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Look this happened:
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What whaaaaat? What is going on there? - Eeep
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Wow that's so gross.
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Hey guys and girls it_'s Cathy Cat from Tokyo
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"Comiket no Yami" pretty much sayin "the dark side
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of Cosplay at Comiket" is a video that has made the rounds
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online after a certain scandalous little event happening here in Japan. This time
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I am gonna go and ask Japanese people to react to it, and give us their opinion and maybe
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and explanation why. If you haven't seen that video yet, it is in the description box below
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maybe open it in a separate window, check out the very short clip. It's only like 10 seconds before
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you watch the movie. We are not allowed to put that into our video.
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The laws and rights for YouTubers here in Japan are even stricter than in your country.
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So we are not allowed to put this in. Check out the quick clip and then come back to us and let's see
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how Japanese people on the streets of Tokyo have reacted
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to this little outrageous event. Let's go and ask Japanese.
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Do you know the Comiket. - I know it. - I have heard of it but I don't know what it's about.
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People that cosplay get together and take pictures and such
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It's a place for that. - That connects to today's topic
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Recently the Hashtag "Dark side of Comiket"
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has recently been trending online. Yes Darkness. What darkness do you expect?
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What? People putting up pictures without permission. - Sneaky pictures of girls in little clothing
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Having some suspicious old men take pictures...
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This happened. - What what?
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What whaaaaat? What is going on there? - Eeep
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They suddenly all crowded around the girls. What is going on?
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Eeep! - How scary is that? - So scary! - They kept the distance before, and then...
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Guess they wanted to touch the girls. - The cosplayer who posted this said
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that she has not been touched but that they all came too close.
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That's not the distance in which you can take pictures. - More like having the real thing there
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That's scary. The girls must have been scared of this sudden development
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Having a large group crowd around rather than just one or two
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Seeing this, what did you think? - How dangerous this is.
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The cosplayers might not have felt as much in trouble but...
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out-standers would think its dangerous. - They were just right
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before touching the girls, and they were dressed very sparsely too.
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That's not a distance in which you can take good pictures.
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They should have kept their distance properly.
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I understand they wanted to take a picture, but there is a line.
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Why did this happen. - Well they were not touched right? - Yeah
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They just huddled together. - They must have wanted to take pics at a great angle.
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They must have wanted to see the faces of the girls up close.
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I think it's also because EVERYONE did it. I am sure the people
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on the back just followed the man in front of them without knowing.
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Might have been. - Just following the man in front? - Yeah.
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If the guys at the front had acted properly things wouldn't have escalated
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But the front line did it and the other ones followed.
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So this weird video happened. - In this scenario we have
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cosplaying girls and photographer men,
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does the opposite happen in Japan too?
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Having 3 cosplaying boys taking pictures like that.
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When it's about Johnny's idol boys
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girls flock around them. - But not THAT close.
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But when on stage, many girls will get together to see them
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that might be the closest similar situation.
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They want to see them but would they crowd around for pics?
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Hmmmm - Not from that distance.
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I don't think that happens.
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If you really like someone, you want to show you got good manners
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and wouldn't do that. - You think of the other person first.
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- I do. - If we did something like that, boys would hate us.
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We would never get a chance. Having good manners is super important in Japan.
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* CathyCat sneezing off screen *
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Sorry girls.... Do you like anime? - I do. - Me too
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What anime do you like? - I had time to watch anime in school
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then I could watch more. Recently I've been watching "Kimetsu no Yaiba"
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It's popular abroad. - Recently I watched "Cells at work!"
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I like that anime and really watched that recently.
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So then have you heard about Comiket? - I have.
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Recently the hashtag "The darkside of Comiket" has been trending on twitter
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Do you know why it has?
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I don't know but I heard that some people meet there and get screwed over
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And that there are many thieves and such.
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Well first have a look at this video
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These 3 cosplaying girls were having a photoshoot
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But then this happened... please check it out
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I have seen this one. - Girl that's scary!
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So scary. - The cosplayer herself posted that they have not been touched there though.
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Hmmmm how scary. - Those girls are in trouble.
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Many people abroad were wondering why this happened in Japan.
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What did you think seeing it? - From what I saw
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all the other people are older men. If that many old men come at you
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... they must have felt scared for their lives.
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Why did this happen? Abroad people think that Japanese are very shy you see,
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Is this the fault of "safety in numbers"?
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Why did this happen? What do you think? - Rules...
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If there were better rules the girls wouldn't have to be scared ....
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They might be too much into their hobby to realize what they did.
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But no matter how much you like it, you need to keep up your morals
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most of all. I understand that. I like geeky things too.
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I think I learned from this movie how important it is for fans to have good manners most of all. I understand that. I like geeky things too.
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I think I learned from this movie how important it is for fans to have good manners
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and can enjoy their work. - It's ok to be geeky BUT
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don't cause a nuisance for other people? - Hmmm
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That's what I thought. - Everyone let's be more careful! Everyone came so close....
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but the girls were not touched. Why do you think the cameramen came up that close? - They wanted to
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take pics you can only take there. Like their expression....
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fans want to come as close as they can to their idols. Even when they can't touch them, they want closeness
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and take pics. - Don't touch close but have that closeness on the picture?
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Maybe they wanted to take a sexual picture ...
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but from a viewer's perspective it looks like that because of the short skirts...
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They wanted to take some naughty shots I think.
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It's ok to be geeky, but mind your manners and don't give others a bad time.
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Is what we take away.
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What is the Comiket?
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It's an Anime Otaku event. - In recent years there are foreigners
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who visit the event. - When you hear "Dark side of Comiket"
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what do you think?
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That you spend too much money. - There are things you like
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and people get hurt. - So these 3 cosplayers...
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were doing a photoshoot.
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And then this happened. Tell me your honest reaction to this.
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Here we go.... - They are taking sneaky pics. - Oh that's what it means?
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- Gross! - That's why the hashtag has been trending.
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What? So scary. Did they get groped? - Apparently not.
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I wouldn't like it still. This is SO JAPANESE.
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Why is that "so Japanese"? - If one person does it, everyone thinks it's ok.
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I see. - That's very Japanese. - "All do it, so I might as well"?
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One person starts, everyone copies. - If one person does it
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you might get away with it too. - When one makes the first step
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everyone comes along. That's SO JAPANESE.
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Same in coffee shops. One person orders and everyone will
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stand in line then. It's very Japanese to follow others.
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Foreigners will not be like that and buy whenever they want.
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In Japan, if nobody is in the store, we won't go into the store.
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That's a thing. We like copying what others are doing.
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Do you boys know the Comiket? - I do
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I know it. - What event is it? - Anime fans assemble
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and they all show what they got. There are many cosplayers.
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That's the impression I have. - Have you been? - Never. - Never
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Ok let's go to our question then. Recently
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"Comiket no Yami" has been trending online. Have you heard about it
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or do you know what it's about? - No clue
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Wow that's gross. - This is scary. - Why...
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did this happen? What do you think? - Well
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there were many male cameramen...
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and the girls were showing a lot of skin, which caught their attention.
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This wasn't about taking pictures more like the mood
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of the situation there. Everyone crowding. - One person did it so
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it's ok if all do it? - I think that's what happened.
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Doing something because EVERYONE does it, is that a Japanese trait? - Yeah.
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.... I guess so yeah....
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Wow.... I mean my general reaction was like HOW WHY WHY did that even
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happen? Japan is a very reserved culture, you don't generally get that close up to people
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Even to people you know. Even to your family. I don't see many people in
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Japan who get up that close to their own family members. Very distant culture so...
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when I saw that clip I was like "Wow what just happened?" apparently
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the situation was, the girls were doing a shoot and they
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one of them mentioned that "we can make the circle a little bit smaller". Well that was a lot more than
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"a little bit smaller" and you could see they were doing
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something else at that time. According to the cosplayer who put the
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video up online, she said well...
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she didn't seem to complain about it, but she said wow this can happen at events
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No one of them got touched but they had to get a member of staff to
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pull them out of the pool of people that had come up too close to them.
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Some of the reactions I got was: It's a group culture thing. One person does it: Everyone does it so
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we do it too. Which doesn't make it ok but that might be one of the reasons
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it's one of the explanations we got.
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I still don't know what to think about it because generally in Japan the cosplay rules
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are so strict. Generally at events even if you have a camera
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you need to register your camera. I've seen that happening. For cosplayers there are certain cosplay
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dedicated zones and stuff. If you wanna cosplay in Japan it's not easy
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You need to abide to a lot of rules and the cameramen need also to
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abide to a lot of rules that's why this video is a rare case
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of something upsetting the system.
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Which I hope doesn't mean next year at Comiket they make it even stricter on rules cause they're already
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pretty strict. But maybe find away to protect the cosplayers from something like
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this happening or becoming a thing. That's all I can say to it. Let us know what you think about
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"Comiket no Yami" the dark side of cosplay at comiket.
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