3:51 this part is really awkward when you come up with a really funny joke but no one is laughing because they sometimes either don't listen or don't have a similar humor as you. It's mentally and socially deadly 💀
It's especially awkward when you are the only new student and everybody else already knows each other and all the cliques have formed already. When you are lucky some will see you as exotic and want to be friends with you just because of that, or if there is a good hearted extroverted person who likes to help loners join a group. Otherwise, it's tough to enter an established group of people.
First days at school are always scary.. Either you have enough courage to go and talk to someone and make friends with them or you wait for an extrovert to come talk to you and adopt you 🥺
I've come to realize, that most people are actually really bad at making friends and just rely on that one extroverted person to push them into friendship and just get dragged along. The unlucky ones are left out and don't manage to join a group. And those who made it into a group thanks to the extroverts will often oppose new people joining their group.
As an American student I always found introducing my self as offensive, and one time , I actually said this. Was sent to the principal office for a speech , told the principal after , I didn’t want his speech and also his daughter didn’t return my Barbie doll, or the dress. Parents got called in , it was a huge drama.
You would think this would be a problem in any school. But, I don't recall any real instances of introduction anxiety in School. It was more performance anxiety for projects dealing with speaking. I wonder if it has anything to do with how high-schools don't appear strictly regionalized in Japan. Or, it may be that I simply grew up in a moderate-sized town in the Middle of Iowa. A moderate sized town of 5000 people, btw. Which means overall class sizes of around 100 people per grade. So, you pretty much know almost everyone as you grow up together, with a small handful of new faces when people move in.
If I had the knowledge of the Japanese language and the chance of going to a Japanese high school when I was younger, I’d probably do the same stuff as I did in my old high school. Walk around during lunch listening to my favorite reggae and rock bands on my phone, try to make conversation with random people, and come up with probable storylines for video games I hope to one day create. The only difference is that I’d probably stand out a bit, due to how I sometimes sang along to certain lyrics of a few songs during the time.
Can confirm this is also true for the first day of being an English teacher in Japan. The whole faculty lounge was dead silent and just stared (gave introduction in English and Japanese).
I was shy and introvert. Watching Anime made me realized sometimes quiet people want to talk, make friends and embarrassed themselves as much as I do. That's how I got called the cringiest and shameless guy
While I like how Japan is full of introverts like me, it does feel weird when you need help or advice in a certain circumstance. Because you have to be a bit forceful to get their attention, and then you feel weird for working hard to ask a normal question and getting an awkward, sometimes unhelpful response.
@@cyan_oxy6734 being an introverted American, I can confidently say most "normal" Americans are extroverts, or gain extroverted skills based on survival instinct. It's basically a requirement for effective living in America. Don't be afraid to ask. Except with women. Be afraid to ask women anything unless you are also a woman.
@@niftyszn9469 Because in today's climate you are usually responded with "Ew, stay away from me before I call the cops, creep" or something to that effect.
Sora please keep up the great work in making these videos . The smiles you bring on people's faces in their toughest time is beautiful (I wish I could show them to you)😊 Also your videos are very informative thank you for keeping it real and Sugar coating . As always keep up the Great Work!!!
I love Sora's videos! They're hilarious, and always teach me something new! For example, now that I'm finally in Tokyo for a week, I know I should tell anyone that'll listen that I like Attack on Titan and ask them if they watch it too!
Wow! This is so fascinating different from my country and so hilarious!! I'm an extrovert and in my country is very easy to make friends at school or collegue or work. I met my group of friends in collegue just by asking each others name and saying funny things when we were taking a coffee before the class started. Literally I look at someone and if they look me back I smile and then engage a conversation or just ask If I can sit next to that person. I'm learning so much about Japanese culture in this very funny videos!! LOL
Never wanted any of that in the description. But I want to learn how to make mochi. Once I tried based on a yt video, but it turned out really bad. I just wasted sugar and other stuff. Sora, can you make mochi? Can Japanese people make mochi? Or only those who are good at cooking? Btw the video was hilarious. Japanese first day of school is scary😂
Question obviously not directed to me, but it's actually not hard if you have the right ingredients and tools. First time I made them completely on my own was for me and a few neighbours, including the kids who were about to go on break. I'd been in the US ten years at this point, 2004, and the relative who I'd made that all with in the past had died in 1995, if you know what happened then. I made chocolate mochi, and a few mums and kids (I worked weird hours is all) loved them before the third family I invited to get some came up, took the tray from me, dumped it in the rubbish, and started yelling about "J4p 5h1t" corrupting their children (as if their hideous language wouldn't) I actually don't think I ever made it again. But it's not hard at all! Since then, I have volunteered for a couple of church bakes (none since Covid, sadly) where the congregation would bake and sell daifuku to keep the lights on. Most men as well as kids and new members get cooling duty, which is done manually with uchiwa (the paddle-like fan) and I do miss that. So, question to you; what do you think went wrong? What was the video?
Totally different from where I came from. It only takes 5 minutes to make a friend since everyone we're like 'hi! What's your name? How old are you? Blablabla....' So basically everyone already knows their classmates names even before the 'introduce yourself to the class' part. It's an unspoken rule in here that the one sitting beside you is the one you'll be hanging out with. 😂
Honestly that's basically how it is where I'm from it's just that once the person who was sitting next to u has to change seats, u r back to being strangers again. Unless you have their number. Then there's a 60% chance u'll still be friends
@@paulhorbenko9560 I'm from Singapore but I think my experience was partly because I'm a bit introverted. There are like 2 extroverts who are pretty much friends with everyone in my class so ye
I don't consider myself shy or introverted making friends, but I think it's normal in anyone else's life to try to be 'cool' (just to fail miserably) at some point in their life. This is a life lesson, we just need be ourselves, its unnecessary to try to be someone who you're not. During my school days I was always good talking, but when adulthood has come I learned to be more sensible of other ppl space, sometimes silence is appreciated (lol).
that intro part hit hard, literally reminds me when I go into meetings and I introduce myself or say hi. I'm a system admin 3 / engineer and for some reason where I work upper management doesn't like to say hi to me 😂.
Kenji seems like he would probably be the one to have some secret power, one that revolves around heart basketball obviously, and he feels like it's clear to everyone that he's different in a cool way. It isn't but no one knows that in high school.
thanks sora. good to know that, wherever you are, school experiences suck, especially when you're super awkward and beyond the point of talking to other people. nostalgic times.
In my country (hungary) that's literally the same thing except for the "I have to make friends" is replaced with "I hope I won't get robbed by any of them on my way home", and that the introduction looks like "hello... I'm xy... I like, well, a lot of things and... I'm also rich". And just like that, they either become popular or the target of the robbery... or both.
I'm sure when Sora was in high school he was like kenji😂(socially dead)😂❤But I'm also sure he'll become best friends with someone who watches Nico Sugar Girls🔥💚
Those videos about Japan always make me feel like i'd fit right in much better in a more introverted quiet country compared to the extremely extroverted nature of the society here in my country
I think the introduction part is everywhere . We have assembly then we get told which teacher we have and like line up and get taken to the classroom . Then they are like “why don’t you guys introduce yourselves “ I have problems with speaking so introductions were draining . Funny video
Homo japonica - a (newly?) discovered subspecies of homo sapiens that mainly reside in Japan. Studies show they tend to be quiet unless pressured. Further research is underway about this subspecies.
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If only they would have confessed their love for Sugar Neko Girls, then the whole class including the teacher would have opened up in conversation.
UGH, IT'S NEKO SUGAR GIRLS YOU リア充! I bet you don't even speak the neehonggo!
@@slook7094 lmfaooo
Huh?
@@slook7094 What is リア充?
Lol
3:51 this part is really awkward when you come up with a really funny joke but no one is laughing because they sometimes either don't listen or don't have a similar humor as you. It's mentally and socially deadly 💀
Death by cringe
True af~
🙃🙃
Sora's room is just not a room its a school, recording studio, train station, train and many more
The "more" word was alone in the last line because I'm reading it in the phone and for some reason I just tap it trying to expand the comments xd.
Sora telling us about his days transfering to japanese school from America
LOL poor sora, being called american by everyone
Na na he british lmao
@@bedroomvampire nah his accent is too good.
If he was brittish he'd have a deeper accent
Poor sora ):
Here we have Sora, an American, showing us his first experience of going to a Japanese school.
What a legend
Sora playing an introverted person named Jun was really hilarious.
First day is awkward more and more than how much we think, as someone who've changed school 4 times I can say it.
It's especially awkward when you are the only new student and everybody else already knows each other and all the cliques have formed already. When you are lucky some will see you as exotic and want to be friends with you just because of that, or if there is a good hearted extroverted person who likes to help loners join a group. Otherwise, it's tough to enter an established group of people.
me too
"Um, Ah, *Breathes in heavily*" thats literally me every introductions 💀💀
First days at school are always scary.. Either you have enough courage to go and talk to someone and make friends with them or you wait for an extrovert to come talk to you and adopt you 🥺
The second one never happened to me and I was alone and friendless for 15 years.
@@tescobakery1927 Sorry to hear that.. I had the chance to experience that so I should say I'm lucky
The latter
I've come to realize, that most people are actually really bad at making friends and just rely on that one extroverted person to push them into friendship and just get dragged along. The unlucky ones are left out and don't manage to join a group. And those who made it into a group thanks to the extroverts will often oppose new people joining their group.
As an American student I always found introducing my self as offensive, and one time , I actually said this. Was sent to the principal office for a speech , told the principal after , I didn’t want his speech and also his daughter didn’t return my Barbie doll, or the dress. Parents got called in , it was a huge drama.
The "quick friend-making competition" was me every time I started at a new school. LOL. 🐆💗
You would think this would be a problem in any school. But, I don't recall any real instances of introduction anxiety in School. It was more performance anxiety for projects dealing with speaking. I wonder if it has anything to do with how high-schools don't appear strictly regionalized in Japan.
Or, it may be that I simply grew up in a moderate-sized town in the Middle of Iowa. A moderate sized town of 5000 people, btw. Which means overall class sizes of around 100 people per grade. So, you pretty much know almost everyone as you grow up together, with a small handful of new faces when people move in.
If I had the knowledge of the Japanese language and the chance of going to a Japanese high school when I was younger, I’d probably do the same stuff as I did in my old high school. Walk around during lunch listening to my favorite reggae and rock bands on my phone, try to make conversation with random people, and come up with probable storylines for video games I hope to one day create. The only difference is that I’d probably stand out a bit, due to how I sometimes sang along to certain lyrics of a few songs during the time.
Can confirm this is also true for the first day of being an English teacher in Japan. The whole faculty lounge was dead silent and just stared (gave introduction in English and Japanese).
I feel my Japanese is not good enough to understand the heart-basketball joke.
Maybe it's a pun on "Kuroko no Basket", a basketball manga?
I was shy and introvert.
Watching Anime made me realized sometimes quiet people want to talk, make friends and embarrassed themselves as much as I do.
That's how I got called the cringiest and shameless guy
Thanx for the upload. Everyone have a cheerful day and . Like the main protagonist of an anime
Well looks like Jun will have a great day on his 1st day of school!
While I like how Japan is full of introverts like me, it does feel weird when you need help or advice in a certain circumstance. Because you have to be a bit forceful to get their attention, and then you feel weird for working hard to ask a normal question and getting an awkward, sometimes unhelpful response.
They aren't introverts though just like all Americans aren't extrovert even though from many cultures it does look like thwy are.
@@cyan_oxy6734 being an introverted American, I can confidently say most "normal" Americans are extroverts, or gain extroverted skills based on survival instinct. It's basically a requirement for effective living in America. Don't be afraid to ask.
Except with women. Be afraid to ask women anything unless you are also a woman.
@@hayatotenryuu9850 wait what, why be afriad to ask women lmao
@@niftyszn9469 Cause women don't really exist, obviously. Must be a demon in disguise
@@niftyszn9469 Because in today's climate you are usually responded with "Ew, stay away from me before I call the cops, creep" or something to that effect.
So... If you're a foreigner and you make Japanese people laugh does that mean you are well respected?
Sora please keep up the great work in making these videos . The smiles you bring on people's faces in their toughest time is beautiful (I wish I could show them to you)😊 Also your videos are very informative thank you for keeping it real and Sugar coating . As always keep up the Great Work!!!
I actually feel sorry for the nervous student. He finally opened up just to be shut down. Poor kid… 😕
"Their insecurity makes me insecure" Chain reaction
Part 2 of this should be an American going to a Japanese school on the first day and somebody named Yusaku introduces himself and he makes fun of him
Yeah, I totally get the 'drugged kid' as interaction with people at school was soul crushing for me too 😢
"There's a student on drugs in my class!!" Got me 😂
Oh Hay my Man good to see you I've been busy at university, glad to see you
I like these anime vs in real life scenes they are amazing 😄 hope i can see more bideo’s from you in the future 👍🏻 keep on going 🤗
Love the videos, man. Keep it up!!!
i love these videos thank you
“I’m going to make 100 friends” my brain instantly thinks of Komi from Komi Can’t Communicate.
The same!!
This was perfect! I approve!!
so everyone is the shy type on the first day, can't wait to see their character development!
LMFAOOOO SO FCKNG TRUEEEE!!! LITEARLLY SORA PLAYED EVERYTHING ON POINT
School just just ended in our school, its traumatising
I want to play Sora’s commentary on speaker every time in Japan. Awesome
I love Sora's videos! They're hilarious, and always teach me something new! For example, now that I'm finally in Tokyo for a week, I know I should tell anyone that'll listen that I like Attack on Titan and ask them if they watch it too!
Wow! This is so fascinating different from my country and so hilarious!! I'm an extrovert and in my country is very easy to make friends at school or collegue or work. I met my group of friends in collegue just by asking each others name and saying funny things when we were taking a coffee before the class started. Literally I look at someone and if they look me back I smile and then engage a conversation or just ask If I can sit next to that person. I'm learning so much about Japanese culture in this very funny videos!! LOL
Never wanted any of that in the description. But I want to learn how to make mochi. Once I tried based on a yt video, but it turned out really bad. I just wasted sugar and other stuff. Sora, can you make mochi? Can Japanese people make mochi? Or only those who are good at cooking? Btw the video was hilarious. Japanese first day of school is scary😂
Question obviously not directed to me, but it's actually not hard if you have the right ingredients and tools. First time I made them completely on my own was for me and a few neighbours, including the kids who were about to go on break. I'd been in the US ten years at this point, 2004, and the relative who I'd made that all with in the past had died in 1995, if you know what happened then.
I made chocolate mochi, and a few mums and kids (I worked weird hours is all) loved them before the third family I invited to get some came up, took the tray from me, dumped it in the rubbish, and started yelling about "J4p 5h1t" corrupting their children (as if their hideous language wouldn't)
I actually don't think I ever made it again.
But it's not hard at all!
Since then, I have volunteered for a couple of church bakes (none since Covid, sadly) where the congregation would bake and sell daifuku to keep the lights on. Most men as well as kids and new members get cooling duty, which is done manually with uchiwa (the paddle-like fan) and I do miss that.
So, question to you; what do you think went wrong? What was the video?
These are consistently funny, so I hope they do not end any time soon.
I don't see this as a friend. A true friend do happy enjoyment and optimistic.
As hilarious as this was, this was also very enlightening. Thank you for showing this side of Japanese culture and education.
This had me laughing SOOO hard because getting acquainted during a first business meeting is exactly this!
Totally different from where I came from. It only takes 5 minutes to make a friend since everyone we're like 'hi! What's your name? How old are you? Blablabla....' So basically everyone already knows their classmates names even before the 'introduce yourself to the class' part.
It's an unspoken rule in here that the one sitting beside you is the one you'll be hanging out with. 😂
Honestly that's basically how it is where I'm from it's just that once the person who was sitting next to u has to change seats, u r back to being strangers again.
Unless you have their number.
Then there's a 60% chance u'll still be friends
What places are those? I think you are mostly friends with everyone regardless of where you sit, and there is no official introduction at all.
@@paulhorbenko9560 I'm from Singapore but I think my experience was partly because I'm a bit introverted. There are like 2 extroverts who are pretty much friends with everyone in my class so ye
After scrolling down for a while, I can confirm that Sora makes a lot of effort to ♥ the comments.
Yeah.. and now I'm nostalgic about the first day at my new school where I was so awkward and nervous that I stuttered all along じこしょうかい
I don't consider myself shy or introverted making friends, but I think it's normal in anyone else's life to try to be 'cool' (just to fail miserably) at some point in their life. This is a life lesson, we just need be ourselves, its unnecessary to try to be someone who you're not. During my school days I was always good talking, but when adulthood has come I learned to be more sensible of other ppl space, sometimes silence is appreciated (lol).
I wish my school life would have looked like this.
But but the introduction yourself to class. And the lunch meetings.
once Jun enters the classroom then sits down, all of the Soras be like having a staring contest at Jun!
I'm waiting for Jun to meet the president of the student council, maybe next season
that intro part hit hard, literally reminds me when I go into meetings and I introduce myself or say hi. I'm a system admin 3 / engineer and for some reason where I work upper management doesn't like to say hi to me 😂.
I have a feeling that my school time in Japan would be the best thing to experience
All these thoughts go through my head at the Onsen!
Kenji seems like he would probably be the one to have some secret power, one that revolves around heart basketball obviously, and he feels like it's clear to everyone that he's different in a cool way. It isn't but no one knows that in high school.
thanks sora. good to know that, wherever you are, school experiences suck, especially when you're super awkward and beyond the point of talking to other people. nostalgic times.
0:07 I heard a similar line in Yamada's First Time: "I'm gonna make a harem with 100 guys" or something along those lines 😂
That classroom is too serious and confusing 😆
2:52 when you said KUSURI 😂I'm crying this is way too good 😂
Sora your straight face looks like an angry face!!!! 😂😂 If I get that look I'll be scared, LOL
The reason why they're still good friends is because they communicate through their minds, and not through their mouths
自己紹介をするときに心配している 「みんなが僕のことを見ているような気がするんだ」と思っている
でもやっぱりみんなは気にしていない
also i just learned from that video that 薬 also means drugs so thank you sora
I wonder if Sora Chan wants to be my friend
Nothing like wanting to be accepted at first and ending up finding out you're the only normal person in the whole group
0:07 I'm actually watching an anime where the protagonist wants to make 100 friends lol
In my country (hungary) that's literally the same thing except for the "I have to make friends" is replaced with "I hope I won't get robbed by any of them on my way home", and that the introduction looks like "hello... I'm xy... I like, well, a lot of things and... I'm also rich". And just like that, they either become popular or the target of the robbery... or both.
I'm sure when Sora was in high school he was like kenji😂(socially dead)😂❤But I'm also sure he'll become best friends with someone who watches Nico Sugar Girls🔥💚
i love your content, pretty funny and true
The atmosphere from 0.40 to 1.10 actually ring true on at least 1 anime/manga. It's Cromartie High School. Except there are no person who eat pencils.
Those videos about Japan always make me feel like i'd fit right in much better in a more introverted quiet country compared to the extremely extroverted nature of the society here in my country
Good to know I can fit in Japanese school. Sadly I am to old for this shit. Maybe Uni student....hmmm?
It's almost like having zero social education makes you bad at social situations.
I like how you just introduce yourself, telling everything you can tell and they just keep staring 😂
Jun and Kenji? Is this GOLDEN BOMBER? lolol
Poor Kenji, nobody wants to play basketball with him lol.
Here I was thinking we wouldn't get the serious face kimo. But we got it at the last second
At least Jun established chad dominance in the end.
Sora just destroyed the stereotype of high schools in Japan 😂
Still looks better than my school experience overall.
It's normal to be very quiet on the first day.
I think the introduction part is everywhere . We have assembly then we get told which teacher we have and like line up and get taken to the classroom . Then they are like “why don’t you guys introduce yourselves “ I have problems with speaking so introductions were draining . Funny video
HeY Want to go to the arcade? NO your on drugs. that got me 🤣🤣
It seems the first day in the school is similar in every place 😂😂😂
This is just too damn funny man 🤣
0:08 komi can´t communicate reference?
Omg it is
Soo, This is the first day of school in japan huh? Seems like it 😏👍
As an introvert i would have melted in that silence and stared at
Why didn’t they all just admit they are obsessed with Attack on Titan. Boom! Instant friendship.
Lol! I'm not Japanese but I completely understand and feel each of them 😂😂😂
Yeah I would definitely be the one who everyone thinks is a "drug addict". I'm just too nervous around new people.😭😅
卵が好き
Even in America, every class has that one dude who always seems like he’s high
POV : How Sora remembers the first episode of Kamen Rider Fourze or something.
The power of " Friendship" explains it all.
The first day of school feels like living inside a grave
I wanted to go to Japan when I was 18, I'm glad it never happened
Sora senpai;can you talk with people in vr chat in next video and do some sora the troll stuff 😂plllleeeaaaase😢
Can't stop laughing at the dude forgetting his own name lmaooo
Bruh wtf that was intense.
I'm curious to know what heart basketball is. 🤔
Homo japonica - a (newly?) discovered subspecies of homo sapiens that mainly reside in Japan. Studies show they tend to be quiet unless pressured. Further research is underway about this subspecies.