Everyone is Wrong about Onimai
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- Опубліковано 7 лют 2023
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Sources and further reading:
Galbraith, Patrick W. Otaku and the Struggle for Imagination in Japan. Duke University Press, 2019.
Galbraith, Patrick W., Thiam Huat Kam, and Bjorn-Ole Kamm, eds. Debating Otaku in Contemporary Japan. Bloomsbury Publishing, 2015.
Saito, Tamaki. Beautiful Fighting Girl. Translated by Keith Vincent and Dawn Lawson. University of Minnesota Press, 2011.
Script: gomi-san.medium.com/no-one-un... - Фільми й анімація
It about a discord mod becoming his profile picture
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Bro : explain this anime in less than 10 words
Him:
Something I find interesting to add : Mahiro's transformation did not free him from "role pressure" - he is free from the weight of the male role he could not assume, but in exchange he has to assume the role of a young female. The difference is that he has support doing it : he has a sister, and friends, who help him assume his new social identity. He can show weakness when he is with them, and won't be berated - while as a male, you're expected, as part of your "masculinity", to do everything alone without ever showing weakness. As you quoted, men who do not conform are seen as "failed men", the burden is on them -and the anime points that this feeling of failure, and the fact that needing help in the first place is already considered as a failure, are the reasons Mahiro adopted the role of "shut-in", the role expected of males who failed to be "real men".
very interesting interpretation
Finally, someone who understands the cultural undertone!
holy shit dude , like i've seen a few analytical videos about this anime pop up in my recommended recently and even watched a couple , and what they had to say wasn't worthless from what i gathered , i still had issues with the premise , it did not persuade me to the direction of thinking onimai had any worth watching
that it was like 'ok good for it , but that doesn't make it that this is not just something non-fetish related to give the show a cover for what is still obviously just a fetish anime for the purpose of being fetishistic'
but seeing what you said about what you understand about it's premise/theming , if true , may actually quip my interest in possibly giving it a watch now....
@@pik9486 concur!
Onimai is about a social anxiety boy turns into a girl that actually making me felt MOTIVATED to be more social. Yes, I do have Social Anxiety syndrome because of Trust issues. Literally making me refuse to even talk to anyone apart online for 6 months. Thanks to Onimai that making me be normal for a bit again. I still have Trust Issues but not as extreme as I used to be. I’m not gonna talk about Trust Issue on my past because I want to experience that Trauma again.
you want to experience it again or is that a typo?
Skill issue. Get outside bro
IM SO PROUD OF YOU!! ❤❤ U GOT THIS
@@banant5620 i think it was a typo- :p
Onimai was a sweet story about a man discovering he enjoyed life better as a girl. It did have some awkward borderline lolicon moments that the show would have been better without. But overall one of the best animes this season.
I am a 40 year old german who got saved by anime. 2002 after a Meatscandel I lost my Job do to Butcher's shop got closed in many places over the country and Pre-Packed meat was more popular. 6 months later I found out my wife was cheating and we had a massy break up. It was then when I nearly deleated myself of this world. It was at that time that I found Full Metal Panic, Gundam Seed and many more online at a Usenext server (I know, highly ileagal but hey, it was the early 2000's and no one know it better back than) The light storys, artstyle and comedy helped me out of my depresen and helpt me to find my current job, 1 year later. today, I speak japanese (not to good but it is enough to get by in Japan and watch anime without subs) have a good job (not the same from 2004) and life looks better than ever with all the new anime coming every season.
thats amazing bro, im glad things got good for you
Sounds like you’re living the dream now bro. Once I discovered anime I fell down the rabbit hole and I’m never gonna get back out and I’m totally ok with that. Even happy about it actually because I love it that much. As long as it’s still being made I definitely see myself continuing to watch it until the day I die. I find it doubtful that I’d be able to but I would hope that I could continue to watch it even in the afterlife. I know I sound beyond obsessed right now but I promise I do actually do other things and leave the house from time to time 😅
@@Makise3 same. Nowadays a healthy deep obsession for anime and manga can actually help connecting socially. The entrance of anime in western mainstream broadened the "obsessed niche" and connected the isolating niche back to society by creating a common ground for conversation.
Right when I started with anime I was really isolated and had no one to talk about it. But today the people in my age group that don't like anime are a minority.
The tide is turning and anime will save the world my friends.
good fiction have the ability to change our lives and realize great things, it's really good to hear things are getting better and i assure you, things will get even better
Huge W in my books. May you continue to live a peaceful and happy life.
i've seen controversial topics like these for a while now and it always amazes me how people get harassed about something that gets simplified in western minds because of culture here, without considering etymology and history of culture elsewhere.
onimai, imo, is an amazing anime. its adorable and wholesome and just puts a smile on my face during the cute moments. and the recent episode 7 as of writing this left me off in a great mood
Culture definitely is a big part of it but also just how people viewing on morals. To you you it's cute and wholesome. To some it's a big feminist win, to some it's trans representation, to others is "weird pedo shit", to some it's horrifying as the sister betrayed her brother and forced him into this situation as some strange scheme to rehabilitate him into society (which for some stupid reason required him to be a female?)
@@MALICEM12 You should know only pedophiles call shows like Onimai pedo bait. Also Onimai isn't made for feminists or transvestites, only the mentally ill make such claims. Also I can tell you didn't watch the video or only watched a little bit of it.
@@MetaKnight964 you misunderstood my comment, and yes I watched the full vid. I wasn't personally saying it was pedo bait or trans. I was saying that to some it may come off that way. My point was ideological and cultural differences will affect how one sees it.
@@MALICEM12 Those people are wrong and likely mentally ill.
@@MALICEM12 it is pedo predator fantasy shit unfortunately, even if it isn't intentional, it has been attracting an audience of predatory pedophiles to endorse it and that is really bad
It's really interesting to see the depth of understanding you seem to have of Japanese culture. I often see a lot of people here in the States really oversimplify and generalize what's going on there.
Or just have racist ideas
It's only sjws who get everything wrong.
Being Judgemental
Anybody who wants a less lewd version should probably read the manga, the anime makes the lewdness + 1000
true altho some chapters do make me go "wtf?"
@BaNanT LOOK AT THE ANIME VS THE MANGA, the author had every chance to make the most lewd manga panel (cuz it was less work compared to animating) and yet they choose not to, the chapter that makes you say wtf, imagine it as an episode 💀
i think that's the missing point in this video. I don't have an issue with the subject matter of the series, but with the way that is portrayed in the anime. That one scene with the fighting game alone made me go ... well that was completely unnecessary, didn't even serve a purpose for the rest of the episode that was really wholesome.
@@agusganji not everything NEEDS a purpose, especially not in a Slice-of-Life CGDCT
actually with other titles i find the opposite to be the case
This is THE best video. Well researched, nuanced, and resonates deeply with me personally. Really hope you keep making content like this and that you're rewarded with views, subs, monies.
I think you have hit the nail on the head in terms of Onimai's themes and tropes, especially the 'We like anime girls, not because they resemble reality, but because they don't, as well as our MC escaping the pressure of societal expectations. Notice that these are two-fold though -- the pressure of being OLDER and of being a MAN. In becoming the younger sister, our MC is freed from both of these pressures.
In some ways I see this as a branch of isekai -- it certainly has all the signs: Old, failure of an otaku man is whisked away into the entirely new world of femininity in which he is able to let go of his past, live a new life, and succeed.
thank you friend that's very kind
You had me till you called Onimai a branch of isekai.
@@MetaKnight964 haha yeah bit of a stretch. Tell me it ain't true tho - I'm not sure this sort of story would ever have come out without the isekai genre first developing.
THAT IS REALLY TELLING, since the entire studio based around this anime's core themes of self-improvement and living a whole new life, was created solely to assist in the production of Mushoku Tensei: Jobless Reincarnation by Rifujin no Magonote, the anime that is very much reflecting of the values presented.
Another words, ultimate cringe
Onimai to me is being comfortable acting feminine without being called homosexual. As a heterosexual male I always felt pressured to act as your stereotypical male with no emotion. But yeah, your explanation of Onimai being a story about Otaku/Hikikomori rehabilitation also resonates with me. I do have a hard time with socializing and tend to spend most of my free time alone, but also I need to learn how to take responsibility. I can still do all that other stuff and be functional.
First of all, this level of insight and research is incredible, like I assume you have an academic background and if not I'd highly recommend you try to become an academic writer.
Personally I find this topic tragic, a generation of men so disillusioned with society that the way they can imagine freedom is through the idealized "anime girl", I hope society could progress in ways that could accommodate those people.
It reminds me of an interview in the book 'shutting out the sun' where a hikokomori describes the attributes that got them rejected from society, and it broke me realizing that if this person was born in my country of Israel (which is also fucked for different reasons) they would be celebrated as pioneering individuals.
Finally I get the recognition I desire for my Asian studies degree :' )
@@gomi-san now hearing this I suddenly became more interested in this channel lol
@@gomi-san yeah, your research is pretty good, ik i watch anime because of entertainment values. so i don't consider myself an otaku or a weeb bc knowing how culturally different Japan is. It is a good country, just like my country the US, but it ain't the best as there are issues. Same with being born and living in the US. But still, great research and you should do these things more. And every day, it does seem more and more bleak out into the real world where you want to escape reality, that is how I think otaku are like. With everything, soon you gotta face reality as I know that, once I am finish with school. Then be a productive member of society hopefully, and make sure I strive and succeed the societal hardships.
If you wouldn't mind, you made me curious. How would a hikokomori be celebrated in Israel? From what I know, hikokomoris are basically NEETS
@@aname6794
I dont want to sound like I'm praising israel (I have been going out to the streets to protest this government of fascists and terrorists for weeks), but as a society it appreciates individualism and ingenuity, mostly due to our huge tech start-up industry, the same type of person that get discarded by the work-force in japan is the type that gets magazine puff pieces in israel. A hikokomori would be encouraged to pursue their personal obsessions, im not going to act like it's a good country (government of fascists and terrorists) but the point is that NEETs aren't inherently NEET, it's a failure to comply with societal standards and would not be an issue in a different society that accommodates them.
And tbc, most of the institutions on which said Israeli society is built are very racist and are currently crumbling due to a government coalition of fascists and terrorists.
I think the major divide is that Japan can differentiate between real life and the digital medium while the West has always found a way to insinuate that they not separate despite the fact that they are, examples such as those pertaining to violence in video games transferring to violence in real life when such an argument has no factual basis. I still amazes me how many people still think that the human brain can be so easily tricked into thinking that the Digital medium is real
This is very interesting and should be talked about more, I see people online discussing about fictional characters and what matters yet turn around and think nothing of the same concepts with real people like violence, or sexuality.
Unless is a full VR like SAO
if you read lot of Japanese news
would you still think the same?
train molesting and pedophilia still the main issue in there
even some manga and anime artist was the culprit
While I agree about differentiating fiction from reality. Let's not ignore the amount of cases in Japan revolved around harassment.
@@kiwoxgen9929 both are also American issues,don’t act like it’s a japan exclusive thing,if anything pedophilia is more accepted in the west
Bro quality video essay with only 54 views wth...
1:55 This is why I dropped ANN as a review source ages ago. Seeing a lot of their reviews for anime, and not just controversial ones but even ones like Wave, Listen To Me! made me question if they really are anime fans or entertainment fans in general
Agreed, at this point even MAL series discussion forum is better than these anime 'journalism', anime is such a broad subject to cover, from iyashikei, space opera, down to ecchi-harem categories. You can't find one person to have the best judgement over everything anime could offer, and worse is they don't even try to understand the cultural basis of said fandom. Sometimes I wonder where did they hire these people, when there's actually tons of fans and enthusiasts that have better understanding of the topic that they are trying to cover.
Me, a gamer: Join the club :/
Thank you for Articulating my love for this manga that I could not cause I suck at explaining anything to people.
I don't have a lot to give. I rarely spend money on games. But I feel like you really deserve something. This is the most thought provoking, correctly researched, well referenced analysis of not just the themes presented in onimai; but the cultural origins and differences between Japanese and western views on lolicon, otaku culture, and the thought patterns of said otakus. You are insanely well informed, objective, and well spoken and I sincerely hope you continue making content.
Thank you, this actually means a lot me.
Y-you-your thank you was so strong i feel grateful
I was actually surprised by this series, I may not be able to relate with the whole female thing but there’s actually a lot of relatable moments with Mahiro and I found it pretty funny sometimes.
Amazing essay! You dive into things I definitely didn't expect a dive for, yet didn't regret it one bit. That's really appreciated.
I was actually under the impression most people had a lot of respect for this show, at the minimum because of the god like animation.
This video is so well done and incredibly researched. You were able to demonstrate and articulate everything so well. I can't imagine how much time researching and rescripting you did. Not only did you excellently explain this series appeal but you also gave a great history lesson.That not only explains all your points but furthers the listeners understanding of the series and the culture it comes from.
Lolita fashion is about protesting the sexualization of young girls or cute girls. It is inspired by Victorian fashion and in no way is supposed to be related to the book besides protesting the grossness of it
Also if you see cute content and instantly sexualize it or view it as something sexual, that is a problem.
I feel like the real issue is just the opening and ending visuals. While enjoyable and stunningly well animated, putting the characters in suggestive outfits kinda sets a weird tone for the show despite the actual subject matter. Once you get past that initial discomfort most would probably be surprised by the actual content. Sure it walks a fine line of acceptability, but it also has a very sincere innocence to it that's pretty refreshing, especially when it comes to the other kids in the show. It hits on topics you don't usually see in most media in a way that feels genuine and considering the focus of the show involves an older man in an adolescent body it's reassuring to see that the younger characters seem to act like you'd actually expect kids their age to act
90% of the people crying about this show being the anime devil haven't even watched a single episode.
I’ve watched around 4 episodes and honestly it’s good but there are like I think 2 or 3 scenes where I just.... It's weird. I do think it has some weird like discomforting scenes with a pedophilic like gaze I guess but honestly it's really good other than those few weird scenes. So I'm very confused about it.
The most insane part about it is how it's somehow NOT considered "Ecchi" for some reason.
the problem is not that is weird, the problem is that anime today are more mainstream and now only "old" anime fans enjoy this weird stuff without underestimate the meaning of an anime
10 years ago when anime were something niche, no one complain about weirdness or feel discomfort, except for new not-japaneese anime fans
something that become mainstream will undergone some drastic change, in this case when anime culture becoming mainstream is it's audience, as it become well known globally, the audience wont be only those who already familiar with the culture, but also new peoples who knows nothing about it, as someone new, their opinion on anime should have been irrelevant, but because their position as normal people, their opinion become more acceptable in society, making the culture of anime fall under the opinions of the outsiders of the culture itself, which bring the anime culture into it's current state..
so yeah, this is one of the reason why many otakus hates normies...
This video is amazing. I love how informative you are about everything. I have watched anime since I was 7 years old(21 now) I am now going to watch all your vids now
This analysis is so good that i'm considering a multimodal discourse study about it after watching the entire series.
This was very well-researched and explained nicely. I did not expect to learn so much history clicking on this! You've earned yourself a sub (think I'm gonna binge some of your other videos before heading to bed).
I think the main reason people who enjoy onimai (me included) is because of how actually wholesome and heartwarming the whole show is. the fact that mahiro feels unmotivated to the society and resulting being a neet, makes mihari to be worried about him, and thus decides to change him to a literal her. the show mentioned how mihari and mahiro had been having a good brother-sister relationship until he became a neet. after the change mahiro started to adapt and understand how to be socially active and eventually made very amazing friends, and most importantly, the relationship with mihari. i do understand that people complain the anime being overly sexuallized, and i do think those parts should be reduced or even removed. that part aside, the story is actually pretty wholesome.
for the genderbend part there is also a possiblility that mihari wanted mahiro to be young and a girl was because that mihari missed their old good relationship when theyre young. it could be that she wanted her brother to go back to the past, having the good normal lives again, except this time mahiro is the little sister. i really appreciate the caring for mihari to mahiro despite him being a degenerate and help changing her life, re-experiencing the normal young lives from them.
good job analysing this anime , i think you got the main points covered owob
This was amazing showing how much depth these topics actually have within the show
I haven't seen such well articulated analysis of anime since old digibro, Jesus that's like 8 years ago.
Watched some of your other vids to comment back on this vid to keep up the good work.
I can't believe it's actually been that long since the Asterisk War/SAO videos. But thanks man. Hopefully I, uh, don't go down the same path as Digibro.
What path did Digibro go down? I'm sorry, I don't know anything about him and I don't want to misinform myself by accident.
The manga changes so much too the farther in you get the more based on just the bonds of the charecters it get it also goes into a lot of miharis memories and how much she missed her brother
really glad that there are people like Gomi-San who seem to be quite knowledgeable on the entomology and culture of japan while also being able to help communicate these things to a western audience who maybe doesn't have the full picture like myself. great video! gonna watch Onimai soon!
we needed this analysis and history.
Yo this video is actually really good, great job
Honestly I love the art style and my god, the frames. Its too good.
i really really rarely give likes to videos, but this honestly deserves it. keep up the good work and have a nice day!
Thank you friend
Excitedly waiting for season 2
This is probably the best perspective I've seen on the show and the speculation on the connections to culture is fantastic.
great video bro! I'm so glad that other people see the bigger picture of this series. while there are some moments that fall into sus territory, the anime never explicitly expands on those ideas, but rather those situations simply came with the territory of becoming a middle school girl. instead the series focuses more on our main character's development. the transformation gave him a chance to start again, from a completely new perspective, and the interactions he has with the people he meets contributes to this development. on the side it also works on fixing the relationship that the two siblings have. I think the show is very wholesome and those who see a problem with the show are just projecting their own ideal of the scenario, which is more sus than anything.
I'm so glad you made this video. I had trouble understanding why the Anime/Manga was living so rent free in my head unlike other flavour of the month Anime. It's good to finally have the why answered. Not only that but the history of anime styles, genres and cause & effect that lead to the creation of this type of media that resonates with people like me with no social life and no job. Thank you.
I don't often comment like and subscribe to channels but your work is amazing and I wish from the bottom of my heart you keep producing more amazing stuff and for your channel to grow
This is a fantastic video. Good job!
Fantastic video. Heartened to see such a nuanced viewpoint on the show, basically in agreement with all of it.
By the way, interesting point to note, did you know that the author's inspiration for Onimai was actually Your Name? Could probably factors in this analysis in very interesting ways.
Looking forward to what you make next. Hoping you post more consistently!
(No idea why my posts were being deleted)
hmm, both being supposed trans allegories...
Abstracted, Your Name does seem like a trans heterosexual relationship, but throughout, it plays with gender by presenting the way that a cis person in the wrong body would act instead of gender affirmation. The end pretty much settles that.
So if the author saw Your Name and was inspired by it... you don't get Onimai without putting in more trans allegory.
For starters, I don't think admiring spinny dress in mirror is very cis behavior...
(i will continue writing more reasons but i dont think you need all 95 Theses)
@@smugsenko cis?
@@smugsenko i pray i never have to read anything this westerny again
@@nubs2234 pretty much my reaction also, if you see trans messaging in your name, you are looking for ghosts.
I just found out about this manga by complete accident a week ago and decided to read it, despite me reading very little manga.
This is such a nice wholesome show and sexuality only comes up as light hearted jokes. I hope it continues for quite some time!
yo this essay is fuckin great. I'm genuinely surprised at the depth this topic could go towards
I actually enjoyed the story, the more that Miharu started interacting with people and making friends. It's actually quite wholesome once you forget that she used to be a boy, and was basically rescued by her (his) younger sister.
(Thank you, Japan, for your weird concepts!)
Funny thing is that the anime was made by Studio Bind, the very same studio that was solely created for Mushoku Tenshi: Jobless Reincarnation.
*Mahiro
**Mushoku Tensei
Great vid man. Thanks!
Great work! That's a good job: this video is very interesting and I had fun watching this video. Thanks for all the details!
this deserves more views
Onimai is an amazing show for people who are shut in and have graduated college and are unemployed..........like me
Just the difference is his (protagonist sister) is helping him open up to the world and see a brighter side.
The male to female aspect is just to show how women naturally open up and have to set a normal routine to have a positive attitude.
As men don't suffer from the problems of women naturally they are taken back by how simple things matter for personal wellbeing.
Onimai is a great show and even though it's harsh about its censored content but being open and getting the message is what matters here.
I support uncensored content as the writer gets freedom to express his expresion every situation to situation.
I hope even in future these shows get released by closing the gap between emotional wholesome content and a better attitude.
Thankyou writter and the animation studio for your work is an amazing adaption.
What if you're an introverted high schooler who is about to graduate?
@@Loner098 so the story is of highschool but the former protagonist is of age 22
Anyone who thinks girls aren't a hot mess has never had a girlfriend. Girls are just as neurotic as boys. Onimai is not intended to be realistic.
Onimai is just pure comedy. People judge the anime without ever looking deep into it.
Or, I'd say, look WAY too deep into it
It is very difficult to see deeper when what you are presented with at first glance are Girls sexualized to death, drug your brother without consent and make him a woman against his will and make you want to see everything from a comedic point of view
@@victormnuel179 y'know i just finished the show like a week or two ago
i'm STILL wondering what does her drugging her brother to turn him into a genderbend loli, have to do with her desire to turn him into a functioning member of society
so the entire time i was watching the show it was just me dogging on the scientist girl the entire time like girl this is clearly just a part of some sick twisted fetish you have
the only character that saw it as comedy was his sister
despite her good intentions it's bad excuse to do something against his will
as time goes on he looses his own identity while his sister's true intention was to bring back his caring old brother back,
unless we got the Twist ending
he'll stuck forever as little sister
and as the title says
oni-chan was done aka gone/vanish
Breast expansion beach episode
Haven't seen the show myself or read the manga, but this video kind of makes me want to watch it now. It sounds pretty relatable.
This video is really intresting! Thanks!
playing back wholesome onimai clips over a deeply philosophical breakdown of otaku culture is not what i expected to see at 3am
I found my new favorite channel
All I can think about is how much help Japan needs. So many lost people, it breaks my heart.
"Some day in the rain" In the background almost gave me tears of nostalgia
This was fascinating.
You've finally brought light to the thoughts I have on this show that I couldn't quite put a finger on.
I've thought it an excellent show for many reasons, but the premise and commentary it provides especially are not only new but also unfairly well executed. The funny guy turn into girl show should not be this amazing...
Anyway, this is a brilliant cultural analysis, and I just learned a lot. Thank you!
One thing that people don't point out is the specific age. Why middle school? That's cause that's when mahiro dropped from school. In a sense of way, Mahiro is going right back to the road that he fell from. He is back right where he left.
Literally nothing states he dropped out of school, never mind middle school specifically.
@@BloodrealmX I remember it was mentioned somewhere, either in the manga or by the author. Maybe it was indirectly mentioned. Idk. It's been 9 months.
I like the show , being able to start from your childhood again is one of my dreams and i find it wholesome to watch a story of a person who gets a second chance at life.
A while back, I tried watching it for the first time, but stopped immediately after the first part of the first episode. However, after a bit, I started watching clips that UA-cam recommended, and a while after that, I eventually caved and watched watching the first episode again, and... yeah, it was not at all what I expected from my first viewing of it. Honestly, I think I actually resonated with Mahiro's situation a bit, specifically how he became a shut-in and how he tries to readjust to society, even though it was forced onto him at first. I ended up binging all of the episodes currently released.
Basically, don't judge a book by it's cover... or I guess an anime by its opening? Idk, either way I'm glad I decided to watch it after all.
Well I mean the ops visuals are a bit questionable but the song is an absolute banger so I just look past it.
@@xerofire I didn't mean the opening. I meant the first part of the first episode (from Mahiro waking up and finding out he became a girl to Mihari's "warning").
Same here, I do love how they get all the 'physical changes' over with in the first two episodes, then immediately switch to social changes for the rest of the episodes
It clearly represents this video's points very well
I think I've learned a lot from this video
It's surprising this anime is amazing but just underrated
Perfect ending sentences of the video 10/10
Onimai actually helped several of my friends come out and I am promoted from wingman to bodyguard
i have never seen such a deep, insightful, researched and convincing video about this specific topic till now. I’m japanese, and i know a lot of people who are otakus or hikikomoris and some of them call themselves “lolicons”. When i talk about this to people outside japan (i live in canada) they always see it as a crusty old man liking small girls in anime, when it’s not really that. they also say basically the same thing about otakus: “degenerate people who’s only interest is anime and 2d girls” when it’s not at all that. everything goes a lot deeper than people expect and is a lot different than what people think. Especially with the difference in ideologies and ways of thinking with japanese and western people. But i think you have said everything i wanted to say and to explain. This video is simply brilliant! Please keep making amazing content like this!
Interesting take. I wish there was a place where people could more openly talk about things like this.
my life changes when I discovered anime, manga, and otaku culture, before that I was just a lazy guy don't want to go to school and do something in my life don't have any friends because I thought it was unnecessary but when I see the character in my screen having a good time with their friendship im start to change my mind and weird heart warming, I know IRL is not like in the show but it makes me want to have friends and relationship with someone
this... this is great explanation! thank you!!!!
Great Video!
Damn, son. You didn't have to go that hard, but I appreciate that you did. Good job.
The only way to discribe this show is with 3 words: cute and funny
This is quite the impressive deep dive into a show I didn’t expect that to be possible for.
Also thanks for giving me a way to respond to the question “Why do you like Onimai?” when they won’t take “uoh! Mahiro cute and funny segggs!! 😭😭😭” for an answer.
14:23 People need to understand that correlation does not implies causality.
I will come back to this video in approximately 8 hours.
I will set an alarm.
Okay it's been almost 8 hours.
Nah, it's a year already
Did you watch it
I think we can draw parallel to Mahiro with Konata from Lucky Star, an otaku girl that otaku viewers could relate to regardless of age or gender. I agree with your point that Mahiro being a little anime girl is more about the symbolism than an actual talk point on gender or perversion, as the viewers more or less are extrapolated in 'I'm Mahiro' moment compared to shows that expositive on their characters like most iyashikei genre, most notably Non Non Biyori. That's why I feel really weird when this show got so many praises and backlash from people that claimed what this show is all about. I feel that people read too much into an innocent show like Onimai. For me this is just a typical otaku media like Nanoha or Lucky Star.
I think a lot of western media is so out of touch with the cultures that they are trying to write, clearly the standard of journalism (especially in pop culture) has been degraded the past few decades. You can see how most of the article from big sites covering this sector are nothing but skin deep tabloid sensationalism, often cought up in the frame that is set by their own worldview trying to put pictures into frames that didn't really fit.
Anyway, that's my opinion. Also thanks for writing/creating this video.
Thank you! Really well made video and am glad to see others appreciate this show, I absolutely like this story, the animation, the characters, and the absolute banger of openings and ending.
The animation style is the reason i enjoy the anime, half the frames in one scene then they use those for others
This video had a lo more history than i expected. 10/10
5:20 this got me surprisingly worked up; it's an abbreviation not a portmanteau. a portmanteau is where you remove the space and similar sounds from the middle of two words, as apposed to an abbreviation where you just take the start of two words.
portmanteaus don't really show up in japanese since word boundaries are more ambiguous in the first place; but abbreviations are pretty easy to spot since it's almost always exactly 4 mora
Some people think that abbreviation is only when the words are shrunk down to single letters.
i binged the entire damn series in one night
Very good, this is what I was thinking as well while watching this show.
i am dumb so i dont know what to say. I am just typing so that this video gets recommended to more people. You did great!
maybe your right but i promise if i got drugged and got to relive my life as a cute girl id be cured to. since thats not gonna happen though i will just go rewatch this wish fulfillment show another dozen times instead
Try changng your life, one step at a time. Just never make any excuse, ever, and your life will fix itself.
How did I not find Onimai until now
Wow the explanation, very deep
Man this show slaps
It's nice to see you actually consider the history of Japan and show how they view the manga/show compared to the typical western talking points. And it's very true that with many the attraction to anime girls and fictional things is specifically because it isn't real and is fictional. And it's also interesting to see that the boom in cute anime girl centric anime from traditional story telling coincided with the economic collapse. It's also nice to see someone from the West saw that this isn't just pedo bait or trans allegory.
Also I still can't believe how popular the dead doorknob of a waifu Rei was for Japan back then. She's just so soulless and empty. The "original waifu war" was always trash
Your opinions aren't facts.
@@MetaKnight964 He never said he thought his opinions are facts. The only thing in his comment that wasn't factual was the last bit about Rei, and I agree with that opinion personally.
I misread "everyone" as "everything" and thus expected you to tear this anime apart.
I'm more curious how this anime has such amazing quality. I'm glad it does, but god damn it looks so good
Edit: 1:32 and i found the answer to my question pretty much instantly.
From my experience watching the show, I feel like a lot of people see some random part of it and immediately characterize it as lolicon pandering nonsense without even trying to look at it from any other perspective.
My expectations were extremely low when I started watching it, and I quickly realized there was actually a lot of depth, social commentary, and an exploration of anxiety and mistrust and social disorders. While there are some questionable scenes early in the series, the scenes themselves aren't questionable, it is the viewers interpretation of those scenes that make them awkward of uncomfortable. If you go to the museum and see a nude statue, it is considered "art" because the context you are observing the nudity in, but simultaneously if you are immaturely oogling the statue's dangly bits then the problem is you, not the statue.
/rant
This may be a bit of a tangent, but I find it incredibly frustrating that modern viewership of anime and manga culture are constantly "teased" by the idea of loli garbage, essentially it is a trope that is incorporated into countless shows just to check a box and either make weirdly sexual jokes or uncomfortable scenes while simultaneously looking down on the viewers or readers. It's like saying "hey the animators or artists drew some intentionally perverted stuff for the audience, but you should all feel bad for looking at it". The "most risky" thing this show does is show some girls bathing in a public bath, nothing erotic or intentionally sexualized either. It's literally a "so I am a girl now, this is strangely less exciting than I thought it would be" and the sister character expressing disappointment in the main character's inability to even take care of their hair.
But detractors of the show will see a snippet from any particular episode and decry that it is the scum of the earth without any attempt at actually reading the _tone_ of the scene itself. How many idiotic shows have unnecessary "oh they fell and his head is in her crotch, isn't that just soOoOoOo awkward and funny?!" garbage in it just for the fanservice? Having some "Oh my god this show is so crude" response when the industry is literally full of that junk is pretty hypocritical in my opinion.
The problem is that the audience is being told they are perverts, while the industry pushes more and more content that reinforces the stigma.
/rant
The show explores the unsettling social anxiety of the main character, being unable to be around lots of people, loud noises, fear of strangers, and even the kind of anxiety of dealing with phone calls or answering the door. It explores the re-introduction of someone into society and slowly building up their self confidence and ability to deal with the anxiety of being in public. Is the premise silly, yes, is the main character a pervert at the beginning before he becomes a girl, yes, but does that perversion continue, no. The perversion of the main character was just a symptom of anxiety and isolation, porn games and magazines were his outlet for stress. After the transformation, the main character becomes more and more embarrassed by his old way of life, and even looks at other young people developing there "interests" in a more mature way because of his past experiences and older mind. The main character starts to develop stronger empathy and starts to realize all the little things that go into taking care of him/herself and developing more thoughtfulness toward others. The most interesting part for me is the relationship with the sister, and the social pressure differences between being an "older brother" and being a "younger sister".
Overall, it's an interesting show. There isn't much action, and most of the episodes just cover the social interactions between the main character, their sister and small friend group. It certainly isn't some lewd ecchi nonsense. I consider it similar to "I got rejected, so I shaved and took in a runaway girl", another show about developing a healthier lifestyle because of interactions with someone else who dramatically changes daily responsibilities. I think a very important theme is the idea that we are more capable of change when our perceived roles and responsibilities are altered drastically, and without those drastic changes some of us are fundamentally unable to escape from a depressing, meaningless life.
Why would you let another person tell you what you should feel bad about? I don't feel bad about watching Onimai. The world is full of crazy morons. Try to ignore them.
If I felt bad about watching Onimai I wouldn't watch it.
@@Jordan-Ramses facts
Man i didn't expect this video to go so deep
All I want to share is my appreciation for such amazing anime cuz it’s just about approaching to a new friend and start to trust each other and get along well. Don’t take it too seriously or any kinda if were the boy that trans to a girl.
Let’s just enjoy the animation itself and all these fun and adorable characters 😊❤❤
your assumption of the gender transformation is one i agree with. theres actually quite a few stories out there, and webcomics included, with a similar plot about a male character undergoing some forced gender transformation and having their lives changed for the better because of it without any change to their personal interests and hobbies as the societal burdens are pretty much a doublestandard for whats acceptable for girls and whats acceptable for boys. and it was something speculated on long before the current era that if a guy was to have their entire biology changed like this, they would be having a very good time of it.
its basically a form of lowkey isekai
Honestly, me and my friends went into the show expecting some To Love Ru level drunk marathon material for us to laugh at, and argue about best girls.
We ended up genuinely enjoying the show. Sure, it's got its weird moments, but the wholesome shit hits pretty hard.
Mihari in particular is a lil bundle of cute mad scientist sunshine.
My favourite thing about the drama regarding this show being offensive to transgenders, is that it's literally showing this NEET guy coming to accept being this lil girl as his new calling in life. But the Twitter crowd will never listen to reason, and should be avoided like the plague.
Nice video mate! First time I've stumbled across your channel.
"the Twitter crowd will never listen to reason, and should be avoided like the plague." jjajajaja, I like this quote
only reason why i stuck around to watch it is because they showed actual gameplay on the tv
Honestly, quite incredible
Now only if other people were able to distinguish between fiction and reality
I dont think this video fully addresses the fact that its weird how much fan service of a middle school girl there is. How do the panty shots add to story of him recovering from being an otaku? Im not saying the story itself doesn’t have value at its core, but rather the fact that it depicts suggestive representations of a child makes it impossible to give any credit to plot. There are levels of things Im willing to ignore for a story but I don’t think I can ignore the blatant issues with this one. The whole “Story is really good if you ignore all the sexualized children” narrative doesn’t really make sense.
I'll never understand how anime continues to have the most unfunniest jokes possible
It's just Studio Bind bro, they look obsessed animate that kind of fetish to become extra lewd, because I'm kinda suprise to read the manga after finished the anime, almost no fan service at manga just a wholesome Mahiro.
This anime reflected a lot of effort of author and teams how they really love anime. This video is really informative, 😆
Help im addicted of this anime
what the hell D:? how come you only got 1.5k subs? your video quality is wayy higher than of some that got a silver or golden button! i hope you keep it up and reach those milestones! :D
thanks for making this video :) i learned a lot...
Im gonna be out here and as a psychologist I ROOT for this commentary, amazingly done, because we aren't just here for the cute anime waifus (which are nice to look at, but not because THEY ARE MADE to look "lookable" but its because we were thought what to like and enjoy via parenting, tv, internet, and more) we are because it is highly relatable "BUT GREG, does that mean that everyone is miserable and relates to someone having a nice life enjoying mundane things?" it doesn't necessarily mean it, but let's say it does, are we here to judge the one escaping reality, or the reality he had to live through? Think about it for a second, we get judged but the system stays the same and more people join on this and we are still at fault (and we aren't doing drgs or stealing, or beating up people, or worse things AND YET, we get a whole of attention about how wrong we are because liking an anime girl A FAKE CHARACTER that is 10,000 years old but looks younger is somehow worse than money laundring, actual ped0s, how corrupt the system is, etc.) im only saying that we seem to be easy to get picked on, and that would be true, MOST (not all of us) have very bad social skills, let alone self-steem or some knowledge on feeling and how we use them, THIS IS STATISTICS most of the fandom is male, and to keep it short, what are we thought as males? Suck it up, keep bottling your emotions, don't be weak, be a man, protect someone else, nobody cares about you, be violent and show how stronger you are than everybody else and other super messed up things that we take for granted because "it is what it is" some of us are lucky enough to realize "No, i will not shut up, i will let you know my feelings" but most of the men aren't, AND ITS NOT YOUR FAULT. Glad i can find a space bring this up, this seems important, anyway amazing video, keep it up!
Isn't media analysis fun? While I disagree w/ you on some points, I don't think it really matters. I definitely can see your throughline on how you read the story's narrative and I can absolutely see where you're coming from. What's great about media is that people (even the same person at different points in their lives) can see different things from the same piece of media. The show does ultimately say a lot about escaping from the burdening expectation placed on you, even if I think it goes a little further than I think the story intends.
Also, it's interesting to see the different ways different peeps refer to Mahiro in their videos. You see lots of He's, Her's and even a few They's since it's kinda difficult to say where Mahiro sits at any given point in the story. Oh, and Oreko's are a thing, btw. Basically, while it's not super common, there are women that use Ore, either to sound tough or more masculine, etc. Not saying that's the reason Mahiro does, but it's something to remember. It's kinda like how -kun doesn't ALWAYS get used w/ just male characters. You'll see higher ups in a business call female staff below them w/ -kun. Gender in Japanese language is a wonky thing.
I take your point about Ore. But there's a part early on in the story where Mahiro get's hit on the head with a book and gets temporary amnesia. It's during that part where he forget his memories that he uses "watashi" to refer to himself, suggesting that the use of "ore" is intentional on Mahiro's part to retain his masculine identity or something.
@@gomi-san doesn't that mean its possible for mahiro to actually be a girl, if she refers to herself as watashi when she forgets she wasn't always a girl?
@@starnorthstarnorth no
@@sent4444 why not?