My dad who doesn't watch anime watched this documentary with me and I was actually embarrassed. Throughout the whole documentary I kept having to explain to him that anime is much more than this and we were watching a blatant advertisement. Imagine a parent watching this documentary knowing their kid watches anime and trying to learn more about it, and they get this misinformed piece of shit.
@@jonsnor4313 He wouldn't be into it. He doesn't really like the stylized humor of most anime, the closest I've gotten him to likeing anime is showing him stuff like FMAB, Attack on Titan, and Erased. Probably gonna show him Vinland Saga soon, he might like that.
@@themage1016 yeah I remember seeing a recent interview with Hajime Isayama (author of Attack on Titan) and despite the massive monetary success of the franchise he still pulls all-nighters and his workspace is tiny, uncomfortable, and cluttered
@@Flufferz626 That is how it is for mangaka. Your workload dosen't really change just because your series becomes really popular and you make alot of money, you still have to draw the same amount of pages every week.
The stress of keep a story engrossing for audiences, meeting deadlines, and having to meet what the editor wants is insane too. Most people wanting to become a mangaka end up quitting.
i looked up a studio (8-bit btw) that made an anime i liked , just to see what else they had done, and then i saw they had a grand total of SIXTY EIGHT employees. They spend about as much on a series as a regular tv show will spend on a few episodes. compared to The grand tour for example who spend 2 million per episode. If more money went to the studios, the industry would be a lot healthier (because they could hire more animators and pay them better)
Real shit, the way nobody in the industry is addressing the tragedy that struck Kyoto is actually disgusting. Its like theres this smoldering fire that illustrates the pinnacle of suffering and abuse that even the best of studios can go through and even though it was a month ago none of the other studios wanna make comment. Netflix is all like "yeaaaaah addressing the greatest tragedy in the history of animation period doesn't really make the anime we're advertising look cooler, hey guys we wanna be the next crunchy roll yay!"
Admittedly, Manga artists might be a little better off than animators, since if you get lucky and your work becomes popular, you'll make more of merchandising, the anime, etc... Or there's also the possibility to work on things outside of the industry from time to time (like character design for a game and the like). I mean, it's still hard to break out for sure, and likely you'll end up as an assistant making
Was waiting for someone to call Netflix out on this. Why would they put someone in charge who knows nothing about anime (she made sure we knew) and then making it a huge advertisement for Netflix anime was awful.
I don't think that's a bad idea. As long as you don't have a pre-established directing line before getting into it, people who don't know the medium can be the best placed to make a documentary about it that's about demystifying it for the masses, in fact it's easier for someone who knows little about it because by experiencing that journey themselves they'll know where to put emphasis on while an anime fan might have long forgotten what it's like not to know the medium. It can be awesome. But that's clearly not what happened there.
@@Arkayjiya On one hand... yes, it is a very good idea on the premise of "demystifying it for the masses"(or anything similar to that). On the other hand, the very same person is also prone to misrepresentation, as well as the spreading of false information due to misinformation.
@@Arkayjiya That makes no sense. A documentary is supposed to inform people about its subject matter, so you need to get as knowledgeable a person on said subject matter as possible. Getting someone who does not know anything about the medium will not help the viewers. One views a documentary to get informed about something, not to go into a "journey of discovery" with the director.
I think the worst thing is not that she knew nothing, but that she was appearently ignorant. There must be directors not knowing much about anime, with more enthusiasm and openness.
@@alexandresobreiramartins9461 "A documentary is supposed to inform people about its subject matter" That's true, but here the subject matter does not have to be "anime" it can be "discovering the anime culture from an outsider perspective" which is pretty clearly the case here in which case someone with fresh experience in the subject matter would be "an outsider that just discovered anime by going through a thorough journey into it" and not "someone who's been an anime fan all of their lives". "Getting someone who does not know anything about the medium will not help the viewers" Yes it might and I've specifically explained why in my previous post. That's also the reason why someone who didn't know a subject but recently went through a journey to understand it better might be a better tutor in that specific subject than someone who mastered it completely in school 30 years ago and has been working in a related field ever since even though the second person is infinitely more knowledgeable about it. Because the first one can relate better and understand what problem or preconceptions a newcomer can have better than the more knowledgeable one. Documentaries are made of two parts: a subject matter and an angle of approach. If it was only the first you would be correct, but it's not.
TNT Tim Oh don’t you worry my friend...I will make a support group for all who have been affected by this piece of shot documentary that trashes everything we love about the medium.
“ANimE is EDgY. “ You’re so right Netflix, art forms can only be one thing and can never branch out and be anything else. That’s the equivalent of saying “all paintings are landscapes”.
@brandon roberts Evengalion redub is actually a good thing. Original dub was objectively awful and the only bad thing that came out of the redub/netflix licensing was the missing ending theme.
@@HoshiArt they definitely fucking didn't. It was literally the main fucking bitch just going "durrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr Idk what the Fuck I'm gonna do...... Huh........ Uhhhhhh ik.... I'm gonna sell out to Netflix and spend half the time shilling bad and going Idk what to do" she didn't fucking try. I couldn't get 15 minutes in.
Geoff: "The editing in this documentary is horrible" Me: Well, I'm not really an editor. Bet those are some nitpicks he has. Geoff: *proceeds to show the interview footage* Me: Oh god... I uh... huh!?
Yeah I saw commericals for this on my Netflix feed and all I could think was "Too Loud! Too much flashing! I don't like this!!! DX" I thought I was being a fussy but now I feel justified.
Yeah. Still pretty tame to that one episode of Tokyo Mew Mew, where Ichigo went Rambo on the entire orphanage, while shouting 'omae wo mou', and shooting anyone that didn't shout 'nani'.
i mean you're not wrong, they give vip treatment to japanese customers because they wanna steal that sweet bandwidth from niconico everyone else can get fucked and wait until it's complete and ONLY if it's popular enough to license
@@YaroLord I mean they eliminated mushi-shi from their catalogue , so it must have been very weird for them (its amazing how we have the same problem like 1000 years ago)
i watched it two nights ago, i was so disappointed. they set up a premise of asking "what is anime?" and answered, "this is the anime on netflix, go watch". also it's ironic that they spoke about the importance of music for neon genesis evangelion and then Netflix didn't even bother to get the rights to fly me to the moon.
Netflix does realise that being "edgy" isn't necessarily a good thing right? This Urban Dictionary definition pretty much sums up what I think when I hear the word "edgy": "Something or someone trying too hard to be cool, almost to a point where it's cringe worthy."
You can tell this one's bad when our mighty Anime Pope is more informative about the subject in a 17 minute video than whoever shat this 58 minute shoddy documentary.
@@jonsnor4313 he would probably make a better job explaining what anime is and why they should watch it on netflix instead of pirating it. Which says a lot for the actual people they paid to do the same thing when they would've been able to get away with paying him less by also offering to sponsor some of his videos.
@@nacoto180 Miyazaki doesn't hate anime, what he hates is all the good storytelling and creative animation being replaced with just big tits on a girl.
Screw netflix. Besides like the 7 deadly sins their anime is garbage. Their botched death note film, their revisionist Evangelion that was basically a f you to spike spencer tiffany grant amanda winn lee alison keith etc. Plus nobody wants to watch an anime where its incomplete looking at you Naruto
anime are the only ones willing to follow a little girl live her little girl life without anything happening or a bunch of pets doing the same thing. the west can't go 2 secs without an explosion or a fart joke.
@@richardhawk7758 I'd say that's more creepy than edgy. Western media focuses a lot more on pointless violence and being vulgar which does sound pretty edgy
@@darkness-chan4861 Yeah, but when you break it down it's really only "edgy" for religious types or people under the age of 18 (or at an equivalent maturity level). Otherwise, it's just noise/distraction.
In a way the view this chick had of anime informs us of how Netflix treats anime. I feel like all the dopey, "cool" "edgy"-ness they're trying to use to make it "appeal to Westerners" is almost EXACTLY how I would describe all of their Live Action anime adaptations. No wonder they suck.
I like the kind of anime Netflix streams. Its the kind of anime that got me hooked to the medium in the first place. I would never have touched anime for slice of life drama or comedies, I watched it for, yes, edgy stuff like Fist Of The North Star, Devilman, Akira or Urotsukidoji. And since most anime streaming services cater to younger audiences I appreciate Netflix' approach. That being said, the "documentary" is atrocious, I couldn't even finish it. And it's full of the cliches tv-stations and magazines used when they talked about anime in the 90s which is when I heard the great "more paper for manga than toilet paper"-story for the first time.
you know what it sounds like to me? it sounds like capcom's approach to western audiences thanks to inafune in the late 2000's. you know, when they remade bionic commando to be edgy and turned dante into a methhead teen? it seems like people who run companies think that the reason westerners like japanese stuff is because it has blood and tits in it. it never seems to occur to them that we like it because it's foreign and exotic, and that quality trumps tone.
@@Otokogoroshi That's not necessarily true. The Jin-Roh live action adaptation is korean and quite good. I also liked the american Death Note film but I might be the only one.
Dragon Maid: *has Kanna Kamui step forward* Netflix: awww, look she is going to be edgy people. Kanna: *Hugs Kobayashi and tells her she missed her* Fans: *lose their minds to the kawaii family bonds* Netflix: ..... YOUR NOT A REAL ANIME Tohru: *cracks knuckles*
@@thomasallen9974 Considering it's Kanna, I'm pretty sure Saikawa would back up Tohru, not that she would be of much help. But, it's the thought that counts
they triggered me good right off the bat by calling their castlevania show "anime"... then when they started shilling aggretsuko it was clear as water "this is gonna be an add for the shit they've invested in, isn't it?"
I honestly think this review undersold how egregious the tone change from when the anime creators talked about how overworked they were to the narrator swooping in and changing the subject was. You have these creators pouring their heart out about a subject that many workers can easily relate to, then you cut to the narrator lady hanging out at a hedgehog cafe and moping about how "distant" anime creators are and how much she at the moment is struggling to find a purpose for this documentary despite being handed such compelling subject matter on a silver platter. After that, the idea of relating anime employees to other workers in other industries (which in turn could help explain why anime has the potential to be special to such a wide audience, as it truly is a field driven by passion and the love of the artform) is never brought up again, instead focusing on alienating anime as something only weirdos and outcasts can create (and of course, the "weirdos and outcasts" excuse can easily be used to dismiss all complaints about how poorly much of the anime industry treats its employees). It's just so tasteless.
I think she mentions that Netflix had "given" her this job. She never had the freedom to explore anything further. The narrative was decided from the start.
@Anime Dumpster Fire Well anime fans are like comic fans or SW/Star Trek fans. There's a reason why being Otaku/watching anime will never be socially acceptable.
@@Kamyu03 considering the top rated television episodes of 2019 on IMDB is a two-way tie between a recent Attack on Titan episode and an episode of Chernobyl, I think it is way more of an accepted media than you think
Normies: ANIME IS FOR KIDS Weebs: bruh, watch Attack on Titan, and Tokyo Ghoul then come back and tell me it's for kids Normies: ANIME IS EDGY, PEOPLE WHO LIKES THEM ARE DERANGED PSYCHOPATHS
Anime is a medium that has wonderful pieces of art in it but the only one that’s notice is studio gibli I wish this documentary explored more of anime’s well known classics in the community that are more unrecognizable to a non watcher so they realize the shits a medium and not a genre oh well
The normie has the weeb cornered here. What's next suggest Fairy Tail and get the perverted label? Just ask the normie what he does and doesn't like and then suggest an anime for them from there.
It doesnt even dare approach the moe anime, which completely undoes the 'narrative' this 'documentary' has. I mean, nothing has as much internet clout like a moe loli. Particularly ones that inspire massive Dont Lewd the Loli campaigns.
@Thomas Soto IKR! how can you talk about animes history without mentioning the Akira and GITS that lichrally inspired iconic movies like the matrix, but also how animes like Astroboy changed western TV animation, like batman the animated series looked good because they saw how japan was animating at the time!!! THEY DID THAT
That's not true. They literally go to Toei Animation Studios, interview a big fan of Toei, and then interview the CEO. As much as I think that this documentary could be better, misinformation doesn't slide.
Stuff like ghibli is already very popular and I'm sure there's stuff about it already. It would also be super expensive, I bet, to have them in a show. So would it be necessary???
Thomas Soto It’s because this special really doesn’t give a fuck about anime. It’s a bullshit attempt to get people to watch the anime only available on Netflix, specifically the ones for people who don’t have the attention span for slice of life stuff
"But it's always best to assume incompetence before malice and looking at the rest of this film, that does seem to be the more likely explanation." Shots fired
"Anime is edgy" is the same as "cartoons are for children" in that it's a way to delegitimize taking any content seriously or being able to critique it.
Netflix has been recommending Enter the Anime for me for a while now. I don't know why I've been wary of watching it, and now I know I don't need to. Sounds like utter crap. So thank you, you saved me a lot of trouble and cringing.
It might be worth watching it if you're curious about the people behind em but it's definitely something to watch in the background if anything judging by the editing.
Anime isn't edgy. I have seen different animes with different themes: some are edgy, some are cute, some are NSFW, some are relaxing, some are badass, some are serious, some are funny, etc.
to think I once praised Netflix for putting anime on it's platform and trying to spread some kind of awareness for it and now I'm like "please stop you've done enough NO MORE"
90s: Anime? Those Japanese Cartoons? Whatever Nerd. 2019: If you're not into anime your life is over & you'll never be happy. Be sure to subscribe to Netflix for more info.
@Fruit y pebbles as a guy who read all of tokyo ghoul, it's not that edgy. mirai nikki still takes the cake for the edgiest manga and anime i've personally seen.
son back in mah day all we had was edgy i remember when the scifi channel aired vampire hunter D... AND WE WERE HAPPY TO GET IT!!! also that shit was edgy AF at the time lol
I had a sarcastic comment but I'm editing it to say this: If this is true " normal animator for Anime in Japan makes ¥200 per drawing. That's about $2 per page. That's the commission they get and they are not paid salary. The average number of pages an animator who is early on in their career can make in a day is about 20 pages. That's $40 a day. That's while living in Japan, most likely near Tokyo, barely scraping by." Then I think about the animators in Kyoto who died. And how sad and thankless their jobs and lives were. I feel so sad inside over this. On top of that I look at how much I pay for anime, services that stream it, merchandise, etc. and I feel crushed. I am so saddened that people who put their blood sweat and tears into their jobs are so pitifully compensated.
Well, I guess there’s some good news I can give you, though it might make you feel worse. What you described is the industry norm, but KyoAni was actually lauded as being an example of how animators should be treated. Fair pay, fair treatment, they were the studio that treated their animators the best. I like to think it really showed in the quality of their shows. The KyoAni jobs were far from thankless, even though most of the industry has that problem. But they still were the victim of arson. Treated their employees right, made some of the best anime in the world, and that guy still lit the building on fire and killed them.
Ellierienna Yup. A great example of the anime industry actually being run ethically and passionately, and then so deeply affected by an undeserved act of violence. Such a sad event to witness.
Kyoto Animation is one of the few studios that treated thier staff properly and gave then paid vacations and such. They have delayed shows to let everyone take breaks before. That's why it was so heartbreaking to me when it happened cause I couldn't understand why anyone would want them dead
"KyoAni was actually lauded as being an example of how animators should be treated. Fair pay, fair treatment, they were the studio that treated their animators the best." Holy shit, maybe the arsonist was motivated or paid by bigwigs in the industry that want to keep all jobs shitty and low-paying?!?
@@tyrroo You seriously could have hit on something. Something always bothered me about WHY he burned the studio. Why does ANY human being decide to burn THEMSELVES along with the co called company that stole his work?? Waaaay overboard, it screams outside entities controlling an individual for their own malicious intentions.
"Anime is edgy" *laughs in dragon-maid* Edit: *laughs harder in Chuunibyou and wheezes in One Punch Man* Second edit: *internal bleeding from laughing too much in Devil is a Part Timer*
This is what I have always feared as the anime industry takes its root in western media. While on one end, anime is popularized, which leads to widespread recognition of individual shows and their creators. This leads to the medium gaining much more support and traction to make new and amazing shows. Theoretically, this is the best outcome. However, when we look at the current stage of anime and manga, it seems that this public prevalence only has a negative impact. Rather than bringing optimism and harmless support, the increased vogue of the Japanese medium tends to induce a disrespect and a general misconception of the entire artform. Many believe that anime is simply---as you said---edgy, horny, tasteless, by capitalizing on a single controversial scene in an anime without truly grasping the depth and intricacies of the material. It is simply a shame that a corporation which heavily impacted the rise of anime in Western cultures doesn't even know what they're working with.
Why, there are so many anime criticizing topics that are there in society and need to be adressed, like shimoneta censorship, or aggaretsu showing the working conditions in the western world in general, ....
I find it so ironic it is labeled as edgy, tasteless , pointless, violent, quirky, weird, etc.. But isn't that what sells in the Western Market with shows like Game of Thrones, CSI/Cop shows, Hand Maiden's Tale, Black Mirror, etc? I think it's gonna be a long before the West truly embraces and gets that Anime is a medium/art style like any other style of animation-- much more sophisticated, in its own right.
2004 > 2018 I will always say that. If anime is edgy, well some snowflakes never heard about 1600 to pretty much 1960 literature. Wuthering Heights amongst the others. In recent years every kind of artistic expression is becoming progressively duller and duller.
@@parsifal7300 Gattaka anyone? 😂 Funnily enough those stories always had political "message" but more as extension of the ideoleogies behind the story, so as a service to the story. Comparing it to now where the story is at max serviceable to some kind of populace indoctrination program..
Basically anime is the new counter-culture phenomenon like rap now, Emo before it and rock before that. When new popular subcultures begin to grow corporations and media try to get in on it at a surface level, creating gross misconceptions about it in their efforts to capitalize on it.
*Netflix:* "Anime and Manga Artists are like kings" *Me:* looking back at the last 10 years as a Mangaka, where I learned to draw, struggled with customers and got barely paid... **cries**
I've said it before and I'll say it again. Netflix gave me Devilman: Crybaby, and for that, I can't thank them enough. Having said that, even a broken clock is right twice a day.
@@oliviawoloshyn5824 Twas good. Despite it being Edgy, it had pretty good direction and the edginess was literally meant to be integral to the anime's overall message (which very simplified would be: IT'S OKAY TO BE A PUNK)
Devilman crybaby is acid trip of the ending of evangelion but as a whole anime Yeah no, i could never be high enough to think anything with those last few episodes could be good
Funny story: my dad has been trying to get into anime (since I'm into it) so he's been trying to educate himself on the classics as well as just... what anime IS. We stumbled upon this documentary, and since my dad LOVES docus, we thought, "hey, this might be a good place to start!" We watched 16 minutes, which felt like a freaking hour, constantly glancing at each other with that kinda "wtf?" look. Eventually he just said "are you enjoying this?" and I said "no" and we turned it off. And then watched Aggretsuko. Easily the worst documentary I've ever seen. Awful.
I watched this recently with my mom 'cause it was recommended to us. I was so triggered by them glossing over Osamu Tezuka and giving the credit to Toei, my mom had to remind me that this was basically an advertisement for Netflix and not actually about Anime history. We had more fun watching the documentary after that. Counted every time the girl complained about not knowing what she was doing and wanting to quit. It's pretty enjoyable when you stop taking it seriously. Still terribly edited though.
To think I envisioned a rose color future full of animes with Netflix funding and Japanese productions after watching Devilman Crybaby. A man could be so naive.
@@kuyechao What's important to understand is that this "funding" mostly means that Netflix swooped in after the fact, bought the shows and promoted them as "exclusives". This "documentary" being the excrement that it is really doesn't surprise me considering that a lot of people at Netflix literally know nothing about these shows they are selling.
I think this stems from a Western misinterpretation of anime as a genre instead of a medium. If it were treated as the medium for Japanese animation then you would see less of this insulting treatment. Anime covers everything from shows for small children (Anpanman for example) to hentai.
This. I was astonished to read the claim from somebody recently stating that it was a genre. A genre which covers everything, even more than Western entertainment does?
I think the best 'documentary' I've watched on the true process of anime production was a special feature of the Spirited Away DVD when Ghibli Studios was in production for the movie. It was shocking to see how late they worked, how dedicated they were, and the kindness of the staff to make staff meals when they didn't have time to stop to even eat.
Yes! That little look at how the studio did everything was so awesome to watch. They poured their blood, sweat, and tears into it and it was a nice deep dive on it. Then we get this.
Wasn't that studio the one who asked there artists if they had ever seen a dog and most had said no so they went out and got dogs so hey knew what they looked like and so they knew how to draw them? Just curious
For anyone interested in a good documentary series about Japanese content creators, go look at the UA-cam channel Archipel. It has a lot more passion and hard work put into those videos than this documentary.
Can't wait to check it out! If anyone reading this is a fan of the monogatari series there's a ytube channel called Kaiki Subs that has quite a few translated interviews with the VA's where they talk about behind the scenes stuff. Nice lil peak behind the curtain from their perspective & some of them are really funny, too!
Thank god I wasn’t the only one who was upset they only interviewed the edgy creators and not the people who made animes like A Silent Voice, Mob Psycho 100, or Pop Team Epic (The Aggretsuko part was great tho)
I started watching tge documentarie 2 minutes in when the lady said -"I became an otaku" I knew it was going to be BS and clicked out. Glad to know l took the right desicion
"did you.know Japanese toilets are really weeeeeeeeeird??!" The Simpsons opened our eyes to that over a decade ago and people are still drawing attention to it?
@@kappadarwin9476 you missed the point. The "japanese toilets are weird" joke is DECADES old. That point has been around for a long time, it's very uncommon to hear of someone who didn't even hear of it.
@@juanmarailgun7783 In your opinion you doubt people haven't heard of it but not everyone has seen the Simpsons or saw that episode no matter how old it is. Just because you know about doesn't mean every one else will know too.
@@kappadarwin9476 I said it's NOT about The Simpsons!! Yes, they made this joke, but they weren't the only ones to make the joke. A LOT of other movies and shows did it, in both a comedic and not so comedic way.
In AnimeNewsNetwork's interview with the director of the documentary (which is uh *quite* the read already), they refused to answer any questions relating to the topic of animators' wages/hours and more specifically why they chose not to address it.
"Shit ton of comic books" might have given me an actual hernia. How COULD you? EDIT: Also I just realized that your UA-cam video is a better documentary than the actual one.
Alcaste the only term in English that manga that you buy in a store (not chapters in magazines) is “graphic novel”, but even then! It diminishes the entire manga industry!!!
I'm so happy that the day I decided that I should watch that documentary, my remote just happened to run out of power, and it just so happens that I don't have any spare batteries in my house, it seems like the anime gods are protecting me.
I've heard animators often work in poor conditions (overtime/underpay) but I had no idea they were paid that little. Bloody hell. $2 per hand drawn frame (even if it is just lineart) is super low!
@@YaroLord And, if they are good its worth getting a commission from them. People usually don't work in the anime industry for money its more for the passion.
@@kappadarwin9476 Which is why the industry gets away with paying them so little and is comfortable working them to literal death. People WANTING to do a job doesn't justify exploiting them to, again, literal, actual death.
I used to work at an electronics' factory in Okazaki, back in 2016. The only requirement was to have a pair of hands, and my wage was almost 3 times bigger comparing to an anime animator. Not to mention, in the same comparison, I used to work 1/3 less hours per day. So yeah, the anime industry really needs to revise its concepts.
Me too. And it just put anime that is like that stile. I miself unfortunately is the only way in my country that can have anime legaly, and thak to netflix i saw Violet Evergarden and im seing the Fate animes. I wanted to see it thinking it was like something serious but is garbage, exept the parts that show how these series were made.
Anime isn't all about being edgy! Anime is about being cool, sweet, cute, suspenseful, dramatic, fun, sexy, beautiful and heart warming. Anime can be all sorts of things!
Sounds to me like you could get a better representation of the culture surrounding anime's production and consumption from Otaku no Video than this thing.
for a medium so "edgy", i sure did learn some valuable life lessons. for example, if my adoptive brother steals my girlfriend's first kiss, kills my dog, tries poisoning my father, and turn into a vampire, it's perfectly fine to seek vengeance and kill him by using deep breathing.
Some ideas for documentaries about anime: -Its history. -Its cultural impact. -The cultural roots that made anime have the tropes and narratives that it has. -The cultural exchange between Japan and the West due to anime. -The Otaku culture. -The working conditions in the anime industry. -Anime and identity. -Anime as an artistic movement. -How has anime influenced our perception of Japan? And many more. I mean there are a lot of questions you can make, lot of topics, lot of genres, etc, etc, to make a serious documentary about anime. But I guess they only wanted a big ad. Shame on them.
For everyone asking about the music: The first song used is Gut's Theme from Berserk (1997) The second song is Last Resort by Papa Roach And the rest is from the Megalobox OST (aka one of the best anime OSTs ever)
Yes but what about the "meme" songs from the part where he talked about Cruel Angel's Thesis? I genuinely enjoy those songs but can never find the name haha.
@@itschickenscratch Thanks! That explains why I didnt recognize it off the bat, Initial D is on my list of must watches, but I haven't had the chance to yet.
To your question about better, more obscure anime documentaries... The best one I've ever seen is "Yasuo Otsuka's Joy of Motion". For those who don't know, Yasuo Otsuka was Takahata and Miyazaki's mentor, and one of the greatest, most highly respected old-school animators of all time, in Japan at least. The DVD of it was put out by Ghibli's live action distribution arm, and the Japanese-only release surprisingly has English susbtitles. Another good old-ish doc is the one on the making of the Lensman theatrical film, which is interesting in part because that movie was on the bleeding edge of CGI at the time it was made in 1984 (just 2 years after Disney's original Tron film). The epic, multi-part, many hours long doc on the making of the Kill la Kill series is pretty great too, as is the Miss Hokusai making of doc included with both the GKids (North America) and All The Anime (UK) Blu-ray releases of that movie.
Well yeah, they aren't going to advertise Crunchyroll or Funimation. Besides, the more they talk about Violet Evergarden, You Lie In April, Castlevania, and Aggretsuko...the more people watch hopefully.
@@ENJ4321 They didn't talk about Violet Evergarden despite the amazing animation ): Also, I kinda wish they either made a clear informative documentary about how anime is made rather than an advertisement that didn't even say it was an advertisement until the very end.
@@Healeon truth, I wanted the same thing too. This was a terrible documentary, and the reason for it to even be made...was to be a commercial for the anime on Netflix. Simply, because Marvel and DC are leaving...so they are trying to drum up viewership to another huge fanbase. Anime fans/Otaku, are almost as big a fanbase.
Everytime the word edgy is said I am transported back in time to a place I'd very much like to forget. Edit: now I'm very curious what yoko shimomura said regarding foreign fans, but on the other hand I dont want to sit through the documentary to get there
it's so bad I thought it was a final project of a community college student majoring in film studies..... Also ppl need to realize that these shows are simply LICENSED by Netflix. Only a handful (ie. Castlevania) were actually produced by Netflix!
@@kappadarwin9476 Really? Because I remember when anime first got *big* in the west, and two of the Holy Trio of shows every person even tagentally aware of anime loved were Pokemon and Sailor Moon. I thought shonen anime was popular now because the market is so saturated?
This makes canceling Netflix sting a little less. I may start a trial to binge season two of Aggretsuko. But then I'm out again. Also, were the random Netflix logo items necessary? The attempt to make their placement subtle only made them stand out more. I can't explain why the Netflix pillow bothers me so much. It just does.
Also, I wanna say, I’m a recent graduate with a degree in communication, film and video concentration, and I can tell you, whoever edited this documentary has absolutely no idea what the hell they were doing, and would’ve been given an automatic F for the whole class and told never to come to class again.
"Japanese use more paper to print manga then make toilet paper." manga--> an artbook that can tell a good story, and express a form of art. toilet paper --> one time use consumables that literally shit used beside that, most toilet in Japan are washlet, which is more efficient to clean your ass and saving resource for making toilet paper.
At first i thought it'd be fun to look at the medium from the perspective of a outsider and newcomer, but about 10 minutes in i was already dreading it
"Enter the Anime" is a dumb title also. "Enter the Dragon" as most of us know is a Bruce Lee's most famous Martial Arts movie made in Hong Kong, not Japan.
@@GlassedGamer You're not making any sense. You're answering the question from the perspective of someone who already knows. The purpose of a documentary is to inform those who are oblivious to the topic. So you being stuck up is not helping. You're representing the percentage of "elitist-douchebags" that riddle the anime community. Please stop.
My dad who doesn't watch anime watched this documentary with me and I was actually embarrassed. Throughout the whole documentary I kept having to explain to him that anime is much more than this and we were watching a blatant advertisement. Imagine a parent watching this documentary knowing their kid watches anime and trying to learn more about it, and they get this misinformed piece of shit.
Did you show him aggretsuko? I guess that would be a good starter anime for him.
@@jonsnor4313 He wouldn't be into it. He doesn't really like the stylized humor of most anime, the closest I've gotten him to likeing anime is showing him stuff like FMAB, Attack on Titan, and Erased. Probably gonna show him Vinland Saga soon, he might like that.
@@bencollinsworth8637 What about old shows outlaw star is pretty good, or black lagoon, bokurano starts slow but wow, and its realistic drawn.
My dad got me into Dragon Ball Z, he also got me into star gate
@@bencollinsworth8637 Master Keaton is an outstanding "Dad" anime.
"Anime and Manga artists are like kings"
Which is why most of them are living in poverty. Was this made by a high schooler?
Ty Love funny thing is that most manga artists work like slaves just to catch up to deadlines and shiit.
@@themage1016 yeah I remember seeing a recent interview with Hajime Isayama (author of Attack on Titan) and despite the massive monetary success of the franchise he still pulls all-nighters and his workspace is tiny, uncomfortable, and cluttered
@@Flufferz626 That is how it is for mangaka. Your workload dosen't really change just because your series becomes really popular and you make alot of money, you still have to draw the same amount of pages every week.
The stress of keep a story engrossing for audiences, meeting deadlines, and having to meet what the editor wants is insane too. Most people wanting to become a mangaka end up quitting.
i looked up a studio (8-bit btw) that made an anime i liked , just to see what else they had done, and then i saw they had a grand total of SIXTY EIGHT employees. They spend about as much on a series as a regular tv show will spend on a few episodes. compared to The grand tour for example who spend 2 million per episode. If more money went to the studios, the industry would be a lot healthier (because they could hire more animators and pay them better)
Netflix: anime and manga artist are like kings
Me: yeah, if kings are underpaid, overworked and killed in a fire
Real shit, the way nobody in the industry is addressing the tragedy that struck Kyoto is actually disgusting. Its like theres this smoldering fire that illustrates the pinnacle of suffering and abuse that even the best of studios can go through and even though it was a month ago none of the other studios wanna make comment. Netflix is all like "yeaaaaah addressing the greatest tragedy in the history of animation period doesn't really make the anime we're advertising look cooler, hey guys we wanna be the next crunchy roll yay!"
Admittedly, Manga artists might be a little better off than animators, since if you get lucky and your work becomes popular, you'll make more of merchandising, the anime, etc... Or there's also the possibility to work on things outside of the industry from time to time (like character design for a game and the like). I mean, it's still hard to break out for sure, and likely you'll end up as an assistant making
KyoAni... 😢
That last one hurts my heart and soul
"Or, to be more geographically accurate... emperors."
_W h y ?_
Was waiting for someone to call Netflix out on this. Why would they put someone in charge who knows nothing about anime (she made sure we knew) and then making it a huge advertisement for Netflix anime was awful.
I don't think that's a bad idea. As long as you don't have a pre-established directing line before getting into it, people who don't know the medium can be the best placed to make a documentary about it that's about demystifying it for the masses, in fact it's easier for someone who knows little about it because by experiencing that journey themselves they'll know where to put emphasis on while an anime fan might have long forgotten what it's like not to know the medium. It can be awesome. But that's clearly not what happened there.
@@Arkayjiya On one hand... yes, it is a very good idea on the premise of "demystifying it for the masses"(or anything similar to that).
On the other hand, the very same person is also prone to misrepresentation, as well as the spreading of false information due to misinformation.
@@Arkayjiya That makes no sense. A documentary is supposed to inform people about its subject matter, so you need to get as knowledgeable a person on said subject matter as possible. Getting someone who does not know anything about the medium will not help the viewers. One views a documentary to get informed about something, not to go into a "journey of discovery" with the director.
I think the worst thing is not that she knew nothing, but that she was appearently ignorant. There must be directors not knowing much about anime, with more enthusiasm and openness.
@@alexandresobreiramartins9461 "A documentary is supposed to inform people about its subject matter"
That's true, but here the subject matter does not have to be "anime" it can be "discovering the anime culture from an outsider perspective" which is pretty clearly the case here in which case someone with fresh experience in the subject matter would be "an outsider that just discovered anime by going through a thorough journey into it" and not "someone who's been an anime fan all of their lives".
"Getting someone who does not know anything about the medium will not help the viewers"
Yes it might and I've specifically explained why in my previous post. That's also the reason why someone who didn't know a subject but recently went through a journey to understand it better might be a better tutor in that specific subject than someone who mastered it completely in school 30 years ago and has been working in a related field ever since even though the second person is infinitely more knowledgeable about it. Because the first one can relate better and understand what problem or preconceptions a newcomer can have better than the more knowledgeable one.
Documentaries are made of two parts: a subject matter and an angle of approach. If it was only the first you would be correct, but it's not.
A documentary that makes even the anime pope cringe.
“Thanks, I hate it”
~Every anime fan in the world talking about Enter The Anime
I saw the title and thought it would be a good documentary on anime.
I was horrified by what I saw.
Keima Kuuhaku If only the anime pope himself would bless this comment by noticing it like Senpai
TNT Tim Oh don’t you worry my friend...I will make a support group for all who have been affected by this piece of shot documentary that trashes everything we love about the medium.
You can't learn anime u have to experience it
“ANimE is EDgY. “
You’re so right Netflix, art forms can only be one thing and can never branch out and be anything else.
That’s the equivalent of saying “all paintings are landscapes”.
All fiction novels are fantasy
All animation is for kids
@praise the omnissiah! LMAO
They're not?
Oooh, a documentary That insults the medium it’s trying to respect. This gonna be good.
*Implying that they actually tried*
@brandon roberts Evengalion redub is actually a good thing. Original dub was objectively awful and the only bad thing that came out of the redub/netflix licensing was the missing ending theme.
I'm simultaneously offended and amused lol
@@HoshiArt they definitely fucking didn't. It was literally the main fucking bitch just going "durrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr Idk what the Fuck I'm gonna do...... Huh........ Uhhhhhh ik.... I'm gonna sell out to Netflix and spend half the time shilling bad and going Idk what to do" she didn't fucking try. I couldn't get 15 minutes in.
@brandon roberts Eva redub was a great thing for the series. Most people complaining won't actually see it dubbed in the first place.
Geoff: "The editing in this documentary is horrible"
Me: Well, I'm not really an editor. Bet those are some nitpicks he has.
Geoff: *proceeds to show the interview footage*
Me: Oh god... I uh... huh!?
Olmo Moreno “Ah Yes, I remember when Final Cut Pro was new and everyone who made AMVs had to show off that they stopped using Movie Maker”
N-Nani?!
Yeah I saw commericals for this on my Netflix feed and all I could think was "Too Loud! Too much flashing! I don't like this!!! DX" I thought I was being a fussy but now I feel justified.
You don't need to be a 3 star chef to tell when a prime steak is just microwaved frozen beef
Instead of watching Enter the Anime, better take a look at the documentals of Archpiel channel.
Anime is so edgy. Does anyone else remember that episode of K-On where they shot up the school and killed everybody?
Tomivider LMAO
Yeah. Still pretty tame to that one episode of Tokyo Mew Mew, where Ichigo went Rambo on the entire orphanage, while shouting 'omae wo mou', and shooting anyone that didn't shout 'nani'.
Remember that time where everyone died in Wataten?
Oh, yeah. Who could forget that episode?
Or Kamichu! Where they shot up heroin and drank so much vodka they all blacked out.
I guess it's official now: Netflix is run by uncultured normies who don't understand that anime doesn't have to be "cool."
i mean you're not wrong, they give vip treatment to japanese customers because they wanna steal that sweet bandwidth from niconico
everyone else can get fucked and wait until it's complete and ONLY if it's popular enough to license
@@YaroLord I mean they eliminated mushi-shi from their catalogue , so it must have been very weird for them (its amazing how we have the same problem like 1000 years ago)
Yes. Netflix has turn into the new Vice
or *edgy* .
K-ON is the EDGIEST most VIOLENT THRILL of the year
i watched it two nights ago, i was so disappointed. they set up a premise of asking "what is anime?" and answered, "this is the anime on netflix, go watch".
also it's ironic that they spoke about the importance of music for neon genesis evangelion and then Netflix didn't even bother to get the rights to fly me to the moon.
Now they've got Ergo Proxy, and the ending is not Paranoid Android.
I got past Netflix sucking their own dick but had to stop when they got patronizing. "You like anime? You are so sophisticated and cool."
@Friendly yoyo Did not know that.
Right I was like ok cool... so you just want people to watch what’s on Netflix... and make it crazy cringe all of the same
Well Netflix always was E D G Y
Netflix does realise that being "edgy" isn't necessarily a good thing right? This Urban Dictionary definition pretty much sums up what I think when I hear the word "edgy":
"Something or someone trying too hard to be cool, almost to a point where it's cringe worthy."
Because people keep being stupid and mixing words like how "bitch" is a complement nowadays.
Lmao that edgey definition is accurate for netflix
I am sure they still think anime fans are just a bunch of adults weirdly using their disposable income to pretend they're teenagers
You can tell this one's bad when our mighty Anime Pope is more informative about the subject in a 17 minute video than whoever shat this 58 minute shoddy documentary.
Why didnt they let him make a docu, it would be a dream come true for his glorious highness.
@@jonsnor4313 he would probably make a better job explaining what anime is and why they should watch it on netflix instead of pirating it.
Which says a lot for the actual people they paid to do the same thing when they would've been able to get away with paying him less by also offering to sponsor some of his videos.
@@kutami2951 True, anf given the qualities of his already advertising videos, it would be at least fun in the worst case, or even great.
"Enter the Anime was a mistake".
- Miyazaki
So THAT was the full quote. I knew it. Miyazaki never hated anime. He was only trying to put us on guard against Netflix.
@@nacoto180 Miyazaki doesn't hate anime, what he hates is all the good storytelling and creative animation being replaced with just big tits on a girl.
Ah that’s what he meant.
Screw netflix. Besides like the 7 deadly sins their anime is garbage. Their botched death note film, their revisionist Evangelion that was basically a f you to spike spencer tiffany grant amanda winn lee alison keith etc. Plus nobody wants to watch an anime where its incomplete looking at you Naruto
Instead of watching Enter the Anime, better take a look at the documentals of Archpiel channel.
Was so irked by the editing in the documentary. Its almost like the editor was like "Ooo what does this button do?"
yeah it feels like the editor was like a middleschooler trying to put all power point animations in one presentation
"Dee Dee! Get out of my editing room!"
@@rayo146-x8x hey bow dexter would have done a more competent job let's be honest.
Netflix keeps shooting themselves in the foot
Because they don't know the people that consume anime. And they don't care.
But time to ask the real question
Do they shot themselves with a shotgun or a machine gun
They're doing that because shooting yourself in any way is *_E D G Y_*
Do they? Probably made good money.
What foot they've both been blown off long before this
This "documentary" feels like a non-anime watcher warning others not to watch anime.
This is just the anime version of the satanic panic
To be fair, if they're gonna be like this lady was.....they should stay away.
That's a good thing. Anime isn't all that normie friendly anyway
*laughs in valkyrie drive*
przem700, K Mocks: yeah, gatekeeping is TIGHT
Not the first time this has happened.
Anime is so edgy. Thank god our western media is so polite, peaceful and heartwarming.
oh wow that's actually VERY true lol
One could argue sexualizing 14 year olds is pretty edgy, and I don't see that too often in western media.
anime are the only ones willing to follow a little girl live her little girl life without anything happening or a bunch of pets doing the same thing.
the west can't go 2 secs without an explosion or a fart joke.
@@richardhawk7758 I'd say that's more creepy than edgy. Western media focuses a lot more on pointless violence and being vulgar which does sound pretty edgy
@@darkness-chan4861 Yeah, but when you break it down it's really only "edgy" for religious types or people under the age of 18 (or at an equivalent maturity level). Otherwise, it's just noise/distraction.
In a way the view this chick had of anime informs us of how Netflix treats anime. I feel like all the dopey, "cool" "edgy"-ness they're trying to use to make it "appeal to Westerners" is almost EXACTLY how I would describe all of their Live Action anime adaptations.
No wonder they suck.
it is why western adaptations of anything absolutely suck
I like the kind of anime Netflix streams. Its the kind of anime that got me hooked to the medium in the first place. I would never have touched anime for slice of life drama or comedies, I watched it for, yes, edgy stuff like Fist Of The North Star, Devilman, Akira or Urotsukidoji. And since most anime streaming services cater to younger audiences I appreciate Netflix' approach. That being said, the "documentary" is atrocious, I couldn't even finish it. And it's full of the cliches tv-stations and magazines used when they talked about anime in the 90s which is when I heard the great "more paper for manga than toilet paper"-story for the first time.
you know what it sounds like to me?
it sounds like capcom's approach to western audiences thanks to inafune in the late 2000's. you know, when they remade bionic commando to be edgy and turned dante into a methhead teen? it seems like people who run companies think that the reason westerners like japanese stuff is because it has blood and tits in it. it never seems to occur to them that we like it because it's foreign and exotic, and that quality trumps tone.
All of their live-action anime adaptations are from Japan. Netflix just licenses them.
Live-action anime adaptations always suck.
@@Otokogoroshi That's not necessarily true. The Jin-Roh live action adaptation is korean and quite good. I also liked the american Death Note film but I might be the only one.
Netflix:"anime is edgy"
Slice of Life:"am I a joke to you?"
Mista?
Slice of Life is the best
K-ON fans are just laughing at the sidelines
Dragon Maid: *has Kanna Kamui step forward*
Netflix: awww, look she is going to be edgy people.
Kanna: *Hugs Kobayashi and tells her she missed her*
Fans: *lose their minds to the kawaii family bonds*
Netflix: ..... YOUR NOT A REAL ANIME
Tohru: *cracks knuckles*
@@thomasallen9974
Considering it's Kanna, I'm pretty sure Saikawa would back up Tohru, not that she would be of much help. But, it's the thought that counts
Edgier than an anime fan on prom night.
In the case of me and my friends, we went to an anime convention instead of our senior prom. xD Best decision ever!
Oh god why’d you have to remind me of that game
@@BallinBubblegum may I ask what game
@@dragonmaster3030 Might number 9. The game that killed kickstarter
That was a commercial for THEIR "anime" it was sad. There was no love for anime whatsoever.
they triggered me good right off the bat by calling their castlevania show "anime"... then when they started shilling aggretsuko it was clear as water "this is gonna be an add for the shit they've invested in, isn't it?"
Ur right, it was a commercial for Netflix anime
Excatly it was just a ad for their own shows. It's just sad
I guess slice of life is nothing but deranged edgy shows only for the hardcore
No one has normal lives these days! What is this fantasy!?
Its your profile picture though
I mean, yeah, I guess you could call K-On fans pretty hardcore...
A quartet of ambuiguously gay girls doing cute things amusingly is the subversive content the steamy underbelly of our sick society demands!
Not just anyone can handle rock and teatime
I honestly think this review undersold how egregious the tone change from when the anime creators talked about how overworked they were to the narrator swooping in and changing the subject was. You have these creators pouring their heart out about a subject that many workers can easily relate to, then you cut to the narrator lady hanging out at a hedgehog cafe and moping about how "distant" anime creators are and how much she at the moment is struggling to find a purpose for this documentary despite being handed such compelling subject matter on a silver platter. After that, the idea of relating anime employees to other workers in other industries (which in turn could help explain why anime has the potential to be special to such a wide audience, as it truly is a field driven by passion and the love of the artform) is never brought up again, instead focusing on alienating anime as something only weirdos and outcasts can create (and of course, the "weirdos and outcasts" excuse can easily be used to dismiss all complaints about how poorly much of the anime industry treats its employees). It's just so tasteless.
I think she mentions that Netflix had "given" her this job. She never had the freedom to explore anything further. The narrative was decided from the start.
It's fun to read this in Phos' voice
Nope. Netflix has convinced me that you're "Weirdos".
@Anime Dumpster Fire Well anime fans are like comic fans or SW/Star Trek fans. There's a reason why being Otaku/watching anime will never be socially acceptable.
@@Kamyu03 considering the top rated television episodes of 2019 on IMDB is a two-way tie between a recent Attack on Titan episode and an episode of Chernobyl, I think it is way more of an accepted media than you think
Normies: ANIME IS FOR KIDS
Weebs: bruh, watch Attack on Titan, and Tokyo Ghoul then come back and tell me it's for kids
Normies: ANIME IS EDGY, PEOPLE WHO LIKES THEM ARE DERANGED PSYCHOPATHS
Lol, bravo!
Deranged psychopaths you say? Hmmm then anohana and slice of life dont exist?
Anime is a medium that has wonderful pieces of art in it but the only one that’s notice is studio gibli I wish this documentary explored more of anime’s well known classics in the community that are more unrecognizable to a non watcher so they realize the shits a medium and not a genre oh well
The normie has the weeb cornered here. What's next suggest Fairy Tail and get the perverted label? Just ask the normie what he does and doesn't like and then suggest an anime for them from there.
@@kappadarwin9476 please dont talk about fairy tail i just want to forget that thing existed
I like how during the whole "special" doesn't mention a hint of shounen/shonen anime at all. Or even toei, Ghibli etc. Disappointing.
It doesnt even dare approach the moe anime, which completely undoes the 'narrative' this 'documentary' has. I mean, nothing has as much internet clout like a moe loli. Particularly ones that inspire massive Dont Lewd the Loli campaigns.
@Thomas Soto IKR! how can you talk about animes history without mentioning the Akira and GITS that lichrally inspired iconic movies like the matrix, but also how animes like Astroboy changed western TV animation, like batman the animated series looked good because they saw how japan was animating at the time!!! THEY DID THAT
That's not true. They literally go to Toei Animation Studios, interview a big fan of Toei, and then interview the CEO.
As much as I think that this documentary could be better, misinformation doesn't slide.
Stuff like ghibli is already very popular and I'm sure there's stuff about it already. It would also be super expensive, I bet, to have them in a show. So would it be necessary???
Thomas Soto It’s because this special really doesn’t give a fuck about anime. It’s a bullshit attempt to get people to watch the anime only available on Netflix, specifically the ones for people who don’t have the attention span for slice of life stuff
“Anime is edgy”
You’ve never seen a single anime outside of what they advertise at Hot Topic, haven’t you?
*Ahh how cute, I too remember the first time I found transition effects on Windows movie maker*
Beck H
Is that your dog on your channel banner?
Sir Apple yeah, she was, but she died a while back, I have another white gsd now and a blue gsd
Beck H
And like that you’ve answered my second question.
"But it's always best to assume incompetence before malice and looking at the rest of this film, that does seem to be the more likely explanation."
Shots fired
It's Hanlon's razor
_"Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity."_
@@baitposter You know that BBQ sauce on mah titties meme? That's the noise I made while reading your comment.
"Anime is edgy" is the same as "cartoons are for children" in that it's a way to delegitimize taking any content seriously or being able to critique it.
i wonder if people said equivalent dismissals of film when it was a relatively new medium...
@@58209 why would that matter? animation is not a relatively new medium.
Netflix has been recommending Enter the Anime for me for a while now. I don't know why I've been wary of watching it, and now I know I don't need to. Sounds like utter crap. So thank you, you saved me a lot of trouble and cringing.
It might be worth watching it if you're curious about the people behind em but it's definitely something to watch in the background if anything judging by the editing.
@@throwawayemail6269 Granted, you would normally just listen to these kinds of things then watch them anyways.
I had it saved, nice to know I can remove it now
Hold up............ You love Anime....When where you going to tell us this?
Kc Link smh he’s finally revealed as a fucking weeb, disgusting.
When a great comment is held back by a grammar error 😕
@@4nimeJax Ow well, you will get over yourself.
Disgusting
Dislike!!!
@@kclink1579 *oh* well, you will learn to spell eventually
Anime isn't edgy. I have seen different animes with different themes: some are edgy, some are cute, some are NSFW, some are relaxing, some are badass, some are serious, some are funny, etc.
On one hand, you got Berserk, Monster, and Re: Zero. On the other, K-On, Lucky Star, Little Witch Academia, Chuunibyou, Konoauba, and FUCKING GINTAMA
...or all of the above! (case in point: High School of the Dead)
Basically anime is less of a genre and more of an artistic medium.
Dakuro chan bludgeon angel
@@KanishQQuotes I have bad memories from that anime.
to think I once praised Netflix for putting anime on it's platform and trying to spread some kind of awareness for it and now I'm like "please stop you've done enough NO MORE"
All anime fans, I’m sure, once thanked Netflix for that choice. Now, here we are.
It was like google buying youtube
Necessary evils
My mother watched it and send me a message about how now she understand "naruto" and that japanese people are sad..? ok netflix, great job.
Not edgy enough
The things your mother doesn't understand about Naruto could fill several encyclopedias.
To be fair, does anyone understand Naruto anymore?
90s: Anime? Those Japanese Cartoons? Whatever Nerd.
2019: If you're not into anime your life is over & you'll never be happy. Be sure to subscribe to Netflix for more info.
A wild Kenny-senpai appears.
@@hinikah_boi it’s actually me
youtube put a midroll ad right when the kid said “son of a bi-“
chris same here
I thought that was funny actucally XD
Filthy casual. His name is Ralph. He’s from A Christmas Story.
Don't forget your ovaltine!
Im pretty sure he did that on purpose
Me: Dude, i watched a new anime today, it´s so good.
Friend: Good or not is not the question. But how EDGY was?
If you can't cut yourself on it, it didn't have enough EDGE
Don't forget that anime is EDGY
@Fruit y pebbles as a guy who read all of tokyo ghoul, it's not that edgy.
mirai nikki still takes the cake for the edgiest manga and anime i've personally seen.
son back in mah day all we had was edgy
i remember when the scifi channel aired vampire hunter D... AND WE WERE HAPPY TO GET IT!!!
also that shit was edgy AF at the time lol
Like Reaper watching Tokyo Ghoul while listening to Godsmack.
I had a sarcastic comment but I'm editing it to say this:
If this is true " normal animator for Anime in Japan makes ¥200 per drawing. That's about $2 per page. That's the commission they get and they are not paid salary. The average number of pages an animator who is early on in their career can make in a day is about 20 pages. That's $40 a day.
That's while living in Japan, most likely near Tokyo, barely scraping by."
Then I think about the animators in Kyoto who died. And how sad and thankless their jobs and lives were. I feel so sad inside over this. On top of that I look at how much I pay for anime, services that stream it, merchandise, etc. and I feel crushed. I am so saddened that people who put their blood sweat and tears into their jobs are so pitifully compensated.
Well, I guess there’s some good news I can give you, though it might make you feel worse. What you described is the industry norm, but KyoAni was actually lauded as being an example of how animators should be treated. Fair pay, fair treatment, they were the studio that treated their animators the best. I like to think it really showed in the quality of their shows. The KyoAni jobs were far from thankless, even though most of the industry has that problem.
But they still were the victim of arson. Treated their employees right, made some of the best anime in the world, and that guy still lit the building on fire and killed them.
Ellierienna Yup. A great example of the anime industry actually being run ethically and passionately, and then so deeply affected by an undeserved act of violence.
Such a sad event to witness.
Kyoto Animation is one of the few studios that treated thier staff properly and gave then paid vacations and such. They have delayed shows to let everyone take breaks before. That's why it was so heartbreaking to me when it happened cause I couldn't understand why anyone would want them dead
"KyoAni was actually lauded as being an example of how animators should be treated. Fair pay, fair treatment, they were the studio that treated their animators the best."
Holy shit, maybe the arsonist was motivated or paid by bigwigs in the industry that want to keep all jobs shitty and low-paying?!?
@@tyrroo You seriously could have hit on something. Something always bothered me about WHY he burned the studio. Why does ANY human being decide to burn THEMSELVES along with the co called company that stole his work?? Waaaay overboard, it screams outside entities controlling an individual for their own malicious intentions.
"Anime is edgy"
*laughs in dragon-maid*
Edit: *laughs harder in Chuunibyou and wheezes in One Punch Man*
Second edit: *internal bleeding from laughing too much in Devil is a Part Timer*
Well Dragon maid is edgy in the fact that it implies pedophilia
Just put any moe show here lol, edgiest shit earth
*Laughs in Senko-san*
Laughs in childrens anime
Laughs in Slice of Life Anime.
Laughs in blend S op
This is what I have always feared as the anime industry takes its root in western media. While on one end, anime is popularized, which leads to widespread recognition of individual shows and their creators. This leads to the medium gaining much more support and traction to make new and amazing shows. Theoretically, this is the best outcome. However, when we look at the current stage of anime and manga, it seems that this public prevalence only has a negative impact. Rather than bringing optimism and harmless support, the increased vogue of the Japanese medium tends to induce a disrespect and a general misconception of the entire artform. Many believe that anime is simply---as you said---edgy, horny, tasteless, by capitalizing on a single controversial scene in an anime without truly grasping the depth and intricacies of the material. It is simply a shame that a corporation which heavily impacted the rise of anime in Western cultures doesn't even know what they're working with.
Why, there are so many anime criticizing topics that are there in society and need to be adressed, like shimoneta censorship, or aggaretsu showing the working conditions in the western world in general, ....
I find it so ironic it is labeled as edgy, tasteless , pointless, violent, quirky, weird, etc..
But isn't that what sells in the Western Market with shows like Game of Thrones, CSI/Cop shows, Hand Maiden's Tale, Black Mirror, etc?
I think it's gonna be a long before the West truly embraces and gets that Anime is a medium/art style like any other style of animation-- much more sophisticated, in its own right.
2004 > 2018
I will always say that.
If anime is edgy, well some snowflakes never heard about 1600 to pretty much 1960 literature. Wuthering Heights amongst the others.
In recent years every kind of artistic expression is becoming progressively duller and duller.
@@parsifal7300 Gattaka anyone? 😂
Funnily enough those stories always had political "message" but more as extension of the ideoleogies behind the story, so as a service to the story.
Comparing it to now where the story is at max serviceable to some kind of populace indoctrination program..
Basically anime is the new counter-culture phenomenon like rap now, Emo before it and rock before that.
When new popular subcultures begin to grow corporations and media try to get in on it at a surface level, creating gross misconceptions about it in their efforts to capitalize on it.
*Netflix:* "Anime and Manga Artists are like kings"
*Me:* looking back at the last 10 years as a Mangaka, where I learned to draw, struggled with customers and got barely paid... **cries**
"Anime and manga artists are like kings" specifically, Charles the first... in the late 1640s.
Enter the Anime?
More like
Enter Your Credit Card Information
underrated
@@Speykious At least someone appreciates my shitty joke
You could enter your credit card information and get conned, or, you could Enter the Wu-Tang 36 Chambers and bring da ruckus for free.
Didn't know you watched Jeff!
I watch a few anime youtubers
I've said it before and I'll say it again. Netflix gave me Devilman: Crybaby, and for that, I can't thank them enough. Having said that, even a broken clock is right twice a day.
@@oliviawoloshyn5824 Twas good. Despite it being Edgy, it had pretty good direction and the edginess was literally meant to be integral to the anime's overall message (which very simplified would be: IT'S OKAY TO BE A PUNK)
They also gave us a Death Note abomination. Not to mention, the ugliest looking 3D CGI animes I've ever seen.
Devilman crybaby is acid trip of the ending of evangelion but as a whole anime
Yeah no, i could never be high enough to think anything with those last few episodes could be good
Also Violet Evergarden
I'm willing to forgive Netflix due to how much I fucking love Aggretsuko.
Funny story: my dad has been trying to get into anime (since I'm into it) so he's been trying to educate himself on the classics as well as just... what anime IS. We stumbled upon this documentary, and since my dad LOVES docus, we thought, "hey, this might be a good place to start!" We watched 16 minutes, which felt like a freaking hour, constantly glancing at each other with that kinda "wtf?" look. Eventually he just said "are you enjoying this?" and I said "no" and we turned it off. And then watched Aggretsuko.
Easily the worst documentary I've ever seen. Awful.
@Kingdrago101 Ok.
hey I learned a lot watching this documentary, until now i had no idea netflix had invented anime.
Yeah, they did it on 2013
IKR? Here I thought anime has been around for decade. But, no I was wrong it was invented in 2013 XD
The documentary made me aware of how cool and sophisticated I am for watching anime
@@Dr.Spatula that means youre E D G Y
@@instanttregret 😂😂
I watched this recently with my mom 'cause it was recommended to us. I was so triggered by them glossing over Osamu Tezuka and giving the credit to Toei, my mom had to remind me that this was basically an advertisement for Netflix and not actually about Anime history. We had more fun watching the documentary after that. Counted every time the girl complained about not knowing what she was doing and wanting to quit. It's pretty enjoyable when you stop taking it seriously. Still terribly edited though.
Anime isn’t weird, it’s the Netflix adaptations that are weird. And calling anime edgy? *COUGH COUGH* Deathnote adaptation 😡😡
*cought* Saint Seiya Adaptation
I love the part where Light sees Ryuk for the first time in that and he's screaming like a little girl. Why did they think that was a good idea?
@@bgill7475 that was honestly the only redeeming part of the film if only because it was so laughably terrible.
To think I envisioned a rose color future full of animes with Netflix funding and Japanese productions after watching Devilman Crybaby. A man could be so naive.
@@kuyechao What's important to understand is that this "funding" mostly means that Netflix swooped in after the fact, bought the shows and promoted them as "exclusives". This "documentary" being the excrement that it is really doesn't surprise me considering that a lot of people at Netflix literally know nothing about these shows they are selling.
K On is way too freaking hardcore for you normies!!
Well, Mugi is able to lift the equivalent of a man-portable missle launchers as a teenager without issue.
Don’t say Edgy
Aceofacez10 Rilu Rilu Fairilu is too edgy for you _n o r m i e s_
@@aceofacez10 you're actually kreiji
Nice, but not edgy enough. Wait till you see Nichijou.
"9 percent liked this movie - google users" Perfectly balanced, as all things should be.
Hayden Man It’s nearly over 9%!!!!!!!
~Vegeta
Then statistically, 91% of them are weebs. 😈😏
I think this stems from a Western misinterpretation of anime as a genre instead of a medium. If it were treated as the medium for Japanese animation then you would see less of this insulting treatment. Anime covers everything from shows for small children (Anpanman for example) to hentai.
This. I was astonished to read the claim from somebody recently stating that it was a genre. A genre which covers everything, even more than Western entertainment does?
Netflix: Anime is *EDGY*
me, singing absent-mindedly: _to-to-ro, totoro_ 🎶💙😊🌸
Nice
I think the best 'documentary' I've watched on the true process of anime production was a special feature of the Spirited Away DVD when Ghibli Studios was in production for the movie. It was shocking to see how late they worked, how dedicated they were, and the kindness of the staff to make staff meals when they didn't have time to stop to even eat.
Yes! That little look at how the studio did everything was so awesome to watch. They poured their blood, sweat, and tears into it and it was a nice deep dive on it. Then we get this.
All that for an oscar.
Worth it.
Wasn't that studio the one who asked there artists if they had ever seen a dog and most had said no so they went out and got dogs so hey knew what they looked like and so they knew how to draw them? Just curious
"Anime is Edgy."
*Cough* Bojack Horseman, Rick and Morty *Cough*
And the Castlevania anime isn't even made by Japanese folks!
Season 3 of rick and morty is cringe edgy
*Enter the Anime:* I insulted the industry I swore to praise
For anyone interested in a good documentary series about Japanese content creators, go look at the UA-cam channel Archipel. It has a lot more passion and hard work put into those videos than this documentary.
This comments needs infinite upvotes.
So true
Can't wait to check it out! If anyone reading this is a fan of the monogatari series there's a ytube channel called Kaiki Subs that has quite a few translated interviews with the VA's where they talk about behind the scenes stuff. Nice lil peak behind the curtain from their perspective & some of them are really funny, too!
Subscribed to archipel quite a while, and yeah it's good documentary channel to learn a lot of thing
Manben is a excellent series about mangakas that you can find right on youtube :^)
Netflix: look how *edgy* anime is!!
Everyone else: anyone down for some good ol lucky star
What about Dragon Maid?
Nah
a silent voice and your name
Fruits basket
Gelatina_Royal my neighbor totoro
Thank god I wasn’t the only one who was upset they only interviewed the edgy creators and not the people who made animes like A Silent Voice, Mob Psycho 100, or Pop Team Epic
(The Aggretsuko part was great tho)
oh ye...
They specifically did not choose Kyoto animation because they are pro union.
I have no idea what that means but ok
@@camicactus1024 Unions are groups of workers who work together to further their worker's rights. Usually pretty cool people.
Netherin5 oh
oh ye
"Edgeiest Anime"
Slice of life/any other normal anime: am i a joke to you?
Edit: oml thanks for the likes yall.
You fool, slice of life is *the edgiest genre out there* only rivalled by romance elements in them!
Hamtaro was so edgy,I fainted from bloodlost.
And I’m not talking about like the Nosebleeds Boss gets from Bijou.
Everyone knows K-On is the original edgy anime
Aria the animation promotes violence, I guess 😔
Love live is so *edgy*
I started watching tge documentarie 2 minutes in when the lady said -"I became an otaku" I knew it was going to be BS and clicked out.
Glad to know l took the right desicion
"did you.know Japanese toilets are really weeeeeeeeeird??!"
The Simpsons opened our eyes to that over a decade ago and people are still drawing attention to it?
Also like europe has bidets too so.... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Not everyone watches the simpsons or seen that episode.
@@kappadarwin9476
you missed the point.
The "japanese toilets are weird" joke is DECADES old. That point has been around for a long time, it's very uncommon to hear of someone who didn't even hear of it.
@@juanmarailgun7783 In your opinion you doubt people haven't heard of it but not everyone has seen the Simpsons or saw that episode no matter how old it is. Just because you know about doesn't mean every one else will know too.
@@kappadarwin9476
I said it's NOT about The Simpsons!!
Yes, they made this joke, but they weren't the only ones to make the joke. A LOT of other movies and shows did it, in both a comedic and not so comedic way.
In AnimeNewsNetwork's interview with the director of the documentary (which is uh *quite* the read already), they refused to answer any questions relating to the topic of animators' wages/hours and more specifically why they chose not to address it.
“Anime is edgy.”
*Looks at A Silent Voice*
*Watches Lucky Star, Nichijou, Gintama, and Daily Lives of High School Boys*
allllllrighty....
*Looks up from Anohana and Usagi drop* say what now?
*watches every magi girl but madoka, kaleid liner and askua* aiiight
someone doesn't remember the dead animal photos.
Mario Salvatore it seems you find that edgy somehow
If only they replaced the word "Edgy" with "Ecchi" in this whole documentary. It would be both more accurate and more enjoyable.
What is edgy ?
More like both
"Shit ton of comic books" might have given me an actual hernia. How COULD you?
EDIT: Also I just realized that your UA-cam video is a better documentary than the actual one.
Alcaste the only term in English that manga that you buy in a store (not chapters in magazines) is “graphic novel”, but even then! It diminishes the entire manga industry!!!
@@mysillycomics I was mostly referring to the pun. They use more paper for manga than toilet paper? ~shit~ ton of comic books! Ugh. It's SO awful.
7:44 “Cruel Angel’s Thesis is THE anime meme song.”
Roundabout: Am I a joke to you?
roundabout only become a meme after 2012, cruel angel thesis exist long before that, do your math
@@LThanhHao232 Get out.
the band that wrote roundabout in the '60s who had never heard of Chinese cartoons: am i a joke to you?
Jojo is a huge meme to begin with
Where is the third song from?
I'm so happy that the day I decided that I should watch that documentary, my remote just happened to run out of power, and it just so happens that I don't have any spare batteries in my house, it seems like the anime gods are protecting me.
I've heard animators often work in poor conditions (overtime/underpay) but I had no idea they were paid that little. Bloody hell. $2 per hand drawn frame (even if it is just lineart) is super low!
meanwhile mediocre random artist wannabes on twitter charging 25 bucks for a sketch lmfao
Honestly would be so cool if they actually picked someone that knows what they're talking about...
@@YaroLord And, if they are good its worth getting a commission from them. People usually don't work in the anime industry for money its more for the passion.
@@YaroLord sure but that's cool too~
@@kappadarwin9476 Which is why the industry gets away with paying them so little and is comfortable working them to literal death. People WANTING to do a job doesn't justify exploiting them to, again, literal, actual death.
I used to work at an electronics' factory in Okazaki, back in 2016. The only requirement was to have a pair of hands, and my wage was almost 3 times bigger comparing to an anime animator. Not to mention, in the same comparison, I used to work 1/3 less hours per day. So yeah, the anime industry really needs to revise its concepts.
we need a new studio that... ACTUALLY PAYS ITS ANIMATORS.
I was actually excited for this documentary.
But, when I watched it, I was harshly disappointed.
Me too.
And it just put anime that is like that stile.
I miself unfortunately is the only way in my country that can have anime legaly, and thak to netflix i saw Violet Evergarden and im seing the Fate animes. I wanted to see it thinking it was like something serious but is garbage, exept the parts that show how these series were made.
tips hat sadly
I was GOING to make a "youtube rewind' joke, but I THINK this might actually be worse.
Bowen Orcutt cuz it’s ugly
"Anime is edgy!"
Me: Hold my Ouran High School Host Club
Honey was the edgiest man I've ever seen
It was too hardcore for this normal being, especially with that heavy metal opening "kiss kiss fall in love"
Nah nah nah hold my lucky stars
Kono suba!
Hold my Bunny girl senpai.
When the documentary said the word edgy i cringed out of my computer chair
You know shit’s real when the anime UA-camr breaks out any song from the berserk soundtrack.
"Anime is edgy"
Hey, anybody up for some good Konosuba and That Time I Got Reincarnated As a Slime?
Sign me up!!
The Edgiest of All Anime.
You call that edgy? Pfft.... I pull THE DORAEMON CARD!!!
@@deathglock496 NO WAY THAT'S HARDCORE
how about some hyouka as well?
0:40
Out of topic but it's been a while since I heard Last Resort by Papa Roach. Now that is a classic edgy anime ost that I like.
Same...XD
It's in the Hall of Fame of cringy AMV music, up there with Numb by Linkin Park and Bring Me to Life by Evanescence.
Just Some Guy without a Mustache I see you everywhereeee, what happened to “Just some guy with a mustache”? I haven’t seen him in a while
@@Stinkoman87 Dont forget "Just Like You" or...almost the entire discography of Three Days Grace xD
Roses on my grave is good too, i like the band for its fun grit.
Literally the first time I saw the documentary being advertised on Netflix telling me to watch it "I was like no I don't think i will"
Anime isn't all about being edgy! Anime is about being cool, sweet, cute, suspenseful, dramatic, fun, sexy, beautiful and heart warming. Anime can be all sorts of things!
Anime is about being what animation can be. And for that, its exactly what is aspires to be.
Anime is just animation
Weeb
Ah, the 90's are *BACK*!
Make Anime Niche Again!
*_SEXY_*
Austin Grider it is art
*Neflix* : Anime is EDGY!!!!
*Me watching Sailor Moon for the 1.2k time* : =^_^= anime is kawaii!
Me watching sweetness and lighting
Edgiest anime ever: Ao Haru Ride, Acchi Kocchi, Glitter Force/PreCure (an anime of Netflix's own lineup at that)
AYAYA
Me, reading Yotsuba: Oh fuck my dudes this really is the Berserk of slice of lifes!
Anime is edgy!
Me: laughs in Ouran
Sounds to me like you could get a better representation of the culture surrounding anime's production and consumption from Otaku no Video than this thing.
“Anime is SO edgy”
Me, having watched Cardcaptor Sakura earlier today: Damn right it is.
Annoying Chick: Anime is edgy as all hell!
Me: Should I watch Chuunibyou for a 4th time?
"Reality be rent. Synapse break. Banishment, this world!" 😂 LOL
The answer to your question my friend is YES.
@@thatanimeguyrido1513 you know, I still have like 6 other anime I need to start, but I guess I'll rewatch chuunibyou.
Chuuni gets my depression go fuck with itself
for a medium so "edgy", i sure did learn some valuable life lessons.
for example, if my adoptive brother steals my girlfriend's first kiss, kills my dog, tries poisoning my father, and turn into a vampire, it's perfectly fine to seek vengeance and kill him by using deep breathing.
Netflix takes 1 step forward, 20 steps back.
Some ideas for documentaries about anime:
-Its history.
-Its cultural impact.
-The cultural roots that made anime have the tropes and narratives that it has.
-The cultural exchange between Japan and the West due to anime.
-The Otaku culture.
-The working conditions in the anime industry.
-Anime and identity.
-Anime as an artistic movement.
-How has anime influenced our perception of Japan?
And many more. I mean there are a lot of questions you can make, lot of topics, lot of genres, etc, etc, to make a serious documentary about anime. But I guess they only wanted a big ad. Shame on them.
For everyone asking about the music:
The first song used is Gut's Theme from Berserk (1997)
The second song is Last Resort by Papa Roach
And the rest is from the Megalobox OST (aka one of the best anime OSTs ever)
Yes but what about the "meme" songs from the part where he talked about Cruel Angel's Thesis? I genuinely enjoy those songs but can never find the name haha.
@@The_Bearded_Lion Silhouette by Kana-Boon and Running in the 90s from Initial D
@@itschickenscratch Thanks! That explains why I didnt recognize it off the bat, Initial D is on my list of must watches, but I haven't had the chance to yet.
This is JIBUN WO erasure
To your question about better, more obscure anime documentaries... The best one I've ever seen is "Yasuo Otsuka's Joy of Motion". For those who don't know, Yasuo Otsuka was Takahata and Miyazaki's mentor, and one of the greatest, most highly respected old-school animators of all time, in Japan at least. The DVD of it was put out by Ghibli's live action distribution arm, and the Japanese-only release surprisingly has English susbtitles.
Another good old-ish doc is the one on the making of the Lensman theatrical film, which is interesting in part because that movie was on the bleeding edge of CGI at the time it was made in 1984 (just 2 years after Disney's original Tron film).
The epic, multi-part, many hours long doc on the making of the Kill la Kill series is pretty great too, as is the Miss Hokusai making of doc included with both the GKids (North America) and All The Anime (UK) Blu-ray releases of that movie.
I watched for 5 seconds until I realized they were only covering Netflix's anime.
I hate that
Well yeah, they aren't going to advertise Crunchyroll or Funimation. Besides, the more they talk about Violet Evergarden, You Lie In April, Castlevania, and Aggretsuko...the more people watch hopefully.
@@ENJ4321 They didn't talk about Violet Evergarden despite the amazing animation ): Also, I kinda wish they either made a clear informative documentary about how anime is made rather than an advertisement that didn't even say it was an advertisement until the very end.
@@Healeon truth, I wanted the same thing too. This was a terrible documentary, and the reason for it to even be made...was to be a commercial for the anime on Netflix. Simply, because Marvel and DC are leaving...so they are trying to drum up viewership to another huge fanbase. Anime fans/Otaku, are almost as big a fanbase.
*American portion of Netflix. Because Japanese Netflix is pretty different
Everytime the word edgy is said I am transported back in time to a place I'd very much like to forget.
Edit: now I'm very curious what yoko shimomura said regarding foreign fans, but on the other hand I dont want to sit through the documentary to get there
it's so bad I thought it was a final project of a community college student majoring in film studies.....
Also ppl need to realize that these shows are simply LICENSED by Netflix. Only a handful (ie. Castlevania) were actually produced by Netflix!
*10 slice of life shows per season.
- Yeaaaaah, anime is edgyyyyyyyyyyyyy
brandon roberts Cute is a way of life in Japan :)
Feelings are just so edgy.
It depends a lot of people in the west prefer battle shounen. Not many people in the west liked LoveLive
@@kappadarwin9476 Because many people in the west are uncultured swines!
@@kappadarwin9476 Really? Because I remember when anime first got *big* in the west, and two of the Holy Trio of shows every person even tagentally aware of anime loved were Pokemon and Sailor Moon. I thought shonen anime was popular now because the market is so saturated?
This makes canceling Netflix sting a little less. I may start a trial to binge season two of Aggretsuko. But then I'm out again.
Also, were the random Netflix logo items necessary? The attempt to make their placement subtle only made them stand out more. I can't explain why the Netflix pillow bothers me so much. It just does.
You could still just Pirate the shows Netflix has, right?
Just sayin' it's an option.
Wow. People using "edgy" as a positive adjective. Humans really ARE interesting...
Wait, she's trying to be positive?
@@CWINDOWSsystem32 yeah, it seems.
I saw the title card of "Enter the Anime" on my Netflix dashboard and got immediate bad vibes. Glad to see that my instincts are valid
Also, I wanna say, I’m a recent graduate with a degree in communication, film and video concentration, and I can tell you, whoever edited this documentary has absolutely no idea what the hell they were doing, and would’ve been given an automatic F for the whole class and told never to come to class again.
"Japanese use more paper to print manga then make toilet paper."
manga--> an artbook that can tell a good story, and express a form of art.
toilet paper --> one time use consumables that literally shit used
beside that, most toilet in Japan are washlet, which is more efficient to clean your ass and saving resource for making toilet paper.
At first i thought it'd be fun to look at the medium from the perspective of a outsider and newcomer, but about 10 minutes in i was already dreading it
TFW My favs animes are anywhere close to "edgy". Also ffs Japan PAY YOUR ANIMATORS
I watched about 15 minutes of "Enter the Anime" and I can say with certainty, that I want my 15 minutes back.
"Enter the Anime" is a dumb title also. "Enter the Dragon" as most of us know is a Bruce Lee's most famous Martial Arts movie made in Hong Kong, not Japan.
"What is anime?" A question easily answered if you watch an Ozamu Tezuka documentary instead.
"What is anime? If you're asking that, it's because you're an idiot. You probably also ask things like 'What am the sky?' and 'How does eat food?'"
@@GlassedGamer you so edgy
@@GlassedGamer You're not making any sense. You're answering the question from the perspective of someone who already knows. The purpose of a documentary is to inform those who are oblivious to the topic.
So you being stuck up is not helping. You're representing the percentage of "elitist-douchebags" that riddle the anime community. Please stop.
What is anime? A miserable little pile of secrets.
@@MegaManXPoweredUp but enough talk! Have at you!