Cipher the Video | KYOTO VIDEO

[@DeconTheed92]

Finally; our favourite Possum covers the single most lovingly illustrated Converse advertisement ever committed to celluloid.

[@leslieelizabeth3024]

Happy Anniversary !! I always thought of Cipher the Video as an OVA Companion piece? Earthian has an OVA series that is a companion piece, and boy do you need that Manga because the OVA itself doesn't actually explain Anything. It's 100% a companion piece 😂

[@justinanderson4497]

The “yeah” clip is one of the greatest things I’ve ever stumbled upon, and for those who haven’t seen the rest, please do so immediately

[@franciscolozano1513]

This anime was a tribute to the fans who read the manga. I have read it a few months ago, it was a masterpiece, 10/10!

[@funkmastaC]

Ah yes, the music video ova, entirely in English, released exclusively in japan.

[@TheHeroOfTomorrow]

Ah. The 80’s, in pure distilled celluloid.

[@dwainsimmons3447]

Yep

[@IkeSan]

My favorite anime. No Kidding I freaking love it for how bizarre it was.

[@Slychosis.]

Waking up to my favorite anime youtuber posting on a Lazy Sunday is ideal

[@animefreak8535]

Happy birthday to Kyoto Video I hope you have a lot more

[@claudelarose8831]

Happy anniversary and a long life to KaiserBeamz!

[@bryanc7094]

This encapsulates exactly the experimental OVA energy that’s missing from modern anime

[@neilworms2]

Even if most experiments were failures, they at least were trying and that's part of the fun of digging through this old stuff. Modern anime is too beholden to the very specific tastes of die hard Otaku in Japan.

[@mariuspoppFM]

@@neilworms2 True

[@veggsbacon1891]

@@neilworms2 Nowadays, it's just too many isekais, romance comedies, moe blob nonsense without context, high school "romanticism" or something, cookie-cutter waifu assembly lines, like I can go on but you get it. Sure the 80s and 90s have rough patches, but I highly agree that at least they TRIED. 👍🏽

[@auralunaprettycure]

Such a beautiful intelligent look at Cipher. Thank you for giving me more information I didn't know about the series and for paying it such respect

[@electrofonickitty823]

Thank you, I am a child of the 1980s I saw it. I was pretty much a kid who listened to the music. There is a movie that literally said it all, "Footloose," but as Cipher is truly a weird set of reminding me that my 9 year old self existed

[@gilbertculloden87]

Gotta admit I was not expecting an 80s anime review to start discussing Fukuyama's political theories. Great work as usual!

[@KaiserBeamz]

Always expect the unexpected when dealing with vdeo essays

[@theanimegeneral]

Congrats for this series making it to its 3rd anniversary, I can't wait to see what could be next.

[@ShadowMaster1171]

congrats on the anniversary!

[@andrewkful]

"If the 80's was so bad, how come people still enjoy using it for nostalgia?" Because we didn't plan on the succeeding decades being so MUCH WORSE.

[@otaking3582]

You say that like the 90's were a bad thing

[@Inconstructionmaybe-x5v]

The 80s wasn't perfect, but that doesn't not mean that was bad lmao.

[@Rexodiak]

happy 3rd year on youtube!

[@sarysa]

That manga looks like it could have been made in the 2000s. I did not know the bishounen look went back that far. I mean, Sailor Moon of the 90s did not draw guys that way. (bearing in mind that it did acknowledge the popularity of "beautiful people", with bishoujo being in the title)

[@lepeachmo8612]

Great channel, thx for the content!

[@colonelsandwich641]

let's hear it for the boy

[@otaking3582]

This is basically someone wanting to recreate MTV in anime form and slapping an existing IP on it.

[@blackroseknight77]

this was epic nostalgia trip I 💕 the 80's 😺

[@juliagoodwin9510]

Nice dissertation on the 80s. While I was only a few months old when the decade ended, I still have a fondness for the ascetics and culture...

[@nefelpitou]

I love your videos so much!

[@WhatWouldVillainsDo]

Lol the we have phil collins at home had me laughing...So these guys are the 80s version of Island Boyz..

[@shinbeet.5708]

Happy 3rd anniversary!!!

[@turbomarisa2055]

Let's here it for the boy!! Happy anniversary KB!

[@boxhead8514]

Thanks to this video I decide to read the manga and it was a blast! I enjoyed a lot! Thanks for the recommendation.

[@EricMontreal22]

Yours is the first video covering Cipher I've seen that actually gives props to the manga for being... well, good. I only picked it up when CMX started putting it out because their initial licenses seemed so random, especially for shoujo titles, and being a classic shoujo fan I knew I had to get them while I could. It wasn't as good as Moon Child, or full on 70s classics Swan and From Eroica with Love, but I was really glad we got it to its conclusion and have a lot of affection for it (partly because of the reasons you give). Even tried reading a French version of the spin off. One quibble... Is it called licensing music when you actually instead pay prsumably far less to have session singers do the songs? I think licensing music means actually licensing the actual recordings...

[@KittyMeow1984]

This one sure is a weird memory for me. A manga/anime magazine that was being published in my country back then overhyped this OVA so out of proportion that a couple friends and I pooled our savings together to purchase an insanely overpriced imported copy... only to find out it was a very low-budget, poorly-animated extended music video followed by a making- of segment of the creators unwarrantedly stroking their own dicks. Over the years, I've come to appreciate it as the artifact of its time that it is, but... yeah, ten-year-old me sure didn't; friendships were destroyed the day the tape arrived in the mail, not to mention how it got us in trouble with our parents over the gay kiss scene.

[@IamMySelf7872]

I think jake bit bend. You know, he even date Alex cousin who look like his twins.

[@KaputOtter]

Excellent analysis. Many would not remember, but you got it right: there was a distinct rejection of the 80s right after the decade turned. So framing Cipher the Video as the "first successful example of 80s nostalgia" is incredibly insightful in turn.

[@delete---7593]

Yep. .🤔😑.

[@mariuspoppFM]

Not sure about that: shouldn't a nostalgic piece about a decade be released out of that decade to be technically considered nostalgia ?

[@KuMo]

Love this

[@neilworms2]

Nice video, but I did notice something missing from your analysis of the 2010s 80s nostalgia wave. The film that really started it was Drive (2011), it was the first really stylized film to embrace the neon overload LA\Miami is everything 80s aesthetic. It featured both a pop song from the era as well as pretty much starting the synthwave boom. Hotline Miami (2012) pretty much owes its entire aesthetic to that movie and everything afterwards comes from that. kzbin.info/www/bejne/omjVe2ymrMZoftU Keep up the good videos.

[@Miraihi]

Wait, so you don't kiss your homies goodnight?

[@SleeperInTravel]

I never would have guessed you were born in the LATE 80s. I always assumed that you, like me, were born in the early 80s (or even the 70s) given the content that you choose cover and how you frame it in a historical context. Like, how the hell do you even remember Saturday Anime on the Scifi Channel? i guess it just proves what a great researcher and historian you are! I'm almost ashamed that as a kid who went though my adolescence and most of my teenage years in the 1990s (which is always why I consider myself a "90s kid", not an "80's kid" because I was barely 6 when the 80s ended) I can scarcely remember some of the series and movies you've brought up. I'd never even heard of this one despite haunting my local Media Plays and Suncoast videos for whatever anime I could get my hands on as soon as I was able to do so! Anyway, sorry for the ramble but I'm so glad I found your channel. Keep up the amazing work!

[@oldfan4049]

Yeah

[@GundamWarrior1]

As an 80's fan, I often get the criticism of the politics of the era. I normally tell people I love the pop culture of the decade. If were talking about the politics of each decade......yeah they all suck. Looking at the legacies of Regan, Clinton, Bush, W. Bush, Obama, the legacy media and now Biden..........yay stealing our money, screwing us over and war. If you were going to give criticism of 80's politics you have to give the 50's to the 90's the same critique. Even with the Regan era....movies and music still had the feelings of rebellion. Even Footloose gave commentary about censorship (good for those kids not ready of 1984, Fahrenheit 451, or They Live) in the idealized small Christian Americana.

[@delete---7593]

No.

[@quintessenceSL]

I'd add that the 80's escapism was more accessible, fueled in part by golly-gee-whiz technology that had the combined effect as profound as television did. Synthesizers, video games, computers, etc. really changed the social and cultural fabric to where the future looked promising if we could only get past these dark times.

[@EricMontreal22]

There always seems to be some argument about this--but I insist that these are *not* licensed tracks, but session singers singing the songs (which would cost much less). Try playing them with the original recordings...

[@Natendowii]

Oh My God! This hack copied Kenny Lauderdale!!!! Only kidding, you're a pretty cool guy, and you did a real good job with the video. Happy Anniversary, KB!

[@candidgamera]

I'm on the younger end of Gen X - I grew up in the 80's, so I have a fondness for the decade on that basis, but there are a lot of good points here was to why it's such a cultural touchstone.

[@delete---7593]

3:10 Well damn okay. 🤔😑.

[@edbateyjr.517]

You forgot the dreadful "Engrish".

[@yungbenis3685]

Hey KB, have you thought about starting a Discord?

[@stephen2624]

How before this video is destroyed by trigger-happy copyright corpos?

[@KaiserBeamz]

Well I'm not allowed to monetize it, but I'll take that over WGM coming for my ass.

[@GlenGarcia1961]

Ah, the facile over-romanticization of the 1980s. I lived through that decade; it sucked. Ronald Reagan wasn't some big hero with a white hat, he was a racist bigot and a hawkish fop who drained revenues from what little social safety net had been built by LBJ (before being distracted by Vietnam) and poured them into the hands of militarists and mercantilists, and we're still failing to deal with the consequences of falling for those cultural myths. Richard Pryor was right in his live film when he spoke to his fellow African-Americans and said, "I met President Reagan,... we're f***ed."

[@kaelmic7476]

holy shit, go toubun no hanayome totally ripped off cipher