{"id":10180,"date":"2010-01-15T09:26:29","date_gmt":"2010-01-15T13:26:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/?p=10180"},"modified":"2010-01-16T18:10:51","modified_gmt":"2010-01-16T22:10:51","slug":"wit-life-69-mainstream-moe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/2010\/01\/15\/wit-life-69-mainstream-moe\/","title":{"rendered":"WIT Life #69: Mainstream moe"},"content":{"rendered":"

WITLi<\/strong><\/em><\/a>fe<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong> is a periodic series written by professional Writer\/Interpreter\/Translator <\/em><\/em> Stacy Smith<\/a><\/strong> (Kumamoto-ken, 20<\/strong><\/em>00-03)<\/strong>.\u00a0 She starts her day by <\/em>watching Fujisankei\u2019s newscast in Japanese, and here she shares some of the interesting tidbits and trends togeth<\/em>e<\/em>r <\/em>w<\/em>ith<\/em> h<\/em>er<\/em> <\/em>own<\/em> <\/span><\/span>obser<\/em>vat<\/em>ions.<\/em>\"\"<\/p>\n

Interesting intersection of American pop culture and Japanese culture on two back-to-back episodes of 30 Rock last night.\u00a0 In the first one, James Franco (who manages to be amazing in everything he does) playing himself talks<\/a> of his knowledge of “moe<\/em><\/a>” before whipping out his very own body pillow girlfriend Kimiko.\u00a0 In a later scene the morning after he and Liz spend the night together, they both emerge in their pajamas, him holding Kimiko.\u00a0\u00a0 This strange threesome freaks out Liz’s cousin who is staying at her place.<\/p>\n

\"\"In the next episode, Frank refers to a high frequency sound used in Japan to chase away kids loitering in front of conbini,<\/em> and then uses it on Jenna.\u00a0 I have never heard of this tactic being employed in Japan, anyone else?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

WITLife is a periodic series written by professional Writer\/Interpreter\/Translator Stacy Smith (Kumamoto-ken, 2000-03).\u00a0 She starts her day by watching Fujisankei\u2019s newscast in Japanese, and here she shares some of the interesting tidbits and trends together with her own observations. Interesting intersection of American pop culture and Japanese culture on two back-to-back episodes of 30 Rock […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[42,30,18,1,36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anecdote-article","category-japan-trends","category-translatinginterpreting","category-uncategorized","category-wit-life"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t