The ENTIRE History of Anime YouTube 

Sit down next to the fireplace kids grandpa Gigguk wants to tell us about how talking about anime tidies on RU-vid began

DON'T FORGET TO HIT THE LIKE BUTTON ON THAT VIDEO, GIGGUK!

Growing a channel to big numbers on RU-vid is ridiculously difficult. Staying a prominent figure in your niche through generations of new creators is damn near impossible. Keep killin it 👊👊

Man listening to this brought a tear to my eye, remembering everything that happened watching garnt since the death note era. Him leaving and coming back and seeing all the rise up and down of other youtubers and also thinking he got cancer but learning that he was bald because he was back from being a monk lol. Jimmy being Connor's predecessor of shit takes lmao during jtaku days and people harassing to get demoD as a guest all the time on the podcast. I will purple banana good the video and keep watching your content for years to come.

I like how gigguk was the biggest anime youtuber 13 years ago then quit for 5 years, came back and now the biggest anime youtuber again

This like a grandpa told his grandkids his life story and it's very wholesome

It's sad that Misty quit youtube. I understand that he has a wife and kid so the uncertainty wasn't worth it over holding down a regular job since his channel declined.

Nice to see Scamboli get recognition, I love his videos and frequently go to his manga lists for suggestions.

I’m imagining many years down the line and even now, how we’ll look back at this time period and think of Garnt as THE key figure of anime RU-vid that stuck around and all these years and still keeps growing.

Imagine making a living off anime lol lmao

14:18 Holy shit! Hearing Noble, Joey, Aki and Misty’s name all together again for the first time in a long time gave me massive whiplash! I remember those guys being basically be THE icons when it came to anime content Noble- doing Visual Novel let’s plays Joey- doing anime break downs Aki- analyzing anime tropes and her famous Vocaloid videos Misty- breaking down anime recommendations based on what kind and type of anime you were looking for I loved seeing those guys together, they were the reason why I started going to Anime Expo, I got a chance to meet them, not all of them in one place but still It’s sad that they broke up, still a mystery for the reason to this day, but at this point is long past that and probably doesn’t matter, Joey and Aki came out as a couple and living together, Nobles is doing his own thing hanging out with Vtubers and making new context moving on from his VN anime games days (honestly miss those days) and Misty is happy I’ll married and with 2 kids and sadly left the channel due to YT striking his channel constantly There was great memories with them and hope they do well on their own paths ….also is no one gonna talk about that time they all got drunk on stream started making out with each other, HOLY FUCK were Joey and Noble giving each other some tongue action!!

What's interesting, even in my weird Anime/Cooking niche is I have seen the same thing. When we celebrate Anime and use something else (cooking) as a story element the videos become so much more fun.

it's wild that the 15-year history of anime youtube - and Garnt's youtube career - is older than some of the people watching this video

It’s insane being in elementary now a 23yo adult and thinking back with this video feeling old but also nostalgic and on a level feeling happy.

I like it gigguk made it as "the good old days", so that I won't feel guilty wasting so many time watching anime and not doing anything productive in my life

I watched this to see if Demo was mentioned and I'm glad that he gets the love he deserved...man I miss his content. Wish you all the best in your future endeavours Mr Gigg UK

20:22 "So many of my peers have stopped now. And I hope that one day when that eventually happens to me, someone is going to remember me in the same way" Honestly have been watching your vids for a good while and can say that some of them have really effected me as a person. You really have been through thick and then and I know for sure that everyone apprieciates what you have done for the community and always will remember if you ever do decide to stop content creating

It still makes me sad that Demo doesn't make videos anymore, but god damn, even now, when you watch back his old videos they are still fucking amazing and still feel fresh to this day. And while he doesn't seem to upload anymore, he has still mentioned in his streams (He semi regularly streams on twitch) that if he feels like making a new video he will make one. That's the reason he randomly uploaded an anime related video 4 years after the last one, and it was stll great. Demo will always have a soft spot in my heart for one of the youtubers that put the curent type of anime content on the map.

It may sound wierd, but Grumpy Jiisan can be the most renowned anitubers for japanese. Some of his videos were "fansubbed" in niconico and earned >100k views, and even an independent dictionary page has been created for him. I remember I watched and loved his review video of Zegapain back in the day.

I remember watching Digibro and best guy ever and all the guys from the pro crastinators podcast years ago. Thank you for making me nostalgic and remembering the times I was absolutely obsessed with anitubers and the small community.

I remember Gigguk for Lucky Strik- Star, Black Lagoon and Death Note. Also Gigguk hated Evangelion back then, or to paraphrace "was very critical of it". but was very successful with Top 20 Cool anime characters which was probably "taken" from JesuOtaku, but he picked up at Reviews like Baccano, Haruhi Movie, Gurren Lagann and Summer Wars. Those were one of the best years to an anime fan.

when the Anime Analysis era started that was right around when I would say I had just reached peak interest I had in anime and manga so far and I gotta say that is still something that I love about the anime and manga community. These really long, thought out essay videos that really sometimes go even further into the matter of what the an anime show is dealing and exploring with.

Man, this takes me back. I remember in 2015, I found Noble aka Lost Pause. Watched him for years and he introduced me to NuxTaku with his anime analysis videos. His competition videos led me to find Connor and thus leading me to watch Trash Taste. I really like that everyone was together when it came to the community and the memories they brought me in High school.

Don't really know what happened to him but I remember Einshine being huge as well, I loved watching his and Joey's collabs back in the day

Jesus can’t believe I have watched this lad for over a decade and witnessed a lot of the things he talked about, and still enjoying and watching every video of him. Keep it up dude hope you still continue many more years

I breathed a sigh of relief when you started talking about Demo. I miss his videos. Still go back and watch his Redline review every now and then. Demo deserves recognition in the annals of anituber history.

There was one peace of history I feel was missing. It was a time before misty noble and before 2014 a time in 2012-2013 where Chanel’s like Anime America hit the scene talking about anime top 10s it might feel a bit odd to call this a whole era but it’s important. If you skip this understanding how huge noble,Misty,Joey and Akis hitting RU-vid really was. Because in that time anime RU-vid content hit a 2 year place where there was nothing new interesting or and most importantly Unique happened and everything felt the same. And I think that’s why it hit a cap for viewers it all looked and felt the same. I shall go back to the void now ❤️

This was such a nostalgia trip of a video. Im around Connor & Joey’s age and remember seeing all of this go down as it happened. Thank you Garnt.

I'll be honest I hold alot of nostalgia for the big explosive era of anime youtube 2014-2018. It's a shame that some of the biggest youtubers from back then like Misty aren't making videos anymore or for the likes of Noble aren't as prominent as they used to be, whatever you think of them you can't deny the impact they had in shaping the modern anituber environment.

Gigguk talking about Podtaku made me feel so nostalgic. The dynamic of Holden, Jean, Garnt, and Tristan was so entertaining! And the B-team was also fun to listen to. Good times good times

Man, this video was a nostalgia trip and a half. I remember watching some of the early Mr Anime and Hard reviews back in middle school. It’s amazing to see how things have changed so much, and I’m definitely still missing the days before he adpocalypse ruined a lot of fair use content as we know it (RIP Misty Chronexia and most of the abridging community). One person you forgot to mention from the Blip/ThatGuywiththeGlasses days is Bennett the Sage. The dude was the first guy to do reviews of older and not as well like anime (thing Mad Bull 34 and the Devilman OVAs) and is still doing reviews/analysis videos to this day. The guy is one of the only reviews from the TTWTG era that survived the Channel Not Awesome fallout and do pretty well for himself. One more recent/honorable mention would be Kenny Lauderdale. All I need to say is that he made me aware of Chargeman Ken, and that’s more than legendary enough. XD

Truly the Anime Zone.

Kinda insane to see how big anime grew in the past few years

14:23 Man, for the longest time I never heard gigguk mention/acknowledge lost pause before. Glad to see he mentioned him :)

Lost Pause was a big influence on me, to stop trying to kill the part of me that is cringe, and instead kill the part of me that cringes. I started watching his Nekopara series so fucking long ago, this feels surreal to think it is now part of history

Thanks for the history lesson, Gigguk. You, Super Eyepatch Wolf, Fornever World, and Digibro got me into AniTube.

Damn I actually am surprised Garnt brought up the Joey-Aki-Noble-Misty group, since it seems like taking Noble's name is like a taboo in this sphere nowadays.

I feel like the analytical anime youtube content phase and Digi/YGGs content is a bigger part of the AniTube history than was brought up; but I think you did a great job man. Like how else would we know that SAO = Bad show without that content?

I actually teared up listening to this, I'm so glad and so happy at just how much influence Garnt, the Trash bois and every other Anitubers listed here have had on not just me, you, their fans and viewers, but the whole RU-vid-sphere in general. I'm so so so, so so so proud of, and especially grateful for each and every of them.

Honestly, i think Demo had a huge impact on video editing overall. It at least inlfuenced Garnt, and spread through him and others to different parts of the platform. Few can reach Demos level tho. They lack the edge.

Gigguk mentioned noble!! Hell yeah respect to him he’s one of my favourite anime tubers

I really liked how you brought up Aki/Joey/Noble/Misty! They were basically the 'big four' of anitubers back in the day and I almost feel like nobody remembers and/or talks about it. I pretty much only watch Aki and Joey out of the four anymore, but all of them were a pretty big part in my youtube journey

I can't believe its been almost 10 years since I first came across Gigguk. Even if im more like Joey and mostly read manga and light novels nowadays its been a fun road so far and hope for another fun 10 years.

Crazy that I’ve been following Garnt ever since his Fate/Zero video almost 10 years ago. That anime is still one of my favorites of all time to this day!

I still go back and listen to podtaku episodes. Y’all helped me through a lot.

Was waiting for demo to get brought up the whole time. I also seem to notice the rise of new well edited and humorous review content. I think scamboli might have actually been the start of this new wave but theres a fair amount of smaller ones growing like echidnut who is about to reach 200k. People that are making 5-15 minute long well edited videos focused on being entertaining and well put together. Content like gigguk's actually, or demo and I am all for it. Although man I wish demo still did youtube. If somehow he hadn't lost the angel's egg footage all those years ago, the anime youtube landscape could be totally different. Or more likely he would have just quit a little later since IIRC he had a lot of rough stuff going on in his life for several years.

Everything deserves a chronicler. A way to pass down the story that wouldn't otherwise be told. Thanks for sharing, Garnt!

thank you for the history lesson professor grant 🙏 it’s always nice hearing you talk about your passion and would love to see more of these wholesome talking videos :))

20:47 I love when garnt brings up utaite, I hope one day we get to see more of that

Hearing you talk about Podtaku makes me feel so nostalgic ㅠㅠ I remember being such a big fan of your channel at the time, and subscribing instantly to Podtaku even though I'd never even heard of this thing called a podcast before haha I have really fond memories of going for walks while listening to the latest Podtaku episode, or sitting at home rewatching highlight clips over and over again (the clip of jean talking about school days still lives on in my mind almost a decade later)

This was fascinating. I remember searching for this exact question before to no results so i'm glad its finally here. Thank you for making this!

Ik it's probably not a big deal to many, but Garnt remembering everyone from early days and reminiscing about them as he is standing at the top alone is oddly poetic and wholesome.

It's so strange to be in a sort of hybrid position. I've been watching anime content on and off for many years (I remember Garnt's job quitting + Patreon move announcement video). After over a decade of lurking and watching anime content creators, I'm now in the (small-scale "successful") beginnings of my own anime RU-vid career. Like everything else internet-related, the insane boom of the internet means that there's no more "niche communities", for better or worse. Remember RU-vid Rewind? I suspect this may the only "anime RU-vid" history video made, but I'm really glad this video was made because this all happened in a time where there was nowhere to document the growth of a small community. Thanks for the history lesson! Can't wait to see where things go from here for you and the rest of the anime community.

Demo would be considered the biggest influence in anime content and I’ve seen gigguk mention him before. His videos are just so well done providing a balance between well written comedy, thoughtful analysis and high production level videos. I also give props to guys like glass reflections and gigguk for introducing us to various anime.

Goated vid, great explanation! All three of you guys are a huge inspiration for me and my stuff in general, hope to see ya round for many years to come as I grow with my own stuff!

I appreciate the shoutout to Scamboli, dude's made some of the best manga recommendations I've ever gotten.

We really miss Demo on youtube, his contents truly way ahead of its time... 😩

crazy to see how much of the early part of anime YT I missed even though I've been on YT since 2006. Between this and the nostalgia trip that was "watching anime fan subs" these are important brief history records to protect and treasure, thank you.

I started watching anime RU-vid right around Joey, Noble, Misty, Aki and Einshine era. Those were the good old days and peak of anime RU-vid IMO.

This channel has really been a breath of fresh air. The story time with Gigguk is absolutely amazing~!!

Thank you guys for being there to listen to back when I didn’t have friends to talk anime with back in the mid 2000s I’ve been watching since you’re first podcast with glass reflections you actually Evan talked about me in a episode back when mr anime was the biggest thing and everyone was making three days grace amvs and you had channels dedicated to uploading animes in 280p with like 15parts for one episode it’s been a long road and now there’s a RU-vid channel basically dedicated to every anime out there back when everyone one was basically making abridges for every anime out there from naruto to one pieac to yughio thanks for being there from when I was a little kid to the 25 year old man I am now. P.s glass reflections doesn’t get enough credit but he was the biggest RU-vidr back in the day would love to see him on the new podcast also misty was amazing back in the day he still uploads and gets no views pepole should really check him out. I’m going to make a video about being a fan throughout the years and growing up with this community

This was a lot of fun! I always like when you sit down and review the history behind things. You have a great way of making it fun. I’d love to see you do more videos like this as someone who is a little more intimately familiar with the community as a whole :)

3:56 AH YES. Grant, and his channel GuyGick XD

Trip down memory lane from Grumpy Jisan to to DIgibro, and giving Demolition D the props he deserves. I miss that guy's content so much goddamnit

Thank you so much for your time and sticking around and battling to build what all this has become. its been an absolute joy to have watched your growth and to have grown up with your content in my life lol from being a kid. I look at alot of the anime content in my life and to see you pull in other creators that also made happen. Freaking bless your brain and who you are!! youve set a standard and flourished from it creating trash taste. Damn it i cant wait to see the further creations from its influence.Trash Taste is literally the irl version of what Ufotable did with Demon slayer for anime. Change my mind.

This video is really fun. It's cool to see the everything compiled. Some parts I was there for, but always popped in and out.

These story time vids are some of my all time favorite yt content, please make more!

lol i seen so many random back in them days where you could just type in 'anime episode 1 english sub part 1 of 3' and be greeted with a bunch of anime id never heard of, for free. very nostalgic getting reminded of that. Also, should've brought up abridging, that was a massive part of the communities history

I still go back and watch Demo's videos sometimes, and I also have to thank Jacob Chapman for introducing me to a lot of anime through his yearly OP rankings. And of course the Abridging community

This is absolutely awesome. I've been wanting to watch a video like this for years

I've been watching your vids since I was 12 or 13 and I'm 23 now and I remember waiting literal years for you to come back your still as awesome as always dude

God, It really hits you when you can remember most of the names that popped up in this video just how long you've been watching Anitube. I think I found your channel wayyyy back in 2008 after I was looking for some anime recs. stuck around cause I liked your content and Arkada's. I still hold to this day that the "Men-taku" episode of J-taku was peak. Like it was just a bunch of guys opening up about their biggest fetishes and talking shit about each other. 🤣 But the landscape nowadays is probably the best form of Anitube and I'm glad to be a part of it.

I think we all owe a lot to the anime RU-vid community. I'm 33, and I've been watching anime since I was 7. I remember going through all of these channels back in the day and writing down the names of anime and manga to check out. They've also helped to make anime more mainstream; back when I was in middle-high school the only kids who knew or would admit to knowing anything about anime were my brother, myself, and a single one of our friends. Now almost everyone knows of or even has a favorite anime.

I love your anime content, but deep down this was the thesis I always wanted to hear from you. Amazing stuff

Scamboli reviews are one of my favorites since it makes so many real life references. But I like your anime in a nutshell layout because it's not the typical to ten this season. I follow alot of different anime youtubers because as people, everyone has their own favorite genre. I kind of out of the ep to ep reviewers because just having been to subscribe to them, the thumbnails themselves would spoil the shows I did not get a chance to watch. I like both of your channels and looked at the seasonal videos like few months ago. Awesome. Thank you for sharing this though. Keep up the good work.

Shoutouts to Stevem and Beyond Ghibli who are killing it in the anime analysis department! Two of my favorites currently.

This so interesting and kinda wholesome, thanks for making this video💪

Loving these second channel videos, different vibes to the main channel. Even more enjoyable when I'm chilling.

Fantastic video! As someone who was a fan of the anime youtube community since Day 1, this was a well made summary of its history as well as a blast from the past haha

As someone new to being an anime centric channel I found this video to be pretty interesting. I had heard of a lot of the names you talked about in a lot of different places but enjoyed your take on it all. I'm curious what the future of this all looks like as it appears there's a lot of deep change in creators content and styles. I started out making a heavier load of anime reviews and talks but after having a lot of issues with using clips and such it's really taken a back seat to Japanese/anime gaming. There's a lot of things I want to do with anime topics but also a high risk with doing it.

Digibro was such a huge part of my life a few years ago, and defined anitube for me. I, like many others, was absolutely obsessed with all of their content. I believe they had an enormous impact on the community that is understated here, in that they basically began the entire anitube analysis phase. The discussions around anime shifted drastically toward deeper critical analysis than just (relatively) surface-level discussion. Im glad to see Digi mentioned here, despite them being quite divisive and the rocky past between them and Garnt. I would love to see more content covering the history of anitube like this.

Glad you gave demo a shout out, because the parts of him you picked up made your channel funny.

Thank you, this was really nice. I havent been that long here but also for a part of the journey and it was a nice trip down memory road

This video was a great look back at anime YT and still watch peeps and love their content like Noble from lost pause, Chibi from Chibi Reviews and so on plus Scam does remind me of Demolition Ds stuff also Nux is gonna put out more anime content soon WooHoo unlike the offbrand era he went through the last couple years but people like Totally Not Mark and others have been really great for analysis content over the last 2 years to me

Props for including everyone you could

Checking add link to help Gigguk: - Not available in your country; - Not compatible with your device; Oh, .....oh, ...... OH!! That again.

The early day of anime youtube for me was AMVs. A lot of AMVs. Introduced me to a lot of random anime and music.

Shadow ACS Glass Reflection And Gigguk were the ones I started watching in 2011-2012 that were doing anime reviews. That was a time where I could watch a review and if I found it interesting enough I'd just search and watch the ENTIRE series on RU-vid.

Ah yes, a lecture about church history.

Man I love this video. This is something I was hoping for after he mentioned "A 2001 an anime odyessy" previously on the podcast. There was a lot of names I didn't recognise and I want to check out. Thanks

These storytime videos are great keep em comin

This has gotta be main channel worthy

Thanks for this, Garnt. I got into Anitube around 2012 so I missed a lot of the prominent personalities that existed before that, and this was a neat peek into a history I wasn't part of, leading into a history I'm not enthralled with. Here's to another successful decade of convincing filthy normies to watch an anime or two and transition into full-fledged filthy weebs

I’ve been thinking about the D2 brigade more recently since they were a part of my teenage years, so it was nice to hear you bringing them up as part of the anime community history. :)

Bro you're such an inspiration to the anituber community! Loved your video detailing how you transitioned from passionless 9-5 to facing your fears and coming out on top!

I hope you will make some videos on Gigguk Channel - like History of Moe and similar documentaries. They are one of the best tools of explaining concepts in Anime. Period. And I've gotten quite few people interested in Anime thanks to them. Now I will watch this video.

I wanted to shed some light on a channel called Hiding in Public. Reminds me a lot of Gigguk and Scam, but with a lot more heart and emotion into it. I feel like his style is going to influence other anitubers in the future. Highly recommend his content.

This was a cool idea and I enjoyed it! Surprisingly i found a great, new anituber that started just few years ago and wanted to shout out Echidnut because he is hilarious and deserves more views.

Bro how far have we come as a fan base and watching you in general, i have been watching your content since i was 10. Damn feels nostalgic im 21 now, still feels unreal how time goes sob fast, take love bro

There was one thing I wished he mentioned in terms of the new anime community the what if community in the past 3 years has gotten a lot bigger