I hope you enjoyed the first part of the history of anime series. For the companion video "The birth of anime", you can watch it here ruclips.net/video/QSVlBs8lJoE/видео.html
I definetly enjoyed it, and got to learn a couple of things that I didn't knew about Japanese history more broadly. I can't shake the feeling that you might have gone too sidetracked in some parts of the video though.
Thanks Arc2051, I can totally understand your feeling. my goal is to have the tagents came into play in future parts. If it comes together correctly it should turn out pretty cool, but honestly it's going to be tough to stick the landing. Worse case senario I cut them out on the final cut full when each part is finished. I'll try my best though. Thanks for the feedback though, it really is helpful :)
I think it’s rare to find information about Japan’s history (especially it’s dark past) portrayed in videos talking about anime’s history. Which is strange because so much of Japan’s history, both good and bad, is what lead to the evolution of anime we know and have today. Thanks for putting this together, it was very professionally told and I may be referencing it in future videos in my channel.
I’ve loved your transformation from making short, pithy little videos on scattered topics to these deep dive documentaries. A lot of this info just isn’t easily accessed in English sources, and is hard to properly summarize. Keep up the great work!
This is a lit more dark than videos in this topic typically are. Good job, most people only ever talk about osamu tezuka's influence/side of the story and brush over stuff in the past and politics
Glad you enjoyed it! Yeah I went a little darker and deeper than I'd planned but once all the parts are released it should hopefully flow together well
Wow! This is an extraordinary work integrating masterfully the history of Japan itself with the birth and development of anime. Congratulations on producing such an excellent documentary!!
This video is absolutely incredible, I have no idea how this doesn't have more views and really inspired me as I hope to make content similar to this, it's amazing seeing such a high quality documentary from a growing channel. Keep up the great work, looking forward to your other videos!
Underrated channel, found you after searching videos of Journey to the west. Didn't expect to hear so much of Japan's history from a video about Anime. Excited to see more asia history videos.
Oh it hurts me to see a video that good being seen by so few... It literally pops up on the third place when one searches for "history of anime", so... why? Are people so not interested in the topic? I find it hard to believe. It must be something messed up with the YT algorythm... Well, they don't know what they're missing. Subbed! Thanks for making this!
6:37 did you just say “embiggened”?? Awesome. I love that word! My family says that word and I thought we made it up. When I do hear it here and there, it always amazes me the way words pop up in multiple places at the same time and are used and spread.
This was a very good video. I learned a lot about something I love that I didn't know about before. Anime is a huge part of my life since I was in elementary school and it still is. In college I watched Erased in 2016-ish and it changed my entire perspective on anime. Thanks for the video.
I'm looking forward to this series, because the information about Kenzo Masaoka in English is very limited! everyday I want to know information about the animation of this period, it is difficult for me to find it as I only understand English. Respect. Personally, I thought there was a lot of history in the book, and I would have liked to see a bit more focus on the anime industry and the domestic situation about the artists and media. However, I understand that this is a history channel, but I felt a bit feel strange with so many unrelated topics. It is often said that the most memorable wars for the Japanese are those in Southeast Asia and Micronesia rather than those in China and Korea. In order to explain the history of animation, I think we can better understand by explaining about information such as the witch-hunt of the newspapers for "unpatriotic-like" people, shortages of food and goods, air raids, starvation at the front, evacuation of children, banzai charge, suicide attacks. Just explaining about the radical thing maybe a bit less inefficient for explain how people watched the propaganda anime, and what kind of life animators go through and what kind of wishes are born in people's hearts. Information about Nanking, comfort women and secret 731units of the Kwantung Army are good to explain History at that time, but I feel that it is better to explain these things. However, I think it was a great effort to collect such a large amount of material, verify the information and explain it. I have complained, but I am still very hopeful. Really epic work! P.S. Wasn't the official Japanese position on Nanking "the number of people is unknown"?(sorry if im wrong)
I'm glad your enjoying the series so far. I'll do my best to include more of that information in the future. I expect there will be a bit of jumping back and forth expanding certain areas and clarifying others. For Nanjing, it's depended on the person and period but there have been a lot of estimates given, but I'll cover the tribunal in the next video :)
I'm pretty gunshy when it comes to anime related historic material on youtube, because most of them gloss over the political and economic impacts on the medium out of fandom (or worse, sympathy for Japan's imperial actions). Your willingness to cover these aspects (in addition to just being a well written, well edited video) paints a fuller picture of anime's early history than anything else I've seen on youtube. Fantastic video!
Excellent! Finally a documentary that doesn't shy away from the atrocities and racism but also doesn't automatically dismiss the art because of those things. This is really helpful for reconciling the beautiful and cute culture of animation with the many brutal and inhumane actions/policies of imperial Japan.
Thank you so much for making this video. If I meet anyone who thinks that Japan can do no wrong, I will show them this video. It's incredible how the history of a nation can be so tied to its art yet so many anime fans don't read into it.
Just a note on Japan's surrender. The Soviet attack on Manchuria on August 9, 1945, might have been a significant contribution to the decision to surrender. Before that, Japan maintained the hope that Soviet could negotiate a peace that wouldn't involve unconditional surrender. It's quite possible that the war would have ended on the same day it did even without the nuclear bombings.
It is certainly possible, though to play devil's advocate, there is also the argument that the attack occurred because of the August 6th bombing. During my research I found it is a surprisingly contested topic.
@@WooKong To be clear, I don't claim to know the truth of the matter. I'm just surprised that the Soviet attack is so seldom mentioned when Japan's surrender is discussed. The massive scale of the conventional bombings is rarely mentioned either, for that matter. 67 cities were basically already destroyed by conventional means.
I always wondered what was behind Japans attack on Pearl Harbor. In school I remember just being taught Japan did it and that ultimately we won the war.
@@WooKong That's bizarre, you pronounce the 'R' sound harder than even people born and raised in the US. You still pronounce Australia correctly though.
Love the confidence, but please try to not spread misinformation. It's just one of the estimated dates, which has been regurgitated as fact online because most online databases require a date for each entry. It's assumed to have been produced between 1907 - 1912, but even that is not proven nor gospel. But if there has been some recent news, please do share it, that would be fantastic.
I hope you enjoyed the first part of the history of anime series. For the companion video "The birth of anime", you can watch it here ruclips.net/video/QSVlBs8lJoE/видео.html
I definetly enjoyed it, and got to learn a couple of things that I didn't knew about Japanese history more broadly. I can't shake the feeling that you might have gone too sidetracked in some parts of the video though.
Thanks Arc2051, I can totally understand your feeling. my goal is to have the tagents came into play in future parts. If it comes together correctly it should turn out pretty cool, but honestly it's going to be tough to stick the landing. Worse case senario I cut them out on the final cut full when each part is finished. I'll try my best though. Thanks for the feedback though, it really is helpful :)
I'm a brand new subscriber watching from London UK. I ❤ Animé.
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I think it’s rare to find information about Japan’s history (especially it’s dark past) portrayed in videos talking about anime’s history. Which is strange because so much of Japan’s history, both good and bad, is what lead to the evolution of anime we know and have today. Thanks for putting this together, it was very professionally told and I may be referencing it in future videos in my channel.
Thanks Tea! Looking forward to the videos :)
I’ve loved your transformation from making short, pithy little videos on scattered topics to these deep dive documentaries. A lot of this info just isn’t easily accessed in English sources, and is hard to properly summarize. Keep up the great work!
Thank you Mad Hatter! Still trying to figure out how to do it, but hopefully everyone can enjoy it :)
This is a lit more dark than videos in this topic typically are. Good job, most people only ever talk about osamu tezuka's influence/side of the story and brush over stuff in the past and politics
Glad you enjoyed it! Yeah I went a little darker and deeper than I'd planned but once all the parts are released it should hopefully flow together well
Wow! This is an extraordinary work integrating masterfully the history of Japan itself with the birth and development of anime. Congratulations on producing such an excellent documentary!!
Thank you Mark, I'm really glad you enjoyed it :)
This video is absolutely incredible, I have no idea how this doesn't have more views and really inspired me as I hope to make content similar to this, it's amazing seeing such a high quality documentary from a growing channel. Keep up the great work, looking forward to your other videos!
Thanks omi, i really appreciate it. Ill try best. do you let me know when release your content too :)
Underrated channel, found you after searching videos of Journey to the west.
Didn't expect to hear so much of Japan's history from a video about Anime.
Excited to see more asia history videos.
Thank you sir I’m writing an essay for my animation class about Anime and Disney and this was very helpful. 😁👍🏼
Hope you get a good grade!
Thank you 😊
Good news I got an A+ 😁
@trickshot_katebishop7612 congrats!
Oh it hurts me to see a video that good being seen by so few... It literally pops up on the third place when one searches for "history of anime", so... why? Are people so not interested in the topic? I find it hard to believe. It must be something messed up with the YT algorythm... Well, they don't know what they're missing. Subbed! Thanks for making this!
Thanks Elektroskansen, glad you enjoyed it at least :)
This was awesome. I didn't realize the emergence of anime was tied into war and military. That's crazy. Great video! I'm subscribing!
Thanks History Maven :)
Yep, like Mecha Anime.
Amazing work on this! Well done!
Thanks a lot!
Love documentaries like this
6:37 did you just say “embiggened”?? Awesome. I love that word! My family says that word and I thought we made it up. When I do hear it here and there, it always amazes me the way words pop up in multiple places at the same time and are used and spread.
It's from the Simpsons
I'm glad I subscribed back when you were doing your Korean videos. You keep getting better!
Thanks for sticking around! trying my best haha
Learned so much. Love it
Can't wait for the next part of this series!
Should be online soon hopefully :)
great documentary with extraordinary editing and presentation. Superb. Thank you.
Quality content! Underrated RUclips channel! Will share this where I can!
Thanks Archer, I really appreciate it :)
This was a very good video. I learned a lot about something I love that I didn't know about before. Anime is a huge part of my life since I was in elementary school and it still is. In college I watched Erased in 2016-ish and it changed my entire perspective on anime. Thanks for the video.
what isn't this super underrated
thanks for the videos watched every single one
So glad you enjoyed them :)
Your channel is seriously underrated!!
Thank you :)
Love this video!!!
This is excellent work, as impartial as it can be and very well presented.
I'm looking forward to this series, because the information about Kenzo Masaoka in English is very limited! everyday I want to know information about the animation of this period, it is difficult for me to find it as I only understand English. Respect.
Personally, I thought there was a lot of history in the book, and I would have liked to see a bit more focus on the anime industry and the domestic situation about the artists and media.
However, I understand that this is a history channel, but I felt a bit feel strange with so many unrelated topics.
It is often said that the most memorable wars for the Japanese are those in Southeast Asia and Micronesia rather than those in China and Korea. In order to explain the history of animation, I think we can better understand by explaining about information such as the witch-hunt of the newspapers for "unpatriotic-like" people, shortages of food and goods, air raids, starvation at the front, evacuation of children, banzai charge, suicide attacks. Just explaining about the radical thing maybe a bit less inefficient for explain how people watched the propaganda anime, and what kind of life animators go through and what kind of wishes are born in people's hearts. Information about Nanking, comfort women and secret 731units of the Kwantung Army are good to explain History at that time, but I feel that it is better to explain these things.
However, I think it was a great effort to collect such a large amount of material, verify the information and explain it. I have complained, but I am still very hopeful. Really epic work!
P.S. Wasn't the official Japanese position on Nanking "the number of people is unknown"?(sorry if im wrong)
I'm glad your enjoying the series so far. I'll do my best to include more of that information in the future. I expect there will be a bit of jumping back and forth expanding certain areas and clarifying others. For Nanjing, it's depended on the person and period but there have been a lot of estimates given, but I'll cover the tribunal in the next video :)
Thank you for the video, very well crafted, highly informative and easy to understand narrative !
Glad you liked it!
Amazing docu!
I'm pretty gunshy when it comes to anime related historic material on youtube, because most of them gloss over the political and economic impacts on the medium out of fandom (or worse, sympathy for Japan's imperial actions). Your willingness to cover these aspects (in addition to just being a well written, well edited video) paints a fuller picture of anime's early history than anything else I've seen on youtube. Fantastic video!
Thank you, I really appreciate that! Part 3 should hopefully be out before the end of the year :)
35:53 Regarding Momotaro's sea eagle, 「桃太郎的海鷲」 is the Chinese title. The original Japanese title is 「桃太郎の海鷲」.
Superb work, very much appreciated. I look forward to watching your other material 👍👏
Thanks a lot Anthony, I'll do my best to keep improving :)
Keep up the great work 👏👏👏👏👏 splendid work 👍
Great video.. very informative
Thanks Rell!
勉強になりました。
Fascinating.
Really excellent video. Great job!
Thanks Jack, glad you enjoyed it :)
Embiggen? I'd never even heard that word before I moved to Springfield.
18:36: Betty Boop, what were you doing there alongside Mickey Mouse ? 🤔🤔😮😮😅😅
Excellent! Finally a documentary that doesn't shy away from the atrocities and racism but also doesn't automatically dismiss the art because of those things. This is really helpful for reconciling the beautiful and cute culture of animation with the many brutal and inhumane actions/policies of imperial Japan.
34:35... this reminds me of certain anime and an island called... Zou.😂
So well done!
Thank you so much for making this video. If I meet anyone who thinks that Japan can do no wrong, I will show them this video. It's incredible how the history of a nation can be so tied to its art yet so many anime fans don't read into it.
incredible stuff!
This is absolutely phenomenal. I can't wait for the next installement and wish you all the best as you undertake that production.
Whoever's the narrator he sounds like Crispin Freeman AKA Itachi
Good.You've done a good job.
Momotaro and his animal friends reminds me of Momonosuke and the minks from One Piece.
Wow I really didn't know how much history was behind Anime, I thought only a few notes! lol
とてもいい動画❤
very good movie！！
I've been to an anime museum in Japan
Just a note on Japan's surrender. The Soviet attack on Manchuria on August 9, 1945, might have been a significant contribution to the decision to surrender. Before that, Japan maintained the hope that Soviet could negotiate a peace that wouldn't involve unconditional surrender. It's quite possible that the war would have ended on the same day it did even without the nuclear bombings.
It is certainly possible, though to play devil's advocate, there is also the argument that the attack occurred because of the August 6th bombing. During my research I found it is a surprisingly contested topic.
@@WooKong To be clear, I don't claim to know the truth of the matter. I'm just surprised that the Soviet attack is so seldom mentioned when Japan's surrender is discussed. The massive scale of the conventional bombings is rarely mentioned either, for that matter. 67 cities were basically already destroyed by conventional means.
0:57 Died again
"I'm a man of culture and I am doing God's work"
-Isshi Shiro
I always wondered what was behind Japans attack on Pearl Harbor. In school I remember just being taught Japan did it and that ultimately we won the war.
Holy information batman. Lol.
Wow that’s cool.
It's kinda like inazuma on genshin impact where they are closed nation
Kyle Hebert favourite video.
Thanks Kyle Hebert :)
Why are you putting on a bad American accent?
That's my actual accent
@@WooKong your bio says you're Australian and that's what it sounds like your natural accent is.
Yeah, living abroad now for 15 years messed it up.
@@WooKong That's bizarre, you pronounce the 'R' sound harder than even people born and raised in the US. You still pronounce Australia correctly though.
Right? It wasn't intentional and I don't really understand how it happened, but I'm kind of stuck with it now. Anyway, hope it wasn't too distracting.
Actually, Katsudo Shashin was made in 1907.
Love the confidence, but please try to not spread misinformation. It's just one of the estimated dates, which has been regurgitated as fact online because most online databases require a date for each entry. It's assumed to have been produced between 1907 - 1912, but even that is not proven nor gospel. But if there has been some recent news, please do share it, that would be fantastic.
Very biased my friend! Good quality video though
Banzai!
Without isshi Shiro provoking usa to drop the bomb on HIROSHIMA and nagasaki anime would never existed
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that's interesting