History WebVideo / KiwamiJapan

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* NoodleImplements: In several videos, a hand massager (commonly mistaken for a vibrator by commenters) is used during the construction process; in the Paper Knife video, it's used to shake out cellulose fibres from a mix of rice and paper (until Kiwami decides this is too slow, and uses a [[UpToEleven waterfall]] and aluminium oxide balls to grind the mixture for over a week), while in the Milk Knife video it's used to remove air bubbles from the resin mixture being used to make the knife's handle.

* KnifeNut: His main content consists of making knives out of increasingly improbable materials, and he usually ends his videos with clips of him getting rid of the forged knife through creative means, sometimes seeping into what a SerialKiller would do.

* ComplexityAddiction: Kiwami is prone to devising overly complicated solutions to obstacles he encounters during the knife-making process, such as making a vacuum-sealer from scratch - twice, because the first one didn't hold - or making a knife all over again if it isn't as effective as he'd hoped.

** There's also the fact that he tends to create his knife ingredients from scratch instead of using store-bought ones. The candy for his candy knife is made from ''sugar cane'', and for the water and oil knife, he extracts the oil from flaxeeds using a tiny container that produces about 5 drops of oil per batch.
** His second (or third, if you count the guillotine) chocolate knife has a chocolate bar pattern. To get this shape, he 3D prints three chocolate bar-shaped slabs and coat them in UV resin to get a glossy finish. Then, he puts it on clay and constructs a lego wall to make a silicone mould out of it, which he then uses to mould the chocolate.

* MacGyvering: Despite having a wide variety of fancy tools in his house, Kiwami frequently builds his own machinery from unconventional stuffs.

* OverlyNarrowSuperlative: Sure, it probably is the sharpest rice/smoke/gelatin/chicken bone kitchen knife in the world, if only because it's the only one of its kind. Of all the "sharpest ______ kitchen knives" he's made, only the carbon fiber knife is likely to have any meaningful competition.

** The bismuth knife. After a painstaking amount of time creating it, the [[AwesomeButImpractical jagged and uncomfortable surface of the handle]] causes Kiwami to only use it for ''less than 30 seconds'', only measly chopping the cucumber in half, before giving up and smelting it down into a multicoloured metal block again.

* RunningGag: Cucumbers. Several knife-making video ends with him cutting one, and each time it's acquired in a more bizarre fashion, from finding one hanging on his window blinds, to grabbing one out of a lamp fixture, to finding one balancing perfectly on his under-sink shutoff valve, to grabbing one hidden in a roll of toilet paper, to walking through a forested path to have one airdropped to him, [[ItMakesSenseInContext squeezing one out of a tube made of fake egg]], to finding one ''inside of both an orange and a bread roll''. And, of course, he eventually makes a knife out of the cucumber itself.

** The bismuth knife. After a painstaking amount of time creating it, the [[AwesomeButImpractical jaggedness and irritation of the handle]] causes Kiwami to only use it for ''less than 30 seconds'', only measly chopping the cucumber in half, before giving up and smelting it down into a multicoloured metal block again.

Due to its unusual, often humorous content and lack of spoken dialogue, Kiwami Japan has garnered a following from all over the world. Its videos are all watchable independently of one another, but will often have shout-outs to previous uploads and continuity updates for those who have been watching in chronological order.

* SomethingCompletelyDifferent: Not only does the potato knife video have music playing for the majority of it, [[MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext but]] the video's subplot concerns the tiny bear statue being possessed by a demon, forcing Kiwami to keep trying out ways of placating it so he can continue the video, ultimately resulting in him [[MacGyvering trapping the bear in a box, sealing the box in a tube of several tape rolls, and putting the tube on a perpetual rolling device he had fashioned, complete with brushes to rub against it]].

* EverythingsBetterWithCows
** The cow-shaped pitchers used in his videos.
** The knife made out of milk has a handle with a cow motif, with a pommel cast from one of his cow-shaped pitchers.

* SomethingCompletelyDifferent: Not only does the potato knife video have music playing for the majority of it, [[MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext but]] the video's subplot concerns the tiny bear statue being possessed by a demon, forcing Kiwami to keep trying out ways of placating it so he can continue the video, ultimately resulting in him [[MacGyvering trapping the bear in a box, sealing the box in a tube of several tape rolls, and putting the tube on a perpetual rolling device he had fashioned, complete with brushes to rub against it]].

** Taken UpToEleven with his milk knife; the construction of the knife itself, having the dissolved remains of the mixture of milk, acetic acid, and ethanol be cooked down to a solid form seems simple enough, but the construction of the ''pommel'', on the other hand, involved no less than '''''three''''' uses of a vacuum chamber to create a pommel mold after making ''separate'' molds out of the head of Kiwami's signature cow pitcher, then one from an actual knife's pommel to attach the cow head, and ''then'' finally the rubber pommel out of the previous two molds.

* MacGyvering:

** While we don't actually see it happen, the ending of the rice knife video implies this due to it ending on Kiwami putting it into a steamer.

* JackOfAllTrades: His unique content requires a broad range of skills, including cooking, science, engineering and smithing to even accomplish, but his videos often segue to clips of him doing unrelated things such as doing one-handed push-ups and latte art, which he also performs very well.

* MacGyvering: In the [[https://youtu.be/MFCNUvFEVFY Sharpest egg kitchen knife in the world video]], he uses a hand massager, a balloon, and sandpaper to make an electric grindstone for the blade.

* AluminiumChristmasTrees: The biggest draw of his content is the extensive knowledge of chemistry needed to turn materials that are otherwise unfit for making sharp blades into ones that can certainly qualify for the sharpest knife made out of those materials. While the uninitiated are baffled by the process or outright think it's magic, astute viewers with scientific knowledge will point out that every step he does is justified, barring the zany segments of ComplexityAddiction.

** The bismuth knife. After a painstaking amount of time creating it, the [[RealityEnsues jaggedness and irritation of the handle]] causes Kiwami to only use it for ''less than 30 seconds'', only measly chopping the cucumber in half, before giving up and smelting it down into a multicoloured metal block again.

''圧倒的不審者の極み!''[[note]]''Attōteki fushin-sha no kiwami'', lit. "Extremely overwhelmingly-suspicious person"[[/note]], known as ''Kiwami Japan'' to its English-speaking fans, is a Japanese Website/YouTube channel about knives. It is best known for its "Sharpest ____ kitchen knife in the world" videos, which consist of the owner, Kiwami Kouba, making professional-grade kitchen knives out of increasingly bizarre materials.

* KnifeNut: [[CaptainObvious It should go without saying]].

''圧倒的不審者の極み!''[[note]]''Attōteki fushin-sha no kiwami'', lit. "Extremely overwhelmingly-suspicious person"[[/note]], known as ''Kiwami Japan'' to its English-speaking fans, is a Japanese Website/YouTube channel about knives. It is best known for its "Sharpest ____ kitchen knife in the world" videos, which consist of the owner, Kiwami Kouba, making professional-grade kitchen knives out of increasingly bizarre materials.

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* ShoutOut: At the end of his [[https://youtu.be/MFCNUvFEVFY Sharpest egg kitchen knife in the world video]] Kiwi does a thumb up gesture, much like another [[WebVideo/HowToBasic silent YouTuber who's known for his obsession with eggs and a habit of ending his videos with a thumb up]].

* RunningGag: Cucumbers. Several knife-making video ends with him cutting one, and each time it's acquired in a more bizarre fashion, from finding one hanging on his window blinds, to grabbing one out of a lamp fixture, to finding one balancing perfectly on his under-sink shutoff valve, to grabbing one hidden in a roll of toilet paper, to walking through a forested path to have one airdropped to him, [[ItMakesSenseInContext squeezing one out of a tube made of fake egg]], to finding one ''inside of both an orange and a bread roll''.

* ShoutOut: At the end of his [[https://youtu.be/MFCNUvFEVFY Sharpest egg kitchen knife in the world video]] Kiwi does a thumb up gesture, much like another [[WebVideo/HowToBasic silent YouTuber who's known for his obsession with eggs]].

** Taken UpToEleven with his milk knife; the construction of the knife itself, having the dissolved remains of the mixture of milk, acetic acid, and ethanol be cooked down to a solid form seems simple enough, but the construction of the ''pommel'', on the other hand, involved no less than '''''three''''' uses of a vaccuum chamber to create a pommel mold after making ''separate'' molds out of the head of Kiwami's signature cow pitcher, then one from an actual knife's pommel to attach the cow head, and ''then'' finally the rubber pommel out of the previous two molds.

* RunningGag: Cucumbers. Several knife-making video ends with him cutting one, and each time it's acquired in a more bizarre fashion, to finding one hanging on his window blinds, to grabbing one out of a lamp fixture, to finding one balancing perfectly on his under-sink shutoff valve, to grabbing one hidden in a roll of toilet paper, to walking through a forested path to have one airdropped to him, [[ItMakesSenseInContext squeezing one out of a tube made of fake egg]], to finding one ''inside of both an orange and a bread roll''.
* ShaggyDogStory: The bismuth knife. After a painstaking amount of time creating it, the [[RealityEnsues jaggedness and irritation of the handle]] causes Kiwami to only use it for ''less than 30 seconds'', only measly chopping the cucumber in half, before giving up and smelting it down into a multicoloured metal block again.