My host family has the TV on quite a bit of the time, and half-to-full watch it. A lot of the other foreign students said that their host families watch more TV then they would have expected.
Japanese TV is really weird. I'd like to try to describe it, but.... It escapes words. Often, popular celebrities appear in them. Singers, actors, ect. Also, they use a lot of subtitles (the TV shows, not the celebrities). They're in different colors. They move around. The sparkle. They have little hearts or anger marks after them. It's really quite hilarious. I found a good sampling, linked below. This is seriously what it's like.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKbsLcLfW4s&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z89tYFe65Po&feature=related
"Escapes words" seems accurate....I've been trying to think of a response and, after viewing the samples, can only respond, "huh". It's hard for me to judge TV, being that there is a lot of dreck on American TV and, with football season upon us, our tv will also be on a lot. And, Japan is the country that brought us Iron Chef, so who knows -- someday our family might be gathered around watching nose clearing recipes!
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Wow. Wow. Wow. Those are so... um... wow. Very amusing... and interesting and kinda make you go "What on earth?!"
ReplyDeleteI think watching too many of those TV shows would makes me kinda, dizzy... mentally.
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