Why I HATE Japanese TV

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  • Japanese TV is beloved the world over. But is it really as good as people think it is? I recount my three most awkward experiences on Japanese Television and reveal my reasons for why I avoid watching it.
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  • @AbroadinJapan
    @AbroadinJapan  4 ปีที่แล้ว +8262

    NOTIFICATION SQUAD: For the love of god, don't say this is a pen. In fact, just don't use the letter p from now on.
    This video is 25% rant, 25% critique, 25% story time and 25% diorama. I hope somewhere in between you learn something of value! BUT what do you think of Japanese TV? Am I being too harsh? Or perhaps too kind? Let me know and enjoy the video!
    Also, the video starts at 09:30...

  • @PaP384
    @PaP384 4 ปีที่แล้ว +12834

    Now that Chris has the diorama and a green screen we'll never see him outside again

    • @thefirstthrownmolotov6852
      @thefirstthrownmolotov6852 4 ปีที่แล้ว +221

      Going outside during the summer is overrated, anyways :P

    • @1lamouna
      @1lamouna 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      @@thefirstthrownmolotov6852 *this

    • @BrognusBelgen
      @BrognusBelgen 4 ปีที่แล้ว +75

      Who allowed Chris to get this much power?!

    • @sparcsau
      @sparcsau 4 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      Full otaku mode

    • @Redeemed001
      @Redeemed001 4 ปีที่แล้ว +27

      He’ll probably end up cycling through Japan again through dioramas which would be great

  • @KaRuNaRuGa
    @KaRuNaRuGa 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8672

    "This is a Pen".
    *Blows away half of Skyrim*

    • @squishy_thighz
      @squishy_thighz 4 ปีที่แล้ว +452

      This is a pen > Fus ro dah

    • @littlefishbigmountain
      @littlefishbigmountain 4 ปีที่แล้ว +173

      Jeong MiChaeng
      They’re both powerless until you reach the final word

    • @arnorrian1
      @arnorrian1 4 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      P, K, and T are aspirated in English when starting a word. The gust of air is real.

    • @TheAquilaSamurai
      @TheAquilaSamurai 4 ปีที่แล้ว +41

      Wonder if anyone's taken a recording of that and modded it into Skyrim yet? :P

    • @pennkun
      @pennkun 4 ปีที่แล้ว +64

      I need to ask you to stop. That... shouting... is making people nervous.

  • @SgtPotShot
    @SgtPotShot 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3216

    If anything ever happens to Chris, that picture of him looking like a murderer will be plastered on every screen in Japan.

    • @itsdjinane9096
      @itsdjinane9096 4 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      serial killer

    • @nileshmandal1838
      @nileshmandal1838 4 ปีที่แล้ว +36

      @Zarathustra must be a sarcasm right? Because it's all shortcomings and artificial exaggerations.

    • @av4010
      @av4010 4 ปีที่แล้ว +42

      @@nileshmandal1838 superior nippon japanese TV. Broadcast over 1000 times. much better then worthless baka gaijin programming.

    • @SQUAD012
      @SQUAD012 4 ปีที่แล้ว +23

      @Zarathustra i'm pretty sure you only watch the Bad Western media/programs am i right. In terms of media there's no superior or inferior, it's whether you like that program or not, that is all.
      Sure you could put up an argument of saying japanese entertainment are much fun than western but the other side could also put up the same argument and it will end up in a stalemate. That is your preferences. Media is media, be it western or eastern. They're all the same blood-sucking vampire trying to get story or programs go on at whatever the cost is.
      Try to see it in an open perspective and not bashing one for the other. Ultimately both sucks and both are good.

    • @SQUAD012
      @SQUAD012 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @Zarathustra no harm done bro and yup i agree on that, especially on youtube when their algorithm knows you've been watching political channels and they'll start recommend something similar to it. Yes it does plague the hollywood industries as well and i'm kinda tired seeing they tried shoving their agenda down our throat but whenever i see some good quality programs, i'd watch it bro. There are some good programs out there, be it eastern or western, we just have to get out from our bubbles of judgement and discover some great shit out there.

  • @kyh148
    @kyh148 ปีที่แล้ว +273

    About Japanese young people losing interest in watching TV: I had the idea that's more of a global phenomenon, personally I basically never watch tv and even my parents don't besides my mom occasionally watching football.

    • @ampoyeta9547
      @ampoyeta9547 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      yeah, thats true, one day when youtube gets significally big, i just stopped watching tv, tv shows are not funny anymore, and a little time later i started to see the enormous amount of propaganda that shit has, literally when i stopped watching tv i lost a lot of stress, they are constantly saying you directly "be like this, not like this", and i am not talking about the publicity or the "they just put thin people to make feel bad fat people"

    • @arthas640
      @arthas640 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      not just young people. My parents dont watch much TV aside from the news, I work construction and tons of my customers (mostly 40+ year old homeowners) dont even bother running TV lines anymore since they stream everything, and most of my friends that are over 30 dont bother with TV either. TV has gotten to be such shit and people dont like bending their schedule to fit set programming that everyones just going to streaming. The fact that cable companies are so corrupt doesnt help, I dont know anyone with a cable package that hasnt been double billed or billed for random BS, like my mom who was billed for a missing router they claimed she never gave back when she canceled her membership which she'd done months before they sent her the bill.

    • @DanaTheInsane
      @DanaTheInsane ปีที่แล้ว

      I'm Gen X and I watch Strange New World, Lower Decks, and until recently Rick and Morty. That's it. Not been a regular TV watcher in decades. Before that the only thing I'd watched since the 80s was MST3K. I"m baffled what most people see in TV. @@ampoyeta9547

    • @aarona6420
      @aarona6420 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      It's almost as if these young people realize everything being said on these shows is a lie, and they don't appreciate being treated like toddlers that aren't strong enough to withstand even the mildest negative comment spoken to anyone by anyone

    • @helelcifer8695
      @helelcifer8695 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Agreed, I Gave up watching TV .. not too sure when exactly... 9 years ago, maybe. I'm from Germany. We wished, we had thay quality. German TV-Shows are a aweful.

  • @不是你的菜
    @不是你的菜 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2413

    Plot twist: He came to Japan to become a star in Takeshi’s Castle program, but it was too late, so he became an English teacher.

    • @tdotitan8855
      @tdotitan8855 3 ปีที่แล้ว +199

      "I came to Japan to win Takeshi's Castle, but it was too late, so I became an english teacher" sounds like a light novel

    • @ryuuteimaru5858
      @ryuuteimaru5858 3 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      Twist it so instead of Takeshi's Castle, it's a war, and instead of modern times, it sets in medieval high fantasy setting. Boom, isekai idea.

    • @KeulchenGerrit
      @KeulchenGerrit 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Fun fact not plot twist!

    • @rachelar
      @rachelar 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      A common tragedy of gaijin in japan

    • @Crocodile_Boatspeed
      @Crocodile_Boatspeed 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Bu shi ni de…what is the last character and what does it mean?

  • @maxxrenn
    @maxxrenn 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3532

    Less young people in Japan not watching tv is not a Japan thing, that’s a global thing

    • @mr.boomguy
      @mr.boomguy 4 ปีที่แล้ว +310

      Yes. We know where to find better content, like this channel

    • @rezkynopri1413
      @rezkynopri1413 4 ปีที่แล้ว +81

      Yup, indonesian here we also do that too

    • @ayylmao4954
      @ayylmao4954 4 ปีที่แล้ว +134

      i haven’t watched actual tv in a couple years

    • @nvno1943
      @nvno1943 4 ปีที่แล้ว +101

      Retired American. I haven’t watched TV in a couple of years. I have favorite “You Tubers” I watch to get news and entertainment.

    • @Morisu-Chan
      @Morisu-Chan 4 ปีที่แล้ว +50

      Yea cuz most TV nowadays are only replaying episodes of popular shows or shitty shows noone cares about

  • @DeSinc
    @DeSinc 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5293

    a lot of the stuff you see on japanese tv feels like stuff you'd only normally see on those infomercial channels

    • @makarovtheplat1805
      @makarovtheplat1805 4 ปีที่แล้ว +145

      Oh shit the real desinc

    • @duckmeat4674
      @duckmeat4674 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      @@makarovtheplat1805 nothing to do with what he said but ok

    • @animelover5999
      @animelover5999 4 ปีที่แล้ว +44

      you know shit's gone down and outright boring ass when DeSinc comments on the videos he watches. But I guess it's true.

    • @rgstever
      @rgstever 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Wait wut. Why are you here?

    • @Corbych
      @Corbych 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Is that the real DeSinc fan account?

  • @carlk8308
    @carlk8308 ปีที่แล้ว +168

    I had the pleasure of being on Japanese TV once, in the 90's. A crew came to do a bit on local sites and I was the "tour guide" (this was a very rural area in Hyogo with no other western foreigners for probably a fifty mile radius).
    I didn't have to say much. Spent most of my time standing near the guy with the mic, nodding and smiling a lot.
    Our last shot was in a village up on a mountain top, locally famous for the rice fields stepping down the slope. To this day I cannot figure out why I was abandoned there, but I was left behind, in that little village of senior citizens. Wound up drinking and getting hammered in a barn with the village boss and a few farmers before one finally took me back to my place of work in his K-Truck.
    Overall, a pleasant experience.

    • @Gemmycobson
      @Gemmycobson 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

      Village boss? I didn’t know they still used the feudal system there

    • @Vespyr_
      @Vespyr_ 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      You lived the dream man.

  • @steelfalconx2000
    @steelfalconx2000 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2694

    Japanese word for pen: "pen".
    English word for pen: "pen".
    Yep, I can see the dangerous difference.

    • @TheChrillestSpot
      @TheChrillestSpot 4 ปีที่แล้ว +93

      Gray Nightz but in Japanese they would look at the word pen like, “pe-n”. Anyway the woman was saying the word pen louder for English resulting more air to come out.

    • @arpitkumar4525
      @arpitkumar4525 4 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      In English the pe is more aspirated

    • @scottmckeown1729
      @scottmckeown1729 4 ปีที่แล้ว +34

      Native English speakers really do aspirate the "p" sound at the beginning of words more than they do in the middle of a word. I'm not sure, but I think native Japanese speakers really don't aspirate their "p"s at any part of the word. You certainly can train yourself to not aspirate your "p"s but it's difficult to imagine anyone bothering to do so. The "this is a pen" test does have an actual valid point to make...it just not very scientifically rigorous enough to really mater....it's just one valid point blown out of proportion.

    • @kbriney1443
      @kbriney1443 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      @@E.Frey2002 are u questioning nasa rn lmao

    • @-A-c
      @-A-c 4 ปีที่แล้ว +24

      Please.
      Permit me to Point out those Pointless Particulars while I go have a Parfait.....Preferably Peach and Pear.
      Cost me only a Penny. Promise.
      Excuse me a moment, I think I just killed my English Professor....

  • @calebm9000
    @calebm9000 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1968

    "Imagine turning on the TV tomorrow and everyone is...happy"
    The Briton's worst nightmare

    • @MultiLiam24
      @MultiLiam24 4 ปีที่แล้ว +105

      There would be rioting in the streets

    • @eisenklad
      @eisenklad 4 ปีที่แล้ว +54

      imagine chris compares Gordon Ramsey in USA vs UK ver. the shock factor in USA is dialed to 100....

    • @JT-574
      @JT-574 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@MultiLiam24 "Being miserable matters"!

    • @toxicalyss
      @toxicalyss 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      We Happy Few

    • @joaopedroaguiarfmatos1473
      @joaopedroaguiarfmatos1473 4 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      brazillians, worst knightmare, id be like "were are all the murders and bad trafic?"

  • @__no_name__
    @__no_name__ 4 ปีที่แล้ว +624

    Takeshi's castle finished in 1989?
    My life's a lie.

    • @xyzen9673
      @xyzen9673 4 ปีที่แล้ว +51

      What, i swear i was still watching that shit on 2005

    • @0nizukaS4n
      @0nizukaS4n 4 ปีที่แล้ว +25

      It is stil running on german television 😄

    • @grubbybum3614
      @grubbybum3614 4 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      Check out when Dragon Ball Z aired in Japan... Exactly

    • @HolyFreakinDragonSlayer
      @HolyFreakinDragonSlayer 4 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      The Japanese one stopped broadcast in the late 80s. They re made '4 special versions' throughout the late 90s hosted in japan. Then created another version in mid 00s filmed in Thailand and Malaysia hosted by a male and female General. Think the last version from Thailand I watched was made /broadcast 2015. I've just had a research and apparently it's coming back to the UK this yeah with comedian Stephen Bailey as voice host

    • @HolyFreakinDragonSlayer
      @HolyFreakinDragonSlayer 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@0nizukaS4n they will be reruns of old episodes. Fun fact about Takeshi is -only 8 people ever won

  • @philip32276
    @philip32276 ปีที่แล้ว +554

    Yes, it is as bad as you've made out. I've been here 50 years and used to be a regular on some shows 40 years back. I pretty much stunk as a '漫才' stand-up-comedian (looking back on some old tapes), but it was all praise, and no-one ever commented on how bad I was ( partly because my partner was quite famous in those days). When I did stand up comedy (相声) in Chinese in the states once (I speak both Japanese and Chinese), I actually had someone make a comment that I wasn't really very funny (the Chinese are much more direct), and remember how thankful I was that finally someone told me the truth. I remember a Japanese cooking show I was on where they made up that I was a specialist in making pancakes, and the host commented on how delicious my pancakes were (never made pancakes before). A lot of it is just outright lies. Anyhow, the last TV show I was on was in 1983, and after that Japanese speaking foreigners started to increase so I was replaced by better talent.

    • @greatexpectations6577
      @greatexpectations6577 ปีที่แล้ว +26

      Man, you have been there soo long. I am sure you treasure your experience no matter what the circumstances were. Do you ever plan to come to the states?

    • @SlapstickGenius23
      @SlapstickGenius23 ปีที่แล้ว +36

      Philip, you walked so that the other Japanese speaking Foreign Talents would run.

    • @daltondenun858
      @daltondenun858 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Sounds like you’ve lived a full and interesting life!

    • @davidbyrnes8541
      @davidbyrnes8541 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Honestly, very cool! Did Japan have the same kind of Stand-up culture craze in the 70's&80's as there was in the US? Is stand-up mainstream entertainment in Japan today?

  • @LifeWhereImFrom
    @LifeWhereImFrom 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7534

    The editing and commentary are on point!

    • @bagusbanget7509
      @bagusbanget7509 4 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      hey good luck to your family and your children

    • @harta7397
      @harta7397 4 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      Love your Channel!

    • @atomic4650
      @atomic4650 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Yeah it was so good

    • @AunknownMan
      @AunknownMan 4 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      I laughed so hard XD you both are amazing! Good channels, keep up the good work.

    • @pranz2984
      @pranz2984 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      I love your channel too Greg 👍

  • @sorathetroll
    @sorathetroll 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2732

    Hmm, I used to watch TV a lot but I noticed I don't watch TV anymore either.. :/

    • @billydabomb8669
      @billydabomb8669 4 ปีที่แล้ว +106

      it would be more interesting if there are people like you in those tv shows >_< Love your channel btw.

    • @akshay4107
      @akshay4107 4 ปีที่แล้ว +24

      Wow! Hey Sora. I like your channel

    • @giboi03
      @giboi03 4 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      @@billydabomb8669 Oh no no, Sora can't be on tv
      Else he'll troll and rickroll everyone

    • @kraizerxthesimp46
      @kraizerxthesimp46 4 ปีที่แล้ว +27

      oh shit the meme lord himself is here

    • @psycheameliorate7446
      @psycheameliorate7446 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      That's so true. I don't even have a tv in my house anymore

  • @mayhair
    @mayhair 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4042

    You did a good job editing yourself into the mini-room at the first minute. You really got me there.

    • @RS250Squid
      @RS250Squid 3 ปีที่แล้ว +75

      I was really pretty impressed with that :-)

    • @JoeVirella
      @JoeVirella 3 ปีที่แล้ว +24

      Same!!! Better than a lot of TV shows

    • @ayviondenar3461
      @ayviondenar3461 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      How did he do that?

    • @lycorisaylla758
      @lycorisaylla758 3 ปีที่แล้ว +52

      @@ayviondenar3461 Green screen + close up photo of that mini room.

    • @civilstoat
      @civilstoat 3 ปีที่แล้ว +43

      The placing the potato chips on the table still messes with my head

  • @CobaltContrast
    @CobaltContrast ปีที่แล้ว +431

    Huge increases of people not watching TV. I have had streaming services for 10 years. I don't recall what it was like to tune into a channel and be forced to watch what they were broadcasting.

    • @greatexpectations6577
      @greatexpectations6577 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      Same here. I grew up on youtube

    • @thatspookagain4030
      @thatspookagain4030 ปีที่แล้ว +50

      And yet streaming services are slowly becoming more and more like cable TV in the sense that you need to buy about 5 of them to watch the shows you want since all are on separate places

    • @iris4547
      @iris4547 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      outside of watching tv every morning before school as a kid, never really did watch much. since like 2003/4 ive just torrented everything i am interested in and watched from my computer. even with the rise of streaming that is far simpler than torrenting, the market is so fragmented id have to spend $150+ a month to watch what i normally do and even then 75% of what i watch would be region locked or simply unavailable and id have to resort to torrenting anyway.

    • @spaghettiisyummy.3623
      @spaghettiisyummy.3623 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@iris4547 Are you from the Indian Subcontinent, Eastern Europe, the middle East, Africa, Latin America, the Pacific, ASEAN, or China?

    • @Agent-ie3uv
      @Agent-ie3uv ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Sometimes you got sick because too many choices and you want a background noise like CNN talking about climate change or something. Its refreshing to watch TV nowadays.

  • @elnavales
    @elnavales 3 ปีที่แล้ว +706

    When I broke my leg in Japan, I had a lot of time to sample Japanese TV. The most common theme in their programming: Food. Cooking shows, travel shows discovering food, game shows where the winner gets a prize: eating food, a famous person going to a far away place to discover...food, debate shows about which city has the better version of their...food.

    • @rhyssuy8361
      @rhyssuy8361 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Did you enjoy any of it

    • @matiasrisso5917
      @matiasrisso5917 3 ปีที่แล้ว +119

      @@rhyssuy8361 He enjoyed the food

    • @Zekegedd
      @Zekegedd 3 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      Yes, yes, food very good.

    • @stargirl7646
      @stargirl7646 3 ปีที่แล้ว +27

      This is Korean TV too 😂 SO. MUCH. FOOD.

    • @OMGulator
      @OMGulator 3 ปีที่แล้ว +44

      True. We have something similar going on with UK television except its all about homes and houses.

  • @b2theill14
    @b2theill14 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1083

    After living in Japan for 5 years, I've come to realize that not a single thing he said about Japanese TV is exaggerated. It's 100% true.

    • @aclark903
      @aclark903 4 ปีที่แล้ว +73

      Been here 20 years, & while most Japanese TV is not worth watching occasionally they do come up with something good.

    • @seasnek7024
      @seasnek7024 4 ปีที่แล้ว +30

      I was there for 3 months and saw it all. Exactly as he said it was

    • @aclark903
      @aclark903 4 ปีที่แล้ว +27

      @@seasnek7024 He's talking about variety shows. I'm talking about #JapaneseTVdrama. Often clichéd, sometimes good.

    • @TomorrowWeLive
      @TomorrowWeLive 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      @Adrian Anikeenko based

    • @ZephirumUpload
      @ZephirumUpload 4 ปีที่แล้ว +27

      @Adrian Anikeenko Yeah I could understand that a lot of Japanese viewers and probably writers don't really see how that's offensive because they probably liken it to Osakans eating a lot of crab or something, instead of a stereotype that's used to mock and belittle black people instead.
      Which I can fully understand is baffling from an outside perspective, it's more of a 'read the air' thing that must be hard to do cross culturally.

  • @isabelleboulay2651
    @isabelleboulay2651 ปีที่แล้ว +42

    I have done business with the Japanese as they visited Canada. There was an issue with the product that we were going to sell for them in Canada. Upon expressing my concerns, I was told that rather than admit to the potential issue, the Japanese representative would think Canadians as rude and tried to prove at all cost that the product was fine. Asian cultures (generally) are very concerned about "losing face",which is about keeping respectable appearances regardless of the reality. So I'm not surprised how Japanese tv seems almost euphoric and over the top happy and positive. Negative emotions are not accepted in public at all. Any criticism is taken as personal shame and often projects the image of failure.

    • @kryts27
      @kryts27 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      Shame culture face-saving goes to blandness of the most excruciating sort, and (unlike the Chimese) the Japanese are very polite, which makes it sort of worse. It's a kabuki theater of understanding the degree of the bow to discover your ranking in society, and social nicities which kind of make your head impode with it's careful subtleness. Leaving a dead fly on your neighbor's doormat is a declaration of war, yet the Japanese army acted with extreme brutality during World War 2, which made the Waffen SS look like jolly nice chaps. So definitely volcanic level of schizophrenic destruction there if the kill switch is flicked. Incomprehensible, baffling and time-wasting from a more direct Westener point of view (Westerners are bigger on guilt culture than shame culture). Probably the Japanese feel negativity about Westerners being crude and rude peasants in return.

    • @aarona6420
      @aarona6420 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      So do they just not value truth when dealing with other people?

  • @ultra_lindel
    @ultra_lindel 4 ปีที่แล้ว +648

    the pen girl literally said the pen twice, but only english version was like skyrim shout

    • @THBronx
      @THBronx 4 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      Skyrim shout 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

    • @junehanabi1756
      @junehanabi1756 4 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      I feel there was an air machine behind her that blew air on the English part so that her mouth and breathing and stuff would look normal but the cloth would go full-on Skyrim shout.

    • @InfernosReaper
      @InfernosReaper 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@junehanabi1756 would explain why it was a bit out of sync with when the air should be coming out of her mouth

    • @Asanyal99
      @Asanyal99 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Fus ro dah

    • @InfernosReaper
      @InfernosReaper 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @Jack Sparrow it looks more like it's between "a" & "pen" though

  • @どもみし
    @どもみし 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3042

    I'm Japanese, and I totally agree his argument. I feel like the more I watching Japanese TV, the more my brain degenerated.

    • @WatcherMovie008
      @WatcherMovie008 4 ปีที่แล้ว +367

      So it just like us Americans watching American TV, the stupidity and fakeness just eats your brain cells inch by inch.

    • @user-ri5oc5rw5b
      @user-ri5oc5rw5b 4 ปีที่แล้ว +87

      Don't ask about Caribbean is like novela and western TV

    • @user-ri5oc5rw5b
      @user-ri5oc5rw5b 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@WatcherMovie008 yeah

    • @therealhardrock
      @therealhardrock 4 ปีที่แล้ว +24

      But your still forced to pay the licensing fee.

    • @miracleman9150
      @miracleman9150 4 ปีที่แล้ว +26

      *I feel like the more I watch Japanese TV, the more my brain degenerates
      Or,
      I feel the more I'm watching Japanese TV, the more my brain is degenerating
      The first one is better

  • @tlam3028
    @tlam3028 4 ปีที่แล้ว +713

    as a native English speaking I feel nothing but shame when I utter the word “Pen”. Women and children cower as I exhale an incredibly loud and powerful burst of air as I whisper PPPPEENNN

    • @Username-1939t9
      @Username-1939t9 4 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      the karens are shaken. english was clearly invented to spread viruses and you speak to you mother with that mouth?

    • @lucas1309
      @lucas1309 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      THINGS I SHOVE UP MY ASS. P- *Cuts off* "Today, we sadly lost many lives in a sudden earthquake".

    • @thatonegooze
      @thatonegooze 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      The Blue Moon VIBRATORS

    • @tlam3028
      @tlam3028 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      nfw buddy, Nobodies loves an grammer nazi!

    • @crazyoncoffee
      @crazyoncoffee 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      nfw looks like a typo man. Calm down

  • @ZephyrinSkies
    @ZephyrinSkies ปีที่แล้ว +219

    Yeh I totally agree. In highschool back in the early 2000s, my friends were really into J-pop idols and would watch all the variety shows with them appearing as guests. It was so mind-numbing. The hyped over-reactions over nothing aside, it was also very clearly trying to manufacture parasocial relationships between fans and the idols. The shows were about mundane everyday things so you could imagine hanging out with them, as if they were like your friends or classmates.

    • @carinadominguez22
      @carinadominguez22 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      And are you all Japanese or...

  • @paulm7631
    @paulm7631 4 ปีที่แล้ว +711

    I honestly burst out laughing watching the "kore wa pen-desu" bit, as the word pen is soooo strong in English, the tissue moved before she even got to say it, like it was fleeing in fear of just how strong the word was....... unreal.

    • @agnieszkamichalak6478
      @agnieszkamichalak6478 4 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      i tried a few more sentences, and tried a bunch in polish too. it's really weird, but english P- words are actually stronger than the other two and i can't figure out why !?!? ... like, i admit as an observation, it's interesting. I tried on purpose to say it with less PWAH power and it doesn't work !!?!? :O ????? i'mm a go check out some other languages now (tho for the novel corona virus, i would also guess not having hugging and kissing cheeks in greetings did a lot more to help than the language did) (also i wonder if that's why english speakers are seen as "louder",maybe the language itself literally has more OOMPH! in the sounds O.o )

    • @jacencade4019
      @jacencade4019 4 ปีที่แล้ว +42

      pen in Japanese pen.
      pen in English. pen.
      how are people actually stupid enough to fall for shit like this.

    • @anikaabdullah8873
      @anikaabdullah8873 4 ปีที่แล้ว +24

      Well, the pen is mightier than the sword and all that.XD

    • @heartsmith8658
      @heartsmith8658 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@anikaabdullah8873 lol nice one

    • @caitthecat
      @caitthecat 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@agnieszkamichalak6478 Sounds like it's just you who speaks English that way because no one knows Wtf you're talking about.

  • @banananer16
    @banananer16 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1101

    Chris's little potato chip sketch is unrealistically quick. It's supposed to take at least 10-15 minutes from when you first show the food to when you actually taste and react to the food.

    • @svenbischoff9769
      @svenbischoff9769 4 ปีที่แล้ว +132

      You're right. I expect a detailed history of how this particular flavor was made, and it better involves a heartwarming story about how the guy (because women don't invent stuff in Japan) met his wife during the process.

    • @kueapel911
      @kueapel911 4 ปีที่แล้ว +35

      @@svenbischoff9769 what, just that? I expected a history of an entire universe starting from a big bang

    • @Brielleing
      @Brielleing 4 ปีที่แล้ว +26

      I was thinking the reaction was too slow! I tend to see people say "umai!" the moment the food touches their tongue.

    • @LamontGilkey
      @LamontGilkey 4 ปีที่แล้ว +32

      And with several commercial breaks before he takes a bite. Not a soft fade to black, but a freaking jarring cut into a beer commercial of people doing the exact same thing with foamy beer on their lips. Because that is how people drink beer of course.

    • @svenbischoff9769
      @svenbischoff9769 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      ​@@kueapel911 You are of course correct. If you wish to make "you" from scratch, you first have to invent the universe.

  • @Hozman1
    @Hozman1 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4054

    Can we just take a moment to sincerely appreciate Chris’ editing skills? Top notch!

    • @jacobpeters5458
      @jacobpeters5458 4 ปีที่แล้ว +44

      absolutely! was just thinking that with the whole mini-TV etc in the beginning. wonder what programs he uses

    • @codname125
      @codname125 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@jacobpeters5458 that's actually a real TV

    • @ilkka4716
      @ilkka4716 4 ปีที่แล้ว +41

      You can tell he is clearly a Youu-toobah!

    • @cakekuy1318
      @cakekuy1318 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      he was a former art/movies student in college, I forgot.
      I think it is in his "Why I came to Japan" video

    • @MrDavi2751
      @MrDavi2751 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Seriously dude?!? It's just a chromakey!!

  • @Banana-cc5rx
    @Banana-cc5rx 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1081

    Remember when the only effect Chris was capable of was an exploding skydiving jetplane. I'member

    • @AbroadinJapan
      @AbroadinJapan  4 ปีที่แล้ว +258

      And I've yet to top that!

    • @Xingmey
      @Xingmey 4 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      @@AbroadinJapan as chancellor palpatine once said: DO IT!

    • @Akinohotarubi
      @Akinohotarubi 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      That was a good effect.

    • @thisguy4614
      @thisguy4614 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Pepperidge Farms remembers

    • @Friendship1nmillion
      @Friendship1nmillion 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@AbroadinJapan Haven't ever seen that of you Chris. I loved watching the Iron Chef { Japanese version , Iron Chef America is/was Crap } Pitty for tourists there's no English speaking local News programs of Japan { to watch in Japan } Only other "Japanese TV " thing i know from the West { watching from Sydney Australia } is Japanese Anime : www.google.com/search?sxsrf=ALeKk01I04VzPfWyX_50BqrjdByuut6b4w%3A1615628449495&ei=oYhMYOfQHaOC4t4P-82GuAE&q=video+clip+of+iron+chef+japan&oq=video+clip+of+Iron+Chef+&gs_lcp=ChNtb2JpbGUtZ3dzLXdpei1zZXJwEAEYAzIGCAAQFhAeMgUIIRCgATIICCEQFhAdEB4yCAghEBYQHRAeMggIIRAWEB0QHjoECAAQRzoHCCMQsAIQJzoECB4QCjoECCMQJzoFCAAQkQI6BQgAELEDOgIIADoECAAQAzoCCC46CAguEJECEJMCOggIABCxAxCDAToLCC4QsQMQxwEQowI6BAguEEM6BAgAEEM6BwgAELEDEEM6BwguELEDEEM6CAguEMcBEKMCOggILhDHARCvAToFCC4QkwI6CAgAEBYQChAeULbKAljftesCYJDS6wJoAXABeAKAAfwFiAHza5IBDTItMTcuMTQuNi4yLjGYAQCgAQGwAQbIAQjAAQE&sclient=mobile-gws-wiz-serp#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:f345ad51,vid:4O8c8rtD5wQ,st:0 { Edit* URL to copy & paste of Iron Chef Japan episode } . 👨‍💼🐨🎁

  • @maven12LA
    @maven12LA 4 ปีที่แล้ว +516

    A brit having to show an exaggerated amount of emotions on tv? Unacceptable

    • @atomictraveller
      @atomictraveller 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      foreigners are scrutinised for life. i would anticipate their descendants are as well.
      nationalism could have been a takeaway
      but remains superliminal

    • @worldcomicsreview354
      @worldcomicsreview354 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@atomictraveller Good. Every country should be like that.

  • @sathwikmalyala886
    @sathwikmalyala886 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1970

    “Are you youtubah?!”
    Chris Broad: My time to shine has come.

    • @SlashDashPro
      @SlashDashPro 4 ปีที่แล้ว +35

      Just a sec, let me go get my camera and set it in place so you can know.

    • @burn_out
      @burn_out 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      He missed his chance to recite Avdol smh

    • @jiunyieephang7014
      @jiunyieephang7014 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I see you're a man of culture as well :smug:

    • @camillagomes1010
      @camillagomes1010 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      "Ayu a yutchubah?"

    • @zerodlaw9622
      @zerodlaw9622 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      YESSS I AM!!!

  • @cojinmango
    @cojinmango ปีที่แล้ว +35

    It's part of escapism. Trying to deal with the dreadful work culture in Japan, this is one of the few instance where they can relax (I'd say it is more targeted towards older generations though).
    Btw, I watch Japanese youtubers sometimes, and your impression and use of sounds was on point xD the small trumpet sound

  • @treewizard6484
    @treewizard6484 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2260

    Western television has stark contrasts as well. Gordon Ramsay is far more reserved on British television while in the US he goes absolutely ballistic.

    • @perlasandoval7883
      @perlasandoval7883 3 ปีที่แล้ว +79

      in the west shows are willing to dive into a tank full of sharks and maybe carry an ak there to kill the sharks

    • @killerbug05
      @killerbug05 3 ปีที่แล้ว +127

      @@perlasandoval7883 I remember an episode of the show river monsters where Jeremy Wade did something similar, he got into a pool full of starved piranhas, just to prove that piranha attacks are rare 🤣

    • @dionaji7677
      @dionaji7677 3 ปีที่แล้ว +70

      @Rusty Gears it's the repressed urges. The country been having low birth rate problems for two decades

    • @maximilian6829
      @maximilian6829 3 ปีที่แล้ว +94

      @@vilena5308
      Okay.... the wage gap is a MYTH. Any stat you’re looking at is the EARNINGS gap, you’re comparing the TOTAL earnings of ALL men to the TOTAL earnings of ALL women and that’s where that stupid wage gap comes from.
      Men and women get paid the same for the same job. Women tend to take lower paying careers, it just is what it is, thus leading to the earnings gap. It’s mostly choice. Women could easily become a welder or a plumber or a garbage truck driver, and earn well close to six figures, sometimes even six figures!
      Women want equality in cushy jobs. I don’t see anyone rallying for equality in trades, manual labor, etc, despite those industries overwhelmingly being male. I guess it’s fine for that to stay part of the patriarchy.

    • @jamesgoldring1052
      @jamesgoldring1052 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Yeah u rgt kid, us tv is so much better,

  • @IshikaShanai
    @IshikaShanai 4 ปีที่แล้ว +843

    Wow the green screen effect turned out better than I imagined when I hearing about it on the podcast! You did a great job with the keying. :D

    • @AbroadinJapan
      @AbroadinJapan  4 ปีที่แล้ว +129

      Even I was surprised to be honest!

    • @thefirstthrownmolotov6852
      @thefirstthrownmolotov6852 4 ปีที่แล้ว +68

      Had me fooled until the hand transition; quality stuff.

    • @misteryA555
      @misteryA555 4 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      @@thefirstthrownmolotov6852 Yeah I only realized it was fake because I recognized the room was the little set he showed earlier

    • @Antiformed
      @Antiformed 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      I was wondering why the retro TV looked like plastic.

    • @MainGoldDragon
      @MainGoldDragon 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Was it really ? I'm not an avid viewer but I immediately noticed he was green screen-ed in. Something about the lighting on him didn't quite look right. Also the hair weren't keyed properly whatever that means because they're the hardest part of a human to cut when you chroma key them..... Also the lighting on the "set". Since it's a miniature, the lighting gets all weird and unrealistic.... hard to explain. Umai effort though !

  • @bubble0bill
    @bubble0bill 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2740

    There's that old cynical and bitter Chris that I originally subbed for.

    • @filmntvguy1977
      @filmntvguy1977 4 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      Indeed.

    • @cadarson
      @cadarson 4 ปีที่แล้ว +27

      You forgot a comma there:
      "There's that old[,] cynical and bitter Chris that I originally subbed for."

    • @mahoihei
      @mahoihei 4 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      Hear hear, I really miss this type of content on the channel.

    • @littlefishbigmountain
      @littlefishbigmountain 4 ปีที่แล้ว +28

      Mx House
      That makes it seem like they’re calling Chris old, not referring to the old Chris which was bitter and cynical

    • @cadarson
      @cadarson 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      @@littlefishbigmountain If you wanna do this, then you could move the "old" or the "Chris", to relate the old to the person.
      > There's that old Chris, cynical and bitter, that's why I originally subbed for.
      or
      > There's that cynical and bitter old Chris that I originally subbed for.

  • @mart5610
    @mart5610 ปีที่แล้ว +36

    As someone from US I always noticed this about TV shows and broadcasts in Japan. it's always happy constantly and honestly im surprised I'm not the only one who was bothered by it. also Ive been to Japan before

    • @intermilan9731
      @intermilan9731 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Americans are always portrayed as gloomy and dark and serious tho lol

    • @mart5610
      @mart5610 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      @@intermilan9731 Rather have a balance than fake positivity 24/7 lol

    • @intermilan9731
      @intermilan9731 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@mart5610 That's not balanced lol. Americans are some of the most depressed people on the planet. Rather fake positivity to inspire more positivity.

    • @sclarinet9088
      @sclarinet9088 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      @@intermilan9731 Respectfully I would rather deal with an uncomfortable truth than a comforting lie.

    • @intermilan9731
      @intermilan9731 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@sclarinet9088 Truthfully, most American depression comes from their own mode of indoctrination. There is no truth there, uncomfortable or comfortable.

  • @uzochiokeke4328
    @uzochiokeke4328 4 ปีที่แล้ว +226

    To be fair, young people from every country don't watch that much TV anymore.
    The internet has everything we need.

    • @disconnectxd7344
      @disconnectxd7344 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      true it got nothing to do with the tvs content
      this whte guy is a moron. and im not exaggerating

    • @disconnectxd7344
      @disconnectxd7344 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      true it got nothing to do with the tvs content
      this whte guy is a mron. and im not exaggerating

    • @disconnectxd7344
      @disconnectxd7344 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      tes

    • @disconnectxd7344
      @disconnectxd7344 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      true it got nothing to do with the tvs content
      this wh guy is a mroon. and im not exaggerating

    • @duckydae
      @duckydae 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Disc OnnectxD If you’re going to insult someone for being a ‘moron’, at least sort out your grammar.
      Pot, meet Kettle.

  • @taterchips69
    @taterchips69 4 ปีที่แล้ว +731

    Funny, I was under the impression tv is garbage everywhere always.

    • @miguelcamara736
      @miguelcamara736 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      My thoughts exactly!

    • @LordMarlle
      @LordMarlle 4 ปีที่แล้ว +63

      I'm Danish, and it's all true. Television is a dying medium, and instead of reinventing themselves, they're pandering to a dying generation

    • @edarddragon
      @edarddragon 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      you mean it isnt?

    • @rumfordc
      @rumfordc 4 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      youtube is quickly becoming just as bad as tv tho

    • @Gallic_Gabagool
      @Gallic_Gabagool 4 ปีที่แล้ว +47

      @@rumfordc Not really. TH-cam will always have more variety than any TV channel. Look at this channel, there would never be anything like this on TV. I agree TH-cam has a lot of issues but itll never be as shit as TV lmao

  • @Wimlan
    @Wimlan 3 ปีที่แล้ว +706

    Your "abroad in Japan as a Japanese tv show" is actually what a lot of Japanese youtuber's channels look like.

    • @kaikart123
      @kaikart123 3 ปีที่แล้ว +69

      It's true, but I see less texts though probably because editing the texts is pain in the ass.

    • @Wimlan
      @Wimlan 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@Earthchyld_333 Who said I hated it? I just made a statement. I never said if it was a good or a bad thing.

  • @Skgaton
    @Skgaton 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    9:30 あまりにも再現が的確すぎて、日本のTV番組を観ている時の脳が溶けそうな感覚が蘇った…

  • @BulletHail1337
    @BulletHail1337 4 ปีที่แล้ว +135

    I love how when they say "pen (ペン)" in Japanese it's just a normal word but sayint the EXACT SAME word with the SAME PRONOUNCIATION in English the whole word turns into an absolute soundwave of destruction that leaves the whole room shattered.

    • @mamutero21
      @mamutero21 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Probably because you need to pronounce "A" pen which makes you open your mouth a bit more than borupen.
      Like if you tested with a toilet paper like me xP

    • @lobodraco
      @lobodraco 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Maybe it has a symbolic meaning, like how the English empire created the destruction and havoc all around the ancient world, and nowadays its imperalistic spawn (in the new continent) creates havoc and exploitation in order to continue “the tradition” of military might. Basically the bully of the world 😂 Just maybe that’s why: “this is a pen”... 💥 🔥 💀 LoL!

    • @CChissel
      @CChissel 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @Dragon Azteca Before English existed it was Latin spoken by the “bully of the world” but China has always been there at the same time, doing their own shit no one seems to address. Before them it was the Egyptians who were the “bullies of the world”, you trying to say that those with power inevitably bully the weak, no matter who they are? Cause you’d be right, no matter their way of forming coherent ideas verbally, nationality or ethnicity.

    • @BulletHail1337
      @BulletHail1337 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@CChissel fam. It was a joke.

    • @lobodraco
      @lobodraco 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      CChissel Ppfft! 😂 Nope! that’s not what I’m saying, nobody is speaking Latin in the paper test video, besides on a global scale, non of your examples are true. The Chinese back in the day could’ve spread worldwide even before the English. They invented gun powder, the compass, and were great sailors, but choose to mind their own and didn’t have that greedy conquering mentality. Also I’m definitely not saying what you’re implying either, because I would not call Native Americans or any other indigenous culture weak, it’s actually quite the opposite. A great example would be the Maori or Hawaiian people, but the difference with natives cultures was that they were not infected with the virus of greed, and lived in accordance to other principles like respecting nature and living according to earth’s rules. In contrast, certain “other cultures” seems that were (still are) intersted in conquest and control, as if they had an infection in their mind that makes them blind. There are plenty of examples of that still being the case today. You see 👁 there is a difference; cultural and philosophical, but it would be ignorant to say otherwise, that’s what I’m saying 💡

  • @MemesnShet
    @MemesnShet 4 ปีที่แล้ว +261

    Wtf I didn’t realise it was a miniature room WTF the hand freaked me out lol Production Quality +10

  • @NasAfter
    @NasAfter 4 ปีที่แล้ว +422

    I'm 90s kid and Takeshi's Castle was huge part of my childhood.. It's weird that some shows have more impact and nostalgia abroad than their native audience

    • @grubbybum3614
      @grubbybum3614 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      It was such a rare treat to find that show airing. As bad as it seems now, network television + no internet made us even more excited in finding an awesome tv show.

    • @ijiwarusensei89
      @ijiwarusensei89 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Anything with Shimura Ken (RIP) was usually very entertaining.

    • @blackbloodcell5147
      @blackbloodcell5147 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Tv champion IS better

    • @flp322
      @flp322 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Yes! That show was the pinnacle of entertainment as a 13-year-old. I want to say it was on either Nickelodeon or Comedy Central? (which used to be the same channel anyway in my country, Nick in the daytime and CC in the evenings)

    • @TomKellyXY
      @TomKellyXY 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      My wife is Japanese and she remembered it. She’s an 80s kid though. I think the point was *younger* Japanese don’t remember it because it came out so long ago. Same for anime like Dragon Ball that took years to be released in English speaking countries.

  • @b4ttlemast0r
    @b4ttlemast0r ปีที่แล้ว +57

    Phonetically speaking, the word "pen" in English does in fact have a more aspirated plosive sound than "ペン" in Japanese, so the air could actually be exhaled more forcefully in English, though they definitely exaggerated that effect, and it certainly has no measurable impact on the spread of a virus. Also the fact that they used the same speaker for both languages, who obviously didn't pronounce English like a native speaker, makes their experiment questionable.

  • @DavidAguilarMX
    @DavidAguilarMX 3 ปีที่แล้ว +558

    This is amazing. I lived in Japan back in 2001-2002, and NOTHING HAS CHANGED.
    Peak moment for me was some dude tasting raw unseasoned tofu and just going aboslute bonkers on HOW AMAZING IT WAS.

    • @thimblina
      @thimblina 3 ปีที่แล้ว +90

      Same. I once watched a show on radishes in a very depressing hotel room with everyone sugoiing all over the place. I just kept watching intrigued how long they could keep it up. In the end I cracked and switched off after about an hour before the insanely long ode to radishes was over.

    • @briansakurada2823
      @briansakurada2823 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Nothing has never not been Oishii in tv.

    • @briansakurada2823
      @briansakurada2823 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      ... and it always sounds so oishii thorough their microphones.

    • @briansakurada2823
      @briansakurada2823 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      ...same goes for the radio. For god sakes there is no reason to eat and comment on the radio.

    • @cdixon5150
      @cdixon5150 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      @@thimblina “sugoiing” all over the place 😂🤣😂🤣🤣 ain’t that the truth .

  • @gaildahlas
    @gaildahlas 4 ปีที่แล้ว +234

    Oh my goodness. THAT'S where the infamous "are you youtuber?!?!" soundbite comes from!
    I know I'm probably the only one realising this now, but the discovery still feels important.

    • @ubayyd
      @ubayyd 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      And I’m just realizing that it’s in fact a soundbite. Where’s it been used?? (That is if it’s not been used everywhere)

    • @wombatpandaa9774
      @wombatpandaa9774 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I didn't even out those two together, so you did better than mr

    • @joegt123
      @joegt123 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@Kronos0999 Clearly you don't listen to the podcast.

    • @gaildahlas
      @gaildahlas 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@ubayyd Chris and Pete (Donaldson) have a podcast. There's quite a back catalogue if you fancy some lockdown listening.

  • @sebastianpolcyn6358
    @sebastianpolcyn6358 4 ปีที่แล้ว +153

    I love how "pen" is literally "pen" in japanese - and yet the tissue seems to know the difference.

    • @kolsky
      @kolsky 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      It's not. The p is very soft - like p and h mixed...

    • @aaronmontero447
      @aaronmontero447 4 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      Amir Kolsky I digress. They are literally pronounced and spelt the same (in Romanji). It just comes down to how hard you emphasize the P or ペ. It was debunked to just be a way to have Japanese show as a “superior language”

    • @さゆぬ-x7i
      @さゆぬ-x7i 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      To be fair, the specific way phonemes are pronounced differ from language to language, and typical English p is known to be more strongly aspirated than Japanese...but certainly not THAT much...

    • @methos4866
      @methos4866 4 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      You can tell she put way too much emphasis on the p on purpose. If you hold your lips together for a split second before saying pen you'll find you automatically put extra emphasis on the p. That's essentially what happened there.

    • @ninototo1
      @ninototo1 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      People do this with my language (german) all the time, to prove how evil and harsh it sounds. I am so sick of it.

  • @Dancingonthesun
    @Dancingonthesun ปีที่แล้ว +14

    When I think about Japanese TV, I remember Nasubi, and his cruel, inhumane treatment by the producers. The broadcast still had all the wacky noises even when he was weeping from loneliness/desperation.

  • @connorbutters8479
    @connorbutters8479 4 ปีที่แล้ว +277

    and now for the weather: it appears to be torrential rainstorms with a high risk of flooding and strong winds...
    *Sugoi*

  • @RealSmoothie
    @RealSmoothie 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1536

    In Shibuya an NHK crew asked me to participate in some show and it was so funny for me - I was also relieved I wouldn’t need to EVER watch it. Very embarrassing 😳

    • @ismaela.6973
      @ismaela.6973 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Did you do it?

    • @S4Luux
      @S4Luux 3 ปีที่แล้ว +26

      Actually, that' on my bucket list - to participate in some weird (*for western people) Japanese TV show :D

    • @budycabra6668
      @budycabra6668 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      שלום

    • @Itme501
      @Itme501 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      חחחח מצאתי את התגובה שסיפרת עליה😅(לא אני לא סטוקרית סתם צפיתי לי בכיף בסרטון והסתכלתי קצת בתגובות)

    • @xd-qg5dz
      @xd-qg5dz 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Do they come to people on the street or something?

  • @regisphilbin529
    @regisphilbin529 4 ปีที่แล้ว +649

    It's like every channel is the weather channel.

    • @twanhams2635
      @twanhams2635 4 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      Underrated comment

    • @Rocky-gs6mb
      @Rocky-gs6mb 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Save us from Kelly Ripa, Regis! You had class!

    • @still_overthinking1665
      @still_overthinking1665 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      except it nevers rains

    • @Sam-TheFullBull
      @Sam-TheFullBull 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Weather Channel but looks like a 3 year old plastic playground

    • @CC-jd5fi
      @CC-jd5fi 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Could you imagine what an actual weather man in Japan has to put up with.
      "We're here in down town Tokyo"
      Corner man : "whhhhhaat?!"
      "... Y-yeah there's a bit of a col-"
      CM:"amazing! Truely amazing!"
      "Cold front coming from the north-
      CM "NANI?!"

  • @CEOofAn
    @CEOofAn ปีที่แล้ว +207

    Takeshi's Castle does give me nostalgia because I used to watch it as a kid at night, because it aired at night for me (I'm not a Japanese btw) but nonetheless I now find Japanese TV quite overwhelming for me, I never knew Takeshi's Castle was a Japanese Show until this video (when I saw it for the first time, this isn't my first time here as of this comment). FYI, it was dubbed in my native language so I never knew it was Japanese + thought that Japan doesn't exist (Basically, what I mean by this is that I used to think this as a kid that there was only one country and that would be where I'm from).
    Edit: 100 LIKES?! This is my first time getting a lot of likes in a comment, thank you! Note that I watched the reruns of it dubbed in my native language, which I didn't think about it when I originally commented.

    • @yiddzin7318
      @yiddzin7318 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      For real, wasn't expecting this gem to crop up in this random video i just clicked for gags

    • @storiabanale
      @storiabanale ปีที่แล้ว +7

      are u Italian by any chance djhsbs

    • @CEOofAn
      @CEOofAn ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@storiabanale nope, I'm from Asia-

    • @le_meme_man8983
      @le_meme_man8983 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      That last bit is so relatable 💀

    • @ChimeraLotietheBunny
      @ChimeraLotietheBunny ปีที่แล้ว +2

      same

  • @rotzloffel
    @rotzloffel 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2055

    ᵗʰᶦˢ ᶦˢ ᵃ PEN

    • @nekolord9134
      @nekolord9134 3 ปีที่แล้ว +64

      I hate that I love this

    • @だんだんーちゃん
      @だんだんーちゃん 3 ปีที่แล้ว +44

      これはペンです( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

    • @nater308
      @nater308 3 ปีที่แล้ว +48

      This is a pineapple

    • @SovereignSage
      @SovereignSage 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      This reminds me of the phrase that the English Language Instructor says to the Japanese kids in Way of The Samurai 4 lol 😂

    • @M4NAS7
      @M4NAS7 3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      @@nater308 this is an apple

  • @yato.692
    @yato.692 4 ปีที่แล้ว +537

    Anyone else wondering why the woman said pen harder in English then she did in Japanese when they are literally the same word in both languages.

    • @nobacktoyou7285
      @nobacktoyou7285 4 ปีที่แล้ว +65

      Its the pen conspiracy

    • @GIOtotheVANNI
      @GIOtotheVANNI 4 ปีที่แล้ว +34

      They have literally the same sound and everything lol

    • @darkpyrolord1808
      @darkpyrolord1808 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      It sounded like "ben", less plosive. I don't know if that's normal or not.

    • @Schmidt54
      @Schmidt54 4 ปีที่แล้ว +47

      Because they think that people are actually that gullible, and some certainly are, to believe such nonsense.

    • @michaelcallisto
      @michaelcallisto 4 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      Racism. That's why.

  • @personalname2056
    @personalname2056 4 ปีที่แล้ว +442

    "Are yoU youTuber?" his voice was so childish and Chris is like *I AM*

    • @falken_gt4
      @falken_gt4 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Chris looked like he might have said “Yes, indeed”

    • @Jestrath
      @Jestrath 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      The way he said I AM is hilarious.

    • @personalname2056
      @personalname2056 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Oh cool thanks for telling me that 😄

    • @Jtucker18Videos
      @Jtucker18Videos 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Like when you tell a child what you do on career day lol

  • @lts3248
    @lts3248 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    The only time I had the TV on in Japan was when I was staying in Kofu, me and a friend initially found it incredibly strange that there was a channel dedicated to just showing traffic cameras with classical music playing. It was surprisingly relaxing though, and I had it on for at least an hour every night, not actively watching it like, but still.

  • @iamkras
    @iamkras 4 ปีที่แล้ว +283

    for a sarcastic person like Chris to live in a country so positive is simply mind-blowing to me

    • @ligrerium9891
      @ligrerium9891 4 ปีที่แล้ว +25

      It is culturally illegal to have Chris in Japan 😂

    • @hanhai8515
      @hanhai8515 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      You always seek what you don't have

    • @Droid15243Z
      @Droid15243Z 4 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      Actual Japanese people told me the outward politeness is generally a veil.

    • @nk4140
      @nk4140 4 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Ah on the surface. Their suicide rate has skyrocketed and hikamori(voluntary shut-ins) culture is prevalent in urban areas. Their society is extremely restrictive. You are never allowed to state or show how you truly feel and the age hierarchy is rigid.

    • @askyourmama5862
      @askyourmama5862 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@nk4140 hikikomori?

  • @aleksei8884
    @aleksei8884 ปีที่แล้ว +1808

    TV in Korea as pretty much the same, except 70% of it is people eating food and the "funny" or "surprising" things are just repeated 2-4 times in a row with different effects like in those Bollywood movies

    • @nathansmith8883
      @nathansmith8883 ปีที่แล้ว +25

      It somewhat reminds me of davie 504.

    • @유-k6f
      @유-k6f ปีที่แล้ว +190

      As a Korean I've never been so offended by something I 100% agree with.

    • @Rakumei672
      @Rakumei672 ปีที่แล้ว +64

      @@유-k6f Classic Korean experience. "We can hate it, but you're not Korean so fuck you if you criticize it!"

    • @유-k6f
      @유-k6f ปีที่แล้ว +95

      @@Rakumei672 Umm... it's a meme response? Google it.

    • @KhoiruunisaRF
      @KhoiruunisaRF ปีที่แล้ว

      진지하게?

  • @maartenw4827
    @maartenw4827 4 ปีที่แล้ว +406

    Petition for Chris to start a second channel called ‘Dave in Japan’ where all videos are styled like Japanese tv

    • @nekomatafuyu
      @nekomatafuyu 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Or just make all future videos on this channel Japanese TV style :3

    • @vladlelcu5316
      @vladlelcu5316 4 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      @@nekomatafuyu A one off might be interesting, or just having Japanese television sequences here and there in his videos, but I come here for the snarky comments, dry British humor and the sarcasm.

    • @cheeseytacotime9380
      @cheeseytacotime9380 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      *etition

    • @princesouthee6679
      @princesouthee6679 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      he should make those videos once a month

    • @andrewblackburn1426
      @andrewblackburn1426 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@vladlelcu5316agree - using it as an occasional segment in his regular videos would probably be best, keeps it funny without overdoing it.

  • @loszhor
    @loszhor ปีที่แล้ว +26

    From a face value perspective, if Japanese society can be very high strung and stressful then I would assume the media they consume would be "calming" or meant to relax in response.

    • @Peleski
      @Peleski ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I think the tv style is meant to evoke the excitement of childhood, which is very nostalgic for Japanese

  • @lilpaypal420
    @lilpaypal420 4 ปีที่แล้ว +989

    The word pen is attributed to 90% of corona cases in English speaking countries

    • @Why_It
      @Why_It 4 ปีที่แล้ว +39

      I can attest to this. My entire family was infected once we toured a Pilot pen factory.

    • @dycedargselderbrother5353
      @dycedargselderbrother5353 4 ปีที่แล้ว +61

      Everyone called me crazy when I claimed Pen Pineapple Apple Pen was a foreign biological weapon in disguise.

    • @djsaidez271
      @djsaidez271 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@dycedargselderbrother5353 genius

    • @BigCharlie442
      @BigCharlie442 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      I agree. I can tell you that in Britain, we have had to ban pens and conversations about pens to protect the people from covid 19. It is now illegal to ask for a pen in the workplace or at school

    • @thejumperkin
      @thejumperkin 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      PeoPle aPPly sPecific sPoken phrases Producing a P Persistently Pertaining to Pens. Ps are Perceived to Produce a Powerful imPression so Plainly it will Produce more sPit when sPoken by ...
      Kidding, obviously. What a fucking shit "study" anyway. I feel like I would naturally pronounce their "p" stronger in that sentence than I would pronounce our "p", purely because I feel it has more emphasis in their language on the p in pen than ours does, at least in EVERY spoken pronunciation I've ever heard even from Japenese speakers but also English speakers...
      The producers of that TV show "study" have definitely lost the thread. I doubt now if I will ever trust any televised Japanese "study"

  • @teyayaa6392
    @teyayaa6392 4 ปีที่แล้ว +702

    Funny how the word "pen" is used in both languages, yet the fact the it is said in such a dirty language as english makes the tissue just blast away in disgust.

    • @ArabKatib
      @ArabKatib 4 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      Easy easy, Russian. /:^)0-
      No need for anger.

    • @pandaexpress7673
      @pandaexpress7673 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      ikr lol and it was strange cause when i tried saying it myself, the japanese ver. had more air coming out than the english sentence

    • @teyayaa6392
      @teyayaa6392 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@cicolas_nage ooh I see

    • @teyayaa6392
      @teyayaa6392 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@ArabKatib lol I was just joking 😅
      You almost got it correct, but no, not russian xd

    • @rodilbodil
      @rodilbodil 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      they said, in english

  • @gallusgallusdomesticus235
    @gallusgallusdomesticus235 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1653

    As a Japanese Z gen person, these are exactly why TV shows are getting less popular among us

  • @MikoajBazaczek
    @MikoajBazaczek 4 ปีที่แล้ว +192

    I was very confused at the beginning "is this green screen or not"? "is the tiny TV working for real or not?!?!" WHAT IS REALITY

    • @NukeMarine
      @NukeMarine 4 ปีที่แล้ว +23

      Probably the best special effects the show displayed thus far. Great job on matching the lighting.

    • @peter.24.7
      @peter.24.7 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      It is either in one of his earlier vids or maybe his podcast, The living room set is a kit but the TV in it actually works.

    • @KK-kg9hv
      @KK-kg9hv 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      In the end Chris picked up the remote in the scene!

    • @realcartoongirl
      @realcartoongirl 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      i didn't notice untill the hand came in

    • @x-crisis
      @x-crisis 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      I was so focused on the TV and thought Chris had gotten some kind of kit that looked like an old set that I didn't notice that the whole room wasn't real.

  • @daydarasensei12
    @daydarasensei12 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    I was on Japanese TV once and I hated it so much but always lied about my experience when talking to Japanese ppl lol I thought they'd get upset. But my close jpn friends said that they expected it to be cringy (at least).
    they made me say so much lies and forced me to exaggerate my reaction to really stupid stuff
    Like..since I'm from a 3rd world country, they wanted me to be amazed at the skyscraper, like... Wth? I had just landed in Tokyo past midnight after 20h+ flight, was freaking tired, but they still wanted me to act all happy and amazed at stuff THEY get to choose, on our way to the hotel, they opened the car window and wanted me to act all hyped because I saw skyscrapers... I just wasn't, I tried but I was so bad that they gave up but then I saw a really awesome building, probably a sumo wrestling stadium and I was genuinely impressed by it so I asked them about it, guess what? They just started at me and nobody bothered replying.
    And yeah, they made the audience rehearse "heeeeeee" multiple times before we started.

  • @toastedfridge5631
    @toastedfridge5631 4 ปีที่แล้ว +352

    What the hell that napkin just blasted away before she even said pen.
    * This is a💥a pen*

    • @AbroadinJapan
      @AbroadinJapan  4 ปีที่แล้ว +142

      The game is rigged

    • @sonyaross946
      @sonyaross946 4 ปีที่แล้ว +43

      @@AbroadinJapan Phonetics teacher here: the English /p/ DOES expel air more forcefully than its Japanese 'equivalent' (thanks to the characteristic English aspiration of the sound) but to shoehorn in a conclusion about virus spread is a bit of a reach to say the least.

    • @moxellex
      @moxellex 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      noticed that, too !! but saying 'a' with such force is an art in itself i suppose ...

    • @JohnSmith-ox7xc
      @JohnSmith-ox7xc 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Think we now know how the flag on the moon moved.

    • @revangerang
      @revangerang 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      sonya ross doesn’t the Japanese language also resonate more from the head area than the mouth? As a trained singer I notice that when I speak Japanese I feel it more in the mask. But the coronavirus thing is definitely a reach either way

  • @CzlowiekDrzewo
    @CzlowiekDrzewo 4 ปีที่แล้ว +545

    So 'This is a Pen' is basically the Fus Ro Dah shout from Skyrim

    • @surajsharma1992
      @surajsharma1992 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Nicely copied 👍

    • @CzlowiekDrzewo
      @CzlowiekDrzewo 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@surajsharma1992 You wot? Who did I copy mate?

    • @surajsharma1992
      @surajsharma1992 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      The one with the most likes is basically the same comment and was posted earlier so don't even dude.

    • @CzlowiekDrzewo
      @CzlowiekDrzewo 4 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      @@surajsharma1992 When I made my comment, I didn't see that one. But hey, there's no way 2 different people could make the same reference, right?

    • @GM_Flynx
      @GM_Flynx 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      And now, the mental image is never out of my head. Thank you. @_@

  • @thefirstthrownmolotov6852
    @thefirstthrownmolotov6852 4 ปีที่แล้ว +281

    I love that Natsuki: The Movie is playing on the black and white in the background.
    AND THAT TRANSITION! Well done, I had a laugh over it.

    • @AbroadinJapan
      @AbroadinJapan  4 ปีที่แล้ว +58

      Easter Egg

    • @thefirstthrownmolotov6852
      @thefirstthrownmolotov6852 4 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      @@AbroadinJapan Salted Potato Easter Eggs.

    • @cyqry
      @cyqry 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@thefirstthrownmolotov6852 Please don't. He's already been through enough with the Salted Egg Potato Chips.

    • @thefirstthrownmolotov6852
      @thefirstthrownmolotov6852 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@cyqry Naaaaah, mAke HIm SuFfEr! For Risottoro!

    • @cyqry
      @cyqry 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@thefirstthrownmolotov6852 Release him! Release him from the shed!

  • @MultiSciGeek
    @MultiSciGeek ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Wow the presentation and video editing style of yours is simply captivating! For real. I sat through this like a breeze. I also love the fact that you don't mince words, say things as they are. You earned my trust as a honest source... of entertainment. Subscribed!

  • @shecklesmack9563
    @shecklesmack9563 4 ปีที่แล้ว +409

    Your parody of Japanese television is equal parts scary accurate, hilarious, and everything I needed in life. I unsubscribed just so I could subscribe again. Top man.

  • @Dj.MODÆO
    @Dj.MODÆO 4 ปีที่แล้ว +550

    There is footage of Gordon Ramsey on TH-cam of him going into a Japanese restaurant in Tokyo and all he did was praise the food.

    • @_BeanieBee_
      @_BeanieBee_ 4 ปีที่แล้ว +25

      And he did us all wrong by giving the Japanese chefs pot noodles. POT FRICTION NOODLES. Why.

    • @ssjup81
      @ssjup81 4 ปีที่แล้ว +50

      That I must see. lol I saw a couple of eps of Kitchen Nightmare (UK version....not our overly dramatic US version) where he was nice about the food. The woman who ran it was from the southern US, but lived in Britain and was married to a Brit. Mama Cherri was the name. He liked the food she prepared and even sent the plate back nearly empty. She was telling the cameras that she wanted to take a photo of the plate. lol

    • @adwait613
      @adwait613 4 ปีที่แล้ว +30

      @@ssjup81 He was Nice About The Food Cause it was Actually Good! I think her Part Time Chef Was Having Issues and It was Mainly a Problem With Debt but Nothing To Do With Food. But When He Goes to Places like Amy's Baking Company (Which happens 99% of the Time) Gordon Goes absolutely Beserk Cause Why Shouldn't He...

    • @ToveriJuri
      @ToveriJuri 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Well the entire point of Kitchen Nightmares was going into failing restaurants so of course he shits on the food. In his travelling show he was actually interested in finding the good food not the bad. So of course there's going to be more praise than hate.

    • @ssjup81
      @ssjup81 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@adwait613 Yeah. I like when he goes to a place and can actually say something good about the dishes and it turns out it's something else that's causing the issue. Mama Cherri is a good example of this. Her kitchen was even clean, from what I recall. It's a shame her place closed because of the recession back then.
      In some ways, I kinda wish Gordon would give more criticisms in like, "This tastes terrible because....but if they would try...it would be better." Offer a negative and a positive...unless there's just no hope.

  • @outtabubblegum7034
    @outtabubblegum7034 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1555

    "I'll take a potato chip... AND EAT IT!!"
    - Light Yagami

    • @Misoandsomesoup
      @Misoandsomesoup 4 ปีที่แล้ว +24

      One sec let me grab my death note

    • @moonlightblue9196
      @moonlightblue9196 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      rip

    • @abhilashajha8822
      @abhilashajha8822 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Let me grab my cats who are Shinigamis.

    • @johnnybravo8664
      @johnnybravo8664 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      You mean the PUHtato chiP. P's spread coronavirus

    • @Satikal
      @Satikal 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      R.I.P 😔

  • @__umbra
    @__umbra ปีที่แล้ว +11

    The tv screen cracking on "This is a pen" is extremely funny😂😂😂

  • @Sdsisdsi
    @Sdsisdsi ปีที่แล้ว +87

    Brother to experience the lowest levels of T.V serials, you need to see Indian TV serials.

    • @definitelynotanAIchatbot
      @definitelynotanAIchatbot ปีที่แล้ว

      Do you really want to compare Japan to India, of all places? I'd rather deal with a culture of inauthenticy than one where gang rapes and public defecation are the norm.

    • @IHateYoutubeHandlesVeryMuch
      @IHateYoutubeHandlesVeryMuch ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Nah man. The levels they go to are so low, it bounces back to being high. Much more entertaining than the type of Japanese TV portrayed in this video.

    • @rosenistudy6142
      @rosenistudy6142 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Indian tv series in those Last years increase the quality.

    • @wibs0n68
      @wibs0n68 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Indian TV is so bad that it becomes good on it's own way

    • @CEOofAn
      @CEOofAn ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Yeah, the dramatic-ness of it all is so bad that it makes me laugh.

  • @ShadowoftheMask
    @ShadowoftheMask 4 ปีที่แล้ว +357

    I mean to be fair, I hate all reality shows anyway, forced drama isn't any more interesting than forced cheerfulness :p

    • @grizzkarizz2960
      @grizzkarizz2960 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      When I lived in Australia, I loved the skit shows and American sitcoms. I was so happy when Netflix became a thing here. There are some good Japanese shows, some are quite funny, but without Netflix, Disney+ etc, I'd go mental.

    • @nopenotme2042
      @nopenotme2042 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Well if they changed the first line to something like "welcome to, how shitty is the world today?" Or something like that and were actually honest about things instead of forced into shit, it might be tolerable.

    • @NyangisKhan
      @NyangisKhan 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Basically television is dying all around the world.

    • @nevreiha
      @nevreiha 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      ア ユ ユーチューバ intensifies

  • @sarge8905
    @sarge8905 4 ปีที่แล้ว +689

    "The sheer destructive force of saying this is a pen" A phrase I thought I would never hear in my life.

    • @AbroadinJapan
      @AbroadinJapan  4 ปีที่แล้ว +122

      Me neither

    • @Sean-qt7og
      @Sean-qt7og 4 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      Just imagine the sheer destructive force PPAP would have had if it came out this year

    • @HenryDube72
      @HenryDube72 4 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Lethal

    • @ShadowKatt
      @ShadowKatt 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      The pen has always been mightier.

    • @Kelvin_Foo
      @Kelvin_Foo 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Sean-qt7og Not even Pikotaro's final form!

  • @kennythekid130
    @kennythekid130 4 ปีที่แล้ว +352

    Japanese TV is just youtube reaction videos with higher production quality

    • @michellelee8933
      @michellelee8933 4 ปีที่แล้ว +46

      I wouldn't say higher, british tv and japanese tv looks like it's stuck in 1990s. Many TH-camrs these days got proper color grading done and the outcome looks better.

    • @Batkenpre
      @Batkenpre 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@michellelee8933 ya that's what I've been seeing for years

    • @vitorcristiano9744
      @vitorcristiano9744 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      you mean lower

    • @KleberDKurosaki
      @KleberDKurosaki 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      More likely higher budget not exactly production quality

    • @vitorcristiano9744
      @vitorcristiano9744 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@KleberDKurosaki exactly

  • @mr1000Cent
    @mr1000Cent ปีที่แล้ว +32

    Maybe the dying days of tape trading pro wrestling and MMA from Japan and Mexico ruined what I learned years later about Japanese TV in the late 90s - early 2000s. Outside of the stories of batshit insane New Years Eve specials, K-1 kickboxing shows that were filled with commercials for (what I assumed were) Japanese soap operas, where women would get randomly naked, or a private investigator who would solve a crime via tying someone up with "ancient rope tactics", while probably recorded from off-the-air channels, the channel was most likely a lowly watched cable channel, and the show probably either aired at 3 am, or as weekend TV filler. At least I was lead to believe from the "pieces of napkins" I pieced together from years of falling down "rabbit holes" on the Internet, LOL.

    • @mr1000Cent
      @mr1000Cent ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Come to think of it, my brief experiences trying to learn a foreign language, if I talk to that language teacher for a little bit, they will tell me how great the country is, how everyone is nice and hospitable, and they take vacations every year to that country, and there is rarely any crime or gang activity (Mexico, Japan, Russia, France, etc.) Very nice place to visit, a paradise, and "don't believe everything you hear in media" type scenario..
      Now compare that with my "research", now as a middle age white male, who probably found some crazy shit such as "Takeshi's Castle" (here as MXC in the United States), "Death Match wrestling" (aka, "Strangle-mania"), poor quality mid-90s "hentai" anime (I think you might be seeing a trend with very poor "comedic" English voice dubbing), and the occasional "Yakuza" action film, in my teenage years, that left me with far more questions than answers, and my stereotypes about Japan that may be far different from the language teachers I mentioned earlier, if not somewhat hilarious and a little tragic in hindsight.

  • @casedistorted
    @casedistorted 4 ปีที่แล้ว +642

    Fun fact: Gordon Ramsay isn’t rude on his foreign cooking tv shows, only the ones in America because he knows his audience..

    • @jaymcd8577
      @jaymcd8577 4 ปีที่แล้ว +82

      The UK Kitchen Nightmare's is far superior to the US dogshit canned version

    • @dr_weil
      @dr_weil 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@jaymcd8577 True!

    • @takkun215
      @takkun215 4 ปีที่แล้ว +36

      Kitchen nightmares started in the UK, and hes the same level of rudeness.

    • @jgsh8062
      @jgsh8062 4 ปีที่แล้ว +41

      No, he's rude in the UK as well, that's where kitchen nightmares started (and btw it's way better than US kitchen nightmares)

    • @Veritaserum90
      @Veritaserum90 4 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      US version is foreign.

  • @vladyslavanufriiev1224
    @vladyslavanufriiev1224 4 ปีที่แล้ว +229

    He straight up acted like a "normal" japanese youtuber. No way

    • @Yusuf.A90
      @Yusuf.A90 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Eeehhhaaa!!

    • @rosanooktown
      @rosanooktown 4 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Legit, I was immediately reminded of はじめしゃちょー(hajime). I quite enjoy watching his videos, but wow Chris' parody was spot on

    • @Sanpaku-san
      @Sanpaku-san 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      It was so true

  • @aaronhurst4379
    @aaronhurst4379 4 ปีที่แล้ว +364

    I had no idea Takeishi's Castle was filmed THAT far back, damn...

    • @fernarias
      @fernarias 4 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      It's in standard definition and japan had hd analog in the early 90s.

    • @timmykookoo
      @timmykookoo 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      How? The video quality is terrible by 2000s standards and their running around in 80s fashion.

    • @thejumperkin
      @thejumperkin 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Same here. I knew it was old(ish), but I'm the same age as chris and I loved it when I was between like 12 and 14 or something. I thought it first appeared around 1998-2000 lol. Honestly though that's still not in the time bracket of current school boys/girls so it still wouldn't make sense for them to know it anyway

    • @codeninja100
      @codeninja100 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      I still watch MXC to this day. The writing and puns in the american version are legendary

    • @Kuraiko-nn4cl
      @Kuraiko-nn4cl 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@thejumperkin I'm much younger and still watched it during my childhood

  • @user-yh7ix2ow1p
    @user-yh7ix2ow1p 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    I guess this is exactly the reason why terrace house was such a huge hit among western audiences. It's the opposite of loud, in your face tv and the witty remarks of the panel made you see the beauty and drama in the mundane.

  • @sawulohi
    @sawulohi 4 ปีที่แล้ว +505

    The real reason Chris doesn’t watch Japanese TV is that he might see Chris Broad on it.

    • @fabr1cated
      @fabr1cated 4 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      that's exactly the reason Dave* doesn't watch TV

    • @marvinuhilarious
      @marvinuhilarious 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@fabr1cated Chappelle?

  • @fanime1
    @fanime1 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1295

    This makes me wonder what Japanese people think American TV is like.

    • @Ihyabond009
      @Ihyabond009 4 ปีที่แล้ว +395

      Watches Kitchen Nightmare once, instant PTSD

    • @tw4898
      @tw4898 4 ปีที่แล้ว +94

      へーーーーこわいーーーー

    • @linamyerscough548
      @linamyerscough548 4 ปีที่แล้ว +155

      my mum finds it depressing lol

    • @normalguy8911
      @normalguy8911 4 ปีที่แล้ว +171

      American TV is depressing

    • @rugawakhoidts2947
      @rugawakhoidts2947 4 ปีที่แล้ว +56

      sad story we don't watch

  • @maycontainnuts3127
    @maycontainnuts3127 4 ปีที่แล้ว +461

    Correction: Nobody's quite sure if the participants of Takeshi's Castle were actually willing.

    • @Kronos51
      @Kronos51 4 ปีที่แล้ว +34

      In fact, has anyone actually *seen* any of the contestants that went onto Takeshi's Castle since the show aired?

    • @jakeseaton2730
      @jakeseaton2730 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Gola245 yeah I wonder if tekashi wrote him back lol

    • @cmmgree115
      @cmmgree115 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @Clinical Depression Coming from a white supremacist and hater of minorities. Jontron is not one of us.

    • @nicklaing8925
      @nicklaing8925 4 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      @@cmmgree115 Imagine just outing yourself as trash like that

    • @emmaolsson1568
      @emmaolsson1568 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@nicklaing8925 Well it's his opinion because he doesn't think it's a bad opinion to have, so it would follow that he also doesn't think it's bad to admit to having it

  • @thereallogus4174
    @thereallogus4174 ปีที่แล้ว +21

    I 100% agree with your critiques of Japanese television, however, I did like your take on Abroad in Japan, Japanese television edition quite a lot.

  • @raichu180
    @raichu180 4 ปีที่แล้ว +353

    the tv program - "japan, a country with four seasons..."
    There is some crazy conspiracy in japan where everyone here thinks that it is crazy special to have four seasons. I have been asked so many times since being here how many seasons does my home country has

    • @veduci22
      @veduci22 4 ปีที่แล้ว +70

      I was asked several times in USA if people in Europe have air conditioning or dishwashers... **facepalm**

    • @johnprocrastinator
      @johnprocrastinator 4 ปีที่แล้ว +51

      It's true though. In many countries some seasons don't live up their name, in others you experience the four seasons in one day. In comparission, Japan does have four seasons and each has its identity.

    • @StarlitGlitch
      @StarlitGlitch 4 ปีที่แล้ว +37

      There are a lot of Japanese people though who make fun of the “Japan has four seasons” thing so sometimes it’s just a joke.

    • @RonaldoTalison
      @RonaldoTalison 4 ปีที่แล้ว +29

      I live in Brazil northeast (close to the equator line) and we only have two seasons. Most of the time is hot and the rest of the time rains.

    • @lumiegames
      @lumiegames 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Lmao this was my first thought too 😂
      You know even the voiceover guy will have been like “not that season bullshit again...”

  • @katoru6625
    @katoru6625 4 ปีที่แล้ว +272

    Chris you better add yourself saying “sugoi” to the sound board. I need it as my text tone for certain people...

  • @pillbugm8914
    @pillbugm8914 ปีที่แล้ว +3069

    Somehow Chris' Japanese parody is still not exaggerated enough.

    • @johnynoway9127
      @johnynoway9127 ปีที่แล้ว +160

      needs more sound effects

    • @lavalampluva55401
      @lavalampluva55401 ปีที่แล้ว +91

      It's the Japanese game shows. "Your game shows reward knowledge. Here, we punish ignorance."

    • @karaokepup
      @karaokepup ปีที่แล้ว +14

      sugoii

    • @201hastings
      @201hastings ปีที่แล้ว +11

      The SNL Mike Myers Japanese Game show skit is pretty accurate

    • @ADeeSHUPA
      @ADeeSHUPA ปีที่แล้ว

      @@johnynoway9127 笑 笑 笑

  • @ShinyShilla
    @ShinyShilla ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Kinda incredible how in different places, tv can be so different. One of the channels my relatives watch, every sunday during lunch time, has a show that talks about cultural facts, festivities, peculiar towns about our state, mostly food related, and it is also how I found out in one region they have a cheese with live fly maggots inside, and you would think that it's rotten cheese but is not, the way is worked is meticulous and if they notice the minimum of mistake they will throw the bad cheese.

  • @TobiasSample
    @TobiasSample 4 ปีที่แล้ว +610

    I live in Korea, and there are quite a few parallels. Those flippin sound effects. The weird extra captions that you don't need. The 'WOOOOOOOOAAAHHH' sound. Those goddamn reaction boxes too! It's like TH-camrs react is primetime TV here.
    What we get here that you didn't mention is action replays for mundane stuff. It's not Korean TV if everything has a triple-replay.

    • @mheekkim2901
      @mheekkim2901 4 ปีที่แล้ว +54

      Fck! I just said the same thing a few days ago. I was enjoying a singing show but once it hit the climax THEY FCK REPEATED IT THREE TIMES WITH THE AUDIENCE REACTION! broke the mood. "아 시발" just came out of my mouth

    • @BBaaaaa
      @BBaaaaa 4 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      YES
      The replays sometimes make it unbearable to watch.

    • @silasdrake7783
      @silasdrake7783 4 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      I thought the replays were more of an indian soap opera thing.

    • @jollybean5135
      @jollybean5135 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I swear to god those replays are damn annoying 😂😂😂😂

    • @KeirThomas
      @KeirThomas 4 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      I've lived in both Korea and Japan and confirm the TV is just as shit on both sides. Very, very similar. Unwatchable.

  • @LordAngrylettuce
    @LordAngrylettuce 4 ปีที่แล้ว +921

    Destructive force of saying „This is a Pen“.......
    **sweats in German**

    • @bluezel
      @bluezel 4 ปีที่แล้ว +29

      @@GerdLPluu why not just watch some German TH-cam with English subs? A recommendation of mine:"Dinge erklärt - kurzgesagt"
      It's the German "Dinge erklärt - in a nutshell" channel

    • @engorgioarmani3381
      @engorgioarmani3381 4 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Actually not bad “dies ist ein Stift”. There’s no p in it. P blows air

    • @nurii3202
      @nurii3202 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      * looks away nervously in Spanish because it's said we're loud people*

    • @Lonystal
      @Lonystal 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Das ist ein Kugelschreiber lol

    • @tarkitarker0815
      @tarkitarker0815 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@engorgioarmani3381 S blows quite much air too. st actually even more than s when you must speak everything as sharp as possible.

  • @MrAndresm900
    @MrAndresm900 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1208

    🗣"This is a pen" is like when Draco says the P in Potter 🤣🤣

    • @mvl71
      @mvl71 3 ปีที่แล้ว +72

      *Hogwarts explodes*

    • @freshfrozen7612
      @freshfrozen7612 3 ปีที่แล้ว +41

      harry Photthah

    • @Baard5Szomoru
      @Baard5Szomoru 3 ปีที่แล้ว +32

      Harry PPPPHPHPHHPHPHPothah!!!!!!!!! (solar system explodes, explodes twice)

    • @infernoxero2791
      @infernoxero2791 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      No

    • @drey7x740
      @drey7x740 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      who else said potter after reading this.

  • @scrumbles
    @scrumbles 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    There is also the fact that you can sued for slander easily in Japan. Even if what you say is true, if it hurts someone's reputation you can be sued.

  • @Davidvideo3
    @Davidvideo3 4 ปีที่แล้ว +252

    Your imitation of japanese television has an unsettling similarity with actual japanese youtubers.....

    • @psychoticxmemory
      @psychoticxmemory 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      David 💀

    • @98ma
      @98ma 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      LOL My thought exactly

    • @harmonys965
      @harmonys965 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I was thinking that during the entire segment!

    • @budakbaongsiah
      @budakbaongsiah 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      He did not turn himself into an anime character though

    • @lilangel3363
      @lilangel3363 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      You read my mind dude.

  • @kotatsue
    @kotatsue 4 ปีที่แล้ว +646

    Ok the irony is that “pen” is said the same in English and japanese, lol

    • @TeaBagOfChaos
      @TeaBagOfChaos 4 ปีที่แล้ว +97

      No Japanese pen is written in katakana and English pen is written in English. Huge difference

    • @babycoolkid1541
      @babycoolkid1541 4 ปีที่แล้ว +28

      @@TeaBagOfChaos how u proununce both

    • @redtukeguy4263
      @redtukeguy4263 4 ปีที่แล้ว +26

      It kinda seemed like there was a wire tugging on the napkin because it moved before she said the word "pen"

    • @OhadLutzky
      @OhadLutzky 4 ปีที่แล้ว +26

      It's not even a different pronunciation like "ホテル" or "コーヒー"... "ペン" is legitimately pronounced the same as "pen". It's exceedingly rare for a word to do that, just look at what happened to カラオケ in English...

    • @haruhisuzumiya6650
      @haruhisuzumiya6650 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@redtukeguy4263 yep, all fake

  • @mctyfun531
    @mctyfun531 4 ปีที่แล้ว +372

    Dragonborn: Fus Ro Dah
    Japanese Woman: This is a pen

  • @YochevedDesigns
    @YochevedDesigns 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +17

    I was 100% surprised that the opening background was a miniature. Extremely well done!

  • @n0denz
    @n0denz 4 ปีที่แล้ว +181

    Gordon Ramsay: Excessive insults and profanity.
    Ramusei Gorodon-sensei: Calls people he doesn't know by their given names and doesn't use proper personal pronouns.

  • @Mythral
    @Mythral 4 ปีที่แล้ว +339

    Commentator: "The secret of these delicious beans is in the seeds"
    Chris: "sugoi"
    that knocked me tf out😂

  • @maximerobinson319
    @maximerobinson319 4 ปีที่แล้ว +373

    Japan before Chris Broad:
    Are you TH-camr?
    Japan after Chris Broad:
    Are you f***ing TH-camr?
    Brilliant.