you see, the reason the screens were white after lance and the final rival was because how much snow was in the room after you frosted the place over with so many blizzards
As someone who didn't know you knew Japanese, I thought the whole joke of choosing Pokémon Green but only being able to press A would be "Just mashing A because I can't read."
I always liked green and leaf green, doesn't really matter if that one pokemon is weak during certain parts of the game if you just....have other pokemon I don't even keep my starter pokemon, I don't like how they force it on me like that, maybe I wanted to start with a rattata lol
As a japanese teacher, i relate so much to the kana-only pain. reading my A1/A2 level student's essays which are also never properly spaced is the slowest id ever read
@@MFG1243 If only my talent wasn't being able to read English in very weird ways. But who needs something like being able to complete math equations in your brain quickly and accurately anyway!
31:13 Oak: congrats “a” , you are the champion. I am so proud of you. Now let’s officially induct you into the history books as the champion. *pushes button* Random voice: “nuclear launch activated” “a”: ... Oak: “sorry. I can only press the a button and the hall of fame button is below the ‘nuke the league’ button. I’ll see you in pokéhell” Screen fades to white.
Something else worth noting is that Fire didn't start resisting Ice until Gen II, so those Ice Beams and Blizzards were actually Super Effective against that Charizard.
I have a friend who learned Japanese just because “Japanese versions of games come out earlier” Imagine learning an entire language to play a game before localisation
Video Games being the reason for Gamers to learn another language is WAY more common than you think it is... especcially for non-english native speakers... Because while MOST games from all over the world get an english localisation at some time... most languages never get localisations. And I personally learned enough Japanese two finish 2 old japanese only GBA games.
I did play Black 2 before release in the states, but I don’t know Japanese. I learned what most of the moves were, with the animations/typing/pp, and kinda made up the story as I went along. The only problem was the Plasma ship, since you needed passwords to get to Colress, but at that point people had already posted guides. Other than that, if you understand Pokémon, most of the games are straight forward enough to play blind
I long have stood by the notion that kana are the challenging part of Japanese. My textbook with about 600 characters used is still challenging, because of the kana... It's like once you've taken the kanji plunge, it becomes your best friend
I've also seen it translated as a heavy texan accent. While I can't say I understand the meaning of the accent itself, something that is somewhere between a Texan and a Brooklyn accent somehow sooooorta makes sense?
You know, when I first saw this video I just assumed that pressing A in a very specific pattern would just glitch you to the hall of fame because Gen 1 is just that broken.
Thanks for watching! Let me know how your run goes if you end up attempting it! I'd imagine the ability to switch moves out of battle won't make up for the opponents having actual AI...
Wouldn't part of the Kana script thing be more than just "kids' game" tho? Isn't it more of a memory limitation. I think I remember hearing it's common in older games.
You know, when I saw the title, I didn't even think it'd be clickbait, I just thought Red/Green were broken enough that some programming oversight meant you could press A enough and you'd move and turn. Still a really interesting video, though. That kana-only rant is mood - I tried playing through LGPE in kana only because 'it must be the easier one because it's aimed at younger children'. I gave up well before brock and switched to kanji+furigana it was so much easier to read, even for someone who knew nearly 0 kanji at the time
Haha I love this so damn much. I haven't laughed this much in a while watching pokemon runs. Surge, and the explanations of different things really push this up the quality
Mine to. I'm not obsessed with there culture or anything, but being able to watch/read something like Dragon Maid (the best media ever) would be awesome
24:38 Porygon was actually not to blame for that incident. It was Pikachu blowing up team rocket's rockets with an electric move. I don't know which one exactly, but if it was thunderbolt, it's an odd coincidence.
Have you ever considered mr. mime instead of lapras? You can get an abra to trade from the casino and you can trade it on route 2. Moreover you can do it before the third gym and before the rocket hideout, you can use the psychic TM as soon as you get the mr.mime and, since it's a traded pokemon, it levels up faster! Psychic seems a good move for the whole run (with STAB too...)
My aunt gifted me Japanese Gold back when I couldn't read any Japanese, so my playthrough pretty much amounted to mashing A and using moves that had "cool" animations.
@@ImportedCheese I did pretty much the same with Black because I got it as a gift and couldn't wait for a release in a language I could actually understand. It was probably a lot easier than Gold would've been because there is a lot more non-text stuff to get by with but it was certainly an experience. 🤣 To this day I don't know what my team did except for the fact that Darmanitan was a beast.
The fact you won this challenge aside, I also like how you had every Lord's theme from Pokemon Conquest play according to the Gym Leader/E4 member you fought [like Nobunaga/Dragnor's theme for the Lance fight]. Conquest was easily my favorite Pokemon spinoff lol.
There are way too many beginner's Japanese guides that recommend playing Pokémon because "it doesn't have Kanji". I'm glad pointed out why that's nonsense. When I started out with Kanji, I thought everyone who said that they actually make reading easier when you know them just suffers from stockholm syndrome. But they're right. Mostly. When it's not obscure readings, or Nanori, or Ateji...
@@ImportedCheese That moment when Japanese learners complain about learning to read Kanji. For us Chinese learners, Kanji is literally everything! * tears hair out * I love your videos, you crack me up. Subbed.
Good Lord... I blocked out the Thunderbolt animation with my hand and I still have a headache from it. Fighting Lt. Surge must have been sheer torture. How did people only get seizures from the anime?
True, although it's about as easy to figure out as "Tombstoner" is for us. Hyper Beam is known as [破壊光線] (はかいこうせん) or "Destruction Beam;" the "Die-Die" part is pretty obviously made up >.>
@@coyraig8332 But how do you select it to use it? You can't use Cut or Surf in the overworld in Gen 1 without going into the menu; there isn't a prompt like in Gen 2 that allows you to just press A. Likewise, you'd have to cycle down through your movesets to choose the move you want to replace. I guess I took the challenge more seriously lol
This video has been my first time hearing about some of the regional differences (other than the infamous "old man being drunk") and lowkey wanna start memeing the hell out of them 👀👀👀
30:48 good ol' badge boost glitch to the rescue (even tho Charizard's weak to ice because fire is cold in gen spaghetti). And ofc it crashes in the end, it's Pokémon Spaghetti: Spaghetti edition
That story about the Japanese middle school student's American impression sent my sides into orbit. I would love to see a video from you chronicling all the other funny stories and interactions from when you used to teach in Japan!
I've been rewatching your older videos and honestly I'd love to see some more challenge videos, maybe something Gen 3 related since I think only one ADV video is on here? I dunno, but I'd love to see more challenge videos
A pretty neat idea I couldn’t have ever come with. I kinda want to do this sort of routing in Omega Ruby. Was debating B2/W2, but the grinding would be HELLISH there. Anyway, wish me luck! ^^
The fact that the game fucking crashed when you won SENT me. I respect Gen1 for starting my favorite franchise of all time, but GOD they're a MESS. Nice run, very interesting to learn little factoids about Japanese and the original translations as well!
16:40 i know this is actually just an obscure song from one of the less popular pokemon games but i can't not think of jrose hearing it lol Anyway this is AMAZING. I laughed so much
I think the reason why thunderbolt has the cancerous animation that it does is probably because of the nature of the gameboy, it was intended to be played on a tiny display with no backlight
A lot of Gen 1's atrocious back sprites (like Venusaur's squashed salad) make more sense when you consider the original Green sprites. Lapras got a really good deal!
Just wanna add to the reading point made that while old Pokemon games (or rather old games in general) use kana only, XY (and possibly SM) is the exact opposite having an option for kanji without furigana. I absolutely love it. I hate furigana almost as much as kana only.
About doing Japanese immersion through videogames, I'm playing Stardew Valley in Japanese (shoutouts to Google Translate's manual kanji input function). The localization is a bit iffy at some points, but on the other hand, that kind of makes me proud whenever I realize something's wrong.
@@ImportedCheese I'll have a look into it! At some point I also gave Pokémon Green a try but... Yeah, I definitely ran into the exact same problem you describe in the video, with the added bonus that I'm most likely much less fluent than you are.
You should do a play through of the bootleg English translated version of Green. I’m pretty sure it’s a Vietnamese or Chinese translation of Green, translated back into English. It’s pretty hilarious. A channel named ButtVault made half a play through a few years ago.
Yeah I was thinking that too. I guess he probably decided not to since by the time magikarp was leveled up enough, that's about the time you can get lapras anyway unless you grind walking
@@ImportedCheese To them I give the reminder that only the battles are affected by that rule. And since evolution only takes place once a battle ends, it's fair game. But let's just say you didn't want to do a no evolution run because you wanted to actually stand a chance against later battles without having to grind to level 100 as that's no fun.
Nice to see stuff from another Japan resident. I can easily agree with the 'reading japanese in games' bit. Tried a Shield run on stream in Hiragana and hoo boy was it hard to understand without context (thankfully theres a kanji toggle). Still learning Kanji but I can read a few hundred, so maybe I'll have another go in the future.
Hey, thanks for watching! I find it so bizarre that Pokemon goes 0-100, you can have 100% hiragana or 100% kanji with no furigana option (???) Won't Gamefreak think of the children...?
Im adding yet another comment bc comments are good for the youtube algorithm and I just reached the Weeb Rant(tm) and I took 4yrs of mandarin in high school and loved every minute of it I swear. My knowledge is now lost to time but honestly, yeah, lots of characters, hard pronounciations for a native english speaker. I have or had a chinese newspaper at some point and I wanted to read chinese books and learn the language fluently but I have poor motivation skills if its not related to nerd shit like, for example, pokemon and d&d Yet still Mandarin to me is 10000% easier than spanish and my lineage is hispanic
I wish my mom had taught me Japanese growing up. I'm at the point where I can read most characters comfortably enough, but it's still much more effort than it takes me to read English. And text like Pokemon without an kanji character actively causes me pain.
@@ImportedCheese Yeah big same with me and Spanish. Wish I learned it growing up from mi abuela, but whats hard about it for me is the whole "every word has a gender" thing. In Mandarin, its all in the character. She/he/it (idk if there is technically nonbinary pronouns in Chinese) is all represented by "tā" and only the character changes (他，她). And if you wanna plural it? Just put "men" after it (他们). Spanish? Well you have your choice of el, ella, nosotros, and uh....other things that I dont remember. And you have to use some words based on what YOUR gender is. And I'm nonbinary so like....tf do I do lmao. Let alone how other people would address me assuming they respect my pronouns.
@@ImportedCheese It's probably mostly due to a lack of practice. When we read eg. English, our brains try to spot the shapes of words, and no competent Japanese reader is used to looking for the shapes of kana sequences: They're trained to spot kanji. There's also some evidence that the density of the script we read affects our field of focus a bit - denser script, narrower field of view and the reverse. Mixed script is reasonably dense, while kana only script is much looser, so that also adds to the initial discomfort. Both are effects you'd expect to go away by mass exposure, and we don't exactly see people claiming that reading most other languages is torture. Korean seems to work fine (though Korean written in hangul is often denser than mixed Japanese), as do several other languages that are similar to Japanese in some ways but use a Latin or Cyrillic alphabet.
you see, the reason the screens were white after lance and the final rival was because how much snow was in the room after you frosted the place over with so many blizzards
g o o d b y e d o n
= O
As someone who didn't know you knew Japanese, I thought the whole joke of choosing Pokémon Green but only being able to press A would be "Just mashing A because I can't read."
Pit plays Pokémon
@@bawesom4 XD
I always liked green and leaf green, doesn't really matter if that one pokemon is weak during certain parts of the game if you just....have other pokemon
I don't even keep my starter pokemon, I don't like how they force it on me like that, maybe I wanted to start with a rattata lol
As a japanese teacher, i relate so much to the kana-only pain. reading my A1/A2 level student's essays which are also never properly spaced is the slowest id ever read
At least Pokemon has the courtesy to insert spaces...!
yeahicanimaginethatwouldbeveryannoying
@@MFG1243 If only my talent wasn't being able to read English in very weird ways. But who needs something like being able to complete math equations in your brain quickly and accurately anyway!
“Either Bulbasaur or Charmander will do, but DO NOT pick Squirtle...”
Well, duh, of course not. Squirtle doesn’t have an “A” in its name.
あ
Charuzu Anjero 😳
Charuzu Anjero あ
Charuzu anjero nabaro 😂
I honestly thought that's what he was gonna say when I was watching it haha
31:13
Oak: congrats “a” , you are the champion. I am so proud of you. Now let’s officially induct you into the history books as the champion. *pushes button*
Random voice: “nuclear launch activated”
“a”: ...
Oak: “sorry. I can only press the a button and the hall of fame button is below the ‘nuke the league’ button. I’ll see you in pokéhell”
Screen fades to white.
The ending that was too spicy for the west.
@@ImportedCheese
Huh. He still comments on the video. Morning, sir
@@pipo8561 Yeah, I get notifications! Good morning! Just waiting for RUclips to finally approve Glitches Part 4 =/
ah yes my favorite trainer class
*m i n i s k i r t*
Gotta have the parallel to s h o r t s b o i
Perv
@@visionaeon Perv and proud
@@visionaeon shut up!!!!!!!!
@@ImportedCheese
How'd you get to Cinnabar Island? ;)
“if we’re only gonna be mashing one button, an i win button is a good choice”
Expert strategies only on this channel!
Something else worth noting is that Fire didn't start resisting Ice until Gen II, so those Ice Beams and Blizzards were actually Super Effective against that Charizard.
I have a friend who learned Japanese just because “Japanese versions of games come out earlier”
Imagine learning an entire language to play a game before localisation
Ah yes, the monster hunter fandom usee to be like this.
I would learn to understand Anime that wasn't censored by who ever dubs them into English and German, has no western politics forced into them etc.
Video Games being the reason for Gamers to learn another language is WAY more common than you think it is... especcially for non-english native speakers...
Because while MOST games from all over the world get an english localisation at some time... most languages never get localisations.
And I personally learned enough Japanese two finish 2 old japanese only GBA games.
I did play Black 2 before release in the states, but I don’t know Japanese. I learned what most of the moves were, with the animations/typing/pp, and kinda made up the story as I went along. The only problem was the Plasma ship, since you needed passwords to get to Colress, but at that point people had already posted guides. Other than that, if you understand Pokémon, most of the games are straight forward enough to play blind
Yeah can you imagine... haha... what a nerd.
Every time I see an attack, my brain says "It's that tackle! It's that ice beam" unexpected consequence of あ
Your PC becomes あの PC...that PC!
I feel so proud for understanding this one
あの
Could you classify imported cheese as some kind of butter because man your voice is smooth as butter
Thank you! The cheese refers to my real-life last name. The exact variety is a secret!
I was literally about to comment that I love this mans voice. Golden as hell 💛💛
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I would’ve said as some fine RUclipsr since cheese gets better the older it gets ;)
It really depends on if you prefer your extra-territorially sourced lactating mammal fluids in fermented solid or toast-paint variations
The reason for that American stereotype is probably bc of our base in Okinawa. Marines and Sailors have a reputation for colorful language lol.
Can confirm: my dad wasn't an "actual" sailor for very long, but I learned a few choice words from him. Even a German one!
@@bsharpmajorscale h
@@glowstonelovepad9294 No, that wasn't it, but that was one of the letters! :P
@@bsharpmajorscale as a German, i am curious what *the* German Word is, that he chose to teach you
@@lennartbaumgartel6475 maybe shiza?
this channel is great and I love the humor: especially the obscure Japanese jokes
Thanks for watching! Invite your weeb friends, I guarantee the obscure Japanese jokes will continue.
I long have stood by the notion that kana are the challenging part of Japanese. My textbook with about 600 characters used is still challenging, because of the kana... It's like once you've taken the kanji plunge, it becomes your best friend
Bill's accent is what us Americans call a "Brookline accent"
Eyyy I'm WALKIN HERE
@@ImportedCheese WATCHIT PAL
I've also seen it translated as a heavy texan accent.
While I can't say I understand the meaning of the accent itself, something that is somewhere between a Texan and a Brooklyn accent somehow sooooorta makes sense?
Joey from Yugioh makes perfect sense now
I actually cried a little with the Jrose11 reference. Omg dude you're hilarious like seriously
Ahaha, thanks for the complement!
I try xD
Yes! This is what I was looking for! Rival Fival for the win. LOL
Rival Fiveal all the way (:
@@ImportedCheese thank you for not using MDB's overused '''''jokes''''' like so many of these types of videos do
@@pokemonduck For real, MDB is as stale as his channel name.
You know, when I first saw this video I just assumed that pressing A in a very specific pattern would just glitch you to the hall of fame because Gen 1 is just that broken.
This man's Bill impression is now the only way i will imagine him from now on
"As he prepared to induct us into the HoF the game crashes"
I was in STITCHES
That was hilarious
Give this man a sub!
It's like a curse from a fantasy RPG: as soon as you enter combat, you start fighting mindlessly.
Sounds like standard RPG combat to me! Mash A, save the world.
"I'm warpin' 'ere!"
And I'm dying here (of laughter)
I might attempt this same run in black 2 challenge mode. Cheers for the idea.
Thanks for watching! Let me know how your run goes if you end up attempting it! I'd imagine the ability to switch moves out of battle won't make up for the opponents having actual AI...
Pokémon Blue Machop: Where do you train?
Pokémon Green Machop: In the library.
On the hub
The video library of a popular adult website, that is.
lets be real we all did this challenge as 4 year olds playing pokemon
Wouldn't part of the Kana script thing be more than just "kids' game" tho? Isn't it more of a memory limitation. I think I remember hearing it's common in older games.
Also resolution. Japanese devs were pretty ingenious with with how few pixels they can draw kanji with, but there's limits.
I think "Rival Fival" should become the official name of that character. LOL
Another Jrose11 fan? 👀👀
@@henrymars6626 Yes!
Oh, a Mah-Dry-Bread Enjoyer.
No. It's annoying and my ears bleed every time I hear it.
cheers I'll drink to that bro
Didn't know you lived in Japan! Loved your Japanese explanations :D
Awesome video, and a different challenge run than most haha
Thanks for your support!!!
@@ImportedCheese no problem! When your channel gets giant, I wanna be one of those annoying guys saying I was around when it was still little haha
I'll pin a few of those comments, gimme a few months haha
@@ImportedCheese remember this monke when you get big.
You know, when I saw the title, I didn't even think it'd be clickbait, I just thought Red/Green were broken enough that some programming oversight meant you could press A enough and you'd move and turn.
Still a really interesting video, though. That kana-only rant is mood - I tried playing through LGPE in kana only because 'it must be the easier one because it's aimed at younger children'. I gave up well before brock and switched to kanji+furigana it was so much easier to read, even for someone who knew nearly 0 kanji at the time
10:06 That “wait T H E R E’s M O R E” hit different
The crash at the end was a great way to end a GEN 1 run lmao.
Man it is facinating to get to hear all these tidbits about green and how the text is written! Neat!
Came for the unique Pokémon challenge, stayed for the cool Japanese facts. Really enjoy your commentary and sense of humor!
Hey, thanks for watching!
As long as you're not commenting, "EXCUSE ME, YOU USED THE D-PAD!" I'm a happy camper xD
Haha I love this so damn much. I haven't laughed this much in a while watching pokemon runs. Surge, and the explanations of different things really push this up the quality
Turbo Weeb is my new favourite term 😂
It tears up the high-school meta! I didn't become a weeb until college, unfortunately.
Mine to. I'm not obsessed with there culture or anything, but being able to watch/read something like Dragon Maid (the best media ever) would be awesome
Ah, I forgot you could walk around using the A button.
"In battle"
So basically Bill is Joey Wheeler from the dub? 🤔
Eyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy
I uh, may have taken some creative license with my Bill "impersonation."
Well that explains why bill has a weird accent in the localization of Pokémon special.
also, I think Bill's accent in English is supposed to be Southern. Hence the "Yee-hah" and "I can't stand fancy dos"
Thunderbolt animation be like:
Lavender Town Syndrome amirite?
Amazing video. And also informative with the Weeb Rant section before the Elite 4. Thank you!
24:38 Porygon was actually not to blame for that incident. It was Pikachu blowing up team rocket's rockets with an electric move. I don't know which one exactly, but if it was thunderbolt, it's an odd coincidence.
Nothing is ever Pikachu's fault, Porygon was sacrificed for Pikachu's sins
Have you ever considered mr. mime instead of lapras? You can get an abra to trade from the casino and you can trade it on route 2. Moreover you can do it before the third gym and before the rocket hideout, you can use the psychic TM as soon as you get the mr.mime and, since it's a traded pokemon, it levels up faster! Psychic seems a good move for the whole run (with STAB too...)
Sounds cool in theory, but Mr. Mime doesn't get access to any Ice-type moves, and Blizzard is really nice to have for Lance.
That's pretty much what playing Pokemon as a little child would be like. "Just mashing A because I can't read."
My aunt gifted me Japanese Gold back when I couldn't read any Japanese, so my playthrough pretty much amounted to mashing A and using moves that had "cool" animations.
@@ImportedCheese I did pretty much the same with Black because I got it as a gift and couldn't wait for a release in a language I could actually understand. It was probably a lot easier than Gold would've been because there is a lot more non-text stuff to get by with but it was certainly an experience. 🤣 To this day I don't know what my team did except for the fact that Darmanitan was a beast.
I always used every move the same number of times
The fact you won this challenge aside, I also like how you had every Lord's theme from Pokemon Conquest play according to the Gym Leader/E4 member you fought [like Nobunaga/Dragnor's theme for the Lance fight]. Conquest was easily my favorite Pokemon spinoff lol.
Pokemon Conquest is better than Fire Emblem Conquest!
There are way too many beginner's Japanese guides that recommend playing Pokémon because "it doesn't have Kanji".
I'm glad pointed out why that's nonsense.
When I started out with Kanji, I thought everyone who said that they actually make reading easier when you know them just suffers from stockholm syndrome. But they're right.
Mostly. When it's not obscure readings, or Nanori, or Ateji...
After years and years I can finally read most things, but whenever I come across the name of a person or place, I usually can't read it =/
@@ImportedCheese That moment when Japanese learners complain about learning to read Kanji. For us Chinese learners, Kanji is literally everything! * tears hair out * I love your videos, you crack me up. Subbed.
12:04
Apparently Lt. Surge in the Japanese version of the Pokemon anime is the principal from Ranma 1/2.
Good Lord... I blocked out the Thunderbolt animation with my hand and I still have a headache from it. Fighting Lt. Surge must have been sheer torture. How did people only get seizures from the anime?
They literally call epilepsy checks in the TV industry "The Pokemon Check" because of that Porygon episode =/
As a filthy genwunner, a Green run makes me sooooo happy.
Pokémon green: もっとプレイヤーが欲しい！
You:Can I offer you an A button in this trying time ?
Even use Gaijin scum who can't ready moon runes can mash A!
You didn't mention it, but apparently that fake move in Cinnabar Gym is based on Hyper Beam's Japanese name.
True, although it's about as easy to figure out as "Tombstoner" is for us. Hyper Beam is known as [破壊光線] (はかいこうせん) or "Destruction Beam;" the "Die-Die" part is pretty obviously made up >.>
@@ImportedCheese hmmm, reminds of a dragonball move
@@ImportedCheese
How'd you get to Cinnabar? You have to Surf to get there, and last you said you didn't learn it.
@@hanburgundy4317 I think he only said he wouldn't learn it over the attacking move
@@coyraig8332
But how do you select it to use it? You can't use Cut or Surf in the overworld in Gen 1 without going into the menu; there isn't a prompt like in Gen 2 that allows you to just press A. Likewise, you'd have to cycle down through your movesets to choose the move you want to replace. I guess I took the challenge more seriously lol
Thank you on the Pokemon Conquest music, that's massive nostalgia
alright frick the challenge i watched it for the osaka to new york dialect translation
had no idea haze killed the badge boosts, is that only green?
B A D A B I N G B A D A B O O M
I believe Haze also kills your boosts in Red/Blue
Pokémon conquest music??? Man I miss that game a ton
This video has been my first time hearing about some of the regional differences (other than the infamous "old man being drunk")
and lowkey wanna start memeing the hell out of them 👀👀👀
8:18 My favorite moment in Pokémon is when bill says "Is warpin time" and starts to warp all over the place
did he deal a warpillion damage?!
Nice Jrose reference for Rival Fiveal
Jrose11 reference? Never heard of him or the other 10 jRoses. Pretty sure Fiveal is the Rival's default name.
30:48 good ol' badge boost glitch to the rescue (even tho Charizard's weak to ice because fire is cold in gen spaghetti). And ofc it crashes in the end, it's Pokémon Spaghetti: Spaghetti edition
That story about the Japanese middle school student's American impression sent my sides into orbit. I would love to see a video from you chronicling all the other funny stories and interactions from when you used to teach in Japan!
This video is so great!! A fun challenge on top of hearing/learning the translation is just phenomenal. Thank you!
12:42 what you said about the 'a' character is starting to make sense to me now
I've been rewatching your older videos and honestly I'd love to see some more challenge videos, maybe something Gen 3 related since I think only one ADV video is on here? I dunno, but I'd love to see more challenge videos
I have more planned, but they take a very long time to make, sadly. The Legends Arceus one took like...80 hours.
That thunderbolt animation is so hilariously over the top lmaooo
Very nice! I came because the idea of a challenge run on Pokemon Green intrigued me, but I stayed for the Weeb Jrose and Japanese 101.
EYyy welcome!
There will be more Weebery to come.
6:31 Wow 100 IQ? That's like max, isn't it?
Amazin'
Yeah, I mean...how could a score go higher than 100, right?!
@@ImportedCheese Damn dude that's like an A+, good job
A pretty neat idea I couldn’t have ever come with. I kinda want to do this sort of routing in Omega Ruby. Was debating B2/W2, but the grinding would be HELLISH there. Anyway, wish me luck! ^^
Good luck！
I'll try it in DaiPa remake next, probably. Infernape good pokemon!
The Pokemon Conquest music in the background is- mwah
I really love your videos! You're really doing those games justice. Back in the og days I've used to watch missingnoxpert.
You are hilarious and this deserves a lot more views!
Aw, thanks!
Is that...an Anna avatar?
@@ImportedCheese Np and yes! It's meant to be me as Ana.
The fact that the game fucking crashed when you won SENT me. I respect Gen1 for starting my favorite franchise of all time, but GOD they're a MESS.
Nice run, very interesting to learn little factoids about Japanese and the original translations as well!
dude ur gonna end up being the new gamechamp
the person on youtube that completes hard-as-hell challenges at the cost of their mental health
This video took me back to a happy place I didn’t even know I had...? Idk, I guess I really enjoyed it.
That Xenoblade joke earned my sub
16:40 i know this is actually just an obscure song from one of the less popular pokemon games but i can't not think of jrose hearing it lol
Anyway this is AMAZING. I laughed so much
I wouldn't have put it without having heard it in a Jrose vid ahaha
Your translated voice acting at 8:05 is actually really good! :D
Eyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy
I think the reason why thunderbolt has the cancerous animation that it does is probably because of the nature of the gameboy, it was intended to be played on a tiny display with no backlight
0:52 Any letter will become edgier when written with katana.
Cool to see someone talk about the Japanese versions. As someone who reads Chinese and some basic Japanese...if I ever play Pokemon it'll be XY.
I just realized that during rival fight number 5, having a fighting type would be HELL
Lapras' back sprite looks really cool in green :)
A lot of Gen 1's atrocious back sprites (like Venusaur's squashed salad) make more sense when you consider the original Green sprites. Lapras got a really good deal!
@@ImportedCheese G1 is the only one where the back sprites stayed the same throughout the entire generation, even if front sprites got updated.
Gen 1 trainers: Use confuse ray on confused foes.
Gen 1 players: _YOU CAN'T BREAK WHAT'S ALREADY BROKEN!!!_
This kind of content isn't for me, but I love the energy you bring to your content! I loved watching and listening!
Good thing that Pokemon added Kanji since Gen5. Makes it heck lot easier to read after that.
Just wanna add to the reading point made that while old Pokemon games (or rather old games in general) use kana only, XY (and possibly SM) is the exact opposite having an option for kanji without furigana. I absolutely love it. I hate furigana almost as much as kana only.
Every single time he says "a" I am immediately reminded of surskit.
The sprites are killing me man. The commentary is spot on too.
AAA
The fact that the game crashed at the end made laugh in the bathroom.
Actually unscripted, I have no idea why the game crashed, but at least we made it to the HoF lol
it's a fitting end for a really glitchy game lol
Keep it up man you’re gonna be full time yt in 9 months
Ive watched this video like 20 times now and its still a great watch. The concept is dumb in just the best way possible🤣
Haven't seen Billy Mays jokes in a while, nice
About doing Japanese immersion through videogames, I'm playing Stardew Valley in Japanese (shoutouts to Google Translate's manual kanji input function). The localization is a bit iffy at some points, but on the other hand, that kind of makes me proud whenever I realize something's wrong.
I heard also that Stardew Valley's localization was...suspicious. You gotta play the Yokai Watch!
@@ImportedCheese I'll have a look into it! At some point I also gave Pokémon Green a try but... Yeah, I definitely ran into the exact same problem you describe in the video, with the added bonus that I'm most likely much less fluent than you are.
@@Frikiman_H I'd say give it a try!
BADDA BING, BADDA BOOM, I’M AN ABOMINATION
"Whadda ya mean that's not an accurate translation of the Japanese? Can you read the text? I'm translatin' here!"
Simultaneously the easiest and most difficult run.
You should do a play through of the bootleg English translated version of Green. I’m pretty sure it’s a Vietnamese or Chinese translation of Green, translated back into English. It’s pretty hilarious. A channel named ButtVault made half a play through a few years ago.
Oh my god, I saw that on Vinesauce and it was a blast. 🤣
Love your content - you're awesome, dude!
For this run getting the scam Magikarp + using daycare to lvl it up could also have worked well
Yeah I was thinking that too. I guess he probably decided not to since by the time magikarp was leveled up enough, that's about the time you can get lapras anyway unless you grind walking
Breaking news: toad with plant on back becomes champion by tackling and throwing leaves everywhere
With a little help from a cold, watery boi
8:02
‘If I were to really ham up his English, it might sound like...’
*Sans intensifies*
Eyyyy I caught the reference at 13:36, nice to see that
Technically you only evolve when the battle is won or lost, so cancelling the evolution was actually allowed.
That's...probably true! But I already get enough commenters telling me that I "pressed more than the A button" >.>
@@ImportedCheese To them I give the reminder that only the battles are affected by that rule. And since evolution only takes place once a battle ends, it's fair game. But let's just say you didn't want to do a no evolution run because you wanted to actually stand a chance against later battles without having to grind to level 100 as that's no fun.
Nice to see stuff from another Japan resident. I can easily agree with the 'reading japanese in games' bit. Tried a Shield run on stream in Hiragana and hoo boy was it hard to understand without context (thankfully theres a kanji toggle). Still learning Kanji but I can read a few hundred, so maybe I'll have another go in the future.
Hey, thanks for watching! I find it so bizarre that Pokemon goes 0-100, you can have 100% hiragana or 100% kanji with no furigana option (???) Won't Gamefreak think of the children...?
@@ImportedCheese or the
外国人?
@@MrEsarty Don't be silly, there are no foreigners in Japan!
Pokémon doesn't have a furigana option???
@@Alizudo you can switch between the two in the new games at least but no combination
Im adding yet another comment bc comments are good for the youtube algorithm and I just reached the Weeb Rant(tm) and
I took 4yrs of mandarin in high school and loved every minute of it I swear. My knowledge is now lost to time but honestly, yeah, lots of characters, hard pronounciations for a native english speaker. I have or had a chinese newspaper at some point and I wanted to read chinese books and learn the language fluently but I have poor motivation skills if its not related to nerd shit like, for example, pokemon and d&d
Yet still
Mandarin to me is 10000% easier than spanish and my lineage is hispanic
I wish my mom had taught me Japanese growing up. I'm at the point where I can read most characters comfortably enough, but it's still much more effort than it takes me to read English.
And text like Pokemon without an kanji character actively causes me pain.
@@ImportedCheese Yeah big same with me and Spanish. Wish I learned it growing up from mi abuela, but whats hard about it for me is the whole "every word has a gender" thing.
In Mandarin, its all in the character. She/he/it (idk if there is technically nonbinary pronouns in Chinese) is all represented by "tā" and only the character changes (他，她). And if you wanna plural it? Just put "men" after it (他们).
Spanish? Well you have your choice of el, ella, nosotros, and uh....other things that I dont remember. And you have to use some words based on what YOUR gender is. And I'm nonbinary so like....tf do I do lmao. Let alone how other people would address me assuming they respect my pronouns.
@@ImportedCheese It's probably mostly due to a lack of practice. When we read eg. English, our brains try to spot the shapes of words, and no competent Japanese reader is used to looking for the shapes of kana sequences: They're trained to spot kanji. There's also some evidence that the density of the script we read affects our field of focus a bit - denser script, narrower field of view and the reverse. Mixed script is reasonably dense, while kana only script is much looser, so that also adds to the initial discomfort.
Both are effects you'd expect to go away by mass exposure, and we don't exactly see people claiming that reading most other languages is torture. Korean seems to work fine (though Korean written in hangul is often denser than mixed Japanese), as do several other languages that are similar to Japanese in some ways but use a Latin or Cyrillic alphabet.