Respect The Art of Animation - Stop These Adaptations | SPOILER FREE

An analysis and commentary about the landscape of animation and live-action adaptations. Included is everything from Avatar The Last Airbender, Attack on Titan and Death Note.
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[@UnderwhelmingUnicorn]

I couldn't have said it better myself. Animation is arguably the most powerful form of art on the planet and it has been used to create some of the most beautiful stories ever told.

[@Ismael-kc3ry]

That’s.. a bit of a stretch

[@kilnareth7970]

@@Ismael-kc3ry It has though, objectively. The amount of animations where I genuinely felt strong emotions are more compared to live action.

[@Ismael-kc3ry]

@@kilnareth7970 that is literally the most subjective reason ever holy shit bro, that’s not what objective means 😭

[@JustAcritic]

Hope you guys enjoy this video!

[@nicholasprimich1498]

This needs more attention. Very well thought out and the AoT hype section was amazing. Keep up the good work

[@JustAcritic]

Thank you, I appreciate the kind words!

[@Dcuniverse60]

​@@JustAcriticamination is not gonna be everyone not just amination dont get its reconigiton it should everyone has thier taste in films you know am not wone of those amination is for kids or it should not be in nominated for best picture but like i said its gonna work for majorty people its just the way ut is 😊

[@frodobaggins941]

Avatar and AoT in one video, heck yeah

[@xyzLqrs]

This video is so well done, from cuts to music and script perfect! I am really mad that your videos are not seen by millions of people. It should be a fact that Arcane or Attack on Titan are necessary to be seen in school or a classic for centuries...

[@JustAcritic]

Thank you! Means a lot

[@princerawat4297]

I want anime like attack on titan or other beautifully crafted and popular story driven animation shows in my kid's GK book!!

[@animefreak7521]

This guy produce one of the highest quality videos about analysis and criticism, and one that has truly put an effort into making these, yet surprisingly does not gain popularity that he deserve. Mad Respec man!

[@Kaplykos]

That love letter to Attack on Titan in the middle of the video almost got me tearing up

[@asherxssess2559]

This video should be the official trailer for anime.

[@barney3444]

This kinda feels like a thinly veiled excuse to have another video celebrating aot... and I'm all for it

[@SAGEjutsu]

Cheers 🦅🦅

[@wigglebot765]

Phenomenal vid, I agree with practically every point you bring up. AoT compilations genuinely give me chills just thinking about how well designed that entire package is from every angle

[@KatLaurangeArt]

You are speaking my heart here. Animation has limitless storytelling potential, and it's a sorrow that so few people seem to see that.

[@amangautam1831]

7:04 Putting this timestamp here so i can come back and hype myself up.

[@elizabethfenelon7922]

You single-handedly picked out my absolute favorite shows for this video! I have had similar thoughts/frustrations as to why animation has so little respect in the West -which is why this video really hit home. I’m interested in seeing the history of animation snubs in Hollywood now (I understand I am signing up for some bad feels, lol) Great video as always!

[@astrokris2097]

This video needs more attention, come on KZbin algorithm

[@detpistonsff7]

Incredible work here sir! It feels like this video has taken many of the swirling thoughts in my head, that I cannot pin down and articulate, and you've taken them and laid them out perfectly. Also, even though your channel is titled "JustACritic", I can feel the passion and love you have for good art and storytelling. I respect that so much over the plethora of KZbinrs out there that whine and critique incessantly about shit that doesn't really even matter. Your stuff needs more views! And you need more subscribers (you've earned another from me).

[@sodathejunker]

Beautiful and profound video. One of my largest gripes with the industry right now is that, in an effort to justify and bring up the quality of these “live action adaptions”, they are constantly forced to rely more and more on CGi animation. And ironically it not only always comes off as uncanny, but the most constant rebuke ends up being the entire thing should have been animated top to bottom. Financial gains aside, as an art form it’s a true failure to create these adaptions, shove tons of animation into them anyways to “recreate iconic moments”, and then still fail to be even remotely as impressive in artistry and creativity as the original hand-drawn media.

[@sodathejunker]

And let it be known, ARCANE and Spiderverse’s success was due to being embraced by people from all ages and walks of life. Those 2 CGi productions were juggernauts because rather than trying to simply adapt material into 3D, they tried completely unique styles, and relied HEAVILY on classic traditional animation techniques to breath life into all the characters and scenes. Techniques that are simply forgotten or even ignored in most Live action adaptions. A shame, when animators are always on the other end taking the best bits of live action film tricks and repurposing those ideas for their own use.

[@mataharii161]

this video was so ridiculously high quality I am appalled at how little recognition this has

[@nagisafurukawa2083]

The biggest anime Studio that makes me Absolutely fall in love with animation and that is Kyoto Animation, the teams there make some of the most beautiful looking anime of all time like A Silent Voice, Violet Evergarden, and Clannad. These anime also have the most beautiful stories ever told in the animation medium, the characters, animation and story are all there in amazing form. recently Sousou no Frieren is the most recent example of what animation with amazing character writing and worldbuilding can be told in animation

[@C4DNerd]

Once again relevant after the recent announcement of the How To Train Your Dragon live-action remake.

[@JohnWick-ut1tj]

7:05-8:05 👌🤘🔥

[@sm_cheesy3144]

My issue isn’t that these adaptations are bad, but the fact that they are seen as necessary by multi billion dollar companies to hit the mainstream. Animation is the best way to put an authors image to the screen with near 1-1 adaptations. And these adaptations only get recognized by fans when they are faithful, but then what’s the point??

[@nelisezpasce]

That's a good question. Like the guy who played live action Spike Spiegel in Netflix's Bebop apparently seemed very enthusiastic about his gig and did the best he could, but the higher ups probably just wanted to do it out of spite. Imagine that, people with so much money that their new hobby is fucking with their friends/enemies/rivals' favorite properties. They definitely exist, although they should still be outliers. Most executives want to make money, but they could be so out of touch that charlatans can easily convince them that bad ideas are actually brilliant. If 99% of the people involved actually cared then it would be much harder to fuck it up (but still very possible). One of the hardest pills to swallow is that even if you try your best, no matter how much effort you put into something, sometimes it's just not enough. Let's try to acknowledge an attempt was made when it still missed the mark. When done with malicious intent: Ignore and move on.

[@TheMusicalAnimator]

I'm a huge animation enthusiast, but I have also been guilty of being a little skeptical about anime. At first I was introduced to it when my older brother showed me some Studio Ghibli films, and then he showed me the first couple episodes of Violet Evergarden. Now I'm just getting into anime, and there are certainly a lot of stuff on my list that I need to watch.

[@martinthabang9621]

"Only money. Only money I want" The people making these adaptions are not the people in love with these stories. Just executives looking to make money.

[@dyl4n728]

you honestly make some of the best youtube videos ever, your incredible, amazing video, I love it!

[@tokyomaq7111]

NGL this video explain pretty much my opinion on why people hate anime so much. I hated anime as a kid because of the narrative around it and never wanted to watch it because of it. I realize that i was wrong because i started my anime journey back in 2019 and fell in love with it every since. Now today with over 200+ anime's watch i will say to anyone please give it a try the amount of time's i invested was worth it. ps: stop watching live action it ruins the experience for any animated show.

[@dyl4n728]

dude omfg, there needs to be wayyy more views and likes on this video omgggggg

[@onepresence9460]

Awesome video! Really well done! Subscribed 👍 I like Live-Action stuff of course, but Animation is something else for me. It’s really special. What i love about Animation is that you can really do anything. It’s just this open medium where anything you can think of and anything you can create, you can make. Animation can convey things that Live-Action will never be capable of.

[@ABVides13]

I will recognize I am genuinely excited about ATLA live action and I know it's pure bias, when I was a kid I wasn't so aware of all of the things this video explains and when the love action movie was announced I was excited because I thought it was something really cool to watch... The result was nothing but disappointment. Now I think it's kind of a way to start over something that didn't go well at all and I've been following the production really close, so far everything seems promising from a perfect cast to the confirmation of new content addition. But don't get me wrong, none of this will take away the unnecessary nature behind it, I just decided to give it a chance and see if they can manage to do justice to a piece of media I love or even elevate it, or watch it miserably fail. At the end of the day, if they flop, the original will always be there, if they don't, then I'll have two versions to enjoy of one of the most awesome stories I've ever witnessed. As for the rest, I can't do more than agree with what you state here. We're definitely living in a golden age for animation and most of all anime and still it keeps on being overlooked for being what it is. The number of live action adaptations that failed miserably to be at least decent keeps indeed being superior. Hopefully one day which I want to believe is not so far away, animation will get an equivalent recognition to live action because, as you said, animation is capable of doing so many things a live action film or show will never do. As usual, great video, your content is unmatched ❤️

[@abhyuday5057]

brilliantly spoken, one of the best animation analysis i have ever seen. kudos to you❤

[@alexvaughan1013]

Live action adaptations of animation should've ended with The Cat In The Hat movie!

[@Snooshy]

This is such a well written video, amazing job!

[@ryanjensen1701]

This brought tears to my eyes🥹

[@1212Diablo]

I love your stuff man please keep at it!

[@constantinuscz]

SOME VIDEO PARTS ARE SPOILERS FOR Attack on titan!!! So be aware! (Hello, Sorry, but it is for people, who did not watched Attack on Titan: ) Have a good day☺

[@mataharii161]

they're not rly spoilers tbh, especially to someone who can't recognize what's going on and will forget immediately

[@constantinuscz]

@@mataharii161 Yep, ur right, but not for everyone, for me it is like if I watched e.g. a trailer, I did not understand, but then I am watching It, memories are coming back and sometimes it can be bad, because u can understand smth that is too soon o smth. But there are not a lot people like me😃

[@johnpomales416]

6:17 FACTS 7:01

[@johnpomales416]

Attack on Titan has got to have the Greatest Story of All Time

[@emma_reen]

Absolutely loved this video and now I am sharing it to help more people educate themselves on this topic 🥰😍🤩

[@Mochi-hx8ks]

You're absolutely correct. I don't think I've ever been fully satisfied with a live action remake. As you said, in animation very shot is beautiful. One thing that I truly love about animation is the fact that the characters are unique. I get so tired seeing the same Hollywood faces over and over especially when they put them in these live action remakes, in rolls they totally don't suit just because they're famous

[@benpanicz]

Amazing video - great job!!!

[@Vontonone]

Great video, i hope this video gets more attention

[@Mr.ExtrodinThinks]

I agree with everything you have said. Brilliant video.

[@pirillomatis]

Well done sir

[@chrismichael6048]

The answer is simple=Cash-cow through brand popularity

[@fredgamer5142]

holy shit I agree with almost everything you said, Vinland saga is my favorite story in Literature History, it has changed so much about me (i didn't change and goo full Viking BTW not what I mean) like how it told me that I have no enemies, because one simply don't, its only an illusion that can be fixed if talked to, or the fact that people can change with (SPOILER FOR A FEW WORDS) like how thorfinn went from Murderer, to a pacifist wanting war to stop, going as far as to moving to Vinland, just to make a colony where weapons/fighting where forbidden, (SPOILER OVER) and it just so good, from what its trying to say, to the story, to the art (if manga), to the animation (anime only). I really want Vinland saga to blow up, but sadly that wont happen due to how much the next season is gonna change it, from ruthless action driven, to a beautiful story that's character driven that almost no show can compare in, with few exemptions, like berserk, which has both (bad animation sadly tho). but still, some of the best stories every created. even AOT, which I have my dislikes to, I love, for multiple reasons, like (external) how both the author of Vinland and AOT took inspirations from each other due to the authors being good friends with very similar world views, or like how characters reflect on their choices, and how much the the theme of freedom, and sacrifice is portrayed,

[@Jesus_Zendejas]

Did you enjoy S2?

[@essieshull1870]

Great job 👏

[@xsamura5121]

Comment for the algorithm to share this video 👍

[@nemesisnyr9494]

Film are also an art, and i don't think it's fair to treat it that way, there's no art better than another, just differents things loved by different persons, and i agree on the fact that a lot of remake of anime or others animations in film are awfull, but that's mostly because the people who do these are not fan, they just pick things to do money, and they don't do it right, in the end the remake feel insulting

[@nemesisnyr9494]

And the 3D of the Lions kind is a animation, and beautifully remake

[@Heelydon77]

It will be interesting on your note about Attack on titan, given just how badly they botched the ending, if it will have a negative impact on the views of animation in the west once this highly consumed story gets concluded in the least satisfying and nonsensical way. Game of Thrones has done extreme damage to the expected investment that you should have in a tv series these days, given just how badly they managed to botch their ending, so it will be interesting to see once they finally fininish the series.

[@OneWithinn]

They really didn't botch the ending no where as close as GoT. Redicilous comparison Imo. Writing a completely satisfying ending for a show like AoT was never possible.

[@daniaaal]

@@OneWithinn Agreed. If one actually pays attention to the themes presented in AOT, then the ending makes sense as to why it is a tragedy. The best works of literature don't necessarily have a happy ending, much like Lord Of The Rings (what happened with Frodo afterwards) and Romeo and Juliet. The best stories are those that allow the audience to remember lessons learnt from it, not necessarily to satisfy the audiences wants. AOT is appreciated most by mature audiences who know that stories can be reflections about real life. And not everything about real life is a happy ending.

[@bigcnmmerb0873]

You not liking an ending doesn’t mean that AOT or the entirety of anime is rubbish, if that’s your logic then all of western media is garbage because the Avatar live action was the biggest pile of dog shit therefore every live action movie is trash. See how stupid that sounds

[@bigcnmmerb0873]

Also a story ending badly doesn’t mean it’s botched, not every story is a happy ending, reality has to be portrayed everything ending with a happy note isn’t realistic in the slightest, if anything that just makes live action very fake, and AOT ending being more realistic.

[@rnbcomics7371]

🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@ErenYeager-13]

FACTS

[@JohnWick-ut1tj]

12:22 SAUCE???

[@hannah7275]

aot: best anime, best TV show, BEST STORY

[@Sir_Zombie1ted]

If we have people passionate about the stories, we get proper live action. To be honest, I want to like live action, I really do, but unfortunately the producers behind said live action have cash-grabby tendencies (this character is cool, put it; this storyline was banger, add it; they surely want to see this technique and want to see it go bing-bang-boom, put it and pack in CG like crazy). You need people who understand the story, their characters, their themes, the vision of the artists, their way of structuring the story, and a possible future progression of the stories if the authors wanted to continue the storylines after the initial run of their story. Why was Civil war awesome, it is from a Comic book, same with the Boys, Scott Pilgrim vs the world, and others - it wasn't just about the spectacle and the key moments, they all had rock-solid plots and people with a goddamn vision and understanding of the whole thing. FVCK the Execs, because of them we can't often have good stuff.

[@Always_Gatekeep_tourists]

5:49 of dog shit

[@thegifting267]

I’m not gonna lie I think anime is typically bad storytelling, like there’s a lot of telling instead of showing and multiple other new writer mistakes. I will say though that Anime is good entertainment as in it entertains a lot of people.

[@nabuchodonosormcgalapatram6941]

Can we stop lumping the 2019 Lion King movie into the live action category please? Because despite it's very realistic look, its also an animated movie... By the way, I'm not defending the movie, I've never seen it and I think it's a pointless endeavour to remake The Lion King to begin with, but I can apreciate the fact that it's so realistic that people think it's live action, despite being a movie about talking animals.

[@sstarr2914]

This video was very eloquent. Also love the AOT appreciation. Subscribed! Thank you for your work. 👏🫡