Ichikawa 🤝Yoko Taro Being absolute Trolls who create the most sad and depressing Stories in fiction.

My headcanon was that Ichikawa went on hiatus just to make us feel Phos' agony of ten thousand years.

Jujutsu kaisen is in 30 days...

Alexandrite turning her green hair red. Is a real life thing alexandrites do. Crazy.

I too love Buddhist Steven Universe

considering Mayumi Tanaka (luffy’s VA) said she will be retiring in a few years and is starting to look for the replacement of Luffy; she won’t be voicing him in the remake. if we are lucky, she will be voicing him until the end of the Toei adaptation. it would be better to cast younger people (20s-30s) because this will go on for a while. rather than casting the old cast with the risk of having to recast them anyway half way through. also i think it’s time for something new. the current cast is great and iconic sure, but after 25 years of voicing those characters, you can start to hear their age. the 56 year old voice actor for 20 year old Zoro is kinda jarring at times. and Franky’s VA seems to have lost his power.

Has junji ito made something related to thalassophobia? I have it and so wanna read his work on it

I wish they could be able to release in 2027

those 10000 years were so painful. Damn that ps5

4:14 so Uzumaki might make the beginning of a new era of anime, drawn in a more less colour, more detail, style.

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this manga is one hell of a roller coaster, which... I dragged a friend of mine to watch the anime first before getting into the manga - oh I feel bad on how he will suffer lol but... due to I live in the city, and the lack of telescope, I can't see Phos colored shooting star q-q and... I am just glad phos is finally happy with his rock buddies

Urasawa is the greatest mystery/thriller storyteller of all time.

"No clue what they're talking about" - person who compared one piece with monster

I'd say this video does do a decent job and trying to spread the word of Houseki no Kuni to an audience that might not know about it so glad to see that! In regards to the Hiatus section, it feels a little misleading when you say "a lot" of breaks when she did not take her first break for a whole 6 years of publication and then the final "arc" starting in 2023 does not make any sense to me. But yes I do agree with you the ending is filled with hope and it did make me happy as well.

3:34 You should use they/them for the gems (Ichikawa preference in English), their japanese honorific doesn't translate to he/him, varying from: - Ore ( 俺 ) which is a masculine, Super Tough way to refer to yourself, Ore is also a very archaic and old-fashioned pronoun, so it's fitting for older gems to be using it to refer to themselves. - Boku ( 僕 ) which is a masculine but humble, almost boyish way to refer to yourself - Watashi ( 私 ) which is proper and gender neutral, though used by men to be formal, and women as the regular pronoun - Atashi (あたし) which is a feminine, sometimes cutesy way to refer to yourself. Like; Sensei uses the neutral and formal 'Watashi' along with 6 gems (Antarcticite, Hemimorphite, Peridot, Jade, Rutile, and Red Beryl sometimes) 6 gems (Cinnabar, Neptunite, Yellow Diamond, Morganite, Sphene, and Padparadscha) use the super tough and manly/archaic 'Ore' The only two that haven't used a pronoun are Obsidian and Morganite 2. Everyone else, including Phos uses 'Boku' . When referring to each other, the gems usually default to using words such as 'brother' (especially between the diamonds) and the equivalent of 'him' ( 彼 ) though it should be noted that 'him' in this case would usually be taking the place of saying something more blatant like 'that boy' or 'that girl' which would be more common. This is also not even going into their speech patterns, which, while I'm not really fluent enough in Japanese to pick up on, I have seen translators note that Euclase, while using 'boku' to refer to themself, speaks in a very gentle, feminine way in Japanese (short version: saying "のかしら" in certain ways in their sentences.) So from there, a lot of translators simply blanket-translate all of the gems as always using he/him. Even though there are still gems (including Sensei!) that do not go by an explicitly masculine pronoun, or Alexandrite, who refers to themself in a feminine way, or Euclase who uses 'boku' but ends their sentences with "のかしら" on occasion which is pretty blatantly mixing feminine and masculine speech patterns, and probably others that I haven't been able to notice as easily. Now: In terms of authorial intent, Ichikawa has said before that the gems appearing feminine but speaking more boyishly (but not completely male) is meant to sort of be a balancing act, so that the overall impression to the Japanese audience is that the gems are gender neutral. This doesn't work as cleanly in English, since we only have gendered third person pronouns. In terms of English translation, Ichikawa asked for the gems to be referred to neutrally, as they/them. I personally choose to respect that, and I like the idea that the gems don't really go along with the human concept of gender. They are a fictional crystal people that photosynthesize and that evolved from the bones of humans, and their only connection to the deceased humanity for so long has been an adamantine buddhist prayer machine. They probably have more use for paper than for gender roles.

watching this after said comet was seen is amazing

I mean it was not a bad video but I suppose communitys reaction to Ichikawas break in the video is making it look more negatively than it was (almost wasn't) + meantoning manga abt anime separately seems worthless if we talk abt the ending and overall I learned almost nothig new... I meant this would be too shallow even for ppl ot aware abt HNS just cause mentioning info shattered so u cannot see all the reasons why it is even comparable to AOT not mentioning that the comparison to Eren is right but if we spek abt ending it seems a bit misleading 6/10, not bad but HNK already has many better videos talking abt specific aspects of both manga and anime or more dedicated to mainstream publicum

Master Keaton shows how depth his research and knowledge ❤

my hyperfixations do not disappoint me

Man, I've been saying this! It's so underrated, it's still my fav to this day along with AOT. It's very complex just like AOT

The way that I remember it base on the anime humans are extinct and the gems (represent the bone), the sky people (represent the spirit) and the sea people (represent the flesh) are the last descendants of humans .

Wait. The main character is a guy??

jesus is king amen

dude wtf stop spoiling shit

I saw thumnail land of lustress is cool it reminds me that i watch anime when that release? 2016?

what app do you use to make ur thumbnails. theyre super clean

That comet. I’m actually crying for the 4D chessplay of the author.

I love this manga its my favourite one and it was such an emotional roller-coaster and if any manga deserves a second season this one deserves to be fully adapted into a full one anima

I hate the ending Shit just feel pretentious

The architecture shown looks a lot like Bismuth

Ah, b u l l s h i t LGBTQIA+ agendas and overrated and underwhelming series that think that they ought to bury legitimately good anime and manga...

Worst manga ever!!!

Idk why but its kinda giving steven universe as a anime

Ok ok men it was a peak manga but best In animanga?yeh that’s a statement who knows it might be ur best manga I don’t but from what I’ve seen online and what iv read it was peak but not the best in anime or manga but yeh that’s just my two cents and gang were the ending?

Nice.

I just went and read the last few chapters that I haven’t caught up on, and honestly, all I have to say is, what..? It’s a weird feeling honestly. I do sort of understand what happened, but I don’t •-• my head kinda hurts now

This Manga sounds very interesting! It also reminds me of Steven Universe's concept of "Gems". If you like this Manga, then you'll like Steven Universe.. If you're into more cartoony shows.

I wasn't a fan of the anime when it came out but the more i learn about the story since it ended the more interest and endearment i feel toward it. Honestly wish the adaptation came out just now in full bulk to do the story justice.

reminded me if steven universe

I'm just glad that phos doesn't have to suffer anymore

The author's hiatus remember's of Kurumada's from Saint Seiya... His manga (Next Dimension) will finish serialization this june with only 118 chapters within 15 volumes... and you know how much time he is spending drawing Next Dimension? 13 years! And ironically, he only cared to do this manga in particular because he didnt liked the movie that was lauched "Saint Seiya Overture" back in 2004, which was supposed to be 1 in 3 parts counting the adventures of saints of Athena against the olympean gods after the battle against Poseidon and Hades previously. Spoilers ahead. The movie ended in something like... the humanity was all doomed by a single light of Apollon's power, Seiya failed to contain his power, being destroyed his armor, dying every human... lefting only the protagonist Seiya and Athena alive (and nude) but i assume it was their souls, as they had no genitalias at all. In the last moment, Seiya tried again, one last time, to hit the god, with his cosmos (similar to ki - chakra - mana) reaching infinite. You dont see the result after his power was unleased. In the ending scene, the followed phrase is shown "When human heart surprasses the divine beings... what the gods will forgive...and what they will punish?" then shows up "both Seiya and Athena talking as if they never met each other... its supposed that they were brainwashed and the humanity's doom reversed" its confusing. If you wait more in the credits, shows up seiya with a new and unique armor design, dealing with his concentrated power against Apollon... and it does only a cut in his face... then Seiya dies. The movie was more about lore than battles, about human's doings and free will, but it was ahead of its time. People with "shonen spirit" thought as boring and it wasnt received well in the cinemas in the west, as people used other ways to see it already (you never read this)

Ichikawa has actually done a bunch of design work for GameFreak on the Pokemon series with both Sword and Shield and Scarlet and Violet, and just recently even has done artwork for a few Pokemon cards. Her hiatuses actually line up a few times with the game’s development so I think that’s a huge factor in her lengthy breaks.

Since when did "blind react" mean "describe for the blind"

i kinda wish the series would expand a bit more with the Admirabilis people especially how their home actually look like and how Bortz raising Jellyfish considering how he attached so many on them on his hair to look for Phos at night

dunno about manga, Im Still waiting for a season 2,

"the most unique ending to a manga" proceeds to not talk about the ending to the manga

Ichikawa is a troll of an author in the best way possible

If someone wants to disagree, they can, but I believe that HNK is one of the best, if not *the* best, story humanity has ever created. It's a story that explores the concepts of belonging, betrayal, a fading identity, desperation, the passage of time, and what it means to be human within it's story. At the same time, the art takes a unique look at the beauty of the human form in masculine, feminine, and non-gender-conforming subjects, and it does it with some of the most amazing chiaroscuro that I've ever seen. It's a great example of how deeply someone can contemplate everyday experiences, and it shows how those experiences are actually much more complex than we usually realize.

Houseki no Kuni is the most beautifully tragic thing I've ever read in manga and every written work.