Bill Wurtz then says, "vote now on your phones" to pick between Yoshimi and Yoshihisa, and the palace burns down due to phone-in voters voting so hard. Yoshimi says okay, but then the shogun has a kid, Yoshihisa. So he tries to get his brother Yoshimi to quit being a monk and be the next shogun. Usually it's the shogun's kid, but the shogun doesn't have a kid. The shogun Ashikaga Yoshimasa needs an heir. Succession Crisis: The Ōnin War makes an appearance.Soundtrack Dissonance: Two of the cheeriest jingles in the video are those announcing the start of World Wars I and II.Shown Their Work: The video is surprisingly well-researched, despite being what it is.Toyotomi had it even harder since Tokugawa Ieyasu proceeds to take over the country soon after he dies, overruling any power that the heir Toyotomi Hideyori was supposed to inherit. Shoot the Shaggy Dog: The Mongols and Toyotomi Hideyoshi both get killed in their respective failed invasions.Toyotomi Hideyoshi defeats Akechi Mitsuhide after the latter killed Oda Nobunaga, finishes Nobunaga's work in unifying Japan under a single authority, and decides he's going to invade Korea, and then hopefully China.During the Mongols' invasion of Japan, the Mongols somehow manage to die in a tornado note actually a typhoon twice."they made a new X that was pretty western.".No, You: When Japan raises concerns about Russia suddenly amassing a huge garrison at Manchuria:.No Ending: After getting to modern-day Japan, there's a brief jingle that says "bye," and the video abruptly stops.Of course, in the painting shown of the Paris Peace Conference that officially ended the war, Japan's representative is half-obscured by the edge of the picture.
and Zoidberg: Japan technically participated in World War I, so it gets to join the League of Nations along with everyone else.
KNOCK KNOCK IT'S THE UNITED STATES FULL
Mundane Made Awesome: It's the actual history of Japan condensed into a nine-minute video full of off-the-wall humor that still manages to convey most of the facts there.
Then Japan raises a flag saying "you win." When the USA drops its nukes on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the music completely goes silent for a few moments, emphasizing the seriousness of this event.
GIS Syndrome: Played for Laughs, especially alongside the simplistic drawings made by Wurtz himself.
When the first image of Tokugawa Ieyasu shows up, as the narrator states he's the richest and most powerful magistrate, a picture of a younger Donald Trump appears in transparency."and they did some rapes!" shows up thrice.Funny Background Event: There are brief flashes of other notes and jokes that can fly by pretty quickly if you're not paying attention.note And you're rich and important enough to hire one Everything's Better with Samurai: Especially when it comes to protecting your shit from criminals.Poor people who could not afford to hire samurai did not hire samurai. Everything Except Most Things: Everyone was hiring samurai! Correction Rich important people hired samurai."plus they're planning on invading the entire ocean".America helps Britain in World War II because they're "good friends" and stops helping Japan because " their friends and our friends are not friends". And do you know what was especially western in that age? Conquering stuff. The Empire: The rise of Imperial Japan is attributed here as stemming from Japan's desire to emulate its successful western contemporaries.Embarrassing Nickname: China used to call Japan "wa" (or "dwarf").
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