Illustrator Reacts to Good and Bad Comic Book Art 3

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  • Опубликовано: 10 сен 2024
  • In this episode we’re looking at more Superhero comics with work from Eric Canete, Dexter Soy and Dan Mora Chaves, but also taking a jump into some manga art. I break down some of the incredible art from Yusuke Murata on One Punch Man, Kentaro Miura on Berserk, Hirohiko Araki on the ‘Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure’ spin-off (or however you categorize Steel Ball Run). Plus also a strange look into the bizarre anatomy of Yaoi art.
    In this episode I, as always, talk more about the composition of a bunch of the pieces as well as break down some of the contrast and detailing choices made by the artists. I also talk about more animation stuff and it’s relation to comics in Eric Canete’s work relating to smear frames, as well as the insane animated panels of Yusuke Murata’s work. The Corridor Crew's videos of 'VFX Artists React to Good and Bad Special Effects' as well as LegalEagle’s videos breaking down the use of the law in shows like It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia. Here are links to both of those shows below!
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  • @PopCross
    @PopCross  5 лет назад +1966

    By the time this series gets to something like 10 episodes, how many times do you think I'll have said 'your eyes are guided through the image' ?

    • @vjeg9000
      @vjeg9000 5 лет назад +13

      Discord is getting weird lol

    • @doctorvo9597
      @doctorvo9597 5 лет назад +22

      Around 50 I'd say

    • @cucumberagua
      @cucumberagua 5 лет назад +5

      Honestly, since I've just started watching you, I'll do you one up and count every you do say it once you reach 10 episodes. :)

    • @drewman5898
      @drewman5898 5 лет назад

      Plenty

    • @CoenKommer
      @CoenKommer 5 лет назад +2

      I say around 60

  • @DGGRevolution
    @DGGRevolution 5 лет назад +6678

    "I haven't read Berserk, but I might have to after seeing this."
    We did it boys, we converted another one.

    • @Slender_Man_186
      @Slender_Man_186 5 лет назад +223

      But can we also get him into Dark Souls?

    • @lizard81288
      @lizard81288 5 лет назад +380

      As long as he doesn't watch the abomination animation adaptation, he should be fine.

    • @Mizoturi
      @Mizoturi 5 лет назад +312

      yes, another soul lost to the 10 year hiatus, ALL HAIL Kentaro Miura!!!!!

    • @BlackSunFen
      @BlackSunFen 5 лет назад +10

      excellent.

    • @Doctor-Infinite
      @Doctor-Infinite 5 лет назад +33

      *CELEBRATES IN ANIME NOISES*

  • @mechajay3358
    @mechajay3358 5 лет назад +3789

    "It's so _Bizzare_ but so hard to look away from."
    That's JoJo in a Nutshell

    • @bigblackkid1019
      @bigblackkid1019 5 лет назад +51

      396 likes but no replies
      Here have a reply

    • @lofiocean9941
      @lofiocean9941 5 лет назад +26

      Jojo is fucking everywhere. Getting annoying imo

    • @racconbuilders3665
      @racconbuilders3665 5 лет назад +89

      Lofi Ocean then watch it

    • @lofiocean9941
      @lofiocean9941 5 лет назад +9

      @@racconbuilders3665 nah I missed the hype train

    • @pizzatime7433
      @pizzatime7433 5 лет назад +29

      503 likes
      I'm so proud of this community

  • @SonicGraffitiArtistisAmazing
    @SonicGraffitiArtistisAmazing 5 лет назад +2635

    "It's so bizarre"
    CUT, THAT'S IT, HE SAID THE LINE

    • @PeriExe
      @PeriExe 4 года назад +134

      “HE’S IN BOYS, HE SAID IT”
      *presses air-horn*

    • @unlimon6382
      @unlimon6382 4 года назад +29

      ONE OF US

    • @Lepsuzzz
      @Lepsuzzz 4 года назад +15

      holy shit i only came to this video because i saw jojo

    • @galesoul8614
      @galesoul8614 4 года назад +10

      he said it was a "pun" which is naturally true.

    • @aarondawal9037
      @aarondawal9037 3 года назад +1

      I'm so glad he reviewed jojo

  • @herogamer555
    @herogamer555 5 лет назад +2401

    "It sounds like a niche thing but I guess it's big enough that there's a whole genre based around it."
    Japan in a nutshell.

    • @bitbreaker3254
      @bitbreaker3254 4 года назад +73

      isekai is probably THE most niche thing you can think of. person gets thrown into an alternate reality, that is an rpg world of warcraft style type world, with overpowered abilities, and has to kill the demon king collecting harem girls along the way. It's so specific, but it's the most popular genre right now, Re:Zero, Konosuba, The Rising of The Shield Hero, and even DB Super are super popular and are all isekai.

    • @zadehiga3799
      @zadehiga3799 4 года назад +9

      @@bitbreaker3254 dragonball super???

    • @RuneKatashima
      @RuneKatashima 4 года назад +25

      @@bitbreaker3254 Yeah, uh, Dragonball (Super or otherwise) isn't an isekai.

    • @megamage911
      @megamage911 4 года назад +30

      @@bitbreaker3254 Funny you mention Konosuba and Re:Zero, as both of those are basically supposed to be parodies/commentary on the genre xD Konosuba is just taking the absolute piss out of all the tropes, where Re:Zero is taking it in a much more realistic and gritty direction.

    • @AaronKaiMCDNLD
      @AaronKaiMCDNLD 4 года назад +6

      @@bitbreaker3254 it's not that bad as a niche, but the problem is that it's the same thung over and over again.

  • @jo_ken
    @jo_ken 4 года назад +1027

    Araki horse anaotomy: 10/10
    Araki dog anatomy: Oh my god!

    • @adamfrancescutti7615
      @adamfrancescutti7615 4 года назад +102

      Araki's dog anatomy really is "all over the place"

    • @xios9749
      @xios9749 4 года назад +4

      VV K how dark

    • @mcdanzy8379
      @mcdanzy8379 4 года назад +3

      Maybe he can draw dog now, maybe...

    • @sinkmc3682
      @sinkmc3682 4 года назад +3

      Which is strange because they are quite the same

    • @Joe-km5ou
      @Joe-km5ou 4 года назад +1

      Jojo!

  • @jaypegg2326
    @jaypegg2326 5 лет назад +2398

    I never looked up why yaoi anatomy is so bad, but my assumption was that it had to do with emphasizing masculine traits but being really bad at it

    • @3pleYT
      @3pleYT 5 лет назад +269

      I'd say long and skinny fingers are more of a feminine trait. It's probably just artists who haven't practiced enough

    • @Gensolink
      @Gensolink 5 лет назад +184

      @@3pleYT most likely, there is a huge community for fan made stuff they have a whole convention for fan made stuff with the Comiket, which is most likely where 99% of yaoi anatomy comes from. So that's may be why the anatomy on some of them looks fucked, they were just amateur works. But yeah most of the yaoi art I personally saw had good proportions.

    • @teddyp9
      @teddyp9 5 лет назад +111

      Probably just that the artists are into big lips and hands. The long legs and small heads are probably part of trying to make their characters look tall and towering because men’s height is supposed to be a big deal.

    • @raisadiamantabingei8460
      @raisadiamantabingei8460 5 лет назад +82

      I can assure you the more recent releases from this genre has SUBSTANTIALLY BETTER anatomy. Those in the video are much older releases

    • @raisadiamantabingei8460
      @raisadiamantabingei8460 5 лет назад +23

      That being said, yaoi comics with great art IMO includes Okusama wa Alpha, Kyrie - Norowareta no Hebi, Walk on Water, Wolf in the House and BJ Alex

  • @lynx4082
    @lynx4082 5 лет назад +1082

    "It's so bizarre" My dude you don't even know the half of it

    • @user-vl8ck4gz6w
      @user-vl8ck4gz6w 5 лет назад +150

      The wierdest panel for me are in jojolion when theyre just talking to eachother and everybody has these unnatural poses like wtf just TALK lmao

    • @lonesoldier404
      @lonesoldier404 5 лет назад +77

      remember when he forgot to draw dogs

    • @crazy4loafs731
      @crazy4loafs731 5 лет назад +72

      @@lonesoldier404 Remember when he forgot how to kill dogs?

    • @account8158
      @account8158 5 лет назад +80

      @@user-vl8ck4gz6w "The dick is extremely important" - Norisuke Higashikata

    • @yoda1485
      @yoda1485 5 лет назад +85

      Phantom blood: it’s not that bizarre
      SBR: what do you meant he president teams up with a dinosaur are trying to find Jesus’s dead body

  • @JustinoElArtista
    @JustinoElArtista 5 лет назад +749

    Many of the action piece shots in the One Punch Man anime series were ripped directly from the manga source material. The animators (to an extent) didn't have to work terribly hard to envision the dynamic angles, lighting, movements, etc. Yusuke Murata could sell a manga about bottled water with his paneling.

    • @Skusioh
      @Skusioh 5 лет назад +54

      He is such a great artist. Whats also impressive how he comes up with all the differend monster designs and even one-shot pedestrians look great and full of character. Incredibly talented.

    • @THEPELADOMASTER
      @THEPELADOMASTER 5 лет назад +50

      "Source" material. The most impressive thing is that he managed to do all that based on the one punch man web comic

    • @roudxh3268
      @roudxh3268 5 лет назад +4

      The anime visual is still phenomenal though.

    • @johnathanvargas803
      @johnathanvargas803 5 лет назад +41

      @@THEPELADOMASTER Let's not knock the webcomic. ONE might not be the most artistically skilled, but his work in composition is some of the best the medium currently has to offer.

    • @louisvictor3473
      @louisvictor3473 5 лет назад +5

      I can only imagine how dynamic a bottle flip "not" animation by Yusuke Murata would look like.

  • @DarkNorthEmperor
    @DarkNorthEmperor 4 года назад +659

    9:14 Kentaro Miura
    The entire Berserk Manga deserves a video unto itself.

    • @Spar7anProjec7
      @Spar7anProjec7 4 года назад +46

      @theone Berserk and One Punch Man drawings are just absurd, the level of detail in both of those works is just unreachable.

    • @jeremygeller9145
      @jeremygeller9145 4 года назад +10

      My opinion: in terms of art theory and technique kentaro Miura surpasses, well I would say any living artist but to keep it simple he is better the Yusuke Murata, however in terms of having fun with the design, I mean look at monster king orochi or some of the other monsters murata some how makes over the top over designed ridiculous monsters look cool, still so I think that’s the one area he kind of surpasses Miura

    • @wellingtonribeiro847
      @wellingtonribeiro847 4 года назад +2

      @@jeremygeller9145 Giving to much credit for Murata. The guy is a genius, no doubt, but the original designs even been simple is from One.

    • @wellingtonribeiro847
      @wellingtonribeiro847 4 года назад +9

      @theone It's the ultimate manga. Miura is definitely Manga God.

    • @jeremygeller9145
      @jeremygeller9145 4 года назад +2

      @@wellingtonribeiro847 aint gonna deny that, their is no way for human beings to ever reach true perfection in any form, but berserk comes close, characters design theme i cant find any flaw except that one two chapter storyline of gutts trapped as a kid and encounters a fairy, nothing bad about it just seems like an odd flashback with no purpose

  • @jebbrando4091
    @jebbrando4091 5 лет назад +1153

    "it's so bizarre yet so hard to look away from..."
    This defines Jojo more than anything

  • @greyfox6786
    @greyfox6786 5 лет назад +714

    14:53 "It just feels like it works."
    *It just works intensifies.*

    • @monetizedyay6827
      @monetizedyay6827 4 года назад +11

      Emperor Crimson

    • @SpaceWoods
      @SpaceWoods 4 года назад +26

      KINGE KERIMSON!

    • @yushaare
      @yushaare 4 года назад

      MonetizedYaY * King Crimson thats the official name not the localised name

    • @monetizedyay6827
      @monetizedyay6827 4 года назад +12

      @@yushaare that's the joke

    • @yushaare
      @yushaare 4 года назад

      MonetizedYaY NIIICEEE

  • @davidangelovski3558
    @davidangelovski3558 5 лет назад +308

    9:50 "kentaro miura wants to keep it more menacing looking"
    At that moment i noticed the *menacing* on the right side of the drawing...yare~yare

    • @HovektheArtist
      @HovektheArtist 5 лет назад +4

      I thought it said Ominous damn

    • @unfortunateimperial6019
      @unfortunateimperial6019 5 лет назад +2

      That just shows to show how great the art is, that he doesn't need you to know japanese to know what it means.

    • @xxxxx6622
      @xxxxx6622 4 года назад +2

      That menacing symbol was popularized by jojo, while it has been used in other manga none have made that symbol as iconic as araki has

  • @koira163
    @koira163 5 лет назад +636

    Araki is by far my favorite artist ever. His art style is to pretty, especially in the lated mangas. No wonder he has had his art in Louvre museum.

    • @Cairo40000
      @Cairo40000 4 года назад +91

      He's been making manga since 1987 so of course his art is gonna be elegant

    • @kyleh1494
      @kyleh1494 4 года назад +29

      Guido Mista Even before that

    • @Cairo40000
      @Cairo40000 4 года назад +61

      @@kyleh1494 yeah he's been drawing for 40 years

    • @rexemuwu
      @rexemuwu 4 года назад +19

      @@Cairo40000 RIP MISTA

    • @SquigPie
      @SquigPie 4 года назад +9

      Much as I love Araki I do think his never art tends to be horribly messy and cluttered. In many of the fights in SBR and JoJolion I honestly couldn't tell what was going on.

  • @ryanmarlin2974
    @ryanmarlin2974 3 года назад +377

    I can't believe Miura is dead, he was an amazing artist.

  • @yvngdende
    @yvngdende 5 лет назад +524

    Any appreciation of Araki’s art warms my heart. Reading Jojo from Phantom Blood all the way to JoJolion, you really do come to appreciate the evolution of Araki’s voice in his storytelling as well as his vision and art, especially with the way he experiments with panels in Steel Ball Run and JoJolion. Araki is a genius.

    • @tigervalley62
      @tigervalley62 4 года назад +26

      Genius is an understatement. 😁😁

    • @chaoticstarfish3401
      @chaoticstarfish3401 4 года назад +17

      And a vampire

    • @ElMango14
      @ElMango14 3 года назад

      @@tigervalley62 a forgetful genius

    • @animeuniverse5586
      @animeuniverse5586 3 года назад

      well all mainstream manga artist deserve praise. I sometime draw panels from manga that somehow put me in a trance. And then i realized how hard it is to draw.

    • @Drakonus_
      @Drakonus_ 3 года назад +1

      His dog drawings devolved though.

  • @charliev8224
    @charliev8224 5 лет назад +390

    Dude, you should look up some of Junji Ito's illustration. He makes horror manga, but it's just so bizarre and unusually imaginative that I think you should give it a look. One of his more popular works is called Uzumaki, which involves spirals.

    • @JorgeGomez-hx5uu
      @JorgeGomez-hx5uu 5 лет назад +4

      Heck ya

    • @shizotypical
      @shizotypical 5 лет назад +16

      I recently heard that Uzumaki will be getting an anime, hope it's better than the previous Junji Ito anime

    • @JorgeGomez-hx5uu
      @JorgeGomez-hx5uu 5 лет назад +2

      @@shizotypical yeah hopefully

    • @bitingmylips666
      @bitingmylips666 5 лет назад

      @@shizotypical Look at the teaser its amazing

    • @bitingmylips666
      @bitingmylips666 5 лет назад

      @@JorgeGomez-hx5uu look at the teaser^^^^

  • @DuncanxDy
    @DuncanxDy 5 лет назад +200

    I knew Jojo's was gonna be on here one day, Araki is a legend.

  • @chilk4508
    @chilk4508 5 лет назад +356

    I didn’t even realise that with one punch man
    Oh my god my brain is evaporating

    • @kpencil859
      @kpencil859 5 лет назад +44

      Usuke Murata is one of the Manga art gods.

    • @stoopiosproductions3130
      @stoopiosproductions3130 5 лет назад +8

      Fuck your profile picture.

    • @dr.prasad6353
      @dr.prasad6353 5 лет назад +6

      @@stoopiosproductions3130 that's the Russian sleep project or something. I saw that somewhere.

    • @MaxAveris
      @MaxAveris 5 лет назад +10

      Yusuke Murata is the Goat

    • @FLXlovesick
      @FLXlovesick 5 лет назад +4

      Those animation aren't in his manga. He did it specifically for the animation purpose.

  • @aleph4425
    @aleph4425 4 года назад +829

    This guy really said he looked up yaoi for “research purposes”

    • @souptheirl1482
      @souptheirl1482 4 года назад +100

      Let the man be in denial

    • @abdulmejid8755
      @abdulmejid8755 4 года назад +6

      Lmao

    • @crazyroundman7049
      @crazyroundman7049 4 года назад +9

      We did it boys. We have another one. Yaoi for the win

    • @cockycookie1
      @cockycookie1 3 года назад +3

      Maybe he's just not homophobic how about that?

    • @aleph4425
      @aleph4425 3 года назад +21

      @@cockycookie1 Yaoi has a very specific demographic, just because you’re not part of it doesn’t make you homophobic lol

  • @LucasSouza-cv6bs
    @LucasSouza-cv6bs 4 года назад +128

    "He really does have some *bizarre* art"
    YOU'VE JUST CAUGHT MY INTEREST

    • @Lepsuzzz
      @Lepsuzzz 4 года назад +6

      he needs to watch and read jojo

  • @SpiderJAAM
    @SpiderJAAM 5 лет назад +213

    Hirohiko Araki is the king in making Bizzare art look really Stylized.
    p.s. React to Takehiko Inoue & Oda Eiichiro's manga pages pls.

  • @13eaewe7m3thso
    @13eaewe7m3thso 5 лет назад +152

    you really need to check out ONE's original one punch man art and his art from mob psycho 100

    • @Igneeka
      @Igneeka 5 лет назад +3

      Ha yes true art

    • @celestinebuendia
      @celestinebuendia 5 лет назад

      This is my favorite thing

    • @wonderofu8073
      @wonderofu8073 5 лет назад +2

      Some panels from his other work Makai no ossan are super cool too.

    • @GrizonII
      @GrizonII 5 лет назад +1

      want to die “Is it okay to be like this at my age?”

    • @Mewseeker
      @Mewseeker 5 лет назад +2

      One of the moment that came to my mind are the panels in One Punch Man
      where Garou ask Saitama why he became a hero and Saitama eventually answer him.
      The visuals just help selling the moment. XD

  • @valleybiitch
    @valleybiitch 4 года назад +477

    damn you only looked at one panel from berserk
    the entire series is absolutely gorgeous, so many amazing pieces of art, i think the one you looked at itself is far from the most impressive in the series

    • @piotrkarp9562
      @piotrkarp9562 4 года назад +7

      TBF first 5 tomes aren't that good. At least if we talk about Miura artstyle.

    • @berserker8884
      @berserker8884 4 года назад +28

      @@piotrkarp9562 agreed. But those are still only the first 5 volumes right, conpared to 40 sth. My personal favorite page is when Guts stops raging after noticing Casca in the cave. Such beautiful art and one of the most powerful scenes in the series.

    • @piotrkarp9562
      @piotrkarp9562 4 года назад +30

      @@berserker8884 I think it's really cool to see how Miura improved. It's really inspirational and he's art now is stellar. Beigng worst in the beginnig isn't worng. That dude grow so much!

    • @soul6733
      @soul6733 4 года назад

      My favourite is when Griffith and his army fight Evolved Ganishka.

    • @piotrkarp9562
      @piotrkarp9562 4 года назад +7

      @@soul6733 My favorite BY FAR is when Guts first time shows with his white patch on his hairs. When he is visibly tired but also smiling. Right after he regain control on berserk armor.

  • @megumareta6361
    @megumareta6361 4 года назад +220

    WHEN HE CALLS HIROHIKO's ART BIZARRE
    I FELT THAT

  • @lacyk6449
    @lacyk6449 5 лет назад +249

    anyone else realize captain marvels face in the dexter soy art looks like all mights face from bnha?

  • @pablomorro325
    @pablomorro325 5 лет назад +185

    you should take a look at baki if you want to see anatomy taken to the extreme.

  • @bobbotherosso8110
    @bobbotherosso8110 5 лет назад +390

    15:01
    When he said "he" I laughed

    • @dooplon5083
      @dooplon5083 4 года назад +53

      Yeah, if he ever reads SBR he's gonna be in for a surprise

    • @iZaYa_DeLaR
      @iZaYa_DeLaR 4 года назад +6

      Heh heh yeh

    • @graycat7704
      @graycat7704 4 года назад +3

      Same XD

    • @dropkickcorpse
      @dropkickcorpse 4 года назад +25

      15:01 Yeah! Are you leaning or are you posing?
      (Tell him to go eat shit Johnny)

    • @The_Llama_God
      @The_Llama_God 4 года назад +4

      @@dropkickcorpse tell him yourself

  • @DKoS_9158
    @DKoS_9158 5 лет назад +67

    I almost choked when you said "I was recommended this genre by a bunch of people and it's called... Yaoi"
    You didn't deserve this man.
    They directly skipped the Hentai part.

    • @OrchidPurple420
      @OrchidPurple420 4 года назад +1

      ShindoL would like to know this man location

    • @1SpicyMeataball
      @1SpicyMeataball Год назад

      😂 he just recommended gay p0rn 😂

  • @rocksaltinyt
    @rocksaltinyt 4 года назад +102

    I’m a simple man: I see berserk, I click

  • @JSAGOO
    @JSAGOO 5 лет назад +722

    The longer I look at it
    the more subscribers you get 👌

    • @PopCross
      @PopCross  5 лет назад +16

      Hahahahaah woohoooo!

    • @JSAGOO
      @JSAGOO 5 лет назад +5

      hey popcross I redrew iron mans suit I really hope it gets redrawn 😁

  • @DearFreja
    @DearFreja 5 лет назад +163

    You absolutely have to do Junji Ito. Seriously. Also, maybe some more Kentaro Miura would be sick.

    • @serotoninu958
      @serotoninu958 5 лет назад +1

      I agree with every word you just said.

  • @AsteriskOfficial
    @AsteriskOfficial 5 лет назад +59

    Honestly I'd be extremely happy with an entire episode just about more of Kentaro Miura's work on Berserk

    • @AlexvrbX
      @AlexvrbX 5 лет назад +2

      Yeah I laughed because I'm thinking dude, start reading. You can see a steady progression as the Berserk series goes on, and his character / creature designs are WILD. Just hope you're not squeamish.

  • @GENeralGremory
    @GENeralGremory 4 года назад +66

    You should've seen how Araki does poses on characters from time to time, if I remember correctly the poses are references from fashion magazines, but still he makes his own executions done bizarrely perfect

    • @mayhjuga2332
      @mayhjuga2332 4 года назад +6

      he also uses some greek statues
      he also said it, JoJo has many Hardcore-fans and I'm definetally one of them
      (sry for bad writing)

    • @LukSter18998
      @LukSter18998 4 года назад +3

      It’s not only both of what you guys already mentioned, but also reference from Renaissance painting and sculpture masters

    • @ElMango14
      @ElMango14 3 года назад

      Literally real world things are used in jojo making it bizarre

  • @sillygooseenergy
    @sillygooseenergy 5 лет назад +765

    Sorry when yaoi anatomy came up I started laughing so hard

  • @user-nz2vk9rq6y
    @user-nz2vk9rq6y 5 лет назад +194

    For the jojo manga you have to take into consideration that there are no canonical colours and there are several colour palats used depending o the publisher.
    So sometimes you have issues coloured under the guide of Araki, but some other times you have unofficial or even fan colouring.
    And you can find colouring that looks fantastic, while others look really blurred for some reason and have background that don't help the colours of the characters, the main focus of the image, to stand out.
    Edit: Also SPOILERS!
    The one character in yellow happens to be female, she is called hot pants and in most cases she is in pink outfit.

    • @sepi5639
      @sepi5639 5 лет назад +14

      There are canon colors but the pallet changes in fight scenes

    • @PaperPatriot
      @PaperPatriot 5 лет назад +51

      @@sepi5639 that's only in the anime, the manga has no official colour schemes. Jotaro changes colour every single cover of Stardust Crusaders

    • @AgentAsh
      @AgentAsh 5 лет назад +8

      I'm sorry, but this drives me nuts: it's PALETTE.

    • @sepi5639
      @sepi5639 5 лет назад +2

      @@AgentAsh sorry im not from america or england

    • @KenIsNotToast
      @KenIsNotToast 5 лет назад +2

      @@PaperPatriot bro I love your content

  • @hauntedkrab
    @hauntedkrab 5 лет назад +641

    If you want weird and creepy manga art, look at Junji Ito's work

    • @kinn4086
      @kinn4086 4 года назад +33

      ...WARNING: do NOT Google this before bed!

    • @crouchingcape6930
      @crouchingcape6930 4 года назад +17

      @@kinn4086 Yuppp, nightmare fuel.

    • @yushaare
      @yushaare 4 года назад +6

      Too late

    • @goosepods
      @goosepods 4 года назад +6

      I was expecting some creepy stuff, but not THAT scary

    • @AkunoKen
      @AkunoKen 4 года назад

      Dont remind us...

  • @AtlasAdvice254
    @AtlasAdvice254 4 года назад +111

    Berserk is probably the greatest Manga series ever written and it’s still going. The recent anime adaptation tho...EHHH

    • @bernardocarneiro1982
      @bernardocarneiro1982 4 года назад +4

      "Still going"

    • @darthgapher787
      @darthgapher787 4 года назад +13

      Probably?? It is the greatest manga.

    • @AtlasAdvice254
      @AtlasAdvice254 4 года назад +7

      Darth Gapher everyone has different opinions so I put that in there as a safety net lol

    • @wellingtonribeiro847
      @wellingtonribeiro847 4 года назад +13

      @@AtlasAdvice254 When it comes to Berserk you could openly state that.

    • @mayhjuga2332
      @mayhjuga2332 4 года назад

      I'm just gonna say yes

  • @triple6keyz497
    @triple6keyz497 3 года назад +20

    who’s here after his passing 🤦🏽‍♂️🙏🏽💙

  • @miffedakko9312
    @miffedakko9312 5 лет назад +172

    I think the reason yaoi art is so strange is because a lot of yaoi is classified as a type of manga called a Doujinshi. Doujinshi manga is unique to other manga because it is self published, and there's no company regulations or quality checks on how they're drawn.

  • @80sUnt
    @80sUnt 5 лет назад +71

    When he said Bizarre, I knew exactly what he was referring to.

  • @jedd1099
    @jedd1099 5 лет назад +286

    good stuff. suggestions:
    Inoue Takehiko - Vagabond
    Dave Gibbons - Dr. Who

    • @david_the_noob_0422
      @david_the_noob_0422 5 лет назад +7

      I love Inoue

    • @sosukeaizen7028
      @sosukeaizen7028 5 лет назад +1

      I second this.

    • @mlo009
      @mlo009 5 лет назад +2

      The last two volumes of Slam Dunk by Inoue Takehiko had really detailed drawings and great anatomy (basketball movements). And of course, Vagabond was at his manga-heights.

    • @MrJerichoPumpkin
      @MrJerichoPumpkin 5 лет назад

      @@mlo009 don't forget Real

    • @iliveinsideyourhouse1367
      @iliveinsideyourhouse1367 5 лет назад

      @@MrJerichoPumpkin
      Real is amazing, i cant wait to see the newest chapter.

  • @VZAAGE
    @VZAAGE 5 лет назад +80

    Keep it up, Christian! Very insightful and helpful information.

    • @PopCross
      @PopCross  5 лет назад +2

      Thanks so much VZA!!! I shall indeed!!! :D

  • @sernoddicusthegallant6986
    @sernoddicusthegallant6986 4 года назад +119

    >Has weird disproportionate portrayal of human anatomy
    >Has big focus on close relationships between men
    >Should be niche AF but somehow has a huge following
    Wait a minute... Is JoJo's a Yaoi?

  • @TheGameLecturer
    @TheGameLecturer 5 лет назад +3

    12:30 By the way, did you see ?? The
    onomatopoeia even have their own shadows and light reflectance, which not only is a cool thing that breaks the 4th wall, but also helps you visualizing the scene in 3D !

  • @snoopykoo1
    @snoopykoo1 5 лет назад +304

    I doubt this will be seen, but I have an answer for you (unproven, I guess... but how can you prove it? I guess you could quantify things through the last 4 decades or something, but that would be a dissertation instead of a youtube comment).
    Shounen Ai and Yaoi largely started off as a sub-culture of Doujinshi (self-published comic art). This particular group has always been a collective of people who 'make things they want because no one else does' (though starting about twenty years ago, doujinshi became a THING and people started to be professional doujinshi artists and so on and so forth, but I digress). Anyway, it's not always been strictly about sex, but it has always been a sort of outlet for fetish culture in Japan (also, a ton of fanart for popular professional manga). Even before the internet, artists could anonymously create things that would be hard to make in public. A byproduct of this is that people who aren't professionally trained can most certainly create those comics that they wish they could read. So, if we follow an imaginary art trajectory for a second:
    1) An artist with a hand fetish creates a story in a yaoi genre, draws the 'aggressive' character with larger than life hands to signify strength (or whatever).
    2) This series becomes popular, either because of the art or because of the story and the artist makes some sort of improvement in their circumstance (sells a lot of doujinshi, gets picked up by a publisher, etc).
    3) Other artists in that circle see success of the original artist and adapt that success to their own work (this includes but is not limited to the anatomy). This is something that actually happens a lot in doujinshi circles since the community is extremely closely nit, sort of like proto-memes. Sometimes it's an attempt to recreate success, and sometimes it's a sort of homage to the original creator of the look.
    4) Changes in anatomy to match certain fetish tropes or to signify what character is the dominant and which is the submissive (this is a yaoi staple with or without exaggerated anatomy) become popular in a growing community of artists and are thus picked up and accepted by the fanbase.
    5) As the genre becomes more mainstream, exaggerations in body parts become "understood" and create a certain unspoken language between reader and artist (a more mainstream example would be feline features on a female character signifying her personality without the need to do anything at all with her actual behavior or dialogue).
    6) To compound this, we also have the larger Shoujo and Jousei genres (intended for girls and women respectively) that already emphasizes certain body parts more than the art intended for boys (which emphasizes other body parts... ahem...). Things like lips, eyes, and hands have come to represent sensuality, kindness, and strength, respectively. This also allows creators to circumvent the expected personalities of their characters by making them NOT adhere to these expectations (strong guy with small hands in a series where other characters have large hands, or, something that has become really popular lately, a character with scary eyes being extremely kind).
    Source: I translated manga for twelve years (over 400 volumes in almost every genre... but never any yaoi, actually...).
    I enjoyed your analysis, btw. You should look at the art of Nodame Cantabile and also something from Oh!Great (I prefer his stuff from the older volumes of Tenjou Tenge, since his newer work has gotten more stylized, but his technique is amazing no matter what you look at). Also, what I find truly interesting about manga art is that there are chances to see the full evolution of an artist from beginner to 30-year-pro. Take Hajime no Ippo for example. It started in the late 1980's and has run continuously since, with the same characters and the same artist. You can see not only how Morikawa has improved as an artist, but you can see how he's been influenced by the styles of the decades and how he's improved his character designs for efficiency.

    • @KaregoAt
      @KaregoAt 4 года назад +8

      Very good info, thank you!

    • @BreadLiker1
      @BreadLiker1 4 года назад

      This was such a great analysis! And so on point

  • @kameronkendall1632
    @kameronkendall1632 5 лет назад +34

    Jhonen Vasquez or Jamie Hewlett
    They have such unique art styles that I think you might like

  • @batman81022
    @batman81022 5 лет назад +30

    Esad Ribic's art from Thor: God of Thunder is stunning.

  • @taylorcooper8401
    @taylorcooper8401 3 года назад +6

    RIP Kentaro Miura

  • @MrTheil
    @MrTheil 4 года назад +7

    You can really notice the evolution in Araki’s art style with each Jojo part and I love it

  • @tristanmahler4471
    @tristanmahler4471 5 лет назад +14

    I'd love to see your take on some Transformers comic book covers and spread panels, specifically the IDW runs with particular illustrators Don Figeuroa (who does highly mechanical looking work), Sarah Stone (who is more cartoony), and Alex Milne (who kind of blends the two art styles, and is just one of the most flexible artists in comic work today).

    • @PopCross
      @PopCross  5 лет назад +3

      Bunch of people are starting to request Transformers stuff, so I shall indeed! I have a few transformers comics that I love the art from that I haven't gone back to in a while so that'll be fun to check them out again!

  • @solusquatro3448
    @solusquatro3448 5 лет назад +63

    Take a look at Jojo's manga
    Oh wait, you did

  • @tman3479
    @tman3479 5 лет назад +22

    Artist for suggestions:
    Clayton Crane - Carnage USA
    Keisuke Itagaki - Baki the Grappler
    Junji Ito - Uzumaki
    George Perez - Titans (just pick any, honestly)
    Babs Tarr - Motor Crush

  • @VladTepesh409
    @VladTepesh409 4 года назад +8

    10:04 That creature's name is Zodd the Immortal. The purpose for that scene in the manga and newer anime series is to signal that Zodd the Immortal is back. Anyone who's seen Zodd back in the original anime in 1997 or manga when Guts was still in the Band of the Hawk would immediately recognize that terrifying monstrosity.
    For anyone interested in Kentaro Miura's "Berserk", there are Deluxe Editions of the manga coming out that are 7"x10" hard-cover copies of the manga containing three original manga volumes per Deluxe Edition volume, from Dark Horse Manga. For the 40 manga volumes out now, that would be about 13-14 Deluxe Edition volumes, although only Deluxe Edition volumes 1-5 are shown as available for order/pre-order on Amazon.com.
    www.amazon.com/Berserk-Deluxe-1-Kentaro-Miura/dp/1506711987/

  • @randoomxxxx
    @randoomxxxx 5 лет назад +47

    Great manga artist you should check out, Takehiko Inoue (slamdunk, vagabond),
    Junji Ito (uzumaki, tomie, gyo) and Makoto Yukimura (vinland saga, planetes) they are probably my favourite manga creators alongside Araki and Miura

  • @Mikaelamofu
    @Mikaelamofu 5 лет назад +172

    8:31 NOOOOOOO WHAT DID THEY DO TO EDGEWORTH IM CACKLING 😭😭😭😂😂😂💀💀💀

    • @frostbitebella8840
      @frostbitebella8840 5 лет назад +9

      I KNOW RIGHT LMAO

    • @Mikaelamofu
      @Mikaelamofu 5 лет назад +4

      FrostBiteBella 😭

    • @ther0ach28
      @ther0ach28 5 лет назад +20

      Edgeworth and Phoenix have always had massive hands. I always just put it up to perspective, like the image showed in the video

    • @Mikaelamofu
      @Mikaelamofu 5 лет назад +12

      The Roach Yeah I get to you but still looks abnormally big even if it was from a perspective 😂

    • @hoshinokaabiii
      @hoshinokaabiii 5 лет назад +2

      MY THOUGHST EXACTLY

  • @demonlord4661
    @demonlord4661 3 года назад +10

    Rip kentaro

  • @nolidz69
    @nolidz69 5 лет назад +35

    That Spider-Man one got me like wtf

  • @boyethewise1728
    @boyethewise1728 3 года назад +11

    A legend indeed, farewell master Miura

  • @jmanjman2685
    @jmanjman2685 5 лет назад +14

    The jojo art and specially in part 7 is so unique and beautifull. There are panels in the manga that are just insane so good.

  • @hypergogeto9039
    @hypergogeto9039 5 лет назад +73

    You gotta check out Ito Junji's art. It's seriously horrifying stuff dude. The detailing is absolutely insane. Definately worth a review imo.

  • @RightDime100
    @RightDime100 5 лет назад +18

    Good comic art suggestions:
    Frank Cho - Shanna the She-Devil/Mighty Avengers
    Kohske - Gangsta.
    Sana Takeda - Monstress
    Joe Mad - Battle Chasers/Savage Wolverine
    Artgerm - Supergirl variant covers

  • @JianCB2
    @JianCB2 4 года назад +31

    8:45
    Damn, they did my mans Edgeworth dirty.

  • @gamerr8923
    @gamerr8923 3 года назад +6

    I love berserk, now it’ll never finish because the miura is gone... and now I’m sad

  • @maxs-lz4pn
    @maxs-lz4pn 5 лет назад +49

    16 seconds in and i KNOW he's talking about Araki
    Edit: I KNEW SOME HEATHENS WOULD MAKE HIM LOOK AT FREAKIN YAOI AND BL!!!! YALL ARE BAD, NOBODY SHOULD HAVE TO GO THRU THAT!!!

  • @mateodeal8407
    @mateodeal8407 5 лет назад +24

    The longer I look at it
    The more I want this to be a popular meme format

    • @PopCross
      @PopCross  5 лет назад

      Hahahahahamaybe it'll catch on! :D

  • @funkogalleries8342
    @funkogalleries8342 5 лет назад +6

    Big fan of this series. I'm on board for every one your willing to make. (Also kudos for giving credit to CorridorCrew for inspiration which I also love)

  • @cyrus6087
    @cyrus6087 5 лет назад +5

    I'm so glad you looked at Araki's art! You gave a great analysis about the colors and everything, and you chose great covers, and steel ball run was a great part to look at :D

  • @krwrie
    @krwrie 4 года назад +25

    Me: Searches Hirohiko Araki
    Results: This shows up

  • @_pulyx
    @_pulyx 4 года назад +6

    Miura's work evolution along the decades of work on Berserk were incredible to watch. Murata is one of the soundest fundamentals japanese artists out there. Consistency and versatility.

  • @ariagrumpy8254
    @ariagrumpy8254 5 лет назад +69

    Everyone: the spiderman is so bad
    Pop cross studios:I'll shred this universe to it's last atom

    • @tonywillmott5318
      @tonywillmott5318 5 лет назад

      u are a grumpy liar
      its the best artwork iv ever seen

  • @lampusmampus1929
    @lampusmampus1929 3 года назад +3

    Rest In Peace Kentaro Miura

  • @d.n5287
    @d.n5287 4 года назад +8

    Popcross: I might have to read Beserk
    *That's hell you're walking into...*

  • @kento369
    @kento369 4 года назад +23

    Imagine thinking of Steel Ball Run as a "spin off."

    • @ElMango14
      @ElMango14 3 года назад +2

      Bruh it's actually jojos bizarre adventure 2
      If you know you know

  • @evose1238
    @evose1238 5 лет назад +2

    You should probably look at the panel from Jojolion (the sequel to Steel Ball Run) where Araki forgot how to draw dogs and Drew a horse instead but still kept saying that it was a dog

    • @TheHazeKiller
      @TheHazeKiller 5 лет назад

      I googled it. It did not disappoint.

  • @33link333
    @33link333 5 лет назад +39

    If you are going continue doing manga you should really look at Vinland Saga and Vagabond (and of course more Berserk)

  • @tallerwarrior1256
    @tallerwarrior1256 5 лет назад +54

    15:38
    “It’s so bizarre”
    Me knowing that the creator of jojo did that art 🙃

    • @thepope2412
      @thepope2412 4 года назад +1

      if you want to see bizarre art look at baki

  • @marvin7605
    @marvin7605 5 лет назад +4

    IVE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS!!!!keep up the work bro

    • @PopCross
      @PopCross  5 лет назад +1

      Woohooo! Thanks so much! And will do!!!

  • @haflongbar9697
    @haflongbar9697 2 года назад +2

    15:30 he said it as a jojo fan i am so happy he made a jojo reference without even knowing he was doing a jojo reference.

  • @GENeralGremory
    @GENeralGremory 4 года назад +15

    Previously: "I'm gonna check out some manga in next time..."
    This Video: "He really does have some bizarre art..."
    Me: Okay that's JoJo alright...

  • @theabsoluteclown5107
    @theabsoluteclown5107 5 лет назад +27

    Comic artists I want to see covered:
    Dave Gibbons
    Frank Miller
    Darwyn Cooke
    Todd McFarlane
    Jack Kirby

    • @refitdan
      @refitdan 5 лет назад +1

      Yes to Dave Gibbons!

  • @judsonhester1407
    @judsonhester1407 4 года назад +4

    He did not do Miura justice. He picked one of (in my opinion) Miura's most average panels. I think the perfect panel to highlight Miura's skill as an illustrator is the guts boat panel. You know the one I'm talking about.

    • @valleybiitch
      @valleybiitch 4 года назад +1

      yea i definitely agree, one panel wasn't enough to really get the scope of miura's artwork. plus, there were many way better panels he couldve chosen

    • @nestoreleuteriopaivabendo5415
      @nestoreleuteriopaivabendo5415 3 года назад +1

      Grunbeld attacking Guts with his war hammer right before he gets the Berserk. That is my favorite panel on Berserk.
      But I would totally like to see him commenting on the Guts VS. Zodd fight on the Hill of Swords. That is just the BEST FIGHT EVER!

  • @kendariusdupreeart3891
    @kendariusdupreeart3891 5 лет назад +51

    Can't believe u did manga without talking about toriyama vs toyataro

    • @PopCross
      @PopCross  5 лет назад +17

      I'm definitely going to look into more manga stuff in the future, so maybe in an upcoming episode!!

    • @Jmagee2113
      @Jmagee2113 5 лет назад

      PopCross Studios you just made me so wet 🤤🤤🤤🤤

    • @gkalaitza2183
      @gkalaitza2183 5 лет назад +8

      @@PopCross If you do Toriyama (aka dbz mangaka) his big strength is paneling and flow especialy in fights not the art itself that much

    • @mechajay3358
      @mechajay3358 5 лет назад

      @@PopCross Oh boy.....

    • @ryansmith8
      @ryansmith8 5 лет назад

      @@PopCross The manga art featured in this video was very dense and highly detailed. If you want to look at something very much the opposite, look at the cover art for various volumes of the Aoi Hana (Sweet Blue Flowers) manga.
      They look like they're done in watercolors. They're vibrant yet washed out at the same time, and much more minimally detailed.
      For example,
      mangadex.org/images/manga/381.jpg?1550153492

  • @jrrthompson1996
    @jrrthompson1996 4 года назад +2

    I'd love to see you talk more about Miura's art, there's so many incredible spreads that you could write full fledged essays about. If you do actually pick up Berserk, please do a miniseries where you talk about your favorite panels from your readthrough! A lot of them benefit immensely from an understanding of the thematic symbolism encoded into the image!

  • @terebibae
    @terebibae 4 года назад +8

    “yowee” and “mang-a” hehe. Glad you covered Murata, he is one of favorite artists. His sense of movement is incredible. one punch ,an is a definite recommend.

    • @futurestoryteller
      @futurestoryteller 4 года назад +1

      You're really not good at the phonetic corrections. Unless the people who are always correcting people are also wrong. Don't know about "yowee" but the best way to convey manga would be monga. "Mang-a" looks like you're trying to get him to say it pretty much exactly the same way he did, but with the "a" at the end as if you're supposed to say the letter itself, as in "abc".

    • @terebibae
      @terebibae 4 года назад

      @@futurestoryteller I was expressing how he was saying it, not correcting him.

    • @futurestoryteller
      @futurestoryteller 4 года назад

      *Ooooooh,* I see it now. Even then I probably would have written it mainga, if I was putting that point across.

  • @nkhdennis8980
    @nkhdennis8980 5 лет назад +14

    >Calls that Yellow Guy(Hot Pants) a he
    Oh boy are you in for a surprise

    • @PopCross
      @PopCross  5 лет назад +1

      Hahaha, oh woops! That's what I get for not reading the series ebeore talking about it XP

    • @nkhdennis8980
      @nkhdennis8980 5 лет назад +9

      No no I don't blame you, Jojo characters are basically androgynous.
      Hell I thought the yellow guy was this before I was told different.

  • @maryamtina6165
    @maryamtina6165 5 лет назад +34

    I recommend Horikoshi ( my hero academia), he draws amazing hands
    Seriously

  • @NewJorkart
    @NewJorkart 5 лет назад +15

    50.000 subs!!!🎉🎉🎉🎉👏👏👏 congratulations!! You’ve earned it!👍👍

    • @PopCross
      @PopCross  5 лет назад +2

      Thank you so much!!! :D Now onward to 100k!

  • @--Paws--
    @--Paws-- 5 лет назад +7

    11:12 When there are characters (letters) used in a scene, it is usually a sound-effect (ex: ka-boom; crash; rustle etc.). It is rhetorically read to give a mood, or give the tone to the setting. The characters used here is called _katakana_ which is the "alphabet", or script, used for syllabic words and borrowed foreign words from other languages. They "spell" out the word if read, to give emphasis sometimes.
    If you read or research more manga, you will notice that sometimes the translator will leave these parts untouched. Sometimes they are aesthetic and juxtaposed for viewing pleasure.

    • @ai_123o2
      @ai_123o2 4 года назад +1

      _Paws_
      Yup and they’ll usually add a note at the bottom like
      “sfx: kaboom”
      Or a translators note

  • @timedasher
    @timedasher 5 лет назад +13

    I recommend looking at two amazing female japanese artists, Tomomi Kobayashi from the Romancing Saga and Legend of Legacy video Games , and the other is Ayami Kojima from Castlevania video games, mostly on the Symphony of the Night

  • @LtnCorrsk
    @LtnCorrsk 5 лет назад +67

    And after Yaoi art: Furry art
    (This is actually a joke. Don't burn me internet.)

    • @ridhosamudro2199
      @ridhosamudro2199 5 лет назад +2

      I'll suggest some Oouna, Chunie, Sindoll, and Zaush art to be looked at.

      Also is this the actual Corrsk that haven't posted anything in Furry Amino since forever?

    • @MeownimatorRed
      @MeownimatorRed 5 лет назад +6

      i would watch a video where he reviews furry art though
      like not the porn but some actually good furry art lmao

    • @zerokura
      @zerokura 5 лет назад +1

      @@MeownimatorRed the porn is not that bad their some nice art out their. Their a RUclipsr who done a few yiff comic videos talking about the story and art of it. One video had a comment from the creator of the yiff comic he was reviewing.

    • @zerokura
      @zerokura 5 лет назад +1

      Ya might be nice.their some good art that alot of furry artists do other than those brightly color OC or some pretty bad Sonic art.

    • @LtnCorrsk
      @LtnCorrsk 5 лет назад

      @@ridhosamudro2199 It is i. I often completely forget about Amino (Even more since i had a decent amount of commissions not safe for Amino)
      I'll probably batch-post soon enough.

  • @itsjustsilver8172
    @itsjustsilver8172 5 лет назад +17

    15:38
    He Said it, He Said The Thing!

  • @srikanth007spl
    @srikanth007spl 5 лет назад +32

    You're from Canada ? That explains why you are so nice and positive I guess 😅

    • @PopCross
      @PopCross  5 лет назад +5

      Hahaha thanks eh! :D

    • @hawtam8125
      @hawtam8125 5 лет назад

      I was wonder how weird he says out "auut" then I saw your comment

  • @callmedaddy7854
    @callmedaddy7854 5 лет назад +1

    I don't think u'll remember me
    But duuuuuude finally,u didn't gave up at all
    I mean like even before 2 months or so ur content was really amazing I assume u worked on every video for like a week and only getting 1k at best case sinario but u finally popped
    Dude ur such an inspiration

  • @Lazulite
    @Lazulite 5 лет назад +6

    I just gained so much respect for the artist of one punch man. Mad props

  • @theartjedi
    @theartjedi 5 лет назад +17

    Look at Giuseppe Camuncolis art for his Vader run (by Charles Soule) He’s my favorite comic artist currently working in the industry

  • @rudidellama3718
    @rudidellama3718 5 лет назад +8

    Junji ito has a really awesome style, Uzumaki might be a good place to start.
    And Lone wolf and cub art is really good too it was illustrated by Goseki Kojima

  • @slifer875
    @slifer875 5 лет назад +8

    akira toriyama in his earlier dragon ball volumes has amazing art and paneling.

  • @brubble5457
    @brubble5457 3 года назад +1

    Wanting to be a future manga artist, these videos teach me so much on different ways I can make panels and composition work, it’s honestly a bigger help than you could ever know!

  • @danieldaw1778
    @danieldaw1778 5 лет назад +2

    Esad Ribic, especially his Thor, God of Thunder art. His art just elevated that run to another level.
    And maybe I'm just a fanboy since I love One Piece, but Eichiro Oda is really unconventional and stylish, and I absolutely love his two page spreads. I don't think anyone other than probably Kentaro Miura uses them more effectively in the manga community even though there are conventionally better artists than he is. Oda has so many iconic two page spreads that are just absolutely amazing.