Other people have already addressed the "lol those wacky Japanese with their tentacle porn" racism of some of the comments, so I just want to point something out about the comments about the herbivore men.

Those making snarky comments about the herbivore men - you realise that you're basically supporting an attempt to enforce rigid and really rather sexist and not at all woman friendly gender norms upon a group of young people via social shaming, right? The media fuss about herbivore men seems to be largely a result of the older generation being perplexed about the lack of interest a particular group of young men have in pursuing a traditional masculine social role. In this case, that traditional masculine social role includes working yourself to the point of exhaustion (and rarely seeing your family as a result), a very sexist attitude towards women that frames them as possessions to be acquired (also including the support of a truly epic sex industry largely dependent on the patronage of the corporations people are confused as to why these young men don't want to join), and a lack of close friendships with people of the opposite sex. Also, for some reason it's bad to like sweets if you have a penis. So...why would a group that's in theory feminist leaning want to encourage the attempt to try to shame young men into adherance to that social role?

It's really bothering me to see so many comments that are basically attempts to shame men into being more macho, in this of all spaces. Look - if you personally prefer more manly dudes, that's fine. No one is saying you have to want to date or fuck guys like the herbivore men. But what's so wrong with the existance of a group of rather sensitive young men who're just not very macho and who'd rather be friends with women than aggressively pursue them in an attempt to extract sex from them? Is there something inherantly bad about liking clothes, or cake?

These young men are kicking back against the way that masculinity has traditionally been framed in their society. It's a complicated phenomenon, socially, but going by the men I've encountered who fit the description it mostly seems to be based on a desire not to be like their overworked, emotionally distant, sexist fathers. These young men saw the social role laid out as appropriate for them, and they want nothing to do with it. Now you could argue that their response is an overreaction/overcompensation, but they're young, and besides, these are their lives we're talking about - what business is it of anyone else's if they want to spend them shopping and eating cute pastries and hanging out with their friends? They're not hurting anyone.

Basically I'm just sort of disgusted to see so much support for the idea of shaming men into adherance to gender norms here. Do me a favor, people making those comments - look up the associated phenomenon of "carnivore girls", think about the set of attitudes that would lead to people labelling their behavior as shocking and needing to be suppressed, and then think again about whether or not we really want to be trying to shame the herbivore men into being more manly. I don't think most of us would appreciate the same attempt to force people into their assigned gender boxes being imposed on us.