Japan is a Cyberpunk Dystopia
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- Опубліковано 10 бер 2024
- Have you ever wandered why when you see a cyberpunk movie, animation, comic book or book there always seems to be a lot of japanese culture or japanese thing in those storys (exapmle: cyberpunk 2077, blade runner, final fantasy 7,etc)? Well then this video is for you, as we explore the history, culture and society of japan to see the why of this, anaylizing things like, the lost decade, the japanese 80s economic boom, the hikikikomori phenomenon, their housing problem (and manga cafes), their school system, the idol industry, the manga industry, their job market, their economic system, and a lot more, because japan is so much more than just, manga, anime and videogames
This video is inspired by: Quinn Henry - South Korea is a Cyberpunk Dystopia - Фільми й анімація
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Bro has never heard of Korea💀💀
Nobody cares about Korea... They literally try so hard to be like Japan(south korea) or even China(north korea). Korea is like the troublesome child that tries to imitate their parents. Still they can't really claim what their parents already did ages before them and without US, China and Japan would probably bring Korea's economy to its knees in seconds.
South Korea has like zero word in the pacific ocean. They also try to reach a soft-power like status like Japan has reached worldwide trough media and music. The reality is the South Korea is basically hanging from a straw before catastrophe.
The only thing I agree about is that Korea is basically controlled by the richest companies but then again... Which capitalist country isn't? Everyone has lobbyism going on it feels like. Besides that even as a "young and innovative newcomer" south Korea does a even worse job at handling the consequences than Japan.
And letting tech companies do whatever they want eventually is the reason why South Korea got out oft poverty in first place and because they basically wanted soms warm cuddles(for exchange) from the west(US), like Japan did decades ago.
Also the whole Cyberpunk Genre took place during the 40-80s, where people witnessed eastern Countries like Japan and such become global players so there was a fear modern orientalism and Japan was gonna be one oft the leaders of that movement, which would consist of basically most Asian countries united against the west.
Actually this video was inspired by Quinn Henry-South Korea is a Cyberpunk Dystopia (I cannot recomend his video enough) where he talks about that, but I honestly think that Japan has it worse in a lot of things
That Korean dystopia video is rather spurious when viewed from an international perspective. After all, South Korea's income inequality (Gini coefficient) is a lot lower than the US and not much different than European countries like France and Germany. When it comes to wealth inequality (again Gini) South Korea ranks as one of the least (!!) unequal countries in the world. Those are more comprehensive metrics for determining capitalist dystopia than simply looking at a single company. Or is Denmark is cyberpunk dystopia because Novo Nordisk's market cap surpasses the entire country's GDP?
@@Illuminatorofshadow Oligarchy? Not just capitalist CLASS dicatorship (as usual in capitalist countries) but simply THE dictatorship of 1 or 2 companies? Well, at least they have low Gini index and totally not killing themselves in staggering rates.
@@vandervi_bruh you pretty much stole the whole intro from the Korea video
I'm Japanese, but I've never heard of a child who wants to work for Mitsubishi in the future. Mitsubishi is not well known among kids.
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without being japanese, but just by watching the video it strikes me as so full of inaccuracies, outdated info, or just wildly exaggerated that idk what to think about it. for once a lot of it seems to be that he is taking a script intended for a video about sk. replace samsung for mitsubishi and there you have it. the grueling school system is something that also applies better to sk than japan. japan made lots of amendments to their school system in the 90s IIRC, same with work culture lots of changes since the 90s. and a lot of other stuff like that in the video.
well just going from what i've read about japan (and i read quite a bit about japan over the years) and some talks with japanese acquaintances, i'm not sure how the general japanese public feel about it.
I'm Japanese too. When I was young I read William Gibson's Neuromancer and wondered why my neighborhood was so boring compared to Chiba City.😂
vandervi is a Cyberpunk Dystopia: "AI combined with plagiarism creates repetitive content"
Not only are you straight up plagiarizing, but the voice over is clearly AI , the text is clearly AI and I believe the dude "talking" is stolen from somewhere as well. Is this what youtube is now?
Just the voice is Ai, I am the dude behind, I was just trying to see how it would look if I put an AI voice over me, as I am not a native speaker, so I don't have the best of accents, you can watch my other long for videos to cinfirmthis, and I don't see from where is plagizim, if you talk about Quinn Henry South Korea is a Cyberpunk Dystopia, I gave him the credits of inspiring this videoin the description, but our video althou they have a lot of similaritys like the structure or thematic, they also have a lot od diferences
@@vandervi_ You took Quinn's script and changed "Korea" with "Japan". Given the fact that "Korea" has been said quite of in his video that makes up a lot of changes and differences so yeah, you are actually right.
Glad that most of the comments are just pointing out how poorly researched this is...and the fact that it's lifted pretty much entirely from somebody else's video about Korea with a couple of name swaps.
It's too exaggerated.
Being good student doesn't mean you have to go to clubs in high school, most people who go to top university rely on only exam scores.
Many Mitsubishi companies aren't commercially connected to each other. Mitsubishi Truck for example belongs to Benz.
Unlike in Korea where you must get into the top companies to get a decent life. In Japan there are many other companies that offer equally good compensation, Keyenance, Itochuu, Nomura etc.
I mean in every country in the world you need to work your way up the society, starting primary School. That's capitalism.
Maybe I exaggerated a bit, but big compoanys like the keiretsu that I mention had a lot of power, and are the ones where most people want to get into
if ur not japanese then ur a sad person
Sounds like South Korea ...
pretty good video this channel deserve more love!!
Thank you 😁
Yeah, I think Japan has been seen as a dystopia for a long time.
This video came up right next to south korea is a cyberpunk dystopia by quinn henry. Wtf
why do i feel like this guy isnt actually talking
I wasn't, is an AI voice, but that's me in the camera, I am not a native speaker and I don't have the best of accents, I just wanted to try something and see if how it looked
@@vandervi_Huh. Very interesting!
Thank you 😁
@@vandervi_ It's fine if you used AI for just your voice, but what about the writing/script?
Mitsubishi also made military aircraft in ww2, like the Zero.
no idea if you'll read this, but I just took a look at your videos and found one where you didn't use AI in your voiceover and honestly I think that the video would have done fine if you didn't use ai. I think you're too worried about your speech skills and I think that although there is a chance that your viewcount could be lower without the AI voice, there would be less dislikes and negative comments overall.
idk have more confidence man. Also if you used ai for the script. Don't.
Social pressure and hierarchy, mixed with the power of tech to multiply it's effect = cyberpunk, reality or fiction.
13:11 Really like the Saint Seiya reference here. In the mid/end 80s this anime with Dragon Ball were the biggest ones at that time in Japan.
I am happy that someone noticed and appreciated the Saint Seiya cameo😁
Ого, только под конец заметил, что на канале меньше 300 подписчиков
Крутейше, по качеству будто сделанное командой людей, с куда большего канала
Успехов тебе в развитии!
have you ever physically been to japan and experienced the country first hand?, (guy posting this video. )
A lot of interesting points in this video about problems in Japan, a lot I agree with.... but there's one huge problem... this doesn't explain how Japan is a "cyberpunk dystopia". The basics of a cyberpunk dystopia is a society where a "megacorporation" has become more powerful than the government and basically controls or supersedes the power of the government and controls or has its hand in almost everything important to human life... this causes or is combined with a gap between the rich and the poor greater than anything we've seen in developed nations today and forces them to use technology to help them survive or fight back against the megacorps. "High tech and low life" is the basic simple definition of cyberpunk.
Also a lot of these problems have become growing problems the past few years in other developed nations almost just as much as Japan. Speaking from Canada here, our society is also aging with there being more old people than young people. We also have a loneliness epidemic and people living with their parents into their 30s. The corporate power issues in Japan are also problems that other developed nations face.
All that said, Japan is probably a good candidate for becoming a true cyberpunk dystopia in the future. The power of Mitsubishi in Japan was interesting to learn about. But at the rate things are going now, every developed and even developing nation could eventually become one.
Toyota has over 500 companies, just sayin'
From my research they can be other keiretsus that are bigger in number of companies, but mitsubishi is the biggest one, the mere fact that they are 10%of the ecomy is just crazy
@@vandervi_ that's true, Mitsubishi is way more into government and heavy industry. These 10% are way high au contraire to other big ones.
That happens because they have existed since japan became a democracy, and arguably before that
Point of cyperbunk dystopia is to critizise ancap world view. While Japan is more like example of government screwing up entire nation with irrational regulations that prevent companies from actually being effective in their hiring processes.
I think is both ways, Japan's goverment screwing business and business screwing japan's goverment,
A lot of the Keiretsus were created in companionship with the republic of Japan, them goverment deliberately created them to help their friends (as they technically existed as zaibatsus before ww2) and to artificially boost japan's economy, but they got to powerfull and they got out of their control
@@vandervi_ power is in hand of the government. Business can't force decisions on politicians. This sort of issues happen when people let politicians have too much power while they naively think that politicians are sweet little angels. While in fact about 99% of them are career psychopaths. Regardless of the country you're in, this is the universal truth. Since psychopaths always seek to make career in places of power.
This is why in countries where government has least amount of power, they generally flourish the most.
@@vandervi_ It can't be power. Since corporations don't have any power. All power to make things happens is in hands of politicians. I generally dislike when people act as if they are some helpless sheeps who just can't say no if someone just offers bit money.
When you say that corporations don't have any power, you mean it literally? figuratively?
I’m not gonna lie man there’s being inspired by and then straight plagiarism. Just because you changed the country does not mean you didn’t essentially steal this content.
Very interesting! I have a feeling much of east asia is militaristic in essence. Japan boom after ww2 in my opinion is that the shitty military men, were for the most part emasculated. Creativity doesnt flourish in militaristic, systematic cultures. Now they are back to impose a systematic culture. Japan rank highest in productivity theatre with much of asia not far behind. And Im speaking as an asian.
The older generation destroys the future of the newer one. Is it realized, and they just dont care?
I like to think that they just don't realize what they are doing
Mitsubishi is the remnant of a zaibatsu, which is also married into a lot of other banking or construction companies such as sumitomo or similar companies. Japan does have a lot of massive interlinked companies. You are slightly off on the school, saturday school is very much a thing of the past and the only thing going on is school clubs that ends around 1200pm. I do think you are mixing up parts of China with parts of Japan. A bit of exaggeration on some of the themes such as parents buying facial surgery for children, that is mostly a Korean phenomenon. Your idol description is not the majority and you are picking parts of certain company contracts, it is illegal to dictate what someone can eat in a contract so that is false. I dont really know why the half truths and exaggerations on the majority of topics.
Such crappy quality
This is the typical guy who know nothing about Japan but pretend to know Japan.
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