What misunderstandings and illusions does Japanese animation bring to people about Japanese life?

Campus Life

In Japanese animation, especially campus animation, the scene of the rooftop (where Brother Cheng fought) will basically appear, where students can eat lunch, chat, and go on dates. Something like that, reality doesn’t exist.

It is even more impossible to stand on the highest point of the rooftop listening to music and blowing the cool breeze like in "Wind and Summer". Because the rooftop is an easy place for accidents, what if a student commits suicide and jumps off the building? This will affect the school's reputation and atmosphere. Just in case, the school will lock the rooftop door so that students have no chance to enter the rooftop. I guess this is why there is such a persistence and yearning for the rooftop in anime.

Let’s talk about the clothing of Japanese students. Most clothing, such as school uniforms and gymnastics uniforms, are basically the same as the clothing of real-life students in Japan. But the swimsuits worn by female students are Shikusu (Japanese homophone). In real schools, most girls wear the two types below in the picture, while the ones in anime with a triangular lower body have been eliminated. .

Then there is the issue of seats. In most campus battles or harem anime, the protagonist always sits in the last or second-to-last seat by the window, and never changes seats in the class. However, this is obviously impossible in reality. Japanese schools will change seats every once in a while for the sake of students' eyesight.

There is also the issue of students’ hairstyle and color. In reality, middle school students in Japan have ordinary hair, and their hair color is all black. The various killer looks and hair colors in anime are just to make the characters more individual and add to their image among readers.

Study trip, in Japanese animation, many students are very excited to go on a school trip. They can go to places they have never been to with their friends to visit and play, buy specialties, take photos, etc. It is indeed wonderful, but In reality, some students begin to hate school trips. On the one hand, some students are isolated and may be alone during the trip, which is boring. On the other hand, they are afraid of being away from their parents for a long time.

In the anime, students will be punished by their teachers for falling asleep in class. In reality, such cases are rare. Teachers in some schools don’t care what students are doing in class at all, because if students are punished , there may be complaints from parents, so why should teachers do these thankless things?

Daily Life

Perhaps in some anime we will see only the protagonist and his group on the train, and then considering that Japan’s population base is not as large as China’s, we may think that anime It should be relatively normal for this kind of scene to appear in the movie. However, Japanese trains are crowded in most cases, especially during peak periods when office workers and students have to go to work (study) or get off work (study).

Then there is a scene where welfare scenes often appear in harem anime, the hot spring. In reality, people who go to hot springs are usually middle-aged and elderly people who take their children with them. In anime, a group of young people go to hot springs to relax and take a bath in various emergencies. This does not exist.

As for the company, in "New Game", the company members are all women, and only the protagonist wears work clothes, while the others wear casual clothes or sportswear. , I would also like to join a company like this, but first of all, most of the people in the game production company wear suits, and then they are basically men, wearing thick glasses and a somewhat sloppy-looking beard. They are all refreshing functional drink bottles (I guess), and their hands are constantly typing or painting, etc.

There are still many misunderstandings between Japanese reality and Japanese animation. I will not list them in detail here. Let’s see if there are any gaps to fill in in the future.

Japanese animation is originally a fictitious work of art. There is reality in fiction, but it is more about the yearning, expectation and pursuit of beauty. If you want to understand Japan through Japanese animation, it actually doesn’t rely on it at all. Spectrum, Japan is often not as good as what is said in anime, but most of the scenes in it are real. It is a good choice to travel to Japan and see the scenery. It is a bit difficult to live in Japan. People in the two countries have many values. It may be difficult to adapt to life in Japan.