Ferrari_Freak
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Yup it's Wangan Midnight. It's realy good, I personally prefer it to Initial D.
Wangan Midnight?
Do you really believe there wouldn't be decent electronics, if the Japanese weren't there? Lots of decent electronics disappeared, because the Japanese are there.
Yeah, but they disappeared because the Japanese could do the same thing for cheaper and they could make more reliable stuff.
No. Definitely no. The reason they got the upper hand, is they had a fancy design, with lots of funny lighs and colourful LED's on their stuff. Back in the 80's -- when the battle was decided -- the inner qualities of mass market hifi components from Japan was poor. For example their amplifiers all had very cheap power supplies to reduce freight costs (power supply = weight).
I lived through those times and I saw what happened. The "old" hifi makers tried to cling on quality but lost ground, because they suddenly had become "uncool" with the youth. It started with the Walkman. Just because of the Walkman the brand Sony suddenly became cool. It had nothing to do with quality and almos everything with clever marketing and being faster than the competition, when it came to new gadgets.
If the Japanese were generally superior with their products, then why do you think the world market for high-priced high end hifi components is still completely dominated by European and American manufacturers? Also until today the Japanese are still far behind with high quality loudspeakers -- the most difficult hifi component to make. That market is also still dominated by European and American producers.
Young people rarely look for real quality in what they buy. Brand image and being cool and trendy is more important for them, than quality. And the electronics market is ruled by what young people think is cool and therefore buy. Only when people get older, they also look for real value in what they buy. Hasn't changed until today, btw.
Clever marketing is the main factor. That's where most European brands failed. And because they were too slow in their reactions to the new threat from the East. Of the big brands in Europe only Philips survived.
By the way: The most profitable hifi maker in the world is Bose -- an American company. Their stuff is utter crap, though, they use the cheapest materials available and are completely overpriced but they have the best marketing experts and simply replaced real quality with boldness. Works for them, it seems.
Oh absolutely, I'd go along chanting it in German (my native language) about her if someone came up with a decent translation. :lol:They could look at Lady Gaga and just as easily say "weirdness overload" in japanese.
And saving the best for last:
http://www.cracked.com/article_18567_6-japanese-subcultures-that-are-insane-even-japan.html
Whether this is 100% factual or not is up in the air (maybe we can ask KaJun about it).
Well actually most of Japan goes WTF about the stuff in this thread. But something like this?
Anyone remember that video that appeared on the boards a few months ago? An animated thing, pink background with a load of weird shit like a flying bear riding a tricycle. Somebody had it as their avatar for a while...
Anyone remember that video that appeared on the boards a few months ago? An animated thing, pink background with a load of weird shit like a flying bear riding a tricycle. Somebody had it as their avatar for a while...
I will now explain my old bear with a guitar avatar:
[video=youtube;BleRSTZ7CpQ]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BleRSTZ7CpQ[/video]
If anyone can make me one with the bear on the tricycle I will be appreciative. Or possibly the man in the ceiling. Really there are a million avatar possibilities here.
For curiosity's sake, I'd love to know what perfectly mundane things we in the West do the Japanese think of as weird.