The fate of Japanese: Christmas

(tags Japan, anime, Christmas, otaku, ヲタク, criticism)

Christmas is an economic event in Japan. It's also brings lots of chicken, and for me, "with my waifu" pictures. In an email I got a bunch of photo-expose links about how fellow anime/moe character fanatics are celebrating their Christmas 2006. So many about the same thing: "with my waifu" pictures: a display showing your favorite anime/moe character, and in front, a glass of champagne, a wing of chicken, and perhaps a cake or cookies, optionally surrounded by moe figures.

WTF is up with that?!? Christmas does not mean chicken, people?!? Oh well, Japan, Japan.

I tried to emulate this behavior, but I got the wrong date and custom. See if you can figure the 7 things wrong here:

1. No chicken.
2. No champagne.
3. No wine glass.
4. No cakes.
5. No figures.
6. It's daytime.
7. It's not Christmas, New Years, or Valentine's Day.

Okay this is not fun anymore. Instead of obviously lonely single males doing their Christmas offering to their 2d lover (how come they only pour a glass for themselves and not to their significant other?!), please send me a picture of a woman otaku (fujoshi?!) doing the same type of thing. Or do they do something different?

And just today I was reading the BBC about how Japan's population will be decreasing significantly in the coming decades.

Ack I need to get a grip. I'd be in the action too if I had a bottle of champagne around.