I can imagine, Rachel dressed in all white in all that snow with red lips and her bright read hair! that alone would be both stunning and scary for some kids who have never seen a foreigner haha
So I looked it up real quick and our Krampus is only to be found in the areas of old Österreich-Ungarn/Austro-Hungary. So I'm kinda surprised to find this comment so far up.
seriously, there is a Kami(japanese shintoism god) in toilet as well. nowaday its like a urban legend, however if you would clean toilet, your face will be beautiful according to the legend.
This comment needs more likes. I really appreciate how the ending shot wasn't "just" a drone shot, but also had great cinematic planning. Zooming out from them, to reveal the castle, to then zoom out more and reveal the city. Superb.
Re: exiting the convo - when I studied abroad and talked to my parents on the phone and they got too annoying, I'd say "bye" and hang up on them. When I got back, I was in the habit of doing that and tried to end a LOT of our conversations this way... it was super awks cos I'd just sit there (STILL IN THE SAME ROOM AND FACING THEM) thinking "this works better on the phone" 😂😂😂😅
HAHA no that actually sounds great. I'm going to do that when I want to argue with people face to face now. "Bye" "What? I'm still talking-" "BYE" *runs off*
Same problem here, I live in a dormitory far away from my hometown and when my parents call me and make me furious I always just say that I need to go because I'm busy, and then I come back home and have no excuses to use because they see I'm just scrolling through pictures of fat cats while eating potato chips xd
You can do that?! I'm 34 with two older siblings and we've never been able to do that with our mom...or her mom. Although at our age it's no longer about lecturing and more about not having 45 minutes or the desire to stand around and keep the conversation trundling along past its natural conclusion.
高木正弘 im swiss and we have so much snow... It looks beautiful when the sun shines, but when it storms and is very cold, it's no fun. Also, the sun goes up at like 8am and sets already at 5 pm... 😅
I live in south Texas, so I haven't seen ANY snow for the winters I've been here... I know it's crazy to people who see snow every winter but I honestly miss it. I used to have so much fun when I was a kid XD
woah guys - the quality of this video was amazing! Beautiful shots of Akita and the snow - the camera seemed so crisp! Plus the drone shots were beautiful. The voiceovers were so funny and enjoyable and i learned a lot from this video but it was still super fun to watch! It made me want to go abroad to Japan and visit myself :) Thank you Rachel and Jun, you guys really made an effort with this video and it paid off so much, well done! ps Jun, i think your snow angel was beautiful... but you might wanna work on your technique if you wanna impress your wife :P
When I was studying at Akita International University we went on a field trip to that museum! It was so cool. They tried to teach us Akita-ben too. 'Tried' being the key word...
hahahaha at one point we interviewed the shokunin who built the kamakura snow huts and one of them asked me a question, and I had to look at Jun for a translation and he repeated it in standard Japanese, and then everyone else made fun of him for translating Japanese into different Japanese so I could understand it lol. Yeah Akita-ben was pretty rough!! haha
hahaha I feel that. Jun is amazing for understanding it! I pretty much ended up replying んだから to everything since I had no idea what was going on and it was the only thing I could remember hahah
It sounds like in America when my friends from the midwest come to visit me in Boston and they hear some real local accents where they can't pronounce the "R" sound and it comes out as "AW" and when they say "wicked pissa" I have to translate that just means "awesome!"
I must say that I really like this new style of video from you guys! Having the two of you provide the commentary in a conversational matter really makes it stand out!
Japanese culture is beautiful and amazing, I've always wanted to visit and learn how to speak and write in Japanese. Most people say I'm strange for wanting to visit because of myths passes around about it, but to me it's a beautiful place, and I will make sure I make it there one day.
Haha, that's a job I could do - being a Namehage. But i scare small kids with my face normally, so I probably wouldn't need to dress up for it :D (I work as a teacher's aide btw) Also, those drone shots of the snow are soooo pretty ♥
This brings back some good memories from my trip last year to several winter festivals in Aomori and Akita prefecture. The Oga Namahage Sedo Matsuri was probably my favorite, although the Yokote Bonden was also pretty weird...
I always find interesting that cultures all over the world have kind of the same festival's and ceremonies. I'm Hopi Native American and we have a ceremony were soyokos come to each of our houses in the village and demand food from everyone, young and old to pay for life for another year. they also know of the children have been bad and threaten to eat them if they don't correct their bad behavior.
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We have very similiar traditions here in Switzerland :D even the costumes look very alike :D they go around at night and "steal" children and things :P
satireknight nope. Krampus is german and is a christmas thing :) ours is in the frane of Carnival/Fasnacht but with scary masks. It is not the same in all regions but the one that is most similar is the Wallis "Tschäggättä" i have never been but this is basically the most "traditional" attempt of Carnival in Switzerland :)
As an "aargauer" (swiss) guy I can agree the masks and the costumes look extremely close to the ones from our Guggemusig and Fasnachts guys :) (I dont really know anithyng about the storys behind them except for that I think its partially to scare kids and Fasnacht is to scare away the cold from the winter or something)
+Robert Amison They are Perchten also in Austria. Krampus is like the special one that visits the homes with Nikolaus, but Perchten roam the streets and make like lokal processions. I am really amazed at how similar they look, though. instead of bast clothes they have fur clothes but the overall look is similar.
Don't be! There are plenty of people who travel to Japan knowing no Japanese at all. Of course it's harder to get around and you rely a lot more on hand signals and asking people for help, but I believe you get more opportunities to interact with Japanese people that way anyway. :)
Check out AbroadInJapan's channel. He moved to Japan with no knowledge of the Japanese language and only his British sarcasm to get by. Over a year he developed a greater understanding of the Japanese language and only a minor drinking problem.
Wow! That festival... there's an almost identical one in Finland, although not preserved as well. It was called "kekripukki" or "nuuttipukki" I think, and sometimes it worked in reverse with children dressing up as ogres and going house-to-house to sing, receiving treats in return. So it's kinda like a multi-task christoween. Mas. Thing.
Your channel's shots and content are all so good! I'm so confused why these videos doesn't have enough views! Great job by the way! The snow angel shot was awesome.
was just watching juns latest video on juns kitchen then this came up on my screen and i was trying to magically speed up his video without skipping it😂😂
Nice video! As I like seeing more of Japan cultural events and I have a lot of love for the kamis and yokais of Japanese folklore, I was really happy watching this video with all those onis!! Thank you! And of course, the drone view is just amazing! It was really beautiful in Jun's last video too. I'm looking forward to the next ones!
I'm just really impressed by the camera work in this video, especially the higher-up shots (there's some official video term for this I'm sure haha) like the snow angel shots.
وَجَاء مِنْ أَقْصَى الْمَدِينَةِ رَجُلٌ يَسْعَى قَالَ يَا قَوْمِ اتَّبِعُوا الْمُرْسَلِينَ And there came a man running from the farthest part of the town. اتَّبِعُوا مَن لاَّ يَسْأَلُكُمْ أَجْراً وَهُم مُّهْتَدُونَ Obey those who ask no wages of you وَمَا لِي لاَ أَعْبُدُ الَّذِي فَطَرَنِي وَإِلَيْهِ تُرْجَعُونَ "It would not be reasonable in me if I did not serve Him Who created me, and to Whom ye shall (all) be brought back. أَأَتَّخِذُ مِن دُونِهِ آلِهَةً إِن يُرِدْنِ الرَّحْمَن بِضُرٍّ لاَّ تُغْنِ عَنِّي شَفَاعَتُهُمْ شَيْئاً وَلاَ يُنقِذُون ِ"Shall I take (other) gods besides Him? If (Allah) Most Gracious should intend some adversity for me, of no use whatever will be their intercession for me, nor can they deliver me. إِنِّي إِذاً لَّفِي ضَلاَلٍ مُّبِينٍ "I would indeed, if I were to do so, be in manifest Error. إِنِّي آمَنتُ بِرَبِّكُمْ فَاسْمَعُونِ "For me, I have faith in the Lord of you (all): listen, then, to me!" قِيلَ ادْخُلِ الْجَنَّةَ قَالَ يَا لَيْتَ قَوْمِي يَعْلَمُونَ It was said: "Enter thou the Garden." He said: "Ah me! Would that my People knew (what I know)!- بِمَا غَفَرَ لِي رَبِّي وَجَعَلَنِي مِنَ الْمُكْرَمِينَ "For that my Lord has granted me Forgiveness and has enrolled me among those held in honour!" Quran. Islam ua-cam.com/video/_w2yG1bDJfo/v-deo.html
In *Czech republic* we have something really alike this.. and theres *St. Nicolas* who gives us candys when we tell a poem or sing a song, *angel - girl* who is so kind and then the *Devils* who scares us like "Have you been good this year? and if you werent, ill give you to the hell!!,, and its so fun there..
Omg! I studied abroad in Akita last year and went to the Namahage museum and participated in the Kamakura festival too! If you have a chance, please check out my videos! I also have one about Yokote's Kamakura festival, along with other festivities and general life in Akita! Thanks! Keep up the great work! I absolutely love your videos!
This whole thing reminds me of Krampus so much, and as soon as you said "opposite santa", I couldn't help myself but say it. Either you were aware of the Krampus tale, or that was a silly coincidence that you said opposite santa. I'm half German myself and know all about the Krampus story, which is pretty similar to this (but sometimes worse) and I'm glad my German dad was too traumatised by these stories to tell them to me and my sister.
This is really a beautiful video because of its winter scenery, so while your title might be apt for the scene with those cool costumes (you were genuinely scary, Rachel! hahaha), there's so much more here. There's one shot of about five seconds where the snow is falling on a forest: I really loved that and could watch it for hours. I gather you have a drone now too, so the overhead shots of your making snow angels is exciting. You've gone way beyond the average UA-camr because you're now making not only topically interesting videos, but also visually interesting videos. Maybe your fortune comes from that tree you got to touch. That was cool. It reminded me of the heart trees in Game of Thrones. Thanks! :)
It’s so beautiful!! How did you film it at the end when you’re doing snow angels and the camera slowly goes higher and finally shows the view from the sky??
I'll have to Remeber this and it explains alot of how Kindergarteners react to scary faces. I recently moved to Tochigi Prefecture as a Kindergarten teacher. So this might come in handy to know and make sure little ones are doing their English homework! ^-^
Rachel & Jun Thank you for the advice! Love you guys and your videos for some time now. I'm happy to say after 2 years of getting ready and preparing to find a job and preparing for the move, I've finally made it to Japan! ^-^
In my country (Bulgaria) we have simular to these and we call them Kukeri but they are good and chase away evil spirits. The costumes are made of a special kind of goat and one full body costume takes about 7 years. Or you can have a costume from bear fur. They have big wooden, scary and painted masks and also all kinds of copper bells. They come to the town of Asenovgrad in January and dance on the streets
Btw what the Namahage are shouting at the festival is "ARE THERE ANY NAUGHTY KIDS HERE"
And "ARE THERE ANY CRYBABIES HERE"
😂😂😂
Rachel & Jun 😂😂😂😂😂😂 thanks for sharing this with us
Like the Krampus in Europe....scaring naughty children. www.truthsayer.info/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/Krampus5.jpg
"naughty" kids ;) (sorry XD)
Rachel & Jun That was so cool and beautiful!! Thank you for showing us it all!
I'm an awful kid! Nuuuuuu I'm a brat 😂 jk
3:30
Man introducing :
"He's in charge of..."
Unknown man reply :
" i am the Boss "
🤣👏
Nothing like starting a day at 6 am with screeching terrified toddlers
gobblenater me rn 😶😳😂
J-hopecupcakes Seok I love your username. Hobi is my bias ^^. ARMY HWAITING! 💜
Mandolyn Gambino AWWWW THANK YOU ILYT ❤❤❤ 😍 same
I can imagine, Rachel dressed in all white in all that snow with red lips and her bright read hair!
that alone would be both stunning and scary for some kids who have never seen a foreigner haha
Jun's snow angel has crippling depression
LOLLL, thanks for making my day better
csk026 this comment made my day lol 😂
Ö poor thing
*I hAvE cRipPlIng dEpReSsioN*
That phrase ALWAYS makes me think of this: ua-cam.com/video/oZzgAjjuqZM/v-deo.html
I DIED AT CORN SOUP
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Should have worn a safety vest.
_C O R N S O U P_
Haha
@@alias4795 meh
*Kids screaming*
Transition into cute intro bgm
perfect.
Japanese Krampus.
brennan inc. That's what I was thinking😂
I was about to comment that
Or baba jaga!
So I looked it up real quick and our Krampus is only to be found in the areas of old Österreich-Ungarn/Austro-Hungary. So I'm kinda surprised to find this comment so far up.
Dora Špoljar not really babayaga
Jun... you really gotta up your snow angel game.
I'm not mad, just disappointed.
Lol! Really, awkward body movements make awkward snow angels. Really funny, though!
"Son, I'm disappoint."
"One of these things is not like the other! Can you spot it Jun?"
"Uh this one?"
(Zooms in)
"CORN SOUP."
DEAD XD
Japan's toilet technology tho 😂
muccycloudvlogs almost like a religion haha
seriously, there is a Kami(japanese shintoism god) in toilet as well. nowaday its like a urban legend, however if you would clean toilet, your face will be beautiful according to the legend.
A_Little_Me this thread sounds like a shitpost
muccycloudvlogs what a waste of time.
BTW autocorrect wanted me to type wasteland instead of waste, Japanese tech ain't i right.
Lol it looks like Jun's snow angel is wearing bell bottoms XD
Oh look at all the different coffees. Sure wish we had vending machines like th-
*CORN SOUP!!!!!*
(´⊙ω⊙`)
Flyin Mintbunny \(O3O)/
☜(⌒▽⌒)☞
*Children Screaming*
*Guys with masks n shit walking around*
*Children Screamin-*
*Happy music*
You guys are getting too good at this, that last shot is cinematic! °o°
This comment needs more likes. I really appreciate how the ending shot wasn't "just" a drone shot, but also had great cinematic planning. Zooming out from them, to reveal the castle, to then zoom out more and reveal the city. Superb.
Intro: *screams of children*
Title: A day in Akita
That last shot was absolutely incredible!
Asfandyar Saleem Butt i wonder how they film it that way? are you using little helicopter to bring your camera filming from above, rachel?
i see. thanks!
like small 'heli'. i know nothing about filming. is it difficult to control this drone?
Meiliana You can search up drone tutorials on youtube! I'm sure you'll find lots of valuable info :D
Jun is so lucky! Rachel is so pretty!
Lulu Sapphire
They both are luck tho tbh
Arina Nam Jin Kim true 😆
Rachel is also lucky! Jun is like the anime boyfriend pulled to reality!
They are both lucky
They are both so lucky and so pretty!!!!
Re: exiting the convo - when I studied abroad and talked to my parents on the phone and they got too annoying, I'd say "bye" and hang up on them. When I got back, I was in the habit of doing that and tried to end a LOT of our conversations this way... it was super awks cos I'd just sit there (STILL IN THE SAME ROOM AND FACING THEM) thinking "this works better on the phone" 😂😂😂😅
HAHA no that actually sounds great. I'm going to do that when I want to argue with people face to face now.
"Bye"
"What? I'm still talking-"
"BYE" *runs off*
Same problem here, I live in a dormitory far away from my hometown and when my parents call me and make me furious I always just say that I need to go because I'm busy, and then I come back home and have no excuses to use because they see I'm just scrolling through pictures of fat cats while eating potato chips xd
You can do that?! I'm 34 with two older siblings and we've never been able to do that with our mom...or her mom. Although at our age it's no longer about lecturing and more about not having 45 minutes or the desire to stand around and keep the conversation trundling along past its natural conclusion.
AliceRoared My soul would literally be slapped out of me if I tried that on my parents lmao
Rein hard or go home. or killed by a chanckla (sandel in spanish) by mexican parents, at least mine would say that
*sees thumbnail*
huh? no way, no way RACHEL & JUN FUSED?
*run was created*
Dragon Ball Z fandom rise up
That sounds so wrong out of context
R U N
Oml I love this comment
RUN
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JEL
I love how in the ending shot Jun falls and Rachel just laughs at him! 😂
The child screaming in the beginning was everything😂
I bursted out laughing at CORN SOUP! 🤣
Corn soup is awesome.
Yea I've never heard of it either.
Pine corn soup
1:10
1:09 "This one?" _"C O R N S O U P."_
Did you guys get a drone? How the hell did you get all those amazing shots?!
Drone! :D
magic
How exciting! It really ups the production value of the video :)
They did! I first noticed in Jun's new kitchen video
What kind of drone? The new mavic?
Oh my gosh I’m dying with Jun’s snow angel. Rachel’s got full leg angel, then Jun’s boots move up and down. Dying.
Nice drone shot in the end and great video!
krid23 That ending was beautiful. I love all their drone shots.
i cried
Oh, wow! That last shot going from Rachel and Jun's snow angels to the scenery was beautiful!
I also have a day in which I scare neighborhood children.
It's called... *Everyday*.
^ Yup, everyday. We do it just by going outside. :P
I just like how the beginning is like dramatic music and screaming children and then it transitions to happy music
That snow is so beautiful! We didn't get much snow in Seoul this winter..... :(
Are snowy winters typical there?
snow is very annyoing thing in Japan.
that is not entertaining but just life.
高木正弘 im swiss and we have so much snow... It looks beautiful when the sun shines, but when it storms and is very cold, it's no fun. Also, the sun goes up at like 8am and sets already at 5 pm... 😅
I live in south Texas, so I haven't seen ANY snow for the winters I've been here... I know it's crazy to people who see snow every winter but I honestly miss it. I used to have so much fun when I was a kid XD
It looks absolutely breathtaking. The landscape is so beautiful.
woah guys - the quality of this video was amazing! Beautiful shots of Akita and the snow - the camera seemed so crisp! Plus the drone shots were beautiful. The voiceovers were so funny and enjoyable and i learned a lot from this video but it was still super fun to watch! It made me want to go abroad to Japan and visit myself :) Thank you Rachel and Jun, you guys really made an effort with this video and it paid off so much, well done!
ps Jun, i think your snow angel was beautiful... but you might wanna work on your technique if you wanna impress your wife :P
That head covering thing is a really good idea for public transportation. Also yea. You're right Rachel. It's great for ending an argument!
When I was studying at Akita International University we went on a field trip to that museum! It was so cool. They tried to teach us Akita-ben too. 'Tried' being the key word...
hahahaha at one point we interviewed the shokunin who built the kamakura snow huts and one of them asked me a question, and I had to look at Jun for a translation and he repeated it in standard Japanese, and then everyone else made fun of him for translating Japanese into different Japanese so I could understand it lol. Yeah Akita-ben was pretty rough!! haha
hahaha I feel that. Jun is amazing for understanding it! I pretty much ended up replying んだから to everything since I had no idea what was going on and it was the only thing I could remember hahah
It sounds like in America when my friends from the midwest come to visit me in Boston and they hear some real local accents where they can't pronounce the "R" sound and it comes out as "AW" and when they say "wicked pissa" I have to translate that just means "awesome!"
hahah that's great. It's so interesting how varied dialects can be. One of my lecturers is from Boston and his accent is so strong! Very cool though
I must say that I really like this new style of video from you guys! Having the two of you provide the commentary in a conversational matter really makes it stand out!
You used a drone for those last few shots didn't you? They were really cool!
Japanese culture is beautiful and amazing, I've always wanted to visit and learn how to speak and write in Japanese. Most people say I'm strange for wanting to visit because of myths passes around about it, but to me it's a beautiful place, and I will make sure I make it there one day.
Same
I don't know why the pan out from Rachel and Jun make snow angel make laugh so much 😂
Fitri Ayu Permata Astri It's very sweet. :3
Laughing so hard now at Jun's attempt of making a snow angel. He is so cute.
that forest shot at 4:37 looks amazing.
Children screaming in agony
Me: "ahh... Beautiful..."
Haha, that's a job I could do - being a Namehage. But i scare small kids with my face normally, so I probably wouldn't need to dress up for it :D (I work as a teacher's aide btw)
Also, those drone shots of the snow are soooo pretty ♥
This brings back some good memories from my trip last year to several winter festivals in Aomori and Akita prefecture. The Oga Namahage Sedo Matsuri was probably my favorite, although the Yokote Bonden was also pretty weird...
I always find interesting that cultures all over the world have kind of the same festival's and ceremonies. I'm Hopi Native American and we have a ceremony were soyokos come to each of our houses in the village and demand food from everyone, young and old to pay for life for another year. they also know of the children have been bad and threaten to eat them if they don't correct their bad behavior.
5:31 I WAS LITTERALY LAUGHING SO HARD CHINA COULD HERE ME
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that snow angel part at the end ... so cute...
So...kind of like Krampus?
Hi R&J, I just found your channel this week. I recently had a spinal surgery and I'm dealing with post op stuff now, and it's been a really stressful time for me. I started watching more UA-cam videos while I'm supposed to be resting and I ended up coming across your channel. I watched quite a few of your videos and I just wanted to say that you brought a smile to my face. Thanks for making a stressful time for me a little easier. :)
Jun what is wrong with your weak snow angel skills?
Namahage are real interesting!
CORRRN SOUP!!!! i died
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The Japanese Krampus! Krampus does the same thing: he trails behind Santa and kidnaps/punishes children who have been naughty.
1:11 *very passionately* CORN SOUP she kinda sounds like a demon at that moment which is fitting
We have very similiar traditions here in Switzerland :D even the costumes look very alike :D they go around at night and "steal" children and things :P
satireknight nope. Krampus is german and is a christmas thing :) ours is in the frane of Carnival/Fasnacht but with scary masks. It is not the same in all regions but the one that is most similar is the Wallis "Tschäggättä" i have never been but this is basically the most "traditional" attempt of Carnival in Switzerland :)
As an "aargauer" (swiss) guy I can agree the masks and the costumes look extremely close to the ones from our Guggemusig and Fasnachts guys :) (I dont really know anithyng about the storys behind them except for that I think its partially to scare kids and Fasnacht is to scare away the cold from the winter or something)
+Robert Amison They are Perchten also in Austria. Krampus is like the special one that visits the homes with Nikolaus, but Perchten roam the streets and make like lokal processions.
I am really amazed at how similar they look, though. instead of bast clothes they have fur clothes but the overall look is similar.
Your music n the snowy trees scene is phenomenal
My grades are just as bad as Juns snow angel lol jk
That was some really beautiful aerial shots!!
That place looks so beautiful ... but im so nervous about traveling to Japan alone this summer with limited knowledge of the language.
Don't be! There are plenty of people who travel to Japan knowing no Japanese at all. Of course it's harder to get around and you rely a lot more on hand signals and asking people for help, but I believe you get more opportunities to interact with Japanese people that way anyway. :)
Check out AbroadInJapan's channel. He moved to Japan with no knowledge of the Japanese language and only his British sarcasm to get by. Over a year he developed a greater understanding of the Japanese language and only a minor drinking problem.
Alrighty. Will see. If not now, then when.. am I right? Thanks for the advice guys.
Still sucks to go at it alone lol. #nofriends
I like how in the beginning there is just screaming and panic then you suddelny have pink font letters and cute fun music😆
Wow! That festival... there's an almost identical one in Finland, although not preserved as well. It was called "kekripukki" or "nuuttipukki" I think, and sometimes it worked in reverse with children dressing up as ogres and going house-to-house to sing, receiving treats in return. So it's kinda like a multi-task christoween. Mas. Thing.
UnclePutte that’s cool! My dad is from Finland and I’ve never heard about that o;
Your channel's shots and content are all so good! I'm so confused why these videos doesn't have enough views! Great job by the way! The snow angel shot was awesome.
秋田県民です！来てくれてとっても嬉しい！！😊
I'm akita inhabitant.I'm very happy you came😊
プードルトイ what?
Jun is BARELY moving his arms and legs to make a snow angel. XD
was just watching juns latest video on juns kitchen then this came up on my screen and i was trying to magically speed up his video without skipping it😂😂
Wow Akita looks so gorgeous. Even Jun's angels XD.
Nice video!
As I like seeing more of Japan cultural events and I have a lot of love for the kamis and yokais of Japanese folklore, I was really happy watching this video with all those onis!!
Thank you!
And of course, the drone view is just amazing! It was really beautiful in Jun's last video too. I'm looking forward to the next ones!
I'm just really impressed by the camera work in this video, especially the higher-up shots (there's some official video term for this I'm sure haha) like the snow angel shots.
"COFFEEEEEE"
"CORN SOUP"
Rachel and Jun you guys make me smile while watching this video, how lucky you are having each other , love it :)
وَجَاء مِنْ أَقْصَى الْمَدِينَةِ رَجُلٌ يَسْعَى قَالَ يَا قَوْمِ اتَّبِعُوا الْمُرْسَلِينَ
And there came a man running from the farthest part of the town.
اتَّبِعُوا مَن لاَّ يَسْأَلُكُمْ أَجْراً وَهُم مُّهْتَدُونَ
Obey those who ask no wages of you
وَمَا لِي لاَ أَعْبُدُ الَّذِي فَطَرَنِي وَإِلَيْهِ تُرْجَعُونَ
"It would not be reasonable in me if I did not serve Him Who created me, and to Whom ye shall (all) be brought back.
أَأَتَّخِذُ مِن دُونِهِ آلِهَةً إِن يُرِدْنِ الرَّحْمَن بِضُرٍّ لاَّ تُغْنِ عَنِّي شَفَاعَتُهُمْ شَيْئاً وَلاَ يُنقِذُون
ِ"Shall I take (other) gods besides Him? If (Allah) Most Gracious should intend some adversity for me, of no use whatever will be their intercession for me, nor can they deliver me.
إِنِّي إِذاً لَّفِي ضَلاَلٍ مُّبِينٍ
"I would indeed, if I were to do so, be in manifest Error.
إِنِّي آمَنتُ بِرَبِّكُمْ فَاسْمَعُونِ
"For me, I have faith in the Lord of you (all): listen, then, to me!"
قِيلَ ادْخُلِ الْجَنَّةَ قَالَ يَا لَيْتَ قَوْمِي يَعْلَمُونَ
It was said: "Enter thou the Garden." He said: "Ah me! Would that my People knew (what I know)!-
بِمَا غَفَرَ لِي رَبِّي وَجَعَلَنِي مِنَ الْمُكْرَمِينَ
"For that my Lord has granted me Forgiveness and has enrolled me among those held in honour!"
Quran. Islam
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Nothing like a bursted ear drum and bad dreams after watching this video
1:06 *so rachel inspired taylor swift's ME!*
Ohh yeahh just realized it
Actually both Taylor Swift and Rachel are referencing classic Sesame Street!
it's 3am where I live & I should be sleeping but......
sleep < new video 💖
In *Czech republic* we have something really alike this.. and theres *St. Nicolas* who gives us candys when we tell a poem or sing a song, *angel - girl* who is so kind and then the *Devils* who scares us like "Have you been good this year? and if you werent, ill give you to the hell!!,, and its so fun there..
Omg! I studied abroad in Akita last year and went to the Namahage museum and participated in the Kamakura festival too! If you have a chance, please check out my videos! I also have one about Yokote's Kamakura festival, along with other festivities and general life in Akita! Thanks! Keep up the great work! I absolutely love your videos!
I simply love your channel, you two are such cool people
The snow looks so beautiful
This whole thing reminds me of Krampus so much, and as soon as you said "opposite santa", I couldn't help myself but say it. Either you were aware of the Krampus tale, or that was a silly coincidence that you said opposite santa. I'm half German myself and know all about the Krampus story, which is pretty similar to this (but sometimes worse) and I'm glad my German dad was too traumatised by these stories to tell them to me and my sister.
Best couple!
You guys do an amazing job on the captions!
Woohoo! Shoutout from an Akita resident! Long live the Namahage!
J: and mochi
R: Yeah but that's not the important bit
J: what
😂
Rachel you should do screamo lmao
hahahaha
Great footage using the drone. Get a real feel of the landscape. Good job. :)
This is really a beautiful video because of its winter scenery, so while your title might be apt for the scene with those cool costumes (you were genuinely scary, Rachel! hahaha), there's so much more here. There's one shot of about five seconds where the snow is falling on a forest: I really loved that and could watch it for hours. I gather you have a drone now too, so the overhead shots of your making snow angels is exciting. You've gone way beyond the average UA-camr because you're now making not only topically interesting videos, but also visually interesting videos. Maybe your fortune comes from that tree you got to touch. That was cool. It reminded me of the heart trees in Game of Thrones. Thanks! :)
Juns snow angel is everything
秋田に来てくれたことを喜ぶべきか
秋田にいるのに会えなかったことを嘆くべきか
どっちか悩んでたら動画終わってた
ご視聴ありがとうございます！また機会があればその時に！なまはげ太鼓は是非また直で見てみたいです。^^
Fans: If you don't put on the closed captioning on Rachel and Jun's videos, you should. You miss the hilarity in them if you don't.
It’s so beautiful!! How did you film it at the end when you’re doing snow angels and the camera slowly goes higher and finally shows the view from the sky??
With a drone
_Namahage_ are so ubiquitous to Akita that the Akita Shinkansen train that travels there from Tokyo has a color scheme that reminds people of them.
秋田県出身としてはわざわざ見に来てくれる人がいることが嬉しいですね(^-^)
1:02 now I want to to Japan because of the cool stuff like the vending machines
Rachel looks amazing in the winter! The snow shows off her AMAZING hair!!
I just love the end scene man that was so romantic
I'll have to Remeber this and it explains alot of how Kindergarteners react to scary faces. I recently moved to Tochigi Prefecture as a Kindergarten teacher. So this might come in handy to know and make sure little ones are doing their English homework! ^-^
haha different areas have different types of "Namahage" so ask the other teachers if they have something particular in that region they use!
Rachel & Jun Thank you for the advice! Love you guys and your videos for some time now. I'm happy to say after 2 years of getting ready and preparing to find a job and preparing for the move, I've finally made it to Japan! ^-^
*CORN SOUP!!?!* That legit made me laugh pretty hard thanks 😂😂
I love hearing you speak japanese!!!
Nice! I wish I could explore at this festival for the winter tournament!
It's the Japanese krampus
In my country (Bulgaria) we have simular to these and we call them Kukeri but they are good and chase away evil spirits. The costumes are made of a special kind of goat and one full body costume takes about 7 years. Or you can have a costume from bear fur. They have big wooden, scary and painted masks and also all kinds of copper bells. They come to the town of Asenovgrad in January and dance on the streets