To be fair, most of Japanese TV is like that. I always joke that the primary reason they developed HD TV was to be able to cram more text in every corner xD

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gibagger 8 days ago | parent | next [-]

haha, makes a lot of sense!.

But then again, take a stroll around a shop-laden street in Japan and you'll see the exact same thing. They just like it that way.

Funny thing is how for interior design they do a full 180 and typically go very minimalistic.

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socalgal2 8 days ago | parent | next [-]

> Funny thing is how for interior design they do a full 180 and typically go very minimalistic.

Only if they are well to do. Most family houses in Japan are crammed full of stuff with very little "design".

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ccozan 8 days ago | parent [-]

I was wondered that. Like from movies or documentaries, etc. Very nice, clear, order, minimalistic. Then I was looking to buy a house and I found a site with "almost" abandoned house for sale.

My God. Everything , everywhre, no design ( haha ), no exceptions. People were actually living there.

Had a cultural shock.

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pezezin 7 days ago | parent [-]

I do live in Japan and good god, I have never seen such messy people anywhere else in the world. The offices of all my Japanese colleagues are piles upon piles of documents and boxes without any kind of order.

But the cities themselves are like that. There is zero urban planning, just buildings thrown around in impossible non-Euclidean patterns.

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msephton 7 days ago | parent [-]

They're a book from the early 1990s called "Tokyo Style" that is packed with photos of real living conditions from back then. Chaos of every variety. Plus some Super Famicom and PC-Engines laying around. A very cool book, most recently reprinted in 2024 with Japanese/English captions.

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huntoa 3 days ago | parent | next [-]

Here's the full book "Tokyo: a certain style" by Kyoichi Tsuzuki (same author), https://archive.org/details/tokyo-a-certain-style

	▲	msephton 3 days ago \| parent [-]
		I believe that's essentially the first English edition.

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ccozan 7 days ago | parent | prev [-]

and the cables, the cables hanging from everywhere!

( btw, has anyone noticed in anime there are always frames of street cabling? Like those cylindrical transformes and thick cables. Almost cyberpunk! )

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Symbiote 7 days ago | parent [-]

The transformers are a result of a the lower voltage (also used in America), for efficiency and to keep the required voltage the transformer needs to be nearer to the house.

	▲	pezezin 7 days ago \| parent [-]
		We also have transformers in Europe, but they are hidden. Which incidentally makes them more reliable, as they are not exposed to the elements.

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pezezin 7 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I know, I live in Japan, shopping streets are seizure-inducing here xD

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jazzyjackson 7 days ago | parent | prev [-]

"content is beautiful"

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Ma8ee 8 days ago | parent | prev [-]

And most Japanese websites.

	▲	pezezin 7 days ago \| parent [-]
		Yeah, shopping in Rakuten or Yahoo Auctions is quite an experience...