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Japan celebrates Halloween a little differently. At the annual Jimi Halloween festival, attendees forego dressing up in traditional spooky getups. Instead they don something even scarier: costumes showing the mundanity of daily life.
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Jimi Halloween, which roughly translates to “mundane halloween” has been running since 2014 and was established on the blog Daily Portal Z by a group of adults who were too embarrassed to dress up in costumes, according to Japanese art and culture site Spoon & Tamago.
Revelers dress up in normal clothing as a person engaging in a regular daily task, and the costumes are usually so plain they require some explanation.
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Here are a few favorites.
A cashier looking away while you input your PIN
A person waiting to leave their apartment until their neighbor has left the hallway
A Just Stop Oil protester
A person taking a selfie with an Instagram filter
A person on the second floor of a shopping mall watching what’s happening on the first floor
A person whose bottle of Coke has exploded
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