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  • M: He's back!

  • Which means I need to subject him to some question time.

  • D: *singing* Guess who's back, back again.

  • Mimei Land

  • (ho ho ho... vlogmas)

  • M: Okay, I asked you guys in a comment on my last video for questions

  • so I'm not sure how well this is gonna work out

  • coz I don't know how many of you guys check out the comments section at all.

  • Ummm *laughs*

  • But let's see what you guys have said.

  • Coz I usually ask on twitter

  • And I know that some of you guys don't use twitter.

  • So this time I asked on YouTube!

  • D&M: *whispers* Algorithm, Algorithm.

  • The first one is: what are your thoughts on "Yuri on Ice"?

  • My thoughts are yes.

  • Please.

  • More.

  • D: I've only seen the first episode

  • And it ends with him seeing that Russian guy's penis.

  • So I'm...I'm not sure

  • M: You don't want any of that Russian D?

  • *laughs*

  • What do you think about "Playing With Fire"

  • by BLACKPINK?

  • I think it is on fireee! What do you think about it?

  • D: Which one is that?

  • Which one of the songs is that, that you play all the time?

  • M: *hums along*

  • D: Yeah, I know it now.

  • Wasn't this like your alarm, or was that a different one?

  • M: Yeah it was!

  • And then I got a new phone and it wasn't on the phone

  • so my alarm didn't go off!

  • Very strange lighting today, guys. I'm sorry.

  • I ask this to...

  • D: *sneeze* Sorry.

  • M: I ask this to everyone, coz I'm a Republican,

  • but what do you think of your fans that are of different political positions than you?

  • Oh also, they named their Rowlet "Duncan".

  • I called my Rowlet "Penguin".

  • D: What?

  • M: In Pokémon.

  • So what do you think of your fans

  • or viewers who have different political

  • positions or opinions to you?

  • D: Everyone's entitled to their opinion,

  • as long as you're not harming people

  • or discriminating or, you know, just making people feel like shit.

  • M: Being a Youtuber, you really get to see

  • a different side of freedom of speech, right?

  • You have to really accept that people can say whatever they want,

  • right underneath the video you worked really hard on,

  • about whatever they want to talk about.

  • And I think it really kind of strengthens your understanding

  • of freedom of speech.

  • When it comes to political opinions,

  • that also is true, you know, everyone is entitled to believe what they believe.

  • And hopefully it's not something that is, you know, harming anybody.

  • That's what I would hope.

  • "My religion is kindness."

  • But yeah, I mean, you have different opinions and that's fine.

  • *meowing from Cinnamon*

  • *giggling*

  • M: Cinnamon's like, "I voted Trump!"

  • D: Oh shit!

  • He sounds angry.

  • M: I'm gonna let him in!

  • D: He's like, "Don't tell them that!"

  • M: He doesn't want you guys to know.

  • D: Aww, my little punk boy.

  • M: Were you lonely? Were you lonely? (D: Oh, he missed his papa. He missed his papa.)

  • M: Oh, Castiel!

  • D: Did you miss your papa?

  • M: Hi Mimei, since you vlog a lot all around Tokyo,

  • have you ever got a problem when filming people?

  • Have you ever been someone who...

  • Have there...

  • Have there ever been...

  • someone. This is a disaster!

  • Ok I'm just gonna answer the question as I understand it.

  • That didn't happen...

  • Hi baby!

  • D: It's because you're good boy.

  • M: Genki?

  • Okay.

  • D: Ohh nnnn-

  • M: No one's had a problem with me filming

  • but I think that would be mainly because I'm not filming people.

  • Like I'm definitely not filming people.

  • And especially children, I go out of my way to make sure that I don't film them

  • So, yeah.

  • D: And you try your best, to like, blur them out

  • or you just make sure it's the back of their heads so you don't know who it is.

  • M: I'll often like cut stuff out because it has peoples faces in it.

  • And also there's actually a blur tool on the Youtube video editor

  • so you can go in and blur out peoples faces if they have a problem with it.

  • D: So you don't have to, like, delete it and reupload it.

  • M: Yeah you don't, they've added that filter. (D: Yeah, like back in the day you had to do that.)

  • They've added that feature so it's actually really really handy if you have a problem with that.

  • Do you read much? Do I read much?

  • D: She reads lots.

  • M: Only like everyday. I don't talk about it a lot on this channel but I am a crazy reader.

  • D: Avid reader.

  • M: Yeah I'm a very avid reader.

  • I love books.

  • D: I read... your comments

  • *giggling*

  • M: Duncan, what's your favourite comic book of the year?

  • D: I have been like this year...

  • Half of the year... I haven't read comics.

  • So they're kinda of the same as what it was last year.

  • So it's either 'Stray Bullets', 'Southern Bastards' probably.

  • M: My favorite book from this year is...

  • it's a very emotionally intense book

  • so I don't necessarily recommend it.

  • It depends on you if you're gonna enjoy it or not.

  • It's called "A Little Life" by Hanya Yanagihara,

  • who's a Hawaiian author.

  • D: Please read it so she can talk to someone about it. She tried to get me to read it, and everyone she knows.

  • M: I was gonna say that, like, please!

  • If you read it based on my recommendation,

  • hit me up on Twitter so we can talk about it! I've have no one to talk to about this book.

  • I've recommended it to all my friends and none of them have picked it up.

  • Understandably, because it does deal with some pretty heavy stuff.

  • It is emotionally draining, it will wreck you.

  • D: Not ready for that

  • It will wreck you, I guarantee it will wreck you if you read it.

  • But if you're into that.

  • D: I'm already 'rekt'...

  • Can you add an effect of me like..

  • M: You're doing it yourself, I don't need to add anything.

  • It's not like a perfect book - there is no perfect book - but to me, it's the number one book of this year for me.

  • Oh my god so good.. so good someone please read it!

  • And just hit me up on Twitter so we can chat about it

  • coz I have so many feels... so many feels.

  • D: Maybe someone has read it, you never know.

  • M: Yeah maybe, I mean it was nominated for the Booker Prize.

  • So that might give you a hint as to the kind of book it is.

  • It is very long and quite heavy going.

  • But it's so good, it is so good guys.

  • Will you cut your fringe again? I used to love it now it's gone please cut it again... oh and btw I love you.

  • Thank you Anthony!

  • I'm glad that someone liked my fringe, coz I got so many comments about how bad it was.

  • So the problem with my fringe is...

  • while it did a great job at covering up my acne scarring -

  • so I always liked to hide that behind it - umm...

  • I just couldn't keep it looking good and

  • when you're on camera a lot of the time, that really, you know, like...

  • this guy: perfect hair, right? Like...

  • I can't even, he's got the perfect hair.

  • But for me it's really hard to keep it from getting all separated and gross.

  • So I don't know. Maybe it will come back, I miss it a lot.

  • But I'm trying really hard to gaman and to grow it out right now!

  • D: Oh, I don't really care about hair that much, you know. That's not my problem.

  • M: Oh, I'm so white.

  • D: I don't have problems with it so...

  • M: You don't have problems with it?

  • Duncan, do you have a favourite Japanese word?

  • D: Um...

  • M: Is that a no?

  • D: No, I'm trying to, I'm tryna I'm tryna I'm-!

  • M: I think his favourite Japanese word is "chuunibyou" (slang for middle school sydndrome, features on a PDRsan hoodie at pdrsan.com)

  • D: I was gonna say that but like, I don't use it that much.

  • Um...

  • M: I am so not having it with this lighting, this is horrible, I've failed.

  • My favourite Japanese word is "fuun".

  • D: You do that all the time.

  • M: I do it to him all the time. I'm just like nope, "fuun."

  • Have you ever been to the UK, Duncan?

  • D: I lived there for like 13 years... so yes.

  • M: Yeah, he has. I've never been and I'm dying to go.

  • I almost just like went and bought a ticket the other day but

  • I'm not going to do that cause I don't have the money but...

  • I had like this real big urge to just buy a ticket

  • and fly over there and see my friends over there but...

  • D: And not tell me?

  • M: Yeah, we were having like a really bad day that day.

  • D: Were you just gonna like, 'Good Will Hunting' me like,

  • "Gone to England to catch a girl"?

  • M: Oh yeah, I was gonna go to England to catch a girl. You know who you are.

  • Okay, that's a better shot.

  • D: Screw that.

  • M: Okay, I got a few comments about like, what do you do when you're feeling down in the dumps

  • to kind of feel positive again.

  • D: I look at a picture of cocaine cat.

  • M: I have a lot of ways of dealing with stress and depression and feeling down in the dumps

  • And I think the more ways that you can have of dealing with it, the more options you have when you feel like that.

  • Um... so sometimes just taking a walk, getting outside -

  • even if you're feeling anxious - can be really really good.

  • You can just put in your music and you don't have to like interact with anyone.

  • You can just be in your own little world, just hanging out.

  • Listen to some good music that can scientifically help.

  • Sometimes you just need to eat some really healthy nutritious food.

  • And have a cup of tea or a cup of coffee.

  • Or maybe something without caffeine.

  • Something that you really love and take a little break!

  • Because I think everyone is a bit too hard on themselves, you know?

  • I have a lot of friends who are studying for the JLPT right now

  • and they are, like, just being so hard on themselves

  • and they're studying all hours of the day and like:

  • Of course, get that study time in

  • but make sure you're getting brain food make sure you're having little breaks here and there.

  • And make sure that you're not letting yourself feel too down, okay guys?

  • And also watching Youtube.

  • D: If I go for a walk I'll listen to Pantera or early Metallica. That usually does the... or Tool!

  • That's like my calming music

  • M: Why do I look so white? I can't figure it out... what am I doing wrong?

  • D: You are white!

  • M: I'm not this white though.

  • D: No, I know you're not that white.

  • M: What's your favourite Miyazaki film?

  • D: Uh...

  • Ashitaka!

  • Uh, what one's that?

  • Mononoke-hime (Princess Mononoke).

  • Yeah that one.

  • M: I like that one too.

  • D: That one's so, like f***ed up and weird though.

  • In the trailer there was that scene where the guy, both his arms just get cut off

  • and I was like, this movie I'm gonna love!

  • M: The first ten minutes of that movie are so brutal.

  • D: I know, and they showed that in the trailer in Japan on TV and I was like I need to see this movie.

  • I think it was when it came out and I was like wow.

  • M: My favourite one is actually 'Howl's Moving Castle' although I do love a lot of Ghibli films.

  • And here is the one question that we get asked the most.

  • The most.

  • That's right, I've left it till the end in the hopes you guys will watch the whole video.

  • D: They just skipped to this question!

  • M: What language do you speak, with Duncan, at home?

  • This is the first time we are answering this question.

  • What language do we speak at home?

  • It's actually a kind of complicated answer.

  • Because I came to Japan primarily to learn Japanese

  • and also because I wanted to see my favourite rock bands perform live.

  • But...

  • D: I wanna speak English...

  • M: So the reason I said this is, like, complicated is because

  • while Duncan feels more comfortable speaking English, and he always wants to be speaking English with me,

  • he'll often throw in Japanese words.

  • It's called code-switching, I think?

  • Which is the linguisk - linguist - liiinguiistic! the linguistic term for it is code-switching,

  • which is when, you know, you are bilingual like Duncan and you like mix up different languages together.

  • And because we both understand English and Japanese, we do a lot of that.

  • The words he throws in are usually the really high level complicated ones

  • that I often just do not understand, I'm just like "nani sore"? ("what is that?")

  • "i mi wakane" (I don't know.)

  • And it's like really high level Japanese words that he maybe doesn't know in English.

  • So the way we talk in front of the camera when I'm doing English videos is...

  • we try not to do that.

  • D: I think my Japanese is like getting a bit bad... I don't really go outside.

  • M: His Japanese is getting worse because he refuses to speak Japanese to me!

  • D: I don't speak Japanese with her and I barely go outside.

  • And I don't have much human interaction so...

  • I think I said it in one of my PDRsan videos but like

  • the only time I speak Japanese really is

  • in my videos.

  • which is probably not good.

  • Before I met Mimei and before there was YouTube,

  • I didn't get to speak English at all.

  • That's why I started Youtube.

  • To speak, so I could speak English.

  • D: And look how you ended up. With a Japanese channel, with a hugely successful Japanese channel!

  • D: That's really weird, yeah that's…

  • *sigh*

  • Money is always in Japanese

  • M: Oh, when we count.

  • D: It's like "ichi-mai, do you have ichi-mai yen?" (1 note, do you have 1 note)

  • Not gonna say who it was, but I heard someone say..

  • "ten man" (ten ten thousand) *laughs*

  • *laughs* M: What does that mean? Like "man ten" (ten thousand ten)

  • D: No, "ju man" like um...

  • ten... what is it? A hundred thousand yen?

  • M: A hundred thousand yen and they said "ten man"?

  • D: I was like... "Wait what, what's ten-"

  • M: That's some serious code-switching right there. (D: Yeah I know)

  • D: I was like really confused for a second.

  • M: Yeah. There are a few words also that

  • do not exist in English. Like stuff like

  • "gaman" (generally translated as "perseverance") or "bimyou" (loosely means "mediocre") or "chuunibyou" (slang for middle school sydndrome) or...

  • just stuff like that that we will...

  • we will pepper those words in the conversation.

  • D: One you use on me a lot is "kimoi" (means "gross" or "disgusting").

  • *laughs*

  • M: That exists in English.

  • Yeah, I think I would probably use more Japanese at home than you do.

  • (D: Yeah) M: Because I am very passionate about the language.

  • D: I'm... I'm uh...

  • I'm a British boy.

  • In and out.

  • M: Any of you guys who are bilingual or trilingual or a million-lingual,

  • let me know in the comments what language you use at home.

  • Do you speak just one language with your parents and another language outside of the house?

  • Because, you know, this isn't really anything super special.

  • I think that like most people in the world are actually bilingual.

  • Like being monolingual is the exception to the rule.

  • So... let me know.

  • Mm.

  • D: Pineapple peace.

  • D: Cinnamon.

  • Now it's Duncan cam, it's time to open...

  • *Darth Vader voice* THE ADVENT CALENDAR.

  • Today is DAY 5.

  • *whispers* Where is 5...5....

  • *whispers* I cannot find 5...

  • Where's 5?

  • There it is!

  • What do we get?

  • Oh.. a boring stormtrooper.

  • And the chocolate is...

  • I have no idea what that is.

  • Mmmmm.

  • Hello, hello, hello! It's me from the future who's come to open up today's advent calendar!

  • I'll explain everything eventually.

  • Today's advent is...

  • It's passed out Phil!

  • To be honest, this calendar is beginning to scare me a little bit.

  • I am not sure what I'm gonna get.

  • Okay.

  • I'm... yeah.

  • This is my chocolate. Bye bye chocolate.

  • Mimei from the future wants to let you guys know there are some very very GUDE things coming.

  • That's right, GUDE things.

  • See you tomorrow!

M: He's back!

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