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If people did it out of the love for the series then they wouldnt care what I have to say but I appreciate people for doing it and I don't think i've said anything negative about them so this seems like a kinda out of left field comment? Encouraging people to follow them/talking about them is just kinda dumb tho because if any series I make a video about ever gets a official publisher, then all my videos would be promoting something which is semi-illegal and something which the mangaka wouldn't want and I dont see a good reason to advertise for these scanlators.

@@Zyhius this is all very reasonable. I've watched most of your videos and was kinda irritated by your silence on scanlation whenever a manga would come up that wasn't available officially, but i failed to consider the points you made. it just irked me in particular because I'm a big fan of furuya's and i was waiting for this title to be translated for a long time, until it finally happened about a decade later

Ahh makes sense, yeah it is nice that there are people in the community willing to translate lesser known titles. It isnt too likely that Saltiness gets a official translation, but his works have in the past and theres just no point risking it for any series really cause i'd have to basically redo the video.

I'll definitely check it out but yeah idk if I'll like it if it's yuri. Vinland saga, I haven't read in a long time, it was at like maybe 100-200 chapters when I read it but I gotta read it again sometime to see if it's any different now

Its completed in japanese but still not fully translated, theres like 15 chapters left right now

Hmm i actually do agree that the marcille arc was probably the worst part, I did like the post resolution of everything, after they defeated the demon more. Yeah humour was good in the final arc. When it comes to them defeating the demon it wasn't the worst, I just found it a little anticlimactic.

The OVA is definitely miles better than the manga and its great if thats what you took from it, those are some of the best ideas the series had. The themes of self improvement and growing did seem like good ones, but it got twisted pretty fast, lost sight of what it was trying to say and oversimpliied things. But yeah the OVA alone was actually quite funny, had some decent ideas and was before it started spiraling and trying to push some broken philosophy.

Yeah its only really grown on me with time. Him hating a lot of his works is pretty sad, but I think you can see that hes always trying to achieve perfection in works, so him being overly self critical would make sense. Maybe thats what lead him to not write manga in a long time, but hopefully one day he regains his love for the medium and comes back.

I mean the words pathetic, shameless and no ego is the same way someone would describe a loser or someones who has lesser societal status. And sure, he is a fool and free, but hes basically just an animal, doing whatever he feels like with no thought, theres really not much interesting about that and its even worse when u consider hes the central focus for 90 chapters. There is a story but its super confused as to what its trying to do, its basically him shifting from one surface level thought of his to another rapidly until you get sick of it. Egawa acts like he has all these solutions and insight into world problems, but he doesn't even offer up one thing of note.

I mean he was obviously attempting at making a social commentary, but what points did he make? The government is corrupt? We need to be more accepting of sex? Dictatorships are bad? These are legit meme level points hes trying to make, the series provides no philosophy of any value while acting extremely condesending.

Usogui I liked quite a bit but im okay with where it was, there were some incredible arcs and some which were just fine to me. Ushijima loan shark I started a while back and kinda forgot about it, but it does seem like my kinda manga, so maybe it would make it, but its probably just not popular enough for mal. I never got into freesia but I read a lot of other Jiro Matsumoto works and probably at least one of them shoulda made the list. I guess voynich hotel shoulda made it too, kinda reminds me a little of jiro, but theres probably lots of works missing from it.

yea the first 80 or so chapters of usogui are fine but it really becomes exceptional later on. incredible story with incredible characters. Ushijima never got a full english translation so that might explain its unpopularity, but its pretty big in japan. Its also very mature, dark, and gritty so definitely not for everyone, but one of the best seinen of all time imo. My other favs of Jiro are alice in hell and joshikouhei. Alice is definitely one of his more straight-forward works but Freesia edges it out imo. And just out of curiousity, but what is your top 10 manga of all time? great channel btw, keep it up @@Zyhius

Those are like exactly the three big jiro works I havent read lmao, I read wendy, citron, Mikai no Hoshi, Yuretsuzukeru, Kakumeika no Gogo and Ichigeki, all of them are very interesting reads although kinda flawed too, imma read Freesia at some point i've heard good things about it. Top 10 is kinda rough I think in no order I would have Hi no Tori, One Piece, Part 7, Vagabond, Ashita no Joe for sure and then GTO, Kokou no Hitou, HxH, Spirit Circle are maybes, Crows, Slam Dunk, Devilman/Violence Jack would probably miss top 10 but be kinda close lol but probably not, maybe a Kaiji part in there, but im still getting through those. Theres a lot of series for the last couple spots im probably missing but thats just off of the top of my head. Theres a ton which I would confidently say shoulda made top 100, but its a lot of work to go through them all.

I really liked Ichigeki too but its not as good as his top 3 works. Thats a solid list, I'd love a video where you breakdown your own top 20 or so manga. My top 10 would and in no particular order would probably be: 1. Usogui 2. ushijima loan shark 3. Kingdom 4. vagabond 5. kaiji 6. Freesia 7. Ping pong club, Minoru Furuya 8. Punpun 9. Number 5 (although I still have to read his other works so it might change), Matsumoto Taiyou 10. ravages of time and some others that are close but dont quite make the top 10 would be one piece, kyou kare ore wa, grand blue, blade of the immortal, golden kamuy, himizu, jojo 7, eden its an endless world, world is mine and some other great seinens

Oh yeah kingdom and punpun might make it too, its hard to recommend kingdom to people cause it has a slow start but its top 15 at least, maybe 10, ping pong club and himizu should be on the top 100 for sure but idk where I wouldn't go top 10 personally. Takemitsu Zamurai, Ping Pong and Zero could all probably be somewhere in top 100 , all great works, I havent read Number 5 yet tho. I've been meaning to check out ravages of time and finish kyou kare ore wa cause I forgot about it. Most of those works would probably be on my top 100 except eden cause I couldn't really get into it.

Yeah emanon probably has a pretty good chance of making it imo. I like spyxfamily, but I feel like there are works with that chill comedy slice of life style which are just better like grand blue, theres probably others too, maybe like jitsu wa watashi wa or even sakamoto, but it is a fun work, theres just tight competition. Apothecary diaries has a much better case imo, its refreshing does a lot of different things, but yeah competitions just kinda rough. I could see 90s or even higher but I probably would need to fill out the list to be sure and I could also see it not making it. In retrospect I was kinda high on Lone Wolf and Cub, but I dont mind at a lower spot on the list like maybe 60 or 70s. It is written like an older manga and is episodic so I can see why you find it boring, but I think the arts incredible and the plot slowly kinda comes together in a pretty great way and characters too. If you like the whole honour samurai stuff u'd probably like it more. The worst part of it is just how slow it is and theres no way its the greatest of all time lmao. I feel like Death Notes got a lot of reading, but when it kinda all clicks is when its good, but I also havent read it since 2014 so this is based on my opinion from a long time ago lol. After the timeskip I can see why you wouldnt like it. Wait do you like not like HxH at all or do u just think it should be lower or off the list? Cause I think thats crazy i've reread it so many times probably at least 6 or 7, I think I reread it last year even and its just as good, I even like the new chapters quite a bit. Incredible characters, probably the best power system in manga, really fun fights and great paced story. Im kinda still prefering the og OPM tbh, the new chapters in the redraw are going in a different direction which is fine, but I think a little worse. Nausicaas a decent read, but yeah it can drag and probably made the list cause of ghibli hype. I probably overrated where I would put grand blue too lmao, its a really funny work but a spot in the 70s maybe, if even that is probably fine for it. I think there was just a lot of hype around the anime back in the day but idk.

@@Zyhius Honestly I think SxF is better than all of those. Anya alone is more iconic and memorable than any character in those series, and there's honestly very little I'd say those other series do better than SxF in any aspect. I read like 50ish chapters of jitsu wa watashi wa but was not feeling it, the characters were just so obnoxious for me. Yeah maybe, it was just one omnibus, I'll check it out some point later but honestly the action from the bit I read was very unimpressive. Hopefully LWaC gets better for me. I think HxH is maybe average to slightly above average honestly, Greed Island is a terribly boring slog and I don't think Chimera Ant is as great as everyone says it is, though still decent. Yorknew's great and I like most of the other arcs, but I felt like the Chairman Election Arc had a huge asspull element to it and this most recent arc is starting to drag for me. I have it at a 6 for now. Yeah OG OPM storyline is probably better, but the art is just such a big gap. Grand Blue was hyped a lot even before the anime. It's quite funny but the romance in it is just cringy and I feel like the guys there overlap in personality too much, so the character moments for each one basically just feels like a retread of what we've already seen.

I did like anya as a character and she is iconic for sure, but I kinda tapered off spy x family after chapter 30 until I stopped keeping up, its a decent work past that point, but it feels like its kinda done everything it wanted to do already, but maybe its just different tastes. Ur the first person i've seen having HxH that low lmao, I know some of my friends didn't like Chimera Ant either, but it was my favorite arc personally, it unravelled really nicely and the mereum komugi storyline was one of my favorites in manga. Greed island was probably my second favorite tho, I feel like it was a cool concept that there was more to the game than just nen, genthru was probably the worst main villian in the manga but it was kinda more like a training arc than anything. I liked yorknew and the other arcs too, the chariman election was kind of just a transitionary arc, so I didn't mind it too much, I think what it did well was build excitement for the dark continent. I didn't like the recent arc either when I was keeping up monthly but on reread its actually not as drawn out as I thought. Yeah the romance was not its strong point from what I remember but its been a while since I read it, maybe its just high up cause its accessible idk.

@@Zyhius I dunno, reading it I just felt like everything was being laid out in a really mechanical way that was setting up for some obvious themes and ideas. I wasn't really invested in so many of the side stories because I felt like it was pretty obvious what he was trying to do with each one. Comparatively I think something like FMA ties together its ideas and plot a lot more organically for example. Training arcs kinda bore me to begin with and the way HxH just spams text to explain stuff, as well as making the arc so long, only made it worse for me. There's technically a lot to the game but only like 4 of the cards or whatever actually get used, the rest of them are basically useless, so it just feels like a waste and nowhere as complex as it initially is setup to be. And yeah Genthru is so lame lmao

FMA is more cohesive for sure cause the main point is about the big story, but in HxH its more like we're following a character whos motivations change sometimes and sometimes we follow different characters. I never really felt any issue with it feeling mechanical, with too much text or being too long, but I can see why you think that. I mean I think the whole point with the game was, the most optimal way to play wasn't to play properly, just to abuse the broken cards, but gon and killua still tried to experience it normally which was fun. I think the razor match and the phantom troupe trying to get chrollo's powers back were the highlights of that arc for me.

Thanks for the recommendation! GTOs actually one of my favorite manga, i've been reading the sequel, you might like it if u like GTO, and i think its supposed to be resuming from a hiatus in like a few days or something

10th place was kinda rough, NPCs wasn't like great, but it was a decent read and I wasnt sure what else I coulda put. Aharen was solid for sure and I considered it, but I didn't think a story like that could go for 200 chapters, maybe like 50-100 so I just read like 10 and didn't include it. I considered children of the whale too, but at the time I think there was like one volume left untranslated, but the art did look great and its translated now I think.

Thanks! I try to cover whatever I think is most important about the series, usually like bigger ideas, I think a lot of other reviewers cover smaller details which is sometimes better, but sometimes they don't touch on like crucial ideas. Im still trying to get better at reviewing and cover the whole work as best as I can tho

I forgot all about it, I'll read it soon

Yeah manhwa have much lower quality control than manga and as a whole are usually worse, but there are some standouts and it is a newer medium so maybe it'll get better over time Ranking disillusioned was weird cause it wasn't awful, but there was nothing to really like about it, so I put it there cause some works before it had some redeeming qualities State of jump is kinda sad tbh, haven't read nues or kill blue but maybe I'll read them for the ongoing list. Martial Master asumi and tenmaku cinema were ok, but it's been a while since there was an actually good new work, maybe since like Ruridragon I hadn't heard of Ijousha, but yeah it seems bad in the same way. In some way I feel like all these works are the repercussions of mirrai Nikki several years down the line lmao

I read nana over 10 years ago so I don't really remember much but I enjoyed it. I don't remember it having that much comedy but I can't really see it having any similarities to kanojo mo kanojo 😂

He is, he did the writing for the side stories so this year, until may, but I think he's leaving the writing of the sequel to someone else so he's probably not gonna be too active on the internet from now on

@@Zyhius thanks for answering

@@Zyhius are they going to keep this manga and anime going?

Thanks man, i'm almost done the next batch of videos, hopefully i'll upload in the next few days

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I'll check them out for sure, geikikou's bound to be good art wise at least if its Shigurui's artist.

@@Zyhius the art is amazing i haven't seen Shigurui myself but I've seen a lot of Takayuki's other works like apocalypse zero, his art is definitely something special.

Probably coulda talked about character design more as it was very good, but I don't think I would read this for the art or like recommend it to someone cause it has amazing art. Its great art, but I can think of lots of works which are more creative, have better paneling or have better designs. Designs are one of its strongest aspects though, especially on the main cast. There were parts about the ending which felt off, it almost feels like the way he was defeated is almost an afterthought. It makes sense cause everything is food related, but usually she'll hint at something beforehand, this time it almost comes out of nowhere and even the omniscient lion was suprised. I don't think the comedy had to get in the way of the last fight being great if it was off to the side more, but yeah some jokes do come at the most important moments.

Thanks! Yeah I do find that manga collecter/haul videos usually do get in the 1000s of views, which is generally better than reviews, but you are really pigeon holed into doing that one thing and I also don't really watch those videos, maybe if theres actual discussion but even then its usually not that thorough. The channels dedicated to one manga always feel like they're milking it, I actually thought the exact same thing as you about people making long videos of things it takes no time to read lmao, I feel like the better discussion videos usually come from people who make like 1 long video about a series or something, but idk how you can pump out 100+ videos on one series without it getting stale very quickly. Yeah the clickbait manga videos I think are better for newer manga readers, but yeah anyone whos read a decent amount probably knows most of the series they talk about. And yeah I would like them more if there was better analysis, but usually it comes off first impressiony and more like a reccomendation than any actual discussion. Yeah gear third and baka boys were the biggest strict manga review channels i've seen too and yeah manga review channels probably get the least views out of all of the types of videos, but I think its very dependant on if your video is highly ranked in youtube search. Most of my most popular videos show up pretty high in youtube search and some reviews I've seen can break 10-20k easily if its ranked high enough and enough people are searching for it. The problem is no manga channel I've ever seen consistently gets ranked highly in search and most videos there are like one ofs from creators who normally don't make reviews. I always thought of the Masked Man as moreso the clickbait type and TotallyNotMark as more a Dragon Ball creator, he doesn't milk it as hard as some other content creators. I think his success with other review videos probably is mostly spillover from his DB audience, but idk. Theres a lot of reasons why manga isn't as popular as other mediums, I think spoilers and people just wanting the same opinion as theirs is part of the reason, but its fairly inaccessible, people don't know where to start reading manga and theres no easy way for people to even hear about manga(other hobbies might have clubs or discussions online, but you won't find manga content online unless ur looking and most "anime and manga clubs" are basically just anime clubs) people don't know where to read works, people don't know which way to read panels and most people who have even given manga a shot, probably haven't read anything which isn't like JJK, Demon Slayer or like CSM levels of popularity. Also if you go on like the manga reddit or like forums, you probably won't find much discussion or community, usually just like chapter posts, so that too makes it harder to get into manga. MAL/Anilist have a ton of issue, but somehow the ratings overall usually aren't ever that bad, like popular series get overhyped, but they don't have as much as much of a review bombing issue as other mediums like music or anime. And usually the lowest score is like a 5, so u have to judge from like 5-10 overall. Indivual reviews usually seem like they have not much thought put into them with some exceptions, but I guess thats how it goes when you're a community based review site. I actually might make a reccomendation video when I make top 10s this year since you mentioned it. I've seen them get a lot of attention, and sometimes they can have like a series I haven't heard of but I didn't make them because something about the word reccomendation always felt weird to me. Usually if I talk about a series, i'm just giving my thoughts/opinion and people can check it out if it sounds up their alley, rather than thinking other people will like it. It is a good way to talk about a lot of more underrated series without getting very little views though, so I'll try it out. Appreciate u typing out this nerd essay lmao, I pretty much had very similar thoughts to yours on manga youtube.

@@Zyhius Yeah pretty much, there's also quite a number of those channels. Definitely, lines in motion is a good example of a channel that makes a great analysis video on a specific manga most of the time but still has variety, so their content feels fresh. For sure. Most of them have basically nothing to say in regards to something like art for example, like not asking for a technical breakdown, but at least describe the art and what you like about it beyond a surface level "it looks good and has lots of detail" or something. imo someone could probably "clickbait" and then talk about an unknown series though and get views if done properly, but it would require a ton of editing like those guys do. If you search for some specific unknown manga yeah, though also depends on the popularity, which is a bit of an issue cause reviews of the more mainstream stuff will probably get drowned out by bigger channels. RUclips search results are influenced by your own history though, so if you want a more accurate picture you'd have to search in incognito mode or sign out. Sometimes a manga will blow up in the West after an anime adaptation, which causes older videos on the manga before the anime aired to suddenly get a bunch of views iirc. Yeah neither of them are truly review channels, I've seen them put out some reviews occasionally I think (I've only watched a few of their vids), but Masked Man is more recommendations/commentary while TotallyNotMark is more a mix of review and analysis. He grew with Dragon Ball but I think he's basically mainstream variety now. Yeah music is just more accessible comparatively, can go on RUclips or Spotify and look them up easily, takes less time as well to listen through an album than to read an entire manga typically. I just meant that music reviews are obviously more popular than manga reviews, but even then people who watch mainstream music reviews are probably more open minded and experienced when it comes to music, while people who watch mainstream manga reviews seem to have only read a few manga and just want people to reinforce their existing opinion in comparison. r/manga used to be better, now it's become flooded with shitty fanbox bait and twitter manga. Mangadex is probably the best place for discussion nowadays, but yeah it's not easy finding places to talk about manga. Oh no the ratings are fine, I'm just making fun of the people who feel the need to set their own rating system in their profile as if it's super unique lmao Well you don't need to say recommendation in the title necessarily, sometimes it's just something like top 10 must read manga or something, but honestly the title you had last year is fine I think. it's mainly just the thumbnail you might want to change imo, most of them typically have a format where they put 3 manga in the thumbnail split in thirds, a quick search and you'll see a lot of them using that kinda format. Choosing like 10 manga you like and giving your thoughts on them should suffice for a recommendation, I've seen ones that have gotten thousands of views where they read like maybe one volume of manga at most lmao, or didn't even like the series that much.

Yeah lines in motion does away better job at talking about art than me which is great and very much needed. I guess i'm trying to cover the whole series in 10 minutes ish so its not quite as in depth in every aspect. The recommendation videos from them though I found to be like half series I've read and half series I probably wouldn't like. The anime thing is true for sure, my lucifer and the biscuit hammer had like 30-40 views and it jumped like a couple hundred when the anime dropped. You can kinda predict what videos will rank high relatively I made a whole list of big series with not many videos about them, but sometimes I just kinda want to review what I wanna review lmao. Yeah I feel like there was discussion on r/manga like 5/6 years ago but idk what changed. Mangadex can be good but I normally only read comments on certain works so idk how good the general discussion on forums is. Ohh lmao that makes sense, i've seen that before, guess they just wanna feel special. Yeah I think the thumbnail is a big deal and I spent way more time on the vid than the thumbnail and kinda just threw it on last second lmao. I'll try that format and maybe some other ones to see what looks best. There are search optimizer tools that tell you what words work in titles/descriptions and recommendations is a word which is always one of the top ones, maybe i'll throw it in as a tag or in the description but keep the title the same and it might work better.

@@Zyhius yeah it doesn't need to be as in depth since your videos are a different style anyways, lines in motion is an analysis channel while your channel is a review channel, just using their channel as an example of what I think a good manga analysis channel is. yeah not going to throw too much shade here, but I don't really like watching either channel. shitty moderation really and flood of trash content smh Yeah, fantano's simple format works for him, but he's been at it for a long time and is pretty recognizable for anyone interested in music. Since you're much a smaller channel, you might want more eye catching thumbnails comparatively. Also something I've noticed, you might not want to film in front of a mirror, your reflection moves with you so it can be a bit distracting occasionally. Maybe film with a bookshelf behind you with whatever manga you've collected?

I've actually wanted to move that mirror for a while now lmao, it always annoys me, but it just seemed like a hassle. I think I used to take it down and put it back up before but I don't remember. Bookshelf is probably what i'm gonna do eventually, but I don't have enough space behing my computer rn, so hopefully it'll happen eventually. I'll try to not have the mirror for the next videos.

I'm glad someone liked it I guess? What did you even like about it?

lmao, I was wondering why people have been watching it recently😂

Yeah, there was some entertainment value in how ridiculous it got lmao. I think the first time I read it I kind of did the same, but I ended up dropping it somewhere past chapter 200 because it got so bad I couldn't even find it funny anymore

Yeah unless u really want to read a delinquent work not worth, there's been a lot of better works recently

Yeah I feel like i've been doing so many positive reviews, I gotta mix it up a little before I review another 2 great series. Also nice pfp lmao

@@Zyhius thanks lmao

Yo, i don't get many haters around here man, I really appreciate u for being so dedicated

@@Zyhius buddy u ain’t famous enough for anyone to “hate” on at least have sum cajonese to take what u tryna dish 😩

I'm not tryna insult u at all, i'm just gonna be real with u for one sec bro, get off tik tok, make some friends, get u a gf, lose some weight and when u turn 18 in 5 years from now ur gonna thank me for giving u some of the best advice of ur life. I guarantee u when u look back on ur comments in a few years from now ur gonna cringe

the author said he was referring to steins gate lmao i didnt just make that up. if you think this is the greatest series of all time its cool, i just dont

@@Zyhius “referring”, you just proved my point it’s not a copy it’s different in how time works if your gonna refute my criticism without understanding my perspective wtf is the point of making reviews? At least be competent in knowing what your talkin about or don’t talk

Ur critiquing shit I didnt say lmao I didn't call it a copy, in fact in the video I said the experience u get from ragna crimson is vastly different from all those series, I didn't refute any of ur points cause ur misunderstanding what I said and you dont sound like u want to listen to anything I have to say lmao. Also ur comment just says a whole lot of nothing. Its fine for characters to be scared or weak if the circumstances demand it, but Ragna knows he has the power to defeat a lot of the dragons and hes still whiny as shit. Killing people doesn't make u any cooler and I understand that you hold this series in a very high opinion, but u honestly did a very bad job of explaining why you like it, you're just rambling, you can put up ur review if u want, but I honestly gave it a pretty high score for what it is, anything above 5 is above average. In my eyes it seems like this is one of your first few manga you've read and you're probably very young, so you're probably gonna die on ur hill, but just know some of the things u like about the series, I don't, and just because I don't, dont let it stop u from enjoying the series and some of the positives I mentioned in the review.

Maybe I sounded a little harsh, but yeah it is better than any of those and I still like the current arcs, they're just not as good to me as the beginning of the series or some of my favorite shounens. I never called any characters edgy, just think they've been simple so far which isn't a bad thing, maybe theres more to them later but idk. And yeah it is very likely Sein comes back, but i've been waiting for him to come back for 2 years lmao.

@@Zyhius About Sein, I think that's just the author's message. Don't dwell on anyone, just walk your path. If you're destined to meet again, you'll meet again. If not, then it was still a time well spent nonetheless. I didn't expect to meet the mage who supervised the first exam again or Denken so soon, and their stories were overwhelmingly touching. Will they ever appear again? I hope so, but even if they don't, it's fine because they already left a piece of them in my mind.

Yeah that is true, it didn't really bother me too much other than a few serious moments where characters(asides from Frieren) had blank faces, but the art isn't mind blowing by any means.

Real fighters are stone-faced when they fight tbh. Don't expect everyone to scream and laugh like kids like in your typical shonen.

Fighters do show some expressions like if you've seen Anderson SIlva or like any UFC fighter, they're not always completely blank, usually they look quite focused, but the fight scenes to me isn't where the expressionless problems were, usually it had more to do with the other scenes of grief or joy.

@@Zyhius some fighters show expressions, but they don't normally yell or scream during fight. And we've seen mages show expressions in the manga, e.g Series, Macht, Solitar

@@sleepylion9788 I'm not referring just to fights, even in many slice of life moments the reactions from some of them are often too subdued. Also I read a variety of manga lol, you're in the wrong channel if you think it's just typical shonen here

Man i didn't realize how badly I butchered hanayama 😅, at least I think my pronounciation got a little better now lmao