drcrypt  - 2007-05-27
The dance is from The Melancholy of Suzumiya Haruhi's end credits (this is not innate dork knowledge: I only know this because I wrote about this vid when it came out) and what they are doing is called an off-kai (an offline meeting for online friends). Basically, they coordinated online to form a flash dance troop to do this in Akihabra. It's pretty cool. I especially love how the otaku's scatter at the end when a couple of beat cops idly walk by. That would never happen here: in the US, I'd still be giving the cops the finger as they wiped my face off the bottom of their boot.
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zatojones - 2007-05-27 Yes because in the US the cops regularly beat the shit out of people when they dance in the streets. One star because anime fucking sucks
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StanleyPain - 2007-05-27 STUPID AMERIKKA AND IT'S DREADFUL TREATMENT OF THE KAWAII OTAKU-NYO!!! IN JAPAN, WHEN IT RAINS, THE RAINDROPS ARE SWEET HONEY DROPS IN THE SHAPE OF SAILOR MOON'S PANTIES.
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MK_Ultra - 2007-05-27 BUT YOU'D STILL BE GIVING THEM THE FINGER BECAUSE YOU ARE A FUCK-YOU-PIG-ANARCHIST-PAIN-MACHINE!
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jaunch - 2007-05-27 Yeah, I don't know how "cool" it is exactly, but I agree with the posters that doubt American cops would start beating a group of synchronized dancers in silly costumes. Especially in front of a very large crowd of clearly entertained on-lookers. America just isn't that bad yet.
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KnowFuture - 2007-05-28 As a citizen and taxpayer, I would certainly hope for police invervention were this deviate nonsense to God forbid appear on my city's streets.
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bongoprophet - 2007-05-28 nawww... lookit all the touchy lil' people!
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teethsalad - 2007-05-27
no, just no
don't encourage this sort of thing, anywhere, ever
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bahgead - 2007-05-27
Five stars because anime killed zatojones' dog.
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Caminante Nocturno - 2007-05-27
Oh, no! Cops! Cops hate anime dancing!
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Hooker - 2007-05-27
-1 because anime really does suck, but watching them scatter was pretty great.
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Urburos - 2007-05-27
They weren't running from the cops. They just decided all at once to hit up the Mister Donut for some snacks.
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EvilHomer - 2007-05-27
Three stars for effort, plus two because HA! Japanese nerds! and finally, minus two for the shitty dance. If you're going to emulate anime in real life, at least go for Fist of the North Star. Next flash mob, I want to see some heads explode, people!
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FeeFiFoFoTheFifeFifeBrown - 2007-05-27
These people don't even merit being acknowledged to laugh at.
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Pandatronic - 2007-05-28
Good to see the new comments system is being put to use!
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Adramelech - 2007-05-28
Haruhi is pretty boring, yet the dance is not. My conflict is reflected in three stars.
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Mike Tyson?! - 2007-05-28
Four stars for the fag-dance made possible by the new comment system.
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EvilHomer - 2007-05-28 I think we're seeing the start of a whole new level of poeTV awesomeness.
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Volbard - 2007-05-28
I don't care how you feel about anime, more random street dancing is a good thing.
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Shion - 2007-11-02
Good. God.
Japan really IS like that....
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theFlu - 2007-11-09
meh, still not as good as the dancing Japanese Greaser's.
They are real smoooothhh
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junkyardarmor - 2007-11-21
Those two police officers are my heroes. I didn't know how much more of that I could stand.
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Old_Zircon - 2012-05-27
5 for the old days when people actually rated videos something other than 5 or 1.
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