The Japanese Take Halloween To A New Level By Celebrating It With “Everyday Situation” Costumes (46 Pics)

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.

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 Who Tried To Cut Their Own Bangs, Failed, And Now Claims It's The Latest Fashion

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#2 A Scene Between Women In Korean Drama

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#3 A Person Who Sits On The Floor After Having His Chair Stolen By His Cat

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#4 A Person Who Was Planning To Buy Only Bread On The Way Home From Work

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#5 Shop Attendant Trying Really Hard To Look Away As You Enter Your Pin Number

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#6 Person Who Accidentally Shook Their Carbonated Beverage Before Opening It

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#7 A Person Who Go Out At The Same Time As Their Neighbors And Plan The Timing To Go Out

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#8 Twitter Engineer Just Fired By Elon Musk

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#9 Person Whose Face Is Blurred Out On Google Street View

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#10 Two People Who Wore The Exact Same Outfit And Now Its Super Awkward

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#11 A Person Whose Bicycle Was Stolen

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#12 People Who Go Back To Pick Up Their Smartphones After Putting On Their Shoes

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#13 Woman With A Filter That Looks Like Scales

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#14 Person In Line At A Convenience Store

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#15 TV Newscaster Reporting On A Typhoon

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#16 That Mildly Annoying Person Wearing A Huge Backpack And Playing A Smartphone Game On A Jam-Packed Train

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#17 Foreign Tourist Who Can't Find Any Public Garbage Cans In Japan

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#18 Soy Sauce

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#19 A Person Playing VR Pool And Soon Will Destroysthe Controller

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#20 Facial Landmark Detection

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#21 People Who Use Scissors Because They Can't Cut It By Hand Even Though It Says 'Magic Cut'

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#22 People Who Hand Their Business Cards Over From From A Lower Position

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#23 I Dropped My Smartphone

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#24 Person Who Wants To Use Up Every Bit Of Toothpaste In The Tube

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#25 The Person Who Appears In The Bank Transfer Fraud Poster

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#26 Program Staff Who Bring Food For Morning Variety Shows

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#27 Person Laid Off From Their Job In The Opening Scene Of A Film

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#28 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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#29 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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#30 Probably Someone Watching Pixiv On The Train

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#31 People Who Are Interested In The Events Held On The First Floor Of The Shopping Mall

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#32 Dad On His Day Off From Work

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#33 Branch Manager Who Decided To Help Out At The Cash Register

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#34 A Person Who Sells Water In Aeon

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#35 The Only Person At The Event Whose Name-Tag String Is Super Long For Some Reason

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#36 List Of Family Members In A Beginner English Language Textbook

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#37 Cooking Practice After Making An Apron In Home Economics

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#38 An Ear Of Corn

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#39 People Brushing Their Teeth In The Company Women's Restroom On Their Lunch Break

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#40 D-List Celebrity Acting As Store Manager For A Special One-Day Promotion

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#41 A Mom Who Forgot Her Sub Bag At The Entrance Ceremony

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#42 The Champion Of Some Sport Or Another

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#43 Person Whose Skeleton Is Being Estimated By Machine Learning

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#44 The Person Who Bothers You At The Museum

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#45 Person Who Got Confused About How To Combine Different Sauces When Eating Gyōza, And Now No Longer Even Cares

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#46 People With Mosquitoes Somewhere In The Room

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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!

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