I know you probably won't see this, and even if you do, it won't catch your attention but I figured I might as well try. I loved your videos on Watamote and how you looked at it in ways other youtubers didn't, As someone with social anxiety, it felt really good to see people talk about and understand an anime so much about it. And I genuinely like the editing and commentary style on your videos. Bocchi the Rock is a recent anime that tackles social anxiety as well in a realistic manner, and though it's more comedic than Watamote due to the anime in general being more positive, it's still incredibly relatable to people with social anxiety. So I was wondering if you would be interested in watching and maybe making a video on it some day.
Hey, if it's not too much to ask, could you do Servamp next ?It's my favourite anime/manga ever, and I love how funny you make these. The manga is 100+ chapters, so it's ok if you just mention the anime. It's about this boy who picks up a vampire,makes a contract with him ,funny hijinks ensue , and the manga has a lot of character development. It's just something I'd like to see since it would be the first good analysis, but it's ok if not. It's just 12 episodes
Imagine being the person who was paid to write the subtitles. Imagine being paid to write "energetic, hot five-year-old". Would you have trouble sleeping at night after that?
@@audreym3908they didn’t create the script they were just payed to translate it. If anything they’re probably disgusted by the creators, and if they were smart enough would go under a alias name to distance themselves
Ya know...I never truly understood how lack of music can make something so...incredibly uncomfortable. I mean this is an already unbelievably uncomfortable anime, but the constant silence makes it so much worse
It’s the lack of sound effects too. This is usually used as a trick to indicate that a POV character is going into fight or flight because when we’re hyper-focused, irrelevant noise filters itself out of our hearing and we only hear the threat - and when you can only hear somebody speaking, that implies they’re saying things that are raising your blood pressure.
Music and sound effects makes us feel like spectators, like we're out of the story looking in. No music and no sound effects? That's just real life. And when something this creepy tries to mimic real life...
My favorite pillow boy was the one that had an exclamation point for a head. He spoke French at me and told me to buy Rosetta Stone. He then recapped the first season of Pillow Boys, while asking if we were sleepy yet. Honestly, this new season is pretty meta.
when the described the 5 year old as 'Hot' i had to skip as well. having an ASMR with little kids lulling you to sleep, okay. it would be nice if you are use to kids being near by such as your own kids or younger siblings. but as soon as you go saying the kid is hot you are heading in a direction that i can't follow
Watching the entire episode I didn't really notice anything to suggest otherwise. He also calls the listener big sis, so... His title card thingy is a bit sus, but the rest of the episode is pretty much just a five year old rambling about his day and how much he loves knock off power rangers
"hot" meaning a high temperature could also have been applicable. the few seconds I saw of his episode gave off a "summer" feel, so 🤷♀️ if this wasn't badly written/translated, I'd be praising the platonic option about now lol
Episode 13: A freezing breeze drifts across your face as you awaken to the clattering sound of horse hooves and the rumbling of wooden carts on a cobblestone road. Your eyes open, but are briefly blinded by the brightness of the snow that blankets the wooded mountains in front of you. You squint and the outline of a man takes shape. A rugged muscular figure, his head covered by untamed locks of blonde hair, his body clad in worn chainmail and the mudstained blue coat worn traditionally by soldiers of his tribe, stares back at you through steel-blue eyes. He opens his mouth and the raspy voice of a seasoned Nord warrior calls out to you: "Hey you! You're finally awake..."
Dear god the twins segment was straight out of a horror visual novel it was so unsettling. The coworker episode in the car was creepy, but the twins started to trigger my fight or flight lol
@@moffiiemoccha it literally me think were a boy and forget this could be for girls Edit: i think i make this confuse what i meant was i thought were a male protagonist but this could be aim for female audience so could be female protagonist but that dosen't fix what they say
Are we not gonna talk about Librarian Danshi's cursed outfit? A pink striped shirt AND a cheetah tie, and over an apron stolen from Starbucks? This man is a monster.
I cannot imagine finding any of this anime relaxing enough to sleep to but the twins especially are just terrifying. Like, car dude gives me red flags, those twins look like they're straight up going to skin me in my sleep
@@thegayghost872 Though it may sounds weird in english, it just a straightforward/polite/respecting way to call an older woman. It's quite common in japanese and some other languages. So I'm pretty sure it's not sister in that way. At least I hope so... hard to say with the weird twins lol
It’s the lack of sound effects too, not just music. This is usually used as a trick to indicate that a POV character is going into fight or flight because when we’re scared, irrelevant noise filters itself out and our hearing becomes hyperfocused on the sound of the threat - and when you can only hear somebody speaking, that implies they’re saying things that are raising your blood pressure.
I mean, at least for the twins and the guy in the car, it’s…fitting? I mean my fight-or-flight response was definitely kicking in with all of them, except for maybe the guy that gave you food. Outside of him I feel like I should be getting ready to defend myself.
Man during that coworker ep I was wondering about the guy that's driving this guy cause it's very much clearly not the coworker. Man must be creeped out by what's going on behind him... Also foodstall oji-san is funny, that's all I could ask for even tho he's likely gonna die soon...
The lack of sound effects is one of the funniest things I've ever seen When violin boy just stands there with his violin I laughed harder than I knew possible
The concept isn't bad, actually. An anthology of people just talking with the viewer as if they were a person they know, just talking about what's going on in their life and their struggles, that's an amazing concept. It's like a puzzle, try to understand the person talking and what their deal is before the Vignette ends, for you will never see them again. An exploration of the human capacity for meta-empathy. With proper writing and sound design, this could be something. Too bad they went with weird af instead.
Theres actually another one of these where the viewer is supposed to be like a little kid and the boys are daycare teachers and give you headpats and tell you you're a good girl, this like an entire genre but somehow pillow boys' dead silence makes it weirder
Yeah, the The Helpful Fox Senko-san is a good example of the genre. A sorta chicken soup for the soul, cute and fluffy and pampering kind of thing. But dead silence combined with awkwardly predatory writing and awful translation on the subtitles makes what is already a flawed example into something outright troubling.
@@FFKonoko Senko-san is similar, but I think what they meant is there's a whole genre of first-person silent-protagonist anime where attractive people (usually boys) compliment you for 4 minutes
Lida Yuuichirou (The old guy that give us food) actually made me fell a lot confortable, unlike all the other guys He looks just like a old funny man that likes to chat about random things with people he never met before and take care of others like a big father, didn't sound too weird to me AND HE GIVE US *FREE FOOD*
I think it helps that it doesn’t feel as… incredibly suspicious as the others. Because you fell asleep in a more public place so it definitely feels less like he’s trying to kidnap you imo. Also ya free food.
As a straight woman every single clip you provided from this show (Food stall man was an obvious exception) made me feel so severely uncomfortable and at times I even physically backed away from my phone because I desperately needed these strange men out of my personal space.
"sensing you are uncomfortable with the situation, because you tell him you are uncomfortable with the situation..." stop, I can only laugh so much before my face starts to hurt
The phrase "hot 5 year old" has solidified in my mind that we do not need anime anymore. I think after chainsaw man is finished we should collectively just wrap this whole thing up
I'll assume it just meant to give you the soft and protective feeling of having a cute younger brother that is a light of your day (not romantically!) to save my sanity 😅
It's innocent... The kid is just an energetic and warm sunny little bug who talked about his day and his toy and called you Big Sis. The "hot" translation did him dirty.
Honestly thought the twins were going to start telling me which organs of mine they wanted. Your commentary throughout left me wheezing in laughter. I think I would have been a bit terrified if it wasn’t for that.
I really want to know how they messed up the budget so badly to not even have like one bgm track for this animated series. Like, maybe if it was just an audio track then the lack of bgm would make sense but the eery silence makes the series very uncomfortable to watch. Though your narration made this very entertaining and I agree with you that the oden stall guy is the best one if only because he fits most of my personal check boxes lol.
This made me wonder so I went to poke at it, and I think that the key is that the original concept might not have been a drama CD--those would often have at least SOME sound effects--but possibly primarily a mobile game. This fits better--you wouldn't have the background sounds so much because you'd be triggering new lines with actually tapping on the screen. Apps with like a picture of a boy and a set of voice lines are not uncommon, and something on your phone makes sense as a bedtime thing. I don't think the game did well; there's not much evidence of it anymore and it might never have had an English translation. But it does seem to have existed.
The whiplash of I emotions I experienced between my initial "oh what a cute sheep pillow!" to my "oh God I absolutely hate this" when the boy started talking was quite disorienting. Also the "we... Faint, I guess? New boy!" absolutely killed me
'OH F*CK OFF!' Funniest moment in the entire video. I came into the middle of the premier and didn't understand what the context was the first time - still laughed. When I watched from the beginning I couldn't stop laughing the entire time. BRAVO! Still funny without context.
Fucking same! I heard merry the butt toucher and I was deeply concerned and it just got worse from there. Watching it all the way through did not help.
I haven't watched the video yet but I wanted to say, I was the exact right age, demographic and mental state for this show when it came out and I loved it so much but also one episode in particular always creep'd me out because I was thinking on the exact same wavelengths the show expected so the dudes responses were so God damn accurate I was just like 0-0 and that didn't happen with the other episodes XD
I have never wanted to send a piece of media back to June 1917 with the sole context of "this is what the kneecapping of Achrduke Ferdinand will eventually lead to" more than I have at this precise moment.
@@hithedragon7842 Trout is obviously trying to put the fear of Pillow Boys into the hearts of the soldiers. Show them what all their effort will lead to.
I think we're all in agreement that Ep 11 food stall -daddy- danshi is the best right? He might want us to get some rest and sleep but hooo boy if it's with him, I'd rather stay up all night 👀👀👀
6:40 made me feel a crushing sadness. Some of the people on this team creative project were (probably) trying hard to produce a decent bit of entertainment and then... late one night a few hours before they needed to air the anime, a producer who hadn't slept for three days made the call to release it like that.
...It would be kinda interesting if there was another series like this, but the men are actually interesting, and through the series more and more clues are revealed through the men's breaks in character or momentary glimpses into what is actually going on. Turns out this is some STRANGE, sick game you have found yourself in. You are the "final boss" of this said game, and the challenge, oddly enough, is for the men thrown into the game with you to either lull you into a sleep...or die. It always ends with either you or them falling asleep. You have infinite lives... They do not. As you learn more, the true dread and _terror_ creeps in. These men are all innocent, thrown into this SICK freak show of a game for some super being's entertainment. And as each episode passes, you begin to root more and more for the men trying to lull you to sleep, _hoping_ they succeed and get to live another day. Maybe even, your character begins to act differently as well, even trying to cooperate with these "players in the game" and sleep. However, this being unfair, the being controlling all of this begins to pull a few strings of its own. The series is very slow at first, purposefully drawn out to weed out the unworthy. But slowly, the series gets more and more intense as you try to escape this cycle and free these poor men! At least ONE of them! You manage to break free from the cage of that false reality, dragging the man you were with in that episode along. However, you are, still in first person, caught easily by the strange, beyond understanding creature itself. The last couple minutes of the series are of the monster, viciously tearing you apart to inflict a slow, _excruciating_ death... All while listing the names of EVERY man who lost and _died._ The men IT claims YOU killed... And then... The screen slowly fades to black... "Sweet dreams" an unknown voice in the end credits whispers I now dub this nonexistent series: "Try To Sleep"
Someone needs to make this indie horror game. This sounds genuinely terrifying just from the description, I can only imagine what proper execution would look like.
I just want you to know that youtube decided to pause the video at “library man observes the children” and the silence that filled the time before I realized what had happened swallowed my entire consciousness.
This feels like watching cutscenes to a game who's producers are ridiculously copyright claim happy with the music. Like, there is so little context to them staring and talking at you. The "you may now swoon over these jpegs for the allotted 30 seconds of awkward silence" feel like there's a text bubble supposed to pop up and give you dialogue choices. This show feels like it's written by David Cage, a real Quantic Nightmare if you will.
i remember seeing bits of this show when it first came out and i thought i was too aromantic to get the appeal. glad to know i'm not the only one who thinks it's creepy af
Needless to say, I had to tell everyone I know that there's a new one of these. This is so fucking weird and you are so good at presenting it to highlight just how fucking bizarre it is. I'm so happy you decided to do another one of these.
@@non-binarycoding5505 PLS I used to listen to them I loved the Germany one sm when I was younger idk how to feel knowing I unironically heard that shit lmao
I feel like this could had worked if the producers didn’t make such…. questionable decisions, so I’m going to take a crack at making this thing good, or just not insanely weir at least First of we are changing that opening, if this is trying to lull you to sleep we are choosing soothing and calm opening Second we are adding some sound effects, this not only adds to the asmr feel of this anime, but it also helps making things less creepy, now we get to the boys Merry: can we not make him a pervert? Thanks, in our version he is your childhood friend who is doing some massager courses and offers to give you a massage because he sees that you are very stiff and stressed, he rambles about his day a bit and listens to you complain about work. For sound effects I would put some fabric sounds and some skin on skin sound Tanaka: He is your boss who offered to take you home after he saw that you were a bit too drunk in an office party, you fell asleep not soon after getting in the car and awoke because he got a phone call, he offers you some tea and chats with you a bit. Hanamine: He is your partner and we are hanging out with him as he practices some scales, he tells you about his last concert while flirting with you. Sound effects would be violin scales and some steps on hard wood floor Kijinami: honestly? This one doesn’t need much change, just add some train noises in the background and that’s it Emori: Shy guy that invited you to stargaze as a first date, it gets cold after a while and you two end up sharing a blanket, he tells you some star trivia and talks about the mythology behind some constellations. For sound effects some fabric sound for the blanket and some crickets sounds should be enough Maki: not gona lie I kinda wanna leave this one in all of his 13 year old edge glory. Some fabric sound effects for his clothes and some distant chatter since you are in a high school Enokawa: OH BOY this one is gonna need some fixing, in our version he is your YOUNGER BROTHER, he saw that you are very tired because of a very long study session and offered to help you get some sleep, he makes a bed time story using his toys as the characters. The sound effects would be mainly for his toys and maybe some cicada sounds in the background Sasayama: A classmate and part time DJ who is inviting you to a party he is throwing. Some standard cafeteria background noise should suffice Mochizuki: The librarian of the local library, you ask him for some book recommendations, he takes a few books that he thinks you might like and talks to you a bit about each one of them. Sound effects would be paper noises for the books and fabric sound for his clothes The twins: Yeah I’m reworking these ones from the ground up. These are your twin butlers who came to your studio with an afternoon snack and to tidy the studio a bit. For sound effects mainly stepping sounds as they move around the room, and some varied noises as they move thing around for cleaning Iidia: This one is perfect 11/10. Add some cooking sounds and we are done Mini Merry: You are friends at your first sleepover, the dialogue probably can stay the same honestly. Ad some fabric sounds and we are good to go
I think this comment shows that, if the creators had made the episodes a bit longer and added some sounds (that you can probably get for free or very cheap somewhere, like how expensive could a cicada or train sounds possibly be?), this series would have been so much better. I really like your suggestions. I especially like the idea for the lil brother, it sounds really cute.
I like how this comment matches your username, lol. I think there'd be more fans behind this show if you were writing it. At the very least yours has sound added, LMAO.
It took me way too long to realize that lines like "Relax your posture. You're showing just how defenseless you are" wasn't ad libs but from the show jfc
As a long haired goatee bearing guy who occasionally wraps a rag around his head (it gets hot at the forge) I feel represented by Mr Foodstallguy. I am not sure if I feel comfortable with this... The fact that he is best boi is even more worrisome...
I watched these all in a row some years back, and I remember going 'Ah, okay, ah weird, ah GOD let that be a mistranslation, ah, cute I guess, ah, okay we'll talk to a therapist about this one' and then Oden Oji-san made me CRY. 'I DO work hard, Mr. Sexy Foodstand, and I WILL eat, chug, weep, and fall asleep all at the same time, thank you for your understanding.' This gave me the laughs I needed, many thanks.
Ironically, this has become my favorite video essay to fall asleep to. Thank you for validating 15 year old me, who thought she hallucinated this series.
I played the violin for a couple years in my youth, so when I saw the violinist's bow touch his strings but didn't hear any music, my mind helpfully supplied the sound of an unrossined bow quietly scraping against strings (that's the non-music sound you hear when those things touch- it sounds exactly like nails on a chalkboard). I hate ASMR and thought "no background noise? That sounds great!" ...i was wrong.
i love this anime purely because its op goes so needlessly hard for a 4 minute sleep asmr thing. i have it in several playlists unironically its just like... weirdly good for what its from
Number 1: Naive kidnapper. Porbably was raised to believe keeping your loved ones hostage is normal. Chainsaw massacre kind of situation. Number 2: The PUA creep. When he's not working he just reads THE GAME for the thousandth time. You helped him once at work and took advantage of you getting drunk at a company party. He doesnt even think what he's doing is wrong. Number 3: Schizo kidnapper. Thinks he can play the violin with his mind and sees spiders everywhere from his Benadryl addiction. His hallucinations make him weak, and you manage to escape. Number 4: The only normal one. His barber just did him filthy. Number 5: Experienced killer. psycopath. Brought you to an isolated place and forces you to hear about his special interest as you bleed out. Number 6: Not a psycho, just the edgy, annoying emo boy. He caught you listwning to my chemical once, and now clings to you. Number 7: YOU are the psycho.
Now I wanna make an Ao3 series where reader is stuck in a cycle of waking up in different worlds in front of different characters and waking up in another one as soon as they fall asleep again. Shit might be wholesome or get progressively creepier depending on my mood
My friend and I in high school stumbled upon this anime and did a 'try not to laugh' challenge with it. It wasn't that the show was funny in a comedic way, but it was so hard to not laugh at how uncomfortable the show was.
Amazing, flawless, masterpiece, not many shows can simulate being tied up by rambling serial killers while you wait for the chloroform to kick in, 10/10 I hated every second of it 👍
This makes me incredibly uncomfortable and it's kinda scary that the only noice in this are the voices of the boys. I internally died when I read the desc about the character in episode 7: " Energetic, hot 5-year old"💀 But I had to laugh at the immediate skipping after he read it.😂 The Twins are Horror Movie material.😵
I remember as a teen I was tricked by a few AMV's into watching this anime and boy the horror it was to actually sit down and watch this on the TV I didn't make it pass episode 2
If it is of any comfort, I think the ‘hot’ in ‘super energetic, hot 5-year-old’ probably is a direct translation to ‘atsui’ in Japanese, which can also refer to a person who is passionate, hot headed, basically someone with a lot of energy . [or atleast I’m hoping they meant it this way💀]
They didn’t unfortunately… I went to check and the word used to describe him is イケメン (ikemen), which is popular Japanese slang for a man that is physically attractive. I don’t know if you can say it in a plutonic way, but it’s pretty weird to describe a five year old like that anyway. Sorry if I’ve ruined what little faith in humanity remained lol. And please correct me if I’m wrong, I’m still learning Japanese and had to research the word :)
I used to watch a lot of otome anime with my friends. They are universally awful. You should check out Miracle Train, the one where the boys kidnap girls into their magical subway car and solve their problems with Train Facts.
Wait, I think get to know about train facts is cool. And man, I just don't know which one is more universally awful, watching a creepy and _certainly_ not predatory otome anime or watching another cliche isekai anime with lolis harem
i watched this video so many times. I keep coming back to it. I just love the sheer horror and discomfort in every line. The way you just skip the child. The delivery of the jokes. Everything just tickles me in the right way. This and the Moumin Marriage video are just top notch content.
The scream I scrumpt every time there was a new boy! They all triggered my fight or flight so quickly! And not having sound made every experience 100 times worse 😂😂😂
I haven't watched anything of yours in YEARS- but when i saw this in my recommendations i was fully expecting humor along the lines of "It's funny because its made for girls!" I am pleasantly surprised to be reminded of your hilarious commentary, but also horrified to find out how disgustingly bad Pillow Boys actually is. (I knew close to nothing about Pillow Boys until this video) It deserves to be made fun of. You made the uncomfortable parts of the show easier to swallow, while also being relatable, hilarious, and transparent. I've seen too much garbage online so i might be the only one thinking about it like this, but I just wanted you to know that I found this one extremely refreshing.
I genuinely *like* Jingai-san no Yome, even, but I also adored having all its weird bits compiled in a single place. This, I do not like the show, but also I'm glad for the focus mostly on the parts that would have been really fucking weird even in a better-made show. 100%, I really appreciate the ability to walk this line.
@@Nassifeh yeah i was mainly going real hard on the show for the implied pedophilia going on- but i wont judge people who like the show. (Sorry if I sounded too harsh) As long as you understand the flaws of it and you wouldn't describe a child as "hot" you're fine. The media people consume doesn't always have to correlate with who they are as a person. I appreciate this vid a lot cause explaination point isn't judging any potential audiences of the show, and decides to keep the critique to the show itself. Which is nice because too often i hear stuff like "WHY DO PEOPLE WATCH THIS GARBAGE??" or "EVERYONE WHO LIKES THIS THING IS A [insert offensive term here]" It's refreshing seeing a comedic critique of the work itself rather than an aspect of society or a specific audience, if that makes sense.
So.... what does it say about me when I either know right away who the voice actors are or at least recognize the voices even if the names escape me? God, I remember watching this as it aired out of curiosity, but forgot how WEIRD it was... and I LOVE ASMR.
IKR. im sitting here just like, leave it to the professionals, professional company. the youtube people have mastered this art in a very niche but honestly comforting way.
You know somehow I was thinking about how I have a Japan trip in a month and I should probably at least learn a few words in Japan. I I realize that I won't be able to speak proper Japanese but at least a few words and you've managed to sell me on Rosetta Stone in like 30 seconds.
I straight up bought this anime on DVD years ago simply because I was told it was weird and I wanted it in my collection. I went through an embarrassing amount of struggle to find it T.T
oh no i was the exact target audience for this when it first came out and we all laughed but at the same time also unironically enjoyed the fantasy (even if it was still admittedly weird and awkward af)
As I watched this video and heard the creepy absents of ambience audio with only the voice of the pillow boys, I fantasized about jumping out the window, off the roof or in a lake. EXCEPT, for episodes 7 (wanted to hunt down and falcon punch the author/s), 8 (wanted to fortify the windows, lock the doors and leave to toast eggo waffles in an empty pool), and finally 11 (I wanted to give him the highest honor I can bestow on a pillow boy, just chat with the dude and become platonic bros). Thank you, anthropomorphic punctuation. I’ve learned that I’m not into creepy shit :D👍
"forgive me mother" killed me XD Also, has Bryant ever expressed their sexuality? just curious if the interest in that particular boy is genuine or feigned.
My favorite thing about pillow boys is that they have voice acting legends working on this. Nobunaga Shimazaki, Ayumu Murase, Natsuki Hanae, Toshiyuki Morikawa, Kosuke Toriumi, Yoshitsugu Matsuoka. It’s unreal to me that they’ve got all these famous VAs to voice a single 4 minute episode of a bad asmr trip.
Eh. It's not that surprising. Otome ASMR/situation CDs were all the rage in the drama CD scene in the late 2000s-early 2010s which I feel like this series also was originally. Plus the Drama CD scene is mostly made up of well known and up & coming male seiyuu, so a lot of situation CDs like this (& BL Dramas) were the bulk of their work at the time.
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I know you probably won't see this, and even if you do, it won't catch your attention but I figured I might as well try.
I loved your videos on Watamote and how you looked at it in ways other youtubers didn't, As someone with social anxiety, it felt really good to see people talk about and understand an anime so much about it. And I genuinely like the editing and commentary style on your videos.
Bocchi the Rock is a recent anime that tackles social anxiety as well in a realistic manner, and though it's more comedic than Watamote due to the anime in general being more positive, it's still incredibly relatable to people with social anxiety.
So I was wondering if you would be interested in watching and maybe making a video on it some day.
"Library man does not excel at his duties."
This is why I'm subbed to you. 😂
Hey, if it's not too much to ask, could you do Servamp next ?It's my favourite anime/manga ever, and I love how funny you make these. The manga is 100+ chapters, so it's ok if you just mention the anime. It's about this boy who picks up a vampire,makes a contract with him ,funny hijinks ensue , and the manga has a lot of character development.
It's just something I'd like to see since it would be the first good analysis, but it's ok if not. It's just 12 episodes
It has Dora the explorer vibes 😂
how did these people fail to do what Puppyboy has been doing by themselves?
Imagine being the person who was paid to write the subtitles. Imagine being paid to write "energetic, hot five-year-old". Would you have trouble sleeping at night after that?
I hope they do, unless they had no choice.
considering how bad quality the translation is, I doubt that person got paid at all. It's either a really bad fansub or straight up google translate.
yeah, but then I could just watch the insomnia-busting Pillow Boys
@@audreym3908they didn’t create the script they were just payed to translate it. If anything they’re probably disgusted by the creators, and if they were smart enough would go under a alias name to distance themselves
@@joakkar It was on crunchyroll when it got released lmao
Ya know...I never truly understood how lack of music can make something so...incredibly uncomfortable. I mean this is an already unbelievably uncomfortable anime, but the constant silence makes it so much worse
right? just put in some quiet piano elevator music or SOMETHING
Not to mention the description of the boy in episode 7
It’s the lack of sound effects too. This is usually used as a trick to indicate that a POV character is going into fight or flight because when we’re hyper-focused, irrelevant noise filters itself out of our hearing and we only hear the threat - and when you can only hear somebody speaking, that implies they’re saying things that are raising your blood pressure.
Especially when one of the guys is playing a freaking violin on screen
Music and sound effects makes us feel like spectators, like we're out of the story looking in.
No music and no sound effects? That's just real life. And when something this creepy tries to mimic real life...
My favorite pillow boy was the one that had an exclamation point for a head. He spoke French at me and told me to buy Rosetta Stone. He then recapped the first season of Pillow Boys, while asking if we were sleepy yet.
Honestly, this new season is pretty meta.
The only episode of this that I would re-watch honestly
Agreed lol
same
Awww❤
*_✨"Exclamation Danshi"✨_*
Whenever I'm feeling tired I watch an episode of Pillow boys. Keeps me wide awake. Still don't know how to channel the paranoia.
Let me think about that for a moment............ nope I got nothing. Sorry.
XDDD
Attack your nearest government building, the pillow boys demand so
I mean that's a valid strategy. What's the most effective episode?!?
@@ChaoticNeutralMatt The '5 year old' episode
the complete skipping of the 5 year old episode had me laughing so hard
Well what else was he gonna do? Watch a 5 year old?
when the described the 5 year old as 'Hot' i had to skip as well. having an ASMR with little kids lulling you to sleep, okay. it would be nice if you are use to kids being near by such as your own kids or younger siblings. but as soon as you go saying the kid is hot you are heading in a direction that i can't follow
Somebody knows japanesse??? Why call the child hot??? Perhaps he was hot blooded or something but ouch.
@@benjaminmadrigalperez9010 According to the Japanese Penal Code, the legal age of consent in Japan is 13.
Dear Lord
@@jasonmatt6081 that's more for teenagers, the real reason is that anime is just fucked up
I assume the 5 year old thing is a desire to be a big sister (familial platonic) and I will not be accepting other options.
Watching the entire episode I didn't really notice anything to suggest otherwise. He also calls the listener big sis, so... His title card thingy is a bit sus, but the rest of the episode is pretty much just a five year old rambling about his day and how much he loves knock off power rangers
@@claraw7911 What a relief.
If that is the case, I think it would be a very sweet concept. Specifically for those who lost a sibling :)
Ok but why did they have to say "hot". also I laughed so hard when he skipped to the next episode after saying that description
"hot" meaning a high temperature could also have been applicable. the few seconds I saw of his episode gave off a "summer" feel, so 🤷♀️
if this wasn't badly written/translated, I'd be praising the platonic option about now lol
Episode 13: A freezing breeze drifts across your face as you awaken to the clattering sound of horse hooves and the rumbling of wooden carts on a cobblestone road. Your eyes open, but are briefly blinded by the brightness of the snow that blankets the wooded mountains in front of you. You squint and the outline of a man takes shape. A rugged muscular figure, his head covered by untamed locks of blonde hair, his body clad in worn chainmail and the mudstained blue coat worn traditionally by soldiers of his tribe, stares back at you through steel-blue eyes.
He opens his mouth and the raspy voice of a seasoned Nord warrior calls out to you: "Hey you! You're finally awake..."
Ah yes, the only true pillow boy, Ralof.
God damn it, how'd I end up back in Skyrim again? Curse you Todd Howard!
@@SilverDragonJay Skyrim is immortal and unavoidable
Guess it was to be expected when you cross the border and walk right into an imperial ambush
From about halfway through reading this I knew where it was going... yet as much else, I was powerless to stop reading it to it's conclusion...
Dear god the twins segment was straight out of a horror visual novel it was so unsettling. The coworker episode in the car was creepy, but the twins started to trigger my fight or flight lol
The way they mentioned flower cutting the buttom make me automatic think were being mutilated
@@mariazapata1606 is a lot worse when you realize deflowering is a metaphor for something horrible 😥 I rlly hope that's not what they were talking abt
@@moffiiemoccha it literally me think were a boy and forget this could be for girls
Edit: i think i make this confuse what i meant was i thought were a male protagonist but this could be aim for female audience so could be female protagonist but that dosen't fix what they say
Also dosen't ane-san mean sister or something,makes it worse tbh😭
@@justvibingowo736 It's also used with people who are slightly older than you, so don't worry, I don't think she is literally their sister.
12:00 can I just say I love how the people in the live chat were all instantly screaming “NOOOOOO” the second the 5-year-old popped up
Wouldn't you do the same in their place tho? 😂
"ar;oijas;dlkgjas;ldkfj;alsdkjf;alskjdf;laskjdf" So true!
I like how our beloved narrator read his name and description and then hit the skip button as fast as humanly possible.
It got even worse at 18:37. Chat makes it a _lot_ more bearable.
Are we not gonna talk about Librarian Danshi's cursed outfit? A pink striped shirt AND a cheetah tie, and over an apron stolen from Starbucks? This man is a monster.
I didn’t even notice till you pointed it out 😭😭
Bruh that shit lookin’ nasty 😂 the longer I stare the more I think it’s giraffe print
Nooooo don't diss him like that 😭😭😭😭
A missing JoJo character fr-
Honestly I like the weird clash, gives more personality ✨
His outfit is a crime against humanity
I cannot imagine finding any of this anime relaxing enough to sleep to but the twins especially are just terrifying. Like, car dude gives me red flags, those twins look like they're straight up going to skin me in my sleep
Especially because they keep referring to the viewer as “sister”
@@thegayghost872 Though it may sounds weird in english, it just a straightforward/polite/respecting way to call an older woman. It's quite common in japanese and some other languages. So I'm pretty sure it's not sister in that way. At least I hope so... hard to say with the weird twins lol
That scene _legitimately_ wouldn’t be out of place in a horror anime/VN like Song of Saya. It’s got a perfect serial killer vibe.
@An Error Has Occurred it really does, those designs and the horror lighting does not help
I know a pair of fictional twins who might skin me in my sleep… if Azul tells them too… which he’ll only do if somehow he can money off it.
It’s the lack of sound effects too, not just music. This is usually used as a trick to indicate that a POV character is going into fight or flight because when we’re scared, irrelevant noise filters itself out and our hearing becomes hyperfocused on the sound of the threat - and when you can only hear somebody speaking, that implies they’re saying things that are raising your blood pressure.
That explains a lot, a looot.
I mean, at least for the twins and the guy in the car, it’s…fitting? I mean my fight-or-flight response was definitely kicking in with all of them, except for maybe the guy that gave you food. Outside of him I feel like I should be getting ready to defend myself.
Seeing Merry suddenly age up again by teleporting to the other side of the bed was an actual jumpscare.
Merry *IS* the actual jumpscare.
The food stall oji-san is literally the best 😭 He's the cutest. Thank you for protecting us from the creepy co worker and the weird twins!
YES
if only we spent more episodes with him
Yeah he's the ONLY one who doesn't seem creepy or self-absorbed, and he's so damn wholesome. Get you a man like this
And the weird butt toucher, can't forget about him-
He really is😔🛐
Man during that coworker ep I was wondering about the guy that's driving this guy cause it's very much clearly not the coworker. Man must be creeped out by what's going on behind him...
Also foodstall oji-san is funny, that's all I could ask for even tho he's likely gonna die soon...
The lack of sound effects is one of the funniest things I've ever seen
When violin boy just stands there with his violin I laughed harder than I knew possible
Literally, I just cracked laughing and had my mom look weirdly at me lmao
“Hoarding pencil shavings under my eyelids” and “the loving embrace of an Iron Maiden” are phrases I didn’t know I needed until now
The concept isn't bad, actually.
An anthology of people just talking with the viewer as if they were a person they know, just talking about what's going on in their life and their struggles, that's an amazing concept. It's like a puzzle, try to understand the person talking and what their deal is before the Vignette ends, for you will never see them again. An exploration of the human capacity for meta-empathy. With proper writing and sound design, this could be something.
Too bad they went with weird af instead.
no the concept is obviously just making 14 year old tumblr girls squee at how cute these men are. get a hint 💀
@@zefile I'm not talking about the cute men skin, but the story bones
tbh what you’re describing is basically what drama cds already do
@@catharinrin or podcasts like The Goblet Wire
@@zefile Not tumblr girls. Lonely Japanese women
The very first boy casually and unpromptedly saying that you don't have to run away really helps to establish the atmosphere.
Theres actually another one of these where the viewer is supposed to be like a little kid and the boys are daycare teachers and give you headpats and tell you you're a good girl, this like an entire genre but somehow pillow boys' dead silence makes it weirder
Yeah, the The Helpful Fox Senko-san is a good example of the genre. A sorta chicken soup for the soul, cute and fluffy and pampering kind of thing.
But dead silence combined with awkwardly predatory writing and awful translation on the subtitles makes what is already a flawed example into something outright troubling.
yoshimaho
@@FFKonoko Senko-san is similar, but I think what they meant is there's a whole genre of first-person silent-protagonist anime where attractive people (usually boys) compliment you for 4 minutes
@@hazeru9892 Just wanna thank you for sending me down that rabbit hole 🫡
What’s the title?
I need a Moomin husband to protect me from these guys & the deafening silence.
Lida Yuuichirou (The old guy that give us food) actually made me fell a lot confortable, unlike all the other guys
He looks just like a old funny man that likes to chat about random things with people he never met before and take care of others like a big father, didn't sound too weird to me
AND HE GIVE US *FREE FOOD*
Honestly? That sounds like a great night: drunkenly eating tasty street food while having a nice chat with the friendly food stall owner.
I think it helps that it doesn’t feel as… incredibly suspicious as the others. Because you fell asleep in a more public place so it definitely feels less like he’s trying to kidnap you imo.
Also ya free food.
As a straight woman every single clip you provided from this show (Food stall man was an obvious exception) made me feel so severely uncomfortable and at times I even physically backed away from my phone because I desperately needed these strange men out of my personal space.
"sensing you are uncomfortable with the situation, because you tell him you are uncomfortable with the situation..." stop, I can only laugh so much before my face starts to hurt
me, an empath, sensing that you are uncomfortable with the situation:
Finally. Finally someone else knows about the bizarre existence of pillow boys.
@kuyswe same
@kuyswe why?
I've found my fellow victims of this anime experience
@kuyswe
Why not?
The phrase "hot 5 year old" has solidified in my mind that we do not need anime anymore. I think after chainsaw man is finished we should collectively just wrap this whole thing up
No, millions of people still want to find One Piece first or else they'll riot. We can only wait till then.
@@arthurmorganSUN I accept your conditions
You think that all Japanese people need to not make art anymore?
@@arthurmorganSUN We don't need anime for another 20 years
The "hot" word was actually a mistranslation
the literal child one caught me so off-guard i lost all my faith in humanity at once- AND THEN THERE WAS ANOTHER ONE
Me too what the hell-
I'll assume it just meant to give you the soft and protective feeling of having a cute younger brother that is a light of your day (not romantically!) to save my sanity 😅
@@helly11035 me too, but the character description he got of being energetic and... oh god💀
this is why good translation is important 😩
theres aNOTHER ONE????
The skip on the 5-year old made me laugh so hard.
I can't believe they had a 5-year old segment.
Some people just want to a big sister figure
It's innocent... The kid is just an energetic and warm sunny little bug who talked about his day and his toy and called you Big Sis. The "hot" translation did him dirty.
@@anonymouslucario285When all other episodes have romantic/ sexual theme? And wtf is the “hot” 5 y/o ??? Creepy af
@@Shnozzler it's a mistranslation
@@ShnozzlerIf you watch It you see that theres nothing romantic implicated in the ep
Honestly thought the twins were going to start telling me which organs of mine they wanted.
Your commentary throughout left me wheezing in laughter. I think I would have been a bit terrified if it wasn’t for that.
I really want to know how they messed up the budget so badly to not even have like one bgm track for this animated series. Like, maybe if it was just an audio track then the lack of bgm would make sense but the eery silence makes the series very uncomfortable to watch. Though your narration made this very entertaining and I agree with you that the oden stall guy is the best one if only because he fits most of my personal check boxes lol.
You think they made one of those weird audio cds fans can buy, and then just animated it to sell more?
The oden one is the ONLY exception.
This made me wonder so I went to poke at it, and I think that the key is that the original concept might not have been a drama CD--those would often have at least SOME sound effects--but possibly primarily a mobile game. This fits better--you wouldn't have the background sounds so much because you'd be triggering new lines with actually tapping on the screen. Apps with like a picture of a boy and a set of voice lines are not uncommon, and something on your phone makes sense as a bedtime thing. I don't think the game did well; there's not much evidence of it anymore and it might never have had an English translation. But it does seem to have existed.
We need videos on the history of this strange Anime & quickly.
nevermind the budget, literally any royalty free music would have been better
The whiplash of I emotions I experienced between my initial "oh what a cute sheep pillow!" to my "oh God I absolutely hate this" when the boy started talking was quite disorienting.
Also the "we... Faint, I guess? New boy!" absolutely killed me
'OH F*CK OFF!' Funniest moment in the entire video. I came into the middle of the premier and didn't understand what the context was the first time - still laughed. When I watched from the beginning I couldn't stop laughing the entire time. BRAVO! Still funny without context.
Fucking same! I heard merry the butt toucher and I was deeply concerned and it just got worse from there. Watching it all the way through did not help.
18:15
I haven't watched the video yet but I wanted to say, I was the exact right age, demographic and mental state for this show when it came out and I loved it so much but also one episode in particular always creep'd me out because I was thinking on the exact same wavelengths the show expected so the dudes responses were so God damn accurate I was just like 0-0 and that didn't happen with the other episodes XD
Now I’m curious, which one was it?
@@lackluster6 the astrology guy one >.> xD
@@WorklessProductions2 nooooooo 😂
“Shush, it’s time to bother a working man” made me laugh so hard lmaooooo
I have never wanted to send a piece of media back to June 1917 with the sole context of "this is what the kneecapping of Achrduke Ferdinand will eventually lead to" more than I have at this precise moment.
Kneecapping?
..1917?
1917 might be a little late...
@@hithedragon7842 Trout is obviously trying to put the fear of Pillow Boys into the hearts of the soldiers. Show them what all their effort will lead to.
@@liamwhite3522" SOLDIER IF YOU DONT WIN THIS WAR I FORCE YOU TI WATCH PILLOW BOYS"
Ain't that motivation
@@hithedragon7842 OP is a trout. They grew up in school, but probably not one with a good history teacher.
these 'listen to a boy/girl talk at you for 5 minutes' things are always so goddamn weird but this one seems exceptionally so
How are all of them weird?
I think we're all in agreement that Ep 11 food stall -daddy- danshi is the best right? He might want us to get some rest and sleep but hooo boy if it's with him, I'd rather stay up all night 👀👀👀
I would tell you to behave yourself, as this is a public comment section, but agreement is far too powerful of a force.
for suuure, he's got it and we all want it, they knew to save the best for (second to) last
Handsome and can cook? Sign me up!
I was gonna say you're weird but then I got to that segment and he's better than most of them 😭
The only acceptable man out of the bunch
6:40 made me feel a crushing sadness. Some of the people on this team creative project were (probably) trying hard to produce a decent bit of entertainment and then... late one night a few hours before they needed to air the anime, a producer who hadn't slept for three days made the call to release it like that.
This feels like something the girl from Watamote would buy and then get caught watching by her dad
Honestly I really like the food guy. He seems like a really chill dude you can hang out with at any time. Plus the free food!
It’s like you’re being held captive by these strange men and merry wants to do the most damage to ya.
Idk the twins seem like they’re about to skin us alive.
...It would be kinda interesting if there was another series like this, but the men are actually interesting, and through the series more and more clues are revealed through the men's breaks in character or momentary glimpses into what is actually going on. Turns out this is some STRANGE, sick game you have found yourself in. You are the "final boss" of this said game, and the challenge, oddly enough, is for the men thrown into the game with you to either lull you into a sleep...or die. It always ends with either you or them falling asleep. You have infinite lives... They do not. As you learn more, the true dread and _terror_ creeps in. These men are all innocent, thrown into this SICK freak show of a game for some super being's entertainment. And as each episode passes, you begin to root more and more for the men trying to lull you to sleep, _hoping_ they succeed and get to live another day. Maybe even, your character begins to act differently as well, even trying to cooperate with these "players in the game" and sleep. However, this being unfair, the being controlling all of this begins to pull a few strings of its own. The series is very slow at first, purposefully drawn out to weed out the unworthy. But slowly, the series gets more and more intense as you try to escape this cycle and free these poor men! At least ONE of them! You manage to break free from the cage of that false reality, dragging the man you were with in that episode along. However, you are, still in first person, caught easily by the strange, beyond understanding creature itself. The last couple minutes of the series are of the monster, viciously tearing you apart to inflict a slow, _excruciating_ death... All while listing the names of EVERY man who lost and _died._ The men IT claims YOU killed... And then... The screen slowly fades to black...
"Sweet dreams" an unknown voice in the end credits whispers
I now dub this nonexistent series: "Try To Sleep"
Wow, the new indie game sounds great
@@areetablack5301 xD thanks
Someone needs to make this indie horror game. This sounds genuinely terrifying just from the description, I can only imagine what proper execution would look like.
@@ActuallySatan YYYAAAAASSSSS
Too bad I only know 3d animators...
I just want you to know that youtube decided to pause the video at “library man observes the children” and the silence that filled the time before I realized what had happened swallowed my entire consciousness.
The starting notes of the OP never get less funny.
There's something about that slight pause before he says the men.
Because they aren't.
This feels like watching cutscenes to a game who's producers are ridiculously copyright claim happy with the music. Like, there is so little context to them staring and talking at you. The "you may now swoon over these jpegs for the allotted 30 seconds of awkward silence" feel like there's a text bubble supposed to pop up and give you dialogue choices. This show feels like it's written by David Cage, a real Quantic Nightmare if you will.
Well that was exceedingly uncomfortable. Good job Mr. Point!
i remember seeing bits of this show when it first came out and i thought i was too aromantic to get the appeal. glad to know i'm not the only one who thinks it's creepy af
Needless to say, I had to tell everyone I know that there's a new one of these. This is so fucking weird and you are so good at presenting it to highlight just how fucking bizarre it is. I'm so happy you decided to do another one of these.
I would let my spiders crawl on me too if I knew a creepy, arachnophobic violinist *who does not play the violin* was about to watch me sleep.
Ironically staring at the screen which displays this anime would make you even more awake. This should've been a CD instead.
iirc these were originally part of a sleep aid drama cd series. also hetalia had a similar series for some fucking reason
@@non-binarycoding5505 tbh there was no type of spin-off that hetalia _didn’t_ get 💀
@@non-binarycoding5505 PLS I used to listen to them I loved the Germany one sm when I was younger idk how to feel knowing I unironically heard that shit lmao
I feel like this could had worked if the producers didn’t make such…. questionable decisions, so I’m going to take a crack at making this thing good, or just not insanely weir at least
First of we are changing that opening, if this is trying to lull you to sleep we are choosing soothing and calm opening
Second we are adding some sound effects, this not only adds to the asmr feel of this anime, but it also helps making things less creepy, now we get to the boys
Merry: can we not make him a pervert? Thanks, in our version he is your childhood friend who is doing some massager courses and offers to give you a massage because he sees that you are very stiff and stressed, he rambles about his day a bit and listens to you complain about work. For sound effects I would put some fabric sounds and some skin on skin sound
Tanaka: He is your boss who offered to take you home after he saw that you were a bit too drunk in an office party, you fell asleep not soon after getting in the car and awoke because he got a phone call, he offers you some tea and chats with you a bit.
Hanamine: He is your partner and we are hanging out with him as he practices some scales, he tells you about his last concert while flirting with you. Sound effects would be violin scales and some steps on hard wood floor
Kijinami: honestly? This one doesn’t need much change, just add some train noises in the background and that’s it
Emori: Shy guy that invited you to stargaze as a first date, it gets cold after a while and you two end up sharing a blanket, he tells you some star trivia and talks about the mythology behind some constellations. For sound effects some fabric sound for the blanket and some crickets sounds should be enough
Maki: not gona lie I kinda wanna leave this one in all of his 13 year old edge glory. Some fabric sound effects for his clothes and some distant chatter since you are in a high school
Enokawa: OH BOY this one is gonna need some fixing, in our version he is your YOUNGER BROTHER, he saw that you are very tired because of a very long study session and offered to help you get some sleep, he makes a bed time story using his toys as the characters. The sound effects would be mainly for his toys and maybe some cicada sounds in the background
Sasayama: A classmate and part time DJ who is inviting you to a party he is throwing. Some standard cafeteria background noise should suffice
Mochizuki: The librarian of the local library, you ask him for some book recommendations, he takes a few books that he thinks you might like and talks to you a bit about each one of them. Sound effects would be paper noises for the books and fabric sound for his clothes
The twins: Yeah I’m reworking these ones from the ground up. These are your twin butlers who came to your studio with an afternoon snack and to tidy the studio a bit. For sound effects mainly stepping sounds as they move around the room, and some varied noises as they move thing around for cleaning
Iidia: This one is perfect 11/10. Add some cooking sounds and we are done
Mini Merry: You are friends at your first sleepover, the dialogue probably can stay the same honestly. Ad some fabric sounds and we are good to go
I think this comment shows that, if the creators had made the episodes a bit longer and added some sounds (that you can probably get for free or very cheap somewhere, like how expensive could a cicada or train sounds possibly be?), this series would have been so much better. I really like your suggestions. I especially like the idea for the lil brother, it sounds really cute.
I like how this comment matches your username, lol. I think there'd be more fans behind this show if you were writing it. At the very least yours has sound added, LMAO.
Absolutely great ideas, my dude. Your username checks, really.
Keep Enokawa as is tho.
I feel an immense joy at your Good Universe version of Pillow Boys.
8:48 - oh my god, they're trying to do Symbolism. The POV character is holding out their hand, and a heart is coming out of it. OMG. Help.
It took me way too long to realize that lines like "Relax your posture. You're showing just how defenseless you are" wasn't ad libs but from the show jfc
I love how almost everyone who reacts to this anime always ends up loving the Food Stall Guy 😅❤❤❤
Hes the least creepy
As a long haired goatee bearing guy who occasionally wraps a rag around his head (it gets hot at the forge) I feel represented by Mr Foodstallguy.
I am not sure if I feel comfortable with this...
The fact that he is best boi is even more worrisome...
And some people say it’s hard to make a horror anime.
Not sure how "beautifully uncomfortable" would work, but that's what this vid is. Well done, I didn't know this power level was possible.
By episode 11 I was like "Oh shit a guy with facial hair, truly a rare occurence"
Most of these guys make me feel like I’m going to wake up without kidneys
Or lose my virginity (save for the kid and food stand dude)
the dead quiet violin part always gets me
"yo listen to this sick tune" Silence.
Even curated this was a horrifying experience. 10/10 horror anime
The weird thing about this anime is that it would have been far less creepy and much for ASMR-y if they just added ambience...
I watched these all in a row some years back, and I remember going 'Ah, okay, ah weird, ah GOD let that be a mistranslation, ah, cute I guess, ah, okay we'll talk to a therapist about this one' and then Oden Oji-san made me CRY. 'I DO work hard, Mr. Sexy Foodstand, and I WILL eat, chug, weep, and fall asleep all at the same time, thank you for your understanding.'
This gave me the laughs I needed, many thanks.
"The next thing I'll be playing is you; make sure you squeal well" is the funniest thing I've ever heard in the past ten minutes.
Imagine the dub potential of this anime
FRRRRR
"SLEEP MOTHERFUCKER!!"
Me: Alright then. ...
I wanna know how they would localize Dialect Danshi
@@juliamavroidi8601 Heavy southern accent, like Deep South Texas. That would be the only acceptable answer.
Please give the five year old the deepest voice for more comedic potential
“Mouth feel” is an interesting way to describe choosing your video subjects
Ironically, this has become my favorite video essay to fall asleep to. Thank you for validating 15 year old me, who thought she hallucinated this series.
Me: Cringing that a 5y/o was called "hot."
Also me: Subsequent laughter at how he noped out at the speed of light and I can't blame him one bit.
I played the violin for a couple years in my youth, so when I saw the violinist's bow touch his strings but didn't hear any music, my mind helpfully supplied the sound of an unrossined bow quietly scraping against strings (that's the non-music sound you hear when those things touch- it sounds exactly like nails on a chalkboard).
I hate ASMR and thought "no background noise? That sounds great!" ...i was wrong.
Every time I though the opening notes couldn't get funnier they did, Pillow Boys does it again
This entire anime feels like an psychological horror lol
i love this anime purely because its op goes so needlessly hard for a 4 minute sleep asmr thing. i have it in several playlists unironically its just like... weirdly good for what its from
Number 1: Naive kidnapper. Porbably was raised to believe keeping your loved ones hostage is normal. Chainsaw massacre kind of situation.
Number 2: The PUA creep. When he's not working he just reads THE GAME for the thousandth time. You helped him once at work and took advantage of you getting drunk at a company party. He doesnt even think what he's doing is wrong.
Number 3: Schizo kidnapper. Thinks he can play the violin with his mind and sees spiders everywhere from his Benadryl addiction. His hallucinations make him weak, and you manage to escape.
Number 4: The only normal one. His barber just did him filthy.
Number 5: Experienced killer. psycopath. Brought you to an isolated place and forces you to hear about his special interest as you bleed out.
Number 6: Not a psycho, just the edgy, annoying emo boy. He caught you listwning to my chemical once, and now clings to you.
Number 7: YOU are the psycho.
Number 10: You are DECIDEDLY NOT the psycho.
Number six is so accurate it hurts 😭😭😭 I was getting middle school flashbacks!!
Number 11: you have escaped your captors and the nice food stall man, seeing your malnourished state, is helping you to recuperate.
@@error-try-again-later
Number 12: The cicle repeats itself.
I want to continue the bit, but it's too hard to frame numbers 8 and 9 as serial kidnappers, and too easy for 10a and 10b.
Now I wanna make an Ao3 series where reader is stuck in a cycle of waking up in different worlds in front of different characters and waking up in another one as soon as they fall asleep again. Shit might be wholesome or get progressively creepier depending on my mood
If you make that PLEASE drop the link
Oooh, that would be a really cool premise!
See this just ends up being a psychological horror about a man desperately trying to hold onto his waking mind, a endeavour doomed from the start
i want the wretched kanenogi back... i feel like i could fall asleep to it gumming my head better than to these teary eyed predators threatening me😭
I’ve watched this a few times and EVERY SINGLE ONE I forget about astronomy danchi and am left thoroughly perplexed
Soooo... It's a show specifically targeted at Miko Iino from Kaguya-sama: Love is War.
My friend and I in high school stumbled upon this anime and did a 'try not to laugh' challenge with it. It wasn't that the show was funny in a comedic way, but it was so hard to not laugh at how uncomfortable the show was.
Amazing, flawless, masterpiece, not many shows can simulate being tied up by rambling serial killers while you wait for the chloroform to kick in, 10/10 I hated every second of it 👍
This makes me incredibly uncomfortable and it's kinda scary that the only noice in this are the voices of the boys.
I internally died when I read the desc about the character in episode 7: " Energetic, hot 5-year old"💀
But I had to laugh at the immediate skipping after he read it.😂
The Twins are Horror Movie material.😵
I remember as a teen I was tricked by a few AMV's into watching this anime and boy the horror it was to actually sit down and watch this on the TV I didn't make it pass episode 2
Anyone else hit in the chest by the line "I understand how hard it is to be happy?"
If it is of any comfort, I think the ‘hot’ in ‘super energetic, hot 5-year-old’ probably is a direct translation to ‘atsui’ in Japanese, which can also refer to a person who is passionate, hot headed, basically someone with a lot of energy .
[or atleast I’m hoping they meant it this way💀]
They didn’t unfortunately… I went to check and the word used to describe him is イケメン (ikemen), which is popular Japanese slang for a man that is physically attractive. I don’t know if you can say it in a plutonic way, but it’s pretty weird to describe a five year old like that anyway. Sorry if I’ve ruined what little faith in humanity remained lol. And please correct me if I’m wrong, I’m still learning Japanese and had to research the word :)
I used to watch a lot of otome anime with my friends. They are universally awful. You should check out Miracle Train, the one where the boys kidnap girls into their magical subway car and solve their problems with Train Facts.
Wait, I think get to know about train facts is cool. And man, I just don't know which one is more universally awful, watching a creepy and _certainly_ not predatory otome anime or watching another cliche isekai anime with lolis harem
@@valhatan3907 heal thyself with foodgasm anime, especially Isekai foodgasm anime. Or farming lol.
I saw miracle train. I couldn't finish it cos it was so terrible XD.
Idk, personally I don't know a single problem that can't be solved by Train Facts.
I’m gonna watch it
i watched this video so many times. I keep coming back to it. I just love the sheer horror and discomfort in every line. The way you just skip the child. The delivery of the jokes. Everything just tickles me in the right way. This and the Moumin Marriage video are just top notch content.
The scream I scrumpt every time there was a new boy! They all triggered my fight or flight so quickly! And not having sound made every experience 100 times worse 😂😂😂
It's astonishing to think this got its own otome game, manga one shots,17 CD dramas, and voice actors's commentary bonus CDs.
They what
@@Limacinablues yes, and you can find all the cds in RUclips too.
excuse me WHAT?
@@juliamavroidi8601 yep, and gladly the MC (us) aren't in the manga and some CDs, which makes it a lot less creepy.
I haven't watched anything of yours in YEARS- but when i saw this in my recommendations i was fully expecting humor along the lines of "It's funny because its made for girls!"
I am pleasantly surprised to be reminded of your hilarious commentary, but also horrified to find out how disgustingly bad Pillow Boys actually is. (I knew close to nothing about Pillow Boys until this video) It deserves to be made fun of.
You made the uncomfortable parts of the show easier to swallow, while also being relatable, hilarious, and transparent.
I've seen too much garbage online so i might be the only one thinking about it like this, but I just wanted you to know that I found this one extremely refreshing.
I genuinely *like* Jingai-san no Yome, even, but I also adored having all its weird bits compiled in a single place. This, I do not like the show, but also I'm glad for the focus mostly on the parts that would have been really fucking weird even in a better-made show. 100%, I really appreciate the ability to walk this line.
@@Nassifeh yeah i was mainly going real hard on the show for the implied pedophilia going on- but i wont judge people who like the show. (Sorry if I sounded too harsh)
As long as you understand the flaws of it and you wouldn't describe a child as "hot" you're fine. The media people consume doesn't always have to correlate with who they are as a person.
I appreciate this vid a lot cause explaination point isn't judging any potential audiences of the show, and decides to keep the critique to the show itself. Which is nice because too often i hear stuff like "WHY DO PEOPLE WATCH THIS GARBAGE??" or "EVERYONE WHO LIKES THIS THING IS A [insert offensive term here]"
It's refreshing seeing a comedic critique of the work itself rather than an aspect of society or a specific audience, if that makes sense.
@@rachelvelander5377 It's fiction.
@@bimates2690 welcome to my point
@@rachelvelander5377yeah calling a five year old kid hot is weird af but I'm going to assume it's a translation error
So.... what does it say about me when I either know right away who the voice actors are or at least recognize the voices even if the names escape me?
God, I remember watching this as it aired out of curiosity, but forgot how WEIRD it was... and I LOVE ASMR.
IKR. im sitting here just like, leave it to the professionals, professional company. the youtube people have mastered this art in a very niche but honestly comforting way.
You know somehow I was thinking about how I have a Japan trip in a month and I should probably at least learn a few words in Japan. I I realize that I won't be able to speak proper Japanese but at least a few words and you've managed to sell me on Rosetta Stone in like 30 seconds.
It's really good!
It's the silence before they say one singular word that does it for me 😌
Not me alone in the office adding the Foley for the music boy episode by slamming my desk and screaming, " NOOOOOOOOOO"
I straight up bought this anime on DVD years ago simply because I was told it was weird and I wanted it in my collection. I went through an embarrassing amount of struggle to find it T.T
oh no i was the exact target audience for this when it first came out and we all laughed but at the same time also unironically enjoyed the fantasy (even if it was still admittedly weird and awkward af)
As I watched this video and heard the creepy absents of ambience audio with only the voice of the pillow boys, I fantasized about jumping out the window, off the roof or in a lake.
EXCEPT, for episodes 7 (wanted to hunt down and falcon punch the author/s), 8 (wanted to fortify the windows, lock the doors and leave to toast eggo waffles in an empty pool), and finally 11 (I wanted to give him the highest honor I can bestow on a pillow boy, just chat with the dude and become platonic bros).
Thank you, anthropomorphic punctuation. I’ve learned that I’m not into creepy shit :D👍
They should of just made all 12 episodes about the food stall guy and it would be a 10/10 anime
"forgive me mother" killed me XD
Also, has Bryant ever expressed their sexuality? just curious if the interest in that particular boy is genuine or feigned.
Feigned, but he do be real pretty tho.
The coworker and the twins made me feel so unsafe 😅
The narration in this video somehow reminded me of the horror podcast Hello from the Hallowoods
My favorite thing about pillow boys is that they have voice acting legends working on this. Nobunaga Shimazaki, Ayumu Murase, Natsuki Hanae, Toshiyuki Morikawa, Kosuke Toriumi, Yoshitsugu Matsuoka. It’s unreal to me that they’ve got all these famous VAs to voice a single 4 minute episode of a bad asmr trip.
Eh. It's not that surprising. Otome ASMR/situation CDs were all the rage in the drama CD scene in the late 2000s-early 2010s which I feel like this series also was originally. Plus the Drama CD scene is mostly made up of well known and up & coming male seiyuu, so a lot of situation CDs like this (& BL Dramas) were the bulk of their work at the time.