I'm your host Emma, and today I'm here with

Shiori and Natasha

But, today Shiori is

Shiori Sensei! We're going to be doing a quiz!

and it's kind of a little bit of a challenge for me and Natasha

We're going to see who is the BEST at guessing

onomatopoeia

Japanese onomatopoeia!

Not English!

That's not the kind of channel we are

so, Shiori is going to be giving us

Japanese words/ onomatopoeias

and we're gonna guess the meaning of them

You said that you're finding some that were a little more

Mezarashii

a little bit more rare...

So, that's a little worrying-

I'm gonna.. try my best

Yeah, but we'll just do our best!

So far, out of all our challenges on the channel

Emma is winning

It's 2:1 now

- Okay, -Okay!

Ganbatte! (You can do it)

- I will - Ikuyo! (Let's go!)

It's ganbare to me too man, y'know

NO

- Ganbare! - Thank you!

That's a fake ganbare...

We have more than 2,000 onomatopoeia in the Japanese vocabulary

Really?

But I think that

only 600~700 are useful, or more are actually used in conversations

but they have so many different explanations

Today I've picked out some phrases that could be useful

But you guys have probably not heard of before

Probably

Okay, so let's try..

Number 1!

Kiri kiri

Giri giri or kiri kiri?

I've never heard of this to be fair

I'm probably not going to have heard like

... a lot of these - Thinking time!

Uh, maybe I should be a bit more emotional

That's not emotional what do you mean...

say that again?

Aww man, mine's wrong then

I'm not confident

Me neither, No idea

You can't really read my handwriting, sorry

it's detailed...

Emma what's that?

Originally, you said kirikiri and I was like

Oh maybe it's like when you cut something and it's like

kiri kiri kiri kiri

But then I'm like, what if you're like

sad and disappointed because

your happiness was CUT

So I combined the first and the second one

you're laughing so I'm assuming that that is incorrect

my initial answer was actually when it's

cold, and you're shivering so

it's like kiri kiri or something

But then, she did like *kiri kiri*

So maybe it's like when your stomach is a little "oof-y"

-ooh kiri kiri -Yeah! something like that...

the answer is..

-Natasha! -really?

you're right!

you're kidding!

-Are you serious? -I had no idea dude...

what?? that's so specific

yeah it's so specific,

Usually we say "i ga kirikiri suru"

"i" is the stomach

-Oh it's the stomach?? -Yeah, the organ right

*whisper: omg*

I'm a genius...

It's more like when you say that..

That's- HOW DID YOU GET THAT?

That's the most specific thing..

I'm amazed.

My acting was good then!!

maybe!

Let me explain that,

For this one, when you say

"I have a stomach ache"

maybe you guys are saying general area?

but this phrase is for the specific organ

When you're really under some kind of pressure

for example, before a performance

Ah, it's like an uncomfortable feeling maybe

Yeah, and then you feel like, oh..

something big is coming up

so my stomach doesn't feel comfortable...

-Okay -Yeah

You're amazing! You deserve to win today

-just from that -just from this??

just from that, seriously

oh thank you Emma

NUMBER 2

Tsuru tsuru

Everything sounds the same

I know

Are you gonna put your acting into use again?

no idea...

you already? ah-

Yeah it could be a drawing

the situation

I'm having a mind blank of what it could possibly be

what does that face mean :(

what's that!! you guys are so creative

Don't do that because now I know I'm incorrect!

it's a very detailed drawing

You've really never heard of these before?

I've never heard of this..

-wow

-That's a good guess -What is this?

-Jiggly pudding -Pudding!

Like when the jelly is moving its like

Mine is, if you go fishing

and the fish is on the line like-

I feel like it would be like

But you actually know that "Tsuri = fishing" right?

Yeah Tsuri is fishing!

Oh Emma, you're guessing it in such a logical way

Yeah but I feel like that's the wrong way to go about this

-Nice drawing though -Oh, thank you!

Which one of us is right?

none of you guys!

Tsuru Tsuru means that the surface is clean and smooth

no bumps, basically

So it could be like a pudding texture

can you guess the onomatopoeia for jiggly pudding?

-Yeah! puru puru!

Yeah 'cause I was like, that looks more like a "pu"

looks more like a pU

some things really sound like the onomatopoeia

but some things, I just can't make a connection

I see, but uh

I'm not sure if this is OK to say but

when you see the bald people

a bald person

If the person doesn't have any hair

the surface is so clean and nice right?;

In Japan, if I meet a bald guy

and I touch his head...

am I allowed to say "ah... Tsuru Tsuru!"

or is that SUPER rude?

I think it's super rude to touch someone's head

what if he's like "hey man..."

go ahead! touch my bald head..

yeah! that's ok

it's OK if I have permission to touch the head?

and maybe, when you eat Udon (thick Japanese noodles)

it's also Tsuru tsuru

-It's really smooth right -Yeah, 'cause it's smooth

NUMBER 3

how's the feeling though?

-I don't get a feeling from dabodabo -Right?? Yeah yeah!

Usually you get a feeling like it's a solid or a liquid or something

-but this one -yeah like puru puru!

your thing is dabo dabo, Emma!

Thank you! so much! for that...

compliment I hope?

don't cheat! don't cheat

I give up, I have no idea

Mine's expensive looking, like

double double the price it usually is

(Emma.............)

so you said 'solid' with a sad face

"your ___ is so solid" ???

I've been using 'solid' a lot

as a descriptive..

like OOH that's a solid compliment

OOH your makeup today is really solid

your compliment to me was solid

yeah something like that! I don't know :))))

the real answer is

Too big!

-Too big? -Too big for you

for example, "your jacket is dabo dabo"

this (shirt) is kinda to big for me?

that's why I said I'm not sure

double double the size...

I'm sure it's not that but that's a good way to remember it

yours is a little bit dabo dabo

if you.. oh yeah yeah

Natasha always have different kinds of clothes

so sometimes you're dabo dabo looking..

I'M DABO DABO LOOKING?

so the score is still 1-0

1-0 from that super lucky first try

hey hey, I knew that.

NUMBER 4

I feel like there's too straightforward an answer

yeah.. I was like "OH YEAH! BOING BOING!"

But, is she tricking us? is the question.

OK that's not what you'd say about a trampoline...

yeah it sounds too obvious right?

I'll just go with the obvious answer

you're going with the obvious one?

yeah I'll try it

is SOMEONE boing boing?

yeah, but I don't think Tokyo Creative people are boingboing

unfortunately

I feel like this is refreshing because I've never heard of any of these before

-Yeah, yeah -Maybe we need to use them more in real life

it'd be fun to use this more in real life

I wanna be like "Oh, that desk?"

"So Tsuru Tsuru!"

This one can be a person, an object

could be the...

parts?

could be WHAT?

oh, there she goes

I know you can draw y'know

Emma!

It's boing boing...

Maybe the sentence could be

Oh that's accurate for my answer

yeah it is!

You shouldn't even have seen my answer, Emma

you and your sneaky lil eyes

I couldn't help it

-With what you were drawing -It's so big y'know

SO BIG

you asked me to draw MORE right?

oh yeah sorry

what is this?

boobs

yeah

like this- boing boing

I was going to say genki and young

-bounce back from anything -but that's so sad

'cause I was thinking oh no one at TC is genki?

Yeah so I'm think 'this is wrong..'

thats why I said genki and young like maybe BABY young

is my answer correct?

actually? actually?

boobs always win

what do you mean though, if an object can be boing boing

the object is the boobs-san

what? excuse me? the object is the boobs?

that's why I said 'parts' y'know

I thought you meant like automobile parts

she definitely meant body parts

the object messed me up

now everyone knows that no one is TC is boing boing :(

I think "boing boing" means the same in English

-oh really? -yeah

we could look at a pair of boobs and be like

"Ah, boing boing!"

I mean no one would say that

NO ONE

no one would ever say that

-But it makes sense -Oh, hmm you got a good pair of

boing boings

no, I'd be like "argh no don't tell me that"

ok, 2 points to Natasha

oh Emma, killin' it.

NUMBER 5

noro noro

there is one animal that's famous for 'Noro Noro'

you saw it?

sorry, I saw Emma's drawing

-We go the same answer! -Oh

That's why I didn't draw it...

I have confidence that we're both right

you guys are right

I finally got one right!

If I were to give an example, maybe

the mum could be saying "Noro Noro suruna!"

to the kids

sounds like my mum, although not Japanese

could shout that at me