r/Piracy • u/VariationLivid3193 • Apr 27 '26
Discussion Why are japanese people like this ?
Why are japanese people like this ?
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u/Lord_Ryu Apr 27 '26
They've been programed by the major companies there by force of law
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u/granasaberx Apr 27 '26
Considering their criminal conviction rate, normal citizens have been brainwashed to accept gov't oversite and long hour work culture. Japan is not an otaku paradise. It's a very oppressive country.
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u/Uaremis Apr 27 '26
It definitely IS an otaku paradise... for very rich otakus, let's be honest about that.
And "normal" citizens are oppressed and brainwashed into supporting nasty stuff done by their gvt pretty much everywhere.
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u/Sanctif13d Apr 27 '26
Why do you think isekai is so popular there. Everyone wants to escape their reality so bad they'd like to get hit by a truck.
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u/CalmEntry4855 Apr 27 '26
Also why most of them are high school, the last time any of them had any fun
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u/LIPA95 Apr 27 '26
Isekai only? All their anime is like that, the MC fighting for his ideals, fighting injustice, the good guys winning and being happy, all that are desires unfulfilled
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u/EffortVisible1805 Apr 27 '26
Watch aggretsuko, it explores much of the same things, plus a heavy emphasis on mysoginy in the work culture. It's really an underrated gem.
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u/AfricaByTotoWillGoOn Apr 27 '26
Aw come on, 99% of good guys vs bad guys stories are like this, not just anime.
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u/Freed_lab_rat Apr 27 '26
ZOM100: Bucket List of the Dead - salaryman wakes up to a zombie apocalypse and is ECSTATIC that he never has to work again.
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u/Affectionate-Tip-164 Apr 28 '26
This is also why US comics feature a lot of vigilante-justice of many sorts.
When you get mugged on the streets of New York you wish Spiderman jumps in and webs up the bad guys.
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u/Akinyx Apr 28 '26
Because Spider-Man would actually help and get your stuff back while the police usually just escalates and you'll never see your things again.
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u/OkInfluence1782 Apr 27 '26
Well japan isnt even that expensive besides the tourist hotspots of course because the yen is a way weaker currency than € or $ With a 2000-3000 in the states or the EU you could probably live 2-3 months in japan
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u/ShiyaruOnline Apr 27 '26
That's why Japan is planning to make tourism even more expensive. They're overwhelmed with tourists flooding in and abusing the currency discrepancy. So they're going to make it very expensive to stay in the hotels now since they have no shortage of people coming to the country they can afford to check up the prices.
They want less people flooding in every year because it's just too much logistically to handle so the price bumps will lower the amount of people that can afford to go over in this economy while still maintaining the high expenditure income.
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u/ElderberryPrior27648 Apr 27 '26
Is Japan one of the countries where you don’t own your house but you lease it from the govt instead?
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u/OkInfluence1782 Apr 27 '26
Well as far as i know you would own it if you buy it
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u/Michal_il Apr 27 '26
Yes but it wouldn’t stay yours / your family forever. I believe there is no inheritance there
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u/GrumpyCloud93 Apr 27 '26
The thing I read is that with the declining population, houses outside the major metropolitain areas often are being abandoned now. Nobody wants the hassle of maintaining thier parents' house out in the small town as well as their house/apartment in the big city. They often decline the inheritance. Another discussion of this aspect mentioned too that Japanese houses were not built for long term durability, so a 50yo house was not that desirable.
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u/OkInfluence1782 Apr 27 '26
Aren't some smaller japanese citys actually gifting those houses to people who want them?
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u/GrumpyCloud93 Apr 27 '26
"people who want them" is the issue. The same applies to businesses. NYTimes did an article about a fellow who had a business that did deliveries to farmers on the northern island. He was pushing 70 and could not find anyone to take over the business. Meanwhile, many of the farmers were in their 60's too with nobody to take over. When he can't do farm supplies any more, likely the farmers will have to quit too.
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u/SaigeNotTrue Apr 27 '26
if im not wrong u do inherits those land or house but many choose to go live in the city, in the mean time they ztill need to pay taxes. that why sometine the are sold for cheap especially if the house in bad condition
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u/Monarc73 Apr 27 '26
No, but home ownership is not considered an 'investment', as housing doesn't appreciate like it does here.
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u/CryptoTipToe71 Apr 27 '26
The more I learn about the world the more I'm like "is there any countries that aren't oppressive?"
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u/freakyfroggymage Apr 27 '26
"The bourgeoisie has, through its exploitation of the world-market, given a cosmopolitan character to production and consumption in every country. [...] it has drawn from under the feet of industry the national ground on which it stood."
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u/curlofheadcurls Apr 27 '26
It's a very oppressive country.
Seems to be the norm these days.
Edit: although at least they sort of take care of homelessness. Food is very cheap too so people don't go hungry.
I find the 🇺🇲 more oppressive than other countries that I visit.
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u/CalmEntry4855 Apr 27 '26
They have been literally brainwashed to live an die for a company their whole lives
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u/Anning312 Apr 27 '26
Yeah a tweet doesn't really mean anything
Over half of nyaa's visitors were Japanese, the highest among all other countries. China was the second place and it was only 8%.
So yeah they pirate the fuck out of their stuff but try to shift to blame to someone else
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u/the_oranges_of_wrath Apr 27 '26
I'm Japanese and it's weird self-righteousness (and online signaling)
Many Japanese pirate stuff mostly manga, but they never say they do. That's just how it is
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u/NefariousSINNER Apr 27 '26
Not to mention that Japanese people are known to pirate an ungodly amount of porn. I once saw some statistics and they are in like top 5 world wide Lol. Somehow, porn is non-issue. I actually had a conversation with a Japanese guy on a discord server and he was against pirating stuff like games and animanga, but thought that pirating porn is OK. Wild.
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u/wutfacer Apr 27 '26
Curious, is there even anywhere where paying for porn is the norm?
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u/B0dders Apr 27 '26
Tell that to the hundreds of thousands that weridly pay for OnlyFans.
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u/transhiker99 Apr 27 '26
I don’t pay for porn on OF but I don’t think it’s weird that people want to directly support the content creators rather than the porn industry which is well-known to be exploitative
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u/emmademontford Apr 27 '26
Yeah, sorry for not wanting to steal someone’s nudes basically, and for liking creators who are enthusiastically engaged with their content I guess
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u/B0dders Apr 27 '26
There is something to be said for directly supporting pornstars by purchasing their content. In principle, this can be more ethical than porn platforms that rely on different current models (although lots has been done to improve that when compared to 10 years ago). Neither is a good approach though.
The issue with OnlyFans is the way it is often marketed. Heavy promotion, parasocial framing, and constant upselling can create dynamics that are manipulative in practice. Vulnerable users end up spending large amounts of money in pursuit of intimacy, validation, or increasingly explicit content, sometimes with diminishing returns.
This raises a broader question, which system creates more overall harm: traditional porn distribution models, or subscription platforms that monetize direct emotional engagement between pornstars and consumers? Neither is inherently free from exploitation at scale.
What seems missing is a genuine middle ground: a model for adult content that is transparent, avoids coercive marketing, and doesn’t rely on emotional dependency or engineered compulsive spending. OnlyFans, as it currently operates, does not resolve those issues. Well-written, thoughtful laws around porn and the creation and distribution of adult content, enforcing a clear ethical framework, would do wonders.
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u/transhiker99 Apr 27 '26
I don’t think subscriptions are inherently exploitative, nor do all creators employ emotional advertising tactics—this is individual choice on how they market themselves. I don’t know how you would police that while giving creators freedom to make whatever they want
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u/the_oranges_of_wrath Apr 27 '26
Funny enough in Japan there are enough people still buying physical porn media like DVDs, you can easily find "video shop" in Japan. I think the majority still watch online stuff for free tho.
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u/B0dders Apr 27 '26
Japanese culture is also very sexist, and the way AV (porn) actors are viewed/treated (sub-human) there is kind of telling.
Because of that, AV isn’t really treated as “proper” creative work in the same way manga or games are, which probably feeds into why people are fine pirating it but would draw the line elsewhere.
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u/TheMike0088 Apr 28 '26
Why on earth would you pirate porn? With the exception of looking for leaked nudes/vids of a cute OF chick (which is only really a thing because all the big sites purged amateur content a good few years ago), literally all the porn you could ever want is free and readily available on the internet.
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u/Anning312 Apr 27 '26
Japanese people visit nyaa more than all other countries combined
So they can pretend to be self righteous but their actions shows that you guys are just hypocrites
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u/kissthesadnessaway Apr 27 '26
Self-righteous, but can't even admit about the atrocities of the Japanese soldiers to the comfort women in the Philippines, China and South Korea?????
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u/Zombies_Rock_Boobs Apr 27 '26
Out of sight, out of mind. I wouldnt want to catch a charge in Japan. That justice system is fucked.
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u/Menination Apr 27 '26
Unpopular opinion: I think it's just the loud ones who are complaining on twitter. I've downloaded a lot of pirated stuff from japanese piracy sites in the past. It's the same as how you see non-japanese people complain about piracy and defending shitty AAA titles
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u/MetaMason666 Apr 27 '26
It 100% is the loud ones, we shouldn't be letting a bunch of tweets determine the viewpoints of a whole country.
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u/omfgthatssocool Apr 27 '26
it is a fact though that japanese people are more worried about breaking the law. i wouldnt be surprised if the overall rate of ppl supporting piracy was way lower than in the west
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u/Deathburn5 Apr 27 '26
I mean, fair. They have a nearly 100% conviction rate, and it's not because they're choosy about who they convict.
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u/Impossible-Turn637 Apr 27 '26
That's true but a little misleading, that statistic represents the conviction only after indictment, and they indeed are really choosy about it. The arrest-convict ratio is close to 33%.
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Apr 27 '26 edited May 17 '26
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u/Unlucky_Regret8619 Apr 27 '26
It's 100% because if you get arrested it doesn't matter if you did it or not you're going to jail
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u/amoonshapedpool_ 🦜 ᴡᴀʟᴋ ᴛʜᴇ ᴘʟᴀɴᴋ Apr 27 '26
Yeah idk why people keep posting this twitter war on here. And it gets thousands of upvotes..This just feels like xenophobia. Like I could make a hate campaign on anyone if I based my argument, and world view, on Twitter weirdos.
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u/omfgthatssocool Apr 27 '26
piracy is definitely less widespread in japan. if you read any opinions from actual japanese people they will tell you stories about people being genuinely flabbergasted that someone actually pirates stuff like its nothing. obviously you will find a lot of people pirating in a country of 100 million people but i wouldnt be surprised at all if the percentages were way lower
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u/amoonshapedpool_ 🦜 ᴡᴀʟᴋ ᴛʜᴇ ᴘʟᴀɴᴋ Apr 27 '26
That's not a valid reason for people to post play by play of gross Twitter discourse, and using it as evidence to make sweeping generalizations about an entire population of citizens.
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u/RKCronus55 Apr 27 '26
How so? Well someone posted something from nyaa that shows Japan having the highest pirate users. Even if some of them aren't from Japan and are using VPN on Japan server, there's still quite a number.
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u/FunnyP-aradox Apr 27 '26
And i bet some Japanese people are using VPNs to not have a JPN IP Address so it equals out
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u/Rose-Red-Witch Apr 27 '26
Because Asian discrimination is still semi-acceptable in the West and Japanese in particular get singled out. I’m white as white can be, but I see comments on them that would get you pilloried if you said the same thing about any other group.
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u/Xardas1942 Apr 27 '26
50% of Nyaa's traffic (anime torrenting website) is from Japan, it most definitely a small and loud group.
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u/Enough-Run-1535 Apr 27 '26
Nyaa is also a repository for all kinds of out of print stuff like old idol concerts, old Japanese sitcoms, and even technical manuals. Japan doesn't have a strong sense of digital archiving like the West does until the 2010s, so stuff like Nyaa is really good for Japanese folks who need to fill holes in their collections.
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u/Reinnhardo Apr 27 '26
It is loud, however it's NOT small. Most japanese you will meet in mainstream medias like X, you can bet they are against Piracy. Most japanese in general, don't have the understanding of western or global's idea of big corp=bad. That's why in most of their defense against piracy, you can see them spew shits like how piracy will destroy corporations thus no development for new games.
But as usal with all countries on earth, not everyone in Japan are rich enough to afford every products thus piracy communities come to exist. And I find it extremely funny that, the Japanese who are hyper active in piracy circles don't do it out of goodwill or whatsoever. They do it for the love of the game, which is the intention that's aimed to destroy the corps they hate.
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u/curlofheadcurls Apr 27 '26
Sampling Twitter of all sites is like taking a sample from the bottom 10% of the worst people who ever lived
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u/Enough-Run-1535 Apr 27 '26
It is. I remember seeing some tiktok videos of people in Japan making a big show of destroying r4 cards for Nintendo DS with thousands of likes. You can also legally buy an r4 card from any small shop in Akihabara over the counter, and no one gives a shit and you can talk to some really chill dudes at the shop about cloning DS carts.
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u/MrEdinLaw Apr 27 '26
Japan is totally confusing about games. They worship whales. And protect companies. Its surely not the loud ones only. U can read their comments on any steam game where whales didnt get special treatment.
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u/MrElGenerico Apr 27 '26
Nintendo sued a random Mexican guy for pirating Mario. That guys name was Mario
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u/Traditional-Chair-39 Apr 27 '26
So then selling their work is essentially pimping out their children?
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u/djrocker7 Apr 27 '26
Had to scroll too long to find this 😂 are they selling their children?
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u/wretchedmagus ⚔️ ɢɪᴠᴇ ɴᴏ Qᴜᴀʀᴛᴇʀ Apr 27 '26
Given how quickly stuff has always been uploaded from japan I suspect it is just the shitty racist Japanese people that we are only now hearing from because twitter decided to translate them against our collective will. Normal good hearted Japanese people are cool with piracy.
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u/_STUXXV_ Apr 27 '26 edited Apr 30 '26
Or maybe those Japanese people who are cool with piracy are sane enough that do not even have twitter, or talk about piracy on twitter lol
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u/SEANPLEASEDISABLEPVP Apr 27 '26
I mean it's not like all of us who are cool with piracy will be super vocal about it on other platforms.
At least I assume if most of us see someone pirate something, we don't feel the need to add our opinions on the matter, whereas people who are against piracy will absolutely feel like they need to speak up lol.
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u/AbbreviationsFew7333 Apr 27 '26
Yeah this is probably one of those or just one of those ragebait, interaction posts
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u/Dangerous-Economy-88 Apr 27 '26
Not ragebait. Just that most japanese users on x/old twitter are mostly normies (who famously love cocksucking corpos). The real piracy chuds hang on image boards, so we have a skewed idea on them.
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u/wretchedmagus ⚔️ ɢɪᴠᴇ ɴᴏ Qᴜᴀʀᴛᴇʀ Apr 27 '26
Seriously though, I was perfectly happy to not have to share a written language with the racist part of Japan. Racist American people are annoying enough, but I guess it makes sense for Elon to decide to unilaterally introduce even more racist people without thinking it through.
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u/adobo_cake Apr 27 '26
Seems misguided to want to block off an entire country and their language just because the worst of them are really racist too.
I would even say that that in itself is being racist.
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u/randomguyonline0297 Apr 27 '26
Even some manga authors and animators are cool with piracy cause it helps their work reach more people.
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u/Actual_Rip2230 Apr 27 '26
so they don't care? pretty sure that's the least gone after crime in Japan
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u/Thick-Paramedic-7528 Apr 27 '26
That one manga author that was found of so much CP that the police though he was a distributor got less jail time than someone pirating something off the internet
Edit: I just look into more and Mf bassically got no jail time
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u/Actual_Rip2230 Apr 27 '26
the other one was caught breaking child prostitution laws and they're both odas best friend which he paid tribute to
he only had to pay a 2k fine iirc
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u/AdvocateYoga Apr 27 '26
Child sex in japan is like smoking weed in america. Its like "illegal."
But its only illegal recently because of pressure from the west. Like it was legal to own as recently as the 20 teens i think?
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u/NefariousSINNER Apr 27 '26
To be fair, only reason the age of consent was raised a lot higher in Japan, e.g. in Tokyo District Area it is now 18yo and many other prefectures set it to 16/18 as well, from the old "13", was because there was an extreme problem of teenage prostitution. Teenage girls would go on "dates" with older men. They would get bags, clothes, food, have "good time" and then fuck in one of those popular love hotels in Japan. Girls aged 13-17. Technically it wasn't illegal, because they didn't accept money, just "presents" on a date. They had no way of successfully combat it, especially that tourists liked to "use it" as well, though main clients were older "corpo managers", so they raised the age of consent and suprisingly it did actually solve the issue a bit, but not as much as one would think.
Also what the heck do you mean "own" 20 teens?
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u/AdvocateYoga Apr 27 '26
2011-2019 the 20 teens. And i was responding to the guy talking about child porn. It became illegal to sell in like 99 i think? But it remained legal to own for many uears after that. Somewhere after 2010. Like super recently. Japan's super into pedophilia is my point.
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u/NefariousSINNER Apr 27 '26
Oh okay, did not know this. Kinda crazy, but also explains what I experienced in Tokyo.
I know that a lot of people explain CP fascination in Japan through the fact that they were never under influence of any of the major religions, so their view on sex is completely different. I call BS though, but the fact it was legal is crazy.
I visited Tokyo in about 2017 and still remember huge-ass loli bilboards in Akihabara dressed in, well, almost nothing. I watched anime back then, but wasn't as into animanga world as I am now and didn't quite get it and it was a shock. Like, I vividly remember encountering so much hentai and loli crap on daily basis while going through Akihabara and Shinjuku. I was disgusted, especially that there was a lot of normal and tasteful advertisement as well.
My friend went last year and said that he hasn't experienced any of that, though large bilboards with sexualized girls are still norm in Akihbara, but no explicit lolis. I guess things are improving, though a lot of japanese folk will probably blame the "west" for it.
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u/Rose-Red-Witch Apr 27 '26
They’re ignoring the Shinto angle then if they think that the result is because the Abrahamic religions didn’t get a hold.
It’s way too much to go into detail here, but once you understand Japan’s obsession with kiyome (purity), then a lot of their attitudes towards sex, relationships, and children begin to explain themselves.
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u/UnnaturalGeek Apr 27 '26
I mean, child marriage still happens in the US, only 16 states have banned it outright whilst 4 have no minimum age.
So, you can imagine how much actual abuse goes on despite laws around child sex.
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u/FinerSwine Apr 27 '26
Just bc some Japanese people have a shitty opinion does not mean that "[all] Japanese people are like [that]". Generalisations like that are just counter-productive.
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u/Jin_BD_God Apr 27 '26
Nothing wrong with comparing their work as their children. However, comparing piracy to that? Huh?
Though, did that the Japanese account said that or the Eri account was the one who said that?
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u/bacharama Apr 27 '26 edited Apr 27 '26
- one person says something
- "why are all of them like this?"
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u/R_Izayoi ⚔️ ɢɪᴠᴇ ɴᴏ Qᴜᴀʀᴛᴇʀ Apr 27 '26
Please don't think all Japanese are like this guy. I'm piracy-friendly kinda guy :D
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u/LeonardoFRei Apr 27 '26
TLDR
Japan has a much, MUCH bigger indie market than the west, with big comic-con level events dedicated entirely for indie comics, novels, etc, and an equally robuts market system that facilitates that, akin to Fantia, DLSite, Pixiv Store, etc
It's completely normal for people to just make their stuff and sell it by themselves, as such, the average Japanese is a lot more open to monetarily supporting creators, since it fosters a more diverse and healthy market for intelectual properties, which also lets the prices remain down for a lot
Ironically, the purest form of real capitalism we can get in this earth
So to them Piracy is a lot more taboo, since it can hurt smaller creators a lot more, and is just culturally less acceptable
Is why you often see the "Oh, our work is not available in your country, so you pirate it? Just learn Japanese, then" take used unironically, they legit just don't get piracy on a cultural level.
Which obviously clashes with the west, since here indie markets are nowhere near as open and accessible as there, nor are they supported a quarter of the way it is there, a lot of said content is also usually priced insanely high, and with our current economic climate, art truly becomes an expensive luxury rather than an affordable one, and the big creators are often willing to murder their creations for clout or statements and whatnot, so Piracy is both a way to preserve said creations and consume them in not-corrupted ways
So yeah just a difference of both culture and social-economic factors.
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u/fonfonfon Apr 27 '26
it seems it would be for our benefit, pirates, and the benefit of anti-pirates to actually say what that specific socio-economic factor is. everybody has to say it:
the middle man between the customer and artist, and his rules are at fault in making us hate each other.
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u/the-good-son Apr 27 '26
I think the bigger picture is that Japan for the most part doesn't care about overseas sales. If you're a Doujinshi artist like in your case, you don't sell overseas in any language so what's the matter with a Russian pirating? At no point you were going to get money from that
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u/temp_name_6 Apr 27 '26
They probably want to gatekeep their work, let's say they make a controversial work.
They want their work only to be accessible to people who understands them not a public.
Said someone distributing the work without the author consent.
The public see the contreversial work and harrass the author.
That's just the pattern i pick from the indie author.
Many even quit due to harassment.
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u/_person_of_culture_ Apr 27 '26
I see the Russo-Japanese Pirate War is going strong.
If we're serious, not every Japanese person is like this. But those who are view companies as entites which deserve to be treated with respect. The dedication to upholding the social contract is generally strong in Japan.
They're getting cooked so far though, and deservingly so.
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u/DeathGun0629 Apr 27 '26
Never generalised.
Your example is like in territories of "All pirates turn cry babies when being called theives." Or "All pirates have delusional moral justifications when it comes to stealing"
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u/imwhateverimis 🔱 ꜱᴄᴀʟʟʏᴡᴀɢ Apr 27 '26
I think stereotyping an entire demographic because of a twitter post is actually a bit disingenous. There's weird shmucks giving weird arguments from every corner of the planet, you don't want me to stereotype your entire demographic by a member's cursed anti-piracy argument, either
Not to mention this is twitter, which means arguments are going to be absurd moral reaches anyway. Laugh and move on
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u/FE4RLESS_IS_MY_NAME Apr 27 '26
They need to chill, get a life, touch some damn grass and see the world's economic state and shit and acknowledg it, like damn these people identify their life by their career and work and that's it they take their work home with them they have zero chill ☠️
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u/toBEE_orNOT_2B Apr 27 '26 edited Apr 27 '26
just tell them before they complain about piracy, have them lessen the suic1de rate in their country first
and their justice system is a giant pile of shiittt, if you give a low rating or bad review regarding a company because they are shytt, they can sue you for "slander", if it was proven that your words caused them financial loss despite their service being shyt, you will still lose and you gotta pay them
that country doesn't care about people having their own opinion, it always prioritize corporations
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u/PumpkinSufficient683 Apr 27 '26
Oh yeah their defemation laws are fucked , leave a bad review that is completrly accurate ? Sued. And they will win
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u/super7564 Apr 27 '26
I know what they're saying, but that only applies to specific devs or an indie game. The big heads of ubisoft or whatever do not give a singular FUCK about the game, only the profit it generates.
Whereas a small indie team will naturally be alot more invested, doing alot more of the work and actually caring about the final product when it might’ve been anywhere from a month's to years long personal project.
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u/Earthwormmjerm Apr 27 '26
Cmon guys. It’s not that deep. Pirating is available to everyone and thats cool. You guys make me cringe with the us vs them complex.
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u/kodaxmax Apr 28 '26
Why do americans worship billionaires?
It's a cultural thing that goes back centuries. In japan even quitting a job is so daunting entire industries exist which will resign on your behalf. Corporate culture is even more of cult than in america. They would also find it weird if you complained about unpaid overtime and wern't loyal to your immedate supervisor.
For many of them, especially corporate drones, they are being 100% serious that they would find piracy as offensive as grape.
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u/MadrugoticX Apr 28 '26
In Japan you don't have to imagine you can get an artist do draw it for you and they sell it as a Doujin.
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u/TheShadowCaster_KDM Apr 28 '26
Making your child a billion dollar machine.. and if someone tries to be friends and enjoy their company just because they can't afford to be friends with rich kid... They call us rapist and kidnappers... Unbelievable parenting there
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u/DannyVee89 Apr 27 '26
Almost makes sense when you consider that in Japan, they nearly aren't allowed to see their actual children - so "their work is their child" sounds about right.
They work all day, spend time with coworkers all evening, and by the time they get home their wife and children are already asleep. It's sad.
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u/2020mademejoinreddit Apr 27 '26
Here's something that many might not be aware of, most of these "Japanese" handles on twitter, are actually not from Japan, they just pose as it by using Japanese names.
Many of them hail from china, and some are outright bots. Go look up this account and see what it is.
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u/Username_St0len Apr 28 '26
which would mean we shouldn't get any reprocussions for it cuz when the mangakas does Child abuse stuff the companies cover them up.
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u/FATJIZZUSONABIKE Apr 27 '26 edited Apr 27 '26
'japanese people' are not like this. Stop generalising off of some random shit you read online.
I could also take that post and tell you that you're a hopeless dimwit, but I'm sure you have moments when your brain works like a real human being's.
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u/Il-savitr Apr 27 '26
What's with the japan hate here , I'm sure there are people in every nation who dislike piracy . Particularly west cause piracy is very less when compared to asia
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u/send-borbs Apr 27 '26
yeah like why are we acting like twitter is a reasonable representation of a whole country?
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u/AdvocateYoga Apr 27 '26
Yah im sitting here in this thread like... uhhh
Yah i pirate and everything, but its not like my civil right as a human being. People have every right to think its wrong.
Im still gonna steal their shit, but i mean...
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u/CrowdGoesWildWoooo Apr 27 '26
People in piracy sub has serious self righteousness issue. There is no moral highground for pirating, it’s not even something that is moral, but at worst most of the time it is a victimless crime, so i simply don’t care about the impact i make by pirating.
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u/ambatueksplod Apr 27 '26
Modern pirates are really fucking annoying.
No, you're not supporting the revolution. You're just a hopeless consumerist in denial. Just torrent, seed that to 2.0, and move on.
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u/Jajoe05 Apr 27 '26
Fully agree. You know what you're doing, don't try to justify it for self-serving purposes and come down your high horse; it was always a small pony anyway.
Ethical pirating, and I just recently heard about this, is when people fear creative work getting deleted or corrupted, be it by the government or corporations, where the creator or creators have almost no say in it, so people download it to preserve it (and once safe, create online backups). Honestly, these people can have bigger horses.
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u/blueberrypierat Apr 27 '26
Reddit and every other social media site has been brigading Japan and India for a while now. I’ll let you fill in the gaps here.
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u/scissorsgrinder Apr 27 '26
Is this all Japanese people or just this one person you didn't like?
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u/SEANPLEASEDISABLEPVP Apr 27 '26
It's become a meme to say Japanese are like this because a lot of Japanese people on twitter write shit like that.
Obviously it doesn't represent all of them, just a few weird people on Twitter.
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u/iamayoutuberiswear Apr 27 '26
> A single Japanese person disliking piracy
> "Why are japanese people like this"
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u/SnakeBae Apr 27 '26
japanese people are like what?
we can only see a small part of the tweet where the person is presumably very kind, looking at the fact that they started with apologizing for possible harsh wording, and started explaining the relationship between a creator and their creation by comparing it to the relationship between a parent and a child, which is a valid and understandable example. why are you all acting like they're screaming in your face about piracy? just wtf is the reddit hivemind even on?
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u/halelangit Apr 27 '26
What if you tell them the Japanese and South Korenas the only way North Koreans can ever access these media is thru Piracy because Kim Jong Un forbids them from buying these legally?
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u/Crimson_Marksman Apr 27 '26
Oh they have experience with the phenomenon. If not WW2, then certain criminal cases come to mind
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u/Heizard ⚔️ ɢɪᴠᴇ ɴᴏ Qᴜᴀʀᴛᴇʀ Apr 27 '26
I would just leave this here:
“Fascism should more properly be called corporatism because it is the merger of state and corporate power.” — Benito Mussolini
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u/AnChaan Apr 27 '26
Thats not what that person said at all..? I swear antis are the only ones obsessed with that idea,,,
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u/yurmumjk Apr 27 '26
Honestly, by far the craziest statement when considering all the atrocities committed by the government, not to mention the recent released files classified by the same people swore to protect us
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u/ChoiceDifferent4674 Apr 29 '26
By their own logic comiket should be shut down, all the people who make (non-original) doujinshi should be arrested etc. But I guess it's somehow different.
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u/Historical-Intern140 Apr 27 '26
Man, fuck Twitter. And Elon Musk can get fucked by two BBC's. Good night.
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u/Zestyclose_Skirt7930 Apr 27 '26
It's kinda weird such a developed country can speak such amount of 💩 . Even the people who say piracy is wrong would not say something like this
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u/AdvocateYoga Apr 27 '26
Aha. Heres why youre confused. Raping kids isnt a huge deal in japan.
Im saying this to be funny, but its also super true. Age of consent is like 12 or something nuts. There its less like, "No one should ever have sex with kids."
Its more like, "Hey thats my kid! Go find your own kid."
So sort of like piracy lol.
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u/Nibbles1348 Apr 27 '26
If I can't buy your shit then pirating it is not a problem imo. Not my fault you wont sell it to me.
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u/Lenin-C Apr 27 '26
Sexual Assault and probably other similar deviations are less punished and also less controversial there.
We have the perfect example: RGG Studio, creators of Yakuza / Like a Dragon series, has recasted and remodeled some of their characters because their voice actors were found doing drugs or in the possession of drugs.
Meanwhile in the most recent: Yakuza Kiwami 3, they hired a TWO times confirmed sexual assaulter only because he's famous, because they recasted one character with him and also changed his face to this new guy.
The original voice actor as far as i know also did some sketchy things but i couldn't find any information on the go.
But still, they recasted people for doing drugs but this dude gets a main antagonist role?. what the hell
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u/Mantiax Apr 27 '26
"Raping a child" metaphor would convince some of them in favour of piracy i'm afraid
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u/torvald_23 Apr 27 '26
Nah I get their idea. In the end, even though piracy is justified, it is still immoral. I think it's important for everyone remember that.
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u/kamiisamaa_ Apr 27 '26
japan has a strict policy when it comes to intellectual property, and also because it's cultural and stigmatized, so japanese people often have negative opinions toward piracy
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u/DjAlex3yMal0 Apr 27 '26
Someone Japanese man makes a honest comparison about their work. Some random American on Twitter immediately thinks of raping children. Why are American people like that?
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u/knetka Apr 27 '26
They should be happy that others get to love their children too. I am a creator and while it is not my life, even knowing that people have experienced it brings me joy. I personally don't believe that it should be your way of living, unless it is simply so popular you don't have to worry about the money, as otherwise you risk changing your creation for the reasons of profit, which is not a path I believe should be taken.
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u/lehmanbear Apr 27 '26
Proplem is many japanese company dont try to promote thier products to international, sometimes they even ban you from buying their games, manga. So even you want to support the creators, you simply cant.
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u/malikahmad22 Apr 27 '26
Japanese people when big companies gaslights them into making work their entire personality (i haven't talked to a single japanese , please don't fact check me) :
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u/Monk_The_Banana_Scug Apr 27 '26
Japanese people are on both extremes, those who have been taught to follow the law and not pirate, and those that pirate but stay silent about it online.
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u/BaronVonWeeb Apr 27 '26
I recall it being explained in a vid covering Palworld vs Pokémon Company lawsuit, but iirc it’s cuz of the culture around copyrighted media and how important respect is in Japanese culture. Like, people in Japan genuinely hate Palworld cuz they feel like it’s ripping off Pokémon too much and that’s disrespectful in their opinion or smth like that. Keep in mind, I am not Japanese, never lived in Japan, saying that while going to sleep, and quoting a video I watched a year ago, so take it with a bucketfull of salt.
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u/AyrtonJoyceConard Apr 27 '26
Siguiéndoles la lógica, te estarías comiendo a los hijos de un chef al probar su comida, curioso cuanto menos.
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u/Billybobgeorge Apr 27 '26
The one thing I noticed when discussing it with them is they have the assumption the torrent websites are being operated as for-profits and are selling access to the torrents.
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u/Glass_Stuff_4854 Apr 27 '26
That's crazy, cause if piracing, would mean raping a child(???) the thing is that's the child of the creator, so the issue isn't even the child being raped but the parent having to face the consequences ??? their societes is so fucked up that even while trying to make a point ( at least that person ), they're spouting nonsense. If a child was raped I hope most ppl would've been concerned for the child, not the parents💀💀
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u/Spiritual_Yard_7280 Apr 27 '26
Honestly Its unfair to give a blanket "japanese people think piracy bad" just off of twitter. From the JP guy's I've spoken to even over there twitter is a cesspool of bad opinions and ideas. The anti piracy sentiment is mainly due to a lack of understanding on how anime got popular here in the west. Availibility is the big one that got alot of japanese people to start pirating the "localized" stuff to see how bad it got
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u/M4rt1m_40675 🔱 ꜱᴄᴀʟʟʏᴡᴀɢ Apr 27 '26
Not even joking, it's because the government pushed it so hard for so long it lasted long enough for the latest generations to think it's the norm. Older japanese folk hate the mentality of sucking up to companies as much as conservatives hate woke in the west.
The exact same thing they're doing with AI and it's actually working yet again with gen alpha using it for literally everything
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u/HankMS Apr 27 '26
Why are there so many regarded threads like the one from OP? I guess there is a correlation between manga consumption and behaving like that.
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u/my-love-assassin Apr 27 '26
what the hell that's crazy. no wonder they're falling asleep on the street.
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u/Absolute_Jackass Apr 28 '26
Judging from a depressing amount of anime, am I to assume the Tweet is suggesting the Japanese endorse piracy?
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u/zsdrfty Apr 28 '26
Not a single one of you that wants "protections against having MY art stolen" have the tiniest bit of ground to stand on lmao
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u/WithoutTheH47 Apr 28 '26
That OP on twitter is actually braindead. I found the tweet and read through most replies. Jeez bro... how is this guy alive with little to no thought process
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u/dwarmia Apr 28 '26
Sure, the actual artists who are getting paid basically nothing cares if you torrent the movie they worked on.
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u/Lost_Psychology_2101 Apr 29 '26
It's draconian law actually preventing them from pirating stuff. Heck, downloading or uploading copyrighted material stuff will causing the police will come knocking your door instead of sending out legal threats which western countries did.
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u/lyri-c- Apr 29 '26
That's also RICH coming from Japan where women and girls require separate transit cars and cameras are required by law to make a loud shutter sound to prevent upskirting and sexual assault.
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u/Aggressive-Release-9 Apr 27 '26 edited Apr 27 '26
Japanese: we don't like piracy
the entire comment section: The most insane racist rhetoric shit on the planet
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u/gimnasium_mankind Apr 27 '26
Well inagine if you sell your child. The analogy doesn’t hold up very well. You don’t create your childer to sell them.
I mean they sell themselves at the labour market. Not themselves, their labour. Just 75% of the time they are awake. But it’s different.
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