As an anime-only viewer, I had no idea the mangaka had artbooks about her work! I need to check them out. I really love and appreciate her characters' diversity in form, height, muscle mass, skin color, etc. Thanks for this video, it was enlightening!

I love everything about Skip to loafer, from the plot to the character, all of them make me feel such incredible warmth that I have never experienced in my 7 years period of watching anime and reading manga. The relationship and dynamic between Nao-chan and Mutsumi is what I love the most about this manga, the way they are just so casually care for each other in smallest yet most meaningful actions got my chest warmed up so much inside. Though I have dropped the manga a while ago (since I do not have money to support the author through buying their works), but it is the scene when Nao-chan and Mutsumi first met that I would never ever forget.

I am new to the manga world but this video motivated me to read Witch Hat Atelier and I feel I'm already loving it!

If heartstopper has gained so much popularity, TSHD deserves twice as much. At least in my opinion

Strangely enough, I feel a similar way about the ending of Evangelion. While I watched the anime as a child (for some reason) and it was hugely formative for me, I just never felt very satisfied by the ending and it left me feeling... well... indifferent. I've watched it many times, and have tried watching tons of analyses on it to try to 'get it', but ultimately how it hit me is just that.

Wonderful video. Sad I'm just finding this now. Very insightful not only on the world of Dungeon Meshi but also the finer points of character design and how both those things intermingle and influence one another.

i love how a 20 minute video can be boiled down to: -don't make your characters too similar -make them wear stuff that fits the character's mindset

Ayyy 1M views lesgooo

Natsuki, es despues de Kumiko es mi personaje favorito de todo Hibike, me fascina su forma de ser

I know this might not interest you at all since its not a tv show or anime but I'd LOVE to see your take on Puss in Boots: The Last Wish! I feel like the themes it has and the message it shares is similar to other stuff you've covered like skip and loafer (the relationships/bonds) and witch hat atelier (fantasy while still being grounded to reality)!! A movie about a sword-wielding cat may sound silly (it is) but it truly is genuine in showing what they have to offer and it remains my number 1 movie of all time, paired with Everything Everywhere All At Once. (....crazy top 1's but if you've watched both movies you'll get why)

😔 "ley-os"

Man, I almost cried at the video. I've watched a little Dunmeshi, loved it, but haven't got around to watch more, and have seen some of Ryoko Kui's work, mostly floating on twitter. But the more you showed the more I saw how she's not only made a fun DnD-esque adventure, but also did so much diverse worldbuilding sorely missing from even my most favorite pieces of media. I love Baldur's Gate 3 to bits, and I understand the difficulty of making diverse bodies in a game with so many variables already, but man was I sad that everyone is either thin or buff, with fatness only used as a grotesque sign of evil in monster design. Diversity is so important, interesting and beautiful, and something much more media should strive for. Because it's really heartwarming to see yourself not only in a mirror, but in others.

7:05 the fact that you went into research over a 3 second clip to demonstrate a short and already half-proven point is just sth that i adore so much

Your videos bring so much comfort and love. Thank you for what you do.

It's not limited to caucasian humans but largely are Europeans inspired humans and races from europen mythology lol

love this analysis. love natsuki-senpai <3

Nice video and editing maam😎🤙

Please do a topic about chihayafuru. I loved the manga and I love the characters especially Taichi

Amazing vid!

so what if i cried

Seeing different female body types in media is super important yes, but explaining the practicality in it and treating it naturally is the most comfort I will ever receive from media. Though I want representation to feel more seen, I see a lot of character designs that don’t accomplish this well and more often than not bigger people are included for a gag or for diversity. True diversity embeds itself into the world and introduces itself as natural. I want Laois and senshi so bad btw

I watched the anime and though that I loved the drawing as an artist myself, but then saw this video and simply I'm in love, she aims for EVERYTHING that I aim in drawing, will for sure hit the books of her to learn more. Nice video!

I related to the this story aswell. I related .❤

It's funny, because before/as I was first getting into the series, I saw a lot of fanart and just generally people obsessing over the characters. I didn't really understand it, because I thought they all looked, just, very normal (although even back then, I liked Senshi's design a lot). I've since come to learn and appreciate, yeah, they're very normal, because they are masterfully normal, in a medium where normal is not, well... normal.

If the Orc women weren't drawn to be attractive why am I so obssessed with them then? Checkmate, Liberal (this is a joke btw)

ahhh this manga & anime is so good 😩🫶✨ i love all the characters even when I didn't like them at first 💖 Ryoko Kui the best 🙂‍↕️

I will say that Stylization can make a Manga artist iconic, but a Realism to me will always be God tier.

Thank you for this video. This is spectacular work!

Thank you for making this nice study about my favorite Hibike character!

The editing here is so wildly good, and the points are no less great.

I hope dungeon meshi makes it into the history books

All of Ryoko's character designs are beyond fantastic, and personality wise I'm totally on the bandwagon that Falin is #1, but dear god, the design for Human Namari is hot.

Wow, what a great video! Thanks!

Dungeon Meshi is classic fantasy vibe, no crazy anime multi-color hair.

As a pudgy build with a beard I immediately identified with Senshi. I'm glad to see more representation

thank you for giving my favourite Sound-Eupho-character such a positive in-depth analysis.

Happy 12th Anniversary Gravity Falls.

I just finished reading Look Back myself, and was so happy seeing that you have a video on it as well! Seriously, I love it, and god it makes me even more moved and touched as an artist too. I'm still collecting my thoughts and emotions, but I want you to know too that this video, your art, also truly resonated with me. Thank you for being here!!!

the small races viewpoint of other characters is in the artbook? :0

I am happy to say that i knew delicius in dungen here ,and not now that everyone know I dunno that makes me happy

BOP ALGORITHM 💙💯💥

Here we go again... It's the 9th time I watch this amazing video...

I found a copy of Ryoko Kui's art book collection in Japan for ¥1800 (which is apparently really hard to find right now) and similar to what you mentioned in the video, the thing that really struck out to me is how Kui's approach to their art more closely resembles a trained/professional artist rather than what you typically see in a lot of manga. I love how well thought out their process is.

Thank you for listing all your reference images! Thats a lot of effort

I love how you included an after god panel cuz it gave me the same feeling when I read summer when hikaru died

made in abyss is more like "made by a mentally disturbed animator" I don't care for it's story, anyone supporting it is a fucking weirdo.

Natsuki is best senpai. I’m so happy to see Kumiko facing a situation where she’s drawing on Natsuki’s grace in the face of a merit-based system in season 3.

This video almost made me cry. Like just seeing so many body types being so beautiful in their own ways is so refreshing in manga and anime. Like usually these body types only appear when it’s convenient for the story or a joke. I wish more people were like her, and i’ll do my best to be as inclusive as she is in my own art

Beautiful show!!!!💥🔥🔥🔥😉