that last segment was a major gut punch. Denial of past mistakes and bad deeds is a cowardly and dishonorable path, destined to lead to more mistakes and bad deeds.
@Momoko5243 ай бұрын
It's still unfortunately very much a thing in Japan. Their dark past from that time (especially WW2) isn't taught in schools and is left out in history books. It's really sad cuz they were actually a lot worse than the Nazis with how they treated people and they pretend it didn't happen. A lot of western society probably doesn't know about it either.
@MxPotato843 ай бұрын
Those who deny or don’t remember, are doomed to repeat it.
@RadenWA3 ай бұрын
These people are the equivalent to neo-nazi holocaust deniers. It’s scary if they really have enough power to shut down a museum.
@angelhurtado553 ай бұрын
and its even funnier when you think about it, because that's why they're not allowed to have an army
@user-mAfuNqrSe020x3 ай бұрын
I'm half korean and my husband is japanese. He was so embarrassed by this. My grandma has deep trauma that my husband couldnt speak any japanese at all around her. My grandma witnessed her mother got r-ped and her father got murdered by japanese army. She was also rped. Japan's denial and act of being the victim is so cowardly.
@melodytheflyingpig98613 ай бұрын
so weird fact in Canada we are taught from a young age about the terrible things that our government did in the past due to it being an integral part of our social steadies. being taught all the good and the bad of our history and culture. we're still trying to make things right though it doesn't always work and sometimes does more harm than good. so seeing the reaction of those people denying what happened to those women is baffling and kind of terrifying. how far must their delusions must go to think that was ok.
@rapthor6663 ай бұрын
Yea, in NL we learn what we did in Indonesia, America, Africa, Northern Ireland, etc
@lexiwexiwoo3 ай бұрын
I think here in the US it used to depend on the region, I grew up in Oklahoma so we learned a lot about how screwed the natives got & my teacher (a former DA) did go into the shittier things the US did but it gets glossed over a lot. My dad taught me about Japanese internment camps and a lot of other stuff the US just doesn't teach about. So I get how people could plug their ears and pretend it didn't happen if they didn't have it come up and have it washed over by their country's achievements.
@KeeKage373 ай бұрын
Fun fact: the original When they Cry anime also had one of the lead girls digging in a junkyard for a cornel sander statue.
@angelsinthewindow3 ай бұрын
Kenta-kun, right? I think that was the name Rena gave him, at least in the American Dub.
@poofaucet3 ай бұрын
I WAS JUST THINKING ABOUT THAT!! the time frame kinda lines up too!
@chaoticcow43573 ай бұрын
Omg i remember that
@pie1o1morris463 ай бұрын
Omg I forgot about that part
@mevi-smolsummoner3 ай бұрын
I was just gonna Say that lol XD
@monkey391283 ай бұрын
"The mascot of KFC". Poor old boy got downgraded from the founder to a mascot. 😭😭😭
@kietsuhime3 ай бұрын
He's kinda been mascotized . I mean there's different people who act as him in commercials and such. He represents the company . There's even a dating sim of him, which I think you can find on steam, and a short drama, played by Mario Lopez. Sure, he was the founder, but now calling him a mascot, would technically not be wrong. It does kinda feel wrong though, I'll give you that. There's no doubt that he has a legacy though!
@tenebrousoul93683 ай бұрын
Not so fun fact: the Col was involved in a shootout with a rival gas station owner, where the Col. ended up shooting and killing the man.
@sebp98823 ай бұрын
Kenta-kun in Higurashi
@kristhedumbass62812 ай бұрын
@@kietsuhime there's a fking dating sim of... colonel sanders... of KFC... I think I need to sit down.
@anonx27473 ай бұрын
The last story , imagine being so sensitive to criticism to your country that you delude yourself with jingoistic rhetoric - these comfort women are still alive it’s like Holocaust denial
@blossomsbasement3 ай бұрын
Interesting that people would deny comfort women existed when last year Japan paid 1 billion yen to the surviving comfort women in South Korea. 34 of the surviving women went on to receive about ¥10 million each. It seems awfully strange that Japan would pay restitution to these women if in fact it had never happened…
@MikaelaKMajorHistory2 ай бұрын
Lol right? Partly it is true that a handful of comfort women did go willingly, but they went for work and didn't realize that they would become sex slaves and were not paid/could not go home. The rest were kidnapped if I'm correct. I don't even think they were allowed to keep pregnancies for the most part. I was told by my Korean relatives that Japanese/Korean babies from comfort women were either aborted pre-birth or killed after birth.
@princessdollgf5 күн бұрын
@@MikaelaKMajorHistory I also love your profile pic. Cute kitty!
@mordsven3 ай бұрын
I've seen too much Demon Slayer Merch than any other Anime in Japan. At this point, there's soo many that you could fill a landfill with Demon Slayer Merch
@jamisonduncan73883 ай бұрын
Demon Slayerrrr ❤❤❤❤
@zenmei_jk3 ай бұрын
demon slayer on top
@crazyBloodmonkey3 ай бұрын
Okay but I imagine it still has nothing on the level of evangelion merch out there lol.
@Nick-hy1tx3 ай бұрын
No matter how much they make they will never make as much merch as they made for Evangelion.
@littlesparrow3033 ай бұрын
Really? I thought it was more of JJK or One Piece. That’s interesting to learn
@souricurry3 ай бұрын
As much as I wish I could believe "comfort women" didn't happen-- It was war. I 100% believe ALL sides had something like this happen. Ours, theirs, *everyone* because every country has evil people in it. War makes many stop seeing anyone but their side as "real" people and that's when things like this can happen. Sex trafficking still exists, no country is immune. And that's a truth that breaks my heart.
@pie1o1morris463 ай бұрын
Bet they deny unit 731 too
@RadenWA3 ай бұрын
Women has always been included as “spoils of war” throughout history after all.
@angelhurtado553 ай бұрын
"all sides"? when americans had their morale down, the army decided to give them ice cream machines so theu can be happy about something, and it worked, japan decides to get women and children to play obedient waifu, and even when rps happened, not even the russians or nazi were as degenerated as the Japanese
@tenebrousoul93683 ай бұрын
In Seoul, there's a large memorial for the "comfort women", and I did not expect for it to be as haunting and touching as it was.
@lyndylou7523 ай бұрын
Bloody awful about the sharks, do people not realise that they’re apex predators, and are so necessary to the ocean, they help maintain a healthy ecosystem particularly around reefs. But hey WTF Japan also still hunt’s endangered whales, so really this doesn’t surprise me 🤢🤢🤮🤮
@smauguh3 ай бұрын
Actually it is not endangered whales that are the most prominently hunted in Japan, it's mostly the Bryde whale which is one of the most common type of Whale on the planet. Same for the sharks (not saying Japan never did anything wrong, they HAVE hunted endangered species in the past and certain companies still do to this day but it's just not the case today as much as it was before). I totally agree with the fact that it can be a problem in certain areas concerning eco diversity, but what I mean is that for the most pat, the hunt is regulated and not as much as an impact as one might think. It is shocking for us who clearly do not put aquatic mammals in the same bag as fishes but yeah it's more or less the same thing
@lyndylou7523 ай бұрын
@@smauguh So in effect you are trying to justify the slaughter of whales, sharks dolphins something there is no justification for.
@smauguh3 ай бұрын
@@lyndylou752 It's not slaughter if it's regulated, we are literally in the same situation as us eating beef and indians cursing us for it, cultural differences exist. As long as it doesn't harm the environment, there is no waste and it's not done purely for "fun" I don't see a problem with it. Plus nobody talked about dolphins
@GaryAa563 ай бұрын
They sell Blue tipped American Shark in United States supermarkets. They're not endangered and taste rather good. Lighten up!
@haro_yemon3 ай бұрын
@@lyndylou752 so by those standards are you trying to justify why we slaughter chicken, cows, goats, pigs and fish, we don't need any of that, there are plenty of alternatives that would work just as well.
@drlgift11673 ай бұрын
Hearing Aki swears in tagalog wakes my pride 🤣
@tanukii19373 ай бұрын
I was wondering what she said! So ... what was it 👀
@drlgift11673 ай бұрын
@@tanukii1937 its like saying a f.u or son of a .. swear 😂
@marccruz22853 ай бұрын
@@tanukii1937 directly translated it's "you're mother's a wh*re." Basically the Filipino version of "you son of a b*tch"
@Mordred143943 ай бұрын
the way she's so insulted by the sushi 😂
@zhairmagne27023 ай бұрын
I was taken by surprise hahahaah. I guess she was really offended by the sushi lol
@helRAEzzzer3 ай бұрын
I'm interested to hear what the people who got angry with the museum have to say about Unit 731.
@moonsun61613 ай бұрын
🥺😔💔💔
@sasoriking30793 ай бұрын
How can anyone learn true history without the uncomfortable conversations?
@user-mAfuNqrSe020x3 ай бұрын
Unfortunately, they still want to be the biggest victim. My husband is japanese, he learned about what happened after he met me. Everytime he sees my korean grandmother and how traumatized she was when she heard him speaking japanese, he felt deeply ashamed and quite angry at his own country and govt.
@CMKCmusic3 ай бұрын
Hearing Aki cuss in Filipino is surprisingly refreshing😅😂 Love from the PH!❤
@riza_sama3 ай бұрын
The statue of the "Filipino comfort women" was also removed in the Philippines, not in Japan because of the same reason.
@elektrapapakosma81443 ай бұрын
I think the same thing happened in Germany which was also met with a lot of anger.
@yukinalexieАй бұрын
I wonder, where is it located?
@AskAScreenwriter3 ай бұрын
TBH, the 'Curse of Colonel Sanders' really is par for the course as far as baseball goes, in both the US AND Japan. Possibly one of the most superstitious major league sports out there.
@Sarah_Grant3 ай бұрын
The last story about the museum and the Koren "comfort women" also needs its own video. 😢
@RenzGatas3 ай бұрын
13:30 that "Tangina mo" shookt the heck outta me and I love it 😂
@Ju5t_H1r03 ай бұрын
About the last one- "Art is meant to disturb the comfortable and comfort the disturbed"
@GaryAa563 ай бұрын
The KFC curse was the best! America also covers its past by making villains in history heros.
@earvinarabia87333 ай бұрын
@13:30 Aki cursing in Filipino! Embracing her heritage! 😂
@YokaiPrez3 ай бұрын
There’s actually a statue of Ronald McDonald fused with a Boll Weevil outside the McDonald’s in Enterprise, AL. The whole town is filled with Boll Weevil statues and McDonald’s one made for their restaurant. It’s called Ronald McWeevil.
@tinkerbinker13 ай бұрын
Ooof. The shark one was pretty sad. :( Edit: And the sculpture one, too. Oof.
@RadenWA3 ай бұрын
Is it sad because the shark is endangered or sth? The sad thing is shark fin harvesting where only the fin is cut off and the shark is left wounded to die in the ocean. If the shark is caught and killed whole then they don’t suffer prolonged time like such, and I don’t see what’s sad about it compared to other fishes like tuna.
@Coyt4153 ай бұрын
The Colonel Sanders one had me going WTF
@ellemana5823 ай бұрын
let this be a reminder to the people to always pay your respects to any colonel sanders’ statue you encounter or else you get 7 years of bad luck
@gracielazelaya2163 ай бұрын
"they think that they overreact to the bombing of pearl harbor" I am sorry, WHAT. EXCUSE Me. Never knew that some parts of Japan has a victim complex.
@ungageable29873 ай бұрын
Also if some of them think about it pearl harbor was a military area same with Hiroshima and Nagasaki
@littlefebruary8982 ай бұрын
Stop being delusional! The whole world knows the truth
@eileene88363 ай бұрын
I've been to Japan three times so far, and every time we got to Osaka, my partner would tell me the story of the KFC Baseball curse.
@mrimmri3 ай бұрын
Would love to see the cursed rat dumplings brought up and talked about. I really want to know more about how that’s effecting cultural experiences in Japan rn. Especially with it seeming to become a “cursed” meal to give to someone you don’t like or along the lines of. For those who don’t know too: I don’t mean they’re using rat meat. I mean they’re dumplings in the shape of rats then boiled and served. It’s super cursed seeing people eat them and the tail hanging out of their mouths.
@traversetowndistrict49223 ай бұрын
I totally need that sea salt ice cream sock cap you have
@abstrakb15523 ай бұрын
The animation is not as clean as the 90s, but devilman crybaby for a modern anime, definitely went in on the gorge.
@shinimegami423 ай бұрын
The kfc Christmas in Japan is thanks to really good marketing and a boom in interest in Western things, and started in the mid 70s
@ventiCutie68573 ай бұрын
The Colonel Sanders curse is WILD. I'm glad we don't have a statue of him in our city 💀
@IceBGaming3 ай бұрын
Yay. Aki posted ❤️ been a fan for 5 years. Love this new series by the way
@danae63923 ай бұрын
The way Aki just swear in Tagalog 😂😂😂
@Th33M4rksman3 ай бұрын
Haven't been recommended your videos in a looooong time, was very interesting topic. Good work Aki
@ShadowMage-3 ай бұрын
I wanted to make a joke about the Sanders statue, but I don't think it would have went well.
@chickennuggies9193 ай бұрын
Oh boy, here we go again 😭 Popcorn time
@azharyyie3 ай бұрын
The last image depicts what Japan government is. Majority of new gens in Japan trying to learn from the past and wants the elders of Japan to give a proper apologies to the world , especially Korea but it seems the government still trying to deny their forbidden mistakes
@pie1o1morris463 ай бұрын
Coincidentally just recently learned about "comfort women" in a video about the burning sun night club scandal
@YOUNGMERU3 ай бұрын
Whatever happened to detective aki. There are so many more interesting japanese scary mysteries out there.
@stephanieok53653 ай бұрын
I imagine it's super labor intensive but I could see it coming back as a yearly October segment. 🤔 I've been enjoying the Sakura Stardust channel for similar content in the interim.
@YOUNGMERU3 ай бұрын
@@stephanieok5365 I've been watching @kyotorobato
@briancrosby1523 ай бұрын
I am against hunting sharks or shark fin soup etc. they are essential to the oceans ecosystem. Regarding the WW2 atrocities it should be known what Japan & the axis powers did just as much as what the Allies did. History should be told no matter what so we can hopefully learn, atone & never repeat.
@Blacksmith6793 ай бұрын
Was anyone surprised that Ronald Mcdonald was pennywise
@jezzlepops71863 ай бұрын
I think the most cursed part for me was. "Lets get right to it" *snap* Straight into an ad for Amazon. That kfc story was the most interesting and hilarious thing I've heard in ages! It got better and better the more it progressed!
@autumnlove96able3 ай бұрын
I'm glad Aki also thinks that how sharks are hunted and treated both for sale in general fishing and for the shark fin trade is inhumane, it really is. They aren't the evil creatures media likes to portray them as, they're actually very essential to our oceans.
@xRed_Assassinx3 ай бұрын
There is a similar curse in one of the counties in Ireland where a football team hasn't won a match since the 1950s and the only why for them to win is for the team that won in the 50s to die
@johnnypollack32433 ай бұрын
Keep up the great work and videos Aki love the video
@Shadowcat313 ай бұрын
5:24 as a Northside Chicagoan Our baseball team was cursed by a goat for like 100 years so this one doesn't actually seem that weird to me lol
@Goleon3 ай бұрын
Baseball and curses go hand in hand.
@bluebay10313 ай бұрын
To be fair, a lot of the issues with the Junji Ito anime came from the art style. The mobility of the stories was great, they just didn’t lean into the expansive(and sometimes exaggerated) high detail and shading of the manga which was part of what *made* it creepy
@MsEsquire833 ай бұрын
“They believe in a lot of different things” One of them is not the truth.
@blazeravenscar7 күн бұрын
I feel honored that Japan takes a fast food restaurant that has my home states’s name in it to seriously. 💀
@QualityPeepersRodan3 ай бұрын
Learned about the colonel curse from the sakura stardust vinyl rope video!
@faenare3 ай бұрын
lmao, I just love her content, from judging/rating items, haunted places, detective stories.
@dietpebsi2 ай бұрын
I like these. They're literally cursed, not any sort of boo!! shock horror. Its so interesting to hear the history
@spaceunicorn60002 ай бұрын
I heard that eating KFC during Christmas in Japan was sort of a marketing scam. Like somebody opened a KFC branch in Japan and it was going to tank, so he perpetuated the idea that Christmas was associated with eating a large bird like turkey or chicken, but instead of a big roast turkey, he pushed the idea that we eat fried chicken too, and yeah. marketing.
@EmmaTheMemeLord3 ай бұрын
Its been a HOT minute since I've watched you and it is totally worth waiting my break on ❤❤
@aafrid7172 ай бұрын
That KFC mascot was also in Arakawa under the bridge 7th epd.
@vivavy74443 ай бұрын
I literally needed to stop the video and step back for a sec when I saw the mac and cheese sushi... the disgrace and audacity in that cursed person...
@MaximillianRobesphere3 ай бұрын
Would
@angelwolf89933 ай бұрын
Ngl, I would try it.
@jackofhearts55423 ай бұрын
....it lowkey looks good tho i'm ngl
@justruinedyourday48643 ай бұрын
I remember that girl statue. I've seen it on the news segment when I used to watch NHK on tv.
@ChizuruAotsuki3 ай бұрын
Ayy, never been this early! Love you Aki! I'm ready to be horrified lol
@jtsmith1817Ай бұрын
I think the “Ash Roasting the Electabuzz Baseball Team” Moment from the Episode “The Double-Trouble Header” originated from the Henshin Tigers’ then 14-Year Curse, if I recall right.
@grizzstudioarts89043 ай бұрын
13:30 -- Why did this whole Mac n' Cheese Sushi bit KILL me so damn badly??? I couldn't stop laughing for a good 20 minutes after that. I legit had to pause the vid and go take a walk outside to keep from hurting my ribs, I was laughing so dang much 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
@ulvjenta883 ай бұрын
They did a total Barbra Streisand to that museum 😂😂
@aliceDarts3 ай бұрын
The far right and the far left always tends to do that. When they don't like something or when something hurts their feelings they scream about it... bringing attention to it. 😂
@sebp98823 ай бұрын
5:30 Rena from Higurashi finds the Colonel Sanders statue in a dump, rescuing what she calls 'Kenta-kun' (short for Kentakki-, Kentucky fried chicken). In a way, lifting the 'curse' by recovering Kenta-kun. Interesting because in Higurashi there is a major theme of atonement (Tsumihoroboshi). Thanks for covering this urban legend.
@jacobdrolet42623 ай бұрын
Amazing video akidearest,fantastic job.
@Shadowcat313 ай бұрын
13:00 but its not done airing yet, Demon Slayer just started a new season of course there would still be ton of it around lol
@ashqueenwonderland2 ай бұрын
That last one had me flinch. I know i have read the story of that girl statue and if I remember correctly there's also a statue in Korea. It's heartbreaking how some Japanese still deny those things from ever happening, i mean it's not only Koreans who experience those things Filipinos also suffered the same thing on their hands . It's in the past tho what's done is done and new generations don't need to atone for anything and shouldn't be affected that much. Tho we still need to respect what happened and pass down all the rightful information to the next gen coz what ever happened it's all a part of our history.
@Galaxykuma3 ай бұрын
That last one is sad.
@misstaniataylor2 ай бұрын
I think the KFC statue thing was a self-fulfilling prophecy.
@darkmega24ify3 ай бұрын
I was so not prepared to hear Aki swear in Tagalog. I actually jumped LMAO
@UltimatBlitz3 ай бұрын
As far as I know, the KFC on Christmas was basically just a marketing thing where they told the Japanese populace that Americans also eat KFC on Christmas.
@brookelynn35673 ай бұрын
lol, macaroni salad, spam musubi is classic Hawaiian. It's gaining some popularity in Korea too, with a gimbap version.
@danteshollowedgrounds3 ай бұрын
I will sleep peacefully tonight.
@Just_another_menaceАй бұрын
This ronald makes the perfect mascot for the corporation that decided to give free food to soiliders commiting geno lol
@tiffanyallen7313 ай бұрын
I'm terrified of clowns and Ronald MbDonald was always one of the creepiest clowns to me, second only tp Pennywise. That said, I absolutely love insects and spiders. Seeing Ronald McDonald fused with spiders and cockriaches was scary as hell. If cockroaches and spiders really looked like that, I'd run away screaming everytime I saw one, lol. Also, those poor sharks! I'm an animal lover and seeing images like those are just so heart-breaking and sad 😢
@RyoShiki643 ай бұрын
Ronald McDonald’s true nature-Pennywise the Dancing Clown.
@bryancarlo23513 ай бұрын
that tagalog cursing caught me off guard. 😂😂😂😂 I'm Pilipino by the way 🇵🇭
@Shamelessempire2 ай бұрын
Anybody else notice that the "sushi" was actually made with a sliced-in-half hotdog, not spam?
@dgh0yt3 ай бұрын
The power of suggestion!
@Zelda.Echoes3 ай бұрын
it’s been years since i’ve watched your channel holy crap
@obsidiaschadenfreude20892 ай бұрын
the " 'Tang ina no! " tho😂😂😂😂
@tianawilliams31543 ай бұрын
I love eating snacks and watching akis cool ass funny ass scary ass vids
@Jasovnim33133 ай бұрын
Removing the statue makes it even worse for Japan’s reputation. Honestly, it pisses me off.
@kimr16022 ай бұрын
As someone born and raised in Hawaii, mac n spam musubi sounds dope
@anjis43273 ай бұрын
You should definitely check out some of Umezu-san’s manga. I’ve been a huge fan of his since discovering The Drifting Classroom and his short form manga stories in my teens. They go off the rails insane fun ideas with interesting messages woven into them.
@claytontung75893 ай бұрын
The Tigers did win game during the Sanders curse, they just not winning the championship.
@katakuri-hw2qb3 ай бұрын
Aki when are you going to do another detective Aki video
@ahrisah3 ай бұрын
The Hanshin tigers have won matches, they just never made it back to winning the series until 2023
@MarconKFPSafetyDpt3 ай бұрын
i like that the take-away is dont eat mac and cheese sushi. very informative video.
@ronaldcounterman58123 ай бұрын
I LOVE Elfen Lied! Also, another very creepy must-watch anime series is The Promised Neverland.
@LifeWithJuan2 ай бұрын
When you swore at the mac and cheese 😂😂😂
@user-og1vv3lw9f3 ай бұрын
That mac n cheese with spam masubi looked hella good. 😀
@damdamfino2 ай бұрын
I’m sorry, the mental image of a crowd looking around, realizing they don’t have a white guy and someone shouting “let’s get the KFC statue!” is cracking me up. Legends.
@tempesttube3 ай бұрын
They won games, they just didn't win championships. I had to wonder how a team that didn't win a single game would last for decades.
@lushfruit3 ай бұрын
Hi Aki, would you ever consider speedrunning nearly every main temple and beat mudan to it?
@peij2 ай бұрын
13:29 I also stopped for a bit and say "tanginang yan!" at the same time lmao
@Deckyleaf2 ай бұрын
So from what I know per the naval base a sailor wanted a turkey for Christmas and it ended up settling on chicken. KFC capitalized on this in Japan.
@jalava783 ай бұрын
I'd love to see stuff like Devil Man and Urotsukidouji come out again.
@firehathannah3 ай бұрын
That girl's neck is me when I see BoA
@gokairedwillcipher3 ай бұрын
Oh god the sharks
@TheDarkLink73 ай бұрын
Aki my dear thank you. I thought the well was somewhat drying up til now 😁
@KerriM.Proper3 ай бұрын
To the one Japanese man that carved Nezuko from Demon Slayer, really great job🥰🥰🥰