Kathleen's analysis at the end was most appreciated. I was also concerned about the welfare of the cormorants. It looked like a very cool traveling back in time sort of experience though.
I'm enjoying these a lot because I'm not the touristy type and never go out of the Tokyo Metropolitan Area when I go to japan. It's nice seeing that stuff because as it is I probably never will even when I go live there for a while.
I am in Japan (by the time you read this post) and its really fascinating how things are here. While I am not doing the things that you two are doing, its great to see the areas of Japan that I did not plan to go to through you. Thanks for posting these videos :D
I am actually amazed at how much I am enjoying this series. Not being a giant weeb I thought I'd fall off after the first couple of episodes but I'm still looking forward to each episode. Can we start Kickstarting G&K's holidays so we can get more of these?
12:45 it was in Hakone or Kyoto when we had to take a bus, the four of us desperately working out "wait, how does this work?" while on the bus. Luckily, we had spotted the tickets and Irish buses have a similar "pay per stop/section" model - but pay in advance, of course.
I have to admit, it is kind of strange to watch this, my wife and I booked a trip through Japan for next July and so far you guys did our planned route, the only difference is after we land in Kansai we were planning a quick trip west to see Himeji castle, before back tracking and doing the same route, each episode is kind of like betting on our next stop. My wife very much appreciates this though, she hasn't really been out of Canada before and you guys are helping to ease her mind and making her really look forward to it.
This was really, really great. Fascinating! I had never heard about cormorant fishing. It's funny, from the last episode it sounded like this day was the least planned of your days, and from the looks of it it might have turned out to be one of your best ones! That's always nice when that happens. Also buses are impossible to manage no matter where you are, with the stops and the ambiguous payment etc. I am glad you didn't beat yourself up about it too much. :)
I'm actually living in Gifu as an exchange student. Seeing it from Graham and Kathleen's eyes was weird and amazing! Hey, if you ever find yourselves going back to Gifu,. I highly recommend early August to see the fireworks festival. It's by the same river as the cormorant fishing and it's several hours of stunning fireworks display. With Penelope in the picture, it might take a while until the next Japan trip happens, but hey, it's never too early to start planning, right ;)
Again, thank you for these vlogs. I don't travel pretty much ANYWHERE. Saskatchewan mostly for family, and occasionally to BC or Ontario, and that is largely because it's such a hassle, for me thanks to having really bad vision and ect (Anxiety anyone?) blah blah, so to watch these and see a culture I am largely unfamiliar with, yet recognize parts of thanks to some minor anime watching as well as just plain beautiful scenery is a real pleasure. Like I said previously, I may someday actually get up and go there. (Must admit though, watching that Cormorant up-chuck a fish nearly made me hurk ;-P )
Not sure how I feel about the cormorant fishing, that it sure is an interesting process
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That disc throwing reminds me of carnival games. I guess the shape would also interfere with a plain overhead throw? I can just see how in a baseball anime the captain of a struggling local high school team happens to see the new transfer student there nail both throws and then recruits them against their will.
Kathleen's comment about Wreck Beach made me think she was surrounded by naked old people. Now I have the song "Nothin' On (Wreck Beach)" stuck in my head.
I was in Gifu at roughly the same time as you, and I didn't see the comorant fishing due to being uncomfortable with the idea. It was however nice to be able to experience it through your video.
TBH, I plan on submitting links to these videos to Desert Bus X for dub fighting. Only half of Graham/Kathleen will be there, so it seems like a good source for LRRdubfighting to me.
Liked how Graham gave an extensive explanation as to why it wasn't their fault that it was so difficult to find any information on the boat and port, to which Kathleen just dismisses as 'you didn't try hard enough' and 'it's our fault'. Next time you can look up the info on the website, DeVere.
So during my time in the Navy stationed in Japan, 7/11's were named "7 and iholdings" so I'm curious to know if the 7/11's you shopped at were called that too or were they called 7/11 as you mentioned in your videos? Maybe it was a regional thing?
From what I could hear; from around 2:30-2:50 they talk about the size and depth of the lake, and the next 20 seconds are the schedule. I could be wrong or missing out on some things.
Will the music you use in this series be released at some point? This is the sort of extremely good ambient music I could listen to for hours while doing my writing.
I've been wondering the same thing actually. There's no credit for the music anywhere so I just assumed it was royalty free music. If it isn't, I'd sure like to know how to obtain it, including paying for it if necessary.
Man, I'm so jealous of you guys. I wanna go to Japan and take a ferry with a genuine female Japanese announcer voice saying things to me that I'd only barely understand too! >:(
Evochron she could be using her maiden name for her content online and legally it is stark. Lots of actresses will do that. But if she didn't that is her choice and if that is true, graham does not seem to mind. When you break it down it's only a name.
Alycia Shedd graham has stated it before where he gets some of it which is sound jungle. You are paying more for it(28$ or so) but it worth it if you do video editing.
Oh dear....I attempted to see if the auto-generated subtitles might try to translate the Japanese during the boat ride....and I was very wrong, but then I was rolling on the floor laughing at the silliness of the attempted transliteration by youtube's subtitle generator.
francois gibon yes and no. you can eat if the seat has table like on the plane, you cant eat if it the seat doesnt. in the case of this video there is no table so yeah there is that. but the train was quiet empty so i guess nobody gave a damn.
Animal cruelty would be foie gras, this is no worse than pigs hunting truffles. Love these videos BTW, you should consider putting them up on some service that allows purchase or free download for people that like to collect videos about Japan. Maybe a Kickstarter for a Blu-ray when they're all done.
What is it about bus systems that makes them so unfriendly to new users? I've lost track of the number of times that I've had grumpy bus drivers yell at me for violating some unique procedure that is supposedly "common sense".
The cormorant fishing doesn't appear to be _cruelty_ like bull-fighting or some modern industrial livestock processes (or "traditional" ones like with veal), but from a purely moral standpoint, it's hard to justify the continued practice -- especially as it's essentially just tourism and entertainment now. That's the same set of moral arguments that make pet ownership troubling, too, so I'm not going to claim that I'm not hypocritical on the subject. I think it comes down to a question of how much of a life is made up of consciousness and feelings, and how much is it simply following pre-programmed responses to stimuli -- whether that be instinct or training? The issue of lifespan seems irrelevant to me if you cannot show that the life being lived is one of greater or lesser quality and "fulfillment" (whatever that means for a bird?).
So during my time in the Navy stationed in Japan, 7/11's were named "7 and iholdings" so I'm curious to know if the 7/11's you shopped at were called that too or were they called 7/11 as you mentioned in your videos? Maybe it was a regional thing?
Kathleen's analysis at the end was most appreciated. I was also concerned about the welfare of the cormorants. It looked like a very cool traveling back in time sort of experience though.
Graham really cracked me up in this one. Especially with "Prudent."
This series is so fun. Thanks for sharing the trip!
Experiencing this stuff through another is probably not even a quarter of what it may be like, but I already feel in awe of it all.
i really loved the choices of background music for this episode
I'm enjoying these a lot because I'm not the touristy type and never go out of the Tokyo Metropolitan Area when I go to japan. It's nice seeing that stuff because as it is I probably never will even when I go live there for a while.
I love these, I kinda wish everyone in LRR had the time, money, inclination, and drive to do this
I am in Japan (by the time you read this post) and its really fascinating how things are here. While I am not doing the things that you two are doing, its great to see the areas of Japan that I did not plan to go to through you. Thanks for posting these videos :D
Man, this is so cool. That island was incredible.
I am actually amazed at how much I am enjoying this series. Not being a giant weeb I thought I'd fall off after the first couple of episodes but I'm still looking forward to each episode. Can we start Kickstarting G&K's holidays so we can get more of these?
I have been to Gifu for cormorant fishing. It was fascinating and horrifying, and the video captures so much of that.
12:45 it was in Hakone or Kyoto when we had to take a bus, the four of us desperately working out "wait, how does this work?" while on the bus. Luckily, we had spotted the tickets and Irish buses have a similar "pay per stop/section" model - but pay in advance, of course.
These videos keep getting longer and longer. I eagerly await the final installment, a feature-film length summer blockbuster in IMAX 3D.
I have to admit, it is kind of strange to watch this, my wife and I booked a trip through Japan for next July and so far you guys did our planned route, the only difference is after we land in Kansai we were planning a quick trip west to see Himeji castle, before back tracking and doing the same route, each episode is kind of like betting on our next stop. My wife very much appreciates this though, she hasn't really been out of Canada before and you guys are helping to ease her mind and making her really look forward to it.
This is really amazing. A lot of old culture you would almost never get to see normally.
Really love all the vlogs, can't wait to see the rest! :D
Maybe it's just me, but I feel 19:05 was the most beautiful shot of this video.
This was really, really great. Fascinating! I had never heard about cormorant fishing. It's funny, from the last episode it sounded like this day was the least planned of your days, and from the looks of it it might have turned out to be one of your best ones! That's always nice when that happens.
Also buses are impossible to manage no matter where you are, with the stops and the ambiguous payment etc. I am glad you didn't beat yourself up about it too much. :)
I actually hadn't watched these other episodes enjoying this it's beautiful
Oh man! The English auto-generated closed captions from 2 minutes in when and after the singing. Priceless.
Almost wet myself. XD
I'm actually living in Gifu as an exchange student. Seeing it from Graham and Kathleen's eyes was weird and amazing!
Hey, if you ever find yourselves going back to Gifu,. I highly recommend early August to see the fireworks festival. It's by the same river as the cormorant fishing and it's several hours of stunning fireworks display. With Penelope in the picture, it might take a while until the next Japan trip happens, but hey, it's never too early to start planning, right ;)
hanamatsuri?
+akiraguy I was referring to the Hanabi Taikai :)
+Simon Wiklund tahts right, the fireworks festival.
damn my rusty nipppon knowledge
+akiraguy No worries!
Again, thank you for these vlogs. I don't travel pretty much ANYWHERE. Saskatchewan mostly for family, and occasionally to BC or Ontario, and that is largely because it's such a hassle, for me thanks to having really bad vision and ect (Anxiety anyone?) blah blah, so to watch these and see a culture I am largely unfamiliar with, yet recognize parts of thanks to some minor anime watching as well as just plain beautiful scenery is a real pleasure.
Like I said previously, I may someday actually get up and go there.
(Must admit though, watching that Cormorant up-chuck a fish nearly made me hurk ;-P )
Not sure how I feel about the cormorant fishing, that it sure is an interesting process
That disc throwing reminds me of carnival games. I guess the shape would also interfere with a plain overhead throw?
I can just see how in a baseball anime the captain of a struggling local high school team happens to see the new transfer student there nail both throws and then recruits them against their will.
This series may be my favorite LRR thing after Checkpoint! Also, "hork hork!"
I was hoping you guys could film inside the 7-11... I enjoy seeing stuff like that lol
I'm gonna imagine it was a sick flow that the ferry guy was dropping
Kathleen's comment about Wreck Beach made me think she was surrounded by naked old people. Now I have the song "Nothin' On (Wreck Beach)" stuck in my head.
5:35 Nice to see you're still taking the time to record a few crapshots! Or was that more of a vine?
Wait is that rail shot a Scott pilgrim reference?! It seems I've discovered my love for the Scott Pilgrim movie since last time I watched this 😂
Kathleen looked so different at the end, natural
I was in Gifu at roughly the same time as you, and I didn't see the comorant fishing due to being uncomfortable with the idea. It was however nice to be able to experience it through your video.
TBH, I plan on submitting links to these videos to Desert Bus X for dub fighting. Only half of Graham/Kathleen will be there, so it seems like a good source for LRRdubfighting to me.
Would you mind posting links to the music you're using. The Music over the Fishing footage was lovely.
Liked how Graham gave an extensive explanation as to why it wasn't their fault that it was so difficult to find any information on the boat and port, to which Kathleen just dismisses as 'you didn't try hard enough' and 'it's our fault'. Next time you can look up the info on the website, DeVere.
What is that music? It's really cool.
2:11 - That music... are you off to a chamber of fayth to summon aeons?
I wonder if someone would have a go at translating the announcement after, fo giggiles.
They use fire to scare the fish. Interesting. I bet that scares the carp out of them!
Seeing as fish don't have a basic understanding of the properties of fire and water, I'd probably say it would.
Joshua Patterson dat fish pun do
You guys should vacation in japan more often :P
So during my time in the Navy stationed in Japan, 7/11's were named "7 and iholdings" so I'm curious to know if the 7/11's you shopped at were called that too or were they called 7/11 as you mentioned in your videos? Maybe it was a regional thing?
I'd really love to get some subtitles for the ferry
+EffingTank We don't know what he was saying either.
I kind of figured you would have put up subtitles if you could have. Maybe the internet will happen and someone can provide subtitles later.
From what I could hear; from around 2:30-2:50 they talk about the size and depth of the lake, and the next 20 seconds are the schedule. I could be wrong or missing out on some things.
You can click the closed captioning on the YT vid and they sorta work (this is sarcasm btw haha)
Man thats really cool, also its my birthday today :D
2:25 That song just sounds like lots of Pauls.
What's the music that played over the train ride? It sounded amazing.
Will the music you use in this series be released at some point? This is the sort of extremely good ambient music I could listen to for hours while doing my writing.
I've been wondering the same thing actually. There's no credit for the music anywhere so I just assumed it was royalty free music. If it isn't, I'd sure like to know how to obtain it, including paying for it if necessary.
I lost it at 5:35
5:35
Scott Pil-graham: "There are girls watching."
Lucas Kath-lee: "...I mean, *I'm* a girl watching."
This is some pretty cool music. Can you tell me where you got it?
The music in this episode is great! who is it?
You don't have angel cats, Kathleen. You have Disaster Cats. Kappa
Man, I'm so jealous of you guys. I wanna go to Japan and take a ferry with a genuine female Japanese announcer voice saying things to me that I'd only barely understand too! >:(
Is it just habit/for work to still use De Vere or will Katheleen eventually take Stark on?
Evochron she could be using her maiden name for her content online and legally it is stark. Lots of actresses will do that. But if she didn't that is her choice and if that is true, graham does not seem to mind.
When you break it down it's only a name.
Did Bradley Rains compose all this music or is it from another source?
I was just wondering the same thing. Not sure if it is just stock music or if they had Bradley come up with some stuff for them.
Alycia Shedd graham has stated it before where he gets some of it which is sound jungle. You are paying more for it(28$ or so) but it worth it if you do video editing.
Oh dear....I attempted to see if the auto-generated subtitles might try to translate the Japanese during the boat ride....and I was very wrong, but then I was rolling on the floor laughing at the silliness of the attempted transliteration by youtube's subtitle generator.
Ya'll are such a cute couple. You guys give me hope that a weirdo like me and my gf can make it together.
Google isn't that good at translating the long section of Japanese at 2:32
What is the song played in the beginning?
So when are we getting a cormorant fishing anime?
How many days did you guys spend in Japan?
14
Is japan near hawaiii?
No.
No.
www.google.de/maps/place/Hawaii,+USA/@9.3747509,169.8803828,3z/data=!4m5!3m4!1s0x7bffdb064f79e005:0x4b7782d274cc8628!8m2!3d19.8967662!4d-155.5827818
I mean, it's closer to hawaii than it is to, say, new york or texas. probably the moon too.
Don't let others lie to you, Japan is near Hawaii if you look at things in a cosmic scale.
In Japan, it's frowned upon to eat in the train!
francois gibon yes and no. you can eat if the seat has table like on the plane, you cant eat if it the seat doesnt. in the case of this video there is no table so yeah there is that. but the train was quiet empty so i guess nobody gave a damn.
I was wondering why that Japanese bus driver gave me that look... Now I know. :P
あなた達はとっても素敵なカップルです。
quick! get me a slinky!
Animal cruelty would be foie gras, this is no worse than pigs hunting truffles. Love these videos BTW, you should consider putting them up on some service that allows purchase or free download for people that like to collect videos about Japan. Maybe a Kickstarter for a Blu-ray when they're all done.
Graham, pls tell me how to make my small bakery's website not garbage so I can not go bankrupt.
What is it about bus systems that makes them so unfriendly to new users? I've lost track of the number of times that I've had grumpy bus drivers yell at me for violating some unique procedure that is supposedly "common sense".
This is why Japanese people live so long, all that exercise
So is Kathleen a Vegan?
+aznfoomasta No, but she was 6 months pregnant at the time, so was avoiding raw fish.
BOBBING BOOBYS*, BATMAN!
*Well, not quite... but they're closely related-ish..like Rhinos and horses.
I mean, "crazy Americans" was still accurate, unless Canada decided to secede from North America.
England, using dogs to hunt birds. Japan, using birds to hunt fish. So interesting...
it seems like such an ineffective way of fishing xD
Prudent! Lulz
The Comoran thing is definitely animal cruelty.
The cormorant fishing doesn't appear to be _cruelty_ like bull-fighting or some modern industrial livestock processes (or "traditional" ones like with veal), but from a purely moral standpoint, it's hard to justify the continued practice -- especially as it's essentially just tourism and entertainment now. That's the same set of moral arguments that make pet ownership troubling, too, so I'm not going to claim that I'm not hypocritical on the subject. I think it comes down to a question of how much of a life is made up of consciousness and feelings, and how much is it simply following pre-programmed responses to stimuli -- whether that be instinct or training? The issue of lifespan seems irrelevant to me if you cannot show that the life being lived is one of greater or lesser quality and "fulfillment" (whatever that means for a bird?).
So during my time in the Navy stationed in Japan, 7/11's were named "7 and iholdings" so I'm curious to know if the 7/11's you shopped at were called that too or were they called 7/11 as you mentioned in your videos? Maybe it was a regional thing?
They're 7-11's, run by the company 7 & i Holdings-they carry both branding, but the company is 7 & i Holdings, the stores are just called 7-11s.
+loadingreadyrun Cool! Never knew that before, now I do! Thanks! Glad you two enjoyed your time there!
Brett Augarten ooo