Pikamee's Japanese School Experience as a Hafu

[@notatallfunctional]

She didn’t ask to be the main character, it just happened.

[@notatallfunctional]

That sounds like the name of a light novel

[@markb6339]

@@notatallfunctional indeed it does

[@danniluxgarbe429]

Dad: Honey? W-when did you start wearing your hair that way? Mom(looking down to her low side ponytail): I... I didn't do that... Dad (Packing his bags): I must go. Our Child is a Protagonist. Here is the cryptic letter for Our Child to find, kickstarting their journey in 10 years. Hopefully you'll only get the chronic blood-coughing disease. I really am quite fond of you, but The Rules must be obeyed.

[@mafuyuru]

@@erseshe i'm not really get it, why smut??

[@frogggy3759]

@@notatallfunctional Reminds me of the "I didn't ask to be born latina" meme lol

[@Martoth0]

Pika's experience is literally like Olivia san from Asobi Asobase

[@semutap1837]

Minus the smell maybe

[@rthan1996]

Apocarine sweat glands!! Edit: is it apocarine or apocrine? I remember it's so similar to that pocari sweat drink

[@Ketchup_And_Rice]

except with more english

[@loliappreciator8007]

@@rthan1996 apocrine, as far as i remember.

[@blackoutnine]

Cutting her bangs too short one time lmao

[@moisesfreire6408]

I think black haired Japanese gets upset with the colored ones because they know this people probably are the main characters.

[@gojira4life]

Only if it's a Yu-Gi-Oh protagonist. Otherwise it's a trashy Isekai or Harem protagonist.

[@firepuppies4086]

@@gojira4life Jaden had pretty normal hair,

[@gojira4life]

@@firepuppies4086 Color? Yes. Shape? Literally a Kuriboh.

[@tiaxanderson9725]

Meanwhile you just want to have a normal high school life, but instead; kzbin.info/www/bejne/jYPQmYelj8uiftU

[@musix3197]

@@firepuppies4086 Dark Jaden is a badass so he didn't need the hair color.

[@MysteryFaceX]

Life is so unfair! A school with no homework and mutant-like genetics that gives bright blonde and green hair, green eyes, and kaiju body structure.

[@milesprower6110]

so, did she had to look through the window?

[@hargssgrah4738]

@@milesprower6110 Teacher screaming at a Godzilla: "Did you dye your hair!? OI!!"

[@thorhit]

Sounds like some kinda isekai 😅

[@turkalpha6884]

@@thorhit I... I can't believe someone hasn't written this! Heck, there's the vending machine isekai that's pretty fun.

[@milesprower6110]

@ROHITH SINGH then comes Mama Pikamee to explain

[@koholos]

“It’s a things that you might will have to through it”. - Amano Pikamee, 2021.

[@maddykirin8981]

Sou sou sou~

[@Despotic_Waffle]

Have you ever had a dream that that you um you had you'd you would you could you'd do you wi you wants you you could do so you you'd do you could you you want you want him to do you so much you could do anything?

[@AnomalousMats]

Has anyone really been far even as decided to use even go want to do look more like?

[@maddykirin8981]

Whew, haven't heard that one in years. Nice

[@vaachubashrimpu2646]

@@Despotic_Waffle I had one such dream..

[@EmperorZ19]

I'm not surprised that she was questioned about her hair color, but I am surprised that her mom had to come in to the school to explain, rather than them just accepting the student's explanation that they're half-japanese and that their hair isn't dyed.

[@HellecticMojo]

Kids lie super casually.

[@dodo-king8169]

maybe pika at that time was stress and crying cause of bullied, so her parent must take action

[@dahyunkim6019]

Maybe the school it really strict. I mean it's in Japan lol

[@nnnik3595]

Or maybe japan is like really racist?

[@VashdaCrash]

@@nnnik3595 yeah that's what I thought when I saw the title for the video

[@networknomad5600]

"No dyed hair!" *has to dye hair black/brown in order to not get accused of dyeing hair*

[@iandavidvillaloboswong5180]

@ye or maybe nah More like japanese people that dont care about the rest of the world, Japan is a very isolated country in terms of exposure to the outside world. No need for it to change tho

[@Bubu567]

@ye or maybe nah Victim shaming is a real problem in japan, a problem most here never even grasp. It's a social thing that people shouldn't make their own problems other peoples problems. So if you are victimized, you are expected to shut up or be ridiculed for making your problems other peoples problems.

[@TheDeceptiveHero]

@@Bubu567 “It’s a social thing that people should’t make their own problems other people’s problems.” Very funny. If you just happen to be different, people make this “problem” their own problem all by themselves, not even flinching from double standards (like the hair thing). In Japan and basically everywhere else, people are absolutely fine to get involved in other people’s business when it is convenient to them, even and especially if it’s about absolute private things that are no problem and none of their business (like appearance, like hobbies, like sexuality...). But when their help, their solidarity, is needed in an inconvenient situation, they back off, considering it more inconvenient to themselves than to yourself and telling you to keep your problems to yourself because they have to mind their own business.

[@Erthefrarg]

It's more like black = proper for hair colour. I've heard from even a Japanese guy who has naturally brown hair got told to dye his hair black

[@chargemankent]

What sad is the fact this is not exclusive to Japan, I lived in Indonesia and my mom is half Dutch so by some Gacha like chance my big brother's hair is black and I got the blonde gene from my mother, most of my teachers in my school years who don't know my mother Accused me for dying my hair and even scolded me for that! They often points out how my Big Brother's hair is black and mine is Blonde and use that line of reasoning as proofs that I dyed my hair

[@wowquestionmark]

This reminds me of a story Pika said in (I think) one of her PikaTomos (RIP). The one where she talks about her favorite teacher who believed her when she said that her hair color was natural but one day asked her why she was lying about her hair color. big sadge.

[@ClipChama]

Pain dayo

[@CSDragon]

It was Tomoe's Birthday

[@runman624]

What happened to pikatomos anyway?

[@MC-wb7cp]

@@runman624 tomoe "retired" due to breaking contract.

[@egyedgergo8904]

@@MC-wb7cp That's Monoe

[@aquelajuno9701]

"Being bilingual must be nice, you can say things in totally different languages!" Pika: Jokes on you mate, I forget how to talk on both. NO THOUGHTS HEAD EMPTY

[@thunderbird3304]

Bilingual? More like BYElingual!

[@MRDraco17]

as someone who speak both french and english I can say it's exactly that XD I'm getting more and more fluent in english but still makes many mistakes and at the same time I'm having more trouble to find my words in french ^^"

[@aquelajuno9701]

@@MRDraco17 totally relatable. sometimes I simply can't remember some words in portuguese

[@theannualantagonist5930]

Lmao I can speak English and sometimes talk in my native language XD I can understand my native language though, I just can’t speak it fluently.

[@thefrubblewarrior4678]

Oi

[@ulrickts]

Imagine being an Albino: "You dyed your hair white!? Even your brows and eyelashes? And your eyes, stop wearing those freaky contacts! And how did you dye your skin a weird pink?"

[@unionfire]

Yeah man... I dyed my pubes too... This talk reminds me of Fruits Basket lol

[@Merilirem]

@@unionfire The teacher looking at your pubes makes me think of different shows.

[@chie970]

@@Merilirem Hey, keep it down

[@orangeismyfavoritecolor]

Albino people’s eyes aren’t actually red, it’s just the camera making them look like that. Their eyes are a very pale blue, and the camera flash just makes it easier to see the red blood vessels behind it because they lack melanin in their eyes

[@noe4354]

Imagine being black and them being like "did you tan your skin"

[@McGriddy51095]

God her english, I can’t even fault her for it, it’s fucking adorable to listen to her babble on and work her way through it.

[@Willowo98]

she knows exactly what she wants to say, but sometimes the words just come out in the wrong order

[@McGriddy51095]

@@Willowo98 its rather charming. i like talking to foreigners because of it. great thing about english in my opinion is even if they aren't fluent we can put it together and get the meaning.

[@Rubina980]

It's really cute

[@KazukiP]

@@McGriddy51095 sometimes when people make language mistakes it’s really useful for learning THEIR language because it’s usually how it’s said in theirs :D

[@nutelllla_]

i didnt realise english was probably not her first language until she started speaking japanese

[@Thorn16]

JK Pika in a uniform being confused for a cosplaying tourist is a funny mental image, if somewhat mean to her.

[@Sumi_Yoshizawa]

now I'm imagining it and it's really funny lol

[@stg-tf4ns]

I’m sorry for that but that is damn funny

[@chie970]

"But it is natural..." "THEN DYE IT BLACK!!!!" True story, my experience in high school in Japan as a half. I wonder if it's still like this nowadays, too. It was eleven years ago when I was in high school after all

[@PlushLordOfTheSeas]

God, if MY kid got told to dye their natural hair to fit in I'd have invited the teacher over to the house to go absolutely unchained on him

[@himedo1512]

It was only a few years ago that it was made illegal. Schools can't require you to dye away your natural hair anymore

[@himedo1512]

@T1D10 its not. A few years ago it was made illegal for schools to require that a natural hair color be dyed away.

[@skebaba918]

IIRC there was a news article about someone suing the school for forcing her to dye her hair to mandated specific hue (she had brown/light dark hair out of the standard norm by a few hues), and it caused an allergic reaction on her prolly due to ingredients used, which caused tons of health problems.

[@GoldenTears1]

​@@skebaba918 And what happened? Did she win?

[@afelias]

"So the hair?" "That's natural." "The eyes too?" "Yeah, they're just like her dad's, see this picture?" "And the shark teeth?" "Uhhhh" "And the kettle noises?" "TOTALLY NATURAL"

[@samazam4221]

The fact that she had to call her parent to school to explain the situation is really dire. The teachers couldve easily check her records to know that shes telling the truth. Its like they just dont give a shit and was admonishing her purely out if ill will. People like this really give teachers a bad rep.

[@Buglin_Burger7878]

I'm not sure it is out of ill will... one of the most common things for someone breaking the rules to do is to immediately lie or say they do have it. Just bringing up the pandemic... it is very common for people who don't want to comply with masks to say they have a breathing issue which prevents wearing them. So unless you're willing to search them up and do a background check it is easier to kick them out or ignore it. At a certain point people just get tired of checking... which would be easily resolved by giving the student or person in question an ID which proves they are fine and saves everyone time. When the system is obnoxious people just stop trying after awhile.

[@UggaWaggaProductions]

@@Buglin_Burger7878 masks do not work, you are worried over a flu.

[@habibihabibi7115]

@@UggaWaggaProductions hey scientific studies have show that masks provide between zero and 10% effectiveness against covid19, except for the studies that showed they have a negative effect, but we will ignore those. But you still need to wear 4 masks and get your monthly vaccine booster shot.

[@xerxsesbreak8455]

@@habibihabibi7115 I can also cherry pick studies that fit my preconceived notion instead of the overwhelming bevy of evidence.

[@Candlemancer]

@@xerxsesbreak8455 yes, and in fact that's exactly what you do.

[@zuxx00]

Pikamee: No, it's my natural hair color. Teacher: It's yellow and green!!

[@CornBreadtm1]

Pika: There is mold in our house!

[@ketsuekikurochi7647]

“Explaining something that comes natural to me is just weird” I love this quote

[@SwitchbackCh]

Hearing Pika say Sou~ is so unusually therapeutic, like it hits some kind of unknown meditative wavelength.

[@goku_dunker_420]

It's funny, because I always hear that school in Japan is much more difficult and annoying (smaller summer breaks) than the US

[@thehoodedteddy1335]

The entire concept of cram school hurts my very being. I would never be able to do anything like that.

[@shayoko6]

I had heard supposably the last grade of high school in Japan is equal to like three or four years into American College

[@lordofrims]

@@shayoko6 well for half of the school year you do whatever you had for 3rd year the rest is tests and tests and studying for university entrance tests and more tests supposedly. No wonder Japanese suffer that much from depression suicides and hikkikomori even after graduating university the whole interview market changes and whatever you were prepared for with your c.v becomes obsolete and also the amount of company abuse with low laboral wages for women... makes sense they'd rather become idol or av idol or just vtuber nowadays.

[@ucNguyen-xz2vc]

@@lordofrims that's literally most of east asian countries

[@wilsoncalhoun]

Nah, that's really only the fancy schools in urban centers, same as in the US or Europe. Rural or suburban schools are usually pretty nice. I mean yeah, you'll occasionally get a teacher or principal who seems to get off on running their students ragged, but that can happen anywhere.

[@TengouX]

Anime high school: every color on the RGB palette Japanese high school: 'DID YOU DYE YOUR HAIR???'

[@terminator01456]

i love that Pika's mom went to a japanese school to explain genetics ¬¬

[@LongSinceDead1]

She had to break out the Punnett squares to explain it to them

[@terminator01456]

@@LongSinceDead1 LMAO

[@yoursonisold8743]

Yup, Japan is pretty stupid like that sometimes.

[@TakumiJoyconBoyz]

Honestly, I'd come in there like "I'm concerned about my daughter's education. This is supposed to be a school, yes? Then why don't you understand how genetics work? You must rank very low compared to other schools."

[@J-manli]

@@TakumiJoyconBoyz To some degree I think its less about a lack of understanding of genetics, and more of the societal pressure to preserve Wa (social harmony). Depending on the region, anything that disrupts Wa is to be dealt with. "Uniqueness leads to distractions, and distractions do not benefit an efficient society," has been the overall feeling I get from my own experiences with Japan and East Asia as a general whole.

[@HappyBeezerStudios]

The main character curse when all the faceless backgrounds are envious.

[@alanbareiro6806]

It would be so funny if she actually really has blonde hair with greenish stripes and green eyes in real life. ...and she uses the antenna hairband for good measure.

[@lordofrims]

I wouldn't dare say green eyes, but probably greyish blue? And light brown hair would be more of a normality?

[@sixjhontongalamar979]

Well there's a 2% chance for her eyes to be green. The hair being natural seems more unlikely tho. Perhaps she actually has an irl superhero/villain background where a chemical was spilled (accidentally or not) to her blonde hair. However, that chemical cannot be removed and dyeing the hair could cause chemical reaction? It'll be so cool!

[@alanbareiro6806]

@@lordofrims To be fair, the green stripes could be dyed.

[@lordofrims]

@@alanbareiro6806 she's talking about irl though.

[@SpecterNeverSpectator]

@@sixjhontongalamar979 I mean, even if it's by radiation it still would count as dyed and not it's natural color

[@luigiymario2xd]

Take a shot every time Pikamee says "sou~" *Dies of liver failure*

[@priestesslucy]

Her English accent feels totally natural. And then you hear the occasional stutter in her sentence structure lol

[@konaccha]

She's improved so much!

[@obiesenpai3869]

What a sweet sounding Vtuber. I'm sure she never gets bullied for trying to play a game.

[@Cameron_Romero]

Its sad to hear the stories of Pika being judged a lot because of her hair color. I'm glad Pika is now surrounded by a wonderful community that loves her for who she is.

[@pablodanieljiang961]

only by adults, so yeah

[@ArashiOdayakana]

some ppl are fuckin'-asses.

[@civicrider5556]

@DeathNikki even if they are behind an avatar, they still are telling what they experienced in real life, its not like they are just "fabricating" everything what they did

[@sixjhontongalamar979]

@DeathNikki avatar or not everyone has a mask, but that doesn't mean that there's nothing behind it.

[@jomybaby22-gaming]

typical "rules are rules" crap by Asian schools hair color for women haircut for men

[@layachaz7318]

Then back in school, boys were not allowed to have long hair and then above the blackboard are pictures of popular scientists with long hair XD

[@visidenvisidane1155]

It’s better for kids not to have homework. They’re already in school for eight or more hours and the school has to intrude on the hours they have left for home life and leisure.

[@Asdayasman]

The point of homework is spaced repeition, (which works amazingly, look it up), BUT, the point of _that_ is for memorisation. Schools literally only want you to memorise things and that's it. They don't want you to learn. They don't want you to think.

[@Finn-xw4vn]

@@Asdayasman Repetition is extremely useful for learning problem solving strategies in many disciplines. Especially in mathematics, practice solving and working through problems is crucial to understanding and developing problem solving skills.

[@Asdayasman]

@@Finn-xw4vn Homework is not for repetition. You can do that just fine in class with worksheets, and you do. _Spaced_ repetition is for memorisation.

[@Finn-xw4vn]

@@Asdayasman That entirely depends on the class/school/teacher. There are many schools that have 40 minute class periods. In order to remember, practice, and fully understand a concept (at least in mathematics as my primary example) it is crucial to work through problems on your own and a brief worksheet in class is only sufficient to introduce a concept or topic. Especially in highschool and higher math where problems can be multifaceted or complex conceptually, it is necessary to work through the problem solving process outside of such a brief class time.

[@Asdayasman]

@@madbear4903 > its a good way to normalize doing things you don't want to do because that's like 90% of what you do as an adult It terrifies me that I might send my child to a school housing a teacher that believes this with their heart and soul. Well it doesn't, because I'll homeschool, but it certainly makes me sad for the other children. At least teachers who don't think about it and just pick up a paycheque are merely complicit in the damage we're doing to children, rather than actively in support of it.

[@soldio4143]

Reminds me of a trip to a dentistry X-ray office I went to once. Had to bite on to this weird thing so they could line up the machine so I did... IMMEDIATELY the X-Ray person comes over angrily telling me to "Bite properly" after a few failed attempts(?) He grabbed my face to make me...bite down proper? ...That's when it dawned on him my jaw dosen't line up properly and is the reason I'm getting the X-Rays in the FIRST PLACE. Smh...still makes me upset to this day; if I wasn't a scared little kid at the time; I might have thrown hands for him grabbing my face like he did. (This was in mexico)

[@unionfire]

Wtf, that story triggered me. Sorry you had to experience that... Where I worked, we knew everything about the patient's appointment. I can't believe the person didn't know what you came in for and grabbed your face like that... So unprofessional

[@DeathnoteBB]

Wow what a shitty dentist

[@IronMan3582]

Pikamee always says her English isn't that great but I really don't think she's giving herself enough credit, that was an articulate and complete story in every sense of the word.

[@HappyBeezerStudios]

The back and forth is so smooth. There is nothing to complain.

[@TheReal4th]

Who cares if there are some inconsistencies? Her english is VERY advanced for somebody who was raised in Japan, and completely comprehensible. I can understand her english speaking way better than most teenagers on the internet. I agree with you here, she doesn't give herself enough credit for what she's achieved.

[@Merilirem]

@@TheReal4th Indeed, i know plenty of people who don't speak english that good despite being in an english speaking country. Its actually kinda sad since the ones that don't seem to speak it well are the ones who only speak it.

[@douglassun8456]

You can tell that she lived in the US for a while. That kind of extended immersion, especially when you're young, gives you a backstop even when you forget the details.

[@IronMan3582]

@@douglassun8456 It's second hand knowledge to me so I cannot cite the source, but I read that she lived in the United States for 3 years so she most def picked up things for sure.

[@oompalumpus699]

We will cherish this gremlin kettle forever.

[@RuSosan]

Gremttle! 🤔

[@Ruyeman]

I am also a Hafu (Hāfu is how its written commonly, well technically ハーフ ). When I would visit family in Gifu as a kid, I would play with the kids near Hashima alot. Its funny how in retrospect that it was weird for a Augustus Gloop looking 11 yr old running around avoiding the local Kancho prankster (カンチョー (┬┬﹏┬┬) ) . The amount of times people unpropted would bend over backwards to speak English to me (its not even my first or second language) shows a weirdly profund kindness I have yet to see outside of Japan. Does it only happen in Japan, no. But regardless, I am glad to find out a fellow Hafu has made it quite popular as a streaming tea kettle. Sorry steaming tea kettle.

[@ActionCow69]

Pika's friend Hana Macchia of Nijisanji is also half-japanese half-american, though she's curiously part of the Indonesian branch.

[@stg-tf4ns]

I’ve known pika for being a kettle so long, why is the name ‘streaming tea kettle’ so funny

[@Grammarhead]

Japanese: A foreigner? Better speak what little English I know Americans: You're in OUR country, SPEAK ENGLISH or GO HOME!

[@DakotaofRaptors]

​@@Grammarhead depends on the region: in South Texas for example, even people with no Latino/Hispanic heritage speak at least some Spanish.

[@lunarann6912]

@@DakotaofRaptors agreed

[@madpinoy5683]

She was betrayed... I am downtrodden. I wish her good luck in whatever she plans after 3/31/23.

[@nkyfong]

She wasn't betrayed. That would indicate that we had hints of it happening. She was blind sighted by the mate mob. Let us enjoy our last month with her and spite the harassers by not dragging her down

[@torondin]

let's all take a swig of Magman's Copium and remember the wisdom of Kson. Personally, I am willing to hold onto a slim hope that she'll be back in a new form.

[@EndoftheBeginning17]

@@nkyfong Neither happened. She won. She had this stuff planned out before hand and now she's made her announcement. The haters lost on this one completely. She did the one thing necessary, she went AFK and ignored them cause she had a plan and it's going according to schedule. Instead of getting dragged down, she went and stayed with her parents

[@apathy_syndrome]

@@nkyfong Stop trying to find people to blame for this, she had announced her retirement since before the wizard game episode. What they did to her absolutely sucks and she didn't deserve any of this but I hate when weebs pretend she was bullied into retiring just to fuel their collective hate-boner for a certain crowd. That's not what happened.

[@nkyfong]

@@apathy_syndrome, oh, I see. I apologise then. Let's just enjoy our last moments with the Kettle.

[@salty7182]

Stand user: Pikamee Stand name: [Born This Way]

[@phantom4E2]

lmao

[@TheKing-qz9wd]

Reminds me of all the ladies who thought my red hair was dyed. As if I, a young boy who was picking his nose at the time, would know anything about hair dye. Also, no bullies? *HOW?*

[@keentobor]

Would you dare to mess with a kaiju cub, huh

[@InnocentC0]

She had that rare life aspect, Even people who have same color still bullied other people. Either she was lucky or her parents chose very well.

[@TheKing-qz9wd]

@@keentobor A what?

[@TheKing-qz9wd]

@@InnocentC0 I thought bullying was inescapable and universal.

[@rikajougasaki3296]

At some point people stop bullying others in school because they stop giving a shit. Grade and middle school has a lot, High school it lessens because they have better things to do.

[@Yakkosprite]

Homework works best for schools designed with short schedules in mind (,students leave at 1 or 2 pm tops) It is senseless to send homework to students who leave at, say 5pm, which is the case in my country. Because of this, the government has a law that states that schools where students have classes after lunch, can not task them with honework. As a teacher I find this very reasonable.

[@carsheaven]

I just flat out wouldn’t do the homework. Aced the tests and would pass with a C or B. I graduated like 10 years ago, but now they do this insane thing where they pull you out of class and force you to finish the homework at school while you miss the current lesson. It’s insanity.

[@hinleung7502]

wait what? All schools in my city end class at like 3:30pm after lunch and still give tons of homework every day. And then there is cram school on top

[@MrJcTTK]

@@hinleung7502 when i was in school i had a zero hour and band practice after school every day so i was basically in class from 7 am to near 8/9 pm and they still forced a fuck ton of homework on us

[@-DeScruff]

@@carsheaven I'd say you were lucky. I always ended up with teachers who if you didnt do homework, even if you had perfect scores you would end up failing. I certainly remember barely passing some classes despite often having high test scores. If anything ever turned me off from school it was that.

[@carsheaven]

@@-DeScruff ~ I made sure to be very well behaved and wasn’t a kiss ass. That helped me fly under the radar.

[@jaskapenttila7644]

This reminds me of Irish in Shanghai and Pac telling him to act natural. To which then Irish answers back with: "Natural? You hear that shit Reck? What the fuck I look Chinese to you Pac?"

[@IncredibleMD]

Considering how long Japanese students spend in school every day, they *better* not be getting any homework...

[@antoyal]

But what happens if you have bright hair and you wear headphones and you sit by the window, gazing outside instead of chatting with your classmates?

[@idislikemints]

All of your friends die. You get transported to another world or you get superpowers. You might die a few times, but don't worry! You will be bought back, but have to watch everyone you love lose their lives just because they knew you. But at least you live in a new cool word/have cool superpowers!

[@PassiveSmoking]

You become a popular lo-fi streaming channel mascot

[@TokyoDripp]

my dad is norwegian and my mom japanese, people dont believe me until my mountain of a dad comes to walk me home

[@optie5]

Viking dad

[@ruud9761]

A friend of mine I met I japan is half Japanese (Swedish father with Japanese mom), and she got almost blond hair from her dad. She told me one time at school she got in trouble with a new teacher because they thought she dyed her hair, but when she explained that this is her natural hair the teacher said "Just dye it black then.".

[@Lu-dm7rn]

This is one of the reasons I stopped romanticizing Japan a long time ago, it's such a dictatorship where you can't stand out in any way, they shape their kids just like they do with bonsais and this is so sad and must be really frustrating to deal as well. No wonder they have one of the highest suicide rate in the world

[@MistyKathrine]

@@Lu-dm7rn 100%. People always find it weird that I want to learn the Japanese language while having no desire to actually go to Japan. I just really like RPG games and there are literally hundreds of great RPG games that are Japanese exclusives and the only way to really play them is to learn the language.

[@carlosgsl82]

I've heard that it can be pretty rough. With students with different hair color having to dye their hair constantly to keep that "normal look", or asking for a medical certificate that they are blonde, or have curvy hair, or whatever thing considered "not normal" in Japan. I'm glad Pika didin't get bullied.

[@doragonmeido]

She is too pure for this world I hope she gets to be in a better place after this shitstorm ends

[@Uohhhh777]

Vshojo, hololive?

[@JamesP7]

@@Uohhhh777 They said _better_ place, lol

[@Uohhhh777]

@@JamesP7 yeah both companies are garbage anyway she was lucky to find someone like gyari

[@SuntopKinseeker]

Pikamee is a national treasure. She is so cute when she explains things.

[@lancealot651]

Loved the story, it's amazing to me how japanese teachers freak out over something so minor. One of my classmates had so many piercings that when they moved it sounded like a combination of rattling chains and wind chimes. It took that much before the teachers spoke up about taking some out in class so as not to distract the class ever time they moved their head.

[@Gazure]

"We never had homework before" hurts more to hear than "Let's break up"

[@i_will_not_elaborate]

Teacher: If you dye your hair, you'll be expelled! *entire school comes in with dyed hair* The entire staff: What do we do?

[@daryld357]

The way i see it, she actually won the genetics gacha. Black hair n eyes r observed to be dominant genes, so she prolly got 25%^2 of getting wat she has

[@simonghoul3602]

Oh my god she's so good at switching languages, I can't do that I mean, her english is not perfect but smoothly switching from one language to the other without an awkward transition is something I clap

[@un44r84]

Living in boarding school is fun too. You go to school three times a day until 10 pm. Pain.

[@duwan8260]

I love this stream (minus the genocide)

[@superbones5000]

I love this stream (including the genocide)

[@ecthelionalfa]

I loved the genocide (plus the stream)

[@watashiboku7225]

I only liked the genocide.

[@Muxeroth]

Genocide is always good

[@RedElectrik]

Wait what!

[@MerlinTheCommenter]

Too bad about Pikamee. Hope she’s doing okay.

[@billbadson7598]

_"There is a bad side and a good side."_ The sage perfectly describes everything that exists.

[@82nd_Alpharius]

I heard about that controversy in a Japanese School when a Japanese girl has a natural brown hair and the school forced her to dye her hair with black.

[@edgarbanuelos6472]

Warms my heart to know some guy married a Japanese girl and would later become the father of this little tea kettle.

[@HappyBeezerStudios]

soldiers...

[@loserinasuit7880]

"I'm a regit one" - Pikamee on being Japanese

[@r.a.fgattaiguy845]

"do people not think about what they say?" with how many people I see going around saying Covid is a lie I´m going to say no

[@-Raylight]

Pika is so lucky, she can enjoy her vacations. Homeworks on holidays are just the worst Awww as long as Pika is happy, I'm happy too! I wonder if her hair color is also blonde(?), that would be cool. *"Do people not think about what they say before they say it?"* Pika, I got a news for you xD

[@CSDragon]

The Pikamee character was designed before she auditioned for VOMS, so likely she does not. Definitely something other than Japanese Black hair tho

[@lnko]

@@CSDragon most probably blonde though, because i doubt a brownish hair would spark that attention, although she could be a redhead but its more rare than blonde

[@CSDragon]

@@lnko You'd be surprised. Japan is HYPER strict about having absolutely black hair. japantoday.com/category/national/tokyo-public-schools-will-stop-forcing-students-to-dye-their-hair-black-official-promises Having full blonde hair is almost impossible as a hafu since blonde is a recessive trait. But hair color genes are weird so it's not impossible if her mom has non-Japanese blood in her

[@SomeRandomJackAss]

Me, an American: "What is this 'vacation' you speak of?"

[@kyuven]

@@lnko nuh uh, even light brown hair can get a lot of attention. Cuz most Japanese people have dark brown or black hair.

[@samvimes9510]

It's always so weird to me when I hear people say how school was fun for them

[@maldorov6297]

Whenever I hear anyone talk about school being fun, my only thoughts on it are either they're lying (most often correct), they had/have a VERY lucky school experience or they're talking about when they were in kindergarten

[@DakotaofRaptors]

Damn, I guess I'm lucky: my highschool experience consisted of chill teachers, reasonable demands, and awesome friends.

[@nordinreecendo512]

I find it funny when her accent slips, like saying "But I'm a regit student! I'm a regit one!"

[@marktrevino1281]

Anyone else getting recommended pikamee stuff cause of what happened to her?

[@tako9260]

Big respect to pikamee she herself is a cute automatic translator 🥺

[@SogenOkami]

My school dished out homework like candy and I didn't have the motivation to keep up. When I got an IEP, one of the stipulations was reduced amounts of homework. Afterwords my grades shot up dramatically. It's ironic tho because if I got a question wrong, it was far more detrimental to my overall score than it would have been otherwise.

[@Maurivium]

Pika was the protagonist in there. But from all the things that can happen in a school, i was not expecting something like explaining your genetics.

[@MikuChanAnimations]

Remember what they took from you

[@goofygoober779]

You get bullies everywhere, Japanese schools, American schools, English or German or French schools. At the end of the day it only matters if you think the teachers are competent, the faculties are acceptable and the students seem proper.

[@Scalesthelizardwizard]

Fun Fact: Homework makes it hard for you to separate free time from work in fact there's no benefits to it

[@shanghigh20]

in japan school they don't like people standing out it's lucky they didn't try and make her dye her hair black to fit in its sad individuality is frowns upon that much

[@OmegaGlops]

Man, with strict rules like that, it must be rough to be an albino Japanese student. If having brown hair is enough to warrant that kind of reaction from staff, I can't imagine how they'd react to a school kid with _white_ hair. 😰

[@Dismiazs]

I think it might be easier for them, as albinos are easier to spot as genuine compared to somebody who have japanese face but blond hair. Some old people might not know what albino is, but I think nowadays, people should've known about it one way or another. People's curiosity however, might be worse.

[@XenonKirito]

@@Dismiazs Problem is that they would want "PROOF". Meaning they want you to proof on paper from a doctor that you are albino. Imagine being blond for like majority of your life at the age of 15 to suddenly get called out by a random staff for "dying" your hair. Seems ridiculous no? Which I find ridiculous. Those teachers aren't even doctors themselves.

[@Dismiazs]

​@@XenonKirito Okay that would be ridiculous. I would just hope there is as few as possible people like that.

[@XenonKirito]

@@Dismiazs what I feel like.. is that they should change such toxic culture or rules. I can sorta see that it will cause more and more issues down the line years or decades later

[@unionfire]

@@XenonKirito It will only change if the younger generation lets go of it... It's mostly the old generation who's still clinging to these outdated ways of thinking, but there are plenty of Japanese people who hate it, so time will tell.

[@AVClarke]

The one thing I don't like about Japanese society is the weird obsession for conformity. "The nail that sticks out, must be hammered down!"

[@LunaR34]

Because we still have culture and traditions that's why. And already preserved for more than a thousand years :)

[@mearbye]

@@LunaR34 Christianity is 2000 years old and modern european civilization takes roots from Ancient Egypt that existed 5000 years ago, not talking about Ancient Greece and Rome. Just to knock the arrogance from you :)

[@V0W4N]

God, i remember our kettle struggling to learn english but now she's speaking like she was living in us for her whole life People change and really fast

[@zera3947]

So does Pika looks more foreign than Japanese if people mistook her for a tourist?

[@Kyouw118]

She seems to have lighter color for both her eyes and hair, and she said that she will pretend not speaking Japanese to avoid conversation with those tv promotion guys so I think she doesn't look so asian?

[@Logan001]

She told a story once about getting told by an old man at the convenience store about how foreigners should be or something, so yeah, guessing her features are less Asian, at least at a glance.

[@JuniorFigueroaStreet]

She probably looks like a Russian or Finnish person(white with Asiatic facial structure)

[@rachelnicolas4518]

iirc, blonde and black haired parents doesn’t actually produce entirely blonde haired kids. most get light hazel colors

[@constantinethecataphract5949]

@@JuniorFigueroaStreet Russians are slavs they look the same as poles and stuff , they dont have asian features. Neither do fins. The only people that are like that are the uralic tribes in Siberia

[@bobthebuilder609]

my god, this is the most rambly chat I've ever listened to. jesus.

[@Flygoniaks]

Pikamee's a real enigma when it comes to genetics. While being half-Japanese, she apparently looks "western" enough for Japanese people to assume she's a foreigner (she mentioned this at one point, don't remember the stream) and for Americans in Texas to _not_ realize she's a foreigner (also mentioned in one of her streams).

[@shorty2531]

Is it an enigma, though? That just means the Japanese and Americans both think she's American. Nothing contradictory or mysterious there.

[@MouldMadeMind]

How is that an enigma?

[@Flygoniaks]

@@MouldMadeMind Because you'd probably expect someone who's genetically half-Japanese to look at least a _little_ Japanese, but apparently she doesn't.

[@anivicuno9473]

I think this might be explained by the blond hair. Blond hair is recessive, so chances are that her mom had at least one ancestor further up the tree that was also blond (ie, not japanese). Thus, pika is more than just 50% not japanese, and might accordingly have less japanese characteristics.

[@blacksesamecandies]

Genetics are a crazy thing. Interestingly enough, many genes are responcible for hair,skin and eye color. You will always see a wide-range of variety between biracial families. It's also why these variety of genetics have not been bed out despite humanity being around for thousands of years.

[@Yoshimatsu-h4x]

It was great watching you while it lasted

[@TBomb15]

Must stop visualizing Pikamee in a school uniform. It is too cute to exist.

[@yottamotiokl2376]

Now imagine if a German teacher came up to you and asked why your hair isn't blonde, and asked you to explain yourself...

[@woodchips908]

"Early 1945 Zatzi Germany" -Henry Chan, 9 holes reviews

[@markb6339]

@@woodchips908 lmao

[@baul997]

Yeah people would go haywire but you know it's just Japan and their culture so it should be automatically acceptable to be so harmful against individuals /sarcasm off

[@IncredibleMD]

@@baul997 Well, Germany isn't a country with a pretty homogeneous hair colour, like Japan, so... it's a bit different?

[@clothar23]

@@IncredibleMD I don't care what country you're in. That sort of behavior should be both socially and legally unacceptable. Why we put up with that sort of racism and discrimination from Japan and not every where else is a mystery to me. But of course pointing out flaws like that makes me automatically racist. Because apparently Imperialism is a Western only concept despite Asia having its own Imperialist traditions and history.

[@logicalphallusry]

Pika avatar confirm accurate, blonde hair and green eyes

[@randomperson5579]

My highschool : someone puts a sticker on their shoe, 2 week suspension. someone tries to severely injure you, so you push them back in self defense, 1 month suspension, a written letter of apology to the person who tried to hit you and, 2 weeks detention afterwards.

[@Not_MissHina]

Everyone: *talks about pikamee's daily life in school* Me: damn, that's a fine graphic minecraft

[@joeyginise6051]

Homework has been scientifically proven to do fuck all for students. In fact, the creator of homework as a concept did to punish misbehaving students. So no pikamee, your school is just smart.

[@KarlPHorse]

I mean, obviously not that smart if they had to get pika’s mom to come in and explain that mix race people exist.

[@joeyginise6051]

@@KarlPHorse I think that might be a Japanese thing, given there general attitude towards foreigners.

[@darknessknows1235]

@@KarlPHorse Well unless Pika looks obviously non japanese then it's not that stupid of an action to confirm with her parents that she really does have natural nonblack hair. You think JP teenagers wouldn't try to pull that type of shit?

[@aruhe6650]

@@darknessknows1235 Stop applying your country's cultural reality to a foreign country you've never been to

[@darknessknows1235]

@@aruhe6650 lmao I'm not. You think JP teenagers are a bunch of goody two shoes who wouldn't dye their hair? Because more than a few of them would.

[@crossbones116]

Any bully would be compelled to be nice to Pika.

[@user-jc2jp7rd9f]

pika's a real one 😎

[@mightking]

lmao, she reminded me of this counseler teacher, he yelled at me for having brown hair and said it was natural because im half chinese and he was like "liar!", i was so offended by him man

[@thevictoryoverhimself7298]

Foreigner: "This sounds like racism" Japanese: "No you see its just japan is very ethnically japanese and has a culture of social harmony and not standing out" Foreigner: "Thats just racism with extra steps" (I in the last 48 hours have legitimately had this argument said from a japanese person about hafus being shaken down by police for their foreigner card for the crime of appearing to be foreign, even if they are japanese lol)

[@mearbye]

I understand if you're hostile to mass alien immigration in your country, but hostileness and rudeness to those not so commonly seen "ethnically different" japanese nationals(they were born there!) is not okay.

[@ArDeeMee]

@@mearbye Go ask the „Koreans“ who immigrated GENERATIONS ago how they feel about not being Japanese. They literally are Japanese. There is no difference. It’s only the systemic racism that refuses to give them passports, by any means possible.

[@iusethisnameformygoogleacc1013]

It's literally just racism, zero extra steps. That it's their culture (to be extremely racist and force conformity on everyone) really should not be an excuse.

[@pridossan]

Cute kettle sounds at school

[@Dismiazs]

In my country, schools have pretty strict restriction about hair color and length for boys. Girls need to tie their hair up, though the rule will be kind of loose when the student is about to graduate. About the uniform, it's usually about the length and tightness. Most allowed jackets and sweaters, but to wear it in class sometimes is frowned upon depends on the teacher. Only very light makeup is allowed and no piercing except girl's ear piercing. Some private school might have looser rule regarding boy's hair length, but the others are pretty much the same. There are 'delinquets' school where the rule exist but they aren't really implemented. The reason for such rule here is so student's focuses more on study rather than beauty and other non related activities. Although, whether it really helps in study is up to debate. It does level up the field so the rich and poor doesn't looks much different. School doesn't really care about what the student does outside the school time, unless the student does it near the school. If the teacher met the student outside the school, well, some teacher might go to teacher mode if said student does something not allowed, but they aren't as strict as how pika story is.

[@HappyBeezerStudios]

when the school has a rule about skirt length for girls but not for boys, so instead of her going home, her bf takes the skirt. checkmate, school regulations

[@Nintendogs08]

Her hair is bright! Like her personality!

[@GTA_500]

Now we know Pikamee is a real one.

[@Kira-kun_89]

Im not from Japan but I was a student there for a few years, everyone liked my hair because it is very curly and soft, and its a redish light brown because my mum came from Scotland. Some teachers were mean but i say they were just jealous. (￣∇￣)

[@OctaGr4m]

Well in my school, either you do the stressing many homeworks or you lose grades by a lot and i mean *A LOT*

[@LilAnonomus]

My sis had a similar experience but reverse. She was one of the very few asian students in a southern-ish American highschool, but had no problems fitting in. She probably fit in a little too well since while she clearly looks asian she acts just like a valley girl.

[@TheBasedTyrant]

I'm trying to imagine how "bright" her hair could actually be. I mean she's half-Japanese which means she has the black hair gene which is a dominant hair color gene over most others except maybe brown hair. Also it's hard to imagine that her mother has almost any recessive genes at all in regards to hair and eye color because again she's Japanese and they have generations typically of identical hair & eye color genes diluting their genetics further.

[@stg-tf4ns]

Hypotheses: pikamee have ginger hair

[@WAEVOICE]

Seriously, though, how can anyone *not* love this girl???

[@96kami31]

At this point i have so much overdue homeworks i didn't care and i simply live with it

[@Despotic_Waffle]

I heard some Japanese say they got forced by their school to dye their hair blacker if it was a lighter colour. Which is kinda fucked up. I don't think I ever heard a halfu had this happen, since being mixed probably makes the teachers let you off the hook. Glad Pikamee enjoyed herself, the Japanese conformity culture can be really toxic sometime, even though it clearly has benefits as well. I think Kobayashi dragon maid makes some great criticisms to Japanese conformist culture if you have seen that anime.

[@LongSinceDead1]

I really wanted to like that show but I just could not get over all the loli and shota shit.

[@Despotic_Waffle]

@@LongSinceDead1 that's a fair reason, it does use that anime sex appeal and that's not for everyone

[@Candlemancer]

@@LongSinceDead1 but that's the best part

[@MybeautifulandamazingPrincess]

My brother went to school in Okinawa for a couple years, there are schools dedicated for foreigners who don't speak Japanese, but he went to a normal school that had some foreigners enrolled in English classes. And japanese are pretty understanding if you're a foreigner, this thing of looking down on blonde hair is just for japanese students, cause japanese value order and uniformity, and delinquents usually bleach their hair as a symbol of rebellion Some japanese like bleaching or dying their hair or wear contacts to be different and express their personality, so it's kinda mean to force them to have black hair

[@crackedemerald4930]

Hold up what's that last part

[@omarma7815]

"how dare you have different hair color"

[@Valtremors]

Oof, I kinda get her. While it wasn't teachers (and not in Japan, from Finland), in my school people took note of my little out of place hair color. Got natural stripes (I got white hair mixed with brown). When I was just a child, it was kind of obnoxious that people pointed it out so much.

[@redundantfridge9764]

Ah, so a form of poliosis?

[@zera3947]

What is your condition called? Just curious

[@雨-l3y]

oh i think we got the same thing, got lots of white hair strands. It stands out a lot cause me being asian, we often have really black hair lmao. people kept asking about it, wasn't really annoyed by it though

[@Valtremors]

@@zera3947 No idea. It is type of a birthmark. My mother has one on her lower back, her sister has one on her leg... Mine just happens to be related to hair. Or that is what I think. My beard also has started to turn slightly gray, but that is because most of my family starts going gray by their 30th birthday, which is a separate thing.

[@Valtremors]

@@redundantfridge9764 First time I've heard of it. Just googled it, seems to be the case.

[@tripplesouth]

I'm surprised those teachers has no clue what genetics is.