Beachin’ Tokyo trains

8 thoughts on “Beachin’ Tokyo trains”

1. In previous months, other “manner” posters reminded riders to:
   –Tokyo Metro manners for Valentine gifts
   –Please be considerate of passengers getting on and off
   — The official start of the Japanese Vomiting Season
   — Please party on the train!
   — “Not torture eyeballs on jostling trains“,
   — “Please do it like a Moose”
   — “DON’T SWIM IN FRONT OF THE TRAINS“
   —“Please no umbrella golf on the platform“

2. let me guess…is this another of your prank poster? =) you won’t get away with this one haha

3. Yeh, that poster is nothing like Japanese reality.
   The fun-lovin’ guy in the poster is wearing disgusting Crocs and the girl has the longest hemline (and titty) in Tokyo, meh.

4. what I still don’t get it, it’s the whole bubbles stuff….they are bubbles,right? coins? what’s the deal with them?

5. Cbass wrote:
   what I still don’t get it, it’s the whole bubbles stuff….they are bubbles, right? coins? what’s the deal with them?

   Oh, that’s visual shorthand in manga/cartooning for being drunk. The little bubbles represent the belching feelings when someone has consumed too much booze.
   The graphic artist Bunpei Yorifuji who did the posters is rightly amused by the plague of vomiting drunks on Tokyo trains as you can see in this closeup of his November poster.

   View the original.

   For more about graphic artist of the original posters, Bunpei Yorifuj, read my friend’s article in Japan Times….
   

   Punchy posters urge Tokyoites to mind their manners
   Special to The Japan Times, Sunday, June 21, 2009, by BRETT BULL
   “….for the poster to be effective, it needs to have a catchy title, one that can be understood in a second, and it has to contain an illustration that is easy to recognize.”Yorifuji and his copywriter start the process with a perusal of common complaints received by the subway operator’s Customer Relations Center….more...”

6. Following your pervert theme {let me} help out….

   飲屋でやろう：Do not interfere with pervert exorcisms.

   家でやろう（１）：Play your music loud enough to facilitate synchronized ear cleaning.

   山でやろう：Keep all perverts away from your incredibly lazy girlfriend by packing you Santa sack full of bacon.

   庭でやろう：Sword fighting with bees while being watched by a pervert is twice as dangerous as regular sword fighting with bees.

   家でやろう（２）：Tripping perverts and stealing their shoes is a good way to meet girls.

7. That’s a pretty funny parable.
   But while one of the guys putting on his shoes, the other guy should be running.

8. Three foreign tourists arrested for molestation in Japan after thinking it was normal behavior
   rocketnews24.com | 2015/04/10
   …there has been a recent spate of molestation committed by foreign tourists who claim to have thought it was normal behavior in Japan after watching Japanese adult videos…
   …In one instance a suspect was caught trying to capture images up women’s skirts while riding an escalator. Then in another case a Chinese tourist was reportedly caught grabbing a woman’s buttocks inside an adult goods shop.
   And then we have the case of a man arrested for lifting the skirt of a woman while riding the train. This last incident appears influenced by a scene from the classic 1993 AV Nurse Monogatari staring Miki Mayuzumi…
   …Reports claim that one foreign suspect confessed to police, saying, “Watching Japanese adult videos, I thought the people here were open about sex. I thought molesters were everywhere.”
   More…