 Hello everybody and welcome to an update video. I know I don't do these too often But I thought this one's kind of needing it because it's it's sort of a big change And you'll understand why you probably already see the tile and the thumbnail the tile gives away really But for the past month and a half me Winnie we've moved to Japan So that's probably why some of you eagle-eyed viewers of course I probably noticed the background is completely changed which leads to the question. Why why Japan? Well, why are you buggered off for the longest time? I've thought to myself or if I think everybody who's YouTube creator they could work anywhere they wanted to as long as they had internet connection. That's that's it Right. That's what it's always been. Oh, you could work anywhere as long as it's got internet connection That's the conversations I've had after this pandemic that's happened and you know, I'm 30 now The grave quickly approaching I thought to myself, you know, why don't I do this go and live abroad somewhere? And because of our most recent trips to Japan, I thought that that would be an excellent like place to go And me and Whitney we've been to Japan twice before we went to Japan in 2019 for summer And we also stayed in Japan over Christmas and New Year of 2019 2020 So we technically had a holiday in 2020 just before everything went to hell However, Japan has sort of had their borders closed since 2020 since the pandemic started So I thought that that was like going to be kind of impossible or you know I'd have to kind of wait until Everything opened up but on YouTube I'd been suggested loads of people Some of the youtubers that have been like making content in Japan and I thought to myself they they've moved over there Right, like how have they managed to do it two months ago? They've actually allowed business visas to come in and that's how I've managed to get in here And that's through the amazing people. Hold on. We need sound effects for this the amazing people of gigs plus Geeks plus are a company that help facilitate a lot of things in Japan So if you're a content creator and you want like help with accommodation or Interviews with having translators and stuff like that. They're able to help you there And that's exactly who I've used to come over here and they've been such a help I wouldn't have done it without them. Honestly, I wouldn't have I cannot thank them enough for that because that has been invaluable I think without their help I wouldn't have bothered because it would have just been like too much work like way too much work. The bureaucracy is crazy We're only going to be staying here for a year. It really starts the initial plan We can extend it if we wanted to but there's a lot of stuff that you know We we're wanting to do within the next couple of years And I don't know if we can really do them in Japan. I've got amazing family and I've got amazing friends And I really don't want to see them like once a year Unfortunately, don't get me wrong. Japan's amazing. We've been to some great places and I'm loving my time here so far And it's only been a month and a half I'm sure it'll fly by but I'm really enjoying it also Max isn't here The raccoon dog, uh, so Whitney's taking that very hard. I'm all right So geeks plus works with all of youtube contributors that you probably some of them you've heard of Uh, so I don't know whether I'm going to be collaborating with them I've I've met some of them and I'd like to meet, you know, more of them as time goes on I don't know if I'll be collaborating with them per se because I'd like to but it really it's up to them. They want to be a dinosaur man on their channel You tell me so with that all out of the way, what's the difference? Like why am I here? What's the point? In general, there's a lot of stuff that's like uniquely Japanese and even dinosaur Japanese I related that I want to cover while I'm over here Um as well as some other things that have been brought to my attention Uh by geeks plus who have offered me opportunities and like oh, yeah, I'll do that It's also the first time in my whole youtube career since 2014 when I really started, you know, trying At youtube that we I haven't had a Jurassic world movie coming out. So this is a completely new sort of realm I'm in Uh, whereas every you know after every just world movie. It was what's going to be the next one What's the new hybrid the filming start the toys and everything and now after dominions come out It's sort of in this we're in this nebulous Void of we don't of not knowing and because of that I thought what better opportunity than now to you know Go and try something different and that's why I'm in japan I've always enjoyed doing in person things. So if you don't know you might have seen the sonic statue video And if you haven't seen it go check it out. It's probably up there. I don't know. It's it's flying up there. Have a look at that Uh, I really enjoyed that and that whole trip was basically uh because I saw one Video on youtube about the sonic statue in the forests of japan. I thought you know what let's go So I'm definitely going to be trying to incorporate stuff like that Into the channel as well as keeping all the basic stuff because I'm hoping that this whole time You haven't even noticed that I've moved but I wanted to try and just make it as seamless as possible So people didn't know that'd be like wait you moved to japan And I'm hopefully there's a lot of people like why saw that thumbnail and didn't even notice I've posted some things here and there on instagram I've also vlogged a few things because we've been to Kyoto And there's I mean just everything in japan is pretty the plastic food they put in front of the restaurants and everything streets It's clean. It's oh, it's just gorgeous. So I probably um every now and again There might be blogs and stuff when we travel to certain areas as well as like the production stuff Like the mystery of the sonic statue that I'm I'm hoping to work on as well as just generally Keeping up with my regular content because on the flight over to japan I was working on the Jurassic slime eggs. Obviously. I haven't brought everything I brought some of the cameras and equipment that I need but a lot of stuff I'm gonna end up having to buy here for one an ac unit because it is bloody hot here As well as actually being really hot in the uk as time of recording this But at least in japan we actually have ac units in the uk. You don't so you just die And before we get on to the you know the best part of the video the one you want to see the apartment to I want to actually talk about Jurassic month because a lot of people who are familiar with my channel Will know before the launch of a Jurassic world movie at least the month before we do a Jurassic month And the first one I played through loads of games. It was like three or four videos a day I was back in 2015 and then 18 2018 we kind of moved on to other games or some things that hadn't finished as well as some classics And I was hoping for 2022, you know dominion to do another Jurassic month Uh, but this whole thing was happening Like I didn't want to just put this off even longer Because I didn't know when the borders were going to close and if I could even get in So as soon as the borders open it was like go go go It's has just been this whole situation of will I won't I you know, how long can we put this off for Because moving to japan now we first started this process about a year ago It's taken this long in preparation as well as waiting for the borders to open But yes back to Jurassic month. Um because of this whole move to japan. I couldn't really do it I did have an animation commissioned, which I'll probably put a little bit here just to prove to you that I was thinking about it Um, but between getting content ready for my transition to move over So while I'm here and setting up content is up on the channel I just didn't have time to record the stuff. I wanted to a Jurassic month I wanted to go somewhat different with it I didn't want to just do video games and I did have the stuff ready for it But then this happened So you'll probably see that content eventually come to the channel But it won't be in a Jurassic month format or at least maybe Well, we can set that animation for when Jurassic month comes around again when maybe a hidden movie will come out Or an fx thing who knows and without the way should we just crack on with the apartment to a corner? Let's go How are you doing welcome to the apartment if you look down This is like a very Japanese thing. You've got like as soon as you enter you've got this bit Where you're supposed to put your shoes, but that's it Then once you come here you take your shoes. He's off But wait, why don't you put your shoes then if this is going to clog all this up? Well, you put them in here To the light arm So originally there was like that and that and then this one But that's like way too many shelves. So I put a chair in here instead And we've used that way more than we would have ever used the shelves by shoes Next one is the toilet which is like right here. You're ready. You're excited or I don't I don't think you are ready Is a toilet as all things are in Japan if it's a toilet, it's made by toto I don't think anything else or any any other company makes toilets Uh, not really much to say about this. I mean, there's like a really tiny sink and that's it Also, I shouldn't really be allowed in here. So I'll I'll get out We'll stop that we'll go this way down this little corridor and here You've got the the best thing in this entire apartment Which is this studio ghibli like onsen towel thing like the bider I've always been one for like merchandise that looks like it could be in the movie The only thing that's a bit like annoying about it is they have Studio ghibli in big letters. Really? Really? We're gonna do this We're just gonna put studio ghibli like right there when it looks so good. Yes So through to the bathroom. Well, actually this is like the powder room. It looks like a normal sink, right? You think it looks like a normal sink for weight I mean, I don't know why you want that when I get it in the kitchen, but like here they've got behind here. You've got like Space and up at the top. This is my favorite thing. It's mosquito spray I was offered this one or like a regular one and of course another two of this one So that's way nicer a washing machine So when we came here, we didn't want to buy like loads of furniture So we ended up renting a bunch of stuff and would you believe you can rent a washing machine? So this isn't as this is a rented washing machine Uh most japanese apartments have like a space underneath Uh where a washing machine goes and you basically just plug it in there And then you've got like the water and stuff that and it's all done If you hang things up is the question I'll show you I'll give you an answer and it's in here This is the washroom and if you can see in this little panel Uh, you can make or do loads of different things. You can have it like Extract so it'll take all the moisture out. You can have it put hot air in cold air in all that jazz I'll have it stop that actually so it'll stop So in here Is like what every modern looking japanese bathroom looks like I'm pretty sure you've got this like area where you can Sit sort of if you had a stool So there's actually a tap underneath So you can have it like go to the shower or the tap and then you have your your full length mirror You know if you just want to look yourself and go Yes, I do wash myself with mu shampoo. That's how I look so gorgeous god And then here's the bath which I have still yet to take an actual bath in But if you're really nice the lady talks japanese to you. So you're going to speak nice to me There you go, and this is actually how you fill up the Yes, I know So what you can do every day is you can set it so that it will fill the bathtub From this that's where the water comes in and then this is basically the plugs You push that and push that and then it would all you do go out And then you've also got this thing and what you do is you put that Over the top of the bath and that's supposed to stop the heat from leaving it So maybe you're a bit busy you can put that on top and then come back to the bath in an hour And maybe it'll like keep its heat or something. I don't know and then this is where you've got the max So you can actually move it from there to there just to add more space to when you hang up your clothes also Best not to do that in the dead of night because I've done it in the dead of night and like I've dropped it And it's made of one hell of a noise But it's quite nice. It's really swanky. It looks really like clean and modern and this thing But it's just like everything's so automated and then you have the stinky drain Then you can lock them in So that is the bathroom We'll go through the extremely expensive studio ghibli things that were actually outside my office But now aren't and then here in this hallway along to the living room. Hi You've got loads more storage space. So we're a little bit more. That's where we put the uh, the Dyson the Dyson box Uh, and you've got more here bags quite a small space really if I compare it to like where I live in the UK It's very small, but they use every square inch of it and enter the living room Where the lighting doesn't make me look sickly and over here you've got like your entrance thing So if somebody buzzes downstairs, you'll see them on the screen there Uh, this I think is how to control the bath, but this one doesn't sound as friendly as the one in the toilet So if I was to click like something No, no, we'll stop that. No, you've got exactly how much it's going to fill it up So 200 litres I think to a certain temperature of 40 degrees and now if we go into the bathroom Yeah, there you go But let's say somebody's in the bath, right and you don't want to disturb them. You don't like walk in on them Winnie I gotta click this Hello Is the bath still running? It's dripping. Well, that's no good. Yeah. Yeah. Enjoy the bath, Whitney Okay, bye So welcome to the living room. This is where we spend most of our time Let me point out what's rented pretty much everything you see is rented curtains aren't Uh, we bought those a fan, of course I when we bought all the other little knickknacks you can see around we bought as well This huge table is actually here to start with and it made the place feel really claustrophobic So we shoved that all the way to the side. This is a unit as well that we've it was against that wall We shoved that to the side. So everything's in there. We highly underestimated the space. Um, and this table is absolutely massive So I think if we had the choice, uh, we'd probably get rid of the table But the thing is it's in the contract with everything else So we even if we get rid of it and they have a they take it back You still have to pay for it. So this is basically where we put all that stuff. We've got all Information that's why I'm backing away from it. So you can't see anything. It's private. Uh, and also up here I have the amazing spy family, uh things that you can actually get from gacha ponds They're like they are gacha ponds, but instead of like a capsule coming out It's it's literally just a print and they look really cool when I was coming to japan I was I said to myself that I wasn't going to Uh get loads of like little things because I see that all the time I see all these apartments have all got like these little things. It looks really busy And at home back in the uk I'd sort of got rid of a lot of stuff and I was quite liking Everything sort of being tidy living in japan Ready for me to look sickly again because of the yellow light. Let's go into Isn't it amazing? So this one actually makes sense because it has one of those like Extendable little hose things kettle tea bags. It's what you need actually if you're looking for actual like english tea That's it. Yeah another thing where it comes to uh japan That's a bit hard to get your head around at first bin system So this is a bin for like plastic wrap cardboard and stuff like that You go on for pet bottles and then this is like general waste as well Maybe you're not feeling particularly adventurous, right? So you might just want to open open the door regularly, uh-huh But you know those days when you're feeling lucky, how about you just go the other side You can open the door from the other side fringe What do we have before it starts bleeping at me? You've got this which actually recently came out Which is the pepsi zero, but it's supposed to pair perfectly with fried chicken. Uh, I have this Like a vegetus like cooling mask. Uh, you've got what do we have here? We've got gyu new this is from like good morning call and when we came in 2019 Uh, I think it just came out this. Oh my god. This is the best drink in the world They only serve it I think or in vending machines You can only get it in summer and it's basically like an ice cream in a drink We've got this which is supposed to be really bad, but I've never actually had it before pakkari sweat Hi Right pakkari sweat never had this before this will be interesting I've been pulling it off for a long time because I kind of wanted to do it in a video Let's try it shall we That's actually not so bad. It's like wrong in a I was expecting like salt water or something from what everyone was saying, but uh No, this really gets interesting. So this is all inbuilt into this sort of cooker Pull this out god. It makes a noise Uh, this is the fish grill So that's where you would put in like a salmon or something and it's like a really tiny oven basically And then over in the cabinet you've got lots of things Got peanut butter from a place called oi oi So it's like well mentally if you're really Japanese You eat anime. Oh, yeah, and then I actually forgot to mention about this This is like one of those garbage disposals, you know the ones like americans have where you put your hands in and it like Kills you in all those movies. Yeah, like that's that's scary The uk you don't have that for for logical reasons, but we have it in japan, so there you go And every time you come to the kitchen you must pay your respects to the guardian of the kitchen He's nameless because he is above names. Oh, yeah, this is quite cool. This whole system So you've got like a little rack. What'd you call it kitchen roll? That's the one kitchen roll And then you've got this whole stuff like tissues So you don't even have to open this you could just all get it from underneath You just put a handle and get a tissue. It's pretty cool Oh, you're ready to step into the game of beaver studio. So welcome to the game of beaver studio You'll notice that actually my voice should sound better. Maybe there's microphones. Oh the microphone's pointing funny Maybe. Oh dear. There we go. Maybe the microphone's pointed funny this whole time, but hey now it should sound okay So in here, I've added like a lot of like soundproofing. Oh, it's not really soundproofing Basically this you've got the door there. See you wouldn't think that's a door, but there's the handle. Whoa. I'm so good So it's got indentations in here So you could put cables running around if you needed to To be fair, I kind of stole this from Connor. I saw his video and I was like, I need that stuff It looks so good, but it's not particularly soundproofed It sounds nice on the reverb on the voice because you can hear there's like no echo now But it doesn't really do anything to stop the sound from getting through Because I think what he had done is put like some stuff underneath it. So this stops the reverb So your voice sounds quite nice. Well, okay, so this is the three layers of madness This was the first layer the same that you can see up there. It was some not really expensive I don't even know what you would call it. It's just like really condensed hair panels And this is all stuck up. They've all been command stripped I'm doing the best I can with with, you know, the little space I've got We've got a table here for unboxings And I'm still working a laptop haven't sourced a computer because I was kind of waiting for parts And then it's just taking so long like someone was like, oh, yeah We'll kind of give you parts and then they just never did so I was kind of waiting and now I've got sick of waiting So I think I'm just going to get a computer and this This is the throne plastic chair and I've had to take a cushion from the sofa Just so it's actually comfortable. So you've got like the cam link and that goes into The computer here. So that's the face cam iPad as well. You've got the go XLR. You've got like the the classic sure microphone You've also, I mean all this everything here I took with me on a plane like I had a couple of bags and it was packed absolutely jam packed I would have brought more but I just couldn't obviously I'll got no key lights I think these are and then this over here is basically loads of stuff for videos That's actually already been recorded this thing that that is awesome. Oh my god. I love that love it Love it. This was one in a crane game This was also one in the crane game and I think this was part of the wit studios exhibition I think it was is so cute toast made it over mystery plushie that has been hiding around You can't see that one as well as loads of like tome stuff You've got like dominion things there as well can't wait to unbox those the godsend that's under here Not that you can really see it. There it is This is an ac unit a portable ac unit when I go back to the UK I'm taking this with me because we are not prepared for summer in the UK and this will save lives It'll definitely save mine, but apparently to make cold air you have to make hot air. Would you believe so? What I do is I sort of open the door defeating any sort of soundproofing I've done and then all the hot air goes out here So I do like recordings and stuff in here and then once that's all done because I'm working a laptop I come in here and I grab this thing that's just around the corner It's like something I bought from neitherie, which isn't really that expensive It was like well in two quid or something Just so I can put the laptop on and then I can plug everything in sit on the sofa It's actually a really nice change of pace because at home This is me the whole time So I record then I edit and then I'm done and then I go home and I go downstairs whatever Whereas here I actually record and then I'll come in the front room and sit And I'll just like watch tv talk with Whitney or whatever. This is my most recent purchase When I want to go hardcore in mario kart This this thing is amazing. There's like a resistance for when you steer and stuff It's it's awesome. I love a best purchase of my life And there's a picture of max so we don't forget our little raccoon dog Look how tiny his head is and then you've got uh little figures from jujitsu kaisen So yeah more stuff that I didn't think I was ever gonna buy but here it is So yeah, that's pretty much the entire space. It's a lot smaller. I mean, it's japan so and we live in tokyo So it was going to be smaller than what we used to at home But that's part of the compromise when you live in a capital city And one of the things that I was most looking forward to is yes I could do my work the same I could do at home except for from here I could actually just go out and explore japan rather than being stuck in the same place You know the same area that I basically live my whole life At least this time I can like if I'm finished and I've finished late I can go out and get something really nice to eat rather than like England's not really known for its great food So, yeah, that's the apartment. I'm really enjoying my time here We've or at least I've tried to record like as many different kinds of like things that I can't over here I've got a lot of things coming up. That's like dinosaur related japan related sort of stuff And I'm hopefully gonna Do as much as I can in a lot of time that I've got here So, yeah, if you enjoyed the video leave a like and until next time look forward to all the regular content plus Weird japanese stuff. Bye