I showed this to my Japanese teacher. She's from Japan but has been teaching here in Nebraska for 20 years. She thought three things. 1. The video is hilarious 2. Your Japanese is actually really good 3. Everything you said was true, which she found even more amusing. She's also seen one of your videos before. She thought you were フランス人
Is it the same for you? Whenever I eat a cake or candy in Japan, it seems like they forgot to put in sugar. In next year's Christmas video: Cheese macaroni and cake.
In Germany, some say "I've been whamed" when they encounter this particular song in the wild. We loathe this song so much that we try to avoid at all times. It's the same here, really, at least in the music department.
Yes, thank you very much. All the people I know in Berlin were safe. I have to say, George Michael dying during christmas is a rather cruel joke of 2016. *_*.... I hope you and your family are well!
@@Dogen Do you know about Japan's obsession with Germany? No? Lemme introduce: 1. Last Christmas by wham! dominates the charts 2. Christmas is celebrated on 24th of December 3. Kentucky is kinda not successful in Germany, sorry. It looks like Japan hadn't have goose or duck either. XP
Yeah that’s true, even though younger generations still enjoy it. While that may be a bit repetitive, we do have a lot of other lovely and traditional Christmas songs over here, mostly for children though haha (like “In der Weihnachtsbäckerei“)
This is my first Christmas in Japan instead of England and it is slowly killing me so far. Whenever I ask people where I could possibly buy a turkey, they look at me like I am insane. I am half wondering whether to drown my Christmas sorrows at Universal Studios for the day at Christmas, because I know they have turkey there! This video was both funny and very relatable!
KFC KFC KFC KFC! No, but for real, I hope you didn't expect Japanese people to be cooking whole turkeys for Christmas. If so, I can understand why you'd be disappointed.
Actually some people eat turkeys for Christmas in Japan too! That’s not majority tho😕 And you could buy them in Costco or some supermarkets like normally.
The ONE TIME I visited Japan was in December. This song came on while I was in a konbini. I swear everybody turned to glance at me, as if to say, "Is this not the song of your people?"
This year I wrote to Santa if he could make Dogen-san even funnier.......Santa wrote back that he can't do impossible things, stating that Dogen-san has apparently "maxed out" his humour and charisma stats
I can literally never tell if you're overjoyed to be in Japan, or these videos are all coded cries for help. Also, is it on purpose that your English matches your face perfectly, yet your japanese sounds like a very tired old man doing his best to be polite when he really wants to break a window with someone else's head?
If he wasn't overjoyed he wouldn't even be making the videos in the first place tbh. Someone who hates their stay in a country will tell one story about their experience, then never talk about it again, not that they could because they left after a month. Well, i supposed there's the occasional unlucky idiot that gets unwanted kids or something.
Hahaha right, Japanese, they take something from other culture and mostly make it becomes something that's totally different from the original, for example, KATAKANA.
same with anime and games. for example: in both fate/stay night (anime) and xenoblade 2 (game) there are a lot of biblical references but they usually completely misrepresent anything from the bible giving it a weird sort of Japanese-i-ness to it . It's as if they're trying to make something European or American, then don't understand it, and end up creating something super-over-the-top Japanese.
Don't forget that Christmas in the US is all about spending time with family, often the only time the extended family sees each other all year. In Japan, it's.....pretty much exclusively for couples. Yeah, there's stuff for kids too but the real focus is those Christmas Eve dates.
I never actually saw the music video for Last Christmas, but from the clips shown it kinda looks like the generic videos that are played during karaoke
ハロウィンに渋谷に近づかない方がいい、人も多いし、とんでもないうわさもきこえる。 (you do not want to be near shibuya on halloween. I heard that it gets very crowded and some people do crazy things)
I've always been skeptical of Wham!'s "Last Christmas." Especially because besides mentioning Christmas, it has nothing to do with the holiday. So a fun game I like to play is called "Replace each chorus with a different holiday." Last arbor day, I gave you a tree...
I am a Japanese who found your channel today and find the tone of your videos extremely amusing! I understand that the videos must be recorded in Japanese with subtitles, as opposed to The Abroad in Japan. 日本語大変お上手ですね 😀
These videos are such a unique and refreshing exploration into the challenges of dealing with the pet peeves of living in a foreign country. He expresses these feelings in such a lighthearted, unoffensive way and doesn’t retread over the same ones we hear about over and over again.
When we lived in Nagoya, at Christmas time we went to a small German/American style Christmas market that had a Santa Claus for pictures. The line was FULL of young Japanese Couples coming to get their pic taken with Santa. Only a handful of parents were there with their kids to take pics with Santa. I thought it was so strange XD.
lol np. it's actually one of my favorite songs from that style of music. one of my friends used it in a tricking video back in the day and I have been listening to it ever since!
Oh my golly, I remember going to see them live a few times waaaay back sometime around 1998-2000ish. Good times, though I don't know if any of those venues exist anymore lol
You did something I never imaged could be done. You've made me re-evaluate American Christmas music and realize that there's a lot to be said for its joyfulness.
I just watched one of your videos one time because it randomly popped up in my recommendations and now my recommendations are flooded with your vids. ... _not that I'm complaining_ Subbed!
The fact that he played that Underoath song implies that Dogen had a significant emo phase growing up, or perhaps he is a closet emo kid who releases all of it during Christmas
Last Christmas is really popular in Britain too and I love it! Fairytale of new York is also really popular. I thank youtube for recommending this channel!
Been watching Dogen's videos for quite a while now. I have noticed that the longer the japanese sentence he is speaking, the higher his left eyebrow will raise.
When my mom and I went to Japan briefly in December 2018 to enjoy the christmas season in Tokyo Disneyland, we were flummoxed by how christmas is a romantic holiday in Japan??? It made no sense to us. But as we watched the christmas music show in Tokyo Disneysea harbour, listening to 'all I want for christmas' and 'santa baby' and 'let it snow', we started to see how Japan had gotten the impression it was a holiday for couples...
This had me laughing harder than I expected xD Now those are some weird traditions indeed. Not at all like our *Wholesome Swedish Tradition of buying Pizza on 1st of January and watching Ivanhoe from 1982.*
A *slightly* more accurate translation of the '-mas' suffix for Christmas is 'celebration', but great as always. I love learning about Japan and Japanese on this channel
4:25 "Wake up from Colonel Sanders Genjutsu" I love this... This sentence alone deserves a video, a movie, a series I need more of whatever this perfect sentence is. I expected to live my life without a sentence such as this but now I must share this video... Cause I cant imagine people living their lives without this moment
The Last Christmas phenomenon is true for us in Germany as well. It's yet another tragic fact that binds these two countries together. So how do you celebrate Christmas in your heathen host nation Mr. Dogen?
Got a few comment about this from Germans. I like to celebrate by watching a movie and eating macaroni and cheese like a true fat cowboy. Hope that you and your family are safe. Our thoughts go out to Germany!
Thank you for the kind comment, everyone I know was unaffected. Knowing what a sad affair the holiday season in Japan can be, I raise my goose leg to you and wish everyone a very merry Christmas!
Funnily enough I have only heard Last Christmas once here in Sapporo so far and it was today actually. I mean I haven't been going out in general, so just by sheer lack of opportunity to hear Christmas songs could have something to do with that, but the song I've been hearing a lot is Mariah Carey's All I Want for Christmas is You.
"Talk Bad About Santa and I WILL End You" Idk how I missed this channel before this year, but definitely am following! Hoping I'll be back in Japan soon when this is all over. Be safe Dogen and stay healthy!
The story about Last Christmas is still true to this day. I went to Japan for the first time two weeks ago and that song played on a loop at a Book Off in Osaka o_O I probably heard it at least three times during my time there.
I spent Christmas 2010 in Kumamoto, and more than Last Christmas I distinctly remember Jingle Bells being overplayed to a ridiculous degree. But that may be because I'm German so I might've already been accustomed to the overplayed levels of Last Christmas? In any case, us international (mostly western European) students tried to do the KFC thing but found the experience pretty lacking. We probs should've stuck to a small get together in the student dorms or something.
It's the second day of December. I've just heard "Last Christmas" (cover with delightful melody) played at the shoes store on my way back from work, just an hour before. Then I came back here...
サンタ？more like ファンタ. . . . . Fanta launches marketing campaign in Japan claiming it to be a Christmas tradition to drink Fanta the week leading up to Christmas. "Fanta is Santa's favourite drink," they claimed, "that's why the two rhyme!" Justification of this conclusion is said to be traced back to a comment made on a TH-cam video making the ingenious link between the two seemingly arbitrary words. "The comment was on an *AMERICAN's* TH-cam video and had, like, at least 1 like on it I think," Fanta justified, "so obviously people agree!" Our reporter could not deny the facts and conceded, convinced. Edit: I can't believe I just wrote all that.
I had to watch this again after the premature christmas deco everywhere, and I can’t stop laughing 😂😂😂 and I have watched it two years ago hahah Dogen you are the best
Emo Japanese christmas sounds great, It's a place where I can just sigh and smoke around the street and look as depressed as I actually am.....wait......damn it Wham! XD
I dunno what you actually DO in Japan, but you have time timing of a gifted comedian (...or at least an American one, given that I'm reading english subtitles of your apparently fluent Japanese. Oy.)
Agreed, Dogen has impeccable comic sensibilities. Also I love the phrase "time timing", it makes me wonder what other kinds of timing I don't yet know about.
ok i swear what is it with last christmas and playing constantly like 2 or so years ago at school wed play christmas songs sometimes while doing work or whatever else and it'd always be fucking last christmas for some reason
Last Christmas, I gave you my heart. But the very next day, you gave it away. This year, to save me from tears, I'll give it to someone special. Once bitten and twice shy I keep my distance but you still catch my eye Tell me baby do you recognize me? Well it's been a year, it doesn't surprise me I wrapped it up and sent it With a note saying "I Love You" I meant it Now I know what a fool I've been But if you kissed me now I know you'd fool me again .....
Don‘t know why this was recommended to me now but it‘s still so funny. Japan and Christmas are really a special combination. Fun Fact: In Germany you also celebrate Christmas on the 24th of December 😊
Same in Nordic Countries. 24th evening is the big launch to Christmas season; Kids get their presents then. ("Santa" dispensinc them is usually neighbor dad in suit or call-rental Santa guy ...in a suit) Many other aspects of Nordic christmas have origins in Deutch and other Central-European traditions. The old-fashioned Nordic Santa aka. "Yulegoat" is actually sort of Krampus and St. Nikolas fused as one. He gives gifts to nice kids but (in folklore) takes naughty kids as hostage and leads them to his secret village in far Lapland ...and nothing was heard about them ever since.. (RIP naughty kids 🎅)
Mexicans celebrate on the 24th too. This is interesting I always thought we were alone in this but apparently a lot more countries celebrate on the 24th and not the 25th
Do you guys also celebrate the 25th? In Australia we celebrate the 24th, 25th and little bit the 26th. Although depends on the person cos we're very diverse. My Finish(an Aussie) celebrated in on the 24th
Last Christmas and its assorted covers made me want to throw shit while working at Macy’s during the holidays. Just imagine standing, in 3.5 inch heels, for eight hours, in a department store, staring at the same damned tie display, listening to the same fifteen goddamned songs on repeat, for TWO MONTHS. And somehow my mom doesn’t get why I don’t like Christmas music 🤔. In any case, loved your video (and all the others I’ve seen)! Very informative/funny. Humor often tells a certain truth that straight facts can’t always provide, it seems.
I once went with my American friend who’s Christian, to see the illumination celebrating Christmas which was presented by emirates airline, an cooperation whose headquarters locate in an Islamic country, in a Shintō/Buddhist country which is called Japan How bizarre
In Denmark Christmas is celebrated on the 24th. The Danish version of NHK (Danmarks Radio) broadcast a traditional medley of Disney cartoons from the past decades (called: From all of us to all of you). Then they eat - usually roast pork or duck - or both. Dessert is usually ris a la mande, where one almond has been sneaked in. The person who gets the almond, wins a prize. After that the christmas gifts are opened. The 25th and/or 26th are usually spent at some sort of Christmas lunch with parts of the family, you didn't held Christmas eve with.
your voice is just super soothing, theres something about japanese accented fluent english and western accented fluent japanese that are both really nice
Japanese pitch-accent and pronunciation lessons: www.patreon.com/dogen
生産性を上げて最終的に10月生まれが多くなる為の日と言う事だ。
Little did he know a KFC dating sim would come out 3 years later. . .
Wow you got 222 like means, for me my japanese bf is my soulmate 😍 but yeah kfc is!! Haha
@@ChuckyBrideHobita ok.
Abraham Serafino but hey, Col. Sanders is a total finger-lickin’ good!
Bohemian Girl bruh
But one cannot deny that the Kernel is looking hot as freshly fried chicken wings.
Mmm. Kentucky Fried Christmas.
Joy to the world, the Colonel has come
Sounds American
@@MrsKatieninja and yet...
@@Dogen
😂😂😂
What could be more American than deep fried Christmas
I showed this to my Japanese teacher. She's from Japan but has been teaching here in Nebraska for 20 years. She thought three things.
1. The video is hilarious
2. Your Japanese is actually really good
3. Everything you said was true, which she found even more amusing.
She's also seen one of your videos before. She thought you were フランス人
I was honestly thinking he was French tooXD
mus be the hat...
i just realized how much he actually does look french omg
yeah his speaking is very 上手
Dogen got Jozu from an overseas Japanese person
KFC and strawberry cake - all ordered for an authentic Japanese Christmas.
I FORGOT THE CAKE!!
Is it the same for you? Whenever I eat a cake or candy in Japan, it seems like they forgot to put in sugar.
In next year's Christmas video: Cheese macaroni and cake.
you can count on it! haha Merry Christmas ^^
Merry Christmas Dogen!
Japanese Journey Old comment is old as hell, but most Japanese don’t like overly sweet thing. Most western countries love overly sweet things 🙂
In Germany, some say "I've been whamed" when they encounter this particular song in the wild. We loathe this song so much that we try to avoid at all times. It's the same here, really, at least in the music department.
Sounds like you'd do better in the states during Christmas haha. Hope that you and your family are safe right now!
Yes, thank you very much. All the people I know in Berlin were safe. I have to say, George Michael dying during christmas is a rather cruel joke of 2016. *_*.... I hope you and your family are well!
Really shocking, wasn't it? We had a great Christmas! Thank you! ^^ hope that you had a great one as well 😊
@@Dogen Do you know about Japan's obsession with Germany? No? Lemme introduce:
1. Last Christmas by wham! dominates the charts
2. Christmas is celebrated on 24th of December
3. Kentucky is kinda not successful in Germany, sorry. It looks like Japan hadn't have goose or duck either.
XP
Yeah that’s true, even though younger generations still enjoy it. While that may be a bit repetitive, we do have a lot of other lovely and traditional Christmas songs over here, mostly for children though haha (like “In der Weihnachtsbäckerei“)
A year later and I'm still laughing at the man eating chicken with the sharingan.
"But you don't really hear these songs in Japan."
HASHIRE SORI YO
KAZE NO YOU NI
@@MrValvoja TSUKIHIMIHARA OOOOOOO
PADORU PADORUUUUU
*P A D O R U P A D O R U*
I'm going to commit Padoru right now!
Switching to an American accent for "Wham!のLast Christmasだ" had me rolling lol.
yep, it's jarring to say the least. i've grown accustomed to dogen sensei flawless japanese accent and then suddenly BAM! (or WHAM!) american english!
This is my first Christmas in Japan instead of England and it is slowly killing me so far. Whenever I ask people where I could possibly buy a turkey, they look at me like I am insane. I am half wondering whether to drown my Christmas sorrows at Universal Studios for the day at Christmas, because I know they have turkey there!
This video was both funny and very relatable!
KFC KFC KFC KFC! No, but for real, I hope you didn't expect Japanese people to be cooking whole turkeys for Christmas. If so, I can understand why you'd be disappointed.
Nope I didn't, I knew what I was getting myself in for!
1 more day left! hang in there!
Actually some people eat turkeys for Christmas in Japan too! That’s not majority tho😕
And you could buy them in Costco or some supermarkets like normally.
Just cook Ham instead
ラストクリスマス
I gave you my こころ
But the very つぎ day
あなた gave it away
ことし
To たすける me from なみだ
I gave it to somebody とくべつ
This comment is おかしい
@@uditkarode なぜ
@@tinaibr679 普通に日本語と英語は一緒に書かれていませんからですよ
@@uditkarode なるほど
Fuck! You calling me out like that?! XD
But dogen sensei, what about Mariah Carey
Surely you feel pain every time you hear "I DONT WANT A LOT FOR CHRISTMAS"
Nooooooooo
The ONE TIME I visited Japan was in December. This song came on while I was in a konbini. I swear everybody turned to glance at me, as if to say, "Is this not the song of your people?"
What is that profile picture
This is at least a more cheerful song.. Pain chart is too low to bother XD
Last Christmas is a lie. They play All I Want For Christmas waaayyyy more in Japan during December.
This year I wrote to Santa if he could make Dogen-san even funnier.......Santa wrote back that he can't do impossible things, stating that Dogen-san has apparently "maxed out" his humour and charisma stats
if only you saw me IRL. no charisma. AND EMO
面白おかしくかつ教養溢れる貴方の話術に虜になりました。
ありがとうございます！
私は１０年前、お寺がやっている保育園に勤めていて住職さんが園長先生でした。クリスマスになると保育園の隣にあるお寺にツリーで十字架飾っだり、お寺にピカピカした電球つけて園長先生がサンタクロースの格好して出て来た時には笑いましたwww
お寺なのに教会の十字架ww
やっぱ日本ってゆるいよね〜
I can literally never tell if you're overjoyed to be in Japan, or these videos are all coded cries for help.
Also, is it on purpose that your English matches your face perfectly, yet your japanese sounds like a very tired old man doing his best to be polite when he really wants to break a window with someone else's head?
If he wasn't overjoyed he wouldn't even be making the videos in the first place tbh.
Someone who hates their stay in a country will tell one story about their experience, then never talk about it again, not that they could because they left after a month.
Well, i supposed there's the occasional unlucky idiot that gets unwanted kids or something.
Hahaha right, Japanese, they take something from other culture and mostly make it becomes something that's totally different from the original, for example, KATAKANA.
lol KATAKANA nailed it
Sorry can you ELI5?
Meanwhile, in America:
Ctrl+c Ctrl+v other cultures food, ruin everything and that’s American food
same with anime and games. for example: in both fate/stay night (anime) and xenoblade 2 (game) there are a lot of biblical references but they usually completely misrepresent anything from the bible giving it a weird sort of Japanese-i-ness to it . It's as if they're trying to make something European or American, then don't understand it, and end up creating something super-over-the-top Japanese.
@@NiekNooijens Anime sure loves to use a lot german words too lmao. like naming their swords or moves something in german
あーーー恥ずかし！
4月8日にブッダマス流行らせよ。
''That' s right, Japan made Christmas emo.''
Wake me up when December Ends
-緑日
緑日😂😂😂
Don't forget that Christmas in the US is all about spending time with family, often the only time the extended family sees each other all year. In Japan, it's.....pretty much exclusively for couples. Yeah, there's stuff for kids too but the real focus is those Christmas Eve dates.
Completely dropping into "disappointed west coast English" to say Wham. Killer.
「きっと君は来ない、1人だけのクリスマスイブ」なんて最たる例だね。
Hills Beverly
会いたいと思う回数がぁー
I never actually saw the music video for Last Christmas, but from the clips shown it kinda looks like the generic videos that are played during karaoke
Can you feel your heartbeat racing, can you taste the fear, in her sweat
日本のハロウィンも渋谷で仮装してEDM流しながら酒飲んで朝まで遊ぶみたいなイベントと化してるよね
www
笑
これはアメリカの大人がハロウィンでもやっていることです
Sorry for Google Translate.
ハロウィンに渋谷に近づかない方がいい、人も多いし、とんでもないうわさもきこえる。
(you do not want to be near shibuya on halloween. I heard that it gets very crowded and some people do crazy things)
i need to come back here every Christmas
i honestly wonder if there's any japanese who watched this and think to themselves
"have we really been celebrating it like that?"
I think there are. In my account, a Japanese commented they're embarassed after watching this video, just below your comment.
日本人の私でもそれは思う
ロシア人の俺でもそれは憎む
I've always been skeptical of Wham!'s "Last Christmas." Especially because besides mentioning Christmas, it has nothing to do with the holiday. So a fun game I like to play is called "Replace each chorus with a different holiday."
Last arbor day, I gave you a tree...
I finally found the name I will use when I move to Japan, thank you Dogen.
Sincerely,
Hamu
I am a Japanese who found your channel today and find the tone of your videos extremely amusing! I understand that the videos must be recorded in Japanese with subtitles, as opposed to The Abroad in Japan.
日本語大変お上手ですね 😀
These videos are such a unique and refreshing exploration into the challenges of dealing with the pet peeves of living in a foreign country. He expresses these feelings in such a lighthearted, unoffensive way and doesn’t retread over the same ones we hear about over and over again.
You have no idea how hard it was to find this video again. Every Christmas, I'm reminded of it, and sing that fateful song, LOL
めっちゃ面白いし
めっちゃ日本語話せてるし
ハマりましたwww
I died laughing when he threatened to hurt us if we talked bad about Santa. Lol that look.
When we lived in Nagoya, at Christmas time we went to a small German/American style Christmas market that had a Santa Claus for pictures. The line was FULL of young Japanese Couples coming to get their pic taken with Santa. Only a handful of parents were there with their kids to take pics with Santa. I thought it was so strange XD.
淡々とした口調が好き
@Dogen, thank you so much for using Underoath as the "emo" song, it made me burst out laughing in my library
Scott Stanfel yeah I got a kick out of that too.
lol np. it's actually one of my favorite songs from that style of music. one of my friends used it in a tricking video back in the day and I have been listening to it ever since!
Oh my golly, I remember going to see them live a few times waaaay back sometime around 1998-2000ish. Good times, though I don't know if any of those venues exist anymore lol
He resonates with me as a millennial who was in high school when emo/hardcore music was alive and well. Good times in the mid to late 00s
You did something I never imaged could be done. You've made me re-evaluate American Christmas music and realize that there's a lot to be said for its joyfulness.
I just watched one of your videos one time because it randomly popped up in my recommendations and now my recommendations are flooded with your vids.
... _not that I'm complaining_
Subbed!
The fact that he played that Underoath song implies that Dogen had a significant emo phase growing up, or perhaps he is a closet emo kid who releases all of it during Christmas
Or he just googled emo music. But... I prefer to belief your version.
I'm watching this at the end of November 2022. I'm already dreading about 'Mas and I'm scared by just seeing the decorations already in place.
Last Christmas is really popular in Britain too and I love it! Fairytale of new York is also really popular. I thank youtube for recommending this channel!
His voice is so calm and soothing to listen to. I just found this channel and am now a new subscriber.
間とかニュアンスが最高すぎる。超笑ったｗ
Been watching Dogen's videos for quite a while now. I have noticed that the longer the japanese sentence he is speaking, the higher his left eyebrow will raise.
表情の落差が素晴らしい！言われてみれば確かに「クリスマスキャロルの頃には」も「戦場のメリークリスマス」も、山下達郎の「クリスマス・イブ」もエモいですね。
エモいなんて初めて聞きました。よく使いますか？
そしてコメントをありがとうございます！
Dogen 今年の新語らしいですよ！流行に乗って使ってみました！
よいお年を！
When my mom and I went to Japan briefly in December 2018 to enjoy the christmas season in Tokyo Disneyland, we were flummoxed by how christmas is a romantic holiday in Japan??? It made no sense to us. But as we watched the christmas music show in Tokyo Disneysea harbour, listening to 'all I want for christmas' and 'santa baby' and 'let it snow', we started to see how Japan had gotten the impression it was a holiday for couples...
it feels like he's flexing on me when he talks.
I watch this every year.
This had me laughing harder than I expected xD Now those are some weird traditions indeed.
Not at all like our *Wholesome Swedish Tradition of buying Pizza on 1st of January and watching Ivanhoe from 1982.*
the montage about Last Christmas made me spit out my drink. this series is the best
Japanese: クリスマス
英語: Valentine's Day
A *slightly* more accurate translation of the '-mas' suffix for Christmas is 'celebration', but great as always. I love learning about Japan and Japanese on this channel
I'm in Japan now, and this will be my first Christmas here. Thanks for the info:) It will be interesting to experience it firsthand xD
4:25 "Wake up from Colonel Sanders Genjutsu" I love this... This sentence alone deserves a video, a movie, a series I need more of whatever this perfect sentence is.
I expected to live my life without a sentence such as this but now I must share this video... Cause I cant imagine people living their lives without this moment
The Last Christmas phenomenon is true for us in Germany as well. It's yet another tragic fact that binds these two countries together. So how do you celebrate Christmas in your heathen host nation Mr. Dogen?
Paragoti now that you're saying it: That's why I thought "ah, normal Christmas music" after moving from Germany to Japan.
Got a few comment about this from Germans. I like to celebrate by watching a movie and eating macaroni and cheese like a true fat cowboy. Hope that you and your family are safe. Our thoughts go out to Germany!
Thank you for the kind comment, everyone I know was unaffected. Knowing what a sad affair the holiday season in Japan can be, I raise my goose leg to you and wish everyone a very merry Christmas!
Des is doch Quatsch, wos du do schreibst.
seriously, for the first half of the video i was wondering if dogen got the country wrong.
I've subbed to Dogen recently and been on a binge for the past few days. Let me tell you, I was not expecting Underoath. What a pleasant surprise.
センスが好きwww
Ahhh it's that time of the year again
I have heard only iterations of last Christmas and all I want for Christmas played back to back
Your sense of humour makes my heart happy
Funnily enough I have only heard Last Christmas once here in Sapporo so far and it was today actually. I mean I haven't been going out in general, so just by sheer lack of opportunity to hear Christmas songs could have something to do with that, but the song I've been hearing a lot is Mariah Carey's All I Want for Christmas is You.
Yeah I spent my Christmas in Japan in 2009 and it was Mariah Carey everywhere. All the time. Nothing else.
that's definitely another common one. It wasn't quite emo enough for the bit though haha. Merry Christmas!
This is my favorite video on this channel so far. I like that he's fair in the end. Nice Video :)
i’m a muslim but every time i read manga and there’s a christmas chapter i can’t help myself to scream ‘wait a minute that’s not christmas???’
Lmao
Do you read the Halal manga?
"Talk Bad About Santa and I WILL End You"
Idk how I missed this channel before this year, but definitely am following! Hoping I'll be back in Japan soon when this is all over. Be safe Dogen and stay healthy!
The story about Last Christmas is still true to this day. I went to Japan for the first time two weeks ago and that song played on a loop at a Book Off in Osaka o_O I probably heard it at least three times during my time there.
Wham! Last Christmas is the only Christmas song I can tolerate so I would love to spend Christmas in Japan
I spent Christmas 2010 in Kumamoto, and more than Last Christmas I distinctly remember Jingle Bells being overplayed to a ridiculous degree. But that may be because I'm German so I might've already been accustomed to the overplayed levels of Last Christmas? In any case, us international (mostly western European) students tried to do the KFC thing but found the experience pretty lacking. We probs should've stuck to a small get together in the student dorms or something.
This is still one of my favorites, it makes me smile all the time if not laugh out loud.
1:56 this sounds so wrong and yet I’m amazed at how effortlessly he can switch between Japanese and English
ほんとに面白い…
“Wake up from Colonel Sanders genjutsu!” 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
もうwwww笑っちゃう😂😂😂いつも面白いです😂
日本人のクリスマスのイメージはSexだな。
ユーザーネームに合ったコメントですね。
@@Dogen どんな返事やねん（笑）
It's the second day of December.
I've just heard "Last Christmas" (cover with delightful melody) played at the shoes store on my way back from work, just an hour before. Then I came back here...
サンタ？more like ファンタ.
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Fanta launches marketing campaign in Japan claiming it to be a Christmas tradition to drink Fanta the week leading up to Christmas. "Fanta is Santa's favourite drink," they claimed, "that's why the two rhyme!"
Justification of this conclusion is said to be traced back to a comment made on a TH-cam video making the ingenious link between the two seemingly arbitrary words. "The comment was on an *AMERICAN's* TH-cam video and had, like, at least 1 like on it I think," Fanta justified, "so obviously people agree!" Our reporter could not deny the facts and conceded, convinced.
Edit: I can't believe I just wrote all that.
Ibfinity let it be known that i have contributed to the making of history with my like looool
感謝しています lol
5 likes and counting. I believe.
make that 7 likes, and counting.
Hello from the future. I am quite glad you wrote that, because then I got to read it.
I had to watch this again after the premature christmas deco everywhere, and I can’t stop laughing 😂😂😂 and I have watched it two years ago hahah Dogen you are the best
Emo Japanese christmas sounds great, It's a place where I can just sigh and smoke around the street and look as depressed as I actually am.....wait......damn it Wham! XD
Oh It's almost that time of the year again. I need to watch this video.
I dunno what you actually DO in Japan, but you have time timing of a gifted comedian (...or at least an American one, given that I'm reading english subtitles of your apparently fluent Japanese. Oy.)
Agreed, Dogen has impeccable comic sensibilities. Also I love the phrase "time timing", it makes me wonder what other kinds of timing I don't yet know about.
I always love coming back to this video in December. Cause I just love Japan and this humour.
I truly wish that I can obtain your level of fluency.
ok i swear what is it with last christmas and playing constantly like 2 or so years ago at school wed play christmas songs sometimes while doing work or whatever else and it'd always be fucking last christmas for some reason
Last Christmas, I gave you my heart.
But the very next day, you gave it away.
This year, to save me from tears,
I'll give it to someone special.
Once bitten and twice shy
I keep my distance but you still catch my eye
Tell me baby do you recognize me?
Well it's been a year, it doesn't surprise me
I wrapped it up and sent it
With a note saying "I Love You" I meant it
Now I know what a fool I've been
But if you kissed me now I know you'd fool me again
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Haven’t laughed that hard on something about Christmas in a long long while. Thank you! Lol
Don‘t know why this was recommended to me now but it‘s still so funny. Japan and Christmas are really a special combination. Fun Fact: In Germany you also celebrate Christmas on the 24th of December 😊
Same in Nordic Countries.
24th evening is the big launch to Christmas season; Kids get their presents then.
("Santa" dispensinc them is usually neighbor dad in suit or call-rental Santa guy ...in a suit)
Many other aspects of Nordic christmas have origins in Deutch and other Central-European traditions.
The old-fashioned Nordic Santa aka. "Yulegoat" is actually sort of Krampus and St. Nikolas fused as one.
He gives gifts to nice kids but (in folklore) takes naughty kids as hostage and leads them to his secret village in far Lapland
...and nothing was heard about them ever since.. (RIP naughty kids 🎅)
Japan loves Germany so they copied German Christmas instead of US
Mexicans celebrate on the 24th too. This is interesting I always thought we were alone in this but apparently a lot more countries celebrate on the 24th and not the 25th
@@suzubee9602 On the internet we tend to get the feeling that the American way is the norm, even if it isn't.
Cheers from Denmark.
Do you guys also celebrate the 25th? In Australia we celebrate the 24th, 25th and little bit the 26th. Although depends on the person cos we're very diverse. My Finish(an Aussie) celebrated in on the 24th
Last Christmas and its assorted covers made me want to throw shit while working at Macy’s during the holidays. Just imagine standing, in 3.5 inch heels, for eight hours, in a department store, staring at the same damned tie display, listening to the same fifteen goddamned songs on repeat, for TWO MONTHS. And somehow my mom doesn’t get why I don’t like Christmas music 🤔. In any case, loved your video (and all the others I’ve seen)! Very informative/funny. Humor often tells a certain truth that straight facts can’t always provide, it seems.
みなさん目を覚ましてください笑笑笑笑
I fucking lost it when you played underoath. You're officially my favorite youtuber for anything Japan-related.
I once went with my American friend who’s Christian, to see the illumination celebrating Christmas which was presented by emirates airline, an cooperation whose headquarters locate in an Islamic country, in a Shintō/Buddhist country which is called Japan
How bizarre
Ahh your voice is very soothing Dogen-san
They’re playing Last Christmas in the Japanese Supermarket in Brooklyn. Talk about getting the vibe right!
someone recommended me your channel, i really love it dude 🤣
your voice sound like yamazaki kento I AM NOT JOKING
"You're off by one day" according to whom? Most of Europe celebrated Christmas Eve (December 24th) more than Christmas Day (December 25th)
音楽のところ、日米の温度差めっちゃ笑った😂
でもLast Christmasでしんみりとした気持ちになるのは小さい頃から好きでした by雪国育ち
“Wham! の Last Christmas だ” lmaoooo
In Denmark Christmas is celebrated on the 24th. The Danish version of NHK (Danmarks Radio) broadcast a traditional medley of Disney cartoons from the past decades (called: From all of us to all of you). Then they eat - usually roast pork or duck - or both. Dessert is usually ris a la mande, where one almond has been sneaked in. The person who gets the almond, wins a prize. After that the christmas gifts are opened.
The 25th and/or 26th are usually spent at some sort of Christmas lunch with parts of the family, you didn't held Christmas eve with.
俺より日本語上手だわww
まだまだです！ww
The default sentence for any foreigner if anyone tells you this.
your voice is just super soothing, theres something about japanese accented fluent english and western accented fluent japanese that are both really nice
ahahahahah I cant stop laughing at Christmas sharinngan 4:31