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Only yesterday

Finally got around to watching after looking forward to dedicating time to it and as usual you do not disappoint. Love your video essays!

Only Yesterday and My neighbors the Yamadas are some of my favourite anime movies. ❤️

of course the internet can be cinematic, i can't say how many series i've been enamored with on youtube over the past few years, yours included. meanwhile i may watch one foreign film a year and haven't been in the theaters since i was 20, eight years ago. technically i should've have been in there ever again after seeing nocturnal animals the previous year which just destroyed all interest i had in seeing any new movies coming out in the states. there's nothing wrong with having a smaller independent channel or being forced to make a series on the internet instead of bringing it to the silver screen, which, although you give that a sense of honor, i by now realize it means nothing. just like i can't imagine kane pixels siphoning off his series to a bunch of uncaring kosher deli lobbyists essentially riding on his coat tails and rewriting his concepts from scratch, i can't imagine how many brilliant small passion projects would be totally different and awful if they were adapted into a movie. The indie game and video series popularized on TH-cam, the independent DIY music scene of the 80s, they've all contributed to a new wave of glorious art that isn't just "the good stuff we have at home," it's "the good stuff that never was," and it's what's gonna keep real art and music alive. Like rock music wouldn't just be worse, it wouldn't even continue to be made today if we didn't have people on small labels all over the world making far better work than was ever done on any major label, because it's made more by people who care about the form of music than building the Guns n Roses Hotel or what have you.

ARGs and unfiction are great examples of internet cinema. Love the inclusion of Petscop!

panda gopanda is isao takahatas masterpiece

2:30 it's public domain, plus extremely inoffensive while not being emotionless, no lyrics so works perfectly as background music, adds air of gravitas you won't get with stock music, familiar to parents without possibility for negative connotations due to age and cultural context, it's like the perfect kids music

Only Yesterday is a film that deeply resonates with me. Oh my. I remember looking to my friend as the credits started, a single tear rolled down his cheek. That's exactly how the film makes me feel. It takes its time.

Powerful storytelling. Thank you

I love the beef with that consultant guy lol (though dw you were very respectful of his opinion also). As always a great video! Where are all the views :(

Glad to see another video of yours!

Clicked for Petscop, stayed for the great video.

Thank you. Sondheim is so both amazing and special because he seems to be the only composer that asks us to feel the moment in a way that increases our minds' understanding. I will likely watch your video a couple of more times. I saw Her We Are three times and think in its view of the understanding of the chaos and uncertainty of life and the need to move ahead a very fitting final message from the master.

Dang bro dang!! Great video! I love your editing style and clearly you put a ton of thought and love into this topic! Keep up the great work!!

Great video! What I really love is your definition of cinematic. I'd alter it a bit by defining it as the work being worthy of the effort to experience it in it's best form with dedicated sole attention to it. This definition just feels like such a great encapsulation of what being cinematic is really about, it is not about any specific technique or approach but simply how worthy it is. Then that got me thinking about how this definition can include video games as well. This definition has no involvement of narrative or anything like that, so games with complete gameplay focus to those with full narrative focus and anything inbetween could be cinematic as well so long as they are worthy of being on that big screen. It also proves that the traditional AAA studio interpretation of what cinematic means is false, or at the very least incomplete, since its not about the graphical fidelity or camera movements or acting or all the other production value related stuff but instead the subjective feeling of whether it is worthy of the big screen. I think your showcasing of Petscop is the clearest example of that being the case. Although Petscop is a video series and not an actual game, I think it is still a strong enough example to make a case that games can be cinematic and that production value of a game does not determine whether it can be cinematic. I really find this topic interesting as an aspiring game director(yes, director not just designer or writer) as I feel it has really opened my eyes of how I should craft my games and that I should craft them to be worthy of that big screen.

Sometimes I come back to this video just because it's so amazingly edited. Truly outstanding!

great video!

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great video essay! i have to watch these recommendations now.

Great video as always, really looking forward to the film!

another banger, kevin. keep it up.

Steven Shaviro would like a word. Also new Kevin Y video? DAY MADE.

The dial-up modem sound: a canon event for Very Online people of a certain age

I cry every time I hear Miayazaki-san's speech in his funeral. They are both a tressure to all humanity. I have a chance to watch a Ghibli movie with my mom before I move out for college, it is the hardest decision ever...

I bet you think the funniest moment in my neighbor the yamadas is when Takashi gets up to give his speech to the newly wed couple.

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Nice video! Have you seen the documentary "Hiyao Miyazaki and the Heron?" It follows Miyazaki over the last 12 years. One of the most striking aspects (to me at least) was how hard Takahata's death was on Miyazaki. Much of the movie is him dealing with his grief. That final speech in your video is him speaking at Takahata's funeral. However Suzuki (the third Ghibli co-founder) claims that although Miyazaki believes it himself, he might have been making that bus meeting scene itself...he notes that he was basically describing the bus stop scene in "My Neighbor Totoro." 😂 ...But then again, remember that Suzuki==The Heron, and herons always lie... 😉

that intro alone made me subscribe. some of the most beautiful ways to look at music and i need to see more.

What an amazing video! Thank you for beautifully crafting the journey of these two amazing storytellers!

and I'm telling ya them pussycats is quick

Takahata and Miyasaki were Ying and Yang ♥

Jennifer body is one of my favorite movies to watch.

What a video ❤ thank you

The Tale of Princess Kaguya by Director Iaso Takahata, IS the most beautiful animated film ever made by far. Knowing that it was the work of his lifetime does not surprise me. Takahata was determined to create the best and we are the beneficiaries of his artistry. Although I do love Miyazaki's films, Takahata is my favorite Ghibli director. I state that "Grave of the Fireflies" is the most important animated film and one of the most important films overall, ever made. Like many, I have watched it only once, but the images and story are burned into my mind. Why only once? If you have seen it you will know.

Speechless. Tearful. What an amazing video. More Sondheim fans must see this.

what do audiences do if we want innovative theatre? don’t require shows to go to Broadway to get your attention! lots of fantastic, innovative productions never make it to Broadway or are even just not designed for it. support your local regional theatres!

Thank you

it took me so many years to realize Mamma Mia came from ABBA

Great tribute!

i always watch miyazaki's eulogy when i need to cry. has never failed me

Stephen would have loved this.

Truly outstanding. Sondheim is impossible to put into words and yet here you are. Sunday at the park with George, now my favorite musical ever that I sing on a daily basis, constantly thinking about it, initially seemed... boring... strange... a bit uninteresting and hard to understand on first viewing. But like all things Sondheim, I needed to work a bit, to reflect a bit, and truly LISTEN. Congratulations for an amazing video. Count yourself one subscriber richer!

This is an excellent video. I don't think I've every cried this much to a video essay. Sondheim gave us so much, and this video has inspired me to take what he gave us, learn from it, and turn it into something new. Thank you.

Very well said. Stephen is an idol for me. He gave us so much incredible music and lyrics and his voice is not silenced. ZT'l Stephen.

Excellent video - thanks so much for making it.

Does anyone know the music at 17:21, it's so enchanting and I nearly started crying hearing about Takahata's vision for Princess Kaguya.

Kevin, just watched your wonderful video on Sondheim. IT IS JUST WODERFUL.

This is a truly beautiful look at the work of Sondheim. Just excellent. Looking back now on the Here We Are run at the Shed, I wish I could say that it was a glorious last work, but to me, it just felt like someone made a hat where there shouldn’t be a hat.

This video reminded me a lot of my favorite novel, "Umineko: when they cry" it is a reaaaaaally long japanese visual novel, but it touches a lot on the themes of this video, of magic and beliving, of authors inviting others to their stories in particular ways, on the ways one story might change when written in such a way, I think if whoever reads this has the time (qnd... It is a LONG TIME) they should try and read it, it really will give you tons of what the video talks about (specially when you have in mind it was realesed episode by episode, instead of all together as it is today)

Great analysis on a great author, many thanks. Please can we tell where the footage of 18:25 comes from? thanks in advance.