Aoki, a Victorian doll in voluminous frilly skirts and Yu Kimura is a singer dressed in a polka dot shirt with a bunny print, offset by bouffant back-combed hair. Her look has made her “a fashion leader in Tokyo teens’ favorite haunt, Harajuku.”

Three questions:

  1. Did you really have to pick the three most stereotypical looks for Japanese girls? 
  2. Are any of these girls remotely cute? Maybe the one on the right (despite her horrific hair extensions), but COME ON NOW. 
  3. Why was I not picked for this?

I guess I should be happy that they did not pick Magibon. I hate that girl, but mostly because she has such messed up teeth.

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THIS.

January 9, 2009 in Asians, Thoughts by Moye | No comments

I’m pretty sure THIS is real.

THIS is just wrong. I feel my thousands of samurai ancestors turning over in their graves. Except that I don’t think they were buried but most likely cremated with their bones all piled up in a little ceramic jar or something like that. And they aren’t samurais, but more like poor peasants.

I wish THIS was around when I was writing my senior thesis. I wouldn’t even have written one. I’d just put the URL on a piece of paper, bound it at Kinko’s and then turned it in.

THIS is why I like to make sure people know the difference between kawaii (cute) and kowaii kowai (scary).

THIS makes me miss the Japanese classes at Brown, which were always so much fun. Granted there were always a couple people who were into anime and one of them asked me out on a date, but most of them were just other Asians trying to pick up more Asian languages. I think I met most of my good friends from those classes (I’m talking about YOU, Lee-san and Yoo-san).

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