I love the variety in here, from more masculine stuff like berserk to more atmospheric stuff like lain. Who knew literally me could be a teen girl or a super buff maniac with a giant sword?
@@cedar4539 representation is important but if any genre of entertainment has depth with both genders its anime. Recently especially it feels like lots of media is improving on that frontier.
I was never big into anime, until I decided to get into Cowboy Bebop and Berserk during Covid. Stuff like that is life changing Edit: I love the anime community :) please ignore the replies, y’all thin skinned asf
Most [SANE] people don't actually relate directly to psychopaths and cold blooded killers. The point of "literally me" is that people can see a part of themselves in these characters because they are very well written and humanised with ""rElatabLe"" struggles. e.g. spike and Faye struggling to cope with their past mistakes, mugen and guts' fighting spirit to survive in spite of their trauma, Re-L and her search for truth and what is "real" etc... Yeah it can get corny af if taken literally with characters like johan, or overdone, but hopefully people just enjoy them as characters at the end of the day and find some sort of inspiration to better themselves irl, instead of just wanking off to self-pity.
I just finished Welcome to the N.H.K. a few days ago because I saw it in this edit. Oh. my. god. That show is literally one of the best animes I have seen in a hot minute. The soundtrack, the overall vibe of the show, the descriptions of anxiety and depression that Sato shows, and the relationship that him and Misaki build with each other overtime is immaculate. I'm so upset that show isn't more popular than it currently is. Thank you so much for including it in this AMV, I discovered it because of this video.
Igual, acabe de terminarlo está semana y fue una experiencia única, no veo muchos animes pero gracias este video estoy conociendo algunas joyitas escondidas que no sabía que existían, con su permiso caballero voy a seguir con la lista.
Omg it's literally me, I'm literally a 14 year old girl addicted to computers who is actually a program without physical form designed to unite humanity through singularity
You have encapsulatd almost all the most impactful anime i have watched so far. And i'm really happy whenever i see love for Technolyze, Lain and Monster.
Watching this video really makes me realize that anime had a golden age in the 90s and 2000s I'm not saying that quality original anime aren't made nowadays, but they're fewer and far between now
Honestly, from my prespective these characters rappresent the shard of every people's personality in this world, and example would be Guts (the mercenary with the big sword) which remembers a lot the manliness, the Will Power and courage, meanwhile Johan (that blonde guy offering beer) rappresent the insulting or smartness side. I would (in my opinion) call these characters "A shard of my or our personality"
This is actually one of my favorite edits. I love the diversity of characters too. Female characters can be just as mentally ill as male characters. Plus old anime just hits different. (yes I know not all of these shows are "old")
It’s sad that it has to be pointed out. So many think that women are incapable of depth. Seeing a character like Mima for the first time meant a lot to me and made me feel seen.
Thanks to this edit, I checked out Serial Experiments Lain and I'm filled with more malaise and melancholy than I felt after reading Homunculus. This is exactly how I want to feel after consuming media. Cowboy Bepop is next on the list. Also, the transition from Johan to Okabe is perfect.
do you only watch anime or read manga or both? if so, i'd also recommend reading _eden; it's an endless world!_ & watch both anime adaptations of _kaiji_ (2007) & _parasyte: the maxim_ (2014). all great stories with deep/interesting themes & relatable characters imo. it's also got thriller & psychological elements too, to keep adult readers/viewers interested or engaged.
@@tutubism I do both. I’ve heard Eden is good, I’ll have to check it out after I’m caught up on reading berserk. Also I enjoyed Parasyte a fair amount. Haven’t heard of Kaiji tho - will add to the list. Thank you for the reccs!
It’s not really a matter of “literally me” characters. What do all these characters have in common? The aesthetics of loneliness and hurt, trauma and unattainable peace. It’s the fact that we want to be like them because they survive and have lives regardless of how bad the world has treated them. It’s not healthy but it’s a fact that most young people feel hopeless and men most of all feel lost in a world that doesn’t regard them anymore as the “strong gender” or rewards them with a fulfilling job and a family.
With so much unjustified hate that Shinji has received over the years, I'm surprised that there are people who base their personality on him, but it seems that the evangelion fandom is already respecting him more...in their own way, of course.
My "Literally Me" characters: - Giyu Tomioka from Kimetsu no Yaiba - Johnny Joestar from Steel Ball Run - Rock from Black Lagoon - Vincent Law from Ergo Proxy
Beyond enjoying atmospheric edgy edits about cool but tormented anime characters, this kind of video can also be used to show what I love so much about animation and comics in general. No matter how skilled they are a director, actors, camera operators, editors and other professionals will always be bound by the limitations of the real world and the current technology. And this is of particular interest for human faces. Great actors can carry movies through their performance alone, but they remain themselves, they aren't the character a (good) writer created. No one will ever be able to properly act the role of Spike, or Guts, or officer Motoko, or Johan Liebert, or whatever. We have already experienced them in our minds straight outta their authors minds. We have experienced them in their purest condition. I have great respect for the art of Acting, but this is another topic entirely. How an actor may portray a character and a dialogue meant to be acted is a thing, how they may be able to portray a character that was already given its ultimate form is another one.
My odd interpretation is that spike at the beginning is meant to be disconnecting from you're problems and who you are. You watch all these great characters and try to imitate them more. Evangelion and NHK is trying to figure out who you should be or what you should do. Serial Experiments Lain is when you embrace the digital and online to replace what's lacking in front of you. Berserk and the next few anime is when you finally decide to go on a path of self improvement but also disconnecting yourself more and more from who you are. Monster is you realizing how much masking and repressing you have to do to be a stoic sigma. Steins Gate and Texhnolyze and the next few is recognizing how much time you spent being somebody else and yet ultimately you are still bound by hard determinism. Ghost in the shell is being trapped within that linear path and not being able to feel like you can be you anymore. Perfect Blue being the ending makes it quite the jab as its saying either you left behind the old you and this is you now. Or its showing the conclusion of projecting literally me characters onto ourselves.
These are, in my belief, the superior anime. Yeah, sure, other animes are fantastic and a joy to watch and very binge worthy, but they aren't built to be Emmy-winning or Breaking Bad level quality, these types of anime, that show a psychological twist to the story is an absolute joy to analyze and pick apart.
In my opinion, Shinji is a chad, for making peace with himself, seeing that the world is gonna hurt him anyway, but it's still worth to live. Many people see him as someone you can relate when it comes to being the quiet, sad kid, but not many see that he made a step to being happy in the end. Aside from that, watch Ergo Proxy, that amount of existentional questions you don't gonna get anywhere but in this anime, a unique gem
Seeing this so many times gives me a Feeling of nostalgia! Steins gate, ergo proxy, lain. Most of these I have seen and love to death. Hope I can put all the others in my list to fulfill this video depiction! Also gotta shout out From The New World. Needs some love in the psychological genre!
Really good edit! Nice to see you included some female literally mes. I would’ve added David and Lucy from Cyberpunk and Reiner from Attack on Titan but great video regardless
on the subject of "why is good female characters representation is not possible" the believability factor is what's stopping it from being possible, the stories that we are talking about involves the characters to have a lot of male capabilities like stories involving solders, warriors and fighters this makes it nearly impossible to make a believable female character in that role which results into female characters being either one note or over the top masculine dude that "doesn't need no man!" not only is it "empowering" women on the condition of belittling men but its also very cartoonish and doesn't capsulate women in our real world in any shape or form which makes me ask two questions is strength the only meaningful thing in this world? does femininity and vulnerability of a woman not have its beauty and importance in life? what I'm saying is, if we proceed into the making of female characters then we must acknowledge that women are not men and that they are different in their role in the world i have seen so many people say that writing a female character is just writing a "character" just like male characters but that is simply wrong i don't write a male character just like he is an empty slot that i can insert anything on it no, he is a male human that has characteristics that make them different from a female human just like in the real world although fiction is not about a real story in a real world it is a need for this story to reflect our real world where men and women are put into places where they normally belong to, depending on their biological capabilities that way we can make a believable character so instead of trying to "represent" women in the media that involves being a solder, a warrior and a fighter, we can start to make stories that are about women being women and not trying to be men. thanks for reading.
Gender essentialism is a fucking cancer and there have been whatever study on the absence of relevant structural difference between male and female brain. Ultimately, we will never be able to prove how much Nurture prevails over Nature in influencing women into what we know as feminine traits, and investigating these feminine traits remains an extremely relevant thing with its own value. But limiting art and storytelling to this is stupidly close minded as well. Yes, the average female experience may be different from the average male experience, but this doesn't mean that there Will Always be something different in all of us. For every housewife, there is a Mokoto questioning her role in the world and chasing for something she doesn't understand. Similarly, for every Spike going all in Life after having felt dead inside for years there is an Uncle Iroh that has found stability and peace in Life, that doesn't need to prove his worth to no one and will give no satisfaction to those that ruined his life before. We are individuals.
@@Hyperversum3 I concur that people should be seen as unique individuals rather than simply variations of common behaviors, but that doesn't mean that nature is somehow meaningless (I'll get to that later). It also doesn't alter the fact that even the wildest stories are still constrained by reality; in fiction, it's only exaggerated (most of the time) to explain or convey a particular message. The issue is that whatever you put on paper will contain the "message" you are attempting to convey. Therefore, I will presume that the writer is trying to convey something to me when I see, for instance, a lady wearing a uniform, fighting in battle, defeating everyone in her path, and still surviving. The topic could be anything like "women can be good in battle" or "women can fight, lift heavy objects, and run on an equal footing with men." The issue is that these assertions are untrue and will make the characters act in a certain way to somehow feel natural. There is a reason why men and not women are given the responsibility of fighting in war; for instance, the training of women in the US Army has already demonstrated that women struggle in extremely physical aspects of life. Although we are not completely bound by nature, there is no doubt that nature plays a significant role in how we deal with things in our daily lives. In addition, I want to be clear that I'm not advocating that women should all be feminine because it's a natural law of life or that everything that makes us who we are comes from nature. I was rejecting the assertion that "it doesn't matter what the gender of your character is." The issue is that this statement is not always appropriate because, for example, gender matters and does affect where we are in a case of war. This is the reality of this circumstance. Writing a story that runs counter to that reality is an attempt to mislead the reader.
