Lost Pause



""Come on, guys! Make everybody happy! That's what we're about at Lost Pause. Making people happy! ...And tits.""

- Noble, Sakura Santa Ep 7

Lost Pause is "a channel about playing video games and Noble being a big dummy." He typically plays anime games, including visual novels and JRPGs, with wacky humor and a load of tongue-in-cheek perversion. Noble also does Q&As and reaction videos to anime-related videos and abridged series. He often collaborates with fellow YouTubers such as The Anime Man, Einshine and Misty Chronexia. Lost Pause content is also uploaded on his second channel and his Twitch.

Noble's channel is getting more and more popular, having gained 500 000 subscribers in February 2016. Unfortunately, in the 29th of the month, Noble's channel received Community Guidelines strikes for some old, but "sexually suggestive" videos. The entire channel was then taken down three days later in March 3, 2016. Noble didn't give up after the tragedy and kept uploading videos on Lost Pause 2, which gained 110 000 subscribers in one week. Finally, in March 7, 4 days after the termination, the main channel was restored. Noble (and the fandom) rejoiced.

""How do people even "YouTube" anymore? How do they even get started on this platform, when you're scaring your creators away?!""
 * All for Nothing: Noble remarks with this when his trip with the Perverted Professor to get Panmon goes nowhere in PokePanties.
 * In SAVE YOUR YOUTUBERS FROM YOUTUBE, the Feb 29 video, Noble says that he is getting stress over his channel, 2 years of hard work, that could get taken down in an instant.


 * It did.

"Noble: Once again guys, thank you so much for watching this video here. Leave a like for me if, you know, you like me... I'm on YouTube! I beg for attention! (giggles)"
 * Attention Whore: Played for Laughs and Parodied from time to time (like here):

""It's not a Lost Pause video without Nekos.""
 * Author Appeal: Nekos, foxgirls, cool battles, sexy harems... Noble loves many things about anime.


 * Noble just loves being called 'baka' by tsunderes.
 * He also loves it when girls "bop" or "bounce" in visual novels.
 * Flat or big, Noble loves all boobs.

"Noble: Oh good! You're so very good at lying! Very good cover. [...] Noble: Don't put me on the spot, girl. Chocola, you sold me out!"
 * Author Tract: His Feb 29 video. Justified, as the topic is very relevant to him.
 * Bad Liar: In NEKOPARA Vol. 2, when Chocola lies that master got a tummy ache:


 * Coconut unwittingly joins in, at Vanilla's insistence, and Noble sees right through her.

"Koji: (Thinking) I'll make sure that she has as much fun as she can tonight. Noble: Aww, yeah! We're gonna have plenty of fun! You know, like wrapping presents, maybe making cookies?"
 * Bait and Switch Comment: In part 15 of Sakura Santa:

"(Caption: It's only mild rape)"
 * Bellisario's Maxim: Played With. Noble applies "Don't question ANIME LOGIC!" to the channel.
 * He defies Fridge Logic by extension, but he can give some Headscratchers of his own.
 * Bowdlerise: Since getting his channel shut down, Noble is taking measures to avoid the same experience happening again, with stricter censorship on the naughty parts.
 * "Basically no more censored hentai stuff."
 * Black Comedy Rape: In Burokku Girls, Noble made fun of Dr. Candy's extremely predatory flirts to Takeshi, who is clearly not into it.

"Game: Yes, Rin is naked. Noble: (laughs) I'm glad we clarified that! Thank you, game. Game: I spect- Noble: (To the camera) Did any of you not notice?! (Caption: Raise hands now) (beat) Noble: Okay, that's what I thought!"
 * Call Back: In the 5 million views reaction video, Noble talks with an Ahnold accent, like in his previous Q&A.
 * Canon Immigrant: [[media:Lily-Fox-Mechanic-CG.jpg|Lily the Fox Mechanic]], given by Winged Cloud and named by Noble, based on his character idea.
 * Captain Obvious: Lampshaded a lot by Noble. One of his catchphrases is "Well, no shit!"
 * In Kagamine Rin Waifu Game

"Noble: Alright, I'm getting some Princess Evangile flashbacks here. (laughs)"
 * Catch Phrase:
 * "What's cracking, guys?
 * "Doy!"
 * "Clench those butts!" (and variations)
 * "Get that booty!"
 * "We don't judge here!"
 * "Got chips?"
 * "I'm bad!"
 * "Oh, no!"
 * "#AnimeLogic!"
 * "Put on the Man Pants!" (and variations)
 * "That girl's gonna rip my butt cheek!" (and variations)
 * "... Not complaining!"
 * "Noble Approved!"
 * "Stay Classy"
 * "SICK BURN"
 * "Get rekt!"
 * "Papa Noble", ever since an Ask Noble Senpai from March 2016.
 * "Swiggity Swooty"
 * "Helicopter! Helicopter!", as in the Urban Dictionary definition, and with the appropriate dance.
 * Noble exclaiming "Imagination!" whenever a scene with many people is described, with only an empty background image shown.
 * "Nice and Awkward!", whenever two characters are too embarrassed to talk.
 * "Dot Dot Dot..." when reading ellipses (usually with the Rule of Three).
 * ("Every time! My God, I can't escape those things.") (Ep 5 of Hatsune Miku Waifu Game)
 * "Well, no shit!"
 * "Laying on the smooth moves!" (and variations)
 * "Motivational Noble!" when going into a tongue-in-cheek motivational speech.
 * "You cockslap", when doing his Sean Connery impression.
 * "These girls are so thirsty!"
 * "I can read, guys!", when he struggles to read a sentence.
 * "Very Nice!" (and variations) when presented with the goods.
 * "BOOSTO!"
 * "And I hope to see you beautiful sons of guns again... next time."
 * "Stay Awesome!", his former closing catch phrase.
 * Continuity Nod: When Chocola kisses Kashou in NEKOPARA Vol. 2 Ep 11, Noble goes silent, then:

"Noble: "[Santa is] so innocent and pure," (evil shadows) so easy to corrupt."
 * Corpsing: His NEKOPARA Vol. 2 trailer reaction, while meant to be mock creepy, has him laughing and dreading his "acting" throughout all of it, occasionally giving his honest reaction to some aspects of the game.
 * The Corrupter: Played For Laughs in Sakura Santa:

"Oh hey, chief! What do these wires do- Oops! Looks like your stream is down. My bad! Te-heh!"
 * Cute Clumsy Girl In this Ask Noble Senpai, Noble mimics Lily and acts that way:


 * Lampshaded as Moe whenever Noble sees a girl in a game like that.

""Welcome back to Nekopara, where last time... we cleaned our nekos' ears out. Very, very sexually.""
 * Does This Remind You of Anything?: Whenever he comes across an example in his playthroughs, Noble will always Lampshade it.
 * In NEKOPARA Vol. 2 Ep 4:

"Kashou: Oh, and by the way, I've had something I've wanted to ask for a while now. Coconut: (with her mouth full) Huh? What is it? Noble: Yeah, what cup size you rock- (caffs in short laughter) No, no! God, that joke is so old! (Caption: OLD REFERENCES!)"
 * Discredited Meme: Played for laughs. In NEKOPARA Vol. 2 (ep 5), Noble (as Kashou) asks the infamous HuniePop question:

"Coconut: This... This is delicious! Your cooking is absolutely superb, Kashou-sama!! Noble: Glad you like it, girl! (laughs) That's not the only thing that Noble's got cooking. ..Um... I don't know where I was going with that. (laughs)"
 * Double Entendre:
 * In NEKOPARA Vol. 2 Ep 5:

"Noble: Hey Aki. Where are your parents? Aki: They found a new house. Noble: Ooookay..."
 * Dramatic Reading/MST:
 * Made Denser and Wackier in his reading of Nekogurui Minako-san in "PROBABLY THE MOST F*CKED UP NEKO MANGA EVER".
 * Noble read a story he wrote in first grade, a badly-written Unsound Effect-riddled battle between two spaceships. He found it incredibly embarrassing to read. It then became a meme in the fandom, with Noble even using some quotes from the work in other videos.
 * Noble and Akidearest, one of his friends, read Fluff, a Fanfic featuring the two in an awkwardly romantic situation, filled with Narm and lack of research. For example, Akidearest doesn't live in LA, and neither do Joey (The Anime Man), Misty Chronexia and Einshine, unlike what was described in the fanfic.

""Nobody's truly, like, super-unique as a YouTuber. Everything's been done before! (laughs)""
 * Everyone Has Standards: Noble was not okay with the Fine Bros. "React World" announcement and their apology video.
 * Excited Episode Title Many episodes, like MAXIMUM CATGIRL JIGGLE PHYSICS! (NEKOPARA), THEY'RE GONNA VIOLATE ME! (Time Tenshi) and THE WAIFUS ACCEPT MAIBIGBUTT! (Tokyo School Life).
 * Fan Nickname: Taco Boy, for Sakura Spirit.
 * "Hatsune Miku Waifu Game" and "Kagamine Rin Waifu Game", because the original titles are so confusing.
 * In Nekopara, "Boobie Squad", when referring to Coconut and Cinnamon together (for obvious reasons).
 * Follow the Leader: Noble argues on that point in this Q&A:


 * Noble says there was nobody playing visual novels on YouTube when he started, but cites PewDiePie, Game Grumps and Yogscast as influences. He also says he tries to get his humor "from various different sources" and from his own "weird" mind.

"Noble: Wait a minute. If you change time to make the time machine that never happened that changed time, what the fuck would happen?!"
 * Grandfather Paradox: Invoked in Time Tenshi Ep 18. Noble mentions a hypothetical situation as an argument against Chrontek's time travel experimentations: making it so that the time machine never happened.

"Rugmunch: You can't just study all the time though. Noble: You can't just play MMOs all the time, too. (looks left and right, laughs)"
 * Genre Savvy: Noble knows some lines in the games he plays before they're even displayed, and he reacts with laughter and glee most of the time.
 * In general, Noble knows his anime.
 * Good Bad Bugs: Exploited in NEKOPARA - Noble spams the Neko touch feature, playing with the glitching catgirl sounds.
 * Goodbye, Cruel World/Suicide as Comedy: Parodied in this Ask Noble Senpai. Overought by too many questions (#IGiveUpSenpai), Noble "offs" himself with a keyboard duster.
 * Hypocritical Humor: In Don't Die Dateless, Dummy!, Rugmunch laments his wasted time playing MMOs and decides to change his ways just in time for college. Later, when talking to a girl who studies a little too much:

"(footage from Attack on Titan) "don't worry... MIKASA ES SU CASA" Noble: (Looks up) Nnoooo! You did not make that joke."
 * Idiosyncratic Episode Naming: Each first episode of the NEKOPARA playthroughs have "MAXIMUM JIGGLE PHYSICS" in the title.
 * I Have No Son: In Burokku Girls Ep 2, Noble acts mock insulted when Takeshi's Dad (Joshua) doesn't believe that his son can behave in the lab, even captioning him with "I HAVE NO SON!"
 * The Klutz: Sometimes, Noble knocks the camera off, but one time, he knocked that, and the microphone, and he sent the computer back to desktop view. He laughed all the way through.
 * Lame Pun Reaction:
 * Noble in NEKOPARA. "Nyamazing" and "Nyannoying", among others.
 * In the 5 million video,


 * In a Lost Pause 2 Q&A:

"Noble: Hey, what do you call a YouTuber who doesn't lie? No-Bull! Heh heh heh heh-okay please don't leave. (Caption: SORRY)"


 * He couldn't stand the riddle section of Putt-Putt Joins the Parade.

"Noble: What's cracking, guys? Here we are [with the] 'Miku Dateu Simu Waifu Game Dress-up Doll Simulator Everything I Dunno Inappropriate!' That's what this frickin game is!"
 * Large Ham: His voice of Vanilla in Rabi-Ribi, mimicking Randy Savage/Hulk Hogan.
 * Long Title In Hatsune Miku Waifu Game Ep 5 (the caption helps, too):

"'can u talk like arnoldshortni-' Oh God, that is so close to being really bad. (laughs)"
 * Also in the Kagamine Rin Waifu Game.
 * Looks Like She Is Enjoying It: Lampshaded whenever Noble's moans in games get really blatant.
 * Milestone Celebration: Noble tends to make special videos when his subscriber count raises by a hundred thousand.
 * Most notably his Funny Montages and his reactions to Boku no Pico.
 * It used to happen each 100, 1000 and 10 000 subscribers.
 * Mood Dissonance: Sometimes, Noble keeps a happy mood even during sad events in the games he plays.
 * Most notably in his playthrough of Princess Evangile, during
 * During his playthrough of Sakura Santa, on Santa's dramatic moment:
 * "Why I'm like, all happy? I'm- I'm terrible at the mood, guys."
 * Pointed out by a commenter on his roasting video.
 * On talking about the dangers of his YouTube channel shutting down:
 * "Yeah, I don't know why I'm saying that with a smile. It's, um, it's kinda facked up. (laughs)"
 * Motherly Side Plait: Discussed by Noble in the Time Tenshi finale, when
 * My Eyes Are Up Here: A Running Gag in NEKOPARA Vol. 2 - Noble reminds himself of that with Coconut and her "coconuts".
 * N-Word Privileges: In this Q&A, a Twitter post ask:

"Noble: Man, I don't think anybody really buys porn mags anymore."
 * Online Alias: "Noble"
 * The origin? "No answers shall be given."
 * Otaku: Guess who.
 * Plucky Comic Relief: Noble's job at the channel. He spouts out jokes and innuendos for the sake of fun.
 * Porn Stash: Lampshaded. Noble considers it a Discredited Trope in Sakiura Swim Club Ep 7, when Mieko wants to find Kaede's "dirty little secrets":


 * Also discredited in his playthrough of PokePanties.

"Noble: ''WHAT?! HE GETS THE "ONII-CHAN" TREATMENT AND I DON'T?! I'M NOT ACCEPTING THIS! NO! I WANT THE ONII-CHAN SHIT! (whacks hand) THAT IS NOT FAIR! FUCK THIS GAME! (leaves) I'M DONE! FUCK THIS SHIT!"
 * "Previously On...": Noble (usually) gives a one-sentence summary of the previous episode that's played for laughs.
 * Rage Quit: Played for Laughs in Ep 12 of Kagamine Rin Waifu Game, when Rin calls the delivery guy she saw "onii-chan".


 * He keeps the bad attitude for the intro of the next episode, even though he's eventually laughing angry:

""I'm like angry, but I'm like smiling at the same time! This is- This doesn't work for me. I don't have a rage mode, guys, I'm sorry!""

"Noble: Santa Titties. (laughs) When do I ever say "Santa titties"? Only in a Sakura game, that's when I would say that."
 * A Rare Sentence:

"Dr. Candy: As you may have already guessed, the gloves and boots are key elements in the tactile stimulation and simulation elements of the system. (Caption: This sim simulating simulants) Noble: Alright, you just said "simulation". You don't have to say it twice."
 * Redundancy: In Burokku Girls Ep 3:


 * (Noble misread "stimulation" as "simulation", hence the repetition.)

""There it is! (listens, then stock scratch) It's probably copyrighted, so I can- I can't have too much of that there.""
 * Retcon: Parodied. In the first Samurai Buyer skit, Noble complains that Delivery Noble doesn't even have his glasses on, like he should. Cut to Delivery Noble, with glasses out of nowhere, saying he had them on his face "the entire time...!"
 * Record Needle Scratch: In the Kagamine Rin Waifu Game, when Rin sings and a Vocaloid song plays:

""Holy shit! This game just keeps amping it up and up!""
 * Rouge Angles of Satin/Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma: Always Lampshaded whenever Noble comes across examples, with the appropriate corrections. One of his Running Gags is shouting "Grammar!"
 * Best shown in his playthrough of Miku Miku Date 2 Ultra.
 * Running Gag:
 * "I'm bad!" when saying creepy things for fun.
 * "I mean what?!-"
 * Noble "losing his sh!t".
 * His flimsy denials to many suggestive questions in the games he plays.
 * Quoting his own suggestive lines.
 * "No, not that way..."
 * A re-creation-type compilation of quotes was made to celebrate 100 000 subscribers on his second channel.
 * Lampshaded on this Twitter post.
 * Remarking on the "classiness" of suggestive scenes.
 * Noble donning his "classy monocles" when those scenes happen...
 * Bringing out a picture of Master Roshi whenever he voices or sees a Dirty Old Man.
 * "Sexy puzzle time!" or "Bejeweled!", when presented with suggestive situations. It's a Shout-Out to HuniePop.
 * "Trolololo!", when ending a Tokyo School Life playthrough with a Cliff Hanger.
 * When Noble laughs into his door, an image of an anime meme face (Yaranaika?) appears.
 * Noble sometimes refers to Neptunia as "semicolon".
 * "Thank you!" when characters point out something on his mind.
 * (GAME OVER)
 * His Sean Connery voice impression.
 * Gustave the French guy
 * His Joisey impression.
 * "How are you supposed to read that line?!"
 * "This is so dumb!", when it gets extremely so.
 * Lampshading Emo thoughts in visual novels.
 * Noble Lampshading typical Tsundere attitudes and sentences.
 * After a misspeak, Noble looking at the camera and saying "Shut up."
 * The bounce beat in his NEKOPARA playthrough.
 * Showing Kashou from NEKOPARA as a guy with a literal cashew head.
 * In NEKOPARA Vol. 2 Ep 11, "My massive boner!"
 * Noble: (laughs) Why do I keep going back to that?! Eh, I dunno.
 * In Fairy Fencer F, Noble coming up with what the last F stands for.
 * Freudian Slips whenever he reads sentences that can be corrupted.
 * Lampshading clouds in visual novels.
 * Noble: (in NEKOPARA Vol. 2 Ep 3) All right, I like my clouds! Now, it's officially a Japanese game.
 * In Tokyo School Life, Aoi uses a sigma symbol in one of her Kaomojis.
 * "Again with the sigma! I don't know what that is, still!"
 * Noble mimicking the "Nooo! Stop!" part from "Wingardium Leviosa", a Harry Potter parody animation, when a similar event happens in a game.
 * In Anime Brain's Cracks: "(problem related to the joke) Don't Drink and Drive"
 * In the old days, "BEEAAAM!"
 * "If you haven't ran away yet..." (and variations)
 * "I had to look to the side of the screen." (and variations), when reading titles and names.
 * Serial Escalation: Noble thinks the Kagamine Rin Waifu Game is doing this, with the Fan Service scenes and Rin's bold comments to the player:


 * It eventually settles down for the story.

"Coconut: It's because... I'm not a little girl anymore. Noble: (while the screen focuses on Coconut's breasts) Yeah, that's for fucking sure!"
 * She's All Grown Up Played for laughs in NEKOPARA Vol. 2

"Noble: (Strained voice) Alright, guys, I'm gonna have to cut it off here, because it get too facking kawaii. Hope you guys enjoyed this episode here. I may have diabetes now. I'm probably dead."
 * Skewed Priorities: In-Universe. In Fluff, a Fanfic featuring Noble and Akidearest, Noble comes to Aki's home... to play and record Steam games on her computer without her permission.
 * Ship Sinking: Noble said it outright during a Q&A: there really isn't any gay relationship between him and Joey (The Anime Man). But the Ship Teasing continues to this day.
 * Ship Teasing: Joey with Noble or Einshine, Noble with Aki that one time...
 * Shout-Out: In this Ask Me Senpai, Noble impersonated Markiplier and his catchphrases. He also added in the "BITCH, I'M FABULOUS!" line from the HuniePop playthrough.
 * Squick: In Tokyo School Life, Noble was pretty disgusted with Karin's obsession with mayo, putting it on everything, "but whatever, we don't judge!"
 * Take That: Defied in SAVE YOUR YOUTUBERS FROM YOUTUBE, the Feb 29 video. Noble mentions fanfic videos by PewDiePie which he claims were way more lewd than his content, but he says that they were very funny and that he's not knocking Pewds.
 * Tastes Like Diabetes: In NEKOPARA Vol. 0 Ep 5:


 * His overall (positive) impression of the game.

"Noble (lying on a bed with a dakimakura, to Delivery Noble): You're not Santa! You're just the guy who comes by every time I get a package from Samurai Buyer! (turns to camera, thumbs up) Trademark! (ding sound)"
 * Trademark Favorite Food: Chips.
 * He immediately went for the chips in the "Once a Year" bonus scene of Starswirl Academy.
 * He roared with approval when Masaya from Princess Evangile said his favorite were chips.
 * Tradesnark: Played For Laughs in a Samurai Buyer skit.

"Aoi: (to Karin) Tea rice and pickled vegetables sound ok? Noble: Oh? Okay, that sounds fine, I guess. Karin: (tired) Yeah... Noble: (to the camera) ..I never had any of those, so I don't know!"
 * T-Word Euphemism: Played For Laughs. Noble tends to modify swear words by one letter, such as "fack" and "sh!t".
 * Replacing sexually explicit words with "fluff" and "fluffing".
 * Verbal Backspace: In Tokyo School Life Ep 17:

"Koji: Santa... That girl really is in a bad spot right now. Noble: "But fuck it! Let's go talk to some other girls!" No, that'd be so bad!"
 * Verbal Tic: "So Yeah!" and "Uh." Lampshaded in a YouTube Poop Noble reacted to.
 * His infectious laugh with every fun sentence.
 * "I don't know."
 * Video Game Cruelty Potential: Invoked, then defied in part 14 of Sakura Santa:

"Noble: "A close"? You mean "A stop!""
 * Vitriolic Best Buds: With Joey (The Anime Man).
 * You Are Better Than You Think You Are: In Time Tenshi, Kenji tries to comfort Kyo, who thinks she is less useful than her coworkers, and succeeds. Except Noble thinks Kenji's really not a good comforter:
 * "You're not Michelle or Rose, but-" ("Oh great! You're not those two women that are better than you.")
 * "When you crack that whip [...] restraining Bunni like a dominatrix, it's amazing!"
 * "You're stronger than that! Act like it!"
 * He admits to ruining the mood of an important scene with Coconut in NEKOPARA Vol.2.
 * You Make Me Sic: In Time Tenshi Ep 17, Kenji, goes up an elevator, . But just before that, Noble notices two mistakes in the narration:
 * The elevator is described as coming "to a close".


 * The doors "swing open", even though elevator doors don't swing, they slide.

"Noble: I am getting so critical right now!"

"''We don't judge here. And we're always classy."