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Offline marinosgr

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Anime experiences.
« on: October 09, 2013, 01:37:28 PM »
I'm not quite sure whether this question is for this forum or The Lounge.Anyway here it is.Did you ever have an experience which resembled an anime you watched or anything strange that could only happen in manga or anime?

Offline Bob2004

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Re: Anime experiences.
« Reply #1 on: October 09, 2013, 02:14:13 PM »
Since coming to Japan, I've been feeling kind of like that every day. I never quite appreciated just how realistically anime portrays some things. Living right next to a school especially, I keep noticing little things like the school bell (they really do all use the Big Ben chimes), and the general attitude to clubs and the like (the building where the school band and the school choir practise is close enough that I can hear them practising quite clearly, so I can tell just how much time they spend on it). It's really quite interesting. I had to go to my local ward office today too, and it was just like the office Servant x Service is set in. And the ridiculously short skirts everyone in anime seems to wear, and which I thought were purely for fanservice and nothing else, are actually not all that uncommon, to my surprise.

It works the other way round, too. Watching the first episode of Golden Time the other day, things like the subway station they were in, and the amount of paperwork they'd been given by the university, were eerily similar to my own experiences here.

I haven't experienced any of the weirder things in anime really though, that I can think of (beyond Japan's usual level of weirdness, anyway). Which I guess is what you were actually asking about - sorry :P

Offline marinosgr

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Re: Anime experiences.
« Reply #2 on: October 09, 2013, 02:32:34 PM »
Well your experiences are quite much what I was expecting for an answer.Never thought the weirdest stuff could happen :p
It seems quite interesting though.Are you studying there?

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Re: Anime experiences.
« Reply #3 on: October 10, 2013, 03:32:20 PM »
Yeah, I'm studying in Yokohama for a year as an exchange student. I only got here a week ago, so I'm still getting used to things. I'm sure there are a lot more things in anime which I have yet to notice.

Also, staff at convenience stores. I always thought the way they say "Irasshaimase" in such an incredibly bored, slurred kind of manner in some anime was just meant to be a fun jab at bored teenagers working in convenience stores. But no, shopkeepers actually talk like that, almost all the time. They have to say so much more than western shopkeepers, so they clearly end up just doing it all on autopilot, and it's really noticeable.

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Re: Anime experiences.
« Reply #4 on: October 10, 2013, 04:20:15 PM »
I never had any kind of anime experience. :'( I am sadzzz

Offline marinosgr

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Re: Anime experiences.
« Reply #5 on: October 10, 2013, 04:42:53 PM »
Yeah, I'm studying in Yokohama for a year as an exchange student. I only got here a week ago, so I'm still getting used to things. I'm sure there are a lot more things in anime which I have yet to notice.

Also, staff at convenience stores. I always thought the way they say "Irasshaimase" in such an incredibly bored, slurred kind of manner in some anime was just meant to be a fun jab at bored teenagers working in convenience stores. But no, shopkeepers actually talk like that, almost all the time. They have to say so much more than western shopkeepers, so they clearly end up just doing it all on autopilot, and it's really noticeable.

It sure is nice.It seems like you are going to have a lot of fun.I'd like to go as an exchange student too but nothing like this is supported by my university :( .We only have Erasmus which only works for european countries and for shorter periods of time.

I never had any kind of anime experience. :'( I am sadzzz

My neither :P .No need to get worked up for it though ;)