Connor don’t feel about racial profiling. I just came back from my first trip ever to Japan. As a Cambodian American, i felt bad for not knowing any Japanese for some reason. If you came up to me speaking to me in Japanese I would have felt guilty, not offended. I felt worse when my friend who lives in Tokyo is Vietnamese American and we are together going around with his white American wife who is the only fluent Japanese speaker among us
Me as college age Asian American traveling in Japan struggling with Nihongo and then see Sri Lankan speaking JLPT1-3 working at Family Mart conbini. (US college students high key suck at foreign language proficiency vs Japanese company training work Visa applicants)
Sadly nakano got way worse for anime stuff. The ground floor was mostly tech and anime some years ago, nowadays there are many shops catering for high end stuff for mostly chinese people (like tax free expensive watches). So I rather stay with akiba instead of driving to nakano. But if I want real deals I don't buy anything in Tokio or Osaka at all and go to shops in different cities, there I often pay less then half.
I feel like that's been the vibe lately. Online shopping was a better experience than shopping in stores in Tokyo, especially if the retailer charges in Yen, since USD to Yen is good. When you shop in person, the prices are inflated a bit to take advantage of tourists, and sometimes they don't have the things you want in store.
Nakano Broadway used to be great five years ago or so. It had more retro/older anime/manga goods and the prices were better than in Akiba. Sometime during the pandemic though, entire floors got bought out and turned into the aforementioned watch stores and stuff. Unfortunately, Nakano Broadway ain't great anymore. It's also not really some hidden gem of a place, everybody and their mom knows it.
Nakano has never been exclusively catering to anime. I've been searching good deals for watches there for years. Its quite well known in for that. So I don't agree its worse simply because it has less anime in it.
@@jeremy6491 I like to take the bus to save a lot and pretend its a train so I can buy the purple potatoes one at a time. They aren't actual Japanese purple potatoes but save a lot doesn't replace outdated produce so eventually they turn purple. eventually.
@@tylercsm4690The guy shat on the idea of people playing other races in voice acting saying it’s racist then got pissy when he couldn’t get roles for other races because he is Asian. Honestly just bitch made.
5:29 I thought my PC was crashing mid-video at that "HAAAAH"
😂😂😂
Connor don’t feel about racial profiling. I just came back from my first trip ever to Japan. As a Cambodian American, i felt bad for not knowing any Japanese for some reason. If you came up to me speaking to me in Japanese I would have felt guilty, not offended. I felt worse when my friend who lives in Tokyo is Vietnamese American and we are together going around with his white American wife who is the only fluent Japanese speaker among us
that's fuckin hilarious tbh dawg 😂
Me as college age Asian American traveling in Japan struggling with Nihongo and then see Sri Lankan speaking JLPT1-3 working at Family Mart conbini.
(US college students high key suck at foreign language proficiency vs Japanese company training work Visa applicants)
Sadly nakano got way worse for anime stuff. The ground floor was mostly tech and anime some years ago, nowadays there are many shops catering for high end stuff for mostly chinese people (like tax free expensive watches). So I rather stay with akiba instead of driving to nakano. But if I want real deals I don't buy anything in Tokio or Osaka at all and go to shops in different cities, there I often pay less then half.
Where would you go to shop ?
I feel like that's been the vibe lately. Online shopping was a better experience than shopping in stores in Tokyo, especially if the retailer charges in Yen, since USD to Yen is good. When you shop in person, the prices are inflated a bit to take advantage of tourists, and sometimes they don't have the things you want in store.
Ikebukuro is getting more Otaku place than Akihabara tbh.
Nakano Broadway used to be great five years ago or so. It had more retro/older anime/manga goods and the prices were better than in Akiba. Sometime during the pandemic though, entire floors got bought out and turned into the aforementioned watch stores and stuff. Unfortunately, Nakano Broadway ain't great anymore. It's also not really some hidden gem of a place, everybody and their mom knows it.
Nakano has never been exclusively catering to anime. I've been searching good deals for watches there for years. Its quite well known in for that. So I don't agree its worse simply because it has less anime in it.
Where rich people gather to pretend to be poor.
What
True. Alot of the woke crowd like going there
@@jeremy6491 I like to take the bus to save a lot and pretend its a train so I can buy the purple potatoes one at a time. They aren't actual Japanese purple potatoes but save a lot doesn't replace outdated produce so eventually they turn purple. eventually.
I love crane games too
I AM NOT FIRST, anyways have a good december 1st everyone
this guy isnt very likable
Opinions are like assholes. Everyone got one.
@@tylercsm4690The guy shat on the idea of people playing other races in voice acting saying it’s racist then got pissy when he couldn’t get roles for other races because he is Asian. Honestly just bitch made.
Still 3.9M subscribers.... Which make him the biggest TH-camr on this podcast...
@@porcorosso4330 Numbers ain’t all that makes a man
@@jackthewacked558
But those are not number, those are people. (Mostly)