"I want to be your friend, Hinazuki!"
"What's more important, me or surfing?"
"How nice... this street is packed with mom-pop shops!"
"Which would you pick?"
"It's good!"
"The potatoes are cut into huge bites!"
"OK, I'll see you soon!"
This show features nice houses and nice cars
but everything else is raw, and unscripted!
HEY GUYS!
I'm Loretta and welcome to my channel "KemushiChan"!
It's SPRING BREAK season in Japan!
For the last few weeks I got to work more
and earn a bit more money,
I also got to travel a bit
but I also did a LOT of relaxing,
which was pretty much just binge-watching Netflix...
...a lot...
My university is going to start classes again in one week
so before that got started
I wanted to share some of my Spring Break vibes
and share what I've been watching in the past few weeks
to expand my Japanese and keep things up.
Which is why I wanted to share: The Top 3 NetFlix Shows I've been watching
to keep up or expand my Japanese.
Plus, I'm going to add in some bonus shows, because
not everything good is on Netflix. Ammirite.
Most of the shows that caught my eye were ones
that we're really well put together.
They had that aestheticcccc going
The first one is Terrace House!
The aesthetic of this show is very clean, very pretty and very beachy
"A reality show about nice people"
"Seemingly boring, but surprisingly addictive"
these are some of the common reviews about it
The slow itself can get slow at times
but it's a good example of people actually talking
in a day-to-day, from morning until night situation.
You hear an actual daily life situation of people
in Japanese.
It's a group of 6 people, usually 3 girls and 3 boys
So you get a chance to hear a lot of different styles.
Specifically I really liked the "Aloha" series
not for the story, but for the people in it.
Most of them were half-Japanese, but there was also Lauren Tsai
I believe she's Chinese American
but she's a self-taught speaker of Japanese.
All of these people who mix a little bit of English
with a lot of Japanese. And the pace is little bit more
easy to grasp, if Japanese isn't your native language.
So I recommend that season specifically for
the language element. PLUS as a bonus,
It has subtitles in Japanese and English, as well as in
Korean, Chinese and Portuguese.
Next show is "Kodoku no Gurume"!
It's the idea of one person, on their own, eating really good food.
But the twist is that the food is actually really cheap,
accesible, and from real restaurants in Japan.
It's really just about a crisp looking Japanese guy
who just wants to eat food. It's very simple.
He just. want. to eat.
He'll run out of a business meeting just to eat, and I get that!
If you've ever been to Japan or seen Japanese TV
you know that food is a huge part of the TV industry
people love to sit around and say "yum", "tasty"
"it's got a great, deep flavor!"
and all the different ways to describe a piece of food.
The main character, Goro, is ACTUALLY hilarious
He's a salaryman on the outside, but he's just a simple man who wants to eat
good food for cheap!
For me it was helpful to learn more food words,
to learn about different dishes, but specifically
it introduced different local restaurants in my area!
The show is a "fiction" but it takes place in real places
so there are many people who go on Kodoku-no-Gurume tours
and try to eat at the different places. I want to try that next!
This series unfortunately does NOT have any subtitles
and it's not available outside of Japan
at least not on Netflix! However,
it IS available on YouTube through the official
TV Tokyo channel.
I wanted to recommend that one because it's really hot in Japan
and it'll give you some current ideas
of where to get good cheap eats if you're into that.
So that's my number 2.
Number 3 !
"Erased" in English, or "Boku Dake ga Inai Machi"
Snowy, industrial, mysterious, spooky,
some kind of fantasy thriller is going on but
it also has a really good pace to it!
I first watched it because
I was just looking for something to watch while I folded laundry
and I didn't finish my laundry, I just watched the entire series in an afternoon!
the main character is played by two different people
One is the famous Yuki Furukawa
I think most people watched it to see him
but when you watch it you get really drawn into the performance
by the younger version of the same character,
Reo Uchikawa. So this young lad,
he BLEW me out of the water!
This was some of the best acting
and best quality acting I've seen in Japan.
In Japanese TV in a long time... and the cinematography!
When I saw the first episode literally thought
I was watching the Japanese version of Stranger Things
but only with cute Hokkaido accents.
That was the vibe it gave me, and I was immediately sucked in
It has this nostalgic, sweet but dark
mysterious... not sci-fi but
fantasy thriller vibe. It really sucks you in.
Those accents though!
Everything ended in "da be". "I know you did it (da be!!)"
...Da be?! That sounds so cute!
I think "da be" is "deshou" in Hokkaido accent,
and "shitakke" is like... "mata ne" I think?
It's so cute when you hear these little kids
and their performances are truly amazing!
I really recommend this one. So those are my 3 Netflix recommendations
But those aren't the only things I've been watching!
"Yae no Sakura"
I've tweeted about this and mentioned it on my second channel.
I recently did a project in Fukushima.
When I was in Fukushima I saw posters for this drama
and thought that maybe it'd be good research.
I don't know too much about history or samurai
or anything historical like that
so I started watching and again I was blown away!
She's a woman, survives wars
and then goes on to help found the first University
I went to when I first moved to Japan!
Real historical accounts about the last samurai
NOT TOM CRUISE
what actually happened in Japan's civil war
right before they opened up to the West
I'm not really into history stuff but it really appealed to me
so I highly recommend that one.
If you're looking for something more academic I have 2 recommendations!
First is "Nihongo De Kurasou", originally an NHK show
it's 4 people who are all learning Japanese
they're learning situations like... how to argue with your wife
or how to spill the tea...
it's useful real life situations
and how to handle casual and more formal situations.
It also covers "Keigo" and cultural tips as well.
It's on YouTube and across the internet
but that show really helped me
start separating my casual and more formal styles.
If you're looking to do anything academic in Japan
I highly recommend Ikegami Akira's "Yasashii Keizaigaku"
it's a live school lecture that he did.
He taught students in the liberal arts who don't usually
study economics or topics like that.
But when you pay taxes every year,
and wonder who's taking a cut of your salary
all those things that actually effect your daily life
or your personal money that you earned
all of that is covered in a basic, easy to digest way
and it just gives you a better grasp on your lifestyle
and what you do as an adult.
So those are my top 4 dramas & 2 educational shows
and other picks across the internet recently.
One thing that always helped me is to watch shows multiple times.
Start with subtitles, then watch it again without them
that way you know the content and what you're listening for
and you can start picking up certain words
and start sounding like certain characters that you admire.
What do you guys do to study when you're not looking at a textbook?
Let me know in a comment below and I'll see you in another video!
Thank you so much for watching today!