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we respect Japanese culture okay yeah we
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do we
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do all right welcome back to Mari T 2
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games my name is Mari today I'm going to
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react to Assassin's Creed Shadows
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gameplay as a former Japanese M yeah
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yeah woohoo believe me it was not a very
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fun experience having to watch this
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gross defection you will hear it in my
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voice later so however after month and
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months of seeing many Japanese Gamers
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voices ignored by Ubisoft just cuz the
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vast majority of the Japanese Gamers
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comment in Japanese while quite often
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they don't Feit the Western narratives I
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felt like I got to do this even though
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I've refrained from it for over half a
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year but before diving into the actual
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game play as a former M marel let me
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give a brief introduction about Shino
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socalled Shintoism so that you
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understand how I
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feel all right Shino is a national
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philosophy and traditions technically
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not a religion it is our ultimate way to
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pass down all kinds of information it
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was forced to be considered as a
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religion on legal documents during fifth
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century due to International political
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interference it plays the core role of
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Japanese culture that involves so much
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of our Traditions which has the biggest
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impact on how we behave during disasters
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like earthquakes typhoons cleanliness in
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general cleaning after your own Mass
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minimalism Etc so Shinto festivals and
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rituals pass down information to next
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Generations so that our future
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Generations don't make the same mistake
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again in order for society to evolve and
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improve in Japanese we call it Shintoism
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essentially unites the nation with
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Harmony in many challenging situations
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and educates habitants to stay civil and
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cherish the nature in this sense the
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harmony that we mean is the B B in many
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things such as rights and responsibility
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just like a coin with two undetachable
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sides now take a guess how many Shino
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shrines there are in
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Japan there
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are over
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86,4 40 Sho shrines registered yay yay
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so imagine how many actual total number
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would be if unregistered ones were
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included so for example in my home
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Island there are over a thousand Cheto
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shrines just in one tiny Island by the
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way there are
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1,479 islands in nasak prefecture so
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again imagine just one in Island there's
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over a th000 Legends to pass down that's
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a lot of information from the ancient
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St according to Shima Shima we got
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14,1 125 Islands in Japan excluding un
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inhabitable Rock that creates e e
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area for numers so now we're going to
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talk a little bit about kisan so that
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you can understand my feelings when you
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watch my reactions to this game play K
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means sh priest at least that would be
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the closest translation there are
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patriots who have taken soul and bells
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to dedicate their whole lives to serve
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the citizens and the community they must
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give up on all their days off for the
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rest of their lives because they got to
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be ready to help when citizens visit
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shrines in random days they're in charge
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of providing citizens in the
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neighborhood crucial information from
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the past by carrying out all the
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traditional local festivals local
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rituals to protect Traditional Values
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and manners and also tell them where to
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run to in case of tsunami disas how
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often earthquakes happened in the past
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in that region to calculate roughly when
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the next one is coming they also bless
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the newborn babies help veterans
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especially the ones who suffer PTSD help
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earthquake orphans and homeless plant
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trees clean public areas listen to
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people with bad luck donate to our
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survivors with PTSD Pray for Peace there
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are countless things they
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do you can tell the rank of kosian by
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the color of hak that they're wearing
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for example this one in purple with a
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bright y m Crest must have been
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dedicating to the public for the last
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for at least four decades pass many
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exams and so on there's only about 200
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of them within the country by the way
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it's just 1% of all priests so citizens
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are usually thankful and we greet Kisa
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with respect because Society really
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needs them all right so now that we're
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on the same page so let's finally dive
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right into the game
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playo you're walking
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huh e I've got you now well but this is
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a game so I guess
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they're
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no
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sorry yeah I guess they fight in games
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well no one may brandish their weapons
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sir keep it
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you're polite guy oh my
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God wasn't he polite enough sorry I
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covered my
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mouth I don't know it's too fast like oh
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my God I mean it's a game I
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guess I don't know like I don't see a
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point of
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just attacking polite people
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I guess they have their own narrative in
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this movie not movie the game so I guess
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if if you play the whole thing probably
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it makes sense but what I don't know
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like the depiction is kind of pearl like
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ew more blood than ghost of
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tsushima I watched the trailer the other
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day in the trailer they were saying that
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uh they have to take the whole country
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down or something they have to take down
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everybody or something like fighting
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against evil or something like that so
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basically in this story line all the
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Japanese soldiers and people are bad so
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the this guy yuk is going to keep
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murdering the local Japanese
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people as Fair as
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possible she says why why is that of
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course cuz he's pushing everybody around
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in Shrine just like what's happening in
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Japan right now foreigners pushing
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people
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around well that's
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sad hey plus three points I'll give you
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three points here you pray again in a
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good
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manner two bells two claps and one bow
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at the end
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Bravo oh wait wait let's rewind it that
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was inar inar Ginger or
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inar inar
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Shrine ooh Fox you see in means H I say
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the crops that you grow the farmers grow
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you
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know show let's
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go okay
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okay okay unnecessary but it's okay it's
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a
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game so this is Kian the priests it's a
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the name of this color we call it aagi
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Shinto priest that's
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wearing aagi color of hakaba is it's not
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nice to say lowest class but you know
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compared to the rest of the shrine
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Masters they are the lower
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class okay some more destruction this
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player is
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enjoying the to make me a spirit too so
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I don't have to be lonely
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SC okay so call me in modern translation
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they translated it translated as God but
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it's not in Yamato in Ian Japanese
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language it means ancestors literally it
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means ancestors so whose ancestors his
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Imperial magesty families ancestors so
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Imperial mainly Imperial families
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ancestors are called
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Kami and we don't mean God by that by
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saying that that's why it's not a
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religion it's a tradition because they
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this family has always been teaching us
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things like uh um how to make clothing
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and be
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civil and um make Lakes if there's a
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drought Etc there's so many things that
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they taught us how to make ships in
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ancient time yeah so supposedly since
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20,000 years ago is they have been
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teaching us uh how to be
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civilized infrastructure how to make
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infrastructure how to grow rice Etc
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yep that's the definition of coming
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because um majority of the time the
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translation is wrong it's Dy Spirit or
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souls and ancestors that's that should
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be the translation not God that you guys
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refer
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to the biggest reason why the
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translation is wrong is because during
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the fifth century they forced us I mean
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the foreign
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uh foreign entity who attacked our
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nation which was stronger than us uh
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when we when Japan was weaker when
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Japanese military was weaker than the
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Invader the Continental
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Invader we had to adopt so many things
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by force so this is one of the things
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wrong translation and make Shintoism
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into uh like sounded like Trad uh
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religion that's what I meant yeah so
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then one other thing was the mist
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transation
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from into Kiki a mistranslation of so
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many words and one of it is Kam so thei
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did send
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you since Lord no maybe he did to
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violence believe I must put a stop to
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it so on his chest he has a cross so
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he's
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Christian I hope he's a good boy or is
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he just claiming to be
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Christian
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see purple in color so the other one was
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in light blue and these these uh priests
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these Shinto priests has darker color
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hakama darker colored hakama that means
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they've been working in the shrine for
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more than
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20 years or like uh much longer than the
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ones in blue you know Fuji flowers this
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is part of my family crest as well eight
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eight Fuji flowers oh this is
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aai my
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favorite I love aisai this type of aisai
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is gaku aisai hyr
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jeene I gotta cheer myself up sorry my
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voice was going solos CU I was like oh
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when I I when I saw the
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head getting
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chopped I just got scared oh well so I
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think this in this game they're going to
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keep beheading the citizens or and
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soldiers I guess oh wow I'm so scared to
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watch okay let's
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go three two
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one okay they're supposed to be yeah
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this supposed to be the bear
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guys it's I guess it makes sense for
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them because they have their own story
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that they created so let's keep
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watching y right the fat girl I mean
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chubby
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girl she's strong fight are
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unavoidable oh
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okay let's fight in front of the
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shrine it's okay because I'm praying yuk
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says I really like the fact that they
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did
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this because it's one of our tradition
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to do
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need so bow twice clap twice and Bell
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once at the end this is a shin way of
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the quick prayer and also it's part of
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the manner that we have to
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follow because um I was really shocked
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that in gashima they didn't do it
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here so we call
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it means comma dog so they are supposed
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to be dogs in in a shrine
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you're going to see fox or foxing and
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either way even Neo The
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Protector uh strong men that are
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supposed to be the protector protector
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of the
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entrance they are supposed to have one
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with the open mouth and one with the
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closed mouth and in this Shrine in this
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game both of them have open mouth and
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that's not correct in Japanese we call
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it a so a and is very important these
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two letters and two sound is very
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culturally important a means the
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beginning of the
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universe in yato
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and
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and those are the letters that we used
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to use before fifth century because
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during fth Century politically we were
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forced by our neighbor neighboring
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countries we were forced to adopt their
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character the writing system system but
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we still use woji in shrines now so
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since 1,500 years ago we were not
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allowed to use it in public schools
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anymore but this is happen when you are
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weaker than the
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Invader so when we say a no it means the
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breath of A and M like literally means
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you don't even have to say anything to
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understand each other that's what I
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means a means breath in
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Japanese ah let's keep
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going I love this
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part
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prayer good boy
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so this source is from sh cond Doan that
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I really respect and yeah I'm
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really scared to watch this part
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so but I got to do it let's do it three
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two one let's
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go makes me
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what why do you have to shoot already
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like they're
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unarmed
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why why do you have to shoot unarmed
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people
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and they are priests sh
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priests what what I don't want to say
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that word but why does Yuki want to
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destroy people who serve the community
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for
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decades I don't get it but this guy by
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the color he must have been dedicating
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his uh life for probably 40 years 30 to
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40 years huh because of the color oh oh
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I'm sorry it's very sensitive for
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me oh I mean imagine if Christian
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priests are getting shot like this in
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the video game it just hurts my feeling
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so well and also like imagine if a
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Muslim Imam is getting shot like this I
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wonder what other people would say say
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but when it happens to Asian
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people I'm like um oh well what should I
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say nobody's saying anything usually
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usually when it happens to other
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religions there's so many activists uh
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screaming around saying like hey racist
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racist and stuff but when it happens to
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Japan nobody
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cares what EAS
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cheing
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oh well obviously I was
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a really sad to watch this I'm not going
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to play it again because I can't watch
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it anymore but you know a lot of
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Japanese Gamers really despise Ubisoft
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nowadays just due to what they've been
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doing lately and their reputation is
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going down and the stock market I mean
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the price is going down as well I think
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it's a well-deserved
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excoriation because they really crossed
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the line too many times without even
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apologizing and th those um those like a
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so-called apology that they released is
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not even not even apology they were they
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were just given excuses you know like
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baseless nonsense excuses that is not an
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apology oh well and just because a lot
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of Japanese Gamers comments on the
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internet just don't fit the Western
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narratives we often like translated
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wrong and or like mostly ignored on the
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internet
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so I would like to be the voice of those
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people who don't speak English so that
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maybe we can share the different
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opinions so the westerners Western
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people can you know like start
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understanding our culture oh let's close
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this
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screen next by the way I have kamiana in
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my house as
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well in Japan there's kamidana
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everywhere in the battleships in
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household and kitchens of the Japanese
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restaurants Etc and
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evening these Yamato
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Logistics uh they have it in all their
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offices and TOS com every day we
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do the one that we were talking about
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before you know two bells two claps and
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two B uh one bow at the end
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I also took this from sh cond Doan as
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well just to show you guys like how
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cruel it was um I think a lot of people
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would say oh that's okay because it's in
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the game and stuff but uh just so that
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you know what I'm talking
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about I'm scared okay let's
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go oh my God no okay
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sorry um in Ghost of toshima as well
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there is a beheading scene as well but
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it's treated as like a one of the
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ultimate like a punishment or something
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and also the ones that were beheaded
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were always the captains of the enemy
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who invaded or home and
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also rise of the roten as well I've
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never played it yet and they also do the
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beheading scene but I think it was
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always against the enemies that are
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attacking you attacking the players but
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this one doesn't look like he was
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attacking let me just watch it again was
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he it's a lady oh my God no it's a guy
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but hey he's unarmed he's unarmed how
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come he's
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attacking it's
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confusing
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wait
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okay it's
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gross
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okay here's a lady here's a lady yeah
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what
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what I don't want to watch
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what does it make sense like she's
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unarmed and she's like they even created
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the motion of like hey don't do this to
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me and
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stuff oh my God
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yuk oh like a
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baseball like a baseball
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what's the point of showing this game
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play before
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release my God are they making fun of us
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or
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something or genuinely enjoying the
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brutality of destroying harming unarmed
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women that's sick that's
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sickening so
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M that I used to be until the pandemic
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um we dress like this uh it's a national
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color red and white it represents sun in
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the sky Rising Sun and also red and
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white together it also represents
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happiness and prosperity so during new
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years's or weddings anything that
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involves happiness and when you want to
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wish something positive you put red and
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white so like during New Year you're
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going to see a lot of snacks in red and
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white colors like sweets and stuff and
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also when you start a business the new
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business uh how do you say the opening
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ceremony you they usually put red and
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white stripes and red and white anything
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and during the festivals as well or when
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the whole cherry blossoms bloom shrines
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put red and white curtains and stuff
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everywhere you don't
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understand I have dis doesn't even look
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Japanese I understand so far I haven't
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seen any Japanese
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face the dead are always ready to speak
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to us we must be ready to listen in
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return how come are ready how come she
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has a Chinese
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accent I mean in in gima like none of
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them had Japanese accent so it also
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makes sense even in like so many
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Hollywood movies they never they never
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use
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Japanese people Japanese actors
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representing Japanese person so yeah I
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guess you can't find many Japanese
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actors in I I have no idea but I don't
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know why they always put Chinese accent
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to represent Japanese people
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well it's a French company
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so anyways all the French people that I
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met they always generalization so I
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guess I guess they don't mean anything
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bad but the thing is that it's going to
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confuse the whole public you know
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because those who have never traveled
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around the world this is the image that
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they have so their image is their
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knowledge that they think that is a
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knowledge is already biased and wrong oh
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well but I I just still trust in their
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intention
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zika I'm ready for you to tell me what
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the shrine Fortune says who gave you
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that it doesn't belong to you oh she big
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man you shouldn't be
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here why do you got too
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much too much
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blood you will not interfere with the
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Master's wishes wow by the way she just
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threw
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kunai in in convenience stores in Japan
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called L and sometimes they have silicon
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kunai I love it I used to love playing
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with it kids toys you
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know who are your Buy
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yeah it's still gross I'm so sorry I
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think a lot of people are okay with it
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but to be honest like I kind of don't
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want to see Miko and like Shrine related
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people getting brutally attack me she's
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armed but usually like in real life we
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never going to be armed I've seen that
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in gima as well like Miko is being armed
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and stuff yeah we don't arm ourselves
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especially when you're in this attire
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serving yeah serving the shrine oh well
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but it's just a game I guess that's what
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we going to
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say yeah yeah over there give what you
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want what I was holding my face
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with you would
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e e
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scary I
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mean pure Abomination I tried my best to
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be fair and not noisy but I disliked it
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to be honest in my personal opinion of
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course I mean it's almost laughable that
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they have the audacity to say that they
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respect the Japanese culture instead of
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apologizing I bet without the loss of
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their revenue they would have never
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changed or even considered to change
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anything in this game I strongly believe
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that it's meaningful to speak up for
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what's important for me and my people
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and what I think it's right thing to do
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and frankly the game's got too many chin
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implications I wonder why
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H I'd like to refuse to swallow up on
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their Wishful fantasy as historical
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accuracy that they claim it's just not
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palatable for me me I mean I love
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previous Assassin's Creed series because
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all my friends used to tell me great
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things about their previous series I
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even watched screen share of my friend
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cuz I was considering buying it so I had
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been so looking forward to this Japanese
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version of his sassin Creed actually I'm
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not going to lie but I wanted to play as
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a samurai not a wab be samai historical
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luggage carrier who was just one of the
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servants and look looks like the game
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play is going to be just sabotaging
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terrorizing everybody even unarmed
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citizens just to destroy my home as if
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I'm some kind of a leftist
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revolutionist n simply it wouldn't be
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enjoyable experience for me considering
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Ubisoft has already done other things in
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the recent past but who am I to say I'm
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just nobody on the internet so if
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anybody likes it go ahead and play I
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don't have any problem with that I just
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got beef with ubisoft's actions and
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mentality all right guys that's it for
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today I hope my video makes some
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positive effect in societies and the
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game industry well due to my lifestyle I
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am unable to post as often as I wish so
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you kind of got to catch me on red blue
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moon or Black Moon thank you so so much
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for your patience and support your
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emotional support and nice comments
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really give me courage to publicly
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express how I honestly feel I'd like to
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Stand Tall to protect what I love oh
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well let me know your thoughts in the
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comment down below and this video is not
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sponsored or anything so I'd be so
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grateful if you hit the like button and
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if you like Japanese cultural content
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Please Subscribe I'd be so happy if you
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do so and follow my twitch as well I
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don't stream that that often on Twitch
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but yeah just going to stop practicing
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it so anyhow wish me luck on learning
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how to use OBS cuz I got it delivered
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the other day and it's still in the box
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I haven't even opened it yet so oh well
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enough chitty chatty thank you so very
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much for tuning in once again I'm Mari
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I'll catch you on the next one bye-bye
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one for
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