Newest Japanese Twitter craze has users guessing movies using only emoji as hints
A picture is worth a thousand words, but only if you can guess it right.
It wasn’t too long ago that Japanese social media was alight with crazy fads like sticking burgers through soft drink straws, and while that hasn’t quite died down yet, it seems that Japanese Twitter is now taken over by another trend: having people guess the name of movies, anime, or cartooons using just emoji as hints.
Resembling an emoji version of Pictionary, the hints can range from direct references to characters in film to complex description of events from start to end. We’ve included a good mix of easy and difficult ones in eight tweets here, so get your brain juices flowing and see if you can figure out all of them. (Answers at bottom.)
▼ 1. A famous children’s book series.
🌳🍃🌳🍃🌳🍃🌳🍃🌳🍃 🌳🍃 🌳🍃 🌳🍃🐻🍯👦🐷🐰🐯🌳🍃 🌳🍃 🌳🍃 🌳🍃🌳🍃🌳🍃🌳🍃🌳🍃 絶対伝わるわ #好きな作品を絵文字だけで
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🌟たかはし🌟 (@takahashi01518) September 27, 2017
▼ 2. Even Walt Disney Studios Japan pitched in five entries of their own.
この作品は何でしょう？ 1⃣🌹🕰️☕️🍽️🎶 2⃣🐰🦊🦁🐭🐹🐺 3⃣🌊☠️⚓️🌊 4⃣⚡️🚗💨9⃣5⃣ 5⃣❄️❄️👭⛄️❄️❄️ #好きな作品を絵文字だけで
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ディズニー・スタジオ (@disneystudiojp) September 27, 2017
▼ 3. Disney productions are rather popular among Japanese Twitter users.
▼ 4. An oldie but goldie.
これやな。 🐏🐏🐏🐏🐏🐏🐏🐏🐏🐖💦 #好きな作品を絵文字だけで
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ぽっぽ ௸ (@Poppo_JG52) September 27, 2017
▼ 5. You know things are about to get real exciting when there’s
a whole lot of bombs involved.
🦈 🗣 🐊 🗣 🇯🇵💣⚔️ 🇯🇵🇺🇸 🐲 💥🔫🔫🔫💥 🐲💢 🔥🏠🔥🗼🔥🏢🔥🔥 🗣🗣🗣💡 🇺🇸💣💣💣💣💣💣💣💣💣💣 🇯🇵🙅🏻♂️🙅🏻 🐲💥🚃🚃🚃 🍹🍹🍹 ⛄️ #好きな作品を絵文字だけで さっぱりわからん。
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Shin・Tamungelion (@tazilla_5thForm) September 27, 2017
▼ 6. The rabbit’s a dead giveaway.
🐰⏰💨 🚬🐛 🐱 🎩☕️🐹 🌹🃏 😴💭 つたわれ〜〜〜 #好きな作品を絵文字だけで #分かったらRT
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氏くん@あたりまえポエム発売中 (@ujiqn) September 27, 2017
▼ 7. This one’s got three entries.
#好きな作品を絵文字だけで 3位 🌲🐕👧🏻🐕🌲💥👥👸🏻👥 🔪🐗 🐗💢 🌋🍂🍂🍂 👧🏻💓👦🏻 🌱🍀🌱🍀 2位 🏰💨💨 🚪🍀🍀🍀 🚪🏠🏢🏫🏭⛲️ 🚪🔥🔥✈️💣🔥🔥 🚪🌌🎇 💏 1位 🌲🚗🌲 🐖🍜🍣🍤🍻🍶🐖 👧🏻⁉️⁉️ ♨️ 🐉🐲❄️❄️❄️👦🏻 🐖🐖🐖👧🏻 🎉😬😬😬🎉 🚗
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まゆ太 (@FUTOMAYU018) September 27, 2017
▼ 8. A famous American movie from the 90s.
#好きな作品を絵文字だけで 🚌 🏃 🏈 💣 🏓 ⛴🦐 🏃 🏃🏃♀️🏃♀️🏃🏃♀️🏃🏃♀️ 🚌 👩👦 🌳✝️ 👨👦 🚌 映画です。(上から時系列なはず)
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🌚無 一文🌝 (@suidoumuichimon) September 27, 2017
The answers to all of them are as follows:
1. Winnie the Pooh
2. Beauty and the Beast, Zootopia, Pirates of the Caribbean, Cars, Frozen
3. Mulan
4. Babe
5. Godzilla Resurgence (Shin Godzilla)
6. Alice in Wonderland
7. Princess Mononoke, Howl’s Moving Castle, Spirited Away
8. Forrest Gump
Short of outright spewing out movie spoilers, emoji might be the best way to tell friends how awesome that film was without going into juicy details. Just be wary that you can be branded crazy if you send certain emoji combinations.
Source: Netlab
Featured image: Twitter/@disneystudiojp
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