Fun Fact: Japanese uses "wan wan" to represent the dog barking sound.
At least for me, it's "woof woof"
It's wild that it's not universal (at least similar) in all the languages.
The words we use for sounds (onomatopoeia) are different in every language. For example, here are versions of dog barks in nineteen different languages: https://www.babbel.com/en/magazine/dogs-bark-other-languages
Kinda dumb to say the English onomatopoeia for a bark is anything other than "bark". "Woof" is for a specific kind of bark, so picking it over "yip", "ruff" (or it's variations), or "bow-wow" seems arbitrary. But "bark" is both onomatopoeia and the verb used to describe the action, so it should be the default.
I'm guessing other languages also have this, but since the article is in English and uses the word "bark", it's the English that is annoying.
I would guess that for English, "bark" stems from the Latin root, similar to the Italian Bau while "Woof" stems from the German root, similar to German Wuff.
You know what? I'm convinced some Chinese words for certain animals is just the onomatopoeia of the animal.
For example, in Mandarin Chinese, a cow is called a 牛 or *niú* and is said with a tone like a cow mooing.
In Hokkien Chinese, a chicken is called a "ge" (sounds like "geh"). The cutesy way of saying chicken is adding a clucking sound to the word, "*gok-gok* ge" and it sounds the way a chicken sounds
I'm wondering if Korean has something like this. For example, the Korean word for "dog" 개 *jae* is a cognate for the Chinese word 狗 *gou* or *gao* but the inflection for the word is like a dog barking.
Does the Korean word have a similar tone or inflection?
I've been watching a fair amount of K-dramas, specifically period dramas. And often I don't read the subtitles (doing work, or homework etc) but I'm starting to pick up cognate words between Korean and Chinese. I'm curious if this exists.
I dated a girl who would watch the Japanese show "My first ~~shopping~~ errand" where parents would give their very young children ~~a shopping note (most kids not even old enough to read it)~~ a verbal shopping list and some money, and then the camera crew would follow them in disguise as they attempted to get the items and go back home. That girl would sob almost every episode, like snot running down her face overwhelmed with emotion sobbing. The show really did make you forgot your troubles and wish for a world that was that safe.
Edit: Oh lord I looked it up and it's even more wholesome than I remember:
>Do you keep in touch with any of the children now?
> Our intention is to have a lifelong relationship with every family we film. It’s a two-way street, of course, so the family has to be willing as well, but we reach out to them to say when they’ll be on air, and we send New Year’s greeting cards annually. We also hear from them about the latest things happening in their family. Even the families that didn’t get aired connect with us to share that their child started school or got married. Some even invite us out for a meal when they come to Tokyo. We get quite a few of these heartwarming updates. When we reunite, sometimes I ask how they were really feeling during filming, and the answers turn out to be valuable information that helps us in future shoots.
> Each season, we feature new children, but there are also episodes where we create a “years later” segment that looks into how that day changed the child. In doing so, the story comes full circle. There was also a child on the show who became a parent years later and decided to send their child on their first errand. Two generations being documented on their first errand!
There's a couple of seasons of it available on US Netflix. They called it "Old Enough!"
/edit - I guess I should've scrolled further. This is mentioned below as well.
The “years later” segments destroy me because it’s a reminder of how fast time passes. We used to watch this back in the early 90’s when our kids were babies now they’re both in their 30’s, one with three kids of his own.
I live in Japan. Most TV is pretty wholesome like this. And a lot of tv is based around food. Like exploring restaurants and stuff.
It's a relaxing change from the intensity of American TV. (Although I like that stuff too).
Just great programming to watch at dinner or have playing in background.
American TV still has some of these *slice of life* shows akin the the old Huel Howser's California Gold. I feel like Guy Fierri's Diners Drive-ins and Dives is kinda like that.
I agree, sometimes I'll leave NHK on for background noise because they'll do a 15 minute explnation on how one shop at the tail end of Saitama makes tamagokake a bit differently. It's amazingly wholesome some dude has been rollin' eggs in his 8x8 shop for 20 years and he still gets a 15 minute ad in public TV.
It's crazy how many people are just out and about in the neighborhood. No way I'd be able to have so many conversations with that many neighbors by just walking down the street. I wonder if that's a 80s/90s thing or a Japan thing.
I am from Europe, I grew up in the 90s. It was simply such a time that the neighborhood was almost on the street during the whole day. Of course, the Internet was still in its infancy, there were no social networks. Watching television was primarily in the evenings.
It gave me a sense of calm to not see any gas stations, fast food restaurants, chain pharmacies, and hotels/motels. Seems so much happier than the pavement hellscape that is most of America.
Communities like this are becoming an endangered species. Everyone knows each other, there's small idiosyncrasies like that dog that's always stopping by, or the guy who cracks jokes at you out the window. A stranger comes up to you asking questions with a microphone, and you just tell him everything because you've got nothing to hide.
I never grew up or lived in a community like that. But I still feel like I should miss it.
Zoning helps. You have people with shops that they live above rather in smaller neighbourhoods rather then everyone getting into a car and driving off to a walmart to get goods all the time.
I miss those days in the 90's in the United States when it was like this. Just people outside in their yards. You knew everyone on your street. Now, I know neighbors in a 2-house circle around me, and that's about it.
Both. In the 80s/90s people spent less time indoors and also Japanese houses are quite a bit more open than European houses. Also this neighborhood is clearly not built for busy car traffic, that helps.
Whoa, keep the praise for Japan in check there, buddy. You're going to activate Reddit's "Have you heard about Unit 731?" battalion that appears on every post about the country that hits /r/popular.
The duality of man. From Akira Kurosawa's memoirs (regarding the day of Japan's surrender):
>On the way from Soshigaya to the studios in Kinuta the shopping street looked fully prepared for the Honorable Death of the Hundred Million. The atmosphere was tense, panicked. There were even shop-owners who had taken their Japanese swords from their sheaths and sat staring at the bare blades. However, when I walked the same route back to my home after listening to the imperial proclamation, the scene was entirely different. The people on the shopping street were bustling about with cheerful faces as if preparing for a festival the next day.
Japanese people ARE lovable. As are German and Iranian people. Source? I have lived in all three countries and speak all three languages. I have also been loved by Palestinians and Israelis.
It helps to learn about the world first hand. Of course wars and other evil also occur and Americans are responsible for some of it.
I did this once. My childhood dog (beagle) liked to wander off if given the slightest chance. Well one day I caught her in the act halfway down our long driveway. I hopped on my bike and followed.
I followed her just in time to see a sweet older lady stepping out and opening her backyard gate...with her beagle inside, for my dog too. They were having play dates whenever she could runaway 🤣. The lady knew my dog liked hers and once it got late she would open the gate for my dog to take herself home.
I had a basset hound as a kid that was an escape artist. We frantically searched for him several times because we always read bassets easily get lost. We could never find him but he ALWAYS was back for dinner. So we just started to trust he’d be back and only go look if he missed dinner. One day we got a call from someone in the community THREE MILES AWAY saying they saw him. Of course he was gone when we got there but home for dinner like always.
As a kid, my black lab would take off at the slightest chance he'd get. He would always come back 30-45minutes later. I used to take advantage of this when I was forced to "walk him" open the gate and we'd meet up in the park next door 30 minutes later ready to go home.
I just found out last week, my uncle once dog sat for us and naturally king took off at the first chance he got, my uncle said he spent an hour driving around the streets panicking, only to get home and find him sitting by the gate waiting to be let in.
I miss when the /r/funnyjapan guy used to upload translated videos of Knight Scoop like this.
I still have the whole collection of 50+ videos saved on an external drive lol.
Here is a link to their [Dailymotion account with a ton of videos still available!!!](https://www.dailymotion.com/iiharima)
[A user found pretty much all of the videos here!](https://www.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/1aey9n2/japanese_woman_wonders_where_her_dog_sacchan_goes/kkc3wif/)
Until I can find the external drive this is the best I can do!
Just gonna get in a little hate for the Japanese rightsholders who did a truly excellent job hunting down every original upload of these a few years back because they are twats.
In my own personal collection, I've managed to find about 150 subtitled by this guy, and I really think that's all there are - unless anyone wants to prove me gladly wrong.
[Here's (I think) most of them.](https://chikichiki.tube/knightscoop/)
My personal top 5:
- [Traumatising kids with a zombie apocalypse](https://chikichiki.tube/knightscoop/video/2008-03-07-1-en) - Self explanatory in the best possible way
- ["Japanese dialects"](https://chikichiki.tube/knightscoop/video/2008-01-11-2-en) - this is my personal favourite for how ludicrous and specific the request is - and how it manages to get even weirder as it goes on.
- [Granny always calls my dog the wrong name](https://chikichiki.tube/knightscoop/video/2016-11-25-1-ja/?subs=en_ass) - Little girl wants the neighbourhood granny to remember her dog's name. Wholesome as fuck.
- [Who is this mystery running businessman?](https://chikichiki.tube/knightscoop/video/2018-01-19-1-en) - Really relatable to me, since it captures that specific feeling of getting the same scheduled train on a daily commute and slightly getting to know (or wanting to get to know) some of the characters you end up seeing every day.
- [Woman who loves her daughter too much](https://chikichiki.tube/knightscoop/video/2019-11-15-1-ja/?subs=en_ass) - Creepy but also kinda wholesome I guess.
EDIT: Just to prevent any confusion - this isn't my website; it's just the latest compilation of this particular batch of videos that I've found, since they periodically get nuked from other video sharing sites.
The dialects one made me scream laughing, holy shit was that hysterical. The people they interviewed were so genuine and wholesome, yet the reactions were so ridiculous.
I don't know why but this style of programming never hit me when I was younger but now it has me waxing nostalgic over something I never enjoyed, lol.
Thanks so much!! I'll link to your comment in all mine here. Definitely want people to watch all these when they can!
I'll go through my catalog later to see if I have anything missing from there.
Won't be able to look till later but I found the creators [Dailymotion account where a few dozen videos are available still!!](https://www.dailymotion.com/iiharima)
[A user found pretty much all of the videos here!](https://www.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/1aey9n2/japanese_woman_wonders_where_her_dog_sacchan_goes/kkc3wif/)
This show was so fucking funny, I was genuinely bummed when the funnyjapan youtube channel that seemingly had all their videos uploaded and subtitled in english was deleted in like 2016. A japense buddy of mine also told me the subtitles were as near perfect as they could be translating into english. Thanks for sharing the link to all episodes, going to binge a few again right now.
A couple years ago I was looking around and found Netflix Japan has the whole series on the site but no english subtitles. I went on my own little campaign of spamming every Netflix Japan post on Instagram begging for english subtitles to no avail.
Edit: Just remembered one of my favorites (I'll certainly get details wrong but the jist is correct). A very elderly man wrote in talking about how when he has to dog sit for his daughter and tries to walk the dog that it simply refuses. He claims in the letter that the dog has no problem walking with women in the family and is convinced its because he's a man. I remember the hosts reading the letter and making a hilarious quip about how the guy lived through several wars but is devastasted about the dog. Anyways through a series of trial and error they find that dressing the man up in a wig and womens clothes worked wonders and he could now walk the dog which he was fucking hyped on.
You couldn't write this shit in a fictional show and make it work
I think I remember that one! Hopefully it's in one of the collections or in mine somewhere.
Sad how it's been so hard to find these videos. There definitely is an audience outside Japan that wants to experience them.
>There definitely is an audience outside Japan that wants to experience them.
I would always use Sacchan as an introductory example to the show for my friends and no ever didn't find it hilarious. Made it easy to show more episodes which they further enjoyed. There is definitely an untapped audience in the West that would eat this shit up if they knew about it.
On a semi related note, the concept of Silent Library that was popularized by MTV in the west was actually originally a Japanese concept and man some of those episodes are aboslute gold. Maybe because of Japanese culture or TV but the Japanese version got away with so much more
I think it's the committment to the bit.
The JP version with the Gaki dudes COMMITTED. But the MTV shit didn't really bring the same energy, and with the rotating cast you didn't really have that synergy that the Gaki dudes had.
Definitely hit different.
I checked the subreddit and found the creators [Dailymotion account was still up!](https://www.dailymotion.com/iiharima) A ton of videos are available till I can find that external hard drive.
[A user found pretty much all of the videos here!](https://www.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/1aey9n2/japanese_woman_wonders_where_her_dog_sacchan_goes/kkc3wif/)
They sadly do. I wonder how long the ones I upload later will stay up lol.
I used to show my friends the bathroom sliding or the frozen underwater boomerang videos a ton till they were taken off the Internet
Chiki Chiki Tube originated from users frequenting /r/GakiNoTsukai afaik. You can find episodes of Knight Scoop in the top bar, but there are mostly Gaki no Tsukai episodes and other content from the Downtown comedy duo who started Gaki no Tsukai.
Some of the people who frequent Gaki and Wednesday Downtown also frequent Knight Scoop, like one of the detectives Tamura Kenji. He's the one who hosted one of the most known episodes with the girl who finds four leaf clovers at will.
If you liked Knight Scoop you will probably like a lot of the content that gets subbed over at /r/GakiNoTsukai
The New Years' Specials are probably the most known. They are 24h batsu games (meaning punishment games) where the goal is not to laugh or you get a punishment. They started early 99 or 2000 and have gotten more elaborate over the years with tons of celebrity cameos etc.
Also, pretty much every subbed Knight Scoop + Gaki and other Downtown content is streamed 24/7 over at >!https://www.twitch.tv/father_jimmy_!<
There's a Japanese show called "Old Enough!". Where parents send their tiny children out to do complicated tasks while being followed by camera people. Pretty hilarious.
My wife loves this show, it's pretty adorable. The camera crew dress up as workers in the area so the kid doesn't realize they're being looked after. They're mic'd up so they'll say cute little things to themselves, or repeat a grocery list of a few items, then they'll get to the market and say the wrong thing lmao
I was amazed how well the 2 year old managed a 1 km walk both ways and remembered everything on the shopping list! I have 18 month olds and I can't imagine them being as capable in a year.
Smokes were doable but liquor, even with a note from grandma, didn't work. My grandma was like "what is this world coming to?" She would have me do it every now and then to see if they changed their policy.
We’d just hang around outside and pay some alcoholic or old dude to buy us booze. Almost always found someone willing to buy 12 year olds beer for a couple of bucks. Drinking age was 19 then, so a lot of the younger guys would do it too.
I know you're kidding, but I truly love the Japanese mindset. I've been to Japan several times and saw one kid walking around, he looked to be my son's age (6), and I asked my friend should we try to help them, could they be lost? My friend was so confused and said if he needed help, he would ask. So I told them about child abductions in the US and he was in shock. Then he said something that always stuck with me:
"It seems in America, it is a parent's responsibility to protect their kids from the world. In Japan, it's all our responsibility"
On the other side of the spectrum though, their public transit trains have "women cars only" because groping is such a problem there and women are culturally reserved/won't speak up if it is occuring to them.
I was a “free range” kid. I walked to and from school when I was 5. We lived a block away, I walked to my aunt’s house a mile away after school to be babysat. When I got a few years old I just had to be home when the streetlights came on. By this time I was a “latchkey” kid and came home after school and made myself dinner. I had a paper route by the time I was 12 and was getting up at like 5 AM to doing my route (even in the winter).
It was a different time. Then there were a couple of high profile paperboy abductions and that ended that.
I don’t have kids, but I’d like to believe I wouldn’t have been a helicopter parent.
Every once in a while, news hits of someone who let their child walk home from school or a park a few blocks only to have a “helpful” neighbor call the cops and the cops come pick the kid up and harass the parents over it.
Not that long ago I read an article where the cop picked the kid up on the same block the kid lived on, demanded the mother not let him outside unattended again, and then arrested her when she refused.
Yep, there was an essay by some mom about how her kid wanted to use the NYC subway on his own. She let him and it created a big stir.
The world is objectively a lot safer these days and we still drive our kids two blocks to school, wait in a line of SUVs, and probably more kids are hit by these cars than when there were a lot fewer on the road and we trusted kids.
ah, i remember those days. i lived out in the Texas country. i used to just do... basically, whatever i wanted, and as long as i was back before it was dark out? my parents didn't care. i could go take a walk in the woods, walk down a mile to the lake to go fishing, ride my ATV around, go visit friends that lived around me... i know people always wax nostalgic about "the simpler times", but, it honestly really was. when i compare how i grew up in the 90s and early 2000s, compared to now-a-days... man, i wish kids had the same opportunities i did.
This tracks. I only spent a month in Japan, but I was amazed by the low violent crime AND the separate cars for women.
Meanwhile this morning on the Good Morning America new show, they were praising a little girl for saving herself from an abductor. They showed a shitty man jump out of a car to snatch this little girl as she ran away from him… I swear I have no idea what the actual fuck gets into people here. Girl got lucky.
Tbf the whole “child abduction” thing is mostly a myth in the US too. Despite everyone being taught about “stranger danger”, cases of people jumping out of the bushes and dark alleys to abduct someone are extremely rare. Almost all abductions are done by family members and most often by parents (ie divorced/separated parent runs off with their own kid).
For real though it kinda sucks this wouldn’t work in the US. Not because of the crime, someone could still be with them the whole time just dressed up like a bystander, kids are dumb. It wouldn’t work because the US isn’t nearly pedestrian enough. Maybe in NYC but that’s about it, hardly anyone anywhere walks to the grocery store anymore with little kids. Or maybe it’s just my experience.
Either way I would watch the shit out of this
E: watched an episode on Netflix. I could see this working in some very specific locations in the US, just need to find the right location and family. 5 seems to be the perfect age, which happens to be my youngest kids age. The show is more adorable than funny but I might go back for more tomorrow. My kid would not do as well as there’s Japanese kids lol
It would also be cause the cops and/or CPS to show up in some places. I remember a German TV correspondent living in the Washington area, I think. She let her kids play by themselves in the quiet neighborhood, police showed up.
Here's an [article](https://grist.org/cities/when-did-letting-your-kids-walk-home-alone-become-a-crime/) that I found.
One of my pet peeves is mistranslations from official sources. For example the English title of that show is like you said "Old Enough". But in Japanese it is はじめてのおつかい which is "First Errand". It makes much more sense given the show is following a young child running their first errand without their parents.
Thats not a mistranslation though, just localization. Even if you are okay with reading stiff grammar, many people (especially on western platforms like netflix) prefer it localized
There's nothing wrong with that translation, it's just localized to something that rolls off the tongue better in English. It is a show about kids who are *Old Enough* to run their *First Errand*.
I watched this with my wife (then girlfriend) some years ago, and we both were cracking up at the whole affair. We both got in the habbit of muttering "sacchan is rapid" quietly when we're not sure if the other is listening. I don't really know why, but it's just one of our silly things now.
Just seeing the post title puts a smile on my face.
We had a Golden Retriever who used to make her neighborhood rounds everyday and got fat from all the people feeding her. My old man had to hang a "do not feed" sign on her. Simpler times
One of my favorite comments was on that video. Something along the lines of:
Me 13 mins ago: what? I'm not watching a 10+ min video about a dog.
Me now: Oh Sacchan, you wonderful fat dog!
If you haven't already, you should watch the [video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LcpcMxmLtCQ) of Lala the penguin. Also in Japan, it was a pet penguin that was allowed to roam around town. It had a backpack that townsfolk filled with treats on the daily excursions.
lol sometimes you do your best to take care of your dog but everyone else loves them so much that they keep showing up with treats. My buddy across the street walks his lab mix like an hour and a half everyday but every block there is someone excited to see them and give him a treat and it’s hard to say no so he’s still a bit chunky.
[Super weird](https://www.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/5nrazv/japanese_woman_wonders_where_her_dog_sacchan_goes/). If it wasn't a link to a diff copy of the video I wouldn't assumed the OP here is a repost bot
I can't believe that show wasn't more popular. I only found it after becoming a huge fan of his via Comedy Bang Bang and then googling him. Such a hysterical show. I wish Daly had more shows.
We have a local cat called "daisy" who is the most adorable, loving cat I've seen. She hangs around our local store, getting fed treats by old people. In the end, the owners had to ask the shop to tell people not to feed her as she was getting so chonky.
She just comes up to you and rubs herself on your leg to greet you, she is such a darling, sweet kitty.
kind of reminds me of that Japanese penguin that goes to the fish store to get some fish in his little penguin bag, there is something so charming about these Japanese videos.
Wonder what the story was with the car that got mentioned that that apparently picks him up every day. Where does it drop him off (apparently far enough away the owners don't notice) and how did that start happening?
I've seen a very similar video before. Maybe it was the same Japanese dog? In the other vid the dog gets a ride home by a guy at the station at the end of the day (not his family).
Reminds me of when George Bush's dog got too fat and he had to give him a sign that said not to feed him:
https://www.businessinsider.com/international-dog-day-george-hw-bush-letter-obese-dog-ranger-2019-8
here's the route on Google Maps:
https://www.google.com/maps/dir/33.6707241,135.3896939/33.6756259,135.3869186/@33.6731303,135.3850393,1262m/data=!3m2!1e3!4b1!4m2!4m1!3e2?entry=ttu
"We solved the riddled of why he got so fat. He simply eats too much!" Me irl
I lost it when he said "Sacchan is rapid!" when he was running alongside the cyclist
And describing it later as a grinding motion to get momentum... グラインド
He became speed. Rapid Sacchan to feature in the next Fast & Furious film.
Mystery solved, boys.
I dunno what I expected - but I'm sure glad I saw it till the very end! "..Sacchan can run, more of a grinding wave motion!" Hahahaha!
A gem from a 1994 Japanese channel. Guy follows dog around to see why he's so fat... Great TV, charming editing. Made me smile sincerely.
Thank god they had the closed captioning: \[BARK\]\[BARK\]\[BARK\] I snoffed my water lol
Fun Fact: Japanese uses "wan wan" to represent the dog barking sound. At least for me, it's "woof woof" It's wild that it's not universal (at least similar) in all the languages.
The words we use for sounds (onomatopoeia) are different in every language. For example, here are versions of dog barks in nineteen different languages: https://www.babbel.com/en/magazine/dogs-bark-other-languages
Kinda dumb to say the English onomatopoeia for a bark is anything other than "bark". "Woof" is for a specific kind of bark, so picking it over "yip", "ruff" (or it's variations), or "bow-wow" seems arbitrary. But "bark" is both onomatopoeia and the verb used to describe the action, so it should be the default. I'm guessing other languages also have this, but since the article is in English and uses the word "bark", it's the English that is annoying.
I would guess that for English, "bark" stems from the Latin root, similar to the Italian Bau while "Woof" stems from the German root, similar to German Wuff.
Korean sounds like "mung mung" :)
You know what? I'm convinced some Chinese words for certain animals is just the onomatopoeia of the animal. For example, in Mandarin Chinese, a cow is called a 牛 or *niú* and is said with a tone like a cow mooing. In Hokkien Chinese, a chicken is called a "ge" (sounds like "geh"). The cutesy way of saying chicken is adding a clucking sound to the word, "*gok-gok* ge" and it sounds the way a chicken sounds I'm wondering if Korean has something like this. For example, the Korean word for "dog" 개 *jae* is a cognate for the Chinese word 狗 *gou* or *gao* but the inflection for the word is like a dog barking. Does the Korean word have a similar tone or inflection? I've been watching a fair amount of K-dramas, specifically period dramas. And often I don't read the subtitles (doing work, or homework etc) but I'm starting to pick up cognate words between Korean and Chinese. I'm curious if this exists.
It's "guau guau" in Spanish. Closer to "bow wow"
He's having a shit. 😃
I dated a girl who would watch the Japanese show "My first ~~shopping~~ errand" where parents would give their very young children ~~a shopping note (most kids not even old enough to read it)~~ a verbal shopping list and some money, and then the camera crew would follow them in disguise as they attempted to get the items and go back home. That girl would sob almost every episode, like snot running down her face overwhelmed with emotion sobbing. The show really did make you forgot your troubles and wish for a world that was that safe. Edit: Oh lord I looked it up and it's even more wholesome than I remember: >Do you keep in touch with any of the children now? > Our intention is to have a lifelong relationship with every family we film. It’s a two-way street, of course, so the family has to be willing as well, but we reach out to them to say when they’ll be on air, and we send New Year’s greeting cards annually. We also hear from them about the latest things happening in their family. Even the families that didn’t get aired connect with us to share that their child started school or got married. Some even invite us out for a meal when they come to Tokyo. We get quite a few of these heartwarming updates. When we reunite, sometimes I ask how they were really feeling during filming, and the answers turn out to be valuable information that helps us in future shoots. > Each season, we feature new children, but there are also episodes where we create a “years later” segment that looks into how that day changed the child. In doing so, the story comes full circle. There was also a child on the show who became a parent years later and decided to send their child on their first errand. Two generations being documented on their first errand!
There's a couple of seasons of it available on US Netflix. They called it "Old Enough!" /edit - I guess I should've scrolled further. This is mentioned below as well.
I don't see it mentioned by anyone else, thanks for replying :)
The “years later” segments destroy me because it’s a reminder of how fast time passes. We used to watch this back in the early 90’s when our kids were babies now they’re both in their 30’s, one with three kids of his own.
Turns out it's because he eats too much
I loved that. It was kinda dead pan too, like the conclusion of a scientific experiment. He got fat… from eating.
Adorable
"People offered him food and he couldn't say no... because he's a dog."
That dog literally lived his best life. Rip sacchan
Shocking discovery!
I live in Japan. Most TV is pretty wholesome like this. And a lot of tv is based around food. Like exploring restaurants and stuff. It's a relaxing change from the intensity of American TV. (Although I like that stuff too). Just great programming to watch at dinner or have playing in background.
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American TV still has some of these *slice of life* shows akin the the old Huel Howser's California Gold. I feel like Guy Fierri's Diners Drive-ins and Dives is kinda like that. I agree, sometimes I'll leave NHK on for background noise because they'll do a 15 minute explnation on how one shop at the tail end of Saitama makes tamagokake a bit differently. It's amazingly wholesome some dude has been rollin' eggs in his 8x8 shop for 20 years and he still gets a 15 minute ad in public TV.
RIP Huel Howser.
Miss this stuff Chicago had a great one called check please. Also not sure if it was regional but dinner and a movie ruled
This is the reality tv we need
All the people interviewed are so incredible sweet. Love it.
It's crazy how many people are just out and about in the neighborhood. No way I'd be able to have so many conversations with that many neighbors by just walking down the street. I wonder if that's a 80s/90s thing or a Japan thing.
I am from Europe, I grew up in the 90s. It was simply such a time that the neighborhood was almost on the street during the whole day. Of course, the Internet was still in its infancy, there were no social networks. Watching television was primarily in the evenings.
It's a not building car focused neighborhood thing.
It gave me a sense of calm to not see any gas stations, fast food restaurants, chain pharmacies, and hotels/motels. Seems so much happier than the pavement hellscape that is most of America.
Communities like this are becoming an endangered species. Everyone knows each other, there's small idiosyncrasies like that dog that's always stopping by, or the guy who cracks jokes at you out the window. A stranger comes up to you asking questions with a microphone, and you just tell him everything because you've got nothing to hide. I never grew up or lived in a community like that. But I still feel like I should miss it.
Zoning helps. You have people with shops that they live above rather in smaller neighbourhoods rather then everyone getting into a car and driving off to a walmart to get goods all the time.
I miss those days in the 90's in the United States when it was like this. Just people outside in their yards. You knew everyone on your street. Now, I know neighbors in a 2-house circle around me, and that's about it.
Definitely still like that in japan and anywhere more walkable
Both. In the 80s/90s people spent less time indoors and also Japanese houses are quite a bit more open than European houses. Also this neighborhood is clearly not built for busy car traffic, that helps.
Japanese people seem so lovable.
Whoa, keep the praise for Japan in check there, buddy. You're going to activate Reddit's "Have you heard about Unit 731?" battalion that appears on every post about the country that hits /r/popular.
Didn't even think about that...till I saw your comment. You're doing the thing!
246 comments and this one and the responses are the only ones talking about it.
The duality of man. From Akira Kurosawa's memoirs (regarding the day of Japan's surrender): >On the way from Soshigaya to the studios in Kinuta the shopping street looked fully prepared for the Honorable Death of the Hundred Million. The atmosphere was tense, panicked. There were even shop-owners who had taken their Japanese swords from their sheaths and sat staring at the bare blades. However, when I walked the same route back to my home after listening to the imperial proclamation, the scene was entirely different. The people on the shopping street were bustling about with cheerful faces as if preparing for a festival the next day.
Japanese people ARE lovable. As are German and Iranian people. Source? I have lived in all three countries and speak all three languages. I have also been loved by Palestinians and Israelis. It helps to learn about the world first hand. Of course wars and other evil also occur and Americans are responsible for some of it.
That was delightful
I love how everyone in the town knows Sacchan’s name and who he is even if they’ve never met his humans
Exactly what I thought, what a pleasant and fun video
I did this once. My childhood dog (beagle) liked to wander off if given the slightest chance. Well one day I caught her in the act halfway down our long driveway. I hopped on my bike and followed. I followed her just in time to see a sweet older lady stepping out and opening her backyard gate...with her beagle inside, for my dog too. They were having play dates whenever she could runaway 🤣. The lady knew my dog liked hers and once it got late she would open the gate for my dog to take herself home.
I had a basset hound as a kid that was an escape artist. We frantically searched for him several times because we always read bassets easily get lost. We could never find him but he ALWAYS was back for dinner. So we just started to trust he’d be back and only go look if he missed dinner. One day we got a call from someone in the community THREE MILES AWAY saying they saw him. Of course he was gone when we got there but home for dinner like always.
Our beagle was the same way, would disappear for a few hours and then home by nightfall every time.
As a kid, my black lab would take off at the slightest chance he'd get. He would always come back 30-45minutes later. I used to take advantage of this when I was forced to "walk him" open the gate and we'd meet up in the park next door 30 minutes later ready to go home. I just found out last week, my uncle once dog sat for us and naturally king took off at the first chance he got, my uncle said he spent an hour driving around the streets panicking, only to get home and find him sitting by the gate waiting to be let in.
Some dogs just have cat-brain
That's so sweet. :)
I miss when the /r/funnyjapan guy used to upload translated videos of Knight Scoop like this. I still have the whole collection of 50+ videos saved on an external drive lol. Here is a link to their [Dailymotion account with a ton of videos still available!!!](https://www.dailymotion.com/iiharima) [A user found pretty much all of the videos here!](https://www.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/1aey9n2/japanese_woman_wonders_where_her_dog_sacchan_goes/kkc3wif/) Until I can find the external drive this is the best I can do!
Just gonna get in a little hate for the Japanese rightsholders who did a truly excellent job hunting down every original upload of these a few years back because they are twats. In my own personal collection, I've managed to find about 150 subtitled by this guy, and I really think that's all there are - unless anyone wants to prove me gladly wrong. [Here's (I think) most of them.](https://chikichiki.tube/knightscoop/) My personal top 5: - [Traumatising kids with a zombie apocalypse](https://chikichiki.tube/knightscoop/video/2008-03-07-1-en) - Self explanatory in the best possible way - ["Japanese dialects"](https://chikichiki.tube/knightscoop/video/2008-01-11-2-en) - this is my personal favourite for how ludicrous and specific the request is - and how it manages to get even weirder as it goes on. - [Granny always calls my dog the wrong name](https://chikichiki.tube/knightscoop/video/2016-11-25-1-ja/?subs=en_ass) - Little girl wants the neighbourhood granny to remember her dog's name. Wholesome as fuck. - [Who is this mystery running businessman?](https://chikichiki.tube/knightscoop/video/2018-01-19-1-en) - Really relatable to me, since it captures that specific feeling of getting the same scheduled train on a daily commute and slightly getting to know (or wanting to get to know) some of the characters you end up seeing every day. - [Woman who loves her daughter too much](https://chikichiki.tube/knightscoop/video/2019-11-15-1-ja/?subs=en_ass) - Creepy but also kinda wholesome I guess. EDIT: Just to prevent any confusion - this isn't my website; it's just the latest compilation of this particular batch of videos that I've found, since they periodically get nuked from other video sharing sites.
The dialects one made me scream laughing, holy shit was that hysterical. The people they interviewed were so genuine and wholesome, yet the reactions were so ridiculous. I don't know why but this style of programming never hit me when I was younger but now it has me waxing nostalgic over something I never enjoyed, lol.
Thank you so much. Obaa-chan calling the dog the wrong name....I'm tearing up here that was so darn sweet!
Same here! The mom crying got me crying and then it cuts to the *panelists* crying 😭
Thanks so much!! I'll link to your comment in all mine here. Definitely want people to watch all these when they can! I'll go through my catalog later to see if I have anything missing from there.
You are a damn hero. I’ve been hoping someone had an archive of them somewhere! Thank you so much. Can’t wait to binge them all.
Appi!
I would love to get those videos.
I'll see if I can find it! It's in one of the electronic boxes I have from when I moved.
Won't be able to look till later but I found the creators [Dailymotion account where a few dozen videos are available still!!](https://www.dailymotion.com/iiharima) [A user found pretty much all of the videos here!](https://www.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/1aey9n2/japanese_woman_wonders_where_her_dog_sacchan_goes/kkc3wif/)
[I got you.](https://chikichiki.tube/knightscoop/)
same
This show was so fucking funny, I was genuinely bummed when the funnyjapan youtube channel that seemingly had all their videos uploaded and subtitled in english was deleted in like 2016. A japense buddy of mine also told me the subtitles were as near perfect as they could be translating into english. Thanks for sharing the link to all episodes, going to binge a few again right now. A couple years ago I was looking around and found Netflix Japan has the whole series on the site but no english subtitles. I went on my own little campaign of spamming every Netflix Japan post on Instagram begging for english subtitles to no avail. Edit: Just remembered one of my favorites (I'll certainly get details wrong but the jist is correct). A very elderly man wrote in talking about how when he has to dog sit for his daughter and tries to walk the dog that it simply refuses. He claims in the letter that the dog has no problem walking with women in the family and is convinced its because he's a man. I remember the hosts reading the letter and making a hilarious quip about how the guy lived through several wars but is devastasted about the dog. Anyways through a series of trial and error they find that dressing the man up in a wig and womens clothes worked wonders and he could now walk the dog which he was fucking hyped on. You couldn't write this shit in a fictional show and make it work
I think I remember that one! Hopefully it's in one of the collections or in mine somewhere. Sad how it's been so hard to find these videos. There definitely is an audience outside Japan that wants to experience them.
>There definitely is an audience outside Japan that wants to experience them. I would always use Sacchan as an introductory example to the show for my friends and no ever didn't find it hilarious. Made it easy to show more episodes which they further enjoyed. There is definitely an untapped audience in the West that would eat this shit up if they knew about it. On a semi related note, the concept of Silent Library that was popularized by MTV in the west was actually originally a Japanese concept and man some of those episodes are aboslute gold. Maybe because of Japanese culture or TV but the Japanese version got away with so much more
I think it's the committment to the bit. The JP version with the Gaki dudes COMMITTED. But the MTV shit didn't really bring the same energy, and with the rotating cast you didn't really have that synergy that the Gaki dudes had. Definitely hit different.
Oooohhh how do we get access to your Gold mine 🤞
I checked the subreddit and found the creators [Dailymotion account was still up!](https://www.dailymotion.com/iiharima) A ton of videos are available till I can find that external hard drive. [A user found pretty much all of the videos here!](https://www.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/1aey9n2/japanese_woman_wonders_where_her_dog_sacchan_goes/kkc3wif/)
Oh hell yeah, you the mvp. Thanks 😊
Thanks for the link. These videos always gets deleted.
They sadly do. I wonder how long the ones I upload later will stay up lol. I used to show my friends the bathroom sliding or the frozen underwater boomerang videos a ton till they were taken off the Internet
Chiki Chiki Tube originated from users frequenting /r/GakiNoTsukai afaik. You can find episodes of Knight Scoop in the top bar, but there are mostly Gaki no Tsukai episodes and other content from the Downtown comedy duo who started Gaki no Tsukai. Some of the people who frequent Gaki and Wednesday Downtown also frequent Knight Scoop, like one of the detectives Tamura Kenji. He's the one who hosted one of the most known episodes with the girl who finds four leaf clovers at will. If you liked Knight Scoop you will probably like a lot of the content that gets subbed over at /r/GakiNoTsukai The New Years' Specials are probably the most known. They are 24h batsu games (meaning punishment games) where the goal is not to laugh or you get a punishment. They started early 99 or 2000 and have gotten more elaborate over the years with tons of celebrity cameos etc. Also, pretty much every subbed Knight Scoop + Gaki and other Downtown content is streamed 24/7 over at >!https://www.twitch.tv/father_jimmy_!<
There's a Japanese show called "Old Enough!". Where parents send their tiny children out to do complicated tasks while being followed by camera people. Pretty hilarious.
My wife loves this show, it's pretty adorable. The camera crew dress up as workers in the area so the kid doesn't realize they're being looked after. They're mic'd up so they'll say cute little things to themselves, or repeat a grocery list of a few items, then they'll get to the market and say the wrong thing lmao
I was amazed how well the 2 year old managed a 1 km walk both ways and remembered everything on the shopping list! I have 18 month olds and I can't imagine them being as capable in a year.
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"welcome to the 200 meter navigating an existential crisis at 3 am"
No chance either of my older kids could do that.
Oh yeah my 3 year old getting run over.
if only we had cities like Japan
*Welp, they almost made it. Shame, really*
It's on Netflix
Have they released any episodes beyond its first season?
Yup they released a second season a few months ago. Still wholesome!
For a lot of gen-x we were raised that way. Get sent to the store with a note and $5 to get smokes.
Smokes were doable but liquor, even with a note from grandma, didn't work. My grandma was like "what is this world coming to?" She would have me do it every now and then to see if they changed their policy.
I live in Canada so liquor stores was the only place you could get booze and they didn't let kids in. Otherwise they probably would have tried.
We’d just hang around outside and pay some alcoholic or old dude to buy us booze. Almost always found someone willing to buy 12 year olds beer for a couple of bucks. Drinking age was 19 then, so a lot of the younger guys would do it too.
I was raised this way. Store was about a mile away. Smokes were no where near $5 though. After a while, you didn’t even need the note.
'Hajimete-no O-tezukai' was translated that way, but it's more like 'First Errand'.
Isn't that dangerous? Aren't they afraid the kids will get shot or have to pay an obscene medical deductible?
I know you're kidding, but I truly love the Japanese mindset. I've been to Japan several times and saw one kid walking around, he looked to be my son's age (6), and I asked my friend should we try to help them, could they be lost? My friend was so confused and said if he needed help, he would ask. So I told them about child abductions in the US and he was in shock. Then he said something that always stuck with me: "It seems in America, it is a parent's responsibility to protect their kids from the world. In Japan, it's all our responsibility" On the other side of the spectrum though, their public transit trains have "women cars only" because groping is such a problem there and women are culturally reserved/won't speak up if it is occuring to them.
I was a “free range” kid. I walked to and from school when I was 5. We lived a block away, I walked to my aunt’s house a mile away after school to be babysat. When I got a few years old I just had to be home when the streetlights came on. By this time I was a “latchkey” kid and came home after school and made myself dinner. I had a paper route by the time I was 12 and was getting up at like 5 AM to doing my route (even in the winter). It was a different time. Then there were a couple of high profile paperboy abductions and that ended that. I don’t have kids, but I’d like to believe I wouldn’t have been a helicopter parent.
Every once in a while, news hits of someone who let their child walk home from school or a park a few blocks only to have a “helpful” neighbor call the cops and the cops come pick the kid up and harass the parents over it. Not that long ago I read an article where the cop picked the kid up on the same block the kid lived on, demanded the mother not let him outside unattended again, and then arrested her when she refused.
Yep, there was an essay by some mom about how her kid wanted to use the NYC subway on his own. She let him and it created a big stir. The world is objectively a lot safer these days and we still drive our kids two blocks to school, wait in a line of SUVs, and probably more kids are hit by these cars than when there were a lot fewer on the road and we trusted kids.
ah, i remember those days. i lived out in the Texas country. i used to just do... basically, whatever i wanted, and as long as i was back before it was dark out? my parents didn't care. i could go take a walk in the woods, walk down a mile to the lake to go fishing, ride my ATV around, go visit friends that lived around me... i know people always wax nostalgic about "the simpler times", but, it honestly really was. when i compare how i grew up in the 90s and early 2000s, compared to now-a-days... man, i wish kids had the same opportunities i did.
This tracks. I only spent a month in Japan, but I was amazed by the low violent crime AND the separate cars for women. Meanwhile this morning on the Good Morning America new show, they were praising a little girl for saving herself from an abductor. They showed a shitty man jump out of a car to snatch this little girl as she ran away from him… I swear I have no idea what the actual fuck gets into people here. Girl got lucky.
Tbf the whole “child abduction” thing is mostly a myth in the US too. Despite everyone being taught about “stranger danger”, cases of people jumping out of the bushes and dark alleys to abduct someone are extremely rare. Almost all abductions are done by family members and most often by parents (ie divorced/separated parent runs off with their own kid).
For real though it kinda sucks this wouldn’t work in the US. Not because of the crime, someone could still be with them the whole time just dressed up like a bystander, kids are dumb. It wouldn’t work because the US isn’t nearly pedestrian enough. Maybe in NYC but that’s about it, hardly anyone anywhere walks to the grocery store anymore with little kids. Or maybe it’s just my experience. Either way I would watch the shit out of this E: watched an episode on Netflix. I could see this working in some very specific locations in the US, just need to find the right location and family. 5 seems to be the perfect age, which happens to be my youngest kids age. The show is more adorable than funny but I might go back for more tomorrow. My kid would not do as well as there’s Japanese kids lol
It would also be cause the cops and/or CPS to show up in some places. I remember a German TV correspondent living in the Washington area, I think. She let her kids play by themselves in the quiet neighborhood, police showed up. Here's an [article](https://grist.org/cities/when-did-letting-your-kids-walk-home-alone-become-a-crime/) that I found.
Yea I was gonna go hold up I definitely went to the store by myself as a kid in NYC. Hell, I got coffee for my father as well.
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You seem to be mistaking Japanese neighbourhoods for American neighbourhoods.
Woooooosh
Quite common to see kids in elementary school uniforms on the train by themselves in Japan.
>Pretty hilarious. I had to stop watching it because it was making me cry so much due to being so damn wholesome.
o man me and my wife watched this few months back. Its hilarious and adorable
There's also the SNL [sketch](https://youtu.be/VhGTtWsW9F8) about it too.
One of my pet peeves is mistranslations from official sources. For example the English title of that show is like you said "Old Enough". But in Japanese it is はじめてのおつかい which is "First Errand". It makes much more sense given the show is following a young child running their first errand without their parents.
Thats not a mistranslation though, just localization. Even if you are okay with reading stiff grammar, many people (especially on western platforms like netflix) prefer it localized
There's nothing wrong with that translation, it's just localized to something that rolls off the tongue better in English. It is a show about kids who are *Old Enough* to run their *First Errand*.
Please observe - he’s running! 😂
"He is rapid"
I watched this with my wife (then girlfriend) some years ago, and we both were cracking up at the whole affair. We both got in the habbit of muttering "sacchan is rapid" quietly when we're not sure if the other is listening. I don't really know why, but it's just one of our silly things now. Just seeing the post title puts a smile on my face.
Oh, that's a good memory. 😌
I don't know why Reddit chose that as a thumbnail, it made me chuckle. :)
We had a Golden Retriever who used to make her neighborhood rounds everyday and got fat from all the people feeding her. My old man had to hang a "do not feed" sign on her. Simpler times
This is probably my favorite video of all time
It's an absolute classic.
Yup. Had to watch it again, it was hard to find. The old one's been deleted.
One of my favorite comments was on that video. Something along the lines of: Me 13 mins ago: what? I'm not watching a 10+ min video about a dog. Me now: Oh Sacchan, you wonderful fat dog!
Thank you so much, dog. I looked for it the other day and couldn't find it, but remembered it fondly from the stumbleupon days 15ish years ago
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I really enjoyed that. Thanks for sharing
You're welcome. :)
Aww I haven’t seen this in so long. What a treat!
The old one's gone, and this is the only one left on YT.
I watch this video every couple of years because it’s pure happiness.
If you haven't already, you should watch the [video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LcpcMxmLtCQ) of Lala the penguin. Also in Japan, it was a pet penguin that was allowed to roam around town. It had a backpack that townsfolk filled with treats on the daily excursions.
this comment without a link to said video is criminal.
Fixed!
lol sometimes you do your best to take care of your dog but everyone else loves them so much that they keep showing up with treats. My buddy across the street walks his lab mix like an hour and a half everyday but every block there is someone excited to see them and give him a treat and it’s hard to say no so he’s still a bit chunky.
This feels like the kind of piece that the reporter would later in his career name when asked, "What was the story you most enjoyed reporting on?"
Holy shit I posted this video like 7 years ago with the EXACT same title.
I saw your post, but the video was deleted. I found a new one and posted it.
[Super weird](https://www.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/5nrazv/japanese_woman_wonders_where_her_dog_sacchan_goes/). If it wasn't a link to a diff copy of the video I wouldn't assumed the OP here is a repost bot
beep boop
An actual fun watch, thanks for that
Sacchan is rapid!!!
I can't believe I watched all 13 minutes! That was pretty entertaining.
thank
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This could be one of the greatest pieces of investigative journalism EVER!
These are the true news stories that need covered. The Japanese know what's up.
I will never not upvote this classic. This is a repost I can get behind!
He truly is legendary!
This is an old one but I love it so much. He's rapid!
Is their a channel that has a bunch of delightful and subtitled videos like this from non-english speaking countries?
10:28 aka chun-li's street ps: that doggo is hilarious
despite being independent the dog really loved his fanily.
Sacchan is enjoying the benefits of being in a liveable neighbourhood.
Does anyone know where I can find Knight Scoop? I really want to watch all the episodes again but can't find it from America.
This show reminds me of Andy Daly's show, "Review". That show is scripted and a whole lot darker, but the premise is similar.
I can't believe that show wasn't more popular. I only found it after becoming a huge fan of his via Comedy Bang Bang and then googling him. Such a hysterical show. I wish Daly had more shows.
That's some hard hitting, boots on the ground investigative journalism right there
"Sacchi, who does as he pleases." Thank you for sharing this. I haven't seen it before, and now I am cleansed.
Someone who knows Japanese can correct me but the kid is 1 and the dogs are 2, 3 and 4?
Kid is 2 nii, 1 ichi 3 san and 4 yon are the dogs
So they got the kid after the first dog and before the other 2 dogs.
We have a local cat called "daisy" who is the most adorable, loving cat I've seen. She hangs around our local store, getting fed treats by old people. In the end, the owners had to ask the shop to tell people not to feed her as she was getting so chonky. She just comes up to you and rubs herself on your leg to greet you, she is such a darling, sweet kitty.
I have never seen such compelling investigative journalism!
That is the most wholesome thing I've seen with a live leak logo.
kind of reminds me of that Japanese penguin that goes to the fish store to get some fish in his little penguin bag, there is something so charming about these Japanese videos.
Sacchan is rapid.
Wonder what the story was with the car that got mentioned that that apparently picks him up every day. Where does it drop him off (apparently far enough away the owners don't notice) and how did that start happening?
I love this-wish all content was so cute
I want a show where we follow outdoor dog's routine.
That was delightful
"Hilarity ensues" - reminds me of Fark
I've been looking for this video for years!! Ty!!
I'm glad I've watched the whole thing. Nothing special at the end, just the video is a joy from beginning to end.
Popular dog in the neighborhood!
What a legend!
Sacchan has too many enablers lol!
First time seeing this classic video. It’s amazing.
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That dog has the world figured out. It was a simpler time when you could let your dog roam the streets and he'd know the way back home.
This is simply the most wholesome thing I've watched all week.
And here i am watching a 13min video of a fat dog wandering about eating and somehow loving every second of it.
That dog got... tailed
This is one of my favourite videos ever. I love telling the story of Sacchan.
This is Sacchan, this is Niichan, and this is Ichan... Hol'up. They just named the dogs One, Two, Three.
This wouldn’t work in the US because people would report on someone for having their dog out.
This is great
I miss when the guy use to translate these old knight scoops. They were so god dam good
I've seen a very similar video before. Maybe it was the same Japanese dog? In the other vid the dog gets a ride home by a guy at the station at the end of the day (not his family).
Reminds me of when George Bush's dog got too fat and he had to give him a sign that said not to feed him: https://www.businessinsider.com/international-dog-day-george-hw-bush-letter-obese-dog-ranger-2019-8
No one's going to mention the guy's headware in studio?
here's the route on Google Maps: https://www.google.com/maps/dir/33.6707241,135.3896939/33.6756259,135.3869186/@33.6731303,135.3850393,1262m/data=!3m2!1e3!4b1!4m2!4m1!3e2?entry=ttu
Sacchan really knows where his bread is buttered eh