Why I HATE Japanese TV

NOTIFICATION SQUAD: For the love of god, don't say this is a pen. In fact, just don't use the letter p from now on. This video is 25% rant, 25% critique, 25% story time and 25% diorama. I hope somewhere in between you learn something of value! BUT what do you think of Japanese TV? Am I being too harsh? Or perhaps too kind? Let me know and enjoy the video! Also, the video starts at 09:30...

"This is a Pen". Blows away half of Skyrim

Now that Chris has the diorama and a green screen we'll never see him outside again

Somehow Chris' Japanese parody is still not exaggerated enough.

About Japanese young people losing interest in watching TV: I had the idea that's more of a global phenomenon, personally I basically never watch tv and even my parents don't besides my mom occasionally watching football.

If anything ever happens to Chris, that picture of him looking like a murderer will be plastered on every screen in Japan.

a lot of the stuff you see on japanese tv feels like stuff you'd only normally see on those infomercial channels

I had the pleasure of being on Japanese TV once, in the 90's. A crew came to do a bit on local sites and I was the "tour guide" (this was a very rural area in Hyogo with no other western foreigners for probably a fifty mile radius). I didn't have to say much. Spent most of my time standing near the guy with the mic, nodding and smiling a lot. Our last shot was in a village up on a mountain top, locally famous for the rice fields stepping down the slope. To this day I cannot figure out why I was abandoned there, but I was left behind, in that little village of senior citizens. Wound up drinking and getting hammered in a barn with the village boss and a few farmers before one finally took me back to my place of work in his K-Truck. Overall, a pleasant experience.

Huge increases of people not watching TV. I have had streaming services for 10 years. I don't recall what it was like to tune into a channel and be forced to watch what they were broadcasting.

Plot twist: He came to Japan to become a star in Takeshi’s Castle program, but it was too late, so he became an English teacher.

Less young people in Japan not watching tv is not a Japan thing, that’s a global thing

Yes, it is as bad as you've made out. I've been here 50 years and used to be a regular on some shows 40 years back. I pretty much stunk as a '漫才' stand-up-comedian (looking back on some old tapes), but it was all praise, and no-one ever commented on how bad I was ( partly because my partner was quite famous in those days). When I did stand up comedy (相声） in Chinese in the states once (I speak both Japanese and Chinese), I actually had someone make a comment that I wasn't really very funny (the Chinese are much more direct), and remember how thankful I was that finally someone told me the truth. I remember a Japanese cooking show I was on where they made up that I was a specialist in making pancakes, and the host commented on how delicious my pancakes were (never made pancakes before). A lot of it is just outright lies. Anyhow, the last TV show I was on was in 1983, and after that Japanese speaking foreigners started to increase so I was replaced by better talent.

I was 100% surprised that the opening background was a miniature. Extremely well done!

You did a good job editing yourself into the mini-room at the first minute. You really got me there.

Hmm, I used to watch TV a lot but I noticed I don't watch TV anymore either.. :/

Yeh I totally agree. In highschool back in the early 2000s, my friends were really into J-pop idols and would watch all the variety shows with them appearing as guests. It was so mind-numbing. The hyped over-reactions over nothing aside, it was also very clearly trying to manufacture parasocial relationships between fans and the idols. The shows were about mundane everyday things so you could imagine hanging out with them, as if they were like your friends or classmates.

I have done business with the Japanese as they visited Canada. There was an issue with the product that we were going to sell for them in Canada. Upon expressing my concerns, I was told that rather than admit to the potential issue, the Japanese representative would think Canadians as rude and tried to prove at all cost that the product was fine. Asian cultures (generally) are very concerned about "losing face",which is about keeping respectable appearances regardless of the reality. So I'm not surprised how Japanese tv seems almost euphoric and over the top happy and positive. Negative emotions are not accepted in public at all. Any criticism is taken as personal shame and often projects the image of failure.

Japanese word for pen: "pen". English word for pen: "pen". Yep, I can see the dangerous difference.

"Imagine turning on the TV tomorrow and everyone is...happy" The Briton's worst nightmare

As someone from US I always noticed this about TV shows and broadcasts in Japan. it's always happy constantly and honestly im surprised I'm not the only one who was bothered by it. also Ive been to Japan before