Pants getter
According to an article that appeared in the Japanese weekly Spa! (7/4) and reported on by the illustrious Mainichi WaiWai, the latest craze in Japan is pantsu getta (pants getter).
Pantsu getta is a treasure hunt game in which women hide used underpants that they no longer need in public places, and then provide clues on the net so men can try to locate them.
A game starts when a woman posts a message announcing that she has hidden some undies in a certain area. Anybody interested in searching for the undergarments can post questions, which the woman can answer, and theoretically provide more specific clues about the location of the lingerie. When somebody finds a pair of panties, they’re supposed to report all the details on the same bulletin board so that anybody still searching will know they can stop. On occasion, several pantsu getta will assemble at the same time and search for skids en masse.
According to the article, undies hunters quickly become hooked on the quest once they get started.
“I get involved in about 20 games a month, but about half of these are just tricks where nothing is hidden at all. Last month, I found four pairs of panties, which I reckon is probably a miraculous recovery rate,” he tells the men’s weekly. “There are plenty of veteran pantsu getta out there who’ve been playing the game for a long time yet never managed to get some panties of their own.”
Pant, pant!
Hate to think how it reflects on me to know this, but this stuff has been going on for years. Judging from the replies, it doesn’t usually pant out for the guy.
June 30th, 2006 at 4:01 pmBest. Game. Ever.
June 30th, 2006 at 5:37 pmhaha hilarious
June 30th, 2006 at 7:07 pmEvery time I read a crazy article on SPA, I thought they simply made it up because there it was way too crazy! But then ghoti post a comment like that, and I realized I’m still a sheltered, naive boy.
Guess the highly organized internet “Chikan Friend” are real too then?!! Buddhist priests?!
June 30th, 2006 at 11:54 pmYes, well yhey do make things up, but their real forte is in blowing things way out of proportion. If there are a handful of people engaged in relatively exotic past-times, such as pantie hunts, the media will, to create news, insist that it is a widespread boom. The non-story is then further milked in follow up articles discussing how this is reflective of some deficiency in modern Japanese society and, if applicable, demands for action (such as special bags for the disposal of used undergarments, and perhaps special pick up days). Finally the homeless will have something better than cans to sell.
The other spark for this comes from the video industry, who are untiring in their quest for ever new variations in perversity. The media will rush in to claim that these videos are real, and the video makers are only too happy to play along. It sells newspapers and sells videos. I wouldn’t be at all surprised if the WaiWai and SPA writers were paid by the vid makers to write this stuff. That sort of journalism is not exactly unheard of either.
July 1st, 2006 at 8:11 amthe latest craze in Japan is pantsu getta (pants getter)
You got that right! Crazy, but nevertheless funny.
July 2nd, 2006 at 5:36 amI have to say that I’ve never heard of this “game” before, but I guess I’m not that surprised that it exists. The whole thing is kind of funny actually.
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July 6th, 2006 at 2:48 am[...] I just got an e-mail with the weekly newsletter of a recruiting site in Japan. Out of all places, I did not expect to see an article that contained this sort of information. To sum up the article, it talked about how the internet (through blogs like this and other various sites) are given people in Japan (Japanese - not so much gaijin) a chance to do express themselves in ways they wouldn’t otherwise be able to. Ok… good so far. What’s wrong with that?… well, think… think… think… is your mind in the gutter yet? One such “outlet” for the Japanese is a sort of online treasure hunt… k… harmless, so far…. for women’s panties. Yes, I said (typed) panties. Dubbed “パンツゲッタ” (Pantsu Getta - From english - Pantsu = Panties Getta = Getter), this is surprisingly a popular net fad right now. The ladies hide their panties throughout Japan, giving clues online as to their whereabouts. The (hopefully happy) finder of the panties obviously keeps them and posts his victory online. Now, I shouldn’t be surprised about this coming from the land where you can buy used ladies undies in a vending machine!… Oh yes… what a fun land I live in. To verify the claims of the newsletter, I found this and this site about it. [...]
July 12th, 2006 at 6:12 pmRed apple
I am Karin, very interesting article that contained the information I was searching for in Google, thanks.
August 6th, 2006 at 6:51 pm