Another: The Best Horror Manga Of All Time? A Deep Dive.

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  • @Chicagocanine
    @Chicagocanine Рік тому +53

    The bird was in the anime, and it was a really interesting hint there too.
    I haven’t read the manga, but in the anime Mei and Koichi do spend some time dancing around the classroom acting goofy and trying to disrupt everyone when the class is trying to pretend they don’t exist.
    p.a. Heh, scapeghost. I like it.

    • @Radiohead_25
      @Radiohead_25 6 місяців тому +6

      koichi was just daydreaming that thing ig

    • @viectorthe13th29
      @viectorthe13th29 3 місяці тому

      i watched it high and alone at 3AM its not scary overhyped and the end just disappointed me if you really want to watch a horror anime watch shiki watched it not knowing its a horror it genuinely freaked me out

  • @stevie576
    @stevie576 2 роки тому +166

    The more i learn about Japanese culture the more glad i am that i can experience it from a large distance away

    • @saadbunni
      @saadbunni Рік тому +2

      R.i.p

    • @WeekndWarriorrr
      @WeekndWarriorrr 3 місяці тому +11

      You put into words exactly how I fell about Japanese culture. It's beautiful at a distance. In it's own way.

    • @RayneClouds
      @RayneClouds 27 днів тому +1

      Right!!! Same! 😭😮‍💨

  • @shkurka4828
    @shkurka4828 2 роки тому +58

    As a girl in high school I was bullied and became depressed, which caused me to get into a fight with my only friend (another girl that was bullied) and I ended up all alone for about a year. I remember just hanging out on my own during the recess and going to class only after the teacher did because otherwise I would be picked on. And even though the bullying I've been subjected to was just verbal, I still to this day haven't completely recovered from it. I grew up to be a socially awkward mess with depression and anxiety, I've let people that I thought were my friends or lovers walk all over me and abuse me just because I thought that was the treatment I deserved. In the end I was so sick of being mistreated by everyone that I became a complete shut in and isolated myself from the society. I'm 29 years old and only recently I've actually met people that genuinely love and respect me and it made me realize that I deserve respect just like any other human being.
    The story about the bullied girl in the Japanese school almost brought me to tears. Nobody should be "the kidney". It's so fucked up on many different levels, first of all that teacher is an asshole (and I hope she goes to hell where she gets bullied forever (just kidding)). Emotions aside, nobody should talk this way about a child, this is objectification and child abuse!! Children are not here to serve anyone's needs, they're here to grow into a wonderful person that could make themselves and people around them happy. Nobody should be brought into this godforsaken planet just to be a "kidney". I bet that teacher also thinks about herself as an object, sad reality of a society that objectifies its own members, it's sad and scary. And it doesn't happen in Japan only, it happens all around the world, but with different twists and flavors to it.
    I'm really glad that there are people that are willing to speak up about the issue of bullying and horrors of being just a cog in the machine.

    • @followthewhiterabbit884
      @followthewhiterabbit884 2 роки тому +7

      When I was a kid I was sure adults are useless and without compassion, because I got never the help I needed. I was so afraid to become such an adult. I just couldn't understand them and I can't understand the adults from my childhood now. I can't understand why they ignored the problem. I am 30 now and I would never behave in such an ignorant manner. It's their job to help and defend this children. Not just their job, it's their duty. I can't see children cry or suffer, because I think every time about my own sad childhood.

    • @ExoSquadOffical
      @ExoSquadOffical Рік тому +6

      This comment was as thought provoking and insightful as the video itself. Thank you for sharing that. Glad you’re doing well

    • @AA-ed6ek
      @AA-ed6ek 11 місяців тому +2

      You don't realize it until you become an adult but bullying damages you for life.

    • @DominusNox106
      @DominusNox106 3 місяці тому +1

      I went another way, but I was born in 1971.
      I was a poor kid born to a beautiful idiot and a drug and alcohol addicted criminal. My life was VERY HARD... and my abuse was not only verbal. There was a lot more.
      My bullies eventually met the product of my family by pushing me, quite literally, into a corner. They would NOT allow me to run away, so I attacked.
      This experience gave me a reputation for being crazy and the bullies eventually gave up. They didn't bully anyone around me either.
      I used those years to grow and I eventually joined the US Army and found a focus for my anger.
      I ended with a paycheck for life, as did my wife who was herself a bullying and abuse victim. We met in the Army in 2007. We've been together and best friends ever since.
      I am happy in a way I never hoped to be.
      Keep going, you can find a way too.

    • @Topdoggie7
      @Topdoggie7 3 місяці тому +1

      This reminded me kids are made to organ donor to their sick siblings and I hate remembering that.

  • @KingTalion
    @KingTalion 5 місяців тому +13

    It was SO jarring hearing FrightRanker mention Mrs Van De Merwe as there was a teacher at my school in South Africa by that name who retired while I was still young but who lived beside my grandparents and she was most definitely NOT the kind of teacher you would be drooling over

  • @babynautilus
    @babynautilus 2 роки тому +24

    that insight into school culture in jp was fascinating, i cant imagine the kind of nightmares that experience leaves people with

    • @frightranker
      @frightranker  2 роки тому +3

      What'll often happen is that they become a petty tyrant at work later in life. Yeah, it's sad.

    • @WeekndWarriorrr
      @WeekndWarriorrr 3 місяці тому +1

      ​@@frightrankerSimliar to police in America. So many are just kids that were bullied when they were young and feel the need to have power over people. Childhood trauma, of any kind, often creates a cycle of trauma that gets passed down person to person. Im sure you know that though. It's just sad.

    • @tablescissors
      @tablescissors 3 місяці тому

      The way people go OT and get on their own soapboxes is as fascinating as it is alarming, but there is no pattern of bullied kids becoming police officers except in WeekndWarriorrr’s mind perhaps. It’s equally silly to think if there were truth to it that it would only be in America. Bullies become nurses too. There isn’t a singular realm.
      Plenty of people also do break cycles of trauma. I don’t blame my family - you see it in school, at work, on the internet…there are tons of opportunities every day for folks not to “pass on trauma”, to extend genuine kindness (not strictly virtue signaling), yet bullying and trauma dumping remain common habits.
      I think we may wish to consult personality disorders, or Cluster B specifically (where forms of narcissists lay), for the ones that seem to span generations.

  • @W4rgle
    @W4rgle 2 роки тому +19

    After listening for a bit: I actually really enjoy hearing about your insights from your time in Japan! Keep on doing you, Owl.

  • @ThisismineIguess
    @ThisismineIguess 2 роки тому +13

    For me, it's BLAME!. It resonates with a specific way of thinking that haunted me as a child and was so pervasive I had nightmare variations of it repeatedly forever.
    It's science fiction first(that it has horror seems more a product of what it is rather than the hard aim of it) but damn... all the talking, plot progression and scary monsters in the world will never haunt me like those dreams or like BLAME!'s setting will.

    • @junrobin9335
      @junrobin9335 2 місяці тому

      You would have been an outcast and definitely kicked out maybe even go to juvie cause their culture is all about confirmity and not causing trouble for others. If you beat someone up it's a public disturbance, even just yelling could get you in trouble. They blame both people involved regardless if you wanted a scene or not. At least that's what I learned in some articles on severe bullying cases.
      It's the same way it's a taboo to go see a therapist for mental health disorders.

  • @moongod5013
    @moongod5013 3 місяці тому +9

    “What an odd little duck… Anyway” said every horror manga protagonist ever 😂

  • @stevenguitink5947
    @stevenguitink5947 3 місяці тому +7

    - Criticizes Japan despite having lived experience in the country.
    - Gets dogpiled in comments by terminally online people with no lived experience.
    Yeah I know that feeling and I've only ever posted comments.
    So many people in online spaces are so fragile.

    • @frightranker
      @frightranker  3 місяці тому

      I didn't get dogpiled to my mind, outside of my admittedly bad video on Bleach :)

    • @stevenguitink5947
      @stevenguitink5947 3 місяці тому

      @@frightranker Probably bad wording on my part. More the idea that online people associate any sort of criticism - even if you love the thing you're criticizing - with abuse or hate.

  • @justinwebber9968
    @justinwebber9968 3 місяці тому +3

    I always hated bullies. By the time I was fourteen, I was already 6,1", and I often found myself getting into fights with bullies to protect others. I just can't believe that even teachers endorse cruelty. If I had moved to Japan, I would have had a lot of fun standing up to bullies there, or maybe I would have ended up getting kicked out.

  • @TheKrazeeLadee
    @TheKrazeeLadee 2 роки тому +5

    Yeeeeessss been waiting for this one for a while, but totally worth the wait!
    I watched the anime before reading the manga and you pretty much nailed the pros and cons of both compared to one another (heh). But the story resonated with me, as someone who was ostracised in primary school, myself. So I could definitely see the social commentary in that since it was a bit too close to home at times. It's saddening that this is considered 'normal' in Japan. It genuinely feels like you died a long time ago, yet are still wandering around a plane of existence you're not supposed to be in anymore, and no one would notice if you would one day just disappear. I admired Mei's character for not falling too deep into that psychological pit of despair. It's... one heck of a climb out of there. 😅

  • @SilveryBlue1010
    @SilveryBlue1010 2 роки тому +10

    The most remembered scene in the anime for me was the umbrella scene, maybe because it was the first death 😆

    • @TOM_NIX
      @TOM_NIX 2 роки тому +1

      nah, it was just very brutal and unusual, that's why

    • @SilveryBlue1010
      @SilveryBlue1010 2 роки тому +2

      Brutal? That was kinda silly to me, the scene that leading to the way the tip of the umbrella piercing her neck was on the Final Destination level lol

    • @4niasomnia573
      @4niasomnia573 2 місяці тому

      Idk the boat scene was a bit more ridiculous 🤣

  • @offdutyenglishmajor9924
    @offdutyenglishmajor9924 2 роки тому +2

    Oh man, I wish I got to this sooner. It's always good to hear your voice in your videos, Mr. The Owl.

  • @lam_lian
    @lam_lian 3 місяці тому +1

    What an absolutely amazing voice for narration. I learned the owl from the made in abyss vids but getting that voice to narrate Another is gold. Thank you for this glorious food 🙏👌

    • @frightranker
      @frightranker  3 місяці тому +1

      Thanks, but this is one of my terrible old videos XD. Please go watch A Lollipop or a Bullet, my Uzumaki series, Gantz or Animal Human - really proud of those!

  • @hmurdock
    @hmurdock 2 роки тому +11

    For me the best horror Manga is "Blood on the Tracks" AKA "Trail of Blood". Because there's nothing supernatural in it, its about a 12 year old boy and his mother who is obviously not mentally there, and does something horrible.
    The way the drawings make you feel trapped with this boy, the facial expressions which are so realistic- someone faking a smile, in a psychotic frenzy, in love, and every other emotion, make you feel and believe everything you see.
    The horror this boy lives through, and continues to live with, is heartbreaking and horrifying.
    Its really the most stressful thing I have read.

    • @frightranker
      @frightranker  2 роки тому

      Yeah, that's the sort of horror that I find...not fun.

    • @hmurdock
      @hmurdock 2 роки тому +2

      @@frightranker Yes, you could say its not fun, but it fascinates me. Like watching real detectives interview real murderers, like in the JCS channel (R.I.P). Makes me sick sometimes, but still fascinating.

    • @toastedsquid
      @toastedsquid 10 місяців тому

      @@hmurdockdont know if you still reading but it just gets so much worse and i love it

    • @hmurdock
      @hmurdock 10 місяців тому

      I finished it last week actually. Sort of a good ending? I don't know@@toastedsquid

  • @wadejohnston4305
    @wadejohnston4305 Рік тому +3

    Someone needs to make an edit of the anime whenever one of the students die a sound byte of dj Khaled plays and goes "ANOTHA ONE"

  • @followthewhiterabbit884
    @followthewhiterabbit884 2 роки тому +5

    I thought my whole life the white Border is just a trick to make the important things more visible. This "Photograph tracing technique" is really pretty. I don't know why it is frowned upon.

    • @HappyBeezerStudios
      @HappyBeezerStudios 5 місяців тому +1

      Some probably think it's not really drawn art and just a manipulated photo.
      I see it as a way to add incredibly detailed and realistic backdrops, even if you're not the one-in-a-thousand artist who can draw them.
      The important part is to make them fit into the design.
      It's a bit like filming on greenscreen. It needs work to feel right. The right lighting, the right scale. And you recognize bad greenscreen.

  • @Techniquess
    @Techniquess 2 роки тому +3

    That was a good one! The insights from your time in Japan, as others said, was very interesting. Probably a series I wouldn't have batted an eye at otherwise

  • @ajaxrao6042
    @ajaxrao6042 3 місяці тому +1

    The photograph-background technique to use on background environment was used alot in my country's comic, most related to background environment of the real world.
    Even as a kid, i slowly realised that the somewhat detail black and white environment of the KLCC twin tower is not drawn but photo edited. Not saying its a bad thing, rather is interesting to utilizing this technique if your kinda shit at drawing detailed environment of the real world.

  • @keip4568
    @keip4568 2 роки тому +3

    Kinda wished you added that dancing montage scene from the anime with the sound...lol...

    • @frightranker
      @frightranker  2 роки тому +1

      Haha, I might throw that in with part 2.

  • @hinata-chanhyuuga3842
    @hinata-chanhyuuga3842 9 місяців тому +3

    I just got the manga today,didn't tell my dad that it's a horror manga,so far I'm liking the story.

  • @MuertaNox
    @MuertaNox 2 роки тому +4

    I'll be honest, Ghost Hunt is one of my favorite horror manga of all time for the blend of mysticism and science, so to hear that the same author is involved in Another helps explain a lot about how the story unfolds... except for the number of ultimately forgettable characters, which is not something Ghost Hunt suffers from. Another fails a rather basic thing that horror needs to do: it fails at making me give a shit about the characters before they die, so the death has weight to it.
    Okay, to be fair, some subgenres of horror do NOT need us to give a shit about the soon-to-be-dead characters because we're here for the spectacle. But in a mystery driven horror, that lack is felt keenly. These seem less like people and more like numbers on a timer, counting down.

  • @evanowensby8895
    @evanowensby8895 Рік тому +2

    Wow, this was amazing. Being an American I thought we had the worst bullies but I'm really starting to doubt that now.
    What a sad way to force "wa" into the only real time where kids have the one and only chance where they can be kids

    • @frightranker
      @frightranker  Рік тому +1

      Glad you enjoyed it! I also did a long series on Corpse Party and a few other things.

    • @evanowensby8895
      @evanowensby8895 Рік тому

      @@frightranker Absolutely, I'm excited to check your channel out! It's awesome finding a channel that tells more about j-horror other than junji ito. I'm really new to anime and manga but am a huge horror buff so it's cool to find more content than just junji lol.
      I was recently given a manga called tsumi to kai from a friend and read the whole series in about a week
      Thanks for making great content!

    • @frightranker
      @frightranker  Рік тому +1

      @@evanowensby8895 If you don't mind jumpscares (I...may have gone too far in a few places) my PTSD Radio series should be right up your alley, especially the 'this really happened' segment at the end.

  • @GirlthatsBilly
    @GirlthatsBilly 2 роки тому +1

    That Made in abyss: BSFD ost is a Banger!!!!!

    • @frightranker
      @frightranker  2 роки тому +1

      Yeah getting good use out of it :)

  • @Dekkiidekkii
    @Dekkiidekkii 3 місяці тому +1

    Higurashi is my favourite visual novel ever, and it was a truly life-changing experience. I always thought that the anime and manga are severly and utterly lacking in atmosphere and pacing compared to the visual novel and felt like they didn't capture almost anything of the amazing feel of the original work, so it's so strange to hear someone praise the manga so often. I guess it really did capture some of the glory then. XD

    • @frightranker
      @frightranker  3 місяці тому

      I love it to bits but I've...never actually played the VN (simply do not have time). I will be doing a huge series on the manga later this year and hopefully I can explain why I love it so much.

    • @Dekkiidekkii
      @Dekkiidekkii 3 місяці тому

      If I recall correctly, the manga follows the story quite faithfully, but the visual novel simply gives more time and inner monologue for those moments to really sink in and brew. The pacing in the novel is simply phenomenal. But, I can understand that the manga could compete with visual representation of those memorable moments.
      But, no matter which format of that story we are talking about, I am very ecstatic to know that Higurashi has impressed someone else with its genius as deeply as it has me.

  • @erff4361
    @erff4361 2 роки тому +1

    Didn't watch this video earlier because I was reading a webtoon and doing stuff in the eyrie
    But then again listening to it right before I go to bed on Halloween night dosent sound too bad

  • @Schussel-ik8ro
    @Schussel-ik8ro 2 місяці тому +1

    The 'Hallo' right at the start made me think I accidentally clicked on a german video for a sec xD

  • @shemasmcguire3999
    @shemasmcguire3999 3 місяці тому +1

    14:20 the bird was in the anime and it's how i solved it when things pop off

  • @yunogasai1338
    @yunogasai1338 2 роки тому +1

    I'm still a bit annoyed that the English release of the anime doesn't have the ova prequel. The manga and anime are great fun! I'm hoping to get the novels soon especially since the sequel is being released in English soon.

  • @denkokoro
    @denkokoro 2 роки тому +2

    👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
    Now THIS will help me wait for more "Kids Swan Dive into a Nietzsche Quote."

  • @comd.shepard
    @comd.shepard 2 роки тому +1

    Another masterpiece by owl, pun intended 😂

  • @Brecondo
    @Brecondo 2 роки тому +1

    33 has lots of occult symbolism as far as I remember.

  • @Telefiend
    @Telefiend 8 місяців тому +1

    It's my personal favorite anime. I love Another

  • @shemasmcguire3999
    @shemasmcguire3999 3 місяці тому +1

    13:14 what was that about the geography teacher😂

  • @W4rgle
    @W4rgle 2 роки тому +1

    Owl solidarity post!

  • @snicksandstones
    @snicksandstones Рік тому +1

    Hey what's that music at the beginning? It sounds really familiar and I really like it but I can't put my finger on where I heard it before

    • @frightranker
      @frightranker  Рік тому +1

      It's a very old 8bit version of Don't Fear the Reaper.

    • @snicksandstones
      @snicksandstones Рік тому +1

      @@frightranker that makes sense, I was listening to that song a bunch some months ago! Thank you

  • @midnightshy
    @midnightshy 3 місяці тому +1

    He did not just disrespect Ghost Hunt.

  • @DippedInInk
    @DippedInInk Рік тому +1

    Great content.

  • @lorivaldez4839
    @lorivaldez4839 2 роки тому +1

    I should give the manga a shot!🎉

    • @frightranker
      @frightranker  2 роки тому +1

      It's very good, and very different to the anime.

    • @lorivaldez4839
      @lorivaldez4839 2 роки тому

      @@frightranker
      Gotcha! I’ll give it a read because I love the manga art style & I’m a sucker for scary stuff, so thank you for the recommendation my good man!

  • @TheBee1470
    @TheBee1470 2 місяці тому +1

    Does anyone know the music used in the background at 36:40 ?

    • @frightranker
      @frightranker  2 місяці тому +1

      It's off the Made in Abyss: Binary Star Falling Into Darkness OST, I think layer 2.

    • @TheBee1470
      @TheBee1470 2 місяці тому

      @@frightranker Thank you! And I love your deep dive videos!

  • @wadejohnston4305
    @wadejohnston4305 Рік тому

    Almost 4k! Up up and aWAAAAYYYYYYY

  • @Myth1cPhantom
    @Myth1cPhantom 2 роки тому +2

    YOO LETS GO!

  • @Kuweiyo
    @Kuweiyo 3 місяці тому +1

    Did they try not placing any students in that class each year?

    • @frightranker
      @frightranker  3 місяці тому

      Haha probably not, for the sake of the story.

  • @TheBrew3
    @TheBrew3 2 роки тому +1

    Read all of another in a night so I could watch this video lol.

  • @toastedsquid
    @toastedsquid 10 місяців тому

    they released a third novel and called another 2001 you should read it so good

  • @erff4361
    @erff4361 2 роки тому +1

    20:42 that's some GTO 💩 right there

    • @erff4361
      @erff4361 2 роки тому

      25:35
      Even more like GTO

  • @ndaydudefinal7544
    @ndaydudefinal7544 2 роки тому +2

    Damn, made it early yay

  • @drubear4
    @drubear4 2 роки тому +2

    Yayyyy!! FIRST VIEW! MY LIFES COMPLETE!

  • @andrescalderonsanchez6515
    @andrescalderonsanchez6515 Рік тому +1

    Should I say that it's the computer 🖥 teacher's lost and you have mrs.owl now or did I even need to leave this comment

  • @shemasmcguire3999
    @shemasmcguire3999 3 місяці тому +2

    Higarashi deep dive?

    • @frightranker
      @frightranker  3 місяці тому

      It's coming.

    • @shemasmcguire3999
      @shemasmcguire3999 3 місяці тому +1

      @frightranker yea, my bad. i binged your stuff directly after subscribing and couldn't think of something else to comment about, but I wanted to do something for the algorithm as I feel you are criminally under rated might delete any other I've made to that regard because I hate pestering content creators

    • @frightranker
      @frightranker  3 місяці тому

      @@shemasmcguire3999 Haha no, no worries mate.

    • @shemasmcguire3999
      @shemasmcguire3999 3 місяці тому

      @@frightranker thanks

  • @kendrickvercher2847
    @kendrickvercher2847 2 місяці тому

    The title should have been another the other best manga

  • @Brecondo
    @Brecondo 2 роки тому +2

    For once I'm the first MF here and not days late 🎃

  • @turtleanton6539
    @turtleanton6539 2 роки тому

    Interesting

  • @k_toiletpaper9238
    @k_toiletpaper9238 2 роки тому +2

    Comment for the algorithm

  • @andrescalderonsanchez6515
    @andrescalderonsanchez6515 2 роки тому +1

    Sadly second view 😞 and i though you where tricking us with another and doing shiki

  • @Yoko.Kurama
    @Yoko.Kurama Рік тому

    Do you have any other horror recommendations? Please no Junji Ito

    • @frightranker
      @frightranker  Рік тому +1

      Higurashi is probably the best. I Am A Hero is great. Hideout and Manhole are a lot of fun. Jinmen is howlingly crazy.

  • @ovenaroundhead2881
    @ovenaroundhead2881 3 місяці тому +1

    Bro I said “oh no” the moment I hear you say “Kobe Child murder”
    For anyone that wants context, I’m not giving it but I’ll at least say it is a really gruesome case that haunted Japan and even changed the minimum age for getting sentenced.

  • @Amaltraz
    @Amaltraz 2 місяці тому +1

    Weird freaking japee culture

  • @JanPronczuk
    @JanPronczuk Рік тому

    you meen kaki bara or Kapibara