Why Sasuke hipsters?

So why did we decide on this name? Well ...

Neither of us had watched a second of Sasuke before the Ninja Warrior SE first aired. We'd barely heard about it: I had seen some American Ninja Warrior gifs (like the streaker guy) on tumblr, but that was basically it. However, it seemed cool enough and about two weeks ago I watched the first episode.

The day after that I kept talking to Chriss about how much I'd enjoyed it: you either got to see amazing athletic feats, or you got people completely messing up and you could laugh about it. Perfect show to watch for entertainment.

How exactly the idea to watch Sasuke 30 came to be after that I'm not sure about, but for some reason it seemed like a reasonable thing to do: to watch three hours of a game show in a language we didn't understand at all. And this from the girls who put of watching Boyhood for several months because "it's two hours and forty-five minutes, that's so looong" (we have since watched Boyhood, and we can assure you that Sasuke is better).

So watched it, and we loved it. Quite early on we started to see what we refer to as our "hipster" tendencies: that we would in every instance prefer the unsubbed japanese episodes to anything else. We watched some Ninja Warrior (japanese Sasuke broadcasted in USA, not to be confused with American Ninja Warrior) and found that even with the benefit of subtitles we didn't like them shortening down the episodes with several hours.

This was after seeing our first Sasuke ep.

Then we watched the second episode of the Ninja Warrior SE and realized how easy that first stage was compared to the current Sasuke first stage and at that point the "this is why the japanese original is so much better" was our standard phrase whenever watching something that wasn't unsubbed Sasuke eps:

And keep in mind that this was less than week after we first heard of the show, and just three days after we'd seen our first ever Sasuke episode.

So naming ourselves the Sasuke hipsters when starting this blog? Yeah, it seemed like the most obvious thing to do.