With everything going on in the world it seems like a might fine idea to take a few minutes to lighten the mood with Japanese weirdness.
Ah, Japan. The gift that keeps on giving for weird stuff. Just this morning I watched a video on how Olympic officials in the tiny country have said that they are going to prevent people from taking “sexualized” photographs of female Olympians in which their legs, thighs, buttocks or breasts are emphasized. How the plan on doing that I have no clue. In the meantime the video highlighted some of the odder arrests in the country for weird sexual fetishes and, wow, Japan is a weird place.
That being said, let me introduce you to the weird world of “Moemorphism”, pronounced “Mo-eh-morphism”. Its a combination of two words, “Moe”, a Japanese word that refers to affectionate feelings toward characters in media, typically female, and “Morphism”, which is defined as something having the characteristics of something else, typically plant or animal.
What we end up with is “moemorphed” and often cute little characters, typically female, that represent, well, just about anything. From bugs to foods to name brands – all the way up to tanks and warships. Typically these characters will have names ending in “-chan”, which commonly denotes a young child or baby, or simply, youth.
And so, I give you to, some of the interesting moemorphed characters I have seen in the past few days. Enjoy!



Okay, now we dive a little deeper! Name brands!




Now a bit deeper. Are you ready for this? I’ll start off easy.






Okay, now for the truly bizarre!





Please, Japan, keep on giving us weirdness to draw our attention away from weird things like viruses, stolen elections, burning cities and our own weird brains! We do love you over here in the states!
Wow, interesting. I knew about some of this stuff, the weird mascots for everything and the like. But this was interesting, regardless.
That bonfire looked like the one from Dark Souls…
And unrelated to any of this, I’m currently up to 1183/2042 of Heisig’s Remembering the Kanji…
Yeah, weird stuff is one of Japan’s greatest exports, though I’m sure many of these are not purely Japanese artists, but they gave us the concept. Their were weirder ones out there, but I’ll let people find those on their own.
That’s crazy! I didn’t know such a book existed. I may need to buy a copy.