We Played A 96 Hour Game Of Capture The Flag Across Japan

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    Created by Adam Chase, Sam Denby, and Ben Doyle
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    Artwork by Simon Buckmaster
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  • @brasefr
    @brasefr 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +3831

    The amount of anxiety I felt watching Ben watch the bird is wild

    • @myladycasagrande863
      @myladycasagrande863 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +111

      ... followed by his terrifying snarl instead of smiling at the bus stop. 😂😂😂

    • @musicstage3457
      @musicstage3457 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      oh btw ben and adam win next episode i saw on nebula sorry for spoiler lul

    • @brasefr
      @brasefr 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +22

      @@musicstage3457 I don’t think that they will compile 96 hours into two episodes. Especially since they didn’t even do 24 in this one

    • @12koiii
      @12koiii 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@brasefr i mean it probably means all the 3 rounds will take 96 hours

    • @eddiemate
      @eddiemate 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +45

      @@musicstage3457
      > Knowingly posts a whole spoiler
      > "Sorry for spoiler"

  • @skywz
    @skywz 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2260

    Sam getting drunk instead of Ben is a nice change of pace

    • @petertaylor4980
      @petertaylor4980 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +111

      Ben's still got time...

    • @radikalskippy
      @radikalskippy 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +48

      "Instead of" is not a phrase I'd use right at the start. Besides, it's not a challenge so it doesn't count in my book 🤣

    • @icecranberry2148
      @icecranberry2148 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +26

      I actually like drunk Sam, he's hilarious.

    • @Shkiperkir
      @Shkiperkir 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +13

      @@radikalskippy they won’t have it as a challenge though most likely. This game has splitting up and getting someone drunk while being alone feels too risky

    • @livethefuture2492
      @livethefuture2492 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      Sam actually got drunk multiple times, once during tag accross Europe as part of a challenge("commit an american crime"), once in Singapore as part of a challenge in season 2 ("get drunk on a local liquor") .

  • @ThePongles
    @ThePongles 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1952

    I'd love to see a version of this with 3 person teams, 2 on the ground and 1 "operator". The ones on the ground are disallowed access to the tracking software and internet (still would have a phone for other functionality), requiring they go through the operator for such information. Each team can pay to curse the other team's operator making them have to do things like go radio silent for X minutes, give incorrect information for X minutes, singing instead of talking for X minutes, etc. with the other ground team not being allowed to know about the curse til it ends (obviously they can guess it in some cases).

    • @librariesarecool7461
      @librariesarecool7461 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +47

      ooo i like this idea!

    • @circuitgamer7759
      @circuitgamer7759 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      @@librariesarecool7461 Me too, I hope they try this :)

    • @monikar.5490
      @monikar.5490 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +42

      This is a great idea, you should try to suggest it on their subreddit as well.

    • @samplautz5586
      @samplautz5586 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +60

      That’s sort of what they did with Tom Scott in London

    • @librariesarecool7461
      @librariesarecool7461 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +78

      @@samplautz5586 I'm won't get my hopes up, but a full season with Tom would be soo good. I can already picture the frantic kid-wearing-a-backpack-running-late-for-school vibe and the genuine enthusiasm for new experiences that he would bring to full-scale Jet Lag.

  • @DavidLDana
    @DavidLDana 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +174

    Scotty: "I hope [Ben] is suffering as much as we are"...Ben: *standing with an umbrella with the smile of a child's first picture day*

  • @Bowrainig
    @Bowrainig 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +3657

    Literally the series that make my Wednesdays feel special

    • @MittensZora
      @MittensZora 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +20

      Same, I love Wednesdays when this is coming out

    • @Th31Th3Only
      @Th31Th3Only 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      Yes

    • @juliushardware7760
      @juliushardware7760 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      Relateable

    • @mrxylophonegaming4249
      @mrxylophonegaming4249 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      Total agree

    • @allisel6212
      @allisel6212 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      real

  • @raymondng5089
    @raymondng5089 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1517

    "it looks so japanese"
    drunk Sam is honestly a mood

    • @roger4763
      @roger4763 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      Impossible people actually get drunk by that.

    • @grimstnzborithbrisingr7296
      @grimstnzborithbrisingr7296 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      ​@@roger4763Sake is an alcoholic beverage after all...

    • @1224chrisng
      @1224chrisng 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +45

      need a 2v2 between drunk Sam and drunk Ben

    • @drcgaming4195
      @drcgaming4195 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +28

      @@roger4763 i can imagine lightweight people would definitely get drunk off sake. apparently sake is 13-17% alcohol which is quite strong

    • @vigilantcosmicpenguin8721
      @vigilantcosmicpenguin8721 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +21

      Tipsy Sam doesn't have the adorableness of Drunk Ben, but he's definitely still funny.

  • @trombaritone86
    @trombaritone86 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +488

    It amuses me to no end that Adam wound up just sitting there and watching the episode with us pretty much the whole time.

    • @ArchieStiglitz
      @ArchieStiglitz 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      seems to me he should've been doing challenges that whole time, not wasting time

    • @denisnevsky3734
      @denisnevsky3734 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +30

      ​@@ArchieStiglitzcan't do challenges in your own territory

    • @ArchieStiglitz
      @ArchieStiglitz 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@denisnevsky3734 aaah that makes sense, thanks

    • @ThroughTheGatesOfHell
      @ThroughTheGatesOfHell 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      yeah after they went after Ben he should have moved towards the flag as well and applying pressure

    • @maartendetemmerman393
      @maartendetemmerman393 16 วันที่ผ่านมา

      he could have just moved just outside the safety zone into sams area and do challenges. when ben gets caught he can go back to defend or use his earned coins to just snatch the flag and get out again

  • @camilo5
    @camilo5 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +771

    I like how Scotty already seems to know some things about Japan, trying to end the call in the train to remain polite is so nice!

    • @jimmy50908
      @jimmy50908 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +160

      Yea they mention in the nebula podcast that the others realise somewhat early on that it’s rude to talk on the trains so they try to stop doing it. But Scotty has been to Japan before and knows the customs so that’s why he does it from the start

    • @-_James_-
      @-_James_- 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +26

      @@jimmy50908 How insular are Americans though? I've never been anywhere close to Japan and I know that.

    • @israfilozdamirov7225
      @israfilozdamirov7225 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@-_James_-how does that make him ignorant? 😂 the only reason you know that is because youre a weeb

    • @rolandaustria7926
      @rolandaustria7926 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +29

      @@jimmy50908There are posters and stickers, signage on the stations and inside the train itself at eye-level saying no talking on phones inside trains. It uses a symbol of a phone with a slash mark.

    • @trystanbasser4420
      @trystanbasser4420 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      ​@-_James_- most people in america dont leave america, so they dont care to learn about other places, cultures or customs. Its kinda sad, cause theres alot of cool stuff. I thibk people should research a place before they go to visit.

  • @teilo8493
    @teilo8493 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1081

    30:15 Fun fact: the reason why the train didn’t stop at chibachuo station is not that he is on a limited service, but because chibachuo is on an entirely different rail line owned by a different rail company

    • @duskpede5146
      @duskpede5146 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ah capitalism. rearing its stupid head once again

    • @AphonseD_
      @AphonseD_ 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +106

      Yup. The lines just happened to run next to eachother at that particular spot.

    • @xfel5913
      @xfel5913 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +33

      It also wouldn’t even have been useful for Ben either since it veers off to the east instead of going south.

    • @AllTheArtsy
      @AllTheArtsy 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +64

      the fact that Japanese rail ways are owned by different companies and yet they run as expected, the transition is easy and they dont literally crash into each other in an hourly basis is such a miracle. that will never happen in the US i think

    • @ItsSansom
      @ItsSansom 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +64

      ​@@AllTheArtsyThe two companies run on completely different tracks. They don't share the same rail system. At stations where you can transfer from TM to JR are like two stations attached together, but with a different set of tracks leading into them

  • @hannahbarnes9669
    @hannahbarnes9669 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2133

    It's hilarious that Sam and Scotty are just doing their thing pretty calmly but Ben and Adam are always so serious and act like they're in Mission Impossible or Oceans 11.

    • @denzy3929
      @denzy3929 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +15

      At the end they weren't so calm as at the start

    • @LucaGM_
      @LucaGM_ 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +140

      I don't know if it's just this season, but for me it seems like in past seasons Sam has been more serious but Ben and Adam have more fun even if it is a detriment

    • @librariesarecool7461
      @librariesarecool7461 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +90

      @@LucaGM_ It's a definite role reversal so far! Though Sam and Scotty aren't as chill and goofy in this episode as Ben and Adam historically have been. Sam's "it looks so Japanese" is a total Ben line though lol

    • @Isociopathetic
      @Isociopathetic 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +18

      Scotty doesn’t seem chill but Sam is definitely feeling that alcohol

    • @samplautz5586
      @samplautz5586 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      I’m not sure how to feel about Scotty. No spoilers, but he learns a big lesson next episode so I’m hoping that changes the way he plays

  • @firenter
    @firenter 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +171

    Scotty clearly knows his train ettiquette unlike the other guys "gotta hang up, I'll call you back when I get there"
    Seems like this ruleset allows for a lot of back and forth play, so it's going to be very interesting when the play area expands

    • @ninx_music
      @ninx_music 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      scotty, or strange parts, has done lots of videos in other countries before. he has definitely traveled to japan, especially china and several other countries to do tech reviews.

  • @vigilantcosmicpenguin8721
    @vigilantcosmicpenguin8721 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +290

    I love the fundamental idea of the vending machines; it's both mundanely convenient and endearingly Japanese. Also, I love the way they coordinated as Team Colorado and Team Mario Brothers. Also, I love the new music this season. Also, I love that there's another bird-themed challenge, as usual. Also, I love how nobody can read Japanese. Also, I love the sentence "Scotty's on the monorail." Apparently I love a lot of things about this.

  • @hypersonicspeedgrov
    @hypersonicspeedgrov 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1182

    Ben and Adam as Mario and Luigi is such a nice touch, this season is gonna be great!

    • @logon-oe6un
      @logon-oe6un 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +27

      I kinda want them to get "B" and "A" hats for next season.

    • @TheBaldr
      @TheBaldr 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Wait until they go Super Saiyan next week.

    • @vigilantcosmicpenguin8721
      @vigilantcosmicpenguin8721 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      The fanart is gonna be great!

    • @tannerwilson4843
      @tannerwilson4843 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Wish the other team had another Japanese Reference hats as well like Pokémon.

    • @eliasgc49
      @eliasgc49 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Wait till you see the next round. the cap they wore is awesome

  • @ctaylorcaldwell
    @ctaylorcaldwell 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +4155

    New game? CHECK, New country? CHECK, New Partner for Sam? CHECK, Ben still adorable AF? CHECK. Let the new season begin.

    • @0topon
      @0topon 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +335

      Ben gets drunk? CHECK (probably)

    • @goose2749
      @goose2749 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +171

      all we’re missing is drunk Ben and then we’ll have jet lag bingo

    • @DV_YT858
      @DV_YT858 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      yeah

    • @fatcatchonk5516
      @fatcatchonk5516 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Lol

    • @balpreetsingh6834
      @balpreetsingh6834 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +54

      Sam's shitty luck when it comes to challenges? Check.

  • @FeltNokia
    @FeltNokia 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +108

    I tried translating the card using Google Translate's drawing feature. It took me, someone with absolutely no experience with or knowledge of Japanese, about 15 minutes to translate it. At one point, I mis-drew one character and it kept telling me something about a hornworm, so I honestly might've been able to do it even faster if I weren't a terrible artist.

    • @katiewoz
      @katiewoz 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +19

      Yeah I tried Google translate draw feature too and pretty sure it says something like touch the nearest tree and say “I am the best translator.” But I know how to write Chinese characters, so knowing some of the correct stroke order probably helped me find the correct characters more easily.

    • @samplautz5586
      @samplautz5586 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I didn’t even know google translate had that feature

    • @yeen4204
      @yeen4204 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

      trying to draw-input CJK characters without any prior experience with them is very difficult. you’re definitely not uniquely bad at it haha

    • @ketchup901
      @ketchup901 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      @@katiewoz It says 一番近い木に触れて、「私は最高の翻訳者です」と言わなければなりません。 and yeah it means what you said.

    • @hendrikhelsper6781
      @hendrikhelsper6781 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      He could have just drawn it onto a piece of paper and then taken a picture couldn't he

  • @icecranberry2148
    @icecranberry2148 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +86

    Ben posing as Totoro is probably one of the most adorable things I've ever seen.

  • @Dr.Death8520
    @Dr.Death8520 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +883

    Ben losing his phone as Sam decides to SPRINT at him is an oof.

    • @lierstl
      @lierstl 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +25

      Ben is annoying AF, never really contribute much during the game (seeing from past series) aside from downing the alcohol and making a case of how competent Sam and Adam is.

    • @EchoingHell
      @EchoingHell 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +229

      ​@@lierstlYou've posted this multiple times. If you don't enjoy it, you are literally on TH-cam, there's plenty of other things to watch.

    • @ErdTirdMans
      @ErdTirdMans 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +92

      @@lierstl Gotta love that hatewatchers would rather waste their lives being upset than do literally anything else

    • @rustymidlander05
      @rustymidlander05 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +28

      ​@@ErdTirdMans How could anyone actually dislike this series? It's practically flawless, better than Breaking Bad even.

    • @jessicabarthel1569
      @jessicabarthel1569 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +57

      ​@A.T. King the Ben-Adam dynamic is the reason I watch this series. I guess that's a huge "contribution"

  • @Jaydee-wd7wr
    @Jaydee-wd7wr 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +464

    The dynamic of Ben and Adam having basically a “Mission Control” is pretty interesting.

    • @elsebas3167
      @elsebas3167 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +23

      They’ve done this with Tom Scott before and it was pretty cool as well

    • @hamza-chaudhry
      @hamza-chaudhry 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      What mission control?

    • @rosie3459
      @rosie3459 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +24

      @@hamza-chaudhry I think how they have Adam in a stationary spot, giving Ben live updates on where they are and having him plan Bens route

    • @vigilantcosmicpenguin8721
      @vigilantcosmicpenguin8721 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +17

      I like how this season allows for dynamic dynamics, so they could switch to a different strategy at any moment.

    • @yaboyJJJJJ
      @yaboyJJJJJ 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@elsebas3167 jet lag has made a video with tom scott?

  • @dhruvaaeer7608
    @dhruvaaeer7608 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +212

    Okay but can we just appreciate the super adorable animation this season! The flag capture, flag defended, challenge vetoed, completing the challenge, all of it is pretty!😍✨️

    • @g.u.m.d.r.o.p
      @g.u.m.d.r.o.p 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Ikr! Props to the motion graphics team!

  • @user-eq2tv2ep5m
    @user-eq2tv2ep5m 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +172

    I'm a your fan from Japan. I am happy that you came to Japan. The sight of you fighting against the scenery and characters of Tokyo where you live is very refreshing!
    By the way, since Hon-Chiba Station and Chiba-Chuo Station are stations of different companies service, so the only way to move between the two stations is to return to Chiba Station once. I think Japanese trains are difficult for even me....

  • @SnappyWasHere
    @SnappyWasHere 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +293

    This is the partner Sam has needed. Confident and forceful to keep Sam in line. Gonna be a good game!

    • @samplautz5586
      @samplautz5586 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

      Scotty’s confidence doesn’t always help. You’ll see

    • @dykam
      @dykam 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +56

      @@samplautz5586 I don't know whether it's a spoiler, but can you not?

  • @matthew416811
    @matthew416811 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +203

    Context for 30:35
    Scotty was on a JR Sotobō Line train, which in fact, was not a limited.
    The station Sam mentioned, Chiba-Chuo, is on another line called Keisei line, which happened to be a different railway line just so happens to be running on parallel to the train Scotty had taken.
    No matter which train Scotty took, the next stop will always be Chiba.

    • @apt_get
      @apt_get 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Epic railfan save. Thank you sir

  • @Thomas_H._Smith
    @Thomas_H._Smith 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +68

    I'll be honest I wasn't too hot about the idea of Adam and Ben splitting up for the majority of this episode. But having Ben be like a field agent infiltrating enemy territory and Adam being his quy in the chair, is awesome.

  • @nategosbarcbarc
    @nategosbarcbarc 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +196

    Adam on a phone on a train in Japan. He’s a brave man.

    • @livethefuture2492
      @livethefuture2492 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +77

      He's a brave man in general, Remeber:
      Stopping cars to beg for a dollar in season 1.
      Vomiting all over the track in season 2 for the pastry mile.
      Running around Paris in a disguise,
      And so on...
      As Sam once said in season 3 - "He's not afraid to look like a fool in public..." lol.

    • @munzutai
      @munzutai 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      @@livethefuture2492 Talking on the phone while on a train is not a matter of making yourself like a fool though, it's considered rude in Japan.

  • @barniszabaduloszoba948
    @barniszabaduloszoba948 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +783

    This is the best birthday gift ever. I started watching last season and i'm an addict. Thank you, Jet Lag Team!!

    • @jacobearth18
      @jacobearth18 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +15

      Happy birthday!

    • @turtleburger200
      @turtleburger200 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +13

      Happy birthday! I hope you have a great day today

    • @LGard116
      @LGard116 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      Happy birthday!

    • @KrissyF
      @KrissyF 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      Bday twins!🎉

    • @elliotunderhill3617
      @elliotunderhill3617 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      Happy birthday!

  • @norm58inator
    @norm58inator 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +85

    Brilliant. I love the Matrix vibes from Ben and Adam on the phone: "Operator, I need an exit!"

  • @mitchclubb8862
    @mitchclubb8862 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +76

    I’m going to need a time lapse of the map showing the path of each player after the game is done. All the back and forth would be fun to watch.

  • @vintageshed965
    @vintageshed965 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +68

    That translation challenge was actually pretty easy. Japanese language pack of Google keyboard supports writing input. All ben had to do was write it to the google translate.

  • @kestrelynn
    @kestrelynn 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +149

    I was literally thinking that you should make a game where splitting up the team is a viable strategy, can't wait to see how this will affect the season

  • @raphaelman
    @raphaelman 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +367

    as someone who knows japanese + has kinda navigated their way around Tokyo a few times, the fact that Scotty does seem to know their way around is a *huge* advantage. And can Adam technically take the Shinkansen to yokohama? lol
    edit: eh taking the limited instead of the local train happens to everyone in a rush. still think Scotty knows his way around better than Ben/Adam though. and judging by the ruleset, actually EVERYONE can take the shinkansen a stop or two lol when it makes sense no?

    • @PersonYayyy
      @PersonYayyy 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +27

      If they don’t take the Shinkansen at some point I will be very disappointed

    • @enews5842
      @enews5842 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

      @@PersonYayyyi was just hoping that someone would hop onto the idea that the shinkansen stops at shinagawa and yokohama 😢😢

    • @enews5842
      @enews5842 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      @@PersonYayyythey will probably have to for future episodes, so dw

    • @raphaelman
      @raphaelman 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +22

      ​@@PersonYayyy they probably will in stages 2 and 3 out of necessity. In Tokyo, google maps doesn't default to it for cost + efficiency reasons, but there could be a couple niche scenarios where it would work, mostly to throw the other team off though rather than any real time benefit i'd think.
      I don't think this will come into play given where the flags are this round, but the Chuo line rapid/local train, and taking alternate routes w/ the metro/other train providers (which is easy in Tokyo) could provide more fuckery too. tokyo's train system is just so complicated for a lot of fun. though im not familiar enough with it to fully know how many possibilities there may be.

    • @lilpeach101
      @lilpeach101 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      Won't the distance between stops be so long, that they need to save up lots of coins for it? Seems like a risk reward thing, having to stay in place long doing challenges, and also risking the coins being stolen while saving them up.

  • @kaelon9170
    @kaelon9170 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +71

    These new map avatars are absolutely adorable. I couldn't help but stop the video to take a closer look and appreciate them every time the map came up. 😄

  • @prettypic444
    @prettypic444 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +27

    Ben's "hide the pain" totoro grin is SUCH A MOOD

  • @Julia-mx3ki
    @Julia-mx3ki 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +56

    Birdwatching has never been so thrilling. I love this show so much.

  • @XDKang
    @XDKang 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +87

    As somebody who lives in Chiba, very close to the railway line Ben and subsequently Sam+Scotty took towards Chiba station from Tokyo, it bewilders me that there must have been some point of time in the past where I was less than a kilometer away from them and never even knew. Exciting stuff, can't wait to watch the rest!

    • @danfr
      @danfr 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      I'm even more bewildered. My wife and I were in Tokyo for about a week mid-April and my wife saw a poster in the video about a drama "to be released" around when we were in Tokyo. So we were taking some of these same trains not long after them without knowing it.

  • @SJohnTrombley
    @SJohnTrombley 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

    It sucks because Ben picked a website for translating kanji that cares about stroke order. Google translate has a tool that lets you draw kanji (and doesn't care about stroke order) and he could have done this in like 5 minutes if he had gone that route.

  • @olivercoulthard5468
    @olivercoulthard5468 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +22

    Ben and Adam starting off going "It's all in Japanese!!!" gives me a very good sense of the way this is gonna go 😅

  • @mt_xing
    @mt_xing 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +96

    If anyone else is cringing about them calling people on the trains (considered very rude in Japan), good news: they said on reddit that they realized later in the season and stopped.

    • @beccaroonie2946
      @beccaroonie2946 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +35

      I was wondering why Scotty kept hanging up on Sam, but he seemed to know Tokyo better than the others so I assumed there must be a cultural thing there 😂

    • @behbf
      @behbf 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Was looking for this comment lol

    • @rolandaustria7926
      @rolandaustria7926 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Even worse, sitting on the Priority Seat where electronics and loudly talking are discouraged 😅

  • @matthew416811
    @matthew416811 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +20

    Travel tip:
    Adam said he needed to wait 9 minutes to head back south, but that's not entirely correct.
    You see, the Ueno-Tokyo line train are less frequent because of its nature being long-distance trains running to Tokyo's neighboring suburb cities.
    What he can do, is to immediately head to the Yamanote/Keihin-Tohoku Line southbound platform and take whatever the first train arrives. The frequency is much higher!

    • @linkng7665
      @linkng7665 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Adam needed to go south for some distance. Ueno-Tokyo line is faster than Yamanote/Keihin because there are fewer stops in between.

  • @byghostlight1
    @byghostlight1 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +13

    This is why Ben and Adam should never ever be separated! They are like two adorable sides of the same coin.

  • @asterix19991
    @asterix19991 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +24

    Its so nice that we already have a new season but I miss Toby so muuuch, she was so fun

  • @diegostine
    @diegostine 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +82

    This looks awesome! The sprites for the players are very well stylized

  • @feelgoodfooty
    @feelgoodfooty 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +100

    best show on youtube by a mile, the only channel i actively look forward to every upload for!! you guys are so inspiring

  • @wonpom
    @wonpom 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +20

    This channel is criminally underrated, the quality is insane

  • @gargargargar
    @gargargargar 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    30:47 Somewhat important correction: no matter which train Scotty gets on in Hon Chiba (even if it’s a local, not a limited), he would never be able to stop at Chiba Chuo because they are on two completely different lines, under completely different railway companies!
    Hon Chiba is a JR station. Chiba Chuo is a Keisei station. The reason it’s confusing on a map is because the JR line and Keisei line are physically parallel to each other on the map, so they almost look like the same line, but actually have completely different stops. Yay Japan!

  • @onlyinjapan
    @onlyinjapan 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +148

    I can't stop shouting at the screen - no, the other way. It's too early. It's over there! ... Kinshicho! ... ahhh!! That was fun \(^_^)/ Go Scotty! Great job guys!

    • @CyborgRowlet
      @CyborgRowlet 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      That really was fun

    • @StrangeParts
      @StrangeParts 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +20

      I definitely thought about you a number of times while playing the game! It was often, “I bet John thinks we’re totally noobs right about now” 😂

    • @orestria
      @orestria 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      yeah this is gunna be a rough one for people with a good grasp of japan/travel in japan XD

  • @kestrelynn
    @kestrelynn 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +52

    Jet lag is such a nice consistent piece of amazing content to look forward to whernever a season is running, love that this channel exists

  • @blitz3391
    @blitz3391 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

    These avatars are really cute looking.
    I was strangely a bit anxious with all these challenges and running around, because it doesn't really fit well in Japan to be all that excited and showing off when you're a foreigner.

    • @Adam-g01
      @Adam-g01 20 วันที่ผ่านมา

      And you should care about that because?

  • @aoisatoshi9300
    @aoisatoshi9300 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    As someone who lived in the Tokyo area for almost two years, I will say that knowing which stops are express stops will change your life when you are trying to make it around places.
    Though I can say that a ten second check on google maps would have told Scott that the trains from Hon-Chiba don't stop at Chiba Chuo.
    And the trains at Chiba Chuo wouldn't get Ben out of enemy territory unless he went back towards Tokyo.

  • @MorkSal
    @MorkSal 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +35

    So pumped about being in Japan. Absolutely love visiting the country and the transit system is just awesome.
    Not too confusing if you didn't have to rush.

  • @theduck7751
    @theduck7751 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +13

    Jet Lag is just one of those things you watch for like 5 hours to finish a series non stop becasue how good it is

    • @warmike
      @warmike 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I specifically don't watch the newest season until it's fully released because I want to binge it

  • @claireolmstead1892
    @claireolmstead1892 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    The continuous decision to pair Sam with the most charismatic and sweet people was so smart! Really balances out the teams better.

  • @kevinmccarthy2793
    @kevinmccarthy2793 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +19

    All in for #teamBen.. and I love Japan. I am curious about how the chaotic energy of this crew will survive in Japan.

  • @lessrblx4173
    @lessrblx4173 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    PT2 where

  • @EvanBoyar
    @EvanBoyar 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

    Scotty has a great purposefulness and drive that other guests haven't which is quite nice!

  • @RebelHart9
    @RebelHart9 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +30

    I know the new season literally just started (and it’s great by the way) but I just got an idea that could be fun. What if in a future season you race to see who can visit the most tourist attractions in the world in a set period of time? Once someone visits something though it’s off limits. Also, I’m talking specifically about the major attractions, things like the Eiffel Tower and Colosseum of Rome. I realize international travel is expensive so I don’t know if it’s in the budget to do or not. If not though you could totally do a scaled down version or even give each person a budget and if they spend that to go to one place or five, that’s all they get.

    • @tijmen131
      @tijmen131 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      they have done circumvent the world so the budget is there

    • @RebelHart9
      @RebelHart9 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@tijmen131 true 👍

    • @EZX280
      @EZX280 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      There could also be a few tiers, where you have to claim 3 of the previous tier in a country (worth less) to get higher tiers. Claiming the highest one of a continent would lock the rest of it from both teams.

  • @kingjulian1202
    @kingjulian1202 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    Knowing Japanese made me so happy for that, knowing that I'll go to Tokyo next year and I'll just be able to read stuff

  • @HelloOnepiece
    @HelloOnepiece 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Thats not just Tokyo, but the whole metropolitan area, including Chiba, Yokohama, Saitama and other big cities

  • @johndavid9552
    @johndavid9552 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    I’ve been to Japan, and seeing them being in places I’ve been is pretty cool, but Ben butchering the Yamanote line was hilarious for me. Tamachi is the station I stayed near.

  • @AkashWShah
    @AkashWShah 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +13

    This season is breaking. New. Ground. Sam drunk instead of Ben? Amazing. The quality content we've all been asking for

    • @vigilantcosmicpenguin8721
      @vigilantcosmicpenguin8721 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Sam has had liquor before, in Tag Across Europe when the challenge was to break an American law (having alcohol in public). So perhaps the rule is that Ben gets hammered, but Sam has a reasonable amount to drink sometimes.

    • @livethefuture2492
      @livethefuture2492 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Sam actually got drunk multiple times, once during tag accross Europe as part of a challenge("commit an american crime"), once in Singapore as part of a challenge in season 2 ("get drunk on a local liquor") .

  • @roundmidnight2929
    @roundmidnight2929 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

    Damn it’s honestly really cool that they have 100k people supporting the show over there! I’ve always been curious how many have switched over

  • @mimaanimations
    @mimaanimations 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +13

    Woah these animations got crazier and crazier over time, each time I thought you couldn't get more perfect but yet here we are. Keep it up!!!

  • @juliadandy6019
    @juliadandy6019 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    The artwork, animation, chibis, it all looks SO beautiful!! Congratulations to the Teams that worked on it, amazing job. Ben's chibi is just the cutest thing!

  • @billyl3990
    @billyl3990 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    I’ve been team ben and Adam for so long

  • @whisperSSG8
    @whisperSSG8 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Omg the chibi avatars are so cute

  • @xSoupdumplingx
    @xSoupdumplingx 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    I am so happy the series is back. It's one of the highlights of the week to look forward to.
    New series idea: NYC version since NYC now has water ferries and convoluted subways. There are also so many hidey spots since tracking signals disappear. So you have to look extra hard for people underground.

    • @markg.1159
      @markg.1159 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I think the HAI staff all live in NYC, so it wouldn't have the same element of having to figure out the system. Not necessarily a bad thing.

  • @Indie_Live
    @Indie_Live 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +14

    Man its such a great feeling to wake up on a Wednesday morning and see a new jet lag season. Yall are so entertaining and I'm really glad yall keep this series up.

  • @livethefuture2492
    @livethefuture2492 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

    Man this season is INTENSE! I think the dynamic in this game is really well done, especially the game of chicken with ben! Man i could feel the tension throughout the whole thing, it was exciting.
    Really well done this season guys!

  • @FusionZenFlame
    @FusionZenFlame 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    Guess we all waiting for part 2 release

  • @thec0rqi
    @thec0rqi 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +13

    the character art is so cute! the little mario and luigi hats for ben and adam are so fun

  • @karsaanita
    @karsaanita 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    As a seasoned tourist in Japan, it's really funny to see you guys get confused by the Tokyo train system. You really need a few days to acclimatise over there 😅.

  • @ChannelHypermach
    @ChannelHypermach 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Jet lag: the analysis
    1) the L given to Ben:
    Why: Ben lost his phone, resulting in inability to tag and inability to communicate with Adam
    2) Scotty's overshot: Chibachuo station was not located on the line he rode on, instead on another line that happened to be on the same location.

  • @ericabutterworth2564
    @ericabutterworth2564 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    who did the new art - it's so cute!

  • @dm3760
    @dm3760 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +28

    Last season I was rooting for Sam and Toby, this season I’m all in for Ben and Adam!

  • @ProfSquarez
    @ProfSquarez 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Love the work you did with captions. Much appreciated from someone who puts CC on everything

  • @nicodeblauwe598
    @nicodeblauwe598 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Happy to see the next game up! I love you creativity and work you guys put into these games. They really are amazing to watch, and every time there is a period where nothing gets uploaded in between seasons, I crave for the next one to appear! Keep up the good work, guys!

  • @scaryfish91
    @scaryfish91 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    So happy to see Scotty back doing content, the vending machine park video he did with John (@onlyinjapan) the other day was great too, love to see the return of Strange Parts!

  • @alexwyman8380
    @alexwyman8380 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    As someone from Colorado I cannot get over how much Sam looks like he's from Colorado

  • @kevintjekevin
    @kevintjekevin 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Did you guys notice that in the thumbnail of this video, the UR in CAPTURE is shaped like JR, the Japan Railway logo? 🤯

  • @cfctvaus
    @cfctvaus 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    These videos are genuinely some of the best on all of youtube!
    The graphics are so so good! Always showing a map, how far you guys are apart, the challenges, the explanations, the rules. honestly so so so well thought out and produced it's crazy!

  • @FernandoGonzalez-hu3id
    @FernandoGonzalez-hu3id 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    ok i have a question,
    if the rule is that they need to pay to travel while inside the enemy territory, and they used most of Sams budget to reach the point where they failed the challenge, shouldnt they had to expend Scotty's budget on the way back to their zone? meaning they should not have any money to go pass the neutral zone?
    also what is Adam's current budget? i asume he wasted some of it on that early detour.

  • @kongolandwalker
    @kongolandwalker 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +28

    Viewers! Happy new season!
    What other games would you like to see in the future?
    I would be happy to see something about navigating through mountains without an electronic map (Switzerland with only printed maps or example).
    And definitely a zombie tag. Zombies can use transport but cannot run on feet, humans can run but can't use transport. Human tagged becomes a zombie. Zombies try to surround/exhaust humans and convert them all. There is no winner in this game, but it's the process which is fun.

    • @chbmckie
      @chbmckie 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      bro wants them to die in the swiss mountains 💀

    • @kongolandwalker
      @kongolandwalker 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@chbmckie no. Roads and trails, no rock climbing

    • @samplautz5586
      @samplautz5586 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      I want tag across Europe 2

  • @salamicookies
    @salamicookies 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    MY FAVORITE SERIES

  • @mfaizsyahmi
    @mfaizsyahmi 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    You know what sucks about this episode? Google Translate has handwriting input mode. I use it to translate JP→EN all the time, and Ben could've achieved the challenge.

  • @spidscorp4523
    @spidscorp4523 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

    Ben and Adam with the Mario Brother hats is amazing :D

  • @tree427
    @tree427 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

    The Japanese word for jet lag is 時差ボケ (jisa boke) and literally means "time difference blur"

  • @SgtJet3
    @SgtJet3 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    this is intense and amazing. Really well done y'all, can't wait for the rest of the season

  • @avkest
    @avkest 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    YES! Let's go, so hyped to see Jet Lag back! This literally makes my week, every week, and it's why I look forward to Wednesdays. Keep it up fellows, I love all of your seasons!

  • @ZeroTsar
    @ZeroTsar 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    3:20 Into this video and it already hurts to be a Ben & Adam supporter

  • @christoman2000
    @christoman2000 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    First episode and I can already tell this is going to be a great season. Between the language barrier causing mistakes and chases being much more tense because of the camera-tag/safe zone rules, it’s going to be a tense game.

  • @Papershields001
    @Papershields001 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    This show is giving me flashbacks to the first time I accidentally got on an “Express” Tokyo metro train rather than a “local” and ended up lost in Yokohama when my hotel was in Ikebukuro. Nothing like being lost on the subway for 2 hours after a 15 hour flight….

  • @bluedragoonomega
    @bluedragoonomega 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    I'm so excited that yall are in my home country. I can't wait to see how far into tohoku ( northern part of honshu) region yall are able to explore as it's such a beautiful region that doesn't get a lot of tourism compared to Tokyo/western Japan

  • @rzq101
    @rzq101 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Just what I needed for some minutes off from studying for my final exams. A great, compact gift that'll last for days. Thanks Jet Lag Team!

  • @mfbobyle6771
    @mfbobyle6771 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Jet Lag: Cold War

  • @nadiezhda96
    @nadiezhda96 14 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    as a person sturying japanese, there's a function in google translator that allows you to draw in Japanese in full sentences so you don't lose the meaning by translating each and every symbol separately

  • @EdwardKnightsWrites
    @EdwardKnightsWrites 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    This is awesome! I always love how the challenges incoperate the countries' culture, and that you guys always have a unique concept! Looking forward to the rest of the series :)

  • @nan8228
    @nan8228 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    I love the katana slash veto animation. The animators (sam/adam/ben?) Did a great job

  • @lukas_haer
    @lukas_haer 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    Thanks for the great subtitles 🎉

  • @mtrmotrio3963
    @mtrmotrio3963 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Can i just say how much i love this series. Man this channel deserves so much more subs.

  • @spiritofthewoods3013
    @spiritofthewoods3013 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    OMG I love the character design in the animations

  • @drewnickens6224
    @drewnickens6224 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    I can’t wait for the get Ben drunk episode