As an avid Pokémon fan I can say that this was brilliant. The games hide so many truths, but in a way that we all still enjoy. Faced with many hidden mature concepts, no wonder the games are still enjoyed well beyond our teen years. The ending to this video, however. Dang. That certainly wasn't Professor Oak.
Lol "You noob!" This is amazing. The sheer obliviousness of your professor makes this so gold because I can just imagine him nodding and taking everything that you said seriously, even raising his eyebrows at a particularly disturbing "truth". So awesome. No wonder this video has zero dislikes.
@@Skoots00 For those who are wondering, its currently at 20 dislikes. The data is still there, but it is visually hidden so i use a firefox add-on to see them
I think, this is what college-level education should be all about - ability to think critically and express opinion in a sophisticated manner. I think the grade should have been above 4.0 Dogen. Extra credit for Japanese subtitle translations - good God that's a lot of work.
Not sure if I should laugh because this is so brilliant, or if I should cry because it breaks my illusion of Pokemon being such a wonderful world. You know, I really wanted to become a Pokemon trainer as a child.
You might want to read the manga series called Pokémon Special, also known as Pokémon Adventures. While it is still aimed at teenagers, it goes into much darker subject matter and even includes gym leaders becoming part of a a worldwide terrorist group more terrifying than Team Rocket. I forget the details, but it is very dark and even features a few Pokémon being actually killed onscreen from violent attacks. It’s more like what the Pokémon world would be like in the actual real world, I think.
@@chaocobojun2098 Thanks for the recommendation! I've heard of this before, but never looked into it. Maybe it would be a good challenge to read it in Japanese as well. 🤔
And so it was said, Brock rose to start a powerful communist state that would leave the rest of the world quaking in fear. Using his army of peaceful, trained men... Like pokemon....
Oh I am in love with all of this :P Now you could say that the Pokemon Go side of the franchise not only encourages violence as the most popular war simulator the world has ever seen, but also trains a player's physical body by forcing them to walk many miles in search of the original pokemon! Perhaps Nintendo are turning us all into a new breed of super soldiers with immense physical stamina and empathy deficit disorder :P *written as I battle for my local gym*
haha thank you very much. Back in the day when I was writing in English! I was hoping this video might go viral after Pokemon Go blew up but no luck lol. Super soldiers!! NAILED IT!
Still my favorite video game franchise. This is magnificent The humor The writing Everything That ending I already know what happens but I have to watch for a third time. This video is fucking great
Hah I'm glad I came across this one. It's a really interesting take on Pokemon and one that I've seen before albeit infrequently. There are definitely strong and deliberate parallels but in universe the world isn't quite as harsh as you portray, after all it's shown repeatedly in the anime particularly that Ash's Pokemon do genuinely care about and want to be with him and a number of then deliberately submitted for capture with no coercion. Clearly some of the way Pokemon is written is to make it more child friendly but it does frequently come into conflict with the underlying morals and the ethics of making animals fight one another for sport. A world like Pokemon's has become isn't possible in reality because things that exist as true within their world are mutually exclusive in ours and force us to ask tricky questions. In particular it's described officially in Pokemon and displayed frequently that Pokemon enjoy the act of battling and that they suffer no long term lasting damage from fights that occur 'within the rules' of battling and that there is this innate desire for a Pokemon to battle against a trainer trying to capture them but once they are captured they are perfectly content with and happy to bond to a trainer all of a sudden, as though it was almost some magical test of will and they secretly desired to be tamed.
I've literally been a Pokemon fan since I was 8 when it 1st came to America and I can state that this was rather brilliant! Rather meticulous in your arguement to include decisions once made in the drawing boards etc. Although, a few things: 1) Did you know? Although Pikachu was named for a different reason, there IS a creature named Pika that lives in the North American Hemisphere. It's rather fragile and can live in specific weather climates. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pika 2) I do like how you mention the duo Team Rocket as a terrible pair that tends to be foiled in theit attempts; however, they are seen as wannabes: Team Rocket has official Black Wardrobes for grunts. Giovanni doesn't really recognize them as they tend to fail without fail. Each region has it's own Underground Criminal Organization, each having their own purpose. Team Rocket's is to conquer the world while Team Plasma is to force all trainers to release them from Pokeballs and their enslaved bonds. 3) You can explain elemental properties as if they were controlled scientific reactions. Like Pikachu's cheek storage sacs filled with condensed electrical energies. So, you can even go further as to say how Humans try to manipulate even the natural cosmic flow. Pokemon like Mew and Mewtwo are psychic, Mewtwo was lab created by Mew's DNA. Consider being psychic as being intuitive to the natural laws of the world to some degree. Mew is considered to have the Mother DNA of all regular Pokemon. Arceus is considered to have made all Pokemon prior to that, i.e. Legendary Pokemon, the ones that can manipulate Time, Space, even grant Wishes. In later games, you can catch all of these concepts that literally represent cosmic laws. 4) Although this would take your paper into a different direction: You can possibly even argue how pokemon is a lawless world. There aren't many rules and they're all circled into how to fight in the gyms. Children are allowed to roam the world freely at age 10 plus. Parents don't get worried for the most part. And Phantumps are considered the souls of children turned into pokemon who lost their ways in forests. Arguably, you can mention how there is lack of government and police officials. In the series, there are Police Officers like Officer Jenny: however, they are rarely to be seen anywhere in the games. In games with big cities, there are plenty of evidence to see business workers and the wealthy taking all the luxury days off. But other than organized business, there aren't any rules in the respect of pokemon. Any are moralistically implied but rarely spoken. Because of that, it creates uncertainty or ambiguity in the handling of pokemon and increases the chances for factions like Team Rocket to even be possible to work within. Perhaps to circle it back to your paper, perhaps then, the allowance of criminal activity can eventually call the need for experienced young warlords in a subliminal fashion. If one becomes too rampant, another force created becomes invariably necessary. This then may add to the subliminal psychosis of how it is a War Simulator. But subliminal analysis isn't often a strong arguement, so even I probably wouldn't use it.
Your vids are so good! I just finally got back to finishing your Advanced Japanese vids (after sharing to fbook weeks ago... lol), and now I'm circling back to your other videos. Found out about you via Tofugu, and this channel is probably the most interesting/enjoyable thing they've shared in their newsletter to date. Calling Gary Hitler slew me btw.
Thank you very much, I really appreciate that! :D Shares help a lot because the channel is so small haha. Really glad to hear that the content is comparatively interesting :) Tofugu makes far the best Japanese related content on the web; I hope to work with them again in the future! btw I like the stalin reference more lol
This is a really interesting way of looking at it and pretty accurate (from a certain point of view), if embellished heavily. however, I have one or two dissents -- "peaceful by nature" my right behind. What about Pokemon that prey on other pokemon and all the wild Pokemon who battle for fun? they *can* live in harmony, but there's also just as many who don't...so basically pretty much like real animals. Also according to Rotomdex in Gen VII, pokeballs are bigger on the inside and actually rather comfortable and cosy (also the conquering areas thing sounds amusingly like Pokemon Conquest, whose plot was basically that in a nutshell)
I really love your 'solemnly nonsense' but I guess it's not nonsense after all..... I'm a Chinese whom understands English and Japanese as well so it's like I'm listening to the English and my mind's trying to translate it into Chinese and I'm reading the Japanese subtitle at the same time. It's quite mind f**kin' yet very interesting!
Did your 200-level English course not require citations, or did they just allow you to spam meaningless citations? I can't imagine any of the English instructors I had allowing something like that to pass, let alone pass with a high mark.
@@theramendutchman The Pokémon anime ;) It means "Even if it's pretty pretty pretty pretty tough I'm definitely going to catch them." (with the word "pretty" repeated 4 times^^)
This all goes down the drain the moment u realise that inside pokeballs have a "perfect habitat"; Pokemons HUNT other pokemons for sustenance and that most owned pokemons are actually bred by humans and sold to common folk. (Most ppl ain't real trainers). I'm not even a big fan of pokemon and I know that. A teacher wouldnt tho.
It's funny... but it was actual reason I didn't play the game. I asked a friend 'what's this about' and he explained me, and I didn't like the idea of catching some funny harmless animorphic creatures to make them fight against each other out of blue. It was (and it is) so stupid.
You know, you could have done more with the Team Rocket route. Rather than simply focusing on Jesse and James in the anime, you could have taken a note from the games and manga. Team Rocket clones Mewtwo from Mew to create the ultimate weapon, but when it escapes, they engage in a literal hostile takeover of a company's 12-story corporate offices in order to steal their prototype Master Ball, just to control it. Imagine the mafia raiding The Googleplex and threatening all the devs while their Don waltzes into Sundar Pichai's office demanding a flash drive with some prototype patented Google AI software that they need to control their death robot. Say what you want about Team Rocket, but they had some serious balls.
As an avid Pokémon fan I can say that this was brilliant. The games hide so many truths, but in a way that we all still enjoy. Faced with many hidden mature concepts, no wonder the games are still enjoyed well beyond our teen years. The ending to this video, however. Dang. That certainly wasn't Professor Oak.
haha thanks C.MeaX ^^ Glad that you liked it!
No, lie: Would have loved seeing him dress up like a professor and try to do Professor Oak's "Wonderful!" From PokeSNAP at the End there.
I'm quite shocked by how accurate these sound once you actually think about it...
Too many fallacies. But a old teacher wouldnt know. Only ppl with pokemon knowledge could say this ain't a good thesis.
@@Hug0Prowhat parts are wrong discription of Pokemon in your option ?
Lol "You noob!"
This is amazing. The sheer obliviousness of your professor makes this so gold because I can just imagine him nodding and taking everything that you said seriously, even raising his eyebrows at a particularly disturbing "truth". So awesome.
No wonder this video has zero dislikes.
Someone saw this comment and disliked! Apologize!
3 years has passed and it's 13 dislikes now, yikes
It's 2022 now and we can't see dislikes anymore
@@Skoots00 For those who are wondering, its currently at 20 dislikes. The data is still there, but it is visually hidden so i use a firefox add-on to see them
「なかなかなかなかなかなかなかなか大変だけど必ずGETだぜ」
天才段翻訳 草笑
I think, this is what college-level education should be all about - ability to think critically and express opinion in a sophisticated manner.
I think the grade should have been above 4.0 Dogen. Extra credit for Japanese subtitle translations - good God that's a lot of work.
Not sure if I should laugh because this is so brilliant, or if I should cry because it breaks my illusion of Pokemon being such a wonderful world. You know, I really wanted to become a Pokemon trainer as a child.
You might want to read the manga series called Pokémon Special, also known as Pokémon Adventures. While it is still aimed at teenagers, it goes into much darker subject matter and even includes gym leaders becoming part of a a worldwide terrorist group more terrifying than Team Rocket. I forget the details, but it is very dark and even features a few Pokémon being actually killed onscreen from violent attacks. It’s more like what the Pokémon world would be like in the actual real world, I think.
@@chaocobojun2098 Thanks for the recommendation! I've heard of this before, but never looked into it. Maybe it would be a good challenge to read it in Japanese as well. 🤔
Masterpiece. Fits so much it hurts. Love it.
+Kyroyal Thank you very much! :D Really appreciate that! ^^
This is by far the most intellectually stimulating Pokémon content I've ever come across.
"gary is clearly modeled after hitler" exactly what i would say when i was younger (if only i knew who hitler was)
And so it was said, Brock rose to start a powerful communist state that would leave the rest of the world quaking in fear. Using his army of peaceful, trained men... Like pokemon....
lol. I could write another piece just making comparisons between the two!
日本語字幕付けるのに何時間ニヤニヤしながら付けてたんやろと思うとこっちもニヤニヤした
まっじで凄い。あなたの言語能力に驚愕してます。
ありがとう！辞書を片手に書きました（笑）
I looked up Isoroku Yamamoto only to be surprised with the realisation that someone controlling a navy could indeed perform "water-based attacks".
For going so far as to translating your entire literary masterpiece into Japanese, you have my undying respect. Which Pokemon versions did you play?
Thank you very much good sir, apologies for the late reply as well. I only played the originals on gameboy! old school!
I laughed too hard at "Nintendo Heavy Industries" xD
Oh I am in love with all of this :P
Now you could say that the Pokemon Go side of the franchise not only encourages violence as the most popular war simulator the world has ever seen, but also trains a player's physical body by forcing them to walk many miles in search of the original pokemon!
Perhaps Nintendo are turning us all into a new breed of super soldiers with immense physical stamina and empathy deficit disorder :P
*written as I battle for my local gym*
haha thank you very much. Back in the day when I was writing in English! I was hoping this video might go viral after Pokemon Go blew up but no luck lol. Super soldiers!! NAILED IT!
Pokemon Go is a gang wars simulator. It teaches players turf control and intimidation techniques.
"Pocket Monsters" sounds cute to me.
Still my favorite video game franchise.
This is magnificent
The humor
The writing
Everything
That ending
I already know what happens but I have to watch for a third time.
This video is fucking great
Hah I'm glad I came across this one. It's a really interesting take on Pokemon and one that I've seen before albeit infrequently. There are definitely strong and deliberate parallels but in universe the world isn't quite as harsh as you portray, after all it's shown repeatedly in the anime particularly that Ash's Pokemon do genuinely care about and want to be with him and a number of then deliberately submitted for capture with no coercion. Clearly some of the way Pokemon is written is to make it more child friendly but it does frequently come into conflict with the underlying morals and the ethics of making animals fight one another for sport. A world like Pokemon's has become isn't possible in reality because things that exist as true within their world are mutually exclusive in ours and force us to ask tricky questions. In particular it's described officially in Pokemon and displayed frequently that Pokemon enjoy the act of battling and that they suffer no long term lasting damage from fights that occur 'within the rules' of battling and that there is this innate desire for a Pokemon to battle against a trainer trying to capture them but once they are captured they are perfectly content with and happy to bond to a trainer all of a sudden, as though it was almost some magical test of will and they secretly desired to be tamed.
I'm sharing this gem with anyone and anywhere I can.
More people need to see this now!
+Richard “Yukiboy21” Barnett thank you so much! Spread the word and show the world what Pokemon is actually about!
Appreciate it man! :D
I've literally been a Pokemon fan since I was 8 when it 1st came to America and I can state that this was rather brilliant! Rather meticulous in your arguement to include decisions once made in the drawing boards etc.
Although, a few things:
1) Did you know?
Although Pikachu was named for a different reason, there IS a creature named Pika that lives in the North American Hemisphere. It's rather fragile and can live in specific weather climates.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pika
2) I do like how you mention the duo Team Rocket as a terrible pair that tends to be foiled in theit attempts; however, they are seen as wannabes: Team Rocket has official Black Wardrobes for grunts. Giovanni doesn't really recognize them as they tend to fail without fail. Each region has it's own Underground Criminal Organization, each having their own purpose. Team Rocket's is to conquer the world while Team Plasma is to force all trainers to release them from Pokeballs and their enslaved bonds.
3) You can explain elemental properties as if they were controlled scientific reactions. Like Pikachu's cheek storage sacs filled with condensed electrical energies. So, you can even go further as to say how Humans try to manipulate even the natural cosmic flow. Pokemon like Mew and Mewtwo are psychic, Mewtwo was lab created by Mew's DNA. Consider being psychic as being intuitive to the natural laws of the world to some degree. Mew is considered to have the Mother DNA of all regular Pokemon. Arceus is considered to have made all Pokemon prior to that, i.e. Legendary Pokemon, the ones that can manipulate Time, Space, even grant Wishes. In later games, you can catch all of these concepts that literally represent cosmic laws.
4) Although this would take your paper into a different direction: You can possibly even argue how pokemon is a lawless world. There aren't many rules and they're all circled into how to fight in the gyms. Children are allowed to roam the world freely at age 10 plus. Parents don't get worried for the most part. And Phantumps are considered the souls of children turned into pokemon who lost their ways in forests. Arguably, you can mention how there is lack of government and police officials. In the series, there are Police Officers like Officer Jenny: however, they are rarely to be seen anywhere in the games. In games with big cities, there are plenty of evidence to see business workers and the wealthy taking all the luxury days off. But other than organized business, there aren't any rules in the respect of pokemon. Any are moralistically implied but rarely spoken. Because of that, it creates uncertainty or ambiguity in the handling of pokemon and increases the chances for factions like Team Rocket to even be possible to work within. Perhaps to circle it back to your paper, perhaps then, the allowance of criminal activity can eventually call the need for experienced young warlords in a subliminal fashion. If one becomes too rampant, another force created becomes invariably necessary. This then may add to the subliminal psychosis of how it is a War Simulator. But subliminal analysis isn't often a strong arguement, so even I probably wouldn't use it.
The english w/ japanese subtitles gives me a sense of what japanese people see and hear...
haha yea it's a bit of a mindF
Your vids are so good! I just finally got back to finishing your Advanced Japanese vids (after sharing to fbook weeks ago... lol), and now I'm circling back to your other videos. Found out about you via Tofugu, and this channel is probably the most interesting/enjoyable thing they've shared in their newsletter to date.
Calling Gary Hitler slew me btw.
Thank you very much, I really appreciate that! :D Shares help a lot because the channel is so small haha. Really glad to hear that the content is comparatively interesting :) Tofugu makes far the best Japanese related content on the web; I hope to work with them again in the future! btw I like the stalin reference more lol
3.4 is such an arbitrary mark to give lol. Because my fleshy brain doesn't like it when marks aren't in halves or wholes
It was 3.4 / 4, apparently. Really weird I agree
Your professor was clearly threatened by your genius and used “ego protection” and had done critical damage to your grade
I paid just enough attention to catch the lyrics to mezase. very nice.
This is why I never got into Pokemon as a kid. I thought it was unfair that most of them had to be confined in pokeballs indefinitely :c
"objective"
"Gary is clearly modeled after Hitler."
I don't see the issue.
Bahaha this is brilliant!! Keep up the wit and humour, love it!
This is a really interesting way of looking at it and pretty accurate (from a certain point of view), if embellished heavily. however, I have one or two dissents -- "peaceful by nature" my right behind. What about Pokemon that prey on other pokemon and all the wild Pokemon who battle for fun? they *can* live in harmony, but there's also just as many who don't...so basically pretty much like real animals. Also according to Rotomdex in Gen VII, pokeballs are bigger on the inside and actually rather comfortable and cosy (also the conquering areas thing sounds amusingly like Pokemon Conquest, whose plot was basically that in a nutshell)
This was written with gen 1 in mind exclusively.
Been laughing at "you noob" all weekend
Angel on my shoulder: No, no, Dogen's got a point.
This video..... Mindblown, thank you for opening my eyes,
Also new here, Planning to watch all of ur video, plss to meet cha
Cheers! ^^
I want a copy of this to show my students!!!
DYING. This is perfect! Shared with many!
+TheKelsmommy lol thank you very much!! I really appreciate the support! Let me know how the reactions are :D
1:47 Your mother's what?...
Woah I just realised that you published this in your book!
Wow Dogen your English is very good where did you practice that
2:47 I saw the same two characters repeated over and over. I'm curious what they say.
It's a reference to this Pokemon song. th-cam.com/video/jWV1vGpeOi4/w-d-xo.html
Pokemon mazase monster
な- na
か- o
@@ruchita6801 na ka*
@@ruchita6801 *ka?
I really love your 'solemnly nonsense' but I guess it's not nonsense after all..... I'm a Chinese whom understands English and Japanese as well so it's like I'm listening to the English and my mind's trying to translate it into Chinese and I'm reading the Japanese subtitle at the same time. It's quite mind f**kin' yet very interesting!
haha thank you! Really appreciate that! I liked to think the language gap adds something, whatever that might be.
その辺は目を瞑ってるのに😂
Calm down, team plasma
Professor: gives bad grade
Student: you NOOOOOOB!!!! >:C!!! outstretched hands clutching the air*
Did your 200-level English course not require citations, or did they just allow you to spam meaningless citations? I can't imagine any of the English instructors I had allowing something like that to pass, let alone pass with a high mark.
Oh my word XD Some of the subtitles have me scratching my head, though O.o
Like なかなかなかなかなかなかなかなか大変だけど必ずGETだぜ?
I'm not that good at Japanese yet but is that even normal Japanese anymore?!
@@theramendutchman It's a line from the Japanese intro to the anime.
@@DonataRosca What anime? What does it mean even?! I'M SCARED >
@@theramendutchman The Pokémon anime ;) It means "Even if it's pretty pretty pretty pretty tough I'm definitely going to catch them." (with the word "pretty" repeated 4 times^^)
@@DonataRosca Ah of course >
Hey can we get the transcript for copy pasta? That would be cool and funny.
TH-cam shows this to me 4 days before sword/shield comes out. Thanks for making me feel bad Google.
二カ国語が堪能なんて憧れます…
原文の英文もみたいですが難しいですかね？
Send me a message on twitter and I'll send it to you!
@youtubedogen
言語のプロってすごいな。
狂気を感じる
I wanted to be a scientist in 7th grade ... to create mewtwo ... i had a journal where i drew how to build mewtwo 😨😨
lolol WOW what kind of scrub cant tell elemental from physical?
to be honest, i never looked at that from a non-gamer perspective XD
+Supersonic once you see it you'll shit bricks lol.
seriously though such a nub!!
that professor's comment XD
thats way PETA is so against pokes wwwww
+Earth 2000 nailed it! haha yea he was a total Pokemon noob.
Probably couldn't even tell the difference between a diglet and dugtrio.
Why*
And yeah even tho I'm not a pro myself, at least I know the difference xD
Acquisition... (奴隷にする) hahahahah
ポケモン大好きじゃん
This all goes down the drain the moment u realise that inside pokeballs have a "perfect habitat"; Pokemons HUNT other pokemons for sustenance and that most owned pokemons are actually bred by humans and sold to common folk. (Most ppl ain't real trainers).
I'm not even a big fan of pokemon and I know that. A teacher wouldnt tho.
The funny yet sad thing is he’s right 😂
It's funny... but it was actual reason I didn't play the game. I asked a friend 'what's this about' and he explained me, and I didn't like the idea of catching some funny harmless animorphic creatures to make them fight against each other out of blue. It was (and it is) so stupid.
3.4 out of what? 9?
3.4 / 4
9 would have hurt haha
Dogen ∑(ﾟДﾟ)
TIL how "grandeur" should be pronounced in english.
ポケモンが大好きって事でいいんですよね？
Brilliant.
+Temoshi thank you Temoshi!
You know, you could have done more with the Team Rocket route. Rather than simply focusing on Jesse and James in the anime, you could have taken a note from the games and manga. Team Rocket clones Mewtwo from Mew to create the ultimate weapon, but when it escapes, they engage in a literal hostile takeover of a company's 12-story corporate offices in order to steal their prototype Master Ball, just to control it. Imagine the mafia raiding The Googleplex and threatening all the devs while their Don waltzes into Sundar Pichai's office demanding a flash drive with some prototype patented Google AI software that they need to control their death robot. Say what you want about Team Rocket, but they had some serious balls.
you noob! love it!
Nintendo heavy industries. Laughing my ass off here.
プラズマ団かなにか？
Wow.
I actually feel guilty
Good thing Digimon is nothing like this
The use of Enslavement, steroids, and fascism seem too heavy-handed imo.
Pokemons have Stockholm syndrome
Damn...
Well damn
right?
That's from his student? Is he paraphrasing or just giving REALLY good English classes?!
1:40 Fake essay! Used meters rather than feet.
-卧底，，undermine-