Japan's Jimi 'Mundane' Halloween Costumes of 2026

(spoon-tamago.com)

74 points | by zdw 1 day ago

9 comments

  • numpad0 2 hours ago
    The last one refilling detergent is a parody of The Milkmaid by Johannes Vermeer; everyone has seen it on textbooks and it has become a meme template on Japanese Twitter in recent years.

    1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Milkmaid_(Vermeer)

  • happytoexplain 2 hours ago
    Some of these are very humorous because of the cultural disconnect (as an American, I have never experienced somebody asking to put their seat back).

    "An expert on a very niche subject" made me laugh out loud the hardest, because it's the one that's most "just a guy", and yet it's also exactly how it's described.

  • Waterluvian 1 hour ago
    These are masterpieces in my opinion. It’s difficult to get the vibe exactly right when you’re working with so little.

    Yes, a thousand times yes you can put your seat back you gentle soul.

    • happytoexplain 25 minutes ago
      The Japanese seem particularly adept at the concept of "vibe".
  • henearkr 2 hours ago
    They are more like "situational haikus", or the transposition to practical humor of the concept of haiku.
  • PCI-eX16 2 hours ago
    Maybe this is a different type of mundane costume, but I like costumes that just look like guys. When the anime initial D was popular, I would wear a white T, blue jeans, part my hair down the middle and say I'm cosplaying as Takumi Fujiwara...
    • syshyk 37 minutes ago
      What you're doing wrong is not ordering a premade suit from amazon, then chucking it in the bin or a charity shop at the end of the day. /s
  • skyberrys 2 hours ago
    Love how long each consume caption is. It could just be called Halloween costumes that take many words to explain.
  • _vertigo 2 hours ago
    These are great. First 3 are brilliant. The second one is golden, I wish I had thought of that.
  • michaelbuckbee 2 hours ago
    I saw video of a costume contest this year where one participant was wearing an Amazon delivery driver vest, flung a cardboard box across the stage and then took a picture of it (all to wild applause).
  • swingandamiss 2 hours ago
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    • OJFord 33 minutes ago
      It's San Francisco, there's a lot of immigration, cultural influence, etc. whereas say Australia has outsize Vietnamese, Indonesian influence; or India in the UK.
    • timacles 51 minutes ago
      Japanese culture has been fascinating to westerners since I dunno … the discovery of Japan
    • happytoexplain 2 hours ago
      If I may gingerly throw a stone within my glass house, your username checks out.
    • Klonoar 1 hour ago
      Yup.

      You don’t see this kind of post rise for any other culture.