One of the most appreciated Japanese reality shows of the 2010s, Terrace House, which has already conquered many fans around the world including in America, is back for another season. In the latest iteration, called Aloha State, the show has moved to Hawaii, twisting the already crazy material even further. While it’s already being aired on Netflix Japan, the show is scheduled to be released in blocks in other parts of the world. This means that you cannot watch Terrace House, unless you wait until your country’s Netflix version gets the show in its library. What if you don’t want to wait, or worse, there’s only the international version of Netflix where you live? Then it’s time to get a VPN! With this solution, not only you are able to simply borrow the episodes from the virtual shelves of Netflix Japan, but you can also avoid being throttled by your ISP.
Let’s face it, aside from multi-season giants like Survivor or The Amazing Race, North American reality shows are boring, outdated or just plain awful. Furthermore, there are literally hundreds, if not thousands, of better realities worldwide for each and everyone’s individual taste and specific target audiences.
Lately, however, the U.S. has discovered the potential of Japanese reality shows, such as Terrace House. Aside from giving audiences something fresh and going completely bananas in every single sense possible at the same time, Japanese reality shows are honest, since nothing is scripted, thus offering super genuine (and hilarious) reactions. Despite this, Terrace House: Boys x Girls Next Door (the original show) flew under American radars, and already had 8 seasons between 2012 and 2014 as a TV segment on Fuji Television. However, the Japanese network entered into a partnership with Netflix, which soon led to the creation of the much acclaimed Terrace House: Boys & Girls in the City in 2015 (available on Netflix to this date) which even featured a new place, the Japanese capital, Tokyo.
The show goes as follows: it randomly picks 6 young people and simply shoves them into a house, where they are forced to coexist in realistic settings. This is the main attribute that distinguishes this from other reality shows: there’s no script whatsoever. Furthermore, the six youngsters involved are real students or have real professions, and continue living their normal lives, doing their mundane jobs/tasks – albeit in front of a camera.
Like we said before, the newest season is intended to appeal to North American audiences even more, since the well-tested format moves to a new location: Hawaii. The third season, consisting of 24 episodes, will also be available through Netflix and will be released worldwide in blocks.
We have some bad news for North American Terrace House watchers: Aloha State was fully released in Japan on November 1st 2016, but other non-Japanese Netflix subscribers can only enjoy the show in blocks of episodes. In other words, while Japanese Netflix users have been enjoying the entire show for months, in the U.S., and in other countries where Netflix is available, only the first few episodes are available for streaming since January 2017.
In case you want to get a head start and enjoy the series the way the Japanese do, we recommend the use of a VPN. However, Netflix likes to make it hard on people using these kinds of software, therefore you need to go through a couple of steps first. The first one is to find a VPN offering at least one server in Japan, which won’t be that much of a problem. Second, you need to make sure that your VPN of choice is not blocked by Netflix itself. And last but not least, get a Netflix Japan subscription, so you don’t get stuck on the log in screen.
Having checked the tasks on your to do list, just connect to the Japanese VPN server, and you can enjoy the virtual visit to Hawaii and meet your new friends. And as a nice little surprise, you don’t have to be afraid of getting your connection throttled by your ISP since they won’t know what you’re doing.
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