I think black haired Japanese gets upset with the colored ones because they know this people probably are the main characters.

She didn’t ask to be the main character, it just happened.

Life is so unfair! A school with no homework and mutant-like genetics that gives bright blonde and green hair, green eyes, and kaiju body structure.

i love that Pika's mom went to a japanese school to explain genetics ¬¬

I'm not surprised that she was questioned about her hair color, but I am surprised that her mom had to come in to the school to explain, rather than them just accepting the student's explanation that they're half-japanese and that their hair isn't dyed.

Imagine being an Albino: "You dyed your hair white!? Even your brows and eyelashes? And your eyes, stop wearing those freaky contacts! And how did you dye your skin a weird pink?"

"Being bilingual must be nice, you can say things in totally different languages!" Pika: Jokes on you mate, I forget how to talk on both. NO THOUGHTS HEAD EMPTY

Pika's experience is literally like Olivia san from Asobi Asobase

"No dyed hair!" *has to dye hair black/brown in order to not get accused of dyeing hair*

“It’s a things that you might will have to through it”. - Amano Pikamee, 2021.

JK Pika in a uniform being confused for a cosplaying tourist is a funny mental image, if somewhat mean to her.

This reminds me of a story Pika said in (I think) one of her PikaTomos (RIP). The one where she talks about her favorite teacher who believed her when she said that her hair color was natural but one day asked her why she was lying about her hair color. big sadge.

God her english, I can’t even fault her for it, it’s fucking adorable to listen to her babble on and work her way through it.

The fact that she had to call her parent to school to explain the situation is really dire. The teachers couldve easily check her records to know that shes telling the truth. Its like they just dont give a shit and was admonishing her purely out if ill will. People like this really give teachers a bad rep.

"But it is natural..." "THEN DYE IT BLACK!!!!" True story, my experience in high school in Japan as a half. I wonder if it's still like this nowadays, too. It was eleven years ago when I was in high school after all

Pikamee: No, it's my natural hair color. Teacher: It's yellow and green!!

It's funny, because I always hear that school in Japan is much more difficult and annoying (smaller summer breaks) than the US

"So the hair?" "That's natural." "The eyes too?" "Yeah, they're just like her dad's, see this picture?" "And the shark teeth?" "Uhhhh" "And the kettle noises?" "TOTALLY NATURAL"

“Explaining something that comes natural to me is just weird” I love this quote

Anime high school: every color on the RGB palette Japanese high school: 'DID YOU DYE YOUR HAIR???'

It would be so funny if she actually really has blonde hair with greenish stripes and green eyes in real life. ...and she uses the antenna hairband for good measure.

Take a shot every time Pikamee says "sou~" *Dies of liver failure*

Reminds me of all the ladies who thought my red hair was dyed. As if I, a young boy who was picking his nose at the time, would know anything about hair dye. Also, no bullies? *HOW?*

Stand user: Pikamee Stand name: [Born This Way]

Then back in school, boys were not allowed to have long hair and then above the blackboard are pictures of popular scientists with long hair XD

It’s better for kids not to have homework. They’re already in school for eight or more hours and the school has to intrude on the hours they have left for home life and leisure.

The main character curse when all the faceless backgrounds are envious.

Its sad to hear the stories of Pika being judged a lot because of her hair color. I'm glad Pika is now surrounded by a wonderful community that loves her for who she is.

my dad is norwegian and my mom japanese, people dont believe me until my mountain of a dad comes to walk me home

Her English accent feels totally natural. And then you hear the occasional stutter in her sentence structure lol

What a sweet sounding Vtuber. I'm sure she never gets bullied for trying to play a game.

Reminds me of a trip to a dentistry X-ray office I went to once. Had to bite on to this weird thing so they could line up the machine so I did... IMMEDIATELY the X-Ray person comes over angrily telling me to "Bite properly" after a few failed attempts(?) He grabbed my face to make me...bite down proper? ...That's when it dawned on him my jaw dosen't line up properly and is the reason I'm getting the X-Rays in the FIRST PLACE. Smh...still makes me upset to this day; if I wasn't a scared little kid at the time; I might have thrown hands for him grabbing my face like he did. (This was in mexico)

Homework works best for schools designed with short schedules in mind (,students leave at 1 or 2 pm tops) It is senseless to send homework to students who leave at, say 5pm, which is the case in my country. Because of this, the government has a law that states that schools where students have classes after lunch, can not task them with honework. As a teacher I find this very reasonable.

She was betrayed... I am downtrodden. I wish her good luck in whatever she plans after 3/31/23.

I am also a Hafu (Hāfu is how its written commonly, well technically ハーフ ). When I would visit family in Gifu as a kid, I would play with the kids near Hashima alot. Its funny how in retrospect that it was weird for a Augustus Gloop looking 11 yr old running around avoiding the local Kancho prankster (カンチョー (┬┬﹏┬┬) ) . The amount of times people unpropted would bend over backwards to speak English to me (its not even my first or second language) shows a weirdly profund kindness I have yet to see outside of Japan. Does it only happen in Japan, no. But regardless, I am glad to find out a fellow Hafu has made it quite popular as a streaming tea kettle. Sorry steaming tea kettle.

Hearing Pika say Sou~ is so unusually therapeutic, like it hits some kind of unknown meditative wavelength.

She is too pure for this world I hope she gets to be in a better place after this shitstorm ends

A friend of mine I met I japan is half Japanese (Swedish father with Japanese mom), and she got almost blond hair from her dad. She told me one time at school she got in trouble with a new teacher because they thought she dyed her hair, but when she explained that this is her natural hair the teacher said "Just dye it black then.".

We will cherish this gremlin kettle forever.

Remember what they took from you

Pikamee always says her English isn't that great but I really don't think she's giving herself enough credit, that was an articulate and complete story in every sense of the word.

Anyone else getting recommended pikamee stuff cause of what happened to her?

This reminds me of Irish in Shanghai and Pac telling him to act natural. To which then Irish answers back with: "Natural? You hear that shit Reck? What the fuck I look Chinese to you Pac?"

I've heard that it can be pretty rough. With students with different hair color having to dye their hair constantly to keep that "normal look", or asking for a medical certificate that they are blonde, or have curvy hair, or whatever thing considered "not normal" in Japan. I'm glad Pika didin't get bullied.

Considering how long Japanese students spend in school every day, they *better* not be getting any homework...

But what happens if you have bright hair and you wear headphones and you sit by the window, gazing outside instead of chatting with your classmates?

Teacher: If you dye your hair, you'll be expelled! *entire school comes in with dyed hair* The entire staff: What do we do?

Pika is so lucky, she can enjoy her vacations. Homeworks on holidays are just the worst Awww as long as Pika is happy, I'm happy too! I wonder if her hair color is also blonde(?), that would be cool. *"Do people not think about what they say before they say it?"* Pika, I got a news for you xD

I love this stream (minus the genocide)

Too bad about Pikamee. Hope she’s doing okay.

Pikamee is a national treasure. She is so cute when she explains things.

"We never had homework before" hurts more to hear than "Let's break up"

You get bullies everywhere, Japanese schools, American schools, English or German or French schools. At the end of the day it only matters if you think the teachers are competent, the faculties are acceptable and the students seem proper.

"do people not think about what they say?" with how many people I see going around saying Covid is a lie I´m going to say no

Loved the story, it's amazing to me how japanese teachers freak out over something so minor. One of my classmates had so many piercings that when they moved it sounded like a combination of rattling chains and wind chimes. It took that much before the teachers spoke up about taking some out in class so as not to distract the class ever time they moved their head.

The one thing I don't like about Japanese society is the weird obsession for conformity. "The nail that sticks out, must be hammered down!"

I heard about that controversy in a Japanese School when a Japanese girl has a natural brown hair and the school forced her to dye her hair with black.

Fun Fact: Homework makes it hard for you to separate free time from work in fact there's no benefits to it

The way i see it, she actually won the genetics gacha. Black hair n eyes r observed to be dominant genes, so she prolly got 25%^2 of getting wat she has

"I'm a regit one" - Pikamee on being Japanese

Oh my god she's so good at switching languages, I can't do that I mean, her english is not perfect but smoothly switching from one language to the other without an awkward transition is something I clap

Big respect to pikamee she herself is a cute automatic translator 🥺

in japan school they don't like people standing out it's lucky they didn't try and make her dye her hair black to fit in its sad individuality is frowns upon that much

Pikamee's a real enigma when it comes to genetics. While being half-Japanese, she apparently looks "western" enough for Japanese people to assume she's a foreigner (she mentioned this at one point, don't remember the stream) and for Americans in Texas to _not_ realize she's a foreigner (also mentioned in one of her streams).

Now imagine if a German teacher came up to you and asked why your hair isn't blonde, and asked you to explain yourself...

It's always so weird to me when I hear people say how school was fun for them

My school dished out homework like candy and I didn't have the motivation to keep up. When I got an IEP, one of the stipulations was reduced amounts of homework. Afterwords my grades shot up dramatically. It's ironic tho because if I got a question wrong, it was far more detrimental to my overall score than it would have been otherwise.

Warms my heart to know some guy married a Japanese girl and would later become the father of this little tea kettle.

So does Pika looks more foreign than Japanese if people mistook her for a tourist?

I find it funny when her accent slips, like saying "But I'm a regit student! I'm a regit one!"

Man, with strict rules like that, it must be rough to be an albino Japanese student. If having brown hair is enough to warrant that kind of reaction from staff, I can't imagine how they'd react to a school kid with _white_ hair. 😰

Living in boarding school is fun too. You go to school three times a day until 10 pm. Pain.

Im not from Japan but I was a student there for a few years, everyone liked my hair because it is very curly and soft, and its a redish light brown because my mum came from Scotland. Some teachers were mean but i say they were just jealous. (￣∇￣)

_"There is a bad side and a good side."_ The sage perfectly describes everything that exists.

lmao, she reminded me of this counseler teacher, he yelled at me for having brown hair and said it was natural because im half chinese and he was like "liar!", i was so offended by him man

Now we know Pikamee is a real one.

It was great watching you while it lasted

Oof, I kinda get her. While it wasn't teachers (and not in Japan, from Finland), in my school people took note of my little out of place hair color. Got natural stripes (I got white hair mixed with brown). When I was just a child, it was kind of obnoxious that people pointed it out so much.

pika's a real one 😎

"how dare you have different hair color"

Foreigner: "This sounds like racism" Japanese: "No you see its just japan is very ethnically japanese and has a culture of social harmony and not standing out" Foreigner: "Thats just racism with extra steps" (I in the last 48 hours have legitimately had this argument said from a japanese person about hafus being shaken down by police for their foreigner card for the crime of appearing to be foreign, even if they are japanese lol)

In my country, schools have pretty strict restriction about hair color and length for boys. Girls need to tie their hair up, though the rule will be kind of loose when the student is about to graduate. About the uniform, it's usually about the length and tightness. Most allowed jackets and sweaters, but to wear it in class sometimes is frowned upon depends on the teacher. Only very light makeup is allowed and no piercing except girl's ear piercing. Some private school might have looser rule regarding boy's hair length, but the others are pretty much the same. There are 'delinquets' school where the rule exist but they aren't really implemented. The reason for such rule here is so student's focuses more on study rather than beauty and other non related activities. Although, whether it really helps in study is up to debate. It does level up the field so the rich and poor doesn't looks much different. School doesn't really care about what the student does outside the school time, unless the student does it near the school. If the teacher met the student outside the school, well, some teacher might go to teacher mode if said student does something not allowed, but they aren't as strict as how pika story is.

Any bully would be compelled to be nice to Pika.

In my country, our high school does have restrictions on hair colour (Asian thing), but no one really cares that much except for regulations. There is a lot of brownish hair color in my school, the teacher asked "did you do something to your hair?" they said, "no, it's natural", then the teacher went "oh okay, just make sure it's neat", like that. Oh yeah, and one time we have blond too.

My highschool : someone puts a sticker on their shoe, 2 week suspension. someone tries to severely injure you, so you push them back in self defense, 1 month suspension, a written letter of apology to the person who tried to hit you and, 2 weeks detention afterwards.

God, i remember our kettle struggling to learn english but now she's speaking like she was living in us for her whole life People change and really fast

Everyone: *talks about pikamee's daily life in school* Me: damn, that's a fine graphic minecraft

Pika avatar confirm accurate, blonde hair and green eyes

Must stop visualizing Pikamee in a school uniform. It is too cute to exist.

The fact that she used "hair color" in the middle of a sentence spoken in otherwise unbroken Japanese is comedy gold, and also very telling of her struggles.

my friend had to dye her hair black, but since the dye was shitty, it faded to green and got her into even more trouble 💀

Homework has been scientifically proven to do fuck all for students. In fact, the creator of homework as a concept did to punish misbehaving students. So no pikamee, your school is just smart.

Didn't expect Japan had this kind of toxic society as early in school days.

Thank you for these subtitles and the video. Hearing Pika make *kettle noises* is good for the heart.

my god, this is the most rambly chat I've ever listened to. jesus.

I'm trying to imagine how "bright" her hair could actually be. I mean she's half-Japanese which means she has the black hair gene which is a dominant hair color gene over most others except maybe brown hair. Also it's hard to imagine that her mother has almost any recessive genes at all in regards to hair and eye color because again she's Japanese and they have generations typically of identical hair & eye color genes diluting their genetics further.

I had a similar experience. I have white hair and really clear green eyes. Teachers in Spain don't care about dyed hair(although they usually asked about mine since white is so unusual even as a dye) but they did raise complaints against my use of sunglasses, so I always had to explain that it was not a "trying to be cool" thing but rather a "If I don't shield my eyes from the light I'll be in pain and unable to see" You don't want to know how many times did I have to show the doctors note saying I need the bloody things.

Thanks Clips！

Her hair is bright! Like her personality!

My sis had a similar experience but reverse. She was one of the very few asian students in a southern-ish American highschool, but had no problems fitting in. She probably fit in a little too well since while she clearly looks asian she acts just like a valley girl.