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Why Japanese High school girls take プリクラPurikura Pictures #7 前述したように、女子高生たちは“詐欺ってる”感じになりたくないと言います。しかし、大人の感覚では、プリクラこそ別人並みに盛れてしまい、それこそ“詐欺”です。 As I mentioned earlier, they don’t want to be considered like fraud「詐欺ってる」 However, from a perspective of an adult, プリクラ makes them look completely like a different person, and that is exactly like fraud「詐欺ってる」.  「プリクラは自然に盛れてるし、詐欺という感じはない。SNOWは鼻とか隠しててずるい。いかにもかわいくしたいって感じであざとさが出る」「プリクラはプリクラだから、原型がないとかいう考え方はない」 But they say "プリクラ makes us look good naturally, and I don’t feel like it is fraud". SNOW covers a nose and it’s sneaky. It is so obvious that you want to look pretty using that.” "For プリクラ they don’t think their original face is completely lost"   彼女たちは高校2年生。小学校の高学年からプリクラを撮り始めたそうです。プリクラの進化は早く、1年違うと盛れ方も画質も全然違うそう。参考にと2年前のプリクラを見せてもらいましたが、2年前は目が不自然に大きく、唇の赤さも、肌の質感もまったく異なっていました。   They are eleventh graders. They began taking プリクラ pictures from the upper grades of the elementary school. The development of プリクラ sticker are very fast, and a one year difference makes the method they retouch their pictures become completely different. They showed me a プリクラstickers they took two years ago, and the way they make their eyes bigger, the way they made their lips red, and the texture of the skin was totally different. 「自撮りは日常、プリクラは記念」という彼女たち。スマホやアプリのセルフィー技術が進化しても、プリクラを忘れることはないようです。 They said, "Selfies are day-to-day activities, プリクラs are for remembrance." Even if the selfie techniques for smartphones and the apps get better, they’d probably never stop using プリクラ stickers.

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Why Japanese High school girls take プリクラPurikura Pictures #7

前述したように、女子高生たちは“詐欺ってる”感じになりたくないと言います。しかし、大人の感覚では、プリクラこそ別人並みに盛れてしまい、それこそ“詐欺”です。
As I mentioned earlier, they don’t want to be considered a fraud「詐欺ってる」
However, from the perspective of an adult, プリクラ makes them look completely like a different person, and that is exactly like fraud「詐欺ってる」.


 「プリクラは自然に盛れてるし、詐欺という感じはない。SNOWは鼻とか隠しててずるい。いかにもかわいくしたいって感じであざとさが出る」「プリクラはプリクラだから、原型がないとかいう考え方はない」
But they say "プリクラ makes us look good naturally, and I don’t feel like it is fraud". SNOW covers a nose and it’s sneaky. It is so obvious that you want to look pretty using that.”
"For プリクラ they don’t think their original face is completely lost"

  彼女たちは高校2年生。小学校の高学年からプリクラを撮り始めたそうです。プリクラの進化は早く、1年違うと盛れ方も画質も全然違うそう。参考にと2年前のプリクラを見せてもらいましたが、2年前は目が不自然に大きく、唇の赤さも、肌の質感もまったく異なっていました。
  They are eleventh graders. They began taking プリクラ pictures from the upper grades of the elementary school. The development of プリクラ stickers are very fast, and a one year difference makes the methods they use to retouch their pictures become completely different.
They showed me a プリクラstickers they took two years ago, and the way they make their eyes bigger, the way they made their lips red, and the texture of the skin was totally different.

「自撮りは日常、プリクラは記念」という彼女たち。スマホやアプリのセルフィー技術が進化しても、プリクラを忘れることはないようです。

They said, "Selfies are for day-to-day activities, プリクラs are for memories."
Even if the selfie techniques for smartphones and the apps get better, they’d probably never stop using プリクラ stickers.


Interesting to read about this modern 'tradition' in Japan. Just a few small corrections.

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Yes, I translated a Japanese article into English.
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I read all of your notebook about prikura and thought Japanese is written very good. Did you translate a news item?

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