Simple & Popular Halloween Costumes — Easy to Know “Jimi Halloween” in Shibuya, Japan
Halloween Costumes is well known everywhere. You always see the scarey circus clown face, Spider web, Bloody body decoration and pumpkin lantern. Every year in Shibuya, Japan, Thousand of people gather in street and road play as a lot of characters in movies and anime.
However, have you ever been known there are another people play some differences at the same time below?
This man is simulating a view that the picture is loaded by the smart phone.
A officer who is shopping at a drugstore. He wants to work tomorrow even he was in sick.
What is a normal business starters in Japan? Maybe they hand with iPad and a cup of coffee, wearing a sunglasses.
She play as a person who forget to take out the garbage.
Which post is attract your? Maybe No all of the people understand what are they costumes. However, if you think your habit and life are same with them, you will understand and smile with these.
What is the “Jimi Halloween” ?
In Japanese “Jimi” (地味) means “Low-keyed”, similar to “no gorgeous” and “plain”. People in the “Jimi Halloween” don’t overdress yourself with pumpkin. It is a special costumes event that people can enjoy their good ideas with “That people seem to be somewhere” and “They show their situation that everybody knows” in our daily life.
This activity is hold by a portal site “Daily Portal Z” and it started in 2014 with Asagaya (阿佐ヶ谷) in a snack shop in Shibuya with hundreds of people. From now more than 800 people joined it in 2018.
The manager Yuji Hayashi seek to find differences in plenty of Halloween events in Shibuya. And that it why he want to hold the “Jimi Halloween”.
“Halloween has been popular and more and more people who wear flashy clothes are go on the street, However, I think they are many ‘low-keyed’ person who they mixed with a wave compared to the other wave.” — Yuji Hayashi, Manager at Daily Portal Z
The participants don’t need any unique inspiration and exquisite make-up skill. Instead, they prefer to find something which can been seen everywhere whatever the popular drama, hard working person and interested social phenomenon. And these topics are always transferred by social media to amount of young people who they also hear and experience by themselves.
For example, some people like play as a “otaku”, who obsessed with computer and particular aspects of popular culture, having the low social skills. This situation also is know as the social problem in Japan, when nearly a million of people don’t have job and stay at home, even happening the “otaku” married a cartoon character this year.
Others, they play as a office workers used VR to watching go-back-home video in the office when thy lose the last train. It reflected the overtime work situation in Japan.
Most Liked in “Jimi Halloween”
There is a tweet which nearly 120,000 liked and 36,700 people comments in the past three days. As you can see, it showing man’s face is swap into the logo’s face with using the face-swap App. These two smile face no only made people laugh but also it picked up a heat topic from all over the world.
This funny picture is also spread in the Chinese social media when they have been using a famous face-swap App in China called ZAO. It can created lots of face-swap videos provided by users’ face and become a movie star with the users’ face. But later the app was blocked because some users complained that its privacy policy was inadequate.
In China, About 62% of the respondents had used the app most of whom were born in 1990, according to the survey. Only 31% of the respondents worried about excessive collection of personal information by the app, while about 54 percent said they would continue to use it despite such concern. — (Xinhua Net)
Do you make sense of the “Jimi Halloween”? More cheapest and direct contacts events than most of activities in Shibuya, Japan. It should be think a lot when you see they works at first. But you will be happy if you catch their sense of the humour and realism.
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