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Very late thank you!

Ah, I see
To be honest, his movies never really sounded that interesting to me. I mean, they all look beautiful from the scenes I've seen and its clear that the man has a passion for his job and for making these movies. I just never been interested in his "Boy meets Girl and they fall in love with a fantasy twist" stories.

Although I did read a manga many years ago (and recently reread it) that I feel like, it would fit his style too well XD

Its an adaptation called "Calling You" (based on a short story) and its about a very shy girl who wishes she has a cellphone, so she imagines one in her head...and somehow, it ends up working. She starts a friendship with and develops feeling for a boy, who also imagined a cellphone in his head and who lives in a different prefecture and time than her.

Its a sweet little oneshot (apparently there are multiple manga adaptions of it) with some good art and yeah, just the synopsis alone makes it sound like Makoto Shinkai being the perfect director for an adaptation XD

Hey, been a while :D
Hope you have been well!

I see, you're not a fan of the new Makoto Shinkai movie (which I honestly don't know anything about except from the trailer which was basically...girl falls in love with guy and her jealous cat transforms him into a living chair XD)

To be honest, the only Makoto Shinkai thing I have watched was...I think that short he did mostly by himself, about the girl who pilots a mech and she and her friend who has a crush on her back on earth send text messages to each other, which take years until they reach
(that man knew, what kind of stories he wanted to do for the rest of his life...)

That and I think the short anime movie that was from the perspective of a housecat. But I couldn't tell you anything about it...

Sounds like you know what you're doing in your life, that's great!

Good I guess, nothing really significant happened.
And you?

Happy very late Birthday!

Oh yeah, Frieren looks pretty great. Alone that they already released 4 episodes at once is a pretty big show, how much they believe in their work.
Spy x Family's great, but I think a lot of people, when they start watching/reading it, think it'll be a spy series, with some cute and funny family stuff. It's actually the complete opposite, its mainly a cute Slice-of-Life series, where the occasional episode/arc is about something spy related.


Yup.
Never knew where I could read it, until I found the manga on MangaDex. In some ways its different from the anime (like there's an actual protagonist instead of you interpreting yourself into a 1st person camera like with the anime, the hotel is in our world (maybe), stuff like that), but it works in translating this series and its strenghts into a readable format. Plus the art for the manga can REALLY sell, when the hotel and its residents screw with the protagonists reality and mind.


Aah, I see
I did hear, that apparently they also tried pushing the shipping and romance angles more in later seasons, to appeal to viewers who shipped certain characters. Apparently at the cost of the writing


Thing is...do you know Amino? This social network app, where you could create communities related to everything you want, that like every Youtuber advertised in the 2010s?
I actually used to write 1000+ word reviews on the Anime Amino every few weeks, until the app died. And in general, I love talking about stuff I watched/read (I sometimes even rant to people when I tell them about it, without realizing it 😅)

It's more the technical side and my shyness to speak, that hold me back from creating a channel and making videos 😅

Aah, I see 😂

To me, the most obvious choice this season is "Spy x Family Season 2" (since my mom and I loved season 1 so much, we finished it completely in like a week). Season 1 was such a cute and wholesome, yet also pretty funny and action packed show, so I hope season 2 (as well as the upcoming movie) delivers on that.

Also probably "I'm in Love with the Villainess" since that one seems to have a pretty funny twist on the whole "Otome Game Isekai" formula (and I have a friend, who loved the original LN and manga).

Other than that, I gotta read some shows synopsis to see if something speaks to me. Other than that...more stuff from my PTW list (I'm currently having such a good run watching and finishing shows from there, having just finished "Jewelpet: KiraDeco")


Also, since its October, I definitely have to do my annual rewatch of the entire Gregory Horror Show anime (which I consider one of, if not the best horror anime/shows ever made...which says something, considering its probably the first CGI anime ever made and is from 1999)
I did finally read the manga last week and it was an interesting take on the shows world and characters.


Aah, I see
Like I said, it never really spoke to me. It is cool, how it managed to gain such popularity, to the point that it got actual anime and manga adaptions and things like that, but the story and world itself never spoke to or interested me in any way. Though it'll be interesting to see your viewpoint on it.

Honestly, wish I could do that, make videos on anime and manga and other things I wanna talk about 😅

Damn, this season seems to be filled to the brim with shows again. Makes it difficult to choose, what to watch (not to mention all the stuff you have in your PTW too)...

Also, while I have never seen RWBY (it never interested me that much), I am already curious to see your video series on it, since I did hear that it didn't just got bad in later seasons, but that it got REALLY BAD...

Yeah. Art is so many things, trying to define it or attaching it to a singular thing is just impossible. And that's the beauty of it all.

Haven't watched the Year One movie yet, but I heard its pretty good.

Ah, I see
I've been meaning to try that card game that Yoko Taro did for Square, where the entire story and gameplay is done via cards.

You're welcome
Though I don't know if I agree with the notion that all great artists are depressed. Sadness is just as much as an emotion as happiness or anger, which both also created some amazing pieces. But it is true that being an artist, you will be more likely to get depressed easily (like...3/4 of all the Twitter artists I follow alone are some form of depressed).


Aah, I see.
I do have a bunch of varied comics at least. Some superhero series (like the first run of Gwenpool, I'm currently reading Peter Davids "Symbiote Spider-man" series, etc.), some children ones, Noelle Stevensons "Nimona" (fantastic comic, easy recommend), some smaller stuff...

You did mention in your video the "Killing Joke", which I do have, and its a fantastic and dark book. I also have Greg Morrisons "Arkham Asylum: A Serious House On Serious Earth", which I do consider to be a must have simply for the art alone.

Also "Batman: Year One", which has probably one of my favourite Bruce quotes: ("Scum, maybe, but even scum have families.")


Honestly, never played a single Yoko Taro game myself either (I just know that they are apparently really depressingly dark and beautiful). But it was still interesting to read up on the guy and why his games are so dark and beautiful in the first place.

Beautiful new video.

I only got into comics a while back (I did have some knowledge of the medium, since I was a fan of Linkara and other comic book reviewers). But yeah, the collection you showed definitely is a lot more, than my current one.

Honestly, I never heard about this book before and from what you showed in this video...I can already tell, reading this might destroy me or it will be one of those books I put aside to think and ponder over for the next hours, maybe even days and the effects reading it had on my mind...

That also reminded me, I recently read a manga biography about Yoko Taro (the creator of Nier and Drakengard).
And while its nowhere near the level of what you showed, your video definitely reminded me of it, as that manga also dealt with him, his depression and his constant dark thoughts and how they too inspired all of his works.

the good taste guy

Yeah
I am usually very split on ANN columns/reviews (some of them feel like the writer just wanted to write a gigantic rant piece without any logic except "this show sucks because I say so" or they're misinterpreting the shows/manga they are reviewing). But when they do something good, they do something pretty good.

And yeah, kike the ANN staff said, in GoHands older shows, they were doing this sort of experimental stuff already, but back then it really were just experiments and usually, there was some logic behind it (putting some weird filter over their post apocalypse anime, to sell that its a post apocalypse). You can see what they were going for, even if it didn't work out as intended.

It's seriously weird, that they did all these experiments and tests and stuff with their shows and instead of making any steps forward...they jumped backwards.

Damn, ANN just did a great column on the trainwreck that is GoHands...

https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/this-week-in-anime/2023-07-20/.200446