you should kill a man

I agree, this obsession with japanese culture is pretty disgusting...



...but for some reason I like the shirt.



meh.

personally, i'm just tired of the personal music/i-pod/headphone obsession these days. the people look more like nesting dolls to me to worry about the japaneseness of it all.

This doesn't look like anime/manga at all.

just admit it, you dont like japanese people

I totally thought of nesting dolls also.

they look like buttplugs that i used to have to sell at 'home run video' too.



now they will look like short, fat, black dongs to all of you as well.

my job is done here.

errr this isnt anime at all

could these be anymore anime? I mean, look at their giant eyes, pointy chins, and oversized novelty breasts

yeah, i guess i'm also tired of the simplistic curved lines for facial features trend too, which i would safely say is kawaii/anime influenced.

I'm sure that it's all linked anyway, but to me they seem closer to traditional japanese art than to anime.

don't look at it then. :P

I hate the Japanese as well.

anime/manga-obsessed meditation



whaaaaaaaaaaaaa?

They do look a bit like Russian Matryoshka dolls. I might have liked it if it wasn't on natural.

I love this on the white hoody!

totally russian/asian Matryoshka dolls mmmmmmmmmmmmmmwonderful

THIS BLOG IS RACIST! ;)

they're just japanese style, not necessarily anime. there IS a difference

i'm totally offended by this blog!







not really.

big difference between..

I kind of like it.

Even though I abhor that Japanese culture fad.

It's so great, that from far away it looks like vinyl records. Then you're like. oOOOh two asiann people listening to music. Still rad though





I thought it was an amazing design

nothing like manga or anime, and it's a completely different take on the japanese culture.. assuming that they're meant to be geisha, geisha are rarely portrayed popularly (as awesome as their culture is)



i love it.. wish it wasn't so pricey..

I love this shirt, I think it's wonderful and I just bought it. I don't think it looks anime/manga obsessed at all. If you looked at the other designs by this artist, you'll realize that this is just the way they draw their art. But to each her or his own, I suppose. =/

Threadless doesn't require your approval.

butplugs, i say.

But plugs, I say.

ahhh, this was a perfect lunchtime laughter blog...

this shirt calld

to say

it loves you

and it means it from

the bottom

of its heart.

of

its

heaaaarrrrtttt.

oh. and gfy.

oh god, now I'm going to think "butt plugs" whenever I wear it.

anime/manga? what the hell have you been smoking, clueless video tapes?

this blog is racist

i just don't like the whole music bit . overdone i think. like the whiteness, just not the design. oh well. there's always next week.

"Music is overdone"... that is one of the stupidest things I've ever heard. I feel like I'm living in Farenheight 451. What are we going to do next, ban music?

Your opinion is wrong.



:)

I agree with you, this is boring.

1. That design isn't anime/manga. It is influenced by japanese (visual) culture though.



2. anime/manga comes in different forms and styles. So it's not only dragon ball like figures with sailor moon girls.



3. Why they put so many yellow winegums in bag?!!!! I like the purple ones.

Who cares what the hell the design style is? Anime/manga/Matryoshka/stacking dolls/butt plugs...this shirt is horrible no matter how you view it. I was making better bitmap images on paint programs when I was seven. Boring, boring, boring. Aaaand, an excellent example of "different" not meaning "better". So I guess we do have something for which to thank the artist.

I donīt really care about this design in particular,Iīve seen better ,just keep printing hoodies,more and more designs!

I'm not entirely crazy about this design either, but for my own reasons.

It seems simplistic to say that "dumb Japan thing" this is all the result of a fad. I understand some people are shallow fad-following sheep, for whom it might be so, but I think a great deal of it is genuine appreciation for the artistic traditions of the Japanese... Anime & Manga styles are certainly prone to fad, but I think when you get into more traditionally-influenced styles such as this the artist has done a little more homework and created something genuine. I really like this design, and I must say, it doesn't merely look Japan-influenced, it looks like many of the designs I have seen from actual Japanese artists. Furthermore, to those of you who say that the uber-kawaii themes in Japanese art disgust you... well, me too, to an extent. And while I don't deny their prevalence, I also know that there's more to Japanese art than that, both traditional & contemporary. I highly recommend: www.digmeout.net

I have to say I'm EXTREMELY weary of the iPod/personal music player thing (not music itself); it was kinda cute for a while but it hasn't ever meant much.



Japanese-inspired art never gets tired for me. I actually really like this, because the style reminds me a lot of a woodcut print.



But I look terrible in "natural", so no buy for me. If it had been printed on a deep red, I'd have snapped it up in a sec.

who are you? Why do i care?

BUTTPLUGS SHOULDN'T LISTEN TO MUSIC.

it might give them ideas.



but enough knocking this shirt or the artist...it's one shirt of many, no one has to buy it, let's just leave the comments to 'i like it' 'i don't like it' and 'it makes me think of'....because there are a ton worse shirts out there.

I love Jan.



isang ugat,

isang dugo

isang pangalan, Pilipino

isang tadhanang lalakbayin

isang panata

ISANG BANDILA!



-Rivermaya

Funny how some people are saying, "Who are you to say this?" somehow forgetting that in itself is an opinion. Right. Smart work there.



Knocking an artist personally is shabby, but critiquing a design I can't see as bad. "There are worse" is a flimsy argument. There are worse but ... there are better?

I don't object to anyone disliking something. I do object to people saying that they are tired of "dumb Japanese things". What is that even supposed to mean?

You know (in response to gloriana232), it does remind me of a woodblock, now that you bring that up. I LOVE woodblocks. They're gorgeous.