Japan Man

I was bored so I just checked out Japansugoi’s site for some stuff on Japan pop culture for Japanese people, and I just read about the BVLGARI Brilliant Dreams award. Meisa Kuroki 黒木メイサ is pretty hot in the way that Japanese people like and the retired soccer dude is irrelevant. Besides, you know he didn’t get to tap the ass of Meisa Kuroki and you know he wanted too.

Anyhoo, the point that I am trying to make (if there is one for this post..) is that most Japan celebreties are utterly useless except for the hot girls that come along every once in a while. I can’t name one Japanese celebrity or band that was an international hit. Linkin Park has that Japanese dude Mike Shinoda but he sucks on his own (Fort Minor flopped and he can’t rhyme) Takeshi Kitano was pretty good back in the days, but when is the last time he made anything good?

Clearly the best things to come out of Japan are anime/manga, video games, Toyota, Honda, and sexy Japanese girls. The status of Japanese cuisine has suffered over the years due to scandals like the recent Chinese eel packaging fiasco where a Kobe company sold Japanese people dirty Chinese eels in the guise of clean Japanese ones.

Another problem with Japanese celebreties is that any Japanese person on the street can become a geinoujin. Whenever I watch Japanese television, I am astonished at the oversaturation of humorless comedy and terrible acting. If anyone can become famous, then that is what happens to the quality of any genre (look at hip hop music nowadays….)

Thus, unless I am totally bored out of my mind I avoid Japanese television and celebrities. I just don’t see the appeal and it is not like you can discuss this stuff with anybody worth talking to. Shit if you guys even comment I’ll be surprised but feel free to say something. What do you think of Japan’s celebrities? If you like Japan celebreties (and I hope not) who do you like and why?