Okay but Hanzo spends so many years mourning his brother and when his brother appears in front of him he tries to kill him again, now that is an accurate representation of siblings I swear xD
I LOVE how goofy they were at the start, making jokes, and didnt pay close attention. And through story telling all 3 of them got sucked in and was watching as if it they were watching a movie. Thats Overwatch cinematic fo' ya
@@pittayayas No I'm just pointing it out because you said they were engrossed in the video but they managed to miss a character that took up a third of the screen lmao
A good genji will fuck her up or at the very least stay just out of range, probably won't win if he doesn't have a good team tho because he won't be able to cap or contest as effectively
@Barna Antal Yet I see so so so many awful Moira players :) Like people in high plat/low gold cant play her at all? If she is so non-skill, how come people cant play her for shit? Or..maybe you're just a crybaby genji main, crying because you get killed by good Moira players? Hmm 🤔
@@eunyounguzun2597 sometimes it's just luck. I've been killed many times because of a random purple orb xD or because I have to reload and that's all Moira needs to succ me dead :c but yeah overall it depends on the person's skill and awareness, although Moira definitely has the advantage if they're evenly skilled, but if genji's good enough to make Moira chase him across the map, he costs the enemies a main healer which is a good thing if his team is decent.... we lose some, we win some.
@Barna Antal Hmm thats true, I've met other players too who go dps Moira and do some stupid stuff and say theyre easy wins. In reality they just hold right click (not that Im top 500, I do stupid stuff too sometimes)
Fun fact, the setting of this short is actually a playable map called "Hanamura!" One of my personal favorites, the map even has a winter version during the Winter Wonderland event! Your comment about Genji needing nerfed is funny, because most of the players that actually play Genji have been calling for him to be buffed for a long while! Most of Genji and Hanzo's abilities are exactly how they're shown here, with a bit of an exception with Hanzo. Not too long ago he got a bit of a mini-rework, in which his scatter shot was replaced with the ability to rapidfire a few shots for reduced damage and he gained the ability to do a short dash after jumping. The reason for this rework was due to the fact that his scattershot could one shot almost any character in the game if they were in a corridor, which had little to no counterplay. As you can imagine, this was pretty frustrating for just about everyone except the Hanzo player and his team. Onto some lore, Genji and Hanzo are, or were, heirs to the Shimada Clan, which had a large influence over much of Japan. Hanzo took the yakuza life seriously, while Genji was more of a playboy (to the point of dying his hair neon green, which is a skin in game) that spent most of his time goofing off. During this time, Genji was nicknamed "Sparrow", which explains the significance of the feather that keeps appearing. The yakuza elders, repulsed by his actions, ordered Hanzo to "get Genji out of the equation." The following fight ensued where Hanzo knelt to pray, with Hanzo actually using the sword shown. After the fight was over, Genji was more or less dead on the ground and Hanzo fled out of shame. Genji was eventually found and rescued by Overwatch, turning him into a cyborg. Hanzo left the yakuza clan and vowed to never use a sword again, instead picking up the bow we see. For a time after, Genji was distraught due to not accepting his new body. He was used by Overwatch's Black Ops Division, aptly named Blackwatch, as essentially just a giant weapon. After Overwatch's disbandment, he traveled to Nepal and seeked refuge with a group of Omnic monks, the Shambali. The Omnic that was killed in "Alive", Mondatta, was one of the high members of this group. There he was mentored by Zenyatta (a playable character with no real lore appearances) and learned to accept his body. The cinematic actually occurs several years after, and not long after Winston's recall. As the lore stands right now, neither Hanzo or Genji have done too much up to the present. Genji was shown as to answered Winston's recall in the Overwatch 2 trailer, but Hanzo is still MIA. Sorry for the long comment and I look forward to seeing more!
DeWolx I don’t consider The Last Bastion to be, since it doesn’t take place in a playable area. But I do suppose that they are, and I just don’t think much :P
Not anymore. His new buff is gonna be op af. He now does 30 instead of 24 dmg per sheriken and his spread is shortened from 12 to 9 and his reflect is now 2 seconds instead of 1.5 and can be cancelled upon command
This should PROBABLY be known first before you decide to watch that short, since the short was shown AFTER all of this was known. Honestly, it's one of the best shorts of the series IMO, and was expecting this to come out in your channel. Anyways, the short in question will take place in the in-game map called Eichenwalde. Deep in the map is a hall and a throne. sitting on that throne is a "complete set of armor". Reinhardt also has a skin resembling this armor. That skin's name is "Balderich". This is what it looks like. www.geekgirlauthority.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Overwatch-Eichenwalde.jpg
The short is made to have you easily guess that it's his brother, the goal of the director wasn't to make you feel surprised, it was to make you follow and understand the plot))). Great video guys!
Honestly rhe first stime i watched it i was like "So yeah he got a blue dress and the ninja green light, like the rwo dragons....i think they are brothers"
@@gabs3901 yes hes overrated, but he needs a buff, he cant do shit in higher ranks or at least you have to be really good with him to be able to do shit. He might be good in lower ranks cuz of his deflect but thats just there. He needs a buff, he gets hard countered in higher ranks easily
I like you guys but the lore is totally off... Overwatch is the good guys. And genji is one of the members... Remember Winston recalled all agents and genji is telling his brother to pick a side. The advance ai is taking over the world and overwatch is last line of defence. Reaper and widowmaker is part of a evil organisation called talon. I hope you guys read this
Thank you for the explanation! Yeah we're still pretty shaky on the lore since we're only relying on what we've seen in the first few cinematics. But we're slowly picking up more of the story as we go! Thank you for watching:D
@@GMineo First of all thank you for reading my comment and I enjoy your reaction very much... I don't play the game but I watch a ton of content creators who enjoyed it. So I recommend you guys play it. Seriously thank you for reading this and I hope you guys a very happy day
Every single time I watch this, I'm always amazed when Genji cuts Hanzo's arrow in half. Whoever animated this (along with the rest of the trailers) truly made a masterpiece
Quick lore. They were kind of like a yakuza clan I believe which their father was boss. Somewhere along the line Hanzo (arrow guy) became boss and genji (ninja guy) did something to dishonor the clan. Hanzo was dutybound to kill him but apparently he fucked it up without knowing and genji got turned into a cyborg because his injuries where life-threatening. Genji was then recruited into overwatch and did a bunch of cool shit there before it was shut down.
So Hanzo is OP for Squishies, non-tanks, cuz hit arrows if they hit a headshot can oneshot peeps cuz it does so much damage. That scatter shot you saw where he made 1 arrow scatter everywhere used to be in the game but since the arrows bounced until they went off map you could potentially get headshotted around the building and across the map without him ever actually aiming at you or even knowing you were there. There's quite a bit Genji can't deflect and it is on a cool down. Projectile he can but so long as you bait it and wait it your fine. Zarya, Sym, Brig and Rein primary fires can't be deflected. He's also a very in your face kind of char so you need to get used to fast cam movement to get good with him
@G-Mineo Ok quick Lore Dump for you guys since it has yet to be explored in an Animated Short. Genji was part of an Overwatch Black Ops Team called, appropriately enough, Blackwatch. Reaper was the Commanding Officer of Blackwatch. He betrayed Overwatch and "killed" Overwatch's Commander, his former best friend. Reaper was recruited by a Criminal Organization called Talon and works for them alongside Widowmaker. If you go back and look at the Heroes that pop up on Winston's screen in Recall when he initiates the Overwatch Recall, you'll see Genji there. As far as Hanzo and Genji are concerned, Hanzo didn't want power. Being the older brother, he was basically handed power. As the heir apparent, he felt it was his duty to confront and kill his younger brother, Genji, when Genji defied the family, realizing they were criminals. The Sword in the Shrine is Hanzo's Sword. The same sword he used to "kill" Genji. If you couldn't tell by his clothing, Hanzo is a Samurai. After he "killed" Genji, Hanzo gave up his sword having brought dishonor to himself, the way of the Samurai, and his blade. Hanzo, being the older brother, was always at odds with his duty to the clan/family and his honor as a Samurai and love for his brother. The guys that Hanzo takes out in the beginning of the Animated Short are his own people. Those are members of The Shimada Clan (Hanzo and Genji's last name is Shimada). Ok so now to address your question about Genji's remark to Hanzo about picking a side. The one thing you have realize is that all of these Animated Shorts takes place shortly after Winston initiates Overwatch Recall. So by this point in time, Genji has received Winston's message. The reason Genji is here is to recruit Hanzo to Overwatch. With Winston's message, Genji knows that a war between Overwatch and Talon is imminent and that his family, The Shimada Clan, would be a natural place for Talon to turn to for allies, being criminals and all. And having witnessed firsthand the betrayal of his Commanding Officer in Overwatch, he knows Hanzo would be on Talon's shortlist for recruitment. So he wanted to get to Hanzo before Talon did. And he has. Genji has offered Hanzo that which he most seeks: Redemption. The question know remains: Will Hanzo accept his brother's offer? As of this writing, we don't know the answer to that. My guess is that, yes, Hanzo will join Overwatch with his brother. Anyway, hope this wasn't too overwhelming and that it has helped. Looking forward to the rest of your reactions!
This might just me being picky, but I feel you lose part of the experience with out earphones. The music is what bumps these cinematics up to top quality.
And since when are earphones the superior way to listen to music? Though it does seem like they are listening from a laptop and not from dedicated speakers, so earphones should be better in that case. Though if they went for earphones, they might as well use headphones instead.
@@ckkiller17 Well, here's to hoping they were using actual speakers and not some cheap laptop ones. Though whenever you watch things while commenting with other people you're bound to miss a lot of detail, especially in audio (since you also have to listen to the other people). It's already not a very ideal situation =/
Technically, he didn't want power, but to honor his clan, as he felt Genji was dishonoring the clan. So he thought he murdered him, but Genji was saved.
Love the video guys. But a little background for overwatch, there are three parties known in overwatch right now. One is overwatch which are the good guys like Winston and tracer, and then their is talon, which is the bad guys like reaper and widowmaker. They were trying to steal doomfist's gauntlet who is the leader of talon. And their are omnics, which are like robots. Some are good and some are bad. Anyways hope this little info helps, great video guys :) love to see you all play overwatch some day.
Back again with a few juicy (Non-Spoiler) items to clear some blanks. Hanzo is what you'd call a Free Agent not belonging to either side or even a third-party. The reason being he fell out with the Shimada Ninja Clan after Genji's supposed death either afterwards or directly because of it. Don't know if he started another independent clan or not. Genji is Overwatch Genji was rescued by Overwatch's lead medical scientist & everyone's favorite healer Mercy. ( They have no cinematic to go over this so I feel comfortable going over it in a non-spoiler) Mercy put him back together turning him into a Android. It hints in a few Easter eggs that Genji fell for Mercy at that time. So there's a romance aka ship there. Zenata another member of Overwatch and a spiritual Omnic like Onata who got assassinated in the Alive short, helped him through his healing process & anger at Hanzo. Zenata is another healer in-game. Hanzo has a bias against omnics like a lot of people after the wars have. Which is why when he said "What have you become?" was with a little disgust. They're 2 of my absolute favorites in Overwatch.
All the cinematics that we see, with the exception of the first, are set in maps in the actual game: Winston's happens in the map Watchpoint: Gibraltar Tracer/Widowmaker in King's Row, London Hanzo/Genji in Hanamura, Japan Reinhardt's in Eichenwald, Germany Sombra's in Volskaya Industries, Russia Soldier 76 in Dorado McCree/Ashe in Route 66, USA Also, the "government team" Wade keeps refering to is actually an evil organisation called Talon that tries to manipulate things in the shadows. Playable characters that are members of Talon are: Reaper, Widowmaker, Sombra, Doomfist, Moira, and Sigma.
Hanzo is actually a better swordsman than Genji (which is why he gets the advantage in the battle even though he was using a bow as a sword), but after "killing" Genji he put down the sword and vowed never to use it again and instead picked up the bow.
Fun fact: The feather genji left was a sparrow feather. It’s a little Easter egg because when genji and Hanzo were younger their father called genji Sparrow
Haha they’ll never know scatter arrow was removed (the one with the arrows scattering in the underside of the entrance of the temple) and replaced with storm arrow (shoots already full charged arrows rapidly) due to one shotting you at a certain angle while being closed range. *cries in Mercy Main*
A little backstory he is named Genji and his nickname was sparrow thus there is that feather and he ain’t OP he is one of the hardest characters to play
Heres some Background on the Brothers: -Hanzo was the leader of a crime syndicate family that sell drugs and other illegal business -Both brothers were trained as assassins and ninjas -Hanzo the older brother was the Heir of the family leading the family to further glory -Genji enjoyed the training but had no interest in the familys illegal business, instead he was playboy party type guy -The Elders of the family told Hanzo to bring Genji into the fold of the family business or kill him -Genji rejected the family business enraging Hanzo until a confrontation in which Hanzo "Killed Genji" -Hanzo felt terrible afterwards and realized what he has become. He also left the family and the Shimada household (the place this trailer takes place -Hanzo lives a life as a mercenary trying to redeem his honor and returns to this location every year to honor his brother -Overwatch found him and saved his life, he then went under extensive Cyberization and joined Overwatch, with one goal, destroy the Shimada Empire -Genji destroyed the family and once it was over he left Overwatch, he hated his body and believed himself a monster then he encountered an Omnic Monk -After training with the Omnic Monk and accepting himself some more time passes by. -Winston recalls Overwatch and Genji decides to reunite with his brother offering him a chance to change his path -This Trailer is the outcome
Hanzo cut off both genji's legs below the knee, brutally scarred his face and torso, and chopped off his right arm with the same sword he was praying to
Now I know why this video got so many dislikes because you can't fucking hear anything and when y'all's talk you can't even hear what you can barley fucking hear
Lore time! Hanzo and Genji was part of klan called the Shamadia clan. Obviously they are brothers Hanzo being the oldest and Genji being the youngest. Their father was the leader of the klan, and Hanzo took it very seriously. Genji on the other hand didn’t. So his father asked hanzo to tell Genji to get serious but Genji refused. Resulting in the battle. And actually during the battle Hanzo used a sword that you see in the video in the temple, he used the sword to he thinks kills his brother, after that day he never touched a sword again and went to bow and arrow. After the battle, Hanzo believes he killed his brother but in fact he just left him for dead. Dr. Ziegler or more known as Mercy from the Overwatch team found him barely alive, she took him under her wing and helped him slowly start the process of being half Omnic, and half human. But it wasn’t enough, after Overwatch gets disbanded Genji goes to seek out a monk called, Zenyetta. He and Genji work together for awhile working on acceptance, healing, peace of mind. Then he accepts what he is now, and he went to his brother that he forgives him. When Genji said “it’s time to pick a side” the Klan that the brothers where in were shady (And my personal opinion is why Genji wanted no part in it) Genji asked Hanzo that question cause the their was no more Klan. Is is he good or bad? Which side is he on? Hope that helps 😬
4:10 that scabbard belongs to the sword above it. It is also hanzo's sword, the one he used to kill genji. If i remember correctly, Hanzo is actually a more skilled swordsman than an archer, but he refuses to use one as it is tool he used to murder his brother.
Yeeeeesss I was waiting for this one. I never ever get tired of this Cinematic, my favorite game one after Seconds from Ekko It’s incredible, the animation is on point but I think what I like most is how Gaku Space and Paul Nakauchi conveyed so much emotion with their voice acting... I just love it ToT Your reactions are always nice to watch, you appreciate so much of this! You are amazing omg
"This guy needs to be nerfed"
*Cries in Genji main*
Please don't 😔
Same 😔
He's a cc eater sad times
SERIOUSLY DON'T
He needs healing.
Jeff forgot about his existence
Okay but Hanzo spends so many years mourning his brother and when his brother appears in front of him he tries to kill him again, now that is an accurate representation of siblings I swear xD
Hahahaha
Confirmo
Yes but to be fair for hanzo he didn't knew it was genji
@@ChaosKitsune666 did you see at the end how hanzo aimed an arrow at genji after he showed his face?
@@jeronimomartinezcalsina7690 he was trying to make his brother not follow their fathers foot
I LOVE how goofy they were at the start, making jokes, and didnt pay close attention. And through story telling all 3 of them got sucked in and was watching as if it they were watching a movie. Thats Overwatch cinematic fo' ya
H. P. Lovecraft had a cat with a peculiar name
They literally missed the first time genji appeared
@@CryNhn cry some more
@@pittayayas No I'm just pointing it out because you said they were engrossed in the video but they managed to miss a character that took up a third of the screen lmao
@@CryNhn can you read? Read again. Cause i said they were goofing around and DIDNT pay attention until later 🤦♀️🤦♀️🤦♀️🤦♀️
The man behind the camera: "yes Genji op"
Me: *laughes in Moira*
A good genji will fuck her up or at the very least stay just out of range, probably won't win if he doesn't have a good team tho because he won't be able to cap or contest as effectively
@@daniale581 Thats true, ive been killed many times by Genjis. It also depens on the Moira. But usually Genji's arent a problem for me xD
@Barna Antal Yet I see so so so many awful Moira players :) Like people in high plat/low gold cant play her at all? If she is so non-skill, how come people cant play her for shit? Or..maybe you're just a crybaby genji main, crying because you get killed by good Moira players? Hmm 🤔
@@eunyounguzun2597 sometimes it's just luck. I've been killed many times because of a random purple orb xD or because I have to reload and that's all Moira needs to succ me dead :c but yeah overall it depends on the person's skill and awareness, although Moira definitely has the advantage if they're evenly skilled, but if genji's good enough to make Moira chase him across the map, he costs the enemies a main healer which is a good thing if his team is decent.... we lose some, we win some.
@Barna Antal Hmm thats true, I've met other players too who go dps Moira and do some stupid stuff and say theyre easy wins. In reality they just hold right click (not that Im top 500, I do stupid stuff too sometimes)
“Because he’s green” lmao bro this was genuinely funny to me
Fun fact, the setting of this short is actually a playable map called "Hanamura!" One of my personal favorites, the map even has a winter version during the Winter Wonderland event!
Your comment about Genji needing nerfed is funny, because most of the players that actually play Genji have been calling for him to be buffed for a long while! Most of Genji and Hanzo's abilities are exactly how they're shown here, with a bit of an exception with Hanzo. Not too long ago he got a bit of a mini-rework, in which his scatter shot was replaced with the ability to rapidfire a few shots for reduced damage and he gained the ability to do a short dash after jumping. The reason for this rework was due to the fact that his scattershot could one shot almost any character in the game if they were in a corridor, which had little to no counterplay. As you can imagine, this was pretty frustrating for just about everyone except the Hanzo player and his team.
Onto some lore, Genji and Hanzo are, or were, heirs to the Shimada Clan, which had a large influence over much of Japan. Hanzo took the yakuza life seriously, while Genji was more of a playboy (to the point of dying his hair neon green, which is a skin in game) that spent most of his time goofing off. During this time, Genji was nicknamed "Sparrow", which explains the significance of the feather that keeps appearing. The yakuza elders, repulsed by his actions, ordered Hanzo to "get Genji out of the equation." The following fight ensued where Hanzo knelt to pray, with Hanzo actually using the sword shown. After the fight was over, Genji was more or less dead on the ground and Hanzo fled out of shame. Genji was eventually found and rescued by Overwatch, turning him into a cyborg. Hanzo left the yakuza clan and vowed to never use a sword again, instead picking up the bow we see. For a time after, Genji was distraught due to not accepting his new body. He was used by Overwatch's Black Ops Division, aptly named Blackwatch, as essentially just a giant weapon. After Overwatch's disbandment, he traveled to Nepal and seeked refuge with a group of Omnic monks, the Shambali. The Omnic that was killed in "Alive", Mondatta, was one of the high members of this group. There he was mentored by Zenyatta (a playable character with no real lore appearances) and learned to accept his body. The cinematic actually occurs several years after, and not long after Winston's recall. As the lore stands right now, neither Hanzo or Genji have done too much up to the present. Genji was shown as to answered Winston's recall in the Overwatch 2 trailer, but Hanzo is still MIA.
Sorry for the long comment and I look forward to seeing more!
Nah... Mercy needs buffs D:
Katarina Du Couteau True, but hey +5 healing per second is at least something. I’m a Mercy OTP and I’m already hype about it
aren't all shorts on a map -.-
I personally dont like this map it's hard to push objective b
DeWolx I don’t consider The Last Bastion to be, since it doesn’t take place in a playable area. But I do suppose that they are, and I just don’t think much :P
i just came here and liked the episode and every comment because yes
even mine
and this one
Vapeanni Gama How about this one?
You are a true man of culture
Well you didn’t like this one, because you have forgotten about this video. 😏
"This guy needs to be nerfed" Funny, in the game Genji is useless now he's just an ult generator currently
U forgot he's a cc eater aswell
Me, having over 200 hours on him: i don’t think so.
Not anymore. His new buff is gonna be op af. He now does 30 instead of 24 dmg per sheriken and his spread is shortened from 12 to 9 and his reflect is now 2 seconds instead of 1.5 and can be cancelled upon command
@@manaeth i agree im also a genji main and if u play him right. He can turn tables in a fight easily
Trini_ Vesper yep. U just have to play him right, and have relyable supports. As long as those two conditions meets, u are very hard to defeat
Pls react to Overwatch Animated Short "Honer and Glory".
Thank you for the rec!:D
This should PROBABLY be known first before you decide to watch that short, since the short was shown AFTER all of this was known. Honestly, it's one of the best shorts of the series IMO, and was expecting this to come out in your channel.
Anyways, the short in question will take place in the in-game map called Eichenwalde. Deep in the map is a hall and a throne. sitting on that throne is a "complete set of armor". Reinhardt also has a skin resembling this armor. That skin's name is "Balderich".
This is what it looks like.
www.geekgirlauthority.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Overwatch-Eichenwalde.jpg
Honor*
@@GMineo You will cry... well I cried but maybe...
Well just react to all of them honestly, they're all amazing!
Hanzo and Genji two of my favorites. I loved your reactions guys!
Yes they're off-camera Andrew's faves as well!! Thank you for watching:D
The short is made to have you easily guess that it's his brother, the goal of the director wasn't to make you feel surprised, it was to make you follow and understand the plot))).
Great video guys!
Honestly rhe first stime i watched it i was like "So yeah he got a blue dress and the ninja green light, like the rwo dragons....i think they are brothers"
Dude Genji needs a buff! Not a fking Nerf.
He's a cc eater in this meta lul
Dude Genji is super overrated and everyone knows how to play him. He DOESN'T deserve a buff
@@gabs3901 yes hes overrated, but he needs a buff, he cant do shit in higher ranks or at least you have to be really good with him to be able to do shit. He might be good in lower ranks cuz of his deflect but thats just there. He needs a buff, he gets hard countered in higher ranks easily
Gabs dude him and doomfist are the most difficult heroes to play
@@mohammadalhusaini810 Are you serious?! I have played them a few times but eh😴😴😴
I dont know if my ears will recover from this. Had my earphones on full.
middle dude's teeth are brighter than my future.
love seeing WADE concept at his humble beginnings
Bro i was like wait is that wade??
BROOO I WAS SO CONFUSED I WAS LIKE IS THAT WADE IM SEEING
"this guy needs to be nerfed"
Every genji main: "oh God not again"
Underrated! Keep at it you get my son through this crazy time my friends thankyou for such a beautiful gift.
Thank you so much!! This really brightens our day😁 We appreciate the support!!
I like you guys but the lore is totally off... Overwatch is the good guys. And genji is one of the members... Remember Winston recalled all agents and genji is telling his brother to pick a side. The advance ai is taking over the world and overwatch is last line of defence. Reaper and widowmaker is part of a evil organisation called talon. I hope you guys read this
Yes. After all this, definitely go back through the Recall trailer and look at the agent portraits when Winston re-establishes contact.
Thank you for the explanation! Yeah we're still pretty shaky on the lore since we're only relying on what we've seen in the first few cinematics. But we're slowly picking up more of the story as we go! Thank you for watching:D
@@GMineo First of all thank you for reading my comment and I enjoy your reaction very much... I don't play the game but I watch a ton of content creators who enjoyed it. So I recommend you guys play it. Seriously thank you for reading this and I hope you guys a very happy day
Well, Overwatch is *mostly* the good guys. [cough]Blackwatch[cough]
@@HiddenWindshield
Blackwatch were good guys too, although they did some semi shady things.
It's just certain members that went rogue.
Finally!! Love this cinematic. Ty guys! Greetings from Chile
Thank you for watching!!
Wena
Every single time I watch this, I'm always amazed when Genji cuts Hanzo's arrow in half. Whoever animated this (along with the rest of the trailers) truly made a masterpiece
I would love to see the Overwatch reactions more frequently, but you guys got a schedule I guess :(
More to come!! We'll put them out as fast as we can, we promise😁
bro you already know they are paid actors when they scream that loud when Hanzo used his ult
aaaAAA I HAVEN'T BEEN THIS EXCITED FOR A UA-cam VIDEO IN A WHILE
THANK YOU FOR THE SUPPORT
I love how the girl always says "It´s like Avatar/ Game of thrones "
Was another great Overwatch cinematic. Good job team G-Mineo! I can't wait for you guys to get the the Reinhardt and McCree cinematic :D
Quick lore. They were kind of like a yakuza clan I believe which their father was boss. Somewhere along the line Hanzo (arrow guy) became boss and genji (ninja guy) did something to dishonor the clan. Hanzo was dutybound to kill him but apparently he fucked it up without knowing and genji got turned into a cyborg because his injuries where life-threatening. Genji was then recruited into overwatch and did a bunch of cool shit there before it was shut down.
So Hanzo is OP for Squishies, non-tanks, cuz hit arrows if they hit a headshot can oneshot peeps cuz it does so much damage. That scatter shot you saw where he made 1 arrow scatter everywhere used to be in the game but since the arrows bounced until they went off map you could potentially get headshotted around the building and across the map without him ever actually aiming at you or even knowing you were there. There's quite a bit Genji can't deflect and it is on a cool down. Projectile he can but so long as you bait it and wait it your fine. Zarya, Sym, Brig and Rein primary fires can't be deflected. He's also a very in your face kind of char so you need to get used to fast cam movement to get good with him
Hanzel and Kenny-G, what a love story 😂
A crossover the world isn't ready for😂
My dude only called it because he was constantly talking over the misdirects :P
Been patiently waiting for this one.
@G-Mineo Ok quick Lore Dump for you guys since it has yet to be explored in an Animated Short. Genji was part of an Overwatch Black Ops Team called, appropriately enough, Blackwatch. Reaper was the Commanding Officer of Blackwatch. He betrayed Overwatch and "killed" Overwatch's Commander, his former best friend. Reaper was recruited by a Criminal Organization called Talon and works for them alongside Widowmaker. If you go back and look at the Heroes that pop up on Winston's screen in Recall when he initiates the Overwatch Recall, you'll see Genji there.
As far as Hanzo and Genji are concerned, Hanzo didn't want power. Being the older brother, he was basically handed power. As the heir apparent, he felt it was his duty to confront and kill his younger brother, Genji, when Genji defied the family, realizing they were criminals. The Sword in the Shrine is Hanzo's Sword. The same sword he used to "kill" Genji. If you couldn't tell by his clothing, Hanzo is a Samurai. After he "killed" Genji, Hanzo gave up his sword having brought dishonor to himself, the way of the Samurai, and his blade. Hanzo, being the older brother, was always at odds with his duty to the clan/family and his honor as a Samurai and love for his brother. The guys that Hanzo takes out in the beginning of the Animated Short are his own people. Those are members of The Shimada Clan (Hanzo and Genji's last name is Shimada).
Ok so now to address your question about Genji's remark to Hanzo about picking a side. The one thing you have realize is that all of these Animated Shorts takes place shortly after Winston initiates Overwatch Recall. So by this point in time, Genji has received Winston's message. The reason Genji is here is to recruit Hanzo to Overwatch. With Winston's message, Genji knows that a war between Overwatch and Talon is imminent and that his family, The Shimada Clan, would be a natural place for Talon to turn to for allies, being criminals and all. And having witnessed firsthand the betrayal of his Commanding Officer in Overwatch, he knows Hanzo would be on Talon's shortlist for recruitment. So he wanted to get to Hanzo before Talon did. And he has. Genji has offered Hanzo that which he most seeks: Redemption. The question know remains: Will Hanzo accept his brother's offer? As of this writing, we don't know the answer to that. My guess is that, yes, Hanzo will join Overwatch with his brother.
Anyway, hope this wasn't too overwhelming and that it has helped. Looking forward to the rest of your reactions!
This might just me being picky, but I feel you lose part of the experience with out earphones. The music is what bumps these cinematics up to top quality.
And since when are earphones the superior way to listen to music? Though it does seem like they are listening from a laptop and not from dedicated speakers, so earphones should be better in that case. Though if they went for earphones, they might as well use headphones instead.
@@son_guhun I'd prefer headphones too. Just rather they use something than nothing, but if they don't then they don't .
@@ckkiller17 Well, here's to hoping they were using actual speakers and not some cheap laptop ones. Though whenever you watch things while commenting with other people you're bound to miss a lot of detail, especially in audio (since you also have to listen to the other people). It's already not a very ideal situation =/
Am I supposed to be able to hear the cinematic because I can't
@@son_guhun Never watch an epic video with amazing music without earphones/headphones. It's a golden rule.
Dude , I like the guy on the left side , he is listening to the story and the conversation very carefully lol.
Others probably mentioned it, but the narration was done by the same actor who played Shang Tsung in the Mortal Kombat movie and MK11.
bro i like how all the popular vids got my boy wade on it😤
Technically, he didn't want power, but to honor his clan, as he felt Genji was dishonoring the clan. So he thought he murdered him, but Genji was saved.
“Honour and glory” is another amazing overwatch cinematic that you guys should really check out✨
Thank you for the recommendation!
@@GMineo And "The Last Bastion". In fact, they're all really good.
Yes, one of the best ones. Can't wait to watch.
G-Mineo=this dude need to get nerf
overwatch players(genji mains)=u have no idea how many times he got nerf
GREAT! I WAS WAITING ALL WEEK THIS! really wanana see more overwatch reactions
Love the video guys. But a little background for overwatch, there are three parties known in overwatch right now. One is overwatch which are the good guys like Winston and tracer, and then their is talon, which is the bad guys like reaper and widowmaker. They were trying to steal doomfist's gauntlet who is the leader of talon. And their are omnics, which are like robots. Some are good and some are bad. Anyways hope this little info helps, great video guys :) love to see you all play overwatch some day.
That's really helpful! Thank you for letting us know:D
A leader not THE leader
Overwatch is one of my favorite games. It has a nice story and I can't wait to see you guys react to more cinematics. Great reactions as always 💖
I get the vibe that they speak during a movie
Back again with a few juicy (Non-Spoiler) items to clear some blanks.
Hanzo is what you'd call a Free Agent not belonging to either side or even a third-party. The reason being he fell out with the Shimada Ninja Clan after Genji's supposed death either afterwards or directly because of it.
Don't know if he started another independent clan or not.
Genji is Overwatch
Genji was rescued by Overwatch's lead medical scientist & everyone's favorite healer Mercy. ( They have no cinematic to go over this so I feel comfortable going over it in a non-spoiler)
Mercy put him back together turning him into a Android. It hints in a few Easter eggs that Genji fell for Mercy at that time. So there's a romance aka ship there.
Zenata another member of Overwatch and a spiritual Omnic like Onata who got assassinated in the Alive short, helped him through his healing process & anger at Hanzo. Zenata is another healer in-game.
Hanzo has a bias against omnics like a lot of people after the wars have. Which is why when he said "What have you become?" was with a little disgust.
They're 2 of my absolute favorites in Overwatch.
Zenyatta and Mondatta*
@@callmesilver2683 thank you
All the cinematics that we see, with the exception of the first, are set in maps in the actual game:
Winston's happens in the map Watchpoint: Gibraltar
Tracer/Widowmaker in King's Row, London
Hanzo/Genji in Hanamura, Japan
Reinhardt's in Eichenwald, Germany
Sombra's in Volskaya Industries, Russia
Soldier 76 in Dorado
McCree/Ashe in Route 66, USA
Also, the "government team" Wade keeps refering to is actually an evil organisation called Talon that tries to manipulate things in the shadows. Playable characters that are members of Talon are:
Reaper, Widowmaker, Sombra, Doomfist, Moira, and Sigma.
'this guy needs to be nerfed'
*give me strength*
Hanzo is actually a better swordsman than Genji (which is why he gets the advantage in the battle even though he was using a bow as a sword), but after "killing" Genji he put down the sword and vowed never to use it again and instead picked up the bow.
Fun fact: The feather genji left was a sparrow feather. It’s a little Easter egg because when genji and Hanzo were younger their father called genji Sparrow
They were talking more then they were paying attention to the actual story
Haha they’ll never know scatter arrow was removed (the one with the arrows scattering in the underside of the entrance of the temple) and replaced with storm arrow (shoots already full charged arrows rapidly) due to one shotting you at a certain angle while being closed range. *cries in Mercy Main*
Rip scatter arrows
Dude i didnt know wade was in another channel lets go wadeconcept
Fun fact Genji’s nickname is Sparrow (which was an insult by his father) and the feather in the animatic resemble a sparrow’s feather.
“This guy needs to be nerfed”
He’s getting buffed actually 😂
Wade is that you 😂😂 didn’t expect this on my recommended
The Shimada lore between Genji, Hanzo and Sojiro has more holes than a cheese grater but it is still interesting as heck!
AYY been waiting for this !
A little backstory he is named Genji and his nickname was sparrow thus there is that feather and he ain’t OP he is one of the hardest characters to play
Ugh I get chills every damn time I watch that short.
Same
I like it, they were definitely not faking. Would love to see more.
Hahaha im dying best answer for guessing hes his brother hes green 🤣👏👏 accurate love it
Heres some Background on the Brothers:
-Hanzo was the leader of a crime syndicate family that sell drugs and other illegal business
-Both brothers were trained as assassins and ninjas
-Hanzo the older brother was the Heir of the family leading the family to further glory
-Genji enjoyed the training but had no interest in the familys illegal business, instead he was playboy party type guy
-The Elders of the family told Hanzo to bring Genji into the fold of the family business or kill him
-Genji rejected the family business enraging Hanzo until a confrontation in which Hanzo "Killed Genji"
-Hanzo felt terrible afterwards and realized what he has become. He also left the family and the Shimada household (the place this trailer takes place
-Hanzo lives a life as a mercenary trying to redeem his honor and returns to this location every year to honor his brother
-Overwatch found him and saved his life, he then went under extensive Cyberization and joined Overwatch, with one goal, destroy the Shimada Empire
-Genji destroyed the family and once it was over he left Overwatch, he hated his body and believed himself a monster then he encountered an Omnic Monk
-After training with the Omnic Monk and accepting himself some more time passes by.
-Winston recalls Overwatch and Genji decides to reunite with his brother offering him a chance to change his path
-This Trailer is the outcome
Them struggling to read the names me: who knows how to pronounce Japanese names perfectly (angry noises)
you are the worst kind of person
that kenny g line was such a dad joke
Hanzo cut off both genji's legs below the knee, brutally scarred his face and torso, and chopped off his right arm with the same sword he was praying to
This is the animated short that inspired me to buy the game in the first place!
@Wade guess and reaction are on point!
Now I know why this video got so many dislikes because you can't fucking hear anything and when y'all's talk you can't even hear what you can barley fucking hear
Lore time! Hanzo and Genji was part of klan called the Shamadia clan. Obviously they are brothers Hanzo being the oldest and Genji being the youngest. Their father was the leader of the klan, and Hanzo took it very seriously. Genji on the other hand didn’t. So his father asked hanzo to tell Genji to get serious but Genji refused. Resulting in the battle. And actually during the battle Hanzo used a sword that you see in the video in the temple, he used the sword to he thinks kills his brother, after that day he never touched a sword again and went to bow and arrow. After the battle, Hanzo believes he killed his brother but in fact he just left him for dead. Dr. Ziegler or more known as Mercy from the Overwatch team found him barely alive, she took him under her wing and helped him slowly start the process of being half Omnic, and half human. But it wasn’t enough, after Overwatch gets disbanded Genji goes to seek out a monk called, Zenyetta. He and Genji work together for awhile working on acceptance, healing, peace of mind. Then he accepts what he is now, and he went to his brother that he forgives him. When Genji said “it’s time to pick a side” the Klan that the brothers where in were shady (And my personal opinion is why Genji wanted no part in it) Genji asked Hanzo that question cause the their was no more Klan. Is is he good or bad? Which side is he on? Hope that helps 😬
Feels like 2016 when this short first came out and everybody started reacting to these haha
When he predicts at the start
YOU CAN GAZE IN TO THE FUTURE “ That’s so raven “ intensives
"This guy needs to be nerfed or something"
Receives massive buffs today that makes him an insane DPS
YESSS! My favourite short!
The reason genji had a feather was because his nickname when he was young was sparrow
Yasss, the crew had finally reacted to best cinematic ever!!!! 😍😍
After the "recall" short winston broadcasts a message to all overwatch agents and that same cinematic shows when you launch the game
Them: this guy needs a nerf. Blizzard: will give genji MASSIVE buffs
"It could be his brother"
HAHAHAHAha well this guy knows what he's talking bout XD
Hanzo: almost kills “Fonz”
Them: NO not the phone TO FAR
the wade concept wtf
Nothing can stop with the bond of G-mineo the cutest thing ever💓
PLEASE never stop reacting to ow animated shorts. I literally cry everytime someone reacts to them because of nostalgia or something lol
Andrew and the rest of us cas my god is this cinematic just 👏👏 blizzard really went and outdid themselves
Him guessing he was his brother was too prefect. Pretty sus if you ask me.
4:10 that scabbard belongs to the sword above it. It is also hanzo's sword, the one he used to kill genji.
If i remember correctly, Hanzo is actually a more skilled swordsman than an archer, but he refuses to use one as it is tool he used to murder his brother.
reaper and his team are not with the government, they are talon gang
"This guy needs to be nerfed"
Blizzard: *Wish granted*
Wade: "I bet it's his brother. Deffinetly his brother. Probably his brother. Gotta be his brother." *Ruins the surprise like an asshole*
Yeeeeesss I was waiting for this one. I never ever get tired of this Cinematic, my favorite game one after Seconds from Ekko
It’s incredible, the animation is on point but I think what I like most is how Gaku Space and Paul Nakauchi conveyed so much emotion with their voice acting... I just love it ToT
Your reactions are always nice to watch, you appreciate so much of this! You are amazing omg
When genji says that he forgives his brother and now you must forgive yourself those are some wise words
This girl too emotional. OOOOMGG THEY ARE BROOOOOTHEEWRS. OSCAR!
If you dont understand why they called them dragon because thats the tradition of japan story dragon is human thats the story
“This guy needs to be nerfed” no please.. don’t kick me while I’m down,
You guys need to raise the volume on what your watching cause it's VERY quite and your rather loud.
Her: I hope there be some dragons. *Laughs in Shimada*
This is my favourite animated short. It’s so good!
Great reaction!
"WHERE IS REINHARDT?!" -soldier guy
The guy in the middle: This guy need a nerf
Blizzard: No
The middle dudes reactions😂, I can’t😭
"The arab guy with the dragons ultimate" - in Japan... Literally his hometown... Lmao
“He should be nerfed.”
*laughs in bastion*