I love how jax’s entire story is based on the death of his father, and he invents time travel and thinks about “fame and fortune” and “winning the science fair” and not “saving his father”
Go back 74 million years, check. Go back to the exact moment in time to save a friend, check. Go back five years to save dad using the exact machine he was working on when he was kaboomed? NAHHHHHH. Doesn't even occur to him.
Yes,or how much money he could make instead of the measly 50K he would get or winning the prize-or in the books parlance, how much sin he could get up to.
this is technically a light novel and therefore deserves a 20 word long title "what! i build a time machine and found out that the earth is only 6000 years old?"
@@BMFC so why did all of the dinosaurs have to survive until Noah's day? maybe the carnage of suddenly needing to eat meat after the fall caused some of the dinos to shred the heck out of each other and only needed a few thousand years to go make each other go extinct?
Here in Finland we have the tragedy called Manga Raamattu ("the Manga Bible"). Every godparent bought a copy of it to their godchild, and every comic book section of every flea market is now full of them. The sales numbers don't always tell you if the target audience loved the book.
Something that truly drives me nuts about the narrative from these guys is that God is not responsible for anything bad happening, even though the words attributed directly to God in the book of Job state very clearly that he is responsible for every single event that occurs in the universe. It couldn’t be any more explicit than that. It’s literally him talking to Job saying that.
It is all according to his plan but he let people have free will and they “freely chose” knowledge of good and evil over staying in paradise. Of course that was all part of his plan.
This is really fascinating, it's like a YEC wrote a fanfic about what it would be like if they were actually correct. Honestly from just a fiction standpoint, it could be a fun setting for a fantasy time-traveling series to do a "What if YEC was correct" but explore all of the problems and implications that they'd encounter.
Every bit of YEC media out there based on their interpretation is already based in this setting, and if you want to know the future if YEC's were in charge we've got the movie Idiocracy.
On the YEC fanfic side, I like that the first fictional evidence they present us with is self-insert JT saying that, look, I invented a real thing with science, and I believe in Creationism, so it must be scientifically plausible! I know these organizations like to list all of the PhD holders who work or agree with them, but it's a lot more concrete when you can just say you invented a hoverboard!
@@Lorre982 Eh, ark just means 'box,' which means the side of the building without a boat-facade actually looks more like an ark than the one that's playing dress up.
Can't say that I'm surprised the main character in this Manga isn't using his time machine to save his father from death, that would have made too much sense.
I'm not sure why they were worried about time passing back home and being late? They have a TIME MACHINE they could go back to 30 seconds after they left
They didn't establish which version of time-travel exists in this universe. It appears the kids THINK this is a world with a cyclical timeline, which means that these time periods exist 'parallel', time travel only possible between equivalent moments. Pretend time is a spiral and you can only travel vertically, not laterally. If you spend two hours in the past, the point you can connect to in your own time period is also two hours advanced from when you left it. Of course, they assume this without even trying to test it, which illustrates the author's idea of science pretty well.
@@9Johnny8 Even if this parallel is the way the time traveling works can't they just beam themselves back to the past, from the failed present, to send a message like dont do __ thing to fix the present they are on, or does that create another splitting timeline? do they go back to the original? with that info how do we now know that the present we are in is the right present, what if the flood didn't happen, is that another timeline now?
@@Gamingpandacat That all depends on how much the author has considered the consequences of time travel. I'm not confident in their diligence in this case.
If that high school science teacher is able to provide constructive advice on how to fix the first-ever time machine, he is almost certainly underpaid and probably should be leading a research team somewhere.
To be fair, it seems like it's some sort of super elite science academy high-school. At least that's how I interpreted it. But you still have a good point there lol.
Well, perhaps not. Given the students have found no less than three inventions that would revolutionize the world, but somehow have been missed by all of those "research teams", a strong argument can be made that the best and brightest adults should be high school teachers. That is, after all, where all the cutting edge research is being performed... 😀
Yes, but we are talking about "smart" kids written by an idiot adult... Astronomy is a thing of the Devil, after all! (Pfft.) ...Not to mention someone believing in woo like Tim would confuse astronomy and astrology anyway.
Apparently not, because the all-knowing, all-powerful, all-loving god created life with the specific intent for them to fall so he could kill them all (nearly) in a flood and lie about it by leaving multiple forms of evidence in the universe that none of it ever happened. Basically the ultimate gaslighting hack.
Did they ever address that in Terra Nova? Or did they hand wave it away because they went back to the dinosaurs and there were extinction events that would render everything moot, anyways?
As a mexican, I'm almost proud of the representation we get, and before you say "it could have been any other country but Mexico", no my dudes, look at the stars, everything beyond the frontier is Mexico, where sabertooth pranced alongside the Olmecs many moons ago.
You say "this sounds like a parody" but I remember literally being taught to act this way about dating and such when I was in my teens. It really is baffling how things are night and day when I think about my mindset about everything back then vs now. You don't know how wild all the stuff you say sounds to an outsider til you get on the outside lol
Jax’s dad died in a freak accident - but somehow the being who is omnipotent (decides when and where freak accidents happen) and omniscient (had to know Jax’s dad was there) isn’t to blame? How can anyone not-notice this plot-hole?
38:35 good grief, that frustrates me, "they're taught one way to look at the world, never questioning what they were being taught" Uber projection, scientists do pretty much, nothing but rigorously testing what they believe, theorizing, experimenting, attempting to provide actual evidence, one way or the other
@@greatcaesarsghostwriter3018 That fairy tale book doesn't prohibit daddy-daughter diddling. It prohibits every other incestuous relationship except that one.
Sex is meant to be within a marriage between adults. Children are seen as a blessing and a gift from God and not to be abused but to be loved and cared for. I'm sorry that you have such a weird view of the Bible but it never says that abusing children in that way is justified. If you want a religion that does that, then look to Islam because their "prophet" raped and beat a 9 year old girl when he was in his 50s. Muslims will put themselves through all kinds of hoops to justify their pedophile prophet.
Girl this whole story is a hot ass mess. Poor Tim has as much knowledge and understanding about Manga (or Light Novel) story structure as he does about conventional science 😂
Captains log; It's been nine days with no update. I fear our dear @Flamingcowjuice has passed on from the sheer amount of times they heard 'creationist manga'. We can only hope that they have found solace among the stars...
does the two girls talking about creationism means the book passes the Bechdel Test or does them talking about god (who christians always refer to as male) invalidate that too?
I think it fails the test. I think God is to some degree a character in the book who I think conservative Christians would prefer not be non-binary so yeah, totally male.
You know I'm not some big time ceation scientist for AiG but I would think managing to build a: working time machine, working anti grav device or working disintegrator ray would catapult one into Nobel prize territory making a 50k scholarship kinda tame.
Hey, leaving him up the tree was pretty rational. Rushing back was the irrational thing. It's a time machine. They can take as long as they want to prepare, and come back a millisecond after he left.
47:36 You would think that an apologetics organization that can afford two large museums could at least make a somewhat decent response to the problem of evil, but I guess philosophy is low on their priority list.
The book is formulaic, predictable, platitudinous. I had *so* hoped for a whole Manga graphic novel with good illustrations. (Say what you want about Jack Chick, his illustrations are attention grabbing.) But your reading and video quality are really good. Your faculty evals must be great!
As a Weeb, this is very confusing and distressing for me. How can a power fantasy light novel about how everyone who disagrees with the author is wrong and evil exist if it doesn't have a title that directly explains the plot of the whole story? A just god would not allow this.
Yes, test a Time Machine by travelling millions of years back in time instead of just jumping a short time so if it works and then fails you’re not stuck in a time where you can’t get parts or power to fix and run it. I see it isn’t only a Time Machine but it travels from location to location as well.
Obviously, the writer wasn't good enough to pare it down to panel format. I'm pretty sure that if he had storyboarded the panels correctly he could have afforded the artist's prices - or at least done it in installments so that the sales from one section could pay for the next one.
If they'd established the rules of time travel in this universe it could still be urgent. In a world with a cyclical timeline you can connect only to a moment in a given time period that corresponds to your departure time. Think of the timeline as a slowly rotating slinky stood upright, where you can only go up or down. If you spend some time on the upper coil, all lower coils are rotating with you, 'time passing' in the period your buddy is stuck in. But Jaxon and Izzy not even THINKING about experimenting to find out whether this is the case or not illustrates the creationists' idea of science pretty well.
Her future children should be quite lucky......her reading bedtime stories to them..... (Anyone other than me love the movie The Princess Bride with Peter Falk reading to his grandson)
If you want funny and educational "creationist" anima I highly recommend "heaven's design team" which try to explain why all the weird animals came to be by a team of weirdo designers following orders from a weirder god
If the night sky looked a little different 4500 years ago, just imagine 70 million years ago. The constellations would be completely unrecognizable and wouldn't be of any help to anyone.
There is a manga of "Das Kapital" adapted from the book of the same name with equal and opposite energy and the people look like Attack on Titan people
I like how the creationist's idea of conclusive proof that they didn't travel back 70 million years is a star map when she also believes dinosaurs and humans lived in the same era and could probably find some sign of that if she looked.
It’s funny how whenever something has the words “the truth” or “the answers they don’t want you to know” or any of that… you can bet your big toe it’s going to be about some absurd conspiracy and/or propaganda
So how far forward or backward would you have to go before some teenager would notice the stars were different? My guess is a very long time because most teenagers aren't that interested in stellar constellations. They look up they see some stars. They go back in time a million years, they see some stars. None of them would be like "Oh Ursa Major isn't supposed to be there, it must be God".
I hope that you have decided to pre-read them. Making summaries is going to be difficult if you don't know what's going too happen, and without summaries, this is going to be a really long series. I really enjoyed this episode, but I don't think I could stay interested for long enough to read each book unabridged. I mean, if this was an audiobook, I would probably have sent it back by now.
Oh gosh, do I really want to hear this one? Part of me is saying “yes, it’ll be entertaining, like a train wreck where you can’t look away”. The other part is saying, “Nooo! Don’t let the fundies ruin Manga!” Think I’ll watch a puppy video first and then come back for this one when I’m fortified.
i love your break down and synopsis of the entire commentary/react channel community mentality to providing unsolicited criticism of a piece of media that nobody knew existed
Heeeyyyy ! The Quartering :D I remember when he used to harass women in the Magic the Gathering community and all he did was stir drama every way he could. His popularity nowadays makes me laugh, but also makes me concerned about the state of public discourse over media online. Big corporations LOVE those guys since they add nothing of value to the conversation and just end up galvanising defence of their garbage shows and movies with no effort on their part. So people that also think those shows/movies are garbage don't say it by fear of being associated with those lunatics.
11:42 **Jack** Thompson is the lawyer who got disbarred after spending years trying to sue video game publishers every time something went wrong anywhere, probably most famous for suing over GTA III. Just noting that fact.
Another absolute banger of a video, nice work! You have a bluntness about you that is incredibly refreshing, you do not mince words and that's cool :) ("nope, this is total and utter nonsense, and here are the ways that you can tell that it's nonsense:[...]")
There is a dnd 3rd party book called “adventures in the Bible.” It takes place just before and during Jesus’ crucifixion. That is super interesting is that it’s a really good source book. There is even a section that tells people to not take this as an opportunity to convert friends or discuss theology. It’s beautiful and horrible.
_"I've set the Time Machine for 6,001 years in the past. Hm... that's odd. I'm getting an overflow error."_ I'm worried that I might be the best Christian Author ever with that single line above as I've yet to see anything approaching that level of script composition come out of Pure Flix.
Well, even though I am a cranky old White guy, my Dad was in the USAF and I was born in the Philippines. I was raised there, in Japan, and on Okinawa while it was still an American Territory. I grew up with Manga, and I still love them as they still have much better stories than American comic books do. I just can't get over your saying there is actually just one page of that art per chapter. I just think they could find affordable Manga artists in a place just as insane as their own ideas. North Korea.
Anyone else feel like its a bit of a cop out to just bring the main characters dad back? I feel like this was done so that they dont actually have to address the problem of evil again when they convert him later. Although considering the best they could offer was essentially "its not gods fault your dads dead its yours!" perhaps they didnt see another option.
On pre-read vs first reactions: why not both? You could record your first reading with first impressions, then hit the important bits again in a commentary vid once you've had time for your thoughts to stew. Potentially double the content for roughly the same effort!
Yeah I'm not surprised they would make a manga about this fairy tale and I'm pretty sure they'll make an anime about it pretty soon. If they haven't already.
we really need anime on that ! 49:00 omg, what incredible dramma! I just imagine a YEC, being really 70 million years ago and watching different constellation, he will just say about accelerated star movement and live cycle.
Now I'm convinced I have to buy this book (or locate it online, so to speak) so me and my friends can get together and do a dramatic table read of this, lol.
I wonder if this dude has been sitting at his email or some shit frantically refreshing it desperately hoping he'll sell even one copy. And then he finally does, he's so excited. Finally I sold my first copy of my passion project manga! Then a while later he finds this video
"Hello there, fellow kids! Do you like the Japanese style art? I bet we all think it's pretty hip, right? And that Jesus...pretty cool...all of us kids like that Jesus...and going to church...because we're some cool cats... ... ... ...right?"
This is a super good vid! You should do more like this its nice n light hearted compared to the heavy shit you bin covering lately, you deserve to take a nice break
I think it's a neat work of fiction. The story is pretty simple, and it fits in nicely on the teen reading scene. The only issue is that the writers don't realize that it's fiction, and thus, the dialog is a bit goofy.
I actually read and really liked this series when I was a YEC! haha. Maybe someday you can cover my creationist high school biology textbooks from Apologia, lol. Seriously though, thanks for taking the time to cover stuff like this. It’s been a wild ride sorting through my literalist upbringing, not the least of which has been learning about human evolution from your channel. 🫡
Maybe a tangent, but your opening bit reminds me of why "Miami Connection" is one of my favorite movies. It's so awful, so amateurishly done, so cheesy, but it's so EARNEST. They wanted to make a good movie. Everyone involved was trying, without cynicism, without irony, just doing their best to make a martial arts flick. It fails along every possible metric, but it's SO watchable, because of that earnestness. I absolutely adore it. Contrast with more recent films that tried to be "so bad it's good," like Velocipastor or anything Tommy Wiseau did post-The Room, and you can see how important earnestness actually is.
Hey girl! Do you already have, or can you make, a video about the diet and eating habits of different hominids and other apes? I'm really curious about it and how our diets have evolved to now, and how horrible our current diet is for us. Which other ones eat meat and how often? I also wonder since we have changed our produce and food for the better over the years. OG corn and bananas sucked to eat etc. Thanks!
I could sleep to gutsicks voice. No cap I’ve done it countless times now. And I’m not mocking in the slightest, it’s just soothing to me. Maybe it’s the scientific facts I find soothing . Either way I could just listen for hours or sleep like a little baby listening to gutsicks TH-cam videos
I respect that they're sticking with the "clock in the present continues to tick" aspect from the Excellent Adventure film. Without this, there's no urgency; you could just go to any other arbitrary point in time. You could even go back to one hour before the present and sabotage the time machine to prevent the whole adventure. About the teen drama component. Willow: He stole my Barbie. Buffy: [raised eyebrows] Willow: ...we were five.
I wonder why we don’t have more written records of people dealing with non-avian dinosaur attacks? Pretty sure we have written records from a few different cultures from 5k years ago.
I love how jax’s entire story is based on the death of his father, and he invents time travel and thinks about “fame and fortune” and “winning the science fair” and not “saving his father”
The LAWD works on mysterious ways
Clearly the ultimate revelation is that he has to go back and cause the accident in the first place, because of gawd
Go back 74 million years, check. Go back to the exact moment in time to save a friend, check. Go back five years to save dad using the exact machine he was working on when he was kaboomed? NAHHHHHH. Doesn't even occur to him.
I'm thinking that when Jax finally thinks of saving his dad he goes back in time and accidentally causes the explosion himself!
Yes,or how much money he could make instead of the measly 50K he would get or winning the prize-or in the books parlance, how much sin he could get up to.
this is technically a light novel and therefore deserves a 20 word long title
"what! i build a time machine and found out that the earth is only 6000 years old?"
Why was the allosaurus chasing them if they don't eat meat?
Oh my god true
That was before the flood but after the fall. Rib lady had already broken the world with her reckless fruit binge.
@@BMFC so why did all of the dinosaurs have to survive until Noah's day? maybe the carnage of suddenly needing to eat meat after the fall caused some of the dinos to shred the heck out of each other and only needed a few thousand years to go make each other go extinct?
Herbivores are still territorial
It wanted to hug them. 😁
“Don’t fuck with me, I have the power of god *and* anime on my side! HEAAAAAAAAAH”
They weren’t willing to pay enough for the anime for it to be effective.
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I love how one of the arguments is "God didn't kill your father, it was a freak accident", so, an Act of God, one might say?
Curious how God is responsible for every random *good* thing that happens in life, but none of the random bad things.
Here in Finland we have the tragedy called Manga Raamattu ("the Manga Bible"). Every godparent bought a copy of it to their godchild, and every comic book section of every flea market is now full of them. The sales numbers don't always tell you if the target audience loved the book.
Something that truly drives me nuts about the narrative from these guys is that God is not responsible for anything bad happening, even though the words attributed directly to God in the book of Job state very clearly that he is responsible for every single event that occurs in the universe. It couldn’t be any more explicit than that. It’s literally him talking to Job saying that.
Religion is the number one cause of atheism.
It is all according to his plan but he let people have free will and they “freely chose” knowledge of good and evil over staying in paradise. Of course that was all part of his plan.
I love that, God makes the friggin tree puts it RIGHT were you can touch it and then acts surprised you did. God worst parent of the eternity.
@@moonmochi6131 it was his plan, how else can he punish almost everyone for sinning if he can’t blame it on Eve and the serpent???
@@moonmochi6131 and he made it so you only know right from wrong AFTER you ate from it. What a genius.
This is really fascinating, it's like a YEC wrote a fanfic about what it would be like if they were actually correct. Honestly from just a fiction standpoint, it could be a fun setting for a fantasy time-traveling series to do a "What if YEC was correct" but explore all of the problems and implications that they'd encounter.
Every bit of YEC media out there based on their interpretation is already based in this setting, and if you want to know the future if YEC's were in charge we've got the movie Idiocracy.
If they have consistent worldbuilding it might be fun. Like establishing if things die before the fall. Did egypt exist before the flood, etc
I'd buy that just to laugh at it.😂
I can imagine problems like "why can we see more stars every year"
On the YEC fanfic side, I like that the first fictional evidence they present us with is self-insert JT saying that, look, I invented a real thing with science, and I believe in Creationism, so it must be scientifically plausible! I know these organizations like to list all of the PhD holders who work or agree with them, but it's a lot more concrete when you can just say you invented a hoverboard!
AIG can afford a giant ass ark, but not to pay an artist for their work... They must not have had high hopes
Well they didn't have government assistance for the manga.
a gigante building that looks like an ark
@@Lorre982 Eh, ark just means 'box,' which means the side of the building without a boat-facade actually looks more like an ark than the one that's playing dress up.
Bold of you to assume they paid people for the Ark Encounter
That's be cause it isn't a manga. It's a light novel, so it's actually supposed to be just a regular book with a few pictures.
Can't say that I'm surprised the main character in this Manga isn't using his time machine to save his father from death, that would have made too much sense.
I'm not sure why they were worried about time passing back home and being late? They have a TIME MACHINE they could go back to 30 seconds after they left
The clock in San Dimas is always running.
They didn't establish which version of time-travel exists in this universe. It appears the kids THINK this is a world with a cyclical timeline, which means that these time periods exist 'parallel', time travel only possible between equivalent moments.
Pretend time is a spiral and you can only travel vertically, not laterally. If you spend two hours in the past, the point you can connect to in your own time period is also two hours advanced from when you left it.
Of course, they assume this without even trying to test it, which illustrates the author's idea of science pretty well.
@@rodneytgap5340 I'm glad someone gets it. 👍
@@9Johnny8 Even if this parallel is the way the time traveling works can't they just beam themselves back to the past, from the failed present, to send a message like dont do __ thing to fix the present they are on, or does that create another splitting timeline? do they go back to the original? with that info how do we now know that the present we are in is the right present, what if the flood didn't happen, is that another timeline now?
@@Gamingpandacat That all depends on how much the author has considered the consequences of time travel.
I'm not confident in their diligence in this case.
If that high school science teacher is able to provide constructive advice on how to fix the first-ever time machine, he is almost certainly underpaid and probably should be leading a research team somewhere.
To be fair, it seems like it's some sort of super elite science academy high-school. At least that's how I interpreted it.
But you still have a good point there lol.
Well, perhaps not. Given the students have found no less than three inventions that would revolutionize the world, but somehow have been missed by all of those "research teams", a strong argument can be made that the best and brightest adults should be high school teachers.
That is, after all, where all the cutting edge research is being performed... 😀
Hahahaha....reminds me of The Absentminded Professor.........(not the Robin Williams Flubber BS movie)
Plot twist: it's God, in disguise 🥸 Don't ask for logic, just roll with it.
Problem #12 with the movie Fant4astic.
Any time machine engineer worth their salt would include a telescope/star tracker to calculate the year.
Yes, but we are talking about "smart" kids written by an idiot adult... Astronomy is a thing of the Devil, after all! (Pfft.) ...Not to mention someone believing in woo like Tim would confuse astronomy and astrology anyway.
@waywardscythe3358 - Wasn't salt bad in the "Bible", like turning Lot's wife into a pillar of the stuff?
Or you could ask people around
"Hey what year is it?"
"3290 BC"
@@realdragon"What year is it?"
"I dunno, you think we had calenders back in 2934 BC?"
So if they have a time machine... could they go back and prevent the Fall? This raises so many questions.
Apparently not, because the all-knowing, all-powerful, all-loving god created life with the specific intent for them to fall so he could kill them all (nearly) in a flood and lie about it by leaving multiple forms of evidence in the universe that none of it ever happened. Basically the ultimate gaslighting hack.
Grandfather paradox / splitting the timelines
@@AnnoyingNewslettersPage6 pretty much anything they do is going to cause a paradox. It's a time machine afterall.
Did they ever address that in Terra Nova? Or did they hand wave it away because they went back to the dinosaurs and there were extinction events that would render everything moot, anyways?
“Wait Eve why are you listening to a serpent? I know you don’t have knowledge of good and evil yet but snakes are icky”
As a mexican, I'm almost proud of the representation we get, and before you say "it could have been any other country but Mexico", no my dudes, look at the stars, everything beyond the frontier is Mexico, where sabertooth pranced alongside the Olmecs many moons ago.
You say "this sounds like a parody" but I remember literally being taught to act this way about dating and such when I was in my teens.
It really is baffling how things are night and day when I think about my mindset about everything back then vs now. You don't know how wild all the stuff you say sounds to an outsider til you get on the outside lol
Jax’s dad died in a freak accident - but somehow the being who is omnipotent (decides when and where freak accidents happen) and omniscient (had to know Jax’s dad was there) isn’t to blame? How can anyone not-notice this plot-hole?
38:35 good grief, that frustrates me, "they're taught one way to look at the world, never questioning what they were being taught" Uber projection, scientists do pretty much, nothing but rigorously testing what they believe, theorizing, experimenting, attempting to provide actual evidence, one way or the other
the foreboding in the phrase "And Tim Chaffey... had.. an idea..." is epic.
I am so excited for this series, this was absolutely hysterical.
This sounds like a bizarro world version of Paulogia's origin story.
It's funny how they'd rather have Cain's wife being his sister rather than accepting that there were more humans around.
"I can excuse incest but I draw the line at an old earth"
"You can excuse incest?"
@@Tareltonlives "Just wait till you get to that story about Lot and his daughters."
@@greatcaesarsghostwriter3018 That fairy tale book doesn't prohibit daddy-daughter diddling. It prohibits every other incestuous relationship except that one.
Sex is meant to be within a marriage between adults.
Children are seen as a blessing and a gift from God and not to be abused but to be loved and cared for. I'm sorry that you have such a weird view of the Bible but it never says that abusing children in that way is justified.
If you want a religion that does that, then look to Islam because their "prophet" raped and beat a 9 year old girl when he was in his 50s. Muslims will put themselves through all kinds of hoops to justify their pedophile prophet.
@wendydomino - Didn't Noah get plastered and acted in a less than Xtian way? Or was it very Xtian?
Okay, Erika, I'm hooked. This is very entertaining. Or, rather, your presentation of it is entertaining. 😉
So the problem is that a long time ago a woman who was made from a man's rib was convinced by a talking snake with legs to eat a piece of fruit.
Yeah seems legit. 😐
Chills down the spine!
It actually good it was snake, since they lost their legs they got better adapted to hunting in burrows and tight spaces
Wild that apparently the story doesn't realize that punishing the descendents for eternity for the sins of their ancestors is kinda fucked up.
Girl this whole story is a hot ass mess. Poor Tim has as much knowledge and understanding about Manga (or Light Novel) story structure as he does about conventional science 😂
Your intro was exceptionally good, and this series will be a hoot with your entertaining reading of the books.
The words creationist manga are enough to take several minutes off my life
I'll update y'all after the vid
Captains log; It's been nine days with no update. I fear our dear @Flamingcowjuice has passed on from the sheer amount of times they heard 'creationist manga'. We can only hope that they have found solace among the stars...
@@monochromicornthetuna4256 honestly i never found the time to watch the whole vid but this is funnier so yeah i fuckin died
@@monochromicornthetuna4256 that little blurb was hilarious
I think they died
Oh no, it's been a year.
does the two girls talking about creationism means the book passes the Bechdel Test or does them talking about god (who christians always refer to as male) invalidate that too?
I think it fails the test.
I think God is to some degree a character in the book who I think conservative Christians would prefer not be non-binary so yeah, totally male.
LOL excellent question!
You know I'm not some big time ceation scientist for AiG but I would think managing to build a: working time machine, working anti grav device or working disintegrator ray would catapult one into Nobel prize territory making a 50k scholarship kinda tame.
Hey, leaving him up the tree was pretty rational. Rushing back was the irrational thing. It's a time machine. They can take as long as they want to prepare, and come back a millisecond after he left.
Let the dinos eat the guy in the tree.....and come back repeatedly to watch....
The "book" might be in the light novel format where drawings are very rare. About one per chapter like you said.
47:36 You would think that an apologetics organization that can afford two large museums could at least make a somewhat decent response to the problem of evil, but I guess philosophy is low on their priority list.
The book is formulaic, predictable, platitudinous. I had *so* hoped for a whole Manga graphic novel with good illustrations. (Say what you want about Jack Chick, his illustrations are attention grabbing.) But your reading and video quality are really good. Your faculty evals must be great!
As a Weeb, this is very confusing and distressing for me. How can a power fantasy light novel about how everyone who disagrees with the author is wrong and evil exist if it doesn't have a title that directly explains the plot of the whole story? A just god would not allow this.
Basic story structure goes:
"And then", "but", "and so"
This follows the WORST structure;
"And then", "and then", "and then", "and then"...
Yes, test a Time Machine by travelling millions of years back in time instead of just jumping a short time so if it works and then fails you’re not stuck in a time where you can’t get parts or power to fix and run it.
I see it isn’t only a Time Machine but it travels from location to location as well.
Let everyone take inspiration that if this crap is out there...your book/art/manuscript/business idea/dream has a chance!
Pretty sure this falls under the light novel category, and not manga.
Was going to say something similar! I wouldn’t expect the writers to have understood that, mind.
Obviously, the writer wasn't good enough to pare it down to panel format. I'm pretty sure that if he had storyboarded the panels correctly he could have afforded the artist's prices - or at least done it in installments so that the sales from one section could pay for the next one.
@@SumNutOnU2b they probably wanted to throw the book at the artist and have them do all of the work of converting it into a manga
@@SumNutOnU2b - Ah! So you assume there were sales.
If you own a working time machine, you can always arrive fully prepared at the most opportune moment. Nothing needs to be urgent anymore. Bad sci-fi 🚩
There are ways to do it well. This is not one of them.
Sudden new problem: you only have so much lifetime to do everything you want
If they'd established the rules of time travel in this universe it could still be urgent.
In a world with a cyclical timeline you can connect only to a moment in a given time period that corresponds to your departure time.
Think of the timeline as a slowly rotating slinky stood upright, where you can only go up or down. If you spend some time on the upper coil, all lower coils are rotating with you, 'time passing' in the period your buddy is stuck in.
But Jaxon and Izzy not even THINKING about experimenting to find out whether this is the case or not illustrates the creationists' idea of science pretty well.
As a fan of manga, anime, and so on, I would say that this would be classified as a 'light novel' in Japan.
You're a great reader. Don't quit your day job, but you definitely have a strong backup.
Her future children should be quite lucky......her reading bedtime stories to them.....
(Anyone other than me love the movie The Princess Bride with Peter Falk reading to his grandson)
@@leeshackelford7517 oh Im sure a great assortment of people do since its a certified classic
If you want funny and educational "creationist" anima I highly recommend "heaven's design team" which try to explain why all the weird animals came to be by a team of weirdo designers following orders from a weirder god
Instead of being like everyone and saying stop wasting your time on the fairy tale people, ill just say you are great at what you do, dont stop.
I’d love to see all nine of this books on this channel! Keep up the great work!
According to Google the pole star 4500 years ago would be Thuban, not Polaris. So even back to that time the sky would be a little different.
If the night sky looked a little different 4500 years ago, just imagine 70 million years ago. The constellations would be completely unrecognizable and wouldn't be of any help to anyone.
12:47 “…jax’s _hole_ tightened as he looked into his friend’s excited face…” ?!?!?
Erica's intro giving us Rachel Maddow-like levels of context before pivoting to our topic of the day. Well done.
There is a manga of "Das Kapital" adapted from the book of the same name with equal and opposite energy and the people look like Attack on Titan people
I like how the creationist's idea of conclusive proof that they didn't travel back 70 million years is a star map when she also believes dinosaurs and humans lived in the same era and could probably find some sign of that if she looked.
i love this video, its like yaaaay storytime! even tho its a really dumb story. amazing work
5:30 Sounds more like a Creationist Light Novel, then.
I'm bothered that no one seems impressed that, if nothing else, the boys have invented a teleporter.
I mean time travel is probably more impressive...
It’s funny how whenever something has the words “the truth” or “the answers they don’t want you to know” or any of that… you can bet your big toe it’s going to be about some absurd conspiracy and/or propaganda
So how far forward or backward would you have to go before some teenager would notice the stars were different? My guess is a very long time because most teenagers aren't that interested in stellar constellations. They look up they see some stars. They go back in time a million years, they see some stars. None of them would be like "Oh Ursa Major isn't supposed to be there, it must be God".
I hope that you have decided to pre-read them. Making summaries is going to be difficult if you don't know what's going too happen, and without summaries, this is going to be a really long series. I really enjoyed this episode, but I don't think I could stay interested for long enough to read each book unabridged. I mean, if this was an audiobook, I would probably have sent it back by now.
Oh gosh, do I really want to hear this one? Part of me is saying “yes, it’ll be entertaining, like a train wreck where you can’t look away”. The other part is saying, “Nooo! Don’t let the fundies ruin Manga!”
Think I’ll watch a puppy video first and then come back for this one when I’m fortified.
Ice Spiders is a damned classic, and no one can tell me otherwise.
It's rare that the thumbnail and title of a video makes me laugh out loud on a train but yours did! ❤️
i love your break down and synopsis of the entire commentary/react channel community mentality to providing unsolicited criticism of a piece of media that nobody knew existed
Heeeyyyy ! The Quartering :D
I remember when he used to harass women in the Magic the Gathering community and all he did was stir drama every way he could.
His popularity nowadays makes me laugh, but also makes me concerned about the state of public discourse over media online.
Big corporations LOVE those guys since they add nothing of value to the conversation and just end up galvanising defence of their garbage shows and movies with no effort on their part. So people that also think those shows/movies are garbage don't say it by fear of being associated with those lunatics.
The way his mind was blown by the Heman Shera and all that stuff. Very weird dude.
11:42 **Jack** Thompson is the lawyer who got disbarred after spending years trying to sue video game publishers every time something went wrong anywhere, probably most famous for suing over GTA III.
Just noting that fact.
Another absolute banger of a video, nice work!
You have a bluntness about you that is incredibly refreshing, you do not mince words and that's cool :)
("nope, this is total and utter nonsense, and here are the ways that you can tell that it's nonsense:[...]")
There is a dnd 3rd party book called “adventures in the Bible.” It takes place just before and during Jesus’ crucifixion. That is super interesting is that it’s a really good source book. There is even a section that tells people to not take this as an opportunity to convert friends or discuss theology.
It’s beautiful and horrible.
"Heavy handed to the point you're wearing the Infinity Gauntlet." 😂😂🤣🤣🤣
BEST. METAPHOR. EVER!!
@jacksonsneed7689 - I flashed right to "Torchwood", but there may be other instances of an "infinity glove". Is there?
_"I've set the Time Machine for 6,001 years in the past. Hm... that's odd. I'm getting an overflow error."_
I'm worried that I might be the best Christian Author ever with that single line above as I've yet to see anything approaching that level of script composition come out of Pure Flix.
If they have a time machine, why would they be in a hurry to make the science fair on time?
I liked the "sincere garbage" and "macaroni art".
I can relate.
Well, even though I am a cranky old White guy, my Dad was in the USAF and I was born in the Philippines. I was raised there, in Japan, and on Okinawa while it was still an American Territory. I grew up with Manga, and I still love them as they still have much better stories than American comic books do. I just can't get over your saying there is actually just one page of that art per chapter. I just think they could find affordable Manga artists in a place just as insane as their own ideas. North Korea.
Anyone else feel like its a bit of a cop out to just bring the main characters dad back? I feel like this was done so that they dont actually have to address the problem of evil again when they convert him later.
Although considering the best they could offer was essentially "its not gods fault your dads dead its yours!" perhaps they didnt see another option.
Erica, I absolutely love your introduction. Thank you for introducing me to miracle musical... They are amazing,
I want gutsick gibbon narrated audio books
This video deserves more views. I love the pointed transition to the intro. Just made my evening.
On pre-read vs first reactions: why not both? You could record your first reading with first impressions, then hit the important bits again in a commentary vid once you've had time for your thoughts to stew. Potentially double the content for roughly the same effort!
12:40 I seriously thought it was "Jack's hole tightened..."
took me a long time to work out that you weren't referring to the flood as the "Milwaukeean Deluge" 😭
I need to see more of you reviewing this series, it's hilarious.
Yeah I'm not surprised they would make a manga about this fairy tale and I'm pretty sure they'll make an anime about it pretty soon. If they haven't already.
That's pretty expensive, but if they can get AiG involved maybe they could do it.
Well, I'm glad I now know the titles, so I can avoid them at all costs.
It's not even a manga. It's a light novel at best and that's being generous.
This made me picture a Clutch Cargo style of animation.
1:28 absolutely classic clip, you're the goat for including
we really need anime on that ! 49:00 omg, what incredible dramma!
I just imagine a YEC, being really 70 million years ago and watching different constellation, he will just say about accelerated star movement and live cycle.
Woah an Ice Spiders reference? I used to watch the SyFy channel all the time when I was younger and loved when it came on.
Major bonus points awarded for the Filthy Frank reference. ❤
We all miss him dearly
Now I'm convinced I have to buy this book (or locate it online, so to speak) so me and my friends can get together and do a dramatic table read of this, lol.
I wonder if this dude has been sitting at his email or some shit frantically refreshing it desperately hoping he'll sell even one copy. And then he finally does, he's so excited. Finally I sold my first copy of my passion project manga! Then a while later he finds this video
"Hello there, fellow kids! Do you like the Japanese style art? I bet we all think it's pretty hip, right? And that Jesus...pretty cool...all of us kids like that Jesus...and going to church...because we're some cool cats...
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...right?"
So this book was written by that Steve Buscemi meme?
I'm so excited for yec story time! This has some childhood nostalgia with adult science thrown in
I'm sure solving the Problem of Evil by having Jax's dad not actually be dead will be really effective for readers whose dads have died for real.
This is a super good vid! You should do more like this its nice n light hearted compared to the heavy shit you bin covering lately, you deserve to take a nice break
...so, the kid who's mourning the death of his father... Invents a time machine... Does not immediately go back and save his father
I think it's a neat work of fiction. The story is pretty simple, and it fits in nicely on the teen reading scene. The only issue is that the writers don't realize that it's fiction, and thus, the dialog is a bit goofy.
I can't believe I sat here and let you read a goddamn teen Early Earth Creationist novel to me! And I enjoyed it!
What is happening to me?!?!
I actually read and really liked this series when I was a YEC! haha. Maybe someday you can cover my creationist high school biology textbooks from Apologia, lol. Seriously though, thanks for taking the time to cover stuff like this. It’s been a wild ride sorting through my literalist upbringing, not the least of which has been learning about human evolution from your channel. 🫡
I have enjoyed your informative videos for a while but I am SO hooked on the idea of you reading the rest of this story. 😂
Maybe a tangent, but your opening bit reminds me of why "Miami Connection" is one of my favorite movies. It's so awful, so amateurishly done, so cheesy, but it's so EARNEST. They wanted to make a good movie. Everyone involved was trying, without cynicism, without irony, just doing their best to make a martial arts flick. It fails along every possible metric, but it's SO watchable, because of that earnestness. I absolutely adore it. Contrast with more recent films that tried to be "so bad it's good," like Velocipastor or anything Tommy Wiseau did post-The Room, and you can see how important earnestness actually is.
Can try R.O.T.O.R. too
Against the ninja!
Hey girl! Do you already have, or can you make, a video about the diet and eating habits of different hominids and other apes? I'm really curious about it and how our diets have evolved to now, and how horrible our current diet is for us. Which other ones eat meat and how often? I also wonder since we have changed our produce and food for the better over the years. OG corn and bananas sucked to eat etc.
Thanks!
yo that animated intro is sick i love it
I could sleep to gutsicks voice. No cap I’ve done it countless times now. And I’m not mocking in the slightest, it’s just soothing to me. Maybe it’s the scientific facts I find soothing . Either way I could just listen for hours or sleep like a little baby listening to gutsicks TH-cam videos
I respect that they're sticking with the "clock in the present continues to tick" aspect from the Excellent Adventure film. Without this, there's no urgency; you could just go to any other arbitrary point in time. You could even go back to one hour before the present and sabotage the time machine to prevent the whole adventure.
About the teen drama component.
Willow: He stole my Barbie.
Buffy: [raised eyebrows]
Willow: ...we were five.
I wonder why we don’t have more written records of people dealing with non-avian dinosaur attacks?
Pretty sure we have written records from a few different cultures from 5k years ago.
This was incredibly entertaining and I absolutely want more of the series.
I can’t wait for you to get to the one about Mars lol