Amusing Cultural Differences: Japanese DVD Covers
When Ashley and I went to Thailand in 2006, we had an eight hour layover in Osaka, Japan on the way back. We were exhausted, not having slept much on the flight from Bangkok to Osaka, but the opportunity to go out and explore Japan a bit was just too tempting. We saw a lot of interesting things – and Japan was just as clean and organized as I thought it was – but one thing I saw struck me as humorous. We went into a book/DVD/CD store and while most of it was incomprehensible to the two Gaijin (us) walking around, some things don’t require words to understand. I saw the DVD cover for the movie “Fantastic 4″ and I burst out laughing. Why? Here’s what the North American DVD cover looks like:

And here’s what the Japanese DVD cover looked like:

Any differences “pop” out at you?



March 1st, 2007 at 5:40 pm
Nope. Nothing popping out at me at all. Don’t be a boob!
March 1st, 2007 at 6:16 pm
Thanks for keeping me abreast of the situation Vinny!
March 2nd, 2007 at 8:53 am
Just trying to make sure we milk every bit out of this utterly ridiculous story.
Now let’s not go tit for tat here.
March 6th, 2007 at 4:20 am
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