Japan's Jimi 'Mundane' Halloween Costumes of 2026

The last one refilling detergent is a parody of The Milkmaid by Johannes Vermeer; everyone has seen it on textbooks and it has become a meme template on Japanese Twitter in recent years.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Milkmaid_(Vermeer)

	▲	7373737373 29 minutes ago \| parent \| next [-]
		I heartily recommend "Tim's Vermeer": https://youtube.com/watch?v=94pCNUu6qFY
	▲	dcrazy an hour ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		Thank you, I was confused by what simply appeared to be a picture of someone doing laundry.
	▲	blobbers 27 minutes ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		I mean, that's a tough idea. That's literally just a picture of someone pouring detergent, not an actual costume. Would have to say this one is pretty lame... Just have to ask, how do you know this???

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happytoexplain 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Some of these are very humorous because of the cultural disconnect (as an American, I have never experienced somebody asking to put their seat back).

"An expert on a very niche subject" made me laugh out loud the hardest, because it's the one that's most "just a guy", and yet it's also exactly how it's described.

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jen729w 11 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Mine would be "dude who vibed a to-do app with Claude and thought he'd be rich then realised 20,000 other dudes had done exactly the same thing".

Source: these dudes email me at a rate of about 5/week asking me to spruik their app to my audience.

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Waterluvian 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

These are masterpieces in my opinion. It’s difficult to get the vibe exactly right when you’re working with so little.

Yes, a thousand times yes you can put your seat back you gentle soul.

	▲	jen729w 7 minutes ago \| parent \| next [-]
		> Yes, a thousand times yes you can put your seat back you gentle soul. Overjoyed that I understand this, allow me to explain it to those who don't. Seats on the Shinkansen [0] are bolt-upright by default. You basically have to recline them a little bit to be even vaguely comfortable. Every person, every time, asks the person in the seat behind them whether it's okay to recline their seat by 5°. The seat pitch on the Shinkansen is approximately 1 metre. There's a lot of room. [0]: My line, anyway – the E5 series cars that run the Hayabausa service.
	▲	happytoexplain 2 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		The Japanese seem particularly adept at the concept of "vibe".

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henearkr 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

They are more like "situational haikus", or the transposition to practical humor of the concept of haiku.

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PCI-eX16 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Maybe this is a different type of mundane costume, but I like costumes that just look like guys. When the anime initial D was popular, I would wear a white T, blue jeans, part my hair down the middle and say I'm cosplaying as Takumi Fujiwara...

	▲	syshyk 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		What you're doing wrong is not ordering a premade suit from amazon, then chucking it in the bin or a charity shop at the end of the day. /s

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skyberrys 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Love how long each consume caption is. It could just be called Halloween costumes that take many words to explain.

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_vertigo 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

These are great. First 3 are brilliant. The second one is golden, I wish I had thought of that.

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michaelbuckbee 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I saw video of a costume contest this year where one participant was wearing an Amazon delivery driver vest, flung a cardboard box across the stage and then took a picture of it (all to wild applause).