It all makes sense now. In pokemon, the slot machines were in a separate building than the building to exchange the slot winnings for pokemon or TM's because of Japanese laws 😯

@rmommandi

5 жыл бұрын

mind=blown

@ACT1O1

5 жыл бұрын

Now of days kids play Pokémon and they just throw a poke ball and that’s it

@patinpatin12

5 жыл бұрын

You sir have blown my mind. Now it makes sense.

@MrMaximumprime

5 жыл бұрын

!!!!!!! HOLY SHIIIIIIIIIIIT

@Dondadayoh

5 жыл бұрын

Looool I love you !!!!

When Natsuki starts speaking Japanese he transforms from a comic relief anime character into a PhD sociologist.

@casabaixo

2 жыл бұрын

Best comment

@catsareyes6446

2 жыл бұрын

@Pixie Pumpkin ?

@mrvegetables2934

2 жыл бұрын

@Pixie Pumpkin ?

@hiheyxd

2 жыл бұрын

¿ @Pixie Pumpkin

@dao_jones

2 жыл бұрын

@Pixie Pumpkin (っ^‿^)っ UwU touch me senpai

He does emphasize how loud it is a few times, but you really gotta experience it yourself to truly understand how insanely loud it is. IT’S CAPSLOCK LEVEL LOUD

@iceswallow7717

Жыл бұрын

what if silence is the real loudness and pachinko is trying to liberate ur mind?!?!?

@rocklee5x

Жыл бұрын

@@iceswallow7717 a Disturbed song comes to mind

@mikehunt3420

9 ай бұрын

@@iceswallow7717i wanna buy you a beer lol

@rickmortyson4861

9 ай бұрын

Ever been on a Karneval street party? With millions of people drinking liquor and screaming out loud?

@sirphantoon6731

9 ай бұрын

​@@rickmortyson4861ever been inside one of those pachinko parlors? It's out of this world stupdily loud lol

I came here to understand the new jujutsu kaisen chapter, but wow that was so interesting and informative! It's always so cool to learn about other cultures. Thanks a lot!

@biancad.4440

2 жыл бұрын

lmao same

@addersonbolivar4437

2 жыл бұрын

Same

@MyJustinNameIsHi

2 жыл бұрын

same

@sassypanther4842

2 жыл бұрын

Same!

@spikespiegel1754

2 жыл бұрын

Lmao

Take a recovering gambling addict and get him to gamble for you 😂 how thoughtful

@LinvestigatesMC

4 жыл бұрын

To satisfy alcoholism😂

@supergamerfr

4 жыл бұрын

That's the kind of moment japan is made for

@YachtyBurner

3 жыл бұрын

nobody said recovering, right?

@local_hotpotato

3 жыл бұрын

3:56 ..... Yup

@JaydevRaol

3 жыл бұрын

😂

Chris: I'll fuel your gambling addiction and you will fuel my alcohol addiction.

@dant5349

4 жыл бұрын

Mutually Assured Destruction

@OfTheCoast1234567

4 жыл бұрын

Codependency be like

@curangcank

4 жыл бұрын

Win win condition :)

@patrykkozubik6051

3 жыл бұрын

Two-way parasitism

@666kenrino

3 жыл бұрын

I see this as an absolute winn

Glad to know I'm not the only one here cause of Ch 183 from JJK.

I played pachinko a few times. It's addictive and hard to stop once you get into it. At least for me it was.

@qwerty49424

Жыл бұрын

It's no different then pokies. I really can't understand how people find it addictive. If shiny lights and noises is all it takes to get you to give me your money then shit boy have I got some things for you

@Kink-Panther

Жыл бұрын

@@qwerty49424 it's the fact you can get good and how You can manipulate the statistical alignments of the balls. Give a much higher output of the outcome you desire the louder the bing on a certain point. The angle of attack of a certain ping sound is what you look for. It's learning the different pitches of the sound Bing, Bing m*********** it is the absolute artistry, a sound of the angles in which it hits resonating to your ears, the people having their little celebration when you have a win, the atmosphere, the sound, the alcohol. It's just fantastic. It's the array of joy of the people around you. If the atmosphere the smell of the automatic dispenser that goes off giving you that incense smell it's so much more than a game. It's so much more than just betting it's a journey of a history, a journey of how the game grown adapted with time so that sounds boring to you that I'm sorry

@Kink-Panther

Жыл бұрын

@@qwerty49424 Panchinko panchinko is so much more than entertainment. It is a beautiful construct of sounds and bings things bash boom tiktik ousshhhh sounds it is a multiple layers. Pins laid out like a journey of a positive disconstruct of movement going backwards or learning. It's maneuvers it's encounters with other players and how they have benefited certain moves layered upon their history of the player that played before you. The hands that have played this game some of the hardest workers you've ever heard of a lot of these people playing this work long long grueling hours pachinko is no order game. Is a beautiful symphony of sounds going to to one of these parlors with thousands of pachinko machines, you can't even hear your own thoughts. All you hear excitement of others in the disappointment of other. And you dare! Saying it's boring shame on you shame on you

@donkeydarko77

Жыл бұрын

That JAWS game looked great!

@poimon5607

Жыл бұрын

@@Kink-Panther how high are you dude

Why does adding a British person explaining anything over stock footage and B-roll automatically become a documentary

@EMSmith480

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you, best comment of 2019

@OnlySamCan

4 жыл бұрын

@Marc Carran he is originally from Britain, he was born in Britain that makes him British. Just as I am from America, and was born in America that makes me American. What an odd thing to upset about.

@EMSmith480

4 жыл бұрын

@Marc Carran Thank you for the info, I'll pass on the knowledge

@OnlySamCan

4 жыл бұрын

@Marc Carran Yes technically Great Britain is PART OF the United Kingdom. But Great Britain is still a geographical territory. Seeing as how he doesn't sound Scottish, or Irish, I would say he would be British. and while its true there are different dialects of the British accent such as Cockney and Geordie, ect. they all could easily be labeled under the blanket term of British accents. Just like here in American we have different dialects as well such as southern, northern, and ect and even those have various differences as well, but when people from other countries refer to an American Accent are they ever specific about what exact state or region? No they just say American Accent. Like would you honestly argue that there is no such thing as a Scottish person, or an Irish person? The argument you are making is ridiculous. I watch several British KZreadrs who all identify as a "Brit" or British. One of them is literally called "The Spiffing Brit". In World War II the country of the United Kingdom was already founded, but their army was not referenced as the United Kingdomish Forces was it? No it was the British army, and British forces, and British Soldiers. I seriously have no Idea what you are on about. Also technically America is not a Country, The United States of America is. To further add this while we would be consider Americans we could also be considered "Insert State title here"-ans as well. Both would be correct. Just how both saying that person is British (if they are from the land mass of Great Britain), or that Person is from the United Kingdom is correct

@bobbyonasis

4 жыл бұрын

@@OnlySamCan shiet 😳🤝🏼🚶🏽‍♂️.. I love the internet I've gained more knowledge from arguements in comments than I've ever did in skool in my life. #🌈⭐the more you know . Thats how I looked at it.. its more of a culture thing.

Natsuki is the man I strive to be everyday.

@Tore_Lund

4 жыл бұрын

If he was a movie character, he would be the slightly annoying friend with a heart of gold, that dies saving the main character.

@JoyceAiman

4 жыл бұрын

You gotta have balls of metal

@oliviahey9016

4 жыл бұрын

That’s saying something....hmm

@kollimenakal

4 жыл бұрын

Im cureva! Endo..laki boi

@drugsilove2364

4 жыл бұрын

The host seems like an asshole. You can see it in his body language, trying to push Nastuki like he's a fool, when he is trying to be light hearted. I wonder why they hired this british guy.

I'm a professional Pachinko (Japanese gambling pinball machine) player, and it's normal for me to win or lose over 1,000,000 yen per day (about US$10,000). I'm married and have two kids, both of them going to international schools. It's a sustainable "job" if you know what you are doing, but of course, the risk is always there.

@vodkaboy

Жыл бұрын

easier to "absorb" a lot of loosing when you're paid/sponsored by casinos to do just that.

@donkeysaurusrex7881

Жыл бұрын

I have heard that with professional blackjack players the hard part is playing smart is boring, and it can be difficult to resist just gambling. Is pachinko the same in that the daily grind of playing smart can be boring to endure?

@nignamedmutt7270

Жыл бұрын

@@donkeysaurusrex7881 every video/interview/person I've talked to, that plays blackjack professionally says the same thing "Just go be an accountant, it's the exact same work, but stable, and blackjack doesn't really make much money".

@arandomstormtrooper5865

Жыл бұрын

Stop fucking lying ffs Fucking losers

@zboobafett5984

Жыл бұрын

@@nignamedmutt7270 the same is for trading. All those thing that most people call gambling but where there is consistent winner. Well there is a "system" or an "edge", it is a probabilistic game, so you still lose but if you stick to your edge you win in the long run. I'm a professional trader, most of the time i'm just watching my screen and waiting for my edge to appear and act on it. Otherwise yes, it is really like accounting, sometimes really boring and need superhuman discipline or you never make it. But in trading you can make A LOT of money, almost unlimited depending on your skill

I was friends with a Japanese college student nearly 20 years ago and he had a whole group of Japanese friends that would often show up to our poker night. I remember having a conversation with one who said he got into so much trouble playing Pachinko that he felt leaving the country was the only way to break his habit. They were all very competitive, but not in the in your face kind of way we are used to seeing here in the west. They were always respectful in defeat, guess that's part of the culture Natsuki was talking about, wanting to test themselves in their luck and skills.

I knew a guy in Tokyo who was a Pachinko professional. He spent most of his time hanging around in the conversation lounge of the English school (Adult) I worked at, then would spend a couple of hours at a Pachinko place and win enough money for dinner and the next day. He did say he had to be careful to visit different Pachinko parlors in wide spread areas, in case the Yakuza who ran the parlors got angry at him for winning too much.

@kettelbe

2 жыл бұрын

Ahah we have that too in Belgium, we have a gambling pinball called Bingo, where you can win money from the cafe, i knew someone that did that too, up to 400€/good day. :)

@At0m1c_At0m

2 жыл бұрын

@@kettelbe Wish i was that lucky

@Mysticmoon62

2 жыл бұрын

@@kettelbe we have bingo in America but mostly older people play it thought

@katiequeen7225

2 жыл бұрын

@@Mysticmoon62 im pretty sure you mean a different bingo, the one old people play is pure luck, the one talked about by the other guy has skill in it and is a different game

@timesupgr.8471

2 жыл бұрын

North Korea also runs a lot of them. I wouldn’t want to play with them either.

"Retired veteran of pachinko" That's a nice way to say recovering gambling addict.. From now on I'll call myself a "Retired Opiate Connoisseur"

@saints360row

4 жыл бұрын

Yakui, Naw, a self-proclaimed apothecary. :D

@tjay45

4 жыл бұрын

now he is an addict again

@chieffanLJ27

4 жыл бұрын

I thought the same. I didnt "retire" from getting fucked uip lol

@goose4342

4 жыл бұрын

opioids....... My first and longest standing love unfortunately.

@user-dj9iu2et3r

4 жыл бұрын

I prefer retired street pharmacist.

When I visited Japan right after I graduated high school, one of the things that made the biggest impression on me was seeing how crowded the Pachinko parlors were in Kyoto and Osaka. Truly peculiar!

are the ball bearings coded in someway? You could buy thousands of them for 1¥ each then take them to another parlour and exchange them for more money

@davidlakatos9904

2 жыл бұрын

Sure, they will let you bring balls into the parlour. Usually they won’t even touch your “winnings”. The staff collects them behind you, then when you are finished they carry them and count them with the machine.

@tackywacky99

2 жыл бұрын

theyre probably stamped or weighted

@nonethelessfirst8519

2 жыл бұрын

You can and im sure the yakuza will explain why you dont.

@chessoc7799

Жыл бұрын

Yeah If they catch you trying to rip them off I am sure they will be quite annoyed.

@ESPmrBrough

Жыл бұрын

@@chessoc7799 most japanese people i've seen look about 5 foot tall. what can they actually do if the person ripping them off isn't soft?

Walked in one and realised it was louder than a nightclub and walked out. People going in there come out deaf.

@93hothead

5 жыл бұрын

Sam Tokyo than

@azdgariarada

5 жыл бұрын

What?

@HollowBonezz

5 жыл бұрын

93hothead *smartass

@heiichbinleon1

5 жыл бұрын

Sam Tokyo same sounded like a waterfall was right in the hall

@TheBassHeavy

5 жыл бұрын

Crazy! Does Japan not have noise exposure laws?

I will never, ever be able to forget the nightmarish sound of that one time when I accidentally got lost into a building in akihabara where two stories were absolutely packed with pachinko machines, where I spent the longest 5ish minutes of my life trying to figure out how to exit this labyrinth of god forsaken loudness. How these players bear that deafening noise from hell, I don't understand. The vast majority of them don't even bother putting earplugs in or anything, it seems like they're too absorbed by the game to even hear the fuck out of satan' scream that surrounds them. I don't usually use so much biblical wording, but in this case it is the most accurate I can think of

@Zgag

4 жыл бұрын

@Simz Zxy No sorry I can't be bothered to give you a quick explanation of pachinko

@khuzeniblue9109

4 жыл бұрын

@@Zgag The way you described it is pure gold 😂😂😂

@Fakie420

4 жыл бұрын

@@Zgag Wit like this is one of the reasons I enjoy interneting.

@user-wp9mb5yq5e

4 жыл бұрын

@Simz Zxy it's a very loud and obnoxious way to lose money, fast. In another sense, it's a fabulous way to partake in 1 of the many quirky Japanese cultural aspects of live. Lastly, if you find yourself walking into a pachinko parlour, take the 10 seconds for the headache to start then turn around.

@cucumberferris5854

4 жыл бұрын

The one time you use a biblical term in your story but satan takes the lead role, dafuq? Lol

I thoroughly enjoyed this. This was awesome from start to finish. The cinematography, the editing, your hilarious and fun friend. This is one great doc. I can’t say enough good things about it.

My family has a really old Pachinko machine (all mechanical, no lights). I would spend hours as a kid playing. Insanely fun. Loved the video!

Making a feature really has put your production values through the roof! This video feels like a classy documentary. Looking forward to the big bike project which will undoubtedly lead to another increase in your movie making skills.

@dean_6953

5 жыл бұрын

Also was thinking the exact same thing

@Gharon

5 жыл бұрын

Yeah, not that earlier videos were low quality by any means, but this feels like another step up. I was genuinely impressed by the cuts and editing in this one, can't wait for the bike tour project to begin.

@SoyElDiabloRojo

5 жыл бұрын

No joke, Chris, you've kicked it up a notch-or-three. Maybe a Natsuki.

@Feuryy

5 жыл бұрын

He’ll have his own series on British TV before we know it :)

@lolalemonite1774

5 жыл бұрын

ikr!

We give them pachinko, they give us anime. _We’re practically related_

@TiroDvD

5 жыл бұрын

More of we gave them Disney Movies and Comics esp Bambi and Donald Duck; then they gave us magna and anime. Also screwing ourselves over with Atari gave us Nintendo and saved video games.

@AdmiralFroggy

5 жыл бұрын

Except anime is terrible

@sandk7969

5 жыл бұрын

@@AdmiralFroggy ha!hahaha yeh

@christopherdomingo5810

5 жыл бұрын

Those 176 likes are anime lovers. The 176th one is me

@beepboop2021

5 жыл бұрын

AdmiralFroggy no u

The quality on these videos are insane, thought i was on the BBC, keep it up Chris

The second time i've visited a pachinko parlor and somehow managed to get a jackpot, i've genuinely felt bad for how loud my machine was in my isle until i found out how to manage the volume and turned that thing down, instead of focusing on my win lol, happy experience

My eyes hurt looking for the infamous Metal Gear Solid Pachinko Machine

@WeIsDaTyrantz

4 жыл бұрын

HIT THE LEVER

@daisydaswani689

4 жыл бұрын

Also most americans id assume would know what pachinko is.

@Bryce-dv6nn

4 жыл бұрын

Me tkk

@TheEsdaniel

4 жыл бұрын

Same

@W111P0w3r

4 жыл бұрын

Same but for the Guilty Gear pachinko machine

This is now my life while in quarantine. Binge watching videos of a sarcastic British dude and his peculiar Japanese friend... These are truly dark times

@kingsi4869

4 жыл бұрын

Bro I was supposed to be flying to Japan in exactly 3 weeks time for the trip of my dreams, but some dickhead decided to eat a goddamn bat so here I am.

@marllonluizsilva2556

4 жыл бұрын

@@kingsi4869 dude isn't bat, someone got bited by a pangolin

@ifalm4274

4 жыл бұрын

@@kingsi4869 damn bro same

@momon8738

3 жыл бұрын

bro, I do not know if there is any better option than that. congrats

@Dhardy316

3 жыл бұрын

@@marllonluizsilva2556 A pengolin got bite by a bat!!!

You know, every time i see a video about Japan the thought comes to my mind, 'there's really nowhere else like this place is there?' it's just so utterly different and unique. I love the way you find great and eye-catching art pretty much everywhere. Awesome video thanks

In the early 80s my brother was a foreign exchange student in Japan. When he came back he brought with him an old school mechanical pachinko machine he gave to my parents. Since that time I've acquired it from my parents and took an old entertainment center cabinet I bought at a second hand store and converted it to hold the pachinko machine that's barely wider than the machine itself but standing at 6 feet tall with storage underneath. It's one of my favorite pieces of furniture in the house.

When natski appears, you know its going to be amazing

@AbroadinJapan

5 жыл бұрын

"COME ON BOOOOOY" Closely followed by; "I'm drunkard". Another t-shirt worthy quote.

@jatocato

5 жыл бұрын

"WILD NATSUKI. appeared!"

@MajorAddiction

5 жыл бұрын

Teamwork ja nai

This shop is closed. even I am Japanese I hadn't been there yet. It’s sad. I've never seen any other pachinko parlors rated as highly as this one. Because it was run to target foreigners, this shop didn't last and went out of business, probably because foreign customers stopped coming to shop because of Corona and Japanese customers were only interested in oddballs like me.

@fawesum

3 жыл бұрын

That is super sad to hear :(

@kinotsu3017

3 жыл бұрын

Yet another reason COVID sucks, ughh :/ Seemed like such a neat little place too, sad it's gone.

@Neonagi

3 жыл бұрын

Nooooo, I wanted to go there. It seemed like such a fun place to hangout for the day while you walk around Takayama sightseeing

@oggabooga1171

3 жыл бұрын

The first one or the second one

@christopherfarrel264

3 жыл бұрын

Akihabara branch still open

When I was a kid in the 70's my friend had a pachinko machine in their living room. On hinges. It was a very different looking machine. Hand painted wood. This video brought back some old memories. I've scarcely thought of those times. Thank you.

Came here to try and understand Hakari’s ability ☠️ I think Gege just took the medal for the most confusing ability in manga history

@Starphaso

2 жыл бұрын

That's exactly y I'm here 💀

@guilha1506

Жыл бұрын

It’s easy to understand, but Gege explain it very poorly

This is actually clever since you can give players a 120% win chance, that means they will mostly always win. But since it can only be used on goods in the store you are guaranteed to get your money back with the right prices.

@ryandick7264

5 жыл бұрын

Well remember, the payouts are in balls, so if you start with 100 then get 120- you can just play again with those 120 for even more. Very different compared to the token and ticket system of most western arcades.

@nephew_

5 жыл бұрын

The Spark Bro but you could just keep winning if you say its 120% chance. And you could start with 10 balls and end up with 10000 so you profit even if you take something from their shop. Your comment is bit stupid :-(

@PaulWalker-tx8qq

5 жыл бұрын

@@nephew_ Or better still, take the 1 yen balls and go and trade them in for cash at another establishment at the back of the arcade as if they were 4 yen balls and not only get cash but also get more back.

@AurioDK

5 жыл бұрын

@@ryandick7264 I was assuming you could program the machine to have a maximum payout at the end of the day which means win chances would fluctuate. If 5000 are put in then at the end of the day it would pay 6000 max which is 120%. Never gambled though, so I dont exactly know how the rules work. Exponential profit by constantly having a 120% win rate would endid be a stupid thing.

@nmitchxll305

5 жыл бұрын

Paul Walker you don’t trade the balls for cash. You trade the balls for a specific coupon, made at a machine in the arcade those balls are used in, which is traded for cash

Chris likes walking out of the shot so much that even while they were sitting near the end of the video I imagined him getting up and walking out and it made me giggle

@HeyCarlaRawr

5 жыл бұрын

I imagined the manager of the place just thinking "is he going to come in or what?"

Having seen the sad addictive scourge of the prolific suburban poker machine (“pokies”) dens while living in Melbourne and Sydney, as soon as I walked into a pachinko parlour in Japan I immediately thought “I’ve seen all this before”, and walked straight out. Interestingly, state governments in Australia have a similar financial interest in maintaining the status quo of the pokies as the Japanese government appears to have with regards to pachinko: the punters are addicted to the machines, and the governments are addicted to the revenue.

I barely wanted to know what this was, but I watched the whole video once it started; very well produced. Good camera, good editing, informative and your Japanese co-star eats of the camera and steals the show in a superlative fashion! Good work, ya'll.

Can I just say that the editing on this video was phenomenal? Lots of beautiful camera angles, and very cohesive. Den-awda-den!

@bovrar2nd861

5 жыл бұрын

I was just about to say the same! LOL

@henryi9738

5 жыл бұрын

Not just editing, but great story line with a humorous drunk to boot !

@BernyHi_CosmicHoney

5 жыл бұрын

I agree! I really like that shot of the airplane and then the tilt down shot. I had to watch it a few times. Nicely done!

@ValCronin

5 жыл бұрын

It was so good that I didn't even notice anything that seemed out of place. Super fluid, great timing...you are completely right.

So this is what konami is doing instead of making a new castlevania.

@Adam-Adam.

5 жыл бұрын

I saw a konami slot machine at the casino near my house. Looked like early 2000s machine

@manspider1833

5 жыл бұрын

@@Adam-Adam. there are a lot of tekken ones too.

@andreidragostin

5 жыл бұрын

@@manspider1833 they should really make Liam Neeson a playable character in Tekken

@masterkenobi3666

5 жыл бұрын

200 billion industry no wonder konami wants some of the pot

@KitsGravity

5 жыл бұрын

Don't forget Silent Hill 2 pachinko version!

I’ve watched so many abroad in Japan videos and I come back every year or so and watch them all again

Very nicely put together video and very entertaining as well. Thanks for posting this.

Step 1: Buy 1 Yen Balls at one store Step 2: Sell them for 4 Yen each at other stores

@evanharjanto2450

4 жыл бұрын

STONKS ^

@Javier-ov3hj

4 жыл бұрын

STONKS BRO

@JorgetePanete

4 жыл бұрын

📈

@fuwarin1192

4 жыл бұрын

Well it's against policy to take the balls away from the store although some sneak them out as a collector's item since the balls usually has the store's trademark somewhere on them making them each unique and allowing the stores to know which balls are their's.

@spiciestt6136

4 жыл бұрын

@@fuwarin1192 ye. 200 billion dollar game with blank balls lol.

Your production value has gone way up (not that it was bad before). As much of a pain as the Natsuki movie was to produce -- it's definitely made an impact!

@SelLillianna

5 жыл бұрын

"Not that it was bad before" Ah... I remember those days of Chris complaining about noisy birds in his small apartment on a less than stellar camera. Good times. But yes, much improvement has been made. ^_^

@pirincri

5 жыл бұрын

Second video I watch of his but I appreciate the visual creativity.

@underachieveruno

5 жыл бұрын

David Rosenthal i was thinking the same thing

@loweryjk

5 жыл бұрын

+1 on that. I'm impressed.

I just stumbled on your videos yesterday and I already subscribed and watched a lot! I absolutely love Japan and would love to live there!! so watching your videos is such a great insight into Japan. I absolutely love the culture and everything!! you're so lucky to live there

Def one of my favourite Abroad in Japan vids

This video was really good. It felt like you managed to capture the best parts of a documentary and a KZread video. Very informative but without it feeling like a lecture or essay. Great work Chris!

@leonardodavinci4259

5 жыл бұрын

BADCompanySarge - Exactly. The balance isn't toppled.

Natsuki seems like the type of guy you want to party with.

@mikeserrano734

4 жыл бұрын

He should be a party tour guide in Japan.

@smile--

4 жыл бұрын

Natsuki? doki doki literature club confirmed

@smile--

4 жыл бұрын

He is a lucky boi

@idkidk3968

4 жыл бұрын

You have never be to any party ever have you

@SerumSenyx

4 жыл бұрын

@@idkidk3968 begone maximilianmus troll

Yo to all my people who came here to understand Hakari I feel you dawg I don’t understand one but but these guys are hilarious and I’m wit it 💀💀💀💀💀💀 the flashing confusing lights and music fit him too perfectly

I got here because I'm reading JJK and didn't have any idea what pachinko was. It looks funny, and thanks to you I understood it and now Hakari's technique makes sense.

- Great topic - Natsuki is in the video - Smooth video transitions Overall: 10/10 GOLD CONTENT Good job Chris!

I love the rare and serious Natsuki part, explaining the obsession of Pachinko.

@XSemperIdem5

5 жыл бұрын

WhatATypicalTime the way he explained how they like taking a chance and trying their luck, the whole lucky bags thing suddenly made perfect sense.

Coming here to get a better grip of Jujutsu Kaisen chapter 183 lmao

Please make another video like this one! 🙏I'm going into intermediate and this video helped me so much with my friends. I love your videos!!!

I can just imagine the pain someone would go through if they accidentally spilled their ball container.

@daniela.b.4498

5 жыл бұрын

In japan there would be no lawsuit, they would brush it off and most likely they would give the person who fell their info, so the could send them a bill for any doctor fees.

@pawala7

5 жыл бұрын

Considering doctors fees here cost barely $20 a visit and inpatient hospitalization is close to that for shared rooms, it wouldn't be a big deal. Also pretty sure both parties would apologize to each other profusely for the accident and not even think about lawsuits.

@Zanfire11

5 жыл бұрын

Yeah.... Pretty sure he meant the pain of getting them back in the container...

@stonedpirate300

4 жыл бұрын

>.< sooo if you dropped 1500 balls on the ground. according to the comments above that is $13 and some minor inconveniences. not as painful as it sounds

DUUUUUUUUDE! Super cool they let you film there!

@benial870

5 жыл бұрын

Gaijin Goombah Media is it unnatural to film in Japan?

@alphaprimus7794

5 жыл бұрын

As Chris said in the video, you are not allowed to film in Pachinko parlors.

@benial870

5 жыл бұрын

Alpha Primus oh yeah

@gregsanders61

5 жыл бұрын

Better than some certain Goombah's Pachink video.

@nvwest

5 жыл бұрын

Smart too. Free advertisement

Pachinko must be addictive & good fun if Natsuki managed to sit and play for 30 minutes without having a smoke! That's impressive going!

@4d827

Жыл бұрын

Extremely addictive.

Im a big fan of Doco's. Ive seen all yours Chris. Well done. I enjoyed them all and learned a lot about Japan.

I wouldnt be surprised if it came out that Natsuki was part of the Yakuza at one point

@AnakinSkyobiliviator

5 жыл бұрын

What? Natsuki? He would never! Ryotaro on the other hand....

@abishkarjungshah4539

5 жыл бұрын

And natsuki needs to sing bakamitai😂😂

@omarmiralles1043

5 жыл бұрын

RyuN Right you are, kyoudai :3

@omarmiralles1043

5 жыл бұрын

Anakin Skyobiliviator He's awesome, do he could definitely be a Yakuza :3

@painfullyhuman

5 жыл бұрын

Ah, alongside Kiryu and Majima

Wow. This is some skillful documentary filmmaking.

@Helpful_Corn

5 жыл бұрын

It reminded me of how good the tsunami video was, but even better.

@MajorAddiction

5 жыл бұрын

Sharknado-level quality even

The Video That Introduced Me To Your Channel And Natsuki! I Loved Natsuki In This Video So Much. I Thought He Was Just A Standalone Guest, But As I Watched More Of Your Videos, I Realized You Guise Were Friends! It Made Me So Happy. I Loved Watching Your Guises’ Adventures Together. Best Bromance. Happy Birthday Natsuki!

My grandmother had one of these growing up and no one knew how valuable it probably was. Used to love playing that thing as a kid.

To this day this video from Chris has the best production quality i have ever seen on this channel 😀

@AbroadinJapan

4 жыл бұрын

Heck, even I like the scene in the 1960’s house with the empty sake bottle.

@hazzaknox1069

4 жыл бұрын

@@AbroadinJapan Hahaha bucket list ticked off... my absolute favourite content creator has just hearted and replied to my comment 😇

@wordsofcheresie936

2 жыл бұрын

I think what we are actually seeing is an advertisement for the pachinko parlor that he features. I'll bet that they sent out one of their camera crews.

@JEppsLars

2 жыл бұрын

@@AbroadinJapan I actually liked the old school TV.

@nghtwtchmn129

2 жыл бұрын

One minor point at 4:29-you "circumvent" the rules and "circumnavigate" the world. My apologies if this has been pointed out before.

7:39 "Japanese people love the sensation of trying one's luck" AHA! I _knew_ it! Japan _does_ love RNG!! _That's_ why there's so much of it in their games!

@IshioRamo

2 жыл бұрын

that's the whole asian culture that is like that, chinese, korean or japanese, they all use gacha mechanics

@llovebeats3749

2 жыл бұрын

They also love money.

@FerreTrip

2 жыл бұрын

@@llovebeats3749 Yeah? So does pretty much everyone else, what's your point? XD

@llovebeats3749

2 жыл бұрын

@@FerreTrip You beat me to it :p

@dr.floridamanphd

2 жыл бұрын

A friend of mine (is white American obsessed with East Asian cultures) made watch Ringu and then The Ring. There was another movie out at that time that was also very popular but I can’t recall it’s name. The American versions were tame by comparison.

These videos are always so interesting it’s got me wanting to go and try that out for myself 😀

wow! I have always wondered what Pachinko was! Thank you so much for the video. It was entertaining and informative. :)

First you hear it. Then you smell it (the cigarette smoke). And finally, you stumble through a crowded room, disorientated and confused, before leaving subsequently deaf. It's an experience many foreigners in Japan have had, and I was no different. I'll never forget being bewildered by Pachinko when I discovered it 6 years ago. Now for the first time, it's time to actually work out what it is, and why it's so popular. IF YOU'VE PLAYED PACHINKO, share your thoughts on it. Maybe it'll help the rest of us make better sense of it.

@nickles2185

5 жыл бұрын

Abroad in Japan Just got finished watching the Tokyo Play Creative vid and then you uploaded right after. Hahaha. I have to go back to work.... noo...

@blakenz712

5 жыл бұрын

Chris two uploads this week, what is this sorcery?

@lunalunia4151

5 жыл бұрын

I must say your skills for shoot and editing video are are improved! I love your videos, cheers!

@LePetitNuageGris

5 жыл бұрын

I don’t gamble out of principle, but I will go into an arcade (if I can bloody find one; they’re archaic over here) and try to win prizes while mainly just having fun, so thanks for introducing this particular café to us. I really want to visit and win that premium sake and some food. Haha Your videos always give us this unique perspective of Japanese culture that we never really thought about, and the quality is top notch. It’s such a pleasure watching and learning. Keep it up! :)

@Ziirf

5 жыл бұрын

First time i found one of these places was when i was looking for a toilet in Tokyo, god it is loud. You should be wearing hearing protection if you didn't want to become deaf after 5 minutes in there.

I was like "he might get in trouble for stealing content of a Japanese history show" but then I realized he made it all himself. Props to you, very interesting documentation.

Beautiful videography. Thanks for the video!

Seeing you tackle pachinko was quite fun; I'd be interested in seeing you and Natsuki head into a 雀荘 and try to learn 麻雀 (Riichi Mahjong), if any would allow you to film there at least.

"japanese like to try ones luck" So THATS why gacha games are so popular there

@anggafestiyan5598

4 жыл бұрын

shit no wonder playing rpg in japan server got slaughter in pvp

@luminocuratoria1335

3 жыл бұрын

Wooohooo! Waifus FTW!!!!

@Username-1939t9

3 жыл бұрын

i mean that's true for all peoples. unfortunately it seems like in other countries it's a lot more damaging to gamble. like at least there if you spend a large sum of your money there's a good chance of getting at least some of it back, but with things like lottery tickets or slot machines you get nothing back.

@WhatIsMyPorpoise

3 жыл бұрын

angga festiyan same thought

@foarfield

3 жыл бұрын

@@Username-1939t9 You're still losing a bunch of money on average wherever you go. The house always wins.

Damn, Chrissy, your direction skill has gone way up since your last major Japan-exploration-centric video. Keep it up, man, I'm into it.

(0:52) [Correct Description] Part arcade game, part gambling, and part sensory overload, causing anyone nearby to lose all their brain cells and rational thought.

@jocomfiresin6982

Жыл бұрын

I'm pretty sure our slot machines are quite similar just without the balls. Those things can get super loud especially when hundreds of them are being used at once in a large hall. Sure it's guanteed to always be less noisy but it's still noisy.

Im studying up on Pachinko to understnad jujutsu kaisen

Your editing and directing skills have really leveled up! Looking forward to seeing more great content.

Holy crap, when he was talking about the two separate parts of the casino to avoid gambling, that was in Pokemon games😂

@Ruukas9

5 жыл бұрын

Lol. You are right xD

@hueylong8046

5 жыл бұрын

Yes!

@Apadjekk

5 жыл бұрын

Pokemon is japanese game...

@hueylong8046

5 жыл бұрын

@@Apadjekk was it really?

@SovereignAi

4 жыл бұрын

@@hueylong8046 is*

I keep comong back to this video and I love it every time. It's the reason I bought an old refurbished pachinko machine and have spent hours sitting at it just enjoying the lights, sounds, and nonsense that it provides.

The editing on this video is just so good.

@CorboWill

Жыл бұрын

Is it

@dancersendrecords1469

Жыл бұрын

yeh it’s not that good

So that's why the game corner in Pokemon red and blue has a separate building for prizes. That's pretty interesting.

if u go to japan and see people lined up in front of a building in the morning, it's pachinko

@TheAkashicTraveller

5 жыл бұрын

Nah, that's if you see them lined up in front of a vending machine in the morning.

@Kairia626

5 жыл бұрын

I went to Akihabara very early in the morning and I saw a huge line of people outside a loud building for the opening of what I assumed was an arcade, but it was most likely pachinko. It's starting to all make sense!

@arx3516

5 жыл бұрын

Or the post office.

@shloopy5

5 жыл бұрын

When the moon hits your eye like a big pizza pie, it's pachinko.

@zam023

5 жыл бұрын

I had never come across a pachinko parlour in Akihabara. If it was Akihabara, 99% likely it is a game's release. Or in my case, lining up for a concert. Since you said it was noisy, probably a concert.

This is fascinating. I finally understand it, and I've been seeing it in anime for years.

7:50 I really appreciate natsukis commentary on pachiko here, too me its really the highlight of this video because I always remember it.

I am a simple man, I see natsuki ,I drop a like

@Styleth

5 жыл бұрын

Ameya Wagh same

@niemand3637

5 жыл бұрын

Ameya Wagh same

@laqueenblue

5 жыл бұрын

Ameya Wagh I missed him

@clotz1820

5 жыл бұрын

Nuke*

@danieldo8859

5 жыл бұрын

Where? I want my cupcake

This video was ballsy

@theramendutchman

5 жыл бұрын

Yes did you see his face? He was having a ball!

@rbdel

5 жыл бұрын

That was alot of cash rolling in his pockets

@HaroldoPinheiro-OK

5 жыл бұрын

That guy has balls of steel! :P

I still have 2 Pachinko games from the 1970s in my basement. Such fun.

Here in Las Vegas we have a few Pachinko parlors. Inside Red Dragon Asian themed bars there are Pachinko rooms. Not sure if you just get to gamble or not as nobody ever plays them. Always empty.

@jacobstuntz8617

Жыл бұрын

Ive always wondered why pachinko did not take off in the states.. seems like a profitable business at least in Japan

@dang7824

Жыл бұрын

In Vegas they test a lot of new games. A few years back they had Fighting games and Card game battle arcades where you could bet on the outcome of a match at specific intervals. Literally nobody plays these. Instead Book of Ra and hundreds of other video slots are the top favorites, specially if they are networked to a master counter & universal jackpot. I think that's the main diference between asian and us gambling, they're more out for an individual enjoyment in asia, while in the us people prefer high volatility games at the expense of any skill-based, low variance type of payout.

@Johnny2Feathers

Жыл бұрын

It’s very boring compared to the video slots that especially nowadays give players a far more exciting and thrilling experience than ever before. Being next to one of them a Pachinko machine would just collect dust.

@Kink-Panther

Жыл бұрын

@@Johnny2Feathers slots boring your just American and hate anything not American

@6dm978

Жыл бұрын

@@Johnny2Feathers Modern Japanese pachinko machines are basically video slots in terms of visual engagement

First time I played pachinko, about 20 years ago, I had no idea what I was doing. It must have been beginner's luck, because I ended-up winning about 50,000 yen. It was on a rainy day in Osaka, I ducked into the joint just to get out of the rain. Paid for a couple extremely nice dinners ;)

@gon9684

3 жыл бұрын

Wait... What? That's a massive amount!!! How many buckets of balls were even there? How much time were you playing? Congratulations man, that's an epic story :)

@AgustinRamirez-wl4mg

3 жыл бұрын

@@gon9684 Well taking that every ball has the worth of 4 then he would had 12.500 if every bucket can hold 2000 6 and quarter of a bucket, sorry if my english is bad

Him: Natsuki do u have balls Natsuki: reacts like any other person who doesnt understand the joke

@MasterYoshidino

3 жыл бұрын

I was expecting him to respond while laughing "Yes! Over 1500 balls!"

@hobowithashotgun48

2 жыл бұрын

Amazing opportunity for perhaps the most fitting Duke Nukem phrase: "I've got balls of steel!"

Great production dude thank you

Thanks for explaining. I walked inside some, but never understand (actually never tried) how it works and what it means. The noise and the smoke are so intimidating.

As a gamer I always wondered why you had to go to seperate building in Pokemon Red/Blue/Yellow for your prizes in the Game Corner, but once you do a little research, you can find out that it makes sense due to Kanto being based on Japan and thus makes sense that there is a seperate building because it's paralleling Panchinko in real life Japan. Bonus Fun Fact: The scrolling health in Earthbound/Mother 2 was originally going to be styled after a Panchinko machine.

@Turmanation5

5 жыл бұрын

As a gamer, I absolutely hate minorities and the lgbt communists

@clickbait3753

5 жыл бұрын

@@Turmanation5 O.K, This is epic. 😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎

I have to say Chris, I actually really liked this more history lesson style of video. I'd heard bits and bobs about pachinko and its roundabout form of gambling, but never anything about the history behind it. In fact, learning about Japan's cultural history beyond the broad strokes is rather difficult from the wrong side of the Pacific. If the opportunity arises, I'd love to see more videos like this on your channel, learning more about Japan's modern past from an insider's perspective. One place I've heard of that I might suggest looking into would be the Meiji Mura Architectural Museum in Inuyama, near Nagoya. This outdoor museum features the largest collection of surviving buildings from the Meiji and Taisho Eras (1867-1926) anywhere in Japan, including the lobby from Tokyo's famous Imperial Hotel designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, and yes, an original Meiji Era sake brewery (don't recall if it's still operational or not). Also on display are one of the first electric trams to operate in Kyoto, dating from 1912, and a pair of 19th Century steam locomotives, one of which, No. 12, was built in 1874 as No. 23 for the first Kobe-Osaka-Kyoto Railway and is a copy of two of the first steam engines to operate in Japan full stop, on the Shinbashi-Yokohama Line in 1872; these engines, built by Sharp-Stewart of England, were part of an order of 10 such locomotives ordered from 5 different British builders. The Sharp-Stewart engines in particular were considered the most successful of the bunch, so when the time came to order locomotives for the new Kyoto Line, the Railway Ministry went back to Sharp-Stewart and essentially said "Two more of those, please." These survived in government service until 1911, when they were sold to the privately owned Bisai Railway along with a lot of other similar engines from the Shinbashi-Yokohama Line that were also considered too small and old for regular service. Renumbered 12, the engine continued working as a yard shunter, moving wagons and arranging trains, until 1957 when she was finally retired. Thanks to her historical significance she was preserved and first put on display at Meitetsu Line Park until 1963, after which she was moved to Meiji Mura, first being displayed as a static exhibit, but then restored to operation in 1973. She's undergone two major restorations since then, one in 1985 to replace her old boiler, then again in 2010. Can you tell I'm a history student yet? :P

@P-lo_ol-9

5 жыл бұрын

Holy pachinko Batman, why have I never heard about the Meiji Mura Architectural Museum before!? As an architect and lover of history and historic technology this would be my kind of disney land. Thank you so much for the story.

@sirrliv

5 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it, and that I found a kindred spirit in my love for technological and architectural history. Somewhere else you might enjoy is the Edo-Tokyo Open Air Architectural Museum in Koganei Park, Tokyo. This museum features a vast collection of preserved buildings from the Tokugawa/Edo Era, and a few Meiji Era buildings as well, and was one of the sites visited by Hayao Miyazaki when seeking inspiration for his magnum opus Spirited Away. Also on your list should be Ome Railway Park in Ome, Tokyo. Opened in 1962, this is Japan's oldest railway museum, and though small the open air site includes several unique survivors of Japan's age of steam, including another of the original 2-4-0 locomotives from the Shinbashi-Yokohama Line of 1871, this one built by the Yorkshire Engine Co. Finally, for the big ones at least, there's the Historical Village of Hokkaido. Far less well known than Edo-Tokyo or Meiji Mura, this museum in Sapporo nonetheless boasts a comprehensive collection of buildings from the Meiji to Showa Eras that chart Hokkaido's modern history, from traditional houses from farms and fishing villages to larger structures like the old Sapporo Railway Station and Colonization Commission Office, with much of the site being linked by a horse-drawn tram line. If this still hasn't whetted your appetite, I'm currently researching other sites of interest regarding Japan's Meiji Era and industrial history. I would be happy to share them, if Chris doesn't mind this comment thread getting a bit longer.

@KuraIthys

5 жыл бұрын

Either a history student, or a rail fan. ;p XD

@sirrliv

5 жыл бұрын

Why not both?

@michaelmartin9022

5 жыл бұрын

You sound like you'd appreciate the farming museum in Ryukuchi-koen, Osaka, too ;)

Jujutsu Kaisen brought me here.

I would love to experience this, thank you for explaining it so thoroughly.

Holy shit, the production value is good

I'VE BEEN WAITING YEARS FOR THIS VIDEO AND ITS FINALLY HERE!!!!!

@berkomatik8082

5 жыл бұрын

Paid subscribers lol

@jahjoeka

5 жыл бұрын

alex bell did it make u happy?

@alexbel8944

5 жыл бұрын

Dalmain J *very!*

@jahjoeka

5 жыл бұрын

Hermit Wizard eww

This jjk game got me fucked up

Very entertaining and educational video. I enjoyed and learned more about it. Thanks.

You need balls of steel to play this game

@AvoidTheCadaver

5 жыл бұрын

Literally

@flygtur7784

5 жыл бұрын

I’m going to Japan later in April. Gotta try this game. Starting with just a pair of balls.

@jacksonueland

5 жыл бұрын

perfect comment

@abbyboing

5 жыл бұрын

So did you try your luck on your balls?

@q_asi5397

5 жыл бұрын

I don't know if you're intentionally making a jojo reference but. Is this a effing jojo reference!!?

It's so amusing to see Natsuki's different "personalities" - so to speak - between him speaking English and him speaking Japanese. My Japanese language skills are probably about as decent as Natsuki's English language skills, and I've noticed that I end up doing the same when speaking Japanese vs English. It's so funny how you almost become a different person when learning a new language (within the use of that new language). It shines a light on how intrinsically tied to language is to the culture it belongs to. I find it so odd that I didn't pick up on this growing up; my grandparents were bilingual (French - different Canadian dialects - was their first language and then American English). Lol!

@JohnDoe-dj3lw

2 жыл бұрын

When you speak a different language from your own, your mouth moves in a different way, your tongue as well and it goes into different positions. I'm quite sure you use different muscles too, depending on the peculiar sounds you might need to make and that might not exist in your language. When I learned this it blew my mind. So yeah each language is deeply tied to the culture it represents, after all you'd have no culture without a language.

@lesath7883

Жыл бұрын

It is caused by how different languages have different gramatic structures, and that requires your thoughts to go through slightly different neural pathways. But certainly, it is interesting noticing those differences.

@Vapourwear

Жыл бұрын

I as a native English speaker and being conversant in German, have found Japanese a very edifying language to try to learn. I can almost feel my brain remapping itself and it’s glorious. Kampai!

@PrincessShokora2002

10 ай бұрын

It’s at 621 likes on June 21st

@j.thomas7128

10 ай бұрын

I am a different person when speaking a newly learned language. I don't have the same confidence. I don't have the same experience. I don't have the same level of knowledge. When speaking English, I know enough of the language to differentiate between slang and proper grammar. I can also hear region differences or dialects in English that I don't hear or understand with a newly learnt language. This all effects my confidence and impacts my ability to give and receive information. I am in essence a different person.

I feel like I'm just watching a TV show or something on Netflix, and not a KZread channel. That's how high quality this video is.

That was brilliant, always been intrigued by it when I’ve seen it