I Watched The MOST Controversial Anime Film Ever

[@VampireA1056]

Fun Fact: This movie has a Live action adaptation......Yeah.

[@doni7895]

....... yeah.

[@gamesndrinks]

I'm not sure if I wanna see it.

[@nobodyhere8257]

WHAT

[@UriTrash]

I don't see the fun in that fact

[@behelit1997]

​@@UriTrashjust nightmares

[@kotorandcorvid4968]

Of all the circus members, the boygirl is the creepiest to me. His expressions are the most deranged.

[@LuisRodriguez-kz7nt]

Well yeah,he is like a corrupted Midori,as young as her,but as depraved and Even more sadostic than the adult performers.

[@DanielNakasone]

Thanks for going more into it. I see many KZbinrs that review this movie stay in the shock value and bait gore side of the story. I took the story as a very dramatic and sad warning about a society that forgets children in any culture. Plus, I remember listening to an interview with the director where she very lucidly explained how he was aiming at portraying a Japan that most media in general and anime, in particular, try to disappear under that veil of progress. He even mentioned how his movie was a desire to do the opposite of what for example Studio Ghibli and Hayao Miyasaki were doing.

[@behelit1997]

Midori's fucking disturbing bro, That Rat scene it's a lucid nightmare

[@rarebreedcitizen]

That song in the middle of the movie is pure depression. Not even depression. It is the most rotten piece of music i have ever heard. It should be called decomposition or something. 😂

[@oleksandrbyelyenko435]

Now I'm intrigued

[@nikolasespinoza6887]

Oh GOD, this makes Berserk look like child's play🤦‍♂️😭

[@SkullSkill912]

i wouldnt go that far but this is pretty heavy

[@Calebvelasquez117]

@@SkullSkill912I knew you were gonna say that

[@bakedcrystal915]

@@SkullSkill912I think it’s worse than berserk on an emotionally fucked up level tbh, just because it’s a young girl in a realistic setting

[@Mondomeyer]

There are tons of interchangeable, trashy porno animes that use abuse for titillation and no one bats an eye at them. Along comes one that takes the subject seriously, and it's banned.

[@livelybubbs6242]

Right? That’s so ironic… God forbid, the story takes the abused character seriously. Maybe it got “too real” for someone?

[@gamesndrinks]

This film was so cold! And unfortunately some people's reality. I've seen some messed.up thing. But this sticks with me

[@cloudtx]

Hey Ryan! They just announced a release for the Berserk 97' anime on blu-ray! It's gonna be released on March by Discotek Media.

[@ShepherdsCreek]

This sort of movie is so hard to watch as a parent. Like it's horrendous no matter what but as a mother, I can't help but picture my own child in it and that's incredibly hard to take.

[@snowxcrowe]

I think your take on how the circus performers don't realize how much their trauma wears on others because they've normalized it rings quite true. They don't even consider they've done anything wrong and can still wish Midori well at the same time. I'm not really considering watching the movie given the material, but I enjoy the takeaways and analysis of the producer's motive.

[@soralazammoa1770]

Man there is some weird crap out there

[@erikarcher1869]

I thought for sure this was going to be about Urotsukidoji: Legend of the Overfiend...It is definitely not about that.

[@RealLifeRyan]

I DO have a review on that though 😎

[@isaacpriestley]

I did too!

[@kotorandcorvid4968]

Yoooo, didn't expect you to review this so soon after we mentioned it on stream.

[@AllTheOthers]

0:35 oh my god, that bandaged man just unlocked a memory. I went into this with the assumption it'd just be an interesting watch but now I'm thinking i've seen this before. That picture is way too recognizable.

[@mortesilenz2298]

Or you might have just seen some eroguro artwork, I don't think you'd have seen this movie without remembering it because it's something you'd have to seek out to watch I'm pretty sure.

[@wheediesmanchild5229]

One of the things I see in it is that is doesn’t moralize it’s story, it shows grotesque things but doesn’t really pass judgment on them. It tells a situation, a slice of life for certain people in a certain time and is a brash reminder of how different humans are. It shows the bad sides of the troops and the more friendly sides. Because they like everyone are a product of their upbringing and the film highlights the disparity in social situations that exist, and existed especially back in the time it’s set in. And of course the theme that’s present in so much anime- that all you can do is stand up tall and try and move on to survive. And just how hard that can be.

[@necrosadotor]

cool vid. also if anyone didn't mention yet, the original soundtrack's still missing, at least it was when i last time checked

[@dillona2349]

I mentioned this in the live stream around new years I think. You the man Ryan thanks for reviewing it.

[@DURDEN_DA_DUKE]

Never heard of or seen this till now but i can see a lot of different interpretations of things and it really makes me understand why the guy was so adamant about adapting/making this film.

[@catsinjello]

Thank you for actually analysing it and not just clutching your pearls and screaming like most youtubers do when they talk about this movie 😂

[@dylanbuchanan6511]

Wait do they actually clutching their pearls? I’ve read the manga and I like it but with that being said…I can honestly see somebody unable to get past the objectionable content. I’m usually a guy who likes to poke fun at oversensitive people but with that being said…it’s still a hard watch. And I’m a fan of stuff as depressing as Once Were Warriors and Now and Then Here and There

[@catsinjello]

@@dylanbuchanan6511 I feel like most youtubers just watch anime like this and tell others why they shouldnt watch it or how it was too much. Very rarely do you find someone actually break down what the creator was trying to convey.

[@NoQuestionsAskedd]

Oh yeah, the movie that broke the record of Serbian Film in getting banned

[@ZoddCast]

As a teenager, I’ve seen a few clips from that anime on KZbin and was totally terrified. Thank you for the video, I’ve already forgotten about that trauma. ;D

[@Captain_Calcium]

Oof... THIS movie bro 💀 back to blocking it out of my mind after finishing the video lmao

[@DWN-024ShadowMan]

I have watched perfect blue and it dusturbed me for a while. Something tells me I shouldn't look up for this one because my gut tells me it would shatter my psychy 😵‍💫

[@Guts1022]

I gotta check this out

[@Kenshiro_Miyazawa03]

I love Midori. So disturbing, dark, fucked, and scaring. A bit of an influence on me and my work.

[@TherealDCAvenger]

I watched it when it was up on youtube I love macabre content so this was right up my alley What makes this so disturbing to me was the chopped animation If it had a higher budget it would lose some of it's magic

[@sebastianmatt7707]

I should not have watched this before going to bed...

[@ZoiusGM]

You are right I think about the circus freaks. If you only know abuse, isolation and ridicule then you see that as the normal way of behaving. So the freaks don't even think they did something bad to Midori; they thought of their actions as normal. This is why they wish her well in the end as if nothing happened. Also I didn't get the ending. Maybe she thought the magician abandoned her so now in her mind everyone treated her badly and she feels abandoned once again: so we see the freaks laughing at her; what we see is the imagery of her mental state. Finally, I think the poems at the beginning and the fact that the movie is divided into acts have a meaning but I didn't stay to analyze. (I watched the movie 15 or 20 minutes ago - 18th of January, Thursday, 5:31 am as of now)

[@ginjabear6664]

Thanks for the review

[@fakesmile172]

Yours is probably one of the only KZbin reviews that doesn't just shit on it. Maybe I'm desensitized, but this movie didn't affect me as much as I thought it would. Maybe it will to people who have children. Maybe the movie is telling the audience to treat people better; be more charitable, so nobody ends up like Midori. I recommend watching his other films sometime: Limitless Paradise (1981) The Death Lullaby (1985) My Love (1994, seizure warning) Horizon Blue (2019, currently only viewable at select film screenings without subtitles)

[@SamTheGumMan117]

Oh man this thing out of everything I'm sad to say I know about this lul and good on you for making it through it somehow 😢

[@xxkhandikidxx]

That was the most confusing part of the movie, when everyone says goodbye as if nothing happened.

[@errkbrrk]

Watched this a few weeks ago and your analysis is how I felt about it. Especially the scene where all her abusers tell her goodbye. That part fucked with me.

[@KraadBR]

Suehiro Maruo has a lot of fucked up manga. You should read "Laughing Vampire" and the short stories collection "Eroguro". Edit: There is a english release of a more tame of his works, "Panorma Island".

[@duyas1628]

Dude has a very strange obsession with body horror and circuses freaks.

[@jerryreynolds5700]

I had completely forgotten I watched this. Thanks for reminding me….

[@Joxxerfoxy]

Thanks for watching it so we don’t have to. I do find it interesting how with a lot of the older animes, they chose to shade skin with blue hues. Even berserk 1997 used that technique, and I personally find it eerie and cold, in a good and artistic way.

[@necrosadotor]

i've watched it a few times so speak for yourself. art doesn't require it to be "comfy", and it's a cartoon so no harm done

[@Joxxerfoxy]

I didn’t say it has to be comfy lol. 🙄

[@necrosadotor]

yeah my comment came off quite stupid, but i think you should watch it@@Joxxerfoxy

[@moxi9607]

You NEED to do a video on Innocent Rogue please

[@apollorampage]

Ryah posted lets go

[@egidiogaudi1899]

i always thought that this is one of junji ito's work... apparently not...

[@destinyeyoung0128]

I watched this movie a couple years ago and saw it was supposed to be much more deranged than the anime Kite. After taking the time to watch this... i can say that, yes, it is much worse than Kite 😱. It makes sense how you are saying this story is nowhere near for the faint of heart because of what the story entails. It may be balls to the walls crazy how the plot is grotesque and has depicting animation, but it has something alot of other movies nowadays don't have which I feel is the way this movie brings you to that sinking feeling of how awful some people in this world treat others less than them. For the main girl, it may seem too extreme to base this on someone this young but in reality that's what is happening to many of our young generation and we need to open our eyes when someone is being treated cruelly to either step in or how to get them out of those terrible environments.

[@unholymayhem]

I haven’t seen it yet but plan on watching it

[@WeaponDamage]

Can you talk about Tokyo Tribe 2? And no, not because of the goddamn Goosh Goosh scene, your thoughts on the manga and anime.

[@AnomalyINC]

Oh, I've seen this one too, waaay back! It's a bit of a bummer, and I don't recommend it. It's kinda icky, too.

[@zuffin1864]

Not anime but i recommend you watch Cool Hand Luke. It delves into how prisoners react because of their conditions rather than their own nature

[@moominkomet]

I’ve had this manga for 20 - 25 years or so… approximately. It’s still one of my favorite manga. Yeah, it’s creepy.

[@anakinskywalkerghost8964]

Now I kind of want to watch it…

[@ninatuckerschewtoy]

Suehiro is one of the greatest horror mangakas

[@swaeshocks-]

I thought the good goodbye was an illusion by her boytoy 😭

[@oleksandrbyelyenko435]

Yeah I heard about it in videos like top disturbing animes ever made. But well... Haven't watched it

[@OreWaLavai]

Maybe the circus freaks were actually nice people and Midori was just schizo from seeing her mom eaten by rats?

[@TwistedFister88]

I wonder that as well

[@bakedcrystal915]

I feel like that would go against the theme it seems to be trying to push. I like his interpretation better even if it’s fucked up, that’s reality

[@abramsullivan7764]

You got guts to watch this hell you got balls.

[@coffeepot3123]

Look, i've lost enough innocence after purchasing the "Garage: Bad Dream Adventure" game on steam, and feeling immense dread playing 5 minutes of it, just to abandon it. I don't need this film in my life!.

[@johnnada6855]

Is like a Jodorowsky anime

[@johnnada6855]

This is a case where real people are actually WORSE than the manga and anime, believe me, there are even more horrible people acting like nothing than the ones that were portraited in this movie or manga in real life and there are children that grow with them, grow to what, welp that´s another story

[@juanhaines7295]

This is berserk level dark.

[@InfamyOrDeath-__-]

Sounds like a very interesting anime, I’d never even heard of it before.

[@behelit1997]

Don't watch it please, it's fckn nightmare fuel

[@narogsilva2156]

well that was mess up

[@stormruner9183]

After the first watching, I really thought it's nothing else other than gore for the sake of gore, but I started to realize that behind all the fucked up shit and unnecessary grousomeness there are some interesting themes and ideas. The live action (for me) was a somewhat better experience (if you can call it that).

[@MAHAManiac1]

This is disturbing

[@Al-Khaldi]

For the algorithms

[@dylanbuchanan6511]

So your take away from Midori is about abandonment? Makes sense

[@WeaponDamage]

Yeah, this anime shows just how f*cked up japan can be, especially with both anime and hentai

[@Stasy809]

Wtf did l just listen to

[@jbk19xx57]

Have you watched Violence Jack?????????????????????

[@aliyahshoulders60]

Wait, Japan censor things? With all the mess they show in anime and share with the world? 🤨🧐

[@OtakuRC93]

No one wanted.to fund this The mangaka is know for euro guro

[@lawrencefrost9063]

I was about to watch this, then you mentioned puppies being eaten...no thanks

[@TheKnightOfZ0]

It’s just too edgy

[@MasterDuelCentral]

This movie fucking sucks honestly

[@romansummers3792]

YO MDC!!

[@XeroFailGames]

So it's the anime version of a Serbian film?

[@nikhilhembrom8952]

Serbian film was actually live action that takes disturbing to whole other level

[@ASmartNameForMe]

Silly Ryan, Berserk 2016 is a tv series, not a movie

[@shakibalhasan8804]

Disgusting.

[@Nobody18718]

Wanna read an F up Manga. Try metamorphosis

[@999leorik999]

i still find more shocking fucking made in abyss for the simple fact that the sexualization in Shojo Tsubaki is ment to be horrid and gruesome but the sexualization in made in abyss pass like a "funny moment", the mangaka of made in abyss need to be investigated to be honest because those "sniper twins" holy shit my dude, they say things that are very very fishy.

[@livelybubbs6242]

I get being disturbed and all, but let’s not say that a creator needs to be investigated over fictional characters, ok? 😅