It's so interesting that Japanese has so many wide variety of cultures. These pop cultures also has its own subcultures evolves over decades. It is so interesting to see many lifestyle of people in modern days. Having a typical work personality on the week day. On the other hand, maintaining owns interesting hobbies that is so much different personality yet seems to fit in one person's life. I wonder back in days when we don't have internet this kind of pop culture wouldn't be so much globally widespread but back then the culture is already cultivate and the community is growing and evolving until nowadays. Such an interesting thoughts to have.
People are always shocked that fashionable people can be nerds too, I and a bunch of friends are nerds but also fashion junkies Nice to see that there are others like us in Japan as well, I want to be friends with her hahaha
True. I had a friend in highschool that very fashionable, basketball team ace, and one of most popular students in my school. But in spare time we often watching animes and reading mangas with our other nerdy friends.
Many times in life, the "cool kids" are the real Losers in the end, while the so called "losers" end up having a very successful life... so I wouldn't get too caught up about who's cool & whose a "loser" @@gpman6937
I used to play that board game "Maulwurf Company" at 11:57 a *lot* as a kid! Completely forgot about it until this moment! Thank you for showing Mizuki and her life, as well as cool shops and merch in Akihabara! I am feeling happy and nostalgic now~
Thank you for the video Ken. Mizuki is gorgeous and dresses professionally but has the otaku vibe you would never have imagined or guessed. Beautiful woman indeed.
I went to Akihabara two months ago. Seeing Radio Kaikan and Mandarake really brought me back when I went there to hunt for Gunplas and DVDs. I thought that I haven't bought enough. I missed the places lol
I'm an otaku myself but I'm different from the usual stereotypes you'd expect. I enjoy watching anime based on my personal interests, such as robot/mecha anime/models/figures, but I''m a bit out of shape for cosplaying. I also like Japanese foods and take care of my body well.
I love the representation and find it so relatable! I'm also an OL that does not look like your typical media portrayed otaku/fan. I also recently discovered that my boss watches anime. You'd never know from our looks because we work in a very professional environment and dress business formal/casual.
Mizuki is GORGEOUS! omg, like seriously so elegant and stylish! I love her coat and I love her personality. we´d be great friends. thank you so much for showing us that otakus are very much "normal" and ordinary people. I think especially in the west (or maybe not just there), people find it weird when you watch anime and read manga in your 30s, but it´s a pretty much a normal hobby. also Ken getting roasted "I can see you are pretending that you have understood but you have not" :D
shes pretty, shes really nice and shes an expert on local nerd culture. Girl needs a youtube channel stat, I dont think she realizes how many western subs she would have if she had a good translator to do her subtitles
I thought I was the only one who'd wave penlights while watching their fav artists/idols lmao. But it is nice to know I'm not the only one, also atm I don't even have a penlight but I treat the tv remote like one, and I've watched the same Ado(A Japanese singer) performance over 10+ or maybe 25+ times I don't even remember, I hope to get Ado's penlight in the future cuz it is so beautiful! I'd love get some other idol's penlights too!! My weekends look very similar to hers, I'm also an Idol,anime and manga otaku.
There"s a bunch of them in Japan. Everytime I hit the anime shops I see 10 or so of them and my fiance happens to be one as well. Learn Japanese to a high level and you'll up your chances
I finally had time to see it. As always your work is excellent Ken, when I come back to Tokyo I will offer you a nice Italian espresso to show you how much I appreciate your videos. Thanks to this tour I discovered three new places, especially the Beep : I'm a retro game lover, so you made me really happy. The video also lasts longer than usual, so it was possible to understand more about the person of the day as well. Thanks as always for letting me experience the city of Tokyo through your videos. Keep it up!
Erica made me laugh out loud by saying that Ken was pretending to know about electronics ha ha!!! Thanks for the laugh!! Mizuki is so pretty!!! I loved this video, Ken, because I had no idea what 'Otaku' was and now I know :))))
Wow, Mizuki-san is beautiful! And so stylish! 🤩 I had no idea that such people could also be otaku. Shamefully, I am _that_ ignorant. Thank you for enlightening me, Ken HONDA Japan! 🙇
Such a nice video! I am a massive fan of Touken Ranbu, and enjoy other 2.5次元 shows, too. Most of the fans I know don't fit that stereotyped image of an otaku either. Also, living in a rural part of Japan means it's less apparent that I enjoy otaku interests and oshikatsu.
The Tokyo apartments are fascinating, the living space has been maximized because the stuff only one person needs to use is smaller. Here in America you can find 300 square foot studio apartments that still have full sized ovens with 4 burners.
Mizuki is só pretty and by her appearence I wouldn't tell she's an otaku! When she recommended the Kimi ni Todoke manga and started looking through the BL ones it certainly brought back memories from when I was an otaku as well, I would consume all of this kinda stuff and even more daily! And by the end of the video I can tell that she found another addiction to her list, I used to dream about having lots of BJDs and dolfie dream dolls dressed as my fav characters as well 😂 I loved watching the weekend routine of an actual otaku in Japan, it made me relate to her hobbies a lot! Thank you for the amazing vídeo!!!
Thank You , Thank You, this was so much fun Ken . A Big thank you Erica for getting Mizuki to do this video too. You must do another one of Akiba Part 2. 👍😃👍
I personally love Mobile Suit Gundam series. People are always surprised when they find out what my hobbies and interests are especially that my career is in Real Estate😅 * Please excuse my grammar, English is not my first language
Thank you for the in-depth tour. You even showed some of the electronics stores that were the foundation of Akihabara. And to Mizuki and Kazuna, rock on ladies. Don't let anyone tell you that its wrong.
I’m an airline captain in the US and my coworkers are always shocked to hear I am an otaku. Otaku have a rough reputation still in the states but it’s slowly becoming better with mainstream anime and manga.
A lot of people in the West (especially on websites like reddit) like to tell people that they are weird for watching anime and that people in Japan look down on anime otaku, which is just plain wrong. I spent a year in Japan and almost every single person watched SOME type of anime. Spy x Family and Kimetsu no Yaiba have really propelled anime into proper mainstream. Sure, not everyone is super into it like Mizuki is but anime watchers are far more accepted than angry internet people make it sound.
Absolutely this. Last time I was in Japan, I tried not to bring up anime or manga- until the locals asked if I like anime and were delighted to find out that I do 😂 it was so refreshing.
It's not watching anime itself that's distasteful to Japanese people, it's specific anime shows/genres and how some weebs or JP otaku talk or act about it that's the issue.
@@MoreEvilThanYahweh ...yeah, so? You can make this case about literally any other hobby people have. If your argument is "The issue is this specific subset of people engaging in this hobby are bad", then it's not a good argument. "It's not watching football that's distasteful to people, it's specific fans who are hooligans that are the issue".
@@VanillaCoke1956 It's the difference between mentioning you enjoy Demon Slayer when prompted or gushing at length about Pretty Cure as a grown man while making poorly disguised attempts at hiding how attracted you are to them. It's not even like hooliganism or political extremism, you're not gonna be able to sell liking Pretty Cure or shows in that genre as an adult male to a normal Japanese person and not give off kimota vibes.
When i saw mandarake i was wondering maybe i can find some figurines of sawako (character from kimi ni todoke) or the manga itself. With in seconds, she pulled out the English translated version of it.
Thank you Ken and Erica for another amazing video! It was nice to see a glimpse of Mizuki in her natural element 😅 as an older otaku myself, it feels relatable. Also it was nice to discover BEEP, a store in Akiba I haven’t been to yet! Would like to check it out sometime!
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Mizuki just opened her OTAKATSU account!
More to come😊
instagram.com/mizukijpn__?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==
Mizuki is elegant indeed and she knows exactly what she likes! What a great adventure, thanks for sharing.
I love "Kimi ni Todoke" too ♥
Now we need a “day in the life of mizuki as an office worker” to see how contrast she is. Otaku comes in many shapes and sizes indeed.
Agree!
It's so interesting that Japanese has so many wide variety of cultures. These pop cultures also has its own subcultures evolves over decades. It is so interesting to see many lifestyle of people in modern days. Having a typical work personality on the week day. On the other hand, maintaining owns interesting hobbies that is so much different personality yet seems to fit in one person's life. I wonder back in days when we don't have internet this kind of pop culture wouldn't be so much globally widespread but back then the culture is already cultivate and the community is growing and evolving until nowadays. Such an interesting thoughts to have.
This is honestly such a wholesome video of someone enjoying their interest. Simple yet beautiful!
Her outfits are so cool I'm so jealous
People are always shocked that fashionable people can be nerds too, I and a bunch of friends are nerds but also fashion junkies
Nice to see that there are others like us in Japan as well, I want to be friends with her hahaha
True. I had a friend in highschool that very fashionable, basketball team ace, and one of most popular students in my school. But in spare time we often watching animes and reading mangas with our other nerdy friends.
it's shocking because often times you don't have the money for both and often times the hobby wins out over fashion.
@@KyraWS at my school anime itself wasn't uncool. Even the some coolest kids watched anime but they definitely didn't hang with the losers.
Many times in life, the "cool kids" are the real Losers in the end, while the so called "losers" end up having a very successful life... so I wouldn't get too caught up about who's cool & whose a "loser" @@gpman6937
She needs her own youtube channel!
THIS
I Would subscribe in a heartbeat
That's a lot of 👍👍👍👍👍👍We both wanna see her channel too!!
yeahh, shes cute and also entertain people who watch it
This is a wonderful video. It shows that a so called otaku is a regular person. Not a weirdo.
Thank you for a fun and interesting video about the various Otakatsu.
OMG she had me at Macross Frontier. Criminally Underrated Anime.
Independent, beautiful and an otaku, Mizuki is the dream girl of all otakus.
I love watching Mizuki I relate to her life so much ❤
I used to play that board game "Maulwurf Company" at 11:57 a *lot* as a kid! Completely forgot about it until this moment! Thank you for showing Mizuki and her life, as well as cool shops and merch in Akihabara!
I am feeling happy and nostalgic now~
Thank you for the video Ken. Mizuki is gorgeous and dresses professionally but has the otaku vibe you would never have imagined or guessed. Beautiful woman indeed.
I went to Akihabara two months ago. Seeing Radio Kaikan and Mandarake really brought me back when I went there to hunt for Gunplas and DVDs. I thought that I haven't bought enough. I missed the places lol
I like her voice over!!!! very relaxing to listen to. Love your video man!
BEEP is such a special place for PC fans, such nostalgia. thank you for this video!
Thank you!! I really enjoyed this episode. So much fun!! 😊
I'm an otaku myself but I'm different from the usual stereotypes you'd expect.
I enjoy watching anime based on my personal interests, such as robot/mecha anime/models/figures, but I''m a bit out of shape for cosplaying. I also like Japanese foods and take care of my body well.
Kimi ni todoke is one of my fave anime! Cute how she's recommending it as a read
I love the representation and find it so relatable! I'm also an OL that does not look like your typical media portrayed otaku/fan. I also recently discovered that my boss watches anime. You'd never know from our looks because we work in a very professional environment and dress business formal/casual.
I can relate to this as well!
That’s like the guys at my fight gym. We’re all tatted and scarred up but after training we talk and argue about anime for an hour lol
@@Justin-xd7zj anime is just apart of global culture now pretty much lmao. anime is awesome, whats not to love??!!
@@mookiestewart3776 you got that right
@@Justin-xd7zj hell yeah brutha!
Always happy to see a new video by Ken-san! As always Ken-san's wife is so savage with her narrations XD
" I see you pretend to understand, but you have not" made me LOL
@@SpencerGatten Right? XD Poor Ken hahaha
And your comment on the savage comment got so many good👍 I need to keep on roasting him😂😂😂(Erica)
@@ken_honda Ken-san and Erica-san relationship is just so genuine and sweet XD Can't wait to hear more of those roast
Mizuki is GORGEOUS! omg, like seriously so elegant and stylish! I love her coat and I love her personality. we´d be great friends. thank you so much for showing us that otakus are very much "normal" and ordinary people. I think especially in the west (or maybe not just there), people find it weird when you watch anime and read manga in your 30s, but it´s a pretty much a normal hobby.
also Ken getting roasted "I can see you are pretending that you have understood but you have not" :D
Thank you Valerie Bee for your comment, as always!
Roasting continues where ever Ken goes😂
Shes marriage material from what ive seen ❤
shes pretty, shes really nice and shes an expert on local nerd culture. Girl needs a youtube channel stat, I dont think she realizes how many western subs she would have if she had a good translator to do her subtitles
I thought I was the only one who'd wave penlights while watching their fav artists/idols lmao. But it is nice to know I'm not the only one, also atm I don't even have a penlight but I treat the tv remote like one, and I've watched the same Ado(A Japanese singer) performance over 10+ or maybe 25+ times I don't even remember, I hope to get Ado's penlight in the future cuz it is so beautiful! I'd love get some other idol's penlights too!! My weekends look very similar to hers, I'm also an Idol,anime and manga otaku.
Kimi ni Todoke!!!! classic
Wow amazing 🤩. I wish to have friend like that 😊. I appreciate you make this kind of video. I hope you continue your amazing work ☺️✨
Mizuki is very beautiful, I hope she finds a caring partner in life that also appreciates Aidoru.
I used to be an Otaku when I was younger. I'm still a big fan of manga, animes and games. I love Japan pop culture.
"I see you you pretend to understand, but you have not"
😂😂
You know...you could tell from how he responded...I just had to make comment😂(Erica)
@@ken_honda it was very funny, keep up the great videos.
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This is very interesting. Shes a very pretty and nice lady. I would like to visit Japan one day.
Thank you very much !!! This was the places that I did not go in AKIHABARA . I was looking for this places but I only end up in the electronic stores.
Wow.. Mizuki is beautiful n elegant!! Fantastico!!! 😍👍😂🤣
More Mizuki please! So charismatic!
We need more Otaku like her, bless :*)
There"s a bunch of them in Japan. Everytime I hit the anime shops I see 10 or so of them and my fiance happens to be one as well. Learn Japanese to a high level and you'll up your chances
what a great ep!
She is beautiful!
i so wanna be her when i grow up,, her crying over her scrunklies while dressed so sophisticated speaks to me sm 😭
That’s awesome
Super intéressante votre vidéo, merci pour ce partage, en plus cette demoiselle est charmente.
Merci beaucoup!!
She seems nice to hang out with honestly, and her interest in those figures is pretty nice
Mizuki se robó mi corazón, es un ser divino, la amo alv
Waaa! She just looks like Nocchi from Perfume!!
That’s why I clicked on this video so fast! She reminded me of my favorite member 😊
@@SyntheticSlide hahaha that Perfume bait worked wonders with both of us then! Although I'm an A-chan stan myself!
yeah, no, it's just the haircut
I finally had time to see it. As always your work is excellent Ken, when I come back to Tokyo I will offer you a nice Italian espresso to show you how much I appreciate your videos. Thanks to this tour I discovered three new places, especially the Beep : I'm a retro game lover, so you made me really happy. The video also lasts longer than usual, so it was possible to understand more about the person of the day as well. Thanks as always for letting me experience the city of Tokyo through your videos. Keep it up!
A cup of Italian espresso! Sounds great!
One for me too! (Erica☕️)
@@ken_honda Yes for both of you!❤️
She likes Jojo. She's so adorable.
Erica made me laugh out loud by saying that Ken was pretending to know about electronics ha ha!!! Thanks for the laugh!! Mizuki is so pretty!!! I loved this video, Ken, because I had no idea what 'Otaku' was and now I know :))))
Aaaaaaapex legends at the beginning 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Juice=Juice! They have excellent taste!
OMG I wish someone I can spend time like her, now she became my standard
I still dream of going to Akihabara so watching this made me happy and watching your channel makes me happy!
Go go go go!
Come come come!
Wow, Mizuki-san is beautiful! And so stylish! 🤩 I had no idea that such people could also be otaku. Shamefully, I am _that_ ignorant. Thank you for enlightening me, Ken HONDA Japan! 🙇
Thank you for your comment!! OTAKU is not about how they look isn't it! It's about what and how much they LOVE!
More weekend videos like this, pls. Love it so much. And your videos are awesome, too
Thanks for watching! Come back again for the upcoming one!
Such a nice video! I am a massive fan of Touken Ranbu, and enjoy other 2.5次元 shows, too. Most of the fans I know don't fit that stereotyped image of an otaku either. Also, living in a rural part of Japan means it's less apparent that I enjoy otaku interests and oshikatsu.
Ommo I love that she showed her love for BL. Especially that she showed Junjou Romantica and Sekaiichi Hatsukoi
Mizuki is living the life 😭😭
14:07 I love how a Nintendo Wii U is already considered retro
The Tokyo apartments are fascinating, the living space has been maximized because the stuff only one person needs to use is smaller. Here in America you can find 300 square foot studio apartments that still have full sized ovens with 4 burners.
Finally! New video ❤
I liked it😊
Mizuki is só pretty and by her appearence I wouldn't tell she's an otaku! When she recommended the Kimi ni Todoke manga and started looking through the BL ones it certainly brought back memories from when I was an otaku as well, I would consume all of this kinda stuff and even more daily! And by the end of the video I can tell that she found another addiction to her list, I used to dream about having lots of BJDs and dolfie dream dolls dressed as my fav characters as well 😂
I loved watching the weekend routine of an actual otaku in Japan, it made me relate to her hobbies a lot! Thank you for the amazing vídeo!!!
Oh loved all the shops!
love the videos 👍
YEY PART 2!!!! cant wait!
Thank You , Thank You, this was so much fun Ken . A Big thank you Erica for getting Mizuki to do this video too. You must do another one of Akiba Part 2. 👍😃👍
Thank YOU! Akiba is too deep, we couldn't cover in a day...yea we may need to go back again for the Part2!
@@ken_honda AWESOME
This is amazing
This building at Akihabara at 0:12 always make me remember about Steins;Gate, what a references
Sugoi. so happy to be here. i am in Otaku heaven..;) domo arigato gozai masu.
I love Macross Frontier, so I'm happy it got mentioned.
love the video
I personally love Mobile Suit Gundam series. People are always surprised when they find out what my hobbies and interests are especially that my career is in Real Estate😅
* Please excuse my grammar, English is not my first language
Real estate and GUNDAM...there may be some commonality...🧐
Your comments are great! Looking forward to the comment in the next one too!
Thank you for the in-depth tour. You even showed some of the electronics stores that were the foundation of Akihabara.
And to Mizuki and Kazuna, rock on ladies. Don't let anyone tell you that its wrong.
I’m an airline captain in the US and my coworkers are always shocked to hear I am an otaku. Otaku have a rough reputation still in the states but it’s slowly becoming better with mainstream anime and manga.
Awesome video!!!!
Thank yoooouuu!!!
Japan is my dream destination, one day I'll see it in all it's glory!
Oh my god…that vintage game store 🤤🤤 If anything like that opens in the States, they usually don’t survive long.
A lot of people in the West (especially on websites like reddit) like to tell people that they are weird for watching anime and that people in Japan look down on anime otaku, which is just plain wrong. I spent a year in Japan and almost every single person watched SOME type of anime. Spy x Family and Kimetsu no Yaiba have really propelled anime into proper mainstream. Sure, not everyone is super into it like Mizuki is but anime watchers are far more accepted than angry internet people make it sound.
Absolutely this. Last time I was in Japan, I tried not to bring up anime or manga- until the locals asked if I like anime and were delighted to find out that I do 😂 it was so refreshing.
It's not watching anime itself that's distasteful to Japanese people, it's specific anime shows/genres and how some weebs or JP otaku talk or act about it that's the issue.
@@MoreEvilThanYahweh ...yeah, so? You can make this case about literally any other hobby people have. If your argument is "The issue is this specific subset of people engaging in this hobby are bad", then it's not a good argument.
"It's not watching football that's distasteful to people, it's specific fans who are hooligans that are the issue".
@@VanillaCoke1956 It's the difference between mentioning you enjoy Demon Slayer when prompted or gushing at length about Pretty Cure as a grown man while making poorly disguised attempts at hiding how attracted you are to them.
It's not even like hooliganism or political extremism, you're not gonna be able to sell liking Pretty Cure or shows in that genre as an adult male to a normal Japanese person and not give off kimota vibes.
@@MoreEvilThanYahweh You are continuing to miss the point.
I love how Mizuki just stopped by at the BL corner and grab Sekai Ichi Hatsukoi and Saezuru Tori wa Habatakanai, ah yes the classic S-Tier BLs.
Cool video!
Just noticed those red buildings on the main street aren’t Sega’s anymore.
It's like the positive side of being an Otaku
Best life ❤
The friend is like there's no way you're outing me as an otaku, you must blur my face! 😂
Hello from Kazakhstan!
Say greetings for Muziku, she is very gorgeous :)
She's adorable
"Day in the Life of an Ideal Woman"
When i saw mandarake i was wondering maybe i can find some figurines of sawako (character from kimi ni todoke) or the manga itself. With in seconds, she pulled out the English translated version of it.
Thank you Ken and Erica for another amazing video! It was nice to see a glimpse of Mizuki in her natural element 😅 as an older otaku myself, it feels relatable. Also it was nice to discover BEEP, a store in Akiba I haven’t been to yet! Would like to check it out sometime!
Be sure to plan longer hours in BEEP Akihabara! There are so much to see!
3:55 they are like me when i watch all bis second generation concerts hahahah
Love this channel
Thank you for your LOVE!!!
Sheryl Nome Number 1!!! Mizuki is elegant and I really appreciate her love for Sheryl! Macross F fan here too! :)
Amazing video! loved it, Mizuki's love for idols is inspiring
She's really stylish
I thought Aggretsuko was make believe but I am now convinced that it is a documentary.
Soo cool
Mizuki is my new Idol!!!
These kind of girls does not exist in Sweden at all.
Great video
My friend, I understand the speaker is your wife when she states: " I can see you are pretending you understand. but you have not"!!! LOL!!!😂
I Thought she was Nocchi from Perfume at glance at the thumnail.
I was just in that doll floor last week, spent a bunch of yen before I came home to the states.
Wow really! Interested in what you bought!!
@@ken_honda Two outfits from the boxes on the floor and two wigs
Only been 6 times to Japan. 4 of those to Tokyo. and of course every time to Akiba.I guess i am a gajin otaku