How dare you. Goggles has _four_ personality traits! He also loves umeboshi/pickled plums, and reminds us of that at least once a volume! Sometimes, he even combines those traits and pulls pranks _involving_ pickled plums!
The Splatoon manga truly is a manga that exists. It has drawings, it has text, it has dialogues and it has characters. It definitely is one of the mangas of all time.
for some extra context on the manga, for both gem himself and anyone else who reads this: 1. the manga has been going on longer than splatoon has been OUT. chapter 0 came out before the game did 2. it is written and drawn solely by one woman: sankichi hinodeya. not "artists" or "writers"- just hinodeya. 3. the splatoon dev team has had input on the manga on multiple occasions, have provided concept art and even entire character designs to it. theres also official stuff like marinas manga thats published in with the manga. 4. its published initially in corocoro. meaning its aimed at 7 year old japanese boys. you see the fun thing about being a "family friendly" franchise means some of the content for it wont be directed at us adults, and thats ok! let the kids have their stuff too. 5. the teams are created for.. promo reasons, not to be accurate or good. new characters are given the newest weapons and gear. a lot of them are promotional characters taken straight from trailers. 6. not everything is actually.. possible in game. unfortunately, as a ballpoint main, i've yet to figure out how to use vintages x-zone. i'll get there someday the manga was never made to be an accurate portrayal of the game. its a comedy shonen for little boys, supposed to look flashy and sell the game, or parts of it (like weapons). if theres enough of an outcry for a serious splatoon manga, you Could get one, but this was something nintendo wanted to advertise their game with and given it sells amazingly in japan, they dont have much reason to make another manga...
Also I’m pretty sure that it’s for kids of all genders also the amount of nude/bottomless inklings may make you think otherwise. Also I’m 99% certain that Sankichi has a VERY specific kink I’m not gonna make assumptions just hunches.
@@zachattack1279 corocoro has a specific target audience, sorry. it has since.... Forever. regardless of who is actually reading it, its aimed at boys so throughout all of corocoro theres a lot of that kind of humor. fart jokes piss jokes nude jokes etc, even the pokemon manga has a few because it also comes from it thats just how it is
@@poisonandsteel1719 anyone can laugh at fart and piss jokes and what I was referring to about the nudity was that you might think it’s was made for adults with a humiliation kink and not kids. I was referring to the age of the audience not the gender of the audience. Also totally spies smashes this manga in terms of being kids media with a concerning amount of fetish material.
@@zachattack1279 accusing hinodeya of putting fetish content in a kid's manga over what is normal humor for corocoro, the kind of things mangakas are TOLD to put in by corocoro, is actually gross and i hope you do something better with your life instead of accusing someone of that with no bases
@@poisonandsteel1719 I wasn’t being serious you just seem to have no sense of humour. Although there is still that possibility that someone higher up at corocoro has these kinks. Also the amount of nude/bottomless cephalopods in the manga just reminds me of the amount of foot stuff in Dan shnider shows and he turned out to be a pedophile with a foot fetish.
splatoon 1 inkstrike was good in turf war. not for any APPROPRIATE reason, but if you fired it off in to the enemy base right as the level timer ended, it would paint a huge area after the players stopped moving but before the inked area was tallied. this means that you could get a few percentage points per person every round, for free, and there's literally nothing the other team can do about it. do a four-stack of that and you have some supreme cheese on your hands. it felt like cheating. it basically was.
I’d actually like to see a community project where they revamp the manga and give it a cohesive story, characters that enjoy something beyond going bare naked, and the weapon comps are actually meta. Also putting irl people in the story would be cool. Like imagine the main characters go to school one day and it’s just Gem’s inkling going over one of his how to get out of _ rank videos.
aww, i could totally see there being a scene where specs is taking notes. curious, the rest of blue team checks his phone/laptop to see who he's taking notes from, and it's just multiple videos from gem, chara, dude, etc haha granted, hinodeya's jpn, so chances are that it's going to be references to notable jpn splatubers, not westerners :')
You're looking for the fanfic scene. There's some really good stuff over there. And also some tire fires written by literal middle schoolers but hey, writing garbage is an important step to writing non-garbage, and they seem to be having fun.
I love the “extra media” Splatoon content. If I wasn’t broke I’d buy the official clothing and some of the figures because I could actually make my inkling to a good degree.
i only have a marie plush on my windowsill that I picked up at Barnes and Noble for sploon merch. the plushies are silly but i don't care because marie's my favorite character
One of the things that i do enjoy about the manga is that since every character is based off of clothes already in the game, you can every so often find people 'cosplaying' as them. Back in s2 i would join splatfest groups where we all picked a splat manga character to cosplay as, and used their signature outfit/weapon/username and it was fun to try out weapons based not on meta or familiarity but how much we liked the character we were pretending to be lol.
Yup, story and character-wise it definitely doesn't hit the spot for me. The art can be really nice though, but I'd rather look at well-drawn singular panels that people post of it than sit through Goggles’ ...antics just to appreciate a good drawing. Interesting the Manga acknowledges that even an inferior team can win a Turf War if the enemy team makes enough mistakes in the last 30 seconds though. 👀
Near the end of the Splatoon 2 era the manga does go into other aspects: it covers Octo Expansion; Googles, Rider, and two others get accidentally dragged into a Salmon Run shift; we get a whole arc on Sheldon looking for the Legendary Weapons from the great war. But mostly it's just silly shenanigans. There is a good scene from end of Splatoon 1 era where Headphones is worried her Squiffer sniping abilities are holding her back and she talks about this with an S+ ranked E-liter (I think from Rider's team). The E-liter player chose scoped e-liter because her team comp allows her to snipe from very far away, very safely, and support her team in that matter. She then points out that a squiffer on Team Blue is great because Headphones needs far more situational awareness due to her team being kind of all over the place and being scoped in can prevent her from seeing where her team needs her. It was a neat exploration of how weapons in the same class might function better/worse based on what the rest of the team is also doing, even if it was only like 3 pages long.
I mean, some mistakes here- this was already into the Splatoon 2 tournament, skull is a dude, and he’s certainly not teamed with rider, but I agree, that is one of my fav scenes, both for character and for actual talk of the game strats
I think the issue is they made the Manga too early honestly, back when the basic story was "Octoling Bad, Inkling Good" and anything beyond that was hidden away in optional collectables. I really do have to wonder how much better the manga would have been if it started after Octo-Expansion came out, using the agents as the main charecters and expanding on the story modes of 1 and 2 while also seeing how the characters improve at Turf due to lessons learned during their fights with the octarians.
that would be soo cool! reading the whole progression of the story modes would be awesome and they could even put marina in the splatoon 1 story since she was there. missed opportunities...
Gem look I'm a comp player but goddamn I'm obsessed with this manga I PROMISE there's stuff to analyse if you look closer, you should really read the ranked arc :3 And yes, they DO lose sometimes!! Rarely though. That being said, the whole manga is written and drawn by one person, and it's still very fun to read without taking it too seriously.
Haven't read the Splatsville ones yet, but I can confirm they lose in volume 2 and a couple times in volume 16 (though most of those are offscreen, just stating they lost)
Thank you for sharing that, I also take the game more seriously (tho there’s no comp scene in my region, sadge) and it’s good to hear I’m not the only one to like it for just being fun despite that. Thanks for pointing those things about later parts out. And yah, it’s honestly impressive for something made by 1 person.
@@agentblackbird9435 yeah!! That was a really cool thing for them to add in. Honestly everything they did to show strategies in the ranked arc was really cool.
lowkey ranked arc sometimes pisses me off, like.... vintage ABSOLUTELY could've survived goggles' final splashdown by just hiding behind the tower pillar
I'm a hard manga fan and I agree that Team Blue winning every time by stupid shenanigans is super annoying. While Team Blue's status may be static, I love the dynamics of all the side characters of the manga! It's like the manga sacrifices the creativity on names and design(they are mostly limited to in-game inkling/octoling customization) and gave so much diversity on each of the character's... well, character.
I can't make any claims that I'm too sure of because I don't know that much about Japan, but I believe nudity in Japan is in fact commonly seen as an extension of innocence, of immaturity on some level but on an endearing level, if that makes any sense? It sounds weird when I say it that way but it's the best way to describe it I have from trying to learn about Japanese culture from elsewhere. So it makes sense that nudity jokes would be more "in their element" in Japan than they would be for western readers.
The main reason I got the manga is because of the art style- I eat up the character design and it helps as a reference when I’m trying to draw Splatoon stuff
My kid has ALL of them and it’s literally all there is to the story. Preteens think it’s hilarious. It’s weird how absurd it is. But loads of kids read these things over and over.
I will say my kids gameplay had dropped massively when he got into them because it was all about copying the manga and trying the tactics in there and only wearing character outfits.
i definitely think braids in the new splatoon 3 manga is probably the best character in the entire thing, she actually has more than 3 personality traits and actually grows as a person. same for the entire splatsville 8 since they actually use characters we know (the promotional characters) instead of making new ones. the manga will never live up to a true adaptation of the series but for a thing thats meant to appeal to people around the age of 8-13, it does a decent job.
Plus, the new characters they do introduce are fun! Even Tri-Sunglasses, a completely original character, is just a guy who finds it fun to see other teams thrive, and didn't want to miss out on battling the best 8 of Splatsville. The manga may suck, but at least it has it's good parts and slightly in-depth characters. A true guilty pleasure of mine ngl.
i mean a decent amount of the characters, especcially in 2's "adaptation", are actually just the promo characters, the entirety of team gloves are the original promo characters for 2
8:22 CORRECTION(was corrected in the video): headphones is not the tristringer. The players usually never change their weapon. The tristringer is a new character named Braid. It gets super confusing when you refer to them as Headphones and a squiffer pops in my head.
I've always wanted a splatoon anime, but after seeing the manga and how "poorly written" it is from a character standpoint (I've seen singular panel meme comics with more characterization and potent character arcs than the entirety of what I've read of the manga) I'd prefer if we just got a splatoon movie instead. Both would preferrably be in the classic splatoon 2D style, obviously stylized a bit less for easier animation, but I know for a fact it'd be weird "high definition" 3D models instead of normal inkling models. Maybe one day we'll get a serious spinoff or short series like we got for Legends Arceus about the three hero modes... A guy can dream eh?
@@1lillbluepikmin I think the main character living a sort of double life like normal agent 3 does would be cool, with the other members of the team eventually becoming agents 4 and neo 3, with an octoling representing (and possibly being) agent 8. If it was set solely in S3, then yeah I could see that working, but if it's meant to follow the manga and take place all through the series then It would be cool to have every major player character represented AND to see them experience the story modes in real time (albeit tweaked to fit an anime setting, so shorter side-stories rather than full season-long campaigns)
Hearing about the protagonist constantly winning reminds me of my main comparison between the YuGiOh anime and the Cardfight Vanguard anime. Yugi wins 84.44% of the time in YuGiOh but Aichi wins 69.01% of the time in Vanguard. YuGiOh still works because it is dealing with higher stakes and fantasy. Meanwhile Cardfight Vanguard mostly focuses on tournaments. Based on the description of the Splatoon manga, it seems that they should have gone the direction that Vanguard took.
@@plompedu I can’t tell if you are joking or seriously believe anyone besides me would be insane enough to compare the win loss ratio of two characters from different card game animes during a discussion about splatoon.
There was only ever one instance in the manga that I know of where team blue actually lost, but we only see the aftermath of that loss and them training to overcome that rival with the help of Rider. Besides that the lack of character development or formulaic premises are reflective of the promotional nature of these mangas, they weren't meant to expand on the universe of splatoon but re-tell splatoon in a different context/parallel universe. Also as far as I'm aware the English translations for these mangas are often late by several months if not probably still stuck on Splatoon 2. p.s. Lastly at 14:02, the term you're looking for is 'floating timeline'; the world around them passes with time but the characters within it especially the main cast do not change in physical age.
There are official English translations for the 16 volumes that encompass Splatoon 1 and Splatoon 2, so currently fan-translations are in progress for the mangas encompassing Splatoon 3.
i think a video analyzing the team comps from the manga would be interesting to watch! as someone who has read the manga and plays ranked (somewhat) regularly, i think it would be a cool comparison.
I find it funny how Skull, Vintage and Gloves are the most developed characters in this manga 💀 They actually have a backstory of some sort But like Team Blue sometimes loses but like theyve lost 3 times, twice by Purple team, once by X blood Also like some ideas in it is pretty cool like the shadows and like the guardians I am begging Kayoss please win i want to see blue team black labeled
I have two favorite teams in the manga: 1. It's literally just four Dapple Dualies and they just are extremely excited to roll like mad around. I think its the Iromaki Rangers? if I remember correctly. 2. The researcher team that's just three Goo-Tubers and a Hydra Splatling. They fight in Kelp Dome and it's just a recipe for disaster honestly. Most unhinged comp I've ever seen. The manga is definitely more catered to the comedic sensibilities of children in Japan and other East Asian countries where nudity and comedic nude censoring is simple and low-brow humor. It's kinda like how there's a lot of poop jokes in American comedy.
I would actually like to see that Splat 3 manga comp breakdown because the discussion about Headphones was interesting. Would also like to see your take on some of the lore parts of Splatoon, I know there are lore comics ect so those would be interesting.
I actually like the dynamics between the main 4 characters. The basic shonen archetypes are there, but its a shame nothing is done with them. Maybe in another timeline.
I feel the funniest bit about the basic characters, and what makes me love them so much, is fanfiction. Due to the simplicity of the characters, it is easy to write original stories with them, but they also have just enough character so that they are more recognizable than the Agents, who don’t even have set genders. The characters in the Splatoon manga have heaps of potential and are easy to build off of, and that’s what makes them special to me as an amateur writer. I get why everybody doesn’t see it like that, but that’s just why I love this manga so much.
As a fanfic writer of these characters myself, I 100% agree. I personally love coming up with headcannons like how their childhood was like! To let myself ramble, I personally like to headcannon Army as an Octoling who started off undercover. Which explains why he's military based (especially as a drill sergeant). We never see him without his beret, which means we never see his "hair." I'm not sure where, but I remember reading somewhere that Inklings can only tell the difference from Octolings by thier tentacles and eyes (might've been in the Octo Expansion by Captain Cuttlefish). Army also knows how makeup works, it's stated in the manga that he applies his own face paint. All he would have to do is draw a face mask on and he'd look like an Inkling! Then there's the the clothes he wears. The parka has a purple octoling on it, in the same shape as Justice (Vol.13), who *is* an Octoling. And In the Chaos V. Order splatfest, Army chooses Order and tells Hivemind that he, "Can not accept a world without free will." And wouldn't you know it, that sounds like somthing Octoling underground would have experienced with Tartar down there and sanitizing Octolings. Onto Army's parents, it's stated from the manga that he comes from rich parents. We're never told where that wealth came from, but I imagine his parents must've been important Octoling generals who get paid greatly for thier service. So my idea is: His parents left the underground with him when he was young. With the money they earned from thier service, Army was able to live an upper class lifestyle, but still held onto admiration of the military (either by the propaganda spread there, or from his parents being generals). His parents wanted him to experience a life they couldn't have, and started disguising him as an Inkling, saying that he should NEVER reveal he's an Octoling to others, knowing Octolings are discriminated against (taking place during Splatoon 1 where Octolings weren't playable). Army grows up and finally realizes how awful the underground really was. He also grows up with the fear of being discovered as an Octoling. If he ever where to be discovered, it would be around the start of Vol.3, where they all head to Inkopolis Square and Army sees Marina, an Octoling who's freely walking around and no one really cares. His beret would fall off during the S4's battle with Emperor, and he'd run off in a panic thinking the rest of the S4 members will hate him. They find him and tell him it's alright, that he is still Army, the same strategist, the same person who keeps them in working order, and the only one who really knows how to cook, and that him being an Octoling means nothing. I just love all these characters so much! They have so much potential for readers and writers to imagine them differently. And thanks for reading all of this if you did ❤ (P.s. Yes, almost every character has an in depth look into thier past. Just ask me about Emperor, I dare you)
@@LordyWordy Wow, this is... amazing. I personally don't have too many headcannons about them, but I did make a mafia AU about the characters from the Splatoon Manga. It was really fun trying to use these characters in a grittier and bloodier (inkier?) environment, and it was really fun to pull off. Having the S4 was also perfect, since they were really easy to make into assassins. If you want to read it, I can link it here, though I don't know how well links work on RUclips comments.
I currently own issues 1-13. They are just about as formulaic as Gem points out. It's visual junk food and a collectible for me. It's cute and silly. 😜 (I don't understand the nudity running gag either, tbh. The pickled plums stint hit better for me.) If you want something similar but with an actual story, I recommend Tamarin Frog's Splatoon comic, from back in the Splat1 days. (The characters also have signature gear in that comic, though each has a name independent of their gear.)
Team blue doesn't win every match, but most of their losses aren't given as much if any 'screen time'. That first match, for instance, is followed up with a loss mentioned in passing, resulting in them loosing that tournament. The last team they fought in the S1 ark soundly beat them, and then they go through training to come out on top in a rematch. Most of the time though, yeah Team Blue just wins.
Goggles is OP because he can use things not available for other players He picks up a person with bubbler and throws them Manga can be found in some prints of Corocoro magazine, but keep in mind it is a kids manga with different humor from the west. And the naked goggles is in line with the way Japan sees humor
The whole thing is a comedy manga for kids and frankly I have no real reason to treat it as anything else, really. The Octo Expansion arc is kinda faithful, though, I'll give it that much. But apparently Japanese kids find naked people really funny for some reason, it's weird, but cultural differences I suppose.
it's very much 'written for 5th graders' and I'm never going to try and sell it as more than it is. I'm mostly into it for the characters,,, as in, the over-the-top reactions they have. some are worse (thinly veiled crossdressing/almost transphobic joke >_>) but I keep up w it when I don't have much better to do. Shoutout to all the fan translators out there! You're heroes.
I make fan comics sometimes and tbh I want to make a fan comic with team school girl cardigan in it with someone calling them girls in an encouraging way despite knowing about what happened in the battle with rider? Maybe Jessika from the band yoko and the gold bazookas... I'll have to wait until I'm faster about making these comics to commit to something like that. lol
Fun fact! There is also a Splatoon manga called Squid kid comedy show. It is made by Nintendo but is separate from the main comics. It does not have as much nudity, if I recall correctly, but it still has some and other toilet humor stuff. It doesn't have that much of a plot, though. It's mainly just a collection of short joke comics
i always thought i would like coroika more if it was inspired off the actual comp scene. like what if team blue met in a low level draft tournament and won, formed a real team, and suddenly got destroyed by higher level teams and had to actually practice together to win against their new opponents... at least the art is cute.
Speaking of pokemon, now that they put ash in the retirement home, they came out with new characters for a new series So far, the 2 protagonists combined have won only a single battle, and that happens off screen. With the amount of character development in that series, it'll feel very good when they eventually get good enough to win fights consistently since the watcher gets to see their progression over the course of the series unlike ash who barely changes at all in 27 seasons. In fact Liko has evolved more than ash in just 12 episodes
I wish Splatoon will get an anime, but I do NOT want them to adapt the manga. I don’t have anything against it, I just don’t think that the manga truly represents the possibilities offered by the worldbuilding from the main games. I wish they would make the art style emulate the iconic art they use for concept and marketing that is made by the art director.
The ONLY battle they lost that I remember ontop of my head is around in chapter 6 where Goggles and his team gets utterly defeated by Skull. They then proceeds to have a whole training momentum with Rider with an E-liter on Moray Towers where they learn to properly dodge and Goggles learns his godspeed ability with the help of Rider. It's the only time where their training paid off and actually felt rather genuine for once even if its far fetched.
I CAN'T BELIEVE YOU READ THE MANGA, IT'S WHAT GOT ME INTO THE GAME I got obsessed with Mask from Team Cyan and when I got Splatoon 2 I RUSHED to make a cosplay of him. I got his rainboots first, then I found his gas mask on a player in the lobby and ordered one so I could have it, and then ordered his camo LS off of another person. I played the roller first, then when I got acess to the Carbon Deco I bought it and played literally nothing else. I'm waiting for the day his entire outfit comes to Splatoon 3 so I can put that on, change my name to Mask, and just cosplay him constantly. He is my everything for Splatoon, that nihilistic MF who hates people who smile.
My headcanon is that the reason that Team Blue is so low ranked yet can beat some of the higher ranked teams is because they primarily play Turf War together. Actual ranked battles, not the modes played in them, are typically done solo, where they wouldn't play together. They do terribly if they don't play with anyone they know.
I meeeeaaaan, while there’s a little leap in logic: why would any of the s+’ers be just playin turf if they’re rank players? Makes it seem like ranks just work differently in this universe… Whilst that’s all a thing… this still makes the most sense to me: rider notes right to goggles that he believes goggles “might actually be stronger than an S4”, and blue’s results would suggest, even against emperor, their skills are actually above the rest. people might not like it, but it’s clearly so, due to them practising so hard together before chapter one, and all their experience built up from the first few battles. In fact, eight/hachi asks how they can be bad ranked when their so strong, and the response is they’re ridiculous, which would explain it if they were playing solo, again reinforcing your point. TLDR your theory simply works from every angle. Probably coulda just said that, but I love team blue so I just wanted to do it.
so esteemed and/or highly experienced competitive player guest, as we analyse this scene in the splatoon manga on mincemeat we see Goggles pantsing the other team resulting in an against all odds KO. How do you think this will affect the current meta game of splatoon 3? Was this strategy truly the most optimal?
Personally, if you know what to expect, I think it’s a blast to read the manga. You’re in for some stupid giggles, a nice lighthearted angle of splatoon to kill time with. It’s fun to see a different portrayal of a game that’s set up in a way everyone can adlib in the blanks to have their own concept of how the splatoon world works. Edit: Watching the tail end of the video, I do also strongly dislike that team blue has never lost a meaningful game. They do mention how they practice often, which could (somewhat) justify them winning against the quad S+ team at the start, but by no means should there be no character development. No structure to the story, but yet again, if there’s only the expectation of a gag series, it’s amazing.
i love the splatoon manga way too much for my own good (BOBBLE HAT AND BRAIDS MY BELOVEDS) but you've made some good points about it here. the only time i ever really enjoyed goggles pantsing someone is when (spoilers if you feel like reading it lol) he did it to rider while he was sanitized to help him go back to normal. other than that, it was boring and annoying. the pickled plums thing is funny though.
Absolutely perfectly said points about this manga! I find it really fascinating the whole separate area of the fanbase around Splatoon it’s gathered, especially after being out for so much time. I initially couldn’t play Splatoon 1 until late into its lifespan, and this manga definitely contributed to my desire to play and actively engage in the community at first. It does it’s job well marketing the game, which seems like it’s primary reason for existing. Well into my years as a comp player I continued to read it. Your point about the reader being able to insert themselves into the characters in game is so important, because the corika fanbase is well known for cosplaying the characters in game, a favorite pastime of the manga fans. I do think that the Splatoon 2 era of the manga has more desirable writing in regards to how the game itself feels to play and functions (at least, in my memory). Eventually Blue Team plays in ranked tournaments instead of turf war, where they learn valuable lessons about how to really play the game, and eventually against X players regarded as tough and too serious. The formula still for the most part, doesn’t change at all though lol. The corika manga honestly is interesting to analyze from a community perspective the most. Regardless, would absolutely LOVE to see how you discuss the team comps present in the manga, as I’ve definitely read the manga and judged heavily how a match realistically would’ve gone. Especially the aforementioned X team being the “best” and running what they were running. Great video!
I only read the first 3 manga before i was like "okay i am not the target audience, and thats ok" so a few things: - the fact that they highlight their ranks makes zero sense, as for the first half of S1's shelf life *there was no comp*. only turf war! yippee!! we had NO idea what different modes were even going to feel like, other than a relief from the monotony of turf, where it was VERY hard to break a spawn camp and modders were EVERYWHERE. i mean modders still are everywhere, they just held a legit s1 splatfest, i digress. the game against that quad s+ was a *match of turf war*. which, frankly, is it not the true s3 experience to lose the lead in the last 30 seconds of turf? -S1 inkstrike was INSANE. my friends and I joke that one of the challenges for S3 should be we get S1 kits/hitboxes and let chaos ensue. inkstrike was about the size of a booyah bomb, but it was collumn that struck into the sky, not a sphere, and launched instantly on *any* part of the map, thanks to it always being visible on the wiiu gamepad and was tap-to-lauch *on there*. (S1 Killer wail was a similar kind of pain, but imagine that roar attack Grizz does in the final boss except in the hands of players and in the Hallway maps of S3) In S1 maps where the mass verticality could make or break you based on the special? if that was quad inkstrike done at a coordinated time? your team is dead and the other other just bought themselves 5 to 10 seconds.
Blue Team did LOST. First lost is after their win against Rider's team, then the 2nd one is that they lost completely against Skull's Team, one of the S4 which mains in E Litre. Blue Team was totally decimated to the point that they were only managed to paint their own base. After the lost, Rider came to their rescue and provide them with special lesson about E Litre and how to avoid and counterattack.
Hey squid school, I’m a fan of your content and really appreciate what ya do to teach players more about the game, myself included… HOWEVAAAHHH!… I’m afraid that in the same way Disney making Toy Story 4 was enough to finally trigger Matpat, you, taking such a stance on the manga, have summoned MY wrath. (this is a joke-y tone by the way 😉) Having listened to all your points and it going… about the exact way I would’ve expected, I’ve decided I’ll be putting my own video essay together, wherein I’ll defend the manga like there’s no tomorrow, explaining what about it makes me (as someone approaching my 20s) love it, and addressing some of your gripes and giving my reasoning towards them. To clarify: all of this, not because any of your statements on the game aspects are wrong… because they’re not, they’re all factually correct, but in case it’s not obvious, the main premise of my defence will be ‘loving it for what it is, not for what you were looking for’, so yah. But most importantly, I plan to be as respectful as possible, as I greatly appreciate how you were here, and I hope everyone knows I completely understand anyone for not liking the manga, believe me I get it. This is just something I as a fan of it wanna do from my passion for it, and I now finally have a motivation to. Outside of that, this was a very well thought out analysis that in all seriousness, I think everyone looking to improve at the game should still watch. I just gotta get my side of the story across. Disclaimer, if ya come back in a year and still nothing on my channel, it’s cuz I just mean I’ve decided I wanna go ahead with the idea, not gonna stress myself to rush ahead. (Also, just to be clear, I am specifically referring to the CoroCoro series: squid kids comedy show can rot in hell for all I care 😅 (again tho, fine if you like it)).
**Spoilers if someone wants to read** I remember the first time they lost and that battle felt meaningful for once. They were up against Skull (uses eliter scope) and his team who are top of the S4. The Blue team did not know what an eliter was and constantly was getting sniped be Skull. That is when Rider had to step up and train them (Riders my favorite!) They learned the technique (more so Goggles) of main strafing and i thought that was pretty cool since... That was something i struggled against when using chargers on Splatoon 1. Im kinda sad that the manga is the way that it is (oversuing the same jokes to the point it is a daily routine). I mainly read it now because im curious how things progress (as predictable as it is) and what new "characters" are present. Ok ill admit, just to see Rider as well...
Please make another video going over the comps, I was really hoping for that and I appreciate and found what you did fun and enjoyable trust me. Everything was well done and interesting, and I appreciate the attention to detail, but I’d also love If you went over some of the comps, including maybe some of the Splatoon 2 ones if possible? It would be amazing!!
Really though, Judd's just as much to blame for letting this stuff happen. I cannot think of a single sport where pantsing the opponent isn't at minimum a foul.
team blue actually loses like. 5 times in the whole manga plus ! they do get a mentor in the first chapters, but it's only a one time thing overall I think the splatoon manga is something that u can enjoy if u don't think too hard abt how they keep winning LOL
I was thinking of reading the splatoon manga so that I could animate it as a fun little practice project for myself, but now I'm kinda having second thoughts lol
At least personally the worst part of the manga isn't anything the manga actually does but just that splatoon as a franchise has so much that could be done that it just feels like a missed opportunity for what a potential splatoon manga COULD be if handled by people who know how to write a great standalone manga while also having a strong knowledge on splatoon's lore, charicters and world to tell and expand the splatoon world that we haven't seen a lot of outside snippets through the story modes
There are some lore based comics and other stuff like the squidsister stories/art books that are sorta outside the games. With how seamless cross media is nowadays I get if you don’t consider them separate.
@@samuelturner6076 and I get that but even so outside of the squidsister stories pretty much none of them actually are able to feature any narrative material, just lore by the devs, and with manga being a storytelling medium I do wish it maybe could have gotten treatment similar to the pokemon manga for example but cannon, or at least mostly lore accurate
i’m honestly kind of tired of the whole “lore” thing splatoon has been doing especially with 3 pretty much making no sense and having literal magic in it and not explaining anything (per usual) the splatoon manga is meant to appeal to little kids and focuses more on the slice of life aspect rather than the “serious” stuff. it’s a standalone thing that also rarely connects with the main series so who cares lmao
@@yggdrasilsaltar have you bothered to read the pokemon manga, which was my primary example. I don't want it to just be lore lore lore like fnaf or something, but just to be a fun serialised manga that can tell its own story and do its own thing while either adding to or adapting aspects of the story modes every now and again depending on if you want to go the cannon or non cannon route, as even ignoring the lore splatoon has such an interesting world and we don't see almost any of it besides maps and whatever slice each games' lobby shows
Seriously! You need gear abilities, you know! But yeah, if you’d be willing to make that follow-up even if it’s just to laugh about it, I think that would be enjoyable. One extra thing - in one of the volumes, I don’t remember which one, one of the characters who uses a roller uses a charger to teach goggles and his team how to work around a charger’s range, on a map that they are particularly advantageous on. He says that he plays other weapons in order to learn the range in proportioned his own. Do you recommend doing that, or is it better to play the weapon you plan to mean and simply face off against opponents using the weapon you want to learn against? But yeah, I think the manga is cool if you have played the game as a oh, I recognize that. They can do kind of cool stuff like having the Amiibo outfits be available as part of a costume party. And as far as the running joke, gag, whatever of panting, it’s kind of annoying sometimes, but I think the comedy is more in how other characters react to it instead of just the fact that it’s happening. (At least to me)
personally, i find it helpful to use other weapons a bit just to get a feel for how they work. its really useful to have first hand experience in their weaknesses and strengths. you'll learn how to fight a specific weapon through the ppl that splat you, noting their approaches and applying it to your own strategy. you'll also see what benefit the weapon, so you know which situations to prevent / avoid etc. i guess this can also be achieved by playing against the weapon a lot, paying attention to how you get splatted / how you splat them, tho i dont think that works well without a partner.
Splatoon has enough style and lore to it, more lore than most other Nintendo series at this point minus Zelda and maybe Kirby, that there really shouldn't be much issue with the manga. Everything you need for a good manga (especially one that's gone as long as the Splatoon manga has) is already in the games, and as long as you get decent writers it should be a slam dunk. It seems like there's a healthy spread of opinions on the manga which is great, but it's still a bit disappointing that it doesn't take advantage of those great aspects of Splatoon's world. Honestly, with how Nintendo seems to be going strong with movies now after the success of the Mario movie, I think a Splatoon anime would work REALLY well. It'd capture the fantastic style of Splatoon's world without issue, and as long as there are solid writers who are actually able to take advantage of the series' wealth of lore and plot, I think a Splatoon anime would be thoroughly enjoyable.
Surprised you didn't mention the manga tie-in Splatfest (Champion vs. Challenger - Feb 2018 JP), with Pearl repping the Kings (Emperor's Team - Champions) and Marina repping Team Blue (Challengers). The Splatfest announcement art had SD versions of Emperor and Goggles. The Kings and Team Blue appeared in the promo art. It was actually a fun fest. :) And even in this RL contest - Team Blue (Challenger) won the fest *heh* However, since the match in the manga hadn't happened yet when the Splatfest happened, I can't help but wonder...would the Kings have won in the mangaverse if Team Champion won the fest? That said, have you seen the other manga series "Splatoon: Squid Kids Comedy Show"?
No but legit, the could make a Splatoon anime so easily and I’d eat it up in a heartbeat. Heck the Splatoon 2 Ver 3.0 trailer is literally an anime OP.
The manga and anime industry as a whole has a huge issue with treating actions like exposing people without their constant or trying to peep on them while they’re changing as a joke and then when the characters react accordingly to being violated it’s framed as irrational or something that can just be brushed off and forgotten about. I really don’t get it. It ruined anime and manga for me as kid and as an adult I’m very selective with what I consume but even in the most serious narratives it can be there. It’s really disappointing
As much as a like coroika… yeaa this manga is hard to defend. I’m extremely critical about it, my friends and I joke about not wanting it to be the source material for a potential Splatoon anime. I just wish they would flesh out characters more and give them *actual* personalities outside of 2 or 3 bullet points. They need to take advantage of the splatoon world more fr, it’ll make it much better
I didn’t realize how recent this was uploaded! I love your perspective on this manga. Videos like these are super educational for people (like me) who want to make their own narrative in a world like Splatoon’s!
Do not overthink, is a manga for kids with some adult humor sometimes, but it’s cartoonish, it’s fun, it’s interesting, I know they don’t touch things deep like the Octo Expansion or the Great War or why there is a some kind of racial conflict or even a evil elaborated villain, the manga is what Hinodera said “ITS JUST A PARODY” obviously NOTHING gonna be seriously here, maybe some things cannot be 100% accurate (like fighting naked is the best way to fight) but at least, the manga make you have a good time with some broken goofy humor, and that, makes it a good manga.
Unrelated to the content of the video, but I'm studying to be a teacher myself and it's really fun when I can see your background in education come out in your videos. "Higher level thinking" is an academic term and it made me smile to know that our knowledge can be applied to education as well as becoming better at video games :^)
I remember trying splatoon 1 back when it came out, it gave me motion sickness a few times and I pretty much gave up on it. Fast forward to like 2018 and I kept seeing the manga in both my local bookstore and library. It got me curious enough that I did read them. It was very much fast paced and childish but it got me wanting to try again with the series. Here I am now still consistently playing the third game for fun, no more motion sickness lol.
(Im a splatoon manga nerd lets get going) in the second book team blue loses to a E-letire on moray the team has to train with Rider (The first team leader they meet) to learn how to combat the E-leitre and his team.
Ok, so I agree wit the statement, and it makes sense, but would like to recommend reading the ranked matches(specifically the finals) as some of the things there actually make sense of what plays they are doing. but yeah the battles are pretty formulatic exceptions of a few, but this is mostly due to how they want the series to run and they originally had times when they won purely by chance but when versing skull they lost and had too learn(a technique goggles uses In the series later as well), but having 3 chapters worth of one match and a schedule to go with is hard to keep a viewers attention (kids these days). but altogether analysing the best bits is something you should look into. (Can't wait for the next video gem!)
I would love to see some analysis of Team X-Blood because their name is so serious and yet they're running two backlines and a tetra in 2019 Splatoon 2
They do enter a ranked tournament during the Splatoon 2 era, but IIRC they only show one game of each mode. They do a decent job of explaining each mode in like 4 panels, though.
Gem's dating advice for the day: "Keep your clothes on."
Duh! You need the ability buffs!
@@klaptrap1131Easier to approach your love interest when you have ninja squid
@@PsclKmnted bundy strat
@@PsclKmnOr before they can notice with your trail, use swim speed!
but without any clothes, your opponent wont know what abilities you have think like a splatoon 1 player
How dare you. Goggles has _four_ personality traits! He also loves umeboshi/pickled plums, and reminds us of that at least once a volume! Sometimes, he even combines those traits and pulls pranks _involving_ pickled plums!
that shit is so sour idk how he does it. well he is batshit insane so
You're telling me pickled plums survived mass extinction
@@LongDeadArtistNature pick(l)ed only the best food for the Inkling world!
@@LongDeadArtistYeah. After all, the lore said that all MAMMALS went extinct, it didn't say anything about plants or other fauna.
@@averagetemp3014 I mean, it flooded so I assumed so
The Splatoon manga truly is a manga that exists. It has drawings, it has text, it has dialogues and it has characters. It definitely is one of the mangas of all time.
it definitely has a story!
its so!! i also love how its REALLY. i love the manga of all time.
I love the parts of it that happen. Truly a manga that i have read
I don't know Gem. Have you tried beating Starburst by pantsing Bagel midgame? It might be the play
I mean it'll be sure to distract them
@@trickygamer555 how do you i see you everywhere
I read that as beating sb with a bagel
“You hit me with a bagel”
@@mrblakeboy1420 idk I'm just pretty active watching youtube and often leave comments on videos?
for some extra context on the manga, for both gem himself and anyone else who reads this:
1. the manga has been going on longer than splatoon has been OUT. chapter 0 came out before the game did
2. it is written and drawn solely by one woman: sankichi hinodeya. not "artists" or "writers"- just hinodeya.
3. the splatoon dev team has had input on the manga on multiple occasions, have provided concept art and even entire character designs to it. theres also official stuff like marinas manga thats published in with the manga.
4. its published initially in corocoro. meaning its aimed at 7 year old japanese boys. you see the fun thing about being a "family friendly" franchise means some of the content for it wont be directed at us adults, and thats ok! let the kids have their stuff too.
5. the teams are created for.. promo reasons, not to be accurate or good. new characters are given the newest weapons and gear. a lot of them are promotional characters taken straight from trailers.
6. not everything is actually.. possible in game. unfortunately, as a ballpoint main, i've yet to figure out how to use vintages x-zone. i'll get there someday
the manga was never made to be an accurate portrayal of the game. its a comedy shonen for little boys, supposed to look flashy and sell the game, or parts of it (like weapons). if theres enough of an outcry for a serious splatoon manga, you Could get one, but this was something nintendo wanted to advertise their game with and given it sells amazingly in japan, they dont have much reason to make another manga...
Also I’m pretty sure that it’s for kids of all genders also the amount of nude/bottomless inklings may make you think otherwise. Also I’m 99% certain that Sankichi has a VERY specific kink I’m not gonna make assumptions just hunches.
@@zachattack1279 corocoro has a specific target audience, sorry. it has since.... Forever. regardless of who is actually reading it, its aimed at boys
so throughout all of corocoro theres a lot of that kind of humor. fart jokes piss jokes nude jokes etc, even the pokemon manga has a few because it also comes from it
thats just how it is
@@poisonandsteel1719 anyone can laugh at fart and piss jokes and what I was referring to about the nudity was that you might think it’s was made for adults with a humiliation kink and not kids. I was referring to the age of the audience not the gender of the audience. Also totally spies smashes this manga in terms of being kids media with a concerning amount of fetish material.
@@zachattack1279 accusing hinodeya of putting fetish content in a kid's manga over what is normal humor for corocoro, the kind of things mangakas are TOLD to put in by corocoro, is actually gross and i hope you do something better with your life instead of accusing someone of that with no bases
@@poisonandsteel1719 I wasn’t being serious you just seem to have no sense of humour. Although there is still that possibility that someone higher up at corocoro has these kinks. Also the amount of nude/bottomless cephalopods in the manga just reminds me of the amount of foot stuff in Dan shnider shows and he turned out to be a pedophile with a foot fetish.
splatoon 1 inkstrike was good in turf war. not for any APPROPRIATE reason, but if you fired it off in to the enemy base right as the level timer ended, it would paint a huge area after the players stopped moving but before the inked area was tallied. this means that you could get a few percentage points per person every round, for free, and there's literally nothing the other team can do about it.
do a four-stack of that and you have some supreme cheese on your hands. it felt like cheating. it basically was.
nintendo will never give us the secret gear ability you get from not wearing gear
you'd still have your legwear (and a bra if you're feminine-coded)
@@dewroot5176or just a croptop
I can finally ask about the meta of the pickled plum sub-weapon.
I’d actually like to see a community project where they revamp the manga and give it a cohesive story, characters that enjoy something beyond going bare naked, and the weapon comps are actually meta. Also putting irl people in the story would be cool. Like imagine the main characters go to school one day and it’s just Gem’s inkling going over one of his how to get out of _ rank videos.
I would so love to work on a project like that if we could find artists for it.
aww, i could totally see there being a scene where specs is taking notes. curious, the rest of blue team checks his phone/laptop to see who he's taking notes from, and it's just multiple videos from gem, chara, dude, etc haha
granted, hinodeya's jpn, so chances are that it's going to be references to notable jpn splatubers, not westerners :')
You're looking for the fanfic scene. There's some really good stuff over there. And also some tire fires written by literal middle schoolers but hey, writing garbage is an important step to writing non-garbage, and they seem to be having fun.
To be fair there was a training arc in volume 2 where rider trains them because they couldn't beat a liter on moray.
Skill issue
Skill issue
Skill Issue
I love the “extra media” Splatoon content. If I wasn’t broke I’d buy the official clothing and some of the figures because I could actually make my inkling to a good degree.
I just bought two of the shirts. Great quality! Although everybody asks me what the Zinc shirt says...
i only have a marie plush on my windowsill that I picked up at Barnes and Noble for sploon merch. the plushies are silly but i don't care because marie's my favorite character
One of the things that i do enjoy about the manga is that since every character is based off of clothes already in the game, you can every so often find people 'cosplaying' as them. Back in s2 i would join splatfest groups where we all picked a splat manga character to cosplay as, and used their signature outfit/weapon/username and it was fun to try out weapons based not on meta or familiarity but how much we liked the character we were pretending to be lol.
I actually dress up as some of the characters and like to build the gear for the weapon they use!
Yup, story and character-wise it definitely doesn't hit the spot for me. The art can be really nice though, but I'd rather look at well-drawn singular panels that people post of it than sit through Goggles’ ...antics just to appreciate a good drawing.
Interesting the Manga acknowledges that even an inferior team can win a Turf War if the enemy team makes enough mistakes in the last 30 seconds though. 👀
Near the end of the Splatoon 2 era the manga does go into other aspects: it covers Octo Expansion; Googles, Rider, and two others get accidentally dragged into a Salmon Run shift; we get a whole arc on Sheldon looking for the Legendary Weapons from the great war. But mostly it's just silly shenanigans.
There is a good scene from end of Splatoon 1 era where Headphones is worried her Squiffer sniping abilities are holding her back and she talks about this with an S+ ranked E-liter (I think from Rider's team). The E-liter player chose scoped e-liter because her team comp allows her to snipe from very far away, very safely, and support her team in that matter. She then points out that a squiffer on Team Blue is great because Headphones needs far more situational awareness due to her team being kind of all over the place and being scoped in can prevent her from seeing where her team needs her. It was a neat exploration of how weapons in the same class might function better/worse based on what the rest of the team is also doing, even if it was only like 3 pages long.
I mean, some mistakes here- this was already into the Splatoon 2 tournament, skull is a dude, and he’s certainly not teamed with rider, but I agree, that is one of my fav scenes, both for character and for actual talk of the game strats
the public nudity meta 💀💀💀
I think the issue is they made the Manga too early honestly, back when the basic story was "Octoling Bad, Inkling Good" and anything beyond that was hidden away in optional collectables. I really do have to wonder how much better the manga would have been if it started after Octo-Expansion came out, using the agents as the main charecters and expanding on the story modes of 1 and 2 while also seeing how the characters improve at Turf due to lessons learned during their fights with the octarians.
that would be soo cool! reading the whole progression of the story modes would be awesome and they could even put marina in the splatoon 1 story since she was there. missed opportunities...
I mean. It'd be basically the same, assuming it was still running in Corocoro. They have a pretty narrow target demographic, and sadly it shows.
Its ironic since not wearing clothes in the Splatoon world puts you at a tactical disadvantage since you wont have any gear abilities
I don't think gear abilities were established in the manga.
@@fuhkishoga5130 Gear abilities in particular weren't, but we do learn that Gear can "wear out" which is interesting.
Gem look I'm a comp player but goddamn I'm obsessed with this manga I PROMISE there's stuff to analyse if you look closer, you should really read the ranked arc :3
And yes, they DO lose sometimes!! Rarely though.
That being said, the whole manga is written and drawn by one person, and it's still very fun to read without taking it too seriously.
Haven't read the Splatsville ones yet, but I can confirm they lose in volume 2 and a couple times in volume 16 (though most of those are offscreen, just stating they lost)
Thank you for sharing that, I also take the game more seriously (tho there’s no comp scene in my region, sadge) and it’s good to hear I’m not the only one to like it for just being fun despite that. Thanks for pointing those things about later parts out.
And yah, it’s honestly impressive for something made by 1 person.
In the Ranked arc I remember Red Sole jumping off the stage with the Rainmaker to reset it
@@agentblackbird9435 yeah!! That was a really cool thing for them to add in. Honestly everything they did to show strategies in the ranked arc was really cool.
lowkey ranked arc sometimes pisses me off, like.... vintage ABSOLUTELY could've survived goggles' final splashdown by just hiding behind the tower pillar
I'm a hard manga fan and I agree that Team Blue winning every time by stupid shenanigans is super annoying. While Team Blue's status may be static, I love the dynamics of all the side characters of the manga! It's like the manga sacrifices the creativity on names and design(they are mostly limited to in-game inkling/octoling customization) and gave so much diversity on each of the character's... well, character.
I can't make any claims that I'm too sure of because I don't know that much about Japan, but I believe nudity in Japan is in fact commonly seen as an extension of innocence, of immaturity on some level but on an endearing level, if that makes any sense? It sounds weird when I say it that way but it's the best way to describe it I have from trying to learn about Japanese culture from elsewhere. So it makes sense that nudity jokes would be more "in their element" in Japan than they would be for western readers.
The main reason I got the manga is because of the art style- I eat up the character design and it helps as a reference when I’m trying to draw Splatoon stuff
My kid has ALL of them and it’s literally all there is to the story. Preteens think it’s hilarious. It’s weird how absurd it is. But loads of kids read these things over and over.
I will say my kids gameplay had dropped massively when he got into them because it was all about copying the manga and trying the tactics in there and only wearing character outfits.
i definitely think braids in the new splatoon 3 manga is probably the best character in the entire thing, she actually has more than 3 personality traits and actually grows as a person. same for the entire splatsville 8 since they actually use characters we know (the promotional characters) instead of making new ones. the manga will never live up to a true adaptation of the series but for a thing thats meant to appeal to people around the age of 8-13, it does a decent job.
Plus, the new characters they do introduce are fun! Even Tri-Sunglasses, a completely original character, is just a guy who finds it fun to see other teams thrive, and didn't want to miss out on battling the best 8 of Splatsville.
The manga may suck, but at least it has it's good parts and slightly in-depth characters. A true guilty pleasure of mine ngl.
i mean a decent amount of the characters, especcially in 2's "adaptation", are actually just the promo characters, the entirety of team gloves are the original promo characters for 2
"Absolutely slays" was not something I expected gem to say
8:22 CORRECTION(was corrected in the video): headphones is not the tristringer. The players usually never change their weapon. The tristringer is a new character named Braid. It gets super confusing when you refer to them as Headphones and a squiffer pops in my head.
I have multiple corrections onscreen addressing this
@@SquidSchool Whoops did not see that. Just a listening viewer here
guess we can just do character driven stories on our own 😅 (well, the artists in the community)
WAIT THERE’S A TRI-STRINGER MAIN IN THE MANGA
I've always wanted a splatoon anime, but after seeing the manga and how "poorly written" it is from a character standpoint (I've seen singular panel meme comics with more characterization and potent character arcs than the entirety of what I've read of the manga) I'd prefer if we just got a splatoon movie instead. Both would preferrably be in the classic splatoon 2D style, obviously stylized a bit less for easier animation, but I know for a fact it'd be weird "high definition" 3D models instead of normal inkling models.
Maybe one day we'll get a serious spinoff or short series like we got for Legends Arceus about the three hero modes... A guy can dream eh?
@@1lillbluepikmin I think the main character living a sort of double life like normal agent 3 does would be cool, with the other members of the team eventually becoming agents 4 and neo 3, with an octoling representing (and possibly being) agent 8.
If it was set solely in S3, then yeah I could see that working, but if it's meant to follow the manga and take place all through the series then It would be cool to have every major player character represented AND to see them experience the story modes in real time (albeit tweaked to fit an anime setting, so shorter side-stories rather than full season-long campaigns)
Yea her name is Braid not Headphones as he refers her as. She’s one of my favorites ^-^
Hearing about the protagonist constantly winning reminds me of my main comparison between the YuGiOh anime and the Cardfight Vanguard anime. Yugi wins 84.44% of the time in YuGiOh but Aichi wins 69.01% of the time in Vanguard. YuGiOh still works because it is dealing with higher stakes and fantasy. Meanwhile Cardfight Vanguard mostly focuses on tournaments. Based on the description of the Splatoon manga, it seems that they should have gone the direction that Vanguard took.
What RUclips analysis or article did you take that opinion from
@@plompedu I can’t tell if you are joking or seriously believe anyone besides me would be insane enough to compare the win loss ratio of two characters from different card game animes during a discussion about splatoon.
@@HazzyBoe Half joking,
didn't even realize that only a minority cares for more than one TCG, I feel stupid now
@@plompedu I am sure there are plenty of people who care, but I doubt they would be looking at win percentages to make a comparison as I did.
Reminds me of Pokemon too
There was only ever one instance in the manga that I know of where team blue actually lost, but we only see the aftermath of that loss and them training to overcome that rival with the help of Rider. Besides that the lack of character development or formulaic premises are reflective of the promotional nature of these mangas, they weren't meant to expand on the universe of splatoon but re-tell splatoon in a different context/parallel universe.
Also as far as I'm aware the English translations for these mangas are often late by several months if not probably still stuck on Splatoon 2.
p.s. Lastly at 14:02, the term you're looking for is 'floating timeline'; the world around them passes with time but the characters within it especially the main cast do not change in physical age.
There are official English translations for the 16 volumes that encompass Splatoon 1 and Splatoon 2, so currently fan-translations are in progress for the mangas encompassing Splatoon 3.
@@Huskie297viz media is translating it on April 9th its on Amazon
i think a video analyzing the team comps from the manga would be interesting to watch! as someone who has read the manga and plays ranked (somewhat) regularly, i think it would be a cool comparison.
tbh s4's team (especially in sp1at era)'s pretty decent, and x-blood's comp would be better if it weren't for bloblobber
I find it funny how Skull, Vintage and Gloves are the most developed characters in this manga 💀 They actually have a backstory of some sort
But like Team Blue sometimes loses but like theyve lost 3 times, twice by Purple team, once by X blood
Also like some ideas in it is pretty cool like the shadows and like the guardians
I am begging Kayoss please win i want to see blue team black labeled
I have two favorite teams in the manga:
1. It's literally just four Dapple Dualies and they just are extremely excited to roll like mad around. I think its the Iromaki Rangers? if I remember correctly.
2. The researcher team that's just three Goo-Tubers and a Hydra Splatling. They fight in Kelp Dome and it's just a recipe for disaster honestly. Most unhinged comp I've ever seen.
The manga is definitely more catered to the comedic sensibilities of children in Japan and other East Asian countries where nudity and comedic nude censoring is simple and low-brow humor. It's kinda like how there's a lot of poop jokes in American comedy.
I would actually like to see that Splat 3 manga comp breakdown because the discussion about Headphones was interesting.
Would also like to see your take on some of the lore parts of Splatoon, I know there are lore comics ect so those would be interesting.
Small correction the tristringer is not headphones
I actually like the dynamics between the main 4 characters. The basic shonen archetypes are there, but its a shame nothing is done with them.
Maybe in another timeline.
I feel the funniest bit about the basic characters, and what makes me love them so much, is fanfiction.
Due to the simplicity of the characters, it is easy to write original stories with them, but they also have just enough character so that they are more recognizable than the Agents, who don’t even have set genders.
The characters in the Splatoon manga have heaps of potential and are easy to build off of, and that’s what makes them special to me as an amateur writer.
I get why everybody doesn’t see it like that, but that’s just why I love this manga so much.
As a fellow aspiring writer I 100% agree
literally splatoon vocaloids omg
As a fanfic writer of these characters myself, I 100% agree. I personally love coming up with headcannons like how their childhood was like!
To let myself ramble, I personally like to headcannon Army as an Octoling who started off undercover. Which explains why he's military based (especially as a drill sergeant).
We never see him without his beret, which means we never see his "hair." I'm not sure where, but I remember reading somewhere that Inklings can only tell the difference from Octolings by thier tentacles and eyes (might've been in the Octo Expansion by Captain Cuttlefish).
Army also knows how makeup works, it's stated in the manga that he applies his own face paint. All he would have to do is draw a face mask on and he'd look like an Inkling!
Then there's the the clothes he wears. The parka has a purple octoling on it, in the same shape as Justice (Vol.13), who *is* an Octoling.
And In the Chaos V. Order splatfest, Army chooses Order and tells Hivemind that he, "Can not accept a world without free will." And wouldn't you know it, that sounds like somthing Octoling underground would have experienced with Tartar down there and sanitizing Octolings.
Onto Army's parents, it's stated from the manga that he comes from rich parents. We're never told where that wealth came from, but I imagine his parents must've been important Octoling generals who get paid greatly for thier service.
So my idea is: His parents left the underground with him when he was young. With the money they earned from thier service, Army was able to live an upper class lifestyle, but still held onto admiration of the military (either by the propaganda spread there, or from his parents being generals). His parents wanted him to experience a life they couldn't have, and started disguising him as an Inkling, saying that he should NEVER reveal he's an Octoling to others, knowing Octolings are discriminated against (taking place during Splatoon 1 where Octolings weren't playable). Army grows up and finally realizes how awful the underground really was. He also grows up with the fear of being discovered as an Octoling.
If he ever where to be discovered, it would be around the start of Vol.3, where they all head to Inkopolis Square and Army sees Marina, an Octoling who's freely walking around and no one really cares. His beret would fall off during the S4's battle with Emperor, and he'd run off in a panic thinking the rest of the S4 members will hate him. They find him and tell him it's alright, that he is still Army, the same strategist, the same person who keeps them in working order, and the only one who really knows how to cook, and that him being an Octoling means nothing.
I just love all these characters so much! They have so much potential for readers and writers to imagine them differently. And thanks for reading all of this if you did ❤
(P.s. Yes, almost every character has an in depth look into thier past. Just ask me about Emperor, I dare you)
@@LordyWordy Wow, this is... amazing. I personally don't have too many headcannons about them, but I did make a mafia AU about the characters from the Splatoon Manga. It was really fun trying to use these characters in a grittier and bloodier (inkier?) environment, and it was really fun to pull off. Having the S4 was also perfect, since they were really easy to make into assassins. If you want to read it, I can link it here, though I don't know how well links work on RUclips comments.
@@teaganpatel3790 I might've already read your work! By chance, is it called "Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap"?
I currently own issues 1-13. They are just about as formulaic as Gem points out. It's visual junk food and a collectible for me. It's cute and silly. 😜 (I don't understand the nudity running gag either, tbh. The pickled plums stint hit better for me.)
If you want something similar but with an actual story, I recommend Tamarin Frog's Splatoon comic, from back in the Splat1 days. (The characters also have signature gear in that comic, though each has a name independent of their gear.)
I unironically really love the manga, and would love if you actually did a thorough analysis of the comps, half of which just exist for a gag
Team blue doesn't win every match, but most of their losses aren't given as much if any 'screen time'.
That first match, for instance, is followed up with a loss mentioned in passing, resulting in them loosing that tournament. The last team they fought in the S1 ark soundly beat them, and then they go through training to come out on top in a rematch. Most of the time though, yeah Team Blue just wins.
Yea, I remember there was a scene that they lost to skull and then asked for a rematch
Goggles is OP because he can use things not available for other players
He picks up a person with bubbler and throws them
Manga can be found in some prints of Corocoro magazine, but keep in mind it is a kids manga with different humor from the west.
And the naked goggles is in line with the way Japan sees humor
“Antics” He found the pantsing everyone scatter
Instructions unclear. Now playing Splatoon in the nude.
The whole thing is a comedy manga for kids and frankly I have no real reason to treat it as anything else, really. The Octo Expansion arc is kinda faithful, though, I'll give it that much. But apparently Japanese kids find naked people really funny for some reason, it's weird, but cultural differences I suppose.
it's very much 'written for 5th graders' and I'm never going to try and sell it as more than it is. I'm mostly into it for the characters,,, as in, the over-the-top reactions they have. some are worse (thinly veiled crossdressing/almost transphobic joke >_>) but I keep up w it when I don't have much better to do. Shoutout to all the fan translators out there! You're heroes.
I make fan comics sometimes and tbh I want to make a fan comic with team school girl cardigan in it with someone calling them girls in an encouraging way despite knowing about what happened in the battle with rider? Maybe Jessika from the band yoko and the gold bazookas... I'll have to wait until I'm faster about making these comics to commit to something like that. lol
Fun fact! There is also a Splatoon manga called Squid kid comedy show. It is made by Nintendo but is separate from the main comics. It does not have as much nudity, if I recall correctly, but it still has some and other toilet humor stuff. It doesn't have that much of a plot, though. It's mainly just a collection of short joke comics
also the art in that one is way uglier /hj
i always thought i would like coroika more if it was inspired off the actual comp scene. like what if team blue met in a low level draft tournament and won, formed a real team, and suddenly got destroyed by higher level teams and had to actually practice together to win against their new opponents... at least the art is cute.
this was hilarious, please do the weapon comp reviews lol
Speaking of pokemon, now that they put ash in the retirement home, they came out with new characters for a new series
So far, the 2 protagonists combined have won only a single battle, and that happens off screen.
With the amount of character development in that series, it'll feel very good when they eventually get good enough to win fights consistently since the watcher gets to see their progression over the course of the series unlike ash who barely changes at all in 27 seasons.
In fact Liko has evolved more than ash in just 12 episodes
I wish Splatoon will get an anime, but I do NOT want them to adapt the manga. I don’t have anything against it, I just don’t think that the manga truly represents the possibilities offered by the worldbuilding from the main games. I wish they would make the art style emulate the iconic art they use for concept and marketing that is made by the art director.
1:43 - Why does this give me the same type of energy as SpongeBob saying "actors" up close lol
The ONLY battle they lost that I remember ontop of my head is around in chapter 6 where Goggles and his team gets utterly defeated by Skull. They then proceeds to have a whole training momentum with Rider with an E-liter on Moray Towers where they learn to properly dodge and Goggles learns his godspeed ability with the help of Rider. It's the only time where their training paid off and actually felt rather genuine for once even if its far fetched.
I CAN'T BELIEVE YOU READ THE MANGA, IT'S WHAT GOT ME INTO THE GAME
I got obsessed with Mask from Team Cyan and when I got Splatoon 2 I RUSHED to make a cosplay of him. I got his rainboots first, then I found his gas mask on a player in the lobby and ordered one so I could have it, and then ordered his camo LS off of another person. I played the roller first, then when I got acess to the Carbon Deco I bought it and played literally nothing else.
I'm waiting for the day his entire outfit comes to Splatoon 3 so I can put that on, change my name to Mask, and just cosplay him constantly. He is my everything for Splatoon, that nihilistic MF who hates people who smile.
My headcanon is that the reason that Team Blue is so low ranked yet can beat some of the higher ranked teams is because they primarily play Turf War together. Actual ranked battles, not the modes played in them, are typically done solo, where they wouldn't play together. They do terribly if they don't play with anyone they know.
I meeeeaaaan, while there’s a little leap in logic: why would any of the s+’ers be just playin turf if they’re rank players? Makes it seem like ranks just work differently in this universe…
Whilst that’s all a thing… this still makes the most sense to me: rider notes right to goggles that he believes goggles “might actually be stronger than an S4”, and blue’s results would suggest, even against emperor, their skills are actually above the rest. people might not like it, but it’s clearly so, due to them practising so hard together before chapter one, and all their experience built up from the first few battles.
In fact, eight/hachi asks how they can be bad ranked when their so strong, and the response is they’re ridiculous, which would explain it if they were playing solo, again reinforcing your point.
TLDR your theory simply works from every angle. Probably coulda just said that, but I love team blue so I just wanted to do it.
the part is easily when goggles says it’s gogglin’ time and then goggles all over the place
definitely one of the mangas of all time
so esteemed and/or highly experienced competitive player guest, as we analyse this scene in the splatoon manga on mincemeat we see Goggles pantsing the other team resulting in an against all odds KO. How do you think this will affect the current meta game of splatoon 3? Was this strategy truly the most optimal?
Personally, if you know what to expect, I think it’s a blast to read the manga. You’re in for some stupid giggles, a nice lighthearted angle of splatoon to kill time with. It’s fun to see a different portrayal of a game that’s set up in a way everyone can adlib in the blanks to have their own concept of how the splatoon world works.
Edit: Watching the tail end of the video, I do also strongly dislike that team blue has never lost a meaningful game. They do mention how they practice often, which could (somewhat) justify them winning against the quad S+ team at the start, but by no means should there be no character development. No structure to the story, but yet again, if there’s only the expectation of a gag series, it’s amazing.
I love the naming scheme of the manga, it’s what inspired my username.
i love the splatoon manga way too much for my own good (BOBBLE HAT AND BRAIDS MY BELOVEDS) but you've made some good points about it here. the only time i ever really enjoyed goggles pantsing someone is when
(spoilers if you feel like reading it lol)
he did it to rider while he was sanitized to help him go back to normal. other than that, it was boring and annoying.
the pickled plums thing is funny though.
Absolutely perfectly said points about this manga! I find it really fascinating the whole separate area of the fanbase around Splatoon it’s gathered, especially after being out for so much time. I initially couldn’t play Splatoon 1 until late into its lifespan, and this manga definitely contributed to my desire to play and actively engage in the community at first. It does it’s job well marketing the game, which seems like it’s primary reason for existing. Well into my years as a comp player I continued to read it. Your point about the reader being able to insert themselves into the characters in game is so important, because the corika fanbase is well known for cosplaying the characters in game, a favorite pastime of the manga fans. I do think that the Splatoon 2 era of the manga has more desirable writing in regards to how the game itself feels to play and functions (at least, in my memory). Eventually Blue Team plays in ranked tournaments instead of turf war, where they learn valuable lessons about how to really play the game, and eventually against X players regarded as tough and too serious. The formula still for the most part, doesn’t change at all though lol. The corika manga honestly is interesting to analyze from a community perspective the most. Regardless, would absolutely LOVE to see how you discuss the team comps present in the manga, as I’ve definitely read the manga and judged heavily how a match realistically would’ve gone. Especially the aforementioned X team being the “best” and running what they were running. Great video!
I only read the first 3 manga before i was like "okay i am not the target audience, and thats ok" so a few things:
- the fact that they highlight their ranks makes zero sense, as for the first half of S1's shelf life *there was no comp*. only turf war! yippee!! we had NO idea what different modes were even going to feel like, other than a relief from the monotony of turf, where it was VERY hard to break a spawn camp and modders were EVERYWHERE. i mean modders still are everywhere, they just held a legit s1 splatfest, i digress. the game against that quad s+ was a *match of turf war*. which, frankly, is it not the true s3 experience to lose the lead in the last 30 seconds of turf?
-S1 inkstrike was INSANE. my friends and I joke that one of the challenges for S3 should be we get S1 kits/hitboxes and let chaos ensue. inkstrike was about the size of a booyah bomb, but it was collumn that struck into the sky, not a sphere, and launched instantly on *any* part of the map, thanks to it always being visible on the wiiu gamepad and was tap-to-lauch *on there*. (S1 Killer wail was a similar kind of pain, but imagine that roar attack Grizz does in the final boss except in the hands of players and in the Hallway maps of S3) In S1 maps where the mass verticality could make or break you based on the special? if that was quad inkstrike done at a coordinated time? your team is dead and the other other just bought themselves 5 to 10 seconds.
Blue Team did LOST.
First lost is after their win against Rider's team, then the 2nd one is that they lost completely against Skull's Team, one of the S4 which mains in E Litre. Blue Team was totally decimated to the point that they were only managed to paint their own base.
After the lost, Rider came to their rescue and provide them with special lesson about E Litre and how to avoid and counterattack.
Funny enough a later story in the manga actually implies interesting lore that some Octolings might have been turncoats in the great turf war
Hey squid school, I’m a fan of your content and really appreciate what ya do to teach players more about the game, myself included… HOWEVAAAHHH!…
I’m afraid that in the same way Disney making Toy Story 4 was enough to finally trigger Matpat, you, taking such a stance on the manga, have summoned MY wrath. (this is a joke-y tone by the way 😉)
Having listened to all your points and it going… about the exact way I would’ve expected, I’ve decided I’ll be putting my own video essay together, wherein I’ll defend the manga like there’s no tomorrow, explaining what about it makes me (as someone approaching my 20s) love it, and addressing some of your gripes and giving my reasoning towards them.
To clarify: all of this, not because any of your statements on the game aspects are wrong… because they’re not, they’re all factually correct, but in case it’s not obvious, the main premise of my defence will be ‘loving it for what it is, not for what you were looking for’, so yah.
But most importantly, I plan to be as respectful as possible, as I greatly appreciate how you were here, and I hope everyone knows I completely understand anyone for not liking the manga, believe me I get it. This is just something I as a fan of it wanna do from my passion for it, and I now finally have a motivation to.
Outside of that, this was a very well thought out analysis that in all seriousness, I think everyone looking to improve at the game should still watch. I just gotta get my side of the story across.
Disclaimer, if ya come back in a year and still nothing on my channel, it’s cuz I just mean I’ve decided I wanna go ahead with the idea, not gonna stress myself to rush ahead.
(Also, just to be clear, I am specifically referring to the CoroCoro series: squid kids comedy show can rot in hell for all I care 😅 (again tho, fine if you like it)).
(Dang, longer than I expected 😶…)
**Spoilers if someone wants to read**
I remember the first time they lost and that battle felt meaningful for once. They were up against Skull (uses eliter scope) and his team who are top of the S4. The Blue team did not know what an eliter was and constantly was getting sniped be Skull. That is when Rider had to step up and train them (Riders my favorite!)
They learned the technique (more so Goggles) of main strafing and i thought that was pretty cool since... That was something i struggled against when using chargers on Splatoon 1.
Im kinda sad that the manga is the way that it is (oversuing the same jokes to the point it is a daily routine). I mainly read it now because im curious how things progress (as predictable as it is) and what new "characters" are present. Ok ill admit, just to see Rider as well...
Glad to see even people who don’t like it overall still agree who the best character is.
I agree with the last paragraph, I kinda just stopped being intrigued bc rider isn’t there tbh
Please make another video going over the comps, I was really hoping for that and I appreciate and found what you did fun and enjoyable trust me. Everything was well done and interesting, and I appreciate the attention to detail, but I’d also love If you went over some of the comps, including maybe some of the Splatoon 2 ones if possible? It would be amazing!!
Really though, Judd's just as much to blame for letting this stuff happen. I cannot think of a single sport where pantsing the opponent isn't at minimum a foul.
I like Bobble Hat, her smile is so cute
team blue actually loses like. 5 times in the whole manga
plus ! they do get a mentor in the first chapters, but it's only a one time thing
overall I think the splatoon manga is something that u can enjoy if u don't think too hard abt how they keep winning LOL
I was thinking of reading the splatoon manga so that I could animate it as a fun little practice project for myself, but now I'm kinda having second thoughts lol
I say animate your own stories, but in the manga style?
At least personally the worst part of the manga isn't anything the manga actually does but just that splatoon as a franchise has so much that could be done that it just feels like a missed opportunity for what a potential splatoon manga COULD be if handled by people who know how to write a great standalone manga while also having a strong knowledge on splatoon's lore, charicters and world to tell and expand the splatoon world that we haven't seen a lot of outside snippets through the story modes
There are some lore based comics and other stuff like the squidsister stories/art books that are sorta outside the games. With how seamless cross media is nowadays I get if you don’t consider them separate.
@@samuelturner6076 and I get that but even so outside of the squidsister stories pretty much none of them actually are able to feature any narrative material, just lore by the devs, and with manga being a storytelling medium I do wish it maybe could have gotten treatment similar to the pokemon manga for example but cannon, or at least mostly lore accurate
@@certifiedtrash3152 100% fair. If we do get a Splatoon anime I’d like it if it was a lore accurate, story based affair.
i’m honestly kind of tired of the whole “lore” thing splatoon has been doing especially with 3 pretty much making no sense and having literal magic in it and not explaining anything (per usual)
the splatoon manga is meant to appeal to little kids and focuses more on the slice of life aspect rather than the “serious” stuff. it’s a standalone thing that also rarely connects with the main series so who cares lmao
@@yggdrasilsaltar have you bothered to read the pokemon manga, which was my primary example. I don't want it to just be lore lore lore like fnaf or something, but just to be a fun serialised manga that can tell its own story and do its own thing while either adding to or adapting aspects of the story modes every now and again depending on if you want to go the cannon or non cannon route, as even ignoring the lore splatoon has such an interesting world and we don't see almost any of it besides maps and whatever slice each games' lobby shows
I love it how you take everything so seriously 😂
Seriously! You need gear abilities, you know!
But yeah, if you’d be willing to make that follow-up even if it’s just to laugh about it, I think that would be enjoyable.
One extra thing - in one of the volumes, I don’t remember which one, one of the characters who uses a roller uses a charger to teach goggles and his team how to work around a charger’s range, on a map that they are particularly advantageous on. He says that he plays other weapons in order to learn the range in proportioned his own. Do you recommend doing that, or is it better to play the weapon you plan to mean and simply face off against opponents using the weapon you want to learn against?
But yeah, I think the manga is cool if you have played the game as a oh, I recognize that. They can do kind of cool stuff like having the Amiibo outfits be available as part of a costume party. And as far as the running joke, gag, whatever of panting, it’s kind of annoying sometimes, but I think the comedy is more in how other characters react to it instead of just the fact that it’s happening. (At least to me)
personally, i find it helpful to use other weapons a bit just to get a feel for how they work.
its really useful to have first hand experience in their weaknesses and strengths.
you'll learn how to fight a specific weapon through the ppl that splat you, noting their approaches and applying it to your own strategy. you'll also see what benefit the weapon, so you know which situations to prevent / avoid etc.
i guess this can also be achieved by playing against the weapon a lot, paying attention to how you get splatted / how you splat them,
tho i dont think that works well without a partner.
Ngl, this video just made me feel better about not having high splats or on par splats every game to everyone else
Splatoon has enough style and lore to it, more lore than most other Nintendo series at this point minus Zelda and maybe Kirby, that there really shouldn't be much issue with the manga. Everything you need for a good manga (especially one that's gone as long as the Splatoon manga has) is already in the games, and as long as you get decent writers it should be a slam dunk. It seems like there's a healthy spread of opinions on the manga which is great, but it's still a bit disappointing that it doesn't take advantage of those great aspects of Splatoon's world. Honestly, with how Nintendo seems to be going strong with movies now after the success of the Mario movie, I think a Splatoon anime would work REALLY well. It'd capture the fantastic style of Splatoon's world without issue, and as long as there are solid writers who are actually able to take advantage of the series' wealth of lore and plot, I think a Splatoon anime would be thoroughly enjoyable.
Surprised you didn't mention the manga tie-in Splatfest (Champion vs. Challenger - Feb 2018 JP), with Pearl repping the Kings (Emperor's Team - Champions) and Marina repping Team Blue (Challengers). The Splatfest announcement art had SD versions of Emperor and Goggles. The Kings and Team Blue appeared in the promo art. It was actually a fun fest. :)
And even in this RL contest - Team Blue (Challenger) won the fest *heh*
However, since the match in the manga hadn't happened yet when the Splatfest happened, I can't help but wonder...would the Kings have won in the mangaverse if Team Champion won the fest?
That said, have you seen the other manga series "Splatoon: Squid Kids Comedy Show"?
Id love to see a part 2 of this yea :D
i think theres only like 2 battles they lost that actually meant anything to the story😭
The splatoon manga is a different Verse they even drop f bombs,racist jokes and much more
I mean, they could do that in the games, just when we don't know
Clearly you’ve forgotten what happened with Frye
Young problematic Pearl: Hold my diss track
@@lucomc32607 what za f*ck?
Pearl canonically swears, because of course she does
Can't wait for the anime in 2025
No but legit, the could make a Splatoon anime so easily and I’d eat it up in a heartbeat. Heck the Splatoon 2 Ver 3.0 trailer is literally an anime OP.
when i read it my thoughts were "yep... its a kids manga alright....."
The manga and anime industry as a whole has a huge issue with treating actions like exposing people without their constant or trying to peep on them while they’re changing as a joke and then when the characters react accordingly to being violated it’s framed as irrational or something that can just be brushed off and forgotten about. I really don’t get it. It ruined anime and manga for me as kid and as an adult I’m very selective with what I consume but even in the most serious narratives it can be there. It’s really disappointing
S+ rank teams can still lose Turf War in the last 30 seconds, sounds about right
This is a really good review of the story lol
FNF bf & goggles: fighting threatening foes without giving a sh$t about and still win
As much as a like coroika… yeaa this manga is hard to defend. I’m extremely critical about it, my friends and I joke about not wanting it to be the source material for a potential Splatoon anime. I just wish they would flesh out characters more and give them *actual* personalities outside of 2 or 3 bullet points. They need to take advantage of the splatoon world more fr, it’ll make it much better
coroika mention >:)
I didn’t realize how recent this was uploaded! I love your perspective on this manga. Videos like these are super educational for people (like me) who want to make their own narrative in a world like Splatoon’s!
Do not overthink, is a manga for kids with some adult humor sometimes, but it’s cartoonish, it’s fun, it’s interesting, I know they don’t touch things deep like the Octo Expansion or the Great War or why there is a some kind of racial conflict or even a evil elaborated villain, the manga is what Hinodera said “ITS JUST A PARODY” obviously NOTHING gonna be seriously here, maybe some things cannot be 100% accurate (like fighting naked is the best way to fight) but at least, the manga make you have a good time with some broken goofy humor, and that, makes it a good manga.
gonna try pantsing my opponents in my next tournament wish me luck
Unrelated to the content of the video, but I'm studying to be a teacher myself and it's really fun when I can see your background in education come out in your videos. "Higher level thinking" is an academic term and it made me smile to know that our knowledge can be applied to education as well as becoming better at video games :^)
they always win because they have fun playing together. the best fights are the ones that don't involve team blue.
I love how gem just doesn't realize the difference between mitsuami (braids) and headphones 😭
I remember trying splatoon 1 back when it came out, it gave me motion sickness a few times and I pretty much gave up on it. Fast forward to like 2018 and I kept seeing the manga in both my local bookstore and library. It got me curious enough that I did read them. It was very much fast paced and childish but it got me wanting to try again with the series. Here I am now still consistently playing the third game for fun, no more motion sickness lol.
(Im a splatoon manga nerd lets get going) in the second book team blue loses to a E-letire on moray the team has to train with Rider (The first team leader they meet) to learn how to combat the E-leitre and his team.
Ok, so I agree wit the statement, and it makes sense, but would like to recommend reading the ranked matches(specifically the finals) as some of the things there actually make sense of what plays they are doing. but yeah the battles are pretty formulatic exceptions of a few, but this is mostly due to how they want the series to run and they originally had times when they won purely by chance but when versing skull they lost and had too learn(a technique goggles uses In the series later as well), but having 3 chapters worth of one match and a schedule to go with is hard to keep a viewers attention (kids these days). but altogether analysing the best bits is something you should look into. (Can't wait for the next video gem!)
That day, the call-outs changed, "PANTS!" now meant that you're being flanked from behind.
This was hilarious. I'd love to see more splatoon adjacent videos. This felt almost like a manga review
I would love to see some analysis of Team X-Blood because their name is so serious and yet they're running two backlines and a tetra in 2019 Splatoon 2
Do they not show off any of the ranked modes in the manga? That seems like a missed opportunity
P sure they have a ranked arc in the manga, that's all they show of the modes though unfortunately
They do enter a ranked tournament during the Splatoon 2 era, but IIRC they only show one game of each mode.
They do a decent job of explaining each mode in like 4 panels, though.
It’s good to see ya back man!
Back? I've been uploading daily since June of last year
The thumbnail 💀
damn now i want an accurate splatoon manga