Subscribe Now!Funny warning images from Japanese Wii manual
December 17th, 2006 by ben
In the U.S., it now seems like everything has an obvious warning label. “Warning: coffee may be hot” … “Warning: your child could hurt themself by jumping off the playground” … “Warning: antifreeze may be fatal if swallowed”. I always thought these warnings were endemic to the U.S., stemming from 50 or so years of a litigious society out of control. Was I ever wrong.
Apparently Japan shares the U.S.’s propensity for stating the obvious in warnings, and then some. Check out these real warning images from the Japanese Nintendo Wii manual:
Warning: don’t eat Wii twist ties:
Warning: don’t wear pink shirts while playing the Wii:
Warning: don’t hit your friend in the face with a Wiimote:
Warning: suffocating yourself with the Wii bag is not fun:
Warning: your Wii doesn’t need a blanket to stay warm:
Warning: your Wii is not, and will never be, thirsty:
Warning: your Wii is not hungry either:
I think U.S. consumers would actually read warning labels if accompanied by pictures this amusing.
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I thought the last one was a warning against sticking “lucky clovers” into the machine to improve one’s performance. Then they could have another one with a big horseshoe magnet.
I thought these were funny. In case you didn’t see the posts I did for them, here they are:
http://emergencytrap.blogspot.com/2006/12/do-wii-actually-need-japanese-warning.html
http://emergencytrap.blogspot.com/2006/12/show-your-passion-for-wii-and-web-20.html
Pretty funny. I liked the pink shirt one.
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I love the Japanese! If I could I would move to Japan.
You find the funniest things.
Anita, great stuff. You hurt my stomach, I was laughing so bad. Do not wear a pink shirt while playing the Wii…ain’t it the truth?
you are stupid. i am japanese, and i happen to know for a fact that the second one isn’t as dumb as you made it seem, it means that you don’t wind the nunchuk around your neck when you play.
wow, racist much?
and now that i look at it carefully the last one does not mean “do not feed the wii” it means do not poke stuff into the little holes in the wii.
its a joke have a sense of humor
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Ha, that is better than the crazy pictures that come in the coffie maker instructions!