Japan Week in Review 1: Fukuda, Elevators, and Mochi Death

[ChocoBunny12]

Beautiful....beautiful Gackt ref. Love it, love you for it.

[VocalYachi10]

nice Gackt reference XD It made me laugh so hard that I fell out of my chair!!!!

[cheesesmiles]

lol i love gackt san no making fun of him XD

[animefanchic16]

Your funny!

[SUPER77LOVELY77BEAMS]

I disliked this president ...so.....his FACE ^^

[managrey]

Hello kitty Ar-15 xD wow that's the shit.

[Purelyyviintage]

hahahaha

[007mushroom]

you are very funny person

[livvyxo]

I really enjoy your videos :)

[reginelovemegirl12]

you are a very interesting person..waky

[NomKui]

LOL I keep randomly stumbling across your site on google. I had no idea it was your site though XD;;

[Alesanascreamokid]

MUAHAUHA

[japanesefanatic101]

Yeah what is "sex company?"

[kendolyn13]

kawaii wallpaper X9

[AyanamisSlave]

Fu<K! That was abnormally hillarious! GAHHAHAH!

[funkmasteryellow]

maybe some cheesy music would help in comedy. nice vid.

[kittycatzapp]

that hallo kitty rifle is pretty

[chochikiu]

lol...

[MrsRazzmatazz]

LOL at "they're in Jail, they don't need to look like Gackt!"

[chiyobatsu]

fukuda hates mickey mouse...

[neolight16]

japan is a very bleack country but then again but then again i see some of the pretty fucked up stuff we do here is just me or is the whole damn world rouled by retards

[hikarugirl13135]

they wish they could Gackt i sexy!!!!!

[Turksemployee]

Ever since paris hilton went to jail, everyone is more concerned with their fashion in jail so they should look like gackt Dx

[mylovelydame21]

LOL well... considering the fact that the "Hello Kitty" corporation has made vibrators and other sex toys, an AK-47 doesn't sound too farfetched.

[oOcOoKiEs]

lol, mochi is very deadly!

[catvampcraze]

*g* Fun, amusing, and even informational. Thanks for sharing! lol.

[kitsuneswordsman]

... is this real?... sorry for my lame question

[zeldajunkielol2]

hey, I just wanted to know if the whole video of japan's prime minster is on youtube because I think it would be interesting to watch.

[zeldajunkielol2]

nevermind I found it

[SquidLydia]

lol...the gackt comment made me laugh.....i think you're my new hero.....

[bucketoftsuki]

"They're in jail; they don't need to look like Gackt"

The above is my new favourite quote.

Thanks for the great video~ I'm subscribing now XD

[Omikron420]

All right I'm down to the hello kitty store rite now and get myself a gun. I can't imagine how horrible it would be to get killed by a hello kitty AK47.

[ShaoLinRachel]

hmm my bad , i found that out after i watched the other videos

[Flashkidgotsuspended]

It's okay ;)

[iTakashii]

That was great :]

Isn't Mochi also a Japanese Ice Cream?

[homiepj]

haha i think thats just what the mochi ice cream company wants you to think.

[123Aizhana123]

u r so FUNNY i jst love the way u talk.

i think ull be a greate comidian

[sourlemon1k]

Hello Kitty!

[junkienet]

Hey .. really liked it .. good editing and OMG Hello Kitty gUNS .. WHAT IS THE WORLD COMMING TOO and great to see that your a mac person.

MAC FOR THE WIN!

[ShaoLinRachel]

0-o eh.....

where in Japan are you from?

[Flashkidgotsuspended]

He's not from Japan.

[blahk04]

Dude this made me crack up cause me and my friend were talking about how Hello Kitty makes everything. They are the number one supplier of WMD's to the U.S. Army. Also. i love Mochi!!!!

[MurdocLC]

I dont like that hat. But ur great anyways.

[danifro87]

So, your videos are pretty awesome. I will be checking out your website, and I'm plotting a video response to one of your other ones...

Anyway, Macs ftw, your panda hat rules, blah blah blah Naruto.

[godzillarunt]

two questions:

1:why have you not made more vids

2:i heard some higher up in japan, can't remember who, said they weren't ready for a ufo attack but they are ready for Godzilla if he should one day come is that trure?

[fettergraf]

shihonshugi

[yoselyn015]

HOLA ERI MUY LINDO XAYTUX CUIDESE ANDO CON POCO TIENPO xd

[Amathev]

You should do videos more often.

[stephanie97862]

i want to Learn Japanese but we dont have it at my school so im doing this cd lesson thing not shere if it will happen

[kawaiimiku]

you bitch you're president lol it's so strange!!!!

[kagome616]

hello kitty m16.. sweet? O_o

[okamiwakko]

wow, I wish I was online more recently! Thanks for posting! yet again, it's hysterical! And yey for more Mac people! And Mochi? Killing people? Oh noes! Sorry, thanks again!

[motokourashima]

i liked it.

u always make me laff and i learn alot from from ur videos. keep up the awesome job and i will keep watching!

[ivantheterrible94]

dude i love ur hats awesome

[tekunoredii]

haha i liked the comment about the inmates and their fashion sense, i mean really, they don't need to look like gackt!

[chokudori]

Completely unrelated to your blog, but your channel is one of my channels on youtube and I wanted to ask if I could host your channel url on my video blogs? Just send a message if you approve or not.

[Smobey]

Augh, stop saying ATM machine. That doesn't even make any sense, and I should not tell you why.

Ignoring that, A+++ would watch again.

[NekoFoo]

Aa~ KOICHI =D

kimi, totemo kawaii yo. kekkon shiyou ka?

boku, amerika de sunderu otoko,...

suki?

Lmao, just joking =o!

[xxxxKairixxxx]

XD I will never stop loving mochi, in soup or regular form. Even if I choke on it, I can't give it up. x3 It's just too good...

5/5! Keep up the great videos Koichi! :]

[hanakosama]

my mom decided to warn me about mochi death AFTER i kindasorta choked on the mochi in my ozouni on new years. i don't even like mochi.

prison full of gackt. haha~ i showed that article to my japanese class the other day....in order to "benefit our learning of modern japanese culture". right.

my japanese class loves your videos! all eight of us! :D

今年もがんばってくださいね！

[em0p0wa]

lmao ur face at 1:59 that was like wtf.... Xd

[xReacti0n]

5/5 TOFUGU! Your so funny and your videos are both humorous and SOMEHOW.....Educational xD

Anyway 5/5 MOCHI DEATH SOUP! =O

[ZiaRoxanne]

koichi, your videos always entertain and amuse me with witty remarks and interesting facts.

plus, you are super adorable so that makes viewing even more fun :)

[demoncutter666]

just wow xD

[wrathofthepuppy]

awesome stuff! and i lol'ed

[nihongasukidesu]

CONSTRUCTIVE CRITICSM have you ever watched the George and Keiko show? Well you have voice that people want to listen to so i think that you show make a show teaching Japanese! I know that with your unique style people will enjoy learning!

[MagnaVox34]

lol koichi 5/5

[gxcad]

That was awesome...

[t3hubern00b]

Can you imagine a prison full of Gackt? That'd be the most fashionable prison ever. That'd be pretty sweet though.

[PinkMomo667]

you may hear this often; i love you XDDDD

to choke on a mochi is a sweet death XD

[bestiaccia]

lol very good!

[DarkSaborComa]

LMAO Butt Air bags HAHAHA

Run Hello kitty will kill us all one day haha

[Andrewville1]

cool lol

great news videos.. make more

[LadyCs]

Thanks! =D these was great, I can't wait until your next vid.

[GarlicToast]

and through all of this I even forgot to comment on the actual video, twas a humorous video OP as always, can't wait 'til the next. :D

[fermium77]

Pet peeve: ATM Machine is redundant; the M stands for machine. Great vid :)

[everdamp]

Ah non, thank you for posting tofugu.

[Aznmobzz]

Was that actually Fukuda? o.O For some reason it seemed like you were dubbing his voice.. just felt that way . . .

[Juliusaime]

A Hello Kitty rifle and Boobe/butt air bags?! xD

[sungis]

You are a halfie? Wth...

I thought you were full.

[Pyrekins]

Who cares?

[moshimoshiumeboshi]

Why don't people read channel info?

I'll never understand it.

[augusta051956]

Thanks for the update... your videos are always great !

[ninomiyac]

I loved your video. (^_^) My criticism? Please look up the proper pronounciation for Gackt.

[GarlicToast]

Darling if he's speaking English, he doesn't have to use the Japanese pronunciation.

[ninomiyac]

Darling, a proper name should be pronounced correctly regardless of the language you are speaking. Just like I'd pronounce "Jose" as "Hozay" even though I'm speaking spanish. This is all trivial anyway. I loved the vid.

[ninomiyac]

(even though I'm NOT speaking spanish)

[DeathStrawberry15]

But what do you do when the proper name is spelled in English, pronounced in Japanese, then brought back into English? I would pronounce it just like he did. It's the Japanese language that can't pronounce it the way it's spelled, while English can.

[ninomiyac]

OMG, people! I said loved the video! I'm sorry! :)

[GarlicToast]

Oh, I didn't see the last two comments. Stupid youtube comment display system. Sorry if I came off sounding a little snobby, I was just defending Koichi on his pronunciation of Gackt. Because I mean really, when it all comes down to it, lot's of people get into the habit of pronouncing Gackt as it is presented.

[GarlicToast]

Jose is a native spanish name, and is the same in English, therefore it is pronounced "hoe say"

Gackt is a name that a Japanese musician adopted, and is not native Japanese. Therefore, it does not need to be pronounced as "gakutoo" by anyone that isn't using it in a Japanese context.

[zombieszombiesz]

awesome, the only improvement I would suggest is sharing a little more information about the topics... I never knew people died from mochi choking each year...

[Elohim89]

Hey Koichi, I don't think there is anything to change in this, you did a great job.

Please make more of these, I enjoyed it very much :)

[sappyxsorb]

Lol, I nearly choked after the Gackt-Jail thing comment.

[s2sari]

is that interview real?

[lildragon]

what do u think? =P

[catfish572]

I survived my New Year's mochi :)

[artimis101]

hello kitty riel lmaofolf this is sooooooo funny =3

[takineko]

cute wallpaper. Hello Kitty, is there nothing you can't do?

[Josephdorf03]

My half Japanese friend ate some mochi and almost died. It was when he was four. Maybe he wasn't Japanese enough...

[visiyesthatone]

Nice week in review. Love the splicing of Fukuda. One of my students was telling me that in the ozu, Eastern Japanese use square mochi and Western Japanese use round. I wonder if one group is more prone to choking.

[AdrianKang]

hmm i never thought about dying from mochi.

but i guess it makes sense.

i usually always come close to choking on it haha.

[importedmegami]

Hello Kitty rifle?! O_O

[iliveatseven11]

i thought japan wasnt surposed to sell guns i know like toy guns yah but eh xD

[BleedingxKunai]

*rapid eye twitch* I want that rifle. O.O It's... CUTE! *foam*

[helpmethink]

Yay mochi Deaths! ha ha

[OomphB]

I love Hello Kitty but I don't understand.  Is it not copyrighted? I see a lot of businesses / companies using the brand. Baby Phat has a new jewelry line featuring Hello Kitty.

[Ericthesoundninja]

I liked it, I don't think there is much to improve. It was realy interesting and funny. ^_^

[nathones]

you rock

[cmfreako234]

Where do you get your funny panda hat? I wanna poke it constantly

[Serjiy]

is that a multi IM client? what do you use?

[tofugu]

adium (shh, it wasn't actually ichat).

adium is by far the best chat client ever, except for the lack of video capability

[Serjiy]

thanks, I like how it looks, no wonder its a mac only program

[marisela52587]

tofugu......you are so hot!

[ClefairyOfDoom]

Very interesting! And you're still so cute. <3

[harpgos]

You can buy the Hello Kitty cig lighter on Ebay! *smile* Oh, yes...Please make the volume louder. Thanks!

[dizzystarshine]

Being in jail and looking like Gackt sounds like a bad combination XD

[Tacofreak]

Gackt.

[RyokoHametsu]

hhahaha cool,

i love your vids

[sweetchildOaxls]

they're in jail..they don't need to look like Gackt<3 haha

[Knuckles194]

That was funney

[dkittykiss]

hello kitty gun....dangerous and cute. :P

[dylansagechase]

Hahaha, this was awesome.

"They're in jail, they don't need to look like Gackt." XD

I hope you continue with these, I really enjoyed this.

[BDpaperstax]

"Their in jail...they don't need to look like Gackt!" that was the best quote ever!

[brokenscrewdriver]

i couldn't really hear what mr fukuda was saying, so subtitles would have been helpful. :)

other than that, i loved it. ^-^

one more crit: i want to see more of the panda hat... ;D

[ladycheru]

I agree with this. The volume on those clips was too low, and even in spite of this, at times, his accent made him hard to understand. Subtitles would have been ideal, but at the very least, the volume on the clips with Fukuda should have been louder. But nice job! Good first attempt! :)

[mvrkhnterx68]

Your video are still great you just need more links and resources is all so we can visit site and stuff on our own

[tofugu]

gotta head to the link in the sidebar for that

[noneofyrbwax]

gackt lol

[mybestdeceptions]

You = awesome :D

[lpmaniac]

That was great! ^_^

I hope there's more. And I like the index cards

[BadGuyProductions]

is it cold in japan right now?

[tofugu]

most of it, yep

[BadGuyProductions]

ic well here in canada its really cold but its gona change

[UchihaJP]

Unclear~> Rushing with abit too much information in small amount of time. When ur changing subjects, the viewer needs some time or a good way to link to the new subject aswell, try using a small introduction with a mochi picture of example. Nice vid + idea. It was interesting and funny like always. Thumbs up.

[tofugu]

thanks for the suggestions!

[UchihaJP]

Are you planning on doing this every week~?

It got abit boring and unclear at the end.Boring~> Try using more techniques to keep the viewers attention/interest, more vids/pictures or Try using ur voice/way of speech more in different ways. So it wont get monotone.

[cmfreako234]

Tofugu has the coolest hats XP

[DeMaulwurfn]

But nothing beats his Panda-hat! XD

P.S.:His name is Koichi!^^

[cmfreako234]

I always wanted to poke that hat :3

[DeMaulwurfn]

YEAH, YOU GOTTA LOVE THIS HAT!!! (^.^)v

[vidfreak727]

wow, how fast do these elevators actually go? will I black out?

[PockyBebop]

Inmates that look like Gackt...*snicker snicker*

I heard about the Hello Kitty arm band punishment, but rifles? I wonder what that gun-otaku's wife must be thinking.

[chimera15]

Omg I think I might become a gun owner. roflol!!

[xs1ner]

sweet

make one of these a weekly thing

[DeMaulwurfn]

dude, you're a genius!

Again a masterpiece!^^

I really love your vids the way they are, the have their own flair. Keep up the good work, dude! (^.^)b

[Metaleks]

I like the format. More multimedia like the videos and rifle pictures would be nice ^_^

[tofugu]

good point, thanks

[Amenat]

LOL. When you said 'They don't need to look like Gackt.' I kinda squeaked. How embarassing.

I'm gonna try for a singing contract in Japan so wish me luck. ^^

[myargonauts]

nice job - liked the stuff with Fukuda. :)

[CaRC1n0g3n]

Actually, if you want to be technical, it's "Sanrio" who makes Hello Kitty. I lol'd hard though.

[tofugu]

thankfully, when it comes to hello kitty, i am ignorant! I'm not sure if I could live with myself if I knew more.

[CaRC1n0g3n]

You should remain grateful. No amount of weed, sake, and self-mutilation will remove the information from my head =[

[tofugu]

hahaha.

[asuranrocks]

hahaha the deadly kitty XD

death by mochi!

[Hataki]

Well, I think Hello Kitty making weapons is the least of our worries. We should be worrying about Hello Kitty making MENS CLOTHING!!! I mean CMON, HELLO KITTY MEN'S WEAR?

[FLamezero991]

fufufuu, Hello Kitty gone deadly, now thats an interesting fact. But wait, wouldn't men be prone to get into MORE accidents because of these lady lumps popping out of their stearing wheel? "Hey Bob wanna take a ride?" "Sure, but lets be sure to crash!" Just a thought....

[AmoChan8878]

Inmates looking like Gackt...hmmmmm. Something to think about.

[KirianaYoshimoto]

Hmm, yes, a plesant idea indeed.

[fredydb327]

A lot of info to go through. Honestly felt really fast and it was kind of like "huh?". But this is without reading the article. This is also at 1:45AM so yeah. Just felt a bit rushed, but then like you said, you are improving it. Not bad though.

[moshimoshiumeboshi]

I agree with you! The moral of the story is, for everyone about to watch this video, read the article first and everything makes a lot more sense.

[moshimoshiumeboshi]

Those are blank pieces of paper, and you know it! Also, you are breaking my hat with your big head. Please put it in the dryer? Sankyuu :3

[ilikejrock]

lol! heh heh

[tofugu]

they actually had notes on them, believe it or not!

[moshimoshiumeboshi]

I'm sorry I doubted you ;_;

[uei08]

my father does that whole you shouldn't eat leftover potato salad because you'll grow up and marry a husband that's gonna beat you type thing.. It's really violent when you stop to think about the fact that it all goes back to day old potato salad... it really hurts..

[yuu1989]

LDPchannelからの引用ですね。自民党がyoutube­にアカウントをつくったので、驚きましたよ。