Things from the East that you think are much better than from the West right now

[Bullet Sniper]

When it comes to the clash of cultures, there's no phrase that rings a more familiar bell in our minds and consciousness than "West vs East".

Now we all know that the West, most particularly the nation of United States of America, is the world's pioneer and center of pop culture, and has spread throughout all corners of the globe. Then came along the East, most notably Japan, whom not only adopted the West's model and standards of pop culture, but has created and shaped their very own and has since then became an eternal rival to the Anglosphere in consumer culture exporting as a secondary or runner-up competitor at worst and an established equal or sometimes even superior at best.

With all theatrics out of the way, when it comes to the endless comparisons and debates between the West and the East, especially America and Japan in the visual arts/pop culture/entertainment landscape, it's always easy for us to support the West over the East or simply that "USA is way better than [insert other country X]" for a variety of reasons including patriotism, however this is not always the case.

For instance, in my personal point of view, American entertainment and pop culture, or at least some major parts of it, has been declining for me and for many reasons I have been finding more fascination with Japanese pop culture and entertainment more than ever lately. I'm sure that's not the only example, but it's the most primary one I can think of when things are all stripped down to specific country vs specific country.

So the main question of this threads: What are forms of media and entertainment or in ANYTHING at all beyond, do you think the East is better than the West in right now? What are examples of things that the East (be it Japan or elsewhere in Asia) is more successful and popular than the West (be it USA or other countries in Europe) right now? Or which categories of things in the world right now do you like the West better than the East now?

Place your answers, gentlemen!

[Sharkerbob]

Well, and this is just going off what I've seen, mind you, the East seems more willing to embrace the idea of publishing works with wackier, more esoteric/cerebral content than most of what you see in the West.

They promptly ruin it in their presentation 99% of the time, but still.

[Darkseid Is]

Making sushi

Possibly horror movies. There are some really scary japanese ones.

[Silvermoth]

Definitely their train system! Although europes trains are quite nice

[Buried Alien]

Eastern cuisine has destroyed Western cuisine since forever.

Buried Alien (The Fastest Post Alive!)

[Sugar Spun Sorceress]

When it comes to the clash of cultures, there's no phrase that rings a more familiar bell in our minds and consciousness than "West vs East".

Now we all know that the West, most particularly the nation of United States of America, is the world's pioneer and center of pop culture, and has spread throughout all corners of the globe. Then came along the East, most notably Japan, whom not only adopted the West's model and standards of pop culture, but has created and shaped their very own and has since then became an eternal rival to the Anglosphere in consumer culture exporting as a secondary or runner-up competitor at worst and an established equal or sometimes even superior at best.

With all theatrics out of the way, when it comes to the endless comparisons and debates between the West and the East, especially America and Japan in the visual arts/pop culture/entertainment landscape, it's always easy for us to support the West over the East or simply that "USA is way better than [insert other country X]" for a variety of reasons including patriotism, however this is not always the case.

For instance, in my personal point of view, American entertainment and pop culture, or at least some major parts of it, has been declining for me and for many reasons I have been finding more fascination with Japanese pop culture and entertainment more than ever lately. I'm sure that's not the only example, but it's the most primary one I can think of when things are all stripped down to specific country vs specific country.

So the main question of this threads: What are forms of media and entertainment or in ANYTHING at all beyond, do you think the East is better than the West in right now? What are examples of things that the East (be it Japan or elsewhere in Asia) is more successful and popular than the West (be it USA or other countries in Europe) right now? Or which categories of things in the world right now do you like the West better than the East now?

Place your answers, gentlemen!

I don't know if I'm allowed to answer, because you only said "gentlemen". (=･ｪ･=?

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[mojotastic]

porn and maybe more porn.

[Bullet Sniper]

Or if you guys wanted to also stick to major pillars of media, here's another example: I definitely enjoy Japanese-made video games over MOST American/Western ones (though MS-DOS games like Doom and Wolfenstein were the tits) ever since my childhood.

[Carabas]

The thread seems to be mostly Japan versus USA than actual east versus west, so what about comicbook industries?

The American niche industry that is mostly kept around out of a sense of tradition and to fuel movies, versus an actual mass media industry that sells amounts of books that makes Marvel and DC want to crawl under a rock and cry, and that's before even looking at the difference in population between the countries.

[DebkoX]

The weather.

[Carabas]

The weather.

One word: tsunami.

[numberthirty]

From the looks of the "Rumbles" Sub-Forum, Rama.

[ed2962]

porn and maybe more porn.

Well, probably tentacle porn...

[Bullet Sniper]

The thread seems to be mostly Japan versus USA than actual east versus west, so what about comicbook industries?

The American niche industry that is mostly kept around out of a sense of tradition and to fuel movies, versus an actual mass media industry that sells amounts of books that makes Marvel and DC want to crawl under a rock and cry, and that's before even looking at the difference in population between the countries.

Well I did notably clarify that it didn't have to be just USA vs Japan, but all of Western media vs all of Eastern media.

[Carabas]

Well I did notably clarify that it didn't have to be just USA vs Japan, but all of Western media vs all of Eastern media.

You also said primarily the USA and most notably Japan.