Trending on Japanese Twitter Today - May 20, 2020
Nationwide Entertainment Stayhome | 2020.05.20 |
隣の家の窓からゴジラが見えるので、対抗してガメラを飾っていたら、ある日、ゴジラがこちらを向くようになりました。 pic.twitter.com/k2JWgUOWj4
— E.P. (@ELPACHOPAMYOLE) May 18, 2020
「I could see Godzilla in the window of the house next door, so I put up Gamera in opposition. One day, Godzilla had turned to face us.」
Twitter user @ELPACHOPAMYOLE posted this short story of a battle waiting to happen, featuring Godzilla and Gamera (a similar character whose films were created to compete with the Godzilla series). Almost 400,000 likes and more than 90,000 retweets later, a whole new world of short-form Twitter-based fanfiction seems to be coming to life, with Godzilla and Gamera becoming enemies, friends, or even lovers.
#StayHome 5月19日、スタバ再開 pic.twitter.com/dY2GXcT7Q4
— 今日マチ子 kyo machiko (@machikomemo) May 19, 2020
「#StayHome March 19th, Starbucks reopens」
A huge topic of discussion, to nobody's surprise: Starbucks has returned to business. The coffee chain's popularity in Japan is no joke, and after over a month of stores closed to avoid spreading COVID infection, people are flocking back... in a somewhat controlled fashion. Japanese Twitter is flooded with pictures of long-missed coffee drinks, limited-edition plastic Starbucks cups, empty, blocked-off cafe seating areas, and this illustrated tribute to the coffee shop's return.
ぬいぐるみ幽体離脱してない? pic.twitter.com/i3cis85YSs
— 古賀及子(こがちかこ) (@eatmorecakes) May 18, 2020
「Isn't my stuffed animal having an out-of-body experience?」
Anime character Rascal the Raccoon is known for getting up to all kinds of hijinx, apparently even on Twitter, where more than 200,000 people enjoyed this new and unexpected episode in his story.
ダウト
— パスタを上手に茹でることができる (@wasureru_yo) May 18, 2020
ほんとに全部が嫌になった奴はマクドナルドをお皿に盛り付けない pic.twitter.com/iRjGjGiFov
Image Text: 「I'd had enough and everything felt meaningless, so I threw away all reason.」
Tweet Text: 「Doubt it. If they'd really had enough of everything, they wouldn't be arranging McDonalds on a platter.」
Twitter user @wasureru_yo makes an excellent point, and thousands of people retweeted the harsh observation. Replies included comments bemoaning the pictured tweet's low plea for attention, but also numerous images of truly impressive quantities of chicken nuggets and french fries. That amount of McDonalds, the masses agreed, is nothing. One photo featuring 150 chicken nuggets and a can of Sapporo beer, now maybe that's product of a person who's lost all reason.
母が珍しく料理していると思ったら…
— のん (@nonnonlalalala) May 18, 2020
我が家のアイドルをおむすびに。
リアルすぎる。流石、我が母。#トイプードル #わんこ#おむすび #おうちごはん #おうちカフェ pic.twitter.com/9v1Udilcwe
「I thought it was unusual that my mom was cooking...
she was turning our house's idol into a rice ball.
It's too real. I wouldn't expect anything less of my mom.
#toypoodle #puppy #riceball #homecooking #homecafe」
The netizens of Japan were simultaneously charmed and a little disturbed by the adorable accuracy of this toy poodle omusubi (おむすび, rice ball) made by the mother of Twitter user @nonnonlalalala. The surprisingly realistic puppy-shaped rice ball is made from brown rice and covered in katsuobushi (shaved bonito flakes), so the puppy itself probably would have liked a bite too.
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