History Creator / GaijinGoombah

Gaijin Goombah (real name Michael Sundman, born September 5, 1984) is an ex-English teacher turned video game analyst who focuses on culture, especially (but not exclusively) Japanese culture. His main show is ''Game Exchange'', though he also does Gaijin Gamers Play, GG IRL, and Goombah Rage, ''Which Ninja'', and ''Yokai Hunters'' (originally titled ''Yokai Watchers'', but was changed to avoid confusion with [[VideoGame/YokaiWatch the game series of similar name]]), and his videos appear both on his own Website/YouTube channel -- [[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCxNcCtPqqGIMEDwDACPVoHg Gaijin Goomba Media]] -- and on the [[WebVideo/GameTheory Game Theorists]] channel. He recently began a more personal channel about his experiences with Japanese culture and his opinions on his time there called ''Gaijin Perspective''.

* BoobBasedGag: Aki the goomba has a huge bust that has been the subject of jokes on occasion, often invoked by Aki herself who happily admits she also has these in real life.

* NotMakingThisUpDisclaimer: Goombah initially thinks Gaijin is making a joke when he announces that the nest ninja to be judged is the Spy from ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2''. It takes some reassurance, but they do show there is more ninja in Spy than someone might expect.

* GagBoobs: Aki the goomba has a huge bust that has been the subject of jokes on occasion, often invoked by Aki herself who happily admits she also has these in real life.

* WeaponOfChoice: His Goombah avatar is armed with a ninjatou with a tsuba shaped like a D-pad, called the Pixel Cutter.

* SignatureMons: At least in Videogame/PokemonGo, Exeggutor. His Goombah avatar, meanwhile is armed with a ninjatou with a tsuba shaped like a D-pad, called the Pixel Cutter.

* WeaponOfChoice: At least in Videogame/PokemonGo, Exeggutor. His Goombah avatar, meanwhile is armed with a ninjatou with a tsuba shaped like a D-pad, called the Pixel Cutter.

* MinorlyMentionedMythsAndMonsters: Many of his videos center on obscure monsters from mythology, especially when he takes about Pokemon. One example is his video on Exeggutor where he talked about ''three'' different mythical trees that grow human heads to see which was most likely the inspiration behind exeggutor.

* CoolHat: His IRL self wears a brown skullcap with his logo on it.

Gaijin Goombah (real name Michael Sundman, born September 5, 1984) is an ex-English teacher turned video game analyst who focuses on culture, especially (but not exclusively) Japanese culture. His main show is ''Game Exchange'', though he also does Gaijin Gamers Play, GG IRL, and Goombah Rage, ''Which Ninja'', and ''Yokai Watchers'' (originally titled ''Yokai Hunters''), and his videos appear both on his own Website/YouTube channel -- [[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCxNcCtPqqGIMEDwDACPVoHg Gaijin Goomba Media]] -- and on the [[WebVideo/GameTheory Game Theorists]] channel. He recently began a more personal channel about his experiences with Japanese culture and his opinions on his time there called ''Gaijin Perspective''.

---

* DayInTheLimelight: Aki had her own short series called “Aki’s Pixel Pets” where she looked famous video game animals and saw how they compared to their real life inspirations.

* GagBoobs: Aki the goomba has a huge bust that has been the subject of jokes on occasion. Aki is also happily to admit she has these in real life.

* RealitySubtext: The reason Aki Terra the goomba has large breasts is because her real life counterpart has large breasts.

-->'''Gaijin Goombah: ''' Like I said Logan. If you want to make your distracks, fine. You want to manipulate the Website/YouTube system, fine. But you have some goddamn respect for yourself, for Japan and for the dead. What you did was inexcusable.

* SarcasmMode: Gaijin is often sarcastic, but if he does, it's usually PlayedForDrama.

* TranquilFury: He made a vlog where he calmly and furiously deconstructed Logan Paul's controversial video where he recorded a [[LastDisrespects corpse of a suicide victim]] and showed his overall inappropriate behavior in Japan. He states that Logan might have just ruined the lives of a lot of [[NiceJobBreakingItHero foreigners visiting Japan or living in Japan]] by promoting the boorish stereotype that all Americans [[{{Eagleland}} are all self-centred jerks who have no respect for other cultures.]] Gaijin makes a point of how it took ''17'' years to earn the smallest amount of respect in Japan and how he had to endure severe isolation during this time.

* DarknessInducedAudienceApathy: [[invoked]] He explains during his review of ''VideoGame/{{Undertale}}'' that this is why he tends to avoid AAA games.
-->"One of the big reasons I tend to stay away from triple-A games is their dark, gritty, and hopeless nature. These games are constantly showing you just how worthless, evil, and monstrous humanity can be, and in many circumstances, there's no hope for them, or even you. There's simply the somber and sobering story of 'life is cruel, then you die'."

* WeaponOfChoice: At least in Videogame/PokemonGo, Exeggutor. His Goombah avatar, meanwhile is armed with a ninjatou with a tsuba shaped like a D-pad, called the Pixel Cutter.

Gaijin Goombah (real name Michael Sundman, born September 5, 1984) is an ex-english teacher turned video game analyst who focuses on culture, especially (but not exclusively) Japanese culture. His main show is ''Game Exchange'', though he also does Gaijin Gamers Play, GG IRL, and Goombah Rage, ''Which Ninja'', and ''Yokai Watchers'' (originally titled ''Yokai Hunters''), and his videos appear both on his own Website/YouTube channel -- [[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCxNcCtPqqGIMEDwDACPVoHg Gaijin Goomba Media]] -- and on the [[WebVideo/GameTheory Game Theorists]] channel. He recently began a more personal channel about his experiences with Japanese culture and his opinions on his time there called ''Gaijin Perspective''.

* BerserkButton: A strange one initially, but he noted just how distracting and infuriating {{Engrish}} in anime had become for him after watching ''Anime/JapanSinks'', a show he otherwise very much enjoyed, because it reminded him of just how hard it was to impart on kids at his one of his schools just how important being multilingual is, and how far he feels the education system in Japan has to go in promoting it.

Gaijin Goombah (real name Michael Sundman, born September 5, 1984) is a video game analyst who focuses on culture, especially (but not exclusively) Japanese culture. His main show is ''Game Exchange'', though he also does Gaijin Gamers Play, GG IRL, and Goombah Rage, ''Which Ninja'', and ''Yokai Watchers'' (originally titled ''Yokai Hunters''), and his videos appear both on his own Website/YouTube channel -- [[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCxNcCtPqqGIMEDwDACPVoHg Gaijin Goomba Media]] -- and on the [[WebVideo/GameTheory Game Theorists]] channel.

Originally, he appeared as a cartoon [[Franchise/SuperMarioBros Goomba]] (though keeping his glasses and beard) with his voice altered. He then split himself between his real-life self and his mascot version, especially as he started collaborating more with ''Creator/TeamFourStar'', culminating in their creation of a channel focused primarily on anime coverage, ''Four Star Bento''.

* AuthorAppeal: Ninja, to the point where he even created a show called ''Which Ninja'', a show that specifically analyzes certain fictional ninja to see how accurate their ninja traits are.

* DarkIsEvil: Gaijin's former adversaries in his earlier videos, the Fuman. A group of black-clad figures who actively and maliciously spread misinformation and slander to sow ignorance in the masses regarding culture.

** In '''''Yokai Hunters''''', the SummoningRitual animation is far more detailed than the basic stills used for Gaijin normally.

* {{Yokai}}: The focus of his '''''Yokai Hunters''''' series. Like '''''Which Ninja''''', it focuses on a video game or anime portrayal of {{Yokai}} and shows how accurate or inaccurate it is to the original folk lore.

* AuthorAppeal: Ninja, to the point where he even created a show called '''''Which Ninja''''', a show that specifically analyzes certain fictional ninja to see how accurate their ninja traits are.

* {{Nerdgasm}}[=/=]{{Squee}}: Almost any media that portrays Japan as a whole and ninja accurately with proper historical context. His livestream of ''VideoGame/GhostOfTsushima'' has him bouncing off the walls on the various details that Creator/SuckerPunch [[ShownTheirWork got right]], from architecture, items, cultural lore, to the more realistic historical details, ''especially'' the more ninja-like aspects of the gameplay.

* OnceAnEpisode: In '''''Yokai Hunters''''', Goombah will don his robes and perform a detailed SummoningRitual to call the episode's Yokai to them.

Gaijin Goombah (real name Michael Sundman, born September 5, 1984) is a video game analyst who focuses on culture, especially (but not exclusively) Japanese culture. His main show is Game Exchange, though he also does Gaijin Gamers Play, GG IRL, and Goombah Rage, and his videos appear both on his own Website/YouTube channel -- [[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCxNcCtPqqGIMEDwDACPVoHg Gaijin Goomba Media]] -- and on the [[WebVideo/GameTheory Game Theorists]] channel.

Gaijin Goombah (real name Michael Sundman, born September 5, 1984) is a video game analyst who focuses on culture, especially (but not exclusively) Japanese culture. His main show is Game Exchange, though he also does Gaijin Gamers Play, GG IRL, and Goombah Rage, and his videos appear both on his own Website/YouTube channel and on the Game Theorists channel.

* AnimationBump: In '''''Yokai Hunters''''', the SummoningRitual animation is far more detailed than the basic stills used for Gaijin normally.

* DarkIsEvil: Gaijin's former adversaries in his earlier videos, the Fuman. A group of black clad figures who actively and maliciously spread misinformation and slander to sow ignorance in the masses regarding culture.

* {{Nerdgasm}}[=/=]{{Squee}}: Almost any media that portrays Japan as a whole and ninja accurately with proper historical context. His livestream of ''VideoGame/GhostOfTsushima'' has him bouncing off the walls on the various details that Creator/SuckerPunch [[ShownTheirWork got right]], from architecture, items, cultural lore, to the more realistic historical details. Especially the more ninja-like aspects of the gameplay.