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  • Опубликовано: 16 июл 2024
  • Every anime fan has an origin story - a moment where they sat up and asked, to no-one in particular, 'what is this?' This is one such story - a look at the anime of the early 2000s that made me fall in love with an entire medium, and changed my life forever. The anime that made me take my first steps Beyond Ghibli.
    00:00 Introduction
    06:40 Chobits
    15:13 Intermission
    17:53 Kimi Ga Nozomu Eien
    28:25 Elfen Lied
    36:19 Conclusion
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    Subtitles by Fevol
    #Chobits #KGNE #ElfenLied

Комментарии • 372

  • @pdahandyman
    @pdahandyman 2 месяца назад +106

    Complete list of all media shown or mentioned:
    NOTE * = Featured
    Strawberry Marshmallow
    Kannagi: Crazy Shrine Maidens
    Honey and Clover
    Please Twins! (also Onegai Twins)
    Bleach
    Full Metal Panic!
    Ah! My Goddess!
    Love Hina
    Azumanga Daioh
    Gurren Lagann
    Grenadier
    Midori Days
    Lucky Star
    Tales of Phantasia
    Gunslinger Girl
    Read or Die
    Pokemon
    Tales of Destiny (video game)
    Tales of Destiny Remake (video game)
    Spirited Away
    Ponyo
    Princess Mononoke
    Genshiken
    Bludgeoning Angel Dokuro-Chan
    Welcome to the N.H.K.
    Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind
    Jet Set Radio (video game)
    Chobits*
    Beck
    Kimi Ga Nozomu Eien*
    Sakura Wars
    School Rumble
    Death Note
    DearS
    Blue Gender
    Kiddy Grade
    My-HiME
    Sayonara, Zetsubou-Sensei
    Naruto
    Haibane Renmei
    Nodame Cantible
    Ninja Scroll
    Kokoro Library
    The Animatrix
    Rozen Maiden
    Kiss X Sis
    Elfen Lied*
    Excel Saga
    The Melencholy of Haruhi Suzumiya
    Air
    Dragon Ball Z
    Ai Yori Aoshi
    Cowboy Bebop The Movie
    Bible Black
    Desert Punk
    Ikki Tousen
    Berserk (original series)
    Eureka Seven
    Black Lagoon
    Paranoia Agent
    FLCL
    Samurai Champloo
    Neon Genesis Evangelion
    Bokurano
    Higurashi When They Cry
    Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle
    Viewtiful Joe
    Kiki's Delivery Service
    Haikyu!!
    Akira
    Clannad
    Fruits Basket
    Mushishi

    • @flowerss.992
      @flowerss.992 2 месяца назад +3

      Omg thank you 😩😩😩

    • @Pericalypsis
      @Pericalypsis 2 месяца назад +2

      I've watched about 1/3 of those. But 2 are my 2 favourite shows ever: Mushishi and Haibane Renmai.

    • @pdahandyman
      @pdahandyman 2 месяца назад +1

      @@flowerss.992 My pleasure. Please don't cry :D

    • @Mrshoujo
      @Mrshoujo 2 месяца назад +1

      Officially, it's Oh My Goddess! Fujishima himself approved of it for English licenses.
      *Melancholy of Suzumiya Haruhi

  • @BunNiiMelody
    @BunNiiMelody 2 месяца назад +384

    “Don’t watch Chobits when your parents are awake” Truer words have never been spoken. Dude was a BRO

    • @entropybentwhistle
      @entropybentwhistle 2 месяца назад +6

      I don’t remember anything too weird from Chobits aside from a very interesting on/off switch point, but that could be argued by from a design engineer’s standpoint to be a good spot for one, because who else but the owner is going to mess with it?

    • @syosuda4446
      @syosuda4446 2 месяца назад +5

      my mom loves chobits 🤣

    • @WongTag
      @WongTag 2 месяца назад +11

      … has now become, “Don’t watch Chobits when your children are awake”.

    • @tulip811
      @tulip811 2 месяца назад

      Don't watch Chobits

    • @SerifSansSerif
      @SerifSansSerif 2 месяца назад +4

      I watched chobits as an adult after watching perfect blue, dominion tank police, ninja scroll, and ghost in he shell.
      You guys were intro'ed WELL AFTER the dangerous days of watching anime with your parents... Hell, some of those titles were just barely cleaned up for tv viewing on the scifi channel.
      Nevertheless, just the opening of the chobits OP... Pure nostalgic bliss... :)

  • @ValforDragoon
    @ValforDragoon 2 месяца назад +65

    Oh man, I saw the self titled video and got scared that it was a farewell RUclips video for a second.

  • @rabidheartbeats5953
    @rabidheartbeats5953 2 месяца назад +86

    that "Let Me Be With You" is forever burned into my memory

    • @Racistobama
      @Racistobama 2 месяца назад

      If I made a top 20 openings list, it would be there. I'm not sure what would be at the top...possibly Rondo Revolution.

    • @taylorslade8080
      @taylorslade8080 2 месяца назад +4

      OOH OOH OOH OOH YEAH

  • @SacredShiro
    @SacredShiro 2 месяца назад +111

    You could not have put together a more sincere and heartfelt way to say out load exactly how I felt growing up with anime from the early 90s and how I feel now.

  • @Halalex_
    @Halalex_ 2 месяца назад +224

    Honey wake up, Beyond Ghibli uploaded again

  • @dyelawn893
    @dyelawn893 2 месяца назад +61

    Wasnt expecting a love letter to Chobits from this channel lol. This video really resonated with me with my teenage binge into anime being around the same time. Elfenlied literally burned itself into my psyche as well. I have extremely mixed feelings about it in retrospect but I cannot deny how in a way it took away a part of my innocence and naivety about the cruelty of humanity. However the ability for those characters to find a family and relative happiness despite the trauma and cruelty they endured is definitely as impactful as the horrors the anime portrayed, if not more so.

  • @torealikurmanov9065
    @torealikurmanov9065 2 месяца назад +111

    I just want to take a moment and thank you for finding some time in your life to make such a personal video for your audience. Sometimes, uploading takes a backseat to real life, but remember that there is an audience you earned waiting to hear your voice when you'll have the time to share.

  • @JoriamRamos
    @JoriamRamos 2 месяца назад +91

    There's a part of me that can still lock onto that feeling of being 14 and experiencing Love Hina or Full Metal Panic as the pinacles of excitement and media transgression - gosh, I remember how loudly I laughed. It was a good time.
    We grow, and so does our taste, but it's also wise to keep a little bit of the preteen (and also the child, the adolescent, the young adult, even the baby) alive inside of us. Perhaps our excitements are not as explosive, but our sense of discovery and wonder is still here.
    Thank you for the video, it brought me back. I was also handed a CD, and I did my fair share of burning and gifting myself. I tried to learn how to sing, directly inspired by Beck. I studied Japanese for 2.5 years, all that good stuff. Now, like some people on the internet, I make videos about Miyazaki.
    It's nice to know we're not alone, isn't it?

    • @user-ow2yr4nu4z
      @user-ow2yr4nu4z 2 месяца назад +2

      Loved FMP!

    • @meeshmallows
      @meeshmallows 2 месяца назад +2

      I still remember being a teenager watching Love Hina and Chobits with my younger sibling and dying laughing, which then got us sharing manga between us, and eventually onto the (annoying to everyone besides us) phase of quoting FLCL all the time.

  • @Endlessdarkness0
    @Endlessdarkness0 2 месяца назад +17

    This wasn't just a nostalgic look at early 2000s anime, this is a love letter to the whole medium, and it's beautiful! Thank you so much! You made me fall in love with anime all over again, and I never fell out in the first place!

  • @rokahn
    @rokahn 2 месяца назад +9

    At times I lose faith in youtube as a medium and then Beyond Ghibli uploads...
    So many memories come back with the shows shown and mentioned. Thank you soooo much for your incredible videos.

  • @otoshithekid2957
    @otoshithekid2957 2 месяца назад +25

    Man, there were SO MANY hidden moments in this video. How special. For someone who, more or less, grew up in a similar manner (my brother being my guide), and who ended with manga as my medium of choice in the end, this felt so special. Specially when you said you tried everything (THEN SHOWED A SCENE FROM BIBLE BLACK, DON'T THINK WE'RE LETTING THIS SHIT SLIDE).
    Much love, thank you for your own response art, it is quite beautiful.
    It reminded me of the powerful potential of storytelling. With the manga landscape being infested with lazy plots that I have to rifle through, I often times forget it. I forget that there's a reason our love for the artform runs so deep. But there are stories that can truly transform us, like Kimi Ga transformed you. And what a great reminder at the end. What is the language of art if not our collective perception of it? What is art, if it is not shared?

  • @JiiruKoga
    @JiiruKoga 2 месяца назад +15

    84 model here. Watched all these shows in the olden days and they also caressed desires and nurtured my maturity in ways that my broken home could not. I'm happy to have experienced these shows. I begun maybe a little earlier than you, being raised by Heidi and Moomin made by Hayao Myazaki before Studio Ghibli was a thing and I new what anime was.

  • @hokieham
    @hokieham 2 месяца назад +21

    I’m 55. I remember running home from elementary school each day to catch the newest episode of “Star Blazers”. After that we got “Battle of the Planets”. But, Star Blazers left a mark on me because of the drama that ran much deeper than other “cartoons” I watched. I’ll never forget the episode when Wildstar had his arm grazed by a blaster and you could see the blood oozing from the wound. The suspense and cliffhanger episode made me run home faster the next day……
    Years later (early 90’s), I strolled into a comic shop and found a Macross comic and inquired about it because the art was reminiscent of Star Blazers. The owner suggested I check out the anime club meeting in the back room. I strolled to the back, pulled back a curtain and saw a sight I’ll never forget. A relatively small, cramped space filled with old, donated leather couches and chairs. The smell of pizza and a room full of nerds. The old LCD projection screen and a chain of VCR’s and laser disk players giving off electric warmth.
    That nights feature was Silent Mobius. The cyberpunk, Blade Runner vibe had me from the get go. I was hooked. I’ve been an anime nerd ever since. With the vapid, boiler plate trash that Hollywood puts out today…….I love it even more.
    Great video! Allergies acted up toward the end.

    • @AcroRay
      @AcroRay 2 месяца назад +4

      My experiences were roughly similar, friend. Same age, same shows, same fan clubs and daisy-chains of copying media sources. :-)

    • @hokieham
      @hokieham 2 месяца назад +2

      @@AcroRay those were the days! It was exciting. Went to some of the first anime conventions on the east coast. Those were so fun. There’s a doc on RUclips about them. I know a lot of those people😂

    • @Kataxu
      @Kataxu 2 месяца назад +2

      I need to get my hands on Silent Mobius...... I've been wanting to watch that anime for around 23 years

    • @ariffnoor9765
      @ariffnoor9765 25 дней назад +1

      Im 41.. i recall many memories about old skool viewings with my brothers on old tv channels. Voltron, astroboy, macross, patlabor, ... When we were pure hearts and all.

  • @Wol333
    @Wol333 2 месяца назад +21

    The editing was perfection. Chobits was one of the first anime I watched knowing it was anime. So nostalgic and opened my eyes to a whole new world and ways of thinking. Anime has such diversity in story telling that you just couldn't find on western TV.

  • @totaIIynotdedsec
    @totaIIynotdedsec 2 месяца назад +5

    these subtitle shenanigans have got to be a throwback to the fansubs of the old!

  • @KingGurke98
    @KingGurke98 2 месяца назад +15

    "end of the prologue." Now you've got me wanting more!
    I'm honestly surprised that Haibane Renmei was one of those first four episodes. I watched it after your video on it, and it's certainly not an anime I'd expect teenage boys to appreciate.

  • @pandabosch
    @pandabosch 2 месяца назад +17

    Evangelion was my own beyond Ghibli moment. It started with a single image found in the depths of some early aught's forum or blog. I don't remember where I found it but the image remains stark strange and beautiful in my mind. A giant pale naked woman basked in an eerie monochromatic blood red. She towered above swirling clouds with strange appendages resembling insect wings sprouting from her back and legs. In her hands she cradled a soft white orb that she looked down on with an expression a mother might give their newborn child. It flipped a switch in my brain and I needed to know where this image came from, who made it, and why. Needless to say I always was and still am a Rei fan.

    • @jer103
      @jer103 2 месяца назад +1

      Evangelion is one that lasted the test of time. It could come out now in 2024, and be as intriguing as back in 1995.

  • @kineticstar
    @kineticstar 2 месяца назад +24

    I discovered toonomi back in 2003, and I was hooked. They were stories and art style I had never seen before. I have been in love ever since.

  • @nuanceblacksywin4868
    @nuanceblacksywin4868 2 месяца назад +11

    Elfen Lied... It's one of the most controversial shows. But also one of my all time favourites. Not because it's the one of the "best", but because it's succeeded to make me FEEL each time I rewatched it. (Maybe three times.) The tragedy somehow gets to me every time. I don't think I've ever cried more to an anime. And that's what entertainment is about, to me. Not crying, but feeling any sort of strong feelings.

    • @ivansoto9723
      @ivansoto9723 2 месяца назад

      I dropped it because I thought the scene at 34:02 was really cringe. Should I give it another shot then?

    • @bawalmagisip1
      @bawalmagisip1 2 месяца назад

      @@ivansoto9723same here. it’s like fan service for pedophiles & sex maniacs. it always ruins it for me.
      it’s so cheap.

    • @2shadowgamer2
      @2shadowgamer2 Месяц назад

      No you shouldn't. And this is coming from someone who likes the show and read the whole Manga. It's just not good and there is better stories out there.​@@ivansoto9723

  • @NaiChanify
    @NaiChanify 2 месяца назад +3

    The classic children’s story book way that this personal tale of an anime fan is narrated is amazing. I feel such a strong but bizarre sense of nostalgia here. It feels almost like a parody, but I’m enjoying it immensely

  • @deathtree9756
    @deathtree9756 2 месяца назад +8

    I didn’t expect to get so emotional over an video essay but you truly touched me. This is really a fantastic video!

  • @RyleyStorm
    @RyleyStorm 2 месяца назад +40

    Alright time to lock in.

  • @Sir.Endipity
    @Sir.Endipity 2 месяца назад +12

    I want you to know that you're an amazing creator. I enjoy your content, and value the zen like insights per episode. The recommendations and hidden finds within the videos are always top tier. 🙇‍♂️🙇‍♂️

  • @leilaallagui5581
    @leilaallagui5581 2 месяца назад +15

    Welcome back, we missed you

  • @SimplyMavAgain
    @SimplyMavAgain 2 месяца назад +7

    2:11 those captions go crazy, damn

  • @wadejohnston4305
    @wadejohnston4305 2 месяца назад +2

    My first dive into anime was Wolfs Rain when i was 13 and i find MYself constantly thinking back on it. All these years later and ive yet to rewatch it. I will one day. This video really resonated with me thank you for all the hard you put into it.

    • @sh1yo7
      @sh1yo7 2 месяца назад

      Straaaaaaahiiiiiyaaaaay

  • @bigbossvi429
    @bigbossvi429 2 месяца назад +3

    In the early 2000s I used to watch random anime online, like throwing a dart on a board. Rumbling Hearts was one of them, wow I honestly totally forgot about it and just the feeling it left in me and I’m getting again just watching this video. It had at the edge of my seat as any other shonen, it felt so adult back then. Thanks for reminding me.

  • @kappanova1302
    @kappanova1302 2 месяца назад +5

    It´s rare that I actually watched all animes you talk about in a video, albeit ages ago. I had forgotten how much Kimi ga nozomu eien still feels like a splinter in my heart. I had recommended the series to my friend when i was halfway through, and he caught up very quickly. I think I remember us meeting up twice in one day because we had both watched a significant episode and NEEDED to talk about it with someone. I have a fondness for that show

  • @brianlefko4404
    @brianlefko4404 Месяц назад +1

    It’s ironic you’re saying you wouldn’t recommend KimiNozo, because this video is probably the most heartfelt recommendation the series has received in years. The way your voice breaks a bit around 20:28 hit my tear ducts like a truck. It’s so wonderful to hear people’s experiences with anime, and I’m very glad you shared this with us. I never watched the show, but now I want to.

  • @erufailon4723
    @erufailon4723 2 месяца назад +3

    While there's a time difference of almost two entire decades, I can relate to remembering that feeling of discovering something amazing when getting into anime. Being drawn into a world that feels so unlike everything you've seen before, but also just... makes sense on some instinctual level. Binging hours after hours, watching and enjoying things you wouldn't watch or enjoy now. I was a bit of a dumbass then, but I can't deny sometimes wishing I could return to those days.

  • @ChaunchoCYM
    @ChaunchoCYM 2 месяца назад +3

    I feel a tinge of envy that I can't reminisce about these highlighted series as some others in the comment section can. The overall feeling is something I can understand however, and it has me reflecting on the series that were formative to my early anime years. Thank you for this gift :)

  • @makarthamin
    @makarthamin 2 месяца назад +2

    6:47 that transition to OP hit way harder than it had any right to. I’m glad I’m not the only one “Chobits” helped pave the way to fandom.

  • @Don9aldo
    @Don9aldo 2 месяца назад +2

    Loved seeing the clips from other nostalgic anime! My uncle lending me Animatrix as a kid was what made me realise a bunch of what I'd already been watching religiously on Toonami was part of a whole new world of amazing art!

  • @lucasiuslightbringer588
    @lucasiuslightbringer588 2 месяца назад +3

    As a seasoned anime enthusiast, I have had the pleasure of witnessing the evolution of the medium over several decades. Your clips consistently showcase hidden gems from the past, characterized by their sophisticated production values.
    Great work, as always 👏

  • @Kairi-ou
    @Kairi-ou 2 месяца назад +2

    !!!! Somebody who’s seen Chobits? And appreciates the complexity of Tsubasa?? And CLAMP??? I’ve never been so excited in my life

    • @Racistobama
      @Racistobama 2 месяца назад +1

      I viewed it with two of my best friends as the tapes were released. We had watched a bit of CLAMP's stuff before, and we assumed that most of the fan service and smutty aspects were there *despite* who was making it - possibly due to input from male producers worried that pure shojo OAVs wouldn't do as well as broadcast shows. Turning up the naughty was a common marketing tactic for shows that didn't reach a vast TV audience. I realize now that this wasn't the case: this was a group of women behaving exactly like women do when there aren't men around. I agree completely with the creator of this video - if I had to make by top 25 list, Chobits would probably be on there. On the surface it was a typical "magical girl" show. The fact that the girl happened to be an android wasn't even that original when Chobits debuted. To say Chobits was just another magical girl harem romp is like saying Evangelion was just another giant robot anime.

  • @bad001bd
    @bad001bd 2 месяца назад +1

    Elfen Lied was my very first anime I looked at for myself. It's stuck with me ever since, especially that delightfully haunting song. It's a must watch for those who haven't seen it yet.

  • @djinn.b9492
    @djinn.b9492 2 месяца назад +2

    I watched evengalion on a bootleg vhs back in the late 90s thats when i had my first "wtf is this!" moment. i spent a whole decade trying to convince friends, family, and anyone who'd listen to my taste in shows, that anime is the best of story telling. Any story is possible, anything can be converted to a visual median, even dreams. after being ridiculed time and time again even by my own brother. in the past 10 years he now watches anime weekly (all be it dub) but now when we get together its what we talk about. i now give him seasonal recommendations and we deep dive shows. its been a long battle to see anime finally get the recognition it deserves.

  • @dociletoad
    @dociletoad 2 месяца назад +13

    Welcome back brother, it's been a while.

  • @SlavStash
    @SlavStash 2 месяца назад +2

    The tidal wave of nostalgia brought by this video, the kind you can't fight but to which you must surrender, enveloped me in memories, feelings, and thoughts; that I desperately tried to forget, because the heartache is too much, but without which I can't be. Thank you.

  • @edgelord8337
    @edgelord8337 2 месяца назад +42

    Chobits actually getting into the ethics of being with a PC was a surpising angle but I'm glad they did.
    The anime feels juvenile and innocent yet also mature and adult while still never losing itself in the spectrum.
    With the rise or AI and more socially introverted people i wouldn't be surprised if chobits gains the popularity of something like serial experiments lain which is way more relevant now than it is today.
    That and being just an overall genuine and sweet romcom.
    I swear people need to talk about ones like chobits instead of bringing up clannad or toradora all the time which are understandably popular but i feel that chobits despite the metal framing has a real heart to it.

  • @asuka1993
    @asuka1993 2 месяца назад +2

    Chobits influenced so much of my style when I was learning to draw, you can still see it somewhat in the way I draw hair too nowadays. I was waiting for someone to talk about this series I love so much

  • @stanchern3796
    @stanchern3796 2 месяца назад +2

    My man, i feel you. Kimi Ga is always with me since the time i watched it for the first time.
    Right time and place it was

  • @matocolic3064
    @matocolic3064 2 месяца назад +6

    I am in LOVE with these subtitles. I had no idea youtube had support for this kind of creativity and style. Can't wait to see more of this kind of amazing content. Worth every second of the wait. Stay amazing Beyond, you're an incredibe inspiration indeed. ❤

  • @mbe102
    @mbe102 2 месяца назад +6

    OMG! YES! I've been waiting so long for this one

    • @BeyondGhibli
      @BeyondGhibli  2 месяца назад +1

      Thank you so much for this comment - knowing that this resonated with people made the months crafting it so worthwhile :) Thanks for letting me know what it meant to you

  • @agirlnamedthom
    @agirlnamedthom 2 месяца назад +1

    I love chobits and no one ever does it like retrospect about it. I'm so excited to watch this tonight

  • @4ri0ch
    @4ri0ch 2 месяца назад +3

    It's a testament to your video making skills that you managed to make me vaguely nostalgic for Elfen freaking Lied of all things

  • @shinxhia
    @shinxhia 2 месяца назад +3

    I cried while watching Chobits bro. The storyline was really great.

  • @smguy7
    @smguy7 2 месяца назад +1

    I love anime in my childhood - Marine Boy, Space Ace, 8th Man, Wonder 3, Kimba The White Lion (The Lion King was a rip-off), Speed Racer - I am way older than you. But it was Ah! My Goddess and Azumanga Daioh that pulled me back in.

  • @stratoge
    @stratoge Месяц назад +2

    What a beautiful video essay of your personal journey.
    Although I didn't get into anime until the late 2000s (through discovering a lot of harem shows), I encountered similar points in which the medium shaped my life.
    Also oh my god, those captions are a work of art in themselves.

  • @Ditchdigger2005
    @Ditchdigger2005 2 месяца назад +1

    CHOBITS and Elfen Lied are among the first shows I saw when properly getting into anime yet it was 15 years after they came out, but equally the "cartoons" I remember the most growing up turned out to be anime! Ulysses 31, Dogtanian, Willy Fogg and The Mysterious Cities of Gold. The first anime I saw knowing it was anime was when Akira first aired in the UK, but it didn't stick, then Spirited Away won the Oscar and I watched the rest of Ghibli on Film4, but again it didn't stick then I saw the likes of Cowboy Bebop, Escaflowne and the original Fullmetal Alchemist on the briefly lived AnimeCentral, but it still didn't stick. It wasn't till Netflix started to push anime that I finally got sucked in and I signed up to Crunchyroll and haven't looked back. That when I saw those 2 shows among many other classics and then started watching current stuff too.

  • @thmistrapillay1811
    @thmistrapillay1811 2 месяца назад +1

    Grew up with Naruto, Pokémon, Digimon, Yugioh and DBZ. They made me feel emotions in a way _so_ different to those of Western media like Lion King or Batman, and in a way that I couldn't quite explain but I knew was incredible
    Although in terms of Ghibli, I first watched Spirited Away when I was quite young and it was one of the few, if not the first, movie where I just couldn't explain why I loved it or why it was beautiful.

  • @terubokmasin3247
    @terubokmasin3247 2 месяца назад +2

    Seeing the old titles brings back lots of fuzzy memories. Thanks!

  • @motouechi
    @motouechi 2 месяца назад +1

    Chobits was one of my favorite anime/manga of my youth, and Video Girl Ai. Unforgettable

  • @bridgettelair370
    @bridgettelair370 2 месяца назад +1

    Chobits was the first anime I actively sought out to watch from start to finish, I could (and still can) sing the opening theme song, I made robot ears out of construction paper, I drew art of it, Chii was the girl on my birthday cake that year.
    I'm so glad my parents had no idea what it was cause I was like 10 or 11, I watched it in the basement on Comcast On Demand.

  • @halfiecafe
    @halfiecafe 2 месяца назад +4

    One of the most beautiful, heartfelt tributes to anime I’ve seen in quite some time. Anime has made a clear mark on all of us; it really is a gift that keeps on giving. I’m glad to have been given the chance to experience a medium bursting with that special flavor of profound, one that has never stopped inspiring fans old and new.
    Thank you for this introspective masterpiece of a video, made me cry.

  • @symbioticmango
    @symbioticmango 2 месяца назад +1

    I was a middle school girl in this era and out of ALL of the anime you could've selected you chose three that had the most impact on me (for better or worse). Such a pleasure to listen to. I literally just bought a wig to cosplay Lucy and my newest tattoo is from Chobits.

  • @carolyn888
    @carolyn888 2 месяца назад +2

    I see Beyond Ghibli post; stops what I'm doing to watch/ listen.

  • @brianlefko4404
    @brianlefko4404 Месяц назад +1

    While I might be a decade removed from you, my experiences were the same. While I might have watched different shows, they were the same. I am so truly thankful that I got into anime how I did, when I did. It has done so much for me, and meant so much to me. Thank you for putting into words, that wonderful feeling of being a teenager with a whole new universe to explore. This is one of the best RUclips channels, and you deserve all the praise in the world. Thanks for making me cry today, Joe.

  • @lorcannagle
    @lorcannagle 2 месяца назад +1

    Some things are universal. I first encountered anime in the 80s boom, with Robotech, Captain Harlock and Thundersub on Super Channel being noticeably different than the other weekend morning cartoons that occupied my childhood, but I got into it properly with the early 90s explosion and all the baggage that came with it. I remember staying up late at 16 or so to watch Cyber City Oedo and Doomed Megalopolis in Channel 4's Saturday night extreme cinema slot... and worrying about how to explain the latter to my parents if they came downstairs and asked exactly what was going on in the show. Exactly like that Chobits moment.

  • @jer103
    @jer103 2 месяца назад +2

    I think all anime, even bad or simple anime, leaves an imprint on you. It's always a part of your memory and experiences, after you watch it...

  • @daybreakcoder
    @daybreakcoder 2 месяца назад +1

    I really enjoyed this video, as someone with a 99% similar anime experience, I found that the commentary and the scenes selection were superb. It was great remembering all those stories. And as you said some of those will be stuck with us forever in our minds, the anime that still haunts me to this day is Texhnolyze, that one was cruel.

  • @kirbymarchbarcena
    @kirbymarchbarcena 2 месяца назад +1

    It is always fun to reminisce the past on how one person began a journey to greatness.

  • @cooperreynolds5041
    @cooperreynolds5041 2 месяца назад +2

    Fevol knocked it out of the park with the captions. Beautiful work

  • @HeresWhyItsCool
    @HeresWhyItsCool 2 месяца назад +2

    I remember those days of passing CD-Rs around, or having a FanSubbed taped that was a copy of a copy of a copy... watching Dragon Ball Z in it's raw form before any english dub existed, or being enchanted by "Warriors of the Wind" when I was 8 yrs old and hadn't yet heard the names "Ghibli" or "Miyazaki"....
    Anyway, thank you for this video, and your other works. The feeling of your videos, the style... it's influenced me somewhat in the videos I've been making on my own channel, in it's cadence and long-form presentation. It's as soothing as it is inspiring. Keep up the great work!

  • @NoMoreCrumbs
    @NoMoreCrumbs 2 месяца назад +1

    My turning point where I became a fan was watching Gundam Wing on Toonami as a 6 or 7 year old and realizing that cartoons can be used to tell stories about violence. I didn't really get the theme, but i thought it was cool. Same feeling when I first watched NGE 3 years later

  • @williamheinbuch
    @williamheinbuch 2 месяца назад +1

    Honestly, it’s pretty simple at this point. I see a Beyond Ghibli video, I click immediately lmao.

  • @Ryan-tn5ix
    @Ryan-tn5ix 2 месяца назад +1

    You know it's a good day when Beyond Ghibli uploads.

  • @birdsephone
    @birdsephone Месяц назад

    this video was such a nice watch, as a 95 baby. Sailor Moon was my intro, my best friend from preschool was playing in a bouncy house, we were choosing the sailor scouts we'd be. When i was too scared to take a shower (i was scared of the running water) I leafed through her manga of it. I haven't been able to keep in touch with her (her name was sammy little, if you're out there I miss you! Sorry you only knew me when I was not the greatest) but sailor moon changed my life, and helped me find a medium that really spoke to me for the first time in a life where I'd mostly felt like a social reject. I was a rotten kid back then, I had no idea how I was supposed to move through the world, and often took cues from a mother who was absolutely batshit, but I've grown to take so much from sailor moon as an adult. Thanks for this video, it reminded me why I loved sailor moon so much, and why I feel so constantly the urge to revisit 2000s anime.

  • @christiancampbell4114
    @christiancampbell4114 2 месяца назад +1

    i love that you list the names of everything in the corner
    it makes it so much easier to find new stuff

  • @ps3wizard45
    @ps3wizard45 2 месяца назад +2

    Amazing video, love the personal context and earnesty you give to these shows. I hope you never stop making videos.

  • @ThatXavier
    @ThatXavier 2 месяца назад +1

    Thank you for sharing your early experience with anime. Always a delight watching your videos!

  • @MichaMielcarek
    @MichaMielcarek 2 месяца назад +1

    29 August 1998 was my 15th birthday. Just one year after Judgment Day ;) Glad to know that date somehow connected us. Happy to see you’re back with another brilliant video. Just what I needed in that rather poor time.
    Cheers from Poland!

  • @tysonm2525
    @tysonm2525 2 месяца назад

    Yes please! More videos!!!!! I love watching your video essays!

  • @MintyDragonfly
    @MintyDragonfly 2 месяца назад +1

    This was so good and beautiful 🥺 Thank you

  • @fndmaioli
    @fndmaioli 2 месяца назад +1

    What a beautiful essay, now I can't help but remember how I started watching anime and to reminisce in how it has impacted my own life and development over the years. Seriously, for a video to put me in this mood, it has to both be really well done and connect to me emotionally, and this one easily clears both marks.
    Thank you for this, your work is beyond words!

  • @Giraldus117
    @Giraldus117 2 месяца назад +4

    Absolute banger of a video! Thankyou for distilling my similar thoughts and feelings into it! Great Job!❤

  • @warfaregmd7649
    @warfaregmd7649 2 месяца назад

    I was just rewatching your videos and noticed you hadn’t uploaded recently. So happy to see another vid you’re probably my favorite anime channel

  • @mihi359
    @mihi359 2 месяца назад

    Clamp also made Card Captor Sakura and animated a separate transformation for every single outfit she wore. They were the queens of attention to detail and the beauty they made changed my life. Chobits is also iconic.

  • @sn5669
    @sn5669 2 месяца назад +1

    Very moving video essay. I feel exceptionally lucky to have experienced them in real time and can still share these feelings today. A picture book, Mayaul no okurimono (A gift from Mayaul) is still with me after all those years.

  • @abihrbacek9235
    @abihrbacek9235 2 месяца назад +2

    Amazing editing, thank you for the video ❤

  • @snubnosedmonke
    @snubnosedmonke 2 месяца назад +1

    Chobits awoken something in me that I didn’t even know I had when I was that young… anime fanservice oh god 😭

  • @kilIingword
    @kilIingword 2 месяца назад +1

    ty for including mushishi. its a very special anime to me, i teared up immediately at the short clip.

  • @kgport80
    @kgport80 2 месяца назад

    Wow! Kimi Ga Nozomu portion really hit me hard. What's more weird is I had a dream last night that was about this VERY idea of falling in love with an idea of a person in the past, than the person you truly love in the present. Thank you for this episode :)

  • @AdaraFukuchi
    @AdaraFukuchi 2 месяца назад +1

    another brilliant video, joe. loved it

  • @Demanufactur3r
    @Demanufactur3r 2 месяца назад

    Aaahh... Chobits. Good memories. Great video, loved your take and feelings on Chobits especially.

  • @WaalkR
    @WaalkR 2 месяца назад

    as someone who started off on pokemon on tv, then limewire and borrowed burned mix and match cds, this one was very special. thank you

  • @cozycramorant9017
    @cozycramorant9017 2 месяца назад +1

    As always, that was beautiful. I'm not sure which was the first anime to change my life like that, but it was such a great nostalgia hit to see all those old anime!

  • @DAYMENEA
    @DAYMENEA 2 месяца назад +1

    This is being unexpectedly beautiful
    thanks, man
    I didn't know i needed this

  • @M4dM4n96
    @M4dM4n96 2 месяца назад +2

    Yooooooo
    Glad to see you back

  • @Alex.qh07
    @Alex.qh07 2 месяца назад +1

    WAKE UP NEW BEYOND GHIBLI VID.
    I've been waiting for this, it's super nice to see that you've uploaded. That little extra on a Friday 🥂❤

  • @mho...
    @mho... 2 месяца назад +6

    being born in the early 80s germany i grew up with "western(ized)" cartoons (saberrider, bravestarr,bionic6 & so on , just to name a few), but when i one day stumbled over late-night "anime" i was just blown away! i think my first exposure this world was *Escaflowne* & then *ghost in the shell* & then i saw *Mononoke* my world shifted & im hooked to animation ever since!
    now, close to 30 years later, im still amazed by the level of eyecandy & stories, that japan has to offer! its just on a whole different level, to what we "in the west" are producing for the last decades!
    my personal favorite is *Makoto Shinkai* i saw some of his early eyecandy & it just couldt compare to anything ive seen before, then later on i figured out "its all done by the same dude" 🤭 cant get enough of all of this eyecandy!
    well & this channell is just a nice addition to the anime universe!

    • @steemlenn8797
      @steemlenn8797 2 месяца назад

      Oh, someone who knows Escaflowne! That was the one that finally catched me unescapable, in the very late evening on a channel I would only switch on for anime! (I am still angry they switched the opening in the German version. Because I also fell in love with the voice a few episodes in when Hitomi found the CD in the marketplace.)

  • @fartzinwind
    @fartzinwind 2 месяца назад +1

    There's is something to be said about Western cinema that had been mostly forgotten and lost to general audiences. Movies like Myra Breckinridge, Logan's Run, Harold and Mod, Barbarella. They were so much more like anime that came decades later then anyone was noticing. People were comparing anime to what was out in America at the time, not what had been out decades ago.

  • @tomstone4123
    @tomstone4123 2 месяца назад

    im always so excited, happy and relaxed when a new beyond ghibli video is released my favourite anime videos ever and lovely recommendations

  • @Lyfe
    @Lyfe 2 месяца назад +1

    An upload just when I needed it :)

  • @tiedie
    @tiedie 2 месяца назад +1

    this was a great video, gave me a lot to check out. Thanks for being so open and making this

  • @rangerscoach
    @rangerscoach 2 месяца назад

    I can’t get over how good you are at distilling the way I feel about anime into videos . I often share your videos with friends and family and hope you realise just how important they are becoming to the medium we love

  • @flowerss.992
    @flowerss.992 2 месяца назад +1

    The editing got me hooked

  • @TrickyTracki
    @TrickyTracki 2 месяца назад +1

    I really appreciate the effort you are making with the names of each anime that you are showing. Looking forward to the next video of this series!

  • @kiddwong4186
    @kiddwong4186 2 месяца назад

    Holy crap, as soon as that Chobits OP kicked in I was hit by a wave of nostalgia that almost made me dizzy. Banger song. Weeeeeiiiiirrrddd anime that had pretty much pushed to the far recesses of my memory until this very second