*Sigh*
If anyone finds this racist they're not getting the joke. They're making fun of the teens who are overly obsessed with anime and think it represents all of Japanese culture.

It's not racist, I guess, because that's how people act. And these weebs are no different to.. dunno, somone middle-class white kid pretending he's "from da hood". Or some guy who wears a kilt and plays bagpipes because he's obsessed with Scotland. I mean, it's not like there aren't people in the rest of the world who dress in blue jeans, eat Mcdonalds, drink coke, listen to Springsteen and say "have a nice day y'all" in a corny yankee/middle-eastern accent, is there ;)

Americans are like the British, we don't "do" other cultures well (hence our almost "foreign policy" to export ours to every country in the world). If there are kids out there who are obsessed with anime, who cares? Who are they hurting? Sure this sketch was cringeworthy, but no more cringeworthy that all the "Irish" people who line New York on St Patricks day in ridiculous costumes and drink green beer. You think they do that in Ireland? Are the Irish offended by your paddy-weeb?

The question should be "are Americans like this offensive to Japanese people?". Are they?

I love how y'all are getting so worked up over this and getting mega-offended because it's taking pot shots at aficionados of J-Pop / J-Rock / Anime etc, but if SNL had chosen instead to lampoon furries, jugallos, LARPers, DnD gamers, MtG card tards or MMORPG-addicts, I doubt you guys would be in as much of an uproar, in fact I'd wager alot of you would be laughing right along with the SNL writers and hey, so would I because it's just a joke. And the reason it took them this long to finally get at this fandom is because 10 years ago it wasn't really all that visible to the public.

In the passage of time since then, there have been Japanese bands coming stateside for tours and festivals (and their ultra-dedicated fans shouting down and booing at the American opening acts), cheap and easily obtainable reprints of their CDs in American stores, magazines and blogs that cater to the english-speaking part of their fanbases, full page articles about bands like Dir en grey in magazines like Kerrang... c'mon, your cool little club wasn't gunna stay "underground" forever.

May as well go ahead and abandon ship for K-Pop, C-Pop or V-Pop or whatever else is the next azn flavor of the month until it too goes mainstream and starts having CDs available in Hot Topic where all the "unworthy outsiders" can snatch it up and "defile" it with their unwated liking of it (which they could never do as good as you anyhow because they don't know the intimate details of each of the band members, haven't been to 1000 lives in Japan and don't own every CD they've ever put out as nothing less than the uber l33t $40 import version.)

Also, thinking that using “otaku” in reference to yourself is better than saying “wapanese” is a bit like a gay person thinking that using “queer” in reference to themselves is better than saying “f*gg*t.” The term otaku actually doesn’t have the same positive connotations over there as folks back in the west seem to assume.

I love how y'all are getting so worked up over this and getting mega-offended because it's taking pot shots at aficionados of J-Pop / J-Rock / Anime etc, but if SNL had chosen instead to lampoon furries, jugallos, LARPers, DnD gamers, MtG card tards or MMORPG-addicts, I doubt you guys would be in as much of an uproar, in fact I'd wager alot of you would be laughing right along with the SNL writers and hey, so would I because it's just a joke. And the reason it took them this long to finally get at this fandom is because 10 years ago it wasn't really all that visible to the public.

In the passage of time since then, there have been Japanese bands coming stateside for tours and festivals (and their ultra-dedicated fans shouting down and booing at the American opening acts), cheap and easily obtainable reprints of their CDs in American stores, magazines and blogs that cater to the english-speaking part of their fanbases, full page articles about bands like Dir en grey in magazines like Kerrang... c'mon, your cool little club wasn't gunna stay "underground" forever.

May as well go ahead and abandon ship for K-Pop, C-Pop or V-Pop or whatever else is the next azn flavor of the month until it too goes mainstream and starts having CDs available in Hot Topic where all the "unworthy outsiders" can snatch it up and "defile" it with their unwated liking of it (which they could never do as good as you anyhow because they don't know the intimate details of each of the band members, haven't been to 1000 lives in Japan and don't own every CD they've ever put out as nothing less than the uber l33t $40 import version.)

Also, thinking that using “otaku” in reference to yourself is better than saying “wapanese” is a bit like a gay person thinking that using “queer” in reference to themselves is better than saying “f*gg*t.” The term otaku actually doesn’t have the same positive connotations over there as folks back in the west seem to assume.

damn funny

i agree with clockworkmikan. i, too, study japanese in college and i can contest from first-hand experience that these people truly do exist. the sad part is, this isn't really even an exaggeration of how some individuals act.

As a Japanese major I found this sketch hilarious, but also terrifyingly true to life. These are the people I have to tolerate in my classes. These people exist, and they really are this bad, and they deserve to be lampooned for their stupidity and they're asinine behavior. Their shallow, borderline racist comments in class show a lack of understanding of even the most basic fact that the Japanese people are just people like us.

It wasn't racist, it was making fun of fans who tend to get everything wrong. This article is stupid.

this article is idiotic lol. this video is not making fun of japanese people, it's making fun of the "otakus" who only know of a narrow part of japanese culture (anime) who are known to be obnoxious, misinformed, loud, and sometimes annoying.

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