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Originally Posted by MMM
I think you guys are being a little harsh on the OP.
Keep in mind that most of the people here that have misconstrued ideas about Japan are also never actually going to go there.
Anime and manga were not popular or available in the US when I first went to Japan, so I didn't have a misconstrued opinion...i basically went knowing nothing so there was nothing to mistake.
I get nervous when people romanticize the yakuza. For every Robin Hood-like act you might hear about there are hundreds of things that will make you not so excited to meet one.
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I don't think the OP is giving us enough credit. I think most of us here are intelligent enough to know when anime and manga is stretching the truth. The topics on this site are enough to tell me that.