Sindhoor GK comments

Good question. Yes. I do not deny that there are some Japanese directors exploring the dark side of Japanese society, but they are generally not welcomed by Japanese viewers.

False

I talk about the popularity. Let me show an example. The most popular TV shows of Japanese Netflix this year:

Netflix has a terrible library of Japanese shows which is why Netflix has been the worst performing streaming service in Japan for many years. in 2020, Netflix was the most HATED brand in Japan.

@Tom san

squid game is a kaiji inspired show. check out kaiji. it's way more complex, got a lot more interesting subplots, way better games, way better in every way. kaiji manga serialization started in 1996 and it's still going strong with more than 80 volumes released. You can also check out it's 26 episode anime adaptation which aired in 2007.

@bokuda

Don't worry. Nissan's got sufficient cash on hand, so it isn't a zombie at all.

Most dishonest car company in the world.

sorry but that title belongs to Tesla and VW

Hope he get's well soon.

Did greenpeace not take the fact into consideration that more than 26% of vehicles sold by toyota are hybrids?

@Tom Doley

Like all other industries that Japan led and failed, the car manufacturing industry seems to be heading that way as well.

Toyota just released it's earnings results. You can cry hard after reading it.

@Samit Basu

Aren't you the same guy who said that Toyota won't release or doesn't have the ability to release a BEV until 2100

They still didn't hang him yet? Do it quick.

Sharp sold their TV plant and the right to use the Sharp name on products produced for the Americas except Brazil to a Chinese company in 2012. By 2019 Sharp was suing that company for ruining their good name by selling junk TVs that failed early. 

Name and shame that bloody company. It's Hisense.

That's because all they know how to do is follow others and study for the center or university exams.

True. My wife a teacher at a high school. She said for a fact that none of them even care to know the name of even the current prime minister.

While all the voting choices in front of me are disappointingly terrible, Give me 6 minutes of Kanna Hashimoto asking the younger generation to vote and then, I might... consider about casting my vote. She's the only celeb i'm willing to listen to in that bunch.

The LG Oleds outperform Panasonics when it comes to input delay, and are better for gaming purposes.

Input delay is a HUGE gimmick term LG uses for it's marketing. Human eyes won't be able to tell the difference between 12ms and 2ms input lag at all. anything below 15ms is considered to be Ultra low input lag and that's the limit of our eyes.

Panasonic buys their panels from LG. As do all the consumer Oled manufacturers as LG owns the key patent for affordable Oled panels.

True. but Panasonic and Sony twerk it. Panasonic and Sony offer significantly more brightness as they are way better at managing thermals and Sony Oleds don't have speakers while LG comes with front facing speakers. Sony uses the OLED screen panel(the back panel vibrates thus producing sound) as a speaker and Guess what, Sony's speaker less OLEDTV's sounds way better than an LG TV which has speakers.

Panasonic Oled sales are dwarfed by LG sales. This is for the simple reason that LG can offer significant better value, even in the high end consumer segment.

Panasonic is doing okay in the markets it's present in but that's not the reason behind higher sales. After the 2011 disaster, Panasonic had to exit many markets and is forced to restructure after it faced astronomical losses of 11 billion dollars in total. Panasonic's restructuring isn't complete yet. Panasonic won't be planning to compete with LG atleast until it's complete.

At this time Panasonic Oleds only offers added value for those using their panels for professional reference monitors or a group of cinema purists.

Well, you can say that Panasonic is doing good in the category LG can't compete in/ doesn't have tech expertise to compete in.

LG owns the key patent for affordable Oled panels.

Those patents originally belonged to Sony and Philips. LG display IPS display manufacturing patents belong to Hitachi. LG and Samsung stole them in the name of partnership when Things went downhill for Japanese companies. Anyway. Printing OLED Technology is the future and Japanese companies have now have most of the necessary patents in that technology.

@Samit Basu

I see no reason for Sony to Exit USA when it's market share is increasing. Not only that, by 2023, Sony's expected to make 78% opm for every TV sold in USA.

@Samit Basu

Panasonic and Sony have got a strong following in the professional Displays market. Hollywood uses only Panasonic and Sony displays because of their extremely high colour accuracy and Ease of usage. I'm a sony user and Panasonic is atleast 3 years ahead of LG technology wise. All the fuss about Oled brightness made by LG this year with the so called EVO thing in their marketing campaign, Panasonic's 2018 oleds are way brighter and colour accurate then LG's this year's models even with old oled panels.

in USA*

Panasonic should enter the consumer TV market. They make the best Oleds in terms of picture quality.

@Samit basu

Toyota: Prime Planet(Toyota-Panasonic)

Panasonic and Toyota are world no.1 and no.2 in Advanced battery patents.

The radioactive water ( not fit for drinking) can be ingested by sea life and who consumes fish from Fukushima?

Radiation from the plant has been and will continue to increase-dissipation is a myth!

Well, Tritium unlike other radioactive substances won't concentrate in the food chain.

@Iron Lad

Haven't seen Star wars visions?

@samit basu

The number of Covid tests increased to 170,000 a day in mid-August, when 20,000 new daily cases were found. Recently, the number of tests decreased to 30,000 to 60,000 a day, except for the weekend. The number of tests has certainly decreased, but in Tokyo, the positive testing rate, which soared to 24 percent in mid-August, dropped to 1.8 percent on October 5. The positive result rate per test dropped too dramatically to say that “positive cases decreased because people don’t get tested enough.”

https://koreajoongangdaily.joins.com/2021/10/10/opinion/fountain/vaccine-PCR-test/20211010202233994.html

FYI, COVID test is no longer free in Japan, you have to pay 20,000 yen out of pocket to get it.

That's the reason for COVID positivity fall.

Never has been free right? unless you get one by doctor's recommendation.

@SJ

Have you ever watched any episode of Squid Game?

Those are all about games, but Squid Game is about humans lol,

LOL, You just told me that you haven't watched any of them.

Japanese drama's need better actors and actresses. A lot of them just overdo their acting and that just kills the immersion, even if the story and production quality is great. At least in my opinion.

Naah, nothing bad about actors here. Best Japanese actors are on part with best western and other asian actors. The problem. I attend a lot of film festivals so, i'm aware of both the good and bad sides of the industry. The Problem is Budget.

Japan's strength is its anime industry but anime is just so oversaturated. There are like 200 or more releases every year and the overwhelming majority of them are garbage. Quantity over quality. Not to mention the slave like work conditions that animators have to deal with. Even as the industry grows its is slowly destroying itself from within.

Most of it isn't Garbage. Few are garbage. most of them are mediocre(just for timepass like those cringy romance kdramas) but let's not forget that every year we get to see more than 30 Excellent anime an year. The anime fandom cares about those 30 and there are well maintained and run(fan made) online discuss forums on which help the fandom on what to watch and what not to. but yaa, there are way too many studios which run wild here and that's kinda bad from a long term perspective.

So, it's very easy to market anime or Pokemon compared to more complicated stories like Nobody Knows or Battle Royale.

I'm sorry but Anime is filled way more complicated stories way better than Nobody Knows and Battle Royale if you aren't aware.

@Grant

no, it isn't a Battle Royale copy. it's similar but in battle royale but it's more a copy of Kaiji, Liar game and As the gods will.

The initial 4-5 episodes of squid games is almost entirely Kaiji, the episode 6 red light green light game is a Shot to Shot copy of Daruma game from As the gods will, the last episodes didn't matter anyway cause they were bad.

@NAM

Try watching Alice in Borderland (netflix original released last year).

@samuraivunyl

https://www.motogp.com/en/Results+Statistics

@Yrral Read about the head of The woven planet team. His name is James Kuffner. He's known as Wizard of American Robotics and a former Google employee and he was the head of Google's robotics, Computer Vision and machine learning divisions, head of Google research team until 2014. He's famous for introducing the term "cloud Robotics" and as a co-Inventor of RRT.

Japan ranks around the middle of Asian nations in terms of Covid death rate per capita. There is ZERO evidence to suggest they resist the virus "better than anywhere on earth".

Ranks in the middle while having the oldest population in the entire world huh? Not bad Japan. Not bad at all.

This @Septim Dynasty guy has gone incredibly silent these days. i wonder if CCP suddenly threw him in concentration camps.