Spectre@lemmy.mlM to Comics@lemmy.ml · 10 months agoHow the Japanese look at the US — comic in recent Tokyo newspaper.lemmy.mlimagemessage-square144fedilinkarrow-up1447arrow-down117
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minus-squarePhil_in_here@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up92arrow-down1·10 months agoJapanese artist: “I drew it as large and obnoxious as possible!” Westerners: “it’s adorable that you think that”
minus-squareTankieTanuki [he/him]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up28·edit-210 months agoThat is the largest truck that someone who’s spent their whole life in Japan can conceptualize. Japan is a land of tiny trucks.
minus-squarefrezik@midwest.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up4arrow-down1·10 months agoHummer H2s had a certain popularity in Japan for a while. https://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/2012/03/the-undead-zombie-hummer-haunts-tokyos-red-light-district/ It’s an even more impractical and ridiculous car over there than it is in America, but they did it.
minus-squareTankieTanuki [he/him]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·10 months agoIt’s a bicycle brand? lol
minus-squareDrusas@kbin.runlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·10 months agoI once saw a Hummer in Japan. I have no idea how that person managed to get by in one. Some of the roads are so old that they’re barely wide enough for a regular vehicle, and rare is the oversized parking spot.
minus-squareEtherWhack@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up9·10 months agoThey kept the buildings and truck in proportion. Everything else, including the tesla were just enlarged to be visible.
Adorable how little that truck is
Japanese artist: “I drew it as large and obnoxious as possible!”
Westerners: “it’s adorable that you think that”
What an adorably truck-kun you have!
That is the largest truck that someone who’s spent their whole life in Japan can conceptualize. Japan is a land of tiny trucks.
Hummer H2s had a certain popularity in Japan for a while.
https://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/2012/03/the-undead-zombie-hummer-haunts-tokyos-red-light-district/
It’s an even more impractical and ridiculous car over there than it is in America, but they did it.
It’s a bicycle brand? lol
I once saw a Hummer in Japan. I have no idea how that person managed to get by in one. Some of the roads are so old that they’re barely wide enough for a regular vehicle, and rare is the oversized parking spot.
They kept the buildings and truck in proportion. Everything else, including the tesla were just enlarged to be visible.