G&C Podcast - Episode 171: Discussing Our Favorite Manga Artists!

[00:00:00] Hey guys, on this episode of Gaming And Collecting, me and Alex are going to talk about our favorite manga artist,

[00:00:05] going over some specific ones that stick out to us, also just kind of talking about the medium as a whole,

[00:00:10] and just how it kind of sticks out compared to say like American comics or other things like that.

[00:00:14] It's a fun one, it's gonna be a fun one.

[00:00:17] And with that, on with the intro music.

[00:00:30] So, I'm gonna give Alex the floor for this one.

[00:00:41] I guess Bill asking how we've been wouldn't be the greatest question.

[00:00:47] Some of you already know, but our third co-host, Tilly, she passed away last week actually, right?

[00:00:59] We recorded the last episode on Wednesday and then on Thursday, unfortunately.

[00:01:06] Tilly had a heart condition, heart murmur.

[00:01:09] Unfortunately with cats, there's really nothing you can do about it.

[00:01:13] The only things that we could do about it were what I was doing, which was giving her a medicine,

[00:01:19] not really just they weren't even sure if it would work.

[00:01:23] There's no real science behind it.

[00:01:26] Unfortunately, I came home from work on Thursday.

[00:01:30] I knew something was wrong and found out that due to her heart condition,

[00:01:36] she had basically a blood clot in her leg and in her backside

[00:01:49] and unfortunately lost all function of her back legs.

[00:01:54] Basically, what they told me was that there's nothing they can do.

[00:02:00] It will happen again, whether it be in an hour, in a day, in a week or a year.

[00:02:07] There's just nothing that we could do.

[00:02:14] It was a very tough decision, but I made the one that was looking out for Tilly's well-being the best.

[00:02:23] I'm crying.

[00:02:25] Unfortunately, that decision was to unfortunately let her go and let her be happy somewhere else.

[00:02:35] I'm sad.

[00:02:37] I'm probably not going to be as energetic and happy as I usually am in episodes,

[00:02:44] but I do appreciate all the friends who reached out, said really kind words.

[00:02:50] I know you all really love Tilly on the podcast too.

[00:02:54] I still am not over it.

[00:02:58] It became really sudden.

[00:03:01] Bill was there with me, which I really appreciate because I don't think I could have done that alone,

[00:03:06] which really sucked, but I'm doing the best that I can.

[00:03:11] That's really all we can do.

[00:03:15] I just want her home.

[00:03:18] I made the choice to have her cremated so I could keep her with me forever.

[00:03:25] Right now, I'm living in Connecticut, but I don't know if I'm going to stay here forever.

[00:03:30] We live in a condo, so I don't think they would be okay with us burying her here.

[00:03:36] I made a decision to cremate her.

[00:03:38] I'll be feeling a lot better once I have her home, but it's been a pretty rough week.

[00:03:47] Understandable.

[00:03:49] Yeah, it's been pretty rough, but we're getting there.

[00:03:53] It will take time.

[00:03:55] She was my first baby.

[00:03:58] I came out of college and she was the first pet that I ever had.

[00:04:03] She was there for me when I was living alone, truly alone by myself for the first time

[00:04:09] because I lived in apartments in college, but I've always had roommates,

[00:04:13] and this was the first time I was alone.

[00:04:16] She went to Texas with me.

[00:04:18] She went to Texas and back home, and then back into Connecticut.

[00:04:23] So she's kind of been a traveler, and it just sucks.

[00:04:30] She was only seven, but unfortunately some cats, they get a heart murmur,

[00:04:37] and they're fine.

[00:04:38] They can live a really normal life and have no, basically nothing can affect it.

[00:04:45] Then unfortunately other cats, it is detrimental and it can end their lives.

[00:04:51] So all I hope for is in the future, other kitty cats out there,

[00:04:56] that maybe the science will get better so that they can do the treatments

[00:05:01] they do for people because a blood clot for a human is something

[00:05:06] that you can treat if you get there in time.

[00:05:13] So that's all I hope is in the future.

[00:05:16] Maybe they just work on that.

[00:05:19] Hopefully other kitty cats don't have to go through what Tilly went through

[00:05:25] because it was, I had clips on my camera in my house,

[00:05:31] and I had clips, and I got to see it all happen,

[00:05:34] and it was heartbreaking because there's nothing you can do.

[00:05:40] And that was heartbreaking.

[00:05:42] But the vet we took her to was an emergency vet.

[00:05:45] They were very kind and very understanding.

[00:05:48] I think we both were there for a while, a lot of hours,

[00:05:54] and they just kind of let us cry and be sad, which is really nice.

[00:05:59] But yeah, so unfortunately you're not going to hear Tilly on the podcast anymore,

[00:06:07] and it's going to be hard, but I'm really glad that she was a part of this

[00:06:12] because then I can go back and I always have little clips of her to watch.

[00:06:19] She'll always be there.

[00:06:22] Yeah, she'll always be there.

[00:06:24] I'll feel better when she's home, once I get her back.

[00:06:28] Hopefully that's very soon.

[00:06:31] Yeah, I hope so because I think it will just help me feel better about everything.

[00:06:37] You know, closure.

[00:06:39] Yeah.

[00:06:41] But yeah, I thought it was best that we...

[00:06:44] Sorry to start this episode off with a bummer.

[00:06:48] And I mean, I just wanted to let you guys know because, you know,

[00:06:52] we're all friends and I'm probably not going to have as high energy for a while

[00:06:57] just because I'm still sad.

[00:07:00] It's going to be a while.

[00:07:02] It's understandable.

[00:07:04] Yeah.

[00:07:06] But I guess how was your week, Ben?

[00:07:09] Please describe to the audience why I just quickly grabbed tissues

[00:07:14] because I'm crying.

[00:07:16] Anyways, Bill, go tell them.

[00:07:19] I'll be right back.

[00:07:21] Yeah, my week was pretty long.

[00:07:27] And people who listen to Geek Addicts also probably know, I joked about it.

[00:07:33] See, the timing's always weird because like we were...

[00:07:36] GNC gets recorded way in advance.

[00:07:40] Meanwhile, like Geek Addicts is only a week late and then 3DO is the week go.

[00:07:44] So it's like the timeline for this is all over the place.

[00:07:47] Yeah.

[00:07:48] But yeah, this week was long, very long.

[00:07:51] I agree with you.

[00:07:53] It was a very long week.

[00:07:56] The weather can't decide what it wants to do right now.

[00:07:58] So it's like it's either it's raining, pouring or it's cold or it's warm

[00:08:05] or it's just blah.

[00:08:07] Oh, I was talking to one of the guys at work and he's like,

[00:08:11] bugs are going to be bad this year because we've gotten so much rain

[00:08:15] and it's just going to give them so many places to make like homes and nests in.

[00:08:21] So I don't know, I have a feeling it's going to be a very buggy summer.

[00:08:26] Yeah, I don't know.

[00:08:28] They predict things like this and then it never ends up happening.

[00:08:31] Like they predicted this winter was going to be really bad because of all the rain,

[00:08:35] but it ended up being nothing again.

[00:08:38] Well, we got a lot of rain instead of snow.

[00:08:40] That was the thing.

[00:08:42] We just got some brutal cold this year.

[00:08:45] Yeah, we did like it was more we had to worry about like just ice from like the rain freezing is more what we had to worry about.

[00:08:52] Not necessarily snow, but you know, I'll take it.

[00:08:57] I'd rather not have to deal with as much snow, especially driving to work every day.

[00:09:03] Not I. Yeah, I'd rather not deal with that.

[00:09:07] Yeah, I had to work this morning and it was I was very tired by the time I got out.

[00:09:14] I'm with you. I had dance.

[00:09:16] Well, so we're on the road to national.

[00:09:19] So we started our nationals classes, which we just have an extra Saturday one.

[00:09:25] And I was just tired.

[00:09:27] Well, yeah, so I just didn't get enough sleep last night.

[00:09:31] And then I just woke up and I was like, and then I went to dance and it was fine.

[00:09:37] But, you know, I was just tired.

[00:09:39] But yeah, nationals is I think we calculate 76 days until I dance, which seems too soon.

[00:09:48] And I don't like it. Yeah, it was a 50 50 this morning.

[00:09:52] Like my alarm went off and I kind of looked at it and I was like, do I get up or do I fall back asleep?

[00:09:58] I thought about it for about 10 minutes and then I relented and got up because I'm going on vacation next weekend.

[00:10:06] So I need a yay.

[00:10:09] We are going to North Carolina, Alabama, Alabama, Alabama.

[00:10:14] Yeah, you know, Alabama.

[00:10:16] Yeah, at the time of this episode's release, the thing will have already gone by.

[00:10:22] Yeah, so you probably have already talked about it on like Geek Addicts or something.

[00:10:27] Geek Addicts or 3Dio.

[00:10:29] We'll talk about it eventually on ours too.

[00:10:33] But yes, I've been just really I don't know what it's been.

[00:10:38] It's like this week I was so tired every day I woke up.

[00:10:41] Well, I mean, like it was probably a lot of it was last week.

[00:10:46] I mean, as much as it was, it was equally as sad and straining on both of us.

[00:10:52] So because I know like I haven't seen you cry in a while.

[00:10:57] And that was the first time I've seen you like cry in a while.

[00:11:01] So yeah, that was most emotion.

[00:11:03] That was my emotional expel for probably the next like five months.

[00:11:09] Yeah, so it's very understandable why you were tired.

[00:11:16] I had to I had a strong man today after work.

[00:11:19] My neighbor needed help moving.

[00:11:21] She had like she had like a like a snowman like lawn ornament thing in front of her house and she wanted to have it put away.

[00:11:28] And she needed help moving it.

[00:11:30] And she initially was going to have me like get like kind of like a cart and move it.

[00:11:34] But I was like, let me see how heavy it is.

[00:11:36] I just like strong man picked it up.

[00:11:38] I'm like, where's it going?

[00:11:40] Yeah, let's just go.

[00:11:41] Let's just go.

[00:11:42] Yeah.

[00:11:43] Oh, I got this new little table.

[00:11:45] You can see it behind me.

[00:11:47] This new little charger because I have a wonderful I got my mom one of these, but I got her at Christmas time.

[00:11:55] I got her one of those digital picture frames so that she could always put the pictures of the cats on it and see it like kind of going through the day.

[00:12:04] So she got me one and then she helped me get this table, which was really nice of her.

[00:12:09] So I had a place for it.

[00:12:11] So now I have Tilly photos on the replay all the time.

[00:12:15] So I had like four thousand photos.

[00:12:18] So yeah, so I clearly love this cat a lot.

[00:12:22] I think everyone watching the show knew.

[00:12:25] Yeah, I've been.

[00:12:27] So I've mentioned it a few times.

[00:12:29] I'm on kind of a self-imposed hiatus from collecting video games for a bit.

[00:12:33] Yeah.

[00:12:34] Are you breaking that next weekend?

[00:12:36] If you see something, maybe only if I see something valuable, I'm not just buying games for the hell of it anymore.

[00:12:43] Oh, yeah.

[00:12:44] Understandable because I kind of was starting to get burnt out with it.

[00:12:47] And once the hobby stops being fun, that's kind of when I realize I need to take a break.

[00:12:51] Oh, yeah.

[00:12:52] I can only get so many crappy PS1 racing games before they get old.

[00:12:58] But I've recently gotten back into collecting comic books, American comics.

[00:13:03] Oh, yeah.

[00:13:04] And there are a lot of manga.

[00:13:07] They are.

[00:13:08] But thankfully, I only buy specific trades.

[00:13:11] So and with comics, the cool thing about comics is I'm primarily a DC guy.

[00:13:19] You can get the DC infinite app and you basically can read everything on an app now.

[00:13:26] So it's not like I have to collect.

[00:13:28] I'm like, I'm not collecting floppies anymore.

[00:13:30] I'm passed.

[00:13:31] I'm very much past the days of collecting floppies, mostly because the closest comic shop to us that has comics regularly is about 40 minutes away.

[00:13:42] And I don't feel like driving there once a week.

[00:13:45] So understandable.

[00:13:48] Yeah.

[00:13:49] But I'm getting back into comics a little bit just because I need to change your pace.

[00:13:52] And for manga, I'm like kind of caught up on all my ongoing at the moment.

[00:13:57] More of at this point, you're just kind of picking one up when it comes out.

[00:14:01] When it comes out.

[00:14:02] Yeah.

[00:14:03] I know where I'm hitting to because there's a few series I'm still collecting, but they're just so there's either so many volumes or they're just out of print and they're hard to find.

[00:14:13] And I'm not really in a desire to like track them down right now.

[00:14:17] Yep.

[00:14:19] But yeah, other than that, though, it's been mostly just kind of calm.

[00:14:23] I'm hoping the summer really starts because one of my next big projects is I want to get a new treadmill and I want to start really run training again.

[00:14:31] I want to start biking again.

[00:14:32] I was actually thinking if you want to join tomorrow, I was thinking of biking down the river trail because it's opened up again.

[00:14:39] We'll see what the weather's like.

[00:14:40] The forecast doesn't look promising, but we'll see.

[00:14:43] I thought it was going to look nicer tomorrow.

[00:14:46] It changes on a dime, unfortunately.

[00:14:49] True.

[00:14:50] But damn it because I wanted to do it.

[00:14:53] It says like 55.

[00:14:54] It might be a little cold.

[00:14:55] We'll see.

[00:14:56] Yeah.

[00:14:57] We'll see.

[00:14:58] We'll see also what time we get up in the morning.

[00:15:01] Yeah.

[00:15:02] Well, I have to grocery shop tomorrow so I got to do that.

[00:15:05] But yeah, I did.

[00:15:08] I did mine after work because I had to.

[00:15:11] For some reason, the highway was backed up when I was leaving so I kind of snuck around the back way and I was going past a grocery store anyways so I figured I'd just stop there.

[00:15:19] Yeah.

[00:15:20] Yes, I knew it.

[00:15:22] Yeah.

[00:15:23] Well, usually once I start the Saturday classes, I'll go on my way home but we wanted to podcast before going to the movies tonight because guess what movie we're seeing?

[00:15:34] Geek addicts listeners already know.

[00:15:36] Oh, fuck you guys!

[00:15:39] We're gonna go see.

[00:15:40] Please, where is it?

[00:15:42] We're gonna see Spy Family Code White tonight.

[00:15:45] Yes.

[00:15:46] And our buddy Naive over at Gaming Together has already seen it and he told me it is amazing so I'm already, I'm even more hyped.

[00:15:54] Oh, okay.

[00:15:55] Good to know.

[00:15:56] Good to know.

[00:15:58] Oh boy.

[00:15:59] But yeah, that's our goal for tonight.

[00:16:01] We're going to Texas Roadhouse.

[00:16:07] No we're not.

[00:16:08] We're gonna just eat the bread.

[00:16:11] If you want to be constipated, sure.

[00:16:14] No, ew.

[00:16:17] Yeah, the reason we're going so late is because it's the only one I could get that was dubbed on the weekend.

[00:16:24] So, oh well, I'm gonna I might need a coffee.

[00:16:29] I'm gonna say why I might make myself another coffee because, yeah.

[00:16:35] Does this have caffeine in it?

[00:16:36] What are you drinking?

[00:16:38] I'm currently drinking a Schweppes ginger ale because it was in my fridge.

[00:16:47] Nice.

[00:16:51] I am drinking a liquid death armless Palmer iced tea agave and vitamins.

[00:17:00] I'm assuming there's tea in it.

[00:17:02] There's some caffeine.

[00:17:04] I think it would say though.

[00:17:06] Yeah, I don't see it say it contains caffeine.

[00:17:09] So it's not.

[00:17:13] Micro dose of natural caffeine 30 milligrams per can.

[00:17:18] It does have caffeine.

[00:17:19] So there's enough in there to do basically nothing.

[00:17:23] Shit.

[00:17:24] Okay, I might need to go out and get coffee after this.

[00:17:28] I might need to have another Celsius before I leave today.

[00:17:31] Wait, if you want coffee, we could go on a coffee run after this.

[00:17:37] And then you can.

[00:17:41] I'm very farty.

[00:17:42] Anyways.

[00:17:44] Anyways, guys.

[00:17:46] Thanks so much for watching.

[00:17:48] It's been a wonderful episode of the Gaming Collector.

[00:17:52] Yeah.

[00:17:53] So we do have a topic.

[00:17:56] We do have a topic.

[00:18:01] We do have a topic for this episode.

[00:18:04] This is kind of one we've been messing around with.

[00:18:06] So we haven't done a lot of anime or manga focused episodes in a bit.

[00:18:11] Yeah.

[00:18:12] We need to do another anime swaps in.

[00:18:14] Yeah, I know.

[00:18:15] It's just been hard because of the timing and everything.

[00:18:18] But for this episode, because Alex is now very big into manga,

[00:18:26] we thought it would be an interesting idea to talk about manga artists

[00:18:31] because manga artists are interesting,

[00:18:34] especially considering I've been reading American comics lately.

[00:18:37] The difference between American comics and Japanese manga is fascinating to me

[00:18:43] because an American comic has a writer and then usually a penciler,

[00:18:49] an inker, a colorer, and all sorts of letters and stuff.

[00:18:54] It's a big production, and it's really rare that you'll find a writer

[00:18:58] who also draws his art.

[00:19:00] Yeah.

[00:19:03] But when it comes to manga, for the most part,

[00:19:06] there is a few exceptions, but for the most part,

[00:19:09] mangaka is actually they draw and write their work,

[00:19:12] and they have very distinct styles.

[00:19:15] And what makes manga stand out to me is the fact that because the mangaka usually draws

[00:19:22] or there's at least one artist on an entire run,

[00:19:25] the entire book, the art is very consistent all the way through.

[00:19:31] But it's also cool to see, like for some artists,

[00:19:34] to see the evolution of the art as well.

[00:19:36] Where it stays you can still tell that it was made by this person,

[00:19:40] but it's gotten better, cleaner, and just like a much better product over time,

[00:19:46] which is always cool.

[00:19:48] Yeah, because comics, because they have such strict deadlines,

[00:19:55] they actually go through some runs on storylines will have multiple artists.

[00:20:01] So like you'll change the art style will just change between one issue to the next.

[00:20:06] Well, and I feel like it's also good to point out that manga also has very

[00:20:10] strict deadlines, but it's just a different culture there where they work day

[00:20:17] to night to get it done.

[00:20:19] Like they don't sleep like to get their work.

[00:20:22] They also have the benefit of not coloring all the time,

[00:20:25] which does save a bit of time.

[00:20:27] Oh yeah, no, yeah, that definitely helps too.

[00:20:29] But in they do have teams that help them out with some of this stuff as well.

[00:20:34] But it is, I'd say a little different where there is a different culturally wise thing too.

[00:20:39] But yeah, we thought it'd be kind of fun to just talk about some of our

[00:20:43] favorite artists for this one, because the art in manga is honestly,

[00:20:48] to me, one of its biggest appeals because manga art is so stylistically

[00:20:53] different than any other comic form like webtoons or standard American comics.

[00:21:02] Yeah, I feel like to like not saying that different standard American

[00:21:06] comics have like different stuff like I'm not saying that they don't have

[00:21:09] any different styles, but I feel like just the styles differences with

[00:21:14] manga are just so much more like apparent.

[00:21:17] Like it's just it stands out so much more like the differences between

[00:21:22] artists and how they draw characters.

[00:21:25] Yeah, like there is a like there's a reason why people will follow a

[00:21:31] particular writer's work to like the end because they absolutely adore

[00:21:35] their art.

[00:21:36] Yeah, like I guess to start off, I'll start with my favorite art manga

[00:21:42] artist and writer.

[00:21:43] Wait, I know I was going to say that I was going to guess it's pretty.

[00:21:49] It's pretty obvious.

[00:21:51] I mean, you're looking behind me and everything.

[00:21:53] Rumiko Takahashi is by far my favorite.

[00:21:57] I was about to say I can't see any of the Yasha figures, but then I

[00:22:01] couldn't see them to the nope.

[00:22:02] Yes.

[00:22:04] Yes.

[00:22:05] But then I saw them.

[00:22:06] Wait, I see your best anime character right over.

[00:22:10] No, on the other side.

[00:22:13] He's holding a trophy.

[00:22:15] So make myself happy right now.

[00:22:23] Just let me be happy before I start crying again.

[00:22:27] Yes.

[00:22:30] So Rumiko Takahashi is obviously most famous for her work on manga like

[00:22:35] Urase Yassura or

[00:22:38] Bikini Lady.

[00:22:40] Yeah, Ranma One Half or most famously Inuyasha.

[00:22:45] I just always loved her like style because the thing I love is like

[00:22:49] female mangaka's have like you can tell the difference between like a

[00:22:53] female artist and a male artist in like the manga world.

[00:22:56] They have very distinct like styles.

[00:22:58] And I love her like kind of like softer yet harsh like drawing style like

[00:23:03] we're like she's very expressive and like it works perfectly for her more

[00:23:07] slapstick style of writing at times.

[00:23:12] And it's fun.

[00:23:13] It's been fun really watching her art go from the start to like where

[00:23:17] it is now with the Mao where it's pretty much the same, but she's

[00:23:21] definitely kind of starting with Inuyasha.

[00:23:24] She really found a style that kind of stuck.

[00:23:27] And to me, it's especially impressive if you watch the anime adaptions of

[00:23:32] her work because you really see you can barely tell that anime gets

[00:23:37] close, but it is definitely misses a lot of like the freeform like

[00:23:41] style that like the artwork has.

[00:23:45] So what's your favorite artist?

[00:23:57] Well, my favorite.

[00:23:59] Well, one, it's hard.

[00:24:01] So I don't really have a top favorite.

[00:24:03] I love a lot of different artists, but my first one I'll talk about is Oda.

[00:24:09] Oh, the artist, the writer of Komi.

[00:24:11] I knew it.

[00:24:12] No, no, not the butt guy.

[00:24:15] The writer.

[00:24:16] It's one cover.

[00:24:18] And it's a lot in one cover.

[00:24:20] But Oda from One Piece.

[00:24:23] I love watching like one of the things about like, you know, watching

[00:24:27] from the beginning and reading from the beginning is like what I kind of

[00:24:31] said earlier, the evolution of just the art style and the character designs

[00:24:35] over time, like how he really flushes them out is super fun.

[00:24:39] But he also like it really gets experimental with his art, especially

[00:24:45] I feel like recently with like the adaptations of gear five.

[00:24:49] Like I feel like he just really was having fun with it and like

[00:24:52] really incorporating that Looney Tunes cartoon aesthetic into his work,

[00:24:57] which has been really fun.

[00:24:59] You can see a lot of like the inspiration from like Western styles in his art.

[00:25:05] Oh, yeah.

[00:25:06] And it's definitely like I'm watched like I'm I pulled up like because I knew

[00:25:10] there's like a bunch of like evolutions of like the style of the art style

[00:25:14] and stuff and like looking at the character designs, like when their

[00:25:17] first appearance was to like the end of pre time skip to post time skip

[00:25:23] and then like the current like it's just so cool to see like how it's

[00:25:27] how it's the same character.

[00:25:29] But like you can just see that his art has really evolved and he's really

[00:25:33] like gotten into like, OK, this is my style.

[00:25:36] Like I love looking at like the Chopper photos because like Chopper's

[00:25:41] first appearance, like you can tell that like he didn't want Chopper to be

[00:25:44] like the cutesy character.

[00:25:46] But then he just gave up on that and was like, all right, I think

[00:25:49] the story too is that like once they casted the voice actors, he was

[00:25:54] like, damn it.

[00:25:55] I got to make him cute.

[00:25:56] And he just did after that.

[00:26:00] But I mean, like I feel like too, like he just has so many fun, unique

[00:26:04] designs like I mean, some of them, I will admit, some of them are a

[00:26:08] little similar.

[00:26:09] There's quite a few Nami clones out there, but I feel like he does try

[00:26:13] and make a lot of unique and different design characters.

[00:26:17] I think a lot of it has to do with just his faces tend to he draw the

[00:26:20] way he draws, like particularly his eyes and like mouths are very similar,

[00:26:25] but somehow still distinct.

[00:26:28] I think too.

[00:26:29] I don't know if this is true, but I think I also read that he ended

[00:26:32] up dating or marrying a Nami cosplayer.

[00:26:34] And then that's kind of why everyone started looking like Nami after

[00:26:37] because because he liked his girlfriend.

[00:26:41] I don't know if that's true, but yeah, man has a type.

[00:26:45] But I mean, like there's so many fun.

[00:26:47] I mean, just the cast of the straw hats were like there's really a reindeer,

[00:26:51] a skeleton, the fishmen, Jinbei and like just Frankie being like a half

[00:26:57] robot, half person.

[00:26:59] Like it's just it's just so fun.

[00:27:01] And I just love where the story is going.

[00:27:04] And I don't want to end.

[00:27:06] I know it's coming.

[00:27:07] I love how his art started out very loose and it's so tight now.

[00:27:13] Oh, yeah.

[00:27:15] It's like you can tell he's perfected the character designs at this point.

[00:27:20] But some of it too is kind of nice too, because I mean there was like a

[00:27:24] time skip.

[00:27:25] So like he did also try to show them as if they did get older and more

[00:27:29] mature, which is also cool as well.

[00:27:33] I love my favorite thing that Oda does.

[00:27:36] Sorry, this will be my last point is just one thing that he he'll do

[00:27:41] frequently is he'll redraw old like manga spread, like color spreads.

[00:27:47] So like there'll be ones where like it only had like the original straw hat

[00:27:52] crew like three going into the Grand Line where it was just up to up to

[00:27:58] Sanji that they have in the crew and like he'll read redraw them with

[00:28:02] all the crew members included.

[00:28:04] And it's just like it's always like so nice.

[00:28:07] I just love when he does that.

[00:28:10] Because you get to compare with the art style too and how it's evolved.

[00:28:14] Oh, yeah.

[00:28:15] Now I'd be remiss to talk about manga artists without bringing up the

[00:28:21] recently late Akira Toriyama.

[00:28:23] Yeah, I was going to also bring him up so we can chat about this one

[00:28:27] together.

[00:28:28] Yeah, Akira Toriyama's art is literally like I don't want to it is

[00:28:36] so unique and I want a part of me wants to say it is literally the most

[00:28:40] iconic probably manga art artwork you'll ever see because it's not just

[00:28:44] obviously everyone knows Dragon Ball, but he also did Dragon Quest.

[00:28:49] Yeah.

[00:28:50] And then Sandland, which recently got re-released and is getting a

[00:28:54] anime adaption slash video game.

[00:28:56] Awesome.

[00:28:58] And then of course his original work, Dr. Stump, which is I think

[00:29:04] it's either Dr. Stump or Dr. Slump.

[00:29:06] I think I don't know.

[00:29:10] I saw a picture of it, but then it didn't say what it was.

[00:29:13] Yeah, he has such a unique style and to me his biggest thing.

[00:29:19] I mean everyone makes the joke.

[00:29:22] He only can draw like four faces.

[00:29:24] Even he admits this himself, which granted, but a lot of manga

[00:29:29] artists are also are guilty of this.

[00:29:31] Oh, yeah.

[00:29:32] Akira Toriyama's monster designs though and just creatures are some

[00:29:37] of the most the man could make such unique designs.

[00:29:43] You will get going from Frieza to Cell to Piccolo.

[00:29:48] Oh, yeah.

[00:29:50] His numerous monster creations from Dragon Quest.

[00:29:56] The Dragon Quest slime is literally one of the most iconic.

[00:30:00] Yep.

[00:30:02] Drawings in video games slash Japanese art history.

[00:30:06] Yeah, even just Shenron and then the golden Shenron too where he's just

[00:30:14] this more ginormous creature.

[00:30:16] Just all the fun characters and stuff.

[00:30:20] I also love that you know the story behind Super Saiyan, right?

[00:30:25] No, I don't know the story.

[00:30:27] Super Saiyan was created basically so he wouldn't have to color it as

[00:30:32] much when he was drawing.

[00:30:34] That is so funny.

[00:30:37] I hope that's true because that's hilariously amazing.

[00:30:41] It was just a way of him for it to get not have to color in Goku's

[00:30:45] hair every time.

[00:30:46] So you just do Super Saiyan instead.

[00:30:48] He'd be like, that was easy.

[00:30:50] It's funny you look at his original artwork for like original Dragon Ball

[00:30:56] and then you get into the Z stuff.

[00:30:58] It's just crazy how consistent he really was throughout the entire run.

[00:31:04] And even to the point where there is so many artists that basically try

[00:31:11] to mimic his style nowadays, particularly the artist for Dragon Ball

[00:31:17] Super, Toyotaro, who does a very remarkable job emulating the Toriyama

[00:31:24] style but also kind of having his own unique flair to it.

[00:31:29] And even then like his art also I feel like translated really well

[00:31:38] into animation.

[00:31:39] Well and one thing I really like too about his art is that he does

[00:31:45] a really great job about showing the characters expressiveness in their

[00:31:49] emotions because I'm looking at this evolution of his art and it's all

[00:31:55] Goku and just like all just the different faces that Goku makes throughout.

[00:32:00] You're just able to sense his personality, which I feel like it's not

[00:32:05] always translated through a lot of artists.

[00:32:08] So I think that's saying that like, yes, like the art style, like he had

[00:32:14] like kind of base faces, but he like really showed the emotions of those

[00:32:19] characters, which was really nice.

[00:32:21] His like the smiles and like the shocked faces particular like he just

[00:32:26] has a look to him, which it's iconic even to this day.

[00:32:30] Like everybody knows a curator on his art.

[00:32:34] Oh, yeah.

[00:32:35] Oh, yeah.

[00:32:36] So what's another artist that comes to mind when you think of iconic art?

[00:32:41] Well, I cannot talk about Hirohiko Arki, which was the artist for Jojo's

[00:32:49] Bizarre Adventure because I mean if we're talking about unique art

[00:32:54] styles, I would say he's probably also one of the ones that has the

[00:32:58] most unique out of all of them, especially to the point where

[00:33:04] sometimes people don't even realize it's anime just because of how unique.

[00:33:10] I mean, like if you look up Jojo, I mean, if anyone has seen Jojo's,

[00:33:13] you know, it's not your typical anime art style, especially with

[00:33:17] the man with men.

[00:33:18] Style.

[00:33:19] Yes, style.

[00:33:22] But another really cool thing though, too, is just like, again, I

[00:33:26] keep talking about the evolutions, but like his style, like even

[00:33:32] just watching like the series as you go from part one to part two to

[00:33:37] part three, part four, like each one, like you can see his the style

[00:33:42] is shifting because I mean when you look at part one versus like

[00:33:46] the final part, part six, very different in terms of art style.

[00:33:51] Like it's just very, very different, but you can still kind of

[00:33:55] sense that same.

[00:33:56] It's still though, it feels like it's from the same show.

[00:33:59] So even though it's different, it's still like you still love it.

[00:34:05] But one of the things I think is so cool about his art is that

[00:34:10] like other brands have just like they love it so much, like

[00:34:14] they've added it like there's been like Gucci collabs and like

[00:34:18] famous brand collabs that he's worked with because his art is

[00:34:21] just so iconic and so different, but also so fabulous.

[00:34:25] Like he just he had so much detail and so much fine tuning, like

[00:34:31] even just like the faces, like you can see like there's there's

[00:34:35] so much to all of them.

[00:34:37] Yeah, I can't I could not talk about I could not talk about

[00:34:44] him.

[00:34:45] Yeah, his art is I mean you always forget to because Joe just

[00:34:48] been going on for so long to yeah, it was funny.

[00:34:52] I saw a post the other day that like in technically Joe Joe's is

[00:34:56] longer than one piece in like the manga.

[00:34:59] Technically it's longer in the manga, which is but I think that

[00:35:04] shows the detail and like how much he puts into the manga.

[00:35:08] Not that I'm saying Oda doesn't but like his like it's shorter

[00:35:13] in story, but just in terms of like how much he puts into

[00:35:17] it is longer.

[00:35:18] Well, yeah, because he puts so much effort into his pages, which

[00:35:22] I'm not saying the others don't just certain art styles are much

[00:35:25] more demanding.

[00:35:26] Oh, yeah.

[00:35:27] And his is very, very demanding, but in the best way possible.

[00:35:33] And speaking of somewhat underappreciated yet like very

[00:35:37] like technical artists in this industry.

[00:35:40] Let's talk about Yuki Fumata for a minute.

[00:35:45] The artist for Black Clover.

[00:35:46] Yes, Black Clover is an interesting one because I swear this

[00:35:50] series just gets kind of ignored.

[00:35:52] I feel like yeah, it kind of really bothers me like how much

[00:35:56] like it is ignored and like not.

[00:36:00] I don't know.

[00:36:01] It just bothers me.

[00:36:02] I feel like it deserves more hype than it has.

[00:36:05] Yeah, like it bothers me because like it is a really well

[00:36:10] done series with a very unique story, but it just.

[00:36:14] It kind of because of its slower release and more kind of general

[00:36:21] overshadowedness, it just gets kind of overlooked these days.

[00:36:26] You know what I like about his art?

[00:36:29] His characters look different.

[00:36:32] Yes, like the same like a very unique style.

[00:36:37] But like I also think like the character designs in general

[00:36:41] like every character feels unique, which is very rare except for

[00:36:46] I'm brain farting his name, but his family.

[00:36:49] You know who I'm talking about?

[00:36:52] The poison.

[00:36:53] I don't know his name now.

[00:36:55] I'm brain farting so bad.

[00:36:57] Is it like George?

[00:36:58] No, it's not George.

[00:37:00] Oh, yeah, I know.

[00:37:02] His family.

[00:37:03] But that was kind of that was kind of the joke.

[00:37:06] Yeah, that was the joke.

[00:37:07] And that's I was just joking.

[00:37:09] See his art to me.

[00:37:10] I love it too, because he does incredibly detailed like backgrounds

[00:37:14] and stuff as well to go with it.

[00:37:17] And especially with like Asta's more like razy designs that he comes up

[00:37:22] with the faces.

[00:37:23] Yeah, it's also Asta's like surprised eyes are very unique, like his

[00:37:28] happy eyes.

[00:37:30] They're very unique to this artist.

[00:37:32] Like I don't see that for my dad.

[00:37:34] I don't know.

[00:37:35] They're very unique to this artist.

[00:37:37] Like I don't see that from anyone else.

[00:37:39] That's a thing too with the with like manga artists is to is like

[00:37:44] the eyes to me are like one of the things that really changes

[00:37:47] from artist artist is like every Toriyama had his very distinct

[00:37:53] eye like eye style and faces.

[00:37:56] Black Clovers in particular are very expressive.

[00:38:00] Yes, I really like the then like.

[00:38:05] He does his art doesn't feel like every other manga at the time.

[00:38:10] Because I will say there are some mangas that we're probably not

[00:38:14] going to mention here, but you look at the art and you kind of

[00:38:16] can't tell the difference between the books.

[00:38:18] Oh, yeah.

[00:38:19] Oh, yeah.

[00:38:20] And I mean, when you watch like some animes too, and you

[00:38:22] can just kind of see you're like, OK, this just kind of feels

[00:38:25] like bottom.

[00:38:26] But those are the shows you don't really end up finishing or

[00:38:29] you kind of drop or you just go.

[00:38:31] Never mind.

[00:38:32] I'm not going to watch this.

[00:38:33] Yeah.

[00:38:35] That's for sure.

[00:38:36] So you have another artist you want to highlight her?

[00:38:39] Yes.

[00:38:40] The next one I wanted to talk about was Q Hayashida, which

[00:38:44] is the author of most famous for Dora Hidoro, but also her

[00:38:50] new series, Die Dark.

[00:38:52] I think like just from watching the show, you can tell that

[00:38:55] they have a very unique art style.

[00:38:58] But reading the manga like, wow, like I love the

[00:39:04] anime, but it almost doesn't do the manga justice.

[00:39:07] See, my theory there is the reason they went CG is because

[00:39:11] they knew they would never be able to do it.

[00:39:13] Yeah.

[00:39:14] And that's what I totally agree with.

[00:39:17] They would not have been able to animate it to the standards

[00:39:20] like of the manga because the manga is freaking amazing.

[00:39:25] Like just their details and their way that they draw is

[00:39:31] so unique and their character designs are so like it's just

[00:39:36] like special.

[00:39:37] And just like I feel like for a lot of like body horror is

[00:39:45] something that can either be translated in a very well way

[00:39:48] or very not well way.

[00:39:50] And they do it in a very good way, like of like, wow,

[00:39:55] like I'm scared.

[00:39:56] Like that creeps me out and I'm scared.

[00:39:58] It makes you uncomfortable to look at.

[00:40:01] Yeah, it does.

[00:40:02] And just the detail and stuff too, because like when you look

[00:40:07] at like Kaman, like in the first one of the very first

[00:40:11] episodes where you're introduced to Ebisu and Ebisu is just

[00:40:15] trying to get home in the portal to the portal to the

[00:40:19] sorcerer's realm is like blocked off and she can't leave.

[00:40:23] And then Kaman, you know, he does this kind of thing

[00:40:25] and bites her fucking face off.

[00:40:27] Well, he's not he wasn't intending to rip her face off,

[00:40:31] but he does rip her face off in how they animated it versus

[00:40:35] how it's portrayed in the manga.

[00:40:37] Oh, much more gory.

[00:40:40] But just even looking at like Kaman's design and the

[00:40:44] manga is just like so much cooler and so much more creepy.

[00:40:48] He is a lizard man.

[00:40:50] He is.

[00:40:51] But I also love how like he draws the ladies.

[00:40:54] Like I love how he draws Noe, because I feel like you don't

[00:40:59] see like a very muscular lady in a lot.

[00:41:02] I mean, even even Nikaido, but I feel like Nikaido is a

[00:41:05] little more feminine.

[00:41:06] But you don't see a body type like that.

[00:41:09] And like it's just nice to see, like just something so

[00:41:12] different and like being like, yeah, like she's

[00:41:14] muscular and she's like she's my favorite, like one of

[00:41:16] my favorite characters from the show.

[00:41:18] Well, I love how they revealed they reveal her where

[00:41:21] it's like you don't know she's a girl at first.

[00:41:22] Then you see the takes the helmet off and it's like, oh,

[00:41:25] yeah, yeah.

[00:41:26] Like that's a lady.

[00:41:27] That's a lady.

[00:41:28] But even like like N I love N's design.

[00:41:34] I love all their design.

[00:41:36] And again, they're all really unique to the characters,

[00:41:39] which is really cool.

[00:41:40] But yeah, if you haven't watched it, I definitely

[00:41:45] recommend reading Dora Hidora because wow, like it's

[00:41:49] just it's so good.

[00:41:51] The details are so good.

[00:41:53] Speaking of artists that like their art is like so the

[00:42:00] best way to describe it is like disgustingly beautiful.

[00:42:04] We have to talk about relatively new artists, but

[00:42:08] well, not new, but like his most recent work is

[00:42:11] pretty new.

[00:42:12] Tetsuki Fujimoto, chainsaw man.

[00:42:15] Ah, yes.

[00:42:18] The anime does a great job of like showcasing his art,

[00:42:21] but the manga it's like on a different level.

[00:42:24] Oh, yeah, it is.

[00:42:26] You look at one of his like page spreads and it is

[00:42:29] like so like disgustingly like protest, but it's like

[00:42:34] beautiful at the same time in a really uncanny way.

[00:42:38] Like there's the infamous scene of like the

[00:42:40] astronauts that are like ripped in half and their

[00:42:42] legs are sticking out from one side and the

[00:42:44] torsos are the other side.

[00:42:45] And it's like you look at that and you're like,

[00:42:47] that is fucked.

[00:42:48] But why is it so mesmerizing?

[00:42:50] Like just the way he draws it combined with the

[00:42:55] really unique storytelling, like chainsaw man is a

[00:42:58] is a really fascinating one because like I didn't

[00:43:00] think I'd be into that kind of story.

[00:43:02] But like once you start reading it, you can't

[00:43:04] put it down.

[00:43:05] And like I'm dying for the next volume to come

[00:43:08] out because I want to know what happens next.

[00:43:11] Yeah, no, I didn't put chains on.

[00:43:14] I didn't put chains on mine, but that's a really

[00:43:16] good one that I missed.

[00:43:18] Definitely.

[00:43:19] So what do you got next?

[00:43:22] The next one I wanted to talk about was a heart

[00:43:26] harlechie for Donte, which is the manga artist

[00:43:31] for Haikyuu.

[00:43:33] Haikyuu is the volleyball show.

[00:43:36] But one of my favorite things about about his

[00:43:40] style.

[00:43:41] Well, you know how like some of the characters

[00:43:43] like some of the manga artists, they like make

[00:43:45] like a little character for to kind of represent

[00:43:49] them in the manga or like just like for their

[00:43:52] quick notes at the end.

[00:43:53] And his is a little bird guy doing like the

[00:43:55] peace sign, which is wonderful.

[00:43:58] But one thing he also does is like for the

[00:44:00] characters, he like always does like these

[00:44:02] cute little like chibi animals for them.

[00:44:05] So you like makes like the main team is

[00:44:09] Karasuno and they're like animals like they're

[00:44:12] the crows.

[00:44:13] So he turns them into little crows, which is

[00:44:16] just really fun.

[00:44:18] But his art style is just I just really enjoy

[00:44:23] it.

[00:44:24] Like he's one of the ones that like he makes

[00:44:25] the characters very expressive.

[00:44:27] But you can also see like there is definitely

[00:44:30] a growth in in style change as it went along

[00:44:34] to, which is really nice.

[00:44:36] But I feel like to like it is I can't get

[00:44:40] into a lot of sports anime.

[00:44:42] It's just never been my thing, but I got

[00:44:44] into the show so much and like I got into

[00:44:48] it through the anime.

[00:44:49] But like going back and reading the manga

[00:44:51] like it's just as good and like just as

[00:44:54] awesome like in for a sports manga, I feel

[00:44:58] like that's ten times harder because you're

[00:45:00] trying to portray something that like you

[00:45:03] watch like sports like are things that we

[00:45:06] watch like you don't read sports, you know,

[00:45:09] you don't read about like the Super Bowl.

[00:45:12] You know, you don't really do that.

[00:45:14] You more just watch the Super Bowl.

[00:45:16] So I think the way he was able to kind

[00:45:18] of like translate it into the manga is

[00:45:20] very well.

[00:45:23] Yeah, because really I'd never really gotten

[00:45:26] into sports animated until this one.

[00:45:29] And I still like like there's some where

[00:45:32] I'm like, oh, oh, oh, like dabbling.

[00:45:34] But it's not something I initially am drawn to.

[00:45:37] I think the two biggest sports animes to

[00:45:40] this day are still will sports manga

[00:45:42] slash anime are IQ and slam dunk.

[00:45:45] Yeah.

[00:45:46] And free free.

[00:45:48] Yeah, to a degree.

[00:45:49] Slam dunk is living.

[00:45:51] Well, different reasons.

[00:45:53] I haven't read slam dunk and I forget

[00:45:55] the author's name at the moment.

[00:45:56] But slam dunk is iconic.

[00:45:59] It's iconic too because it's the same

[00:46:01] guy that did Vagabond.

[00:46:03] Yeah, it's just such an interesting contrast

[00:46:06] to me.

[00:46:08] So I guess moving on now another artist,

[00:46:11] one that I really enjoy, especially recently

[00:46:13] is aca aca sacca, the artist and writer

[00:46:20] of akiyosama and aca is interesting

[00:46:25] to me because he actually gave up drawing

[00:46:28] after the completion of kagiyosama.

[00:46:32] Kagiyosama where he well, he still draws,

[00:46:34] but he doesn't want to do full series

[00:46:36] anymore because like for for Oshinoko

[00:46:40] in particular, his second series,

[00:46:42] he has another artist doing the doing

[00:46:46] the art mango yoke yari.

[00:46:50] I believe that's a she I think

[00:46:54] not not trying to misgender anybody.

[00:46:56] It's just sometimes you don't know.

[00:46:57] Oh, yeah.

[00:46:58] Well, sometimes they don't really let

[00:47:00] people know for privacy too.

[00:47:02] Yes, which is understandable.

[00:47:06] Sometimes the name comes because I know

[00:47:08] Japanese names tend to have like feminine

[00:47:10] names and masculine names.

[00:47:13] I believe the artist for Oshinoko

[00:47:15] is a female.

[00:47:16] I'm not sure though on that.

[00:47:18] But going back to kagiyosama,

[00:47:20] aca's art is very interesting to me

[00:47:23] because he draws things in a way

[00:47:26] that like it's got this very stark look to it,

[00:47:29] but it also kind of is like humorous

[00:47:32] at the same time.

[00:47:33] Like especially like the way he draws

[00:47:35] the main characters,

[00:47:36] like you have like kagiya and like

[00:47:39] Mayuki who are like super intimidating

[00:47:42] kind of at times,

[00:47:43] but also like goofballs.

[00:47:44] And then you have Chika in the background

[00:47:46] who was just straight up wacky

[00:47:49] just straight up wacky over there.

[00:47:51] And it's like it's this interesting

[00:47:53] contrast where like the art really

[00:47:55] speaks for the writing,

[00:47:58] where you read the story

[00:48:00] and honestly what keeps you going is

[00:48:02] A, the really cool writing,

[00:48:04] but also just the way that his art

[00:48:07] kind of like draws you in

[00:48:09] and kind of flows because

[00:48:12] it's one of those ones where I feel like

[00:48:14] the anime you think would be the more

[00:48:16] definitive way to experience it

[00:48:17] because of how well the anime handles it.

[00:48:20] But like for a school manga,

[00:48:22] it really does draw you in

[00:48:24] and keeps you interested.

[00:48:25] Just like the stylistic way

[00:48:27] that he draws everything,

[00:48:28] especially considering how many chapters

[00:48:30] take place in the student council room.

[00:48:32] Yeah.

[00:48:35] And even then like he also the way

[00:48:37] because the first half of the series

[00:48:39] is very kind of like episodic

[00:48:41] with the whole like love is war thing

[00:48:43] going on.

[00:48:44] And then they get together

[00:48:45] and he branches out after that.

[00:48:47] I think honestly I'm pretty sure

[00:48:49] the only reason how Giyosama ended

[00:48:51] as soon as it did is because he just

[00:48:53] got tired of drawing.

[00:48:54] Yeah.

[00:48:56] Which more power to it

[00:48:58] if he'd rather just write,

[00:48:59] I mean, get he'll get his workout quicker.

[00:49:02] Yeah.

[00:49:04] Yeah.

[00:49:05] No point in him doing

[00:49:06] something he's not passionate about.

[00:49:08] Yeah.

[00:49:09] That's the big thing is like

[00:49:10] because you know who would want to

[00:49:12] read, you know, something that

[00:49:14] you can tell that he doesn't want

[00:49:16] to be drawing, you know?

[00:49:17] Yeah.

[00:49:18] Well, then we can also just be happy

[00:49:19] to that it's a finished series that

[00:49:21] ended on a good satisfying conclusion.

[00:49:23] That too is always nice

[00:49:26] because there are series out there

[00:49:29] that sadly have not ended

[00:49:31] and in some cases

[00:49:33] may never end.

[00:49:34] Tragically might not.

[00:49:36] Yeah.

[00:49:38] We might mention a few of those

[00:49:39] later in the episode.

[00:49:41] Yes.

[00:49:42] So what's your next one?

[00:49:44] Okay.

[00:49:45] My next one was actually

[00:49:47] Kohei

[00:49:49] Horikoshi,

[00:49:51] which is actually the artist

[00:49:52] for My Hero Academia.

[00:49:54] Okay.

[00:49:55] I feel like

[00:49:57] I want to start collecting

[00:49:58] the manga for this because

[00:49:59] I feel like when I look at

[00:50:00] the side by sides of the anime

[00:50:02] and the manga,

[00:50:03] the anime does not do

[00:50:04] the series justice.

[00:50:06] I feel like some of the

[00:50:08] like the art and again,

[00:50:09] the detail that is put into it.

[00:50:11] I mean, especially if you're

[00:50:12] watching the most recent trailer,

[00:50:14] like looking at the side by

[00:50:15] side between what's being

[00:50:16] animated versus what is

[00:50:18] drawn on in the manga.

[00:50:20] Yeah.

[00:50:21] It's just the quality level

[00:50:23] is just

[00:50:25] so down in the anime.

[00:50:27] Like just compared to what he

[00:50:29] like what he can do

[00:50:31] is crazy because I'm

[00:50:33] like looking at some images

[00:50:35] of like scenes I remembered

[00:50:36] in the manga and I'm

[00:50:37] like in the anime

[00:50:38] and I'm looking at them

[00:50:39] and I'm like there's no

[00:50:40] what that looks like.

[00:50:41] It like does not like

[00:50:43] it just doesn't look like

[00:50:44] it's not like it just

[00:50:45] I feel like it doesn't do it justice.

[00:50:48] Like I feel like this show

[00:50:49] could probably be even better

[00:50:52] if they kind of followed

[00:50:55] more of the manga

[00:50:56] and one of the things too

[00:50:57] that I really appreciate

[00:50:58] is just

[00:51:00] he really tries to put

[00:51:02] in different body types

[00:51:04] in the manga gets rid of that

[00:51:06] which is really annoying

[00:51:07] because a lot of

[00:51:08] You mean the anime

[00:51:09] gets rid of that?

[00:51:10] Yeah, the anime gets rid of that

[00:51:11] which is really annoying

[00:51:12] which is really annoying

[00:51:13] because like a lot of the main

[00:51:14] female characters

[00:51:15] like in class 1A

[00:51:17] like have very

[00:51:19] actual body types

[00:51:21] like an actual person

[00:51:23] like they're not

[00:51:25] rail thin like they have

[00:51:27] you know

[00:51:29] it feels like a normal person

[00:51:31] and then like they just like

[00:51:33] in the anime they just go

[00:51:34] no everyone's gonna be skinny

[00:51:36] and rail thin

[00:51:37] and we're not gonna do that

[00:51:39] and I find it like

[00:51:40] it's a little frustrating

[00:51:41] but I always appreciate

[00:51:42] It's unfortunately one of those things

[00:51:43] where it's probably a budget thing

[00:51:45] Well, it's probably easier to animate

[00:51:47] in all honesty

[00:51:48] it's probably just simpler

[00:51:49] but it's one of those things that like

[00:51:51] I just appreciate

[00:51:52] in a manga artist

[00:51:53] is like you know

[00:51:54] showing like

[00:51:55] all bodies are beautiful

[00:51:56] no matter the size

[00:51:58] which is great

[00:52:01] but looking

[00:52:02] I definitely recommend

[00:52:03] people look at some of the

[00:52:04] side by sides of like

[00:52:05] the manga versus the actual anime

[00:52:08] and you'll kind of see

[00:52:10] like there is a lot

[00:52:12] there's a lot of like

[00:52:14] detail that gets missed

[00:52:17] and I think it kind of hurts the show

[00:52:20] Especially for a manga

[00:52:23] that very heavily is inspired by

[00:52:25] western media

[00:52:27] western comics in general

[00:52:29] Oh yeah

[00:52:31] That one is an interesting one

[00:52:33] It's not one I'd probably ever collect

[00:52:34] just because there's a lot

[00:52:36] but yeah

[00:52:37] It's on my list to collect

[00:52:39] at some point

[00:52:40] I feel like this one will definitely have

[00:52:42] a box set or even like a three in one

[00:52:44] at one point

[00:52:45] but this is

[00:52:46] I'm pretty sure there already is box sets

[00:52:47] but

[00:52:48] This is on my list

[00:52:49] It's one of the ones I want to collect

[00:52:50] because I definitely feel like

[00:52:52] the anime does not do it justice

[00:52:58] So another artist

[00:53:00] a particularly new artist

[00:53:02] that I wanted to highlight

[00:53:03] we kind of indirectly mentioned him earlier

[00:53:05] but

[00:53:06] Tsuya Endo

[00:53:07] the creator of Spy Family

[00:53:10] Mm-hmm

[00:53:12] Spy Family is interesting

[00:53:14] because like the whole story behind it

[00:53:16] where he was suffering from some

[00:53:18] severe writer's block at the time

[00:53:20] after having like multiple series

[00:53:22] like cancelled

[00:53:23] before taking off the ground

[00:53:25] So he drew

[00:53:26] He created Spy Family as kind of a way

[00:53:28] to get through that writer's block

[00:53:30] and it ended up taking on this life

[00:53:32] of its own

[00:53:34] to the point where it's massive

[00:53:36] Yeah

[00:53:37] everywhere

[00:53:39] I mean it has a movie

[00:53:41] Movie and anime

[00:53:43] getting video game adaptions

[00:53:45] Yeah

[00:53:46] There's a light novel version of it at this point

[00:53:49] Yeah

[00:53:50] The fact that it's huge in America

[00:53:52] like that is a big thing right there

[00:53:54] because not all animes are

[00:53:57] Anime is popular over here now

[00:53:58] but not every anime is like

[00:54:00] holy crap popular like Spy Family has become

[00:54:04] Mm-hmm

[00:54:05] And Endo's style to me is

[00:54:08] fascinating because like

[00:54:10] we had mentioned earlier faces are something that

[00:54:12] a lot of manga artists kind of struggle with

[00:54:14] and they tend to look very similar

[00:54:18] Endo is one of the few I think that like

[00:54:20] his faces are like what makes his art so unique

[00:54:23] like Anya alone has so many faces

[00:54:27] that are so

[00:54:28] react up

[00:54:29] Yeah

[00:54:30] Amazing at the same time

[00:54:31] We love Anya

[00:54:33] Well it's also all

[00:54:35] Except for Slade

[00:54:38] Yeah

[00:54:39] Yeah

[00:54:40] But I mean even then like his

[00:54:43] His other characters like

[00:54:45] Lloyd is such an amazing character

[00:54:47] Oh my god

[00:54:48] It's a wonderful character

[00:54:49] In my love with Lloyd

[00:54:51] Like my

[00:54:52] I think Lloyd like really became one of my

[00:54:54] more favorite characters

[00:54:56] on the Bond episode where he just can't help but laugh at Bond

[00:55:00] Where he breaks his

[00:55:01] He breaks character once

[00:55:03] Like finally

[00:55:04] And I can't wait to see more of that

[00:55:06] Like I want to see more of him like losing control

[00:55:09] and like you know being who he actually is

[00:55:13] I won't spoil it because Alex hasn't seen it yet

[00:55:16] But there's a

[00:55:19] Chapter in the later manga that

[00:55:23] Is absolutely amazing and has some just absolutely

[00:55:26] Okay

[00:55:27] It's good

[00:55:28] It's great

[00:55:29] I thought you were gonna let me down

[00:55:31] I was gonna be like no

[00:55:32] It's such a great

[00:55:34] Like great chapter especially because it has some absolutely ridiculous Yor moments

[00:55:38] Because

[00:55:39] Yor is such an interesting character

[00:55:42] Because she's a deadly assassin but she's also like

[00:55:45] A good one

[00:55:46] The biggest hits in the planet which is amazing

[00:55:51] Yeah and I love Endo's art

[00:55:55] So what's another one Alex?

[00:55:58] Then the next one I wanted to talk about was

[00:56:00] Naoko

[00:56:02] Taka

[00:56:03] Taka Uchi

[00:56:04] Which is the artist for Sailor Moon

[00:56:06] Married to the manga artist for Hunter x Hunter

[00:56:11] But one I love her art style because it's just it's so pretty

[00:56:18] Which it matches the tone of like most of her series

[00:56:22] But one of the things I really love is just how she draws hair

[00:56:26] I know that sounds weird but like it just like

[00:56:29] I feel like not a lot of artists like

[00:56:32] They just looks like so fun and like so pretty

[00:56:35] And like she just adds like it's very feminine

[00:56:38] And it's very beautiful and everything she draws is just so pretty

[00:56:44] But one of the things that like I love about her art is just how much it inspired

[00:56:49] So many other artists out there

[00:56:52] Because I mean she really was one of the like

[00:56:56] I don't think she created the

[00:56:59] The like magical girl genre

[00:57:02] But I think she really was one of the key stakeholders in making it a genre

[00:57:08] Yeah, I mean when you think magical girl you think Sailor Moon

[00:57:12] And she inspired so many other series

[00:57:14] But like if you look at just some of her like

[00:57:17] I want to get an art book of hers because I'm sure there's one out there

[00:57:20] But like again it's another one where like the anime doesn't do it justice

[00:57:24] Like she's like she draws like so her art is just so pretty

[00:57:30] Like it's just so nice to look at and so feminine and just it's awesome

[00:57:36] So I need to get an art book for that for her

[00:57:40] Speaking of her husband

[00:57:43] Yoshihiro Tagashi

[00:57:47] I love his art because his art is like a crowning example

[00:57:50] Of how much someone changes over the years

[00:57:53] Oh, yeah

[00:57:54] Because he famously created Yu Yu Hakusho

[00:57:57] But then went on to create Hunter Hunter after he completed that

[00:58:01] And you compare his artwork in Yu Yu Hakusho which is amazing

[00:58:04] Like such amazingly like stylistic like characters and iconic just like

[00:58:10] Worlds and stuff and then you look at his art on Hunter Hunter

[00:58:13] And it's very clearly the same guy

[00:58:16] There's just so much like he had clearly refined his style by then

[00:58:21] Oh, yeah, especially too as you get farther in the like as you get like have you watched the chimera art yet?

[00:58:30] Okay, once you get to that arc I don't want to say much because it will spoil a lot for you but like the unique

[00:58:37] Monster designs that he did are incredible

[00:58:41] like cuz he had to basically create a

[00:58:45] giant army of these half human half

[00:58:50] Beast creatures of all different varieties from like a cheetah to a crab to like bugs

[00:58:58] Like all these different combinations of creatures and like it's so cool that he came up with all of them

[00:59:06] It's so yeah, he was also on my list to talk about too. So

[00:59:12] Jake we got another one. Yeah, it's so tragic with Hunter Hunter though. It's like his health issues and everything

[00:59:18] We just don't know what the future of that mug is gonna be

[00:59:22] Especially because like there's just so much more to tell like there's just there's so much more and you can

[00:59:28] Feel the passion in his work, you know, and I feel like a lot of like it's hard to portray that

[00:59:34] But you can kind of you you feel it while reading it

[00:59:39] No 100%

[00:59:42] What's another artist on your list?

[00:59:45] So I wanted to talk about

[00:59:49] Hitoshi Iwaki, which was the author for Parasite

[00:59:56] And I like I

[00:59:59] Love this series. It was one of my first like scary horror series. Like I'd never really gone into

[01:00:08] Horror but this was the first one where I did and especially I went and did very

[01:00:13] Very high level because this was very much body horror

[01:00:17] When you think body horror you think the image of his hand. Oh

[01:00:23] Yeah, or just like I mean just like how like in the show like the pair the

[01:00:30] Promise of parasite just to kind of give people more of an understanding is that basically these parasites from

[01:00:37] Outer space are coming in. I can't remember if it's our space hour, but parasites are coming in and

[01:00:43] They take over our human host and their goal is to get to the brain because if they have the brain they have full control

[01:00:49] Of the body and most of the time a lot of their parasite

[01:00:53] Abilities come out of the head. So watching him

[01:00:58] draw a

[01:01:00] Person and then their faces coming apart with these teeth in these creepy tendrils and then these like

[01:01:07] Spikes come out of their head like it's just like it's that like you don't like that's like stuff

[01:01:14] You're like I couldn't think of that. Like I couldn't put that in my head

[01:01:17] But like how he draws it is so creepy, but like awesome at the same time

[01:01:24] Just the creatures he creates

[01:01:27] from these like parasitic creatures are just like whoa, this

[01:01:32] Is awesome like it's awesome and it got me more into that drawn genre of horror

[01:01:38] Embodied horror just because of this series

[01:01:43] Yeah

[01:01:44] That the image I mean the fact that they're doing that series in color right now is super

[01:01:49] Yes, it just adds so much more to like the whole you I love that

[01:01:53] What seemed better to me too is that series isn't fucking sealed at the store?

[01:01:57] No, yeah

[01:01:58] and I wonder though if it will at some point because like I know it's gonna get more like the beginnings I mean

[01:02:06] It's gory in the beginning but it gets worse like in other parts too

[01:02:10] Like so I wonder what they're gonna do. I wonder because like it's definitely one of those ones

[01:02:16] I don't think kids should just be able to open and look at especially with full color like yeah scenes were

[01:02:24] asking that's

[01:02:28] That's traumatic I don't think a kid should probably be able to access that but yeah, I mean there's a reason why berserk is sealed

[01:02:36] Yeah, I almost wonder if it will be eventually

[01:02:39] But yeah, cuz even I'm looking at just a quick section where it's going from like this guy

[01:02:44] And he's like I'm assuming it was his wife or something and they're talking and then she's like what's what's happening to your face?

[01:02:50] His face is just going from human to starting to come apart to becoming this monster face to

[01:02:56] Chomping her head off

[01:02:58] That's what happens. Yeah, and like it's yeah

[01:03:02] I just like not every artist can do that in a very good way and he does it amazing

[01:03:10] so

[01:03:12] Another artist I wanted to highlight

[01:03:14] especially for her very stylistic style is uh

[01:03:19] Excuse me

[01:03:21] Natsuki and Taka the artist for fruit baskets

[01:03:27] Mm-hmm and fruit baskets is a series to me that has one of probably the biggest art shifts from its start to finish

[01:03:38] like

[01:03:40] particularly

[01:03:41] The start of the manga where she has this very kind of like style and then like by the end

[01:03:47] It's very refined and like has a very distinct like look to it

[01:03:51] Um, particularly though like the way she draws like expressions and like smiles and like eyes like

[01:03:58] Tohru's smile is very iconic. Yes

[01:04:04] Very much so what's your next one?

[01:04:09] The next one I was gonna talk about was

[01:04:13] shinobu

[01:04:15] Otaka

[01:04:16] Which is a lady?

[01:04:18] And she is the artist for Magi in orient

[01:04:22] I just I really like the art style

[01:04:25] But one of the things I really like is that like I don't know like the way she draws some of the characters like

[01:04:31] They just look so joyful and I feel like that's like you don't see that a lot

[01:04:36] They didn't really enjoy it, but I also really enjoyed that like

[01:04:40] It's nice to like like one of the first main characters

[01:04:43] Like he's a kid and like you can really see like, you know how some anime they're like

[01:04:48] They're a kid and I'm like they don't look like like they

[01:04:53] Look kind of appropriate to their ages, which is kind of nice is different

[01:04:58] I mean like you just kind of get so used to it. But again like

[01:05:02] just the different character designs and the different like

[01:05:06] Styles and like one of the things too is like this

[01:05:10] this manga has like kind of a little bit of like

[01:05:14] Hindu and Buddhism elements to it and I think they do it very well at least Magi does

[01:05:20] or just like I don't I'm not exactly sure but like

[01:05:25] But they kind of have like these different non

[01:05:28] Japanese traditional elements to it like it's more of a like I would say more of like a Buddhism side of the

[01:05:35] if there's any religious influence in it, um in some of the like

[01:05:40] Designs of the characters are just they're so cool. Like they um, one of the things is like if they get a

[01:05:48] Special weapon. I'm brain farting on the right term, but it's basically like they have the power of like this

[01:05:55] This my goal

[01:05:57] I'm brain farting on everything right now

[01:05:59] But and with that they can kind of do a transformation and some of them are just so cool and so pretty

[01:06:05] And it like also like if it also like she made like a lot of liberties with the designs like the characters don't just look

[01:06:13] It's not like I'm I'm in a sailor costume now

[01:06:17] Like they're like well, like it actually feels like a transformation like they are transforming into something new

[01:06:23] Which is really cool and really fun because it kind of gives you even more designs to work with

[01:06:28] So yeah, and I just I fell in love with this series pretty recently and I really enjoy it

[01:06:36] hmm

[01:06:38] so

[01:06:39] I'm coming down to kind of my last few here, but I'm like, yeah same

[01:06:43] one art a couple artists in particular

[01:06:47] I just wanted to bring up too because I just find it really funny is the artists that come from the

[01:06:53] The hentai industry and then become

[01:06:57] It's a lot of them like it's actually funny how many of them start with um, right like drawing doujins

[01:07:04] Of other characters and then that's kind of how they get their start into it like they kind of prove like hey I can

[01:07:10] do this and then

[01:07:11] They get they get into like actual regular manga not just porn

[01:07:16] Like one of my one of my favorites just because of the absolute absurdity was

[01:07:23] Nana she the the artist and creator of

[01:07:27] Don't toy with me miss Nagatoro

[01:07:29] She

[01:07:31] There there I have no idea what this person's gender is so I'm just gonna say they're

[01:07:37] They famously created some really fucked up shit

[01:07:43] boy and

[01:07:45] Then out of the blue they did she did this like or they

[01:07:50] You know what? I mean, they did this really wholesome

[01:07:52] Naruto and he not a doujin. That's still a hentai. So I don't look it up, but

[01:07:58] It's weirdly wholesome and then they somehow just kind of got this like taste for I want to make something wholesome

[01:08:05] And then they made don't toy with me miss miss Nagatoro

[01:08:09] which starts off incredibly dark like you you think it's gonna be this really uncomfortable like

[01:08:14] Bullying manga and then it like just becomes this goofy comedy

[01:08:19] It is actually kind of I just googled it because I wanted to see like how many

[01:08:24] Bill the creator of Azumaga Dayo started out doing doujins. Yeah

[01:08:31] Did you know that Rumiko Takahashi also made doujinshi before she became

[01:08:39] Same with um, you you Haka show he also did

[01:08:43] Most of them did it's kind of crazy. But I mean like for them. It's a very I

[01:08:49] Mean, uh, it's a good start into

[01:08:53] Getting your name out there

[01:08:56] One that you know in particular is junko who famously made the story

[01:09:03] It's him not me. Yeah, and I

[01:09:07] Believe it's a she

[01:09:09] She yeah, she mostly did yaoi

[01:09:14] Makes

[01:09:15] So much. Oh, yeah, if you look at the man

[01:09:17] Look at all because it's a harem and if you look at all the male the male characters if you took out the main character

[01:09:26] Yeah

[01:09:28] Now I'm like

[01:09:30] Curious how many more but like it's a good, you know path into getting your name out in the industry

[01:09:36] Um, oh it looks like the black butler author not black clover. Don't worry

[01:09:42] That makes sense

[01:09:44] I've seen enough black butler to know yeah, that's not a surprise

[01:09:49] That is so fun

[01:09:50] I mean some of them make sense like some of them do but then some of them are are pretty interesting the transition

[01:09:57] That is interesting

[01:09:59] Like I've never watched

[01:10:02] tiger and bunny, but I've seen like

[01:10:05] I've seen pictures of it quite a bit before so that's kind of interesting that they started out making doujinshi

[01:10:13] Like that's one of that's one of my favorite memes you'll see online is like there's a running joke on like reddit

[01:10:19] I see every now and then of people over on the Nagatoro subreddit and they're always be like, wow

[01:10:24] I love this manga. What else has the author drawn before that one's like?

[01:10:30] It's like have fun you're about to be traumatized

[01:10:34] Or very happy

[01:10:39] Not with what they drew

[01:10:43] Yeah

[01:10:44] But um, how many more do you have to go over because I don't have that many

[01:10:50] I could probably like maybe like one or two at most

[01:10:54] Okay, I can probably

[01:10:56] Talk to one or two as well because some of yours were the same. So you stole some of mine

[01:11:02] Fair I mean there's overlap out there

[01:11:05] I guess I'll just throw it another one

[01:11:09] Hiromu

[01:11:11] Arakawa the artist of Fullmetal Alchemist. Ah, yes, I

[01:11:17] Love her art because it has such a soft look to it for such a kind of like complicated and like deep story

[01:11:25] Like just the way she draws like her characters they all have the very like soft feet because certain animes and

[01:11:31] Manga's have like very sharp looking characters

[01:11:33] And I love it when they draw them like softer looking because they just

[01:11:37] They give them a very distinct look that really kind of just like sticks out plus like she her cast is so diverse

[01:11:43] And like all over the place

[01:11:46] Like you really it really makes it a big part of like the adventure is like getting to meet all these unique characters

[01:11:51] Throughout the whole thing to me along the way

[01:11:54] the one that

[01:11:56] They all look so unique too. Yeah makes it even better

[01:12:01] What's another one you also make a cursed child that turns into a dog anyways

[01:12:09] anyway, I

[01:12:11] Wanted to bring up a Gagey

[01:12:15] Akitami which the manga cover

[01:12:19] Did you use to Kaizen?

[01:12:20] One thing I just want to get out of the way is I love his little

[01:12:24] Avatar where he's a little cat one-eyed cat man, and it is wonderful. It brings me joy

[01:12:31] but I think I mean

[01:12:34] Newer like juju sukaizen is pretty newer to the series

[01:12:37] To like you know anime manga world and I love their art. I think it looks great

[01:12:43] Oh

[01:12:44] That's interesting. There's a drawing of

[01:12:49] of

[01:12:50] Yuji and I'm brain farting his name

[01:12:56] His brother from another mother

[01:13:00] Yeah, but

[01:13:05] Yuji it seems to be a full-body cat suit and

[01:13:11] Man seems to be in the costume from a Rumiko Takahashi

[01:13:17] With the bikini lady that's interesting and I think it's drawn by Gagey which is wonderful that that exists

[01:13:28] um

[01:13:29] Talk about another series that like makes you love the characters and then

[01:13:35] Away don't get attached

[01:13:37] I'd say though the way they draw faces and expressions are very like some of like especially like Sukuna's faces like

[01:13:46] What I find really interesting is that like supina and Yuji though they share the same body are so different

[01:13:54] Like different designs like you know what I'm saying like you just design versus Sukuna in you juice body

[01:14:01] Different like they are just different like different people like it's weird not weird. It's cool

[01:14:06] It's cool because it really shows the you know the difference between like this is you G

[01:14:10] This is Sukuna

[01:14:12] Spaces are are like whoa demented in I love I love the scenes for like you just like Sukuna

[01:14:18] I need help, but he's like he's just talking out of his little face guard. He's like he's like

[01:14:26] I also love to

[01:14:29] What was I gonna say um

[01:14:31] Just how he draws like Yuji as like this cute little toga toga pee face all the time

[01:14:37] Which brings me so much joy, you know the toga P eyes

[01:14:41] So it's so cute. It's kind of like Asta's like sparkle eyes

[01:14:47] Yes when he's in little little toga pee form

[01:14:50] But I like I love his designs like all the characters like you really like and then he takes them away from you

[01:14:57] And you're like fuck it in the most brutal fucking ways possible. Oh, yeah

[01:15:04] but even like um

[01:15:06] Brain farting on his name, but you know like the the

[01:15:10] Me the scar guy the guy who's covered in all like the stitch marks

[01:15:16] guy

[01:15:19] Barting on his name, but he his design and like the things he does like the body

[01:15:25] Horrible mitzvah him like turning people into these monsters like huh creepy and like he does it really well

[01:15:33] Yeah, but I also just really appreciate his little cat avatar man, you should really look it up. Yeah brings me joy

[01:15:41] um, I

[01:15:43] Think that's basically it for me. I really

[01:15:47] Yeah, um, I guess the only other person we could highlight

[01:15:51] I mean we talked a bit about the author of berserk, but another one too

[01:15:54] I mean Junji Ito is has a very unique

[01:15:58] Art style in a very creepy art style

[01:16:02] But like when you see a work of his you're like, yeah

[01:16:06] I know who made that like it's so iconic and so scary

[01:16:11] like he's he is the king of like that creepy of

[01:16:16] Fear and creepy like you read some of this stuff or watch some of his stuff

[01:16:20] Well, yeah, some of his anime adaptations are not so great

[01:16:24] But you read some of it like cool

[01:16:26] It just it freaks you out like and that's like pretty impressive, you know

[01:16:34] Oh, we probably should bring up Masashi Kishimoto

[01:16:40] Yes

[01:16:42] He has a pretty distinct style as well. Oh, yeah

[01:16:46] It's distinct. I mean you don't have to like Naruto to appreciate his art

[01:16:51] Like he has the way he draws characters and like just like the stylish thick world and like the faces

[01:16:57] He's another one that is like very iconic to me. Like, oh, yeah

[01:17:01] That all like his like his tribute took Toriyama when Toriyama passed was really nice like

[01:17:08] When I feel like to we should also bring up like the artist of attack on Titan because I mean that

[01:17:14] Also has very unique art style very iconic

[01:17:18] Say even the author of bleach as well

[01:17:20] Like I feel like there's no characters that look like the bleach characters and same with the attack on Titan

[01:17:26] both very unique to their style, uh

[01:17:30] Our ones I also wanted to highlight on

[01:17:34] Hmm and then I just as a good closer to is I love when other artists draw other characters

[01:17:41] Yeah

[01:17:41] Because I feel like that really showcases the differences in those styles like some of my favorite threads

[01:17:49] To go on on Twitter or reddit or like just the other artists drawing and other styles. Um

[01:17:56] Cuz it's so cool

[01:17:57] Like it's just it's so fun to see how they take the character and work them

[01:18:02] But also like just shows like how unique their art really is to each other. Oh

[01:18:07] Does Goku is hilarious? Oh

[01:18:09] But that was really sweet, I mean cuz they've collaborated on

[01:18:15] Like they had crossover episodes like it shows like they must have been pretty close and it's just

[01:18:23] Or like one of the cool things right now is like they're doing them

[01:18:27] They're making a manga adaptation for aces story, which was a novel

[01:18:32] But Oda isn't drawing it. It's actually the author for

[01:18:36] the manga cover

[01:18:40] For um

[01:18:41] Dr. Stone

[01:18:43] So it's it's and it's honestly like it's so cool

[01:18:48] Because it's just it's cool to see these iconic characters in such a different style

[01:18:53] I know like to like are you looking up any images of it? Like it's it's cool to see

[01:18:59] And they as well also the artist for dr. Stone

[01:19:03] I'd say also has a pretty unique style as well

[01:19:05] But I feel like that's kind of what we're getting down to is the main point of like I think I

[01:19:11] Don't think there's really any artist that doesn't have like their style

[01:19:16] You know

[01:19:18] Yeah, it's it's part of what makes manga such an interesting thing is like you get really attached to this one look and like

[01:19:25] You basically follow it and its evolution through its entire story, which makes it super unique especially compared to

[01:19:33] The comics which go through a

[01:19:36] Vastly different art style and approach over the years because a lot of books have different artists chain switching out through and through. Yep

[01:19:45] But yeah

[01:19:46] It's it's it's fun. Just looking at all the different art styles and oh, yeah

[01:19:52] Especially it's the way they complement the writing

[01:19:55] I

[01:19:56] It's even fun to look at like some of the fan creations of them like taking their taking other people's styles and drawing characters

[01:20:04] In multiple different versions like it's cool to see like it's it is it's kind of cool. It's cool

[01:20:12] Yeah, like some of my favorite like memes you'll see go around

[01:20:15] It's like you take the the character and you draw it in like all the different styles

[01:20:18] Yeah, I'm looking at one for Luffy right now because I have a one-piece problem

[01:20:22] But it's like Luffy and one-piece style versus bleach versus demons lair versus Naruto

[01:20:28] My hero and Joe Joe's the Joe Joe's one is hilarious

[01:20:32] The Joe Joe's ones are always like super over the top

[01:20:35] Oh, he's like so like left field because that just shows like just the art range is so different

[01:20:42] Like the fact that you're looking at all these different characters and they're all considered anime and they all look so different

[01:20:48] It's just so cool

[01:20:51] No 100%

[01:20:52] Yeah, but yeah, so that was pretty fun episode just getting into more manga talk

[01:20:57] And I'm glad it took a happier turn to see it was a really depressing start

[01:21:03] And I'm sorry if I made anyone sad in the beginning, but um, yeah, it's better to get it out there

[01:21:10] No, yeah, it is you want to hear saying that's kind of makes me happy. I

[01:21:16] Haven't worn this jacket in two years cuz it didn't fit and it fits and my arms don't feel like I can't move in them

[01:21:23] so

[01:21:27] Nice

[01:21:28] But yeah, so we'll leave things on a happier note

[01:21:33] And again, I just wanted to say thank you to all the people who reached out

[01:21:39] and left really nice messages whether it be on my Instagram Facebook or um,

[01:21:44] Or our server it was very kind of you. I read them on me

[01:21:49] No responded to all of them just because I've been crying a lot and it's been hard

[01:21:54] But I do appreciate all of you

[01:21:57] Glad to have this community of friends. So yeah

[01:22:02] Yeah, and Bill's gonna insert a montage of all Tilly's mo best moments on the podcast

[01:22:10] Right Bill Oliver

[01:22:13] Sounds

[01:22:15] Please make that a thing

[01:22:18] I'll see I'll have to like go and dig into the archive and see if I still have some of them

[01:22:25] But uh, yeah, so once again guys thanks for joining us on the gaming collecting podcast the gaming collecting pod kit

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