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I believe all of these fall under “DDR” players
lol i would fall under lolita
except without all the pepophiles
Where the hell is “tenticles”??
I had to google bishounen….
If only there were a greater proportion of bishounen.
Yeah… with the lolitas, schoolgirls, a fair amount of cosplayers and ninja, there are a lot more women than men in Japan.
Guys only get the bishounen, most of the monsters, cosplayers and ninja.
Good thing there’s a lot of yaoi.
Yowie! I’ve learned some new words tonight. I wonder how many people who use the term, “lolita,” have ever read the novel and actually have a clue what it’s really about. I may have to work up a graph about that.
The term may or may not have had anything to do with the book… and it has evolved since the begining so really, who cares about the damned creepy book?! Bring on the dresses!!!
Your comment supports mine; read the book before you call it creepy.
I did… creepy book was creepy.
It’s a reference to the book, but I’d rather dress up in adorable dresses than read about a pedophile, wouldn’t you?
i had to wikipedia the book…heres the summary He rents a room in the house of Charlotte Haze, a widow, mainly for the purpose of being near Charlotte’s 12-year-old daughter, Dolores (also known as Dolly, Lolita, Lola, Lo, and L), an archetypal nymphet.
While Lolita is away at summer camp, Charlotte develops a crush on Humbert and tells him that he must either marry her or move out. Humbert is at first horrified by this, as he considers Charlotte a silly and vulgar woman, but he agrees to marry her in order to continue living near Lolita. Charlotte is oblivious to Humbert’s distaste for her and his lust for Lolita until she reads his diary. Upon learning of Humbert’s true feelings, Charlotte is appalled: she makes plans to flee with Lolita, and threatens to expose Humbert’s perversions. But as she runs across the street in a state of shock, she is struck and killed by a passing motorist.
Humbert, now widowed, picks Lolita up from camp, pretending that Charlotte is ill and in a hospital. He takes Lolita to a hotel, where he meets a strange man (later revealed to be Clare Quilty), who seems to know who he is. Humbert attempts to use sleeping pills on Lolita so that he may molest her without her knowledge, but they have little effect on her. Instead, she consciously seduces Humbert the next morning. He discovers that he is not her first lover, as she had sex with a boy at summer camp. Humbert reveals to Lolita that Charlotte is actually dead; Lolita has no choice but to accept her stepfather into her life on his terms.
Lolita and Humbert drive around the country, moving from state to state and motel to motel. Humbert bribes the girl for sexual favors, though he knows that she does not reciprocate his love and shares none of his interests. After a year touring North America, the two settle down in another New England town. Humbert is very possessive and strict, forbidding Lolita to take part in after-school activities or to associate with boys; the townspeople, however, see this as the action of a loving, concerned parent.
Lolita begs to be allowed to take part in the school play; Humbert reluctantly grants his permission in exchange for more sexual favors. The play is written by Clare Quilty. He is said to have attended a rehearsal and been impressed by Lolita’s acting. Just before opening night, Lolita and Humbert have a ferocious argument, which culminates in Lolita saying she wants to leave town and resume their travels. Humbert is delighted that Lolita wants to abandon the play and return to him.
As Lolita and Humbert drive westward again, Humbert gets the feeling that their car is being tailed and he becomes increasingly suspicious. Lolita falls ill and must convalesce in a hospital; Humbert stays in a nearby motel. One night, Lolita disappears from the hospital; the staff tell Humbert that Lolita’s “uncle” checked her out. Humbert embarks upon a frantic search to find Lolita and her abductor, but eventually he gives up his search.
One day in 1952, Humbert receives a letter from Lolita, now 17, who tells him that she is married, pregnant, and in desperate need of money. Humbert goes to see Lolita, giving her money and hoping to kill the man who abducted her. She reveals the truth: Clare Quilty, an acquaintance of Charlotte’s and the writer of the school play, is also a pedophile and amateur pornographer. He and 12-year-old Lolita fell in love, checked Lolita out of the hospital and attempted to make her star in one of his pornographic films; when she refused, he threw her out.
Humbert asks Lolita to leave her husband and return to him, but she refuses, breaking Humbert’s spirit. He leaves Lolita forever, kills Quilty at his mansion in an act of revenge and is arrested for the murder. The narrative closes with Humbert’s final words to Lolita in which he wishes her well.
Well, at least someone payed attention to the roots of this “Lolita” fashion that girls proudly put themselves under without the hint of an idea where it came and how it got the name…. then again To japan, nothing really maintains the meaning, especially English… Lolicon, anyone?…
Actually, the girls I know who are into lolita fashion DO know at least the basic outline of the book. They just don’t care.
They don’t need any more, trust me. One of the other American English teachers in my area is gay, and he says Japanese guys have made his gaydar go all wonky. Middle-school boys pluck and trim their eyebrows, I kid you not.
You say this like it’s a BAD thing.:)
Kawaii!!
Hey wheres the giant robots?
Double points. Armored suits and Giant Robots!
a couple of death gods walking about as well
I noticed that, too. You can’t fight a Giant Monster without a proper Giant Robot.
…Unless you are a giant monster, too. Anyone ever hear of Godzilla?
you forgot the samurai and the chef cooks that cook in that epic way! tepaniaki?
Teppanyaki.
I said that!
The plural of ninja is ninja, damnit.
Ninjas is also acceptable. Check out the Webster site.
Well, I wouldn’t trust Webster with the time of day; deliberate misspellings in order to distance the nation from Mother England lead to things like “ninjas” and “shrimps” and “Bridget Jones’s Diary”.
Loooooool
England is not my mother, thanks.
Are you nuts? There are a lot more godzillas and ninjas than that.
The ninja are obviously hidden.
Yes, you have to take into consideration that X number of members of each other category are actually ninja.
Cosplayers ROCK.
Cosplayers SUCK.
you SUCK
I SUCK
+890 points.
Cosplayers are actually a funny sight to behold…ridiculous or not.
Bishounen should have been a quarter of the pie.
yeah, because the sailor moon team was so large and all.
pretty girls are bishojo i believe hence bishojo senshi sailor moon…
tuskini kawatte oshoki yo
(on behalf of the moon i’ll punish you)
Is the Japanese voice acting for Sailor Moon better than the American? Or does it really not matter
The main difference between the Japanese and American versions of Sailor Moon was that in America, they made lesbians Michiru and Haruka [Neptune and Uranus] *cousins*. Because all their flirting and “Let’s go home” and occasional fondling was very cousin-ly.
No, yakuza should be about a quarter of the graph…
This makes me want to watch porn.
I already WAS watching porn when I read this.
+908 points.
OH MY GOD
WHERE ARE THE MAIDS?
Where are the computer techs?
Woo for Japanese people! >=D We need more cosplayers, more ninjas, and less school girls.
You are out of your mind!
Less school girls?!
I know I am! ^_^ Yeah, maybe just a little less…You know, room for more ninjas. XD
WHO CANT FORGET THE GAMES,, HELLO TOUHOU MAKES LIKE 25% of this graph
EMOBODIMENT OF SCARLET DEVIL FTW
Really? I thought Touhou just made up 25% of all otakus’ blood plasma…
more true ninjas….guys and girls who actually do ninjutsu,,,that type of warfare……..not a Narutard
Forgot the salarymen in the business suits. Oh, and tourists, the kind that travel in herds to other countries.
When you go there yourself, you realize the reality of the population is 9% J-pop fans with the most unbelievable sense of fashion. 1% Akihabara female employees. The other 90% is a homogenized mess. Same white shirt, same black business shoes, same black pants, same black or brown coat over their shoulder, same black suitcase, same black laptop, same black haircut, same glasses. Same sweat butterflies on the back of their shirts in the summer (those were fun).
I take offense to the title’s implication that the “average person” is a college freshman nerdface…
There’s also a huge stereotype that many Japanese people are computer specialists, or incredibly gifted with technology, although, they are the fastest technologically advancing society on earth right now, even though the US is still in the lead status wise.
man I wasn’t sure what “bishounen” was ,and quite frankly I was afraid to look it up….now what is this “yaoi” that Stefan mentioned?
If bishy scared you yaoi definatly will…
Bishounen is just a hansome young man. Usually a teenage boy. Kind of graceful, y’know?
Yaoi… well, let’s just say it’s like hentai but severely lacking in females.
Uh, no, let’s not say it’s like Hentai. That involves tentacles, and depravity.
Yaoi is frankly ‘young males in love’. Just like ‘Yuri’ is ‘young females in love’.
That would be shounen-ai. Yaoi by definition must include explicit sexual scenes.
Nuh-uh, that’s sounen ai. Yaoi = more smex less plot ^_^ *is an expert on the subject*
Expert who can’t spell- now there’s a trustworthy source.
Well yaoi uses a wholly different vocabulary, you know… *says an obsessive fan*
Yaoi = BoyxBoy sex
Bishounen is generally a young male character who has some slight effeminate features. Yaoi, on the other hand….trust me, I’m not a yaoi fan and probably never will be. Shounen-ai is better and is more of really, really close friendship to slight relationship.
in other words… gay
Hehe. Your wisdom exceeds your curiousity
A pity others already explained it
It’s funny to watch on ebay when people sell yaoi manga books. They usually add “If you don’t know what yaoi is, don’t bid on this.”
mmm tentacles…
MMMMmmmm +70 points.
*inserts space for Neko Bishies*
WHAT ABOUT GEISHA GIRLS?!?!?! lol, I’m actually going to Japan for 2 years to teach english… and pick up some girls whilst im there XD. I might bring a scale of godzilla though…
I’m already here. It’s definitely a great gig. Careful around the schoolgirls, though–they may be fetishized to hell and back by the Japanese, but the boards of education do not look kindly upon foreigners who so much as look at them wrong.
ARE YOU KIDDING ME?!
you forgot cosplayer and otaku and geisha
and pokemon, of course.
You can find a few PokƩmon here, too.
And this is why we all love Japan.
because its some kind of another world……wacky………and something we westerns do not understand xD
MOAR NINJA.
there isnt a spot for Shinigami or Crazed fangirls, misa amane falls under the Lolita, but what about Lawliet?
WIN! Lawliet’s a class of his own
I love you guys, I really do.
FINALLY SOMEONE WHO UNDERSTANDS THE IMPORTANCE OF WAMMY
I feel like such a geek because I understood all of what was said above…..I’m going to flush my head in the toilet now. Ta!
Don’t feel bad, I knew it all too!
Among other things about Japan.
Like the fact that it has 600+ ski resorts, but for some reason, Hoshu is popular with Aussies.
Missed out Jrockers! Dir en grey, the GazettE etc, etc…
Don’t forget Girugamesh. (:
and gay men
iĀ“m gonna guess that the average person doesnĀ“t understand “bishounen”… unless youĀ“re a nerd like me.
Where are the tentacle rapists and subway fondlers?
funny thing is, there are so few schoolkids in japan that many schools only have one kid per classroom
Then why the hell, in my little berg, am I dealing with a couple of schools with 40 kids per classroom?
I’ll take the loli section please thank you.
It’s missing perverted old men. Fail
i hate being japanese because of stereotypes like this. ):
at least they are entertaining to watch….in my opinion….(no offense)
there needs to be a space for the manga artists!
I find it hilarious that when something Japanese is in a graph with other stuff, everyone rags on it. But when it’s a full-on graph of nerding awesomeness, the haters recede back into the woodwork and the fans come out to play.
We need moar graphs like this.
THE CATGIRLS, WHERE ARE THE CATGIRLS?
Needs more Loli Catgirls.
so true, with a few non mentioned errors… like the catgirl mentioned above, and to those of you who didn’t read to the “average person”, the jrock bands are hardly known to the american masses cuz they’re preppy bitches or just ignorant. dontcha just hate it when somebody freaks out about a li’l mistake a foreigner made about america, when most americans make so many misconceptions about other countries it’s not even funny?
Don’t forget the otaku!
One more category: insane game show hosts.
what does “lolita” mean
It was a book about pedophiles, but now it’s used (in Japan) to mean girls and guys -yes, guys – who like to dress up in frilly lacey dresses.
WRONG
lolita is dressing up in big crazy awesome dresses!!!
Shounen-Ai is the best
uh wow I feel stupid because i have NO idea what n-e-one is saying!! I read the comments because I didnt know what the words on the graph meant, n then everyone started using mor and more japanese terms… Im curiuos, wats otaku, Shounen-Ai, and Girugamesh???
Otaku: someone with no life, obsessed with Japanese culture, manga, video games etc. Someone like the poeple commenting on this. lol
Shonen-Ai: literally means “boy love” it’s boy/boy stuff that generally included hugs, hand holding and sexual tension. Whereas Yaoi is just hardcore boy/boy.
Girugamesh: an awesome Japanese band. like The GazettE, An Cafe, Dir en Grey, Panic Channel, Utada Hikaru etc.
“someone with no life, obsessed with Japanese culture, manga, video games etc.” i think thats wapanese,,, not otaku
Okay, I can see how Dir en Grey, The GazettE and Girugamesh can all be catergorized together, but not along with An Cafe and Utada Hikaru. (They’re all good, but unrelated.)
An Cafe is bubbly, cute and a slew of other adjectives for the stereotyical osahre kei band. They sing about Tiramisu, love and candy (though not necessarily in that order).
Utada is a talented R+B singer, who has a great mind for music creation and production.
Diru, The GazettE and Girugamesh and J-Metal/Rock. Their songs are about blood, death, broken hearts, women and things like that.
That’s all I wanted to say.