isekai is probably THE most niche thing you can think of. person gets thrown into an alternate reality, that is an rpg world of warcraft style type world, with overpowered abilities, and has to kill the demon king collecting harem girls along the way. It's so specific, but it's the most popular genre right now, Re:Zero, Konosuba, The Rising of The Shield Hero, and even DB Super are super popular and are all isekai.
@@bitbreaker3254 Funny you mention Konosuba and Re:Zero, as both of those are basically supposed to be parodies/commentary on the genre xD Konosuba is just taking the absolute piss out of all the tropes, where Re:Zero is taking it in a much more realistic and gritty direction.
@@3pleYT most likely, there is a huge community for fan made stuff they have a whole convention for fan made stuff with the Comiket, which is most likely where 99% of yaoi anatomy comes from. So that's may be why the anatomy on some of them looks fucked, they were just amateur works. But yeah most of the yaoi art I personally saw had good proportions.
Probably just that the artists are into big lips and hands. The long legs and small heads are probably part of trying to make their characters look tall and towering because men’s height is supposed to be a big deal.
Many of the action piece shots in the One Punch Man anime series were ripped directly from the manga source material. The animators (to an extent) didn't have to work terribly hard to envision the dynamic angles, lighting, movements, etc. Yusuke Murata could sell a manga about bottled water with his paneling.
He is such a great artist. Whats also impressive how he comes up with all the differend monster designs and even one-shot pedestrians look great and full of character. Incredibly talented.
@@THEPELADOMASTER Let's not knock the webcomic. ONE might not be the most artistically skilled, but his work in composition is some of the best the medium currently has to offer.
My opinion: in terms of art theory and technique kentaro Miura surpasses, well I would say any living artist but to keep it simple he is better the Yusuke Murata, however in terms of having fun with the design, I mean look at monster king orochi or some of the other monsters murata some how makes over the top over designed ridiculous monsters look cool, still so I think that’s the one area he kind of surpasses Miura
@@wellingtonribeiro847 aint gonna deny that, their is no way for human beings to ever reach true perfection in any form, but berserk comes close, characters design theme i cant find any flaw except that one two chapter storyline of gutts trapped as a kid and encounters a fairy, nothing bad about it just seems like an odd flashback with no purpose
Much as I love Araki I do think his never art tends to be horribly messy and cluttered. In many of the fights in SBR and JoJolion I honestly couldn't tell what was going on.
Any appreciation of Araki’s art warms my heart. Reading Jojo from Phantom Blood all the way to JoJolion, you really do come to appreciate the evolution of Araki’s voice in his storytelling as well as his vision and art, especially with the way he experiments with panels in Steel Ball Run and JoJolion. Araki is a genius.
well all mainstream manga artist deserve praise. I sometime draw panels from manga that somehow put me in a trance. And then i realized how hard it is to draw.
Dude, you should look up some of Junji Ito's illustration. He makes horror manga, but it's just so bizarre and unusually imaginative that I think you should give it a look. One of his more popular works is called Uzumaki, which involves spirals.
damn you only looked at one panel from berserk the entire series is absolutely gorgeous, so many amazing pieces of art, i think the one you looked at itself is far from the most impressive in the series
@@piotrkarp9562 agreed. But those are still only the first 5 volumes right, conpared to 40 sth. My personal favorite page is when Guts stops raging after noticing Casca in the cave. Such beautiful art and one of the most powerful scenes in the series.
@@berserker8884 I think it's really cool to see how Miura improved. It's really inspirational and he's art now is stellar. Beigng worst in the beginnig isn't worng. That dude grow so much!
@@soul6733 My favorite BY FAR is when Guts first time shows with his white patch on his hairs. When he is visibly tired but also smiling. Right after he regain control on berserk armor.
You should've seen how Araki does poses on characters from time to time, if I remember correctly the poses are references from fashion magazines, but still he makes his own executions done bizarrely perfect
One of the moment that came to my mind are the panels in One Punch Man where Garou ask Saitama why he became a hero and Saitama eventually answer him. The visuals just help selling the moment. XD
I almost choked when you said "I was recommended this genre by a bunch of people and it's called... Yaoi" You didn't deserve this man. They directly skipped the Hentai part.
Yeah I laughed because I'm thinking dude, start reading. You can see a steady progression as the Berserk series goes on, and his character / creature designs are WILD. Just hope you're not squeamish.
I think the reason yaoi art is so strange is because a lot of yaoi is classified as a type of manga called a Doujinshi. Doujinshi manga is unique to other manga because it is self published, and there's no company regulations or quality checks on how they're drawn.
>Has weird disproportionate portrayal of human anatomy >Has big focus on close relationships between men >Should be niche AF but somehow has a huge following Wait a minute... Is JoJo's a Yaoi?
For the jojo manga you have to take into consideration that there are no canonical colours and there are several colour palats used depending o the publisher. So sometimes you have issues coloured under the guide of Araki, but some other times you have unofficial or even fan colouring. And you can find colouring that looks fantastic, while others look really blurred for some reason and have background that don't help the colours of the characters, the main focus of the image, to stand out. Edit: Also SPOILERS! The one character in yellow happens to be female, she is called hot pants and in most cases she is in pink outfit.
The last two volumes of Slam Dunk by Inoue Takehiko had really detailed drawings and great anatomy (basketball movements). And of course, Vagabond was at his manga-heights.
12:30 By the way, did you see ?? The onomatopoeia even have their own shadows and light reflectance, which not only is a cool thing that breaks the 4th wall, but also helps you visualizing the scene in 3D !
Great manga artist you should check out, Takehiko Inoue (slamdunk, vagabond), Junji Ito (uzumaki, tomie, gyo) and Makoto Yukimura (vinland saga, planetes) they are probably my favourite manga creators alongside Araki and Miura
I doubt this will be seen, but I have an answer for you (unproven, I guess... but how can you prove it? I guess you could quantify things through the last 4 decades or something, but that would be a dissertation instead of a youtube comment). Shounen Ai and Yaoi largely started off as a sub-culture of Doujinshi (self-published comic art). This particular group has always been a collective of people who 'make things they want because no one else does' (though starting about twenty years ago, doujinshi became a THING and people started to be professional doujinshi artists and so on and so forth, but I digress). Anyway, it's not always been strictly about sex, but it has always been a sort of outlet for fetish culture in Japan (also, a ton of fanart for popular professional manga). Even before the internet, artists could anonymously create things that would be hard to make in public. A byproduct of this is that people who aren't professionally trained can most certainly create those comics that they wish they could read. So, if we follow an imaginary art trajectory for a second: 1) An artist with a hand fetish creates a story in a yaoi genre, draws the 'aggressive' character with larger than life hands to signify strength (or whatever). 2) This series becomes popular, either because of the art or because of the story and the artist makes some sort of improvement in their circumstance (sells a lot of doujinshi, gets picked up by a publisher, etc). 3) Other artists in that circle see success of the original artist and adapt that success to their own work (this includes but is not limited to the anatomy). This is something that actually happens a lot in doujinshi circles since the community is extremely closely nit, sort of like proto-memes. Sometimes it's an attempt to recreate success, and sometimes it's a sort of homage to the original creator of the look. 4) Changes in anatomy to match certain fetish tropes or to signify what character is the dominant and which is the submissive (this is a yaoi staple with or without exaggerated anatomy) become popular in a growing community of artists and are thus picked up and accepted by the fanbase. 5) As the genre becomes more mainstream, exaggerations in body parts become "understood" and create a certain unspoken language between reader and artist (a more mainstream example would be feline features on a female character signifying her personality without the need to do anything at all with her actual behavior or dialogue). 6) To compound this, we also have the larger Shoujo and Jousei genres (intended for girls and women respectively) that already emphasizes certain body parts more than the art intended for boys (which emphasizes other body parts... ahem...). Things like lips, eyes, and hands have come to represent sensuality, kindness, and strength, respectively. This also allows creators to circumvent the expected personalities of their characters by making them NOT adhere to these expectations (strong guy with small hands in a series where other characters have large hands, or, something that has become really popular lately, a character with scary eyes being extremely kind). Source: I translated manga for twelve years (over 400 volumes in almost every genre... but never any yaoi, actually...). I enjoyed your analysis, btw. You should look at the art of Nodame Cantabile and also something from Oh!Great (I prefer his stuff from the older volumes of Tenjou Tenge, since his newer work has gotten more stylized, but his technique is amazing no matter what you look at). Also, what I find truly interesting about manga art is that there are chances to see the full evolution of an artist from beginner to 30-year-pro. Take Hajime no Ippo for example. It started in the late 1980's and has run continuously since, with the same characters and the same artist. You can see not only how Morikawa has improved as an artist, but you can see how he's been influenced by the styles of the decades and how he's improved his character designs for efficiency.
I'd love to see your take on some Transformers comic book covers and spread panels, specifically the IDW runs with particular illustrators Don Figeuroa (who does highly mechanical looking work), Sarah Stone (who is more cartoony), and Alex Milne (who kind of blends the two art styles, and is just one of the most flexible artists in comic work today).
Bunch of people are starting to request Transformers stuff, so I shall indeed! I have a few transformers comics that I love the art from that I haven't gone back to in a while so that'll be fun to check them out again!
16 seconds in and i KNOW he's talking about Araki Edit: I KNEW SOME HEATHENS WOULD MAKE HIM LOOK AT FREAKIN YAOI AND BL!!!! YALL ARE BAD, NOBODY SHOULD HAVE TO GO THRU THAT!!!
Big fan of this series. I'm on board for every one your willing to make. (Also kudos for giving credit to CorridorCrew for inspiration which I also love)
Artist for suggestions: Clayton Crane - Carnage USA Keisuke Itagaki - Baki the Grappler Junji Ito - Uzumaki George Perez - Titans (just pick any, honestly) Babs Tarr - Motor Crush
I'm so glad you looked at Araki's art! You gave a great analysis about the colors and everything, and you chose great covers, and steel ball run was a great part to look at :D
10:04 That creature's name is Zodd the Immortal. The purpose for that scene in the manga and newer anime series is to signal that Zodd the Immortal is back. Anyone who's seen Zodd back in the original anime in 1997 or manga when Guts was still in the Band of the Hawk would immediately recognize that terrifying monstrosity. For anyone interested in Kentaro Miura's "Berserk", there are Deluxe Editions of the manga coming out that are 7"x10" hard-cover copies of the manga containing three original manga volumes per Deluxe Edition volume, from Dark Horse Manga. For the 40 manga volumes out now, that would be about 13-14 Deluxe Edition volumes, although only Deluxe Edition volumes 1-5 are shown as available for order/pre-order on Amazon.com. www.amazon.com/Berserk-Deluxe-1-Kentaro-Miura/dp/1506711987/
Good comic art suggestions: Frank Cho - Shanna the She-Devil/Mighty Avengers Kohske - Gangsta. Sana Takeda - Monstress Joe Mad - Battle Chasers/Savage Wolverine Artgerm - Supergirl variant covers
Miura's work evolution along the decades of work on Berserk were incredible to watch. Murata is one of the soundest fundamentals japanese artists out there. Consistency and versatility.
@@MeownimatorRed the porn is not that bad their some nice art out their. Their a TH-camr who done a few yiff comic videos talking about the story and art of it. One video had a comment from the creator of the yiff comic he was reviewing.
@@ridhosamudro2199 It is i. I often completely forget about Amino (Even more since i had a decent amount of commissions not safe for Amino) I'll probably batch-post soon enough.
I'd love to see you talk more about Miura's art, there's so many incredible spreads that you could write full fledged essays about. If you do actually pick up Berserk, please do a miniseries where you talk about your favorite panels from your readthrough! A lot of them benefit immensely from an understanding of the thematic symbolism encoded into the image!
“yowee” and “mang-a” hehe. Glad you covered Murata, he is one of favorite artists. His sense of movement is incredible. one punch ,an is a definite recommend.
You're really not good at the phonetic corrections. Unless the people who are always correcting people are also wrong. Don't know about "yowee" but the best way to convey manga would be monga. "Mang-a" looks like you're trying to get him to say it pretty much exactly the same way he did, but with the "a" at the end as if you're supposed to say the letter itself, as in "abc".
These videos are amazing and it's really just so cool to see someone else openly appreciate some of my favorite comic book artists! I def recommend adding Mike Choi to the list; his paintings are INSANE and his line-work is SOOOO CLEAN. He really is just next level lol. Also- Phillip Tan. His ability to create texture and dimension even with nothing but pencils and no color or inks is UNREAL!!
I recommend looking at two amazing female japanese artists, Tomomi Kobayashi from the Romancing Saga and Legend of Legacy video Games , and the other is Ayami Kojima from Castlevania video games, mostly on the Symphony of the Night
11:12 When there are characters (letters) used in a scene, it is usually a sound-effect (ex: ka-boom; crash; rustle etc.). It is rhetorically read to give a mood, or give the tone to the setting. The characters used here is called _katakana_ which is the "alphabet", or script, used for syllabic words and borrowed foreign words from other languages. They "spell" out the word if read, to give emphasis sometimes. If you read or research more manga, you will notice that sometimes the translator will leave these parts untouched. Sometimes they are aesthetic and juxtaposed for viewing pleasure.
@@PopCross The manga art featured in this video was very dense and highly detailed. If you want to look at something very much the opposite, look at the cover art for various volumes of the Aoi Hana (Sweet Blue Flowers) manga. They look like they're done in watercolors. They're vibrant yet washed out at the same time, and much more minimally detailed. For example, mangadex.org/images/manga/381.jpg?1550153492
I recommend you to check : - Tite Kubo's (Bleach), great character designs with a focus on long straight lines. - Boichi's (Sun Ken Rock), a korean manga artist living in Japan, he has a very recognizable style regarding character designs aswell.
Start side kubo had a habbit on just barely dodgin from his character becoming jack skellingtony. Like arm being just half an inch over extended in a scene not about motion 😂
this is a cool set of videos. for one i like how you give history and insight about the different artist. it will be cool to see more of these reacts mate. keep it up!!!
Junji ito has a really awesome style, Uzumaki might be a good place to start. And Lone wolf and cub art is really good too it was illustrated by Goseki Kojima
11:02 That scene of Nosferatu Zodd...it's interesting to hear your take on it, looking at the image from left to right instead of right to left does affect the end product.
I don't think u'll remember me But duuuuuude finally,u didn't gave up at all I mean like even before 2 months or so ur content was really amazing I assume u worked on every video for like a week and only getting 1k at best case sinario but u finally popped Dude ur such an inspiration
I'M SO HAPPY! Eric Canete's Spider-Man issue is one of my faves, especially when you read the entire comic as a whole. Like yeah, admittedly it's not one where I'd frame a page and hang it on the wall but when it comes to energy and movement, it's great, and it always hurts a bit whenever I see people hate on it.
Just like how I’m not a CGI artist or a lawyer, I’m not a conventional or comic book artist. Still love this channel, like the first two you credited. Keep the videos coming!
By the time this series gets to something like 10 episodes, how many times do you think I'll have said 'your eyes are guided through the image' ?
Discord is getting weird lol
Around 50 I'd say
Honestly, since I've just started watching you, I'll do you one up and count every you do say it once you reach 10 episodes. :)
Plenty
I say around 60
"I haven't read Berserk, but I might have to after seeing this."
We did it boys, we converted another one.
But can we also get him into Dark Souls?
As long as he doesn't watch the abomination animation adaptation, he should be fine.
yes, another soul lost to the 10 year hiatus, ALL HAIL Kentaro Miura!!!!!
excellent.
*CELEBRATES IN ANIME NOISES*
"It's so _Bizzare_ but so hard to look away from."
That's JoJo in a Nutshell
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Jojo is fucking everywhere. Getting annoying imo
Lofi Ocean then watch it
@@racconbuilders3665 nah I missed the hype train
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I'm so proud of this community
"It sounds like a niche thing but I guess it's big enough that there's a whole genre based around it."
Japan in a nutshell.
isekai is probably THE most niche thing you can think of. person gets thrown into an alternate reality, that is an rpg world of warcraft style type world, with overpowered abilities, and has to kill the demon king collecting harem girls along the way. It's so specific, but it's the most popular genre right now, Re:Zero, Konosuba, The Rising of The Shield Hero, and even DB Super are super popular and are all isekai.
@@bitbreaker3254 dragonball super???
@@bitbreaker3254 Yeah, uh, Dragonball (Super or otherwise) isn't an isekai.
@@bitbreaker3254 Funny you mention Konosuba and Re:Zero, as both of those are basically supposed to be parodies/commentary on the genre xD Konosuba is just taking the absolute piss out of all the tropes, where Re:Zero is taking it in a much more realistic and gritty direction.
@@bitbreaker3254 it's not that bad as a niche, but the problem is that it's the same thung over and over again.
"It's so bizarre"
CUT, THAT'S IT, HE SAID THE LINE
“HE’S IN BOYS, HE SAID IT”
*presses air-horn*
ONE OF US
holy shit i only came to this video because i saw jojo
he said it was a "pun" which is naturally true.
I'm so glad he reviewed jojo
Araki horse anaotomy: 10/10
Araki dog anatomy: Oh my god!
Araki's dog anatomy really is "all over the place"
VV K how dark
Maybe he can draw dog now, maybe...
Which is strange because they are quite the same
Jojo!
I never looked up why yaoi anatomy is so bad, but my assumption was that it had to do with emphasizing masculine traits but being really bad at it
I'd say long and skinny fingers are more of a feminine trait. It's probably just artists who haven't practiced enough
@@3pleYT most likely, there is a huge community for fan made stuff they have a whole convention for fan made stuff with the Comiket, which is most likely where 99% of yaoi anatomy comes from. So that's may be why the anatomy on some of them looks fucked, they were just amateur works. But yeah most of the yaoi art I personally saw had good proportions.
Probably just that the artists are into big lips and hands. The long legs and small heads are probably part of trying to make their characters look tall and towering because men’s height is supposed to be a big deal.
I can assure you the more recent releases from this genre has SUBSTANTIALLY BETTER anatomy. Those in the video are much older releases
That being said, yaoi comics with great art IMO includes Okusama wa Alpha, Kyrie - Norowareta no Hebi, Walk on Water, Wolf in the House and BJ Alex
Many of the action piece shots in the One Punch Man anime series were ripped directly from the manga source material. The animators (to an extent) didn't have to work terribly hard to envision the dynamic angles, lighting, movements, etc. Yusuke Murata could sell a manga about bottled water with his paneling.
He is such a great artist. Whats also impressive how he comes up with all the differend monster designs and even one-shot pedestrians look great and full of character. Incredibly talented.
"Source" material. The most impressive thing is that he managed to do all that based on the one punch man web comic
The anime visual is still phenomenal though.
@@THEPELADOMASTER Let's not knock the webcomic. ONE might not be the most artistically skilled, but his work in composition is some of the best the medium currently has to offer.
I can only imagine how dynamic a bottle flip "not" animation by Yusuke Murata would look like.
14:53 "It just feels like it works."
*It just works intensifies.*
Emperor Crimson
KINGE KERIMSON!
MonetizedYaY * King Crimson thats the official name not the localised name
@@yushaare that's the joke
MonetizedYaY NIIICEEE
I can't believe Miura is dead, he was an amazing artist.
A Legend amongst mangaka
Amazing a major understatement
RIP
He was the J.R.R Tolkien of mangaka
put your grasses on 😎
"it's so bizarre yet so hard to look away from..."
This defines Jojo more than anything
Oh hey another offspring of that road roller throwing vampire
YES
@@morgandfreeman4488 buongiorno.
"It's so bizarre" My dude you don't even know the half of it
The wierdest panel for me are in jojolion when theyre just talking to eachother and everybody has these unnatural poses like wtf just TALK lmao
remember when he forgot to draw dogs
@@lonesoldier404 Remember when he forgot how to kill dogs?
@@幽霊船-o4h "The dick is extremely important" - Norisuke Higashikata
Phantom blood: it’s not that bizarre
SBR: what do you meant he president teams up with a dinosaur are trying to find Jesus’s dead body
9:50 "kentaro miura wants to keep it more menacing looking"
At that moment i noticed the *menacing* on the right side of the drawing...yare~yare
I thought it said Ominous damn
That just shows to show how great the art is, that he doesn't need you to know japanese to know what it means.
That menacing symbol was popularized by jojo, while it has been used in other manga none have made that symbol as iconic as araki has
9:14 Kentaro Miura
The entire Berserk Manga deserves a video unto itself.
@theone Berserk and One Punch Man drawings are just absurd, the level of detail in both of those works is just unreachable.
My opinion: in terms of art theory and technique kentaro Miura surpasses, well I would say any living artist but to keep it simple he is better the Yusuke Murata, however in terms of having fun with the design, I mean look at monster king orochi or some of the other monsters murata some how makes over the top over designed ridiculous monsters look cool, still so I think that’s the one area he kind of surpasses Miura
@@jeremygeller9145 Giving to much credit for Murata. The guy is a genius, no doubt, but the original designs even been simple is from One.
@theone It's the ultimate manga. Miura is definitely Manga God.
@@wellingtonribeiro847 aint gonna deny that, their is no way for human beings to ever reach true perfection in any form, but berserk comes close, characters design theme i cant find any flaw except that one two chapter storyline of gutts trapped as a kid and encounters a fairy, nothing bad about it just seems like an odd flashback with no purpose
Araki is by far my favorite artist ever. His art style is to pretty, especially in the lated mangas. No wonder he has had his art in Louvre museum.
He's been making manga since 1987 so of course his art is gonna be elegant
Guido Mista Even before that
@@kyleh1494 yeah he's been drawing for 40 years
@@Cairo40000 RIP MISTA
Much as I love Araki I do think his never art tends to be horribly messy and cluttered. In many of the fights in SBR and JoJolion I honestly couldn't tell what was going on.
Any appreciation of Araki’s art warms my heart. Reading Jojo from Phantom Blood all the way to JoJolion, you really do come to appreciate the evolution of Araki’s voice in his storytelling as well as his vision and art, especially with the way he experiments with panels in Steel Ball Run and JoJolion. Araki is a genius.
Genius is an understatement. 😁😁
And a vampire
@@tigervalley62 a forgetful genius
well all mainstream manga artist deserve praise. I sometime draw panels from manga that somehow put me in a trance. And then i realized how hard it is to draw.
His dog drawings devolved though.
Dude, you should look up some of Junji Ito's illustration. He makes horror manga, but it's just so bizarre and unusually imaginative that I think you should give it a look. One of his more popular works is called Uzumaki, which involves spirals.
Heck ya
I recently heard that Uzumaki will be getting an anime, hope it's better than the previous Junji Ito anime
@@shizotypical yeah hopefully
@@shizotypical Look at the teaser its amazing
@@JorgeGomez-hx5uu look at the teaser^^^^
I knew Jojo's was gonna be on here one day, Araki is a legend.
I didn’t even realise that with one punch man
Oh my god my brain is evaporating
Usuke Murata is one of the Manga art gods.
Fuck your profile picture.
@@stoopiosproductions3130 that's the Russian sleep project or something. I saw that somewhere.
Yusuke Murata is the Goat
Those animation aren't in his manga. He did it specifically for the animation purpose.
"He really does have some *bizarre* art"
YOU'VE JUST CAUGHT MY INTEREST
he needs to watch and read jojo
This guy really said he looked up yaoi for “research purposes”
Let the man be in denial
Lmao
We did it boys. We have another one. Yaoi for the win
Maybe he's just not homophobic how about that?
@@cockycookie1 Yaoi has a very specific demographic, just because you’re not part of it doesn’t make you homophobic lol
Hirohiko Araki is the king in making Bizzare art look really Stylized.
p.s. React to Takehiko Inoue & Oda Eiichiro's manga pages pls.
WHEN HE CALLS HIROHIKO's ART BIZARRE
I FELT THAT
damn you only looked at one panel from berserk
the entire series is absolutely gorgeous, so many amazing pieces of art, i think the one you looked at itself is far from the most impressive in the series
TBF first 5 tomes aren't that good. At least if we talk about Miura artstyle.
@@piotrkarp9562 agreed. But those are still only the first 5 volumes right, conpared to 40 sth. My personal favorite page is when Guts stops raging after noticing Casca in the cave. Such beautiful art and one of the most powerful scenes in the series.
@@berserker8884 I think it's really cool to see how Miura improved. It's really inspirational and he's art now is stellar. Beigng worst in the beginnig isn't worng. That dude grow so much!
My favourite is when Griffith and his army fight Evolved Ganishka.
@@soul6733 My favorite BY FAR is when Guts first time shows with his white patch on his hairs. When he is visibly tired but also smiling. Right after he regain control on berserk armor.
Sorry when yaoi anatomy came up I started laughing so hard
Same here
Yea it looks weird
15:01
When he said "he" I laughed
Yeah, if he ever reads SBR he's gonna be in for a surprise
Heh heh yeh
Same XD
15:01 Yeah! Are you leaning or are you posing?
(Tell him to go eat shit Johnny)
@@dropkickcorpse tell him yourself
You absolutely have to do Junji Ito. Seriously. Also, maybe some more Kentaro Miura would be sick.
I agree with every word you just said.
anyone else realize captain marvels face in the dexter soy art looks like all mights face from bnha?
Oh damm lol
That was actually the first thing I thought of
She’s female all might
It does actually
The author of MHA said that he is a fan of Marvel
I’m a simple man: I see berserk, I click
Same
You should've seen how Araki does poses on characters from time to time, if I remember correctly the poses are references from fashion magazines, but still he makes his own executions done bizarrely perfect
he also uses some greek statues
he also said it, JoJo has many Hardcore-fans and I'm definetally one of them
(sry for bad writing)
It’s not only both of what you guys already mentioned, but also reference from Renaissance painting and sculpture masters
Literally real world things are used in jojo making it bizarre
you should take a look at baki if you want to see anatomy taken to the extreme.
Omg yeah
And also "death frenzy", the anatomy in that manga is crazy.
Or hellsing ultimate
you really need to check out ONE's original one punch man art and his art from mob psycho 100
Ha yes true art
This is my favorite thing
Some panels from his other work Makai no ossan are super cool too.
want to die “Is it okay to be like this at my age?”
One of the moment that came to my mind are the panels in One Punch Man
where Garou ask Saitama why he became a hero and Saitama eventually answer him.
The visuals just help selling the moment. XD
The longer I look at it
the more subscribers you get 👌
Hahahahaah woohoooo!
hey popcross I redrew iron mans suit I really hope it gets redrawn 😁
I almost choked when you said "I was recommended this genre by a bunch of people and it's called... Yaoi"
You didn't deserve this man.
They directly skipped the Hentai part.
ShindoL would like to know this man location
😂 he just recommended gay p0rn 😂
Berserk is probably the greatest Manga series ever written and it’s still going. The recent anime adaptation tho...EHHH
"Still going"
Probably?? It is the greatest manga.
Darth Gapher everyone has different opinions so I put that in there as a safety net lol
@@AtlasAdvice254 When it comes to Berserk you could openly state that.
I'm just gonna say yes
Honestly I'd be extremely happy with an entire episode just about more of Kentaro Miura's work on Berserk
Yeah I laughed because I'm thinking dude, start reading. You can see a steady progression as the Berserk series goes on, and his character / creature designs are WILD. Just hope you're not squeamish.
Keep it up, Christian! Very insightful and helpful information.
Thanks so much VZA!!! I shall indeed!!! :D
When he said Bizarre, I knew exactly what he was referring to.
I think the reason yaoi art is so strange is because a lot of yaoi is classified as a type of manga called a Doujinshi. Doujinshi manga is unique to other manga because it is self published, and there's no company regulations or quality checks on how they're drawn.
Ahh yes... Hent- yes
"unique" damn i laughed so hard man your chioce of words is amazing
>Has weird disproportionate portrayal of human anatomy
>Has big focus on close relationships between men
>Should be niche AF but somehow has a huge following
Wait a minute... Is JoJo's a Yaoi?
always has been lmao
Always has been
Always has been
If you want weird and creepy manga art, look at Junji Ito's work
...WARNING: do NOT Google this before bed!
@@kinn4086 Yuppp, nightmare fuel.
Too late
I was expecting some creepy stuff, but not THAT scary
Dont remind us...
For the jojo manga you have to take into consideration that there are no canonical colours and there are several colour palats used depending o the publisher.
So sometimes you have issues coloured under the guide of Araki, but some other times you have unofficial or even fan colouring.
And you can find colouring that looks fantastic, while others look really blurred for some reason and have background that don't help the colours of the characters, the main focus of the image, to stand out.
Edit: Also SPOILERS!
The one character in yellow happens to be female, she is called hot pants and in most cases she is in pink outfit.
There are canon colors but the pallet changes in fight scenes
@@sepi5639 that's only in the anime, the manga has no official colour schemes. Jotaro changes colour every single cover of Stardust Crusaders
I'm sorry, but this drives me nuts: it's PALETTE.
@@AgentAsh sorry im not from america or england
@@PaperPatriot bro I love your content
good stuff. suggestions:
Inoue Takehiko - Vagabond
Dave Gibbons - Dr. Who
I love Inoue
I second this.
The last two volumes of Slam Dunk by Inoue Takehiko had really detailed drawings and great anatomy (basketball movements). And of course, Vagabond was at his manga-heights.
@@mlo009 don't forget Real
@@MrJerichoPumpkin
Real is amazing, i cant wait to see the newest chapter.
12:30 By the way, did you see ?? The
onomatopoeia even have their own shadows and light reflectance, which not only is a cool thing that breaks the 4th wall, but also helps you visualizing the scene in 3D !
Great manga artist you should check out, Takehiko Inoue (slamdunk, vagabond),
Junji Ito (uzumaki, tomie, gyo) and Makoto Yukimura (vinland saga, planetes) they are probably my favourite manga creators alongside Araki and Miura
I doubt this will be seen, but I have an answer for you (unproven, I guess... but how can you prove it? I guess you could quantify things through the last 4 decades or something, but that would be a dissertation instead of a youtube comment).
Shounen Ai and Yaoi largely started off as a sub-culture of Doujinshi (self-published comic art). This particular group has always been a collective of people who 'make things they want because no one else does' (though starting about twenty years ago, doujinshi became a THING and people started to be professional doujinshi artists and so on and so forth, but I digress). Anyway, it's not always been strictly about sex, but it has always been a sort of outlet for fetish culture in Japan (also, a ton of fanart for popular professional manga). Even before the internet, artists could anonymously create things that would be hard to make in public. A byproduct of this is that people who aren't professionally trained can most certainly create those comics that they wish they could read. So, if we follow an imaginary art trajectory for a second:
1) An artist with a hand fetish creates a story in a yaoi genre, draws the 'aggressive' character with larger than life hands to signify strength (or whatever).
2) This series becomes popular, either because of the art or because of the story and the artist makes some sort of improvement in their circumstance (sells a lot of doujinshi, gets picked up by a publisher, etc).
3) Other artists in that circle see success of the original artist and adapt that success to their own work (this includes but is not limited to the anatomy). This is something that actually happens a lot in doujinshi circles since the community is extremely closely nit, sort of like proto-memes. Sometimes it's an attempt to recreate success, and sometimes it's a sort of homage to the original creator of the look.
4) Changes in anatomy to match certain fetish tropes or to signify what character is the dominant and which is the submissive (this is a yaoi staple with or without exaggerated anatomy) become popular in a growing community of artists and are thus picked up and accepted by the fanbase.
5) As the genre becomes more mainstream, exaggerations in body parts become "understood" and create a certain unspoken language between reader and artist (a more mainstream example would be feline features on a female character signifying her personality without the need to do anything at all with her actual behavior or dialogue).
6) To compound this, we also have the larger Shoujo and Jousei genres (intended for girls and women respectively) that already emphasizes certain body parts more than the art intended for boys (which emphasizes other body parts... ahem...). Things like lips, eyes, and hands have come to represent sensuality, kindness, and strength, respectively. This also allows creators to circumvent the expected personalities of their characters by making them NOT adhere to these expectations (strong guy with small hands in a series where other characters have large hands, or, something that has become really popular lately, a character with scary eyes being extremely kind).
Source: I translated manga for twelve years (over 400 volumes in almost every genre... but never any yaoi, actually...).
I enjoyed your analysis, btw. You should look at the art of Nodame Cantabile and also something from Oh!Great (I prefer his stuff from the older volumes of Tenjou Tenge, since his newer work has gotten more stylized, but his technique is amazing no matter what you look at). Also, what I find truly interesting about manga art is that there are chances to see the full evolution of an artist from beginner to 30-year-pro. Take Hajime no Ippo for example. It started in the late 1980's and has run continuously since, with the same characters and the same artist. You can see not only how Morikawa has improved as an artist, but you can see how he's been influenced by the styles of the decades and how he's improved his character designs for efficiency.
Very good info, thank you!
This was such a great analysis! And so on point
Jhonen Vasquez or Jamie Hewlett
They have such unique art styles that I think you might like
Esad Ribic's art from Thor: God of Thunder is stunning.
who’s here after his passing 🤦🏽♂️🙏🏽💙
You can really notice the evolution in Araki’s art style with each Jojo part and I love it
You gotta check out Ito Junji's art. It's seriously horrifying stuff dude. The detailing is absolutely insane. Definately worth a review imo.
I'd love to see your take on some Transformers comic book covers and spread panels, specifically the IDW runs with particular illustrators Don Figeuroa (who does highly mechanical looking work), Sarah Stone (who is more cartoony), and Alex Milne (who kind of blends the two art styles, and is just one of the most flexible artists in comic work today).
Bunch of people are starting to request Transformers stuff, so I shall indeed! I have a few transformers comics that I love the art from that I haven't gone back to in a while so that'll be fun to check them out again!
Take a look at Jojo's manga
Oh wait, you did
16 seconds in and i KNOW he's talking about Araki
Edit: I KNEW SOME HEATHENS WOULD MAKE HIM LOOK AT FREAKIN YAOI AND BL!!!! YALL ARE BAD, NOBODY SHOULD HAVE TO GO THRU THAT!!!
The jojo art and specially in part 7 is so unique and beautifull. There are panels in the manga that are just insane so good.
Big fan of this series. I'm on board for every one your willing to make. (Also kudos for giving credit to CorridorCrew for inspiration which I also love)
Artist for suggestions:
Clayton Crane - Carnage USA
Keisuke Itagaki - Baki the Grappler
Junji Ito - Uzumaki
George Perez - Titans (just pick any, honestly)
Babs Tarr - Motor Crush
I'm so glad you looked at Araki's art! You gave a great analysis about the colors and everything, and you chose great covers, and steel ball run was a great part to look at :D
Me: Searches Hirohiko Araki
Results: This shows up
Jojo become weirdest and aldo cool anime
10:04 That creature's name is Zodd the Immortal. The purpose for that scene in the manga and newer anime series is to signal that Zodd the Immortal is back. Anyone who's seen Zodd back in the original anime in 1997 or manga when Guts was still in the Band of the Hawk would immediately recognize that terrifying monstrosity.
For anyone interested in Kentaro Miura's "Berserk", there are Deluxe Editions of the manga coming out that are 7"x10" hard-cover copies of the manga containing three original manga volumes per Deluxe Edition volume, from Dark Horse Manga. For the 40 manga volumes out now, that would be about 13-14 Deluxe Edition volumes, although only Deluxe Edition volumes 1-5 are shown as available for order/pre-order on Amazon.com.
www.amazon.com/Berserk-Deluxe-1-Kentaro-Miura/dp/1506711987/
8:31 NOOOOOOO WHAT DID THEY DO TO EDGEWORTH IM CACKLING 😭😭😭😂😂😂💀💀💀
I KNOW RIGHT LMAO
FrostBiteBella 😭
Edgeworth and Phoenix have always had massive hands. I always just put it up to perspective, like the image showed in the video
The Roach Yeah I get to you but still looks abnormally big even if it was from a perspective 😂
MY THOUGHST EXACTLY
Everyone: the spiderman is so bad
Pop cross studios:I'll shred this universe to it's last atom
u are a grumpy liar
its the best artwork iv ever seen
The longer I look at it
The more I want this to be a popular meme format
Hahahahahamaybe it'll catch on! :D
Popcross: I might have to read Beserk
*That's hell you're walking into...*
8:45
Damn, they did my mans Edgeworth dirty.
That Spider-Man one got me like wtf
Good comic art suggestions:
Frank Cho - Shanna the She-Devil/Mighty Avengers
Kohske - Gangsta.
Sana Takeda - Monstress
Joe Mad - Battle Chasers/Savage Wolverine
Artgerm - Supergirl variant covers
A legend indeed, farewell master Miura
Imagine thinking of Steel Ball Run as a "spin off."
Bruh it's actually jojos bizarre adventure 2
If you know you know
Miura's work evolution along the decades of work on Berserk were incredible to watch. Murata is one of the soundest fundamentals japanese artists out there. Consistency and versatility.
And after Yaoi art: Furry art
(This is actually a joke. Don't burn me internet.)
I'll suggest some Oouna, Chunie, Sindoll, and Zaush art to be looked at.
Also is this the actual Corrsk that haven't posted anything in Furry Amino since forever?
i would watch a video where he reviews furry art though
like not the porn but some actually good furry art lmao
@@MeownimatorRed the porn is not that bad their some nice art out their. Their a TH-camr who done a few yiff comic videos talking about the story and art of it. One video had a comment from the creator of the yiff comic he was reviewing.
Ya might be nice.their some good art that alot of furry artists do other than those brightly color OC or some pretty bad Sonic art.
@@ridhosamudro2199 It is i. I often completely forget about Amino (Even more since i had a decent amount of commissions not safe for Amino)
I'll probably batch-post soon enough.
If you are going continue doing manga you should really look at Vinland Saga and Vagabond (and of course more Berserk)
Previously: "I'm gonna check out some manga in next time..."
This Video: "He really does have some bizarre art..."
Me: Okay that's JoJo alright...
Comic artists I want to see covered:
Dave Gibbons
Frank Miller
Darwyn Cooke
Todd McFarlane
Jack Kirby
Yes to Dave Gibbons!
I'd love to see you talk more about Miura's art, there's so many incredible spreads that you could write full fledged essays about. If you do actually pick up Berserk, please do a miniseries where you talk about your favorite panels from your readthrough! A lot of them benefit immensely from an understanding of the thematic symbolism encoded into the image!
IVE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS!!!!keep up the work bro
Woohooo! Thanks so much! And will do!!!
“yowee” and “mang-a” hehe. Glad you covered Murata, he is one of favorite artists. His sense of movement is incredible. one punch ,an is a definite recommend.
You're really not good at the phonetic corrections. Unless the people who are always correcting people are also wrong. Don't know about "yowee" but the best way to convey manga would be monga. "Mang-a" looks like you're trying to get him to say it pretty much exactly the same way he did, but with the "a" at the end as if you're supposed to say the letter itself, as in "abc".
@@futurestoryteller I was expressing how he was saying it, not correcting him.
*Ooooooh,* I see it now. Even then I probably would have written it mainga, if I was putting that point across.
15:38
He Said it, He Said The Thing!
These videos are amazing and it's really just so cool to see someone else openly appreciate some of my favorite comic book artists! I def recommend adding Mike Choi to the list; his paintings are INSANE and his line-work is SOOOO CLEAN. He really is just next level lol. Also- Phillip Tan. His ability to create texture and dimension even with nothing but pencils and no color or inks is UNREAL!!
I recommend looking at two amazing female japanese artists, Tomomi Kobayashi from the Romancing Saga and Legend of Legacy video Games , and the other is Ayami Kojima from Castlevania video games, mostly on the Symphony of the Night
11:12 When there are characters (letters) used in a scene, it is usually a sound-effect (ex: ka-boom; crash; rustle etc.). It is rhetorically read to give a mood, or give the tone to the setting. The characters used here is called _katakana_ which is the "alphabet", or script, used for syllabic words and borrowed foreign words from other languages. They "spell" out the word if read, to give emphasis sometimes.
If you read or research more manga, you will notice that sometimes the translator will leave these parts untouched. Sometimes they are aesthetic and juxtaposed for viewing pleasure.
_Paws_
Yup and they’ll usually add a note at the bottom like
“sfx: kaboom”
Or a translators note
Look at Giuseppe Camuncolis art for his Vader run (by Charles Soule) He’s my favorite comic artist currently working in the industry
RIP Kentaro Miura
15:38
“It’s so bizarre”
Me knowing that the creator of jojo did that art 🙃
if you want to see bizarre art look at baki
I love berserk, now it’ll never finish because the miura is gone... and now I’m sad
50.000 subs!!!🎉🎉🎉🎉👏👏👏 congratulations!! You’ve earned it!👍👍
Thank you so much!!! :D Now onward to 100k!
Can't believe u did manga without talking about toriyama vs toyataro
I'm definitely going to look into more manga stuff in the future, so maybe in an upcoming episode!!
PopCross Studios you just made me so wet 🤤🤤🤤🤤
@@PopCross If you do Toriyama (aka dbz mangaka) his big strength is paneling and flow especialy in fights not the art itself that much
@@PopCross Oh boy.....
@@PopCross The manga art featured in this video was very dense and highly detailed. If you want to look at something very much the opposite, look at the cover art for various volumes of the Aoi Hana (Sweet Blue Flowers) manga.
They look like they're done in watercolors. They're vibrant yet washed out at the same time, and much more minimally detailed.
For example,
mangadex.org/images/manga/381.jpg?1550153492
I recommend you to check :
- Tite Kubo's (Bleach), great character designs with a focus on long straight lines.
- Boichi's (Sun Ken Rock), a korean manga artist living in Japan, he has a very recognizable style regarding character designs aswell.
Bleach has also some amazing two page spreads along with some fantastic fight sequences.
@@TheForeverRanger I just love Kubo's art style
Start side kubo had a habbit on just barely dodgin from his character becoming jack skellingtony. Like arm being just half an inch over extended in a scene not about motion 😂
Boichi has one of the most striking styles in manga, it's instantly recognizable
this is a cool set of videos. for one i like how you give history and insight about the different artist. it will be cool to see more of these reacts mate. keep it up!!!
I love how humble you are. Really informative too. This is great content and helpful to me as an artist
I recommend Horikoshi ( my hero academia), he draws amazing hands
Seriously
meh trash
Junji ito has a really awesome style, Uzumaki might be a good place to start.
And Lone wolf and cub art is really good too it was illustrated by Goseki Kojima
I just gained so much respect for the artist of one punch man. Mad props
11:02 That scene of Nosferatu Zodd...it's interesting to hear your take on it, looking at the image from left to right instead of right to left does affect the end product.
I don't think u'll remember me
But duuuuuude finally,u didn't gave up at all
I mean like even before 2 months or so ur content was really amazing I assume u worked on every video for like a week and only getting 1k at best case sinario but u finally popped
Dude ur such an inspiration
You're from Canada ? That explains why you are so nice and positive I guess 😅
Hahaha thanks eh! :D
I was wonder how weird he says out "auut" then I saw your comment
Good analysis of good and bad. I've had a lot of similar thoughts. I think I'm inspired.
Rest In Peace Kentaro Miura
I'M SO HAPPY! Eric Canete's Spider-Man issue is one of my faves, especially when you read the entire comic as a whole. Like yeah, admittedly it's not one where I'd frame a page and hang it on the wall but when it comes to energy and movement, it's great, and it always hurts a bit whenever I see people hate on it.
Just like how I’m not a CGI artist or a lawyer, I’m not a conventional or comic book artist. Still love this channel, like the first two you credited. Keep the videos coming!