I Never Want To See This Again

Watch as I react to some of the most cursed images from Japan's history. From weird to downright scary, these images will make you never want to see them again...
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[@monkey39128]

"The mascot of KFC". Poor old boy got downgraded from the founder to a mascot. 😭😭😭

[@kietsuhime]

He's kinda been mascotized . I mean there's different people who act as him in commercials and such. He represents the company . There's even a dating sim of him, which I think you can find on steam, and a short drama, played by Mario Lopez. Sure, he was the founder, but now calling him a mascot, would technically not be wrong. It does kinda feel wrong though, I'll give you that. There's no doubt that he has a legacy though!

[@tenebrousoul9368]

Not so fun fact: the Col was involved in a shootout with a rival gas station owner, where the Col. ended up shooting and killing the man.

[@sebp9882]

Kenta-kun in Higurashi

[@kristhedumbass6281]

@@kietsuhime there's a fking dating sim of... colonel sanders... of KFC... I think I need to sit down.

[@KeeKage37]

Fun fact: the original When they Cry anime also had one of the lead girls digging in a junkyard for a cornel sander statue.

[@angelsinthewindow]

Kenta-kun, right? I think that was the name Rena gave him, at least in the American Dub.

[@poofaucet]

I WAS JUST THINKING ABOUT THAT!! the time frame kinda lines up too!

[@chaoticcow4357]

Omg i remember that

[@pie1o1morris46]

Omg I forgot about that part

[@sexsei]

I think that scene is in the remake as well

[@deptofcarstereorepair]

that last segment was a major gut punch. Denial of past mistakes and bad deeds is a cowardly and dishonorable path, destined to lead to more mistakes and bad deeds.

[@Momoko524]

It's still unfortunately very much a thing in Japan. Their dark past from that time (especially WW2) isn't taught in schools and is left out in history books. It's really sad cuz they were actually a lot worse than the Nazis with how they treated people and they pretend it didn't happen. A lot of western society probably doesn't know about it either.

[@MxPotato84]

Those who deny or don’t remember, are doomed to repeat it.

[@RadenWA]

These people are the equivalent to neo-nazi holocaust deniers. It’s scary if they really have enough power to shut down a museum.

[@angelhurtado55]

and its even funnier when you think about it, because that's why they're not allowed to have an army

[@user-mAfuNqrSe020x]

I'm half korean and my husband is japanese. He was so embarrassed by this. My grandma has deep trauma that my husband couldnt speak any japanese at all around her. My grandma witnessed her mother got r-ped and her father got murdered by japanese army. She was also rped. Japan's denial and act of being the victim is so cowardly.

[@melodytheflyingpig9861]

so weird fact in Canada we are taught from a young age about the terrible things that our government did in the past due to it being an integral part of our social steadies. being taught all the good and the bad of our history and culture. we're still trying to make things right though it doesn't always work and sometimes does more harm than good. so seeing the reaction of those people denying what happened to those women is baffling and kind of terrifying. how far must their delusions must go to think that was ok.

[@rapthor666]

Yea, in NL we learn what we did in Indonesia, America, Africa, Northern Ireland, etc

[@lexiwexiwoo]

I think here in the US it used to depend on the region, I grew up in Oklahoma so we learned a lot about how screwed the natives got & my teacher (a former DA) did go into the shittier things the US did but it gets glossed over a lot. My dad taught me about Japanese internment camps and a lot of other stuff the US just doesn't teach about. So I get how people could plug their ears and pretend it didn't happen if they didn't have it come up and have it washed over by their country's achievements.

[@anonx2747]

The last story , imagine being so sensitive to criticism to your country that you delude yourself with jingoistic rhetoric - these comfort women are still alive it’s like Holocaust denial

[@mordsven]

I've seen too much Demon Slayer Merch than any other Anime in Japan. At this point, there's soo many that you could fill a landfill with Demon Slayer Merch

[@jamisonduncan7388]

Demon Slayerrrr ❤❤❤❤

[@zenmei_jk]

demon slayer on top

[@crazyBloodmonkey]

Okay but I imagine it still has nothing on the level of evangelion merch out there lol.

[@Nick-hy1tx]

No matter how much they make they will never make as much merch as they made for Evangelion.

[@littlesparrow303]

Really? I thought it was more of JJK or One Piece. That’s interesting to learn

[@souricurry]

As much as I wish I could believe "comfort women" didn't happen-- It was war. I 100% believe ALL sides had something like this happen. Ours, theirs, *everyone* because every country has evil people in it. War makes many stop seeing anyone but their side as "real" people and that's when things like this can happen. Sex trafficking still exists, no country is immune. And that's a truth that breaks my heart.

[@pie1o1morris46]

Bet they deny unit 731 too

[@RadenWA]

Women has always been included as “spoils of war” throughout history after all.

[@angelhurtado55]

"all sides"? when americans had their morale down, the army decided to give them ice cream machines so theu can be happy about something, and it worked, japan decides to get women and children to play obedient waifu, and even when rps happened, not even the russians or nazi were as degenerated as the Japanese

[@tenebrousoul9368]

In Seoul, there's a large memorial for the "comfort women", and I did not expect for it to be as haunting and touching as it was.

[@lyndylou752]

Bloody awful about the sharks, do people not realise that they’re apex predators, and are so necessary to the ocean, they help maintain a healthy ecosystem particularly around reefs. But hey WTF Japan also still hunt’s endangered whales, so really this doesn’t surprise me 🤢🤢🤮🤮

[@smauguh]

Actually it is not endangered whales that are the most prominently hunted in Japan, it's mostly the Bryde whale which is one of the most common type of Whale on the planet. Same for the sharks (not saying Japan never did anything wrong, they HAVE hunted endangered species in the past and certain companies still do to this day but it's just not the case today as much as it was before). I totally agree with the fact that it can be a problem in certain areas concerning eco diversity, but what I mean is that for the most pat, the hunt is regulated and not as much as an impact as one might think. It is shocking for us who clearly do not put aquatic mammals in the same bag as fishes but yeah it's more or less the same thing

[@lyndylou752]

@@smauguh So in effect you are trying to justify the slaughter of whales, sharks dolphins something there is no justification for.

[@smauguh]

@@lyndylou752 It's not slaughter if it's regulated, we are literally in the same situation as us eating beef and indians cursing us for it, cultural differences exist. As long as it doesn't harm the environment, there is no waste and it's not done purely for "fun" I don't see a problem with it. Plus nobody talked about dolphins

[@GaryAa56]

They sell Blue tipped American Shark in United States supermarkets. They're not endangered and taste rather good. Lighten up!

[@haro_yemon]

​@@lyndylou752 ​so by those standards are you trying to justify why we slaughter chicken, cows, goats, pigs and fish, we don't need any of that, there are plenty of alternatives that would work just as well.

[@drlgift1167]

Hearing Aki swears in tagalog wakes my pride 🤣

[@tanukii1937]

I was wondering what she said! So ... what was it 👀

[@drlgift1167]

@@tanukii1937 its like saying a f.u or son of a .. swear 😂

[@marccruz2285]

​@@tanukii1937 directly translated it's "you're mother's a wh*re." Basically the Filipino version of "you son of a b*tch"

[@Mordred14394]

the way she's so insulted by the sushi 😂

[@zhairmagne2702]

I was taken by surprise hahahaah. I guess she was really offended by the sushi lol

[@blossomsbasement]

Interesting that people would deny comfort women existed when last year Japan paid 1 billion yen to the surviving comfort women in South Korea. 34 of the surviving women went on to receive about ¥10 million each. It seems awfully strange that Japan would pay restitution to these women if in fact it had never happened…

[@MikaelaKMajorHistory]

Lol right? Partly it is true that a handful of comfort women did go willingly, but they went for work and didn't realize that they would become sex slaves and were not paid/could not go home. The rest were kidnapped if I'm correct. I don't even think they were allowed to keep pregnancies for the most part. I was told by my Korean relatives that Japanese/Korean babies from comfort women were either aborted pre-birth or killed after birth.

[@gracielazelaya216]

"they think that they overreact to the bombing of pearl harbor" I am sorry, WHAT. EXCUSE Me. Never knew that some parts of Japan has a victim complex.

[@ungageable2987]

Also if some of them think about it pearl harbor was a military area same with Hiroshima and Nagasaki

[@CMKCmusic]

Hearing Aki cuss in Filipino is surprisingly refreshing😅😂 Love from the PH!❤

[@tinkerbinker1]

Ooof. The shark one was pretty sad. :( Edit: And the sculpture one, too. Oof.

[@RadenWA]

Is it sad because the shark is endangered or sth? The sad thing is shark fin harvesting where only the fin is cut off and the shark is left wounded to die in the ocean. If the shark is caught and killed whole then they don’t suffer prolonged time like such, and I don’t see what’s sad about it compared to other fishes like tuna.

[@YokaiPrez]

There’s actually a statue of Ronald McDonald fused with a Boll Weevil outside the McDonald’s in Enterprise, AL. The whole town is filled with Boll Weevil statues and McDonald’s one made for their restaurant. It’s called Ronald McWeevil.

[@pie1o1morris46]

Coincidentally just recently learned about "comfort women" in a video about the burning sun night club scandal

[@RenzGatas]

13:30 that "Tangina mo" shookt the heck outta me and I love it 😂

[@AskAScreenwriter]

TBH, the 'Curse of Colonel Sanders' really is par for the course as far as baseball goes, in both the US AND Japan. Possibly one of the most superstitious major league sports out there.

[@helRAEzzzer]

I'm interested to hear what the people who got angry with the museum have to say about Unit 731.

[@moonsun6161]

🥺😔💔💔

[@Ju5t_H1r0]

About the last one- "Art is meant to disturb the comfortable and comfort the disturbed"

[@earvinarabia8733]

@13:30 Aki cursing in Filipino! Embracing her heritage! 😂

[@GaryAa56]

The KFC curse was the best! America also covers its past by making villains in history heros.

[@riza_sama]

The statue of the "Filipino comfort women" was also removed in the Philippines, not in Japan because of the same reason.

[@elektrapapakosma8144]

I think the same thing happened in Germany which was also met with a lot of anger.

[@eileene8836]

I've been to Japan three times so far, and every time we got to Osaka, my partner would tell me the story of the KFC Baseball curse.

[@sasoriking3079]

How can anyone learn true history without the uncomfortable conversations?

[@user-mAfuNqrSe020x]

Unfortunately, they still want to be the biggest victim. My husband is japanese, he learned about what happened after he met me. Everytime he sees my korean grandmother and how traumatized she was when she heard him speaking japanese, he felt deeply ashamed and quite angry at his own country and govt.

[@traversetowndistrict4922]

I totally need that sea salt ice cream sock cap you have

[@Sarah_Grant]

The last story about the museum and the Koren "comfort women" also needs its own video. 😢

[@mrimmri]

Would love to see the cursed rat dumplings brought up and talked about. I really want to know more about how that’s effecting cultural experiences in Japan rn. Especially with it seeming to become a “cursed” meal to give to someone you don’t like or along the lines of. For those who don’t know too: I don’t mean they’re using rat meat. I mean they’re dumplings in the shape of rats then boiled and served. It’s super cursed seeing people eat them and the tail hanging out of their mouths.

[@Coyt415]

The Colonel Sanders one had me going WTF

[@danae6392]

The way Aki just swear in Tagalog 😂😂😂

[@ellemana582]

let this be a reminder to the people to always pay your respects to any colonel sanders’ statue you encounter or else you get 7 years of bad luck

[@abstrakb1552]

The animation is not as clean as the 90s, but devilman crybaby for a modern anime, definitely went in on the gorge.

[@chickennuggies919]

Oh boy, here we go again 😭 Popcorn time

[@shinimegami42]

The kfc Christmas in Japan is thanks to really good marketing and a boom in interest in Western things, and started in the mid 70s

[@xRed_Assassinx]

There is a similar curse in one of the counties in Ireland where a football team hasn't won a match since the 1950s and the only why for them to win is for the team that won in the 50s to die

[@YOUNGMERU]

Whatever happened to detective aki. There are so many more interesting japanese scary mysteries out there.

[@stephanieok5365]

I imagine it's super labor intensive but I could see it coming back as a yearly October segment. 🤔 I've been enjoying the Sakura Stardust channel for similar content in the interim.

[@YOUNGMERU]

@@stephanieok5365 I've been watching @kyotorobato

[@Shadowcat31]

5:24 as a Northside Chicagoan Our baseball team was cursed by a goat for like 100 years so this one doesn't actually seem that weird to me lol

[@Goleon]

Baseball and curses go hand in hand.

[@briancrosby152]

I am against hunting sharks or shark fin soup etc. they are essential to the oceans ecosystem. Regarding the WW2 atrocities it should be known what Japan & the axis powers did just as much as what the Allies did. History should be told no matter what so we can hopefully learn, atone & never repeat.

[@Th33M4rksman]

Haven't been recommended your videos in a looooong time, was very interesting topic. Good work Aki

[@blacksmith679]

Was anyone surprised that Ronald Mcdonald was pennywise

[@ventiCutie6857]

The Colonel Sanders curse is WILD. I'm glad we don't have a statue of him in our city 💀

[@IceBGaming]

Yay. Aki posted ❤️ been a fan for 5 years. Love this new series by the way

[@jezzlepops7186]

I think the most cursed part for me was. "Lets get right to it" *snap* Straight into an ad for Amazon. That kfc story was the most interesting and hilarious thing I've heard in ages! It got better and better the more it progressed!

[@ShadowMage-]

I wanted to make a joke about the Sanders statue, but I don't think it would have went well.

[@MsEsquire83]

“They believe in a lot of different things” One of them is not the truth.

[@UltimatBlitz]

As far as I know, the KFC on Christmas was basically just a marketing thing where they told the Japanese populace that Americans also eat KFC on Christmas.

[@johnnypollack3243]

Keep up the great work and videos Aki love the video

[@aafrid717]

That KFC mascot was also in Arakawa under the bridge 7th epd.

[@faenare]

lmao, I just love her content, from judging/rating items, haunted places, detective stories.

[@EmmaTheMemeLord]

Its been a HOT minute since I've watched you and it is totally worth waiting my break on ❤❤

[@jacobdrolet4262]

Amazing video akidearest,fantastic job.

[@QualityPeepersRodan]

Learned about the colonel curse from the sakura stardust vinyl rope video!

[@claytontung7589]

The Tigers did win game during the Sanders curse, they just not winning the championship.

[@autumnlove96able]

I'm glad Aki also thinks that how sharks are hunted and treated both for sale in general fishing and for the shark fin trade is inhumane, it really is. They aren't the evil creatures media likes to portray them as, they're actually very essential to our oceans.

[@zulazhari7426]

The last image depicts what Japan government is. Majority of new gens in Japan trying to learn from the past and wants the elders of Japan to give a proper apologies to the world , especially Korea but it seems the government still trying to deny their forbidden mistakes

[@ORACLEANTIFREZRGAMINGALT]

The YOKAI IN THAT CERNAL SANDERS STATUE REALLY HAD TO MESS UP THE HANSHIN TIGERS FOR 18 YRARS.

[@sebp9882]

5:30 Rena from Higurashi finds the Colonel Sanders statue in a dump, rescuing what she calls 'Kenta-kun' (short for Kentakki-, Kentucky fried chicken). In a way, lifting the 'curse' by recovering Kenta-kun. Interesting because in Higurashi there is a major theme of atonement (Tsumihoroboshi). Thanks for covering this urban legend.

[@justruinedyourday4864]

I remember that girl statue. I've seen it on the news segment when I used to watch NHK on tv.

[@Shadowcat31]

13:00 but its not done airing yet, Demon Slayer just started a new season of course there would still be ton of it around lol

[@ChizuruAotsuki]

Ayy, never been this early! Love you Aki! I'm ready to be horrified lol

[@Galaxykuma]

That last one is sad.

[@KerriM.Proper]

To the one Japanese man that carved Nezuko from Demon Slayer, really great job🥰🥰🥰

[@blacksmith679]

S8 came out yesterday

[@vivavy7444]

I literally needed to stop the video and step back for a sec when I saw the mac and cheese sushi... the disgrace and audacity in that cursed person...

[@MaximillianRobesphere]

Would

[@angelwolf8993]

Ngl, I would try it.

[@jackofhearts5542]

....it lowkey looks good tho i'm ngl

[@bluebay1031]

To be fair, a lot of the issues with the Junji Ito anime came from the art style. The mobility of the stories was great, they just didn’t lean into the expansive(and sometimes exaggerated) high detail and shading of the manga which was part of what *made* it creepy

[@ulvjenta88]

They did a total Barbra Streisand to that museum 😂😂

[@aliceDarts]

The far right and the far left always tends to do that. When they don't like something or when something hurts their feelings they scream about it... bringing attention to it. 😂

[@tianawilliams3154]

I love eating snacks and watching akis cool ass funny ass scary ass vids

[@danteshollowedgrounds]

I will sleep peacefully tonight.

[@sle3py_artz]

it’s been years since i’ve watched your channel holy crap

[@TheDarkLink7]

Aki my dear thank you. I thought the well was somewhat drying up til now 😁

[@firehathannah]

That girl's neck is me when I see BoA

[@anjis4327]

You should definitely check out some of Umezu-san’s manga. I’ve been a huge fan of his since discovering The Drifting Classroom and his short form manga stories in my teens. They go off the rails insane fun ideas with interesting messages woven into them.

[@ashqueenwonderland]

That last one had me flinch. I know i have read the story of that girl statue and if I remember correctly there's also a statue in Korea. It's heartbreaking how some Japanese still deny those things from ever happening, i mean it's not only Koreans who experience those things Filipinos also suffered the same thing on their hands . It's in the past tho what's done is done and new generations don't need to atone for anything and shouldn't be affected that much. Tho we still need to respect what happened and pass down all the rightful information to the next gen coz what ever happened it's all a part of our history.

[@dory_the_dork]

no, you know I’m curious if after Midori like because that anime got banned because of how extreme it was not just like you know the violence and war like you stated in your video but just the fact that it is disturbing if maybe like that’s why in Japan they just decided like hey you know we need to tone it back like a hell of a lot and let’s not try and tempt bake twice with you know like making something that’s gonna be at the same disturbing level of Midori

[@illienlorem5318]

I take it that you have never heard of the Boston Red Sox "Curse ofthe Bambino" or the Chicago Cubs "Curse of the Billy Goat". Each curse lasted for over one hundred years. Look it up.

[@tiffanyallen731]

I'm terrified of clowns and Ronald MbDonald was always one of the creepiest clowns to me, second only tp Pennywise. That said, I absolutely love insects and spiders. Seeing Ronald McDonald fused with spiders and cockriaches was scary as hell. If cockroaches and spiders really looked like that, I'd run away screaming everytime I saw one, lol. Also, those poor sharks! I'm an animal lover and seeing images like those are just so heart-breaking and sad 😢

[@Shamelessempire]

Anybody else notice that the "sushi" was actually made with a sliced-in-half hotdog, not spam?

[@bryancarlo2351]

that tagalog cursing caught me off guard. 😂😂😂😂 I'm Pilipino by the way 🇵🇭

[@katakuri-hw2qb]

Aki when are you going to do another detective Aki video

[@gokairedwillcipher]

Oh god the sharks

[@spaceunicorn6000]

I heard that eating KFC during Christmas in Japan was sort of a marketing scam. Like somebody opened a KFC branch in Japan and it was going to tank, so he perpetuated the idea that Christmas was associated with eating a large bird like turkey or chicken, but instead of a big roast turkey, he pushed the idea that we eat fried chicken too, and yeah. marketing.

[@Deckyleaf]

So from what I know per the naval base a sailor wanted a turkey for Christmas and it ended up settling on chicken. KFC capitalized on this in Japan.

[@PETERTHEGAMER69]

EARLY GANB

[@brookelynn3567]

lol, macaroni salad, spam musubi is classic Hawaiian. It's gaining some popularity in Korea too, with a gimbap version.

[@misstaniataylor]

I think the KFC statue thing was a self-fulfilling prophecy.

[@kimr1602]

As someone born and raised in Hawaii, mac n spam musubi sounds dope

[@dgh0yt]

The power of suggestion!

[@lushfruit]

Hi Aki, would you ever consider speedrunning nearly every main temple and beat mudan to it？

[@user-mr3lv2tz9m]

Ronald: _"Hello, Grimmace...!"_ (Aki plays classical guitar...?)

[@cairofuller1995]

Have you seen Watanagashi Hen? I think that's what it's called. The one character has the main character help her dig a statue of Colonel Sanders out of a dump. I wonder if that's where that came from?!

[@KevinF]

The curse of Col. Sanders is sooooo funny

[@jalava78]

I'd love to see stuff like Devil Man and Urotsukidouji come out again.

[@dp21345]

as a person who has worked kfc in florida i can agree that colonel sanders is a curse

[@MarconKFPSafetyDpt]

i like that the take-away is dont eat mac and cheese sushi. very informative video.

[@creepalalove6913]

Love you Aki!!! Keeep slayinnnnn!!!! 😉 ❤🎉

[@missdeadite9696]

11:42 yeah we never anime do this anymore like Hells Paradise, or demon slayer or jujuitsu kaisen, or Heavenly Delusion, or Summertime Rendering or Devilman crybaby, or Parasyte. Never see it anymore.

[@ahrisah]

The Hanshin tigers have won matches, they just never made it back to winning the series until 2023

[@peij]

13:29 I also stopped for a bit and say "tanginang yan!" at the same time lmao

[@brisac2019]

never disrespect the chicken man.

[@boeraneth5263]

Hanshin tigers weren’t winning the pennant in 18 years… they won games. To go 18 years without winning a game in baseball woulda been nuts.

[@tempesttube]

They won games, they just didn't win championships. I had to wonder how a team that didn't win a single game would last for decades.