I love the fact that the only EN girl she told about their trip is the only member who doesn't live on the American Continent. Sasuga Lui-sama🤣🤣🤣

Meanwhile, Korone still looking for the legendary X-potato

It's interesting that Lui understands just how massive the United States is, whereas some people do not really understand the scale. Like, I've seen multiple Brits or other Europeans that thought that they could just drive or take the train everywhere and go everywhere they wanted in just a few days... only to realize that they're traveling multiple times the size of any single country that they've been in before. And that there's plenty of states in America where traveling from one side to the other can be an all-day drive even during the best of times. I was actually curious so I look it up, apparently there is no place in Japan where you are more than 150 kilometers/93 miles from the ocean.

Lui really is amazing. She's like Marine with her ability to bring people together and interact with almost anyone. I really like her

She loves mashed potatoes. Ladies and gentlemen, we got her.

I'd imagine that Lui would be really surprised at how many of her EN counterparts probably would've dropped everything to make her feel welcome, if there were any nearby -- even on such a short notice. If I had a friend or colleague that was flying X-thousand miles, I know I'd probably make an effort.

I love Lui so much man. She seems so respectable, willing to learn and try stuff out. Truly a hard worker and someone with a lot of charisma to bring people together to do stuff like this.

The one culture shock I'll never quite get over is that Christmas isn't nearly as holly-jolly in Japan. Though it's a good time of year for fried chicken.

Lui at the airport: Anything to declare? Yes, these 40 boxes of mashed potatoes.

American friendliness really stands out around the world. How we just will talk to jus about anyone. The anecdote that really exemplifies this is about this young backpacker walking into the common room of this hostel in France and says “Bonjour comment allez-….” He’s cut off when someone else says “the Americans are over there” while pointing to a group of ppl. Bewildered the backpacker said “how’d you know, is my accent that bad?” The resident says “no, only Americans would walk into a room of strangers and introduce themselves to the group”

Each country has their own culture, America and Japan are like night and day pretty much. Im glad that Lui-nee enjoyed her stay here, or like Fubuki says, hamburger country.

Something that makes me really happy anytime I see foreigners talking about America is that everyone is very kind.

When we go to a certain country, the first thing we do is be surprised by their culture and lifestyle, which is something everyone must experience at least once when traveling overseas

I'm surprised Lui realizes how big America is, we're the 4th largest nation in the world, people always tend to forget that when they come visit. Way too many times have I seen Europeans talk about how they're going to go from New York to Pennsylvania, to Texas, to California all in a week. Like my guys, you can travel for an entire day and still be in Texas, you're not going to have the time to go to all those states. The USA is nearly the size of Europe combined.

This made me think about when Mumei first visited Japan for a Holotori collab, she mentioned that she saw an old man fall on the street and nobody helped him up. Subaru indicated it was a big city Tokyo thing, but Lui said it was because Japanese people are too shy, and she seemed a little embarassed about it. (TBF I also think it's a big ciy thing because even in the US rural areas tend to be friendlier and open because the looser presence of central authority means you tend to have to use social skills to work out things for yourself. Ive heard medieval Europe was chatty like this too.) Anyways I think Lui saw an aspect of herself reflected in her culture that she has been trying to improve in a career where interpersonal skills are your bread and butter. Also I think it's sweet how tourists from Asia like the holo girls are so willing to see the good in American culture, whereas visitors from a certain other continent would IMO be more likely to take American frankness and honesty as a sign of an unsophisticated society.

The thoughts on American communication were touching. I'm sure in all countries it varies by region. In DC for example, I feel like we are much more reserved and "by the book" than those in California.

In my limited experience, one of the unexpected benefits of experiencing a foreign culture is that it also lets you appreciate your own culture more. Glad Lui enjoyed Burgerland!

so happy lui liked the states! nothing makes me prouder than watching people visit and have a good time. despite what the media wants to say, it’s truly a lovely place with very kind people. hopefully she visits again sometime! there are so many amazing things to be seen between all of the different states/regions

I noticed that Japanese are often jealous of the more "open" culture overseas. I think it's a case of "grass is greener". Because overseas, while people are more open to praise you or be friendly or nice... Open also means more open to be critical or confrontational or to say something negative or to hurt your feelings. The polite, closed, reserved, distanced avoidance in Tokyo might be something Japanese are bored of, but it is also something that protects them from a lot of negative things, like fights, and aggression, and rudeness.

What an empathetic and soft spoken person she seems to be. I like her.

Lui-nee is one lucky hawk able to visit the US. Hope one day after the festive season is over maybe the EN members can meet up.

The feeling is mutual. I cried of happiness when I visited Tokyo, and cried of sadness when I was leaving because I didn't wanted to leave. I think is normal to admire and appreciate cultures different than yours.

Glad she enjoyed her visit.

I'm glad she had a great time. I'm from California, so it's interesting to see someone's impression of it, and of the United States culture as well. I've traveled all over the world as a hiker and photographer, so experiencing a new culture definitely gives you more perspective on your own. Though this is the first time I've ever heard someone liking mashed potatoes so much. It would have been cool if some of the EN girls had shown up, but even if they weren't busy with the holidays, most of them would've needed a day to fly out to LA anyway. If she and some of the other JP girls go back, hopefully they'll get to meet up.

man, see you never know. Lui was really over here in Cali and coulda walked past me on the street, and i'd have never known There's something wonderful about that thought

"they're able to speak with people they've never met" umm... yeah exactly, as an american, i can totally relate...

On the scale of the US, New York to LA is about the same distance as Moscow to Madrid. Texas alone has the whole "The sun has rise, the sun has set, and we ain't outa Texas yet," thing.

Lui at the end made me feel a bit sad knowing how lonely it must be for Japanese people not being able to normally talk to each other as strangers as she said

The mashed potato thing is so cute and funny. It's such a generic 'cheap' product that I didn't really think about other cultures liking!

Makes sense. The US really is huge so who knows if they could have even met. A big part of EN doesn't even live there. Some of the members live in Canada, Bae in Australia, IRyS & Calli in Japan, and then there is Kiwawa on the other side of the planet.

0:09 Idaho Americans be winning right now. I dub thee Idaho a well deserved W. - From a Texan.

What a really nice girl. I'm glad she had a good time. Would've probably loved it in the southeast where I'm from 🙏

Very glad to hear she had a positive experience. Although I believe a lot of California's issues are frequently exaggerated I was still worried regardless lol

Lui is cool as all hell. its weird she still feels "new" to me even though she has been around two years now and she never fails to be impressive

I totally understand not meeting up with EN girls but I wish they had 🥺. America really is a huge country compared to Japan (370,000sq KM vs 9,800,000sq KM) and you can't really ask them to travel that much. Hopefully we'll have more international offline collabs soon.

She doesn't know where everyone lived? That's no excuse. Everyone knows all Americans live in Texas, New York City, and Disneyland. But in all seriousness, it's so sweet to hear Lui describe how positive her experience was. I hope she gets to visit the South and Midwest sometime. People only get nicer the further you get from cities.

people that don't live in/have never been to the united states tend to really underestimate how big it is. Taking a jet from one coast to the other takes ~6 hours, and if you were to drive by car, if you did it non-stop you could do it in ~3 days, but most people take about a week to go from one end to the other by car.

Oh my god I love Lui what an absolute sweetheart imagine how much better the internet would be if everyone thought like her

文化が違いすぎるよね… 海外に友達がいるって羨ましい…>

Loving mashed potatoes almost already makes you an honorary American in my book Throw in steaks or hamburgers and it's completely clinched.

gura: YOU WENT WHERE WITHOUT ME?!

"Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry and narrow-mindedness. And many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one litte corner of the earth all one's lifetime." - Mark Twain

I agree with Lui, humble and open have things to offer. That why I think choosing when to be humble or when to be open is important. Being all of one or the other isn't going to allow you to achieve everything you desire.

Lui: I went to an American supermarket. Me: NOOOO! NOT WALMART!

Me, eating from my daily bag of salted rice crackers in Tokyo: Mashed potatoes, huh? Wild.

I’m glad whenever someone has a good time in another country and has good interactions with people. I’m like “Yay, people behaved well!” 😅

thank you for the clip!

Honestly, seeing Lui and the others having such a positive impression from visiting makes me goddamn proud to be American. *Especially* the boxed mashed potatoes.

To be fair realistically there’s only a few EN members who had the possibility of meeting them judging by the time zones they use and they are all pretty busy at the moment. Not saying they wouldn’t try to meet up because I’d imagine a lot of them would want to make time to see them but it makes sense Lui might not want to mention it

Never seen your content but this popped up in my feed. Glad you liked coming to the states and that you had fun. We love to hear visitors enjoying themselves and yeah we can be quite open. I once chatted up a lady in Europe and her family on a train and mid conversation she looked at me and said point blank "I don't understand how Americans can be so warm and familiar with complete strangers. I would feel so uncomfortable." I hadn't even told her I was American yet! :D A stranger is a friend you aint made yet! Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

God I love her voice! Its also cool to hear about my country from other people.

Instant mashed potato is a strange thing to fall in love with, but somehow it doesn't surprise me that Lui did

It doesn't help that our government treats long or short-distance public transit like an ultimate evil.

That speaking openly with strangers feeling is definitely more prevalent in the South & Midwest from my experience. So it can be shocking to other Americans that come from other regions too, lol!

4:00 I like how she expresses it here, referring to different cultures as "different worlds". That's very much how it has felt to me.

The Us is Huge, Just California is about the size of Japan.

I've never seen someone give presents in public and before Christmas that is. So that's kind of rare 😅

I am American and when someone suddenly starts talking to me, I do think I'm about to be tricked.

I moved to the US last year and I have mostly replaced most of my sources of carbs with the instant idaho mashed potato, it's pretty addicting

It is quite fascinating to see the youngest child can have the maturity and wisdom more expected from the oldest child; it applies to both Lui and Botan; in fact I thought of them as the oldest at the beginning.

just dont let her know about hospital bill. It would be the REAL culture shock lol

the girls deserve to travel lots.. the world is an oyster

In other countries, an hour drive is a long drive, here, it's a commute to work. lol

Thanks for this clip! I'm glad Lui can appreciate US openness. And I'm glad she mentioned how vast the US is. California can be a weird barometer to measure this huge, varied land and its people.

ah a fellow mashed potato lover, nice.

Japan is one place i'd love to experience trying to converse with people but, unfortunately, i can't ever. Since i'm incredibly open to conversations because of my upbringing, i'd love to try meet some friendly japanese folk. it's funny about the 'openness' thing, i know i'd love american's because they are a little like how we are here in N.ireland and ireland, but we do it to the extreme. i could get a bus into the city center, do my shopping and get the bus back out to home but will have had about 3-4 conversations with *complete randoms* and the rest of the bus is chatting away and THAT is how you can ALWAYS tell if someone isn't from here if you try chat, because of that openness, it's almost considered rude to not respond. (the opposite of japan's thinking - keep to yourself, don't *bother* anyone else...by having a chat. it confuses me lol) If the japanese thinking that if i said 'hello, hows it going' to them in japan, would be seen or thought of as something to be concerned about or 'suspicious' as Lui puts it here, makes me kinda sad and i think is why its so hard to fully bridge that gap between us open and friendly westerners to the quiet and 'keep to yourself' mentality they have there in japan (and plenty of other 'western' countries too, London is the worst for it, couldn't get directions from one person when we got lost during one trip, just looked at us and kept walking). So not all westerners are even like that, both my past 2 trips to Europe (Holland - Amsterdam and Germany - Frankfurt) i tried having conversations LOADS but they were incredibly blunt about not wanting to engage in anything other than WHY i was even talking to them (say, im ordering something in a coffeeshop) this conversation style happened in them 2 places *nearly every time* bar once: "so are you's busy today?' "no" "ahh it's the non-busy days that really are the worst, aren't they" ".." "so-" "sir if you go sit, we will bring you your takeaway order" "oh....okay" *get my order* "have a nice day" *silence* Only people i had great conversations with in Amsterdam - Americans (one lad from cali, one from iowa) and they also understood the feeling i had and I've since kept in contact with them too. So, it's very unique depending on the country even in 'the west', i felt quite lonely when there this year, in comparison to previous years, one coffeeshop budtender told me to 'take my hat off, i look enough like a criminal as it is' and it wasn't until my friend pointed it out to me after how much of a wanker he was to me...for wearing a hat, comfy jacket and sweatpants. aww, i'd love to go to japan to experience all this stuff i see through youtube but, unfortunately, im not allowed (my medications not allowed there so can never visit, only way is i'd have to write to the government (seriously) to get permission for THEIR medical standards/practice to be pressed onto my medication and what *they* think, not my actual dr's opinion who prescribed, but theirs. So i've kinda gave up hope of going.)

Glad we made a good impression on her lol

Wild that within network their locations are kept confidential. But that sounds fair because then any meet up *has* to be planned with a designated location (if it was NA-EN, i could see Los Angeles as the default)

If she thought California was open, she should visit Louisiana.

I love Lui, her and Marine are best wifu material in Holo, they just are genuinely (well as much as we can tell) 'good people', not that the other HoloGirls are not good people, but Lui/Marine have that certain "this is wife material, not best friend/girlfriend material" vibe. Also, Lui Japan, as a culture can be humble and well mannered and still *not* shun people for giving others hugs in public :P Also, I love when people figure out the size difference between the US and other countries, especially people in SEA/Japan/Western Europe... I mean I am jealous that they can actually go "well I want Italian for dinner tonight, time to hop on the train and go to Italy" But, it is still funny watching people's reactions.

3:15 "People tend to be more straight when they speak overseas". Me: huh, oh... "People tend to be "straight forward", overseas".

Even just California is monstrously vast. The drive from redding to Baja is literally all day

"America is vast", I see that Lui is still as observant and aware as ever, California as a state alone is as big or even bigger than Japan the country (in term of sheer land mass). also, did they mention why 4 hololive JP members decided to go to America around the holiday season (Around Thanksgiving to Christmas)? Was it for holiday, or some other reasons?

It would be nice to imagine them sightseeing something truly unique to the US, like the Grand Canyon, or NASA facilities and the Smithsonians, or the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Not merely an American urban sprawl. I guess Disneyland is semi-unique, at least...?

Is Christmas a big thing over there?... no. no... It is beyond what your mind can comprehend even the ancient ones fear the sound of bells...

A girl from Japan I knew told me she thought Americans were 'big in all ways' Big personality, tall, loud, and very kind and happy. Hearing that was nice.

Every Japanese person: *_flies to SoCal and goes to Disneyland_* "I went to America"

Most tourists: visit a variety of restaurants Lui: finds a supermarket and buys boxed potatoes Me, an American: ❓❓❓ But hey, I suppose I get it. She found something she enjoyed and also got to see the gift giving part of the holidays up front, so it's all good 😅

Travel always changes your perception of the world. That's why they are always the best investment in yourself.

so luineesan have experience to homestaying in america before joining hololive? that's impressive and her english has been improved now

Can someone explain her first story -- what's a culture shock about a grandparent giving their grandchildren a present and them being super happy? I would have thought that would be pretty universal across all cultures.

Since my country uses Japanese transportation system as examples, albeit the outdated ones, it does feel like it's harder to go places in America without your own car. I can only imagine the inconvenience Japanese might feel since they are used to public transportation is far more efficient than me.

thank you for the translation! TSKR.

1:12 yeah good thing Lui knows this. You literally get other European and Asian tourist wanting to see the Golden Gate Bridge in the morning and then the Statue of Liberty in the afternoon and getting there by only driving cause they're so used to getting to different countries or provinces in like an hour or two. They always get shocked when people tell them it will take them a week or so by car alone lmao.

Boxed mashed potatoes... that's a low bar. Her head would explode if she had an old school country grandma fix her a proper meal.

Lui-nee afraid to telling them "let's meet up" with such short notice. meanwhile Kobo come to Ollie's place at 4 AM then they raided Reine's house.

what a sweet clip

Of all the things to like she fell for boxed mash potatoes 😂😂 she will prob feed la+ with that

But Kiara doesn't live in America 🤣🤣 Hope they can meet and have fun together one day tho!

It's funny cause on social media it's all whining and fighting, but America is really one of the most welcoming and hospitable countries. Not to degrade others, but I've travelled alot (mostly western Europe) and they're very insular, whereas America is open and approachable in general. It's fun to see people from other places experience real America, rather than just what's on social media, because that's like 1% of what we are, and I'm proud to be from here.

Boxed mash is basically American instant ramen. Just a seasoned carb you add boiling water to, stir up, and let sit until it's ready to consume

Been a decade since I checked the numbers, but for reference Japan has about half the US population in 1/10th of the surface area.

And whats impressive is Cali has a different feel than lets say NYC. I wish these girls would travel to NYC and they can see the big melting pot of so many different race and cultures. Its amazing

We Americans may be insane but we have our moments 😂❤

funny how our supermarkets also sell everything we need for anarchist cookbook to napalm simple house cleaning chemicals and most our library’s have the book

Honestly this depends on where you live in America. I feel like Lui and co. experienced openness while they were there because they were visiting tourist areas. But I'd say Americans in big cities are generally pretty closed off. Suburbs and Rural areas are where Americans are more open, and you might see them while visiting tourist areas in a big city.

Whenever a member talks about Americans being nice, I kinda wonder how much of it is people just being able to tell they're a tourist who's a bit lost. We're definitely more open about talking to strangers, but it being taken as actually being nice always surprises me a bit.

I know she's just going by her experiences, and I won't deny that. She's clearly very mature and respectful toward others. But I know for sure the culture on the West Coast differs considerably from the East Coast, and even moreso from city to city, and in the countryside? It's very insular, a lot of the time. And Japan too, people from Kansai (Osaka, Kyoto, etc) are famously more "open" and talkative than people from Tokyo. But of course, you are where you're from.

cute lui-nee! must've been interesting experience, america.

I suppose it comes down to the little differences between an Island Culture (Japan) and a mercantile Frontier Culture (U.S). In that interactions are necessary and impressions (whether good or bad) have far fewer ramifications because you go 100 miles in any direction you will never see those people ever again even if you travel back to the same point. That being said, I'm glad she had a good time and my only advice is DO NOT GO TO NYC... I'm from NY and even I thought NYC was the rudest place I had ever been... You will get the worst impressions of Americans ever and it's literally just another big city like all the others... Go to Boston instead. (This advice goes for Europeans as well... or anyone really lol)