YMS Highlights - Adam reads college prof's awful book on Kimba

[@2devious724]

"Scar himself looks like foreign, weak and with very female moves." I cannot believe a college professor used that as a source in her book.

[@Nobody-hc2bo]

2 Devious seems pretty par for the course honestly

[@michaelstrong5383]

"Very female moves"? Is that her way of saying that Scar's gay? I mean, she's not wrong, but the question still stands.

[@2devious724]

@@michaelstrong5383 That's my guess, that or they mean effeminate.

[@KaladinVegapunk]

@N5ZZ0 oh man do they ever haha It's one of the most bigoted, sexist and biased places besides the deep south here in the states

[@KaladinVegapunk]

@N5ZZ0 but I mean.. WHAT Bollywood is literally the most plagiarist happy rip off film entity on the goddamn planet Every countries film industry remakes and copies others But to act like bollywood has remotely put out even 1 film on the level of American, or korean, Russian.. or japanese cinema, is absurd It's over the top shlock

[@lordsomethingorother290]

Moral of the story: Being educated doesn't make you smart, nor does it make you qualified to write a book.

[@Nobody-hc2bo]

Lord Somethingorother is it stupidity or arrogance? Maybe she thought no one would look in to it further, so that way she could be the authority on the subject. Or maybe she hates Disney or something and wants to make a name for herself by “tearing them down”

[@lordsomethingorother290]

@@Nobody-hc2bo If she thought all that, then it's both.

[@blueseanomad7435]

Some uni professors write books and make them required reading for courses (either for vanity or to push a particular point of view). I'd assume there are good ones out there, but I have yet to read one.

[@Channel-mb4cl]

The error is to assume u need to be qualified to write a book. Anyone can do it as long as a publisher gets interested. Books aren't peer reviewed

[@MistCellaneous-5]

But me as a person can still write a book and see how many people will buy it regardless of it's contents 🤔

[@Shuba44]

Legosi also stops eating meat because of his friends. Beastars confirmed ripoff of Kimba.

[@michaelstrong5383]

Legosi's also a talking animal, and nothing ever had talking animals before and after Kimba, so it checks out.

[@EthanSchmethan]

Beastars also had lions. Clearly Kimba invented lions, therefore anything else is a ripoff

[@PaintedBB]

The white rabbit hole gets deeper.

[@YMSHighlights]

Also, Legosi falls in love with a girl. This is blatantly ripping off Kimba and Kitty's relationship.

[@Meme_Lor]

wtf Bela Lugosi is a taking animal

[@altf4games]

14:44 "Simba was going to be white! As proof, here's a fanart made in 2001"

[@Jack_Woods]

This is some Dragon Ball AR type of shit

[@bebo2629]

Good catch Timm!

[@meeksuh6991]

Adum should receive an honorary doctorate for this YMS lol. Man is putting so much research into this

[@corncobjohnsonreal]

I hope he can prove lion king isn't a rip off. I'm dead serious, his review might be what changes this little fake animation fact that no one cares about

[@anthraxcrab2222]

When he releases his lion king video it’s going to be a 4 hr Indy documentary.

[@samuelsolomon7330]

What's weird is that I don't remember him saying that he'll do a kimba video, because he was working on the lion king remake YMS. I was surprised to hear that he's doing both, and I am very excited.

[@karinliston6713]

Seriously though his video was a full ass thesis!

[@haalfnhaalf]

PhD in Kimbology

[@KayeHalliwell]

Remember all those times Simba wore Mufasa’s hide to intimidate Scar and the various humans. Disgusting copy/pasting

[@QJ89]

"Avenge my death Kimba- I mean Simba." "Luke, I am your father." "This is CNN." Wait, he's not dead yet, is he?

[@f-22raptorlandingzone30]

@@QJ89 Chad Simpsons reference

[@JustinBA007]

The funniest one to me is "Both lion cubs grow up and mate with their childhood playmate, a lioness cub" Like, yeah, they both grow up and mate with a member of their own species. What a ripoff.

[@Hedgpig]

$50 for an ebook is the most university professor thing I've ever heard.

[@insensitive919]

Gotta fleece those students of their parents' money.

[@rooksclown316]

$90 for the hard cover

[@jackodonail1980]

Anything above $10 for an ebook is honestly overpriced.

[@bigchungus6223]

I had to buy one of those overpriced fart-sniffing books and we literally used it ZERO times. >_______

[@genericname8727]

While I’m sure it doesn’t apply so much to this woman, it’s common for university professors who write expensive textbooks to make basically nothing from the sales. We had a lecturer who wrote our textbook and he joked that he encouraged us to steal it, but only if we thought we could get away with it because he wasn’t taking the blame if we got caught. I think he was the lecturer who said he’d made about enough for a cup of coffee from the sales. The publishers take most of the money. Just saying this because, although this individual is sketchy, usually it’s the publishers and universities who deserve the blame for the outrageous costs, not the authors who barely make a profit.

[@kupotenshi]

This book has the same level of research as the essays written by students the night before they're due that this professor probably reads half-hardheartedly before giving them a B. The circle of higher education.

[@KyrieFortune]

No, essays done my students the night before they're due are more well researched. As in, they have two links that have been actually researched

[@Phenrex]

@@KyrieFortune You mean they don't link KZbin videos in their final drafts with no primary sources?

[@Jokoko2828]

@@Phenrex I link a lot of heinous shit straight from google scholar, I don't have the balls to use youtube videos as references.

[@KameronJ7]

Those students graduate and become profs. It's how we circle the drain.

[@Gangalligalax]

Tbh, the message of this review will be so incredibly important for modern people to internalize. Adum's attempt at promoting critical thinking and the willingness to research subjects of controversy before passing judgement upon them, is an extremely valiant effort and I applaud him. It should honestly be mandatory viewing for anyone who's ever reposted an article after only having read the headline.

[@DeathBlossom867]

I wholeheartedly agree. He's one of the few creators/researchers who is not only genuine in his material and opinions but is open to critique and is willing to consider all "evidence" and "facts" through the same skeptical lense.

[@FREAKSmoviereviews]

In film school we had this professor who claimed Monsters Inc. was a blatent rip off of The Matrix.

[@Edbrad]

😂

[@Blackheartzero]

... Are you omitting the fact that your Professor also huffed paint? How the fuck does a sound mind come to that kind of conclusion?!

[@ritenac6770]

@@Blackheartzero humans are ‘farmed’ for energy... and I genuinely can’t think of anything else. And even that is done in completely different contexts

[@Blackheartzero]

@@ritenac6770 ... Okay, yeah. That is a pretty apt comparison after all.

[@nathanjora7627]

@@ritenac6770 It makes me curious what a full length movie based around the machines' POV (be it the actual machines or the programs within the matrix) would look like. I know the animatrix is a thing, hence why I'm saying "full length movie", not "short animateds".

[@manicmanicmanicmanic5082]

"The basic story plot--" *That's an awfully hot coffee pot.*

[@paperboyskull]

That's an awfully hot coffee pot. Did Lion King rip off Kimba? Probably not.

[@masonlove1264]

Plot Twist: The KZbin video was made by Derek Savage, who felt that The Lion King was ripping off Kimba, The Land Before Time, In the Heat of Night, and Nazi Germany simultaneously.

[@MonsieurMaskedMan]

Dont forget Taxi Driver

[@bingle2484]

ignorance of the lawl is not an ascuse

[@ColombianThunder]

I feel like if adam didn't do youtube, he would have made a great lawyer

[@Gangalligalax]

Omg, you are completely right 😳 What a terrifying vision of an alternate dimension.

[@MrPlow-jc4cr]

He would be the greatest advocate for furry rights and copyright law in the world

[@koatam]

Most of what lawyers do is negotiating and drafting contracts. Who wants to spend 2 years overseeing the merger between 2 meatpacking companies? no one? Well that's the kind of stuff lawyers do.

[@hehefunnysharkgoa9515]

@@koatam Please, you had me on board when you said meatpacking.

[@ritenac6770]

He’d be the type to overturn false convictions noticing discrepancies from years old cases

[@alexmonasterio6646]

I love periodically tuning to in to watch adum go insane as he slowly realized that it goes all the way to the top.

[@cayancaglar1861]

Cut to 3 months from now where Adum is being given the Medal of Honor for his discoveries

[@pokcow01]

Watch Donald Trump's next state of the union address be about how Lion King copied Kimba.

[@nchap2023]

It's like Neil Breen in Fateful Findings

[@Brynbraughton]

@@pokcow01 that would set the weebworld on fire! it would spirit my heart

[@cortezfilms8511]

Cayan Caglar and all if this could have been avoided is somebody just watched the anime.

[@MadMagicianGaming]

8:52 I HATE seeing that image compared to the Simba eating bugs one as if Kimba didn't want to or had an aversion to going vegetarian. Kimba was vegetarian from day one. He never changed his eating habits like Simba did, he was always vegetarian. The image is of Kimba eating "skunk grass" because their crops hadn't grown in yet and they were looking for alternatives for food. But people who have never seen the show see that image and think it's the same context as the Lion King. So fucking manipulative

[@matthewlee4834]

Also, eating bugs literally isn't vegetarian

[@YemmyTheFerret]

the deeper this series goes the more anger I feel with Adum

[@DeathBlossom867]

Yeah, I was only vaguely aware of this controversy and of course the only thing you EVER hear is that Disney took from Kimba. Now I'm furious that this blatant lie gets repeated and poor Adum is the only voice confronting the claims.

[@sori_osori_]

I really respect Adam's ability and dedication on research.

[@MajesticAngel13]

큐베다이스키 I was gonna comment that he has an amazing ability to do so much research and finding as much resources as possible to put in his videos. I have such respect for his dedication to be factual in his reviews

[@donnylurch4207]

@ravioliandsalsiccia Did I just discover a shill for the "Lion King ripped off Kimba" camp?

[@sori_osori_]

The law professor that wrote the book: "Disney and Hollywood, ignorant of the lawl is not an escuse"

[@Cuuppeli]

Adum, several months ago: "Hey, looking into this Kimba thing could make a nice side note to my Lion King video." Adum, now: "I don't like how deep this rabbit hole is."

[@Blackheartzero]

It's so deep that before you have finally made it to the rabbit's Living Room, you will have looked to your left and seen Hell!

[@gnarlestongnu637]

This is like a gaze into madness. I wish Adam luck in his post-Kimba life.

[@ominousvonte]

I find it really sad that Lion King lifting inspiration from Kimba is seen this way. Normally finding the influences that creators took when making their art is usually celebrated, and here it’s just met with malice. It honestly makes me mad that people view art in such a reductionist way.

[@chasinghaze0962]

But I heard that they denied that Kimba ever existed and said that The Lion King is the original story and refused to admit that they know who Osamu Tezuka was?

[@ominousvonte]

Kartik Sharma That was a statement by the Walt Disney Corporation and not necessarily the artists who worked on the film. It was also likely a lie (Disney did a terrible job responding to the situation).

[@chasinghaze0962]

@@ominousvonte oh I see

[@CrashWeezerman]

@@chasinghaze0962 They didn't deny that Kimba ever existed. They just denied that The Lion King was adapted from or based on it. Don't be so dramatic.

[@karhu7581]

@@CrashWeezerman they denied that Kimba had any influence *at all*, because saying otherwise could be used in court against them.

[@samharold9022]

The year is 3020. The Dark Ones have fulfilled their great quest to revive The Most Sardonic One from his slumber. After spilling the blood of ralphthemoviemaker’s last kin, feeding the shrivelled corpse mystical furry blood, the ashen figure begins to return a familiar, pale complexion to his skin. After he slowly recovers from his dormant state, he returns to his work. “This Kimba YMS is nearly finished. This will be the first century-length KZbin video ever.”

[@YourPrivateNightmare]

long man good

[@matthewcrome]

@@YourPrivateNightmare Loooong loooong maaaaan

[@saggysackofpotatoes1351]

2020-3020 is a millennia not a century btw a century would be 2120🤓 (i love your comment i just couldn’t help being a smartass)

[@EthanSchmethan]

I am going to use “foreign, weak and with female moves” in my insult vocabulary

[@gwenstephan67]

Does Adam realize he is now the world's top specialist in Kimba?

[@YMSHighlights]

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[@TheCherri306]

"$50?! I guess I'm buying it." Oh the sacrifices you make Adum

[@comixproviderftw_02]

"Hollywood rips offs Bollywood". Me: *glares at invisible camera, Jim Halpert style*

[@gloopgloopglorp]

Screams in bollywood rip off of Michael Jacksons thriller

[@pravinrao3669]

Well to be fair bollywood rips lot of hollywood. Like chucky which was a rip off of khilona. I kid you not I used to think that khilona was rip off just before writing this comment but then I used google and found out that khilona was released first.

[@aryasuri9421]

@@pravinrao3669 What are you talking about. Which movie has a doll in it that came out before 1988?

[@snoopsq.527]

I mean even the names are similar. Hollywood… Bollywood? Mhmmm, suspicious.

[@vishnuvenkatesh7592]

This Kimba review is going to be his Magnum Opus. The lion King review will be good, but the Kimba one is going to be one of the best videos he's made.

[@Khazuki_]

You were correct. It's a god tier masterpiece

[@henryhammond7393]

Important too. I just casually thought Lion King was a rip-off before this so it’s very informative. A review of Lion King 2017 is just going to say what everyone already knows: it sucks.

[@Gerald-of-Riviera]

@@henryhammond7393 It'll be alot more then just a review from what I understand

[@goodguykonrad3701]

Kimba is the greatest example of confirmation bias of all time. People see the similarities of Kimba and Simba for shows with lion cubs and just looked to find anything that matched

[@Alberich_Prince_of_Dwarves]

I can't believe stuff like this gets published. I can't believe a woman like that who is so dishonest can become a college professor. This is insane..

[@bokoura]

"Higher education" has been a joke for a long time.

[@albatroce2324]

It saddens me to say the most dishonest people I’ve met were college professors.

[@kannanretro]

We've reached a point where you can write joke papers about how boys should be chained and discriminated against in schools, and even take a chapter out of Mein Kampf and replace nazi terms with feminist terms, and still get published lol This kimba stuff isn't even close to the worst in academia

[@Alberich_Prince_of_Dwarves]

@@kannanretro True. It's a wacky society we live in.

[@f-22raptorlandingzone30]

@@kannanretro I should write a book about how humanity should all become cyborgs to defend against aliens and see how far it goes

[@RurouniZakruo]

Look. I don't know everything about citation, and maybe the professors book is in a style I'm unfamiliar with. BUT. In both APA and MLA, you can't just cite a film or TV series as just the name. "The Lion King"s version, edition, year, and ownership are all kinda important, as I'm sure there's a book that's simply titled "The Lion King" as well as a video game. And there are differences between editions of the film. It's even more egregious with Kimba, as Adam has now thoroughly demonstrated, there are many, many version of it. So this Professor's published book citations are lazy at best (if like, Chicago or something allows that) and flat out wrong at worst.

[@pinheiro...]

Thank you so much for these yms highlights. I still cannot believe that this whole Kimba journey started with Adam just wanting to do a review of the 2019 Lion King, and we get to see his slow descent into madness the deeper he goes. This is amazing.

[@t.z2359]

“…the more common desert habitat that lions roam” Lions primarily live in grasslands, and savanna!

[@greenamber9827]

Many people in the Kimba crowd don't know a lot about nature and science.

[@aericabison23]

@@greenamber9827 whereas the Lion King people actually went to Africa to study the environment and wildlife, and they also had in Jim Fowler bring in live animals for the artists to observe and sketch. The Lion King was probably the most realistic portrayal of animals (after Bambi). Kimba has nothing on The Lion King.

[@MegaRazor619]

"Looks like foriegn" Ok

[@luizteotonio1065]

Did she claim Disney was appropriating Japanese culture by "stealing" from Tezuka? The Osamu Tezuka who famously cites Disney and american cartoons as a huge inspiration on his style? Even if The Lions King were a rip off that would be dumb as fuck

[@sarahulm6759]

exactly!! Like Kimba was based off Bambi?? She didn't do any research at all!! Absolute BS coming from this person.

[@star3catcherSEQUEL]

"Black ear tips" Lions have those in real life jesus fucking christ

[@artcardo]

Me: trying to live my life normally My brain: WA WA WA WAA, WA WA WA WAAAAAA

[@2devious724]

I hope I wasn't the only one singing along with Adum.

[@michaelstrong5383]

Now I want an edit of The Simpsons, where whenever you see the inside of Homer's brain, you'd have the "WA WA WA WA WA WA" scene in it. 😂😂

[@artcardo]

@N5ZZ0 WENGHHHHH

[@warcheef]

"How do you write a book about something you don't know anything about (that costs 66 American dollars)?!" Welcome to the Academia, Adam. IfOnlyYouKnewHowBadThingsReallyAre.jpeg

[@eddiedingle767]

Don't worry, it's not like the hardcover costs $93

[@warcheef]

@@eddiedingle767 93 Canadian dollars = 66 American dollars. By the way this isn't even close to the most ridiculously overpriced piece of "peer-reviewed" literature I have seen. Low quality paperbacks that cost up to 100 American dollars are not rare, and amusingly the price is often determined by the trendiness of the topic and not the quality of the content. It gets even worse with specific subjects; many highly acclaimed (if you can call it that considering the academic eco chamber condition) liberal arts books are unbelievable. Poorly written, poorly structured, barely researched and relient on secondary sources which mostly consist on books of similar quality. History is especially infuriating as it seems to be the trend now to make a claim (or hypothesis if you will) as ridicolous as possible and rant about it for hundreds of pages without providing any non idiological or non interpretive avidence. From my personal experience as a literture and political science graduate, sociology and literature are probably the worst offenders, you have no idea what kind of low effort blatantly false and dishonest academic literature you can find for those subjects.

[@eddiedingle767]

@@warcheef he says in the video that the Kindle version is $50 and hardcover is $93, I know he's Canadian, but maybe I heard incorrectly When you said 66 I thought you were talking about the Kindle, and I was simply saying, in a sarcastic tone, that the hardcover is almost double the price, not calling you out

[@warcheef]

@@eddiedingle767 Oh, I didn't think you were calling me out, I just used the comment to elaborate a bit more about the shity state of academic literature. Sorry if my rant gives off the wrong impression.

[@eddiedingle767]

@@warcheef Academic Literature can be bullshit, especially when written by your professor. but don't academic professors have to publish works in academic journals and or literature?

[@michaelstrong5383]

Professor: *writes a book about the Kimba/TLK controversy* Adam, after watching hours of Kimba content: "Okay...…..but you're wrong though."

[@solid_snake_fan2552]

"weak and with very female moves." A woman cited this? Are you serious?

[@user-me7hx8zf9y]

Damn women, always citing things.

[@Unsavory]

Sexism hits different when it’s the internalized type

[@f-22raptorlandingzone30]

It doesn't even make any sense. What are they trying to say? He's gay? He's flamboyant? That's essentially just pointing out the entire point of the character, how is it criticism?

[@GOFFBITZH666]

@@f-22raptorlandingzone30 Scar should’ve been depicted as a one-note powerhungry pedo-villain who barely appears in the show like the original Kimba, duh! 🙄

[@NopeNaw]

College professor can't tell the difference between a savanna and a desert.

[@thejedisonic67]

No story before Kimba had a protagonist who was good natured. I can't believe the Lion King ripped it off so hard

[@willfreedo]

2021 YMS: "Guys, while doing a review of Schindler's List, I started researching this 'Holocaust' thing and..." 2022 Down The Rabbit Hole: "His youtube channel, commonly referred to as 'YMS', was originally centered on film reviews..."

[@arr165]

I'm so glad that this rabbit hole is so deep

[@MrProg-ey3tl]

owo

[@eddiedingle767]

@@MrProg-ey3tl kzbin.info Is a rabbit, confirmed

[@arr165]

@@MrProg-ey3tl no.

[@roonster1324]

Adams obsession with Kimba is starting to concern me

[@mistergremm735]

I know right xd

[@YMSHighlights]

The real issue is how deep this rabbit hole is. There's a lot of different series and he needs to be able to shoot down every argument the Kimba crowd may throw at him. He had to go through copyright documents to prove that the '97 movie didn't begin production in '87 just because somebody that put together one of the Kimba DVDs made a typo on a trailer.

[@mistergremm735]

@@YMSHighlights wait, you're not adum?

[@michaelstrong5383]

I give him my full respect for watching every single Kimba episode just to make his point across this whole thing. At least he did some REAL research, unlike the articles who talk about this controversy without watching anything Kimba related.

[@YMSHighlights]

@@mistergremm735I am not.

[@Kira1Lawliet]

Something far more embarrassing about this book: It was published by Yale University Press, which means the book itself had to be peer reviewed before being published. This book was sent out into the world after groups of people whose literal JOB it is to fact check and cross reference sources looked at this book and gave it the green light. And at YALE.

[@ching-jungyang62]

They clearly think cartoons are a waste of time😂

[@charlesn.2881]

Should have pirated that book instead of supporting one of these alleged academics hawking their ravings at obscene prices.

[@DradthemercenaryXV]

Damn someone should snitch this professor for misinformation, these many falacies could cost her whatever she gained out of writing this book

[@YMSHighlights]

Hilariously, the Twitter notification was a tweet from Adam.

[@TheDudeWithTheHatN2]

fucking god damn it

[@chanceneck8072]

Omg... That was a rarity for me. That part from 7:55 onward... That was literally so fucking stupid, that I actually started crying..... 😭😭😭

[@Pr0jectFM]

The comments on that 2008 video are gold! "lion king is a shallow, cheesy and racist version of kimba the white lion. I remember watching a scene from kimba where he was talking with no response to the dry skin of his dead father he had hidden in some thorny bushes, and that´s was pretty impressive for me, I still think it´s great. Inspiration is when you get a similar idea, but identical characters, identical roles, identical scenes? RIP OFF!!!"

[@jhonjacson798]

this reminds me of a book that tried to say that the slasher genre was a reaction to the aids epidemic, like it was about anti sex because of anxieties about aids or some shit, even though both Halloween and Friday the 13th (the later of which was explicitely admited by the filmakers to be a ripoff of Halloween) both predated the aids crisis.

[@YouCantDeleteDenzelL]

13:28 the moment we all came for, fellas

[@disgruntledcashier503]

I think the controversy started because Matthew Broderick said in an interview for The Lion King that he watched Kimba when he was a kid, and when he was hired, he thought the movie was related to the show, so he told everyone he was playing Kimba in a movie

[@WaspCameraInSpringfield]

He also once killed two Irish women in 1987 by driving in the wrong lane of the road.

[@f-22raptorlandingzone30]

@@romaios1609 just tell them that kimba ran over two people in a car once and they'll be all over it.

[@Waldzkrieger]

I love that the video claimed that Scar was copying Hitler as if that's some sort of hot take

[@saifis]

I mean... I'm Japanese and don't care that much about this.... like I've always seen the resemblance but, like whats the big deal its one of those stories with a Lion as a protagonist, you're gonna get similarities in themes because of that premise.

[@bass-tones]

As a professor, publishing a book on a topic I did almost zero research on would give me severe anxiety. Why would you even put that immense stress on yourself, knowing that if literally anyone actually asks you any direct question about either of these two properties, you’re going to look like a moron? Like Adam says, she doesn’t appear to have even watched the Lion King, let alone Kimba. How do you live out your life in fear someone might actually ask you a direct question about this hugely popular movie and you’re going to know less about it than a 5 year old child? It’s like there’s an implicit understanding that this is only possible if you think the odds of someone actually reading your book and approaching you in person later are near-zero.

[@NWolfsson]

9:22 Amongst plenty of silly things in this picture, I especially love "Awful sequel [...] (Not by Tezuka)" I see the fanboyism and subjectivity are strong in this one.

[@AMY1213141]

The calling for mother/father is lifted directly from bambi, not land before time…(land before time was *also* homaging bambi)

[@malcolmsxs]

You're editing is getting so fucking nice man

[@YMSHighlights]

Thank you!

[@lupi5858]

the more frustrated Adam gets the more he sounds like Kermit the frog

[@videogamenostalgia]

"Oh my God it's fifty dollars for the Kindle edition? Jesus Christ this book is from 2012" lmao welcome to the world of law textbooks. They're pretty much all like this.

[@crazyjedi5994]

Adam sounds so happy singing at the end. It’s beautiful.

[@Halxq]

Is nobody gonna talk about how Adam’s singing at the end literally hits different? Like it slaps fr fr.

[@ZeeDodger]

Adam says that this is the most autistic video he's ever made, and in my experience living with PDD-NOS my entire life, that rings very true to me. I love the amount of research and care he took making this video. He very well could have spouted off the same nonsense arguments without taking the time to do his own research, and we would not have the nearly two and a half hour masterpiece he created, much less the gold mine of content displayed on this channel (thank you @YMS Highlights for documenting as much Kimba content as you can). It is clear to me that he cares a lot about content creation and his ethical responsibility as a public figure to be honest and present his opinions as he sees them. I do not always agree with him, but where we differ I can fully grasp his reason for why he believes what he does. The Kimba video is honestly in my top three YMS videos of all time (right next to Oldboy and the entirety of the Synecdoche, New York saga.)

[@bigbadseed7665]

Adum wah-wahing at the end was the happiest I've ever seen him.

[@Blackheartzero]

After all the bullshit he's had to shovel through, if singing that dumbass song brings his soul peace, then I say sing away!

[@Flarbsb]

When I heard him say she was an Indian lady, I had instant flashbacks to that Ted Talk, it's not her. Right?... Edit: OH FUCK I THINK IT IS Edit 2: FUCK IT IS

[@vannah_04]

At my high school they hold college professors to such a high esteem. So the fact that a college professor made this and probably made her students read it depressingly hilarious.

[@leomcardleproductions]

They really aren't much better than high school teachers. They have not knowledge but the great ones and shit ones just the same.

[@donimmortal7692]

"How do you write a book about something you don't know anything about" >>> Insert any book about afterlife.

[@AMY1213141]

‘Black ear tips and fringe’….ah yes it’s almost like the creators of each property have both said they were inspired by bambi (who also had black ear tips & a fringe). Oh wait they did both say that…(not to mention ‘fringes’ are very common for male animal cartoon characters anyway)

[@BugVlogs]

Just a side note: the biggest Bollywood movie of all time, “Sholay”, is basically just rip-off of The Magnificent Seven and Sam Peckinpah westerns.

[@sid0100]

Ryan Grille Yeah she literally had one example from the only great Indian director

[@RurouniZakruo]

@@piratediscoking1392 I know you added the /s, but I always want to let people know that Magnificent 7 was made with Kurosawa's blessing, fully owned that it was based on 7 Samurai and was supposedly well liked by Kurosawa. I've had friends try to tell me that Magnificent 7 was made 100 percent as a rip off without crediting Kurosawa before, so it's kinda a sore spot to me.

[@Big_Steve11]

20:30 I would love if just once a popular youtuber would just break and say "You know what...HARASS THIS PERSON!)

[@pajamapantsjack]

I like how Adam inadvertently stumble upon another video to make while making a video

[@KBBebop]

Wow even the $35 USD price is outrageous

[@Vanessa-xx3yz]

I have been enjoying these videos of Adam doing the research for this next review. I'm so hyped, so thank you as always for doing such a great job with these edits! 👏😸

[@lilliegreenlaw]

This feels like a research paper that she had to write for a class, not an actual book that she wanted to write.

[@kenthefele113]

Adam could be a visiting professor on Kimba history at this point.

[@Slowbb]

Adam should really just turn this video into some sort of doctoral thesis if you can apparently write whole books on this subject

[@YMSHighlights]

The entire book is not about Kimba. This is just one chapter. Although I have to wonder if the rest of the book is this badly cited.

[@ClassyAntiVenom]

Watching Adum furiously scream about a franchise that consists of an angry parrot, a pussy white lion, elephant genocide, and WA WA WA WA animal choirs for hours on end is fucking hilarious. I literally never would have thought the same guy who is currently breaking down and analyzing an art film about depression, time, and the concept of death would jump down a rabbit hole and scream uncontrollably about this kinda shit.

[@chanceneck8072]

Omg... That was a rarity for me. That part from 7:55 onward... That was literally so fucking stupid, that I actually started crying..... 😭😭😭

[@greenblyat]

Oh my god i can smell the chemical fumes from Adum's brain frying

[@MOTHHMAN]

im sobbing. i got a "birds arent real" ad on this video

[@gulfcoastgaming6034]

Adum himself looks like foreign, weak and with very 6/10 moves

[@jordand431]

He literally became an expert on Kimba to scream at these buffoons.

[@roberthan5109]

I love how I'm that KZbin clip they first say mufasa came in the moon, then in a constellation, then as a cloud in the sky. All from one scene he came as all of those

[@Me-vl7fc]

in one of my college classes we had to read "TORMENTING AFFAIRS WITH ANIMATION" which goes into how disney admits and apologizes for ripping off kimba

[@Blackheartzero]

Oh I get it! It's one of those spoof articles that you're supposed to find grammar mistakes in for English class... _wait, did you say College? ... _*_Oh No..._*

[@YouCantDeleteDenzelL]

"FUCKING GODDAMMIT." - Grand Salamancer

[@blueseanomad7435]

2:40, damn right it is cultural appropriation! I'm going to Tokyo right now and telling all these Salarymen to take off those suits and put on traditional clothes.

[@forestschoenrock3040]

Adam's drifting more critical every video. It's fantastic

[@ghostblue1500]

It’s embarrassing when ppl like the prof who wrote that book misuse social topics like “cultural appropriation.” It’s disingenuous & mocks cases where it actually happens. 😑

[@diamondinmyeye6160]

Professor Sunder enters the interview for her tenureship at Georgetown. Interviewer turns laptop around and this video starts playing. "Can you please explain this to us, Madhavi?" Tenure denied. Professor, on the phone with her mom "interviewer is like foreign, weak and with very female moves."

[@minniem-ms]

Adum himself looks like foreign, weak and with very female moves

[@mjr_schneider]

Adam's voice at the end was like the waaa-ing of an angel.

[@suprshin]

This alone must be made into a documentary box set. I would pay money for it! I am not referring to the “professor” I am referring to Adums research into Kimba, Lion King and behind the scenes footage. The making of the review for 2019, the kimba review. This must be made into a collection.

[@JacobKowanetz]

The “wa wa wa” cover at the end was marvellous

[@zacharyjune7510]

I'll never get tired of this debacle.

[@nahuelgioia4177]

I wonder if that's only a weak section in an otherwise decent book or if the whole work is as shady.

[@DrZuluGaming]

I remembered watching a movie called Bambi. Bambi took inspiration from the the titular book and Hamlet. The Lion King took inspiration from both Bambi and Hamlet. Therefore, Bambi is a ripoff of Kimba. -Some conspiracy theorist, probably. 2021.

[@CraftyArts]

12:18 people that like to think they are smart finding similarities and then treat it as if it was done with ill intentions, like a gotcha momment.

[@RikaSprout]

Good god I hope her use of arguments based on shitty sources and poor research isn't a practice her law students adopt ._.

[@ImpendingRiot83]

6:27 Entire fucking genres of literature like “Self-Help” and all sorts of other shit all over the world that are *_FILLED TO THE BRIM_* with books written by people who don’t know what they’re talking about, Adam, what do you mean? Grift like this is an industry unto itself. 😂