My Favourite Chapters in 20th Century Boys
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- Опубліковано 18 вер 2024
- I made this video several years back but never published it until now due to some personal insecurities and dissatisfaction with the video.
But after watching a recently released 20th Century Boys fan animation, I was given a push by some friends to just go out and publish it. It's almost completely unaltered compared to how it was a few years back. Anyways, this video's a little rough but please bear with me. Sometimes, you have to fail faster to succeed sooner. I would appreciate any kind advice and tips on where I can improve upon to make future videos of mine better than this.
In the future, I want to make video essays on SciADV and maybe more of Urasawa's works.
Good work! Love that
My experience with Urasawa is limited but I think you really highlight some key difference between an antagonist like Johan and one like Friend. They both do horrible things, but Johan's traumatic backstory makes him sympathetic in some way. Fukube's makes him feel like Friend is throwing childish tantrum. And that's great, it makes his character fantastic and interesting. I never felt bad for him, but I grew to understand him. He's probably one of the most despicable antagonists I've ever seen in media. You totally get why he ended up like this, and Urasawa's fascination in how one event could scare a child for life. Excellent video!
As a disclaimer, I originally made this video during the pandemic and before they'd finished publishing the Perfect Edition of 20th and 21st Century Boys in English. So this video is based solely off of the original version of the manga, as opposed to the live-action adaptation or the Perfect Edition.
Wow, what an amazing video, i have never properly understood some chapters from 20th cb but this video made me understand them a bit more 😁
Dude, I love your style.
The one thing I recommend is some kinda background music.
That's all, I couldn't watch much since I didn't wanna spoil the series for myself, but yea, just a small suggestion. :)
Great video. Keep up the great work 👍🏾
Youve great potential
amazing video!
u brought up something i really glossed over and kinda found disappointing during my initial reading; the fact that we never saw the second friend's real face. i thought it was a cop out but the fact that hes far more frightening without one is something obvious but just never clicked with me lmao, even more interesting seeing urasawa himself bring it up way earlier. truly one of the greatest mangaka in history.
Technically we did see his face, only he had undergone surgical procedures to look like Fukubei, we just ever saw Katsumata's real face.
@@billl6636 yeah thats kinda what i meant by "real face"
though yeah, that being said, it never being truly revealed was a rather smart narrative choice in and of itself
I own a copy of the 8th volume of the perfect edition. I love this manga!
Hey awesome video dude 🎉
I read 20th century boys like 1 year ago . Im missing the foreshadowing and hints of friends reveal . I would be glad if you make a video on identity of friend ..
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Hey, new subscriber here! You seem pretty big on the original canon regarding the two seperate people behind the mask of "Friend." What is your opinion on the perfect edition version?
Hey hey! Thanks for the sub! That's an excellent question.
I recorded this video back during the heart of the pandemic and only just recently published it. At the time I made the video, the Perfect Edition hadn't completely released in English yet so I had no way of knowing about the differences in the ending. Honestly, it's an insane twist that makes me see both characters a fair bit differently. But, by and large, I do still prefer the original continuity. Although some might argue the Perfect Edition's ending is a bit more fitting thematically, I think the original ending is much more consistent with what Urasawa had set up.
If I were examining the Perfect Edition, I'd still keep most of my analysis largely the same though. These 6 chapters serve as an amazing set-up for Katsumata's character and tie in heavily to the series-wide facelessness motif. That's why it's my favourite part of the series! 😄
@@bassman.sharingan12341 interesting! One interpretation I'd like to share -which I do not know whether it is common or was ever the intention of that scene, but still- is that if Katsumata is Friend and Fukubei "died," perhaps the moment the noose slipped and he started choking was the moment of his death.
@@billl6636 Sorry for the incredibly late reply but that was indeed the intention of that scene. In the perfect edition (and even the 3rd live-action movie), Kenji explicitly states that Fukubei died in the classroom that day.
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