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Bassman
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Heya peeps! I'm Bassman, otherwise known as Sharingan123412.
I'm a huge fan of anime, manga, and VNs but most notably SciADV and Naoki Urasawa's works. Here, I'll maybe publish reviews and video essays perhaps?
I'm a huge fan of anime, manga, and VNs but most notably SciADV and Naoki Urasawa's works. Here, I'll maybe publish reviews and video essays perhaps?
Occultic;Nine — 10 Years Later
As of the day I'm uploading this video, it has been exactly 10 years since the original Japanese release of volume 1 of Occultic;Nine. However, since 2017, the IP has remained on complete hiatus with us fans still waiting for volume 4 and "Occultic;Nine Elite".
Given the circumstances, I figured I'd make a short little personal reflection regarding my thoughts on the series.
As always, special thanks to the members of the SciADV Wiki Editing server.
Given the circumstances, I figured I'd make a short little personal reflection regarding my thoughts on the series.
As always, special thanks to the members of the SciADV Wiki Editing server.
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A Beginner's Guide to Steins;Gate & SciADV (2024 Edition)
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Do you want to get into Steins;Gate or perhaps the wider Science Adventure franchise? Then you've clicked on the right video. This video serves as a spoiler-free introductory guide to the SciADV series, outlining each entry's general premise, essential pieces of side material, and adaptations. Time Stamps 00:00 Introduction & Series Overview 03:31 The Mainline Entries 23:02 Where to Play the Ga...
Naoki Urasawa's Most Depressing Work - A Review of "Happy!"
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Naoki Urasawa is often considered to be one of the greatest mangaka of all time. Yet his personal favourite of his own works - Happy! - remains incredibly obscure among English-speaking audiences. As far as I'm aware, I'm the first to make a video on it in English. This video serves as a review of Naoki Urasawa's "Happy!", the second of his two sports manga. It serialized in Big Comic Spirits f...
Why the Steins;Gate Movie is "Canon"
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Steins;Gate's movie can absolutely be considered canon. And it does not contradict the rules of the series. In the past decade, countless English-speaking Steins;Gate anime onlies have mistakenly believed the Steins;Gate movie to be non-canon and unimportant to the franchise. But with recent localizations of wider SciADV series content, the fandom's understanding of the movie has changed drasti...
My Favourite Chapters in 20th Century Boys
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I made this video several years back but never published it until now due to some personal insecurities and dissatisfaction with the video. But after watching a recently released 20th Century Boys fan animation, I was given a push by some friends to just go out and publish it. It's almost completely unaltered compared to how it was a few years back. Anyways, this video's a little rough but plea...
the anime was fun but sadlyit was never finished. the ending is sloppy asf
I am amazed at how unnoticed this video went. It's awesome, at the level of the most famous anime reviewers. Good job!
Ótimo vídeo, obrigado pelas informações.
I remember being very confused after watching the movie, ive seen steins gate only , so i didn't gave the context, but now i get it, really nice video , maybe ill give a shot to the other content in the series
Great in depth review of Urusawa's underrated gem, and one I gotta make the time to check out especially due to its parallel to my favorite work of this manga creator, Yawara. Maybe you could do a review on that manga, too someday.
Thank you for the kind words! I'm actually currently working on a Yawara video!
@@bassman.sharingan12341 Wow, that's great news. Can't wait to see it and reflect upon your keen analysis. In particular how you feel about Yawara's plight, her supporting cast especially Jogoro ( imo, mixed feelings about the old master/manipulator) and insight upon the sport of judo. Also, just how kawaii is Yawara among Urusawa leading ladies. Be well man and thanks for the response.
Going off the Urasawa trend, I've been collecting the Asadora! manga over the past year or two and I very much enjoy it. Not only is virtually all of it drawn by Urasawa himself (instead of backgrounds done by his editors), but it has a very engaging and relatable thematic undercurrent of the children of the day dealing with immense expectations and having to fight what surmounts to an existential crisis unlike any other humanity has previously dealt with. I don't think it's an allegory for global warming but that sentiment is very easily applied. The characters who don't think themselves good enough become drug addicts, try to change themselves, or keep their efforts secret from their contemporaries. It's a basic kaiju story but it's also about the human effort to survive the insurmountable and regain what the world has unfairly taken away, the elite of our world placing its safety upon the youth.
very gud man, thanks for filling a coverage void 👍
This is a great video. Good on you for putting this out there and getting more people into the larger Sciadv series. I personally never thought much of the series, I think Chaos Head Noah is quite mediocre and Steins Gate, while good, I find to be significantly overrated. But then I read Chaos Child, and that is one of the few 10/10 visual novels I've ever read. It's something I'd call a genuine masterpiece and it blew me away and shocked me to my core more times than I can count. It's one of those few stories where, if memory wiping a story from my mind was possible, I'd pay a ludicrous amount of money to do it and experience this tale blind again. My overall point for anyone reading is, even if you don't like, or aren't particularly fond of, an entry in this series, that doesn't mean you shouldn't give the others a try. Despite being in the same series and having similar names, and even covering similar themes and topics, these are VERY differrent stories with VERY different characters and plots, despite how similar they may seem on the surface.
We are simple people: we just want a translated canon ending, and we're ready to pay for it !
Watching this video again, I have a question. If anyday someone decides to adapt these visual novels of Science Adventure into live-action, will 2 or 3 seasons of one hour episodes will be enough? If you can, please answer guys.
Adapting SciADV into live-action - even if Japanese-made - would be quite challenging. Ignoring concept-related difficulties, you'd ideally need a full season of hour-long episodes for each entry. But each entry is of a different length so the number of episodes would be different for each title. S;G for instance could work in 8 hour-long episodes. But R;N or C;C would need 12 hour-long episodes.
@@bassman.sharingan12341 Thanks for the reply, man. Hopefully, someday it gets fully adapted into a live-action series.
So, I played all of the main entries up to Steins;Gate 0 with patches EXCEPT for one - Chaos;Head, I played it on the Switch. Is there a way to find out what exactly I missed without replaying the whole game? And also thanks for the video, I love how detailed it is!
Thank you for the kind words! As for what you'd have missed, it'd be very hard to briefly sum it all up since basically the entire experience would be quite different. I'd recommend waiting for a good little while and then replaying it patched at some point.
I am a SG fan, watched the anime then played the VNs... I then saw the chaos:head anime and since then I was convinced that Chaos;head in general was trash... (the visuals/design are also a bit off on my taste too) Now that I see the points of the video I am looking forward to play the Chaos:head:Noah VN soon. This video surely made a change in my future in this world line. Sorry for bad english.
Guess I know what im splurging on next month
Good work! Love that
Well just finished it today took me like 15 hours it was a great ride my favourite is junji easily also 9/10 for me
Yeah, Sakurada's amazing. I LOVED his character. It's crazy how much Urasawa improved in character writing between Yawara and Happy.
Good video!
I've watched and played all of steins gate, do you think SciAdv is worth getting into (heard it's not that good) and what about manga and light novel?
SciADV is one of my favourite series of all time. And to be honest, Steins;Gate is only my 5th favourite main entry in the series. The rest of the series is incredible! So I would absolutely recommend playing through it! I made another video serving as a beginner's guide to it if that interests you! With the exception of Occultic;Nine, avoid the anime and manga adaptations though. They're horrendously rushed.
You know- when I got S;G elite on switch back in late 2019, I was still in Highschool and most of the VN were not translated at the time. And by the time I entered college, there was video of going beyond Steins gate and it trouble of reading the vn. 5 years later, we pretty much have every single main entry, and hopefully we get the spin offs like what we got for steins gate. Really love videos like this explain the (at the time) of being of a fan of the series.
I didn’t know there was more than just Steins;Gate.. this has me both interested and a bit overwhelmed I will try to play it all on Steam and download the patches as well to experience the entire story Might come back to this video incase I get stuck on where to go next when it comes to media.. thank you btw
Best video for any beginners!
Holy cowwwww Tks alot for this This is gonna get me into sciadv universe The amount of work put into this video is insane U got urself 1 sub
Thank you so much for your kind words and for the sub!!! I hope you enjoy the series!
Very nice video! Also, supposedly, the game ended with and image of what could be a “sleeping pad” with Yuta’s name written on it, it seems weird, but Occultic;nine is one of my favorite stories! I really hope Chiyomaru looks into it again in a close future, see ya!
Great video 👍 I really enjoyed Steins;Gate and I still think it's still one of the best anime out there 😄
Thank you for the kind words! I hope my video encouraged you to check out more of the series!
can i watch the movie without watching sg0
Yes absolutely! The movie released 2.5 years before the S;G 0 VN did. And the movie came out roughly around the same time as the Epigraph trilogy, which was the biggest piece of source material for the S;G 0 VN.
Soo, just finished Chaos;Head Noah, and I want to continue with ChuChu cuz you said it's important for the series, but I can't find it in english anywhere.... My question is how do you know it has lore implications and it's not just a dating romcom spinoff? Can I read about the plot somewhere before I move on to Steins;Gate? I don't want to wait years until an english patch, and by the time I'm done with the sci-fi adventure series, whatever info Chuchu has will be irrelevant. Can I move on to S;G without info from Chuchu? How badly will it affect my experience of future titles?
The english translation and port is still being worked on, so you won't find it yet. I haven't read it, but from what I hear it shouldn't be that bad to skip. Something in it happens to Takumi and that thing is essentialy spoiled in later entries, but you won't miss anything in the plot of later entries. TLDR: Later entries spoil C;H Love ChuChu, but as far as I know ChuChu isn't important to the plot of the series beyond knowing what happens to the cast of C;H. Again though, I haven't read it myself, so take it with a grain of salt.
@@spheromancer_ I found a guide that explains what happens in the game, it was enough for me. Yea, pretty nice things, I can see them being used in the future
Glad this video is getting good traction. The more information is out there, the more people can enjoy this great series with us.
Would you consider doing a standalone video about Anonymous;code? Pretty much nobody has talked about it since its release which is a shame because it does have its highlights.
@@kuraihikari5785 I actually was considering making a video on the implications of Anonymous;Code! The issue is I'd need A LOT of people to help me with that considering the sheer magnitude of the reveals present within it. It'd also take a ridiculous amount of time to do considering all the entries I have to go back to to find the relevant lines for. And Steins;???'s release may render some of the video obsolete not too long after its release. So I am a bit wary with doing something like it.
@@bassman.sharingan12341 Yeah I understand it’s quite a daunting topic. The game practically expects you to have an encyclopaedic knowledge on the rest of the series to catch all the references and things it recontextualises. Although that’s partly why a video covering all the implications might be a good resource for fans that felt a bit alienated by anonymous;code, even if they enjoyed it by itself. But it definitely is a big task that would take a while even with multiple people. As for Steins;???, it’s probably best not to worry too much about it since we practically know nothing about it. Even if it does add some new context, it will most likely build off of ideas Anonymous;code already introduced. Or who knows, considering most people have only seen Steins;Gate alone, they might just say ‘screw it’ and leave referencing the grander science adventure series to a minimum.
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Man, I saw all the anime and now I want to get into the VNs. Played S;G0 and right now I'm finishing Chaos Head, but watching this video just made me scared. There's SO MUCH MATERIAL to go through until I will finish this whole science adventure saga, I don't know when it will be over.... I have to pause all other anime and things I do just to focus on this massive interconnected story. Not sure if I can do it.... but I really want to. Why did they have to make so many light novels, drama CDs, mangas and extra VNs .... FOR EACH OF THE DAMN FRANCISE!!!!! Like, oh, you finished Chaos Head? Here's 10 more things you need to see. Over with Steins;Gate? Great, now read all of these stories and try to find all the drama CDs and games. Like f me....
It's not much of a hassle to find the things, since originope's website links to all the important side material. However, there is indeed a lot of time investment required.
I bought Occultic;Nine anime yesterday because the VN doesn't really exist at least it's not really international friendly. I've heard that it is really bad compared to the other entries but as a fellow Sci;ADV enthusiast I have to watch it somehow.
THANK YOU FOR THIS
@@boomfanfic-a-latta8996 You're very welcome!
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Hey, just found your video. A really good analysis. For someone like me, who doesn't know the other series from the SciADV Series it is really providing new informations which help to understand some things better. I just love Steins;Gate. It's my all time favourite. Thank you. Can I ask you a question?
Thank you for the kind words! I'm glad this video helped. I'd definitely highly recommend the rest of the series if Steins;Gate is your all-time favourite. No point in only going through just the second part of a storyline after all. And feel free to ask your question!
Great video. I feel like there is a huge void on UA-cam (English) for sciadv content and feel some more in depth lore series would be awesome
Lovely video as always!
Thank you for your heartwarming words of praise! ❤
Actually a really well done video Do you plan on talking about each title in more detail with it's own video later?
Thank you for the kind words! As for series-specific videos, I wasn't really planning on making one for every SciADV entry. I talked pretty extensively about everything premise-related within this video. But I am planning to make videos for Steins;Gate's 15th anniversary and Chaos;Child's 10th anniversary, especially the latter since MAGES is probably going to ignore it.
@@bassman.sharingan12341 I see, good to know Hopefully we see news about Steins;??? but what they said also made it sound like they were working on another direct sequel We'll see soon ig
Still can't believe I actully watch this 1 hour video.
i’ll have to check out occultic nine after I finish robotic notes, even if it’s not finished. It really does seem interesting.
REALLY enjoying the SciADV videos! So happy we finally have a UA-camr who makes videos on this series!! THANK YOU!
so true
I would love to see the VN completed, the one thing i really liked about the anime was its artstyle, is so unique
Really hope vol 4 and Elite eventually release. The anime was kind of jarring but I read the LN as JNC initially released them and really enjoyed it.
I just wish they will reprint the LNs when/if vol 4 ever releases, I'd love to have a SciADV shelf lol
I was planning on reading the light novels after book 4 but idk if i can wait that long 😂
@@TakuTuesday Yeah you might as well just read the first 3 LN volumes now.
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What's the music/ost you use for this it's awesome and the video is too respect to you
I just used tracks from the series itself! From start to finish: - Numerical Expression - Prologue - Shogun - Gate of Steiner - Robotics;Notes -2nd theme- - World - The Occultism - End Theme - Accelerator - Silence - Gloomy Fact - The Third Melt - Life Game - Explanation - Chaos Mind - Hack -short vision- - Presage - Mapping Mode - Silent Sky - Urd - Operation Skuld - Kidou! - Gamon Yuta no Image - Institution - Divergence - End Theme
@@bassman.sharingan12341 oh well thanks very much your videos are great too I particularly like the steins gate movie one keep it up
Good video from the basedman
Thank you for the kind words, Qu!
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nice video :D