Daily Portal Z hosts first 'Jimi Halloween' event in Tokyo's Shibuya
1 Oct 31 · 12d ago · 3 articles · 1 post · 3 sources · development 1 of 1
Online magazine Daily Portal Z organized 'Jimi Halloween' (Mundane Halloween), an event where adult participants dress as ordinary people in everyday life, performing highly specific mundane tasks. The event takes place in Tokyo's Shibuya district and inverts traditional Halloween celebrations by embracing unremarkable situations.
“'Jimi Halloween' or 'Mundane Halloween' sees adult participants dress up as ordinary people in everyday life. They do highly specific tasks, embracing and celebrating unremarkable situations for the event”
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3 outlets Japan’s ‘jimi’ Halloween costumes are meant to appear ‘mundane.’ They’re actually brilliant.
first by Upworthy, 12d ago · also Guardian Culture, The Guardian
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- Japan’s Jimi Halloween, a celebration of all things mundane – in pictures Guardian Culture · 12d ago
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As a brief respite from all the awfulness, I found this series of photos strangely heartwarming. Japan's Mundane Halloween: https://www. theguardian.com/artanddesign/g allery/2026/nov/01/japan-jimi-halloween-celebration-of-all-things-mundane-tokyo-shibuya-in-pictures
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The last one refilling detergent is a parody of The Milkmaid by Johannes Vermeer; everyone has seen it on textbooks and it has become a meme template on Japanese Twitter in recent years.1:
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I, too, strive to be the person brushing their teeth before bed as early in the festivities as possible. https://www. theguardian.com/artanddesign/g allery/2026/nov/01/japan-jimi-halloween-celebration-of-all-things-mundane-tokyo-shibuya-in-pictures
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I found this discussion (French but with subtitles) of the painting interesting, since it highlights an often-missed aspect of the painting.
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Some of these are very humorous because of the cultural disconnect (as an American, I have never experienced somebody asking to put their seat back)."An expert on a very niche subject" made me laugh out loud the hardest, because it's the one that's most "just a guy", and yet it's also exactly how it's described.
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Maybe this is a different type of mundane costume, but I like costumes that just look like guys. When the anime initial D was popular, I would wear a white T, blue jeans, part my hair down the middle and say I'm cosplaying as Takumi Fujiwara...
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Love these. Visual comedy. I could say "Person trying to persuade bus driver to let them on at a traffic stop" but without the specific instance that captures it for ppl, there's no joke being communicated.
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I mean, that's a tough idea. That's literally just a picture of someone pouring detergent, not an actual costume. Would have to say this one is pretty lame...Just have to ask, how do you know this???
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These are masterpieces in my opinion. It’s difficult to get the vibe exactly right when you’re working with so little.Yes, a thousand times yes you can put your seat back you gentle soul.
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They are more like "situational haikus", or the transposition to practical humor of the concept of haiku.
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Thank you, I was confused by what simply appeared to be a picture of someone doing laundry.
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