Japanese, Korean, Chinese; who’s keeping track? I don’t know where this is from, and I’m far too lazy to Google translate the title. If I had to wager, I’d say that it couldn’t be Japanese, but I’ve been wrong before. There’s not enough tentacles, curiously sexual robots, or manic schoolgirls for this to be Japanese. Or maybe it is, and they’re taking a much more subtle approach to presenting their bizarre sense of everything. I wouldn’t be surprised in the slightest.

I can narrow it down a bit further by absolutely guaranteeing that it is not Chinese. The Chinese get weird, but they never incorporate anything this sophisticated into their pseudo-propaganda footage. There’s not enough happy workers or red backdrops, so that’s a dead giveaway. It can’t be Korean because there aren’t nearly enough people playing Starcraft while girls dressed like a Dollar Store Madonna feed them peeled grapes. There would also be banner ads for computer gaming equipment covering every inch of the screen, so Koreans are completely out. This brings us back to the Japanese.

At first it didn’t seem strange enough to be Japanese, but now that we’ve eliminated every other possibility we can conclusively say that the video is from Japan. I’m mildly disappointed, because this marks a low point in their weirdness, but it’s still pretty far out. It would have been a lot easier to just Google translate the title and see what language comes up, but categorizing the video tendencies of the three most prominent Asian countries was viscerally satisfying for me — minus Russia.

Don’t even get me started on the Russians.

(Many thanks to our good friend Charles Schneider for sending this one our way)