It would be great to have a monthly Japan meme catch up video. Something like "These are the memes that Japan has cooked up in the last month." Then explain the context/language behind them. That would be fun.
I made this video into a series, and the other videos are significantly better than this one! Check out the playlist: ua-cam.com/play/PLj3CqetXqSu8x61poDA7m6aEO_9wdVDIo.html
The context of the meme with Biscuit Oliva is that besides the character there’s a sign saying おりば専用 (which pretty much means exit only) but the pronunciation of おりば in Japanese is identical to the pronunciation of Oliva (オリバ), thus could be interpreted as “Oliva only”.
I've been studying Japanese for a while, not enough the converse but enough to know that the first damn story was about the lady in the lake offering a golden axe to a lumberjack and started loosing it before you even explained the whole damn meme.
@@grstfahbtgad it's a very famous tale about the importance of honesty and being humble, another character in the story tried to do the same but because he was not honest (in contrast to the other lumberjack) he lost his axe and didn't get anything
Weirdly enough, "The Honest Woodcutter" is an Aesop fable, and yet no one outside Japan seems to be familiar with it, despite Aesop's other fables, like "The Goose that Laid the Golden Eggs", "The Boy Who Cried Wolf" and "The Tortoise and the Hare" being very well-known. I guess it speaks to the values of each country..?
The Zenfone one is less of a meme and more of a reference to the "Honest Woodcutter" Tale by Aesop, which is very well known and often referenced in Japanese media (for example Nichijou episode 2). In the tale, a woodcutter loses his axe in a river. Hermes comes to him with a golden axe, asking him if that's the one he lost, the woodcutter says no. Hermes does the same with a silver axe and the woodcutter responds the same. So Hermes, admiring the man's honesty, decides to give him his axe and the other two as well.
I've never imagined my university would appear in a video like this. I'm a student of Tokyo University of Science (a.k.a. tus) and study physics there. Lemme talk about more detail for self satisfaction. Not a few students go to university to remain students. In japanese society, it's rare to get a long-term(more thaan one year) free time after getting a job. So they want to remain students to keep enjoying youth. The Kindai ad says it's a good university for such people. In contrast, tus is famous for its busyness due to the hard education and research. some says tus is five-year period university (many universities are four-year but many students repeat a year in tus). So the tus ad says it want only students who seriously want to study. These are why the comparison picture of the two universities went viral, I guess.If you're readig this , thanks for reading my bad English ;)
Dayum Tokyo University of science… you really studied hard didn’t you? I suck at physics so I decided to go to the humanities course. Respect.I’m going to take the university exam this year, wish me luck X(
Sorry I'm confused. Does that mean it it not uncommon for students to get a job after one year? Or are you saying it's not uncommon for students to take off a year and party for a bit?
@@もなこん wish you luck on the university exam! My country had just finished with national university selection test so I relate to that nerve-wracking feeling..
The meme at 1:12 needs additional context. Aside from the Pokemon reference, these three (from left to right: Hori Miona, former member of Nogizaka46, a comedian whom I've forgot her name, and Kimura from the comedic duo Bananaman) are often associated with one another because they work together in variety shows. e.g Kimura is one of the host alongside his partner Shitara of Nogizaka's own variety show Nogizaka Under Construction. The female comedian often works with the Sakamichi franchise which includes Nogizaka46 in talk shows and other variety shows that include Nogizaka or the other "Zaka" groups of Sakamichi.
Thanks, it’s impossible for me to know everything about all this stuff (I cast a wide net rather than being super deep into any fan circle thing) So people like you are really helpful! Please continue adding additional context in the future.
@@Japanalysis I've seen this meme circulate around Nogizaka's domestic and international fan circles so it was definitely their own inside joke, but I honestly didn't expect nor know it would spill out into mainstream Japanese Internet humor.
@@grilledcheezvirtualoniisan8670 ikr... when we look at it again, we do share a lot of similarities... after all we are all the same species of human rite? we have pair of hands, legs, eyes, ears
I asked my Japanese girlfriend the other day if they had memes in Japan and she said it was just an English speaking thing. This video has devestated me, I'm dating a normie lads.
Tbf, when people said memes, the one that came up in mind is a picture that has some caption written on it with a funny context that people spread over and over like that one spiderman meme or buzzlight and woody meme. The one on vid is nothing like that, it's merely a funny post or just funny picture by itself. So yeah, her answer is kinda true
@@tawnyt3935 I guess I don't go deep enough since I've never seen one, lol. Rather than memes, there are some picture with funny context that got spread all over like "reaction guy" or some variation/modified of viral funny images that kinda act like how memes are in internet.
From a Japanese viewpoint, we can't understand why you guys are so crazy and obsessed with memes. But if you wanna find similar culture in Japan, old classic 'MAD' stuff in Nikoniko might be the thing you are asking for.
My wife's from Japan, things are relatively smooth sailing in our relationship and while I do speak Japanese fluently, humor and memes haven't carried over. It's definitely a cultural gap thing, when you grow up with Western memes of surreal humor, self deprecation, existential dread etc., kinda hard to find vanilla humor funny. My wife doesn't get any of our memes either and that's perfectly fine.
It was interesting. The off script section seemed to fit the tone of the earlier material, although the added emotion was nice, the earlier delivery isn't too dry either. I would watch another one in a series.
I just wondering "Do Japanese know Dank Memes?" so I searched and I glad I found and click this video. I learned something new. One day you will have many viewers.
Fun fact: Kumamon is not copyrighted. It’s one of the reasons the character is so popular! So no, that restroom sign wasn’t breaking any rules:) Also the jacked dude one, as you said the characters name is “Oliver”, pronounced “Oriba” in Japanese. There is a sign that says “おりば専用” (Exclusively for getting off ((the bus)), “exclusively for Oliver”! Lol
Okay, I am both proud and ashamed to say that I knew, thanks to NekoPara anime, the smartphone meme/story was based on a Japanese folktale about a woodcutter who drop his axe in a lake and a spirit tested his honesty with gold and silver axes, which he got after being honest.
That first meme Is a reference to a Japanese story where somone loses an object in a lake and the lake spirit appears to them. The lake spirit offeres the person an object that is better than the object that was lost. The person is honest with the spirit about the item that was lost and the spirit rewards their honesty with the better item.
Wow this video was really really good! I especially thought the last one with the colleges was quite interesting but everything here was fascinating. Great job!
this, i loved this concept, this is original content i would have never imagined and it absolutely charmed me. really shows you that those people really do exist and are as human as you but you just dont realize. Please make more
You've got a great youtube voice, I'm sure you know what I mean by that, and you have great content man. Going off script like that is difficult, and I'd say your speaking in general was more natural off-script, so I preferred it that way. Just a great video I feel with your style of content you could easily blow up with consistency, it doesn't feel like amateurish writing or editing it feels like I'm watching a video from an established youtuber with hundreds of thousands of subs. If you wanna keep doing youtube you should because you evidently have what it takes
Hey, thank you very much!!!!! That makes me feel great. I’ve been on a little hiatus recently but I absolutely intend on uploading again within the next 6weeks. Tytyty❤️
I think these instructional / informational videos will take off. I started watching one channel at the start of covid of someone using Japanese ferries, silent with captions. Now there are tons of channels, all getting high views. So many aspects of Japanese life and culture are being viewed, it's great to get a Coles Notes on some stuff we see. 39! (I got that from your other video). Otsukare
i love it. youre exposing me to culture a side that only a japanese person can understand. you can never learn this in news or interviews. thank you, do more of this?
Oh that first story, I get it. It’s based on the Aesop’s Fable “The Golden Axe,” where a guy loses his axe. He ends up at a pond and, depending on the telling, Mercury or God then comes up with a solid gold axe and says “Hey, is this your axe?” The woodcutter, who knows a golden axe is too heavy and soft to cut anything, said no. Mercury/God goes back under, comes up with a silver axe and says “Is this your axe?” The woodsman again says no. Finally, Mercury/God comes up with his real axe and the guy says “That’s my axe!” Mercury/God praises the woodsman for his honesty and gives him all three axes. That’s so nice for Asus to invoke that.
The first meme of the broken phone and all resembles and most likely a call back to the story of a wood cutter losing his axe by dropping it in a river, the river spirit asks him whether the golden axe is his but he replies honestly that it isn't. Thus, he gets both his axe and the gold axe due to his honesty
The drum meme is the drummer exaggerating the lifting of his arms,while his shoulder muscles were already tensed up. So it resulted in his upper torso tilting as a way to achieve the arm height needed. Sometimes drummers do it to add flair, other times it's because their muscles tensed up too much. Technically not very efficient but when showmanship is part of your job description...
1:24 That girl on the left is Hori Miona, once part of the idol group called "Nogizaka46" and the guy on right is Himura Yuki, a part of a 2-person comedy group called BANANAMAN who are also the hosts for Nogizaka46's variety show.
i do find some funny Japanese tweets from time to time and my most favourite one was a group of Japanese guys mimicking the poses of statues of a historical tourism location in another country. They almost made a human tower, i laughed so hard seeing those pictures
I've been in Japan for 8 years and I feel really detached from what I know about Japanese memes. There are so many more out there and I think you should definitely explore!
i want to share a little bit of insight regarding kinki uni poster vs tokyo science uni. kansai folks in general are more expressive and outgoing than kanto/tokyo people. for example, there's this osakan police poster that depicts police officer catching a thief and screaming "let's go! show em your might!". tokyo police poster, however, couldn't evet get more serious. it depicts two police officers serving older people and it says "the tokyo that protects you". ngl if i had to choose one of them posters to decorate my room with, i'd choose the kansai one. it's waaaay more interesting and funnier
That last minute without a script was great! I honestly didn't even notice. Both the scripted and the unscripted speech sounded natural to me. Great work!
Holy shit, I've always wanted to get more insight into Japanese memes, since they're extremely incomprehensible without context/speaking Japanese. (as I'm sure western memes are to Japanese people). This video was great
A Johnny's fan causally rofling over Mabo's neck gif at the end of your video. Oh how I wish we could see that again... (The band TOKIO disbanded years ago and now although you can see 3 of the 5 members in the group they no longer make songs but focus on doing agriculture and development work in Fukushima...it's meaningful but I wished they continue their music too)
Good video! I like hearing about this since you explain the context so well for these memes and background info on them. If you do make more I’ll be looking forward to it!
Improvisation = good. Pokemon = better. Please translate every Junichi Masuda tweet every day until he dies. He stopped writing his blog in english a while ago =[ Kumamon's song is so repetitive, haha. Also if you call out companies publicly on twitter, that is a way better road to a solution. Compared to a silent Contact Us email where they can't be shamed. It was funny how Asus handled it though.
I think you should make one in the future. It helps me connect with what is going on and interact with my friends and family in Japan. I was born in Japan but I moved to America when I was 10. I can make jokes in English but when it comes to Japanese, I suck at it so much that I didn't want to come off as a boring person in Japan. In my opinion, this is educational and helpful to me. Please keep continuing doing this!
This is surprisingly new, these kind of "light" but cleverly well done memes are a breath of fresh air (my favorite is of the university, bath signs and phones) from what we consider here as memes, specially in Latam, where self-deprecation and remarking of government incompetency is all time high, so the quality of memes is equally bad, uncreative or repetitive. Your content's pretty good bro, it could be considered a form of social online studies for foreigners that want to understand the form of comedy they use in Japan.
los memes en latam suelen entrar mas en lo surreal y con varias capas de ironia y chistes internos que nadie que no sea de acá entienda -- son tan malos que son buenos los que mostraron acá son humor bastante sencillo la verdad a mi opinion
I would prefer fewer memes and more detail, the way you explained the washroom signs (for example, you could explain the fairy tale reference in the broken phone conversation). Going off-script was fine, you clearly knew what you were talking about so it felt natural.
I was literally just thinking earlier “What memes do other countries have?” Got back from school, went on UA-cam and found this in my recommended. I’m now convinced Susan Wojcicki is spying on me
Enjoyed the video a bunch, the offscript rant was pretty funny. It feels like Japanese internet culture is in some aspects a few years behind the western world's. With the exception of niche areas like 2ch, it seems to me that meme culture kinda hasn't fully formed.
@man with long nose In my opinion, I think the meme culture is already fully formed, but not in the same way as the American/Western/English. also if by "some aspects" you mean the multi-layered irony, then yeah I believe it won't be fully taking off in Japanese internet culture because the way they treat and view memes is quite different.
No, no, please keep doing these. This was great. A lot of people forget, or don't know, the meaning of Meme-- it's a collection of tropes and axioms of an idea, or expectations, about a particular topic. Just like how looking at memes shows the insight of the average American thought and acceptance; looking into Japanese memes windows their thoughts and acceptance. You can learn a lot from the memes, so please continue. Also Biscuit meme seems to be a joke about the Chikan problem, I would guess. Biscuit is introduced into the series as a sex offender to men during a tournament. Chikans are sex offenders; Biscuit is a sex offender-- the joke is instead of women, he's after dudes.
If there is anyone who didn't know, the first one was actually based off the folktale "the honest woodcutter" where a lumberjack dropped his axe in a lake, a goddess came out and showed him two axes, his axe and a golden axe. She asked which one was his, and he answered honestly so she gave him the golden one.
personal story: i have a Kumamon plushie that i bought at a Japanese themed store in my country, i hanged it from the rearview mirror of my car, my now girlfriend, considered it peculiar, so she gifted me another plushie she got from a gacha machine she got when she was in Japan like 12 years ago (she´s technically half Japanese, her grand parents emigrated from Osaka in the 1930´s). the second plushie looks like a tooth with arms and is currently hanging at my car´s mirror.
The only thing i knew about japanese memes and japanese shitpost before watching the video it was that they were worse than western memes(In the sense that they are less funny).
"Japanese Twitter user Jesus Christ" lmfao
Japanese Jesus is canon
It reminded me of that interesting sect that believe Jesus set foot in Japan
lmao
Jesus actually came to Japan. Jesus' tomb is in Aomori.
@@user-qm7jw may be that what destroyed nagasaki
It would be great to have a monthly Japan meme catch up video. Something like "These are the memes that Japan has cooked up in the last month." Then explain the context/language behind them. That would be fun.
Haha I’m pretty sure the next video is gonna be a meme one!! Thanks!!
Behind the meme japan version dear lord
LIMC Japan
you'd have that content as your bread and butter and moar
@@Japanalysis "Hello everyone. This is your monthly dose of japanese memes"
I made this video into a series, and the other videos are significantly better than this one! Check out the playlist:
ua-cam.com/play/PLj3CqetXqSu8x61poDA7m6aEO_9wdVDIo.html
That's hilarious
marvelous lmao
Lol clever word plays
That's extra funny considering I can easily see Oliva having his own bus stop in the series.
…It was Oriba wasn’t it?
The context of the meme with Biscuit Oliva is that besides the character there’s a sign saying おりば専用 (which pretty much means exit only) but the pronunciation of おりば in Japanese is identical to the pronunciation of Oliva (オリバ), thus could be interpreted as “Oliva only”.
he's too damn full so he tips the bus over.
I guess Memes lose their charm after translated into another language because I didn't find it a little bit funny.
@@ateequerizvi well speak for yourself
@@notnullnotvoid It is possible other people may find it funny. I guess it depends from person to person.
Japanese with their damn puns, lmao.
They love doing that, I swear
I've been studying Japanese for a while, not enough the converse but enough to know that the first damn story was about the lady in the lake offering a golden axe to a lumberjack and started loosing it before you even explained the whole damn meme.
what
SAMEEE I don't know jack shit about japanese except some words and hiragana, but animal crossing taught me about the story with the axes haha
@@grstfahbtgad it's a very famous tale about the importance of honesty and being humble, another character in the story tried to do the same but because he was not honest (in contrast to the other lumberjack) he lost his axe and didn't get anything
Weirdly enough, "The Honest Woodcutter" is an Aesop fable, and yet no one outside Japan seems to be familiar with it, despite Aesop's other fables, like "The Goose that Laid the Golden Eggs", "The Boy Who Cried Wolf" and "The Tortoise and the Hare" being very well-known. I guess it speaks to the values of each country..?
@@fireaza I thought everyone know this
I love how this age's JP memes are just a language barrier away.
The Zenfone one is less of a meme and more of a reference to the "Honest Woodcutter" Tale by Aesop, which is very well known and often referenced in Japanese media (for example Nichijou episode 2).
In the tale, a woodcutter loses his axe in a river. Hermes comes to him with a golden axe, asking him if that's the one he lost, the woodcutter says no. Hermes does the same with a silver axe and the woodcutter responds the same. So Hermes, admiring the man's honesty, decides to give him his axe and the other two as well.
Damn
Thanks for the information
I was scrolling down to see if anyone know this, it is interesting because the tale is well known in japan I even thought it originated there..
I didn't realize it was an Aesop fable, I always thought it was a Japanese folk tale.
@@ordinaryk Honestly same, until I looked into it. I've seen it referenced many times but only in Japanese media.
I've never imagined my university would appear in a video like this. I'm a student of Tokyo University of Science (a.k.a. tus) and study physics there. Lemme talk about more detail for self satisfaction.
Not a few students go to university to remain students. In japanese society, it's rare to get a long-term(more thaan one year) free time after getting a job. So they want to remain students to keep enjoying youth. The Kindai ad says it's a good university for such people. In contrast, tus is famous for its busyness due to the hard education and research. some says tus is five-year period university (many universities are four-year but many students repeat a year in tus). So the tus ad says it want only students who seriously want to study. These are why the comparison picture of the two universities went viral, I guess.If you're readig this , thanks for reading my bad English ;)
Dayum Tokyo University of science… you really studied hard didn’t you? I suck at physics so I decided to go to the humanities course. Respect.I’m going to take the university exam this year, wish me luck X(
@@もなこん good luck mate!
Your English is fine! Thank you for explaining.
Sorry I'm confused. Does that mean it it not uncommon for students to get a job after one year? Or are you saying it's not uncommon for students to take off a year and party for a bit?
@@もなこん wish you luck on the university exam! My country had just finished with national university selection test so I relate to that nerve-wracking feeling..
The meme at 1:12 needs additional context. Aside from the Pokemon reference, these three (from left to right: Hori Miona, former member of Nogizaka46, a comedian whom I've forgot her name, and Kimura from the comedic duo Bananaman) are often associated with one another because they work together in variety shows. e.g Kimura is one of the host alongside his partner Shitara of Nogizaka's own variety show Nogizaka Under Construction. The female comedian often works with the Sakamichi franchise which includes Nogizaka46 in talk shows and other variety shows that include Nogizaka or the other "Zaka" groups of Sakamichi.
Thanks, it’s impossible for me to know everything about all this stuff (I cast a wide net rather than being super deep into any fan circle thing)
So people like you are really helpful! Please continue adding additional context in the future.
@@Japanalysis I've seen this meme circulate around Nogizaka's domestic and international fan circles so it was definitely their own inside joke, but I honestly didn't expect nor know it would spill out into mainstream Japanese Internet humor.
@@Japanalysis I see you also talked about Nogizaka46's viral Mouse CM lol
I knew the moment the image popped up it had something to do with one of the 48/46 groups and stuff
@@M3gur1n3luk4 It's a 46 group, hence the -zaka46 at the end.
This is actually really interesting to see the difference and similarities between international meme culture and Japanese meme culture
Japan is very different compared the the rest of the world.
"international" American meme culture isn't international. Cringe, based, poggers, etc. All of it is only mainly used by us Americans.
@@sleeperboi8701 I'm Indonesian
Most of my friends are European and/or Asian
We all share an international sense of humor
@@sleeperboi8701 nope it's international
@@grilledcheezvirtualoniisan8670 ikr... when we look at it again, we do share a lot of similarities... after all we are all the same species of human rite? we have pair of hands, legs, eyes, ears
I asked my Japanese girlfriend the other day if they had memes in Japan and she said it was just an English speaking thing. This video has devestated me, I'm dating a normie lads.
F
Tbf, when people said memes, the one that came up in mind is a picture that has some caption written on it with a funny context that people spread over and over like that one spiderman meme or buzzlight and woody meme. The one on vid is nothing like that, it's merely a funny post or just funny picture by itself. So yeah, her answer is kinda true
@@bluee5991 I have definitely seen Japanese memes following that formula.
@@tawnyt3935 I guess I don't go deep enough since I've never seen one, lol. Rather than memes, there are some picture with funny context that got spread all over like "reaction guy" or some variation/modified of viral funny images that kinda act like how memes are in internet.
From a Japanese viewpoint, we can't understand why you guys are so crazy and obsessed with memes. But if you wanna find similar culture in Japan, old classic 'MAD' stuff in Nikoniko might be the thing you are asking for.
My wife's from Japan, things are relatively smooth sailing in our relationship and while I do speak Japanese fluently, humor and memes haven't carried over. It's definitely a cultural gap thing, when you grow up with Western memes of surreal humor, self deprecation, existential dread etc., kinda hard to find vanilla humor funny. My wife doesn't get any of our memes either and that's perfectly fine.
This, more so if you live in LATAM lol
She has Japan memes she understands and finds funny?
I find both the memes hilarious and I'm not v even japanese or a westerner
MY WIFE’S FROM JAPAN‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️
Japanese memes: enjoy the little things in life!
Western memes: _renaissance_
as someone from eastern europe, seeing Stalin and Kruschev on Pokemon styled DS boxes made me pause the video and laugh for a good minute
I'm from southern Europe and I can say the same
@Bnjmn Vi Britannia they looked really high effort too
Cringelin and Basedchev
I approve of this. Definitely laughed out loud on the pokemon evolution and the step forward meme. Good job.
It was interesting. The off script section seemed to fit the tone of the earlier material, although the added emotion was nice, the earlier delivery isn't too dry either. I would watch another one in a series.
I just wondering "Do Japanese know Dank Memes?" so I searched and I glad I found and click this video. I learned something new. One day you will have many viewers.
Thank you very much!!!
Bruh. Japan was the first country to use image- boards
what I'm curious is would they laugh at fried images?
@@Jurgir09 of course 4chan boards are derivatives from iirc futaba and 2ch
@@Jurgir09 wow. You learn something new everyday
Fun fact: Kumamon is not copyrighted. It’s one of the reasons the character is so popular! So no, that restroom sign wasn’t breaking any rules:)
Also the jacked dude one, as you said the characters name is “Oliver”, pronounced “Oriba” in Japanese. There is a sign that says “おりば専用”
(Exclusively for getting off ((the bus)), “exclusively for Oliver”! Lol
this video was amazing and your explanations were great. i'd watch hundreds of these
Okay, I am both proud and ashamed to say that I knew, thanks to NekoPara anime, the smartphone meme/story was based on a Japanese folktale about a woodcutter who drop his axe in a lake and a spirit tested his honesty with gold and silver axes, which he got after being honest.
It's not a Japanese folktale, it's an Aesopian tale, but it's very popular in Japan.
That first meme Is a reference to a Japanese story where somone loses an object in a lake and the lake spirit appears to them. The lake spirit offeres the person an object that is better than the object that was lost.
The person is honest with the spirit about the item that was lost and the spirit rewards their honesty with the better item.
I've watched 2 of your videos so far...both great. Don't change anything...you do you.
Wow this video was really really good! I especially thought the last one with the colleges was quite interesting but everything here was fascinating. Great job!
The meme reviews are funny and insightful. Keep it up!
I really liked this! It's really helpful for trying to better understand the current way people in Japan are looking at things.
Dude that was a really cool video and I think a couple more of these will lead you to fame
Thank you!!
This is a great idea, please keep making more!
The evolution one and its replies got me good xD
This was very good. I'd never be able to understand this much of Japanese memes without a helpful person like you!
this, i loved this concept, this is original content i would have never imagined and it absolutely charmed me. really shows you that those people really do exist and are as human as you but you just dont realize.
Please make more
You've got a great youtube voice, I'm sure you know what I mean by that, and you have great content man. Going off script like that is difficult, and I'd say your speaking in general was more natural off-script, so I preferred it that way. Just a great video I feel with your style of content you could easily blow up with consistency, it doesn't feel like amateurish writing or editing it feels like I'm watching a video from an established youtuber with hundreds of thousands of subs. If you wanna keep doing youtube you should because you evidently have what it takes
Hey, thank you very much!!!!! That makes me feel great. I’ve been on a little hiatus recently but I absolutely intend on uploading again within the next 6weeks. Tytyty❤️
I love these, I've been almost binge watching your Funny Japan Memes videos.
I think these instructional / informational videos will take off. I started watching one channel at the start of covid of someone using Japanese ferries, silent with captions. Now there are tons of channels, all getting high views. So many aspects of Japanese life and culture are being viewed, it's great to get a Coles Notes on some stuff we see. 39! (I got that from your other video). Otsukare
i love it. youre exposing me to culture a side that only a japanese person can understand. you can never learn this in news or interviews. thank you, do more of this?
2:36 The sign next to Oliver says "For Oriba Use Only" where Oriba means 'a drop-off point' in Japanese.
Oh that first story, I get it. It’s based on the Aesop’s Fable “The Golden Axe,” where a guy loses his axe. He ends up at a pond and, depending on the telling, Mercury or God then comes up with a solid gold axe and says “Hey, is this your axe?” The woodcutter, who knows a golden axe is too heavy and soft to cut anything, said no. Mercury/God goes back under, comes up with a silver axe and says “Is this your axe?” The woodsman again says no. Finally, Mercury/God comes up with his real axe and the guy says “That’s my axe!” Mercury/God praises the woodsman for his honesty and gives him all three axes. That’s so nice for Asus to invoke that.
The first meme of the broken phone and all resembles and most likely a call back to the story of a wood cutter losing his axe by dropping it in a river, the river spirit asks him whether the golden axe is his but he replies honestly that it isn't. Thus, he gets both his axe and the gold axe due to his honesty
this was actually very funny, the first one was so wholesome. Your knowledge is really impressive too!!
The drum meme is the drummer exaggerating the lifting of his arms,while his shoulder muscles were already tensed up. So it resulted in his upper torso tilting as a way to achieve the arm height needed.
Sometimes drummers do it to add flair, other times it's because their muscles tensed up too much. Technically not very efficient but when showmanship is part of your job description...
1:24 That girl on the left is Hori Miona, once part of the idol group called "Nogizaka46" and the guy on right is Himura Yuki, a part of a 2-person comedy group called BANANAMAN who are also the hosts for Nogizaka46's variety show.
Bananaman is the goat
I don’t know any idols tho haha
Thanks for adding info ❤️
@@Japanalysis True.
力士の貴乃花でもあります
This is brilliant mate, and loved the OT rant ;D
enjoyed this thank you!
"Kinky is a major part of Japan" - True and based.
I really like how you explain the linguistic lore, as someone who is also studying japanese, this content is great.
I love this video format
I love the first one so much. The old myth/fable but it is actually happening FOR REAL xD that they were both aware and aboard on it is so perfect.
The meme review format was enjoyable to me, the video length was good, and scriptless videos are always welcomed.
I want to go to Kinky University. They should have kept Kinky University.
That is where college if for.
need part 100 of this ty
I love this! Would love to see more meme reviews.
Maybe give a rating for every meme like 4 sushi emojis out of tengu mask emoji. Off script segment felt the same as on script tbh so that's good.
Thank you!!
this was absolutely great. got it recommended randomly and was so pleasantly surprised!
Why is asus japan such a chad
Lol great video. Liked, subscribed and commented
4:33 kinky university
I love this, immediately subbed
i do find some funny Japanese tweets from time to time and my most favourite one was a group of Japanese guys mimicking the poses of statues of a historical tourism location in another country. They almost made a human tower, i laughed so hard seeing those pictures
Love this. Please make more.
I've been in Japan for 8 years and I feel really detached from what I know about Japanese memes. There are so many more out there and I think you should definitely explore!
this makes me want a japanese meme review series
i want to share a little bit of insight regarding kinki uni poster vs tokyo science uni. kansai folks in general are more expressive and outgoing than kanto/tokyo people. for example, there's this osakan police poster that depicts police officer catching a thief and screaming "let's go! show em your might!". tokyo police poster, however, couldn't evet get more serious. it depicts two police officers serving older people and it says "the tokyo that protects you".
ngl if i had to choose one of them posters to decorate my room with, i'd choose the kansai one. it's waaaay more interesting and funnier
This was hilarious and informative, 10/10 thx for the video
This was fun to watch! It’s cool to see memes I wouldn’t have otherwise understood without a translation.
Brilliant review 👍🏾
So good I have now subscribed to your channel 😀👍🏾
2:59 Mad lad did the Sasuke neck twist in real life.
I loved this how you explained it all and even translated some comments it was great context thanks
i thought he would say "this is yooour daily dose of internet." after hello everyone💀
Now that you mention, their voice does sound similar
Definitely an interesting video. I would enjoy more of these on a regular basis.
2:30 I lost it by this point. I want my Pokemon: Warsaw Pact Edition!
So more of an actual joke and not brainrot? I humbly accept.
To be fair to Kinki Kids, Porno Graffiti is pretty popular lmao
bro this video has been in my watch later playlist and I'm finally coming back around to it TvT
That last minute without a script was great! I honestly didn't even notice. Both the scripted and the unscripted speech sounded natural to me. Great work!
definitely got my sub, keep making them bro!
Holy shit, I've always wanted to get more insight into Japanese memes, since they're extremely incomprehensible without context/speaking Japanese. (as I'm sure western memes are to Japanese people). This video was great
Awesome start with the Zenphone, you should totally continue doing this.
“Good video”- Kaz, Japanese kid at my school
A Johnny's fan causally rofling over Mabo's neck gif at the end of your video.
Oh how I wish we could see that again...
(The band TOKIO disbanded years ago and now although you can see 3 of the 5 members in the group they no longer make songs but focus on doing agriculture and development work in Fukushima...it's meaningful but I wished they continue their music too)
Good video! I like hearing about this since you explain the context so well for these memes and background info on them. If you do make more I’ll be looking forward to it!
Imagine putting "studied at Kinki University" on your resume
おりば専用の語感好き
yep I liked and subbed right here so keep these up.
2:23 holy fucking shit that's hilarious
The unscripted part was pretty funny. I liked it. Keep up the excellent work. :)
Improvisation = good.
Pokemon = better. Please translate every Junichi Masuda tweet every day until he dies. He stopped writing his blog in english a while ago =[
Kumamon's song is so repetitive, haha.
Also if you call out companies publicly on twitter, that is a way better road to a solution. Compared to a silent Contact Us email where they can't be shamed. It was funny how Asus handled it though.
I would love more japan meme reviews. Great video.
I think you should make one in the future. It helps me connect with what is going on and interact with my friends and family in Japan. I was born in Japan but I moved to America when I was 10. I can make jokes in English but when it comes to Japanese, I suck at it so much that I didn't want to come off as a boring person in Japan. In my opinion, this is educational and helpful to me. Please keep continuing doing this!
This is surprisingly new, these kind of "light" but cleverly well done memes are a breath of fresh air (my favorite is of the university, bath signs and phones) from what we consider here as memes, specially in Latam, where self-deprecation and remarking of government incompetency is all time high, so the quality of memes is equally bad, uncreative or repetitive.
Your content's pretty good bro, it could be considered a form of social online studies for foreigners that want to understand the form of comedy they use in Japan.
los memes en latam suelen entrar mas en lo surreal y con varias capas de ironia y chistes internos que nadie que no sea de acá entienda -- son tan malos que son buenos
los que mostraron acá son humor bastante sencillo la verdad a mi opinion
I would prefer fewer memes and more detail, the way you explained the washroom signs (for example, you could explain the fairy tale reference in the broken phone conversation). Going off-script was fine, you clearly knew what you were talking about so it felt natural.
Okay, thank you very much for your feedback.
I agree, going into a bit more detail would be great. You're Japanalysis, so a few more lines of commentary are welcome.
I was literally just thinking earlier “What memes do other countries have?”
Got back from school, went on UA-cam and found this in my recommended. I’m now convinced Susan Wojcicki is spying on me
Enjoyed the video a bunch, the offscript rant was pretty funny. It feels like Japanese internet culture is in some aspects a few years behind the western world's. With the exception of niche areas like 2ch, it seems to me that meme culture kinda hasn't fully formed.
@man with long nose In my opinion, I think the meme culture is already fully formed, but not in the same way as the American/Western/English. also if by "some aspects" you mean the multi-layered irony, then yeah I believe it won't be fully taking off in Japanese internet culture because the way they treat and view memes is quite different.
korean memes are the opposite, w/o understanding the language I can laugh my ass out
was very informative, thank you. would love to see more
All the memes are pretty tame comparing to the English ones lmao
we got weird humor
Yea in the west we try to be very edgy and political in japan they try to stay more positive.
I would love to see more japanese memes! Also now I want to see more of this Kumamon as well XD
No, no, please keep doing these. This was great.
A lot of people forget, or don't know, the meaning of Meme-- it's a collection of tropes and axioms of an idea, or expectations, about a particular topic. Just like how looking at memes shows the insight of the average American thought and acceptance; looking into Japanese memes windows their thoughts and acceptance.
You can learn a lot from the memes, so please continue.
Also Biscuit meme seems to be a joke about the Chikan problem, I would guess. Biscuit is introduced into the series as a sex offender to men during a tournament. Chikans are sex offenders; Biscuit is a sex offender-- the joke is instead of women, he's after dudes.
Would love to watch more of these!
If there is anyone who didn't know, the first one was actually based off the folktale "the honest woodcutter" where a lumberjack dropped his axe in a lake, a goddess came out and showed him two axes, his axe and a golden axe. She asked which one was his, and he answered honestly so she gave him the golden one.
2:44
it says おりば専用(for getting off only) on left
おりば=oriba sounds like oliva from baki
so, it means. "for oliva only"
It started with a wholesome joke, then proceeded with funny memes, do more of these😂😂
personal story:
i have a Kumamon plushie that i bought at a Japanese themed store in my country, i hanged it from the rearview mirror of my car, my now girlfriend, considered it peculiar, so she gifted me another plushie she got from a gacha machine she got when she was in Japan like 12 years ago (she´s technically half Japanese, her grand parents emigrated from Osaka in the 1930´s).
the second plushie looks like a tooth with arms and is currently hanging at my car´s mirror.
The only thing i knew about japanese memes and japanese shitpost before watching the video it was that they were worse than western memes(In the sense that they are less funny).
I appreciate the University memes, I really like the final one.