The Brutal World of Yoshiaki Kawajiri 

This came together so nicely man. A seriously underrated channel.

Yoshiaki Kawajiri: The Platinum Age of Animation

Ninja Scroll is Kawajiri's magnum opus and I'm still waiting for a true sequel to this legendary film!

He captures the vibe of 80s anime very well. The GOAT?

My favourite style in animation ever. He is an absolute master of the craft. Thank you for this man :)

I did a video many years ago called A visual Memoir of Yoshiaki Kawajiri were I compiled all his cinematic techniques into one video. It took and me 6 months to edit it, I remember just waking up and sleeping and eating then editing was like a full time job. Thank you for making this video

Hideyuki kikuchi the goat we wouldn’t have castlevania without him

When Old Heads like me say that the Golden Age anime is long since over...it's cause we know we will never get Iconic work like this. We'll get some good work...but NEVER anything on this level...sadly.

Yoshiaki Kawajiri is a legend. Dude made a Highlander movie for his last film as a director. It is the ONLY film sequel to live up to the original. Now THAT is what I call a Mic Drop.

I think Kawajiri's Highlander movie is pretty underrated too

Thanks for doing this. Kawajiri is a legend.

an absolute at master at the use of colour, storyboarding action sequences and "limited" animation

I saw BLOODLUST three times on the big screen in its initial release. That was in less than a week.

My longest video yet!

Ahhh man, that was such a banger of an AMV. Cradle covering the best Iron Maiden song, and played over Ninja Scroll!? There was another awesome one from back in the day that played AFI (covering Halloween by the Misfits) played over Hellsing Ultimate. hahaha good stuff, dude.

Wicked city is so awesome, in 1993 my first Exposure to adult Anime was Fist of the North star. Then Ninja scroll, wicked city and Vampire Hunter D. No one in my middle school or high school watched Anime. I graduated in 2000 now Anime is commonplace, it would have been cool to have people that shared my interests.

Remember.watching Wicked City for the first time in the summer of 1996 on the Sci-fi channel after Midnight as a teenager and kinda shocked me.with it scenes as I never seen anything like it in a cartoon or manga at the time lol. I'm huge fan of his work.and Madhouse as I really there story's, art style and animation especially in the 80s and 90s.

I feel everyone saw Ninja Scroll when they were way too young for it and had their parent walk in on them.

Great video man

Just what I needed. Had a rough week. So hearing about one of my favorite animation directors lifts my spirit

Thank u for all the moralizing.. that's what I needed.. definitely justified this clip show description of significant works of art that already existed for 30 years... it really added to the cannon and justified it's existence... great job. The future for art is bright.

🫡🫡🫡Back in the day before it was cool these are some of our intros to anime. I still have some of this stuff, I think I still have VHS. Ninja Scroll one of my favorite flix.

Awesome video and I hope to see more like it soon

For anyone interested. On my channel , I have a massive collection of all Yoshiaki Kwajiri's techniques on here. This video inspired me to dig it up, it's called a Yoshiaki Kwajiri' Visual Memoir,

“Ninja Scroll is hypermasculine” damn, this is my favorite anime movie ever 💀 I always thought Kagero was good depiction of a girl that’s gone through some serious shit, and acts tough as a shield. I found it relatable and I cried when she died. Also is just Vampire Hunter D 🤌🏻✨

Great video! These movies left a mark on me as a kid and I often wondered eho put them together. Think I'll have to get Vampire Hunter D a rewatch. It's been decades. Thanks!

Wish u mentioned that Clown from Vampire Hunter D. Even tho he wasn't in the movie long he was dope with that shadow ability.

Everything this man touches is a masterpiece. My favourite film director.

Wicked City, Ninja Scroll and Vampire Hunter D Bloodlust are amazing and pure classics.

Well done! I subscribed! :) Kawajiri rocks.

Kawajiri is my favorite anime Director. Great tribute to one of the grandmasters of the craft

Ooooo he was behind a two of my favs 🔥🔥🔥 !!! Still need to watch wicked city tho havent seen that one

Wicked City was the second anime I saw as a kid, right after Sailor Moon. Needless to say, I was hooked!

The thing about Kawajiri's work is that it mixes truly sublime beauty with the utterly repellent hideousness. I really love his work and wish he'd do a more mature work that toned down some of the more over-the-top gratuitous aspects of his oeuvre.

Ive been waiting my whole life for a Ninja Scrolls video game. It would be the ultimate boss rush game

Vampire Hunter D such a great anime it baffles me why more hasn't been done with it.

That he couldn't get funding for Ninja Scroll 2, doesn't direct anymore, and became relegated to working in the industry as a storyboarder is a fucking tragedy. The current anime industry just can't accommodate him anymore.

One of the greatest stylists in the art world.

P.S. Ninja Scroll is a true masterpiece.

he made that one Highlander anime also. I watched it thinking it was going to be dull (I watched the old highlander show when I was a kid...like...4 times and thought it was boring) but I really liked his adaptation of it, despite my positive bias to kawajiri and his animators.

I'm a little mad that you're right about Ninja Scroll. The relationship is forced while the enemies are unique and lead to an awesome boss fight that leaves you with a need to know more. Vampire Hunter D is just an amazing evolution of animation for Kawajiri that I cant help but rewatch every year. D along with every monster and side character is just amazing to watch. I've read the manga but the movie is still a 10X better with how well Kawajiri created these characters.

Yoshiaki Kawajiri is legendary anime director of all time Blows away the so called disney comedians and m she u cinematic clowns of Hollywood

Kawajiri is GOAT everything he has made is top-tier

We need a another kawajiri film !!!

He's the GOAT for Anime

Yoshiaka-dono, please, direct a movie adaptation of Shigurui, kurosai!

Mushizo controls hornets not bees!

I love all of these... But how could you miss Cyber City Oedo, which Mad House also did?

More longer videos ❤

I love cyber city oedo 808. It never gets any recognition. To me, only ninja scroll is better out of his work.

Can you do a full review of each Kawajiri movie? You could call it a Kawajiri-Thon.

Ninja Scroll had the first Gay Characters I can remember from Anime Gemma and the guy with the electric wires.

This man should have done Edgerunners. His style fits the ACTUAL Cyberpunk TTRPG world, and by extension the game. I did not like Edgerunners, it was too cute, juvenile, humorous, to "modern anime". Cyberpunk doesn't really have cute, and deals with ADULTS, not characters that are supposed to be adults but look like kids, ALL of them. Yoshiaki Kawajiri's characters look like serious adults. Cyberpunk isn't very humorous either, neither the TTRPG or the videogame, at most it has adult dry humor but none of this Zoomer anime crap. I think it was successful because it appealed to juvenile aesthetic taste of younger millennials and zoomers, but it was a VERY poor representation of true Cyberpunk, which is a tragedy when you realized Yoshiaki Kawajiri did one of the short films in The Animatrix, he was VERY qualified for Edgerunners, which sadly didn't have any edge.

Ninja scroll is deceptively simple it’s actually full of nuance. For example jubei is hopelessly out classed and only wins by luck in almost all encounters accept but the last battle. Also all the dubs are horrendous in the video. Makes for good comedy tho. His character designs especially the women owe a lot of 80s artist Peter Nagel.

this is a comment :D good job

Anime, much like movies and music, has lost a lot of its magic. There are obviously certain exceptions.

But can we do this type of film again but without the sexies bullshit but keep the gore and grit with some of the cheesecake? I miss late 80's - 90's anime.

I didn't appreciate your modern critique of Wicked City, you need to take off your 21st century glasses to review art from another time. The sex, violence, perverted characters, complete lack of correctness and creative freedom are some of the ingredients that made those decades unique.