Japanese Translations by eChie♥

Airport 181-210 people and item descriptions

2012-03-09T00:00:00.000+09:00

Subbed Airport 181-210 mins Watch - Download
If you want to watch or download 0-181 mins, please go to my Airport Page.

Here are explanations for 181-210 minutes,
please let me know if you have something you want to know more about in the clip.
I'll try to explain ;)

Chad Mullane (チャド・マレーン)
He is the first Yoshimoto comedian as a foreigner, was born in Perth, Australia and originally came to Japan as a student. He's in a comedy duo formerly called Jipangu Joriku Sakusen, now Chad Mullane.

A Yoshimoto Comedian visits Chad Mullane's Family in Perth, Australia. Watch
Chad Mullane Speaks Kansai Dialect fluently Watch

Degawa Tetsuro(出川哲朗)
He is a comedy talent at Maseki. He used to do lots of dangerous things on variety shows when he was younger such as going to find a hooker to mend her way like Richard Gere did in Pretty Woman, but ending up being kidnapped.

Denpa Shonen - Degawa goes to LA to find his "Pretty Woman"

Kendo Kobayashi(ケンドーコバヤシ)
He is a solo Yoshimoto Comedian. He gave Razor Ramon HG hit first big break as "Hard Gay".

Thank you for your support.
Have a good day :)

(Subbed) Under The Stars

2012-02-28T22:45:00.001+09:00

Hi everyone,
This is a clip that I subbed.
Hope you'll enjoy.

Watch - Download

(Subbed) Kiki Milk

2012-02-23T20:49:00.009+09:00

Hi Everyone,

This is another kiki episode.
Hope you'll enjoy!

Watch Pt1 - Watch Pt2 - Download

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Added on Feb 24
Mori Shinichi (森進一） is a famous Japanese ballad singer.
You might think that Endo's Mori Shinichi mimic in the Kiki Milk was not very good by watching Mori Shinichi singing..
Actually Mori Shinichi is often mimicked by a famous mimic comedian called Korokke,
and lots of other comedians copy his mimic of Mori Shinichi.
So my guess is that Endo was trying to mimic Korokke mimicing Mori Shinichi.
If so, I think Endo was doing a pretty good mimic!?

Airport 151-180 people and item descriptions

2012-02-21T13:01:00.010+09:00

Subbed Airport 151-180 mins Watch - Download
If you want to watch or download 0-150 mins, please go to my Airport Page.

Here are explanations for 151-180 minutes,
please let me know if you have something you want to know more about in the clip.
I'll try to explain ;)

Baumkuchen　(バウムクーヘン)
It is a kind of layered cake from Germany, made from butter, egg, flour, sugar etc. It is very popular in Japan. There are some famous specialized baumkuchen stores in Japan such as Nenrinya.

Rola (ローラ)
She is a model on a fashion magazine called Vivi in Japan. She is a quarter　Japanese and has a twin brother. (Dad: Bangladesh, Mom:Japanese/Russian)
She became popular since she started appearing on variety shows with her smile, cheerful character.

Jimmy Onishi (ジミー大西)
He is a Yoshimoto comedian/artist. During the time he used to work at the backstage of Yoshimoto, he met Sanma, one of the biggest comedians in Japan, and started his career as a comedian with Sanma's help.
At the height of his career as a comedian around 1996, he became an artist.
GNT Good bye Jimmy Onishi SP(1996)

Otaki Hideji (大滝秀治)
He is a 86 year old actor.

Sekine Tsutomu (関根勤)
He is a famous comedian/talent who is known as a good mimic.
Short skit of Otaki and Sekine

2700 Yasoshima Hiroyuki (八十島弘) & Tsune (ツネ)
2700 is a comedian duo consists of Yasoshima and Tsune.
They are known for their music comedy as you can see in the airport.
2700 PV Full Ver.

(Subbed) Okan & Mah-kun - Fever

2012-02-18T11:34:00.004+09:00

Hi everyone,

This is another episode of Okan & Mah-kun I subbed.
Hope you'll like it.

Watch - Download

(Raw) Hamada Family Trip to Hawaii

2012-02-16T20:44:00.002+09:00

Hi everyone,

I found an interesting clip of Hamada and thought I'd share it with everyone.
This is an unsubbed documentary of Hamada and his family going on a trip to Hawaii, when his sons were still 4 years old and 1 year old.

Watch pt1 pt2 pt3 pt4 pt5

(Subbed) Downtown 38 years later

2012-02-15T22:02:00.001+09:00

Hi everyone,
This is a clip that I subbed.
Hope you'll like it.

Watch - Download

(Subbed) Giant Food Project #1 - Maki Sushi

2012-02-14T20:08:00.001+09:00

Hi everyone, I subbed this clip and thought I'd share it with you.
This is the first episode of Giant Food Project. They make a giant sushi roll.

Watch - Download

Airport 121-150 people and item descriptions

2012-02-08T22:19:00.009+09:00

Thank you for waiting, everyone =)

Subbed Airport 121-150 mins Watch - Download
If you want to watch or download 0-120 mins, please go to my Airport Page.

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Shinoni (新おにい）　= Maejima Koichi (前島コーイチ)
He is an extra, who belongs to an extra company. Nothing much about him is known in public.

KimoITALIA Team
Kimoi means disgusting or creepy. These members are all comedians, who are popular with their creepy characters.
CHUNENTAL Team
Chunen means middle age. These members are all middle-aged comedians.

ONEAL FRANCE Team
Onee means sister or gay. These members are all gay talents or dancers.

Fujioka Hiroshi (藤岡弘、)
He is an actor who acted as Kamen Rider 1.

Kano Sisters (叶姉妹)
They are a self-proclaimed rich celebrity sisters, but they are not real sisters. Mika (left) and Kyoko (right).
They wear expensive clothes and accessories, and talk about their rich life on variety shows, but lots about them like how they make money or if they are really rich to begin with etc remain unclear.

Here are some old pics of them when they were unknown talents.

If you don't want your dream dashed, do not click on the pics

Mika won Miss Japan Contest Kyoko1 Kyoko2

Yuuki Maomi (優木まおみ）
She is a multi talent who also works as a caster, host, actress, model and so on. You can see her on a lot of variety shows.

Haruna Ai （はるな愛）
She is a gay talent who got popular with her performance to imitate Ayaya (Matsuura Aya) around 2008. She won Miss International Queen 2009 which is a world beauty contest for gay held in Thailand.
Her real name is Onishi Kenji, and when she was still a 13 yrs old "boy", he came up on some amateur singing contest show. A 13 yrs old Kenji singing Matsuda Seiko's song on a show

(Subbed) Okan & Mah-kun - Girlfriend

2012-02-05T22:51:00.002+09:00

This is a Mah-kun skit that I subbed.
Hope you'll enjoy.

Watch Download

(Subbed) Cinderella

2012-01-30T22:38:00.004+09:00

Hi everyone, I subbed this clip and thought I'd share it with you
This is the infamous Sadist Hamada Dokkiri skit with YOU and Ryoko.

(Subbed) Cinderella Watch Download

Airport 91-120 people and item descriptions

2012-01-29T23:57:00.003+09:00

I made descriptions for Airport Batsu 91-120 min.

(Subbed) Airport Batsu 91-120mins Watch - Download

If you want to watch subbed 0-90mins, go to my Airport Batsu Page.

Tsukkomi (ツッコミ)
Japanese comedy duo usually consists of 2 roles, Tsukkomi and Boke.
Tsukkomi is the straight man role.
His job is to quickly correct or punish when Boke, a fool man, says something funny or does something stupid.
For example, Matsumoto and Tanaka are Boke, and Hamada and Endo are Tsukkomi.

Hori Chiemi (堀ちえみ)
She debuted as an idol singer, and then became an actress.
In the Stewardess Story, her lines "Instructor!" and "I'm clumsy and as slow as an turtle." were awarded in the buzzwords contest in 1984.Some of you will remember Chiemi from the skit we subbed "Married Couple". Watch
Dowload

Watanabe Naomi (渡辺直美)
158cm, 90kg, B108cm W105cm H102cm.
She is a solo comedian. Her performance imitating Beyonce made her popular. She even performed it in front of Beyonce when she was in Japan in 2008.

Kurosawa Kazuko(黒沢かずこ)
She is a trio comedian in Morisanchu.

Gushiken Youkou (具志堅用高）
He is an ex WBA World Light-fly Weight Champion, from Ishigaki, Okinawa. Now he is often seen on variety shows, and popular because of his humorous character.

Takeda Nobuhiro (武田修宏)
He is an ex professional soccer player. He used to be known as a playboy back then, and now he often talks about it on variety shows.

Umezu Kazuo (楳図かずお）

Mita Yoshiko (三田佳子)
She is a famous actress.

Jumbo Ozaki (ジャンボ尾崎)
He is a famous professional golf player.

Tsutsumishita Atsushi (堤下敦)
He is a duo comedian in Impulse. He is a tsukkomi.

More information will be posted soon, check back again!!

A day in tokyo

2012-01-24T20:13:00.005+09:00

Hi everyone,

It finally snowed this morning in Tokyo.

Snow in Tokyo is a pretty rare event, usually only once or twice a year.

People in Tokyo are not really used to snow so everyone seemed extra careful when walking.

Also public transportation was delayed...

Anyway I went to an Izakaya (pub) in Akihabara the other day and found this English menu.

Just thought I'd share it with you.

Airport 61-90 people and item descriptions

2012-01-22T18:20:00.011+09:00

I made descriptions for Airport Batsu 61-90 min.

Subbed Airport Batsu 61-90mins
Watch Putlocker - Download
If you would like to watch the first 60 minutes first, go to my Airport Batsu page.

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Man☆Gataro (漫☆画太郎)

A gag manga artist. He draws some bizarre and dirty mangas, so even though he is popular, it's not drawn for everyone.
Chinyuki

Umezu Kazuo (楳図かずお)

A horror manga artist. His famous manga Makoto-chan, his catch phrase "Guwashi!" that he does in the left pic, or even himself appear or are often talked about in GNT episodes and Batsu Games. Kiki Mayo

His striped house
In 2007, he started renovating his "Makoto-chan House", he painted the walls into red and white stripe. He was sued by neighbor residents for spoiling the landscape, and it was rejected in 2009.

Hakuryu (白竜)

Hakuryu is an actor, who often acts bad man roles in Yakuza movies.
It is very rare to see him on variety shows.

Takahashi Keiko (高橋惠子)

Keiko is an actress.
High school Blues

Cabin Attendant Story (キャビンアテンダント物語)

The drama in the batsu game was a remake of a real drama called Stewardess Story.

(Translated) Hey!x3 700th - Amemiya sings

2012-01-21T23:12:00.009+09:00

I have translated the Amemiya sings for Hey! Hey! Hey!

Watch Download
Youtube

(Translated) Amemiya sings to Downtown

2012-01-18T22:31:00.005+09:00

By request I have translated the Amemiya sings to Downtown song.

Translated
Watch Download
Youtube

Matsuko Deluxe without makeup

2012-01-16T23:57:00.011+09:00

For those of you that wish to keep "her" image intact do not click!
Matsuko without makeup pic1
Matsuko without makeup pic 2
Matsuko without makeup pic 3 (class pic)

News

2012-01-16T01:03:00.002+09:00

I recently created 4 new pages.

Links to these 4 pages are always at the top of the main page.
Please come back for new items!

Airport Batsu
This page is to watch subbed Airport Batsu and check people and items descriptions.
Airport Subbing project is still on-going, you can get the latest clip on this page!

Gaki no Tsukai(Subbed)
This page is to watch and download GNT clips that I subbed.

Gaki no Tsukai pre 2000 (Raws)
This page is to watch pre 2000 GNT raw files, which are unsubbed, but pretty funny.
I have already added some watch links as well as descriptions, and am going to keep adding new items!

Gaki no Tsukai after 2000 (Raws)

This page is to watch after 2000 GNT raw files, which are unsubbed, but pretty funny.

I have already added some watch links as well as descriptions, and am going to keep adding new items!

Airport 31-60 people and item descriptions

2012-01-14T16:22:00.016+09:00

I made descriptions for Airport Batsu 31-60 min.
Here also are links to watch Second 30 minutes translated.

Subbed Airport Batsu 31-60mins Watch Putlocker - Download
If you would like to watch the first 30 minutes first, go to my Airport Batsu page.

AMEMIYA

He is a former singer, who became popular a while ago as a comedian with his first hit song called "Hiyashi chuuka (Cold Chinese noodle)" Watch!.
The song that both Amemiya and Umemiya were singing was actually based on Umeiyas real life experiences.
He also sings other songs that he makes, even ones dedicated to Downtown Watch!, just all in the same melody as his original song.
His songs are not just funny, stupid songs. You can enjoy background stories of each theme.

KOYABU KAZUTOYO (小藪千豊)

He is the leader of Yoshimoto Shinkigeki, Yoshimoto's theatrical comedy group in Osaka.
Even though he is an Osaka-based comedian, he can be seen on nationwide TV shows here and there recently.
He has a great skill of telling a funny story as you can see that he won MVS(Most Valuable Suberanaihanashi) twice on a Matsumoto's show "Hitoshi Matsumoto no Suberanai Hanashi", where comedians introduce
their true and funny stories in turns.
Here are some of his stories. He won MVS on Mixer and Snowboard.
Driving Manner & Snowboard (2 stories) 　 Ceremonial Robe

GINZA(銀座) - Sang in AMEMIYA's song

Ginza is one of the biggest downtown areas in Japan located in Tokyo.
There are department stores, offices, exclusive clubs and restaurants.
It used to be very classy in 90s, but now it is getting to be more casual.

TOEI（東映） - Sang in AMEMIYA's song

Toei Company, Limited is a major movie company in Japan.

MATSUKATA (松方) - Sang in AMEMIYA's song

Matsukata Hiroki started his acting career at Toei at about the same time as Umemiya. Umemiya and he have been good friends since then.
He is known for his fishing hobby, he caught a giant tsuna whose size was 2.73 meters and weighed 325kg at a tsuna fishing tournament in 2009, and it was sold at approx 4.37 million yen.
Giant tsuna fishing of Matsukata and Umemiya 1/6 2/6 3/6 4/6 5/6 6/6

MATSUKO DELUXE (マツコデラックス）
Matsuko is a transvestite celebrity columnist.

Her size: 178cm/140kg/140x140x140
A Young Deluxe - So different young Matsuko!
Matsuko's Secret Holiday - YOU appears

Matsuko & Arashi - Her love night situation and favorite food

*For those of you that wish to keep "her" image intact do not click the below picture links!
Matsuko without makeup pic1
Matsuko without makeup pic 2
Matsuko without makeup pic 3 (class pic)

Unseen Airport Batsu (Raws)

2012-01-14T15:53:00.004+09:00

Here are links to watch raw clips of Unseen Airport Batsu.
A lot of funny scenes that they couldn't show on the new year's eve!

Airport Batsu Unseen 23mins Watch!
Airport Batsu Complete Special 2 hours Watch!

Airport 0-30 people and item descriptions

2012-01-08T20:44:00.043+09:00

Hi Everyone,

Thank you for visiting my blog.

I will add explanations on people and things introduced in No-laughing Airport on my blog.
I'll add more explanations when Zurui releases something new on Zurui's blog,
I hope this will help you enjoy the Airport Batsu!

Here are links to watch First 30 minutes translated.

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Rocchi Kokado (ロッチコカド)

Kokado (Left) is a junior duo comedian who acts in Rocchi with Nakaoka(Right). Known as a stuttering speaker.

Kitano Takeshi (北野たけし）
Takeshi is one of the most famous comedians in Japan, who is also known worldwide as a film maker.

Gekidan-hitori（劇団ひとり）

Gekidan-hirori is a solo comedian, who is known for his Nakigei.

Nakigei is a fake-crying performance that he does during his comedy.

Kuwagata（クワガタ）

Kuwagata is Japanese name for Stag beetle.

It has a huge jaw and a strong bite.

ROBO-G (ロボジー)

http://robo-g.jp/

It's a movie about an old man who happened to become a robot for a show and a girl student who loves robots (Yoshitaka Yuriko). It will be released on Jan 14th 2012.

OKADA KEISUKE ( 岡田圭右) - Happy Boy

Okada(Left) is a comedian, forming MasudaOkada with Masuda(Right).

He is known for his old fashioned style of comedy, such as just screaming nonsenses, exaggerated reactions or repetitive catch phrases.

But other comedians don't just think he is unfunny, but a genius unfunny
comedian. Happy Boy Happy Boy Returns His talk

Oriental Radio Fujimori (オリエンタルラジオ　藤森)

Fujimori is a comedian in Oriental Radio duo. His partner is Nakata.
Oriental Radio first got to be known in public at M-1 Grand Prix in 2004.
They reached the Final Four with their performance "Buyuden".
Since then, they became popular and used to hold some host shows.
Recently their popularity was declining, but Fujimori regained his popularity as his "Charao(Play boy)" character in 2011.

Travel volunteer

2011-11-19T18:38:00.018+09:00

Did you know about this project called "Travel Volunteer" in progress at the moment in Japan?

This project, planned by a travel agency called Magellan Resorts in Kanazawa city Japan, is to find someone from overseas to actually travel around Japan and show to the world that Japan is safe, aiming to rebuild Japan tourism suffering from harmful rumor.

http://travelvolunteer.net/
　

1897 people from 85 countries applied, and a couple from England was selected. Those two have been traveling in Japan since Sep 15, in order to visit all of the 47 prefectures in 100 days.

Their blog is here.
This is written in English, but you'll find some articles written in Japanese as well.

http://travelvolunteerblog.net/author/kj/

Here is one of the posts I found interesting on their blog.

http://travelvolunteerblog.net/2011/11/03/50-things-weve-learned-in-50-days/

Another bizarre flavor of pepsi

2011-11-12T17:18:00.007+09:00

As many of you already know,
Suntory produces some bizarre flavors for pepsi on a periodic basis.
I've seen Pepsi Cucumber, Pepsi Blue Hawaii, Pepsi Azuki etc so far.

For 2011 winter, recently released is "Pepsi Pink".

Look at this cute mixture of the design of the bottle and the color of the cola!!
This is so different, even from all the other bizarre pepsis previously released.
It's so PINK and girlish!

The concept of this product is "Glamorous pinkish cola for winter party season"
"Strawberry milk cola with rich aroma and refreshing flavor"
(From the news release on the Suntory website)

I bought one as soon as I found it.
I personally think, this is the best flavor of all.
I can feel refreshing strawberry flavor, and the slight milky flavor is making it milder and yummier.
It's not like the other flavors that I couldn't even finish a bottle.
I would buy it again.

Nanka ・なんか・何か

2011-11-11T23:06:00.008+09:00

Nanka 　なんか　何か　= Somehow, kind of

This is an useful phrase when you don't want to be too direct.

"Nanka Tanoshii ne!" "何か楽しいね！"= " It's kind of fun, huh!"

"Nanka futotta?""何か太った？" = "Did you kind of put on some weight?"

"Nanka hen janai?""何か変じゃない？" = "Isn't it kind of strange?" or "Isn't it strange somehow?"

etc...

Btw, the reason why I wrote about this phrase is because I found myself repeating this phrase when I spoke.

I tend to use it a lot when I'm nervous or when I'm trying hard to explain something.

I do not recommend you to keep repeating "Nanka..Nanka.." like I do, because it does not sound smart!

It sounds more like Yama-chan or Tanaka than Ma-chan or Hama-chan xD

Oh, but I love Yama-chan tho ;)

English is hard!

2011-11-09T19:52:00.005+09:00

Although English is not my first language

I still thought that I knew well enough about basic English,

but it still confuses me sometimes ;(

I have two questions about English here.

If anyone can give me some advise, it will be a big help for me!

My question is...

1)Is it true that saying "Maybe" when you are asked questions doesn't sound very nice and it

may offend some people?

Hmm. Let me think in Japanese.

Maybe = Tabun(casual)/Osoraku(formal)

I guess saying just "Tabun" can sound too casual.

It will sound better if you say "Tabun daijyoubu dayo(Maybe it will be ok)." or "Tabun muri.
Gomen ne(Maybe I can't. Sorry)."

Is it the same in English too?

And another one is...

2)Is it true that "Sure" means only 50%?

So if I am asked "Can you help me?" and say "Sure.",

does it mean I may help them at 50% of the time?

I thought Sure = Of course. Is it wrong?

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Your help will improve the quality of my subbing...(Hehe)

Thank you in advance xD

Fishes in a row

2011-11-08T19:12:00.007+09:00

On my way home somewhere in my town,

I found some delicious-looking fishes in a row.....

One of them came into my stomach.

Hope they will be there tomorrow too.

Hi again

2011-11-03T22:08:00.005+09:00

Hi everyone,

It's been a long time since I posted my last post,
and I don't know what to write after the long silence,
but first of all I must say ...thank you for your kind comments!
I was so happy to read all of your comments.

I've been busy, but I want to start subbing and blogging again as long as my free time allows.
Now, I've just finished the video Finish rice with candies.
I hope you'll like it.

As you can see by the list of items, there are many unique candies and snacks in Japan.
If you have any questions about the items on the list let me know.

Finish rice with candies

2011-11-03T21:33:00.004+09:00

Watch this video here!

1ST ROUND

* Katto yocchan -vinegered squid, sour
* Orange yogurt - orange yogurt flavored cream
* Cream soda(melon) - melon cream flavored soda powdered form
* Baby star ramen chicken - chicken flavored noodle snack
* Sakura daikon -pickled radish, sour
* Fried shirmp tail
* Super big choco - chocolate covered corn snack

2ND ROUND

* Tropical tomodachi watagashi -cotton candy
* Meat ball
* Tane nuichatta hoshiume - dried sour plum
* Kabayaki santaro - grilled eel flavored fish cake
* Sumomo kun - pickled plum, sweet & sour
* Big katsu - deep fried fish cake
* Choco bat - chocolate covered biscuit bar

3RD ROUND

* King curry senbei - curry flavored rice cracker
* Soft drink(orange) - orange juice powdered form
* Milk boro - milk biscuit balls
* Orange marble gum
* Chupetto (grape) - grape drink (frozen)
* Triol chocolate - chocolate
* Bokun habanero - spicy ring snack

4TH ROUND

* Umaibo mentaiko - spicy chili fish egg flavored corn snack
* Sause senbei - rice cracker with okonomiyaki sause
* Kaki no tane - spicy rice cracker with peanuts
* Hanakushi castera - sweet cakes
* Pipe choco - chocolate paste
* Ikanago no kugini - sweetened little fish
* Coolish - vanilla ice cream

Watch this video here!

Gari gari kun (Crunchy boy)

2011-06-15T18:59:00.005+09:00

Hi everyone, it's been pretty hot here in Tokyo and I am half melted.
How’s the weather in your place?

Bearing with this annoying weather, I thought it wound be good to introduce this, one of my favorite popsicle sticks since it may save your life when you visit Japan during summer.

This is called Gari gari kun (Crunchy boy), a soda flavored popsicle stick produced by Akagi.
They produce some other flavors as well, such as lemon, green grape, pudding, chocolate and more. I've seen these flavors usually only during limited times. So when most people hear "Gari gari kun" they will think of the original soda flavor.

It is a square crunchy ice stick covered with ice candy.
This handy, yummy and refreshing shaved ice that costs only 60 yen per stick is the best item you can find during summer time.
It is sold a most places that carry ice cream which shows how popular this treat really is. Even during winter they still sell the Gari gari kun.

I remember a GNT episode the had Matsumoto talking about how much he loves it. It really is a long-time favorite of many in Japan.

How to use "you" in conversation

2011-06-13T21:16:00.008+09:00

Getting some idea from everyone, especially thanks to Dave this time, I am going to write about how to use "you" in Japanese.

Japanese language has several choices for you to call a person you are talking to (you).
Let's take a look at what the GNT members use...

Omae(you) : Casual/impolite way of saying you (for man)
This is used from senior to junior or between friends. You won't hear it from junior to senior.

An example is in the Reaction Dice Game.
@6:30 From Matsumoto to Tanaka "Ja omae tanomu de!(So I'm counting on you!)
@7:30 From Matsutmoto to the staff "Omaera ! (Damn you guys !)"

Anata(you): Formal/polite way of saying you
As for anata, it is formal and polite, but somehow, we don't usually use this to seniors in verbal communications. You may sound kind of unnatural if you don't use it properly.
You may notice by watching the skits that they don't use anata so often. They usually just call their names instead. I think it is more natural. (But it does not mean its wrong to use anata. Just we don't use it so often.)

Not only omae and anata, we also have other ways of saying you, such as kimi, anta, kisama etc…but these are not very commonly used, and not recommended unless you exactly know what you are saying.

Kisama: You won't have a chance to use this, but some men use this to show their hate or disrespect to the other.
Anta: Almost same as omae, but usually used by woman. not recommended to use.
Kimi: Senior to junior. More polite than omae but not as common as omae

I'm sorry if I made you confused. And this is just my personal opinion, so other people may have different ideas about this.

Japanese Lesson will start!

2011-06-12T15:18:00.004+09:00

I'll be posting random Japanese Lessons.
Now I am thinking to pick up some useful (and maybe not useful) phrases from the GNT skits and explain about it, hoping this will help your understanding of their work.
Please let me know if you have any request. It really doesn't have to be GNT related.
Thanks!

Promotional gifts

2011-06-11T08:25:00.007+09:00

Another unique item from Japan is these little promotional gifts that sometimes come with bottled drinks sold at supermarkets or convenience stores. I like to collect these little gifts. So far, I have seen key chains, mini towels, little vegetable farming kits, mint tablets, free coupons of MacDonald hamburger or drink etc..

The free gifts in the picture are the little vegetable farming kits. When I found these at a supermarket, I couldn't resist to buy 3. Now, I'm farming one of these, parsley, at work.

It includes a package of seeds and soil. You can use the bottle cap as a container. There are 5 different kinds of seeds along with parsley, which are butter lettuce, sweet basil, negi, trefoil and leaf lettuce.

Don't you think it's pretty cool for free items? I sometimes buy a bottled drink just to get its free gift. Please check it out when you ever get a chance!

Unique flavor of Kitkat from Japan

2011-06-09T19:32:00.008+09:00

Here, I will introduce some unique chocolate from Japan.

It is Kitkat with zunda flavor.
Do you know what zunda is? It's like sweet eda-mame bean paste. Nestle Japan used to sell the flavor only in the Tohoku region as Zunda is one of their famous sweets. But to help the people in Tohoku, where the tsunami hit, they started selling it everywhere in Japan with a 10 yen donation included in the price. So now, I can get it at my neighborhood convenience store.

I have never tried the real zunda paste which is usually sold with mochi(pounded rice cake),also only in Tohoku, but I could taste a slight bean flavor in the light green colored chocolate bar. I liked it. It's less sweeter than the regular milk chocolate bar, so those who don't have a sweet tooth might also enjoy this chocolate bar.

Eda-mame is a kind of green beans, which is a must-have snack on Japanese pub menu. It's usually boiled, and served with salt on top. Speaking of mame (=bean), have you ever heard Endo being called Endo-mame? I don't exactly remember which skit it was in (Please ask Z if you want to know!), but someone was calling him Endo-mame. Endo-mame is also a kind of green beans. They seem to love giving each other stupid nicknames. But I love it.

The shortest escalator in the world

2011-06-06T21:54:00.008+09:00

I just thought it might be interesting for everyone to know that the shortest escalator in the world is located in Japan.

What Japan will surprise you

2011-06-05T00:37:00.013+09:00

I was watching a TV show a while ago, it was about what surprised you the most while you were traveling in Japan.

What made me surprised by watching it was, quite a lot of people mentioned about vending machines in Japan.I didn't really realize until now so many vending machines in Japan comparing with other countries. Seeing it everyday can make you blind.

Actually there are countless vending machines here. I feel there are more than needed.It must look kind of strange to people who have never seen.

For example, there might be over a few 100s vending machines or even more, within a 5 minutes walking distance from my apt. My apt is located pretty much in the middle of a city in Tokyo and there are a lot of shops that you can buy drinks from as well such as convenient stores or supermarkets.

Is it that good business to own a vending machine in Japan or something?

*ps* I'm sorry for not uploading pictures for you to see "vending machines at every corner", but a picture of a vending machine standing alone. I was going to talk about the variety of drinks for sale, but decided to talk from a different view. I'll upload when I have a chance m(_ _)m

To go to Downtown skits that I subbed, click here

Hi from Echie

2011-06-04T23:32:00.008+09:00

Hi Everyone,

I'm Echie.
Thank you very much for visiting my blog.

I started this blog as a place to store Downtown's skits that I subbed.
(To go to Downtown skits that I subbed, click here)

As most of you who happened to come to my blog may, I love & respect Downtown and the other members of Gaki. And after knowing that so many people around the world enjoy their comedy, but not much of their works had subbed yet, I decided to start doing this.
I never intend to ruin their excellent works, but as I'm not a native English speaker, there might be some mistakes, but please bear with me.
(Actually people have been leaving me so kind & nice comments about my subbing. I really appreciate it and it's becoming my motivation!)

Also I have been thinking what else would be good to add to my blog.
Now I'm thinking to write about some stuff from Japan, such as candies, drinks, food, shops etc..anything from Japan.
Or some useful Japanese phrases might be good ?
I' ll start posting something soon as well as my new subs.

So please come back here once in a while when you have time...
Thanks,

Echie

To go to Downtown skits that I subbed, click here