Midwest Angelica: An Analog Horror Masterpiece

[@3s7acad0]

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

[@WobblesandBean]

'MURRIKA, FEK YEAH!

[@yourtimetraveleralara]

Yeah me too.

[@jimfromdiscord.8904]

"First blood!" "Double kill!" "Triple kill!" "Rampage!" "...Holy shit..."

[@inkyaquarium]

I had to get a clip of it to show my friends because it's just so damn funny to me

[@user-ky8du8lk7l]

'Starkill's veins contain oil'

[@superscaryguy01]

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.

[@thebasedspectre3048]

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

[@PinnePon]

I thought it was a reference to peggle. The implications are strange

[@cheemsburbger5326]

@@thebasedspectre3048 *billion lol

[@boofy1347]

starkill got OWNED

[@JasperFoolish]

Oh my god the fucking ODE TO JOY playing over the destruction of those things triggered evangelion PTSD

[@TenSoldierYT]

I completely feel thats. I heard the music and i immediately thought of Eva with the VHS Obliterated messages.

[@themai8]

thx you for saying it i was thinkin im going crazy but 41:31 rly just was a big evangelion ptsd 😭

[@themai8]

@@TenSoldierYT THAT VHS IS TO SIMILAR RIGHTTT 😭

[@PinnePon]

Huh? It's not a peggle reference?

[@themai8]

@@PinnePon idk waht peggle is but i can ashure you its not its evangelion

[@joshs4441]

If the universe is SOOOO big, then why won't it fight me?

[@ArtemisAYO]

No hands 😔

[@phoenixmarktwo]

It does. With depression.

[@rodrickplum2989]

THOTHHHHH THE EGYPTIAN GOD OF KNOWLEDGE

[@emmersonrobinson8176]

​@@phoenixmarktwo😐

[@pteroid11]

Fly me to the moon and let me kick it’s fuckin’ ass~

[@jasonhunter2819]

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!

[@thesealsharkproductions9780]

I just thought its one of those times classic music is played over stuff exploding for cinematic effect.

[@methoruu]

Dawg. As soon i heard Ode to Joy with that explosion, I literally remembered everything I've seen so far of Evangelion, like, wth-

[@socialgutbrain7774]

Huh, I was wondering why that felt oddly familiar.

[@otakusnorex3724]

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 :(

[@jasonhunter2819]

@@otakusnorex3724 ALL art is iteration...he just didn't really iterate some of it as much as other parts

[@mogusman3]

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.

[@tarnetskygge]

It's basically the Voight-Kampff test from Blade Runner, I'm surprised he didn't pick up that reference.

[@DaveMiller6042]

This should have way more likes

[@pickleskpg]

@@tarnetskygge "Is this a part of the test"

[@Eternal_Motion1]

@@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

[@Viftie]

I legitimately thought Ezra was just really autistic at first lmao

[@TheLapisFreak]

I love Midwest Angelica since it's the only analog horror where the 1999 US Military makes use of its 300 billion dollar budget and goes RAHHHHHH🦅🦅💥💥💥

[@slippyfruit8538]

RAAAAAHHH💥💥💥🦅🦅🦅🦅🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

[@RipRLeeErmey]

RAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH 🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅💥💥💥💥💥💥🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🗽🗽🗽🗽🗽🗽🗽🗽🏈🏈🏈🏈🏈🏈🏈🏈

[@electricisnthereatthemomen6535]

WHAT THE FUCK IS A KILOMETERRRRRR

[@Moosesquatch]

RAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH 🦅 🦅 🦅 🦅 🦅 🦅 🦅 🦅 🦅 🦅

[@fluffybunnies1638]

MY TAX DOLLARS GO TO EXPLOSIVES 🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

[@jovindsouza3407]

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

[@Pepsiandmilkbutalsopalindrome]

You know the rules and so do i

[@Hencai]

Me too

[@Gingermation]

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.

[@dominicburch2374]

​@@Pepsiandmilkbutalsopalindrome A full commitment is what I'm thinking of, you wouldn't get this from, any other guy

[@cupcakejack7375]

@@dominicburch2374 I wanna tell you what I'm feeling Gotta make you understand

[@LowQualityStuffzies]

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.")*

[@juicyparsons]

🥲🥲🥲🥲

[@not-so-obvious_autism777]

What exactly is analog horror?

[@LowQualityStuffzies]

​@@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

[@juicyparsons]

@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

[@erickcastaneda9589]

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.

[@laviemme2082]

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.

[@Sloaky634]

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.

[@kireinakirakira]

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

[@thesabzin]

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.

[@awesomejman5995]

Love your American Superevent TNO video btw

[@SpinSurgery]

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.

[@kanseidorifto2430]

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.

[@biggreen1456]

I didnt notice most of those anime references, not picking up on "phantom blood" kills me more than anything else

[@kanseidorifto2430]

Definitely a personal favorite, that’s for sure

[@TyreseBibbs-md5vy]

Kono dio da

[@umrayquazashinyapareceu1672]

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

[@nope5363]

And somehow Joseph would beat both.

[@DriedJizzSock]

@@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*

[@slideways_sideways1803]

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_LPH]

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 >:)

[@swagathachristie5242]

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.

[@SirFailure]

​@@swagathachristie5242The Incomprehensible abyss first experience with humanity after a long time (at least for us) is animes. "Lmao" is my only response

[@craz2580]

Casually exploding things with classical music is great

[@aloofdefloof]

put on psy war op, make it loud!

[@PinnePon]

Peggle extreme fever

[@Vekten]

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.

[@TheSynthPunk]

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_Dogg]

yeah we’re (humanity) definitely at least giving it a good effort in this one.

[@cephaleaorion4888]

"you see that thing?" "YES SIR" "i don't want to" "YES SIR"

[@drdino2002]

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.

[@emailzack2177]

I kind of hate how they just take away the victory instanly how its still winning and you it did nothing, kind of felt really lazy

[@catmanmliolunny]

considering how the descriptions actually mention how these tapes are such are being, *recovered* implies that humanity, evenually won. otherwise, who else is recovering these things?

[@vallidbullithead]

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

[@seafoamtaide]

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

[@liamwhite3522]

@@vallidbullithead It is the case that, ever so often, humanity recreates Homestuck.

[@theasexualidiot4803]

Damn you. You made me remember homestuck.

[@gendbh5652]

lmao I caught on when they labeled the playlist as act 1

[@KanadianKaiser]

​@@liamwhite3522everything is either ska or homestuck

[@drakath5727]

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.

[@utellmewhatitshouldbe7912]

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.

[@Ilikemikespike]

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).

[@utellmewhatitshouldbe7912]

@@Ilikemikespike terrifying stuff

[@sairus3239]

@Ilikemikespike not to mention that humanoid creature with a large head obliterated later was called by the farm family last name.

[@JakeLuis-k8u]

My favorite part of this video is the part when minexa says "we are the Midwest and we will stop you Angelica"

[@iforgot5651]

Minor spelling mistake

[@notanaveragedoktah8390]

ANGELICA??? IS THIS A LIBRARY OF RUINA REFERENCE???

[@topcatfan]

​@@notanaveragedoktah8390no it's a rugrats reference

[@GreenFeatherGuy]

LIBRARY OF RUINA MENTIONED

[@zyxzzzz_]

@@notanaveragedoktah8390 you must gangam….like I have…..

[@DragonaxFilms]

I couldn't help laughing at the strobing "OBLITERATED" text, it reminded me of old montage parodies xD

[@theasexualidiot4803]

It’s like they’re rubbing it in with hubris!

[@Luke4reals]

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"

[@flarys6732]

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

[@lauramonjas3131]

i mean America is the capital of the world, every alien tourist knows it

[@terminator9489]

​@@lauramonjas3131Wdym ? There's only America, the rest is just water

[@AmaryInkawult]

@@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!!!

[@lazyreal6024]

the data and predictions are limited to america

[@ampix4669]

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!

[@diablotry5154]

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

[@mihaelllkeehl]

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

[@SirFailure]

​@@mihaelllkeehlphantom blood of Phantom Blood (jjba part 1)

[@mihaelllkeehl]

@@SirFailure perfect timing bro i’m watching jjba right now (im on part 3)

[@SirFailure]

@@mihaelllkeehl cool, hope you have a great time

[@NightWarriorX4]

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.

[@lazyasstoad]

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

[@Heartsrepeat]

Please this would be such a good reference

[@trainlyappurus]

it’s actually a reference to Chainsaw Man, specifically the fiend Cosmo. She can flood anyone’s mind with the knowledge of anything in the universe, and the victim can only say Halloween after. It even affected Cosmo.

[@SpecialInterestShow]

Holy shit how did I never notice that the dude literally MELTS

[@cerebralcloud92]

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.

[@asuris2646]

It's also a LOT like the Zerg from Starcraft. Then again, so is the Flood.

[@akirahisui-lucario5636]

@@asuris2646the starkills also honestly remind me of Lavos from Chrono Trigger.

[@insertcreativenamehere8554]

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

[@treyebillups8602]

This feels less like analog horror and more like an epic sci fi series in the aesthetic style of analog horror

[@theaimingbot5041]

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-wiz]

What a 300+billion dollar budget does to a military

[@RRed19]

@@IcantAIM-wiz Say what you want about America, that we’re violent, we have no healthcare, etc. But when there is a threat to us (or really anyone on this planet under our protection) we will render that threats existence past tense.

[@canariawing]

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

[@bioico8458]

I noted that too

[@bagredecartola1289]

there are no accidents

[@weirdscenechick676]

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

[@crabby2685]

Nice pfp

[@swagathachristie5242]

LMAO please let this be revealed to be homestuck fan work at the end pleasssee

[@Ravuun]

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!!

[@juicyparsons]

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

[@prism2900]

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 😅

[@bluejerseydevil7398]

was thinking the same thing, almost commented too lol

[@ProxyMoron]

@@prism2900 I WAS LOOKING FOR THIS-

[@noodlegirl8180]

i also th ought this! i love these references

[@blkst4rr._]

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

[@xa7stffyu484]

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)

[@dartoney]

No you are indees correct

[@xeinth1]

This series screams John Carpenters “Thing” to me and I love it

[@Plxlinixy]

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.

[@aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa832]

I was thinking it was like the flood with its stages

[@SSD_Penumbra]

@@Plxlinixy The Thing, Evangelion and just a sprinkling of some Lovecraft thrown in for good measure

[@puppetjewels3D]

@@Plxlinixy its Lain and Eva if youve literally never watched either series because theres 0 similarity stylistically in any way

[@Michael_Breiter]

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.

[@reddie1705]

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

[@asuris2646]

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

[@maybenot9289]

Thats actually not the zerg building death sound its the drone hatching sound.

[@asuris2646]

@@maybenot9289 OHH YOU RIGHT still zerg though! :D

[@DewyProductionsVHS]

HOME probably even named AZ-001's Starkill after the Starkiller.

[@aria5614]

There's also major inspirations from Juni Ito's Remina and ESPECIALLY Army of One

[@socialgutbrain7774]

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.

[@jamessword6466]

as a Midwesterner born at the literal end of the year of 1999, this is all true

[@evieford7557]

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.

[@ashtonisvibing]

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

[@Eldr1tchGl1tch]

God I need to work on artfight too. So many references

[@dragongirl6916]

me too seriously

[@Eldr1tchGl1tch]

@@dragongirl6916 I blame my exams, have been having exams since the start of June

[@Kinglovinstone]

the hell's artfight

[@ChristopherSadlowski]

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...

[@gods_goofiest_goober]

All I could think of during the Homebound segment was beating a level of Peggle

[@spudlydudly]

ULTRA EXTREME FEVER!!!

[@PinnePon]

Me too

[@SinisterHeart]

Thanks for the shout out! Excellent analysis!

[@fritzfam5]

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

[@CynnamonSpyder]

ikr? c'mon people, wtf

[@lildonutgirl]

deeply appreciating project Homebound taking place on the Homestuck day

[@Crowbywhoaby]

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

[@ImTheGuy]

If I had a nickel for every analog horror project that was just Evangelion the whole time, I'd have two nickels.

[@frednificent]

After watching Mandela catalogue, I believe it's just a retelling of persona 4

[@puppetjewels3D]

this is literally nothing like Evangelion

[@mihaelllkeehl]

@@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

[@mihaelllkeehl]

also the music in the background of the destruction scenes is very similar to end of evangelion with the third impact scene

[@puppetjewels3D]

@@mihaelllkeehl I meant in a filmmaking way, I don’t think references are enough to make something stylistically comparable to Eva at all

[@LeeY0uTube]

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).

[@TheOldEverglades]

YES, glad somebody else knows! It's like, based around math for some reason

[@bajambus9091]

Where meth pig Lee, what did you do to her?

[@LeeY0uTube]

@@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)

[@TheOldEverglades]

@@LeeY0uTube cool

[@wastingtime1441]

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

[@roguekiller7465]

So Im curious if anyone else thought maybe the reason why Nero destroyed everything was because he wanted to be the sole conduit of Azazel, possibly having to do with how his body was techno-organic, rather than being soley organic, allowing him to have his own will while still being connected to the hivemind. Otherwise I cant understand why he would defy the angels wish to recreate gods realm by destroying several vectors of infection. Plus, this makes sense since he is in command of Home Delta, one of the only ways to command a force large enough and knowledgable enough to destroy other vectors of infection. This also explains why the primary form then released a new chunk to earth, so that it could continue its goal while recently having completed its goal of spreading forbidden knowledge.

[@jackmcfarland3738]

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.

[@w33bfu]

GOD DAMN this homebound beginning some crazy neon genesis mindfuckery, I LOVE it.

[@w33bfu]

OOOHHHHHH fuck commented early xdd

[@Sloaky634]

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.

[@w33bfu]

@@Sloaky634 ooohhh right, didn't realize it, thanks!

[@takke9830]

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.

[@chloemiller657]

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!

[@mateuszbanaszak4671]

59:41 I love how JoJo's is build on references, and nobody can stop themselves from referencing it.

[@Fbfjxxifbfvfb]

Midwest angelica is one of my Favorite analoge horror series

[@shoebill4902]

It's like if the thing landed on America instead of antarctica

[@busyg67]

@@shoebill4902honestly the best description I’ve heard of this series (in a good day ofc)

[@reddytoplay9188]

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

[@jovialSpecter]

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."

[@PhillyCh3zSt3ak]

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.

[@Schmoaty]

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

[@jspaatz]

Midwest Angelicaaaaa~ Midwest ELIIIZAAAAA~ *and Midwest Peggy!*

[@foxmountain8065]

The analog sisters.

[@danielclark653]

Don’t forget about Midwest Peggy’s husband! MIDWEST HANK! And their son Midwest Bobby!

[@ven2825]

@@danielclark653 HO YEAH, OBLITERATED.

[@alpacaofthemountain8760]

Lol

[@tux_duh]

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

[@CynnamonSpyder]

yeah, no mention of what the symbols actually mean?

[@ViviGayming]

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

[@jlo9993]

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

[@EJaDav]

42:27 This segment was unironically the funniest shit I’ve ever seen in an analog horror series ever.

[@adlaw0000]

caller: "pagans are over here sacrificing humans in some sort of fucked up ritual" dispatch: "okie dokie thanks for calling be there in a jiffy"

[@kalehakaido561]

Homebound's editing is giving Evangelion UI with the flashing obliterated and the heaven music

[@caydeofspaydes]

Very clever you used HOME’s music for this. I adore Randy’s work.

[@BUGFlower413]

1:06:02 i may be tripping but with the amount of references there are in this series the fact the Homebound project started specifically on 4/13 seems really curious to me bc of how similar the cadence of Homebound is to Homestuck, a webcomic in which the date 4/13 and number 413 shows up a LOT of times in a lot of places. if it was a coincidence then it was a wild one EDIT: also the fact the project has to do with dropping projectiles from the sky causing explosions, and event that in the comic happens with meteors during 4/13

[@jacobmcmillan4868]

LETS GOOOOOOOOO Fr rewatched you Midwest Angelica video recently and was just like "I hope he makes a follow up video for this"

[@tylersutton3224]

Midwest Angelica going full Evangelion is such a buckwild move I can't not respect it immensely.

[@jjcandelabra6164]

Bro got Chainsaw man'd by the Akashik Plane, only to repeat "Easter" like Santa learning everything in the world only to say "Halloween"

[@Nightgod284]

Extra reference in the first interlude episode, injecting the fluid into the spine is literally attack on titans entire central plot lol

[@sammowastaken]

pulling out the Death Note "that man was a death row inmate" was cool tho

[@JohnDoe-zh8tj]

Your videos are awesome! I love listening to them while I fish at like 4 in the morning (increases the spookiness a little bit)

[@alexthepotman]

10:48, he's begging for mercy, turn on captions

[@YeetTheMeme]

At this point, with the amount of Anime references, I wouldn't be surprised if naming the project Bablyon was a reference to Arknights, especially with that logo.

[@auirex4557]

I love that it uses KMBC9 for the Kansas City broadcast. That's so sick

[@ReallySimpleRich]

Love how there're so many great anime references that are used interestingly

[@HungerGamesFan00]

feels like "KNOWLEDGE" and "BETRAYS" is gonna continue into a sentence

[@kopykat9993]

The homebound bit got me wheezing, that montage was deeply hillarious and very well done on part of the creator.

[@PinkAgaricus]

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.

[@DanielKay06]

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

[@leftymclefterson582]

>Babylon Project >Starkill OMG BABYLON 5 REFERENCES WHAT A FUCKING MASTERPEICE THE CREATOR OF MIDWEST ANGELICA HAS AMAZING TASTES

[@MothFable]

Homebound is peak. Seeing an eldritch monster get repeatedly napalmed to classical music is just incredible

[@MagpieStarling]

This really reminds me of the Scape And Run mod for minecraft where your world would slowly become more and more "ASSIMILATED" and filled with infected mobs that have a pretty similar design.

[@fabiospasiano9885]

The virgin Mandela Catalogue: “Oh no Gabriel is replacing our toddlers with alternates we are gonna die” The Chad Midwest Angelica: “WE WENT TO WAR WITH GOD AND WE FUCKING WON”

[@hikikomori6005]

midwest angelica is such a cool and unique concept to me, i wish it was more popular

[@saab-draken]

Its one of my favourite analog horror and its so underrated for how good it is

[@KeeeKeeedemon]

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.

[@GitHecct]

I noticed another Evangelion reference in the video "BULLETIN", if you listen to the music carefully, you hear the general tune of "Fly Me To The Moon", one of the ED's, though there's definitely extra notes added (probably for legal distinction): 29:13

[@TenSoldierYT]

41:40 through 42:32 gave me hella Evangelion vibes and i love it. Honestly the whole HOME and HOME Delta just feels like NERV, all the way down to them both having the phrase "alls right with the world"

[@puppetjewels3D]

its all just references, its not actually anything like Eva in a fundamental filmmaking way

[@TenSoldierYT]

@@puppetjewels3D and that's what makes it awesome. I loved the vibes. Brought me back to when I first started watching anime an getting into all of this stuff

[@puppetjewels3D]

@@TenSoldierYT I think it’s more comparable to 2000s Xbox shooter games, back when aliens were the big thing, it has the same amount of cheese and silly seriousness as those

[@TenSoldierYT]

@@puppetjewels3D y'know what, That's also completely valid. I like that

[@Gibby42069]

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

[@soda7998]

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!

[@SSD_Penumbra]

I love the way this series goes from "Oh god cosmic horror" to "YOU FUCKED WITH THE WRONG APES" real quick. STATUS: OBLITERATED

[@crewkid52]

I love Midwest Angelica to death. That being said, I wonder if anyone's put clips of this to Cruel Angel's Thesis yet

[@ShootingStarNeo]

Personally, I’d cut this to Decisive Battle from Eva’s OST, lol.

[@thevoicesaregettinglouder16]

Imagine going through a modern extinction level event and immediately having hollywood make films anout it

[@averyclark1609]

Long form horror content? Yes please.

[@eisernerrundfunk1]

to put the Somg "Ode an die Freude / Freude schöner Götterfunke" on the footage where the Monster is about to get OBLITERATED" is unironicaly genious!👌from now on, I will see The lines "your magic binds again what fashion has severely divided, all people become brothers where your gentle wing rests" in a whole new lite. 😅- AWE video !