[2018-04-30] Why I don’t like Anime [C23V01qOMYA]

A lot of people seem to think that I love

anime or I'm some kind of anime nerd, and

I just wanted to make this video to let

you know I don't really like anime. I have

no interest in anime. I used to love it

when I was 17, but that was a long time

ago, and I lost interest— I

lost interest in anime a very long time

ago. So this is how it started. I was

about 17, I was in school, and I was

searching for robots for some reason, and

up popped one of those robots from Neon

Genesis Evangelion, and it looked

interesting, so I decided to read up about

it on Wikipedia, and I bought a copy of it

on eBay, and I watched the whole thing

multiple times, and I still didn't

understand what the whole story was really

about. And I, I really liked it. It was

really cool. I liked the sound of the

Japanese language, and that was how my

obsession with Japan began, really. I just

watched loads of anime. At the time, I was

struggling with World of Warcraft

addiction, and when I started watching

anime, it really helped me to stop playing

World of Warcraft. I basically went from

World of Warcraft addiction to anime

addiction, and I started watching anime

every single day, all day long, and my,

my playtime on World of Warcraft started

to get less and less until the point where

I just completely stopped playing World of

Warcraft. I started watching anime all day

long every single day, and I developed

this unhealthy obsession with Japan and

everything Japanese. I started learning

the Japanese language. I started

fantasizing about living and moving to

Japan one day. I used to think Japan was

this amazing country that was perfect,

this perfect paradise where Everyone in

Japan was beautiful. I thought Japanese

women were just stunningly beautiful just

because they were Japanese. I thought

Japanese guys were the coolest guys in the

entire planet, and I wanted to look like

them. I started watching only Japanese TV.

I started listening to only Japanese

music. I started to only talk to Japanese

people on the internet. I used to feel

proud when I had Japanese friends on my

Facebook. I had all of these fantasies,

all of these expectations of what Japan

was going to be like. And when I finally

got here, when I finally came to Japan for

the first time ever, I guess I was kind of

disappointed because it wasn't really like

what the anime told me it was going to be

like. And I felt a bit cheated. I felt

like I was deceived. Anime lied to me. It

was feeding me all of these lies, all of

these false images of what Japan was going

to be like, and then I got here and it was

completely different. I was expecting

beautiful people everywhere. I was

expecting really cool guys and I thought

all the girls would be really cute, and

then I arrived and I started to realize

that there's a lot of ugly, weird-looking

people here. I had this Japanese

girlfriend that I met online, and I met

her at the airport, and I thought— I was

convinced that she was going to be

beautiful, like 8 out of 10 stunning. And

I finally walked up to her and I met her,

and her face was the size of a watermelon.

It was huge next to mine. We couldn't even

take photos together because she She had

to stand 5 meters behind me so her face

would be the same size as mine. I just

felt so disappointed. The whole point,

the whole reason why I wanted to come to

Japan in the first place was to meet this

girl, and she didn't look anything like I

was expecting her to look like. And I

didn't know what to do. I didn't feel

attracted to her. I didn't have the

courage to tell her that I wasn't

interested in her, so I just— I pretended

that I liked her, and I dated her for

about 5 or 6 weeks until we eventually

broke up. And after we broke up, I just

felt so lost. I was in Japan, I had no

purpose. I didn't know what to do. I had

no friends. I didn't know anyone. The only

reason I came to Japan in the first place

was so I could meet this girl that I met

online, and it didn't work

out. It's just a waste of time, wasn't it?

Bloody anime tricked me into spending—

into wasting 2 years of my life Studying

Japanese and then coming to Japan, and

then all of my expectations, all my dreams

were just ruined,

broken, crushed like that.

And I blame anime. After I came back from

Japan for the first time, I tried to watch

anime again, but I just couldn't. I

couldn't stand all the shouting, all the

screaming, the predictable storylines,

the boring characters. It just became kind

of obvious that every single anime used

the same character templates. You know,

you have the loud, obnoxious, cocky

character, the silent, mysterious

character, the irritating third-wheel

character who serves no real purpose to

the story. After coming back from Japan

for the first time and trying to watch

anime again, it just wasn't the same. All

the mystery and fantasy that I had in my

head about Japan before I went to Japan

for the first time was gone because I had

experienced Japan. I experienced what

Japan was really like, and it was very

different to what I thought it would be

like after watching anime. So I guess my

warning to you, if you've never been to

Japan and you're thinking about going to

Japan and you love anime, don't get

tricked like I did. Don't believe that

Japan is going to be like what anime tells

you it's going to be like, because it

might be a bit like that, but it's not

really going to be like that. Because real

life isn't anime. And I'm sorry to tell

you this, but you're not going to go to

Japan and then suddenly become a schoolboy

who's surrounded by loads of cute girls

who want to have sex with you. That's just

not going to happen. I found out the hard

way. But there was one thing that I

discovered about myself after going to

Japan for the first time, and that was

sex. I realized— I found out how much I

loved having sex. I had sex for the first

time when I came to Japan the first time,

and I wanted to go back to Japan not

because I loved anime or because I was

necessarily that interested in Japan as a

country. It was because I really wanted to

have sex again. Now, I don't know if it's

a bad thing or not to want to go to a

country just so you can have sex, but

that's definitely what happened to me,

and I basically replaced my anime

addiction with a sex addiction. I'm not

sure which one's worse. If you want me to

make a video talking about how I became a

sex addict and my sex addiction in more

detail, click the like button and I'll

think about it.

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and then Put some pieces of wood together

and, um,

not sure where this is supposed to go.

I think this is how you're supposed to

make this bit. It's just

really difficult trying to screw these

screws into this piece of wood. We have

this screwdriver, but it's not very good,

so My wife popped out to buy a better

screwdriver. We have lots of different

screws of different sizes. Tiny screws,

slightly bigger screws. Not sure what this

is supposed to do.

The finished product is supposed to look

like this. It's a, um, it's a rack for

hanging, hanging clothes and coats.

It's not quite there yet.

This— so this is the— so we finally

finished building the coat rack and this

is what it looks like. Looks pretty good

to me. I have my, my sweaters and my

hoodies stored on it, and here's

my neck warmer and my hat. It's too warm

to wear those now. And underneath we have

my towels and my trousers, which are

all black. And there's my laptop bag

and my orange rucksack.

Looks pretty good.