Thanks for sharing guys...

OK, got it, opinions are snobbish and so are replies to people calling you snobbish. Excuse me while I resume drinking my tea, eating my crumpet, and smoking my pipe. Pip pip!

9600 Yen is about $86, but what do I know...I don’t work for a blog.

I wouldn’t know if you hadn’t said anything and still can’t find a fuck to give. Absolutely NOT an argument worth having.

When 99.9% of the people watching this movie and don’t notice this, can we all then agree this article is pretentious?

Outside of the 24hr sign screw up, that all looks pretty good IMO. Could put most signs in my local area of Kyobashi and most wouldn’t look out of place. Nitpicking weird store names or whatever just seems silly when a recent viral chain here is called とんこつは飲み物 (literally ‘pork cutlet is a beverage’) no one can beat…

Part of the problem is that Japan doesn’t look like Japan anymore. It’s kind of a modern vs post-modern thing. The biggest change is that color choices in signs and facades are more uniform or more muted. There are still places that are loud and proud with every color in the visible spectrum, but they still look very…

Are you kidding? A couple of signs being correct has absolutely nothing to do with getting the vibe of the place right. You could replace every kanji in Shibuya with the google translated script of Rick and Morty and the vibe would be intact. When you get to a point of scrutinizing the details, you’re not talking…

If you don’t live there, you won’t know. So, who gives a fuck, really?

Isn’t “a fully-fledged take on the original version” just another way of saying it’s just getting a fresh coat of paint? What’s actually new about this game? New modes of play? New features? Any real reason to buy it if you already own the original?

Yeah. Kotaku gets worse by the day. This a post about a Japanese shop opening another location in Japan. That definitely makes sense on a video games website.

No, you don’t. This is all meme bullshit.

Would it not be better to call these counterfeit Pokemon plush toys rather than fake? Because “fake” plush toys would be cardboard cutouts or wooden blocks. They are plush toys and they do seem to be Pokemon but they are not OFFICIALLY licensed Pokemon plush toys.

I don’t know about this run of fakes, but often the same factory that was licensed to make 100,000 copies for sale will maybe accidentally make 300,000 more copies to accidentally ship to unlicensed customers who accidentally don’t report the use or sale of the licensed characters to the trademark owners. They may…

Um...I feel like I’m missing something here.
What’s the crime?
These are the same crappy plushies I always see at my county fair, along with a giant banana with a mustache.
Are you telling me that banana is also supposed to be a licensed product???

“Think they caught them all?”

It was kind of an accident that I used a Kotaku article by the same guy since I just googled “Japan train punctuality” and it happened to be one of the first links. So I’ll grant you that is not a strong defense but I really wasn’t trying to defend his point, it’s just that you’re literally the first person I’ve ever…

Well considering only small portion of the US rides trains.

I thought the same thing. Meanwhile, in Europe Apple pay works everywhere.

You sound like a real putz if you think trains in Japan are never late.