What are you wearing for Halloween?

[Coligny]

This is what I did to my kid on the weekend.

Prince Charming!! by GomiGirl, on Flickr

He won a strider bike prize in the costume competition. But he is two, blonde and cute and the costume was home-made so that ticked all the boxes for the judging.

I somehow phear you're giving ideas to chokonen... maybe they can team up for double damages...

[Marked Trail]

This robot by "Project A" has a fun costume.

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via: A子ロボ ソフビ サントラ付属 (プロジェクトA子)

[Taro Toporific]

Japanese Barbies...

Series: Shibuya Halloween 2012 by Asian (Street) Impressions, on Flickr
More 'weener photos at: 2012 Halloween in Tokyo (set)

[Screwed-down Hairdo]

Aussie Barbie...

[yanpa]

[Taro Toporific]

Stepping out for Halloween in Fukushima...

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[Coligny]

Japanese Barbies...

Series: Shibuya Halloween 2012 by Asian (Street) Impressions, on Flickr
More 'weener photos at: 2012 Halloween in Tokyo (set)

Yes, Yes, nuke it from orbit

[Taro Toporific]

RAMENHEAD

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[GomiGirl]

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This was hubby and I 2007 Halloween - dressed as vending machines in Golden Gai. The barbies reminded me of this.

[Taro Toporific]

Here's an over-the-top Japanese Halloween costume of Japan's anti-movie piracy mascot...

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via とろ@ガリガリ君‏'s twitter

For reference, here's what the original Anti-Piracy ad looks like that is played in morie theaters before every showing...

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[Taro Toporific]

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This was hubby and I 2007 Halloween - dressed as vending machines in Golden Gai.

Lame statistic of the day : Globally, yearly more people are killed by vending machines than shark attacks.
freakonomics.com/2012/08/15/whats-more-dangerous-than-a-shark

[gaijinpunch]

Here's an over-the-top Japanese Halloween costume of Japan's anti-movie piracy mascot...

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via とろ@ガリガリ君‏'s twitter

For reference, here's what the original Anti-Piracy ad looks like that is played in morie theaters before every showing...

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Here's one in Kawasaki w/ the matching girl w/ Popcorn behind him. Same guy maybe.


Eiga Dorobo by gaijin_punch, on Flickr

[gaijinpunch]

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This was hubby and I 2007 Halloween - dressed as vending machines in Golden Gai. The barbies reminded me of this.

You didn't go as a used knickers vending machine?

[GomiGirl]

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This was hubby and I 2007 Halloween - dressed as vending machines in Golden Gai. The barbies reminded me of this.

You didn't go as a used knickers vending machine?

You saw how close that was to my face - eew stinky used panties.

My friend actually sewed them. Pretty cool weren't they?

[gaijinpunch]

You saw how close that was to my face - eew stinky used panties.

You say tomato...

My friend actually sewed them. Pretty cool weren't they?

Yep. I actually made part of costume. Faux Fur LED suspenders. Can't find the sweet spot for them not to break, as I kept taking them on and off, and the cables were getting caught.

[Marked Trail]

Bobby could go as himself rather than a gorilla next year.

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patrickmacias.blogs.com | アメ横のソウル

It looks like Bobby Ologun already has his costume sorted out...

Japanprobe.com/2012/10/16/japanese-tv-show-prank-transforms-african-man-into-a-gorilla

[Samurai_Jerk]

Pottery Barn Pulls Offensive Sushi Chef Costumes

Furniture and home decor retail chain Pottery Barn took the Halloween spirit a little too far this year. The LA Times reports that Pottery Barn has issued an apology statement and pulled two Halloween costumes for grown adults from its Pottery Barn Kids offerings: a "Sushi Chef" costume, and a kimono costume with descriptions like: "Kids shouldn't have all the fun, so we've created this sushi chef design to coordinate with our sushi-themed children's costumes." The kimono costume initially retailed for $59 and was marked down to $34.99, while the sushi chef costume was $39 and then marked down to $9.99. The baby sushi costume is no longer available, but still live on the Pottery Barn Kids website (see Google caches of the sushi chef and the kimono).

The Asian American advocacy group Asian Americans Advancing Justice called the issue to Pottery Barn's attention in a letter on Friday. A spokesperson wrote: "Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders are real people who cannot and should not be commodified as costumes."

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[wagyl]

Jesus there are a lot of people spending a lot of time looking for something to be outraged at.

[Coligny]

Problem is not with skweeky idiots, but with people listenning to them.

[GomiGirl]

How is the "uniform" of a sushi chef any more offensive than the uniform of a sous chef or policeman or airline pilot or a naughty nurse? Really... it is not as if they were including glasses with asian eyes or fake buck teeth... that would be racially offensive.

Honestly...

[Coligny]

Because cultural identity is racist. Next year only 2 costumes are to be allowed by the departement of homeland haloween festivities: republican or democrat. Or slutty nurse, but starting 2016 it will be considered homophobic and thus forbidden...

[IparryU]

This is exactly what I hate about 'merica.... Fucking nonsense.

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[yanpa]

(...)
The Asian American advocacy group Asian Americans Advancing Justice called the issue to Pottery Barn's attention in a letter on Friday. A spokesperson wrote: "Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders are real people who cannot and should not be commodified as costumes."

I guess it's OK if Asian Japanese commodify themselves as costumes:

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CC BY-NC 2.0 by Timothy Takemoto

[Coligny]

Let's not go there...

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[matsuki]

The Asian American advocacy group Asian Americans Advancing Justice called the issue to Pottery Barn's attention in a letter on Friday. A spokesperson wrote: "Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders are real people who cannot and should not be commodified as costumes."

Oversensative much? Guess that's the problem with "Asian American" advocacy groups that are so full of themselves, they are actually out of touch with Asia. I wonder if they took the same stance on ninja and samurai costumes as well.

[Taro Toporific]

So, what is Takeapoo's date wearing for Halloween this year?

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via @baudwraith

[matsuki]

Not unless they come in hand-puppet size

[Mike Oxlong]

The USAF has no sense of humor.



https://www.stripes.com/news/man-gets-s ... e-1.495358

[Coligny]

The ridiculous hyper vilification of anyone even just joking about isis is excessively disturbing.


It's not going to look good in 20-30 years when historians starts to look back a bit on the topic ...
If there is still historians in 20-30 years... or anyone else...

[Grumpy Gramps]

I think, this type of "humour" is recognisably Japanese. For a European like me, it is about as funny as your typical American stand-up comedian, but then, humour is what your local culture thinks it is, so... let them live. Charlie Hebdo also had their fans.