The Wisdom of Jpop PVs: Part II

Watching lots of Japanese music videos is an excellent way to educate yourself in the ways of continued existence in life. Every day, Some massively numerized part of humanity dies. They die for many reasons, but one of the main ones is failure to pay attention to the lessons of Jpop PVs.

From about a week ago on, whenever I feel like it, I will help you interpret these lessons, so that you may continue to exist.

Today's Lesson: The Wisdom of Yellow Shirt Guy

The PV I will be discussing today is Oh My Juliet! by Takashi Fujii. The central plot revolves around a man who wears glasses and sunglasses and is mysteriously a student at a high school, despite being much too old for that.

His seemingly unrealizable dream is to have two girlfriends, whom he believes are named "Juliet". Both Juliets already share a boyfriend, who is not him and looks like Frodo.

There is a happy ending in which our protagonist trips during lunch and uses the sudden attention on himself to teach his classmates to dance, including, but not limited to Juliet, Juliet, and Frodo. This is all fairly boring and the lessons you can take from it are few.

However, outside of this cliched fable, there is an extra character with the potential to Change Everything.

I will call him, Yellow Shirt Guy.

In the first classroom scene, Sunglass Man (Takashi Fujii) is standing in front of the class, singing. No one seems to hear this song, nor it's Tomoko Kawase-produced synthesizer music, with one exception. Yellow Shirt Guy, who is also in front, is paying full attention.

Yellow Shirt Guy is nice.

When they return to their seats, Takashi continues singing. His mind is on the Juliets, who are currently playing with Frodo's tie.

Yellow Shirt Guy ignores his surroundings and lifts weights.

Yellow Shirt Guy is focused

Next, we see Takashi dancing with a wall.

Yellow Shirt Guy obviously has better things to do. We don't see him, but I think it can be assumed that he's working toward a cure for cancer in his garage or reading to the elderly or something.

At the start of the climactic Lunch Sequence, Yellow Shirt Guy is sitting alone. He is lifting weights again and now also drinking milk.

Yellow Shirt Guy is healthy.

This health will eventually assist him in Changing Everything.

He again demonstrates his gift of focus when he doesn't notice that Takashi has just fallen down and started teaching dance lessons.

While still recognizing the practical uselessness of the nearby activity, Yellow Shirt Guy joins to show his support for his newly-two-girlfriended friend and sympathy for his newly-no-girlfriended other friend.

Yellow Shirt Guy is a good person.

Yellow Shirt Guy is possibly Norwegian.

So, to recap, Yellow Shirt Guy is the perfect role model for all excessively old high school students.

Remember the following wisdomites:

Be nice.

Be focused.

Be healthy.

Be a good person.

Be possibly Norwegian.

Wear a yellow shirt.