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BAND-MAID - Behind the Scenes, Christmas Acoustic Okyuji & English speaking Maids! (Patreon)

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2026-09-13 15:00:15
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This was fun to check out. I always enjoy seeing the Maids right before they get down to business.

I forget that the Christmas acoustic show was recorded and not performed live, so these blooper moments are fun to see. It's nice to see that they make mistakes too during their recording sessions. I love that they just take it in stride and laugh about them.

Now...I am absolutely impressed with Miku and Kanami's English in these videos. This was 2 years ago so I wonder where they are now in their studies! I really should start working on my Spanish and Japanese!

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Glen Kelley

As far as I'm aware, the Christmas acoustic is the only actual album. The other acoustic performances were videoed and I think maybe one of those shows was included with one of their albums (and one for sure is on Prime). As for the polite attitude, from what I've read, that's sort of ingrained in the culture, "please and thank you" are the standard. If someone helps you, you must thank them in return. There's this whole system of polite vs. normal types of communicating, old vs. young, higher status vs. lower status. The words and way of speaking is build around this (my opinion). That third clip is Miku practicing her English with Kanami, who is much better at English (she's been working on it for a long time). From what I've read, English is taught for reading and grammar, not so much for spoken/listening. According to videos that I've watched on YouTube, learning Japanese from watching anime is actually not a good way as the translations are not all that good, this is from Japanese natives that know English. It does sort of acclimate you to hearing Japanese.

Matt Kooser

Speaking of bloopers, have you seen the one in this fan cam? Band-Maid " Freedom " Live At Ace Of Spades Sacramento CA 8-14-2023. Right after Miku's magic spell time, there's a false start on Freedom as Akane's not quite prepared. Of course they turn it into something entertaining.

Byron Iida

Well, my wife teaches online Japanese classes... just throwing that out there

Ethan

I'm into the acoustic commentary🤚

Charles Coleman

This was a really fun reaction to watch. The Maids never fail to impress, no matter what it is. And yes, NittPicc, you will get a real kick out of the Acoustic Commentary videos. Without ruining anything, we get a wonderful look at how these friends interact with each other and how they love to laugh and poke fun at each other as only the best of friends can do.

Chris Bergsten

I studied Japanese for a few years so I can offer some general advice. Anime is not really good to learn Japanese from. There are actually a lot of words and phrases that anime characters use that no real Japanese people use in ordinary conversation, and you probably don't want to pick those up thinking they're normal. The other problem is that translations are often loose to make them read better in English. OTOH, it's fine to use for listening practice. It's not hard to start Japanese and you can start almost anywhere as there are TONS of beginner resources out there - but you're not going to learn much from most of those. (Forget about Duolingo, too - it's crap.) You want to at least get a proper textbook to learn some vocabulary and grammar from, and since you respond well to having a teacher, you should probably find one. There are websites like italki where you can find Japanese teachers and meet with them over webcam; they generally charge a flat fee per session or hour. Some will be more classroom-style where they teach from a textbook (and if you're going this way, you might want to wait to buy a book until you find a teacher and then get what they recommend), others are more for conversation practice. Opinions are divided on whether or not to learn kanji. Some say that if you're only interested in speaking and understanding Japanese then you have no need to read it (and with translation apps on phones this is even more true). Others say that if you're learning the language, you should learn to read and write it too, and this is the side I tend to take. The reason is that when you learn kanji you learn the parts that Japanese words are made of - kind of like how in English we learn the meanings of prefixes and suffixes. That makes it easier to guess what unknown words might mean, or to learn new words when you're already familiar with the parts that make them up. There are some learning apps I think are helpful if you're trying to learn to read Japanese. Wanikani is a decent kanji teaching tool; it's basically a flashcard system but with improvements over standard flashcards. You can do the first few levels for free but you have to pay for the rest of the content; if I were you I'd wait for one of their winter sales and buy the lifetime subscription (if you intend to keep using it). Some people prefer to use Anki as it's much cheaper and more customizable; I've used Anki for other things and it worked well, but it is kind of a pain to set up and manage. Bunpro is another site that uses the same kind of flashcard system but for grammar, and I don't think grammar is quite as well suited to the flashcard style but I still found it useful. Satori Reader is a site that provides a bunch of stories for you to practice reading at various levels of difficulty (though nothing for raw beginners). It's handy because you can click on a Japanese word or phrase to get its English translation if you get stuck, you can have it read out loud to you, you can decide whether or not to display helpful pronunciation reminders, and IIRC you can even link it to Wanikani to track which kanji you've mastered so it can adjust what it shows you. Bunpro and Satori Reader are also paid subscriptions and obviously this is a lot of stuff to buy, but I do think they're helpful. What I would suggest is that if you're going to study Japanese, just assume up front that you're going to spend about $500 to get into it properly - whether that's these websites, or kids manga for reading practice, textbooks, tutoring/classes, etc. The main thing you're gonna need is discipline. Studying a language is easy and fun when you're starting, but once the honeymoon period wears off, you'll probably find that it feels like you can barely use or understand the language but you're not really getting any better no matter how much you study, and you'll probably start questioning whether learning Japanese is really important enough to be worth all this trouble and frustration, and that's when a lot of people (including myself!) drop out.

Glenner7

The Christmas acoustic with commentary is quite entertaining. Kanami in particular had me in stitches. There were three fully acoustic concerts. There were audio CD releases for the Dec 24 2021 and April 27 2022 shows; there has not (yet) been a standalone CD release for the Billboard April 13 2025 show, but it is on BM Prime.

Wayne B

When you see Miku's Magic Spell time when you're at the Dallas show you will see how hard she works to speak English. And she is so charming when she does it, Moe, Moe!

Randy Hammill

Some of the bloopers look like rehearsals/run throughs before recording the final takes. Still loads of fun and a great look at their process. Kobato and Saiki recorded another acoustic version of Forward. I think it has more versions than any of their others in circulation. The studio version, some early live versions, the Engadget acoustic, two Kobato/Saiki duets, and the Yokohama band arrangement. Miku’s acoustic is actually one of the more affordable models from Zemaitis. Much less expensive than her electrics.

Randy Hammill

I get the sense that a lot of Miku’s English is written phonetically on her phone/iPad. If you watch here and in a lot of the Omajinai Time videos, she looks at them closely before speaking. That’s not to say she doesn’t know what it is she is saying at all, of course. She does use a lot of English in her lyrics. I think she still works with somebody who speaks English to make sure the words she selects mean what she wants. I have to admit that in this years’ European Omajinai time when she is saying “louder voice” I kind of miss the “bigger voice” from earlier years. :)

Geo-pigeon

When I fell in love with BAND-MAID, I discovered that I really wanted to understand their conversations with each other. I feel like this is a common calling among the Maidiac community. I listen closely to words and lyrics to recognize them. One day I will devote more time to this.

Geo-pigeon

Thank you Chris for taking time to document this. Years ago I discovered how poorly I understood parts of speech in English when I was taking a Russian translation course. I feel like if I attempt Japanese, I will first need to relearn English grammar before I can move forward. Learning two languages was not what I bargained for.

Geo-pigeon

I follow the same procedure reading romaji. Kyun kyun!