You never know what strange thing you are going to see on Japanese TV but the easiest to find is the late night girly programs. Think the girly segments of Benny Hill times 10 or the Man’s Show except only about oggling girls.
5 years ago the first one I spotted was the Mini Skirt Police. Back then it featured this guy with a huge beard in a dracula cape. A bunch of girls dressed in vaguely police like uniforms with mini skirts would compete in ridiculous games and to the loser of each round the guy in the cape would cross his arms like Ultraman’s Specium Ray and shout “Nugi Nugi Beam” (Nugu is the verb to take off your clothes in Japan). The girl would then shed an article of clothing. First girl down to just her bikini or underware was the loser.
An even more silly segments I saw involved tying the bottom of a girl’s skirt to a low-rider car by string and then bouncing the car up and down in the hopes of lifting her skirt far enough to see her underware. I don’t know what they are up to now.
Tonight thought I saw a different program showing basically DOAXVB live. It was a couple of girls in bikinis trying to cross a pool by walking on floats and giggling as they fell.
Given the other programs that’s not that big a deal but then this guy walks out in flippers, takes off his outer clothes and is wearing a briefs style bathing suit and he’s sporting a woody sticking straight out pitching a tent. He then proceeds to make fun of it by hanging a flipper on it. Next he walks into to a room with sliding glass doors and facing the doors pretends he doesn’t understand why the doors won’t close all the way, his knob being in the way.
Other big thing in Japan is shashin shuu. The direct translation would be picture collection but they are specifically collections of pictures of a particular girl. They are about the equivalent of the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue but these come out all year around and are prominently featured in all Japanese bookstores. They also have DVDs and videos of the same thing. Well, there’s a TV program about girls trying to or learning to become a shashin shuu girl.
This kind of stuff seems more excepted in Japan and basically pretty much any woman you see on TV or in music has at one time or another had a shashin shu put out. You could look at it as Japan being more excepting of this, more tolerant or you could look at it as Japan not having grown up yet but then again we’ve similar stuff in the states like the Man’s Show or this game.
Are these still on the air in Japan? God, I LOVED them. Heavily censored reruns of GILGAMESH NIGHTS (when I first came here they were running the ORIGINAL episodes with Ijima Ai, but lately the episodes are about 5 years old) and reruns of BIKINI (a show of recent vintage, with no nekkid babes, but lots of gorgeous nihon onna in bikinis.. MMMMMM) can be found on Taiwan cable’s Z channel at the present. Z Channel is like Samurai TV in Japan: wrestling all day and cut up romano porno at night. When bored, you can have your dose of Jushin Luger and AV starlets to make the bad day disappear!
MAN SHOW is boring. LOTS of posturing and thinks its shit doesn’t stink. A lot LESS attitude and MORE hotties are on the Japanese shows.
Greg, I think watching these programs is the first sign that you’ve become lax in your hunt for a new job! Next thing you’ll be doing is watching daytime pannel discussion and home improvement shows as you pound down some poky and other, assorted junk foods. You’ll go to sleep at 4pm and wake up at midnight. This is followed by late night visits to the nearby familymart/lawsons/seven eleven in your tack suit and slippers as you eventually get to know the dude behind the counter on a first name basis and then comparitively discuss the advantages and disadvantages of hikikomori!
Oddly, my recent favorite Nihon terebi series would by HOTCH POTCH STATION on NHK World premium: a post modern puppet show that is about 15 minutes long, is presumably geared towards kids but the jokes are aimed at adults; and episodes of the kazio-ningen series SPACE SHERIFF GAAVAN.
As a guy who used to live in Japan, I can say 2 things about this article.
1) What Greggman says is 100% true
2) I’m fine with it
I am interested in seeing shows like this one (GILGAMESH NIGHTS, super jockey )and others in japan.I am seaching sicne long but could not find any.Can iget the channles names and timings for these shows
thanks
jack
What’s a shashin shuu girl? Having never visited Japan or even remotely familiar with Japanese culture, I know nothing.
Shashinshuu literally means Photo Collection but specifically in Japan they are books of pictures of girls in sexy poses. Usually each book is about one girl in particular and most of them are pictures like the kinds you’d find in a Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue.
Here’s Amazon Japan’s start page for 写真集
Ahhhh, thanks a lot. Now I guess I have to learn how to read Japanese (Kanji???).
Thanks again,
Leo
Ive watched a little japanese programing but i watched “Matthews Greatest hits” or something like that. But it was acually funny and it seemed like they just threw stuff in and didnt reherse or anything. It was awsome. But the show was like a goofy set with one camara angle and one desk for “Matthew and his guests”. He would make jokes in the beginning of the show and then introduse his guest (which I think the girls from morning musume were his favorites) and they’de do things like eat funny food or make “Matthew” guess which food had ume bochi in it, And he hates ume bochi(ume bochi = plum ball right uncle gregg?).
But any way i seem to like japanese shows like that some times.
It’s called “Matthew’s Best” and it’s a pretty good show. Recently they’ve been doing this thing where they get two guests who are originally from some place other than Tokyo and then they have them call someone from their hometown and talk to them on the phone and they get fined 1000yen everytime they use a local dialect expression or word instead of “correct Japanese”.
Here in Japan, each area of Japan actually has their own version of Japanese that is different from other areas. The two biggest regions of difference are Kansai (Osaka etc) and Kanto (Tokyo etc). A simple example, the casual way to say I don’t understand in Kanto-ben (kanto style) is “wakaranai” but in Kansai-ben it’s “wakaruhen” but they are all different.
Anyway, most of these guests normally speak Kanto-ben when they are in Tokyo and working with people but when they call their mom or dad or brother or sister they start speaking their local version of Japanese and so it’s funny to watch them try no to do it because it’s so much of a habit for them it’s nearly impossible.
They also have them try to read a story written in their local dialect and try to read it translated to Kanto-ben without mistakes. It’s really hard.
Hi I am new to the site. I was searching around for “japanese TV” hoping to find a sight that I could download what you called Juvinelle Japanese TV. I watched a few clips of these late night tv shows– it was a completely different experience. I’ve watched korean and chinese tv shows alot (i am chinese), and I am surprised at how different japanese and chinese are compared to each other. It is just a shock, I never realized it was this different. I live in Canada, and there is no Asian TV on our satilite still. I was wondering if anyone knew of any bit torrent websites where it is available to download japanese tv.
thanks
Try this site:
http://www.d-addicts.com/forum/torrents.php
You can also watch Japanese Tv, live and fully legally, here: http://www.uriptv.com/jp/index.jsp
Super Jockey was the best show on Japanese TV. I cannot get enough of it.
http://japansugoi.com/wordpress/crazy-japanese-super-jockey-%e3%82%b9%e3%83%bc%e3%83%91%e3%83%bc%e3%82%b8%e3%83%a7%e3%83%83%e3%82%ad%e3%83%bc-tv-series/