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Animated documentary-style videos on extraordinary Asian events.

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Q and A with Kento Bento (100,000 subscriber video)

From Kento and Nina - thank you all for helping us reach 100,000 subscribers! This is more than we ever imagined.

Here are the Q and A questions:

1. Why don't you upload more frequently?

2. Do you have a team that you work with?

3. After making the video on 'How To Escape North Korea', has anyone tried to assassinate you?

4. Do you actually know if any North Koreans watch your videos?

5. What are some of the biggest mistakes you've made in your videos?

6. Tell us one interesting fact about yourself.

7. You've been doing YouTube for almost 3 years. When will you finally start Patreon? (fan-funding)

8. Did you go to University? If so, what did you study?

9. What's your favourite video that you've ever made?

10. When is your next Asian Borders video coming out? It's been ages!

11. Will you be doing any collaborations with other YouTubers?

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How This Lake in Northwest Asia Got Deadlier Than Chernobyl: https://youtu.be/SQCfOjhguO0
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Channel Description:
Animated documentary-style videos on extraordinary Asian events.

Staff:
Kento Bento — Research, script, narration, music, video editing, motion graphics, illustration storyboard
Charlie Rodriguez — Illustration
Isambard Dexter — Research

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How Hong Kong Became a Giant Refrigerator

Here’s a statement—'Over the last 50 years, Hong Kong has become a giant refrigerator'. Despite its hot, humid, subtropical climate, the city remains an icicle all year round. But what do I mean by this?

Well, Hong Kong has a bizarre problem. It has developed an obsession with air-conditioners so extreme it no longer makes any sense—winter coats are needed during the sweltering summer, and ACs are blasted in the midst of winter.

Now, there are many countries around the world that use and abuse their air conditioners—Singapore, Japan, Saudi Arabia, the US, to name a few—but Hong Kong (the city I grew up in), takes all this to a whole new level. So this raises questions—why are there so many ACs? Why is the temperature set so low? And—strangest of all—why can‘t they just turn it off?

With Hong Kong, the answer is never simple...

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We do videos on intriguing and thought-provoking Asiany topics, including stereotypes, history, culture and geography.

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10 Things You Didn't Know About The 2011 Japanese Earthquake and Tsunami (Tohoku Disaster) 東北地方太平洋沖地震

The most powerful earthquake ever recorded to have hit Japan — a 9.0 magnitude. This of course triggered a massive tsunami that wrecked the north eastern coastline.

Japan was simply not as prepared as they thought they were for such a disaster. If that wasn’t bad enough, there was a Level 7 nuclear emergency at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant, comparable to Chernobyl....

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How North Korea Held the Greatest Pro Wrestling Event in History: https://youtu.be/U_ZkqfSpbg4

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Channel Description:
Animated documentary-style videos on extraordinary Asian events

Staff:
Kento Bento — Research, script, narration, music, video editing, motion graphics, illustration storyboard
Charlie Rodriguez — Illustration
Isambard Dexter — Research

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10 Things You Didn’t Know About HIROSHIMA ATOMIC BOMBING: https://youtu.be/wETSBaFwzu0
10 Things You Didn’t Know About THE JAPANESE EMPEROR: https://youtu.be/h--roytkH3Q
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We do videos on intriguing and thought-provoking Asiany topics, including stereotypes, history, culture and geography.

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10 Things You Didn't Know About The Fukushima Nuclear Disaster (福島第一原子力発電所事故)

The Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Disaster was caused by the massive tsunami triggered by the Tohoku Earthquake on March 11th, 2011. This was a Level 7 nuclear event, comparable only to Chernobyl.

1. Unheeded Warning

Before the disaster even happened, there were industry experts who warned of mega tsunami-generating earthquakes hitting the area every 800 to 1100 years, with the next one being overdue. But those in charge dismissed such warnings.

2. No Good Robots

During the crisis at Fukushima, high radiation levels at the plant made it desperately hard for human workers to do what they needed to do.

Back in 2001, the Japanese had actually developed extremely capable robots that were deemed technical successes, but then a government task force concluded that a Chernobyl-scale disaster was never going to happen in Japan .

The program was shut down and the robots were dismantled or donated.

3. Onagawa Nuclear Power Plant

The Onagawa Nuclear Power Plant was the closest power plant to the earthquake epicentre, yet it successfully withstood the barrage.

While the Fukushima Plant had sea walls up to 5.7 meters, Onagawa had it up to 14 meters.

4. Wrongful Evacuation

Due to miscommunication between the evacuation authorities and the experts who were analysing the fallout, many residents were evacuated from pretty safe areas right INTO the radioactive plume.

5. Evacuation Deaths

More people were killed by the evacuation process in Fukushima
than by the actual earthquake and tsunami, the disaster itself.

People died of fatigue, exhaustion, illness, suicides - losing their homes, not knowing where they would end up, cramped evacuation centres; the whole ordeal was taxing.

6. Geiger-Counter Hobby

After the Fukushima disaster, random radiation hot spots were discovered in unexpected locations.

Radiation levels as high as those in the no-go zone were detected as far as some Tokyo suburbs. This prompted many Japanese residents to take up a new hobby - walking with Geiger-counters through their city or village in search for random radiation levels to report.

7. Animal Guardian

55 year old Naoto Matsumura is the only man brave enough to live in Fukushima’s no-go zone. After the initial evacuation, he returned back
to take care of the animals that were left behind. Not just his animals, but everyone’s.

8. Mutations

There were a few small scale Fukushima discoveries.

9. Human Radiation Effects

No one died from radiation exposure in Fukushima.

And contrary to a well-publicised, yet poorly-executed, study
that made the rounds in 2015, thyroid cancer rates in F

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The Incredible Japanese Prison Break: https://youtu.be/oI8trlbCbU8
The Mysterious Chinese Art Heists Across Europe: https://youtu.be/9LDVQYfeseo
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Channel Description:
Animated documentary-style videos on extraordinary Asian events.

Staff:
Kento Bento — Research, script, narration, music, video editing, motion graphics, illustration storyboard
Charlie Rodriguez — Illustration
Isambard Dexter — Research

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The Bizarre South Korean Bank Heist

Daejeon, South Korea, 2019 — 140 kilometers south of Seoul. The bank robber was getting ready to enter the bank. He was well-prepared, composed, and not at all afraid of being caught.

You see, he had been planning the heist for a while, and had become quite familiar with the bank’s habits and procedures. He had done the math and knew it would take police just four minutes to arrive at the scene once alerted. This, of course, wasn’t ideal — a potential four minute window seemed risky — but if all were to go according to plan the reward would be worth it; he would be set for life.

As part of his preparation, he had procured a very specific weapon (a kind of knife) from a trusty vendor which, really, he had no intention of using. With the threat alone being sufficient enough, this was merely for show. And so, after months of planning, it was time. He headed through the doorway into the bank.

The heist was on...

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10 Most Influential Asian Superheroes from Marvel and DC

There are a lot of comic book fans out there, and many of them are Asian. Yet historically, superheroes of Asian descent have been a rare thing in the Marvel and DC universes.

With movies like Captain America Civil War, Batman vs Superman and Deadpool already having broken several box office records this year, superhero movies are only getting more popular. And you know, you have the first female solo superhero film in quite some time coming out in 2017 with DC’s Wonder Woman, and the first black solo superhero film in some time coming out in 2018 with Marvel’s Black Panther. Makes me wonder when we’ll see the first Asian solo superhero film on the big screen.

But we’re a long ways off because first, we actually need a successful and popular Asian superhero in the comics, and thus far, it’s not clear if we even have one.

Well, you be the judge.

1. Jubilee (Marvel)
- arguably the most well-known Asian superhero
- a Chinese-American girl born in LA
- X-Men’s youngest member in the early 1990s

2. Shang Chi (Marvel)
- created in the 1970s, a period in time where people were crazy for Bruce Lee and anything Kung Fu related
- the premiere Asian character of the 70s
- born in China
- son and nemesis of the infamous, wealthy international Chinese crime lord Fu Manchu.
- has no superpowers, but is an expert in all forms of martial arts
- unfortunately as stereotypically Asian as you can get

3. Sunfire (Marvel)
- Japan’s premiere superhero
- just like Shang Chi, an Asian character of overt Asian symbolisms.
- real name, Shiro Yoshida
- born to a mother who suffered radiation poisoning (Hiroshima atomic bomb)
- became a mutant possessing solar radiation powers

4. Atom (DC)
- real name, Ryan Choi
- super smart and gets good grades
- can be quite the ladies’ man
- from Hong Kong
- protege of original Atom, Ray Palmer
- the Atom is a super hero who can shrink to a subatomic size (like Ant-Man)
- pretty noteworthy because first time an Asian guy took over the mantle of an existing superhero with an already established fan base
- too bad he only appeared in 78 issues before being killed off by the assassin, Deathstroke
- his death became the subject of racial controversy as he had been one of the few high profile Asian characters in the DC Universe

5. Batgirl (DC)
- real name, Cassandra Cain
- she’s a halfie, with a white dad and a Chinese mom
- adopted by Bruce Wayne, aka Batman.
- under Batman’s watch, she became Batgirl
- some refer to her as the Asian Batgirl

6. Psylocke (Marvel)
- real name is Elizabeth “Betsy” Braddock, originally a blonde haired girl from Essex, Great Britain
- a mutant with vast telepathic and telekinetic powers and a long time X-Man.
- had her soul transferred into the body of a Japanese female ninja
- in X-Men: Apocalypse movi