CATDOLL: European and American audiences complain about the settings of Japanese animation: Why don’t we use a clothes dryer when hanging clothes?

In the Japanese cartoons we are familiar with, the characters in the dramas are sure to be familiar with the scenes of drying clothes and doing housework in the sunny and refreshing weather. However, for some European and American audiences who are used to using clothes dryers, the scenes depicting daily life have made them wonder: Don’t Japan have clothes dryers? Do people usually hang clothes outside like in the cartoons?

In the past, American men living in Japan posted on the discussion board about Japanese culture that they were not used to. One of the things they were not used to was that most Japanese people hang their clothes outside to dry. This shows that drying clothes is also a cultural shock. Since the climate of foreign viewers is very different from that of Japan, they think that using a dryer is not only clean, but also less troublesome.

After learning about this cultural difference, Japanese netizens also responded to the advantages and disadvantages of drying clothes outdoors:

Advantages: Save electricity, clothes dried in the sun smell better, some clothes are not suitable for drying and can only be dried in the sun.

Disadvantages: Insects may land on your clothes, which may attract underwear thieves. If it suddenly rains, you may not have time to collect your clothes.

In addition, according to a survey conducted by Tokyo Gas in 2013 on married women aged 20 to 60 in Tokyo, Kanagawa, Chiba, and Saitama prefectures, about 60% of the people said that even if their washing machine at home has a dryer function, they would not use it, after all, the electricity bill for the dryer is also an expense.

In fact, one of the important reasons is that the scenes of characters hanging clothes in animations are very intimate...

via: Otaku News

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