Japanese History

>>643491
Neat
Liked the style

>>643491
Are there more videos like this? Of this style?

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>>643577
only one the guy has made. Fresh idea.

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>>643491
How do we sponsor his channel

>>643639
what's weird is this guy for the past 6 years made the most abstract singing videos ever that are all less than 60 seconds long.

Then he drops this great bomb.

>>643644
This guy might have a mental issue or might be on drugs but he's got golden potential if he keeps it up with the history videos.

But in his comments he keeps saying it took him like 3 months to create the Japan video.

>>643653
work faster damnit

goddamn that was really good

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>>643491
I love it

Bretty gud :-dDDDDDD

>>643664
cgp grey all over again

One of the best things I've watched in a long tiem. Funny, yet, educational..wow!

>>643491
Bump worthy

solid

>>643491
So /his/ what do you gauge this things accuracy?
It good or bad?

would watch other cunts vids/10

as much as I hate his pewdiepie/reddit sense of humor, this is a pretty good summary all things considered

I have a feeling if crash course history tried this he'd obsess over how evil the US was for opening Japan up to the world and imposing "unfair" treaties that prevented them from taxing merchants as much as they wanted for a few years

>>643491
Not terrible.

The "singing phrases" schtick is annoying. Pretty good otherwise.

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How is this?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fNqFJCypk7c

>>646917
>>647053
It's well done since it doesn't hang on the jokes it's making; it makes them, then keeps going at a stable pace. The guy knows what he's doing here.

>>647073
Nobody cares about your shit video

>>647073
looks like shit to me

>>643491
well it's better than John Green, so there's that, and it focuses on something other than SAMURAI KATANA SAMURAI

Folded over 10000 times

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It's ok, this on the other hand:

http://bookzz.org/book/609586/5e0ac2
http://bookzz.org/book/609587/e3524c
http://bookzz.org/book/609588/358d97
http://bookzz.org/book/609589/1a84ce
http://bookzz.org/book/609590/19f3f3
http://bookzz.org/book/609591/156a5c

>>643491
gold

>>649620
Is the scholarship still valid? I know from experience that parts of the Cambridge Histories of China and especially Iran are quite outdated.

Is it true that Japanese steel is very low quality compared to Europe, thus making the "katanas" shitty?

>>649673
Cambridge History of China is so fucking outdated, the niggers still use Wade-Giles in Chinese naming conventions.

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>>651070
Katanas were regarded as well made swords by all of Asia. Particularly by the Chinese who at the time had better metallurgy than both Japan and Europe. Even they thought Japanese swords were extremely well made.

>>651117
Kind of related, I once read about a Chinese general that had his home searched and they found tens of thousands of Katanas. Weeb. Can anybody tell me his name?

>>643491
It skips Himiko and the relationship with Cao Wei @ China.

It also doesn't mention the Ainu people.

>>651135
So I finished and I would say, aside from this lack of very old, pre-Japanese written sources history, but as far as you can cram in a 9 min, not-completely serious video, it's quite good.

>>643491
At first I thought it would just be xD randumb at best judging by the style and how many views it had, but it's actually a decent crash course overview. It's also surprisingly lacking in the typical Extra Credits-esque glib snark you usually get with these types of videos.

>>643491
lel that was great

>>647073
Back to /gsg/ lad

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Any of you agree with this?

>>651422
No. Austin Shannon can suck a dick. How about providing some examples of where the man went wrong instead of just splurging out his autism for the youtube world to see?

>>643491
Ugh. Technically not wrong, and funny at times, but way too annoying overall.

Do you guys seriously not find the presentation to be incredibly fucking annoying?

>>647073
Too chan memetic, I want something more A E S T H E T I C

>>651422
Literally no argument
"It might be wrong therefore it is"
-Austin Shannon, 2016

>>651934
he's got a soothing voice, doesn't rely too much on reddit tier memes or direct reddit memes, and isn't a fucking trash weeb trying to extoll the virtues of the pure Yamato people

it's a solid video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9xQTEHebpA

This one is fucking great.

>>651422
>Unfortunately people are more concerned about being entertained
It's pop history, it's supposed to be entertaining.

I, for one, welcome this style of history teaching into the mainstream as long as it makes people at least somewhat educated on the subject matter.

People who get their history out of anime or american hollywood movies are way, way worse.

Actually they dropped 2

>>651422
Look at the video he links, hilarious non sense. The Americans created the Spanish flu as a biological weapon don't you know?

>>651070
>Is it true that Japanese steel is very low quality compared to Europe
This is only partly true. What is true is that the iron ore found in Japan had much more impurities and required much more work to get it on the same level than comparable European steel.
Hence the folding process for blades and the whole artisan business for steel making, sword making and sword polishing.

What about this video? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJ2T9HNCUTQ

Released on the same day but got over shadowed by the Japan video on reddit.