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*Off-Topic: I just thought of this when I saw this article, but I wanted to know if ぴか was an actual word used in Japanese to represent *sparkle*. If I'm wrong, please confirm this. I can't think of the name of what these words are called, but they're usually said with repeated syllables.
Example: ぶりぶり (cutesy) or むずむず (itchy)
I think that's what we're all worried about, haha.
And, yeah, ぴかぴか is totally acceptable as describing something that sparkles.
It's not that I find it offensive, I just find it ridiculous/hilarious. I know this is childish, but it's very bad placement for something that looks the way it does.
Well, since you ask, yes. Or rather:
Giant inflatable Pikachus: cool!
Entrance looks like a vulva:
I hadn't noticed until you mentioned it, but so what?
It seems to me that you and everyone who is shocked (shocked!) by this is being a prude.
> Or is this really as weird and twisted as I think it is?
Everything is, I guess.
> How could anyone have thought that this was a good idea?
Well, it's a common design in nature to have small beings coming out of the belly/guts/uterus of a large friendly beast.
> Couldn’t they have made a regular-looking doorway
Perhaps, but it would have been more work and a less elegant design. Anyway, for mammals, the vulva is as regular a doorway as it gets (along with the mouth and nose; the anus is more one-way).
There's something hypocritical and self-fulfilling about prudery: you seem to be saying this is a bad decision, not because it's shocking in itself (few things are), but because it can be seen as shocking by prudes (which of course you're not, but whose mindset you can imagine). Won't anyone think of the children? Missionaries busily reforming native cultures must have been like that. It's the kind of bizarre thinking that brought Janet Jackson's breast to the world's attention. Thanks a lot!
I sentence you to a viewing of Courbet's "Origin of the World" (nsfw or prudes)
http://peintres.celebres.free.fr/COURBET/index-...
End of rant (wow, sorry!). And thanks for the cool pic.
When I looked at the photo, I really first thought "what the hell, that looks like the've put a c*** on pikachu!", but then I was compelled to think otherwise...
Shame on you for bringing my perverted mind back to the lead.
I suppose that japan was counting on Americans being a little more mature.
Sorry, but you seem to have missed the bit about the source of this snark. It's a Japanese blog. If you scroll down a bit, you'll see that many of the very Japanese commenters are also laughing (or "w"ing, as the case may be) their immature little butts off right along with me. I may not be right, yes, but at least I have company.
Anyway, my Japanese friends found it amusing (They were the ones that first mentioned it).
You can cry once you are inside Pikachu.
What on earth where they thinking, that's a bit too far forward...
My problem is WHY HAVE I NEVER HAD THE CHANCE TO SEE ONE OF THESE!? =D That thing is awesome! I want one!! -is still a YOUNG child at heart-
IThe placement of the entrance is jsut... unnecessary lol.
Perhaps the side would have been better?? =)
I reckon its pretty scrued up for it being what it is...
a kids programme
all i wanna know is who designed that they must either be seroiusly stupid
or have issues.