Breathtaking Pictogram Performance at Tokyo 2020 Opening Ceremony |  

I think those were genuine.

@@adasp23 genuine, but still full of passion hehe

The mistakes that makes it perfect

the mistakes were not intentional. It was done live so mistakes can easily and do happen. You just have to roll with it since you can't fix it.

I thought there was only one real mistake

Sailing was pretty funny too :)

Mine was how in the triathlon before the final pose the cyclist "got on the bike". But yeah, I was almost singing along with the Dressage

Dressage? Is that the name of the song?

@@norukamo it's the sport

@@0Clewi0 oh, and when the "swimmer" was posing

Well said!

Oh you got a reply

Ayye boiii reply from Olympic Itself

Brilliant? I have seen better

@@bramvanarendonk2460 there's no harm in appreciating someone without being petty

This should become an Olympic sport.

Originally it was going to be a team of 50 doing one each but of course with the current surge they had to limit it to a couple instead

@@danwong2191 If that’s true, that’s the best unintended consequence ever because this was infinitely cooler!

@@danwong2191 *trio

@@wikiuser92 they should really make an official non-physical olympics for stuff like arts, digital arts (modeling, music production, movie creation, coding, game creation, etc.), and heck it even gaming.

Mistakes happen. The fact that the whole thing could be done is an an accomplishment and you should be proud. Don’t let one small mistake take away from how well the whole thing was done

こんなんでそれならリオの東京セレモニーみたら飛んでもねえだろうな 電通は反日企業

きれいなCGを見るのも好きだけどこういった古臭い感じも好き

こういうアナログな感じがいいんだよね

3:20 ここでミスが逆にえ？え？って誘う形になったからむしろ良かった

バ ド ミントンです涙

Nah it didn't save it, but it was the best part.

Drones?

This and Globe of Drones.

for real

Here in Canada the CBC decided this was the perfect time to cut to commercials; I only knew this existed because my wife is Japanese and she was waiting for this. And they showed literally 5 seconds of the drones.

The pictograms made their debut at the 1964 Tokyo Olympic games.

And that’s what spawned pictograms being used all over the world, that’s where the 🚻🚮 originated from

@@bibianaguadalupeislasherre9880 well this form of show is still a very japenese thing

unfortunately, this is the only Japanese part of the opening ceremony. everything else was random, what a waste of money. all dentsu's fault.

japanese are very respectful people, not making the opening ceremy a full japan show shows that they are considerate of everyone's culture and don't have to prove that their culture is the only one in the world that matters

美しい。。順位は違うけどオリンピックに参加した選手たちの汗、努力は平等だという意味か

全ての選手の努力や活力には、平等の輝きや魅力があって素敵だと思います。 それから、その選手の方々を身体を張って表現してくれてくださったピクトグラムの人にも感謝しています。

I almost felt like crying while watching this again, I thought it was just me. 😭 You can see how much effort they put into this, they did so well!! ❤❤❤

I almost cried as well haha@@catlh

@@catlh me too XD

Pissing?

The concept behind this Pictogram Performance is based on a long-time Japanese variety show. An echo to their pop culture, as well as adding some much-needed fun in this simplified opening ceremony. Genius.

Hello, Beijing...

@@sarahy4553 "Pissing contest" is an English phrase referring to a pointless contest over something trivial.

@@sleepysalsw JAPANESE MASQUERADE SHOW!!!!!

It's awesome isn't it?

@@Olympics yes ❤️❤️ I'm from srilanka 🇱🇰😌

@@Olympics yes it's awesome

@@Olympics Absolutely🤩💯👌🏼

Awsome performance uffff what a speedy performance… Big Applause to the entire team and Japan…. ♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️

I just found out that the signs for male and female restrooms were apparently introduced at the 1964 Olympics to give foreigners a better time. Weird how something so ubiquitous can be so..... New.

Not just that, the 1964 Tōkyō Olympics introduice the world to the very idea of simple universal extra-linguistic public communication AKA pictogramme. Before that, it was more complex or textual, so not foreign friendly.

@@HenningGu not to mention that the Japanese were also the first to introduce emojis to the rest of the world. Japan has an amazing history of introducing pictograms into the world

This is so AWESOME ! :o

I genuinely think Japan is a gift to the world. They have just so many interesting and innovative contributions to the world. Not just in the Olympics but in general.

@@imnotsure9156 haters will never understand meaning of creativity

@@imnotsure9156 it was fun , you like spoiling everyone's fun , dont'cha ?

@@imnotsure9156 bruh , you need to remember that this is being held in these tough circumstances , plus this was very creative , idk what creativity in your sense means

@@ashiskumardas808 have u seen EMOJI challenge by tik tokers…. This is nothing less than that Nothing special…. Let’s accept it,Tokyo 2020 is £ucked up and people lost interest in hosting it

@@iyyappandhanasekaran1432 you are comparing tiktok emoji challenge with Olympics 🤦‍♂️ By the way Tiktok is banned in my country

2:08

@ley そのお遊戯を見るために公式チャンネルまで来てるあなた

@IGS せめて仮装大賞ぐらいにしようぜ さすがにお遊戯会じゃあ的外れすぎて煽りとしても幼稚園レベルや

電通のせいだろマジで恥

3:20　そのミスのおかげでここでえっえってなったw Tシャツにピクトグラムの模様がある演出は鳥肌だわ

いい意味で？

@@takumich2378 両方

@@user-do3yu9hk7q 難しいな(´ω`)

両方で草 わかるわ

これって逆再生？

@いも次郎 可哀想な奴

日本らしくて良いよね

バトミントンのラケット落としちゃうとことか人間味あってほんとに素晴らしいです。

失敗しても即座に持ち直す。 ガーマルチョバのこれまでの芸歴と、そしてこの本番までにどれだけ練習と試行錯誤を繰り返したかが伺えます。 このピクトグラムパフォーマンスパートだけは誰はばかることなく絶賛できます。

開会式で唯一素晴らしいと思いました 一般人の俺が言えることではないかもやけど165億かけてあの内容は国民として恥ずかしかったですね😅

3:01 のフェンシングで白が青の頭ｷｭｯって持ってるのすこ

@@rupia1x 同じく悔しいです。 実際には開会式に使われたのではなく、 電通が中抜きしたようなので、 オリパラ終了後でも使途を追求しないといけませんね。

I read this as spreading event

Actually it funny .

wuhan virus be like :: Am i joke for you ??

Anyway Tokyo Olympics is the most watched live Sport

But there are audience in the background

I got scared

If they had performed with no mistake, wouldn't we have recognized it such an easy ones? The mistake showed us they were doing far beyond their best.

Can't remember the last time I had that much second hand embarrassment and anxiety for someone else's performance haha

@@dropit7694 true

That was an impressive catch up to get back in time with the music

진정한 일본을 보여준 퍼포먼스..

Olympics' branding was my best source to learn about visual branding in graphic design. Second best was looking up brand guidelines of companies, but the guidelines of Olympics are always the best study because (1) It shows how the whole spectrum of design is applied: iconography, imagery, typography, architecture, down to character creation for mascots, etc. (2) Every Olympic branding is actually a marriage of two identities : the Olympic branding itself (the legacy 5 colored circles), with the identity of the host city (and don't get me started on how hard it is to build an identity of a city: especially if it has less specific identity - for example it would be harder to visually convey Vancouver as opposed to Rio). (3) As it is happening periodically, you can sort of see how design develops over time and compare one to another.

@@marllram Yes and yes indeed. Even going through brand manuals can tell stories behind each branding of the Games.

It's a clever performance to honor the original artist/s who started the trend of pictograms in the olympics (Tokyo 1964) which seems to have just kick started the use of pictograms for different purposes (accessbility, easy understanding, and more).

Check out Linus Boman's channel, he made a video about this miniature masterpieces :)

Pictographs have been ingrained into modern Olympic for public to easily navigate around facilities. We can thank Japan for first implementing them

Very original, I loved it

結局開会式でまともだったのこれだけでしたね…。なだぎ武のやつとか、世界の人はどう思われたんでしょうか…。

これ今日、学校で見たw

10億の作品よ笑

練習頑張れば高校生でも出来るレベルw

@@okichan4お前もな

電通のせいだろマジで恥

まあ、電通の数少ない功績の一つだと思いますけどね

開会式はゴミだった

@@daihuku494 同じコメントをコピペしまくるのって楽しい？

こばけん😢

Yes!☺

thanks, I was lost in the name of the song

And the soundtrack was awesome.　Agree...it was my favorite part of the whole Opening Ceremony of this Tokyo Olympics.

i would like, but the count is at 696

わかる… どこのテレビも開会式の映像を流さないのはこう言う気持ちになるからだろうね

@@user-lf7nw7us6q映像の権利的なところもあるんだろうけど、それにしても、ね…

Lol same, i just remembered that I am craving for this one

Same

It was absolutely brilliant idea and one of the best moment of TOKYO2020!

I'm not sure why the description says "41 sports" when there were 50 pictograms.

probably bez 9 of them are pre-recorded (like the wrestling)? @@SerAbiotico

why was it so important?

@@Hassan-zw9tb it was the first time pictograms like these were used in such a big event and it popularized their use. The 1964 Olympics are basically the reason you have bathroom signs in public places now

@@Hassan-zw9tb In 1964 the Japanese committee was afraid for the public outside the country doesn't understand what was happening during the Olympics if they use only the japanese alphabet, so the pictograms are a tool to help everyone

Emoji country

素晴らしい日本🗾

金メダルあげよ()

本当に凄かたよね！

ピクトグラムの3人には金メダルやな

開会式基本酷すぎたけどMISIAの国家とピクトグラムは普通に凄かった

Yep, this was the crowd pleaser! It is such a shame indeed. Oh, well. This is why I kinda wish they would have waited one more year as I heard some people talk about they should've.

@@sion8 some of the current athletes would have their career "expired" if they keep postponing it

@@nickryan6787 Well, I know people have a limited time (which depends on the sport) to be an Olympian. However, I think many, if not most would have preferred stadiums full of people watching them do their thing. Also, not to mention it would probably be safer give that I'm sure even more people would be vaccinated, this allowing for crowds (or at least a small number of them) to be in the audience.🤷‍♂️

@@sion8 it wasn't really about the athletes iirc the IOC were pressured to host it by a lot of country's Olympics committees Tbh im sure Japan didn't want to host it

@@nickryan6787 Who would risk it?! I haven't heard anything of that sort, do you have any sources on that?

うまる ㅎㅎ

I completely concur!

I hope they weren't too criticized for that! I was thinking about it and I hope they know it was great still.

@@moramorandobianchi7093 So do I!!!

It's also a traditional aesthetic in Japan to accept the imperfections (and transience). It's called "Wabi-sabi" (侘び寂び), I think.

@@edwardlau892 Yes! I have been reading up on the concept. Very interesting.

4:58 I love this moment! 😁

「Whiteさんの手がBlueさんの脇をすり抜ける瞬間」気づいてなかったー！すごい！細かい！ ありがとうございます！

@@NTNZW そうなんですよー😲 Whiteさんがなんで寄り添うようにあの位置に居るのかなぁ～とよくよく見てみたらそういう事か!!!と気付けました(^^)

これはいい発見ですね！ 僕も気づきませんでしたw

私も全然気が付いていなかった。発見ありがとう。このプレゼンテーション、すごい!

バスケットゴールさんが猫耳みたいになってて可愛い（笑）

인정합니다🎉

that is cool i guess from japan

madre mia shadoune

yeah it was amazing in person

Ola chadun

I watched it on tv and loved it

And the brilliant soundtrack also.

DEFILE????

@@uberlephrad8218 Lol, watching all the athletes take a massive dump publicly on the Final Fantasy victory theme would’ve been something! OP means the parade of the athletes in the stadium.

You gotta love the tweet from the Nier series' composer be like "Bruh do you even know what the Nier games are about"

So what happened the athletes disliked the video games osts? Lol

*+*

London was better imo.

@@iitzfizz He said the best part not the ‘best’

Except for this, nothing was great.

@@kiwe108 日本人ですがそれには同意します。 韓国の冬季オリンピックの開会式と同じくらい酷いものでした。

It was best opening ever