Ajin: Demi-Human | Creating A Perfect Villain
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It's finally time to talk about Ajin: Demi-Human & Sato, who is easily one of the best antagonists of all time.
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Dude did multiple 911s by himself
Sato getting bored with his own plan and just deciding to fuck off early was so perfect.
Plus, Nagai's facial expressions when he realizes.
That's when I comprehended the talent these two together have.
Sato is the real definition of "you cannot have a PTSD if you're the traumatic event".
Sato: hey kid want some PTSD?
Kei: what the fuck?
Sato: *has his black ghost pick kei up to use him as a weapon on people around them* there you go
Ah yeah, Doomguy therapy
Also "Hes doesn't experience PTSD, hes has Nostalgia"
Bro, lmao
YES. Strongly agree. Sato made Ajin an absolute treat to read. Instead of giving him more and more powers, they just made him push the limits of his powers. It makes him such a competent villain. When that shredder scene happened I let out an audible "oh sheeeeeeet"
Sato wad the shit. Better than Johan imo
@@kranberryjones1449 Johan is just a manipulator while Samuel Is an Experienced Combatant
I consider Sato one of the goats of manga villains. He planned it out and then executed like a true boss.
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They're different kinds of villains. Personally, I think Johan is better, but it's difficult to compare.
Well this makes me want to read the manga ASAP. What drew me to HxH before was Hisoka who basically embodies maximizing their capability that seemed benign at first. Now this certainly hooked me in but good.
Gamer old man exploiting the unique quirks of his immortality. Like chopping his arm to be used as a respawn point is truly a gamer move right there
Sato dismembering himself, cooking those parts into fried chicken, having his lackey pretend to be a ubereats guy to deliver said chicken into a secure location, and then throwing himself into a woodchipper to regenerate from the fried chicken
I can barely remember how ajin ends, but i remember that sequence vividly. Sato is a villain written like someone who is reading a manga and thinking up all the ways HE would beat the antagonist because the main character/mangaka refuses to fully embrace the magic system in their own series.
recently finished it the ending was interesting cause sato didnt really lose fr. they basically kept him in a cryo chamber and said hes a glorious militant who could be useful in the future.
"Beam me up"
12:46 sato handing his IBM a gun:
“Go, commit crimes.”
Crazy how the plot of Ajin can be boiled down to “fucked up kid trying to stop old man from having a gamer moment” 😂 Sato is one of my absolute favorite antagonists across any form of media, on par with the likes of Griffith, Funny Valentine, Emperor Shaddam IV, Joker (Arkham games) and The Prophet of Truth
You like judge holden and doflamingo?
@@Gin-San101
He likes both Griffith and Joker, so I'd be surprised if he didn't like Doffy who has similiar elements to both.
But don't get mad just cuz someone didn't mention yer favourite villains. Not that you got mad, I'm just sayin', just in case.
Also, didn't read Blood Meridian yet, but based on what my friend told me you must have good taste if you like judge Holden.
Holy shit he litterly just had a gamer moment, that is the most acurate way of describing this absolute madlad.
Greatest accurate summary of recent memory lmaooo
Emperor Shaddam? From Dune?
He isn‘t the main antagonist in any of the books. Honestly it is hard to call him an antagonist at all when he is mainly present as a mediator between Paul and the Harkonnens. For that matter Dune is imo really low on strong villains/antagonists. We start with pretty boring typically evil villains, then there is Paul suffering from his success with the biggest opposing forces being his own church, jihad, etc. God Emperor is similar and in the last two books wie are back to very black and white evil Honored Matres. I love Dune, but it isn‘t for the antagonists.
Obviously enjoy what you want, I am not trying to tell you what to enjoy or how - I am just surprised to see him on the list.
Ah yes Sato. A inhuman monster even before he was a Demi-Human. The Gamer all media sources believe all gamers to be like. Unbothered. Unstoppable. Unnatural.
NOBODY thinks this about gamers.. what kind of delusional..😂
Unbothered. Moisturised. Massacring. Happy.
@@o-wolfBruh have you read articles during the whole gamergate bs?
@@Escalusfr nah. &I'm still pretty sure not a single one of them described gamers as "unbothered" or "unstoppable" it's just some guy licking his own a**
@@o-wolf the Kyle Rittenhouse trial has them blaming games bruh
"Beam me up" *throws self into wood chipper* something about that is just so dark and hilarious
Well, thats what teleportation in syfy is all about...
Season 3 of Picard even makes that a plot point.
syence fyction
"Beam me up, Scotty."
Sato from the introduction to the final chapter is a FORCE OF NATURE, I love how he's the pure foil to the young frowning careless(at first) Nagai with the smiling old terrifying joy from Sato just wanting to have fun. But despite being an old man has the short attention span of a child, quickly finding things boring while Nagai tries to stay stoic trying how to stop this man. Or thing more appropriately, that THING.
Easily one of my favorite manga I couldn't put down when starting.
literally sato was the draw for me when i watched the anime and it was one of the first manga i ever picked up, so sad netflix just left the anime to die
You know, if there is ANY respite, at least it wasn't milked to hell and back like voltron
the anime is ass
at this point, it just act as a promotional material for the manga
i think it's actually the only good cgi anime
I love how the author never gave them any crazier power ups and powers, he just pushed the limits of their power to the fullest. Now that's a good writing
You literally repeated a top comment
he did forget the scream
"I love how the author never gave them any crazier power ups and powers, he just pushed the limits of their power to the fullest. Now that's a good writing" Why is this in particular good writing?
@@hyperionofhyperness1883 The scream was easily nullified by wearing earplugs. Although there definitely were times when Sato could've used it in combat against humans, but knowing him he didn't want easy kills and just opted for plain ol shooty time.
@@the9970 Because the difficulty with any power or ability is that it is difficult to maintain tension if the ability is always used in the same way or for similar purposes. The common writing shortcut is therefore to add more abilities, because you can make situations more complex and surprise the reader. But that often end up introducing powerscaling issues.
However, it is far more difficult to have the same ability be used throughout yet introduce new uses, because it means that if you can no longer come up with a new trick or a new presentation, the work is dead in the water. Hence, being able to keep the same (remarkably simple!) system running through and entire manga without boring the readers is indeed good writing.
A side note, consistency is always impressive and having too many secondary abilities detracts from a lot of the seriousness of the work.
The scream. per instance, was clearly an earlier decision, but made escape pitifully easy and removed much of the semblance of reality, as that makes the Ajin too well rounded for escape and survival. By sticking with only two main inhuman factors(revival and the ghost), you ground the Ajin far better into reality. The better grounded the Ajin, the more the reader feels immersed in the manga, inherently making the manga "better",
I didn’t know that fact about Sakurai and how he basically wrote the story himself from scratch after already being 5 chapters in. What a legendary writer. Also, I don’t think Kei is that bad of a protagonist at all; he fits the role that he’s supposed to serve very well, and his character is incredibly fleshed out and fun to watch. He is the foil to Sato.
When you watch more of the series, you grow to like him, like how Slime mentioned. But he is very off-putting as a protagonist worth caring about. If there wasn't an amazing antagonist, the series would've been significantly worse.
@@littlemonztergaming8665 I think it was more important that Kei be an interesting rather than just someone who's easy to root for. He's definitely one of the more interesting protagonists I've seen
Say I thought Kei even with his appearance? Of being a cold person or a super rational person seem to me to be the most irrational one.
I mean...what does he follow? His head or his head?
Kei has always been my favourite manga protagonist of all time, he's cool and sometimes has a soft spot but still it's so interesting to see him and Sato play mind games and such
I'm kind of surprised if people don't like him, he's a pretty well fleshed out character imo
The scene at the end where Kei figures out that he’s a demihuman after loosing his memory is on of the greatest things I’ve ever read
Sato isn’t just good on his own, but he accentuates the themes and story of ajin. The whole point is to question what humanity really is, and having Sato be an insane, cold-blooded killer even before he was an ajin helps put that into perspective. Also, the whole “gaming” thing with him is great and gives a similar feeling to anton chigurh in “no country for old men”, who feels similarly disconnected from reality. It’s funny because in order to stop sato, they send all these different military units that get increasingly less and less humane, to the point where the anti-ajin defense force are basically just faceless, nameless soldiers. Also, out of all the times they try to use actual weaponry to take out Sato, it’s only really effective when Kei uses the gun to shoot himself instead, not only to cure his memory loss but as a final sign of acceptance that he has become ajin; inhuman. Then when he later takes out Sato, it’s not with any insane weaponry or strategy, but something that would take out any random human. Love it so much.
How does Sato die?
@@emigdiovargas8960he drowns while running from and fighting Kei.
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Which to me was a bit....lazy
@@emigdiovargas8960 He doesn't...
On one end, I can see how it feels like the story basically wrote sato to actually be unstoppable, but that just makes his defeat stand out even more. It’s as if to say that, no matter how distanced he became from his humanity, he is still human in the end. Bring up No country for Old Men again, it’s like when Anton Chigurrh gets hit with the car at the end.
God, this manga lives in my head rent-free.
Even though Sato was one of the characters that kept me hooked on the story the whole time, I have to admit that I think Kei is the one that intrigued me the most. To be more specific, I enjoyed how much he contrasted against Sato while also being similar to him.
On one hand, they're both very smart people who find ways to use their ajin abilities in ways that normal humans wouldn't even think about. Even other ajin don't think about using their abilities the same way Sato and Kei do. And I think that's because both of them have embraced their inhumanity. Other ajins are still holding onto their past human lives and how they used to live, but both Sato and Kei have both accepted and adapted to the fact that they can no longer live as a person.
Similarly, they're both rather cold people. Sure, Sato is a lot more emotional than Kei; he freely shows his joy and excitement-- but they both go about achieving their goals in a rather rational matter-- and more importantly, they don't really sympathize or empathize with others. We see this more clearly with Kei and how he basically treats people as pawns in his plans, but Sato does the same thing. He doesn't start an ajin revolution because he really wants ajin rights and freedoms; he does it because he wants to have fun. Even Kei doesn't really want ajin rights for others, but rather because it will allow him to live peacefully. They're both rather fundamentally selfish people.
I think that similarity is also picked up by Sato-- because he does have this moment where he says he wants to cut off Kei's head and essentially kill Kei, because then Kei can fully step onto Sato's level and make a better "rival". I also don't think it's a coincidence that it was Kei and Sato who had the shared memories moment, essentially tying them together as opposing forces.
However, the core difference between them lies in compassion-- or as Sato's father puts it, understanding life is a precious thing. I think Kei understands better than Sato that he can't live alone in society. In fact, there are many points in Kei's journey that he is helped by other people; I also think it's telling that to stop Sato, Kei teams up with the anti-ajin squad while Sato essentially does his acts of terrorism largely by himself.
I think that last confrontation with Kei and Sato sums it up pretty well, when Kei says he has never treated life as a game. He understands that when other people-- non-ajins-- die, they die. Sato never really saw it as a bad thing, because he never cared about them; to him, life is a game and the people he kills are just "NPCs". Kei treats life seriously, with the gravity it deserves. Sato treats it frivolously, which is why he can commit such brutal violence on both others and himself.
I think you said that Kei is a "mid protagonist" and I think that's the point. Sato is very bombastic and hedonistic; he wants to have fun and he wants to have fun *extremely*; once he's set his mind, he's 100% in.
Kei has multiple moments where he just wants to stop fighting and just live under the radar, but he's continually brought back into the plot. He's a very passive/reactive protagonist in this way. Sato's pushing the plot forward, creating conflict, and Kei is mostly reacting to that. I don't think he actually takes a proactive approach to stopping Sato until near the end.
But I also think it's probably reductive to say that Kei doesn't care for others. He does care about the people close to him; there are even moments in the manga that show that even though he seems "cold", he does care about people. For example, even though his own sister doubts his reason for becoming a doctor, his mother does confirm that Kei wants to become a doctor to cure his sister. He is a just a rather rational person, and rationality spreads even into his own emotions. He cares about the people close to him, but (like his mother says) caring about them in thought isn't enough to make them better/help them, so he has to take the optimal path. The part where he says something along the lines of "everyone weighs other people's worths in their mind; don't blame me because I do it consciously" I think sums it up perfectly. It's also that line that I remember the most clearly out of everything in the manga. I think compared to other shounen protagonists, Kei stands out because he's way more aware of how he's driven by a very personal "power of friendship" than an abstract desire to do good. He can write off the millions of people dying due to Sato's terrorism, but keeps letting himself get dragged back into the fight because in the end, he does care about himself and his friends.
But he also has his moments of bordering the irrational. Like that moment when he continues to stop Sato even though the situation looks hopeless because a non-zero percent chance of success still means there's a chance of success. It's a very emotionally driven sentiment, but still framed by rationality. I don't know, but Kei's relationship with compassion/idealism and realism compels me in a different way than Sato's enthusiastic swan dive into selfish hedonistic pursuit of a high score.
I'd apologize for the long ramble, but I really do like the manga.
I read all of this. I love the manga too, always recommend it to other people, i read it in thai language. Does it only have 17 books?
THANK YOU!!!!!!!!
Kei is my favorite character and it genuinely irks me seeing people mischaracterize him so bad or not understand his actual intentions and his genuinely compassion in his own way because he is not just simply the "edgy overlord angry cold hearted bland mc" he genuinely puts thoughts and care into his rationality and emotions and you would clearly see that if you read the manga/watch anime
that was a pleasure to read.
I appreciate the read. Love it when manga gives us so much to think about
As a fellow kei enjoyer your ramblings make me happy
Sato is literally the song "Free Bird" personified. In fact, half way through the manga I made a playlist with Free Bird and a couple of other similiar songs and blasted it nonstop while reading the rest of it. Absolutely how this manga should be experienced!
You got a list?
Oh I gotta hear this. Got a link to the playlist?
Where is it
Do tel the playlist.
Share the playlist please!
I gotta say, there is one thing that the anime does that absolutely blows the manga out of the water.
Spoilers:
Instead of having Sato hijack a plane and crash it into the building to get at the politician inside, they instead had the absolute mindblowingly genius idea of having him drop a *fucking skyscraper* on top of it
I agree I thought it was a cool twist to make the viewer think "oh he's going to blow up the building" only to find out his true plan that he rigged a much larger building to explode and fall on top of it 😂
Then he's goes sicko mode on the Japanese riot squad
@@geraldyeager7652 that was one of the sickest action scenes I've seen honestly. His usage of cover by using his own enemies, fucking shooting through himself, and walking out of the smoke like "light work, bitch" with a grandpa smile on his face. One of my alltime favorites, next to the hallway fight
I fucking remember that in the anime. Certified gamer W moment
I thought they swapped it out due to 9/11. But what they swapped it out with was pretty BA
I also want to give props to the random no name characters too. The metro SWAT team in this story were no push overs too. They used tactics and professionalism to do some effective counters against Saito but once again, Saito is damn good at his job too so it's tactic vs counter tactic constantly
Yup, I got more attached to them than any character from demon slayer
God I love the faceless squad
When the anti demi human squad got hit with the cave in I was so worried they died bro, more than any character from demon slayer when I was reading that.
Mad Mikkelsen could be a great Sato for a live action adaptation. 😊
I don’t know if he could play it as I can’t remember him playing a less serious character but he could look the part
My vote would be bob odenkirk. He’s got experience in action (nobody) and can play the part for sure (picture of him and David cross playing smash bros.) maybe doesn’t have the sharp features sato does tho
Sato is said to have Asian features. They should write a different series for Mads. Maybe he could be a character in a future installment for The Old Guard, something very similar to Ajin.
@@eradict is old guard very similar to ajin? Aside from immortality, both stories have different plot and characters
Sato is the definition of Black Air Force Activity
Oh, he BELONG to the Black Air Force Round Table.
I like the juxtoposition between Sato and Kei as two ppl that likely have some form of psychopathy/personality disorder, but express it in very very different ways due to their environment n upbringing n such.
I think part of the entire point of Sato's character was that his upbringing by an actual decent person had no effect on how much of a messed up monster he was, right from childhood, as shown in the flashback to childhood scene.
I like kei bcuz i relate to him. Do i have some disorder too?
😹😹😹
Sato himself isn't a complicated villain. He is a bored dude who wants to create chaos for the thrill of it.
His main draw is how he uses his cheat code of infinite lives. He mentions that ajin resurrect from their larges piece but it still catches you by surprise when he actually uses it to infiltrate a secure building. While I didn't cheer for him, I felt like an audience member waiting in anticipation for the magician's next trick. And Sato is an excellent magician, he is the reason I started reading Ajin. I got spoiled a bit and saw how he cut his hand off. He is definitely one of my favorite villains.
I truly liked how all the rules were laid down and they were never bent or changed for the protag to win.
He is a bored dude. His facade as a terrorist leader and an idealist is crazy entertaining though. Things like that adds to what makes him genuinely enjoyable.
Not gonna lie I love Kei Nagai, he's such a piece of shit and I love that.
I like his Anime season 2 original scenes too with how his childhood friend just goes alright you don't want to go to the end of this bullshit with me that is fine I still love you is so strangely wholesome an intense right after he saves his friends sister after breaking out of fuking Prison
He's my favourite mc cuz i relate to him alot(not for everything but like 80%). I guess I'm piece of shit too
@@GoldenYXZsame bro same
I just reread ajin recently, and yeah Sato is easily my number 1 villain, he really just steals the whole show and every scene with him is top tier
Its kinda great how Sato is such a threatening villan without anything special. He doesnt have some broken technique, he's got the same ajin powers as everyone else, Sato is just good at using his skillset and isnt afraid to do what it takes to win.
He really made this series for me, my jaw literally dropped when I saw his 'teleportation' plan. He's a great example of how pure evil villains can still be entertaining in stories, amid the push for villains these days to always be misunderstood or morally grey.
At first I thought he doesn’t care to join in the game because he was bored, walking around and checking leftover in the fridge lol
I mean, all a villain needs to be a solid character is a decent motivation. You can get great morally grey villains motivated by self-righteousness, or you can get pure evil villains motivated by hedonism like Sato, and so long as that motivation is clear and consistent the villains are great either way. The problem with a lot of villains nowadays isn’t them being more morally grey, because let’s be real, grey villains do still have so much more character potential, but the fact that a lot of people do it pretty badly these days
Getting borred of a "Big plan" like the one Sato pulled out is such an Immortal Person thing- when you live endless life you have practically endless attempts to idk fuck up a country beyond a recognition almost all on yout own, but for someone with infinite tries like that it's quite frankly like indeed finishing a game, and the closer to finish you are the less fun it is.
Yeah, they brought in anti-immortal SWAT team, but it's just a "final boss" elite that is pretty much done once you kill the boss
Addendum:
Sato is on the similar level of mindset to Outsider from Dishonored and Happy Chaos from Guilty Gear- if I am about to live the life as long as it takes the universe to die of entropy I might as well make it interesting. Yeah, they have different angles: Outsider "knows the story already", Chaos is the almost literall embodiment of his namesake, but the goal is still quite the same- make this shit interesting to at least watch.
19:17 he didn't blow himself into an industrial fan, the larger piece of the body is what regenerates the other pieces. If the larger piece is the body (because the head got dissolved in acid or something) then the body will create a head. If the larger piece was an arm, and the rest of his body gets diced into mince meat, then the arm will grow a new body.
Yes and Sato sent his arm to place he wouldn’t be able to enter so that he can “teleport” by growing back from arm
I have only seen the 3D anime series, but one scene that has forever been etched and burned into my brain was the fight with Sato and the Elite Police Officer guys. That was one of the coldest shi I have ever seen, seeing Sato win but still struggle against them.
Same
i want to mention one thing about the Anti-DemiHuman Squad, when they were finally introduced in the final wave i thought they would be just a bunch of mindless murder machines that kill Ajins but when they started coordinating with Nagai and both teams starts working together, they became one of fav groups of the series. like they know their shit with guns but also when and where to use their brains as well
Sato's one man charge against entire squads reminds me of King Bradley from Fullmetal Alchemist who sliced a goddamn tank shell in half and killed everyone inside the tank using just his sword without rven entering the tank. That man was a monster in the form of a homunculus and the funny thing is that homunculus are kind if similar to ajins as they are also immortal.
I've been following anime/manga for the past 10 years, and I can assure you, from my personal experience reading/watching, no other antagonist comes even remotely close the insanity a villain Satou is. He's smart, clever, determined, willing to go to insane lengths to achieve his goals, and yet he's criminally underrated. Ajin deserves more recognition.
Sato is just pure chaotic evil and im love it. Imagine just creating chaos in a country and massacre fcktons of people just for the thrill of it.
i have been reeeeally wanting for somebody to speak about Sato for soo long cuz he is just so good as an antagonist like damn i would even call em one of the best in shonen/seinen manga
Sato is literally the only reason to even read all 17 volumes of Ajin. Master class author at action sequences and tense situations. What an awesome comic series.
> Pulled a fcking 9/11
Sato: MAXIMUM THRILL
Absolutely kino
Didn't think about it when i saw the show but the usage of Anjins reflect 'Unit 731' from ww2. In the inhumane department. Can understand the anjins struggle though the story and why Sato is an understandable villain, on the surface. His real reason is just Pure chaos fun, eternal war.
nagi is not a bad mc his progression through out the manga was amazing
Satou really is a fantastic villain, and the story is so genius because it's a perfect representation of what an open world video game like say, the post-storyline part of GTA V would look like from the viewpoint of the NPCs just helplessly looking on at a gamer doing gamer shit all over the place. Killing everything just because he can, causing all manner of chaos with no concern about consequences, only caring about having fun, and then quitting when he gets bored. He's both the player and the player character, and that's brilliant. Executed perfectly.
Sato really is a perfect villain!! great work yet again my dude
Ngl.
Sato is such cool guy.
Forget the Joker. Forget Sephiroth.
Sato likes what he does. And does it well.
Damn right!
When he clashed his ibm's head with kei's to do a counter flood that was truly majestic.
Got into the show when it first came out on Netflix. I'm sad they never made a 3rd season of the show. The action was so fun to watch and I would have loved to see some of the later action scenes get adapted. Doubts that it will get made at this point especially since their has been some many changes in the trajectory of the stories between the show and manga.
MC: "We... We have lost."
Everyone else: "Why, what happened?!"
MC: "Sato... got bored."
Sato did make me gasp audibly and shriek a number of times.
But I never had any wish for him to win. He terrified me even more 😂
Also, Kei as a protagonist was good mainly because of Sato. With how insane Sato was, having Kei attempt to keep up with him was an amazing back and forth
Personally I've only watched the anime and I still love this series. I also love how each of the IBM's seem to line up with each charecters wants and desires. (I'm not 100% sure if this is true but I love it all the same) another thing I liked the main character after he joins the counter ajin force cause he goes from an ass to what I can only describe as disconnected. He only has one which and that's to be normal if it wasn't for this whole event he would have probably just become a doctor cause that's what a "good human" does. I also love the action as it feel like fast pace chess as each side tries to counter the other and honestly I wish they had gone farther with stuff like sleep gas. I also like the ending (which seems different from the manga) where Sato had basically won the Ajin got there own country. This was a time for his men to celebrate freedom. For him? It was just the end of the game he had won time to decline, Gas the population, and skip to America and play his sick game again. It shows his lack of care and how disconnected he is with reality and I love it.
so you're telling me Sato would thrive in a minecraft hardcore world?
This vid encouraged me to read the whole manga and it was just too good, I finished it in a week!!
Definitely recommend it, such a good read
That dude was absolutely insane I remember watching the anime for the first time when I saw this dude he's absolutely f****** crazy and I love it
Merci, pour cette vidéo purée totalement à la hauteur de la proposition sidérant qu’est Ajin ❤❤❤
Personally I like Kei and his shitty, but still ultimately moral, personality, and I was rooting for him. But Sato was definitely the most enjoyable component of the series.
I like kei too, he's my favourite mc. I relate to him, guess I don't really have a good personality either
one of the best manga I’ve read Sato is so fun
Great video! Didn't realize how unique this series is!
Keep up with the consistent good work
Ayeee thank you!!
Every time I'm asked who my favorite villain is, I always answer Satou - the dude gives me the creeps
Even though they removed the falling plane, blowing up a taller building next to your target building goes just as hard imo.
so glad to see ajin get some recognition
I will never forget that scene where he basically played dominoes with the tower while he's hanging onto the rails there is just pure joy on his face as his hat flies into the air, AND THEN HE PULLS OUT ANOTHER HAT
All I'm saying is, GIVE WAR A CHANCE!- Sundowner
Code of conduct this... War crime that...
Love the music choice, the Perfect Dark caught my attention well lol great video loved Ajin
Metal gear stuff, always peak stuff
Ajin has gotta be one of the most interesting stories I've read.
I saw the anime and it was a cool concept, and is basically what being a Risen/Guardian from the Destiny universe would be like (except that would be better since you get super powers on top of your immortality and matter transfiguration tech-they make ammo from trace elements)
I like how I was about to search up AJIN stuff for fun after commenting on a video about my childhood anime’s….. and then I scroll down once and see this video.
Very cool.
The only thing I remember of Ajin is SATO and the fucked up torture the government was doing but mostly sato creativity and violence in actions scene. Sato also oozes with charisma
18:41 the way the mangaka drew the hair on the back for the fade is actually super impressive. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a mangaka take the time to actually draw in the indent in the back of the head right above the neck before if the character already had hair, even if it was short enough to still see it
The CG is wonderful the frame rate is easy to get used too and really makes Sato an IBMs more scary it just makes them that much more Demi-Human
thanks for validating my opinions
19:18 nah that's not what happened. he regenerated from the hand he cut off which was inside the building. kei was the one who was using the fan to send his IBM through the building's AC system
The only "gripe" I have is, an American ex special ops soldier effectively turning uber terrorist armed with expert level guerrilla warfare tactics, yet uncle Sam just waves it off and do nothing? Sure, it's a manga and all, but with this level of realism, I half at least expect the old dude annihilating scores of covert squads sent after him. Even GATE had the decency to have the token "greedy CIA bad guys", and in Ajin's world, the Americans are just sitting by? Kinda hard to buy if you know what I mean
The biggest thing I love about ajin and other shows for that is that ajin isn’t simply just the action with a badass antagonist. There is a purpose behind the action and the antagonist, aside from just being cool. Most shonen have action for the sake of coolness, simply using it as a means to tell the events of the story. With ajin, the themes and story are baked into the action, the action is making a statement about what is trying to be conveyed through incredibly rich subtext.
This is why I mostly read seinen now. Monster opened that world for me. I just remembered Ajin from a How to Beat video about it and decided to go back since there is an anime on netflix, and then I read the manga simultaneously. A very cool villain Mr. Sato is.
More people need to read the manga. Some company needs to make a new anime
Sato is John Wick with a stand
sato is the only character that can make "my life is like a video game" their entire personality and still be the biggest badass ever.
14:26 i would’ve done the phantom project two more times to have a grapple hook and zip line again.
Watched the fiirst 5 minutes, read the entire manga and came back to watch the rest lol
Overall i kinda disagree with the "perfect villian" title. I definetely like what he did and how it was shown, this overcompetent kind of character that's just always one step ahead in plans and actions and it definetely fits the story well, you love to see guys like that just going ham.
Also really like his design and background, too many manga would put that level of experience and skill on some gifted highschooler and call it a day, this was a lot more fitting.
Can't say i enjoyed his character that much though sicne it basically came down to an evil guy who was born evil and had fun doing evil things without any change or even that much of interactions with other characters.
Basically the guy is just a force of nature in the story, not a bad concept and it works really well in this story, like really well but personally i wouldn't count him as a favourite character when i know that i mostly like him for the cool action scenes he was put into rather than for the character he was written as, of course that's just my take
19:20 you actually got this wrong, he didn't mist himself through the AC, he fried his severed hand and had it delivered to the location along with fried chicken, then he chipped himself and, because the hand was the largest piece of his body, he reformed from said hand.
hey, saw the link on twitter, i really dig your editing style! also, i haven't really read Ajin Demi Human so would it be better to read it all before watching the whole thing?
I do spoil give some ending spoilers about the main villain so I would recommend reading first if you’re super interested in the story and the subtle ways it develops over time!!
I found Ajin through Netflix and he’s genuinely unlike any villain. The moment in the anime where it’s revealed that Sato was basically grooming the main character into becoming a terrorist for basically the entire first halve of the anime is genuinely some of the most terrifying shit I’ve ever seen from a villain.
Sato is the goat
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I always say to people that ajin is a better version of Tokyo ghoul, at least to me it had a better delivery
I don't think I've heard of an antagonist giving up cause they were bored. That is gold right there.
4:26, this sf4 reference got you a subscriber.
Sato is one of the greatest manga villains. He is chaos incarnate. He is a badass and I cheered for him over and ov3r!
get help.
@@ombra711 since enjoying fictional characters, because we are aware that they aren't real, is in fact a very normal thing to do, it's clear enough that the person who actually needs to get help is you.
The thing about Kei Nagai is that he does feel emotions and does care for people, he only idealises this emotionless selfish mentality because caring about others brings him strife. He keeps saying how he's selfish and how he should be selfish, words of self confirmation in order to reassure himself of who he is-when the reality is far different. His actions show that he does care about people, so he feels the need to reject that notion and make up selfish reasons that could have brought him to where he is in order to avoid facing the truth. Nagai had plenty of chances to just escape and ignore Satou, but he eventually felt a need to stop him-yet the emotionally constipated kid that he is still wants to put up the persona of being selfish, stating that he can't live a normal life if Satou is alive-which is true but only because Nagai does actually care about people and not because Satou is hell bent on fucking with Nagai as Satou states it himself "Why do YOU keep getting in my way?" Meaning that Satou wasn't really going after Nagai at all.
Honestly this manga is fucking beautiful.
Finally someone talking about Ajin!!
Sato is one of the main reasons why Ajin is my favorite manga. everytime he was present, I was constantly asking what he'd do next, and then he did something I never even expected. Like the woodchipper scene had my jaw ON THE FLOOR. Ajin's use of deaths and regeneration is just so creative, I love it.
SATO was ALWAYS on DEMON TIME!!
THE GOAT
kei nagai isnt a mid character at all. I feel like you lost the whole bit where his mom talked about him and the ending where he literally threw away the selfish calculative personality.
Alright listening to you explain the premise of this show was enough for me to decide I need to watch or read all of it God I hope there's an anime. I did it with ashita no joe and I was very satisfied so I'm going to do it with this one now
Great video mr pants
honestly this is an insane ride of a manga, the shit Sato pulls off in certain arcs is the most absurdly badass shit ive seen in a manga
this content is peak
I started this video, got around 5 minutes into it, read all of Ajin in 2 days, then got back to this video now. Hoooooly fuck, this manga was amazing.
lets goooo that’s what we wanna hear!!!! Glad you enjoyed it!
I'm one of those people that loved the anime when it came out. Sure the CG was jarring at first. But the plot kept me watching. And as the show progressed the animations got better. And the use of shadows actually made it look amazing at times.
So when I heard a season 3 is finally on its way I got super hype.
Sato is also indeed an amazing villain. Fucking loved big ass fight scene with him
Wait, WHAT DO YOU MEAN THAT SEASON 3 IS GETTING RELEASED?????
HOLY SHIT I LOVE THAT THOUGHT EXPERIMENT! If you’re able to fully regenerate your brain that still isn’t you anymore because the you that existed when your brain was gone literally disappeared. The thought experiment if a fun way to consider if we have souls or not because if we do than it would mean that you is still there but if we don’t it means that you is gone for good. It’s a fun thought experiment to talk about with people.
Often times some arent that terrible, unless the people harm someone they cared for and fuck up extra terribly causing them to no longer give anysort of fuck towards anyone at that point
already can tell that im gonna like this guy and his vids cuz he has VTMB music at the start
Honestly i dont really like stories where loads of people die horribly, however, Sato is so fucking enjoyable i honestly could not put Ajin down. Seeing him referencing the a team after i thought he reminded me of hannibal a bit (but a crazy version), being an absolute monster and just enjoying that, i could not help but like this horrible motherfucker. I like that he just got bored.