While every year, it’s becoming harder and harder to come up with a standout Halloween costume (I mean, Heidi Klum just dressed as a giant worm!), some people take a more down-to-earth approach.
In fact, there’s a whole trend known as “Mundane Halloween” where people dress up as super ordinary things and embody very day-to-day situations. The tradition was started in 2014 by a group at Daily Portal Z who “kind of wanted to participate in the festivities of Halloween, but were too embarrassed to go all out in witch or zombie costumes,” and became particularly popular in Japan.
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The idea is simple – instead of putting up a flashy and flamboyant costume that may earn everyone’s hearts but make you feel awkward and out of place, you don’t need anything special, really. The more mundane your look is, the better it is!
So scroll down for this year’s best Mundane Halloween costumes, and be sure to check out the best ones from previous years here, here and here.
#1 Person Whose Face Is Blurred Out On Google Street View
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#2 A Person Who Was Planning To Buy Only Bread On The Way Home From Work
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#3 Person Who Accidentally Shook Their Carbonated Beverage Before Opening It
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The Mundane Halloween trend, also known as Jimi Halloween (地味ハロウィン), started back in 2014 and earned the hearts of people who were not willing to go bananas with their spooky costumes. In fact, the main idea of a mundane costume is to dress as casually as you can and incarnate into something super ordinary on purpose. Costumes also come with boring, everyday backgrounds and stories like spilling coffee or standing in a queue.
#4 A Person Who Tried To Cut Their Own Bangs, Failed, And Now Claims It’s The Latest Fashion
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#5 Twitter Engineer Just Fired By Elon Musk
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#6 Shop Attendant Trying Really Hard To Look Away As You Enter Your Pin Number
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Daily Portal Z, an online website, is responsible for initiating the Mundane Halloween trend. Their main goal was to have fun and celebrate Halloween in a way that doesn’t require people to wear awkward and uncomfortable looks.
In a previous interview with Bored Panda, Yuji Hayashi, the webmaster of Daily Portal Z, said that he was surprised to see so many people around the world picking up on the trend. “I thought it was just a Japanese domestic joke, so I was surprised that people in the US and UK were talking about it on Twitter.”
#7 Soy Sauce
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#8 A Person Whose Bicycle Was Stolen
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#9 A Scene Between Women In A Korean Drama
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“All the participants struggle with ideas for costumes every year. But I think they enjoy thinking about it. Stores, train stations, and people working in the city all become role models for the costumes,” Hayashi said.
Now that the Mundane Halloween seems to be overtaking Twitter and other social media platforms, Hayashi loves that the phenomenon is such a success. “We don’t have any claim to any rights regarding Jimi Halloween. We want people to hold it at work or school or with their neighbors. It is also held in Taiwan. We’d love to have it in the US too!”
#10 Didn’t Really Want Anything From IKEA But My Friend Insisted On Driving Us There
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#11 Basic Game Avatars That Haven’t Made Any In-App Purchases But Managed To Pull One Rare Item From The Gacha
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#12 Uncle Watching Baseball At The Kawasaki Stadium
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#13 A Person Who Helps A Spot-Billed Duck And Ducklings Cross The Road
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#14 TV Newscaster Reporting On A Typhoon
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#15 A Person Who Has To Leave At The Same Time As Their Neighbor And Tries To Avoid Them
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#16 A Person In A Remote Meeting
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#17 A Person Who Sits On The Floor After Having His Chair Stolen By His Cat
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#18 People Who Go Back To Pick Up Their Smartphones After Putting On Their Shoes
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#19 Next In Line To Offer Incense At The Funeral But Unsure Of The Custom So Trying To Peek At The Person In Front
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#20 A New Waiter That Makes You Nervous
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#21 Two People Who Wore The Exact Same Outfit And Now It’s Super Awkward
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#22 A Spiller
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#23 Left The Apartment Right At The Same Time As The Next Door Neighbor And Ran Back Inside To Wait Until They Leave
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#24 Program Staff Who Bring Food For Morning Variety Shows
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#25 Person In Line At A Convenience Store
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#26 The Only Person At The Event Whose Name-Tag String Is Super Long For Some Reason
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#27 Person Who Wants To Use Up Every Bit Of Toothpaste In The Tube
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#28 People Who Are Interested In The Events Held On The First Floor Of The Shopping Mall
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#29 Probably Someone Scrolling On Pixiv On The Train
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#30 Foreign Tourist Who Can’t Find Any Public Garbage Cans In Japan
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#31 Person Laid Off From Their Job In The Opening Scene Of A Film
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#32 An Elementary Schooler On The Last Day Of School
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#33 Dad On His Day Off From Work
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#34 Branch Manager Who Decided To Help Out At The Cash Register
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#35 People Who Use Scissors Because They Can’t Open The Packaging By Hand Even Though It Says ‘Magic Cut’
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#36 The Figure That Appears In The ‘Bank Transfer Fraud’ Poster
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#37 That Mildly Annoying Person Wearing A Huge Backpack And Playing A Game On A Smartphone On A Jam-Packed Train
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#38 Random Character Who Appears In The Early Stages Of The TV Series In Order To Show That If You Get Bitten, You Become A Zombie
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#39 A Person Playing VR Pool Who Will Soon Destroy The Controller
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#40 People Who Hand Their Business Cards Over From From A Lower Position
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#41 A Mom Who Forgot Her Sub Bag At The Entrance Ceremony
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#42 Family Tree In A Beginner’s English Language Textbook
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#43 Woman With A Filter That Looks Like Scales
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#44 I Dropped My Smartphone
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#45 An Ear Of Corn
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#46 Facial Landmark Detection
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#47 Person Who Got Confused About How To Combine Different Sauces When Eating Gyōza, And Now No Longer Even Cares
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#48 A Person With Mosquitoes Somewhere In Their Room
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#49 A Person Who Sells Water At Aeon Mall
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#50 The Person Who Bothers You At The Museum
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#51 Cooking Practice After Making An Apron In Home Economics
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#52 People Brushing Their Teeth In The Company Women’s Restroom On Their Lunch Break
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#53 The Champion Of Some Sport Or Another
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#54 D-List Celebrity Acting As Store Manager For A Special One-Day Promotion
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#55 Person Whose Skeleton Is Being Estimated By Machine Learning
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Source: boredpanda.com