Yamato Damacy
Written by Jeshii on 2008.08.21 – 14:11 -If you know anything about me, you know that I lived in Japan for 3 years and that I made a series of videos while I was there with my friends Rahman and Luka.
The name comes from 大和魂 (yamato damashii), which is a phase roughly translated as “Japanese Spirit,” and is generally a nationalistic phrase. You’d never hear a 外人 (gaijin) saying it… which is why we used that name. It goes along with the surprise everyone had at us foreigners speaking Japanese.
It was a lot of fun. And people seemed to like it. But since I haven’t been able to do anything nearly as big, it makes me feel like a total internet-famous has-been. ><; The best episodes are as follows:
Episode 9: Setsubun
This episode was the BEST. Dressed up as an 鬼 (oni), I ran out of a phone booth to scare people.
Episode 3: Karaoke
This episode was funny just for the end, if nothing else.
Episode 10: Vanity Project
On the whole, we usually would just do interview videos. But in this one, we were fed up showing others, and just made a short film featuring us. It turned out okay, but people really seemed to like it.
Episode 29: Vanity Project 2
This episode was the prequel to Episode 10. The editing and cheesy dialogue make this a classic.
You can see all the episodes on YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=40EA472A4F34B0AD
You can also check out the Revecess Wiki entry for even more info.
[Update] I now have pages set up for each of the Episodes here at Yamatologic. Go check them out!
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By Carolen on Oct 21, 2008 | Reply
Hi Jeshii!
I was doing some reminiscing and saw videos of Chrono Trigger DS which triggered a thought of…what happened to those guys who went around Japan doing Jan Ken Pon. I remembered that Yamato Damacy ended during the time I was going through my third year of Japanese and was quite sad when it did end. I can’t believe you’re back in Blog form. I thought of how cool it would be to be pretty fluent in Japanese and living in Japan. Both are not possible at the moment due to my Japanese is seeping out of my brain at an exponential rate(goodbye Japanese minor). Anyways, I’m glad to see you around and gives me the burst of energy to start relearning my Japanese and take that JLPT..maybe next year
By Jeshii on Oct 21, 2008 | Reply
Chrono Trigger DS is going to be fun. I loved that game.
Thanks for finding me! Please come back often!
JLPTは頑張ろうね☆