My Response to Abroad in Japan's “12 things I HATE about Living in Japan”

Oh my God, Chris Broad just copied my

video, 12 Things I Hate About Living in

Japan. Well, well, well, I wonder where

he got that idea from. I just went onto

the YouTube homepage, first video that's

recommended to me, Abroad in Japan, 12

Things I Hate About Living in Japan.

It looks just like my video, but he's got

12 things instead of just why I hate

living in Japan. My one got 600K views. I

reckon his will get like 1.5 million.

What do you think Chris's 12 reasons for

hating living in Japan? Let's give it a

listen. You know, he does the 12 things I

hate about living in Japan when he doesn't

have any ideas. This is like an easy Q&A

type of videos you can easily do in your

studio. Let's talk about the 5 things I

love about Japanese nightlife. It's what a

YouTuber does when he doesn't have any big

content ideas. Truth is though, I like

Japan a lot and I'm still discovering

things about the culture. Nuts. How can

you be living in Japan for like 15 years

and there's still stuff you're discovering

about the culture? Japanese culture is not

that deep. Case in point, just yesterday I

discovered a Japanese hip-hop band called

Creepy Nuts. That's not really the culture

though, is it? It's just like a band with

a funny name. I don't know what that has

anything to do with discovering something

about the country's culture. And of

course, Knockout Monkey. This is making

fun of English band names in Japan. Now,

if you don't know what a hostess club—

hostess clubs in Japanese is— why does he

hate hostess clubs? Has he been to one?

Basically a bar where you come in, sit

down, sit amongst some girls who pour your

drinks, light your cigarettes, flirt with

you, and massage your fragile ego, right?

Why do I feel like him complaining about

hostess clubs is like a PR move? You think

about it, he bashes the hostess club

industry and it seems like he's standing

up for women's rights. He's against the

objectification of women's bodies and he's

against the seediness and the shadiness of

having to pay women to give you services.

So then all his viewers gonna be like,

oh, this is why I love you, Chris,

because you're against all this shadiness.

I feel like this is a bit of a PR stunt

here. I'm not fooled. It's like I can make

a things I hate about Japan video and then

say, number 1, those poor women pushed

into selling their bodies. I am so— this

is so upsetting. Women should never have

to use their bodies in such a way, and

they should be respected as people because

they are people and they're not just

props. And then everyone would love me and

say, wow, Daniel is so Progressive. He

stands up for women. That's why we love

him. You're paying hundreds of dollars for

a date that can never ever lead anywhere.

Actually, Chris, these dates do sometimes

lead somewhere because the woman can

actually go back to the guy's room, or the

guy can take the girl to a hotel if the

girl agrees to it. So it does lead to sex

in a lot of cases where the guy can, if

he's got enough money. He can meet the

girl after hours outside of the club.

It's weird to bring that up as something

to hate because if the guy is fine with

paying money for some female company,

then what is the harm in it? And if the

girl is fine with offering some company in

exchange for money, then what's the harm

of it? It's not gonna be something Chris

is gonna be into, but then he's not the

target audience since he's got a

girlfriend. And he thinks it's beneath him

because he's so good-looking and such a

Chad. He would never have to pay money in

exchange for female services like some of

us do. Why is his number 2 karaoke?

Really? He hates karaoke? I bet he's gonna

say, oh, we have to listen to our friend's

terrible singing ability. But the food

isn't up to scratch, unfortunately. Avoid

the food at karaoke, please. You don't go

to karaoke for food, you go there to sing.

I mean, I guess you have to appreciate the

effort he puts into a video like this. If

I was making this video, it would just be

me sitting in front of my camera with a

white wall behind me for 12 minutes as I

list off each point in a really monotone,

boring way. At least he actually goes to

the karaoke, films himself singing, takes

some B-roll, sits next to a toilet to

illustrate his point. I would never go to

such effort to make a video like this.

Now, I'm not obsessed with Chris, I'm just

reacting to his video. But there is one

thing about Japanese toilets that I hate.

He doesn't like the bidet? Oh, he doesn't

like bidets? What? I enjoyed

it, getting sprayed up the bum. It felt

quite nice actually. Although I do prefer

using toilet paper, and because you use

the bidet, it makes your bum all wet, and

then you pull up your trousers and then

you've got a wet bum, so you've got to use

some toilet paper anyway. To dry your wet

bum, but then the toilet paper gets all

wet and then tears up and gets stuck to

your bum, and then you've got bits of wet

tissue stuck to your bum, and then you've

got to like pick off the bits of tissue

that's stuck to your bum, or you use a

towel if you've got a towel, but then

you've got to wipe your wet bum on a

towel. So you might as well just use the

tissue paper from the beginning. Should I

write in the comments, Chris copying my

video again? I should go back to Japan and

copy all of his videos. I'm gonna copy all

these videos, but in a really crap way.

Yeah, I don't like Moss Burger either. I

once had a Moss Burger when I met this

Japanese woman on Tinder. She was pretty

fat, about 35 years old and down to F.

We met at Moss Burger and the burger was

so thick, but not in a good way.

It had like this massive slice of tomato

in it and there was so much sauce. You

pick it up and And then the whole thing

just explodes with sauce all over your

hands. You try and bite into it and the

backside of the burger just erupts with

sauce. It's too much sauce. They put way

too much filling into the Moss Burgers.

But no, he's gonna complain about

pachinko. Pachinko. It involves boring

guys going round in circles. Pachinko.

Yeah, pachinko does suck.

Pachinko does look really boring. You just

sit there You press a button, a load of

metal balls drop down, and then you

win more metal balls that you can exchange

for prizes. Often the only people you see

riding the go-karts are foreign tourists,

and actually it propagates this sort of

bad image that foreign tourists equals

bad, and I think that is part of the

reason I hate it as a result. I guess it

does give foreigners a bit of a bad image.

You get like a bunch of drunken white guys

dressed up as Mario racing around Tokyo

causing chaos and blocking up the traffic.

Chris seems very sensitive about, you

know, like the Logan Paul thing when that

happened. Because he was a YouTuber,

everyone would think that, oh, YouTubers

are like Logan Paul, they're disrespectful

and obnoxious. And Chris was complaining

about it, saying because he's also a

YouTuber, this makes YouTubers look bad.

He seems to care a lot about how other

people's actions could affect the way

people view him. It seems kind of

self-centered though, don't you think?

Just because he's a YouTuber that he's

worried about how other YouTubers portray

what being a YouTuber is about to other

people because it might affect him

negatively. Always about himself. He

doesn't want foreigners to come to Japan

to ride the go-karts because it might make

him look bad. I bet you anything he's

going to complain about the photo booths

You know, you go into it, it takes like

this really photoshopped picture of you,

and then you can draw pictures over it. I

bet he's gonna complain about that.

What's that called? Purikura. I think

that's what it's called. Right, to have a

love of the very thing you use every day.

I can read his mind. I knew it. Now you

might be thinking, well, look, see, I knew

it. I told you he was gonna say purikura.

But the thing is, I don't really

understand why anyone likes purikura.

Yeah, they do look really dumb. I took a

purikura with the single mother

girlfriend. And it makes your eyes really

big. It smooths over your skin so you

don't even have a nose left. Your nose

just becomes like 2 black holes where the

nostrils are. It makes you look awful.

And it also makes your chin smaller and it

makes the top part of your head bigger.

So it's like you've got a light bulb

alien-shaped head. Because for some

reason, you know, in Japan they think big

eyes, no nose, triangle chin,

the anime look is what's attractive, but

people look stupid when they look like an

anime character because that's not what

humans actually look like. You know, I

still have the purikura pictures I took

with the single mother and her daughter.

They're in my bedroom. Oh yeah, Japanese

is good even though it's shit. It's good.

Yeah, yeah, these are the points Ryan

Boundless used to complain about And then

people absolutely hated him for pointing

out stuff like flaws about Japanese

society. And now they're all starting to

jump on this bandwagon, even Anime Man on

Trash Taste, all talking about why Japan—

life in Japan sucks. But because they're

all so likable, everyone thinks, oh,

you're so funny, Chris. Look at the

comments. You got any people complaining

saying, oh, shut up, Chris, why don't you

go back to England if you don't like it.

It's all just pure brown-nosing in the

comment section. Maybe I should write a

comment on my second channel. You people

are such brown-nosing hypocrites.

When Ryan Boundless complained

about these things, these same things,

you all hated on him, but Look at

you all now, raining praise upon

your hero Chris. That is the sort of

conversation it would be. Why are you

here? Can you use chopsticks? Nihongo

jōzu. Very frustrating. That's kind of

what I said earlier. I said it's really

boring talking to Japanese people because

the same topics pop up every time, like

fish and chips, famous food in England,

or Big Ben. Can you use chopsticks?

What's your favorite Japanese food? Can

you eat spicy stuff? It's always the same

really mundane topics. So if I ever had

kids in Japan, uh, I don't think I'd put

them into a Japanese school for that

reason. If Chris and Charlotte had a kid

in Japan, that would be interesting.

Their kid would be so messed up because

they would have like these self-identity

problems. They're born in Japan but

they're not Japanese and they're white.

And then are they going to grow up with

English as their first language when they

They live in Japan and they're technically

a Japanese citizen because they were born

in Japan. But then they're gonna suck at

Japanese, aren't they? Unless— I don't

know, it's gonna be weird. They won't have

a Japanese parent, and then Chris just

said he's gonna send his kid to an

international school. So they're gonna

grow up in Japan, they won't even be able

to speak Japanese. Doesn't sound great

because then this kid is gonna grow up in

this English bubble and probably only make

friends with other international school

kids. And then feel like a foreigner or a

tourist in their own country that they

were born in and not feel like they belong

anywhere. Because if they send the kid to

a Japanese school, it's gonna be like the

only white kid in a completely Japanese

class. I bet there's no one in the

comments saying, oh, Chris, please don't

have kids. He's gonna be traumatized.

He's gonna be bullied. He'll grow up in

Japan not having any kind of identity. I

wonder if he's gonna complain about bacon.

That Nakagin Tower is really ugly though.

It just looks like a load of shoeboxes

stacked on top of each other. Japan does

copy a lot of buildings from Europe. Even

that Stenkaku Tower in Osaka

was modeled off of the Eiffel Tower, and

then you got Tokyo Tower, which is also

modeled off of Eiffel Tower, and then you

got a bunch of European copycat towns.

The problem is People don't really care

about architecture anymore. They just want

to make a cheap and efficient building

that looks modern. And all that Gothic

architecture with all the details and like

the Roman pillars and stuff, although it

looked nice, it must have taken ages to

make and expensive. Associate the fruit

sandwich with Japanese culture. I do hate

the fruit sandwich. I used to complain

about it as well back in 2018 about how

they have these cream strawberry

sandwiches. Actually, didn't I say this in

one of my videos? He just copied me.

Look, I'll pull up my video. I think I

said the person who invented the

strawberry cream sandwich should be shot.

Don't even get me started on sandwiches.

Japan couldn't make a decent sandwich to

save its life. The sandwich— oh, this is

the bit— convenience stores are just utter

trash. Yeah, this— what the hell was that?

Did you seriously just put strawberries

and cream into a sandwich? Anyone who puts

strawberries and cream cream into a

sandwich is just— they deserve to be shot.

I'm sorry, but it's just wrong. It's like

having your cousin stay over your house

and then one night she sneaks into your

room and crawls into your bed. It's just

weird. Where's the bacon, lettuce, and

tomato sandwich? Where's the sausage and

scrambled egg sandwich? Where's the

ploughman's sandwich? What did I say?

Having your cousin stay over your house

and then one night she sneaks into your

room and crawls into your bed. Yeah, I

wonder which cousin I was talking about.

The sandwiches that aren't riddled with

strawberries, oranges, and cream are

actually pretty damn good. No, I don't

agree. I think Japanese sandwiches suck.

The egg sandwiches taste disgusting, and

they always put way too much filling in

the middle of the sandwich, and then the

corners of the sandwich don't have any

filling. Filling distribution is really

bad when it comes to Japanese sando. Hmm,

I guess okay video. I rate it 4.2

out of 10. I didn't really complain about

anything that was mind-blowing. The fruit

sandwich thing is really dumb though. Why

do they take Western concepts and just

shit all over them all the time? Like

bacon, for example. Maybe they think the

same because we take sushi and we put

avocado on it, call it a Californian roll.

Maybe Japanese people think, oh, that's

disgusting, you put avocado, that's not

sushi. What if we put strawberry, made a

strawberry and cream sushi, and then see

what Japanese people say?