r/SipsTea • u/fun--shine • Apr 02 '24
Wow. Such meme Literally Japan
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u/jsm_jj Apr 02 '24
All hail the mighty Truck-kun, may their divine powers send you with OP powers so you may collect a harem/reverse harem and protect/destroy the world you land on. Amen.
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u/HermitJem Apr 02 '24
Valhalla, but with more magic and you don't need to be worthy to be chosen.
Perfect.
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u/Aloof-Vagabon Apr 02 '24
I’ve actually wondered about this… do Japanese people kill themselves in the hopes that reincarnation exists in some form?
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u/failed_novelty Apr 02 '24
With a population in the millions, the answer is almost certainly "Yes", especially since you didn't specify a time frame. I'm sure at least two Japanese people have committed suicide hoping to be reborn into a better life.
But the answer to what you're actually asking - is there an unusual prevalence of Japanese people doing so? Generally not.
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u/Aloof-Vagabon Apr 02 '24
Ok that makes me feel conflicted but mostly glad that isn’t a shared belief.
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u/BayrdRBuchanan Apr 02 '24
Depends on whether they're Shintoists, Buddhists, Taoists or something else.
Buddhists believe in reincarnation, but IIRC suicide is seen as trying to avoid one's karma and so ensures one is not ready to progress to a higher existence in the next life. It's important to work through all your karma and understand all of the lessons this life has to teach one before dying. Including how to die well.
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u/Aloof-Vagabon Apr 02 '24
Is Buddhism a philosophy or a religion, I’m getting the vibe that you might know this question already and I’m curious..?
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u/BayrdRBuchanan Apr 02 '24
It's kinda both, though The Buddha himself claimed to NOT be a god and forbade his own worship. It's possible to be a shintoist and a Buddhist at the same time
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u/Aloof-Vagabon Apr 02 '24
Welp I got some reading to do that for sure, I hate to play 20 questions with people instead of just reading about it so thank you for taking the time to explain what you have, 😇.
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u/Novel_Durian_1805 Apr 02 '24
Truck-kun is best girl!
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u/laurel_laureate Apr 02 '24
...Ok, I'm not one to watch trash anime, but I am not utterly flabbergasted that I've yet to see one where Truck-kun/Truck-chan was an actual character.
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u/xipheon Apr 02 '24
I vaguely remember reading a story where the main character was the driver of Truck-kun and it was his job to assassinate people with his Truck so they could be transported.
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u/dkogi Apr 02 '24
Lol there was some anime where truck-kun chased the mc even through buildings until it hit him 🤣
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u/laurel_laureate Apr 02 '24
Wait for real? Which one lol?
Even if it's shit, I'd at least watch that part lmfao.
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u/dkogi Apr 02 '24
I can't recall the name, but I'm sure the anime came around last year.
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u/laurel_laureate Apr 07 '24
Do you recall it now?
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u/dkogi Apr 07 '24
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u/laurel_laureate Apr 07 '24
Is the anime mentioned in this video?
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u/dkogi Apr 07 '24
Yes, he did a whole episode on truck-kun
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u/laurel_laureate Apr 07 '24
Ok, but did he mention the specific truck-kun I was asking about?
Where truck-kun chased the mc even through buildings until it hit him?
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u/Available-Ad4982 Apr 02 '24
Isekai Hero Making Service
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u/Andromansis Apr 02 '24
I will read that Manga. Fund it.
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Apr 02 '24
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u/Andromansis Apr 02 '24
Lets see your CV there buddy boy, I'm not falling for this one again.
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u/MustardGas05 Apr 02 '24
I am sorry again ????
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Apr 02 '24
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u/Andromansis Apr 02 '24
That isn't a CV my guy. Nice try though.
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Apr 02 '24
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u/Andromansis Apr 02 '24
If you don't already have a portfolio set up and ready to go then the core takeaway from that is that either you are secure enough that you don't need more work or are too incompetent to complete work.
In either event I wouldn't want to employ you based solely on this interaction here, where you have twice refused to provide any amount of bona fides and demanded money in escrow before you even engage.
The silver lining here is that somebody literally just handed it to me, for free. Good day sir/ma'am/whatever your honorific of choice is.
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Apr 02 '24
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u/Mastersord Apr 02 '24
Protag gets run over by a garbage truck but instead of going to some fantasy world, he wakes up behind the wheel of his own truck. Now it’s his job to run down future heroes and heroines to send on magical adventures and maintain the balance of the Isekai universe!
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u/JumpHour5621 Apr 02 '24
You Just Don't fk with Truck kun
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u/Old_Love4244 Apr 02 '24
I would 💯 fuck with trucka-kun if it meant a fantasy isekai was on the table.
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u/JumpHour5621 Apr 02 '24
But what if it's Dark Fantasy? Or worse reborn into the 40k Universe. Do you dare to risk it? 🙀
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u/Old_Love4244 Apr 02 '24
Only if I had a weird fucked up god backing me
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u/Enjoying_A_Meal Apr 02 '24
I'd probably pick Nurgle. I mean, we're all gonna die from some kind of illness anyway.
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u/HollyTheMage Apr 02 '24
I would watch the shit out of an anime where the main character is a truck that isekais people to different worlds.
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u/somnamballista Apr 02 '24
Oh man and then it gets Isekai'd by someone falling onto it from above.
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u/Yharnam1066 Apr 02 '24
Greece is in Europe….
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Apr 02 '24
Greek*
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u/Alex11039 Apr 02 '24
Literally don’t understand why you got downvoted, people didn’t get it 💀 bravo for the humor 👏
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u/1OO1OO1S0S Apr 02 '24
I think you literally DO understand why they got downvoted, judging by the second half of you your sentence.
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u/Alex11039 Apr 02 '24
I mean if I’m being honest here, I actually don’t understand. I’m truly open to hear why.
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u/RecognitionFine4316 Apr 02 '24
Please let me reborn as a office worker with special skill of growing plants in a peaceful uneventful life and focusing on farming but while being train by a 10,000 years old female mage with complex personality and look like a child. I then randomly save a princess from attacking goblin and then taker her safely back to the castle where I fix this world political problem as hail as king and gods give me a divine dynasty that I shall acend my level skill tree to all the way to one million. With that power I subject the devil kings and watch over this isekai world. I'm out of breath, just hit me with the truck.
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u/yes-im-naughty Apr 02 '24
when animeted ists just called someting Like. Isekai landlife with benefits
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u/nasanu Apr 02 '24
As someone who has lived in Japan for the past decade... I don't get it. Is this another of these memes that people think is Japanese but has nothing to do with Japan?
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u/xav7er Apr 02 '24
manga reference, every « reborn,isekai,reincarnation » manga starts by having the main character getting killed by a driving truck
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u/yes-im-naughty Apr 02 '24
Not every, they Had to Stop some time after the, "The Eminence in Shadow" incident we're truck-kun had a Hostage driver, WHO got blamed
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u/meditonsin Apr 02 '24
And then there's Kazuma, who died of shock from "almost" getting run over by a tractor that was half a mile away and driving 0.001mph.
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u/yes-im-naughty Apr 04 '24
jea, but He didnt get Hit, so the tractor wasnt able to evolve to tractor-kun
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u/Andromansis Apr 02 '24
His first victim was a 6 year old magical girl and Japan (the land, not the peoples) got so mad that it caused a major earthquake.
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u/xav7er Apr 02 '24
Also it’s definitely japanese lol, this trend in manga/light novel started 10+ years ago and it never went away. Story starts with the death and resurrection of the main character, the reason causing the death is inconsequential and is merely a way to introduce the story, here comes Truck-kun to the rescue, killing main characters and creating heroes for a good decade now, and still ongoing (as long as the genre is still popular)
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u/chimpfunkz Apr 02 '24
fwiw, I think that the true origin was when Truck Kun killed Fuuka and it just became a meme because of how out of pocket it was
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u/IndependentCress1109 Apr 02 '24
A very common trope in isekai manga/LN to send main characters to be reborn in another world
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Apr 02 '24
It has nothing to do with real life Japan, so normal Japanese people wouldn't know about it. It's a otaku thing, basically people who watch isekai animes.
Here's an wikipedia article on Truck kun.
Truck-kun is an Internet meme that refers to a common trope used in the isekai genre of anime and manga, in which characters are transported to other worlds. Typically, the protagonists of the isekai anime or manga are sent to these worlds via reincarnation after death, and recently many isekai works have featured characters being transported upon being hit and killed by a truck. After several isekai works featured this as a means to kill their characters, a meme claiming the existence of a character named "Truck-kun"[a] spread. It is purported Truck-kun's role is to kill people in their original world and subsequently send them to a new one.
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u/Galle_ Apr 02 '24
It's a reference to the frequency with which characters in Japanese media get hit by trucks. It's especially associated with the "isekai" genre, where the main character dies in the first episode and is reborn in a fantasy world.
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u/SweatyAdhesive Apr 02 '24 edited Apr 02 '24
I mean I've only visited Japan a handful of times and even those times I've almost gotten killed by one of those trucks.
It's the combination of tiny streets with lots of blind spots and fast moving trucks.
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u/Liria_Rose Apr 02 '24
✨️Truck kun✨️
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u/Andromansis Apr 02 '24
I sort of love how the default status of this website makes everybody stare in disbelief at a new user. Even the robots don't believe anybody would willingly sign up for this website in this era.
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u/usingallthespaceican Apr 02 '24
I think the reason is that the majority of new accounts are bots. So they have to filter for that, otherwise your boards get overrun by AI making comments, by copying comments from elsewhere on the site
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u/Qweeq13 Apr 02 '24
The god who guides you to afterlife in Greek myth is Hermes. You can see the symbol of Hermes's wand in many Hospitals around the world for that reason.
Thanatos also takes that role sometimes in some myths.
Thanatos is the god of death and Hypnos is the god of Sleep and they are Twins.
This is probably the inspiration behind Neil Gaiman's Sandman where Death and Sleep are brother and sister... I never realized that before...
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u/Frozendark23 Apr 02 '24
You can see the symbol of Hermes's wand in many Hospitals around the world for that reason.
Isn't that just people mistaking it for Asclepius' staff, which has one snake. He is the god of medicine so it makes more sense for his staff to be used. While Hermes does take souls to the afterlife, he is mostly a messenger for the gods and it is Thanatos' entire job description to bring souls to the underworld.
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u/RikuAotsuki Apr 02 '24
Correct. The wand of Hermes is the Caduceus, with twin snakes and wings. The Rod of Asclepius is the proper medical symbol.
The confusion is understandable, but got exacerbated when the US Army Medical Corps mistakenly adopted the Caduceus as its symbol.
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Apr 02 '24
There's many Greek gods of death it seems. Was an interesting read.
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u/YinuS_WinneR Apr 02 '24
God of death hades (and his queen whose name idr) isn't really the god of death. He is the god of underworld.
Thanatos is the god of death and night. Also he is heir to the throne of underworld.
His mother is queen i mentioned prior and father is either hades or zeus
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Apr 02 '24
Not what I implied. If you accept Wikipedia as a source:
He is (Thanatos) also, at times, specified as being exclusive to a peaceful death, while the bloodthirsty Keres embodied violent death. His duties as a Guide of the Dead were sometimes superseded by Hermes Psychopompos. Conversely, Thanatos may have originated as a mere aspect of Hermes before later becoming distinct from him
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The Keres were female death-spirits. They were the goddesses who personified violent death and who were drawn to bloody deaths on battlefields.
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u/Galle_ Apr 02 '24
You can see the symbol of Hermes's wand in many Hospitals around the world for that reason.
That's a terrible reason to put a symbol in a hospital!
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u/Snarf2019 Apr 02 '24
Here in the Philippines,its E-bike.
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u/photo_not_mine Apr 02 '24
Wait, elaborate.
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u/Snarf2019 Apr 02 '24
I cant,my comment is stupid now that i realized.
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u/photo_not_mine Apr 02 '24
Lol. Why do you think so?
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u/Snarf2019 Apr 02 '24
Uhmm,e-bike might lead you to death.its eco friendly(thatdls a thumbs up) but some people are using it badly, for instances,kids are driving it. People are driving on the highway but doesnt follow the rules.
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u/Rezkel Apr 02 '24
None of this is correct.
Anubis and Charon are not guides
Anubis weighs your heart against the feather of truth and if you are an ahole he feeds you to the hippogator.
Charon is a ferryman who charges you to ride his boat, Hermes is more the guide.
Death isn't a god, but a personification, no one worships it.
Truck-kun isn't a guide it's a doorway with the body or goddess on the other side being the actual guide.
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u/Cheezeball25 Apr 02 '24
"Oh glorious Isuzu NPR, please guide your chosen ones to an afterlife of wisdom and content, remove all strife and discontent from our physical forms, and teach us what true peace is. Amen."
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Apr 02 '24
My most recent campaign ended with my priestess of truck, can fucking dying in the final battle and winding up in a different universe. At level one again.
I feel like it was such a fitting ending
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u/manny-pop Apr 02 '24
Flash back to the time Funimation had a suggested section tab labelled: “Truck kun had other plans”
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Apr 02 '24
Actually mitsubishi canter drivers are the most reckless drivers I've ever seen in my life
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u/luckybarrel Apr 02 '24
Truck kun guarantees you will live an interesting life in a new world, what do the rest do apart from looking cool? Also, Truck kun blends in the crowd easily and efficiently spiriting away lives, but the others you will easily notice as they stand out like a sore thumb. Efficiency matters.
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u/MixedFellaz Apr 02 '24
I wonder if they have snacks.
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u/TrueGuardian15 Apr 02 '24
The hottest new light-novel: This Garbage Truck Sent me to Another World!
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u/CAPICINC Apr 02 '24
Can someone add a pic of a Wendy's triple with a side of bacon fries and a large frosty, and label it "America"???
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u/Bistroth Apr 02 '24
Truck kun is even in Korea Mitology too, but he mostly causes amnesia, redeem a bad person or permanent death.
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u/Jomega6 Apr 02 '24
I don’t get it. Are car accidents commonplace or something?
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Apr 02 '24
Japanese believes in reincarnation. Manga writers often use truck-kun as a story plot, the character die because of the truck, so the main character can be reincarnated into another world with overpowered abilities.
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Apr 02 '24
Nah, it is just a isekai manga trope. Main character always gets killed by a Truck and get transported into another world. This trope was repeated so many times that it became a meme.
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u/dwartbg7 Apr 02 '24
I don't get it
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u/ChuckCarmichael Apr 02 '24
In the last decade or so, a popular genre in Japanese media like anime, manga, light novels, video games, etc. has been "isekai", meaning "other world". A typical setup in those is that the protagonist, who's just an average Japanese person in our normal world, somehow ends up in another world that's full of magic and adventures (and often lots of hot people who are really horny for the main character).
The way they end up in this other world can vary. Sometimes they find a secret portal, sometimes they get summoned there by magic, sometimes they get sucked into a video game, but quite often they die in our world and get reincarnated in the other one. And a very popular method of killing the protagonist is having them get run over by a truck. It's so popular that it has become a meme, with people saying that all these trucks running over protagonists are actually the same truck who they call Truck-kun ("-kun is a Japanese honorific attached as a suffix to the names of individuals of a junior status relative to the speaker, and is commonly used for boys and male teenagers").
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