[ SECRET POST #3503 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3503 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I'm definitely not crazy about the whole "anime tourist" thing. It feels wrong to go just for that, as opposed to actually wanting to see Japan as a country with a variety of people and places to meet and see.

[(Anonymous)]

I prefer to stay the hell away from the otaku walks myself but I don't see why we should impose our travel philosophies on other people. Traveling for the sake of traveling is often a deeply personal enterprise and everyone should do it the way they think will make them happy.

[(Anonymous)]

How is that different from people who go to Italy for the sake of its churches and Renaissance art, or to Greece for the ruins?

[mimi-sardinia.livejournal.com]

I think going to Japan to see temples and Mount Fuji would be the equivalent of going to Italy to see churches and Renaissance art, or to Greece for the ruins.

Going to Japan for only the otaku stuff would, to my mind, be like going to Italy to visit the home offices of some of the big Italian fashion companies.

The best thing however is to get a bit of both on a trip - do both otaku stuff and classical buildings and natural wonders.

[(Anonymous)]

Kudos to you for your desire to be fair and non judgmental, but I can't take you seriously if you're going to compare interests in anime to interests in art, architecture and history.

[(Anonymous)]

I'm not comparing interest in anime to interest in art, architecture and history. I'm comparing "visiting Japan for a particular aspect of its culture, without a real interest in Japan as 'a country with a variety of people and places to meet and see'" to "visiting Italy or Greece for a particular aspect of its culture, without a real interest in Italy or Greece as a country with a variety of people and places to meet and see."

I'm thinking of how Americans and English people would do the Grand Tour and see the famous monuments of ancient culture in Greece and Italy, while looking down their noses at the Greeks and Italians themselves, and despising their religion, politics and contemporary popular culture.

[(Anonymous)]

nayrt but why in the world isn't an interest in pop culture comparable to wanting to see architecture or art? In fact - and I say this as someone who has traveled for historical research - pop culture tends to have more of an everyday effect on people's lives more than art. You can go to London and find natives everywhere who have never set foot in the British Museum. You can find Japanese people who don't even know the name of the reigning emperor. Why the hell can't you pick a country to go based on the things you love? To me, that's a million steps up from going to a country and never ever leaving your beachside resort.

[(Anonymous)]

Comparing art to art is what's happening here.

[(Anonymous)]

Thank you!