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Hibari seems very inspired by Lum (of Ususei Yatsura). I think the way they play that he might or might not be attracted to Hibari was inspired by Ataru's relation to Lum. Not saying that this makes it not transphobic, but there is precedent for this kind of relationship not being rooted in transphobia.

Japan knew the appeal of traps even back in the 80s

next do a video on what waluigi says about identity

it aint that deep. rich people are depraved

I'd love to see you cover some Godzilla content in the future. The millennium era was how I started so I have a major soft spot for these films

5:23 I fully believed with my entire heart that you were about to say “it has a much more critical stance of Japan’s wartime history than Hamtaro”

I didn't know I needed to hear someone compare Deltarune to Digimon Tamers, but apparently I did and I'm very glad. I adored Undertale but there's something about Deltarune which feels stranger and even more personal which really appeals to me. Also: The more of your work that I watch, that more that I realise that I really need to experience more Gundam media.

Inu if this is you on easy mode, we all need to up our game because what the ffff- No, but seriously, I loved this, you are so insightful even on your casual watches! Plus you sound like you had a lot of fun going through these. I can hear the delight in your voice when you hit the point of which older Godzilla films were cannon in Godzilla vs Mechagodzilla, what a joy ^^ I'm in need of watching the millennium era Godzilla films, the last time I saw ANY of them (pretty sure I haven't seen all of them either) were at friend's parties with way too many people and too much going on. Seeing your thoughts on them reminded me ^^ Love the idea of Godzilla as a ghost story documentary, what a cool direction. I'm really attached to the older films, as I watched those with my Dad, and we still do rewatches together, we are big fans of the rubber suits and mini sets, lol. I keep forgetting about that new Netflix Gundam series is happening, somehow it just doesn't stick out in my brain and thus falls away. I'll wait and see how it turns out later, if I'm honest. Hearing about the Gregg Araki films was fascinating! I love the way you talk about cinema; it's always grounded while being thoughtful. I straight up can't take my eyes off of those hotel rooms, kinda can't get over those room designs, I mean this in a good way AHAHA. I'll always feel like I had a weird experience with Undertale. Many years ago, now, I was bored one day and floating around of steam looking at new games, and bought Undertale on a whim, not knowing it had just come out that same day. My brother and I played it together on my old desktop and loved it. But it felt like such a singular experience up until it the game blew up and the fandom took WAY over. I never participated in the fandom side of it, as it had felt like a done and dusted game at the time. I'm still very fond of it (I even have the physical copy for my switch) but I never felt like I was part of the swell that was the Undertale fandom. I still haven't tried Deltarune, but I kinda want to be on the other side of things, waiting until it is complete before I play. Very happy to hear you are enjoying it though, it means good things for my eventually play of it as well ^^ BIG fan of you doing videos like this, it was just so fun! Thank you for spoiling us with even more cool vids : D

I'am down for you to talk more about indie western movies, I think really fits your channel. Also, if you plan doing another "Mecha but Spooky" I recommend Shin Getter Robo for the list, not outright horror but has many spooky elements and overall a bleak tone.

If you love “a world managing life with giant monsters” stories you should check out the Godzilla half century war comic by James stokoe, covers 50 years of life with kaiju and it’s excellent

Every new Pyramid Inu makes me download a bunch of new things to watch, and then despair that I can't find anybody else who does this kind of commentary.

awesome introduction to his filmography. i saw house and now i want to see many more. luckily many are archived well on the internet.

this is one of my fav types of video! even in this loose format, you're super insightful. god i really gotta second that part about the physicality of old tokusatsu films being viscerally satisfying. i've also been going through the Goji canon again, so i feel that a lot. also wow okay it's time to get off my ass and watch gregg araki lol.

Let's goooo! I think you're my favourite creator.

Great video! I wonder if people are harder on Gundam cgi is because they’re used to it being animated better (on average)/a certain way compared to Star Wars that doesn’t have as much animation to compare the shows to. If you like jrpgs with fun characters, a lot of world building, and a slooow burn approach, consider the Trails in the Sky game trilogy. A remake was just announced, the original is cuter if you have access to it. Also, completely understand it not being anyone’s thing. The games are slow, easy, and long (the full series is on game 11 in English, 13 in Japanese). But, Olivier is a bisexual disaster bard, and that makes up for a lot.

loving the robot chapters intro guys

GMK 4 lyfe

Always good pics from your channel. Got a letterboxd?

I was genuinely impressed by the Requiem for Vengeance trailer, in that it managed to successfully condense everything I hate about modern UC stories into a single mass. Zeon whitewashing? Check. Over-complicated mobile suit redesigns that run completely contrary to the minimalist charm of Okawara's original designs? Check. OYW fixation? Check. And so on. I mean, I do think it's still possible to tell interesting stories during the One Year War, but you would have to take the route of War in the Pocket and shift the actual mobile suits and fighting into the background to focus on character work and exploring other aspects of the setting. Like, maybe a story where you have a kid from Grenada whose family moved to Side 3 because their parents got hired by MIP, and you use the story to explore what Zeon's homefront looks like; e.g. you have a kid from the moon who never had any reason to be hostile to the Federation, and they transfer into a Zeon school where none their classmates have ever known a world outside the one defined by Zabi propaganda, etc. Or a story told from the perspective of Earthnoid civilians in the immediate aftermath of Operation British, in the vein of something like Grave of the Fireflies. Or a story that closely examines Zeon's surrender, the peace treaty that ended the war, and the actors and political maneuvers that brought it all about. Stuff like that. Frankly I'm still surprised we don't see more works set during the Gryps Conflict. Considering the popularity of Zeta Gundam, and how many of the people at the helm of the franchise seem to prefer seeing the Federation as villains, you'd think we'd see tons of stories in that era. Yet it's surprisingly underexplored part of the timeline. Outside of Sentinel and the Advance of Zeta stuff (and that one mobile gacha game I guess), it barely shows up.

Hadn't played Dark Souls before but uses the Lunacid OST. Bless

i've had my eyes on nowhere for a minute now but had no clue it was a part of a trilogy! defo excited to smoke doom generation

The 90s Gamera movies were amazing

The "list of random shit I like"-genre of youtube video is some of the best stuff on the internet. Added almost everything I haven't watched to the list

Yay!

"all you really need are some likable characters and a few good monster fights and folks, that's cinema, you got yourself a movie" "all you really need are someone banging on something and some people boinking on some strings and folks, that's music, you got yourself a hit song" I jest. Enjoyed the video.

Doom generation is sad ...

"no super deep thoughts here, no in depth academic thesis" Well that was a fucking lie.

Godzilla Against Mechagodzilla… based…

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The main character is not trans he is Otokonoko

what is the song used from 11:08

Thank you for the nice review. :-) I've always read the 'Dougram' name in a more French style, almost like 'Doogram'. Not sure why, I'm not even francophone. Interesting, 'Dougram' is closer to how I'd read it in my own mother tongue. Also, I have to admit, the name of this anime is one of the most low-key badass titles for an animated series ever.

it's so sad how hard it is is to find some of his movie. I know it's supposed to be one of his weakest but I've been trying to find and watch Take Me Away! for soooo long!!

Manga is getting an english release LET'S GOOOO

Anime is one of the mediums most unafraid to create transgressive fiction.

I just want to let you know that I adore this video so so much. It convinced me to watch Summer Vacation 1999 and I’m so glad it did. I’m normally not a huge fan of Live Action BL movies but this is probably the best I’ve ever seen. It was so surreal and melancholic it scratched just the right spot in my brain and I’m probably gonna be thinking about it for the next couple years. This was just an amazing video overall and probably one of my favorite video essays ever!

Always heartening to see good chaser representation.

If you love messy gays, please watch Devil Man Crybaby

I think people hate Newtypes because they aren't seeing the big picture of the point of Newtypes

I think the Federation is a lot more similar to the modern Chinese government than anything else. Obviously Tomino would not have made that comparison when Gundam was originally conceived, but China's composite of capitalism and communism with an autocratic ruler and gross disparity between upper and lower classes with routine totalitarian crackdowns is to me, the most similar thing we can compare. I would suspect that the more modern Gundam works of Thunderbolt, Hathaway's Flash and Unicorn don't overtly look at China, but part of me wonders if their authors took note of the global shift from the war on terror lead by the USA, to the economic cold war we are in today as at least a small influence in their works.

Yep. I saw the first episode and never watched it again.

I understand how joyful, "appropriate" queer representation is important, especially when you're someone who still is coming to terms with their identity and needs assurance that being queer is fine, fantastic, and that you can find happiness living true to yourself. But as someone who has already passed that stage, I seek queer representation not as someone who seeks validation, but as someone who just wants to see people like me caught in passionate, horrific messes. Honestly, what would be nice about queerness being normalized in society is getting to enjoy a queer trainwreck without having to fear the boogeyman of these fictional messy gays being representative of every single real life queer person.

Nice to finally see someone do a video on Obayashi thats more than the guy who made House. Thanks for reviewing him in the context of his filmography. I would also like to add Obayashi although his stylistic influence is limited he was a major figure in the experimental film movement in JP at the time. I know you cover more mecha stuff which is cool, ive enjoyed those videos. Any interest in doing more of these style of videos covering a single creative? Like say Shinya Tsukamoto in film or Masaaki Yuasa in animation? would be cool to see people give them a more academic and contextual analysis whilst reviewing their works

Bright has seen that having opinions in UC Gundam means either you start dropping space colonies, blowing up space colonies, or turning into Getter rays, and none of those involve grilling so fuck opinions.

I think one of the key functions of the Federation, especially Tomino's version, is narratively answering the question "Why does the Principality exist?" or "Why are most of Zeon's OYW soldiers fanatical, cruel bastards?", something very few of the actual anime outside Origin and ZZ's Blue Team arc even come close to directly tackling and is mostly in the print material. We have an abundance of proof for why Zeon forces keep fighting, the mix of IJA never-surrendered soldiers and post-Vietnam despair combining with the singular nature of MS makes a heady cocktail. Soldiers with a need to take a swing at the Federation with the biggest weapon they could use, to have a violent catharsis, yet do so with no regard for what consequences their battlefield suicide would have to the people around them. But that never answered why Ghiren had so many loyalists in the military, why the Zabi Family was able to be accepted as the absolute dictators of Space Prussia, why people in the streets of the Principality were basically chanting minimally changed Nazi slogans. The answer is that over the fifty years since the Sides were made, almost none of the people who were sent from Earth *went willingly*. They were forcibly torn from their homes, deprived of land and property for the elite, and dumped into a thin metal tube with razor-thin margins being the only thing between them and a lethal void. While some of the Sides prospered economically over the generations by playing the Federation's game of economics, others like Zeon remained in squalor. We kept seeing MS pilots who were willing to inflict untold destruction and cruelties on both "fellow Spacenoids" and Earth-Elite because they'd lived in a hostile, bloody environment with no opportunities for a better life. The Black Tri-Stars or the Southern Cross were probably hard, violent people used to killing before they were taken into the military. Ghiren found plenty of people willing to go out and nuke Colonies because their people already hated the other colonists. When two groups of people whose ancestors had their land stolen by wealthy elites, one sold out to make their GDP go up, the other tried to make a genuinely new life in the vein of what the Federation propoganda promised. And it was the latter who were denied opportunities. And people living on Zeon were willing to cheer for a nobility and repeat old fascist slogans because they saw no benefit in the "progression" of the Federation and felt better believing they were a special, superior group. All they saw in the Federation was a group of rich elites who used an environmental crisis of their own making to pull the largest colonial land-grab in history. That's why part of Zeon's ideology has been 'everyone must go to space', it's a coded call to repute the class divide and imperialist origins of the Federation. It's just not about preserving the environment or treating Earth as a sacred place, none of the iterations of Zeon ever live up to that. It's Eat The Rich/Revolutionary economic redistribution, depriving the Earth Elites of their financial and real estate wealth to pull them down to the Spacenoid level. Or just outright below the level of Zeon, for whatever reasons motivate your Zabi family patron of choice. What Tomino accurately captured in Mobile Suit Gundam, however, is that the Federation Government, and the Federation citizens on Earth, *are not the same thing*. Very few people on Earth are living a wealthy or middle class life. We mostly encounter people living not that differently than our own, and just want to be left out of the two governments' militaries killing each other. It's why there's a reoccurring plot trope of adult civilians viewing Mobile Suits as some terrible thing and their pilots as reprehensible: They're a symbol for the horrors of modern/future war, and that's the person turning their fragile homes into collateral damage. I think if MSG had done an arc where the White Base crew got to run around on Zeon itself, they'd probably have a different outlook on the war. And most people from Zeon probably never experienced any other place than their homes, not even other colonies. That's why MSG's thesis is about the need to connect with people on a personal level to internalize the destructive nature of war. Zeon and the Federation never saw each other as individuals with their own identity, goals, and motivations, just "Spacenoids rebels" or "Elitist oppressors" steryotypes.

I think one of the big reasons Zeon appeals to many people relates more to a desire to a real-world desire to be free from a distant, uncaring, and often oppressive centralized government. As someone who grew up in the Heartland of the US it is not uncommon for people to have an outright hatred of The US Government and Washington. Hell, its also not uncommon for people to proclaim a full desire for the state to secede and form its own country. It comes from the perspective of how uncaring Washington is of people out here (until they need something from us) and/or how disconnected the more liberal leaning coastal US is from is more conservative interior. Or the general snobbishness of the coastal people to the people of the interior. True or not, this is a story old as time, and Zeon is just a fictional take of what happens when a oppressed people who rightfully deserve independence, have their movement hijacked by what amounts to just another group of Tyrants. But Tyrants who say all the right things to get the masses on board.

Other Manga that I know contains transgender representation: -Our dreams at dusk -Wandering son -My androgynous boyfriend -Love me for who I am -Claudine -Boys run the riot -Last gender /when we are nameless/ -To strip the flesh -Inside Mari