2ch: Japanese Web Forum As Social Vent

News for nerds writes "This NY times article (reg blah blah) sheds the light on Japan's largest Internet bulletin board - 2ch. About 5.4 million people come to this "Channel 2" each month, many of them several times a day (just like you nerds making beowulf cluster of alphabets all the day!). Founded in 1999, "ni-channeru," as it is called there, has become part of Japan's everyday culture as no other Web site has. While you can also find useful info such as dinner recipes there, it's almost like Battle Royale came into life as a web site, filled with verbal and physical violence backed by pseudo anonymity."

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Registration Free Link

[karmatic]

Reg Free Link here .

They are making this harder to do...

Re:Sounds Like...

[Snowy_loves_you]

Ofcourse you know, There are a nerd-less-less version of 2ch, in Japan, The Slashdot Japan !

Wikipeda article

[Kusunose]

2ch

Re:Tried to read it

[Hatta]

The large number of people who don't have oriental language sets installed on their browser is a bit sad.

If you don't speak any asian languages, what's the point? It's like locales. Just sitting on my disk, wasting space. Apt-got localepurge and haven't noticed a single change. Except several dozen megabytes more HD space, that is.

Or perhaps you mean that I should want to have such things. Because languages are good for me or some such. Sorry, but I have way too much to learn already, that'll have to wait for another lifetime.

quentin tarantino certainly saw battle royale

[circletimessquare]

and he liked it so much that he cast Chiaki Kuriyama from Battle Royale as Gogo Yubari in Kill Bill Vol. 1

and she's also basically the same character in both movies

tarantino is on record saying he loves Kinji Fukasaku, and both kill bill movies were really nothing more than tarantino's tribute to the film makers and films he's always loved (and well done, i might add)

here's more:

TM: The scene where Go Go Yubari (Chiaki Kuriyama) stabs a guy who approaches her for sex...was this from Battle Royale (Kinji Fukasaku, 2000, Japan)?

QT: I went out to dinner with Kinji Fuaksaku and Kenta (Kinji's son) and I was going "man, I love this movie! It is just so fantastic!" And I said, "I love the scene where the girls are shooting are shooting each other." And then Kenta starts laughing. So I ask, "why are you laughing?" He goes, "the author of the original Battle Royale novel would be very happy to hear that you liked that scene." And I go "why?" And he says, "well, because it's from Reservoir Dogs!" Even when I was watching it I was thinking "God, these 14 year old girls are shooting each other just like in Reservoir Dogs!" And Kenta said, "he took that from Reservoir Dogs, so he'll be very proud that you like that!"