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@JasperFoolish4 ай бұрын
Oh my god the fucking ODE TO JOY playing over the destruction of those things triggered evangelion PTSD
@TenSoldierYT4 ай бұрын
I completely feel thats. I heard the music and i immediately thought of Eva with the VHS Obliterated messages.
@themai83 ай бұрын
thx you for saying it i was thinkin im going crazy but 41:31 rly just was a big evangelion ptsd 😭
@themai83 ай бұрын
@@TenSoldierYT THAT VHS IS TO SIMILAR RIGHTTT 😭
@PinnePon3 ай бұрын
Huh? It's not a peggle reference?
@themai83 ай бұрын
@@PinnePon idk waht peggle is but i can ashure you its not its evangelion
@3s7acad04 ай бұрын
The homebound video actually had me cracking up. The shots of the creatures getting napalmed and the flashing "OBLITERATED" text had a distinct early 2000's call of duty kill montage energy to it lol
I had to get a clip of it to show my friends because it's just so damn funny to me
@user-ky8du8lk7l4 ай бұрын
'Starkill's veins contain oil'
@jovindsouza34074 ай бұрын
honey wake up I know it's bedtime but the anthropomorphic neon red square just posted a video essay about something we've never heard about before and you know what the law says we must do
@Pepsiandmilkbutalsopalindrome4 ай бұрын
You know the rules and so do i
@Hencai-nw6eo4 ай бұрын
Me too
@Gingermation4 ай бұрын
If watching videos is sure to result in knowledge then you must watch! KZbin said that. And I think they know a bit more about videos than you do, pal, because they invented it! And then they perfected it so no creator could best them in the ring of content.
@dominicburch23744 ай бұрын
@@Pepsiandmilkbutalsopalindrome A full commitment is what I'm thinking of, you wouldn't get this from, any other guy
@cupcakejack73754 ай бұрын
@@dominicburch2374 I wanna tell you what I'm feeling Gotta make you understand
@joshs44414 ай бұрын
If the universe is SOOOO big, then why won't it fight me?
@ArtemisAYO4 ай бұрын
No hands 😔
@phoenixmarktwo4 ай бұрын
It does. With depression.
@rodrickplum29894 ай бұрын
THOTHHHHH THE EGYPTIAN GOD OF KNOWLEDGE
@emmersonrobinson81764 ай бұрын
@@phoenixmarktwo😐
@pteroid114 ай бұрын
Fly me to the moon and let me kick it’s fuckin’ ass~
@celestialwaffle14914 ай бұрын
You missed the fact that the S.I.N. test checks for selfish answers. It seems people infected cannot think of the wellbeing others, so the questions check to see if the subject is empathetic to other humans or not. This is shown most clearly when Ezra is asked if he would give his starving son some bread, which he says he wouldn't.
@tarnetskygge4 ай бұрын
It's basically the Voight-Kampff test from Blade Runner, I'm surprised he didn't pick up that reference.
@DaveMiller60424 ай бұрын
This should have way more likes
@pickleskpg4 ай бұрын
@@tarnetskygge "Is this a part of the test"
@Eternal_Motion13 ай бұрын
@@tarnetskygge I was surprised by that too, even in the comments for the Babylon episode, everyone mentions EVA but I saw zero comments about BR
@Viftie2 ай бұрын
I legitimately thought Ezra was just really autistic at first lmao
@jasonhunter28194 ай бұрын
Oh, oh that's a very specific memory haha...in Homebound, the bombardment of Home set to Ode to Joy with Obliterated flashing rapidly is a *very* clear homage to the Evangelion series preview at the start of old ADV VHS tapes!
@thesealsharkproductions97804 ай бұрын
I just thought its one of those times classic music is played over stuff exploding for cinematic effect.
@MethoruBruh4 ай бұрын
Dawg. As soon i heard Ode to Joy with that explosion, I literally remembered everything I've seen so far of Evangelion, like, wth-
@socialgutbrain77744 ай бұрын
Huh, I was wondering why that felt oddly familiar.
@otakusnorex37244 ай бұрын
it's really reminiscent of Evangelion, but at least it does other parts in a new way, cause most of the graphs and the visualisations is practically stolen from Evangelion :(
@jasonhunter28194 ай бұрын
@@otakusnorex3724 ALL art is iteration...he just didn't really iterate some of it as much as other parts
@JakeLuis-k8u4 ай бұрын
My favorite part of this video is the part when minexa says "we are the Midwest and we will stop you Angelica"
@iforgot56514 ай бұрын
Minor spelling mistake
@notanaveragedoktah83904 ай бұрын
ANGELICA??? IS THIS A LIBRARY OF RUINA REFERENCE???
@topcatfan4 ай бұрын
@@notanaveragedoktah8390no it's a rugrats reference
@GreenFeatherGuy4 ай бұрын
LIBRARY OF RUINA MENTIONED
@zyxzzzz_4 ай бұрын
@@notanaveragedoktah8390 you must gangam….like I have…..
@biggreen14564 ай бұрын
I didnt notice most of those anime references, not picking up on "phantom blood" kills me more than anything else
@kanseidorifto24304 ай бұрын
Definitely a personal favorite, that’s for sure
@TyreseBibbs-md5vy3 ай бұрын
Kono dio da
@umrayquazashinyapareceu16723 ай бұрын
I know this will be a stretch, but technically saying, this is what would happen if kars got back on earth. Like, its trully bizzarre how everything adds up: -A giant creature floating on space -Said creature is capable of absorbing life forms -Constantly compared to God. Basically: Starkill = Kars
@nope53633 ай бұрын
And somehow Joseph would beat both.
@DriedJizzSock3 ай бұрын
@@umrayquazashinyapareceu1672 So the only way they could kill Starkill is by finding a noble Englishman born from a family of vampire slayers and giving him a very special red stone? Dare I say that's quite... *bizarre*
@thesabzin4 ай бұрын
After accidentally discovering Midwest Angelica by myself at a time I thought nothing new can be done with analog horror as a genre and it's predestined to burn out sooner than expected, I had only one thought: "Holy hell, we are so fucking back" This and Greylock (and arguably several smaller series, Tryred for me personally) are exactly the kind of fresh blood and technical development the niche has needed.
@awesomejman59954 ай бұрын
Love your American Superevent TNO video btw
@TheDonLemonSnickety4 ай бұрын
Never saw Midwest Angelica but sounds awesome. Greylock is the best of the entire genre imo but is It still running? They went from posting pretty consistently to a very long pause this time.
@kanseidorifto24304 ай бұрын
I find Greylock arguably the most terrifying thing ever, not just in terms of actual analog horror either. Really touches on stuff that hits really close to home for me. I’ll note “White Door Opened” is also a rather scary one in my book, a close one to Greylock.
@slideways_sideways18034 ай бұрын
Something I want to point out is that Nero makes a lot of criticisms of humanity yet also shows all of them. Almost as if in assimilating us AZ 001 gained some negative traits from humanity.
@Dolfa_LPH4 ай бұрын
Until Starkill finds a more intelligent species to assimilate the knowledge of, humanity will be fighting itself. In terms of sheer firepower, it's hard to say who would come out on top. Oh wait, Manhattan Project >:)
@swagathachristie52424 ай бұрын
I think it displays a pretty understandable/easily observable trait present in some earthly predators, the desire to make its victims relaxed as it consumes them. I think of it somewhere between a cat’s scruffing instinct and the way a cone snail or spider paralyzes prey before eating it. You just kind of. Go along with things, and AZ likely intuited that believing it’s [XYZ powerful psychological belief or force in the victim’s society] would help what little free will said victims have kind of slink away as their goals and the goals of the AZ infection become one. It’s easier to paralyze the body of a fly or minor. It’s harder when it’s got a wrinkly complex brain like a human, but what’s a little psychological warfare to a planetcrushing entity. TLDR: I think AZ went into the brains of its first victim(s) including the farm family and O’Connor, found Christianity/religion as a powerful force, and decide to sprint with it. Some of its constituents probably think religion sucks or have a complex relationship with God so AZ sometimes parrots that. Either that or it really does have a negative view of religion apart from its (mostly devout) victims and that is. Mwah chefs kiss. I love it. I also personally like to think that O’Connor was a huge weeb so AZ is also diagetically inserting the references. Would make it funnier imagining the giant amorphous blob watching Death Note with all of its human thralls for the first time.
@superscaryguy013 ай бұрын
Not gonna lie, the Starkill getting obliterated by the military with "Ode to Joy" playing in the background Evangelion style has gotta be one of the hardest moments in Analog Horror.
@thebasedspectre30483 ай бұрын
I love this series All the other analog horrors are like "I guess I'll just die" But this...this is perfect God bless America's 300+ Million dollar defence budget
@PinnePon3 ай бұрын
I thought it was a reference to peggle. The implications are strange
@cheemsburbger53263 ай бұрын
@@thebasedspectre3048 *billion lol
@boofy1347Ай бұрын
starkill got OWNED
@Lukie4reals4 ай бұрын
It's nice that Starkill respects the man-made Canadian and Mexican border enough to not overlap them at all on the map in "Stages"
@flarys67324 ай бұрын
Its a hypothetical scenario made by humans, it's not a map of the alien infection, also Canada and Mexico aren't unnaffected, they're just not on the map :D
@lauramonjas31314 ай бұрын
i mean America is the capital of the world, every alien tourist knows it
@terminator94894 ай бұрын
@@lauramonjas3131Wdym ? There's only America, the rest is just water
@AmaryInkawult4 ай бұрын
@@flarys6732 the aliens destroyed Mexico and Canada, fuck we're gonna die. They merched the cobra chickens and the cartels! Our first lines of defense have fallen!!!
@lazyreal60244 ай бұрын
the data and predictions are limited to america
@LowQualityStuffzies4 ай бұрын
this analog horror series is so underrated, it deserves much more love. (also my favorite part of the video is when minaxa says *("maybe the midwest was the angelicas we made along the way.")*
@juicyparsons4 ай бұрын
🥲🥲🥲🥲
@not-so-obvious_autism7774 ай бұрын
What exactly is analog horror?
@LowQualityStuffzies4 ай бұрын
@@not-so-obvious_autism777Analog horror is a subgenre of horror fiction and an offshoot of the found footage film genre. its commonly characterized by low-fidelity graphics, cryptic messages, little to no traditional jump-scares, and visual styles reminiscent of late 20th-century television and analog recordings
@juicyparsons4 ай бұрын
@not-so-obvious_autism777 and instead of *telling* you a chronological story it's presented in a way for you to discover/decode it yourself, so there's different formats like maybe kids' cartoons , old/faux websites, comic panels, PSAs, lost media etc and sometimes you can just watch for face value and some people choose to dig deeper and find as much lore and clues as they can
@erickcastaneda95894 ай бұрын
it pains me that stuff like this and dog nightmares while getting engagement end up being eclipsed by crap like the man in the suit.
@vallidbullithead4 ай бұрын
Just hit me that Operation: Homebound occurring on April 13th is a Homestuck reference up to and including catastrophic fiery bombardment of 4 distinct locations and opening the world’s greater narrative wide open introducing the multiple past cataclysms being a direct action by AZ-001, Nero and Home Delta. Tl;dr everything circles back to Homestuck
@seafoamtaide4 ай бұрын
Reading the comments rn to decide if i want to watch this video and you're telling me there's a homestuck reference in this horror series. Well okay i will watch the video then what the hell
@liamwhite35222 ай бұрын
@@vallidbullithead It is the case that, ever so often, humanity recreates Homestuck.
@theasexualidiot4803Ай бұрын
Damn you. You made me remember homestuck.
@gendbh5652Ай бұрын
lmao I caught on when they labeled the playlist as act 1
@craz25804 ай бұрын
Casually exploding things with classical music is great
@aloofdefloof3 ай бұрын
put on psy war op, make it loud!
@PinnePon3 ай бұрын
Peggle extreme fever
@TheSynthPunk3 ай бұрын
I LOVE the underlying feeling of "Humanity Fuck Yeah" in this series A great break from the humans either being bumbling idiots or being in cahoots with the monster of the week in some shadow government scenario
@Slop_Dogg3 ай бұрын
yeah we’re (humanity) definitely at least giving it a good effort in this one.
@cephaleaorion488811 күн бұрын
"you see that thing?" "YES SIR" "i don't want to" "YES SIR"
@drdino20026 күн бұрын
It is refreshing to see humanity actually put up a good fight against the antagonist, both in force and strategy. Rather than be completely caught with its pants down, like a lot of these kinds of scenarios like to portray.
@laviemme20824 ай бұрын
That scene where Dr. Spencer and Dr. Churcill talk inside Babel Site (59:08) looks a lot like the scenes in Evangelion set inside Gendo Ikari's office in terms of lighting, architecture of the room and camera angle, there is even an esoteric symbol on the ground.
@Sloaky6344 ай бұрын
The entirety of HOME feels very NERV-y. Their objective of researching and destroying an otherworldly threat while hiding it from the public is pretty much the same as NERV's. As you said, the architecture of the HOME facilities feels similar to NERV HQ, especially those big rooms with the ?tower of babel? reminds me of Gendo's office and Terminal Dogma. Also the Babylon project feels similar to The Human Instrumentality Project.
@kireinakirakira4 ай бұрын
i KNEW i wasn't tripping thinking this series felt like evangelion 41:32 i even thought that this part felt like the scene where asuka was getting probed, mostly cause of the music
@NightWarriorX44 ай бұрын
Sorry if someone’s mentioned this by now, but Dr. Vega being the character with the infinite knowledge of everything is maybe a reference to Dr. Vegapunk from One Piece, the in-universe World’s Most Brilliant Scientist, who’s devil fruit has literally allowed his brain to grow to such an enormous size he had to cut it off and store it remotely so he could actually still function as it grows along with his knowledge. Edit because I just thought of this now: Vegapunk also stores his brain in an area called Punk Records, which is a play on the Akashic Records you talk about in the video with Dr. Vega.
@lazyasstoad4 ай бұрын
It's also a chainsaw man reference (spoilers ahead!) There is a lady who can give you all the knowledge there is and after that you go crazy and all you can say is "Halloween" There's something cool about the idea of knowing too much and simply losing your mind because of it
@DragonaxFilms4 ай бұрын
I couldn't help laughing at the strobing "OBLITERATED" text, it reminded me of old montage parodies xD
@theasexualidiot4803Ай бұрын
It’s like they’re rubbing it in with hubris!
@utellmewhatitshouldbe79124 ай бұрын
I haven’t thought abt this series in a while, but “Starfield” is the definitive nightmare scenario for me in all of analog horror. Watching your dad get taken a creature you don’t know or understand and then going home to see your mom was taken too and now you have no one to help you is horrifying.
@Ilikemikespike4 ай бұрын
Also it seems to imply at the end of the video with the strange sillouhete and the word family written that the son, the mother and the dad were all morphed into a creature just like it was seen in Azazel. And there is a mild chance they are all alive although not quite fully (as in the Azazel video some of the humans that were morphed together could still move their faces).
@utellmewhatitshouldbe79124 ай бұрын
@@Ilikemikespike terrifying stuff
@sairus32392 ай бұрын
@Ilikemikespike not to mention that humanoid creature with a large head obliterated later was called by the farm family last name.
@drakath57274 ай бұрын
1:10 If you also combine the two base64 statements you get "Knowledge Betrays", which implies that the knowledge gained from the experiments were possibly misleading or helping Nero towards his ultimate goal of giving HOME a feeling of safety to get them to let their guard down. Considering this, the hinting of AZ standing for Azazel, and the infiltration of Nero, and the constant use of human's memes, I believe there is one key idea that the Starkill is operating upon that we will see further expanded upon throughout the series up to its very end. My belief is that HOME from the get go was and is a creation of the Starkill to manipulate the knowledge and emotions of humanity to further accelerate the spread of the Starkill. By posing as its own opposition, it can weaken the true opposition. It is the pumping organ that pushes out the infection with every beat of the bomb. HOME is where the heart lies.
@ampix46694 ай бұрын
45:35 I noticed the phrase "All is right in the world" to be very similar to the slogan of Nerv, the main organization from Evangelion ("God's in his heaven, all's right in the world") and there are lots of similarities with MWA and Evangelion, like the bombing of home hq, the Babylon conversation, the "Audio Only" videos being very similar to the Seele meetings that had the same text in place of the members, etc. Overall its really interesting to think that Evangelion of all things would be an inspiration for analog horror!
@diablotry51544 ай бұрын
It extends even further beyond that, like you said with the Babylon conversation essentially being terminal dogma, but especially at the end where Spencer is upright and looking down at Churchill, basically the same as Gendo and Lillith (in terminal dogma). The whole asteroid thing (seeds of life), the cycle (which is a significant plot point that is explored in the rebuilds). The psychic connection / knowledge plane could be seen as an alternative to AT fields and Guf. A lot of the larger creatures resemble Angels There is also some similarity between Home and Home Delta vs NERV and SEELE I love it. When I saw the first videos I noticed that there was a lot of Evangelion inspiration and it just continued to grow
@mihaelllkeehlАй бұрын
there’s also a lot of other anime references like death note with the death row inmate double and lain with present day, present time
@SpecialInterestShow4 ай бұрын
Holy shit how did I never notice that the dude literally MELTS
@Vekten4 ай бұрын
57:30 Going back to "Present Day, Present Time" I believe Lain has more signifigance than a minor reference towards the phrase. For the Akashic Plane, it's a world of hidden knowledge and which Vega tried to venture into, is just how Lain ventures back and forth between the wired and the real world. In Lain, she uncovers that the world of information on the internet through electrical connections and the world where the living resides are one in the same. She slowly uncovers more information on how to fully climb into the wired. There's more information within that series, but I rather not disclose too much information about it since it is a wonderful series to check out.
@cerebralcloud924 ай бұрын
A lot of Midwest Angelica’s Starkill honestly reminds me of Halo’s Flood, even down to the idea that infected individuals become interlinked via a “plane of existence”, (Neural Physics/Akhasic Plane), and how the infection as a whole goes from a mostly feral stage of accruing biomass to a central mind that uses the intelligence of those infected.
@asuris26464 ай бұрын
It's also a LOT like the Zerg from Starcraft. Then again, so is the Flood.
@akirahisui-lucario56363 ай бұрын
@@asuris2646the starkills also honestly remind me of Lavos from Chrono Trigger.
@prism29004 ай бұрын
I'm pretty sure the "Easter" word thing is a reference to chainsaw man, where (spoiler alert) there is this character called Cosmo that is able to give anyone all the knowledge of the entire existence, but when you gain it, you're only able to say Halloween because apparently everything comes back to Halloween. Pretty neat reference ! Edit : ok I should have waited 2 minutes before commenting 😅
@bluejerseydevil73984 ай бұрын
was thinking the same thing, almost commented too lol
@ProxyMoron3 ай бұрын
@@prism2900 I WAS LOOKING FOR THIS-
@noodlegirl81803 ай бұрын
i also th ought this! i love these references
@insertcreativenamehere85544 ай бұрын
I feel like the reason it sends out the first chunk and none other at first is a way of like testing the strength of humanity
@Ravuun4 ай бұрын
I gave this series a shoutout months ago on the Film Theory subreddit, and the only response I got was "???" from another user LOL I don't understand why this one is still so far under the radar, it's really good!!
@juicyparsons4 ай бұрын
to be fair....sometimes the Film Theory audience isn't diving into these series' on their own, I feel like those folks might just consume the surface level analysis of what the Film Theorists recommend
@theaimingbot50414 ай бұрын
homebound was a slap in the face cause it hought this was gonna be a series where humanity has no hope of fighting back then we started clusterbombing mfs
@IcantAIM-wiz2 ай бұрын
What a 300+billion dollar budget does to a military
@canariawing4 ай бұрын
58:54 unsure if the date was on purpose, but with all the references throughout the series, i feel like i should point out that 4/13 is the day homestuck started. also unsure how that could possibly be relevant to midwest angelica but hey it's there
@bioico84584 ай бұрын
I noted that too
@bagredecartola12894 ай бұрын
there are no accidents
@weirdscenechick6764 ай бұрын
in the context of homestuck 4/13 is also when the meteors started falling that ended the world, which feels relevant to the series thematically if nothing else
@crabby26854 ай бұрын
Nice pfp
@swagathachristie52424 ай бұрын
LMAO please let this be revealed to be homestuck fan work at the end pleasssee
@xeinth14 ай бұрын
This series screams John Carpenters “Thing” to me and I love it
@Plxlinixy4 ай бұрын
It's a combo of "Thing", Lain and Evangelion in all the best ways. Especially the Evangelion refs get stronger the more the series goes on and if anything it's like loving tribute to the mystery box of that show. Will we get an insane biomech fight at the end of it all? I dunno. But I'm psyched to find out.
@aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa8324 ай бұрын
I was thinking it was like the flood with its stages
@SSD_Penumbra4 ай бұрын
@@Plxlinixy The Thing, Evangelion and just a sprinkling of some Lovecraft thrown in for good measure
@puppetjewels3D2 ай бұрын
@@Plxlinixy its Lain and Eva if youve literally never watched either series because theres 0 similarity stylistically in any way
@treyebillups86023 ай бұрын
This feels less like analog horror and more like an epic sci fi series in the aesthetic style of analog horror
@jamessword64664 ай бұрын
as a Midwesterner born at the literal end of the year of 1999, this is all true
@xa7stffyu4844 ай бұрын
Little note: i believe the scientist only being able to say Easter is a reference to Chainsaw man, as it is extremely similar to the power of the cosmos fiend, who can make people only be able to say the word Halloween after talking to her. Plus the whole fact it comes from space. Edit: Also, as mentioned in the video, the creator of this series is a big anime fan, and with Chainsaw man being popular.... (Unless this came out before the international assassins ark of csm)
@dartoney4 ай бұрын
No you are indees correct
@blkst4rr._4 ай бұрын
the way this series references every piece of media i’m fixated on is insane😭 just the name alone and classical music bits scream evangelion and IT GOES SO HARD AAGGHHH
@reddie17054 ай бұрын
I love the way you montage all the previous videos, not only is that more watchtime and engagement for you but it makes it easier than going to watch the original then coming back AND it becomes more longform. Definitely keep doing that, it feels very win-win
@ashtonisvibing4 ай бұрын
a nearly hour and a half minaxa video about an analog horror series, right when i'm working on artfight stuff and need such a video? what a wonderful time :3 edit: OBLITERATED
@Eldr1tchGl1tch4 ай бұрын
God I need to work on artfight too. So many references
@dragongirl69164 ай бұрын
me too seriously
@Eldr1tchGl1tch4 ай бұрын
@@dragongirl6916 I blame my exams, have been having exams since the start of June
@kingstonlovely74044 ай бұрын
the hell's artfight
@ChristopherSadlowski4 ай бұрын
What's artfight? Sorry, I'm old and you kids move damn quick. I'm going to need to set up some whiteboards and start making flowcharts to keep track soon! Oh god...I can feel the icy fingers of death reaching out for me...
@Michael_Breiter4 ай бұрын
Project Babylon is obviously using Starkill to become immortal and connect to the Akashic Realm so humanity could stea- utilize the powers of AZ-001 without being controlled. I like how Dr. Churchill says that he now sees the folly of trying to use Starkill for his own gain, then says he's going to keep using Starkill for his own gain. Task failed successfully.
@socialgutbrain77744 ай бұрын
Hey, thanks for introducing me to such a hidden gem! This'll really quench my thirst for body/cosmic/eldritch horror. A horrible tower of still-moving human bodies melded together by a cordyceps-esque alien organism? Oh yeah.
@gods_goofiest_goober4 ай бұрын
All I could think of during the Homebound segment was beating a level of Peggle
@spudlydudly3 ай бұрын
ULTRA EXTREME FEVER!!!
@PinnePon3 ай бұрын
Me too
@w33bfu4 ай бұрын
GOD DAMN this homebound beginning some crazy neon genesis mindfuckery, I LOVE it.
@w33bfu4 ай бұрын
OOOHHHHHH fuck commented early xdd
@Sloaky6344 ай бұрын
Well, HOME Delta and HOME are pretty much a flip of the relationship between NERV and SEELE. Where in EOE SEELE attacks and destroys it's subsidiary NERV, here HOME is "destroyed" by it's subsidiary HOME Delta.
There's also major inspirations from Juni Ito's Remina and ESPECIALLY Army of One
@ImTheGuy4 ай бұрын
If I had a nickel for every analog horror project that was just Evangelion the whole time, I'd have two nickels.
@frednificent4 ай бұрын
After watching Mandela catalogue, I believe it's just a retelling of persona 4
@puppetjewels3D2 ай бұрын
this is literally nothing like Evangelion
@mihaelllkeehlАй бұрын
@@puppetjewels3D (copied from another comment) 45:35 | noticed the phrase "All is right in the world" to be very similar to the slogan of Nerv, the main organization from Evangelion ("God's in his heaven, all's right in the world") and there are lots of similarities with MWA and Evangelion, like the bombing of home hq, the Babylon conversation, the "Audio Only" videos being very similar to the Seele meetings that had the same text in place of the members, etc. Overall its really interesting to think that Evangelion of all things would be an inspiration for analog horror! It extends even further beyond that, like you said with the Babylon conversation essentially being terminal dogma, but especially at the end where Spencer is upright and looking down at Churchill, basically the same as Gendo and Lillith (in terminal dogma). The whole asteroid thing (seeds of life), the cycle (which is a significant plot point that is explored in the rebuilds). The psychic connection / knowledge plane could be seen as an alternative to AT fields and Guf. A lot of the larger creatures resemble Angels There is also some similarity between Home and Home Delta vs NERV and SEELE
@mihaelllkeehlАй бұрын
also the music in the background of the destruction scenes is very similar to end of evangelion with the third impact scene
@puppetjewels3DАй бұрын
@@mihaelllkeehl I meant in a filmmaking way, I don’t think references are enough to make something stylistically comparable to Eva at all
@PhillyCh3zSt3ak4 ай бұрын
There's also another anime reference. The Akashic Records play a pivotal role in the series Fate. The stated goal of all magus in that series is to reach the Root, the Akashic Records, via the Holy Grail which may grant the winning participant pair any wish they desire.
@AkuTenshiiZero3 ай бұрын
Eldritch monsters being bombed while classical music plays and text cards flash on the screen...Yeah, I immediately knew the creator of this is a big Evangelion fan.
Don’t forget about Midwest Peggy’s husband! MIDWEST HANK! And their son Midwest Bobby!
@ven28254 ай бұрын
@@danielclark653 HO YEAH, OBLITERATED.
@alpacaofthemountain87604 ай бұрын
Lol
@lildonutgirl4 ай бұрын
deeply appreciating project Homebound taking place on the Homestuck day
@Fbfjxxifbfvfb4 ай бұрын
Midwest angelica is one of my Favorite analoge horror series
@shoebill49024 ай бұрын
It's like if the thing landed on America instead of antarctica
@busyg674 ай бұрын
@@shoebill4902honestly the best description I’ve heard of this series (in a good day ofc)
@reddytoplay91884 ай бұрын
whats enjoyable is that the threat can be countered and the real battle wasn't castle defense against an overwhelming monstrosity but a huge game of chess or werewolf
@evieford75574 ай бұрын
As a Nebraskan this series is absolute peak. There being some absolute cosmic horror landing in the most boring place in America is just great. I discovered this a while ago and I’m always checking the channel for the next video.
@tux_duh4 ай бұрын
The symbols home uses for their logo is always fascinating to me and nobody seems to notice. The first one is a bind-rune, with the ice and the sky meaning, I assume space. Then the second one is the alchemical symbol for Earth. I assume it shows where the spatial body is at the time of filming. Also admiral Nero. Nero was an emperor in the Roman times, sort of known for punishing/torturing Christians, he's actually the reason 666 is a bad number, it's Bassically his initials. Anyways Nero is Pagan like the followers of Azazel, Home's corruption was beautifully forshadowed
@asuris26464 ай бұрын
Another really cool reference is that around 1:02:24, the zerg structure death sound from StarCraft is played. The Zerg from StarCraft are a hivemind of living organisms that go planet to planet assimilating and consuming life, horrifically mutilating and mutating these lifeforms to fit the needs of the Zerg Overmind. Exactly like the Starkill infection. Starkill is also a reference to starkiller from star wars, i believe
@maybenot92894 ай бұрын
Thats actually not the zerg building death sound its the drone hatching sound.
@asuris26464 ай бұрын
@@maybenot9289 OHH YOU RIGHT still zerg though! :D
@DewyProductionsVHS4 ай бұрын
HOME probably even named AZ-001's Starkill after the Starkiller.
@tartarusempress15834 ай бұрын
love that half of the details he worked out were just because "yeah the creator is a fuckin weeb and i can tell. anyways heres what those references probably mean."
@Crowbywhoaby4 ай бұрын
So many eva references like wow it's actually almost so many it's insane, and also blade runner with the sin test, among others, what a great series
@fritzfam54 ай бұрын
3:09 PLEASE dont call the number its some random person, the OP edited it out because he did not realize it was a real numbwr
@katchu.4 ай бұрын
What the... 3mins ago? I was just rewatched the redemption of the joy of creation
@LeeY0uTube4 ай бұрын
I highly recommend looking at the analog horror series by Unothrodox Kitten, I am unsure if the series has a name officially but one of its more recent videos "Existence no longer exists" blew up somewhat a while back. Its a very abstract and visually appealing short series (as of right now).
@TheOldEverglades4 ай бұрын
YES, glad somebody else knows! It's like, based around math for some reason
@bajambus90913 ай бұрын
Where meth pig Lee, what did you do to her?
@LeeY0uTube3 ай бұрын
@@TheOldEverglades yeah it’s heavily related to math and the existence of essentially an AI god and how it influences humanity in the far future (at least what I can tell)
@TheOldEverglades3 ай бұрын
@@LeeY0uTube cool
@SinisterHeart4 ай бұрын
Thanks for the shout out! Excellent analysis!
@soda79984 ай бұрын
41:27 The rapid countdowns, big explosive visuals and titanic creatures of biblical proportion. The white text on black flashing rapidly. This part specifically reminds me a lot of Neon Genesis : Evangelion because of those reasons, really cool!
@wastingtime14414 ай бұрын
Man i’ve been a fan of this series for a year now and i’ve been waiting for more people to cover it. It’s so well done and deserves more attention especially with season 2 coming
@ViviGayming4 ай бұрын
The moment you said he was trying to tap into the plane of infinite knowledge, the first thing I said was 'Halloween?" out loud. I love the person working on this. The panel of Cosmo reading is in my Wallpaper Engine playlist Edit: GOD DAMMIT JOJO REFERENCE AND I MISSED IT
@theblorg26374 ай бұрын
the song during the first part of homebound is also used in evangelion either while kaworu infiltrates central dogma or when the 9th angel is forcing the cast to relive their worst memories, i cannot remember and i cannot be bothered to look it up
@mateuszbanaszak46714 ай бұрын
59:41 I love how JoJo's is build on references, and nobody can stop themselves from referencing it.
@kalehakaido5614 ай бұрын
Homebound's editing is giving Evangelion UI with the flashing obliterated and the heaven music
@caydeofspaydes4 ай бұрын
Very clever you used HOME’s music for this. I adore Randy’s work.
@PinkAgaricus4 ай бұрын
Also, I find the names Solomon and Vega important as Solomon is a reference to the biblical King Solomon and Vega is one half of the constellation Altair and Vega. I know that Beta and Gamma along with the Greek alphabet also refers to radio waves, gamma is also a setting for something in photo editing.
@jlo99934 ай бұрын
dude!!! the SIN protocol is a reference to the voight-kampff test from blade runner too!! it's where they ask replicants (androids that look like humans) questions that only humans could answer naturally to pick out who's a replicant
@jjcandelabra61644 ай бұрын
Bro got Chainsaw man'd by the Akashik Plane, only to repeat "Easter" like Santa learning everything in the world only to say "Halloween"
@jacobmcmillan48684 ай бұрын
LETS GOOOOOOOOO Fr rewatched you Midwest Angelica video recently and was just like "I hope he makes a follow up video for this"
@MothFable3 ай бұрын
Homebound is peak. Seeing an eldritch monster get repeatedly napalmed to classical music is just incredible
@SchmoatyYT4 ай бұрын
I got caught off guard by the background music you use because for a second I thought I had my Spotify playlist and the video on at the same time and it uncannily synced up with each other
@takke98302 ай бұрын
Little note. „Present day Present time“ is a phrase originally from the intro of the anime/multimedia project called „serial experiments lain“. The anime, much like evangelion is part of the subversive almost art house like anime coming from a period in japan where anime studios were giving their show runners total conplete freedom of the shows they were asked to make. Wich in turn made evangelion and also lain the subversive widely beloved shows from that time. And it does make sense too because both of them chose to not just be regular shows but instead they became deeply thoughtful artworks of self exploration, phylosophy, self expression of the artists as well as very timeless explorations of the medium. Eva is all about the struggle between duty, human connection and the pain of it that drives us into loneliness while lain is a 2 part series of the typical alice in wonderland format but with a twist of technology and how it could create new versions of yourself and also transform you into something god like. I especially recommend lain cause it is so cool and also wild in how much it predicted back when it was made and the internet was still super new. It basically predicted online identity, community, online obsessions and also fake news and how it may cause everyone to go crazy. As a little note on the 2 versions of lain (wich i do recommend experiencing both) the anime is basically the story with a positive „happy ending“ while the psx game of lain is the same story with minor differences and also a dark tragic ending. But both work up to transendence ultimately. The anime is about figuring out your identity and about a girl becoming a new person through the internet she accesses out of curiousity after a classmate supposedly offed herself thanks to the internet in their universe while the ps1 game is about a girl with mental illness, specifically schizophrenia, seeing a therapist and her and her therapist trying to work on her issues while lain also discovers herself while accessing the internet. Bot of these have a plot twist halfway into the series so i don‘r wanna explain it further. However, for the ps1 version, i would recommend the video on psx lain by the channel „hazel“ cause u def need a bit of a tutorial to play it cause the interface of the game and the way it is basically showing you the story is very weird and off putting. It‘s basically less of a game and more of a weird digital archive where you gotta basically swim upsteam to learn about the story and the information in the audio logs you listen to is very dense at times and can also become very emotionally distressing at times so be careful playing that one. If this at all sounds interesting, check em out cause they are incredible works of art. And in a sea of trashy and cheaply made and written anime, those 2 are gems you rarely find in the modern day industry.
@Nightgod2844 ай бұрын
Extra reference in the first interlude episode, injecting the fluid into the spine is literally attack on titans entire central plot lol
@leftymclefterson5824 ай бұрын
>Babylon Project >Starkill OMG BABYLON 5 REFERENCES WHAT A FUCKING MASTERPEICE THE CREATOR OF MIDWEST ANGELICA HAS AMAZING TASTES
@EJaDav3 ай бұрын
42:27 This segment was unironically the funniest shit I’ve ever seen in an analog horror series ever.
@MisterBones29103 ай бұрын
Being that you mentioned the Eva allusions I should also mention that the towers of assimilated people resemble a mix of visuals from Eva and the end of another film that Anno worked on; Shin Godzilla. EDIT: The "S.I.N. Test" is the Voight-Kampff test from the original Bladerunner, including the "is this part of the test" and "just answer the question" lines as well as it not going well for the man administering the test.
@mysticthemanakete4 ай бұрын
WHY DOES HOMEBOUND HAVE ME LAUGHING!? XD I dunno if it's the date 4/13 having other online references to me, the sudden 'KABOOM, PEW PEW, ACTION MOVIE' tonal switch, or the fact it's scored to Ode To Joy which now just makes me want to play fucking Peggle again, but the overall effect is just wild lmfao
@KeeeKeeedemon4 ай бұрын
So the significance of the Tornado Warning at the end of the tape, and the fact it was found in Oklahoma, may have to do with the May 3rd 1999 F5 that hit the suburbs of Oklahoma City, It is to this day considered the most powerful tornado ever recorded.
@thevoicesaregettinglouder164 ай бұрын
Imagine going through a modern extinction level event and immediately having hollywood make films anout it
@DanielKay064 ай бұрын
I never even put together that the universe of MWA must be a post apocalypse trying to recover information about that events. Great analysis and summary :D
@averyclark16094 ай бұрын
Long form horror content? Yes please.
@jackmcfarland37383 ай бұрын
1:01:00 I don't know if this is a reference or not, but this test seems very similar to the Voight-Kampff test in Bladerunner. The test was to see if the person being tested was a replicant according to their answers and emotional responses. The scene with the close-up of Vega's and Ezra's eye is reminiscent of the device Blade Runners used to track pupil dilation. This video was amazing! It was straightforward, and covered all the important details without missing on anything. I also love that you managed to recognize the several references and inspirations in the series. The series itself is honestly just awesome too, it's like if an anime fan made The Thing into an analog horror. Great work to you, and great work to the creator of Midwest Angelica. Has to be one of my all-time favorite Unfiction webseries.
@Arctic79854 ай бұрын
56:40 Chainsawman mentioned "HALLOWEEN!!"
@SSD_Penumbra4 ай бұрын
I love the way this series goes from "Oh god cosmic horror" to "YOU FUCKED WITH THE WRONG APES" real quick. STATUS: OBLITERATED
@m0keen4 ай бұрын
“How big” smash next question
@chloemiller657Ай бұрын
Lord this series is just anime reference after pop culture reference all wrapped up in a body and cosmic horror blanket I adore it and I adore your breakdown of it so far!
@frednificent4 ай бұрын
The ode to joy music turns this analog horror into evangelion
@rubberdoots19794 ай бұрын
Great video man! Spencer and churchill are references to Fuyutsuki and gendo from evangelion. Gendo is the director of NERV and throughout the story it is hinted that he knows more about what's going on than is explicitly stated. So I imagine churchill is the same. I STRONGLY recommend Evangelion. Covering this series without watching evangelion is doing you a disservice to this video. The '97 anime is like 26ish episodes of perfection. I'd recommend starting with the 97 anime and "the end of evangelion". Love your work!
@diablotry51544 ай бұрын
25 and 26 are a bit rough but that's what EoE is for. Also while that comparison with Gendo and Churchill etc is true, the last scene is more reminiscent of Gendo and Lillith in Terminal Dogma, which the infection of Spencer probably alludes to (as Lillith takes on Adam and Rei like Spencer took on the infection)
@rubberdoots19794 ай бұрын
True I didnt notice the tower of babel/lilith parallel. It's so obvious lol. The references run deep with this one
@Sleepy-Pile-of-Ashe4 ай бұрын
Babe wake up!! Minaxa posted an over hour long video and I've got art to make 😂😂
@moxxym4 ай бұрын
I was born on 25th of april 1999, can't believe I missed one of the greatest horrors in human history by just a couple months
@Eldr1tchGl1tch4 ай бұрын
I'm a simple nb, I see minaxa uploaded, I click.
@sinisterboxx59584 ай бұрын
this series was SCREAMING evangelion to me and i did not expect minaxa to mention it i genuinely gasped
@razifixations4 ай бұрын
i love how this series has the most obvious homestuck ref in it and its driving me insane
@IV-an4 ай бұрын
Does it?
@lilylohmann6144 ай бұрын
I need an explanation, but I am not sure if I am strong enough to hear it.
@noahfan27194 ай бұрын
my assumption is the 4/13 date as that is a very important date in the webcomic (it’s the funny egbert kid’s birthday)
@razifixations4 ай бұрын
@@noahfan2719 that and the project is called homebound
@fauxgodling4 ай бұрын
@@lilylohmann614 4/13 is the day the meteors fell and destroyed the world in homestuck
@Gibby420694 ай бұрын
I NEVER, expected a discussion about CSM characters in a analog horror analysis video, and due to the current timing it got a good chuckle out of me
@NOOBHAMMER30004 ай бұрын
Another point: Easter in 1999 fell on April 4th.
@ReallySimpleRich3 ай бұрын
Love how there're so many great anime references that are used interestingly
@goombino_4 ай бұрын
Let’s gooo, someone is finally covering the best analog horror project
@HungerGamesFan004 ай бұрын
feels like "KNOWLEDGE" and "BETRAYS" is gonna continue into a sentence
@hikikomori60054 ай бұрын
midwest angelica is such a cool and unique concept to me, i wish it was more popular
@auirex45574 ай бұрын
I love that it uses KMBC9 for the Kansas City broadcast. That's so sick