I vaguely remember someone doing this during a conversation in a bar in Japan years ago, and I saw it again in a manga. What does this mean, if anything? I don’t remember what the conversation was about, and we were all drinking so I wouldn’t trust my memory anyway
I’m Japanese, and honestly, I don’t see any special meaning in this pose at all.
As far as I know, this image is just a scene from Space Brothers, where Namba Mutta is simply talking about the Sharon Telescope. There’s no symbolic or cultural meaning attached to the pose in Japan—it’s just a moment in the story.
https://koyamachuya.com/contents/7107/
yep that’s the manga, I do swear I saw someone do this in the wild, like 10 years ago. I kinda guess maybe it’s like doing the heart shape with your hands
There is a similar pose where people make a heart shape above their head. Japanese people like making heart shapes for pretty much everything.
danke, so, just kinda love you or for what you just said :)
lol I’m so confused then. The like 20s girl that did that didn’t act like she was a reddit dork