Subsequently, groups of delinquent kids emerged throughout Japan to engage in a criminal activity called
エアマックス狩り, or "Air Max Hunting", where they targeted someone wearing the shoes, beat them up, and snatched their coveted Air Max 95's for a profit.
Thankfully, the phenomenon of beating up people for expensive shoes has pretty much disappeared in Japan, the reason being that shoes don't have the crazy mark up values that were seen in the mid-90's.
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Awesome thanks!
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ReplyDeleteWonder if Matsumoto used those shoes during an Absolutely Tasty episode...
ReplyDeleteThe Yugioh manga has a chapter which may well have referenced the Air Max Hunting you described. Interesting.
Hey just wondering when the subbed version of this year's "no laughing" show will be uploaded?
ReplyDeleteWhen you pay him the working hours, jerkface.
ReplyDeleteHe isn't doing them. It's zurui who is subbing it this year. Google it.
ReplyDeleteThere was a popular manga-turned anime-turned tv drama-turned movie+specials (regular japanese franchise, in other words) called Great Teacher Onizuka (I'm sure you've read/seen/heard of it), and in the first chapter there's some 不良 guys hanging outside an arcade trying to extort money out of people by having them buy Air Max shoes for them. When the cops come in later, they use a term I can't remember but it alluded to AirMax Extortion and crimes involving Air Max shoes were a frequent thing.
ReplyDeleteAaaand now I feel dumb. Just reread your post now that it's expanded and saw where you wrote about it yourself already. And lol, yeah as soon as I heard Air Max, I thought of that.
Ap, I'm sure he wasn't being insulting; don't be a jerkface yourself.
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