• Hell of a thing when Prime died. Hell of a thing..... ( single tear wells in eye) :(

• We have the same problem with obesity here. Fully aware of it as a problem, but not really do anything about it. So they have socially crippled otaku man-boys, we have the morbidly obese drinking chicken fried gravy and riding scooters at wal-mart. 

• Thank you! I'm glad someone else feels the same way! Japan: make more shows about hot blooded youths punching evil to death with giant rocket fists! AND FOR THE LOVE OF CHRIST, GIVE THEM LOVE INTERESTS OVER THE AGE OF 16!

• There is an undeniable correlation between the decline of "super robot" shows and the increase in suicides in Japan. Simply put: modern anime makes you want to kill yourself, super robots make you want to have sex. Watch more Mazinger Z if you want to live.

• That's crazy talk!

• What would be the point in saving money if you're gonna kill yourself?

• This, unfortunately, is the kind of world many of us live in. I think the problem might be a peculiar set of social expectations. Rather, nerds (like me) ought to do something that one would think would be a no-brainer: date other nerds! (This has worked pretty well for me, as my wife will tell you.) Girls are not strange, alien creatures. In fact, many of them are a lot like us, just, y'know, female.

• Well yeah, I know that. I've studied gender issues in Japan, foo'.

• what the bloody anus is wrong with you

• Its not people, just pretty Japanese girls.

• I don't know if I can empathize with a people masturbating themselves into non-existence... Well, I CAN, but I don't normally like to be so self-aware.

• And of course I definitely forgot about the other set to encore your dinner. If you dare. http://www.toplessrobot.com/2011/06/super_terrific_japanese_thing_skyline_tenga.php

• The truth behind this set is to increase the next best seller DVD: how to make a clean and fast seppuku and get back your honor. At least actresses look 18+

• Never has the tag "Sadness" hits me so hard upon realizing that this product exists. It's like every single stereotype of us Asian Nerds has been justified due to the very concept of this thing. And then I saw the "you no longer have to eat alone" bit.  And I cried.  And cried.  And cried.

• No the population is declining because their women are following the Western style & tradition and family structures running back thousands of years has now been replaced in a matter of decades with the new & improved global market style. Sex toys and shit like this video is just a symptom.

• Japan was modernized waaay too fast. I don't blame the losers out there for not being able to keep up, the kind of change our globe has been subjected to in the last century is beyond traumatic. Like usual, we'll mock the canaries in the coal mine first

• How bout seriously thinking of watching the rip?

• It's sad, but...I don't care if they're making origami swans after each meal, this is STILL meat beating material...

• Anybody seriously thinking of buying this product should instead just save the money and kill themselves.

• I wfavour replaying nothing but classic Super Robot Anime myself, but your approach seems far more effective. Barry White's voice is the ultimate aphrodisiac: it transcends gender, nationality, race, language and religion.

• Hijack their television signals and replace all of the Moe and Ecchi shit like Strike Witches and Queen's Blade with "YOU NEED TO GET LAID" in giant, neon-colored letters and some Barry White music?

• Oh my! This only supports my theory that Japan's sex toys and shit like this video is why the population is declining. How do you tell someone that they're self-destructing when that someone is a country?

• There are many deaths of Optimus Prime, but only one of them matters. MAYBE the one where he was crucified for our sins in his Jesus Christ mode, but otherwise? G1 Movie all the way. Till all are one...

• It would be interesting if it was like a choose your own adventure. Dinner would not progress until you chose your response to her chatter. Depending on your answer dinner would keep progressing, or you would eat the poisonous part of the Fugu and die.

• So....does the special edition come packaged with a gun or a length of rope?

• Never mind the low birthrate.

• Which death, and which Optimus Prime?

• You know, I pretty sure this'll flop solely because the women in these videos aren't doe-eyed , chipmunk-voiced 14-year-olds with breasts the size of planets and "cute" (read: annoying) verbal tics.

• That's pretty much the saddest thing ever. Except for when Optimus Prime died. So the second saddest thing ever.

• Yeah, they got buttloads of bars. Salarymen have to go somewhere to tie their ties around their heads like headbands and drink their stress away before returning home to their family, but the rest of their family is out doing work at night..

• Ah, I see Japan totally respects its population of nerds and the like with this wonderful contraption. *Rolls eyes*

• If you're so terrified of speaking to real people that you need a product like this, you need to be hospitalized. I'm not saying that to be a douche - it's just pretty plain that you're too disabled to function in the world at that point. I understand social anxiety - believe me, I do - but holy shit.

• I own one of these it's really awesome!

• If their TV takes up the entire wall, it'll just be like Fahrenheit 451! That was the point of that book, right? Giant TVs and meaningful conversations?

• The Sushi Edition!

• And people wonder why the suicide rate in Japan is high

• I'm hoping against hope that their intended sales target was American anime fans that long to have relationships with Japanese women but don't have the money to fly to Japan and start hanging out in bars. I doubt this is the case, but I'm going to believe it anyway for Japan's sake. They've given me a lot of porn and cartoons and porn cartoons, and I want to give them the benefit of the doubt.

• that's something I was thinking. I mean at some point in a meeting room someone proposed this and everyone must have said "yeah! that's marketable, it'll sell!"   It's bizarre how can a society be so generally aware of a problem and not really address it. Although I am lead to understand it's partly to do with the Japanese feeling that intruding on some else private life is outrageous (even if they really really need it)

• Please no one give this idea to Kim Kardashian or Paris Hilton.

• This is more depressing than the 'Quiet, Awkward Dinner With Your Fundamentalist Parents' DVD.

• They should bundle this with a copy of Marie T. Smith's Microwave Cooking for One!

• "you no longer have to eat alone"Christ!, that's one of the most piteous things I've seen in a long time.  If there was any compassion, when you buy this someone from K-Network should hand-deliver it and give you a hug, followed by a slap and drag you out to a pub (does Japan have much in way of pubs/bars other than uber-gouging hostess clubs?)  

• Does anyone think an actual interactive series of DVDs TRAINING Otaku to actually eat dinner with a real person might be a good idea? Better than watching a film of a woman eating whilst pretending she's talking to you? Japan, I know you have problems with acknowledging the existence of Autism, but when your culture turns out an entire economic/social class that effectively functions as social autistics, you need to adress the problem. Falling birth rate and all that.

• oooh and the have a fight dvd and it's sequel passive aggressive hour long angry silence dvd!

• Agh. This just paves the way to a Waiting For Your Girlfriend To Get Out Of The Shower DVD or a Sorry, I Have A Headache + Other Excuses DVD. >.<

• So do you talk back to the TV or just passively wait for the tentacals to appear?

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