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Japanreview

Japanreviewit's been a year since I

moved toJapan and I thoughtitmade

sense to finallyrateJapanI willtalk

about things Ilike and the things I

don'tlike which seems to be theonly

two options available ifyou have

opinions about this country

so sugoi ordidyou knowJapanis

actually really badit'sgot a lot of

survivalissues okayI will listone

good thing and bad thing andI will not

hold back there's no trash bins

where I'mgonna put my trash

I have to put in mypocket

oh

there'salways thesegeneric things that

you hear oryes when weyou visitit's

kind ofweird but thenyourealizeit's

not abig dealanywaylet's start off

withnumberonereason IlikeJapan

itfeelslike agiant playground no I

don't mean in the LoganPaul kind of

sense of doing whatever thehellyou

want

but rather there's ainfinite thingsall

rightlazyfeelslike to explore and

experience and I've beenhere a yearnow

and Idon't think I'mgonnaget bored

anytime soon although Iam having a

child so Idon't know how muchmore I

havetime to experience

butit reallyfeelslike awhole new

world and ifyou visitedyou can

probably relate toit and I'm glad that

even a year initstillfeels incredibly

fresh and I even would say thatyou

realize that the best part ofJapan

aren't the touristyplaces kind of

obviously but there are somany areas

that Ifound that I really enjoy

visiting and thisis probablymore

specific to me butyou knowTokyois

very busy and somanytimes I justcatch

myself surroundedby whatfeelslike

hundreds of people and they have noidea

who Iam

everyoneis just doing their own thing

and thatfeels so [ __ ]good

nowonceitwas staringat me noone's

following me noone'sbeingweirdyou

guys areweird and I'm justkidding I

justlovethe feeling ofbeing able to

exist in public and uh not worrying

about what everyone elseis doinglike

I've said this before but I genuinely

enjoytalking to fans or when people

approach meitalwaysmakes mehappy but

it can be kind of frustrating toalways

wanting to just doyour own thing and

always be

you know so yeahlet'smove on to the

bad things ofJapannumberonereason

Japanis badit's kind of a heavy

subject and Ihaven't seenanyone else

reallytalk aboutitit's not brought up

very oftenatleast and thatis cones

there's toomany cones inJapanonceyou

seeityou cannot unseeit they're

everywhere they sayoh Japanhas somany

vending machines there'slikefiveper

oneperson no the opposite

there'smore cones than peoplewhy are

there somany cones Ineed to know we

got the tallones wegot the smallones

wegot thefunnyones the cuteones the

sexyones I dolike those I justdon't

understand thatwhoever plays these

cones think I'm justgonna barge through

oh thankGod there's coneshere

otherwise I had noidea what Iwasgonna

and Irealized the conehistory ofJapan

stretches centuries okay ifyou played

Animal Crossing sometimesit's a

Japanese game so sometimesyouget these

items rightyou'relike oh that's kind

ofweird Idon't know exactly what that

is butit's probablysomethingJapanese

and thenyouget thebamboo thing and

you'relike what thehellis that what

am I evengonna dowith that and then

you seeit in reallifehere inJapan

you'relike holy [ __ ]it's a cone that's

a cone they're everywhere

Ifeellike they are following me

I'm glad Iwas able totalk about this

I'm forone andwilling to callout

Japan knockit offmanno more cones

there's enough coneslet me tellyou

something even better than conesyoumay

have noticed new merch finallyit's been

forever mymom cameovershe had

unofficial merge because I literally

have no other merch I've hadn't hadn't

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did such agood job thesepieceslook

amazing and I thinkyou guys aregonna

reallylike themas well these are

available for limitedtimeonly somake

sureyou ordernow so excited to finally

have this merch availablethanks to

amaze for making this happen we are

gonna haveonepiece thatwillstayon

the store so mymomwill not buy the

wrong merch but for a limitedtime that

piecewill be available in thiscolor

off-white kind ofcoloritlooks really

nice and then after thatyou canstill

getit but not in thiscolor that's

you want thisone yeah Igetit

so yeah check thatout ifyou're

interested I'm sohappy about these

designs and Ihopeyou guys wouldlike

themas wellall rightreasonnumbertwo

IlikeJapan yay when we first announced

that we weregonnamove toJapan there

was somany people just saying how bad

Japanis actuallydidyou knowJapanis

really baddidyou know this I have to

listall thesereasonsnow because

everyoneislike thing and then thing

Japan ah so I have to tell them and I

it's actually butone thing in

particular that people saidwas that old

people reallydon'tlike foreigners they

hate them so when Iwasgonna stopby to

say hi to our neighborswhowas alittle

olderatleast some of them Iwas

terrifying I heardall these storiesyou

knowlike what are theygonna do to us

so I had my guard up ready for theworst

and Iwas met withnothing but kindness

and welcoming and Ifeltlike atotal

dick for having this preconceivedideas

thanks to other people

and just a side commentlikeyes there

are definitely probably people that

don'tlike foreignersand all that stuff

but Irealized I shouldlet my own

experienceis dictate how Ifeel about

certain thingsmaybe that's just

ignoring a problem Idon't knowit just

feelslikeit's a bad way to approach

life ifyoualways have anegative

expectationyou knowit's smiling people

maySmile Back

smiled back

thankyou sometimes theydon't and

that's okayyou knowanyway mypoint

beingJapanese people are very in my own

experience

are very nice and friendly the majority

atleast andyes even to foreigners I

feellike they are especially nice to

foreigners because they think we'relike

akidlostat Disneyland orsomething

I justasked for directions Ididn't

needyou to walk me forhalf an hour to

this specific place Iwasgoing but

thankyou Iappreciateit a lot oftimes

Igo boulderingalone and there'salways

other groups of peoplebeing supportive

and yellinglike I'm about therelikego

youcan doit Iloveit Ithink it's

greatyou know or ifyou're small

talking with people people generally

want to communicatewith you and Ilove

having thosemoments but of course

there'stimes where people arelike oh

you're a foreigner Idon'tfeellike

even trying

whichagainit'sfine speaking of which

reason Idon'tlikeJapannumbertwo

their language

I havelivedhere for a year and I'm not

fluent inJapanese

Iam dumb Iam very dumb I remember the

moment wemovedhere I had studied some

Japanese and Iwaslike

Let'stestout this knowledge that I

have acquiredlet'sgo I'm justgonna

come init'sgonna be dangerous andyou

enter a store for the firsttime and

they'relike

what

what oh

what the classicthe mostcommon

experiences thatyou have aren't

necessarily whatyou're taught in the

textbook yayI know I think that's the

same foranyonelearning a language for

the firsttime butdon't evenget me

startedon the kanjimain what the [ __ ]

is this IfeellikeJapaneseis such a

hard language obviously but Idon't

think peoplerealize how harditisat

least mepersonally because themoreyou

learn themoreyourealizeyoudon't

know [ __ ]

forEnglishspeakersJapaneseis

consideredone ofthe most difficult

languages and becauseit's just so

different I listeditas bad because

thatwas my first kind of experience

withit cominghere but themore I

interact with people themoreitfeels

like I'm unlocking new skillsyou know

oh Imade a phone call for the first

time oh I couldasksomeoneover the

phoneI knowbig deal butit'slike oh I

can actually do that or even just having

a small tinyyes shittiest conversation

with a strangerit'sstillsomething and

itfeelsgoodyou start toall of a

sudden understandyou know a movie if

you're watching oh I understand actually

what'sgoingonhere or I can play games

and kind ofget what this they're saying

I have tolook upwords obviously but to

meall those new experiences thatit

unlocks to meis very rewarding even

thoughit's such a challenge I would

actuallynow sayit's agood thing I

playeditonits headitwas agood

thingall along but I obviously have a

long [ __ ] way togo

andit just Idon'tthink itwilldamage

timereasonnumber three IlikeJapan

thisisnothing to do withJapan to say

it'smore related to me taking amore

relaxed approach toYouTube for my

entire 20s Ididnothing butYouTube

thatwasmy life and that's okay but I

alsothink itwas alittle toxic

probablyyou know if Iwasn't making

videos I sureashellwas thinking about

making videos I uploaded videos during

our honeymoon

anditfeels reallygood to finally be

free fromityou know and I can discover

other things inlife there are other

things inlife

a new hobbies and interest that I've

always wanted to do Ican do and have so

muchfun withit surfingI know I would

love forthe longest time and I finally

get todo it andit's so [ __ ]amazing

Ilovelearning new thingsanything that

isn't necessarilyconnected toall of

thison theinternet and thatis

something I'm very very grateful that I

discovered so yeahit's not reallyJapan

I could havedone thatanywhere butit's

largelywhy I enjoyed so muchhere

reason Idon'tlikeJapannumber three

thisis probablythe most trickiestone

andit's the rules what are the rules

Japanhas somany rules andit's abit

conflicting for me to complain about

because a lot of the best stuff about

Japan not the best stuff but a lot of

the reasonswhyJapan works so wellis

because of the rulesyou know thetrains

arealwaysontime things just work in

generalit's hard to explainthe streets

areclean people aren't loud in public

and soon and these are sort of societal

rules thatmakeit happenmore orless

but sometimes There are rules that just

don'tmakeanysense and I have no

problem following rulesas longas I

understandthe reason forityou know

don'ttalkon the phoneon thetrain

becauseit's generally annoying when

other people do that toyou A lot ofit

is just be thoughtful of other people

it's not just aboutyou and that just

makesitmore pleasant for everyone but

one ruleis especially which Italked

about beforeisthe fact that because of

kovid I'm notallowed to be in the

delivery room for our baby formore than

two hours that's because of covered

rulesit just doesn'tmakesense to me

and I tell people about thislike uh

family andfriends and they'realways

like wellwhydon'tyou justask them or

likewhydon'tyoutalk to them I'm sure

you can there'sgot to besomewhere and

it'slike noit'sJapan okay there are

rules and people follow the rules for

better or worseyou know so themore I

time I spend