[YouTube Video Critique] Taking a Serious Look at the Life of 'Bakibaki Dotei': Childhood Edition
Introduction
Now, I wonder if you note users are familiar with this term.
"Bakibaki Dotei" (Rock-hard Virgin)
On "Abema News," a certain man was selected for a street interview regarding the issue of "the recent increase in people who have never had sexual intercourse with the opposite sex."
As you can tell from that famous meme image, "person who has never had sexual intercourse with the opposite sex" was intentionally added as a caption during editing, and the sight of him calling himself "Bakibaki Dotei" was brilliantly broadcast nationwide.
Even now, six years after it was broadcast in 2019, this term "Bakibaki Dotei" cannot be converted by input methods. So, I am writing this article by typing "Bakibaki" and then "Dotei" separately.
With that background, he spread nationwide as an internet meme, and then he started YouTube.
The channel name is "Baki-Do Channel [Gunpi]".
It is a collection of things that he himself produced with the theme of "Who would watch a video like this?".
I will watch and critique the videos produced with such themes in all seriousness. That is what I am going to do.
The video I will critique this time is "[Serious] Bakibaki Dotei, Looking Back on My Entire Life [Culmination]".
Thankfully, this video is divided into chapters.
It is too funny, so I definitely want you to watch it. I have posted the video URL above.
1. Childhood
When you hear the word internet meme, many people might think it is just a single image that is funny, but he is different. He is funny from birth.
In the first place, it is amazing that he has an episode to talk about from his very birth.
An episode talk is something where you talk about past events or today's events in a funny way, but even if you were told to talk about things from the moment you gained consciousness, you could never do it.
That is, of course, because you lack the ability to talk. That is not all; since you have not even studied reading and writing, it should not be recorded as an episode.
But he can do it. That is why he is amazing.
His general childhood episodes are as follows.
That he was born on March 31st.
That his mother felt sorry for him and tried to hold it back.
In the middle of that, 'My Neighbor Totoro' was being broadcast, and just as his mother was thinking, 'I wonder if a cute child like Satsuki or Mei will be born,' Gunpi was born, leading to the story that 'a Totoro was born.'
That he basically spent five years as a loser.
That his father was a violent man like Ittetsu Hoshi.
Those who noticed might have noticed. Earlier, I praised his memory and his ability to turn it into a complete story. If you were listening, this is that episode.
The episodes from his childhood are too intense. And, they are too funny.
We viewers started off with bursts of laughter, but we must not let our guard down. Stories like this flow into our ears for an hour straight. When I first watched this video, I kept laughing too.
Now, let's look at each of these episodes.
Birth
Actually, it might seem like a trivial thing, but I think it might have been a hint of something.
That "something" is the contrast between “a man who was born quite late in the year” and “a man who graduated from virginity quite late.” Some of you might have thought, “Wait, isn't he not a virgin?” Gunpy currently has a girlfriend (as of May 24, 2026). And he has posted a video mentioning that he has graduated from it himself.
Of course, this is just hindsight. But this episode feels like the resolution of some foreshadowing.
“My birthday was late. And I tried to resist it, but I was born late after all. Moreover, someone like Totoro was born.” and “I was named ‘Baki-Baki Dotei’ (Cracking Virgin), and my graduation is much later than those around me. And although I tried to resist it, it was a late graduation after all. Moreover, I ended up defecating.”
When I write it down, it miraculously becomes a contrast. Just looking at this one episode makes me think there is something about him.
Overwhelming word sense
And, that he basically spent five years as a loser.
First, when you want to convey that intention to someone, you would normally say it like this:
“I was a loner since I was a baby.” or “Now that I think about it, it was from that time.” If you say this, the fact that he was already exuding the aura of a loner from childhood is conveyed to the other person.
But he didn't do that.
He formed a comedy duo called “Haru to Hikoki.” His position is the boke (funny man). In this video, his boke ability is proven. As his boke ability, overwhelming word sense can be cited.
As proof of that, he called himself “Baki-Baki Dotei” in a street interview, overwhelming the internet users in Japan.
That kind of ability is being demonstrated in the beginning of this video as well.
“Basically, I will spend five years as a loser.”
“Basically” and “in terms of,” after lining up difficult words like these, he places a familiar word like “as a loser.” Once you hear words like this, you won't be able to stop laughing for about 10 seconds.
And this statement later passes the baton to Tsuchioka's brilliant retort.
“Elite training for a loser!?”
As you can see from this retort, it is not just Gunpy who possesses the ability to “choose interesting words.” His partner and the one in charge of retorts, Tetsuro Tsuchioka, also possesses this ability.
“Loser” and “elite training” are words that should never be placed together. Yet, they managed to do it.
This is similar to connecting “Baki-Baki” and “virgin”, words that at first glance would never be placed side by side.
From these things, we can see that “Haru to Hikoki” as a duo, not just one or the other, possesses the “ability to choose interesting words.”
A Totoro who can empathize with people
Finally, the fact that his father was a violent old man like Ittetsu Hoshi.
As the person writing this, I myself have had similar experiences.
My father held the belief that “If you can't understand through words, you have to be made to understand through hitting.” (You have to be made to understand through pain.) I think that is a truly Showa-era way of thinking. And that makes sense, because my father was born in the Showa era. It is understandable that he would have that kind of mindset.
Currently, there are times when I find myself accepting that it was done as “discipline.”
This is because when I look at the classmates around me and various other people, there are moments when I think, “Isn't that impulsivity and irresponsibility related to not having been scolded strictly?”
And before I know it, my thoughts begin to erode with, “So, in the end, wasn't hitting them the right thing to do?”
These kinds of thoughts make me envision “myself as a father who educates by hitting his children” in the future.
That is precisely why I watched that part of this video with a somewhat serious gaze.
Also, he has consistently made statements like this in his videos up until now.
“Someday, I will never forgive you.” (He has moved past it now.)
He also harbors hatred and feelings of unforgiveness. However, in this video, he explains it while laughing and making it funny.
As someone who has also had violence used on them as “education,” I could not understand how he could do that. There must have been considerable pressure and pain. He must have been directing negative emotions from the bottom of his heart. He must have been directing them at the back of his father as he finished hitting him and walked away.
A person who had experienced violence, regardless of whether the purpose was abuse or discipline, and had fallen into this kind of thinking, once threw a life consultation at him.
It's life advice for a virgin.
Reading his response to that question, I understood.
"This is how he views himself and violence."
He did not view the thing called "violence" within him as an innate personality trait. He did not view himself as "a man who would eventually commit domestic violence." as a given.
"Perhaps because we are in similar circumstances, I think I understand to some extent.
First of all, the expression 'it's in the blood' is occult. The consistency of behavior and personality with one's parents is not innate. Thinking of it as something you are born with becomes a curse. Isn't the reality that because you grew up watching your father's bad behavior, options like 'hitting' and 'rampaging' simply 'exist in your brain'?
I was quite surprised when a friend who had never been subjected to violence by their parents said, 'I've never even thought about raising a hand against a child.' Having received the Showa-era, Hoshi Ittetsu-style beating education, I do possess the option of 'hitting.' Of course, I don't hit, I will absolutely never hit. But when I get incredibly angry, 'hitting' crosses my mind. The 'hit' command appears. This is one reason why people who grew up with domestic violence tend to commit domestic violence against their own children.
People like this need to make an effort not to choose the bad command every time they get angry. It's a process that people who don't have the 'hit' command to begin with don't have to go through. If this continues, you start to think that you are a person with higher violent tendencies than the average person. But that's not true. You also possess the kindness and calmness to avoid the 'hit' command.
Violent tendencies and destructive desires are acquired. That's why I believe you can absolutely control them. At this moment, as you say, you might have destructive desires, but you aren't thinking about blowing people up with a cannon or shredding them with a kitchen knife, right? Violent tendencies are not originally part of your nature. You just learned 'hit,' 'rampage,' and 'act irritable' like a TM (Technical Machine). I'd like to forget them and learn something like 'Water Gun' instead. It's quite difficult, though. When I get incredibly angry, I try to go to sleep early. I usually forget by the time I wake up. I learned 'Sleep.'
Also, I watch works like The Godfather or Donketsu, where people are rampaging as they please, and it makes me feel refreshed."
Reading this article, I was truly moved. Thinking those kinds of thoughts within myself is nothing more than a "command" acquired from my upbringing environment.
It's like an RPG game where the character or skills you choose at the beginning impose some limitations until a certain point in the story.
From the response to this life advice, one can see a kind heart that can empathize with others.
His "ability to choose interesting words" does not stop at the world of "comedy", where you say funny things to get a laugh. It is also utilized in the kindness of empathizing with others.
Making people laugh, organizing his own wounds, and even reaching out to help others with their troubles. The essence of Gunpi is not his "ability to choose interesting words."
It is a choice of words in a much broader sense.
The ability to convert the vague emotions and thoughts that people harbor into words—this is his essential ability.
At the very least, I have been saved by his ability to verbalize, and I am laughing because of his ability to verbalize.
There might be people in the world who see him as a "monster" who is fat, gross, and sometimes lets out strange screams, as he spreads as a net meme and is consumed on the internet.
The "cute child like Satsuki or Mei" that his mother wished for may not have been born. However, a "Totoro" who makes people laugh and stays close to them was certainly born.
Isn't he, in every sense, Totoro?