Hate posts like this.
The average Japanese salary is about half that of an American salary. The economy is completely crushing people right now. The Japanese company is not going to price their game to regionally match with the USD.
5500 yen is not 30 dollars. It’s 5500 yen.
“I don’t remember my childhood.” Lemme guess, you have allergies + you poop weird + you sleep weird + you feel dizzy when you stand up quickly + you’re weirdly sensitive to certain smells/sounds/tastes/textures + you struggle to do stuff you WANT to do + you’re often sad/nervous?
Proud owner of the greatest Mangas in the world (imo)
One Piece Chapter One 9.0 (second highest grade in existence, pop 3). First canon appearance of Monkey D. Luffy. One Piece is the #1 selling Manga in the world at 600M+ copies sold
Dragon Ball Chapter One 9.2 (highest grade in existence, pop 1) purchased for a record $550,000. First appearance of Goku & Bulma
The Manga journey has begun…
the strokes highlighted the CIAs involvement in killing political leaders and overthrowing govts, showed the last university of Gaza being destroyed and showcased how racism and violence is ingrained in American history…they spoke up more with a screen than anyone at coachella..
Theres the whole like japanese perspective on media piracy argument going on, and the one thing i keep seeing is "but do you not realize that pirating harms the company?" and I dont think alot of them realize in the west we LOVE seeing companies get harmed, even ones we like
I tweeted this a while ago but the loud minority of Japanese people on the hellscape of an app criticizing people turning to pirating for lack of availability are fucking losers.