Japanese Culture

I have often bemoaned the current blend of Japanese culture which is so prevalent in video games, particularly the Japanese ones.  Now don't get me wrong I love Final Fantasy VII.  But since then I have been increasingly baffled by their culture.  Next was FF8 with it's main character who had less charisma than a brick wall.  I watched Princess Mononoke which wasn't... awful.  Then I watched Steamboy which was.  And somewhere in the middle was Howl's Moving Castle.  Then I was surprised by Spirited Away, finally a Alice in Wonderland story that made sense.  Then there was the miss-paced Ponyo.

 And I tried, honestly I did.  I watched anime, Cowboy Bebop was great and I naively thought it would all be like that.  But then Full Metal Alchemist are you kidding me?

So any way this video manages to capture just about everything in Japanese culture that I dislike.  Things which are so hard to put into words.


One thing I can put into words is Japan's strange need to promote environmentalism.  Which is also featured in the video.  It's like a dead horse they keep beating.  Sure we shouldn't destroy the environment but I can't help feeling a little like Mr. Burns.

"Oooh, so Mother Nature needs a favor?! Well maybe she should have thought of that when she was besetting us with droughts and floods and poison monkeys! Nature started the fight for survival, and now she wants to quit because she's losing. Well I say, hard cheese."    — CM Burns.