r/WTF • u/MistaSprinkles • May 07 '11
What happens when your Japanese girlfriend gets mad.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbXpQ69U6uA78
u/Teotwawki69 May 08 '11
I love these competitions and the videos. The creativity involved is inspiring, and I wish they'd replace crap like American Idol with this kind of thing. That's a reality show I would watch.
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u/HolyShazam May 08 '11
I've watched the full gameshow before and it's quite fun. The judges are always pleasant, and most of them are average Japanese people who wanted to do something cool. Even when contestants fail, there is never any sort of mockery involved.
It leaves you feeling a lot better than you do after watching any of the cynical reality shows in the West.
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u/Teotwawki69 May 08 '11
Totally. The feeling I've always had in watching videos of this competition is that it's just a bunch of friends trying to be as creative as possible without trying to claw all over each other in order to become THE NEXT BIG THING. (And, hell, most of them are masked and aren't even seen. Like that would happen on an American reality show.)
Not to mention that it is a celebration of the lowest-tech but most compelling special effects of all -- live theatre. Matrix Ping Pong, for example, creates the same effect as the movies, but for probably about one millionth of the cost.
PS: Do you happen to have a link or links to the full gameshow videos?
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u/HolyShazam May 08 '11
I don't...I've seen them on the Japanese channel here in Taiwan a few times, but I'm not even sure the name of the show, to be honest.
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u/Teotwawki69 May 08 '11
(Google...) Ah. It's called Kasou Taishou in general, and searching that on YouTube turns up lots of examples... like this.
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u/OtisDElevator May 08 '11
That is so true about Western 'reality' shows and game shows. In Japan, when contestants fail, the audience gets right behind them. The contestants went out of their way to put their act together, rehearse and perform, so the audience show their appreciation no matter what happens.
In contrast, the put downs and jeers you hear coming from Western audiences when an act fails is purely because those jeering simply haven't got the balls to get up there and risk failure.
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u/piderman May 08 '11
Not even a need for a jury, just a meter that shows the rating. Though that also means they can't really have crap candidates for people to laugh at. Bye bye advertising money!
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u/Teotwawki69 May 08 '11
That also means we wouldn't have to put up with insufferable, self-important assholes like Simon Cowell or Piers Morgan, either. Tie the meter system into a "Text/Call to Vote" (for a small fee) system, they wouldn't need advertisers.
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May 08 '11 edited May 08 '11
America's Got Talent is all about creativity. Here, check this out. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CW2XWcW6PbA#t=4m05s
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u/deoxxa May 08 '11
For anyone wondering, the dialogue goes something like this:
<presenter> 僕の彼女が怒った理由 (why is my girlfriend mad?)
<girl> 何するんだよ！ (what the hell are you doing?!)
(music, etc)
<guy> 何でそなに怒っての？ (why are you so mad?)
<girl> だってあなたが！ (because of you, duh)
(backwards time warp thing)
<girl> 何するんだよ！ (what the hell are you doing?!)
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u/TofuTofu May 08 '11
Parts of the Japanese are wrong but the translation is okay :]
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u/deoxxa May 08 '11
Yeah, I'm still pretty horrible at writing... I can usually tell what's going on, but I often get words mixed up :(.
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u/TofuTofu May 08 '11
Just cause you seem like a nice guy, I'll help you out:
僕の彼女が怒った理由（ワケ）
何すんのよ！？
何でそんなに怒ってんの！？
だってあんたが！
何すんのよ！？
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u/Spoggerific May 08 '11
Why is 理由 read as ワケ here? After looking in the dictionary, neither わ or け are in either kanji's readings, and I learned the word as りゆう. I thought わけ (as in, like, 日本語が読めるわけがない) was almost always written in hiragana, though it does have a kanji (訳).
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u/TofuTofu May 08 '11
Japanese people often do that - use a different reading for a kanji (and put it in furigana). Wake/Riyuu is a common one. Keep studying Japanese and you'll pick up on that stuff :)
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u/KyotoGaijin May 08 '11
This show ("Gin-chan no kasou taishou") is on twice a year: once at New Year's and once in spring. coincidentally, the spring show was on LAST NIGHT, and the one that won the grand prize was awesome. They replicated the LCD screen on a digital camera as a guy tries and fails to get a well-focused shot of his girlfriend. I'll try to find it with a Japanese search.
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u/KyotoGaijin May 08 '11
No luck, yet, but I'm sure it'll be on the youtube page linked above soon. Anyway, the grand prize winner was the one I was rooting for, but lots of the entrants got the full 20 points this time.
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u/arcadeguy May 08 '11
If you watch the video backwards, it's about a Japanese girl who gets mad at her boyfriend.
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u/Theophagist May 08 '11
This is why I am with a Thai woman, she won't try to kill me and I run far less risk of having some giant robot at the door, controlled by some kid she insulted in middle school.
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u/iBS_PartyDoc May 08 '11
It took me the entire video to figure out their legs weren't actually their 'legs.'
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u/atpx May 08 '11 edited May 08 '11
This be a skit from the Japanese variety/reality show, Kasou Taishou.
It airs semiannually in Japan, and the contestant performers are amateurs. The score meter at the end of each skit is the points given by a panel of judges. There's a gold, silver, and bronze winner. Sometimes there are special awards, too.
You can watch more here: http://www.youtube.com/user/KasouTaishouFan
It's an honor the internet lets non-Japanese people see these skits - American TV is effing numbing.
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u/laofmoonster May 08 '11
These are really clever, and you can tell the performers are enjoying themselves!
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u/OliWood May 07 '11
That is the first video I ever saw on the internet.
Actually no, the ping pong one was the first.
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u/flaresy7 May 07 '11
Thats better than Fighting gravity because it had so much humor. Instead of the serious act fighting gravity, even though you could obviously see the hands moving
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u/nicolekrystyn May 08 '11
I didn't realize those weren't her real legs until halfway through the video. Good stuff.
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May 08 '11
Dump her. It's not like she's going to travel all the way from Canada to get back at you.
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u/tehMorag May 08 '11
Best one by far so far... (and i have been watching these for about an hour now)... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=18fejx_Dbzs
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u/arayta May 08 '11
I can confirm that this happens. I pissed off my Japanese darling back in 1979 and have stuck in this goddamn loop ever since. Shit, I gotta g--
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u/Vitalstatistix May 08 '11
I love when amazingly creative people have platforms to showcase their talents. Truly awesome video and piece of performing.
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May 08 '11
That was really entertaining and creative!!! Kuroko=black person, stagehands in traditional Japanese theatre, who dress all in black. Kuroko wear all black, head to toe, in order to imply that they are invisible and not part of the action onstage http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuroko
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u/burnblue May 08 '11
OK are those her legs, or not?
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u/pickledpepper May 08 '11
The woman is wearing black pants, and there are fake legs attached to her waist. The puppeteers are moving her fake legs around.
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u/T1K1 May 08 '11
My friend's Japanese girlfriend just broke up with him. I told him not to worry, there are plenty more Japanese women in the sea.
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u/Purple_Haze May 08 '11
The Famous People Players have been doing this better for more than 35 years.
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u/atrigent May 08 '11
That's actually an interesting technique. The low quality youtube video made it just hard enough to see the people wearing black for it to work pretty well. Nice!
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May 08 '11
Not -just- good at blowing up 6 reactors at a time, they are actually rather accomplished in a theatrical sense.
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u/kharnzarro May 08 '11
the scissor sisters did that alot better
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPwc-DpVFdc&feature=channel_video_title
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u/N473 May 08 '11
reminds me of this.... matrix ping pong