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Please explain this picture to me - Japanese man - what is he doing?

amerikajinda

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What is the story behind this? Please hurry.

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Someone decided to "give him a hand"?

Also, Pre-Meiji Japanese is damn near illegible.
 

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Originally Posted by ratboycom
Also, Pre-Meiji Japanese is damn near illegible.

Tell me about it!
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I was going to say perhaps he was the original arms dealer...
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But I really am curious! We need a Japanese historian to decode this mystery...
 

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WTF. Nan desu ka
 

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Originally Posted by ratboycom
Also, Pre-Meiji Japanese is damn near illegible.

Ah, it's a good thing I'm an expert in that. You see, the text explains that this gentleman was the first to come up with the concept of the Realdoll (NSFW), though naturally they didn't call it that back then (the /l/ sounds would have been problematic anyway). Since synthetics were not then what they are now, these dolls had to be fashioned from wax. Of course, wax is soft and melts easily, so each doll came with a set of backup limbs. Additional vaginas were extra.
 

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In undergrad I signed up for this really cool class called like Japanese Medieval History thinking it would be about samurai battles and stuff. And maybe ninjas.

It wasn't.

I dropped it.

The End.
 

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Originally Posted by crazyquik
In undergrad I signed up for this really cool class called like Japanese Medieval History thinking it would be about samurai battles and stuff. And maybe ninjas.

It wasn't.

I dropped it.

The End.


It's good keeping your hope up,
 

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