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Eh, I'm pretty sure most people in Japan would mutter 'hentai' if they saw that box on your desk. It's childish (at best), even by local standards.
by nihonde 10y ago
Eh, I'm pretty sure most people in Japan would mutter 'hentai' if they saw that box on your desk. It's childish (at best), even by local standards.
- mc32 10y agoThat has to be a joke. This has no hint of tentacles or sexualization that I see. It's a couple of youngish* people sharing or (long shot, if you take the greedy view) tugging over the box of sweets. *The age is hard to tell, it's like trying to divine Buggs Bunny's age from his cartoons. But the age is irrelevant as it's two people with a box of sweets.
- krapp 10y agoI believe in Japanese "hentai" just means pervert, or perverted. It's only in the West that it's associated specifically with tentacle porn. You're still right, though.
- krapp 10y ago>Eh, I'm pretty sure most people in Japan would mutter 'hentai' if they saw that box on your desk. You mean "kawaii," right?
- nihonde 10y agoMaybe if it was teenage girls all the way around. If a 25+ year old male had that laying around, I guarantee you all the women I know would non-judgmentally classify him as 'probably hentai'.
- mrmondo 10y agoYeah I think it's really borderline, besides the product is candy - not girls so why make girls the main / standout part of the very publicly visible packaging. It just looks... Dodgy!
- mc32 10y agoSort of... It follows Japanese advertising characteristics and they are selling Japanese candy. So.... But, yes, I think the people depicted are too prominent and the candy should be more conspicuous. The packaging might benefit by giving the candy more prominence?