Japan's Jimi 'Mundane' Halloween Costumes of 2026

(spoon-tamago.com)

51 points | by zdw 1 day ago

9 comments

  • numpad0 1 hour 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)

  • happytoexplain 1 hour 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.

  • Waterluvian 29 minutes 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.

  • PCI-eX16 1 hour 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...
  • henearkr 1 hour ago
    They are more like "situational haikus", or the transposition to practical humor of the concept of haiku.
  • skyberrys 1 hour ago
    Love how long each consume caption is. It could just be called Halloween costumes that take many words to explain.
  • _vertigo 1 hour ago
    These are great. First 3 are brilliant. The second one is golden, I wish I had thought of that.
  • michaelbuckbee 1 hour 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).
  • swingandamiss 1 hour ago
    HN's weird obsession with Japan continues. Daily Japanese related posts. It's extremely weird.
    • happytoexplain 1 hour ago
      If I may gingerly throw a stone within my glass house, your username checks out.
    • Klonoar 42 minutes ago
      Yup.

      You don’t see this kind of post rise for any other culture.