Japanese comedy shows tend be more on the slapstick side of humor, so if you don’t like that, you probably won’t like them. “I’m rather disturbed at how pro-status quo everything is.”Ĭomedy shows are next up. “Very frequently very heavy-handed moralizing.” “Whatever the Japanese government wants their people to believe, it shoves it through NHK.” Some Reddit viewers see dramas as political tools or Big Brother-esque moral propaganda: The dramas can be really predictable and a bit bland, though, turning many viewers off. Another big difference is that Japanese dramas often star big names - accomplished actors, musicians or idols. There is also a wide range of dramas, from teen RomComs to serious ones targeting adults or even action-packed shows. The short airing is actually appealing to many foreign viewers, because the dramas get replaced by “fresh dramas,” so things don’t get too monotonous. On the other hand, dramas tend to only span 8-12 episodes, then occasionally a second season if they do really well.
It’s true that some can definitely take you on unnecessary emotional roller coasters and may contain a little too much overacting. A lot of foreigners give Japanese (and Korean) dramas a bad rap, likening them to terrible American soap operas. Others complain not enough anime is shown in prime-time slots. In general, foreigners’ response to TV anime is positive, although some people like to knock the fact that some long-running shows (hundreds of episodes long) have a lot of unnecessary “filler” episodes that are unrelated to the overall plot and are too short at 25 minutes - even shorter when half of the time slot is filled reviewing the previous episode.
It’s like a gateway drug into Japanese culture. Let’s be honest, a lot of people who like Japan, started out by watching anime. The easiest place to start is with anime. Shows about celebrities eating food.” But like TV in any country, there are actually a lot of different kinds of shows, so it’s probably worth a moment to take a walk through some of the programming options. One user proclaimed that Japan only has three kinds of programs, “Shows about celebrities. Is it really so terrible?” As you’d expect, the responses poured in, both in favor of and adamantly against it. One Reddit user finally asked the big question, “Japanese television. If it really is so bad though, surely shows like "Iron Chef" and "Ninja Warrior" (Sasuke) would never have been introduced in the U.S.? Nor would America have created the show "I Survived a Japanese Game Show." So if foreign stations are taking cues from the Japanese TV shows, the originals must have some merit, right? For many, it’s either too weird, too predictable or too obnoxious.
Foreigners living in Japan often give Japanese TV a hard time.
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