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There’s a clip of Hyde getting kissed on both cheeks, one man on either side of him, and the two men are Hamada and Matsumoto. Downtown consists of Hitoshi Matsumoto and Masatoshi Hamada, and the duo has probably been everywhere on Japanese television. For me, it was four hours of watching comedy groups Downtown and Cocorico along with Hosei. So I’m on to a third, commercial-free, hour of comedy.įor the comedians, it was an entire day of trying not to laugh at things, laughing anyway, and getting punished on their rear ends for laughing.
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They might also have been responsible for editing the recorded footage, as the commercials were removed and were no longer in between segments. Oh yeah, and it’s a fansub, meaning that someone who likes the show took the time to add English subtitles for those of us who don’t know Japanese. After that was done, I figured I would remember to take my laundry out of the dryer, and I could get on with my life. So a two-hour special is a decent length, right? I mean, it’s a special event, not a regular show. That made sense, because most of the clips I’ve seen have been about a half hour long at best, and those were for things like their Kiki segments where they have to guess which food item out of about 12 to 15 items was the same as the one they tasted while blindfolded. The second part was also about an hour long. The YouTube video was a little over an hour long, so I figured I’d watch the segment and then do something else with my life. This one was their Earth Defense Force special from a couple of years ago. Eventually I ended up watching Gaki no Tsukai, or more specifically I watched one of their No Laughing challenges. I started with playing things on YouTube, as I was in the mood for one or two particular music videos to get my mind off things that were bothering me. I figured I’d play at least one of the DVDs in the afternoon while the kids are passing through the living room, which meant I wouldn’t be watching The Princess Blade until later as there’s swords and blood. While I had my binders out, I pulled out my DVD of Darby O’Gill And The Little People along with my DVD of The Princess Blade. Thankfully there was not a mouse, but I had to deal with herding cats so I could put my things back in place. I moved things around a bit, hoping there wasn’t a mouse hidden within. The cats had been in pursuit of a mouse, which somehow caused them to be interested in the area where I keep my suitcase, computer, and binders with music and movies. There was enough French toast that I had some to eat, and I popped open a can of Pokka Vanilla coffee to wake me up and wash down breakfast. So I replied with, “I’m already downstairs,” even though I knew the shout wasn’t meant for me. It’s also my favorite breakfast food, even though I don’t often eat breakfast. With the abundance of storm supplies, we did have plenty of bread, milk and eggs to make French toast, so it was a good call. “Come downstairs if you want French toast!” I heard my friend’s significant other call out. I’m not sure if I couldn’t fall back to sleep, or I did and never realized it. An hour later, I woke again, and nothing was any different except that I could hear more commotion from everyone else in the household. I wasn’t ready to wake up yet, and it was too easy to fall back to sleep. There wasn’t a notification for the e-mail on the lock screen of my phone, which meant that either I hadn’t received it or Gmail determined it to be less important. I woke up around 7 or so and glanced at my phone, hoping that I received an e-mail that I’ve been waiting a few days to receive. So White Day was very white, but I started the day feeling pretty blue.