I used to live in Maebashi 10 years ago and I can remember me and my dad would drive around and find a place to go fishing. The buildings, the konbinis, the houses shown here… I can still remember it somehow. I’ve never been so very nostalgic about a video. Thank you, Nick.
him looking at earth with the two photos of michaelsoft binbows feels like an alien with the task of having to go to earth with the task of finding the building
There's something so touching about a guy updating his blog since the early internet, like literally before the millennium--- back when yahoo and AOL were relevant, 33 years diligently detailing his life and the world around him with such effort... and then one day he suddenly becomes the key part of a huge adventure involving an international viral meme. It's like witnessing "we're all important" in action. Everything we do has meaning, even if we don't realize it. Even long after we're gone.
For real. That was an emotional journey. I hope to see a follow up video where he actually goes to Japan. Hopefully whoever owns the place now could tell us some more about the old shop.
You did tell Adachi, right? Of all the people in the universe, he would probably be the most interested in documenting images of an interesting building from 20 years ago
not sure if he told him directly but if you check the michaelsoft binbows page now it has a note at the bottom saying that it was introduced in this video and also links some fanart - very wholesome
What are the odds of a random guy with a metodic website, taking a photo of a random funny building, helped someone to do an exhaustive search, and find the origin of an old internet meme. God I love this world
You know, I think I found the original souce where this image is from. For some reason it is from a website called: Velocidadmaxima. What I find strange is that it is not a English website, how can someone understand how dumb the sign is if they don't know English?
@@interro588 in the same way that somebody who doesn’t speak Japanese understands that the name is a pun. But in all seriousness most people are familiar with windows and a lot people speak English as a second langue.
I made a playlist titled michaelsoft binbows so I can enjoy these 2 videos in one go, the journey this brings is a masterpiece thank you to @babylonian for this amazing documentary
I think my favorite thing in this video is Maru seeing the legendary fruits of Nick’s efforts after a transcendental VR experience and going “lmao binbows”
Adachi is such a legend. So much dedication in maintaining a website for 33 years without even knowing there is any meaning. Besides that, it seems that Adachi has favorited this video. His TH-cam: アルフの部屋
Out of options. and desperate for a resolution, I knew what I had to do...in this case Nick pulled a Nintendo move by doing the unexpected but he did that with the McDonalds DS as well. There’s a structure and tone to his videos but he keeps you guessing and always surprises much like Nintendo which quite a bit of his videos have revolve around. Very talented creator.
I love the implication that the only reason Nick didn't go to Japan this time is because of Covid travel restrictions. This man was 100% ready to fly to Japan just to find a store that closed 19 years ago.
I'll give you an advice that has personally helped me find motivation: *Just do it* I know, it sounds basic and stupid. But most of the times that I've discovered stuff that I like my line of thinking has been "Why the frick not? Let's just do it for the anecdote or just to see what happens" Clicking on random YT videos and discovering new youtubers to watch, trying out weird food and discovering new dishes you like, creating something crappy and discovering a new hobbie. Just do it for the fun man.
@@bartosz_xenon Nah, I'm a multilingual Slav from the Balkans and it's not really that useful.. or funny.. I guess it applies more to people living in the Far East, where the cultural barrier is much greater, yet since the American territorial expansion on the Pacific they've become quite close to each other, and so pretty much overwhelmed by common American culture. Knowing many languages, or at least partially understanding vastly different language families, however, does in fact help you grasp the world better, you know, lets you appreciate the different mentalities across the globe, or even deep-down similarities. So multilingual people tend to be, uhm, more versatile and all-encompassing with their thoughts. It's a clumsy sentence, but what I'm trying to say is that multilingual people are less prone to subtle ideologies or "self-centrisms" typically hidden in overused localisms and are more likely to think about any topic from numerous angles. Sometimes that's all it takes to see what makes a German a German, and what makes a Russian a Russian. Languages we use encode the ways we live, and highlight the neural pathways we regularly use. In my mind this is what it means to transcend the place of origin, and the concept of nationalism at the grander scale, and what gives you the ability to think, behave, and empathize like a true citizen of the world. In fact, this is necessary, and the reason why they though Esperanto was a good idea. Knowing the languages of the world, and how others think, is precisely the opposite of "divide and conquer".
The best part is how close Nick was to Michaelsoft when he began hunting! He started at the Gunma General Staff Co. building (19:22 this one) and is only about 140 meters away from Michaelsoft. Nick was less than one-tenth of a mile away from Michaelsoft and he probably would've found it within seconds (although he probably wouldn't had recognized it from that angle, I certainly wouldn't). Yeah, I don't think Nick knows how much luck he's been blessed with.
@@Akronox. it’s definitely not forgotten now, which is super wholesome and sweet that tons of people now know about this one dude just documenting things that he found interesting in his life!
Adachi's blog is just too wholesome. He's so dedicated to the website, even signing his name off in the email as "Alf's room manager" almost brought tears to my eyes :') thank you for making this video, Nick! Appreciate it lots. Also, lmao. Binbows.
That's was indeed wholesome...!!! But still no matter how many times I hear it, the words "Michaelsoft Binbows" always make me laugh. It's just a weirdly hilarious name.
As a Japanese who didn't know this viral meme, this is really entertaining. Man this is not what just a TH-camr would do but decent journalism. Thank you for sharing your wonderful adventuring experience.
No idea how I found this video. I’m in bed sick with a chest infection and all I can say is I needed this video. The best 34 minutes of my day and it’s honestly made me feel slightly better. Just proves that the internet isn’t always awful. Thank you Sir
I love how the knowledge of what Michaelsoft Binbows actually means and was does not take away *any* of the humour of the actual image. I mean, being a fan of these shop names and logos that are creative parodies of actual brands, knowing that "Michaelsoft Binbows" is an intentional pun makes it even _more_ funny and endearing. And knowing where the actual place is now is just delightful.
a wise unemployed engineer shared knowledge with me when i was in class 12. he said, "don't think about what u gonna do in future, think about what are u doing now" i did not take this lesson seriously and did what my hormones and monkey brain led me to.. now i am here.... wer all gonna die, but people like us die inside long before physical death.. videos like this give short doses of pleasure, then again melancholy..
We need more of this: people genuinely enjoying apparently “useless” quests - it’s so exquisitely human and such little, unique stories make the world literally a better place
The most useless thing about this is: How he cannot keep his head still for 1/4 of a second. You are in serious need of medication. You're burning out synaptic areas like someone mainlining Molly and Cocaine. JFC, man. Calm TF down just 1%.
@@andrewstewart1464 The remarkable thing is that it's not even entirely nonsense anymore thanks to this video. I mean, when we feel emotions we change a little inside. And I dare say that maybe some of the emotions and thoughts brought up by this video might be helpful for some people. Meaning and connection elevate us, and might even give us the chance to see ourselves more clearly for a moment.
@@cliftut 110% agree. Use of the word 'nonsense' is for lack of a better term, probably should have just said 'fun'. Just goes to show my own mental entrenchment in the hypercapitalist systems. But yeah, doing things for yourself and others just because it makes you/them happy are always worth it, even if they are temporary. I don't want to imagine a world where such happiness is discouraged. That is true dystopia to me.
The existence of blogs like Alf’s Room is so wonderful and reassuring to me, to know that there are little mindful eyes out there keeping up with the parts of the world that nobody else really pays attention to. I think I’m going to create a Wordpress (knowing full well that nobody looks at Wordpress blogs anymore) just so I can be a little mindful eye too. Create a virtual curiosity cabinet that stays for hypothetical future internet users to rummage through, so that the adorable little oddities of my surroundings don’t die with passing time. I hope Adachi knows what an inspiration he is being to thousands of people to look at the world more closely and with awe.
I grew up in Japan, and I got emotional seeing you wander around Koaigimachi in Google Earth VR. Seeing the ordinary life there, the quirkiness of local businesses and landmarks, made me realize just how much I miss Japan. And when you found where Michaelsoft Binbows once stood, I got misty eyed - maybe because when I visit my old hometown where I grew up, I wander around searching for recognizable things from my childhood so many years ago. Awesome video, man. You should write Mr. Adachi an email explaining how significant Michaelsoft Binbows is on Internet and express all you said at the end of the video. I’m sure he’d be super proud of Alf’s Room.
*Nornal person* : haha funny name *Nick* : goes back in time Takes a virtual journey to the place Solves its 20 year old mystery Takes thousands of people on a spiritual journey doing so. The modern Marco Polo
This is one of my favorite corners of the internet, I don't know how you make these stories and witch-hunts so entertaining and motivating but please keep going 💯
I have to say this would be called a goose-chase, not a witch-hunt. Witch-hunt: let’s find someone to (wrongly) blame Goose-chase: foolish quest with almost 0 chance of finding the object because there’s nothing to catch
Nick is a person who is hugely obsessed with the weirdest and obscure things all across the internet, so much so that he dedicates a whole half-hour video trying to find the location of a famous sign in Japan. You guys gotta give Nick Robinson some respect for his dedication in tracking down the sign .
The fact the image kept being captioned as a chinese knock-off even though there is katakana under and above the name annoyed me more than it should of.
I love how the response is, at the same time, simple and dumb, but also full of meaning: it's a wonderful, historical discovery, and it is hilarious and it *is* Binbows. lmao binbows
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We need to make a Michaelsoft Bimbows pin on Google Maps, and give it a 5-star rating! Edit: It's already added, as a place of worship. I tried adding the two photos, but it's pending verification.
@@kingminceraft9487 I added a label "Former home of Michaelsoft Binbows". Also, if you go to Street View at the pin, you can see that the other side of the same building used to be a Subaru dealership, albeit a VERY small one.
@@Flixxy0 Very unlikely that Adachi took a second picture, spread it out on the internet without posting it on his own website, and then forgot about it. That doesn't fit Adachi's personality.
Adachi seems so wholesome, I love people who like the smaller details in life most people don't think about for a second, and documents it too. There's many things, like this in fact that would be lost to time if it weren't for people like him. Thanks for showing his website too. When my Japanese gets better, I'm looking forward to reading through it.
Imagine if this video had japanese subtitles for Adachi to watch this. I'm still very mad that now only Nick can add them and not the community like they once could. Those youtube subtitles made by the community basically taugh me English and were EXTREMELY helpful to me, at least
I'm also mad at this, it didn't cost TH-cam anything and was such a cool feature that let me share videos with friends and family (that don't speak English).
UPDATE: I finally visited Michaelsoft Binbows in real life: th-cam.com/video/QRIklga9IBQ/w-d-xo.html
that's not like nick to get a flight to japan
I feel like a chapter of my life is complete
Nice
Nice
I just came back to rewatch this video after seeing the new one in my recommended
I am Japanese.
For the first time, I learned that Japanese silly photographs have become net memes overseas.
And I love you who can work hard.
Adachi Yoshinori has added this video to his Favourites playlist on the Alf's room youtube channel!
Gone full circle.
Yes please give a link If you can.
this makes me so happy
There is no link.
Take off your clothes.
@@hypnotised-clover watch?v=yDzAAjzbV5g&list=FLuke05PvJqGQkmSDzbtTYZg I think it's this one
@omori Look up アルフの部屋 in youtube and look at the playlists. Its on the top of the favourites playlist
I used to live in Maebashi 10 years ago and I can remember me and my dad would drive around and find a place to go fishing. The buildings, the konbinis, the houses shown here… I can still remember it somehow. I’ve never been so very nostalgic about a video. Thank you, Nick.
wow
wow
wow
that's amazing :)
Do you know anyone still there that can go to take more photos?
I shouldn't love this so much, but I do.. all my love going virtually to the forever great Michaelsoft Binbows.
him looking at earth with the two photos of michaelsoft binbows feels like an alien with the task of having to go to earth with the task of finding the building
The way he descends from the space too... :D
Just the building
That’s obviously the point lol
Okay but why am I genuinely heart broken that the three potted plants aren’t there anymore…
Same
New nick robinson vid idea: find out what happened to those plants and why they were there in the first place :’(
@@Calirinz yes!!!
@@Calirinz so i travelled to japan to figure it out-
They've grown big, they were freed
There's something so touching about a guy updating his blog since the early internet, like literally before the millennium--- back when yahoo and AOL were relevant, 33 years diligently detailing his life and the world around him with such effort... and then one day he suddenly becomes the key part of a huge adventure involving an international viral meme. It's like witnessing "we're all important" in action. Everything we do has meaning, even if we don't realize it. Even long after we're gone.
"Even long we are gone"?
So the man died?
@@alexisventura7191 No, he's alive and well. It was more a statement that applies to all of us in general :)
@@alexisventura7191 He's actually seen the video and added it to his favorites playlist
@@BeeLy1011 is he on youtube?
@@_mossy_8520 The channel is AlfsRoom or something like that
Google maps on vr is so cozy
“HEY, vsauce. Michaelsoft here-”
Imao bimbows
Or are they?
Oh no 😂😂😂
Exactly what I was thinking lmao
Ok u win this one
"Hey, Binbouce, Michaelsoft here"
I am surprised that my website is introduced.
It's the legend himself. I admire the amount of dedication/passion you've poured into your website and the internet, thank you Adachi San 🙏🏼❤️
@Jordan Conery have you watched the video?
Hi
hello Adachi! ALF’S ROOM is great. thank you for all your help! ☺️
He even favorited this video on his channel. Legendary event. Very cool.
Well done, Nick!
thanks so much, brian! 🐵
This one fell under the rug. Still really cool that you watch Nicks videos. Would of been so much different if Nick never made the video, crazy.
Brian Matt is a daddy, no doubt about it
Really man you’re such a damn legend
Very cool! ❤
no matter what, nick always finds a way to japan
I'm reading this sentence as if "Japan" is a verb and I'm having a whale of a time
@@MunkiZee 😂
@@WildWolf-pu4pj ඩ
@@ls200076 sussus amogus
I honestly wonder why he doesn’t just live there
I don't know why but this is one of the most heart warming videos I've seen in awhile
we're no strangers to love
@@xexpaguette this is 2021 we need wholesomeness how dare you ruin it we just got across 2020 why
@@figshwg they knew the rules and so did you
That's pretty much his whole channel
Thank you Rick, very cool.
I can’t believe Michaelsoft Binbows almost made me cry-
For real. That was an emotional journey.
I hope to see a follow up video where he actually goes to Japan. Hopefully whoever owns the place now could tell us some more about the old shop.
Same
same it was literally a used parts store but damn if the journey to find it didn't almost make me cry myself.
I honestly feel sad that it is closed.
Yes...almost...
Microshaft Winblows
My same thought.
Nice 👌
Nick: mentions Japan
His wallet: *shakes nervously*
"I flew to Japan to buy a meme"
he should make it his office
Make, like a Meme retreat: to go sell cheap computer parts with Americans in suburban Tokyo - like WOOFing but more dedicatedly centred around Lulz
Nick is going to find a time machine in 10 years, travel back in time and become Hidachi, and leave these clues for himself in the future
🥲
*Adachi
I just spent 34 minutes learning about a meme i never heard about until today...
just started and realized that it was 34 mins
I've seen the Michaelsoft Binbows image but didn't know it was a meme lol
you've never seen the image before?
top 10 people who got burned alive
I was never born at that time so I never seen the meme
relatable
one of the most delightful watches, thank you
You did tell Adachi, right? Of all the people in the universe, he would probably be the most interested in documenting images of an interesting building from 20 years ago
someone should
not sure if he told him directly but if you check the michaelsoft binbows page now it has a note at the bottom saying that it was introduced in this video and also links some fanart - very wholesome
honk
@@Scaramouche122 i sense a honk
@@spiderlilying Wow it's real, been on the page the message is indeed there. Wholesome.
“And so, I bought a ticket for the next plane to Japan to meet the legend himself: Michaelsoft.”
It will be mich"ae"lsoft not mich"ea"lsoft
You spelt Michael wrong 😤😡😡😤😠🤬😤
@@catfaceman1669 huh so?
Dr. Michael Soft, PhD
@@SaqinNoor he edited it and corrected it lol
"i took the only 2 photos of Michaelsoft binbows and affixed it to my left arm"
This is a logical sentence
... The future is now, eh? >)X^D
I almost thought that he got the two photos tattooed on him
The subliminal Brico-Meiser placement keeps getting me. The iMeiser threw me off the edge.
What are the odds of a random guy with a metodic website, taking a photo of a random funny building, helped someone to do an exhaustive search, and find the origin of an old internet meme. God I love this world
i don’t know but we beat the odds!
You know, I think I found the original souce where this image is from. For some reason it is from a website called: Velocidadmaxima.
What I find strange is that it is not a English website, how can someone understand how dumb the sign is if they don't know English?
@@interro588 Hello fellow researcher, you messed up, velocidadmaxima is not the original, it's just a blog/meme site where the image was repostrd
Love the internet
@@interro588 in the same way that somebody who doesn’t speak Japanese understands that the name is a pun.
But in all seriousness most people are familiar with windows and a lot people speak English as a second langue.
congrats on the binbus brother. god sped
👍
Thank you mr n-word, very cool!
How you only have 9 likes lmao
goodnight girl
Love you papi twomad
BRO
HOW THE FUCK THIS MAN HIT ME IN THE FEELS WITH "MICHAELSOFT BINBOWS"
because michealsoft binbows is one of the greatest stories of all time
yes, just yes
that's
Nick Robinson for ya
"Michaelsoft Binbows"
**cries and sobs**
Me too, man, I was almost in tears when he finally spotted it.
I made a playlist titled michaelsoft binbows so I can enjoy these 2 videos in one go, the journey this brings is a masterpiece thank you to @babylonian for this amazing documentary
I think my favorite thing in this video is Maru seeing the legendary fruits of Nick’s efforts after a transcendental VR experience and going “lmao binbows”
ghjk
Yess
😕
I love Maru's response. "Binbows lmao". What a legend.
Binbows lmao
Binbows lmao
Binbows lmao
Binbows lmao
lmao Binbows
You should've went there in Michaelsoft Flight Simulator
Lol
@Non / Disney Dubbing Fan Lol
@RYLE SALUNGA Lol
@@ellendegenerate. Lol
@@lifestuff6249 Lol
sounds like it cracks you up like big chungus cracks me up
Adachi is such a legend. So much dedication in maintaining a website for 33 years without even knowing there is any meaning.
Besides that, it seems that Adachi has favorited this video. His TH-cam: アルフの部屋
Can You link it? I'm on phone
Link?
@@Marjill_katzen888 alfsroom
He also added its link to the blog page about Michaelsoft Binbows
Link
i was so disappointed when the classic "desperate in search for answers i took a flight to Japan" couldn't happen
"...I took a flight to Japan in Google Earth"
@@The_Eray "I travelled through space and landed in Japan"
It's alright. This episode saw Nick come to terms with what a trip to Japan really means to him, it was huge for character development
Out of options. and desperate for a resolution, I knew what I had to do...in this case Nick pulled a Nintendo move by doing the unexpected but he did that with the McDonalds DS as well. There’s a structure and tone to his videos but he keeps you guessing and always surprises much like Nintendo which quite a bit of his videos have revolve around. Very talented creator.
jhkl
I love Mr. Adachi’s curiosity and his quirky outlook on the world. The part about the three potted plants was really endearing.
Ah, the purity of the internet of the old.
I love the implication that the only reason Nick didn't go to Japan this time is because of Covid travel restrictions. This man was 100% ready to fly to Japan just to find a store that closed 19 years ago.
He always is.
He flew to Japan to put a photo in SEGA's HQ. He totally would've done that.
Well going to Japan is like his whole gimmick
@@pyrotechnic96 yeah, if he was in smash bros his final smash would be Fly To Japan
His first trip to japan was to go to a domino's headquarters because of a youtube video that was taken down.
The Alf's Room youtubeb channel (as linked to by the website) added this video to its favourites. Makes me happy.
Nice
if i had only 10% of nick's dedication, i would be happy
then do?? no one is born motivated 😐
save_power()
or his luck
@@sparkbag_ yes.. that's the thing... you need to be motivated to get motivation to do some other things
I'll give you an advice that has personally helped me find motivation: *Just do it*
I know, it sounds basic and stupid. But most of the times that I've discovered stuff that I like my line of thinking has been "Why the frick not? Let's just do it for the anecdote or just to see what happens"
Clicking on random YT videos and discovering new youtubers to watch, trying out weird food and discovering new dishes you like, creating something crappy and discovering a new hobbie. Just do it for the fun man.
Adachi seems so cool
Still, one mystery remains: Adachi took the photo from another angle, so where did the meme photo come from?
it looks like the meme photo is the same one, just cropped and flipped.
@@Liam-jj7po can't be, the text would be mirrored of it was flipped
Yeah, the lighting is different as well.
@@jonmartin444 then maybe it was skewed to be in the angle of the meme photo?
He took multiple pictures
They're making puns but on a whole other level over in Japan
You're going to love stuff like the Monogatari series then
I bit my tongue!
@@kevintrang3007 one of the reason why i learn Japanese is solely just for that series
I love japanese puns because of that
That's a 1000 IQ level pun right there. Two jokes in one, each in different languages
multi-lingual people probably do those daily
@@bartosz_xenon More like struglling to express themselves because they forget expressions or words in all languages that they speak daily..
@@bartosz_xenon Nah, I'm a multilingual Slav from the Balkans and it's not really that useful.. or funny.. I guess it applies more to people living in the Far East, where the cultural barrier is much greater, yet since the American territorial expansion on the Pacific they've become quite close to each other, and so pretty much overwhelmed by common American culture.
Knowing many languages, or at least partially understanding vastly different language families, however, does in fact help you grasp the world better, you know, lets you appreciate the different mentalities across the globe, or even deep-down similarities. So multilingual people tend to be, uhm, more versatile and all-encompassing with their thoughts.
It's a clumsy sentence, but what I'm trying to say is that multilingual people are less prone to subtle ideologies or "self-centrisms" typically hidden in overused localisms and are more likely to think about any topic from numerous angles. Sometimes that's all it takes to see what makes a German a German, and what makes a Russian a Russian. Languages we use encode the ways we live, and highlight the neural pathways we regularly use.
In my mind this is what it means to transcend the place of origin, and the concept of nationalism at the grander scale, and what gives you the ability to think, behave, and empathize like a true citizen of the world. In fact, this is necessary, and the reason why they though Esperanto was a good idea. Knowing the languages of the world, and how others think, is precisely the opposite of "divide and conquer".
I can't believe I'm crying over Alfs Room 😭😭
The best part is how close Nick was to Michaelsoft when he began hunting!
He started at the Gunma General Staff Co. building (19:22 this one) and is only about 140 meters away from Michaelsoft. Nick was less than one-tenth of a mile away from Michaelsoft and he probably would've found it within seconds (although he probably wouldn't had recognized it from that angle, I certainly wouldn't).
Yeah, I don't think Nick knows how much luck he's been blessed with.
So glad he didn't. I loved his narrated stroll through the little town!
It's insane how he found the location of a building with two pictures and a forgotten japanese website
It’s not forgotten tho lol, even in the video you can see that adachi has been updating the website even now!
@@PixelRockett I was saying forgotten because since the website was old, I was guessing almost no one except for the creator visited it
@@Akronox. it’s definitely not forgotten now, which is super wholesome and sweet that tons of people now know about this one dude just documenting things that he found interesting in his life!
Let’s never let it be forgotten again.
Geowizard's pinpoint locations of fans series has entered the chat
My name is Michael and I live in Japan, this seems like my destiny to continue the search
So, stereotypes are true...
@Matthew Bagley well maybe if someone offerred to pay for the lodging and other expenses i wouldnt mind making a trip there
Too many Mikes!
My name is not Michael, but I am going on a trip to Gunma anyways next month so maybe I can make a quick stop😄
Gunma Maebashi, Koaigimachi, ５５４−１ 高義ビル seems to be gone now
i got this sign on a shirt because of this video
Next step: going to japan to thank the guy who kept his blog up through 33 years
Me wondering how a site that has been around since 1997 is 33 years old tho
@@nhlvan I was so mesmerized by the video, I didn’t even take the time to think about that. XD
@@nhlvan Wait what
@@nhlvan I originally wrote 20 years but he said it was 33 so i changed it
No hate but I’m 21 and was born in 1999 so it was 23 years ago.
Another historic meme has been found
I hope you better make a video for once the pandemic ends where you visit the binbows place
yeah, and he should keep his gold play button there
SUPERSOFT WIIBOWS
Implying the pandemic will ever end lol
@@Klonoahedgehog cdc just lifted nationwide mask mandate for all vaccinated people, ding dong!!
it closed 20 years ago
Imagine if foreigners start travelling to that building and taking pictures like it is some big deal. The locals are going to be very confused.
"Why are they all taking pictures of that building.... " I can just imagine lol
💀💀💀💀
Already happened in places like Yongen-Jaya when Persona 5 became a roaring success. Gaijins taking pictures of ordinary streets and stuff.
@@Mageman17 Awesome
As if that doesn't happen with "anime spots tourism"
why did this make me emotional
“I’m sorry I can not be a help.”
Mr. Adachi... you were an extraordinary help; an absolutely instrumental help.
We stan Mr. Adachi and Alf!!!!
Adachi's blog is just too wholesome. He's so dedicated to the website, even signing his name off in the email as "Alf's room manager" almost brought tears to my eyes :') thank you for making this video, Nick! Appreciate it lots. Also, lmao. Binbows.
This video DID bring tears to my eyes... It was nothing like what I expected and am so glad I clicked on.
That's was indeed wholesome...!!!
But still no matter how many times I hear it, the words "Michaelsoft Binbows" always make me laugh. It's just a weirdly hilarious name.
I’ve never been so hyped about a deep dive into a cursed image before.
Blessed*
@@eddydrouet1888 Blursed**
As a Japanese who didn't know this viral meme, this is really entertaining. Man this is not what just a TH-camr would do but decent journalism. Thank you for sharing your wonderful adventuring experience.
hahahah i’m glad it reached you! thanks for watching :)
I'll be waiting for some crazy ass guy to translate alf's room in english, it looks so blessed and chill
Or a team of translators
No idea how I found this video. I’m in bed sick with a chest infection and all I can say is I needed this video. The best 34 minutes of my day and it’s honestly made me feel slightly better. Just proves that the internet isn’t always awful. Thank you Sir
thanks, hugo! i hope you feel better soon
You good bro?
"Are u there?"
@@deadpianist7494 @Trevor Sutter Haha yeah I’m still hanging on in there thanks guys. Bloody bored with this cough though
@@hugosteps77hope you get well soon!
I love how the knowledge of what Michaelsoft Binbows actually means and was does not take away *any* of the humour of the actual image. I mean, being a fan of these shop names and logos that are creative parodies of actual brands, knowing that "Michaelsoft Binbows" is an intentional pun makes it even _more_ funny and endearing. And knowing where the actual place is now is just delightful.
Took the words outta my mouth, this photo is hilarious
Yup. It makes the joke even funnier.
To me, it enhances the humour.
めっちゃいい動画に出会ったわ！Thank you Nick!
10 year old me: "I'm going to be an astronaut when I grow up!!!"
25 year old me: Half hour documentary on Michaelsoft Binbows.
You can still become an astronaut ya know
@@hollanderson probably not.
i feel called out ouch
a wise unemployed engineer shared knowledge with me when i was in class 12. he said, "don't think about what u gonna do in future, think about what are u doing now"
i did not take this lesson seriously and did what my hormones and monkey brain led me to..
now i am here....
wer all gonna die, but people like us die inside long before physical death.. videos like this give short doses of pleasure, then again melancholy..
@@rajadhirajmaharaj May the Farce be with U!
expecting a follow up video where he actually flies to japan
Yeah me too
"The seqeul"
Plot: He fought the the final boss and retrieve Binbows(Good ending)
Same
Won't happen bud.
@@Diathan sadge
Adachi-san: "I'm sorry that I can't be a help."
ME: "YOU SAVED US! YOU ARE THE SAVIOR!"
Adachi-san, the man, the myth the legend.
We need more of this: people genuinely enjoying apparently “useless” quests - it’s so exquisitely human and such little, unique stories make the world literally a better place
Yes, 100% respect that line of thought, and it seems that Mr. Robinson agrees too!
The world would be a worse place without whimsical nonsense.
The most useless thing about this is:
How he cannot keep his head still for 1/4 of a second. You are in serious need of medication. You're burning out synaptic areas like someone mainlining Molly and Cocaine. JFC, man. Calm TF down just 1%.
@@andrewstewart1464 The remarkable thing is that it's not even entirely nonsense anymore thanks to this video. I mean, when we feel emotions we change a little inside. And I dare say that maybe some of the emotions and thoughts brought up by this video might be helpful for some people.
Meaning and connection elevate us, and might even give us the chance to see ourselves more clearly for a moment.
@@cliftut 110% agree. Use of the word 'nonsense' is for lack of a better term, probably should have just said 'fun'. Just goes to show my own mental entrenchment in the hypercapitalist systems.
But yeah, doing things for yourself and others just because it makes you/them happy are always worth it, even if they are temporary. I don't want to imagine a world where such happiness is discouraged. That is true dystopia to me.
The existence of blogs like Alf’s Room is so wonderful and reassuring to me, to know that there are little mindful eyes out there keeping up with the parts of the world that nobody else really pays attention to. I think I’m going to create a Wordpress (knowing full well that nobody looks at Wordpress blogs anymore) just so I can be a little mindful eye too. Create a virtual curiosity cabinet that stays for hypothetical future internet users to rummage through, so that the adorable little oddities of my surroundings don’t die with passing time. I hope Adachi knows what an inspiration he is being to thousands of people to look at the world more closely and with awe.
man, that’s beautifully put. i hope you go through with it - please share a link once it’s set up :)
mr. miller, i am a fan of your work and would love to see your curiosity cabinet once it's ready. give my regards to marilyn
@@babylonian u know u meme!?
Honestly these websites are the coolest
Yes
very thorough and obscure documentary. good work.
if nick would just asked a 2b2t player to do this they would've found it in 2 hours
LOL
Or GeoWizard
I recognize that pixel. I will see you there.
And then would have stolen it or griefed it.
Facts
Just found out that Adachi actually has a TH-cam channel and what's really cool is that he's put your video in his favorites playlist!
Can you drop a link or maybe write a name?
proof?
Link?
/user/alfsroom/
I did a reverse image search on the image from Adachi's website and found a guy on twitter who tracked down the location 2 years ago
Oh
Lmao
Is it the same building Nick found?
Link 👀
@@irisbenitez5619
twitter(dot)com/senn_twt/status/1164750417005146113
replace the (dot) with .
youtube auto deletes links for some reason
Finding this building felt like finding UFO hidden in middle of sachara. Great work man!
I grew up in Japan, and I got emotional seeing you wander around Koaigimachi in Google Earth VR. Seeing the ordinary life there, the quirkiness of local businesses and landmarks, made me realize just how much I miss Japan.
And when you found where Michaelsoft Binbows once stood, I got misty eyed - maybe because when I visit my old hometown where I grew up, I wander around searching for recognizable things from my childhood so many years ago.
Awesome video, man. You should write Mr. Adachi an email explaining how significant Michaelsoft Binbows is on Internet and express all you said at the end of the video. I’m sure he’d be super proud of Alf’s Room.
💞
*Nornal person* : haha funny name
*Nick* : goes back in time
Takes a virtual journey to the place
Solves its 20 year old mystery
Takes thousands of people on a spiritual journey doing so.
The modern Marco Polo
Lol; pfp sauce for no particular reason please
Woah woah woah, wait a minute! Is that... Is that Jotaro Kujo hentai on your channel banner?
@@aika1313 I try to be inclusive
@@PuckishAngeI what the fuck are your videos
@@aircraftmen_ 2016 was a wild year
This is one of my favorite corners of the internet, I don't know how you make these stories and witch-hunts so entertaining and motivating but please keep going 💯
Nice Miata
fancy meeting you here haha
agreed
I have to say this would be called a goose-chase, not a witch-hunt.
Witch-hunt: let’s find someone to (wrongly) blame
Goose-chase: foolish quest with almost 0 chance of finding the object because there’s nothing to catch
This is probably my all time favorite youtube video
This guy just played the extreme version of geo-guesser 📍💯
omg I didn't think of that lmao
“So many michaels”
*Just wait until they discover the name Josh*
Wait till they find out about john
Nah, there's only one Josh.
What about steven my family has a steven steven 2 and me Steven 3
THE BATTLE OF THE JOSHES
@@nixel1324 yeah, after the battle
Nick is a person who is hugely obsessed with the weirdest and obscure things all across the internet, so much so that he dedicates a whole half-hour video trying to find the location of a famous sign in Japan. You guys gotta give Nick Robinson some respect for his dedication in tracking down the sign .
The fact the image kept being captioned as a chinese knock-off even though there is katakana under and above the name annoyed me more than it should of.
**Potted plants exist in a particular place**
Adachi Yoshinori: _Real shit?_
@Hand Grabbing Fruits what if he uses nick's videos to find where the plants are now
" the potted plants are gone... this is a glitch in the simulation we are all in... i always knew it... "
you can hear him quietly cracking up every time he says "michaelsoft binbows"
it's so wholesome
I didn't expect a video documentary about Michaelsoft Binbows to make me cry but here I am.
This is one of the best Videos on TH-cam.
I LOVE HOW ALL THE RESEARCH AND PLANNING JUST LEADS TO
"lmao"
"binbows"
Lmao Binbows hahahahahahaaaa
I mean how else do you respond to something as childish and as cringe as this?
LMFAO
@@MultiSciGeek oooooo you're so grown up and mature that doesn't allow people to have fun no matter how childish it may seem oooooo so scary!!!
I love how the response is, at the same time, simple and dumb, but also full of meaning: it's a wonderful, historical discovery, and it is hilarious and it *is* Binbows.
lmao
binbows
You can LITERALLY hear Nick smiling so many times in this video lol
How do you hear a facial expression
@@sunstrider_rezap Just watch the video and you'll know obviously
We need to add JAPANESE SUBS so Adachi can watch this.
Please do!
Nick, you can make the subtitles on Amara.
Does nick have community captioning because I'll happily translate!
@@thatguywhoyoutubes6156 The Community feature is not available anymore.
@@gabbo13 wait really? why'd they take it out?
So many Mike 🤦♂️😭
Legendary, literally
Very legendary*
Insanely legendary*
Legendarily legendary*
A scam. Just like you.
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We need to make a Michaelsoft Bimbows pin on Google Maps, and give it a 5-star rating!
Edit: It's already added, as a place of worship. I tried adding the two photos, but it's pending verification.
I do hope you didn't spell it that way ;)
they got approved, and the first photo became the cover
@@kingminceraft9487 I added a label "Former home of Michaelsoft Binbows". Also, if you go to Street View at the pin, you can see that the other side of the same building used to be a Subaru dealership, albeit a VERY small one.
Now I just want to know who took the more well known image
adachi did
@@Flixxy0 no
@@h-Films what's more likely, adachi to have taken 2 photos or someone else taking 1
@@Flixxy0 Very unlikely that Adachi took a second picture, spread it out on the internet without posting it on his own website, and then forgot about it. That doesn't fit Adachi's personality.
ghjk
well, this was a f*cking awesome video! thanks a lot!
11:20-11:50 How did you manage to get me so emotionally invested in a story about 3 potted plants
This power is unnatural
It's somehow sad
Adachi seems so wholesome, I love people who like the smaller details in life most people don't think about for a second, and documents it too. There's many things, like this in fact that would be lost to time if it weren't for people like him.
Thanks for showing his website too. When my Japanese gets better, I'm looking forward to reading through it.
This shop has to be recreated in Michealsoft Flight Simulator
it only runs on Binbows 98 though
@@silentbob8635 it doesn’t even work on Binbows 7?
Fight Stimulator***
@@Snoopy9675 maybe by using incompatibility settings ? :)
This video is in my top 10 favorites
Imagine if this video had japanese subtitles for Adachi to watch this. I'm still very mad that now only Nick can add them and not the community like they once could. Those youtube subtitles made by the community basically taugh me English and were EXTREMELY helpful to me, at least
the system is fucked man
I really hope this is subtitled anyway so Adachi can understand that weird email. :)
I'm also mad at this, it didn't cost TH-cam anything and was such a cool feature that let me share videos with friends and family (that don't speak English).
Lemme guess, he's gonna find the sign. And not only is he gonna do that, I'm going to love it, and continue loving every video he makes
I know that the store is no more before this since someone did this before he did but it's still a pretty great video
you get half points
Of course, the sign has Japanese text. He will *book a flight to Japan-*
Simping for youtubers smh
@@Cainb23 ok then, i guess enjoying someone's content is considered simping now.
smh my head.
What a way to use the internet in the pandemic.
Indeed
253 likes, 2 replies...
why?
ghjk
@@PlanetComputer thank you planet
And.? You’re acting like this is a new thing. The pandemic has been around awhile buddy
harry potter obama sonic is my favorite one ^^