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This was a fascinating video. I'd be interested in hearing your thoughts on bandés dessinée, fumetti, and other countries' comics as well!

It's hilarious to me that MW is listed as "Moo" in the video chapters. Though, aside from that, I liked this video, and these are some good recommendations!

I'm 3 chapters in so far, and I can honestly say I'm just as disappointed with it. I enjoyed the original manga quite a lot, as a fan of the various animes, and 1.5 was a great bonus too. While I was fully expecting a story focused entirely on Motoko, I wasn't expecting it to be this jarring, poorly-presented, overly-verbose and yet poorly-explained in the areas that truly matter. It's already confusing that Motoko changed her last name to Aramaki, as I was under the assumption this long brown-haired character was Daisuke's niece or daughter or whatever. Then there's the technobable and walls upon walls of banter between Motoko and her AI companions, giving them orders and tasks to fulfil, and the story moves at a snail's pace. Ghost in the Shell as a franchise has always been dialogue-heavy, but it managed to stay engaging and continue pushing the plot along. It was easy to follow, especially the older I got , the more life experience I had and the more I understood the terminology used. I'm pushing 30 now, and I'm STILL having a hard time getting through Ghost in the Shell 2, because it's just so dull. And then when we finally get to some action, there's so much visual noise and it's hard to make heads or tails of what's happening to who during the fights. I'm gonna stick with it, considering how much money I paid for it, but my god is this one a misstep. I can understand why the various anime adaptations steered clear from the plotlines in this one, save for the human-pig organ facility. The ending of the original manga was open, yet conclusive. The possibilities were endless for Motoko, and it was anyone's guess as to where she'd go from there. The audience could come to their own conclusion, and maybe they should have, if THIS was the follow-up. It's not like Man Machine Interface couldn't work, but the execution is lacklustre.

Totally agree on all points. "Ghost in the Shell 2: Man-Machine Interface," sucks!

Phoenix is a must-have. I hope you can find a used book to collect it. The Dawn and Future and Karma editions will have deep resonance. I don't know if there is an English version available, but I also recommend “The Sunny Tree” and “Paper Fortress,” a short autobiography of Tezuka's boyhood.

I would say 15 volumes is short for on going manga while also being more approachable if it is completed

This was very helpful, thank you!

I actually really liked the story. Perhaps it's because I came from Appleseed ex machina. The really poor quality of the animation kind of hit me but I guess it is 2004. I watched the 4K AI upscale version on CZcams.

What happened bro

Thanks for the outstanding top 10 list! Lots of new Manga for me to seek out.

Greetings from Northern Ireland. Your discovery of tokusatsu is eerily similar to my own. I agree that it is harder than it should be to watch series over here. I am of the mindset that if it's not being made available in my region, then piracy is fair game. I would love to get my hands on some kamen rider blu rays. The previous sentai season (king ohger) was pretty dope, so I would love a physical of that too.

Great review I was totally lost plot wise , and there was an unusual amount of crotch shots. Come to find out the author only makes porn now lol

Many good pieces that i didn't even ever heard about and even most of them are my genre. I am glad for your recommendations.

Short number 3 gave me a feeling of existential dread. If I was in a better place mentally right now, I may have been able to finish it, and maybe the story wouldn't have been life changing, but the voice over and animation was straight out of a bad acid trip, while I would consider the first film to be a good shroom trip. I liked number 1 the most for the animation, and I liked number 2 a lot because I just like that kind of story, and the characters were ultra silly which is always good to me. The scene where the generals thumb opens up and reveals a cigar was my favorite kind of cheesy. Then you find out he's a fucking robot so the cigar literally is only there for the aesthetic. Then when he gets his new body in the most wholesome of ways, it makes me feel happy. I feel like 2 should have been number 3. It was so shocking the change of tone. In anthology films if each film has the same general aesthetic, it's ok to go from happy to darker. But in cases where the aesthetics vary so wildly, maybe get the darker stuff out of the way. This is just me thought dumping.

do you know of any 4-koma manga that are not comedy?

Talking in 2024, it looks to me DMP Platinum has put out a lot of important manga that for some reason or another, the majors like Viz, Seven Seas, Yen Press, Vertical, or even Dark Horse won't or can't touch. When their books come out, they have like one smallish printing and they go out of print. Then all of those books go up in value by a lot. I had to pay like a grand for the 1-6 compendium of Kimagure Orange Road. DMP originally put out a lot of titles but the biggest one is Berserk.

I keep coming back here when I need another volume 😅 it’s truly a beautiful series but it’s so rare volume 5 is extremely expensive 😭 hopefully one day I’ll collect them all

Great recs, thank you!

It's been a few years, but I've read Tezuka's Apollo's Song, Ode to Kirihito, and his Buddha series. Those manga earned Tezuka my respect. I'm hoping to get hooked on his work again. Thanks for sharing your recommendations! Just picked up an omnibus copy of Dororo, put it next to my copy of Ayako (a friend gave me his copy). I'm hesitant about reading Ayako, since its premise sounds downright depressing.

Fantastic story by legend osamu tezuka but.. I had a question about the the ending, can someone explain the ending to me? is it a time paradox or something with what happens to bokko turning into kanako, nokko into mr. baba and pukko into prof. sogi? because it weird me out that, if its the same person, then the ending doesn't make any sense right? Which means from the very beginning, Bokko just being jealous with her other-self(Kanako=Bokko), but what really weird me out is that the timeline W3's punishment get sent to earth without memory, Bokko getting adopt by Kanako's parents and this is the part that should be obvious, there should be two Kanano(Bokko)!! Either it was a oversight from osamu tezuka or I'm just not getting it? Anybody?

With The Light is a very underrated manga.

6:35 I know how poor Hikaru feels, I get tired of being left out all the time because I'm Autistic like him too.

I am not familiar with With The Light manga, but I did read some chapters. To be honest, I can definitely relate to the Autism theme.

Are you exclusively posting on your gaming channel now?

Have you read Astro boy?

Hey immortallium, your one of my favorite anime CZcamsrs and wanna know what your thoughts on the whole localization debacle are? I for one am mixed I’m not a fan of gag dubs, at all, I hate ghost stories and the shin Chan dub, odd choice since shin Chan is popular, I just believe they should localize idioms and such, but adding in beliefs because you inherently don’t like the Japanese I don’t agree with. Despite that I adore the gekiga manga community from what I’ve seen people like Zach Davidson and Ryan holmberg lived in Japan for most of their childhood and their translations for leiji Matsumoto and Yoshiharu tsuge manga are some of the most faifthful translations I’ve read even giving essays about Japanese context to the time their made. This goes for tezuka manga too. I’ve always agreed with the star blazers/speed racer style of dubbing sure they changed names but the themes and ideas were there. Anyways it’s interesting and for subs and dubs I could go either way depending on the anime.

Im so glad that you loved it that much. Now if you love it as an adult, imagine me who grew up with this, watching all episodes so many times from 5 years old to today! Sadly, it will probably become forgotten by all, all I hope is that the message of Matsumoto will stay in minds for the longest time

Sandlandbros... we are BACK

I just finished this. I really enjoyed it. The art was beautiful, especially the backgrounds and skies

The Twin Knights artwork looks like what Junko Mizuno does now.

Do you know where I can get an English version of the Manga Corpse Princess- Shikabane Hime, Amazon only has a few books and they are Japanese or French

I’m looking for the tittle of one his books where people are being hunted by their clones. Do you know?

J'adore ce manga cloche Called fat version english 😅😅😅je l'ai 😅

have you read/seen sazan and comet girl? and if so would you recommend? its relatively recent (published in english in 2020, originally between 2015 - 18) but has an 80s/early 90s ish art style but in colour. it looks cool and want to check it out

Just was introduced with tezuka recently with Ayako. Splendid. Bought a few extra. MW DORORO MESSAGE TO ADOLF THE BOOK OF HUMAN INSECTS This one looks interesting too. Thnks for the review

It's a shame DMP stopped shipping to the UK, it sucks

Piracy is a supply issue not a cost issue, I have an issue with companies not making things easy to buy, If they don't sell them we can't buy them.

I am very glad to see you are getting into Toku, I first got into it through Power rangers, Back in 2011 I started to re watch the show though nostalgia, I dicoved the original sentai and through... Means we shant discuss managed to track down a few of the shows from the 80s and 90s, Though that I discovered Kamen Rider and Ultraman and many others such a Inazuman and Kikaida, Then moving onto Garo, Voiclogger the metal heroes seriesand others, A great series that sadly at the time of Writing has not got an official English release is ZUBAT, It's a Revenge show from the 70s set in the countryside of Japan set up like a western, Each episodes sees our hero travel from town to town looking for the one who gunned down his best friend, meeting a bandit or hired gun who has a pparticular skill, He then challenges them at this skill to prove he is better than them, He will then dawn the power suit his friend left for him and use the flying car his friend built to help fight the villains, Very dark for it's time but also very camp as old TOku is.

I really like the way masamune draws the major, but non of the anime kept his character design. I would have liked the uncensored version, it was the best scene in the whole book, I have it on untranslated Japanese version and you also get one page of in his intron depot 1 art book. For fans of his art I recommend the intron depot art books. Especially the first 2

Miyazaki's TV show Future Boy Conan got a English's dub release by Gkids. This give me slight hope that some of these may get released. Anne of Green Gables I think has the potential to sell pretty well with a good dub. A-lot of women in the west love that story and would probably give it a watch in English.

THANK YOU FOR THIS! No one else has reviewed this revolutionary creation on CZcams. Too lazy to read I guess? Or too dumb to read? Equally bad.

Childhood nostalgia. Loved watching this every Friday after coming back from school. I do agree, I was bored too the death during the island arc.

I cannot echo the above comment enough. I've been a subscriber of yours since the earlier days and it's criminal your subscriber count is still so low, much like Archangel Manga. I've just caught up with a lot of the videos you've posted in the last couple of years and some of the topics covered are highly intriguing. Thank you!

I loved your video. I liked volume 1 and 1.5 a lot, but the second one left me truly dissapointed. Very hard to follow the story, too many concepts that sometimes felt like thrown at the reader randomly... And too much fanservice.

How rare is Black Jack volume 1?

It’s an okay film, and the ending really let me down. It’s starts out quite good but by the end, I was really frustrated with the story. The animation was excellent, the voice acting was fine (I usually go the subtitle route) and the music was good (reminded me a bit of Gabor Szabo) but the meandering, plodding story made less sense than Cleopatra (and I thought that was an okay film). At least Cleopatra has something of a logical story but even that’s stretching the bounds of credibility. I give this film 6/10.

Just finished reading it myself, same comments as yours, could have fleshed out the love interest more to make the ending more impactful. Love your review 😊

Interesting video, as both an anime nerd and an economics nerd 😁

I was also very confused by the random unexplained hentai panel near the end, had a real hard time making it through this one after reading the previous 2