Anime's Great Visionary: Osamu Dezaki

[@WickedAnimeTroll]

I am a simple anime watcher: I see Joe Yabuki in the thumbnail, I click.

[@bluejay4214]

WickedAnimeTroll same here my friend

[@brasteen1]

WickedAnimeTroll Joe is love. Joe is life.

[@Intenxsify]

Same

[@ilitardo160]

Same same same

[@closefomo]

Same here

[@AnimeEverydayYT]

I'm a big fan of Dezaki & really enjoyed putting this video together. I'm getting back into the swing of things now so expect the video output to continue! Hope everyone enjoyed this one & maybe learned something too. Much love.

[@goku21youtub]

you need to take manga, the leading comicmedium in japan, and its iconography into account here when talking about anime impressionistic backgrounds .. also sometimes you´re a little optimistic ... multilayered backgrounds and foregrounds even exist in cheap shows like scooby doo in the 70´s and is no technical feat or anything , its also not his invention

[@waleldama3102]

Kind of shocked you didn't feature his magnum opus, Takarajima (Treasure Island).

[@paolologroio299]

Takarajima è il mio anime preferito e viene sempre snobbato. È un capolavoro fatto molto bene,ma vengono sempre ammirate opere pure molto meno belle. Mistero.

[@koshiroku]

Great video. Many Dezaki's works have been imported here in Italy with huge commercial success. I consider my self lucky to have been able to spend my childhood with the amazing works of geniuses like Dezaki.

[@MitsuhashiTakashi]

koshiroku Italy seems like a good place for anime

[@koshiroku]

It used to be but TV networks are less and less interested in brodcasting anime series although many free streaming services are keeping the interest in the medium alive.

[@Chulips22]

I fell in love with his postcard memories style while watching Black Jack and Rose of Versailles. Thank you for your work put into introducing more of his legacy.

[@Xplosive59]

Really awesome video, Dezaki has always been my favourite TV director. Since Ashita no Joe has been completely fan translated now and Rose of Versailles has been remastered and released in the west by Nozomi that his popularity will increase for people willing to watch old school anime.

[@knuckztve]

Getting people to like Dezaki isn't going to be easy, so BE STRONG

[@MitsuhashiTakashi]

knuckztve I've been a fan and had no idea who he was aim for the ace and space adventure cobra ect I've already scene just didn't know him so there are those out there like me that love his work

[@AoiHeartStranger]

Its kinda easy, even if somebody really dislikes old anime, because of some stupid stereotypes, just show them something made by him, especially from late 70s onwards, and they probably would like it, this shit is fucking gorgeous.

[@aninjathtpwndu]

great video but kinda sad that this is the first Dezaki video I've seen by any anituber

[@WickedAnimeTroll]

he deserves more credit. His work om Joe (especially S2) was outstanding

[@AnimeEverydayYT]

I'd love to see more Anituber Dezaki videos, hopefully his popularity spikes in the future and we get a few more.

[@TomsonPRD]

Holy shit why I've never heard of such a legend. Why. Man you definitely have to keep producing videos like this, no one ever speaks about Old School Anime People/Techniques and that's a goddamn shame, really. Keep it up, this kind of informations is simply amazing!

[@RandoomDude]

The scope of how amazing a person he was just completely overwhelms me and leaves me speechless and cold, one of the greatest artists to have ever lived.

[@BFpro156]

your best video to date. I watched Joe and Versailles years ago, tho i noticed similarities in the direction, I had no idea it was directed by the same director. I didnt even knnew his name. Thanks for this video, I am appreciating even more his works.

[@HonkaiHistory]

I wish you would've talked a bit about how in Joe's first season and Joe's second season you have a pretty direct comparison on how much his style developed in just 10 years.

[@smokycr360]

Your video convinced me to watch Ashita no Joe. Keep doing videos like this one

[@TakasuPioliN]

you didn't mention that joe episode 51 uses a fast frame technique to represent a character's mental instability, that sequence was a source of inspiration for hideaki anno.

[@jonatanpinadulucmusic]

Space Cobra is my favorite anime show since I was a kid and I still watch it.

[@rattlethecages]

Keep being the bastion of overlooked and under-appreciated anime...youtube needs people like you to shed light on the history and lineage of contemporary anime.

[@pullsharply]

What an eye opening documentary. I was shaken and impressed as a kid by his works, and now i know why. Great job!

[@Nkanyiso_K]

*That was a great retrospective*

[@frenchgundam9079]

cobra is one of my favorite anime ever, i just want to see that guy go on adventure forever

[@brandonontama2415]

Giving praise to the underrated. Good video.

[@ryuusaki7309]

Joe and COBRA!🔥🔥🔥

[@Stétellementbien]

A big thank you from France... Dezaki, with Sugino, Araki, Himeno, YAZ, and such as them, are so very often under appreciated, and left behind other masters such as Otomo or Miyazaki... This video should be viewed in many art schools.

[@dralakbarov]

Thank you for this. My favourite anime director

[@wilzutville]

Rose of Versailles is honestly the best anime i have seen.

[@wiggupigeon1877]

my third best anime

[@juliouruena1651]

No

[@AoiHeartStranger]

If you liked it, watch some other Dezaki shows, they all are amazing, imho.

[@wilzutville]

@@AoiHeartStranger Ashita no Joe was great and Black Jack is good too.

[@AoiHeartStranger]

@@wilzutville YES!!! They sure are. I also really like Ace wo nerae, cobra and oniisama e.

[@Rosalina102798]

This guy is probably mostly responsible for the modern anime aesthetic as we know it today. A sort of surrealist-influenced medium of animation, I'd say.

[@OwnnOfficial]

You deserve much more views This video couldn’t be done better. I loved it Thank you 💜

[@AnimeEverydayYT]

Thank you! Glad you enjoyed :)

[@rkgk1517]

An important part of Dezaki we can't understimate is his connection to shoujo - Rose of Versailles, Ace wo Nerae! and Oniisama e. One of the greatest contributions he made to anime is forcing people to take shoujo a bit more seriously. He told stories about female characters with the same dignity, drama, and cinematic sensibility he gave to his other more action-oriented series. He even said in an interview: "Girls are more imaginative than boys, so their sensibilities are fascinating. I feel, as I work. Girls aren’t all these effeminate entities that are crying all the time, as we men might think. They have terrifying sides too. (LAUGHS). And they have strength too, and that’s something I’d like to depict."

[@EricMontreal22]

Don’t forget his 1988 Josie manga adaptation, Kasei Yakyoku. 4 OVAs it really seems to anticipate Oniisama in some ways (but with a 1920s setting and more graphic sex and violence). The story is too rushed really but it’s gorgeous to watch despite a compromised budget.

[@candide1065]

sounds retarded

[@stm3252]

Great tribute to the great Master!!!

[@Ravenq222]

I've been watching Rose of Versailles and stumbled upon this video. Thank you, this was fantastic and I'm going to watch more of his anime!

[@alessandroaleman4512]

Before ashita no joe 2 i tought the best anime for battle animation was dragon ball z. ashita no joe 2 literally was so much fluent and epic animations during battle, like joe vs jose Mendoza's fight, which literally made me a fan of this show.

[@Klonoa7H]

Enjoyable video, nice to see some Dezaki analysis. Shame that you didn't mention Takarajima, or Treasure Island, that is a brilliant show, it was actually a big influence on Hiroyuki Imaishi for TTGL, and it actually invented the head tilt which was later popularised by Shaft.

[@boathab20122]

Glad you made a video a bout Dezaki, great director and well done video.. keep it up my friend

[@badboyhj]

This was great, thank you!

[@usergiodmsilva1983PT]

Watching Onii-Sama right now, and i't bonkers the similarities there are to it in Cowboy Bepop's Spike-Vicious arc! Even the omnipresent music box theme from onii-sama (18th track in the ost) is reproduced in the track "Memory" form CB!

[@VinnieSajan]

Had a no idea this guy was so influential.

[@sobaprancha4144]

It's always great to learn something new about the industry. Just know that the same person directed Ashita no Joe and Versailles is amazing. Thanks for your hard work.

[@adversitycartoons4050]

Very nice video, great editing. Keep it up!

[@AnimeEverydayYT]

Thanks! :)

[@SmrtPhonRtistCF]

Dezaki is one of my creative influences whose style I've seen, but never understood fully until now.

[@deathdoor]

If you watch Remi with the right glasses you can see a 3D effect with the layers of image, right? At least in the opening for what I heard.Anyway, finally someone talking about the absolute best among the best.

[@EricMontreal22]

I’ve never was that parts like the OP were made for 3D

[@vodac1206]

Loving the weekly episodes. Keep it up! It'll pay off

[@isn0t42]

Thanks o7 I learned something new.

[@insom_anim]

Thank you for introducing us to such a great figure!

[@AnimeEverydayYT]

Thanks for watching! :)

[@Mal_Ah_Key]

If you haven't seen the movie for Cobra I'd recommend it, a bit more melodramatic compared to the series but considering it's dezaki that's what you want pacing is amazing too. Good retrospective most just note visual gimmicks when discussing Dezaki's work but his framing and use of depth are years beyond his contemporaries, gotta tear into Tomorrow's Joe someday when the manga's less fresh in my mind in the meantime I have a treasure island adaptation he did which is just gorgeous check it out sometime yourself.

[@WY_Circus_Freak]

so when can we expect the video dedicated to Leiji Matsumoto's influence on modern anime?

[@pernambucopradesh3939]

Great video, as always!

[@weissgrimoire4386]

it's a shame he never got a chance to adapt Kamimura Kazuo. He looks like he could do justice to his manga, taking into account the mangaka of Ashita no Joe did a collab. with Kazuo. ah well, the manga still exist, can't wait to read them. Super obscure though.

[@ChristopherSobieniak]

Ironically, despite many of his directorial touches that still fourish today, he also wasn't no stranger to doing outsourced work for American companies such as his involvement on stuff like Mighty Orbots or The Blinkins: The Bear and the Blizzard, just throwing that out there!

[@buuree4752]

Ashita no joe is my number 1

[@mattlucas169]

Still here to watch more

[@CureSapphire]

Solid video overall, though I'd be interested to see where you heard that Shinbou was influenced by Dezaki. I've read a few translated interviews from him and never got the implication he was influenced by Dezaki, If you have info that says other wise I'd love to see

[@MrDzoni955]

Great video for a great legend.

[@jubeikibagami4667]

Great work!

[@paolologroio299]

Parlare di Dezaki e non raccontare pure l'isola del tesoro,Takarajima, significa non conoscere a fondo la tematica. L'isola del tesoro rimane una delle più belle opere realizzate da Dezaki e non capisco il perché venga sempre cosi bistrattato!! Riscoprite quest'opera che è un capolavoro e John Silver è davvero il più bel personaggio rappresentato da Dezaki. Provare per credere!!

[@lachlanstill4813]

Is there any source/info on the parallax background scrolling being something Dezaki was himself bringing to the table stylistically? Shows with Shichiro Kobayashi acting as background director, with or without Dezaki, are famous for it, and the examples you brought up, Aim For The Ace and Nobody's Boy Remi, both had Kobayashi in that role.

[@AnimeEverydayYT]

I don't think it's as much Dezaki being the first to include it, but being the first to master it and make it an industry standard. It's present in almost every animated work i've seen but Dezaki was the first to include it with such elegance. It would be interesting to have a deeper look into this though, it's one of my favourite animation techniques.

[@BasementOtaku]

I had never heard of this man before, but I was in tears at the end of the video hearing of his passing. Where might I be able to watch the shows? Where did you get the clips for your video?

[@spennser]

whats the font you used for his name at the top? loved the softness

[@liamingraham7660]

Goglo 13 movie slaps so damn hard

[@nes8244]

when you talked about the second season of joe you only put a scene from the first season and you didn't mention the incredible progress in character design

[@tomateunmate]

Why did you pick Kurosawa for a samurai film reference? The genre was pretty huge after the US left, and it traditionally had a simple and impactfull style. Stuff like 1965's Sword of the Best. You just skipped to the worst but most well known example in a video about a director that gets ignored. Even more, a lot of his style is mimicking really big directors. The abstract backgrounds were pushed with stuff like Prisoner 701, Golfo is straight up a homage to the Nikatsu noir films. It's just weird that you mention Kurosawa and ignored Seijun Suzuki.

[@canalsincontenido]

Oh, here's a Criterion clip about Seijun Suzuki's background and abstract imagery. kzbin.info/www/bejne/fYCzeqmDoKmKn6c

[@larrylovehandle8472]

Gay.

[@kevinward3261]

eye opening. crazy how we never hear about him.

[@hauntedhose]

Space cobra ❤ oh wait sorry Cobura !

[@cyberiansailor9741]

I feel so stupid for just knowing one anime of osamu tezaki Ps: very nice video

[@crimsonshadow42]

Also I believe you got a fact wrong. The first use of cgi in anime was the movie Lensman directed by the legendary Yoshiaki Kawajiri.

[@Klonoa7H]

Thats the second use of CGI in anime, a year after Golgo 13.

[@OwnnOfficial]

He said it was one of the first uses of cg in anime

[@Basamia]

I have never seen a director that his work is more famous than him .. a lot of people know Rose of versailles and Ashita no joe. but few know Dezaki.. thats a mystery to me lol

[@Kullen64]

So was he the first person to branch away from the source material when adapting manga???

[@crimsonshadow42]

Go Nagai video when?

[@ahmirwatson9531]

Nobody’s boy remi came out in 1977

[@rfrolicarts]

Oniisama e... is a masterpiece. It was one of the first anime series I watched and it really spoiled me for everything else for awhile. Every frame looks like a painting. It's absolutely beautiful. I think his Ace wo Nerae! film and OVA series also deserve a mention here.

[@timothymclean]

Any genius can efficiently create an artistic masterpiece. But how many manage to use efficient, effort-saving techniques in a way that enhances the artistry instead of looking cheap?

[@RyumaXtheXKing]

His anime make for great music videos. kzbin.info/www/bejne/pH3dm6Bvepabrck kzbin.info/www/bejne/eKfGhnumnaqBrs0 And all these cel anime look glorious in HD.

[@ashwin.kalyan]

I keep on thinking that you’re referring to Osamu Tezuka 😅😅😅

[@hurlubu]

Hey hey do not mistake the west with america. Dezaki is well known in europe.

[@kameha64]

I own the official Art of Osamu Tezuka, I always thought *Osamu Tezuka*was his name. However watching your video Im kinda confused and would appreciate it if you could explain or send me a Link to a source. Osamu Dezaki or Osamu Tezuka

[@Ash_Wen-li]

Two different guys.

[@kameha64]

+Ash That's incorrect.

[@Ash_Wen-li]

Tezuka was the famous artist. Dezaki was the famous director. Google them.

[@FrederEngelh]

Tezuka was a villain, Dezaki was our Hero(?

[@dinogt8477]

Mhm

[@TBoneTony]

Well I never knew that much of Dezaki until looking at this video. I knew of the Rose one that was big in Shojo Anime as well as inspiring Revolutinary Girl Utena, I also have a DVD of a Space Cobra film. He was working with Tezuka on the Astro Boy anime with Mushi Productions as well as adapting some of his manga into Anime format and the impact that Osamu Dezaki has on the Anime industry is up there with Tezuka and Miyazaki. Great video and I enjoyed it allot looking back at older Anime and the directors and individuals that were behind those series.

[@germaninjapan5738]

An die Deutschen unter Euch: Ich wohne zur Zeit in Tokyo und versuche mir einen kleinen J-VLOG Kanal aufzubauen. Würde mich freuen, wenn ihr mal vorbeischauen würdet ;)

[@jobberd.collins9962]

Joooooooooooooooooooe

[@vicentemartinez4945]

Excellent video, I've only seen 2 Dezaki's works (Rose of Versailles and Oniisama... e) and they both were such a great anime. One of the aspects I enjoyed most of both, besides their incredible narrative, was actually the postcard memories; they look beautiful and increase the tension and intensity of a show. So thanks for the video, I didn't known that was one of his techniques.

[@brasteen1]

Vicente Martinez You should check out Ashita no Joe's 1st and 2nd seasons. They are loaded with tons of great postcard memories (especially the second season) as well as being great sports dramas.

[@vicentemartinez4945]

TheUndefeatedMagician Thanks, I actually have that one in my plan to watch list; I've heard great stuffs about it

[@brasteen1]

Vicente Martinez Np. Its some good shit.

[@reviewsbyandre8660]

Lewis, I really do enjoy your videos... I really do... But please, try to fix your editing. It looks lazy and actually prevents your channel becoming one of my favorites.

[@AnimeEverydayYT]

Can you expand on this?

[@reviewsbyandre8660]

For example at 2:00 there seems to be a layer you forgot to delete. It disturbs the pace and overall looks cheap. And at 2:28 there is a flashing frame which you didn't cut out. Your videos are full of these, which I notice right away. But overall I really like your writing and delivery. They fit well with your choice of lo-fi hip hop. Adding sources in description would make your videos pretty much perfect.

[@ToriKo_]

:)

[@Dappis]

rose of versailles will always be in my top 20 at least

[@TrevRockOne]

Background music is annoying and stupid

[@larrylovehandle8472]

A lot of words. Not much meaning. Well it takes skill to talk about art without resorting to vague generalities and reductive analysis, not many can do it.

[@Hamadeen]

It's a shame you quit youtube. You were really good, but what can you do I guess. Anyway, thanks and goodbye.

[@douglasfern7397]

Sorry I never heard of him

[@Ash_Wen-li]

Well now you have.

[@douglasfern7397]

I don't like dezaki