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No.924811
LONG LIVE EMPEROR REIWA
We're entering a new era!
https://japan-forward.com/end-of-an-era-akihito-abdicates-as-emperor-of-japan/
>Emperor Akihito, 125th ruler on Japan’s Chrysanthemum Throne, has announced the end of his reign Tuesday, April 30, in a ceremony called Taireiseiden no Gi, which started at 5 P.M. sharp.
>After two of the sacred objects or Sanshu no Gi — the jewel, and the sword — of the Imperial Household were presented to the Emperor, Japan’s state and privy seals were also put in front of the ruler of Japan. These Imperial regalia will be presented to the new Emperor of Japan in the enthronement ceremony Wednesday morning, May 1, as a symbol of the transition.
>The ceremony took place in the prestigious Hall of Pine, or Matsu no Ma, in the Imperial Palace in Tokyo in the presence of 300 guests and was broadcast on live television.
>Japan Prime Minister Shinzo Abe presented a speech to thank the Emperor for praying for the citizens in time of need, for example during natural disasters, as well as conveying his respect and hopes for a fruitful future. Abe commented: “With the steps the Emperor took in mind, we want to work hard to create a future for Japan to be proud, filled with peace and prosperity.”
>Emperor Akihito then read the following speech to the guests present for the ceremony, with Empress Michiko, 84-years-old, standing by his side.
<Today, I am concluding my duties as the Emperor.
<I would like to offer my deep gratitude to the words just spoken by the Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on behalf of the people of Japan.
<Since ascending the throne 30 years ago, I have performed my duties as the Emperor with a deep sense of trust in and the respect for the people, and consider myself most fortunate to have been able to do so. I sincerely thank the people who accepted and supported me in my role as the symbol of the State.
<I sincerely wish, together with the Emperor, that the Reiwa Era which begins tomorrow, will be a stable and fruitful one, and I pray with all my heart, for peace and happiness for all the people in Japan and around the world.
>The ceremony was over in about 12 minutes.
>This is the first time in 200 years that the Emperor of Japan has abdicated. The last time was in 1817, when Kokaku stepped aside. Given the historical moment of this event, many people also crowded in front of the Imperial Palace.
>Kenneth Ruoff, a historian on the imperial family commented that the Heisei Emperor’s words were greeted with emotion, as “the Emperor is incredibly popular among the Japanese people.”
>A women interviewed on Japan’s national television NHK commented, “At this critical moment, I wanted to be here.”
No.924818
Caucasoid clothing looks bad Mongoloids.
And this seems incredible and solemn, to live in a country so bounded by tradition that now you're living in a New Era.
(USER WAS BANNED FOR THIS POST) No.924819
>>924814
>whito piggu taking a selfie
No.924826
>>924818
>japs wearing anglo clothing
It's a sin really. I love kimonos.
No.924828
>>924811
Long Live the Emperor!
No.924831
>1989 was 30 years ago
Nothing has made this more clear to me than the changing of era. I keep thinking that the end of Showa wasn't that long ago but now its too glaring to ignore. Regardless, the Heisei era saw a monumental shift in anime and obviously Japan as a whole. Among the list of big changes is the rise of digital animation and how the internet and widespread computer adoption has changed how we watch. From tape to torrent and from cel animation to full 3DCG. The Reiwa era will probably bring about an equally massive shift which we can only barely begin to imagine. Given where we were at the end of Showa and where we are now I'd wager a guess we are going to see more advanced computerization of animation. Something like AI character design, AI backgrounds, synthetic VAs, 1080 becoming base resolution, VR anime, virtual idol groups, perhaps even "heretical" stuff like physics modelling and photo-realistic environments.
No.924833
>>924831
We'll see anime where you are the protagonist and it's seen in first person through a VR headset. And it'll be great.
No.924835
>>924833
You say that until you become MC in something like Haganai and the story only accepts "eehh nandatte?" and puts dark clouds, god rays, or limits camera angles when you try to look places you shouldn't. A VR VN would be excellent.
No.924839
>>924818
Do you not realize Meiji also wore clothing as such?
No.924840
Any good art for the new era yet?
Requesting a drawfag to draw /a/non lolis watching the birth of the new era together on a TV as if it was the moon landing or something. Alternatively, a party situation.
Anyway, make it look Heisei.
No.924841
>>924839
What about it? It was bad before and it's bad now.
No.924842
>Heisei nostalgiafags on /a/.
Get with the times, gramps.
No.924843
>>924831
In 30 years, we saw Eva, Haruhi, and Love Live. Each a decade apart. Out of those, Eva was the biggest and most influential.
I wonder what the next decade's great industry-influencing anime will be. I wonder what the Reiwa era's most influential anime will be, like Gundam in Showa and Eva in Heisei.
No.924844
>>924839
Wearing a uniform doesn't count.
No.924845
>>924843
>The fertility propaganda ends up working and following Darling in the Franxx we see a new mecha with fertility being shoved into viewers, to the point where girls get pregnant just seeing it.
No.924846
Heisei was our era, boys. As much as we hated it and nostalgiafagged over Showa, Heisei saw the founding of 4chan and our influence spread around the world. In a way, anons made Heisei and Reiwa might either mark the beginning of a new influential community that will shape it, or mark our continued dominance.
What do you think Reiwa otaku are going to do this time?
No.924858
You're now in Reiwa, but do you feel Reiwa?
No.924859
>>924858
I want to feel Rei(wa). Can you teach me how?
No.924863
>30 years later
>Reiwa comes to a close.
>Cute loli comes up to anon.
<Ne ne, anon-kun! You lived through Heisei, right? Wasn't that that legendary era where the internet took off and connected the world? Didn't literally everyone watch Evangelion back then? What Pokemon did you raise? Didn't Haruhi attract Western otaku like no other series since DBZ? That's when digital animation started, right? Everything became digital back then, right? What was the torrenting revolution like? The early days of 4chan? Which were the memes you started? Everyone on 4chan watched Code Geass and Azumanga Daiou, right? How many people did you Rick roll? Did you ever take part in any /a/ sings? Ne, ne, anon, what was that legendary era like?
>Anon strokes his beard and sets the loli on his lap.
<It was shit.
No.924866
>>924831
Showa era was best era, and I'll be listening to nip ongaku from the period for as long as I live. I feel painfully nostalgic for it, even though I was born the year it ended, just a few months after the death of the Emperor.
However all is not lost and I look forward to the future of Japonia and wish the elves all the best from the bottom of my heart.
日本万歳
No.924867
So, what are you going to say the first time someone asks you what Heisei was like?
No.924871
>>924867
>Those were dark times, young anon. Dark times indeed.
>But in the darkness true Otaku stuck together
>And in the darkness we found our waifus
>The animu was pretty gud when it was still 2D
Remember anons, those of you who make it long enough to see Reiwa end, when you are old reminiscing: Remember that today, when Heisei ended, you were here. You were /a/non.
No.924873
>>924871
>those of you who make it long enough to see Reiwa end
I wish anon can make it that far.
No.924877
>>924818
I don't get it. Why was this anon banned?
No.924878
Isn't Abe some kind of super nationalist who loves hitler?
No.924880
>>924811
More /jp/ than /a/, but such is life on 8gag.
天皇陛下万歳！
No.924881
>>924877
Because that cancer doesn't belong here.
I would say to lurk more, but you wouldn't learn anything. Rather, I would say to surf the web more, though I know it's hard in this day and age of heavy censorship.
>>924811
天皇陛下万歳！
No.924883
No.924884
>>924871
Is that supposed to make me feel good?
No.924890
>>924811
What's the last anime you watched in Heisei /a/?
No.924891
How come other countries don't have these different eras? It sounds like a cool thing as well as it gives a country a semblance of unity and its people a sense of importance. In USA it seems like history is just categorized in: Slavery, post-slavery, WW2 and Post 9/11.
No.924892
>>924891
Like how the Romans marked their years in Consular dating, America should use Presidential dating. It's currently Trump 2.
No.924893
>>924891
Because we don't have emperors or kings.
To give a bit of history, back in Ancient times, dates were always given as "In Year 3 of the Reign of King so-and-so." And it was only after the adoption of Christianity that years became known as "Anno Domini" or "In the Year 2019 of our Lord Jesus Christ". And this became the standard because Christ was seen as the King of all mankind.
As an aside, the Roman Republic would call each year, "In the Year of the Consulship of X and Y."
Japan is so remarkably similar to Ancient Europe in many ways and this is something they kept and we lost.
They only use the Christian dates out of convenience like everyone else, but this is in reality their new year, and new era. They are in "Year 1 of the Reign of Emperor Reiwa."
No.924895
>>924890
Let's see, what did I watch last night before falling asleep...
>Three episodes of Gate.
I'll take it.
No.924896
>>924895
For some reason, the image didn't send.
No.924897
>>924890
>Isekei Quartet
Oh, what the fuck.
No.924899
>>924891
Technically Britain has this but Elizabeth II won't fucking die so it's going on forever.
No.924901
>>924890
>Zoku Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei
Not bad.
No.924904
>>924878
I wish.
>>924880
8/a/ pretty much is also /jp/ for all intents and purposes.
>>924890
>Isekai Quartet
I don't feel ok with this.
No.924905
>>924890
>Adieu Galaxy Express 999
Perfect.
No.924912
>>924890
Slayers. Doesn't really fit, but who cares.
No.924914
I don't care what era it is, Asuka is still best girl.
No.924916
>>924905
>Watching Showa on the last day of Heisei.
No.924917
>>924890
Ougon Bat. It should the most obscure one here.
No.924918
>>924890
Gochuumon wa Usagi desu Ka
No.924919
>>924890
I already forgot. Time's a blur.
No.924924
>>924831
>1080 becoming the base resolution
It's strange that such a thing hasn't happened among TV anime outside of a few rare exceptions.
Given how hard Nips are pushing ever-increased TV broadcast resolutions why didn't the anime industry follow suit?
Are 1080p anime that expensive?
No.924927
>>924893
I thought it'd be "Year 1 of the Reign of Emperor Naruhito" with "Era of Reiwa" as its symbolic short form.
No.924930
>>924890
>Strike Witches - 501-butai Hasshin Shimasu ep4
The next episode preview was the last bit of anime I saw in Heisei. It's barely even animated.
No.924933
>>924890
Precure Max Heart.
>>924924
Its expensive. We dont even have 30fps animation much less high resolution. Even the full CG anime are purposefully not recorded at 30fps.
>>924873
Its just until the new emperor dies or feels like leaving. Hes 59 years old right now so its very likely all of us live to see the end of Reiwa in 30 more years (or less) unless a world war happens.
No.924936
>>924890
Last anime of Heisei was RobiHachi.
The first anime of Reiwa was Onara Gorou.
No.924940
>>924936
>The first anime of Reiwa
I started Reiwa pretty gay. It's what Aniki would have wanted.
No.924944
>>924893
The Ancient Greeks counted in Olympiads!
No.924948
>>924933
Anime isn't a video game, low frame limited animation with a varying frame rate is one of the core aspects of anime.
>We dont even have 30fps animation
The standard for hand drawn animation is and has always been 24fps. If you want a higher framerate the next choice would be 48fps and not 30.
Lower frame rates give animators more control and require less frames (less work). If you want "realistic 3DPD" style movement, you can use any of the inevitable A.I. solutions to add additional frames. It's probably going to look like shit, but an A.I. is still far better than humans at doing the miniscule inbetweening that's required when doing 60 fps hand drawn animation.And there is interpolation which is still going to outperform humans at high fps inbetweening.
Most anime have a varying frame rate between 6-24 fps.
No.924950
>>924948
>AI inbetweening
Nope.
No.924955
>>924949
This was done with rotoscoping and by a studio with money to burn. I dont think the goal is "realistic 3DPD" movement as much as it will be that the target framerate for the medium (Im guessing VR) will be well above 60fps. That alone may necessitate high framerates at the production level.
>>924950
Come back to us in 30 years.
No.924956
>>924933
>>924948
Framerate does matter, but 24fps is fine for drawn animation. The problem arises with CG, whether on its own or mixed with 2D. Drawn animation can use distortion and motion blur to imply movement between frames in a way that cannot be straightforwardly done with CG models. Anime isn't a video game, but when it comes to the demands it places on framerate, CG is closer to video games than it is to drawn animation. For CG to look good you need a higher framerate than drawn. Which causes a big problem when you try to mix the two. Slowing down the CG makes it look jittery, speeding up the animation is expensive and time consuming, and having them at different framerates looks awful.
>If you want "realistic 3DPD" style movement
Come on now. Don't just call everything you're arguing against 3DPD. Higher framerates genuinely look better. Remember how everyone reacted to the excess of frames in the early episodes of Slow Start?
No.924958
>>924811
What a beautiful ceremony and sentiment. Hopefully this era will be peaceful and prosperous for the world.
>>924831
Thirty years move by so fast. I agree change will continue on at a full steam and we are completely in the dark of where we're heading.
No.924960
What was the last thing you fapped to in Heisei?
What was the first in Reiwa?
I'm not actually sure. I know I was on Gelbooru, but I don't remember what the last search was. It's possible it was futanari, but I think it was more likely girls in sweat- or arousal-stained clothes.
No.924961
>>924955
>in 30 years
If they keep at it, AI will be indistinguishable to hand drawn inbetweening within 10 or even 5 considering the sudden leaps machine learning keeps on doing.
No.924962
>>924960
>What was the last thing you fapped to in Heisei?
My waifu using my imagination
>What was the first in Reiwa?
I didn't fapped yet but I know for sure it'll be my waifu again
No.924963
>>924960
>last
Something vore related
>first
Something vore related.
No.924964
>>924960
>last thing you fapped to in Heisei?
I think it was Sakura doing some very dirty things at school.
>first in Reiwa?
Chiyo being bullied and enjoying it.
No specific images in either case, since I was just using my imagination.
No.924969
>>924890
Winter Days. Although now that I think about it, that felt like the best way to end it even if that wasn't my intention.
>>924960
They both ended up being wakasagihime, but that is mostly because I can't remember what I actually did fap to yesterday.
No.924970
>>924949
That's rotoscoped. And to be honest I find it questionable if taking real life footage and drawing on top of it can be called animation. You're essentially just adding a 2D filter on life action footage. Kaguya is produced at 24 fps, and your "fluid" dance scene is largely "animated" in 2s (12fps).
>>924956
> The problem arises with CG, whether on its own or mixed with 2D. Drawn animation can use distortion and motion blur to imply movement between frames in a way that cannot be straightforwardly done with CG models.
Dstortion and motion blur is what's used in most if not all CGI movie by Pixar and most high budget Hollywood productions. The standard for film as a whole has been and is in many cases still 24fps. Download yourself https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRpXRkSCOTI, it's a short by Pixar. Or look at a more recent Pixar teaser/short, everything is done in 24fps. Any anon should at least once look at an anime, anime CGI, game footage and modern Western movie CGI frame by frame.
How long a single frame is perceived by the viewer has an enormous impact on the viewer. All the techniques used in traditional anime animation are to be used with material that's intended to run at 24fps (even when the actual animation is done at a lower framerate).
No.924979
I vote for /a/ to use 01/01/Reiwa as our date/timestamp instead of the filthy gaijin date system.
No.924982
>>924979
Surely it would be 令和年01月01日 or Reiwa/01/01 if we want to keep it ascii-compatible. Dates should always be big-endian.
No.924984
>>924982
I can't imagine the kanji being undoable, either way I support this change.
No.924985
>>924979
Let's not get carried away. As appealing as an era system can sound, I'd rather stick to Gregorian. It's more practical.
No.924986
>>924985
You're no fun Anon.
No.924987
>>924986
If you think it's fun to need lookup tables to figure out how long ago Enryaku 6 was, then feel free.
No.924988
>>924985
It would be cool if we could have both. I'm not sure how much control the meidos have over things like the date display format though. CSS alone probably isn't enough. You'd need custom HTML/javascript.
No.924990
>>924979
I second this vote, as long as it's big-endian as per >>924982
That's 3 votes, so more than 50% of /a/, meidos please fix.
No.924991
>>924962
>last
Dry humping the sheets in bed thinking of my waifu
>first
Never, if I don't fuck up.
No.924992
>>924987
>he doesn't have lookup tables for every Imperial era
Alternatively, why not use the 皇紀 for maximum autism?
No.924993
>>924979
If we're switching dates to keep normalfags out, then wouldn't the Gensokyo date be a better idea?
No.924994
>>924960
>Heisei
An old loli H manga by an artist who I think is retired
>Reiwa
Arisu and Miria doujin
No.924995
>>924985
How about a compromise where the Reiwa date is visible and on mouseover the Gregorian date appears?
No.924996
No.924999
>>924995
That might also have the advantage of discouraging phone-posters.
No.925003
>>924890
As in, the last anime episode? SnK
The last anime finished though? Mob Psycho II
No.925005
>>924999
I don't know if the date changing would cause phoneposters to be dissuaded.
No.925007
>>924999
If you wanted to keep them out wouldn't it be better to configure the website to block phone devices identified via browser info?
No.925010
>>925007
I doubt the admins will do that. The other big boards would lose 80% of their userbase overnight.
No.925011
>>925007
Why would you? Low quality posts are already covered by existing rules regardless of the device used to post them.
A block on phones would just be a pain. Even I tend to pull up the catalog on my phone when I'm killing time waiting for something.
No.925014
>>924890
Utena and Pani Poni last night. Now in the new era, more Utena and more Pani Poni.
No.925030
>>924890
>Otaku No Video
Whew, that was a close one. I thought it was going to be Dororo. I did pretty good.
Isekai Quartet is sadly going to be the first anime of Reiwa however.
No.925038
>Can't type 令和 on my computer
>Can only copypaste
No.925039
>>924927
Naruhito's name is now Reiwa.
No.925040
>>925038
If you use google IME, you can wite rei and you will find 令. Then you can find 和 under wa. After that it will learn that you can write reiwa as 令和.
No.925041
>>925039
I thought they only renamed the emperors after they died?
Admittedly Wikipedia is my only source though, so it could easily be misinformation:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posthumous_name#Contemporary_Japanese_use
No.925042
>>924960
Mai waifu is the answer to both questions!
No.925047
No.925051
>>925048
Simply complimenting japans tradition and insulting caucaisian clothing isn't political you sperg. By that reasoning half of this thread is political and should be completely reported. Especially these posts:
>>924826
>>924845
>>924878
If you're gonna abide by the rules that much at least have some consistency or point out how it differs. That post was as much /jp/ content as the rest of this thread and thus by rule 7 is allowed. So no, you clearly didn't report that anon cause of the rules alone.
No.925052
>>924811
>REIWA
Fun fact, some Japanese companies don't use the Gregorian calendar for their programs, meaning that the era-change comes with a minor Y2K nostalgia panic.
No.925054
>>925052
I mean, when you know an age change is coming roughly every human lifespan, you should build your system so that it can easily move on to a new one. It's gonna happen a lot more frequently than Y2K.
No.925055
>>925038
>>925040
You can also use the M$ IDE. Just enable additional icons on the language bar and use the add word thing to add an entry for 令知.
I just discovered this myself and now I'm having fun adding all sorts of stupid 顔文字.
ｷﾀ━━━(ﾟ∀ﾟ)━━━!!
No.925057
>>924944
Yeah, well, the Greeks are weirdos.
No.925059
>>924890
Porco Rosso. I could have done worse I suppose.
No.925066
>>924890
Shingeki no Kyojin, the second ova. I've watched up to the 1st part of S3. Full of plot contrivances, and all of the major characterized charcters have plot armor up the ass. (Leading to numerous occurrences of Dues Ex Machina.) But, generally entertaining. A good, but not great show.
No.925071
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>>924890
I don't want to avatarfag but...
>>924960
>What was the first in Reiwa?
I haven't had a chance to fap in like 10-11 days now.
No.925077
So heisei ended with a trailer for a live action Sonic movie and Kamen Rider Brain. There's something to be said about that but i dunno what
>>924890
Samurai Champloo. Go figure
No.925081
>>924890
Senko-san
>>924960
Plastering a goblin at 200 yards with 9mm
some nameless physical doujin I can't find right now.
No.925082
>>925055
Neat, thanks a lot.
>>925059
I still haven't seen it but recently downloaded it after listening to The Bygone Days obsessively lately.
How is it anon?
No.925148
>>925052
It also involves the whole administration. In fact there's rumors of switching to gregorian.
>>925054
The problem wasn't that they didn't see coming, it's that the name of the era was not revealed until one month before the change. Great for the symbolism but a huge fuck you practically speaking, as you can't switch if you don't know what to switch to. It's a ridiculous window of time for all systems in the country to change, and it isn't as simple as hitting ctrl+H.
No.925156
>>925148
If everything was properly organized then it should be almost as simple as hitting ctrl+H. Developers should have written the necessary date-handling code well in advance and simply used a placeholder string until the era name was announced.
In that case the main delay would come from long chains of dependencies each needing to be updated. If one team of developers fail to push out timely updates, it could cause delays for all of the down-stream developers too.
No.925230
>>925148
>>925156
>>925054
>>925052
This reminds me of mideviel Italy when Italian merchants switched to arabic numerals, (really Indian numerals) because it was much easier to divide, multiply, and determine interest with them in comparison to roman numerals.
>>925082
Not the same anon, but it's one of Miyazaki's best.
No.925277
YouTube embed. Click thumbnail to play.
Allow me to present to you,
Reiwa
by Golden Bomber.
No.925278
>>925277
Keyboard solo was actually very good, but the music was crap and the english lyrics and similar were crap.
Also, 'Colorful Kei' is crap, a relic from Heisei+KPop influences.
Things aren't looking good for Reiwa-chan.
No.925280
>tfw Japan is already making Reiwa-chan
No.925281
YouTube embed. Click thumbnail to play.
>>925278
Do you like it now?
No.925284
>>924890
Magical Girl Spec-Ops Asuka / Mahou Shoujo Tokushusen Asuka
I have no regrets about ending the era with that anime. I enjoyed it.
No.925332
>>924843
Whatever it will be, Rei will still be better than Asuka and fags will still disagree.
No.925333
>>925281
You can't fix a sound with visuals.
No.925336
>>925277
>>925282
Wait, is it "Re-I-Wa" or "Rei-Wa"?
No.925338
>>925336
It's れいわ.
But's it's also rei-wa. 令 is the rei and 知 is the wa.
No.925341
>>925336
Rei-wa is correct. They pronounced "wrong" due to the song metrics.
No.925353
>>925336
Japanese is a bunch of equal syllables.
>>925341
Do your reps.
No.925370
>>925353
>Japanese is a bunch of equal syllables.
Only in theory. If you listen carefully you'll notice that there's a lot less separation between syllables than some textbooks would have you believe. It's especially common in the case of い following any other syllable.
No.925374
>>924890
Gundam Unicorn, goddamn, what a mistake that was
No.925380
>>925370
Actually, in the case of い following an え sound, it becomes an elongated え sound where the え lasts for two syllables. It's the same thing with お and う coming after it, which is why 東京 and 東方 sound the way they do.
Gaijin can't into elongated vowels.
No.925383
>>925353
Sure, that's why the /u/ is so audible in です and 好き.
No.925386
>>925380
>Gaijin can't into elongated vowels.
Sure, if you are burgercattle.
No.925388
YouTube embed. Click thumbnail to play.
This is now the hot new meme song and there's nothing you can do about it.
No.925390
>>925380
I wasn't talking about the elongated vowels. Those are another special case, but at least most textbooks cover those.
The sounds get blurred together in the case of あい, おい, etc. too. Just listen out for it in words like 下さい. It's incredibly common.
No.925431
>>925384
>But wait! It gets worse!
No.925780
YouTube embed. Click thumbnail to play.
>>925431
HEISEI SAIKOU HEISEI SAIKOU
HEISEI HEISEI SAIKOU
No.925866
YouTube embed. Click thumbnail to play.
Yo, I can't wait for this song to get even bigger.
No.925870
>>925780
I want the Crazy Frog Bros videos to live on into the far future. I want there to be a time, centuries from now, in which historians use them as a source for how people lived, trained, danced and fought in our distant age.
No.925871
>>925866
I like this Reiwa-chan model.
No.925875
>>924890
I forgot, but it's probably Bocchi.
No.925929
What does the Japanese emperor do nowadays? Does he have a buys schedule for every day, or does he have to go through some public events every few week?
No.925951
>>925929
This is about Emperor Akihito but it should give you an idea.
No.925957
>>925951
>everything is owned by the state
That's kind of weird. Didn't it use to be the other way around, where everything in Japan belonged to the Emperor? Doesn't sound like that great of a life. They're basically pets of the Japanese state.
No.925959
>>925957
I imagine they still live happier and more fulfilling lives than most humans on the planet. It sounds like they have plenty of time to pursue their own interests.
No.925960
>>925951
>he is a world-class expert on gobi fish
I may confusing something, but I thought he was the first Tenno to attend university, and studied political science, not biology.
No.925961
>>925959
I'm just assuming since the grass is always greener. I wouldn't mind being the ultimate NEET just for having to play emperor every now and then, but knowing I don't actually own anything and my fate is entirely in the hands of the state would still bother me.
No.925963
>>925961
>knowing I don't actually own anything and my fate is entirely in the hands of the state would still bother me
True enough, but seeing the way things are going and with nobody suggesting any alternatives where neither of those are true, I'd rather be in that situation as an Emperor than as a subject.
No.925964
>>925960
Just looked it up, the English Wikipedia page says nothing about it, but the German one does.
Weird
No.925965
>>925961
Ownership is always subject to the whims of the powerful. Your "property" is nothing more than writing on paper or electrons in a datacenter.
I imagine that there would be more public outcry if the Emperor had his not-technically-property seized than if your bank decided to delete your account balance and repossess your house. Hell, you could even have all of your property legally stolen via civil forfeiture.
No.925966
>>925961
> I don't actually own anything and my fate is entirely in the hands of the state
It's true for every man. We don't own anything, we just lend things to give them away after death and our fates belong to the gods.
No.925972
>>925966
You know what I mean.
No.925978
>>925957
Since early Japanese history, it's part of both their law and own 'mandate of heaven' that everything in Japan belongs to them.
If there's any kind of ownership there, it's an indefinite right of use the crown concedes to the person/company.
In the past, this was serious - nowdays it's a mere formality.
No.925983
>>925957
>>925978
>Since early Japanese history, it's part of both their law and own 'mandate of heaven' that everything in Japan belongs to them.
I guess generally not giving a shit about that is a big part of Japanese history. Sengoku was the most prominent case but I doubt it was the only one.
No.925986
>>925983
Japanese history is kind of weird, although it's mostly because we don't have accurate records from the beginning. Basically all we know is that the island had a Siberian population of hunter-gatherers (the jomon), then around 250 AD migrants from the Korean peninsula (the yayoi) appeared, and they started building their cities and whatnot. Next up it's after 1000 AD and Japan is pretty much an unified country* with a highly sophisticated urban culture, and the emperor is already more of a high priest of sorts than a supreme leader of the country. It doesn't help that their myths say the first emperor founded the country in 660 BC, well before the appearance of the yayoi.
*Yes, they didn't rule all of modern day Japan at that point, as they were pushing northward rather slowly over the centuries. But it was still one country growing bigger.
No.925991
>>925866
>Yo, I can't wait for this song to get even bigger.
I hope it does.
No.926331
>>925399
I wish I was there for that. You can feel the love and national unity the Nips have for their culture.
Subarashii.