"-the pirates versions though" *SWEATS*

Pochi mama is always a delight to hear speak. Magic voice. Magic hands. All around incredible woman

Ahhh, i love "cultural exchange"

The contrast between her eromanga and the wholesomeness of the clean one is something to behold. I wish she drew more wholesome manga cause she got talent for those fluffy plots

Always a delight to listen to Pochi-sensei talk about anything

1:50 This happened to me with How to Train Your Dragon 2. I never knew the "you're as beautiful as the day I lost you" was from that movie and I couldn't take the scene seriously at all when it happened because I only ever knew it as the meme LMAO

Pochisensei we can't judge other country for using it differently because we use their words differently (and likely) wrong, too.

tbf, you can differentiate between Japanese words that actually have wholesale been adopted into English, namely umami, karoshi and more recently isekai, and the words that are pretty much only used and understood by the weeb-community or are used as slang, like senpai, doujin... and until recently isekai. Not like most normal english-speakers would understand either kind, but there is a difference. Most of the Japanese phrases used by weebs also have more of a meme-meaning rather than seeing actual use, see her description of "senpai", pretty sure most anime-fans somewhat get the original meaning, but the main way they themselves would use it is just for "notice me, senpai"-memes.

I do wonder how the internet has impacted the distribution of soft power, and how memes play into it.

Oh she absolutely knows about the sadpanda

To be fair, Japan also has a bunch of English loan words that are used incorrectly.

She made a masterpiece. I hope by next year my jp is good enough and buy the stuff I've read/want to read.

pochi-mama is amazing too.

Thank you Pochi for the great dagashi doujins!

It does make me wonder though. With how connected everyone is globally now and humans naturally wanting to be able to communicate with eachother will we see a collective language form out of the internet, taking aspects from all languages and merging into one mass of words that everyone speaks after 100 or 200 years

I also haven't read or watched One Piece. Thanks Pochi-mama for not making me feel alone 🫂

I don't see a problem with that. I mean Japan uses English words more often in anime without it being the stereotype American character saying it. Just keep it to joke fun and nothing serious people

3:23 reminds me of the time that my aunt hung a giant tapestry that said "Yaoi" with two guys on it above her living room and she just had no idea what the hell it meant 😅 Once I told her to search it for herself the tapestry _vanished_ 🤣🤣 In the same vein you can't blame Pochi for your own lack of research on what it is you're tagging/boosting...but it wouldn't be the first time that kinda thing has happened...

0:11 Tbf, with the growth of VTubers and whatnot (plus some forms of media translating "senpai" as "senior"), I feel like the meaning of "senpai" in English is slowly merging back with the original meaning to an extent lol 0:19 I feel like with "hentai", the original meaning of "pervert" hasn't fully come across yet. It's mostly still used to mean "erotic anime" in English afaik 0:33 I honestly wonder how "umami" was borrowed into English, especially since it didn't seem to come directly from the anime community. I first learned about it when education systems across the world were shifting from the traditional 4 basic tastes (sweetness, saltiness, sourness, and bitterness) into the modern 5 basic tastes (the previous 4 + umami, although "savoriness" is sometimes used instead)

right...here in Indonesia too, when the word "Doujin" appeared many people straight up think it is about Hentai Manga. Like imagine there's an announcement about a convention with Doujin Festival as a name, the comment section will be "Now they sell & will display lewd things & segs comic publicly?!" Then there always will be people reply them with the meaning of Doujin, lol

For someone who is on the internet a lot, she doesn't seem to understand meme culture. People will use and misuse images or videos for any purpose really. They will use some Hitler quote to relay a message (whatever it may be). They don't really care about the backstory of a meme. Sometimes it doesn't even make sense.

Pochi is as based as she is an embodiment of Ara Ara

2:20　は羊（ひつじ）ではなく出自（しゅつじ）origins・birthplaceを表す言葉で情報に対して擬人的に捉え表現していると思います。訳の意味が通っているのでYuraさんがシャレとしてわざとやっていたらごめんなさい。

ive never heard karoshi...i shouldve known there was a word for it

They're using it as a tag you say? *opens google*

In the past few years, there are more fans in the west thanks to the Vtubing industry, but also big anime studios bringing out big manga hits in to streaming platforms. All happend because we had this epidemic problem. Also the gaming industry is somehow going east with the theme.

That's perfectly balanced when Japanese has English loanwords and English continues to receive Japanese loanwords

Where'd that use of "Senpai" come from? I've never heard it used in that manner, only in the manner in which it is actually used in Japanese, and I've been a weeb for yeeeears. Maybe it's in some other language than English?

Interestingly this has been going on for a lot longer than you'd think. Words like tycoon, rikshaw, tsunami (obviously) as well as skosh all are from Japanese. English is just an explosion of many other languages all at once.