"Tea seller, i need your strongest teas." "You can't afford my strongest teas, only the most affluent of Instagram influencers can afford MY strongest teas"
@@Collserra3 Hey, you. You're finally awake. You were trying to cross the border, right? Walked right into that Imperial ambush, same as us, and that thief over there.
Lewis sounds like he fell for every tourist trap immaginable, didn't leave the beaten track then for some reason skipped all the good food had some shit tea and then came back and said it was alright 😂
This was unironically inspirational. You had a scope, you forced yourself to sit down and draw it and time it and just got it out the door. And despite it being wonky stickmen, it had me thoroughly engaged.
Always go to Japan with someone who speaks Japanese and knows things that tourists would never know. I've been there three times, twice with my aikido dojo and once with a Japanese girl from our dojo. Incredible country.
@@bitspacemusic ! So you went to see Hitohiro Shihan (Saito's son)? I did Iwanma for a period of time but now I'm mostly Aikikai. ...wait. Are you a student of Hendricks Shihan...?
@@5hadow5talker No, we trained with Inagaki sensei. Saito's son is not with Aikikai and hasn't been for ages, if ever. I have trained with Pat many times when she's been to Sweden, but I'm not her student. We follow the old Saito curriculum, none of the new stuff his son has been making up. It's funny how the two dojos are both right next to the Aiki Jinja, but the Saito students aren't welcome there. So much politics.
@@bitspacemusic Sorry I think I didn't explain myself. When you said you went to an "old Iwanma dojo" I assumed it was Hitohiro's because that would have been one of the oldest. Yes he has and always is Iwanma because of his father. Sorry for some reason I assumed you were American because most Yognauts are American or UK based. I'm neither but sorry to assume. Yeah I mean with Japanese martial arts and old men honour it's all honour and pride... so it's sad but not surprising.
Its so weird that he says all the food was bad. A friend of mine went and said all the food was great. There are whole styles of food I want to got to Japan to get a chance to try. Part of me can't help but wonder.. was it because he was looking for vegan food?
No matter the country or place, you need to know where you're going. Ideally know someone that lives there and can advice you. I visited Paris knowing no one (third European city with the best food) and only ate the worst food
Some of the best foods I've ever had were during my 4 years in Japan. But there's no way I would have found out about most of them on a short trip. For one thing, food there is very seasonal. For another, you're not going to really experience the folk culture-including cuisine-unless you go to smaller places outside of the metropolises. I mean, you can definitely get good food in big cities, but how you going to know where to go if you only go to touristy places and don't make local friends? All of that aside, vegan food in Japan is called something like "Buddhist food" and most of it is purposely not particularly exciting. I've not eaten mammals for going on 2 decades (I mean, occasionally on accident, of course), except during my time in Japan. Not only did the beef taste good *never liked beef in the US), but the pork didn't make me ill like back home. And when I say the food is good, I don't just mean restaurants that make one type of thing in a couple styles very well, but even the convenience store food is great: onigiri, fried chicken, meat filled buns, croquettes, hiyashi chuka (kind of a Japanese version of Vietnamese bún). The convenient store sandwiches were pretty boring, but much more practically portioned than in the US (i.e. not slathered in meat & salt) and the sweets are usually much less sugary as well. But that's just the convenience stores. There's too many regional cuisines & seasonal dishes to possibly go through them all, but two types of restaurants stuck out as odd at first, though. Their bakeries are based on French patisseries with a Japanese twist (e.g., melon bread & red bean bread). It's impossible to describe the vibe, but it's just very different to what I'm used to from a bakery. The other was how delicious the cheapest food, "beef bowl," was. People in these restaurants aren't usually cheerful or anything. It's often a few businessmen sitting on their own scarfing down some quick cheap food and maybe a beer on their lunch break. But it was shockingly good. Oh shit, I just remembered also there was this cute little crepe stall near my place. They serve them in cones and besides having things you'd expect like chocolate & banana, or ice cream, there were also some odd ones that were surprisingly good like tuna salad. Oh and that reminds me of how crazy and crazy expensive the pizzas were. The standard, cheap pizzas were corn & canned tuna and shrimp & mayonnaise. 😆 God, this is bringing back a lot of memories. I could go on and on. TL;DR is, there's definitely some strange things, some delicious things, and some bland things. But if you're limiting the things you'll try, you're going to be missing out.
@@DrakonAstron Excellent taste! I had the pleasure of meeting Professor Elemental live once (which was a pretty rare opportunity in the Netherlands), he's a nice chap!
Huh, well then, I actually didn't expect his trip to Japan to have made him so "weirded out" on his end. Honestly, my week there 2 years back just confirmed to me that Japan's pretty normal, as normal as going to another country can be.
at the end of a big Japanese meal they will often give you a bowl of white rice or I assume cold noodles, youre not suppose to eat it, its suppose to show respect to the chef that their food was so good you cant eat another bite.
I'm curious about this now... A quick google search hasn't turned up much, is this a well known thing? I hadn't heard of it before now but I've also never been to a ryokan or something similar
yeah i have long wanted to go to Japan but over time and seeing videos like this about going there it has gradually dawned on me that it would be a VERY expensive vacation to a culture that isn't exactly going to embrace me like in anime and would probably break all my fantasy dreams of how I imagine Japan to be, to be depressingly replaced by brutal reality of bad food and chubby maids. I went to Beijing and that was fun but again, you discover that the Forbidden City is not all that old because of how often it's burned to the ground and been rebuilt. And that the parts of the Great Wall you can walk on are reconstructed because they original bits are long strips of rubble. And like Lewis' experience in Japan, weird latrine toilets if you aren't in a tourist location. With a little old lady handing you a length of crepe paper to wipe with.
Yeah. I watch a lot of anime and every now and then I have to remind myself that it's cool on the outside, but it would actually be a horrible place to live.
I lived there for four years and it was amazing. But, don't go because of anime. Anime in particular is often for escapism (there are, of course, exceptions), so it's not going to be anything like that. Probably you could get a good sense from a slice of life style one, but even then America isn't King of the Hill or The Simpsons. Also, if you just go for a couple weeks you're not going to get a lot out of it. Even more so if you just go to touristy places.
my wrist hurts
You poor poor man, good job though
It was all worth it
shouldn't've went so fast on the celebration wank
Infected Mushroom: Legend of the Black Shawarma, eh?
I liked it, well done :)
"Tea seller, i need your strongest teas."
"You can't afford my strongest teas, only the most affluent of Instagram influencers can afford MY strongest teas"
quite the reference mate
Wow what fucking year is it
@@Collserra3 Hey, you. You're finally awake.
You were trying to cross the border, right? Walked right into that Imperial ambush, same as us, and that thief over there.
Lewis sounds like he fell for every tourist trap immaginable, didn't leave the beaten track then for some reason skipped all the good food had some shit tea and then came back and said it was alright 😂
It’s nice that Leo is going to Japan to visit Lewis
Was not expecting a Susan Williams cameo
I lost it at Susan Williams
That killed me ahahaha
Im cracking up at Susan's appearance 😂😂
Nice try lewis we all know you are still in Japan
Living off the Yogventures money
he got a house there man
Oh Lewis, always trying to make us think you’re no longer in Japan.
Hope that Leo watches this documentary in preparation for becoming a teacher over there :))
Plot twist. She watched this and thats why she's decided to not go to Japan to teach
@@quietstories795 she gave up already?
your paint videos are some of the best fan produced yogs content around
Jokes on you because he's an official yog ;)
@@choppychop6 is he really, though?
@@spongmongler6760 yes
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This was unironically inspirational. You had a scope, you forced yourself to sit down and draw it and time it and just got it out the door.
And despite it being wonky stickmen, it had me thoroughly engaged.
I love how the default model used for generic homeless shady guy is Tom
I can't wait to hear the story of him visiting again and meeting up with Leo and the mega awkward of that
Damn, love the Yawhg reference! That's a blast from the past
All the references in this, amazing xD
Lewis never came back from japan
Watching this now, still hoping he'll come back someday
So sad he never came back 😔
Love it! I can't believe LewLew is still in Japan
Always go to Japan with someone who speaks Japanese and knows things that tourists would never know. I've been there three times, twice with my aikido dojo and once with a Japanese girl from our dojo. Incredible country.
Hello fellow Yognaut and aikidoist! Did you go to the Honbu dojo or...?
@@5hadow5talker I was there in 2013. We spent more time at the old Iwama dojo. We do the traditional flavor of aikido (Morihiro Saito).
@@bitspacemusic ! So you went to see Hitohiro Shihan (Saito's son)?
I did Iwanma for a period of time but now I'm mostly Aikikai.
...wait. Are you a student of Hendricks Shihan...?
@@5hadow5talker No, we trained with Inagaki sensei. Saito's son is not with Aikikai and hasn't been for ages, if ever. I have trained with Pat many times when she's been to Sweden, but I'm not her student. We follow the old Saito curriculum, none of the new stuff his son has been making up. It's funny how the two dojos are both right next to the Aiki Jinja, but the Saito students aren't welcome there. So much politics.
@@bitspacemusic Sorry I think I didn't explain myself. When you said you went to an "old Iwanma dojo" I assumed it was Hitohiro's because that would have been one of the oldest. Yes he has and always is Iwanma because of his father.
Sorry for some reason I assumed you were American because most Yognauts are American or UK based. I'm neither but sorry to assume.
Yeah I mean with Japanese martial arts and old men honour it's all honour and pride... so it's sad but not surprising.
Susan Williams and the painting at 12:21 really snuck up and got me.
There's a lot of easter eggs and inside jokes, like the carrot for a cck and others
Glad to see the IT God had Tnetennba on his shrine!
Could you use it in a sentence please I don't understand
Love the IT crowd reference at 7:42
yeah yeah I got that too :)))))
Dood I love these animations, thanks for making another
Crazy that he's still there, wish he'd come back by now tbh
Been binge watching these again recently, good work on them all! Always enjoy your interpretations of these moments!
This was amazing, can't believe I've only just seen it. Thanks YT algorithm!
As someone who lives in Tokyo, this is 100% accurate
Very detailed with all the references. Very nice!
this rambling lewis gives me the yogpod feeling
My favourite bit is how ACCURATE Prince Charles' drawing is
This is exactly what I needed today. Thank you, Drakon!
An instant classic. A true masterpiece!
the juts chips at 3:16 is just *chef's kiss*
Its so weird that he says all the food was bad. A friend of mine went and said all the food was great. There are whole styles of food I want to got to Japan to get a chance to try. Part of me can't help but wonder.. was it because he was looking for vegan food?
Well, British people famously have good taste in food, so perhaps it's that
@@isaacvogel4117 we eat toast sandwiches and eel jelly. We do NOT have good taste
he must have an unrefined palate. I personally love half a loaf of bread with some ice cream on top and plain, cold noodles
No matter the country or place, you need to know where you're going. Ideally know someone that lives there and can advice you. I visited Paris knowing no one (third European city with the best food) and only ate the worst food
Some of the best foods I've ever had were during my 4 years in Japan. But there's no way I would have found out about most of them on a short trip. For one thing, food there is very seasonal. For another, you're not going to really experience the folk culture-including cuisine-unless you go to smaller places outside of the metropolises. I mean, you can definitely get good food in big cities, but how you going to know where to go if you only go to touristy places and don't make local friends?
All of that aside, vegan food in Japan is called something like "Buddhist food" and most of it is purposely not particularly exciting. I've not eaten mammals for going on 2 decades (I mean, occasionally on accident, of course), except during my time in Japan. Not only did the beef taste good *never liked beef in the US), but the pork didn't make me ill like back home.
And when I say the food is good, I don't just mean restaurants that make one type of thing in a couple styles very well, but even the convenience store food is great: onigiri, fried chicken, meat filled buns, croquettes, hiyashi chuka (kind of a Japanese version of Vietnamese bún). The convenient store sandwiches were pretty boring, but much more practically portioned than in the US (i.e. not slathered in meat & salt) and the sweets are usually much less sugary as well. But that's just the convenience stores.
There's too many regional cuisines & seasonal dishes to possibly go through them all, but two types of restaurants stuck out as odd at first, though. Their bakeries are based on French patisseries with a Japanese twist (e.g., melon bread & red bean bread). It's impossible to describe the vibe, but it's just very different to what I'm used to from a bakery. The other was how delicious the cheapest food, "beef bowl," was. People in these restaurants aren't usually cheerful or anything. It's often a few businessmen sitting on their own scarfing down some quick cheap food and maybe a beer on their lunch break. But it was shockingly good. Oh shit, I just remembered also there was this cute little crepe stall near my place. They serve them in cones and besides having things you'd expect like chocolate & banana, or ice cream, there were also some odd ones that were surprisingly good like tuna salad. Oh and that reminds me of how crazy and crazy expensive the pizzas were. The standard, cheap pizzas were corn & canned tuna and shrimp & mayonnaise. 😆 God, this is bringing back a lot of memories. I could go on and on.
TL;DR is, there's definitely some strange things, some delicious things, and some bland things. But if you're limiting the things you'll try, you're going to be missing out.
The IT-God is great, I bet he draws quite the crowd
Praying to the spirit of Susan Williams got me
Fuck me! 14 MINUTES??!!!
No wonder you were gone for so long!
Looking forward to seeing more content from you mate
Thank you for these animations. They remind of RTAA, and that's a good old memory
3:22 I know Yogsventures was released somewhere!
I recognise the effort put into the Japanese, too
Good job Drakon
Oh they totally meant what you thought they mean when they called you human dustbin
the more I learn about japan and the language the funnier this video gets
The "Susan Williams" killed me. Fucking hilarious. Nice work
This video is great, all the references are amazing, good work drakon
This video is truly amazing
still can't believe he said the food was pretty bad lmao
"SUSAN WILLIAMS!"
8:43, I understood that reference
President sips
You draw architecture really well!
That politician stole Sips’ catchphrase
I put ice cream in between bread slices to create ice cream sandwiches
Surprise cameo from Suuuuuuusan Williams
Was that a Professor Elemental cameo I spot?
Yep! Chap Hop is genuinely one of my favourite music genres. Whilst I'm more of a fan of Mr B, I had to give Prof some love too.
@@DrakonAstron Excellent taste! I had the pleasure of meeting Professor Elemental live once (which was a pretty rare opportunity in the Netherlands), he's a nice chap!
Oh wow! I plan to go to one of his gigs after covid, it'd be awesome to meet him if he hung around after the gig.
It's finally here!
7:10 J.K. Rowling really has no chill.
Wow, great job animating this!
Huh, well then, I actually didn't expect his trip to Japan to have made him so "weirded out" on his end.
Honestly, my week there 2 years back just confirmed to me that Japan's pretty normal, as normal as going to another country can be.
Good morning. That's a lovely tnettenba you have there.
love this!!! what video is the audio from originally?
Seems like a mix of triforce episodes and a stream with Duncan
👀👀👀👀
@@choppychop6 omg heyyyy
@@yogtok hey bb 😘
Fucking Susan Williams. Slayed me.
Oh YES
Brilliantly done bro!
Nice job!
this is a work of art
this made it 100 times better!
was not expecting that Sips reference with the election
i love the irony of an englishman criticizing the *japanese* cuisine
at the end of a big Japanese meal they will often give you a bowl of white rice or I assume cold noodles, youre not suppose to eat it, its suppose to show respect to the chef that their food was so good you cant eat another bite.
I'm curious about this now... A quick google search hasn't turned up much, is this a well known thing? I hadn't heard of it before now but I've also never been to a ryokan or something similar
Absolute masterpiece
why did he purposely go to the worst places in japan and then complain about it anyway
thak you for this drakon
an instant classic
The Susan Williams killed me 😆
i completely lost it at the sudden susan williams
This was amazing
This is awesome!!
yeah i have long wanted to go to Japan but over time and seeing videos like this about going there it has gradually dawned on me that it would be a VERY expensive vacation to a culture that isn't exactly going to embrace me like in anime and would probably break all my fantasy dreams of how I imagine Japan to be, to be depressingly replaced by brutal reality of bad food and chubby maids. I went to Beijing and that was fun but again, you discover that the Forbidden City is not all that old because of how often it's burned to the ground and been rebuilt. And that the parts of the Great Wall you can walk on are reconstructed because they original bits are long strips of rubble. And like Lewis' experience in Japan, weird latrine toilets if you aren't in a tourist location. With a little old lady handing you a length of crepe paper to wipe with.
Let's be clear that the maids being chubby is not a con
I love how halfway through you just start talking about China instead of Japan lol
whats the source video where Lewis tells about his adventures to Duncan?
Great work!
SOOSAN WILLIAMS
Honestly yeah this makes me not want to go to Japan thanks lewis
Beautiful
I love these
the fucking SUSAN WILLIAMS REFERENCE LMAOOOO
amazing.
Yeah. I watch a lot of anime and every now and then I have to remind myself that it's cool on the outside, but it would actually be a horrible place to live.
I lived there for four years and it was amazing.
But, don't go because of anime. Anime in particular is often for escapism (there are, of course, exceptions), so it's not going to be anything like that. Probably you could get a good sense from a slice of life style one, but even then America isn't King of the Hill or The Simpsons.
Also, if you just go for a couple weeks you're not going to get a lot out of it. Even more so if you just go to touristy places.
6:25 why is wubby at the baby temple
i see you too are a man of culture
Susan Williams spirits 👌
Soosan Williams!!
Most of them are, like, just cherry blossoms and fucking... bullshit [Ross's painting]. LOL!
SUE SAN WILL YAMS
Fantastic
God I wish they did Perth to Tokyo flights right now
I bet the "olivey fish thing" that he ate was shirako
Where is this from and where can i watch/listen to the full version? im guessing there's 2 of them
Triforce podcast, team double dragon and some livestreams.
SUSAN WILLIAMS
Top notch my doggy
is chef excellence also a fan of the yogscast.. i thought he exclusively watched ashens content
This would be a great tedex talk
OMG they HAVE TOILETS shaped like whales
Ah shit, chippudake! Haha!