hello everybody welcome to tokyo
creative play today we're going to be
discussing what we're currently watching
an anime that i've been watching
recently
things that we've all been watching on
the tv or the internet which is where
most people seem to watch stuff these
days
so today we're just going to be sharing
with you guys what kind of shows we've
been watching lately uh
i think mainly it's gonna be japanese
shows that we're gonna be sharing with
you guys
uh and it can be you know movies tv
shows even
youtubers or variety shows that kind of
thing so i spend quite a bit of time
watching
shows not a huge amount but if there's a
show that i'm interested in i will
binge the whole thing rather than you
know make it last
because i'm really really picky with
what i watch and i think i've seen
enough in my lifetime to give
recommendations
a lot of people ask if i watch what
youtube channels i watch and i really
don't watch a whole lot of youtube most
of my influences
um as a youtuber have come from british
tv i've been watching a lot of things on
netflix but i have to download a lot of
them off itunes
particularly some of the more creative
japanese films i'll be talking about in
a minute just because they're just on
not on netflix
but like before i go to bed i watch some
youtube and like maybe
during lunch or like dinner i watch one
episode of something on netflix
that's it i watch shows every day after
work
and before work i pretty much watch
shows
a lot of the time it makes sense
watching tv in general
i usually only do it right after i post
a video then i take one day off and i
usually spend that whole day like
binging netflix okay so the shows that
i'm gonna be talking about aren't
exactly the most
new so the first one i'm gonna be
talking about is the naked director
a netflix original called naked director
it was a pretty big deal i think
last year i'm not sure if this was
marketed uh enough overseas but
this is something that a lot of people
here became obsessed with
and i like binge the whole series i
really liked it it's intense
don't watch it with kids around very
nsfw
there is some hardcore sex scenes in
here it's like a lot of
sex a lot of body parts because the
story follows
a real uh background story of
a director he starts to kind of
change it into like this art form that
slowly becomes to the stereotypical
weird japanese pornography that you may
have stumbled across or heard about from
a friend
but i really liked it because it felt
very different to a lot of other
japanese
tv shows and media that i'd seen the
acting was really good
the acting was really enjoyable and it
felt quite genuine and i was really
interested in the characters and their
backstories and just the story was
excellent i really enjoyed it i can't
say that you'll appreciate
pornography after watching this but it's
going to be
something that will be eye-opening
there's a show
on netflix and bbc called girihaji which
literally means duty and dishonor
and it's um i've been wanting to watch
it for ages but i didn't know if it was
going to be good or not i find typically
things
drama set in japan aren't the best
things to watch the quality is not good
but
giddy [ __ ] was amazing i highly
recommend watching it it's basically
uh about a guy whose brother
is in the yakuza and he kills something
in the uk then he comes over to the uk
to investigate but basically there's a
good drama that plays out between tokyo
and london
in a really compelling way i don't think
you'll be disappointed it's very
original
and it's one of the first things i've
ever seen where the narrative is set
across london
and tokyo so naturally i guess i feel a
bit of an affinity with it so the first
thing that i've been watching
quite recently is this youtube channel
called peaceful cooking
this dude is so zen it's like something
that i wish that i could
do more in my life or like i just feel
you know as the name suggests peaceful
he usually makes two different versions
of the same video one where it's
completely silent it's just asmr of him
making like tea
or something and the other has like
music and
it's more you know like the usual
youtube video sometimes
it's really nice to just wind down and
watch someone use very pretty cups and
fancy equipment to make something simple
to eat or drink i follow a bunch of
korean home cafes as well where they
make
really pretty drinks that look really
hard to drink but it's just fun watching
them
make something so beautiful so if you're
into asmr or you just like
i don't know cooking content in general
i think you should check out peaceful
cooking
it's peaceful the first one i'm watching
is
so can you get can you guys guess what
uruku means
the yurokyan is you don't mean that
relaxing and losing
and then count is camp so that it's
actually anime
uh it's about high school joshua they
love
out the door and they're camping five jk
appears in the show
they're part of the sakura it's a club
activity basically and
they are living nearby the mount fuji so
a lot of the scenes appear in the show
this anime is very very beautiful it's
like
nearby the mountain lake it's quite
chill so it's nothing like drama
happening it's more like the just enjoy
watching
them doing the camping and then doing a
lot of the activities together i think
the next season is going to be start
on the 2021 january season two will be
up
this is cho so moving straight on from
that i'm gonna go to one of my favorite
things to watch every year
which is the batsu game
there's this comedy group in japan
called gaki not sky
every new years they come together and
they film this 24 hour special it only
runs for about six hours on tv but
they filmed for 24 hours of this this
battle game and you might have seen
it they kind of get challenged to not
laugh if they do laugh they uh
people come in and hit them in the butt
with a rubber baton
or a baton it's a baton of conducting
thing and a baton is a police
i don't know they get hit with a stick
it's so much fun
i mean some jokes it's like whatever but
most of them are just so hilarious
actually
uh for the 2021 they had a scene
like the naked director it all links up
if you get
engaged in japanese media sometimes it
crosses over and it's a really great
moment
so the second recommendation is an anime
that
everyone has already heard of by now and
the reason i'm sharing it is because
a lot of people were bothering me to
catch up with it which i finally have
and that's boku no hero academia
there's a lot of people like kind of
half and half uh in my friend's circle
some people who have dropped it already
some people that haven't started yet and
so if any of you
have not watched boku no hera academia
it's a really great superhero enemy
anime anime hi enemy and it kind of
brings the kid back in you it's a great
shonen that i would just recommend
to anyone who wants to start getting
into a series right now and
but sincerely on quarantine i guess
right now is the best time to do it
i believe it's already four seasons in
at least that's the last one that i
watched
another thing i've been watching or
re-watching is black mirror
um i've always been a fan of black
mirror it's written by charlie brooker
who
used to do one of my favorite tv shows
scream white and you can find all of it
on youtube because it's all still there
though black mirror i feel it's got
worse over the years probably from
pressure above from netflix given that
they
fund it now if you look at the earlier
seasons um series one two three
just some of the most amazing anthology
series it's just some of the most
amazing episodes
like i've rewatched the national anthem
the first ever episode
the other day and it's just brilliant
now i've been trying to borrow
inspiration from black mirror
um for some things i'm currently writing
and so you can't go wrong with that
mirror unless it's the one with miley
cyrus in
which was just so boring so rubbish
the next thing i want to share is
something that i'm really excited to
talk about
i've been pushing my high q agenda to
everyone in the office and i think
everyone is sick of me talking about it
but i just finished re-watching the
whole of haikyuu
and specifically season four of hiking
to the top
if you haven't watched haikyuu and you
really enjoy shows or anime
i don't know it's all about comradeship
is that what you say if you like you
know people who love each other and
teamwork and
uh we are nakamas and everything if you
like that kind of show
that will make you love all the
characters like that your babies or your
sons or whatever like if you like that
kind of thing
and you haven't watched haikyuu why why
haven't you watched hiking sorry i'm
very aggressive i just love them so much
i feel like they are all so
precious it's one of those shows where
you can't dislike any character because
yeah you can ship anybody with anybody
so next show i'm watching
osama no branchi so osama branch
is japanese variety show i think it
lasts
quite a long time because the show has
been airing for
around 20 years or more maybe and then
this show is about
a lot the trend trend news such as
tapioca
or some the new shops recently a
japanese
show also shifted to host
from their own house they do a lot of
deliberate food
they're introducing the apps they share
the disney tips as well
it's which is very fun i've also been
re-watching a lot of thrillers
particularly from the late 80s i watched
fatal attraction
uh cape fear and misery recently all
completely unrelated but misery
really stood out it was the first time
i've watched that stephen king novel
turned into an incredible film starring
kathy bates and james khan
kathy bates plays the scariest character
i think i've seen
in a film in years and it's just stayed
with me the last few weeks
all right so recently i've been getting
into re-watching like older japanese
horror movies
if you guys know me you know that the
only kind of movies i watch are horror
and i've seen basically all of them so
you can watch these on youtube
i don't know if there are english
subtitles available though that could be
a problem
all right number four on the list is
chakin adi
the english name is one missed call this
is probably one of like the first
japanese horror movies i ever watched i
don't know if it ever got popular
overseas but it's one of those horror
movies that all japanese people have
seen so if you watch it
and you've got japanese friends and you
talk about it with them you guys can
probably have like a fun conversation
about it so
it's one of the standards that you
should watch number three is tekiteke
now the acting in this movie isn't
amazing and like the movie itself as a
whole
isn't like overly impressive but the
like concept
of the monster in the movie is so creepy
that
i feel like it deserves a watch just for
that like i really think about this
movie a lot when i'm walking down the
street at night time
i feel like that's a good horror movie
when you find yourself thinking about it
like in real life
uh number two you guys have probably
seen before but maybe
you've only seen the american version
and if that's true
i highly recommend that you watch joon
the grudge the original japanese one
really creepy and really really well
done overall it's a really good movie
and finally again another movie you've
probably seen the american version for
but maybe not the japanese one the ring
it's called
in japanese it's probably the best
japanese horror movie
ever made it's such a creepy and just
like well-made movie so
if you haven't seen ngu the original
japanese version do check it out
the last one that i'm going to talk
about is b stars i don't know if you
guys
have watched it or heard of it i believe
it's on netflix
i don't know how to make it sound like
it's not for fairies and like
it's high school but they're all animals
and there's the predators and the prey
kind of thing there's the herbivores and
the meat eaters
but the medias don't eat meat they eat
like all vegetarian and vegan
options oh wait no there is a weird
chicken egg thing there's a whole egg
thing
it's kind of about a predator that falls
for
someone who is a prey style animal but
they're in high school
and it's all crazy i'm not into too much
anime but i still really enjoyed it
i found i find these stars really good
so the last thing that i
actually rewatched a few weeks ago was
called promere
now this is an anime movie made by
studio trigger which
i am a personal huge fan of a lot of
things that they make it's a world about
how
there's this like group of people called
the burnish
and they are discriminated against and
so from there everything unfolds of them
trying to fight
for their right to live in harmony with
the humans
and also it's very aesthetic if you guys
like studio trigger i definitely
recommend
promere even like purely for the
aesthetics but the story itself is also
really good
too i watched black rain the uh ridley
scott film set in
osaka again with michael douglas been
watching those michael douglas films it
seems but i've been
borrowing influences in terms of
cinematography from black rain because
it's set in osaka and it's kind of
got this amazing neon lit kind of view
to it they
made it look really gritty and cool okay
the next thing i want to talk about is
also
something that i'm kind of passionate
about it's tara's house
i'm not special i'm just like everybody
else who likes tara's house
i kind of started watching the show in a
very like casual manner and then now i'm
so invested where i'm like every week
i'm like
what's going to happen who's going to
come in who's going to leave and
the premise is just basically six people
three guys three girls living in a house
um apparently it's not scripted that's
what their interest is and it's not
necessarily about dating or love or
whatever like they build friendships and
all and it's just interesting to see how
people live
and more so for me i just want to listen
to more japanese
things and like kind of digest the
language a little bit
and yeah i would say my favorite season
is aloha state i think there's a reason
why everyone else is so invested in it
so like if you want to
hop onto the bandwagon now you have a
reason you can just be mean but like oh
this
person on youtube asked me to watch it
so yeah here's us
so i want to share the this drama i'm
not sure if you guys watch but i always
scream and then
i'll tell natasha look this is so cool
it is means
uncle oh dude love is love right
this show is not real to the max level
but
it's really really cute to watch
yeah the some level of awesome the real
awesome
around 50 year old and then the middle
class awesome which is
like 30 year old and a young 20 year old
50 year old son and a 20 year old son
really love this satya or osa so
this 20 year old son is good looking the
satiya will say
oh my gosh it's oh my gosh kind of level
it's really really cool
and then this 50 year old awesome so you
cannot say
it's like hang some guruken but he's
really charming so
it's sadia osan is not he doesn't like
men
he hasn't realized he likes men yet
he's never tried before very nice
everything is like
wow every time every after i watch this
show
i said natasha
because i want to talk to someone about
this show but there's no one
so if you someone's watching this show
please let me know please hear me let's
talk about that
so besides japanese stuff i actually
find myself watching more
of like american or british television
here in japan
right now i'm watching 13 reasons why
they came out with the
fourth season i think they're on now
which is crazy
and it's okay like it's good the actors
are really amazing and
they always do a really good job with it
but i feel like it kind of went
downhill as the seasons went on the
first one was certainly the best one
i'm about halfway through season four
right now and it's okay
but i'm not overly impressed i've also
watched some really cool artistic
japanese films shoplifters tokyo sonata
like someone in love check those out the
synopsis
of all three films are too complex to
describe but watch them
particularly like someone in love stay
with me for a long time because one of
the key events in that film
happens off screen in a really bizarre
way that makes you wonder
if it's brilliant if it's genius or if
it's dreadful and i'm
still not sure another thing that i
recommend is also this is a documentary
called tokyo idol
and it's on netflix and this is a
documentary that kind of goes over the
stigmatism of idol culture in japan
ironically that documentary kind of
introduced me to some
idol groups even though it was meant to
steer me away
from it but it's kind of cool to see
like otaku's kind of
talking about well idol otaku's like
people really obsessed with idol culture
just seeing
their obsession with it and why they're
obsessed with so
it's it's a cool documentary i would
recommend it so those are some of the
japanese shows that we've been watching
lately but hopefully you guys will enjoy
some of the things i've shared
in this video for today i hope you can
find something new
if you have some recommendations on like
anime please leave it in the comments
down below i would love to watch them
good in me
also if you guys haven't seen it yet we
did another video where we rated uh
certain japanese foods and cuisines so
if you want to check that out please
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much for watching
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