I Went to an Anime Casino.

hey friends sock you dearest so I'm pretty sure that everyone here who has played Pokemon remembers going to the casinos and trying her hand over at the slot machine well technically they weren't allowed to call them casinos they were supposed to call them gain corners but that's besides the point now I'm not sure how often this thought has crossed anyone's minds but did anyone else wish that that was like a real thing to have a casino where you can exchange all of that money just for anime goods and living in Vegas for 13 years I can confirm that that never happened living in Japan though for the past year is a different story in today's video I'm going to take you lot to Akihabara also known as electric town or as I like to call it in otaku's wet dream a city with endless amount of floors alleyways hidden stores all profiting off of the otaku's unending hunger for anime goods and made cafes it is inevitable that every anime fan who comes here will spend more money than they probably have whether it's on doujins anime figures or gambling at the crane games and just when you think that that's all that a cuba has to give my Vegas race I see something that I never thought that I would ever see again a casino but in Japan this is just called a pachinko parlor so we're gonna go over here that Eddie's cafe and pachinko parlor so let's go and check it out so here's we're going to the very top floor it looks like at this cafe and pachinko parlor everything about occupy is like everything is so like cramped inside like just one big building so you kind of have to like go around Akiba and find like new things pachinko is one of Japan's most thriving businesses and most popular games in the country the simplest way to explain pachinko is that it's basically the Japanese slot machine and the one that I went to you basically put however much money you want into what really looks like a poker chip you then take this chip put it into the machine and then out come hundreds of balls which then you shoot into the machine which I would say looks like a perfect blend of your classic Las Vegas slot machine meets pinball on steroids mixed with all of that is these two very loud speakers which play very frantic music and vibrant colors in front of you on the screen so we arrived in the building not far from Akihabara station and seven floors up later I arrived with this happening whoa oh so I see like Evangelion wow that was so loud luckily I stopped here votes went on my past Delta play so I'm gonna put them in my ear just to bear with it a little bit all finger and just like any other slot machine if you get the same image across the board you get the jackpot because of Japan's strict laws on gambling the biggest difference is that all your slot winnings from pachinko cannot be exchanged at the facility itself instead there is a separate building players go to that take your winnings and exchange it for real money if you've ever played Pokemon you'll realize that the casino is the exact same structure of what I just said so in a way you are actually playing pachinko in Pokemon I've never gotten into gambling and I know that's really weird to say as someone who is raised in Las Vegas so you guys can probably imagine that when I first heard about the anime casino I was a little hesitant but then I found out that this pachinko parlor works differently you don't exchange the balls for any money you exchange it for anime figures or for any other anime prizes that they have in the store so with that being said I would say that the gambling level of this pachinko parlor is pretty much the exact same gambling level as you know crane machines or really any games in the arcade if you really think about it the pachinko parlor was called the emmys cafe and pachinko which had the theme of two famous anime Kai G and Evangelion I know a lot of you want to know more about where this place is so I'll put a link in the description to where you can find it and a lot of the staff also spoke pretty good English what are some tips playing pachinko important to know that the more you turn the handle to the right okay the longer the balls gonna be the range level one you have to get it into any of these well you don't have to oh okay but if you get balls in here a few boards will come off oh it's not jackpot so oh and they when jackpot happens do you want to turn this handle all the way to the right like how much money do you have to put in to start playing 2,000 yen Oh 1000 balls okay so roughly 20 bucks per thousand balls I think I'm ready to play and definitely I win something yeah I've never really gambled too much before but let's see how it works though so I started off small started at level one and I had what many of us would call beginner's luck so now that I want all of these balls I thought so you know step it up a notch and go to level two I should probably add that this pachinko parlor apparently is nowhere near as loud as real pachinko parlors but if you're sensitive to loud noises like I am and this is your first time I would recommend at least bringing earbuds just in case [Music] I didn't win anything nope not one thing [Laughter] think I wasted half my balls yep and I was reminded why I don't gamble and then we had level three come up I decided to have Joey play with me because you know it's always nice to try and play with someone else so that you don't have to wallow in self-pity and I thought maybe I'll have someone to wallow in self-pity with it never happened for him because he won I got it Wow [Music] I decided to use some of those balls to just exchange for snacks so I'm basically just buying snacks by this point anyway so we had one more level to go which was level four and this is the one that the staff said was supposedly the hardest level in the entire parlor and given by my luck so far I think I have a pretty good chance of losing but I play the game anyway the cool part is that this one was an Evangelion themed monster of a machine that was staring right back at me and even looking back I still don't know what I was doing if I did anything right but I must have because then this happened [Music] you're getting a lot of duck plucker I just remember the staff telling me that I got the jackpot and then I have to keep the knob all the way to the right and even while I was doing that it happened again [Applause] Oh [Music] I don't know how I don't know why don't ask me for tips because I was just winging it but at least you can see Joey being a very loving and supportive boyfriend over my winnings just as much as I was what am I saying here's the interesting thing about gambling whether you're playing four tickets out an arcade or whether you're playing for real money at a casino whatever it is in the back of your mind you think you have this whole strategy played out but at the end of the day it's all left to chance but there's a classic rule that everyone should always keep in mind that I know is often forgotten you always need to know when to quit say that again [Applause] [Applause] but actually winning too much it's all just falling out [Applause] I'd say [Applause] and I think after four jackpots after that I think I'd be getting greedy so I pulled out and thought to finally exchange all of my winnings into anime figures and other prizes I got this really cool Evangelion figure which I still haven't assembled yet but it was awesome and I thought you know since there was the Evangelion machine that got me those winnings why not go get that figure which actually decided to just give that to Joey all of this behind me that's all for Kingdom Hearts stuff until like we get another place or for some reason I have more room to put another figure case and that's is pachinko that was the anime pachinko to be exact I would go to this location again provided if Las Vegas ever wants to open up an anime casino come back to me later who knows maybe I'll make a video on that but as far as I'm concerned this is the only one that I know exists in which case that leaves the question of what you guys would do if you ever went here do you think that you would win I that's I don't know how else to end this video but there's more information in the description below so I appreciate you guys for watching subscribe to my channel for more anime otaku in Japan related content and I will see you guys in the next video bye bye [Music] you

Channel: akidearest

Views: 779,542

Rating: 4.9813819 out of 5

Keywords: anime, otaku, tentacles, i went, to, an, casino, pachinko, japanese casino, pokemon casino, pokemon slot machines, mauville city, japanese slot machine, evangelion, akiba, akihabara, otaku akihabara, what to do in japan, japan vlog, anime in japan, anime in real life, anime game, anime challenge

Id: TzlhBcloxVg

Length: 11min 50sec (710 seconds)

Published: Sat Feb 01 2020