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It does this month. If you join the Patreon :) I love those weird transforming abominations too.

I believe it was a collaboration between himself, Buronson, and one of the editors. I only ever saw Buronson enter the studio once or twice, and it was treated like a special thing. I've not seen much of Regenesis, how did it compare? I honestly don't know much about it, but I've briefly met some of the new assistants that worked on it with Hara-sensei on my last visit a few years ago.

@@TOKYOTOYBANZAI Awesome man! Subscribed to your channel btw, great stuff brother! The rajin comics of Blue Sky had nobuhiko horie as author and Hara as artist. But the Japanese comics has Hara as writer and author with Buronson supervising. Thanks for the clarification! Regenesis is super epic, the artist Hideki Tsuji is a genius worthy of being Hara sensei’s successor. It’s on hiatus right now but it will return probably within the year. Tsuji is really cool I’ve had many conversations with him on X. The manga is infinitely times better than the anime btw I don’t recommend the anime to anyone they need a real studio to animate it and keep it faithful to the source material.

@@conzalez94 that’s right! Horie Nobu - I hadn’t heard that name in years. Since I had no involvement with the script, that stuff was never of interest to me. Thanks for the reminder! I do believe that the initial concept was discussed between Hara & Bronson, but it was very evident that he didn’t play a large role in the script. I’d say the same for the last volumes of FOTNS too… they were just milking it at that point.

@@conzalez94 and thanks so much for subscribing!! 🙏 🙇‍♂️ 🙏

@@TOKYOTOYBANZAI That would make sense. Awesome man! HnK is getting a remake anime to celebrate its 40ths anniversary last year. No update in almost a year unfortunately. If that is really well done and brings in a lot of viewers hopefully they can animate blue sky and regenesis, you never know

Thanks! I've honestly not met many people that have read Fist of the Blue Sky. I know it's not looked upon as fondly, but there is some fun stuff there. I was handed the scripts for each issue while Hara-sensei would work on the (super rough) layouts. I couldn't read any of it, and even if there was any Japanese writing I recognized, it was all written by hand and not so easy for a beginner to read. So most of the time, I had no idea what was going on - I just did as I was told 😅

@TOKYOTOYBANZAI it's still very cool that you got to work with tetsuo hara. His art is timeless and better than most manga, even today. His art is so iconic and detailed that it's almost impossible to animate it at the same level of detail and artistry, much like berserk. We'll see how they do with the remake. Hopefully 2d.

@TOKYOTOYBANZAI i don't like fist of the blue sky as much but it's still fist of the north star at its core and had plenty of great moments. I liked the gang war setting in the beginning, some of the extra lore on hokuto shinken and the unique setting. It's no post apocalyptic wasteland but it is an interesting historical setting that we rarely see.

@@zh7334 NorthStar studios had been using 3D cg animation before most other anime (and we were one of the only major manga publications that was doing digital rendering for the manga screen tone elements (which were then printed out on sticky film and then cut put and placed on the final ink. Replicating his style was very tough. I imagine with the advancement in cell shaded 3d cgi, I’m going to guess that whatever comes next will be more manga accurate, but be built ontop of 3d models, made to look 2D. Much like the last Dragon Ball Super Hero film (which surprisingly looked MOSTLY fantastic). But with studios cranking out mega hit mixed media anime with an emphasis on 2D style, like Chainsaw man and Demon Slayer - they could be leaning more in that direction for some of it too… the biggest obstacle is that THAT sort of intense animation requires space labor to complete - the 3D cgi is much more manageable to complete.

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@@codeninja100 Thank you! I actually did! I show some toward the last half of the video (briefly), but as I will go into detail in a future video, doing that for a couple years burned me out, and I realized I enjoyed the design aspect more than sequential artwork (it’s so demanding) - and that led me to stepping away from it and later taking up writing and then producing videos 😊

@@TOKYOTOYBANZAI that’s dope! I’d love to read them! I’m currently working on my first long form manga inspired comic. I’ve written smaller 2pg, 6pg, and 12pg stories. While the actual drawing part is daunting to get through, finishing a complete chapter or short story is so gratifying to me. Is your work posted anywhere?

Indeed! I do plan on doing a deep dive on Hara-sensei, some more details about what he taught me, and how much influence his work had on ALL of shonen manga.

I'm not entirely sure how extensive that was - but I will say that after I started, they also hired a part time artist assistant from South Korea (who was so cool), which seemed progressive to me as it seemed like all the other adjacent studios that worked in our building were 100% Japanese (I spoke to many of them during parties, dinner, etc). Back then they were known as BUNCH COMICS, owned by COAMIX. Now they are called ZENON - and recently launched an international manga contest. So they have a continous history of trying to bring cultures together with manga, which I think is fantastic. I am very thankful for the opportunity I had, and to the people that helped make it happen - Hara-sensei being my biggest supporter at the time. If he ever allows me to interview him (he rarely does interviews, and they are usually text based and printed in major Japanese publications), I'd love to ask him about all of that. He's been studying English for the past two decades, and the last time I went to visit him around 8 years ago, he already spoke English very well, compared to when I worked for him (his English was non-existent, as was my Japanese 😅) Sorry for the lengthy reply! Thanks for the question!! 🙏

I'm too embarrassed - I have a couple old DeviantArt accounts floating around there. I don't even want to go back to... I don't even like watching my old videos. The curse of the artist.

I'm so happy to hear that 😊 Stay cool out there!

@@stephenrichnafsky897 thanks man 🙏

That's super interesting that you guys didn't hear the words "manga" or "anime" back then in The Netherlands. The term I remember hearing the most was "Japanimation" - but maybe that was just a US marketing thing early on. But the same for parts of the USA, regarding some areas that got Japanese media before the rest of the country - states like California, New York, & Hawaii, had a bunch of Japanese tv programs airing on their local stations, in English, as far back as the 1970's and 80's. The uncle I'd mentioned renting Godzilla 1985 for me when I was a kid, grew up in California, so he'd learned about cool stuff like Godzilla & Ultraman growing up back when that stuff was unheard of to most of the western world. Godzilla had me hooked as a kid, but DBZ definitely knocked me into a completely different lifestyle... which led to me sitting here replying to you on this keyboard here in Tokyo during a passing typhoon :P Thanks for the comment!!

@@TOKYOTOYBANZAI Maybe just a small town thing, born in '84, saw Akira in the early 90's only because my uncle was in the army and brought some vhs tapes back home... Italy and Spain got a bunch of anime back then, weird because it had to be overdubbed, we would've been fine with English subtitles. Some force has always blocked all of this stuff from coming here.

@@Nebuloid1strange, so you didn't get classic 70's and 80's anime back in the day(Rose of Versailles, Hokuto no Ken, Tastunoko stuff, Heidi etc)? here in italy even boomers watched them. Did Netherlands have a big national cartoon industry at the time? Thanks in advance for the reply.

@@FutureHH Nope never even heard of those... We had our own Dutch cartoons for sure, but mostly for the little kids. Plus some cartoons coming in from Belgium/France mostly, nothing Japanese. Oh and Looney Tunes and Animaniacs ofcourse, and later Dexters Lab/Cow and Chicken/Johnny Bravo etc. I do remember watching x-men/spiderman/batman every day in around 1993, but that was it.

@@Nebuloid1 yeah, we got those too, You know what? many western cartoon (like batman) were partially animated in Japan.

Midtown Hibiya in Ginza, Tokyo - 6F

@@TOKYOTOYBANZAI Nice. It's along my commute!

@@sequoia-sugi awesome! It just started yesterday. I believe you have to book tickets online if you go before 4pm - they had loads of other suits and props too!

@@TOKYOTOYBANZAI Thanks for the heads-up! I'll give it a look this weekend assuming this typhoon doesn't shut everything down.

@@sequoia-sugi hopefully not! It's running until September 1st - so you'll have another chance :)

hope you are feeling better! I remember getting my wisdom teeth out around 25 years ago... apparently I was speaking and writing "fake chinese" to the doctor and nurses after I woke up in the chair 😅 afterward my mom took me to the supermarket where I worked part-time to pick up a prescription I needed post-op. while waiting for my mom, i proceeded to speak to my fellow teenage coworkers, with my mouth completely filled with bloody gauze, as blood and saliva poured down my face ☠ sorry mom!

had a bunch in the last sale! still have loads of bottle caps if you need any. DM me on IG :)

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