How was this allowed on TV?

>>150295711
What is wrong eith it

>>150295711
>documentation about the territorial advances of a tarantula is considered a bad thing for tv

>>150295711
The same way kiss sis was

Japan is a degenerate hellhole.

>>150295711
Because SJW scumfucks hold no power in Glorious Nihon.

>>150295767
The raunchy part of Kiss x Sis was not in the TV version, but in the OVAs.

>>150295777
That's a weird way to spell America.

>Americans still crying up to this day.

>>150295892

What? The threat here would be old-fashioned moral guardians. Do kids these days only care about SJWs?

>>150296573
>he says this when cinemax plays softcore porn during the same times

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>>150295711

Japan is using cartoons to create a sex crazed youth that will return birth rates to normal.

>>150295892
SJW doesn't really have power it's just that their government allow them to and the media that made them look like the good guys

>>150296668
>softcore porn
There's not even a single nipple in american cinema, try somewhere else, european cinema has actual blowjobs in it.
Sadly religious nuts went batshit insane and made the movie 18+

>>150299221
I thought sexual 2D is why youths aren't going after 3D?

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If it's allowed in Akihabara as a big advertisement then it's allowed on TV

This was only yesterday and has been up for a while

>>150299551
how does it post sideways when it appears straight in paint

>>150299562
Metadata

>>150299547
nigga I aint even seen the show but im fairly damn sure it's Keijo!!!!!!!!

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>>150299580
makes sense, thanks anon

>>150299221
I've always found it funny how America censors the fuck out of cartoons, removing all traces of blood and sex and even cigarettes, when the kids are fucking like rabbits and shooting up their classrooms. Meanwhile it's the opposite in Japan.

>>150299515
Why do you think VR technology is improving as well? Soon enough Japs will be able to fuck 3D women while thinking they're fucking 2D women. It's all part of the keikaku.

>>150299598
the perks of being a /f/a/g/

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>>150299606
>Meanwhile it's the opposite in Japan.

How the fuck can you say this when Japan censor their own porn?

>>150299955
Wasn't that because USA bullied them hard?

>>150295711
Only watched Keijo for the armpits desu.

>>150299494

There is nudity in plenty of American non-porn movies, though.

You're either an idiot, or willfully retarded.

>>150299955
I was talking about regular cartoons not porn

>>150299805
Business idea: ugly prostitutes enhanced with VR.

>>150299580
How do you fix it?

>>150295711
By living in Japan

>>150295711
its brief, and one can argue its water

>>150295892
nigga they have to deal with the right version of sjws, christian values from the 50s

>>150295892
Which is why the choose not to market some games here right faggot because the cunts cried about their vaginas.

>>150300849
save as png or copy pic and paste as new pic or
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=remove+exif+from+jpeg

>>150301446
>>150300849
also just "save as" might work

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>>150295711
Because no pubic hair or nipple are shown.

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>>150299606
>America censors the fuck out of cartoons, removing all traces of blood and sex and even cigarettes

>>150295892
yeah the same nation with censored porn is the one that has nobody against lewd acts on the idiot box

>>150295711
It's broadcast on premium, subscription based channel.

>>150295892
Oh look, another retard who thinks Japan actually watches shit like this. No reputable TV channel would broadcast this shit.

>>150295711
Everything is allowed on premium channels.
You know, as long as it's not loli, because then even an innocent pantyshot might not fly.

>>150295711
keijo!!!!!!!!!!!

>>150302471
>Oh look, another retard who thinks Japan actually watches shit like this. No reputable TV channel would broadcast this shit.
What did he mean by this?

>>150295777
>Japan being more degenerate than America

>>150299494
No, seriously, go look at what plays on Cinemax at 2am and say with a straight face that it isn't soft-core porn.

>>150295711
Great, another ignorant american.

Lewd anime (and other ones that are aimed at otaku) is usually aired around midnight on most TV stations.
Second, if it's extra raunchy, it's likely hidden behind a paid subscription thing - I believe you guys HBO, which is like that. You have something called Game of Thrones on it, which supposedly doesn't pull any punches with the sexual stuff, nudity, and violence (I haven't watched it myself, but I've heard stuff).
>>150296113 is also right - a lot of people assume that ALL anime (except movies) airs on TV. OVAs are a thing, and usually the lewder stuff you see are from them.
>>150301281
If those "christian values from the 50s" are what's keeping the country afloat right now, I'd gladly accept them. America is going down the shitter, and most of you aren't even realizing it.

>>150303961
>If those "christian values from the 50s" are what's keeping the country afloat right now, I'd gladly accept them. America is going down the shitter, and most of you aren't even realizing it.
>>>/pol/

>>150304003
>>>reddit

Too far

>>150304003
This may come as a surprise to you, but people outside of /pol/ can also be repulsed by 3DPD being PD.

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>>150299606
My theory about this is that Japan has a strict tatemae-honne separation while America has much less so and Americans tend to wear their hearts on their sleeves. For Japs it's clear and obvious what's allowed in the public sphere and what should be restricted in the private sphere, while many Americans are raised with the idea that the separation between private and public is minimal (not absent of course, minimal). This is why a 'cool' smoking character in a kids show sets a bad example, while in the Nihons it's not.

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>>150304075
>pointing out the flaws in a country makes me /pol/
It's the new fad to attack someone's post. If the ideas can't be disproven, just say go to /pol/ or reddit.


>>150295711
>How was this allowed on TV?
Japan also sometimes broadcasts slightly different versions of the anime episode (no fog in shower, nipples shown, etc) on the late night channels or the AT-X satellite channel.

For example, the uncensored versions of various anime such as Sekirei or Freezing were on AT-X.


>>150299606
>when the kids are fucking like rabbits and shooting up their classrooms. Meanwhile it's the opposite in Japan.
At the public library branch almost next to the public high school at the NE section of my city, the library had to install hypodermic needle drop box disposal units in the restroom areas and in each restroom stall. Otherwise, too many syringes were being tossed in the trash can or on the ground.

Yeah, crime rate in that area is sky high too.

>>150304192
>honne
>tatemai
Oh, thank god for reminding me. I was thinking about posting this on /a/ one day, but I forgot to.

"Honne" means to talk honestly and express your feeling without reservation.

"Tatemai" means to hide you true feeling and to say what you think people want to hear.

I must admit that in my 16 years of living and working in Japan I have never found any two people - be they Japanese or otherwise - who could agree on the definition and implementation of these two Japanese concepts. I therefore don't intend to engage in a cultural analysis of their meanings at this juncture.

What I do wish to point out is that Japanese have been trained from childhood not to express their true feelings and to "go with the flow." Consequently, Westerns tend to perceive Honne as "telling the truth" and Tatemai as simply "lying."

If Australian students are expected to cope in a positive manner when dealing with Japanese it is imperative that they, at least, try to understand this vital concept of Japanese culture.

However, it must also be pointed out that Japanese are not averse to lying. They will say things they don't mean - just like anybody else. The myth about Japanese never lying is just that - a myth.

Yet, time and again, I have seen Australian students shocked, surprised and ultimately hurt when they find out their Japanese counterparts have not been totally honest with them.

Many Australian students coming to Japan for the first time are permanently turned off by Japan when they discover how deceiving and circumspect the Japanese can be.

If, on the other hand, they are adequately prepared - and forewarned of this cultural idiosyncrasy - they will be more able to cope with it in a positive and beneficial manner.

>>150304285
The more level the playing field is the better chances for positive cross-cultural understanding to take place. "Honne" and "Tatemai" are two of the most essential aspects - and least understood by Westerners - of Japanese culture.
It is a wise and formidable opponent who can learn to adroitly use "Honne" and "Tatemai" to their advantage.

>>150304075
You didn't point out a single flaw in any country, you just made an irrelevant shitpost
>>150304180
3Ds being PD has literally nothing to do with what either of us were talking about, what are you trying to say?

>>150304314
"Tatemai" is one of the essentials of holding the Japanese group mentality together. Japanese go to extreme lengths to engage in, what appears to be meaningless conversation - and many times it is. However, it must be remembered that the Japanese are almost pathologically concerned about what others think of them - thus their proclivity to always smile, use "Tatemai" and strive to be in constant good standing within their group. The biggest fear of any Japanese is to be ostracized from the group which is what accounts for their constant desire to be included within its confines at virtually any cost.
On the other hand, Australians - and Westerners in general - tend to be more individual in their approach to interpersonal relationships. So when Australians witness Japanese smiling to everyone and trying to be "all things to all people" they tend to be put off by what they perceive as fawning, or being a nation of professional apple polishers. "The Japanese character has thus been formed in a social environment which forced people from the time or their birth onward to maintain their own social standing and to respect their relationships with others.".
The issue of group as opposed to individual should be more openly dealt with by both Japanese and Australian students to ensure a better understanding of where each other is coming from.
In all fairness it must be noted that Japanese themselves exclude each other from certain core groups. So when Australians are excluded from a particular Japanese group they shouldn't feel offended by it, or assume they are being singled out because of race or any other reason.
Understanding each other's cultural traits - and how to deal with them - is one of the biggest challenges to establishing a positive cross-cultural understanding.

>>150304353
For Australian students, coming to Japan for the first time, patience is not one of their virtues. Whereas Japanese students have had it drilled into them since childhood to adhere to the "group" and patiently persevere, Australian students have always been taught to speak their minds and to get things done - now. Since Australians, in general, like to face a problem, "sort it out" and go on from there, Japanese despise solving problems and try to ignore them in hopes that they will just disappear. "The Japanese attitude toward life, then, is characterized by inertia and by submission to authority, rather than by individual conscience or rational judgment.".

Here again, we witness the clash of cultural ideas in the form of the group concept as opposed to the ideal of the individual human being.

Of the many aspects that Australian students continually complain about, the frustration of trying to generate a truly patient mind-set is one of the most difficult attributes of Japanese culture to try to absorb.
But, here again, if Australian students are encouraged to develop a keener sense of patience when dealing with the multitude of frustrations Japanese society has to offer its foreign visitors it can only help - not hurt - when dealing with stressful situations in the future.
Japanese students tend to feel a great amount of frustration when going overseas for the first time, but in my observations it has generally revolved around their language ability - or lack thereof - in trying to get their point across, whereas with the Australian homestay student problems tend to be more cultural in nature.
The main point is that both groups should be instructed to take things as they come and not to let the frustrations of culture shock get the best of them.

>>150304383
PREJUDICE

This is one topic that both the Australian and Japanese homestay Directors seem to shy away from and this is a mistake of monumental proportion.
Prejudice, both institutionalized - de jure (overt) as it is in Japan and de facto (covert) as it exists in Australia today must be addressed, and if done so in the right manner can be handled in a positive light. However, shunning the subject or denying that it exists altogether - as both Australia and Japan tend to do - only confuses the issue, and in essence helps to foster the concept of racial prejudice, by not allowing it to be discussed in the open marketplace of a free thinking society. The last thing racial prejudice wants is open discussion of the subject - and for that reason it must be squarely faced and dealt with in a positive manner.

In this sense when I say positive I don't mean that racial prejudice is good. What I mean when I say to deal with it in a positive manner is to inform the students that racial prejudice infects all societies and that it is something that should be systematically discussed, dissected under full public scrutiny, and completely eradicated as a method of cultural bias. Only when prejudice is acknowledged can it be dealt with and properly done away with. It is only when people deny that it exists that it is able to endure as social policy.
What makes this topic so pertinent to the discussion of homestay programs and their contribution to positive cross-cultural understanding is the fact that when both students from Australia and Japan exchange places in each other's societies they immediately become minorities - and are subject to the prejudices that accompany their minority status. And in my opinion this is the most important learning aspect and positive contribution to cross-cultural understanding that successful homestay programs have to offer.

>>150304432
Suddenly, when Japanese students go to Australia they are no longer the norm, but the exception. They have now become the gaijin (foreigner) and are accorded all the prejudice that accompanies that status. More than once have Japanese students been the subject of catcalls from passing vehicles as they walk along the street, or have received sneering looks from the local inhabitants - just as Australian students are pointed at and called "gaijin" in the trains and subway stations of Japan, or have to endure side glances or the infamous sucking of air between the teeth that disgruntled Japanese often employ when they encounter a foreigner in their midst.

Australian exchange students will know what it means to be refused to rent an apartment because they are not Japanese, or denied a Japanese bank credit card because they are considered untrustworthy - just as the Japanese student will feel the bitterness that still lingers in the hearts of many Australians for what the Japanese did to Australia - but refuse to acknowledge to this day - during the Second World War.

For the first time in their lives exchange students from both countries are thrust into a situation where they feel the crushing unfairness, humiliation and degradation that racial prejudice has to offer. They can be read about it for years in school textbooks and never understand the true implications thereof. It is only when the boot heel of racial prejudice comes crashing down personally does it begin to become internalized and make a lasting impression.

But if exchange students from both countries are forewarned about these facts, and instructed properly in how to deal with them in a positive and straightforward manner, the concept of racial prejudice will diminish in size and scope, and hopefully, disappear from the lexicon of all free-thinking societies.

>>150304459
If a homestay program is to be successful all parties concerned must, first and foremost, be dedicated to the concept of cross-cultural education. They must also believe in the idea of total immersion as one of the best ways to learn another language and culture.
It is vital that all homestay Directors take it upon themselves to compile as complete a list as possible with every aspect concerning the running of a successful homestay program and use it as a guide for future reference.
I have tried to give some ideas that I thought were pertinent to the implementation of a successful homestay program and their value in contributing to positive cross-cultural understanding.

One of the best ways to insure that each person's job is completed satisfactorily with relation to the running of a successful homestay program is to have a stated general manual of procedures that can be referred to at any time to guide administrators not only in questions of policy, but also in implementing new ideas and concepts to help improve the overall concept of successful homestay programs between Australia and Japan.
In this paper I meant in no way whatsoever to espouse the idea of institutionalizing homestay programs. Far from it. What I am suggesting is that a model be developed as a "starter" to be added to - and subtracted from - when the need and opportunity arises.
I invite others to use this paper as a starting point in which those of us in the business of administering homestay programs can someday present a hands-on manual to the educational community at large that will help to make all cross-cultural understanding be viewed in an even more positive light.

>>150304482
why are you doing this
just link to the paper you're copypasting from, don't just post two spoilered paragraphs at a time

>>150304482
We are living in very precarious times. And make no mistake about it, world war is still not ruled out as a viable military, political or even economic alternative to world leaders and the nation-states they represent. One need only witness the recent "testing" of atomic weapons by France to realize that ignorance and ill-conceived notions of grandeur will plague us well into the 21st Century and beyond.

With the year 2000 rapidly approaching and the globalization of the world economy already a reality it is of utmost importance that we learn to live, work and play together in harmony with each other.

Through properly run homestay programs and their positive contribution to cross-cultural understanding maybe we can do a small part to help put to rest, once and for all, the ever-present pre-battle equation:

Ignorance + Fear = War

Dr. David Wilmoth, Head of the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, sums it up this way. "Homestay programs are among the most powerful means I know to promote international understanding and goodwill. Households that open their doors to visitors in this way do so for many reasons - interest, curiosity, conviviality among them - but the effect of even short stays can be profound for guest and host alike. The generosity of Japanese families in having an Australian visitor, for example, may lift the scales of prejudice in one day. Such contacts can be lifelong, indeed, intergenerational, as children years later look up faded entries in old address books. The future of international understanding may rest more on such simple acts of kindness than on all the treaties we can devise.".

full paper:
>http://iteslj.org/Articles/Klepinger-Homestay.html

>>150304509
It's one way to stop the discussion from veering off in the wrong direction.

I wish I had a vagina.

>>150295711
I see nothing wrong with this.

>>150304075
>claiming the US is going down the shitter without even attempting to justify it
>in a thread about lewd content on Japanese television
You're not pointing out the flaws in a country and you're not on topic. Your autistic little ass just couldn't help but end your post with "by the way, I don't like america right now but I sure do like traditional values!" for literally no reason.
If you can't see why this means you belong on /pol/ and not here I can't help you.

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>>150304285
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>>150304646
It was a pretty cool reading.

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>>150303961
>If those "values from the 50s" are what's keeping the country afloat right now, I'd gladly accept them. America is going down the shitter, and most of you aren't even realizing it.

You can't talk about values in 4chan because too many people don't believe in either ethics or values. In fact, some posters brag about not having values get in their way of earning money or job positions.

So when you make a post about values, they are just going to attack you with all the usual standard template responses.

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>>150304623
>without even attempting to justify it

>>150304285
>Many Australian students coming to Japan for the first time are permanently turned off by Japan when they discover how deceiving and circumspect the Japanese can be.

Seriously, people get their panties in a twist because a bunch of people told them what they wanted to here.

How is that a fucking surprise, that is how i get through my day. Keep my head down and say what is expected, i thought everyone did that.

>>150295711
Is it gay if vulvas touch?

>>150305118

There's bathing suits between them, so it's OK.

>>150305018
>You can't talk about values in 4chan because too many people don't believe in either ethics or values
This is pretty true, especially for /a/ where people tend to care more about aesthetic judgments than ethical/value-based judgments.
Though I'd argue that this is fine and maybe even healthy on a board dedicated to an entertainment medium since it discourages conversations from devolving into politically-charged shit flinging competitions.

>>150305095
>far-left
Oh, how the times have changed. I wish the pendulum will swing that way again.

>>150305240
Pinko detected

>>150305118
It's a sport so it's fine.

>>150295777
These shows are aired at night retard. In western countries there's porn on TV after midnight. At least it used to be and I don't think we've gotten less degenerate.

>>150305095
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7qQ6_RV4VQ

>>150307413
Only on pay-per-view. It's not on any of the regular broadcast channels. If it ever was, VHS probably killed it.

>>150305240
I miss the times the internet was just made up of a bunch of commies. Good'ol time

>>150309344
Teach me, sensei!

>>150303961
Its not gook cum globbler
Japan has 3 of the best barriers against outsiders
its an island
the language and grammar are hard
the people hate outsiders
porn laws from the 50s aren't keeping them out
and fuck america, may your country burn for the mistake of allying with the jews and giving weapons to goat fuckers

>>150311071
they also have great immigration laws

Holy fuck this thread sucks and none of you know anything.

I want /pol/eddit to leave.

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>>150311580
anime is becoming real, whats the problem?

>>150295711
What's wrong with showing sports on TV?

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>>150300849
like this

>>150295711
Hah! Women don't have anything to insert while guys do.

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>>150311739
This, there isnt a problem with it. Perfectly normal

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8sPIeLZ6eE

>>150311735
The problem is you. You represent everything wrong with Western anime fans.

>>150311580
>/pol/eddit
I always love when leftists from r e d d i t desperately try to make it seem like /pol/ is somehow magically the redditors.

>>150311943
>muhhhhhhh leftists
>muhhhhhhh Es Jay DoubleEwes
Shouldn't you be shitposting on Milo's Facebook page or something?

>>150304285
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>>150304518
Wtf is this SCP foundation.

>>150312448
Hey guys look I found the angry /r/ShitRedditSays shillposter.

Blatantly obvious every time.

Why does it upset you that people don't care about feminism and radical leftist bullshit on this website?

>>150295777
Pretty much. Imagine what would be able to see if there wasn't censorship.

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>>150312448
8 years baby
8 fucking years

Whine about /pol/ all you want but sooner or later you'll have to realize this entire website is /pol/.

>>150312634
>SJW buaaaah
>mom! jew! degenerate! wtf im democrat for hitler now!
>>>/8gag/ and never come back

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>>150312967
>being THIS angry that 4chan has become much more right wing over time

lmao EIGHT YEARS!!

>>150313040
Regardless of politics, this is why no one likes you and your autistic containment board.

>>150313107
You're the one who brought up /pol/ in the first place.

>no one likes
Plenty of people do, especially on /a/.
The only time /pol/ is even talked about is when assdamaged people like you whine about it.

Are you okay?

>>150311943
That board is the biggest reddit magnet on this site, don't kid yourself.

>>150295777

Clearly you've never visited all of 4chan if you think Japan is any more or less degenerate than anyone else.

>>150295711
what episode is this from?

should I watch the Dub of this shit?

>>150304192
>My theory about this is that Japan has a strict tatemae-honne separation while America has much less so and Americans tend to wear their hearts on their sleeves.
Fun fact: Russian view of westerners is similar to your view of Japan.

>>150295711
My dick demanded it.

>>150314703
Somehow ecchi anime rarely makes my dick diamonds. I mostly watch them for the comedy or as a filler.

>>150313318
It's a time-honored tradition on 4chan to tell people who don't belong to go back to where they came from. When you bring up politics on /a/, you demonstrate the fact that you don't belong.

>>150314568
That's interesting. Maybe it's like a transitive relationship then? Russia is more honest than America is more honest than Japan?
>>150314860
Keijo isn't really ecchi, at least the anime isn't. For something to qualify as ecchi requires a great deal more nudity than we see in Keijo.

>>150315679
shut up fucking tripfag

>>150305095
>"a far-left website" just 10 years ago

Damn. That actually really made me think

>>150303961

>One of if not the most powerful nation in the world

>Going down the shitter

Meanwhile In Glorious Weeb land suicide rates go up and the birth rate goes down

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>>150295757
under fucking rated

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>>150295892
>>150295777
Fuck you new /a/.

>>150302471
>newfag pretending to be an oldfag, Volume 3324465463

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>>150315775
U mad? U MAD?

>>150316009
4chan is contrarian by virtue of being one of the only places people can go to express contrarian views without being shunned for it.
Ten years ago that meant shitting on Bush and Cheney and their neocon bullshit.
Today that means shitting on Hillary and Soros and their globalist bullshit.

>>150316665
But shitting on Bush was the popular opinion of back then

>>150316665
4chan is about pragmatism

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>>150318640
I thought it was about memes, porn, and cats.

>>150319527
are these things not pragmatic?

>>150309277
there's softcore porn here on late night free tv

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>>150295711
>rubbing pussies together

What does that feel like?

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>>150295711
Is this how you flip flaps?

>>150305586
>pinko
>supporting the literal communist-puppet Trump

wew

Hillary should be in prison, but Trump? Oh boy...