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Kate Elwood's avatar

It was interesting to hear the perspective that social media has helped make the experience less aggressive.

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Alex S's avatar

Yes, congoers' experience with Japanese culture is definitely unbalanced (eg they know Shounen Jump much better than anything else), but they do actually know it and aren't interested in having it localized to be "less Japanese". If anything I think they like to keep a little too much now; even professional translations I see often get the meaning of 和製英語 wrong by leaving them in literally. (like getting ジュース from a vending machine is not "juice")

In the 2000s everyone really was loud and badly behaved but it stopped in the 2010s and I'm always surprised by how polite people are now. Along with early social media, I think the events got better at keeping people entertained, and cities developed more to do in the area around them.

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