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man i love sabikui bisco thank u soo much for this...

I didn't expect such a high quality video comparing both adaptations but damn, this was great!!! Personally, I do think you could've mentioned at least once the difference between the amount of movement you can typically achieve in TV anime vs OVAs, especially since the DavidPro anime is a 2 season, 2 cour show that aired weekly and the A.P.P.P. anime is a 6 episode show that only had to worry about a single release. Though the way the new anime moves still comes down to creative decisions, a show of that length and release schedule pretty much has to rely on limited animation techniques more than OVAs, especially when compared to notoriously lavish looking 80s and 90s OVAs. You did sorta mention this when saying "in 90s OVA fashion" when describing a beautiful cut, but reminding people of this distinction between types of productions more explicitly helps keep this context in mind. Small nitpick, but that's all I can really critique with this great video.

You called forever a gorilla he’s a orangutan

He was a great man but something hit him when he worked on Ending of Part 1. That’s was unmatched level of bad writing. You will not believe what same man created tears of CSM

time to reread Goodbye Eri

Chainsaw Man show's art style was what made it stand out to me while watching it; its beautiful atmosphere and thoughtful camera shots were what drew me in and kept me watching (Aki's morning routine and his flashbacks to Himeno come to mind). I think it truly elevated its source material and is a testament to the art of adaptation. There is a video about CM's opening song and how it said that Japanese songwriters don't limit themselves to genres as much, which is what made the music so good. I think the same about the CM's stylistic allusion towards the author's love of western cinema making it stand out amongst other anime. The show truly inspired me to look at animation and film from a different perspective. Its a shame that the director got bullied for his creative decision and I hope the style doesn't change in the later seasons. btw I started watching your videos from your Dungeon Meshi series. As an aspiring animator (I'm going to school for it this september) I loved to watch your breakdowns of the episodes as they came out, not only for their useful info, but your touches of humor and personality that made it fun. Thank you for all your thoughtful analysis.

I loved goodbye eri, so emotional, it directly examines the sheer complexity of people and their emotions, with the main character seemingly running from his problems, the complexities of his relationship with his mother, with eri, it's all so inspiring from the perspective of another creator, and insightful as a person who doesn't quite understand and pick up on emotion.

I love your take on this manga. I wonder what it would look like as an anime or even a live movie or show. It's crazy because I feel like putting it into motion would change it so much, even if they copied it exactly panel by panel, it would have so many different theories or feelings I guess...!

Csm season 1 is one of the best seasons of anime ever, what do these mfs mean?

Love your vids <3 The only anime reviewer I enjoy, keep it up green armadillo man

The moments of pure silence are my favourites because over the years where i dreamt to make comics, this, this is what i always wanted them to look like. I never knew wether it would work or not (not helping that's it's been years since I've been too scared to hold a pencil) but reading the manga when the dinner scene came on i just... felt so good like yeah, it works, and i love it, i want to make them! I want it to be my signature!

10:40 "if my son were alive he wouldve been your age" 199 years old?

The editing in this video is 🔥🔥

Heyyy love to have you back with more peak content ❤ I had a tough time with Goodbye Eri. It is an amazing work of art, but I think I made a mistake reading it online. It just didn't feel, you know, real. And that went into not being able to enjoy the story that much. If I had read it as a physical page-turning book I think I would have liked it more, and it saddens me that I can never get that experience of reading it blind again. And part of me doesn't care, coz I didn't enjoy it as much as I think I should have. Alas, I'm rambling.

I’m a simple man. I see dorohedoro with “finally coming back” in the thumbnail, I lose my fucking shit.

I really like the way you edit your videos

Honestly love your videos mate. I don’t want to over sell it though so ill end the comments here.

Your videos are always such a treat☺

What about Kakegurui? Mappa is responsible for that anime too.

swamp jawn kills it with the production quality every time!!

fantastic video about a fantastic one-shot. I also agree that trying to get too literal with what exactly is happening at the end, which parts are real and which ones are film, is missing the point. But my main takeaway from the final sequence is less about film creating reality (though that's certainly a part of it as "objective" records can shape our memories) and more about how authentic creations can help people process grief but also what "authenticity" really means. His first film is his own, and it's terrible. It failed to express what he wanted it to except to an extremely niche audience (of two people). But still, it was his, and making it helped him process his feelings on his mother's passing. His second film was Eri's. It was trying to capture his interpretation of her interpretation of what was good about the first one, while mimicking the styles and practices of other movies. It was better, from a film perspective. People liked it enough, and they broadly got what he was going for. Making it taught him so much about making a good movie. But it wasn't his movie. It was Eri's movie. And so, in making it, he didn't get any closer to processing her death. That's why he keeps trying to re-edit it over and over again, trying to recreate the catharsis of his first film, but always it's Eri's. It's him trying to replicate what *she* saw in the first film. The things he put in because he liked them and they felt right, interpreted and regurgitated. Then there's finally the third film, and it's his again. He's not exploding the building because it adds "a pinch of fantasy," he's doing it because it's what he wants to do, and it's what feels right. And that second movie? Eri's movie? It wasn't a waste at all. Because he *did* learn a lot making it. He learned so much that now, even though the ending is so similar to that of the first movie, it works. Some of the power and the emotion that went into it fully comes across to the viewer. He made something that was both authentic and powerful and, hopefully, immortalizes the people in it in the way he wants them to be remembered. That was just my reading of it, though. I really like Goodbye Eri. It's such a rich array of themes presented extremely well.

Fujimoto is a mad genius. His stuff looks immature and nonsensical, but the more you pay attention and the more you spend time thinking about it, the better it gets.

Excellent choice to follow DunMesh. I am never not down for any and all takes on Fujimoto.

I’m a bit obsessed with fujimoto and junji Ito right now. I love the bait and switch of chainsawman part 1.

This is fantastic! Can't really articulate more than that, but it gives voice to something that's been bubbling around in the back of my brain for a while, both why I find Fujimoto's off-kilter perspective so compelling, and some feelings about the relationship of art and reality in general, I'm serious, this is really good work, and I hope more people see it. You did something good. (Love the Dungeon Meshi stuff, too. This is just...next level.)

Goodbye Eri is a masterpiece any author would be proud of; to have it be just one title in the list of several career-defining works Fujimoto had written by the time he turned 30 is borderline unthinkable. You have to be a genius to be this good this early in your career. As for the Chainsaw Man adaptation, you've touched upon the important aspect that online discussions usually mention but don't give it due focus: it's how Fujimoto manipulates the tone of the narrative and how the adaptation, well... chooses not to. There are very few authors whose work I wholeheartedly respect who have mastered the very advanced art of mixing the drama with the comedy, the tragedy with the levity, and most of all switching between then at will and at the drop of the hat. Fujimoto is one of them, and Chainsaw Man works so well in the written form because he has the reader in his palm the entire time and knows not to overload them with the numerous heavy elements of the narrative without defusing them regularly. Nakayama's approach could've worked in principle (I blame his directorial inexperience), but the fact that the adaptation maintains a somber, serious tone almost the entire time really changes how the whole narrative is framed. When I'm reading the manga, I'm experiencing a lot of vivid emotions; I cry at the sad scenes and I laugh at the funny ones. The anime somehow managed to make almost all of the funny scenes profoundly unfunny-and the sad ones also lost some of the impact consequently, because instead of taking you from an emotional high point to a low one, they take you from a low point just a bit lower. There are other things I wasn't a fan of in the adaptation, but if I were to name only one, this would be the most damning. It shouldn't have been this way-anime is a much richer medium with many more tools at its disposal to make me feel things, so if it fails to live up to the manga, then clearly something is wrong. Btw, have you watched Mawaru Penguindrum? It's a series by Kunihiko Ikuhara of Revolutionary Girl Utena fame, and I was in complete disbelief at the cinematography on display there. There are series that are fluidly animated and creatively storyboarded, but what Penguindrum does with every aspect of its presentation: editing, framing, coloring, etc., is just unreasonable for anime. Give the first episode a watch, and you'll immediately get what I'm talking about. I'm absolutely sure you'll get completely hooked by the end of the episode. :)

I read this on the manga + app when it came out, and later bought the print version when that came out. For the first 4 time I have read it, I was really into theorising about how the ending fits into place later gave up on that, because I decided that wasn't the interesting part. I have never thought that older Yuta was played by his dad.

Ya veo, si, todo queda claro con esto explicado, por supuesto

Excellent and entertaining analysis as usual! I really love Fujimoto's work and you really highlight his unique strengths and authorial quirks. Looking forward to whatever you set in your sights next.

The complaints about the adaptation of Chainsaw Man reminded me of the criticism that drowned out and buried the anime of Flowers of Evil. In my opinion, a panel-by-panel adaptation of a manga in anime form is often superfluous, because it adds nothing to the original material. When, on the other hand, an anime tries to exploit the innate and exclusive potential of the medium, and tries to do something more, or different - that's where it elevates itself and becomes both "equal and different" to its source. In the case of Flowers of Evil, the estrangement generated by the rotoscope scenes was a perfect mirror of the unease and sense of disconnection from reality of the story's protagonists, and as such it was a very apt choice. Thanks for this video, and for the food for thought!

I started to follow you during dungeon meshi videos but i really enjoy your commentary! Thank you for the videos, you do great job

this is the first of fujimoto's works that I actually read, and the way it played with reality and metatextuality was so interesting-- i told myself i needed to ruminate on it and reread it later, but never got around to it, so this is a good reminder/revisiting!!!! and now i've read a couple volumes of chainsaw man and can really see why people resonate with his storytelling and art. this is such a fun video! and the flourishes on your part were delightful!

welcome back! i also thought a lot of the criticism of the csm anime was ridiculous

Really great video. You have a real knack for succinctly communicating your points while managing enough breathing room for them to sink in before moving on. It's nice to hear someone effectively pace the mentioning of the importance of pacing.

Any opinions in galaxias?

Hair reveal?!

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watching here from Brazil. Amazing video! knowing even more about fujimoto's works is a blessing.

How in the world do you have so few subscribers ? Your work is high quality I'm glad I sticked around after dungeon meshi, I should be thanking you not the other way around !

Whenever someone talks about Goodbye Eri or Look Back I just get the urge to go grab my copy off the shelf and reread it. They are both some of the best manga I have ever read

I'm so glad I could buy Goodbye Eri here, it's such a good manga, such a good little and gorgeous read. Fujimoto using the same idea of perfectly structured panel, like how in Watchmen you have the 9 panels per page, really makes it flow in such a good way.

Just started watching the video. People HATED the CSM adaptation????? O.o What. How. WHY??????????

He's back!

ngl i thought it would be Look Back but eri is good too

Amazing video! After reading the one-shot, I remember thinking what was reality and what wasn't, but I got to a similar conclusion to yours (not as profound as yours lol). I hope the Look Back will succeed, so Goodbye Eri will get a movie as well.

2:50 Honestly that really does look *a lot* like the kind of expression you’d see in Fujimoto’s work.

damn the video is very good

Good to see you uploading again