Anyone can do crazy, but Yuasa is among a very select few who can do crazy in an extremely meaningful way. He's easily my favorite anime director. There's true profundity in his entire body of work.
The Tatami Galaxy is probably my all-time favourite anime series. Its crazy imagery, its particular take on loneliness and self-apology, paired with one of the most satisfying endigs make it an undiscovered classic. I can't wait until you make a video about it.
I know this comment is old but I couldn't agree more! I just discovered this gem a while ago and it's immediately up there among my absolute favourite anime shows. It blew my mind.
I would have brought up Cat Soup, Kemonozume and the Kickstarter campaign for Kick-Heart, but that being said, this still covers what it covers really well.
Lu over the wall and The Night is Short, Walk On Girl are two of my favourite movies of all time, so I was really excited to see them mentioned here! Awesome video.
The Tatami Galaxy is some of the best stuff I've ever seen in animation. I know I'll be rewatching it. It's what really sold me on Yuasa. I just adore the concept and execution. And it's also really funny, as well as genuinly touching. Mind Game is absolutely fascinating. I didn't care for all the over-sexualization and perviness (some bits really felt like fetish material), but other than that, incredible. I definitely had a blast with all the artistic creativity, the mixing of different animation style and different media altogether. Lu was the first movie by him I saw, and while it was nice, I think it's not as good as some of his other works. It has some really strong bits but I felt like it sort of fell apart in the second half, idk. Yuasa is such a unique and fascinating director. I feel like all his works (that I've seen so far) are incredibly life-affirming. I'm so excited to watch more (I seriously can't wait to get my hands on Inu-Oh).
Though his new stuff is really good, i wish he wouldn't concern himself too much with "marketable" projects. I want to see another fully "Yuasa" project with no restraints
Tatami galaxy and the night is young are some of my favorite anime/movie of all time, their is nothing really like them but if I had to explain what they are like it’s like flcl and welcome to the nhk had a baby and then fed it crack
Thank you very much for bringing my attention to this! I'd love to see more cult classics covered by you! Even if briefly! Have you considered doing more videos that cover different works unified by some theme, even other than sharing a director? :)
I was introduced to his work thanks to that Adventure time episode, and I saw MindGame a while back on Adult Swim. I am also planning on watching Devilman Crybaby soon and maybe hunt down a copy of Night is Young. So I'm pretty sure I have found a new favorite director to keep tabs on.
Jasmine Miller make sure to watch Tatami May Galaxy before watching The Night is Short to have a greater appreciation for his works, and to watch Ping Ping the Animation too since it’s great.
To call Yuasa “just an artiste” is kind of doing a disservice to his whole schtick. Yes, he has absurdly massive set pieces and quieter introspective works that look absurdly high art (like, seven layers of irony art), but before he started doing original works, he cut his teeth and honed his trademark anti-anime style through Crayon Shin-Chan and Chibi Marako-Chan films, two ubiquitous mainstays of Japanese culture. If I had to pin down what his whole deal is, Yuasa is a pop artist through and through. He takes low art like getting shot in the ass, explosive sex, masochistic strongmen, and mondo wet dreams, and somehow make you care about them. He directed a weird passion project funded exclusively by Kickstarter, guest animated an episode of Adventure Time, and even dropped Devilman Crybaby, an anime that reinvented the image of Netflix. While he wasn’t the first Japanese Anime director to create for the international audience in mind, he was the first to jumpstart the trend. I can’t really do justice to his entire career, but his ultimate success is due to him making works for a generation of post-modern Otaku who think FLCL is the dumbest smartest thing ever and got to see nerd culture go mainstream. Unlike any other director, he has his finger on what people think is cool and ramps it to an il/logical conclusion.
Arkada! I absolutely loved the piano insert I heard at the 12:33 mark, I swear Tatami Galaxy is my Top 1 anime EVER. It means a lot to me, the narrative, the characters, the soundtrack and the artstyle. I do hope you make that stand-alone Tatami video sooner than later!
Mind Game is my favorite work of his so far, and one of my favorite movies period. Like you said, it's because it perfectly captures the craziness of life and in some ways, that makes it beautiful.
I have to admit I have been sleeping on this man and his work and I need to stop cause in this stale anime industry he is truly the breath of fresh air that we need
It's not crazy for the sake of crazy, but it's crazy because life is crazy, because the universe is crazy, and sometimes crazy is the best way to showcase what exactly is happening. Best quote for 2020😅
I think Ping Pong was actually the first thing I saw by him. I loved The Night is Short, Walk on Girl though, and really should go back and check out Tatami Galaxy.
I Love Masaaki Yuasa he's one of my top favorite anime directors within the industry due to his unique & highly creative abstract style of both animation and art. I like that his works differ from the normal generic cookie-cutter anime type of aesthetic or animation that isn't bonded by limitations, my most favorite movie of his is Mind Game.
HOLD UP, u played with my feelings in that last snap. Expected the screen shattering but instead my expectations got shattered. Other than that, Yuasa is awesome ty for dis vid.
Ahhh Yeah the director i liked the most over the last years. Ping Pong will be for ever my favorite anime and im honestly pretty glad that i was able to share the experience of watching the night is short with one of my best friends in the movie theater and i hope masaaki yuasa will never stop producing stuff
+Glass Reflection, Personaly after his recent work on Devilman Crybaby I'd love to see this mad man adapt one of the Go Nagai mecha series to be more specific the recent incredibly violent manga reinterpretations Mazinger Zero or Getter Robo Devoultion. Both are masive acid trips involving cosmic horror power level mecha and both make even his adaption of Devilman and even more so the source material tame and kid friendly by comparison. I read a recent intreview the man had and he did say he had intrest in doing some of Go Nagi's other work in the future after he finishes up his curent projects espacly Mazinger and Cutie Honey which disappoints me that he said he espacly intrested in doing something with Honey due to how lewd her material can get and I admit she needs a good adaptation after Cutie Honey Universe but damit I would kill to see him do Mazinger Zero or Getter Robo Devolution as I feel he's one of the few people in the modern anime industry who would know how to do the levels of brutal and bizarre violence those stories have in them right. Granted there are a few others but not many -_-
basically watch "mind game" "the night is short, walk on girl" "lu over the wall" "tatami galaxy" "devilman crybaby" they are all amazing you wont regret it
@@xaviercopeland2789 i also love Ping Pong But what separates it from Tatami Galaxy is that Tatami is easily relatable to many people ans just how its story is written in complex yet very understanding way its one of the most creative story telling i have ever seen
Zaregoto that’s the main reason why Ping Ping is so good besides the art! You can’t tell me you didn’t like everyone in that series and wanted them all to win.
i have a hard time looking at any of masaaki yuasas work as anything more than the work of a stoner with a pen. only samurai champloo caught my interest
