Creators: Kazuma Kaneko

Boy this was a lot of work! I definitely will have an addendum, I forgot to even mention Kaneko's OTHER novel collab and I want to find more details about the games he worked on that I didn't talk about in much detail.
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[@VelvaPandy]

This man is a big inspiration for my art. Im still shocked at how much info I did not know, thank you for this and the people that helped.

[@Petabik]

>animating for the show The Gummy Bears Holy shit this man managed to sneak even into a part of my childhood

[@giantclaw138]

I too have type O blood. I'm glad I have it in me to become the next Kaneko

[@davi0121]

Fun fact: Kaneko is also the designer of Dante's and Vergil's Devil Trigger forms from _Devil May Cry 3._

[@araisannanoda3688]

In return of bringing Dante from Capcom

[@KuroeDetectiveAgency]

niiiice you ended up using "demon grafficker" great vid, and always appreciate the extensive sourcing in the description

[@KuroeDetectiveAgency]

also, TIL he animated for gummi bears, used to love that show as a kid.

[@popcultureoverdosed]

Kazuma needs to go back to doing art designs for videogames. His demon designs are so clutch.

[@DevilManthehero7786]

He don’t like Sushi and sushi restaurant the so similar to Eikichi from persona 2

[@Mariesun]

Eikichi also gets harassed for how he dresses by his father, much like how Kaneko got harassed and ended up being in fights with strangers.

[@araisannanoda3688]

Basically, Eikichi was heavily inspired on Kaneko himself

[@marcospisanis739]

I first played Persona 4 and stayed for the mythology when playing SMT IV and gathered all the PS2 for PS3 Atlus games. He and the overall idea of Megami Tensei has influenced me as an author, and I had begun developing a character called Count Kaneko in tribute to him as Hell’s Beastarian and Archivist in tribute to his work as the head art designer of many MegaTen games and his knowledge of mythology and pop culture.

[@mmno5618]

"I hope you see him as a man and not a diety" too late. Way too late.

[@sigurdtheblue]

I didn't know Kamen Rider was a manga. Also worth noting that manga is really cheap in Japan so his book collection is not nearly as impressive as it would be in America. Another cool thing is that when I looked up Saturday Night Fever, it's the same pose that is on the cover of Persona 4: Dancing All Night. ..... So is Kaneko not going to be prominent in Shin Megami Tensei V most likely? It would be nice if they played an important role.

[@araisannanoda3688]

Kamen Rider manga's storyline is a little differ from the original TV series.

[@ffxiikd1426]

Oh yeah devil man

[@elfiebranford9330]

After watching your recent Kaneko video, this was so nice to see right after!! I never knew that the reason Kaneko has all those crazy pictures of him posing were for references in his art, and honestly, that is really cool and smart. Your channel has shown me so many secrets I never knew about in Megami Tensei. Keep up the great work~!!

[@nicobane]

great video. always fun to learn new things about kaneko. hugely inspiring legend

[@DevilManthehero7786]

Thanks for the video keep the good work

[@araisannanoda3688]

How're Gotou and Narumi?

[@jonatas5135]

Great Video again.

[@yabukijoe837]

Great video ! 👍

[@AbdAbdAbdAbd]

came in early!

[@AbdAbdAbdAbd]

Damn, this video is really good.

[@lista_devideos_cursoscompl1338]

Amazing

[@nabeela.7341]

I really love kaneko art, so simple yet very effective. His art is why I'm not a fan of the smt iv's demon designs. Great video, taught me a lot about Kaneko (also you're very close to 4k subs :D).

[@sigurdtheblue]

I don't think his art is very simple as a lot of designs he made were really odd or complex visually, although at least the motivation behind the designs is simple.

[@matteste]

@@sigurdtheblue I think "clean" or "clinical" might be a better descriptor.

[@MoonlitSlime]

It's really interesting that you talked about Kaneko's art process. I have a book that features a number of artists showing their coloring process specifically and Kaneko is one of them!

[@Larrue]

Oh nice, is it called COLORS or COMICKERS? He's done three features about that exact thing

[@MoonlitSlime]

@@Larrue looks like it's called Shikisai Oukoku 2. I bought it for the Mutsumi Inomata cover, not knowing Kaneko was in it!

[@Larrue]

Ah that's what I meant by the first one: Color Kingdom that one is amazing

[@petrock4041]

HELL YEAH!

[@HelvecioGomes]

Nice

[@Primaeros]

> Kaneko World Exhibition(s) My heart aches for having missed these, and knowing there won't be more.

[@kontoculai6301]

Eating hamburger and stop reading mangas could make you popular among girls...lesson learned.

[@SeaSerpentLevi]

I recently realize that its pretty common for these artists to be credited with different names when working in different projects. But like, not a flashy pen name, they usually just choose another random japanese name like if they were hiding from police or something lol But maybe japanese people get it. It was when i was looking trough Yutaka nakamura's works that i notice his credit for one punch man had a different name; i wonder why they do that

[@matchanavi]

I really appreciate all the work you put into researching stuff, this is a great video. Being an artist I also relate with some of the things he said, like, not liking to be watched or making the same expression as your character. Also, if you don't mind a bit of criticism, maybe you could add a few more images to illustrate certain points. Like his Lucifer design mentioned early, or an example of a "naked" design. I think that would make these videos more accessible for people who aren't already very into Megaten.

[@Larrue]

To be honest I fell really behind on the production of this vid so it ended up being bare minimum in terms of edits, a lot of personal life stuff happened that slowed it down. If this weren't a video planned for his b day I would have just waited til next weekend and spent more time reading to beef up and fill in the gaps.

[@sigurdtheblue]

I'm an artist but I don't really know if I dislike people watching me do art because a lot of my art feels like it is only safe to share with a few people and there are only a few uncomfortable people I can share with.

[@matchanavi]

@@Larrue I just read this now (late notifications), sorry if my comment was a little insensitive of that.

[@ArkayneShad0w]

Holy fuck he went drinking with kojima??

[@burnt_ramen9757]

fucking Devilman no Uta at the beginning lmao

[@Mclucasrv]

I really wish we could see a game he was unrestrained early on just to see how atlus would be nowdays.

[@docbaker3333]

Damn quite the Life story, I hope you make videos on other Video game artists like the team who did the designs for SMT IV because the late Yasushi Nirasawa is one of my favorite artists or Maybe Yoshitaka Amano did you know he worked as a character designer for Tatsunoko Productions

[@Larrue]

I actually did briefly talk about the smtiv artists in a video on this channel!

[@docbaker3333]

@@Larrue Cool but you should really shed some more detailed explaination for them I did some research on NIrasawa and I found out that he did everything Tokusatsu, Manga, Figures, Videogames he was everywhere.

[@mralejoj0]

It would be cool if you talk about Shoji Meguro too

[@Larrue]

Oh my first creators video was shoji meguro!

[@nintenx1235]

The big takeaway for me is that the demon painter himself animated the gummy bears.

[@thecoolestfool7688]

just wondering, I've heard this rumor from 4chan but does Kaneko actually like yaoi?

[@Larrue]

If he does, he hasn't mentioned it in any interview I've read so far

[@ImPyroChad]

@@Larrue i can personally confirm that the he DOES INDEED have a yaoi fetish

[@user-zu3wq3lf3h]

I doubt it. I remember an interview between him and Tadashi Satomi, and when they discussed Jun and Tatsuya's relationship, he said that he doesn't know much about gay stuff. He did say he'll look into it tho.

[@thecoolestfool7688]

@@user-zu3wq3lf3h wasn't he the one to say they were gay for each other tho?

[@user-zu3wq3lf3h]

Aria Khalaji Yaoi fetish is basically like fujoshi. Women that love male-male relationships, which doesn't imply that said women are gay/bi.

[@xeartnexus3020]

Strange journey...or a...bizarre adventure...If you will

[@mastemx]

Dudes a genius and his atlus designs are super interesting, but damn, just like said he isnt good designing mechs lol

[@Vonkunken]

A4 is standard printer paper, only America really uses letter paper.

[@Larrue]

Yeah kinda? If by america you mean north America and parts of central and south America.

[@tamimkabir8844]

What is the intro song? sounds like its from Kamen Rider

[@Larrue]

It's the devilman intro

[@tamimkabir8844]

@@Larrue Ah thanks didn't expect the quick reply lol

[@Larrue]

I'm always watching 👀

[@matteste]

I think you missed one piece of work by him, I am pretty sure that he created the final boss of Power Instinct 3, Bristol D.

[@Larrue]

No that is incorrect, I actually bought the art DVD for power instinct and all art of Bristol D, including the drafts were done by Range Murata

[@arlekino0792]

Kaneko likes almost the same things as me XD (Space Odyssey 2001 awesome)

[@sigurdtheblue]

I think this video said he didn't like that, but he was very interested at first.

[@_zyphis_2281]

What’s the song at 4:53?

[@Larrue]

Strategy Phase from King of Kings kzbin.info/www/bejne/oJiUl4qma9CfeLs&ab_channel=acrouzet

[@_zyphis_2281]

@@Larrue thanks a bunch :)

[@Larrue]

@@_zyphis_2281 no problem!

[@dongodongo12]

the reused information is kinda disappointing, i feel that you repeat verbatim many things, still a good video, not trying to be mean just an observation

[@Larrue]

Reusing info?

[@dongodongo12]

@@Larrue your last video, what i mean is mostly in the beginning of the video and some parts overall, still most of the video is new info, forget i said anything

[@faidou9954]

That Persona section really says alot about how numbskull the mainline Megami Tensei fans can be about how Atlus does things. It doesn't matter if Persona is more popular than mainline if being targeted towards a wider audience was the intention since P3.