Get 10% off (save up to $47!) your own authentic Japanese snack box from Bokksu using my link: bit.ly/3sT2WkF and code GAIJIN10 ALSO! I'M NOT DONE with Monster Hunter Rise and Which Ninja! This was just a prelude of what's to come once the game comes out!

Most manuals for dealing with dogs: kill em Shisoku no Narai: even dogs succumb to horny jail

Concerning a Ninja's use of various weapons, remember that Ninjas could often disguise themselves as guards, yamabushi monks, or even as samurai themselves; so being adept at using ANY weapon appropriate for a disguise makes sense, if the ninja doesn't want to blow their cover during an unexpected fight.

I just noticed... Little G wears red, even while singing "Real ninja wear blue!"

Yes yes, I know. Kamura not Karuma. Dyslexia is kicking in.

I don't know who half of the people you talk about are, but I am interested.

The crazy thing is, 8x the diameter is not 8x the amount of stuff, it's more than that. I haven't done the math, but that means those dango probably has waaaaay more than just 3600 kilocalories

I’m glad you clarified that Ninjas aren’t total dog killers.

Took me waaaaay to long to realize that "Bokksu" is just "Box".

Missed the oppirtunity to say "You can't shino-beat the taste of Bokksu"

We got 2 video without the game even releasing. Guys, i think gaijin likes this game.

Given that the food you eat looks like dango, but theoretically is hyourogan, I shall call this food Hyouro-dango

my god that was the smoothest segway into a sponsor I've ever seen.

That was the *smoothest* transition into a sponsorship ever, my dude.

The status throwing knives have been in MH for at least a couple generations, so it begin ninja related is pretty cool.

the ninja theme works well especially for the monster hunter franchise the goal is to kill something as efficiently as possible. using every tool you have

This is me interacting for the Almighty Algorithm-Sama.

Some characters you could analyze in the future: Gray Fox (Metal Gear Solid) Daredevil (Marvel) Vega (Street Fighter) Snakes and/or Storm Shadow (GI Joe) Ra's Al Ghul and the League of Assaasins/Shadows.

Quick side note on the size of the Dango - the inverse square law. Generally, increasing the diameter of the sphere by 8 increases the volume by 8^3. Or specifically, 10mm ball = 4188.8mm3, 80mm ball = 2.14x10e6 mm3 ~ 510 times the volume (~8^3). So the Hunter would be eating just under 230,000 calories in a meal by that metric.

I'm surprised you didn't notice the symbol for Max Potions in Rise's Demo is also food pills

In one of Yomogi's dango sidequests, she mentions pharmaceutical ingredients and sends you to get high rank Somnacanth (sleep) and Pukei-Pukei (poison) sacs. Also, if a small Zamite latches onto you, you can use a kunai to stab it and instantly kill it. Thus, in the game, kunai are better in melee than at range - like real life.

Well, I didn’t know there was an official ninja guide to impersonating dogs. Ninja furries?

Who hopes Gaijin brings the Assassins from Warhammer 40K into a WHICH NINJA episode?

15:08 There's a Country song called "Ol' Red" that applies this same technique. Just thought that was funny.

One thing I'm surprised you didn't mention during the throwing kunai section is how they can also be used the same way paintballs were in the Old World, as a way for Blademaster weapon users (melee weapons) to trigger large bomb barrels from a safe distance, which further adds to their versatility

Honestly looking forward to exploring the Hunter Village that’s heavily influenced in Japanese Culture and since we never had MH3 in the west which introduced Yukumo Village another Japanese themed town which introduced the Zinogre and Amatsu I’m even more excited for what we’ll find especially the 200+ monsters and the new ones heavily inspired by various Yokai

This is one thing that makes me actually like learning

See, I personally thought Utsushi was an obvious reference to Strider Hiryu, with the messy dark hair, face covering, and sleeveless outfit.

One little thing that I've noticed is that in your items the max potion actually looks like the little medicine pieces that ninjas with carry with them on missions.

So, are you going to talk about Lady Dimitriescu being inspired by the 8-foot-tall woman yokai?

I cannot wait to see a bunch of ninja's trying to defeat a Deviljho.

Just a tiny note, it's Kamura village, not Karuma village.

The bit with matching up the dogs makes me laugh. Because it reminds me of the Blake Shelton song Ol Red. He does that exact that exact thing in the song.

The explosive knives are pretty cool, but more importantly, the trapbugs are hilariously easy to see the connection

Alright so let's talk about Tengen Uzui from Demon Slayer, he is a 5'9 absolute unit of a man who has two giant swords, the world's most shiny headband, and has the attitude of an eccentric actor, how is he ninja?

Honestly your content just gives me endless concepts and ideas for characters and other things and without your content I Honestly wouldn't have had some of the passions that I do now lol

Personally, my favorite “ninja” in the monster hunter series is the Nargacuga. More specifically, the Silverwind Nargacuga from the generations ultimate edition. Mostly because of the armor and the dual blades weapon which is two large shurikens.

11:07 honestly, the idea of a village food vendor secretly packing what looks like a sugary treat with the calories, protein and nutrients needed for an adult hunter? That sounds hella ninja to me. What looks like an average sweets vendor being the one-stop refuel shop for hunters and warriors, secrets and massive utility being hidden by the guise of cute cats and a young business owner making sweets. Plus, the appearance of it being sweet could also be social persuasion, as well as encouragement, even if it’s subtle. After all, how can you say no to sweets, especially from a little girl and her cat compatriots? And after eating, you’d probably feel unstoppable, being able to hunt for hours, after a feast of seemingly just innocent sweets, when in reality you were given a literal round-meal. That sounds hella ninja to me, IMO.

Do the new Carmen Sandiego. There's is a character who is a ninja in there.

This was a really cool video! I’m also a big fan when you give games the benefit of the doubt. It’s so cool to imagine things like the dango being hyorogan. I’d love to see more stuff like that!

I like to also add to the Weapon part that Gaijin made with the Armor. These are big hulking monsters. Ninja-themed they may be the adaptation of their skillset to fit the target of Hunting Monsters would make them very ninja if you ask me. Ninja were about adaptation, using what they can to do things when they can. The use of animals, larger weapons, techniques, feels like something a Ninja would do to survive in tandem with the monsters that live alongside them. So while a Ninja using a Nodachi may seem unrealistic to us because it would have no application to their main skill set, in a world where the main animals are larger than houses and the biggest threat to their livelihoods, it would make sense their equipment would reflect that.

God I love singing along to that intro

Loved the video and the seamless transition into the Bokksu add!👌

Nice vid as always, i just wanted to fix the math for the dango, cuz you know, science. Doubling the length actually multiply volume by 8 (2 * 2 * 2). You could then fit 8 * 8 * 8 = 512 times more calories in a single ball ; taking the estimation of 50 cal per hyourogan, we'd end up with a ridiculous 25,600 cal for a SINGLE dango ball (or whatever this is), so over 230,000 cal for a full meal. Ain't that much tho, since they need to swing those massive weapons around.

well, that is one way to drag me back into the monster hunter rabbit hole.

6:40 Common misconception, the correct name is 3D Bug Maneuvering Gear.

Hey Gaijin, I have watched your channel for a couple of years now and love your videos, especially your Yokai watchers and Which Ninja series. I find them both entertaining and educational, so I was at work today and a thought hit me, I recently bought the game "Concrete Genie" where a teen is gifted a magic paint brush and anything he paints come to life. I couldn't help but think it could be related to Yokai or are Yokai. I would love to know your thoughts on the matter, and if it's worthy of a Yokai watchers video. Have a nice day, and hope that this lockdown comes to an end soon. 😁

that description of animal like behavior sounds like it would have been useful during the chu nin exams in naruto

Well then! i have been waiting for this for a while

I just rewatched this episode and realized i could use the texts mentioned to enhance my sentient Dog/Wolf/Kitsune D and D character by reading them. My Character is a hybrid (long story(Blessings from a god who was young and did not know how to bless bingings properly yet)).

LEGOs, the modern caltrop.

This episode has one of your better transitions into your "a quick message from our sponsor" segment. =P In all seriousness love these, always look forward to seeing them come out...even if with circumstances I might be a tad late to the party.

The village itself is very similar to konoha. As you explore every nook and cranny of the village, especially the training area, that theme of a ninja village 'hidden in the leaves' theme becomes super apparent. I love how they put their own spin on it though rather than just copy/pasting naruto, Utsushi aside. But even so, I *LOVE* how he's essentially the village captain of the 'Anbu force' and how he only answers directly to Fugen and that subtle hinting throughout the game that Utsushi's missions are so secretive that not even you as the 'hero of Kamura' are let in on the details. They *are* a village of *ninjas* after all.

Gaijin, you missed the math with the dango calories. 8x longer in diameter means that they are 512x (8^3) bigger in terms of volume. They would be 25,600 calories each. 230, 400 calories for 9 pcs. They are massive.

I will say, that segue into Bokksu was smooth. Nice job.

That transition to the ad was so good

Still waiting for Mai Shiranui review

On the subject of the Dango: an 80mm ball would have a volume of 268,000 cubic mm vs a 10mm ball's 523 cubic mm. They're not 8 times bigger. They're over 500 times bigger. If they were made with the same stuff and had the same calorie density as the hyourougan, one of those dango would have over 25,000 calories in it.

Algorithmic engagement: successful A challenge well met, Capcom. Looking forward to the next video in the series.

I literally been waiting for this

Will you bring Lo Wang from the Shadow Warrior series into the a WHICH NINJA episode Gaijin?

Sure as shuriken? Hmm... A new pun to add to my tool box. Lol

The algorithm is recommending dango cooking videos to the Monster Hunter crowd. Capcom's making people hungry again.

Been waiting for this episode

Can we just appreciate how adorable baby Tetsu is?

I'm just waiting for Gaijin Hunter to comment on a Gaijin Goombah video!

Oddly Shisu (pardon my spelling I am not Finnish) in Finnish means bravery. That is why they are such good rally racers, they start driving around the same time they are tall enough to see over the steering wheel. So they know the risk reward to all their moves.

By now I have learned so much from your videos that I can already point out several ninja-like or not-so-ninja-like things in characters from the get go :3

Wait a minute, Goombah still has his old design.

The hunters are also the living definition of ninja. They literally utilize anything and everything at their disposal to survive and thrive in the field. Hunting and cooking meat to keep stamina up, using herb and honey mixtures to heal, using endemic life to get the edge in hunting or utilize it to make a quick escape. THERES SO MUCH HERE

With the meal, that may be the early game meal like what they did with World. The size of the meal was determined about how many ingredients you had access to. In World we had the Fish meal, then unlocked the whole chicken, and then the massive steak(talking base World). We may have something similar with Rise. This may just be the two ingredient meal.

10:40 Remember, if the length is 8 times grater, the VOLUME will be 8³ times grater. So yeah, a LOT more calories than what you said, which makes it even more effective.

I just love the opening. It's like they called you out, Goombah! Another great episode.

It's been so long since I last heard that jingle, it legit made me giggle.

Hey! Math person here. A dango that's eight times bigger than normal would have more calories than 400. You have to consider the square-cube law, specifically the second part for our purposes, because calories are based on volume, and not specifically size. Reading Wikipedia, it goes like this: "When an object undergoes a proportional increase in size, its new surface area is proportional to the square of the multiplier and its new volume is proportional to the cube of the multiplier." So, an object that is twice is big as another would have four times as much surface area (or 2^2) and its volume would be eight times greater (or 2^3). If we apply that to our 8x multiplier dangos, we would see that the dangos' volumes are 8^3=512 times greater than the originals. If we go by the 50 calories count, that's a total of 25,600 per dango, or a meal of 230,400 calories for nine dangos. I don't know much about nutrition, but I think you would die.

Keep up the great work, bud!

I didn't notice that black sensor bar was a ninja

From 6:00-, I learnt alot about Makibishi. To be honest, I didn't know about makibishi at all (except the name) although I'm Japanese...thank you! I enjoyed both gameplay and explanations;)

If you look very carefully the brown part of the brown and pink dango is the only one that is uncoated, as it has much more texture and the bordering pink is very bright rather then shaded, so the batter is likely not normal dango batter. Considering Monster Hunters love of making dishes meaty it might actually be something like Pemmican. (Whipped animal fat with ground up dried meat and berries in it.)

Well Gaijin, you did it. I was never a big fan of the monster hunter series. But after watching this video, you got me curious about this game and got me to download the demo. And If it's as good as it seems I may just end up having to get the whole game for my birthday. You finally broke me man, well done.

Hey gaijin, I’ve been a fan for a while, and I was wondering if you’ve heard of a game called Desperados III? It’s a cowboy game, but it has a major focus on stealth and I think there’s a lot of cool stuff there. Though I will always enjoy seeing this series pop up on my phone.

smooth advertising transition

it always blows me away how much attention to detail & references Capcom puts in their MH games, granted it makes sense as they use each asset for as long as physically possible

in modern times, ninja could probably get caltrops by visiting the nearest toy store for a box of lego

Hey if you care about for honor id love to see a culture shock about the Hitokiri hero and what the history of their backstory is all about

10:30 Eight times the diameter of a sphere means the volume increases by eight cubed, or 512 times as much as a 10mm ball. so each ball would be over 25,000 calories, all nine would be almost a quarter of a million calories!!!

I'm already impressed by the attention to detail and the game isn't even out yet.

I'm using the content I learn from these videos to create my own ninja character in a D&D game I recently joined.

I was waiting for this as soon as I the trailer came out

I saw this vid coming a mile away, I even mentioned the Trap Bugs in my comment when I made one about GG getting around to making this vid. Now I foresee him doing one on his Yokai vids about the Rampage..which the Japanese name pays obvious homage to the Hundred Demon Night Parade. We'll have to know more story wise but he'll have plenty of Yokai vids from Rise given how many of the monsters in it are gonna be obviously inspired by various yokai.

The diameter increases by 8 times, but the VOLUME increases by 512 times, which would be more important for calorie count. Making the same assumption as you, that would take the calorie count of each ball from 50cal to 25,600cal (512x50).

It wasn't through Bokksu, but I have now tried Mochi. I liked it, it had a kind of marshmallow like consistency. I'm wondering how close the quality of the My/Mo Mochi Ice Cream is compared to what you get in Japan. The flavor I tried was the double chocolate, which was likely made to appeal to the USA compared to more traditional Japanese flavors I see at Bokksu.

Hey, Gaijin Goombah Media, have you thought of doing a video on the various Monsters from Rise that are based on Yokai? I’d love to see something like that, especially if you could speculate on likely Yokai that they might base new Monsters off of next.

You evoked the name of Surf Ninjas. This piques my curiosity for whether you'd cover its contemporary, 3 Ninjas? Sure it was chock full of 90's camp, but there were actually quite a few legitimate ninja lessons that you've mentioned on this channel before including but not limited to using verticality as a natural human blindspot (in many cases, using their small stature to make down just as much of a blindspot as up), using at-hand materials and local terrain to improvise cover (for example, repainting their masks & uniforms inside a room currently being renovated and repainted to blend with the walls and scaffolding), and their demon spirit masks (don't recall off the top of my head what these were called). Regarding the colorful uniforms, the oldest had ninja-approved blue, while the second had forest green. That almost makes up for the youngest having sunflower yellow, right? And as mentioned before, they are not above recoloring their uniforms as the situation demanded.

6:20 if you're from Texas or Arizona, you know how painful stickers are 😂 or if you're really unlucky, a fallen mesquite twig 😬

Hey Gaijin, I have a idea for the next which ninja episode. How accurate are the ninjas from Ninjago? And if Ninjago has references to ancient Japanese mythology.

It was really interesting to hear about how central dogs were to shinobi. It's easy to say ninjas had dog companions here and there but who knows if those stories are just being blown out of proportion. However, I find it really interesting that the Bansenshūkai has real techniques for dealing with dogs and the sort. Good work Goombah!

Execellent video and perfect transition to the sponsor.

12:18 practically sound like a pun of the phrase "Homemade Choco" Now everyone wants to make and eat dango for this game

Best transition EVER! lol