Hi beautiful viewers, we've decided to make our pinned comments a little weekly diary for ya'll. I had a lot of fun making this video, one thing I've always noticed is that youtubers tend to not really talk about themselves much, it leaves me wondering about what kind of people they are so i try to put a little of myself into every video. there was lots of anime i wasn't able to talk about in this video but hey, you only have so much time. Also, don't worry about our views. we choose to make videos like this despite the algorithm because for bonsai pop our BIGGEST hope is to garner an audience of people who actually enjoy us, not just our content topics. other than that, man it's been a wild couple of weeks. we have been busy busy busy. after working full time on youtube for so long i feel for mangakas on a spiritual level, it's just create create create. but it's fun and having you watch makes it all worth it. patreon is going well, we love seeing new people pop in there and getting to know them in the discord, its a really great community. anyway, this is all the time i have today. i can't wait to read all the comments, im excited to see you all next week. -mike
Hey Mike. Wanted to say that, being a relatively new anime fan (only 14 months), I've been focusing on a few seasonals per season, along with at least one classic. For example, last season I watched The Promised Neverland, Kaguya-sama and Domestic Girlfriend (regretted the last one a bit), and along with those, I picked up Steins; Gate. This season, it'll be JoJo's. I'll try to start picking up older shows too, from the 2000s at first (FMAB) and then move on to the 90s (Cowboy Bebop, Neon Genesis Evangelion). Don't think I'll be able to get into 80s anime just yet, but I think I'll get into it as time passes, and gain more experience. Basically trying to get the best of both worlds, and achieve the best experience for me.
@@aggelossourelis1040 all good choices, and i loved domestic girlfriend lol, dont be ashamed haha. one of the cool things about 80's anime is that there's a lot of movies, you can step into it without having to dedicate yourself to a long series like jojo. i definitely recommend starting with ninja scroll if you can find a way to watch it, its a regular length movie and it's awesome.
@@BonsaiPop good to know. As for DomeKano, I'm not ashamed at all ;p just a bit disappointed from the quality of it, compared to the manga. Another question... is Akira from the 80s or 90s? I've heard great things about it from everyone, and now, you included. I was planning to watch it at some point.
Hey, I was wondering if you can do a video about Sunbow. As far as I heard, it's a famous Japanese animation company that helped develop American cartoons like Transformers and Jem. I was thinking that since Sunbow's lineup was developed partially in Japan, would some cartoons in the 80s be considered anime by proxy or American Anime. What's your opinion?
As long as we remember them and continue to recommend them they won't die. I grew up with Sailor Moon, Pokemon, and Dragon Ball Z, but due to me being under 10 at the time I didn't know about any of the other more Teenage and Adult oriented anime from that era like Berserk, Akira, Yu Yu Hakusho, Cowboy Bebop, Neon Genesis Evangelion, Ninja Scroll, and Trigun. I ended up hearing about them after I got back into anime as an adult from various videos on TH-cam, and now they (and many others) are among my favourites. I've in turn recommended them to younger anime fans, and thus the cycle continues. :)
In a lot of ways, being gay is "punk" in it's own way, and things like X-men, and anime like Sailor Moon/Dragonball, and some of the crazy obscure stuff my half-sister would give to me for my birthday every year really resonated with me and helped me become me even though I sometimes felt really alone in a world that hated me. I started my high school's anime club alongside my senior friend at the time. Watched classics like Vampire Hunter D:Bloodlust, Robotech, Eva, Cowboy Bebop (which I think is overrated but still "a classic?'"), Ghibli films (Princess Mononoke, that MASTERPIECE), etc. Went to school for game art, which never worked out, but part of the curriculum involved learning about 2D animation before segwaying into 3D, and the 2D animation education really resonated with me and expanded my appreciation of the art form in almost every way imaginable. I still hope to somehow break into that and make the gay battle shounen show of my dreams (Steven Universe meets Dragonball/YuYuHakusho/Hunter x Hunter). Not sure what my point is but thanks for the fantastic video, I resonated with it. Unrelated: A new anime movie came out here in Japan last week by my favorite studio, Trigger, called Promare. Please watch it (when possible lol). It's everything I've ever wanted in an animated film.
I’m happy to have been born in the 90s. The nostalgic aspect of classic anime like outlaw star, big o, trigun, gundam, dbz, etc will always hold a special place in my heart and let me escape life and dive into imagination.
You may not agree but fist of the norrh star was a masterpiece. Characters deaths felt real and sad. The music was brilliant and blended in perfectly and enhanced the scene. It has a great end for season 1 and i haven't really seen s2 because season 1 had the perfect end and solved all arks. I think it deserves its own video
Hiding in Public has also contributed to this dialogue fyi I like the distinction of Classic and Classical, and appreciated the personal angle here. Good stuff!
I love yalls channel. Recently found you on the youtubes, and now have to burn through all your content. I love the outlook you have on anime. The conclusions you come to are wonderful, and so personal.
I come from a time when anime was not as easily available. At that time there was no such thing as a bad anime. I watched everything. Bootlegs, heavily edited shows movies on tv at 5am. Syfy channel movies. I love that things are so readily available now. It does pain me that the classics don't seem to get much love anymore. With so many options and new shows, there isn't much reason for newer anime fans to check out older shows. Have to be current to keep up with current conversations. That is why i appreciate you talking about some of the older shows. Many of the shows you mentioned are fantastic. I could make a lot more suggestions, but i will only give one...check out Great Teacher Onizuka!😁
boy am I glad that you made this video cause while they both had good points that I loved they were both slightly off as well then again I'm an older guy who remembers most of what you said fondly and remembers the classics not for what I wanted them to be but for what they are and how they impacted me anyway great video and a lovely response to both guys and I'm looking forward to those videos you have in store in the future for those classic anime
Watching this gave me a similar sense of calming nostalgia to when I rewatch Kenshin or Inuyasha or Sailor Moon. It was exactly what I needed today, thanks guys 😊❤️
I'm a first time watcher. From the moment I heard "Anime is punk rock cartoons" my attention was hooked. This is my favorite video I've seen in a long time because of the honesty and the use of the past to examine the present. My hats off to you sir. Phenomenal.
as a punk kid who also grew up feeling alone in massachusetts (albeit much closer to boston), i fully relate and approve this message. anime did very much the same for me in my childhood and its why i still gravitate to the classics even now! thanks for this video, really enjoyed it.
5:30 Punk was born in New York via the Ramones. Punk is an American creation that made it's way to Britain via the Ramones. If you're a history buff you should know this, and if you're intellectually honest you will not ignore its genesis with the Ramones.
Love the video, only “ complaint” is the vastness of information online as a substitute for college. Honestly for me film and animation study classes helped me learn a rhetoric to talk/argue certain animation. Online is great but being in a real group of people is so different, not saying one is better but it’s a different experience. Also I got a degree in psych so film studies was a fun way to get credits.
Even though I don't watch anime I really enjoyed your video! That "personal anthropology" aspect was very insightful and, as a matter of fact, at the time of seeing the video I was reading "Supernatural Horror in Literature", an essay by H. P. Lovecraft on the history of horror - from its dawn to the weird tale of his time. Guess I did a fair share of "antropology-ing".
Probably one of my favorite classics is Serial Experiments Lain. Every time I watch that anime, I walk away looking around at MY reality and questioning the validity of EVERYTHING. Like, with how much the internet is embedded in everything we do now, what is reality? What is fantasy? How do we even know that the reality that we live in is the real reality? How do we know that everything and everyone isn't just a simulation? I'm serious, I walk away from that anime asking these questions all the time.
Never had someone explain it so clearly. As an anime, punk, who stuck out like a sore thumb, now 34 years old, thank you for putting this out. It's very validating, and also goes a long way in terms of giving a larger understanding to what was clearly there the whole time. Massive props.
Definitely well put I definitely felt like mike as a kid coming up but then again I feel like that still has as an adult but great channel Mike keep up the good work 👍🏾
Hey Mike, love your sincerity. Love the channel as a whole, always looking to help your audience grow and growing yourselves. Appreciate all the deep takes on the deeper meaning behind anime, I’ve been deeply pondering so much since then. Found you guys from the Trigun video, which was the PERFECT take I was looking for after watching it for the first time. Cheers 🤘🏼
Hmm something I noticed when you mentioned Fist of the North Star being classical but not a classic. Now I find that odd, in Japan, Fist of the North Star is a classic true to the core. It's often memed and referenced to the point that even if you haven't seen it you know the basic story and characters. Now this maybe the fact that the generation who is the main working force in media are the one who grew up reading and watching it, now this may be the case with something like Ashita no Joe a few generation prior. The reason I bring this up is a "Classic" should have no boundaries like age and demographic, but now what about national borders? Some timeless classics of film can be boundless in that case, like Star Wars or even The Great Escape. But is there a similar sense for anime, animation would be a different story due to the influence of Disney. This all may fall upon if that series or film had the chance to cross the border, one case like that would be Nagai Gou's work over in Spain. Due the recent craze and realization over in the states for his work thanks to Devilman Cry Baby but before this his works were niche at best. Now over in Spain, where they had the broadcast of Mazinger Z allowed for this series to become a Classic for that nation. One reason we can note that there wasn't a influx of Japanese animation in the states is the fact of America's own robust animation industry, which didn't allow many shows to be brought over to the states. Now the 80's is a different story all in all. Due to the geekdom of Japanese animation forming in the subculture. Which allows for an audience to form and initiation of the incubation of said classics.
After watching this video, I now know why your content resonated with me. As someone who was introduced to punk and anime at a very young age. I'm only a year older than you actually. My aunt who's always been more of an older sister figure in my life introduced me to both. Which sounds less weird, when I explain she's only seven years older than me. First anime I ever saw was Vampire Hunter D and then Ninja Scrolls. Both blew my child mind. Being that we are from the golden era of cartoons, they were an important part of my childhood. As I'm sure you now know, cartoons were heavily censored in the states during that time period. So as a kid who already loved campy action and sci-fi films of the era. Once I saw "cartoons" could be the same way, it gave me a completely different perspective. I unfortunately had a falling out with anime cause at eleven years old, I moved from FL to upstate NY. I lost access to my cool aunt's adult anime rentals. Thanks to lovely pirate sites I've been doing some crate digging more recently. I share your mentality for your love of history, wanting to know the origins of things. I did want to make one minor critique. It's a big misconception that punk music originated in England. The truth is that it's American as rocknroll. Which was another one of our lovely exports. I'd also like to point out that most of American music genres that were popularized were created by black Americans. You name and they created it. It's truly a travesty they don't get the recognition that they deserve on influencing so much of our culture. The punk as we know actually came out of the 60s "garage rock" scene. Three bands that greatly influenced them were the New York Dolls, MC5, and The Stooges. Which went onto help inspire what we know as the first wave English punk scene. But if you ever listen to what influenced by it was American rocknroll, R&B, Soul, Delta Blues. If you're into history in general and haven't read it already. I highly recommend "A People's History of the United States" by Howard Zinn. It's the most raw accurate and un-whitewashed version of our history. If you haven't gone down the American leftist history, that's another rabbit hole worth going down. Anyways hope all is well! Keep up the great videos.
I never though i would be a history buff myself, i used to hate history cuz i struggled with it, until i found history memes, then i started to love talking and debating history
On your final point I exposed my little bro to a lot of good classics. He's starting middle school this semester and I wanted him to not feel dead inside. Way ahead of ya on showing the next generation.
I love my boyfriend and although I understand why he wants me to just keep up with the times of downloading my favorite showers rather than buying physical copies and only buying blurays over DVDs, I wish he was a little kinder to the attachment I have to these ways that I showed my fondness for the work, especially ones that haven't been upgraded to bluray. The way I grew up being much more old school even for our age. That's why I appreciate funimation releasing their shows in Conbo packs.
Honestly, in the first seven-or-so minutes, you were giving an exact retelling of my childhood. Replace a few events and the term "otaku" with "weeaboo" (I was born '01, and only learned what it meant, to my total chagrin, last year). Incredible how similar your experiences can be to other peoples'
Galaxy Angel was an anime and visual novel I recently discovered in 2016, but was made starting from 2001. You consume the two forms of this series for two different reasons, the anime for comedy and the VN for an actual romantic narrative and tactics based games, though there is a manga based on the VN, but good luck finding it because Broccoli Books is dead. Also unfortunately, the only version of the VN we have access to in the West is an... Okay translation of the original PC version which I can tell for certainty is NOT the definitive version, that title goes to the Playstation 2 versions, and a second trilogy of novels would be continued exclusively on PS2. The only Galaxy Angel media we can casually obtain here in the West is the anime, the comedic form we see it as is a result of Broccoli being late with their VN games and Madhouse needing to make up a bunch of shit for the girls to do with the little information they had. Needless to say, our Galaxy Angel anime experience could have been completely different had the VN been on time. That said, it is very fun to watch if you like cute girls in funny situations in the setting of outer space or on an array of different planets. Also, Nozomi Entertainment is selling the Blu-Ray editions and has the first season on their channel. That said, I would absolutely love to do anything possible for us here in the West to experience the Galaxy Angel Visual Novel because it contains wholesome romance content subtly inspired by The Art of War, implemented via the interractions of main male lead Tact Mayers and "5 characters", the dateable girls. For example, my favorite is the vertically challenged, cute but cynical bunny eared cutie Mint Blancmanche. She represents sincerity and your ability to be truthful and honest. Also quite the litmus test for detecting lolicon, she is actually 16-17 through the first trilogy and 21 in the second, but she looks closer to 10 (even stated by Tact himself) standing as tall as Wee Man. She also has telepathy. I can talk about the other girls later, but for now I want to end this with a plea to visit my channel and see the Galaxy Angel VN for yourselves, I am currently working on Mint's route.
Hey, my boy Hiding in Public made a video responding to all this. Give him the recognition he deserves and go watch his vid! After this one of course...
Man... I used to hate my country’s local channels and little i knew that they were gonna teach me A LOT about anime. I’m from Puerto Rico and I don’t know if it was because it was cheap for them to buy and air... but in the 90’s, very early like 5am to 7am before i went to school, (all dub in spanish of course) i saw Zenki, Saint Saiya , techno man then they started airing Rurouni Kenshin , Records of lodos war and DB (original) way before the west started airing most of those shows. Tho i started seeing DBZ in fox (1994 i think), it frustrated me that it started over to Raditz everytime Goku arrived on Namek...stil it was AWESOME. Puerto Rico started airing the uncensored DBZ episodes which were epic... then YEARS LATER , Toonami came to be and let me finish the Frieza Saga etc. But then... Adultswim arrived and that was my oblivion with anime.. starting with my fav of all time being Cowboy bebop, loved trigun and Yu Yu Hakusho (which was the first one to introduce me brainy strategies with Kurama i’ve never seen before, reason i love death note was because of yu yu hakusho)) Inuyasha was cool... felt in love with Samurai Champloo being my second favorite anime and now I seen way more anime that i can remember... So now that i think about it... I’m freaking grateful of my local tv channels for giving me that gift (Never thought i would say that).
Bro I reeeaaally hope you've played No More Heroes with your anime/punk philosophy. If you haven't, you really should play No More Heroes and honestly get familiar with all of Grasshopper Manufacture and SUDA51's work. You'd love them. Their motto is "PUNK'S NOT DEAD".
No mention of La Blue Girl (ha ha)? Seriously though maybe someone can help. Netflix released a new show "Gargantia on the Verdurous Planet." The premise seemed very familiar to a show I remember from the mid 90s and I was hoping someone could tell me what it was called. Our video rental store had a series of VHS Tapes with maybe 4 episodes 30 minutes each, but they didn't have the whole series. What I remember is there was a war on earth and the start of the show involved people fighting around, or possible for control of, some kind of vortex. Our hero got sucked in and lost consciousness. When he came to, he was sometime in the future in a medical bay on some kind of caravan, and the vortex was still present but technology had sort of regressed. But enemies were still attacking the caravan. The one stand out that I remember involved the fact that when people matured past adult hood (like mid-life 40s ish, not elderly) biologically they lost the ability to have kids and didn't have a sex drive anymore, and this was causing a population drop in addition to being attacked all the time. That's what I vaguely remember, probably a lot of it is wrong or jumbled with other shows I've seen. Anybody know of anything like that?
Oooo I saw clips from Project A-ko I forgot that that was another anime I grew up with. Oh was that X-Clamp...wholy Totoro that's a flashback. Ahh SAMURAI SHOWDOWN! Loved that game.
Hello Bonsai Pop, I'm not sure of you guys will see this, but have you ever seen a movie called The Dagger of Kamui? It's an anime movie from 1985 based on a book of the same name. It's pretty good (and weird)! Might make for an interesting video!
What is the anime from the 2:14 mark to 2:20? I remember seeing that exact scene on cable when I was like 14 and for the life of me I can't remember what it is.
Really love your videos dude, hope you don’t mind me stealing your description of anime “Anime is Punk Rock Cartoon” just perfect. Glad to have came across another top anime channel. Keep up the passion!
Interesting that you say it's the punk rock of the animated world..... was having a recent convo with a buddy and we compared it to the underground hiphop of the animated world
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Hi beautiful viewers, we've decided to make our pinned comments a little weekly diary for ya'll. I had a lot of fun making this video, one thing I've always noticed is that youtubers tend to not really talk about themselves much, it leaves me wondering about what kind of people they are so i try to put a little of myself into every video. there was lots of anime i wasn't able to talk about in this video but hey, you only have so much time. Also, don't worry about our views. we choose to make videos like this despite the algorithm because for bonsai pop our BIGGEST hope is to garner an audience of people who actually enjoy us, not just our content topics. other than that, man it's been a wild couple of weeks. we have been busy busy busy. after working full time on youtube for so long i feel for mangakas on a spiritual level, it's just create create create. but it's fun and having you watch makes it all worth it. patreon is going well, we love seeing new people pop in there and getting to know them in the discord, its a really great community. anyway, this is all the time i have today. i can't wait to read all the comments, im excited to see you all next week.
-mike
Hey Mike. Wanted to say that, being a relatively new anime fan (only 14 months), I've been focusing on a few seasonals per season, along with at least one classic. For example, last season I watched The Promised Neverland, Kaguya-sama and Domestic Girlfriend (regretted the last one a bit), and along with those, I picked up Steins; Gate. This season, it'll be JoJo's. I'll try to start picking up older shows too, from the 2000s at first (FMAB) and then move on to the 90s (Cowboy Bebop, Neon Genesis Evangelion). Don't think I'll be able to get into 80s anime just yet, but I think I'll get into it as time passes, and gain more experience. Basically trying to get the best of both worlds, and achieve the best experience for me.
@@aggelossourelis1040 all good choices, and i loved domestic girlfriend lol, dont be ashamed haha. one of the cool things about 80's anime is that there's a lot of movies, you can step into it without having to dedicate yourself to a long series like jojo. i definitely recommend starting with ninja scroll if you can find a way to watch it, its a regular length movie and it's awesome.
@@BonsaiPop good to know. As for DomeKano, I'm not ashamed at all ;p just a bit disappointed from the quality of it, compared to the manga.
Another question... is Akira from the 80s or 90s? I've heard great things about it from everyone, and now, you included. I was planning to watch it at some point.
Hey, I was wondering if you can do a video about Sunbow. As far as I heard, it's a famous Japanese animation company that helped develop American cartoons like Transformers and Jem. I was thinking that since Sunbow's lineup was developed partially in Japan, would some cartoons in the 80s be considered anime by proxy or American Anime. What's your opinion?
This is great keep doing you
"Anime is punk rock cartoons." Thanks for putting to bed a 20 year pedantic struggle to say why I love this medium so much.
I love anime n hate punk rock lol
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as long as ip owner still supoort them...
_Anime is the emo rock of cartoons._
It’s some hip hop / jazz / r n b inspired but essentially it’s punk rockish
It's nuance point about non comformity
Cowboy Bebop is my favourite anime.
That being said, classic anime has this warm, special place in my heart~ ❤️
Cowboy Bebop is definitely considered a classic.
As long as we remember them and continue to recommend them they won't die. I grew up with Sailor Moon, Pokemon, and Dragon Ball Z, but due to me being under 10 at the time I didn't know about any of the other more Teenage and Adult oriented anime from that era like Berserk, Akira, Yu Yu Hakusho, Cowboy Bebop, Neon Genesis Evangelion, Ninja Scroll, and Trigun. I ended up hearing about them after I got back into anime as an adult from various videos on TH-cam, and now they (and many others) are among my favourites. I've in turn recommended them to younger anime fans, and thus the cycle continues. :)
In a lot of ways, being gay is "punk" in it's own way, and things like X-men, and anime like Sailor Moon/Dragonball, and some of the crazy obscure stuff my half-sister would give to me for my birthday every year really resonated with me and helped me become me even though I sometimes felt really alone in a world that hated me. I started my high school's anime club alongside my senior friend at the time. Watched classics like Vampire Hunter D:Bloodlust, Robotech, Eva, Cowboy Bebop (which I think is overrated but still "a classic?'"), Ghibli films (Princess Mononoke, that MASTERPIECE), etc.
Went to school for game art, which never worked out, but part of the curriculum involved learning about 2D animation before segwaying into 3D, and the 2D animation education really resonated with me and expanded my appreciation of the art form in almost every way imaginable. I still hope to somehow break into that and make the gay battle shounen show of my dreams (Steven Universe meets Dragonball/YuYuHakusho/Hunter x Hunter).
Not sure what my point is but thanks for the fantastic video, I resonated with it.
Unrelated: A new anime movie came out here in Japan last week by my favorite studio, Trigger, called Promare. Please watch it (when possible lol). It's everything I've ever wanted in an animated film.
I’m happy to have been born in the 90s. The nostalgic aspect of classic anime like outlaw star, big o, trigun, gundam, dbz, etc will always hold a special place in my heart and let me escape life and dive into imagination.
I see spike I click ❤️
Are you gonna carry that weight?.....
Mike's legs are short, can confirm
You may not agree but fist of the norrh star was a masterpiece. Characters deaths felt real and sad. The music was brilliant and blended in perfectly and enhanced the scene. It has a great end for season 1 and i haven't really seen s2 because season 1 had the perfect end and solved all arks. I think it deserves its own video
Oh its a masterpiece to me personally, i just didnt want to rub people any more than i already do!
Hiding in Public has also contributed to this dialogue fyi I like the distinction of Classic and Classical, and appreciated the personal angle here. Good stuff!
Both those channels are a reason I stumbled across this one, so fitting this was a response to the other videos I saw from them!
I love yalls channel. Recently found you on the youtubes, and now have to burn through all your content. I love the outlook you have on anime. The conclusions you come to are wonderful, and so personal.
I come from a time when anime was not as easily available. At that time there was no such thing as a bad anime. I watched everything. Bootlegs, heavily edited shows movies on tv at 5am. Syfy channel movies. I love that things are so readily available now. It does pain me that the classics don't seem to get much love anymore. With so many options and new shows, there isn't much reason for newer anime fans to check out older shows. Have to be current to keep up with current conversations. That is why i appreciate you talking about some of the older shows. Many of the shows you mentioned are fantastic. I could make a lot more suggestions, but i will only give one...check out Great Teacher Onizuka!😁
Thanks for this video, man... it's awesome, I love your point of view on this topic.
boy am I glad that you made this video cause while they both had good points that I loved they were both slightly off as well then again I'm an older guy who remembers most of what you said fondly and remembers the classics not for what I wanted them to be but for what they are and how they impacted me anyway great video and a lovely response to both guys and I'm looking forward to those videos you have in store in the future for those classic anime
Love you and love this channel. Glad to have recently subscribed. Stay awesome💖💖💖
Watching this gave me a similar sense of calming nostalgia to when I rewatch Kenshin or Inuyasha or Sailor Moon. It was exactly what I needed today, thanks guys 😊❤️
YU YU HAKUSHO IS MY ABSOLUTE FAVORITE ANIME OF ALL TIME
You got amazing taste 👍👍👍
Yes! This anime is so goated
The quality of everything about bebop will NEVER be matched
I'm a first time watcher. From the moment I heard "Anime is punk rock cartoons" my attention was hooked. This is my favorite video I've seen in a long time because of the honesty and the use of the past to examine the present. My hats off to you sir. Phenomenal.
as a punk kid who also grew up feeling alone in massachusetts (albeit much closer to boston), i fully relate and approve this message. anime did very much the same for me in my childhood and its why i still gravitate to the classics even now! thanks for this video, really enjoyed it.
5:30 Punk was born in New York via the Ramones. Punk is an American creation that made it's way to Britain via the Ramones. If you're a history buff you should know this, and if you're intellectually honest you will not ignore its genesis with the Ramones.
Love the video, only “ complaint” is the vastness of information online as a substitute for college. Honestly for me film and animation study classes helped me learn a rhetoric to talk/argue certain animation. Online is great but being in a real group of people is so different, not saying one is better but it’s a different experience. Also I got a degree in psych so film studies was a fun way to get credits.
Even though I don't watch anime I really enjoyed your video! That "personal anthropology" aspect was very insightful and, as a matter of fact, at the time of seeing the video I was reading "Supernatural Horror in Literature", an essay by H. P. Lovecraft on the history of horror - from its dawn to the weird tale of his time. Guess I did a fair share of "antropology-ing".
God that FFIX music transition was so good. Nice taste for sure.
I think this might end up being one of my fav channels😊
Probably one of my favorite classics is Serial Experiments Lain. Every time I watch that anime, I walk away looking around at MY reality and questioning the validity of EVERYTHING. Like, with how much the internet is embedded in everything we do now, what is reality? What is fantasy? How do we even know that the reality that we live in is the real reality? How do we know that everything and everyone isn't just a simulation?
I'm serious, I walk away from that anime asking these questions all the time.
Classic is always a good thing to relive. Even when new anime disappoints we have a beautiful story to relive even with the lower graphic quality
Never had someone explain it so clearly. As an anime, punk, who stuck out like a sore thumb, now 34 years old, thank you for putting this out. It's very validating, and also goes a long way in terms of giving a larger understanding to what was clearly there the whole time. Massive props.
Definitely well put I definitely felt like mike as a kid coming up but then again I feel like that still has as an adult but great channel Mike keep up the good work 👍🏾
Hey Mike, love your sincerity. Love the channel as a whole, always looking to help your audience grow and growing yourselves. Appreciate all the deep takes on the deeper meaning behind anime, I’ve been deeply pondering so much since then. Found you guys from the Trigun video, which was the PERFECT take I was looking for after watching it for the first time. Cheers 🤘🏼
Hmm something I noticed when you mentioned Fist of the North Star being classical but not a classic. Now I find that odd, in Japan, Fist of the North Star is a classic true to the core. It's often memed and referenced to the point that even if you haven't seen it you know the basic story and characters. Now this maybe the fact that the generation who is the main working force in media are the one who grew up reading and watching it, now this may be the case with something like Ashita no Joe a few generation prior. The reason I bring this up is a "Classic" should have no boundaries like age and demographic, but now what about national borders? Some timeless classics of film can be boundless in that case, like Star Wars or even The Great Escape. But is there a similar sense for anime, animation would be a different story due to the influence of Disney. This all may fall upon if that series or film had the chance to cross the border, one case like that would be Nagai Gou's work over in Spain. Due the recent craze and realization over in the states for his work thanks to Devilman Cry Baby but before this his works were niche at best. Now over in Spain, where they had the broadcast of Mazinger Z allowed for this series to become a Classic for that nation. One reason we can note that there wasn't a influx of Japanese animation in the states is the fact of America's own robust animation industry, which didn't allow many shows to be brought over to the states. Now the 80's is a different story all in all. Due to the geekdom of Japanese animation forming in the subculture. Which allows for an audience to form and initiation of the incubation of said classics.
Yes the zoids shout out. I use to wake up at 5am as a kid during school days just to watch Zoids that show was my shit.
I mean... he kinda threw shade at it.
I'm salty. I like Zoids too
First video I’ve ever seen from you. Gotta say this was an amazing video. Really great thinking and editing. Got a sub out of me!
After watching this video, I now know why your content resonated with me. As someone who was introduced to punk and anime at a very young age. I'm only a year older than you actually. My aunt who's always been more of an older sister figure in my life introduced me to both. Which sounds less weird, when I explain she's only seven years older than me. First anime I ever saw was Vampire Hunter D and then Ninja Scrolls. Both blew my child mind. Being that we are from the golden era of cartoons, they were an important part of my childhood. As I'm sure you now know, cartoons were heavily censored in the states during that time period. So as a kid who already loved campy action and sci-fi films of the era. Once I saw "cartoons" could be the same way, it gave me a completely different perspective. I unfortunately had a falling out with anime cause at eleven years old, I moved from FL to upstate NY. I lost access to my cool aunt's adult anime rentals. Thanks to lovely pirate sites I've been doing some crate digging more recently. I share your mentality for your love of history, wanting to know the origins of things. I did want to make one minor critique. It's a big misconception that punk music originated in England. The truth is that it's American as rocknroll. Which was another one of our lovely exports. I'd also like to point out that most of American music genres that were popularized were created by black Americans. You name and they created it. It's truly a travesty they don't get the recognition that they deserve on influencing so much of our culture. The punk as we know actually came out of the 60s "garage rock" scene. Three bands that greatly influenced them were the New York Dolls, MC5, and The Stooges. Which went onto help inspire what we know as the first wave English punk scene. But if you ever listen to what influenced by it was American rocknroll, R&B, Soul, Delta Blues. If you're into history in general and haven't read it already. I highly recommend "A People's History of the United States" by Howard Zinn. It's the most raw accurate and un-whitewashed version of our history. If you haven't gone down the American leftist history, that's another rabbit hole worth going down. Anyways hope all is well! Keep up the great videos.
Anime after establishment but before cliché. Finally it's been said.
Hey I also was from MA and explored an abandoned mental hospital when I was a kid cuz there was nothing better to do!
Love these videos. Keep up the good work ninjas
Mike is the kind of kindred spirit that speaks to my soul.
I love the music clips you use throughout your videos!
Keep up this level of content and you'll be at a hundred thousand subs in no time.
I never though i would be a history buff myself, i used to hate history cuz i struggled with it, until i found history memes, then i started to love talking and debating history
This video hit me in the heart ❤️
Thank you for the knowledge you give to me in this video
Love that you have Witch Hunter Robin footage in here.
There should be more talk of all the d&d inspired 80-90anime. Lodos, escaflowne, 3x3 eyes
Really good video.
Also watch Ashita no Joe
Holy friggin hell I knew that brand of humor only came from our neck of the woods. Gardner, MA native here :D
I love seeing some love for Witch Hunter Robin! May only be clips, but I thought I was the only one to watch it. Bravo Sir!
Good analysis keep up the content bruh
Holy shit the feels I got from the Answer that and stay Fasionable booklet just sent me back to 7th grade...
Fully Agree! Thanks for this Video and your Opinion.
Oh the distinction you make between classic and classical is helpful. :)
You gave a shout out to math proofs! Tremendous
On your final point I exposed my little bro to a lot of good classics. He's starting middle school this semester and I wanted him to not feel dead inside. Way ahead of ya on showing the next generation.
8:40 THAT is a feeling. I started collecting cassettes for this reason
Great vids. Any idea if we will get a video on Paranoia Agent?
Couldn't agree more, how exactly can something die when there is always a new generation of kids seeking out that same classic anime, music, TV, etc
Holy shit your a weeb from MA too. Did you guys play the opening for Stray from the Path?!
The fact that content like you make isn't more common or popular blows my mind
Great vid! What was the name of the anime with the goth girl smoking a cigarette? At 6:53 ?
Man your writing is criminally underrated.
I love my boyfriend and although I understand why he wants me to just keep up with the times of downloading my favorite showers rather than buying physical copies and only buying blurays over DVDs, I wish he was a little kinder to the attachment I have to these ways that I showed my fondness for the work, especially ones that haven't been upgraded to bluray. The way I grew up being much more old school even for our age. That's why I appreciate funimation releasing their shows in Conbo packs.
3:09
Ranma 1/2
that is a classic
i recognized about half the clips you used in this video
Honestly, in the first seven-or-so minutes, you were giving an exact retelling of my childhood. Replace a few events and the term "otaku" with "weeaboo" (I was born '01, and only learned what it meant, to my total chagrin, last year). Incredible how similar your experiences can be to other peoples'
Galaxy Angel was an anime and visual novel I recently discovered in 2016, but was made starting from 2001. You consume the two forms of this series for two different reasons, the anime for comedy and the VN for an actual romantic narrative and tactics based games, though there is a manga based on the VN, but good luck finding it because Broccoli Books is dead.
Also unfortunately, the only version of the VN we have access to in the West is an... Okay translation of the original PC version which I can tell for certainty is NOT the definitive version, that title goes to the Playstation 2 versions, and a second trilogy of novels would be continued exclusively on PS2.
The only Galaxy Angel media we can casually obtain here in the West is the anime, the comedic form we see it as is a result of Broccoli being late with their VN games and Madhouse needing to make up a bunch of shit for the girls to do with the little information they had. Needless to say, our Galaxy Angel anime experience could have been completely different had the VN been on time. That said, it is very fun to watch if you like cute girls in funny situations in the setting of outer space or on an array of different planets. Also, Nozomi Entertainment is selling the Blu-Ray editions and has the first season on their channel.
That said, I would absolutely love to do anything possible for us here in the West to experience the Galaxy Angel Visual Novel because it contains wholesome romance content subtly inspired by The Art of War, implemented via the interractions of main male lead Tact Mayers and "5 characters", the dateable girls. For example, my favorite is the vertically challenged, cute but cynical bunny eared cutie Mint Blancmanche. She represents sincerity and your ability to be truthful and honest. Also quite the litmus test for detecting lolicon, she is actually 16-17 through the first trilogy and 21 in the second, but she looks closer to 10 (even stated by Tact himself) standing as tall as Wee Man. She also has telepathy. I can talk about the other girls later, but for now I want to end this with a plea to visit my channel and see the Galaxy Angel VN for yourselves, I am currently working on Mint's route.
punk was a product of NYC,... britian grew it after it was birthed by cbgb's.
Hey, my boy Hiding in Public made a video responding to all this. Give him the recognition he deserves and go watch his vid!
After this one of course...
Loved the ff9 Burmecia background music
I love Zoids. Just putting it out there. Chaotic Century FTW.
1:07 featuring Jaime
Man... I used to hate my country’s local channels and little i knew that they were gonna teach me A LOT about anime. I’m from Puerto Rico and I don’t know if it was because it was cheap for them to buy and air... but in the 90’s, very early like 5am to 7am before i went to school, (all dub in spanish of course) i saw Zenki, Saint Saiya , techno man then they started airing Rurouni Kenshin , Records of lodos war and DB (original) way before the west started airing most of those shows.
Tho i started seeing DBZ in fox (1994 i think), it frustrated me that it started over to Raditz everytime Goku arrived on Namek...stil it was AWESOME. Puerto Rico started airing the uncensored DBZ episodes which were epic... then YEARS LATER , Toonami came to be and let me finish the Frieza Saga etc. But then... Adultswim arrived and that was my oblivion with anime.. starting with my fav of all time being Cowboy bebop, loved trigun and Yu Yu Hakusho (which was the first one to introduce me brainy strategies with Kurama i’ve never seen before, reason i love death note was because of yu yu hakusho)) Inuyasha was cool... felt in love with Samurai Champloo being my second favorite anime and now I seen way more anime that i can remember... So now that i think about it... I’m freaking grateful of my local tv channels for giving me that gift (Never thought i would say that).
Looks like you had 1 awesome childhood
personal bio, music and anime. thas a video right ther
I still try to forget about disney editing naussica
Bruh, as a fan of hardcore and punk and anime loved the parallels here
Bro I reeeaaally hope you've played No More Heroes with your anime/punk philosophy. If you haven't, you really should play No More Heroes and honestly get familiar with all of Grasshopper Manufacture and SUDA51's work. You'd love them. Their motto is "PUNK'S NOT DEAD".
My top 3 favorite anime of all time currently.
1) Dragonball (except for Kai)
2) Cowboy Bebop (only anime I would call a masterpiece)
3) Fairy Tail
U like cowboy bebop then u enjoy fairy tail? I mean I'm not the type to shit on ft but I just enjoy it ironically
@@davantiowo6519 well I find it funny and I like the theme of with your friends you can accomplish anything.
Justin Garrett How old are you? I’m not trying to shit on you or anything but that is just hilarious lmao
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*_Respect the Classics_*
Watch them
dont forget to check out gigguk and mother's basement's vids!
So much good anime in this vid!
No mention of La Blue Girl (ha ha)? Seriously though maybe someone can help. Netflix released a new show "Gargantia on the Verdurous Planet." The premise seemed very familiar to a show I remember from the mid 90s and I was hoping someone could tell me what it was called. Our video rental store had a series of VHS Tapes with maybe 4 episodes 30 minutes each, but they didn't have the whole series. What I remember is there was a war on earth and the start of the show involved people fighting around, or possible for control of, some kind of vortex. Our hero got sucked in and lost consciousness. When he came to, he was sometime in the future in a medical bay on some kind of caravan, and the vortex was still present but technology had sort of regressed. But enemies were still attacking the caravan. The one stand out that I remember involved the fact that when people matured past adult hood (like mid-life 40s ish, not elderly) biologically they lost the ability to have kids and didn't have a sex drive anymore, and this was causing a population drop in addition to being attacked all the time. That's what I vaguely remember, probably a lot of it is wrong or jumbled with other shows I've seen. Anybody know of anything like that?
Oooo I saw clips from Project A-ko I forgot that that was another anime I grew up with. Oh was that X-Clamp...wholy Totoro that's a flashback. Ahh SAMURAI SHOWDOWN! Loved that game.
That being said, another great video
A fellow yakuza fan? I’d be down to watch a story you never knew or something on that
Hello Bonsai Pop,
I'm not sure of you guys will see this, but have you ever seen a movie called The Dagger of Kamui?
It's an anime movie from 1985 based on a book of the same name. It's pretty good (and weird)!
Might make for an interesting video!
Appreciate your videos and not here to naysay, but punk started in Michigan, took root in New York and only became mainstream in the UK
What is the anime from the 2:14 mark to 2:20? I remember seeing that exact scene on cable when I was like 14 and for the life of me I can't remember what it is.
I'm from Massachusetts as well
oho new england!
@@BonsaiPop Of course!
somewhat considering making my own response to all this talk LOL
great video
Now I wish there was Vampire Hunter D anime series, not just an OVA.
That would be great but amonos art is hard to animate. No one wants to try. There is however a but load of material to use. So maybe someday.
Awesome vid
This is so spot on 🖤🌙✌️
I've started watching urusei Yatsura and it's hilarious. I don't binge watch it but catch an episode from time to time.
ff9 soundtrack? Loved it
Please do a video about legends of the galactic heroes and its 2018 ova polished version
Really love your videos dude, hope you don’t mind me stealing your description of anime “Anime is Punk Rock Cartoon” just perfect. Glad to have came across another top anime channel. Keep up the passion!
Most fucking relatable host ever
Interesting that you say it's the punk rock of the animated world..... was having a recent convo with a buddy and we compared it to the underground hiphop of the animated world