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today we're talking about japan's obsession with pots and excuse the expression but the rabbit hole
runs pretty deep on this one and i'm not even talking about the
weird and wonderful invention that is the japanese toilet
they're years ahead of us which by the way almost unsurprisingly there are portable washlets
that you can buy at a hundred yen shop you just screw it onto the top of a plastic bottle and well
you you can figure out the rest anyway no two cheeks about it japan has nothing shy of an
undying multi-generation obsession with butts and i'm gonna have to try to keep a decent pace here
because we have a lot to cover like way more than i ever could have expected starting with one of
my first big what the butt moments here in japan it was coming across a japanese cartoon called
oshiri tante it's a relatively popular one and quite literally translates into
but detective he's a butt who's a detective but that's not all he has a secret attack which you
probably guessed the second that i said it other than that it's a moderately serious cartoon
you know as serious as a cartoon with a butt face as the main character can be it's pretty much
your average detective that goes around solving crimes just he's a butt and to sweeten the deal
he even has his own range of snacks and puddings so should you be so inclined to munch away
on detective buttface that that is that is an option this this barely even gets us started by
the way the list of japanese shows that have some form of joke or theme almost entirely revolving
around butts is endless everything from the beloved japanese show crayon shinchan which
also has its own pudding by the way and that is of course a butt pudding all the way to mainstream
japanese anime like naruto which are known to have scenes depicting what has always been one of the
weirdest japanese traditions called actions we call it actions called kancho it's basically when
kids well they they take their fingers like this or like this they sneak up behind somebody and i'm
not i'm not even gonna finish the sentence don't need to the picture is painted and it's a real
thing it's a thing that kids do and i still still just cannot believe it would that go over in your
country i feel i feel like it wouldn't in mine the butt culture is so deeply ingrained in japanese
tv that the list is far too long for me to even begin to list and but culture by the way is a
very real thing in many forms and you can catch glimpses of it pretty much everywhere you look
in japan like many i used to find it childishly comical to see the sumo butts sticking out of
their thongs or fundoshi in all fairness i'm still i still kind of find it funny
i'm i'm essentially nine years old but when i got into japanese festivals my festival squad pushed
hard the importance of participating but out in one of these thongs or fundoshi saying that it
was the man's way to do it yep that's right in in japan but peer pressure that that's a thing
but peer pressure not a sentence that i ever expected to be saying in my life but
here we are here we are those fundushi by the way those are basically just a piece of cloth this is
one here unused and they're twisted like this and just kind of shoved right up there effectively
violating the natural laws of both privacy and comfort simultaneously and i guess with so many
people having their butts hanging out for the world see where would japan be without butt soap
that's right it is soap specifically for your butt that promises to make it softer and i don't
know buddier and it doesn't even stop at soaps like the tv shows i could spend an entire video
just going over the number of butt related products and you would think you would think
i would be done but we haven't even gotten to the really weird stuff yet or let alone anything that
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into some of the weird believe it or not entire events here in japan have been based
around butts like there was an event teaching how the body works seemingly innocuous normal
event but the major selling point of the event was this giant inflatable butt that you could
run in and out of and while events like this one aren't super common in japan they're also not
uncommon in fact they exist like i literally couldn't make this stuff up if i tried i just i
couldn't if i'm being fair any one of these on its own might not be all that odd but it's the sheer
volume because the list goes on and on take for example the month of november here in japan it
literally has multiple days dedicated to the but three i believe november 4th which is good but day
november 12th which is technically good hip day but hip and butt are kind of interchangeable in
japan so we'll we'll let it slide and november 30th which is once again good butt day now in all
fairness pretty much every calendar day in japan is dedicated to something there's mountain day
there's dog day even november 11th for all of its significance overseas here in japan is referred to
as pocky day after the japanese snack pocky you know because it looks like it it looks like a
bunch of one but three days dedicated to the butt in a single month it feels like a lot and if it's
not strange enough to have entire days dedicated to the butt how about an entire japanese shrine
dedicate yet yes but shrines it's a thing up in northern japan in an area called tochigi there
is a shrine dedicated to well let's let's call it illnesses of the butt i don't even know where
to begin explaining on this one basically people go to the shrine and wiggle on up to it and pray
in the hopes that their butt illnesses will will go away that the butt gods will take care of them
this this gets me wondering i wonder if they have little like in japan shrines often have
these protective charms called omamori i wonder if the butt shrine has omamuri i'm definitely
overthinking this but more amazingly that's not the only butt shrine either for a while
don quixote one of the big shops i believe the one in tokyo's akihabara district actually had
a small in-store but shrine that people would go and visit and take pictures with and how many
how many times have i said have i said butt today i'm slowly dying inside and you know what i think
i think that this is an appropriate time to to take a break and uh have myself
some butt cake yes i ordered a butt cake specifically for this video this this is a thing
more amazingly is i ordered this online yesterday and it arrived today so when you think about it
next day butt cake delivery is also a thing in japan and i would be so happy if i could tell you
that this was japan's only butt themed food but i think we both know that that would be a wildly
wildly inaccurate statement there's cakes cookie the list goes on i'm not even gonna let again
try to list the number of butt theme okay you know what i'm gonna go ahead and put this aside
for now we'll get to that later now if i were to make any attempt whatsoever at explaining
any of this there is a phase that children go through that in japanese
is known as coal monkey it can basically be translated into going through a butt phase now
the concept of this phase is actually freudian it did not originate in japan and is no way unique to
japan as a country but japanese people seem to have really leaned into this and turned it into
a subculture all of its own starting with a simple childhood interest there are even kanji practice
books for learning japanese kanji for kids that are called unko kanji drill that's poop
kanji drill but that feels like we're breaking into a separate topic for a totally
different time now on its surface this childhood phase and loved for oshiti or butt themed products
and events and so on may well explain a great deal of what we've covered here today you know except
for the cake and and and the butt soap or the sumo or okay never mind it explains nothing and it will
forever be a mystery but but at least you're stuck suffering through having all of this knowledge
along with me now and you can never learn it good luck with that and i have a cake to finish
it's a black king
so this is what my life has become i've come out to do shopping for butt specific products
like this here this is a towel just for your butt
can't believe this is a video i'm about to shoot but
here we go or i'm about to record a video about butts i just
you know i even i have a butt cake right here this is a it's a cake in the shape of a butt
and you know come to think of it the amount of butt related fact checking or the amount of
butt product related b-roll that i'm gonna need to find in the next couple days my my
internet ad results are just that that's it i'm just turn off all cookies just wipe the browser
just delete all my profiles and start over i'm just gonna have to delete everything all of it
all right just finished shooting i have yet to gather the courage to dig into the butt
pudding i genuinely don't know where to start and that video was exactly as difficult to
shoot as i thought it was going to be it was so difficult to keep a straight face with the entire
seriously an entire like it's it's been on my mind for a while though it's a topic that i've just
i felt like like we had to share there's just so much it's everywhere and honestly this video
still barely scratches the surface there i'm sure there's more and come to think of it i'm sure the
comment section on this video is going to be a ton of fun so that that's something to look forward to
okay i'm done hesitating i'm gonna i'm gonna dig
into the butt cake we're gonna go we're gonna go from the side it just
it feels the less it feels the least invasive i'm i'm genuinely hoping it's just not
so that's that's what it looks like inside it came frozen so i wonder if it's
that is a sugary cake that whole top layer oh that is that's pure sugar right there
yes i'm i'm having another bite
it seems like there's strawberries inside the butt cake the number of sentences that
i've had to say today that i never in my life thought that i would be saying
just breaking down walls okay i'm pretty sure that is all the butt cake i can handle for
today thank you guys so much for joining and i will uh see you again real soon