"What's more important, me or surfing?"

"How nice... this street is packed with mom-pop shops!"

"Which would you pick?"

"It's good!"

"The potatoes are cut into huge bites!"

"OK, I'll see you soon!"

This show features nice houses and nice cars

but everything else is raw, and unscripted!

HEY GUYS!

I'm Loretta and welcome to my channel "KemushiChan"!

It's SPRING BREAK season in Japan!

For the last few weeks I got to work more

and earn a bit more money,

I also got to travel a bit

but I also did a LOT of relaxing,

which was pretty much just binge-watching Netflix...

...a lot...

My university is going to start classes again in one week

so before that got started

I wanted to share some of my Spring Break vibes

and share what I've been watching in the past few weeks

to expand my Japanese and keep things up.

Which is why I wanted to share: The Top 3 NetFlix Shows I've been watching

to keep up or expand my Japanese.

Plus, I'm going to add in some bonus shows, because

not everything good is on Netflix. Ammirite.

Most of the shows that caught my eye were ones

that we're really well put together.

They had that aestheticcccc going

The first one is Terrace House!

The aesthetic of this show is very clean, very pretty and very beachy

"A reality show about nice people"

"Seemingly boring, but surprisingly addictive"

these are some of the common reviews about it

The slow itself can get slow at times

but it's a good example of people actually talking

in a day-to-day, from morning until night situation.

You hear an actual daily life situation of people

in Japanese.

It's a group of 6 people, usually 3 girls and 3 boys

So you get a chance to hear a lot of different styles.

Specifically I really liked the "Aloha" series

not for the story, but for the people in it.

Most of them were half-Japanese, but there was also Lauren Tsai

I believe she's Chinese American

but she's a self-taught speaker of Japanese.

All of these people who mix a little bit of English

with a lot of Japanese. And the pace is little bit more

easy to grasp, if Japanese isn't your native language.

So I recommend that season specifically for

the language element. PLUS as a bonus,

It has subtitles in Japanese and English, as well as in

Korean, Chinese and Portuguese.

Next show is "Kodoku no Gurume"!

It's the idea of one person, on their own, eating really good food.

But the twist is that the food is actually really cheap,

accesible, and from real restaurants in Japan.

It's really just about a crisp looking Japanese guy

who just wants to eat food. It's very simple.

He just. want. to eat.

He'll run out of a business meeting just to eat, and I get that!

If you've ever been to Japan or seen Japanese TV

you know that food is a huge part of the TV industry

people love to sit around and say "yum", "tasty"

"it's got a great, deep flavor!"

and all the different ways to describe a piece of food.

The main character, Goro, is ACTUALLY hilarious

He's a salaryman on the outside, but he's just a simple man who wants to eat

good food for cheap!

For me it was helpful to learn more food words,

to learn about different dishes, but specifically

it introduced different local restaurants in my area!

The show is a "fiction" but it takes place in real places

so there are many people who go on Kodoku-no-Gurume tours

and try to eat at the different places. I want to try that next!

This series unfortunately does NOT have any subtitles

and it's not available outside of Japan

at least not on Netflix! However,

it IS available on YouTube through the official

TV Tokyo channel.

I wanted to recommend that one because it's really hot in Japan

and it'll give you some current ideas

of where to get good cheap eats if you're into that.

So that's my number 2.

Number 3 !

"Erased" in English, or "Boku Dake ga Inai Machi"

Snowy, industrial, mysterious, spooky,

some kind of fantasy thriller is going on but

it also has a really good pace to it!

I first watched it because

I was just looking for something to watch while I folded laundry

and I didn't finish my laundry, I just watched the entire series in an afternoon!

the main character is played by two different people

One is the famous Yuki Furukawa

I think most people watched it to see him

but when you watch it you get really drawn into the performance

by the younger version of the same character,

Reo Uchikawa. So this young lad,

he BLEW me out of the water!

This was some of the best acting

and best quality acting I've seen in Japan.

In Japanese TV in a long time... and the cinematography!

When I saw the first episode literally thought

I was watching the Japanese version of Stranger Things

but only with cute Hokkaido accents.

That was the vibe it gave me, and I was immediately sucked in

It has this nostalgic, sweet but dark

mysterious... not sci-fi but

fantasy thriller vibe. It really sucks you in.

Those accents though!

Everything ended in "da be". "I know you did it (da be!!)"

...Da be?! That sounds so cute!

I think "da be" is "deshou" in Hokkaido accent,

and "shitakke" is like... "mata ne" I think?

It's so cute when you hear these little kids

and their performances are truly amazing!

I really recommend this one. So those are my 3 Netflix recommendations

But those aren't the only things I've been watching!

"Yae no Sakura"

I've tweeted about this and mentioned it on my second channel.

I recently did a project in Fukushima.

When I was in Fukushima I saw posters for this drama

and thought that maybe it'd be good research.

I don't know too much about history or samurai

or anything historical like that

so I started watching and again I was blown away!

She's a woman, survives wars

and then goes on to help found the first University

I went to when I first moved to Japan!

Real historical accounts about the last samurai

NOT TOM CRUISE

what actually happened in Japan's civil war

right before they opened up to the West

I'm not really into history stuff but it really appealed to me

so I highly recommend that one.

If you're looking for something more academic I have 2 recommendations!

First is "Nihongo De Kurasou", originally an NHK show

it's 4 people who are all learning Japanese

they're learning situations like... how to argue with your wife

or how to spill the tea...

it's useful real life situations

and how to handle casual and more formal situations.

It also covers "Keigo" and cultural tips as well.

It's on YouTube and across the internet

but that show really helped me

start separating my casual and more formal styles.

If you're looking to do anything academic in Japan

I highly recommend Ikegami Akira's "Yasashii Keizaigaku"

it's a live school lecture that he did.

He taught students in the liberal arts who don't usually

study economics or topics like that.

But when you pay taxes every year,

and wonder who's taking a cut of your salary

all those things that actually effect your daily life

or your personal money that you earned

all of that is covered in a basic, easy to digest way

and it just gives you a better grasp on your lifestyle

and what you do as an adult.

So those are my top 4 dramas & 2 educational shows

and other picks across the internet recently.

One thing that always helped me is to watch shows multiple times.

Start with subtitles, then watch it again without them

that way you know the content and what you're listening for

and you can start picking up certain words

and start sounding like certain characters that you admire.

What do you guys do to study when you're not looking at a textbook?

Let me know in a comment below and I'll see you in another video!

Thank you so much for watching today!