20:16 A very intriguing scene. I suppose that this clearly expresses through manga the narrative of the time that Japan drove out China from the Korean Peninsula and established it as an independent nation. Norakuro is the guard dog, representing the Empire of Japan. The sheep symbolize the weak Korean Peninsula, and the act of driving out the pig (China) reflects Japan's pre-war narrative. I believe this scene captures the atmosphere of that era very well. By the way, after World War II, when Taiwan was separated from Japanese rule, a large number of Chinese (remnants of the Kuomintang) entered Taiwan and established a regime. The Taiwanese were astonished by their violent behavior, and I have heard that the following expression became popular: "When the dogs left, the pigs came."
Recommendations in Video Short Game like Beginner friendly - The Nonary games series Doki Doki literature club The Song of Saya Planetarium Long but highly recommended :- The house in Fata Morgana
I bought the death note 12 in 1 might be hard as hell to read but it was 27 bucks for 12 volumes and that by itself made me more happy than rereading deathnote
Oy! Hello felllow Scandi! Salutations from Sweden! I love Visual Novels myself and recently got a request to make a "where to start"-guide for AVNs and this did help me get a few pointers, especially on the misconceptions part. Thank you!
“What the hell is a blue spring?” I actually know! The kanji for the word “seishun (youth)” has an alternative reading as “aoi haru (blue spring”, so the phrase literally means youth!
I just finished saya no uta. Dear god gen urobuchi is a madman. His writing can be edgy and obtuse at times but his endings always hit so hard. I got too many recs from your channel
Google "Pokémon Sacred Gold and Storm Silver", and the first page that shows up should be a gbatemp site with download links at the bottom. You'll need to patch the game yourself with a working ROM of HeartGold/SoulSilver. If you're having trouble with anything, there should be RU-vid videos out on how to get the game working if you search "How to patch Pokémon Sacred Gold and Storm Silver" or something like that
I also have quiet a interesting take on separating art from the artist. I personally think people use it to excuse their actions for themselves than to actually make that separation. I find that "separating art from the artist" is more commonly "not separating art from the artist, unless said artist is problematic". I myself really like separating art from artist, for on reason that a lot of art is often created by many people, films have 100's of people in the credits, anime is similar, a lot of commercial art is made by a cultivation of many creatives and we often see that one particular person gets the credit for all of it. But in cases where the art is made from a smaller source I understand focusing on the artist, even then it might be better to focus on the art as commercial media is just so control and a lot of what we end up seeing is not the pure creative work of a person and rather a pandering to audiences to keep a job. Very few creatives actually make it in a way that they can make exactly what they want. So anyways, I personally separate art from artist in most cases, no matter who the artist is. I just find it hypocritical for someone to say "separate art from artist" with Rorouni Kenshin and then turn around and be a Quentin Tarantino snob. It's clear you actually care about artist so just acknowledge that you like the piece of art even though the artist is problematic, and hey, this is a good case for piracy, if you pirate work from a terrible person so they don't get money, I respect it. Summary of argument, I think the though is used as a mental scapegoat for people and I simply find it a healthier solution is to just acknowledge your feelings. Also good video, very comprehensive!
So fun fact : even if you pirate something in order to try and avoid supporting someone monetarily, it still gains cultural influence/power and with today's data mining/collecting, can still be used to prove that demand is there to create new editions, adaptations, issue the creater to create more, etc.
I do believe we can and should separate the artist from their work, mainly because we don't know ANY authors personally and we'll NEVER be 100% sure they've NEVER done something bad. That aside, you can stop supporting their work and that's totally valid. I personally will never stop loving Rurouni Kenshin, I believe it's one of the best series out there, but I totally despise Nobuhiro and I hope (since he didn't go to jail...) he did reflect on his life and never watches that shit again, but even if he does I would not consume any new series made by him.
My very first favorite problematic book was a collection of problems called The Bible. How could the same work contain The Golden Rule and Hell? I think that contradiction prepared me to mine the good and potential good from monsters who either wrote or supported horrors like Numbers 31:17, 18. You can learn good things from those who lie to you or themselves, but only after you've built up a healthy skepticism and a good ethical foundation to begin with. That said? While this nuance is helpful when watching WWE, I'm less persuaded there's good to be found in directly engaging with something like Hitler's works. Only one perspective is offered, and it's intentionally deceptive the entire time. The only good it offers is awareness of how fools became goose stepping tools of fascist violence. And you can gain that wisdom elsewhere. So, somewhere between an author who believed in Christ at his best and an author who was just Hitler at his worst, lie the many shades in between. Obviously. Yet, as simple and obvious as that statement is, most people still argue over a single solution to an artificial binary. Thank you for giving your audience more credit.
I've always been in the mindset of separate the artist from their work. For example, Jon Berthal, an American actor, love all if not most of the things he's been in, heard he's a massive prick. Now opinions can sway but I still feel you should be able to distinguish from fact and fiction.
I think it also matters what the 'problem' is, how aware of it we are, and whether it's something finished or something ongoing. When we already have consumed something in it's entirety, it's already done. It's consumed at it becomes a part of your memory irrevocably. When it's a part of a series, anything ongoing, or new content, I feel like there's more room to question supporting that person even if the work removed could be fabulous. That being said everyone has different thresholds and ultimately more people are going to be unaware of an author or an artitst's personal life anyway.
Pandora Hearts is considered a masterpiece, favorite manga by bunch who read them. It's just underrated cause anime only covered 25% of the manga story and that was 2009, manga ended in 2015. People say that deserver a Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood reboot anime treatment, it's that good. It has one of the greatest plot twist and villain I had seen too, which sadly never appeared in the anime. And that's coming from someone who bookmarked 100+ anime/manga, and been watching/reading anime/manga since I was only a kid. I'm not gonna say it's the best, that's abit subjuctive, but I do think most aren't at the level of being called masterpiece, Fullmetal Alchemist was a masterpiece and there are others that can be considered a masterpiece too and Pandora Hearts is one of those masterpieces. So it being a masterpiece, I think it deserved having that kind of quality for the box set. And it being underrated made me happy even more cause I truly think Pandora Hearts should get the recognition it deserve which was just the thing I felt when looking at the quality of that box set. Lol XD And maybe that's what was behind Yen Press mindset, though I could be wrong on that since I work for them. Just read Pandora Hearts then you'll see what I mean, lol XD
I ordered the Death Note box, it was in my second language (english) and like 30% more expensive than buying the books separately, because I thought there was less chance of damage while shipping, since I had lots of damaged amazon orders. The seller placed a "contains glass, please be careful!" sticker on the top of the box, so naturally, the delivery guy stomped the package like 3 times (there were literally boot prints on the outside carton), and the books inside were massacred. The deliver company never accepted my claim. Fun.
mentioning Kagurabachi, kill blue, and especially plantsister man before MamaYuyu is BANANAS. i dont wanna be a hater at all, i normally don’t even comment on youtube vids. but to me personally wild strawberry is like the third least interesting manga in jump rn (2nd is nue exorcist 1st is shojo null.) MamaYuyu is using a simple premise to do such interesting things, the character growth in just a couple of chapters has been magnificent and holy fuck the paneling is so good, if we wanna talk about chainsawman influence that's where the excellent paneling like fujimoto is instead of just the copy and pasting of the premise like wild strawberry. again not trying to be a hater at all if you like it im glad the author has an audience and the story is reaching people, i just expected MamaYuyu to get some well deserved attention in the same way.
