Only in Japan, Real Men Go to a Hotel With Virtual Girlfriends

Oberon · 09-04-10, 03:50 PM

Fantasy is a much nicer world than reality, can you blame them?

Takeda Shingen · 09-04-10, 03:57 PM

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Originally Posted by Oberon

Fantasy is a much nicer world than reality, can you blame them?

That is certainly true.

Castout · 09-04-10, 06:47 PM

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Originally Posted by Oberon

Fantasy is a much nicer world than reality, can you blame them?

Yes, you can still very much blame them

antikristuseke · 09-04-10, 11:51 PM

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Originally Posted by Castout

Yes, you can still very much blame them

I see your facepalm and raise you another

Oberon · 09-05-10, 06:58 AM

From what I've seen of Japan from an external viewpoint, and really Joegrundman would be the better man to address this, but there's a strong work ethic in Japan, you work, work, work and work. Japanese women are no doubt as fussy as American and European women and so for the average bloke who likes his anime and manga, is at work for most of the day, his coping mechanism is to escape to a fantasy world.
Let's face it, if there wasn't such a market for it, it wouldn't sell, which means that it's a release valve of some sort for a generation of men (and women mind you, although the games rarely tailor to them) whose only escape from the crushing brutality of reality is unreality. Once it was books, then it was films, now it's video games. Japan just takes it a step further, as they usually do. Different countries, different sociologies. We may look down on them, but they probably look down on us in different areas.

robbo180265 · 09-05-10, 08:34 AM

09-04-10, 03:50 PM	#1
Oberon Lucky Jack Join Date: Jul 2002 Posts: 25,976 Downloads: 61 Uploads: 20	Fantasy is a much nicer world than reality, can you blame them?

09-05-10, 06:58 AM	#5
Oberon Lucky Jack Join Date: Jul 2002 Posts: 25,976 Downloads: 61 Uploads: 20	From what I've seen of Japan from an external viewpoint, and really Joegrundman would be the better man to address this, but there's a strong work ethic in Japan, you work, work, work and work. Japanese women are no doubt as fussy as American and European women and so for the average bloke who likes his anime and manga, is at work for most of the day, his coping mechanism is to escape to a fantasy world. Let's face it, if there wasn't such a market for it, it wouldn't sell, which means that it's a release valve of some sort for a generation of men (and women mind you, although the games rarely tailor to them) whose only escape from the crushing brutality of reality is unreality. Once it was books, then it was films, now it's video games. Japan just takes it a step further, as they usually do. Different countries, different sociologies. We may look down on them, but they probably look down on us in different areas.

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