I feel like I could move to Japan and become the most popular guy at school. Reason? I played Persona 4. That game taught me a lot about the Japanese culture. Things like:
High School only consists of three years.
It is normal to buy dangerous sharp weapons from your local armory.
Japan has it's own Wal-Mart.
You HAVE to call anybody you are acquainted with "Senpai"
Post what you've learned about the wonderful land of the rising sun.
Shin Megami Tensei: Persona 4
Game » consists of 5 releases. Released Jul 10, 2008
Shin Megami Tensei: Persona 4 is a role-playing game developed and published by Atlus for the PlayStation 2. It is chronologically the fifth installment in the Shin Megami Tensei: Persona series. Like its predecessor, its gameplay combines a traditional role-playing game with elements of a social simulation. Its critical and commercial success spawned a sizable media empire, including several spinoff titles.
Post What You Learned About Japan After Playing P4
I learned that:
-bento or "boxed lunches" are a pretty big deal
-there are a lot of honorifics
-school starts in April
-apparently udon soup is nasty
-Your house is most likely to get robbed at 8AM
-Those zany Japanese put proper meals in their lunchboxes
-Wearing skull clothing, dying your hair, and swearing once in a while makes you a terrifying rebel
-Having school on Saturday is a-ok!
-Swords, attack fans, shields, clawed gloves, and guns all count as "art" and may be legally purchased at your local small art shop. Assuming you provide the materials.
-Japan is very concerned about traditional gender roles.
-There is nothing strange about you and your friends sitting around a food court with your school uniforms on...when there's no school that day...and there's a fox sitting with your group.
-High schoolers can get jobs as anything but fast food and retail peons. Because translating in the evenings is totally a typical minimum-wage job, and flipping burgers would shame your ancestors.
-Japan has no machines that fold enevelopes; that's what high schoolers are for.
-You can buy Weapons and Armor Next to the Grocery Store
-Foxes understand English
-Envelope Folding Raises Diligence
- Popularity leads to intimacy
"Being gay in Japan is apparently still a pretty big "oh, fuck" sort of deal.Edit: Maybe just in high school."http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Us2lBEb9z0k&feature=related
1. Japanese High Schools, or at least this one, has school Monday through Sunday, unlike where I live.
2. Japan has tons of, and in my opinion pointless, holidays.
3. Japanese middle-aged nurses hit on young teenage janitors.
4. It is socially acceptable to tell someone that you are in fact "death".
They have school on Saturday. Aside from that, reading the back of the manual, page 34 and 35 specifically, was actually very interesting. It talks about how some of the Personas are based on Mythology, and why. And it also talks about various things that occur in the game and tells the cultural references behind them. Oh, and it's got a fairly detailed list of all the major Honorifics in Japan.
"Kinarion said:i knew it was going to be him"Being gay in Japan is apparently still a pretty big "oh, fuck" sort of deal.Edit: Maybe just in high school."http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Us2lBEb9z0k&feature=relatedI beg to differ."
then i clicked and it was
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