Japan's Jimi 'Mundane' Halloween Costumes of 2026 (spoon-tamago.com)

149 pointsby zdw2 days ago24 comments

numpad0 8 hours ago

The last one refilling detergent is a parody of The Milkmaid by Johannes Vermeer; everyone has seen it on textbooks and it has become a meme template on Japanese Twitter in recent years.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Milkmaid_(Vermeer)

dcrazy 4 hours ago

Thank you, I was confused by what simply appeared to be a picture of someone doing laundry.

7373737373 4 hours ago

I heartily recommend "Tim's Vermeer": https://youtube.com/watch?v=94pCNUu6qFY

blobbers 4 hours ago

I mean, that's a tough idea. That's literally just a picture of someone pouring detergent, not an actual costume. Would have to say this one is pretty lame...

Just have to ask, how do you know this???

happytoexplain 8 hours ago

Some of these are very humorous because of the cultural disconnect (as an American, I have never experienced somebody asking to put their seat back).

"An expert on a very niche subject" made me laugh out loud the hardest, because it's the one that's most "just a guy", and yet it's also exactly how it's described.

jrecyclebin 2 hours ago

More about the expression, but the glasses are pulling their weight here too. Modern masterpiece.

Waterluvian 7 hours ago

These are masterpieces in my opinion. It’s difficult to get the vibe exactly right when you’re working with so little.

Yes, a thousand times yes you can put your seat back you gentle soul.

happytoexplain 6 hours ago

The Japanese seem particularly adept at the concept of "vibe".

jen729w 4 hours ago

> Yes, a thousand times yes you can put your seat back you gentle soul.

Overjoyed that I understand this, allow me to explain it to those who don't.

Seats on the Shinkansen [0] are bolt-upright by default. You basically have to recline them a little bit to be even vaguely comfortable.

Every person, every time, asks the person in the seat behind them whether it's okay to recline their seat by 5°.

The seat pitch on the Shinkansen is approximately 1 metre. There's a lot of room.

[0]: My line, anyway – the E5 series cars that run the Hayabausa service.

henearkr 8 hours ago

They are more like "situational haikus", or the transposition to practical humor of the concept of haiku.

low 2 hours ago

Glad to see that the world has finally discovered Daily Portal Z.

jen729w 4 hours ago

Mine would be "dude who vibed a to-do app with Claude and thought he'd be rich then realised 20,000 other dudes had done exactly the same thing".

Source: these dudes email me at a rate of about 5/week asking me to spruik their app to my audience.

corndoge 21 minutes ago

As someone who gets these also - it's not the author emailing you.

PCI-eX16 8 hours ago

Maybe this is a different type of mundane costume, but I like costumes that just look like guys. When the anime initial D was popular, I would wear a white T, blue jeans, part my hair down the middle and say I'm cosplaying as Takumi Fujiwara...

syshyk 6 hours ago

What you're doing wrong is not ordering a premade suit from amazon, then chucking it in the bin or a charity shop at the end of the day. /s

literallyanythi 3 hours ago

well of course, because what you're actually supposed to do is return it for free and cut into the trillion dollar corpo's profit margins

no, i'm not responsible for global warming. please don't even try to shift the blame from corporations to me for doing this.

hackernud3s 3 hours ago

This year I went as "person who forgot it was halloween".

skyberrys 8 hours ago

Love how long each consume caption is. It could just be called Halloween costumes that take many words to explain.

_vertigo 8 hours ago

These are great. First 3 are brilliant. The second one is golden, I wish I had thought of that.

michaelbuckbee 8 hours ago

I saw video of a costume contest this year where one participant was wearing an Amazon delivery driver vest, flung a cardboard box across the stage and then took a picture of it (all to wild applause).