getting jumpscared by my own song deep into a hyperfixation listen is intensely funny. this is a super good video essay and i'm glad i got to hear ur thoughts on it all :)
Holy moley, this is crazy! I’ve love your music and have been listening for years now. Thank you for making awesome music, I’ve been using your stuff in videos since I can remember so it’s safe to say this channel wouldn’t be the same without you. I’m glad you enjoyed the video, it means a lot.
@@LoungeAct_ ;; THIS IS INCREDIBLY SWEET THANK U WHAT.,.it rly means a lot to me that i was able to inspire more cool art, thats all i can hope for truly ;~;
i think yozo ran away from yoshiko when she was assaulted because he realised that she could no longer have an innocent view of the world, and he realised that his heart could not be moved by seeing his own wife suffering.
Or it reminded him of his own sexual molestation as a child he ran in abject horror. People miss the point in all of this He's actually too Human, he feels too much.
If you read the original novel (not by junji ito) this story goes more deeper than you think. i recommends you to read the original one. You can watch wendigoon's video.
@@Shugg-Goff-HHofficalI don't think you realize just how much it means that you said this, thank you. I say this with 100% sincerity I'm not being sarcastic I genuinely appreciate that someone said this
Depends on the culture regardless of the understanding. Japan's societal norms r still very traditional. He would've been more likely to get help nowadays, but it's still a slim margin. Japan has an immense suicide rate, and the culture has a different relationship with the idea of suicide and mental health that we do. Depending who u ask, it's more or less taboo
The advancement I see for this is only the term, I relate a lot to this story and I had never known what Junji Ito was about until this vid. I have something called schizoid personality disorder, very similar to what is described here and what Yozo feels, but even after that, there seems to be no cure, at least no tratment that works truly, I don't think I'll ever get to experience what a normal person feels, the things I do i just do them because I have to, I don't derive any joy from anything and nothing seems genuine to me. You can look it up if you want, this is something very different from depression even if it initially sounds similar.
This looks extremely well thought out! I read No Longer Human (the book) a couple of years ago and ended up completely misinterpreting it but I read it again recently and it was crazy to me how much went right over my head on my first read. This video summed up exactly how I feel about the story now, great work!
I think why yozo ran away from his wife getting assaulted is that he couldn’t handle seeing the one person that made him "human", and who he himself( probably) considered very "human", still get violated and hurt. Yozo never understood being "human", and idolized it. He felt that being "human" was the only way he wouldnt have to be scared of other people, so to see another person who is very "human" get assaulted, then whats the point? Whats the point in trying to be "human" if it doesnt make you immune to anything.
He was assaulted as a child, up to that point he’s had continuous reinforcement that he is powerless. He ran because he didn’t know what else to do, he didn’t know another strategy, didn’t think he could save her, because it was already done. He knew what this would do to her, like it did to him. He knew there was nothing he could do, and that his one light was snuffed out.
Yozo was human. He was just a coward and a people pleaser who sacrificed his own individualism for the sake of everyone around him.. no wonder he was so drawn to an expressive medium
It seems that way on the surface, but I don't think he sacrificed to truly please others. I think he did it to spare himself the discomfort of being in conflict with others. Except conflicts are unavoidable, and the more he avoided them, the more horrible they become.
One thing I find rather ironic is how Yozo considers himself to not be human cause of how humans seemingly do some downright horrible things for practically no reason. However, simultaneously, throughout the book, he ends up doing the exact same thing, by abandoning so many ppl around him and practically using them for his own gain. So in a weird sense, I think due to this notion, Yozu became human by the time the book ends, for he became the very thing he feared without even putting up an act.
He reasoned that because they are horrible, they are less than him, and that allowed him to act in horrible ways. He didn’t realize that by treating humans as less than him, he had become less than human.
Ironically, he acted extremely human throughout this whole thing. A very selfish one, but a human all the same. The 'not being human' is, i think, a way for him to excuse his fear and lack of understanding of others. Its a lot easier to run away from others than face your own poor culpability. Everything went over here, is something that happens all the time in the world by all kinds of people. Its heartbreaking. I say this as someone who has extreme agoraphobia, im disabled, and i am on the spectrum. Im incredibly fearful of others, and ive had to really, really work to try and conquer that fear. Mental health is so... important. Access to help with mental illnesses is also important, more than i think folks want to realize. Though i think things are better now than they were, theres still so much more work to do.
I totally agree. I was thinking this is aswell, that him being sensitive and having an understanding of society and the world is what makes him more "human" then most people. Maybe the reason why he never felt "human" is because people around him weren't "human" enough
@@AStrangePersonOnlinewhat does it even mean to be human yall say as it's something special or divine when really it's just another silly artificial construct that yall praise to make yourselves feel more superior than the next species. However he sees it or you it doesn't matter I say to be able to understand this or humans makes you beyond human or any other silly limitation man created.
I wouldn't describe allowing an incestuous relationship between 2 family members, which resulted in one of them murdering the other, and the other carrying an incest baby reincarnation of someone that recently offed themselves directly due to your actions, very "human"-like, lol.
i was 7 minutes in and i said out loud “i think hes autistic.” (im autistic) i dislike that i felt similar as a kid. i no longer think so now but as a child i was outcasted and escaped through constant (and i mean CONSTANT) reading and daydreaming instead of interacting or going outside. im glad i have grown out of that and treat myself as a person again.
ive noticed people who have an autistic kid or are autistic, see it everywhere. i think it really is that it is a spectrum, everybody falls on it, where one is considered "autistic" or not is entirely pointless
@@filthforce I see your point but no, not "everybody falls on it". Whether or not you constantly experience profound isolation from the rest of the human race is very much significant.
so glad we’re all on the same page here. it really is an isolation unlike being alone. being alone in body is one thing and being alone in emotional aspects is a whole other. it makes you feel so alien- literally.
This has parallels to Borderline personality Disorder and extreme PTSD. Edit: This is definitely a very human expirence but the main character is so self centered due to his phobia making him so that he fails to see how is is as deceptive as the humans around him. The true horror is that this is something many people with undiagnosed mental illness will endure and even in modern times there are people so traumatized they lack any sense of connection to others. It's tragic. Not to make myself sound like a victim but I also had this mind set due to PSTD. I'm not yet over it nor do I have the money to afford consistent care but art also helped restore my humanity. Thanks for reading this and talking about it. You have earned a sub and no worries about the audio repeats mistakes are what makes us human after all.
Interesting. To me, I saw parallels to autism, and how it can make it hard to relate to other people and therefore make you feel like you may not be human and the fears and phobias that can come from that and how it can affect a person. That just may be me reflecting my own experiences though!
I have PTSD, and I agree. There's actually a lot of overlap in symptoms of ADHD, PTSD, and ASD. So I get why people with autism also relate to Yōzo. I sadly relate to him, too. Having to wear a mask. Acting silly to be likeable. Being SAd. Pulling away in adulthood. Struggling with...with Self Crit. Even now, I have a hard time connecting with others. I feel so alone. But I'm horrified by anyone in the comments saying "he's just like me". Yōzo is a sociopath. A straight up sociopath. He doesn't care at all about the people whose lives he's ruined, directly or indirectly. He's a monster.
@@WobblesandBean I actually don't think there's any overlap between PTSD and neurodivergence. I think a lot of people with neurodivergence just experience high rates of trauma and don't get proper diagnosis. But in this case it is almost certainly neurodivergence and not PTSD at the root of the things. I started reading the book and his issues with disconnection started prior to the trauma. There's also other little things. He doesn't feel hunger and eating annoys him, he doesn't grasp social cues, etc. He's not a sociopath. He's just a very mentally ill man who never received proper treatment.
@@WobblesandBean BPD also has a strong overlap with ASD and ADHD. I am not diagnosed because I feel like every single therapist I've been with just doesn't listen to the words I'm saying, but after a lot of reflection and research I've come to the conclusion that I likely have a cocktail of all 3, and definitely some symptoms of PTSD due to the bullying I faced because of my emotional sensitivity. I literally can't cry anymore unless I'm having a full meltdown/mental breakdown as my entire elementary school life was me being bullied for being a crybaby. I was too naive to realize it at the time so I kept going back to the people who bullied me cause I guess I assumed that was normal and part of being friends. It was only in middle school when I realized what I was dealing with was bad. My parents certainly didn't help either. Despite being considered a good kid, when I was little they were quick to scream at me or slap me when I did something wrong (my dad especially, he has a short temper and likely has some undiagnosed issues that I inherited from him). And teachers would generally tell me to suck it up or not be able to help despite my school having posters telling kids to tell an adult if they're being bullied. There was also the death of my grandfather when I was 10. I sat next to him in his room as he passed away and I was holding his hand and too young to really process it. I still kinda resent my mom for making me stay in the same room during his last moments. I can still vividly remember his eyes rolling back into his head as he slightly convulsed and eventually stopped breathing. I always thought that since none of my trauma left a physical scar that I didn't go through anything that bad and that I'm just overreacting to make excuses. It's only within the last few years that I've learned to take my own feelings seriously more but I still feel like a fraud somehow.
I have to tell you, I really enjoyed this story (I mean it) and it was fascinating to hear. The author's idea to write a manga in the form of a suicide note is also fantastic. I know many may disagree with this, but as an artistic expression, I bow to this idea.
I have PTSD, and I understand a lot of myself in this. There's actually a lot of overlap in symptoms of ADHD, PTSD, and ASD. So I get why people with autism also relate to Yōzo, too. I sadly relate to him, too. Having to wear a mask all throughout my life. Acting silly to be likeable. Being SAd. Pulling away from humanity in adulthood. Struggling with...with Self Crit. Even now, I have a hard time connecting with others. It's lonely. But I'm horrified by anyone in the comments saying "he's just like me". Yōzo is a sociopath. A straight up sociopath. He doesn't care at all about the people whose lives he's ruined, directly or indirectly.
Yup I have ADHD and I felt almost exactly like this I always thought my family fucked me up and I couldnt make genuine human connections I never cared about anyone even in my direct family.
@@akiraasmr3002Exactly, while I don’t have ADHD I do have a mild form of autism. Because of said autism I lacked empathy and social awareness. It’s hard to care for someone when you don’t have the instructions to do so, that kind of thinking leads to destructive behavior but the tragedy is that it feels almost like that’s your “default” setting. And then you ask yourself or to any god “Why can’t I be ‘normal’?”
Well, about that. Personality disorders (colloquially called sociopathy) are frequently comorbid with autism. It fills in the gaps where they lack understanding socially, to disastrous results. It's funny. I was like Takeshi. I fell in love with someone just like Yozo. He was a clown, always wore a mask, and I thought the mask and the real person were so obvious surely other people also saw it. But I was shocked to find out that they didn't. We were so toxic, so in love but so terrified of each other. I didn't end myself, but I did have a breakdown. And I'd end up stripping down his insecurities in spectacular fashion. I'm sad that he was so hurt and embarrassed by that that he never wants to talk to me again, but he is in therapy now and we both realize I had little other choice if I wanted to help, it was a bitter medicine. Life and art and all that
@@daahorse1652 You may not actually lack empathy; you may have emotional empathy but lack cognitive empathy. This stuff gets tricky because people end up thinking they're "monsters" by not caring, but in fact they do, it's just another form of empathy they have and some specific parts they struggle with. It's hard, but something to fight for because if you're working on it, then you're very different already much better then people who would rather not work on it at all and make it everyone else's problem.
@@akiraasmr3002 As someone who has adhd, we may not be the same, but I also have gone through certain events in my life time that effected me and the way I show care and support; you most likely do care and do have empathy since there's various kinds of empathy and makes things extremely difficult if even one is lacking. But I believe it is possible for you too; only thing is that you need to work on it and make progress with it. Little by little, you'll get there and I know you'll be able to care in your own way in a much healthier way.
What he did to yoshiko was so cruel and is the point where I saw him as significant as dirt I’m stepping on, he saw people as insects, I saw him below that. Its not that he didn’t protect her, it’s how he broke her after the fact to the point of her wanting to kill herself and how he doesn’t even think twice about it. There are people like him, always putting on a show. I felt his ending was deserved personally and I’m glad he got what he got, except for the part where he was getting molested as a kid that was really messed up and not fair, I feel like that had way more of an impact then he wants to believe it did.
Your lack of sympathy is absolutely disgusting. You can acknowledge that what a person does it not admirable while also not demonizing them when, in reality, their life was filled with suffering that resulted in their life events. You should try to empathize for once and not have such a black-and-white sense of morality, because real life human behavior is far, far more nuanced than you feel like realizing. This sense of morality is mere cognitive laziness.
@@WobblesandBeanA lot of markers of ASD and ASPD are the same to be fair. Yozo reads to me more as ASD coupled with a PTSD response from his childhood. In fairness he seems more innately cruel in the manga than he does in the novel and my perspective is only from having read the novel. I've dealt with patients like Yozo though which is what makes me lean toward ASD with a specific-anxiety comorbidity.
What I like about this story and how it was told is that We get the sense that Yozo also sees his suffering at the end as just and deserved, and is resigned to it.
it may seem messed up but thats the point. the strangeness is the point. he is not human. he is not supposed to be. it may seem extremely unfair to us but to him it wasnt at all. because he wasnt human.
I feel it should be noted (because it is not in the video so far and I haven’t seen it in the comments) that in the asylum he literally (as a drug addict) has characters assigned to him, I think even maybe written on his forehead? That literally translate to “Disqualified from being human…” No longer human. That’s where it comes from.
The thing that sticks out the most to me is how ironic in a way the line about horses from hell and the general theme of it since Yozo's kinda in his own self made one. He does (to everyone else) deplorable things that only make sense in his own twisted view, and as a result he's punished either by the natural consequences or by pushing a problem too far (best example's really only his response to Takeichi calling him out. Like to everyone else, Yozo faking the whole fall really isn't that big a deal in reality, but to him it's a life or death sentence since it's one of the few things that keeps him at arm's length) also you know, his self made hell is a result of a possibly undiagnosed mental illness that's only making his view on the world worse
For the mental illnesses, he obviously suffers from some terrible form of anxiety. His inability to understand other people and to make sense of various things might also suggest undiagnosed autism but I'm not sure about it.
Not to mention, his parents were just mentally abusive to him all throughout his childhood. He doesn't feel the same like them and his family just basically force him to be what they want him to be. He has to mask by being a clown because that's the only way he can keep everyone from yelling, assaulting, doing anything to him.
This is the first time in my adult life that I’ve shed tears over a story. As a former suicidal residential patient currently in recovery, this shot me through the heart.
As an addict/alcoholic in recovery with 106 days of complete sobriety storied like these truly hits home. I'm a duel DX with major depressive and GAD on top of chemical depentcy I have heard stories just like this in the anonymous rooms I'm apart of. This is a sad reality some people really go thru.
Thanks for the comment. I’m in early recovery and couldn’t finish this manga. I was too disturbed. Very well made I just think it’s not a good time in my life for a story like this
He was trying to become human in order to get rid of his fear of humans not knowing that even humans themselves fear other humans fear doesn’t make exceptions based on who it lays upon it is simply there to just instill terror in you, he got so caught up in the idea of becoming human that he forgot what it means to be human that is emotions the minute he feels emotions towards a person or situation he stops himself from becoming so called human all for the sake of not letting people hurt him well at least in his mind, only acting out of pure selfishness not considering how others may feel but only what he feels that is what’s missing for him to become so called humans his lack of empathy how when something doesn’t go right he immediately runs away or does something irrational only to make the situation worse.
And here's where we see the importance of being understood and having media that we can relate to. I have no doubt my story would be as tragic as theirs if I lived without the resources I do now (but um. I like to think I would be a better person)
@@lizart4679 Osamu Dazai apparently had a thing for Dostoyevsky. Apparently it wasn't enough. As much as I think Dostoyevsky is a brilliant novelist and philosopher, the fact that the answers to all the pain and suffering in the world is "You need Jesus in your heart," is a bit of a cop out.
what a beautifully scripted video. I love how you approached this story, with understanding and compassion, and how you chose to retell it. Thank you. I love No Longer Human and it pains me how often it is spoken about as if it's a fictionalized horror story and not - percisely as you put it - a suicide note. Extremely well done video essay, youtube needs more ppl like u
I feel kinda the same: I’m extremely scared of people I don’t like humans fragile bodies I hate eating food (I’m autistic) I’m clowning around all the time joking around like I’m ironic cinic person what nothing can hurt me
Out of all the Junji Ito mangas, including Gyo, No Longer Human was the only one I didn't finish. The fact that this one, over literally zombie sea creatures or Uzumaki in it's entirety, frightens and repulses me truly baffles me.
When i heard osamu dazai i thought of a character in bungou stray dogs its an anime The character also acts happy and dumb all the time while actively trying to commit the unthinkable theres also this scene where the character dazai trys to drown himself only to be rescued The world they live in has people with all kinds of power and his power is called "no longer human"
I had watched Bungou Stray Dogs also but it was forever ago and it didn't hit me until after I finished reading that they were supposed to be the same person so to speak. Since then I have not been able to see the character in the same light.
Be grateful for what you have and the people whom you care about. It can always be worse no matter what. I believe enjoying the little things life has to offer and the time and care people give to you is priceless.
Not to sound cheesy or anything but Thank you so much for making this video. This is actually the first time a yt video has really made me cry. I read the original novel like a year ago and was taken by how much I actually could relate to it. It just goes to show that mental illness and depression is timeless. You can’t even really tell what time it is supposed to be set in really until the communist party comes into the picture. All this is to say that I know what it is to not feel human, to look in the mirror and not see a face you recognise. So I want to just thank you for making the video as you have, it’s so incredibly respectfully and well made that it actually made me cry. Junji Ito did an amazing job not only illustrating but also editing the story in a way that I feel so seen by and you captured and summarised it beautifully so thank you. And sorry for this long ass comment :)
I honestly do wonder whatever became of his son, whether he was real or just made for the story. Perhaps his dad’s death made him realize what was truly up with him?
I remember listening to this before. Character definitely was just broken and felt alone bc he experienced what happens when you are alone with a human and their own intentions. Character could never see past himself being figured out and dusting it off. He has strong fixations and they undue him. They also are a source of his selfish mind. He can’t accept someone knew what he thought even for a second, like if being figured out meant anything. Never did never has.
just found out that I'm actually kind of a human... there were never any kind of alien... I'm just autistic... the first story reminds me of me... at least the beginning.... i dont understand humans... humans do irrational, cruel and stupid things over and over again... are they for real unaware of it? And why do humans never listen? why are humans always talking and ashuming .....
This kinda describes a lot of symptoms of autism, functioning enough to know they have to please others. I ironically act the same way as an Aspie when I must, but more often then not I just don't care anymore. I am okay with not being human, I stay true to myself. Takechi is also a steriotypical case of autism/down syndrome, albiet a slightly more low functioning case. I kinda feel for Yozo, pushed to be someone he's not to fit the norms. Unable to be his genuine self, because his culture does not allow for it. And it's based off of a true story at that, I'm just hoping peace was found for all involved. Being the odd ball put isn't easy in a society that expects you to be just like everyone else...
The presentation of this story, the static overlay and the classic resident evil ost playing in the background is excellent and captivating dude. Subbed and hoping to see more of your work!
That ending crushed me though. I was NOT prepared to see Dazai pop up AND be in the same room as Yozo goddamn Oba. But anyway, amazing video. You deserve a lot more subs for the amount of effort.
Bro have a different thinking process to other and mistaken it to an inhuman trait. Nobody else have ever show him otherwise so he just accept that he is not human. Because of that, he becomes "no longer human"
Oh, I understand. He was autistic and never made it out of the "I'm not human" phase because he kept experiencing tragedies every time he got close to his Realization, which just drove him further into the delusion. Tragic.
As an autistic person, that's exactly what my thoughts were the first time I read the book.... And the second time I relate to Osamu Dazai so much but the first time I expressed that to someone who'd read the book they were very concerned for my well-being... Reasonably But yeah this is exactly how I've always interpreted No Longer Human and your comment made me laugh bc I didn't expect to see it written out like that
@@lizart4679 That was the clearest way I could think to word it lmao. Non-Autistics typically don't deal with that, lucky bastards, and don't know how many people *do* have to deal with it. Such a terrifying and isolating experience that in hindsight is so incredibly embarrassing that just thinking about it makes you want to crawl into a hole. Still a valid conclusion for a child to come up with to rationalize their experiences pre-diagnosis, though.
@@0BucketMask0 no I love the way you worded it, it was very clear I just didn't expect someone to write my thoughts out plainly like that XD It really is sad though. His story didn't have to be this tragic. Understanding people and having resources does wonders
I literally was about to comment this. Our boi here sounds autistic to me. I still sometimes feel like I'm an alien, living in a world of beings very much unlike me on the inside, who assume that because I look like them, I am the same as them. Sometimes, relationships are scary, because you don't really understand people fully, so their reactions are unpredictable. And I tell ya, there is something deeply anxiety inducing about when you're just sitting somewhere, minding your business, and someone comes up to you and goes, "why do you look like that? What's wrong with you?" and all you can think is "what? What was I doing? What did I look like? What did I do wrong? Am I in trouble?" Social rules can be a bitch sometimes.....
@@hollypixie4285 fr I've also thought about the possibility he had antisocial personality disorder (sociopathy), bc that's something that develops due to trauma and he sure had plenty of that. The way he describes feeling emotion is what made me initially think about it. Just speculation though I don't know enough about aspd to say how likely that is XD I can however say, as an autistic person I relate heavily to him and I choose to believe he was probably autistic Edit: I mean to say that in a "this could totally be only autism and it's just interesting to speculate about" way btw I realized my intentions weren't the most clear in my original comment
I kinda lost sympathy for MC when he drove Yoshiko into madness by constantly lying and betraying her even as he got caught. I don't think there's any real justification there. And what was especially infuriating is the double standard he had for the fact that Yoshiko was assaulted by one guy, when he himself was adulterous and had played so many other women before her. You'd think he'd be more empathetic because he was assaulted as a child himself, but no. This guy is a straight up scumbag who doesn't want to take responsibility for the mess he made through his cowardice and selfishness. And I guess when it seemed like he was starting to take responsibility by taking along Setchan and her son out of the mental institution, we never really find out if he really tried to change into a better person, because Setchan decided to just torture MC for the rest of his life.
First time i read this i broke into tears as i realised that this story is the story of my life in a way. I have always been alien to the society i was born in
Ty for sharing a valuable and intriguing story. I do appreciate how accurately Junji Ito captures the horrific experience of being a child molested by adults women. I loved your reading of it but I have just one suggestion. Would you consider informing the viewer at the beginning of the video that there are depictions of a child being molested by adults?
I think we all sometimes disassociate and while talking to someone you think: "I can't believe all these people actually think I'm as human as they are".
The part I love most about this story is that I don't believe Yozo(or Dazai) would've caused so much harm if they *did* have a space in the world that understood them. As that one quote says, "villians aren't born, they're made", y'know? In my case, if I had faced that much trauma and such a lack of understanding around me, I very well might've ended up as an awful person too. Plenty of bad people truly were products of their circumstances. I understand both the characters and the authors mindset very well. I've experienced a lot of the feelings described in this story, and I have a habit of running away from anyone when they get too close or too attached. There's plenty of other things I could say about it but I'm not gonna do that in a UA-cam comment. But I want to say that I love this story because it wasn't written to depict someone good or bad, it was simply written to express how one person felt going through life, and we can look at it and see what shaped Yozo into the person he was. He may have been born apathetic, different, "inhuman", but with the right resources, he could have been good. As someone who relates so heavily, it's more of a source of hope to me than anything. Wow I could go on about this forever.
all junji ito manga i've known before, felt like masterfull "ick"- stories. but this one felt genuinely disturbing .. and comforting .. and WAY too real, personal and relatable! uzumaki might be his graphical magnum opus, but this is his masterpiece of existencial psychological terror , unless he makes something even worse .. even more banal, bleak and profound. i"m SO looking foward to it! PS: the only movie i could compare this to, would be "the coffee table". just as masterfull, but legitimately even more uncomfortable to make it though .. to put it lightly
I can't help but resonate with some of Yozos way of living and pretending, it's kinda similar to autism but not to the far lenghts he went. I'm not a sociopath or a psychopath but I feel like this is very accurate portrayal of those conditions
Is is sad that when you describing not feeling human and having human connections I felt like that was me growing up I never felt any connections with people and would feel awkward in my friend group like I was a fake friend because I didnt talk enough and was just quiet. I couldn't understand why I was like that I didn't even cry at my step sister's funeral I had to fake cry. Ive always felt like I had on a mask and was worried about other people thinking im weird and any time I spent time with femily I would dread it.
Perhaps my favorite Japanese Ficitional work, granted this is only vaguely Ficitional, though more stories are of such a nature than Non-Authors realize. I was unaware Junji Ito had illustrated an adaptation of Dazai's work. I feel now more than ever people from both the East AND West can profoundly relate to.
yeah, not in the "cool" way either its just how it is its actually kind of disturbing how accurate it is i wonder if junji ito did research on how neurodivergent people masked and had a lack of understanding of social cues to really know what "humans" wanted
Just some light criticism, try going through your recording and edit out the repeating of words or little stutters it would really push your videos to the next level. But love the content and appreciate the visual elements. Keep it up 👍
An interesting character study indeed, but it's also a shame how his first friend's suicide is unceremoniously glossed over; it demonstrates the deceptively powerful impact of hope, whether it's positive or negative we often don't realize its importance until after the fact. Because for some people, hope is all they have . . .
Yozo is based on a real person who most likely had autism and depression. Which makes all the comments outside the text about him "not being human" really fucking weird.
I am exactly like this person. I fucking hate attention. I also became addicted to heroin. I have been sober for almost 8 years. Man no character has ever resonated with me like this.
Great book (I haven't read manga, nor have I watched anime or films)! worth spending your time on it. Recommend to anyone who likes Dostoevsky or Kobo Abe. Came here to leave comment and like so that more people will know about the book.
getting jumpscared by my own song deep into a hyperfixation listen is intensely funny. this is a super good video essay and i'm glad i got to hear ur thoughts on it all :)
Holy moley, this is crazy! I’ve love your music and have been listening for years now. Thank you for making awesome music, I’ve been using your stuff in videos since I can remember so it’s safe to say this channel wouldn’t be the same without you. I’m glad you enjoyed the video, it means a lot.
@@LoungeAct_ ;; THIS IS INCREDIBLY SWEET THANK U WHAT.,.it rly means a lot to me that i was able to inspire more cool art, thats all i can hope for truly ;~;
i think yozo ran away from yoshiko when she was assaulted because he realised that she could no longer have an innocent view of the world, and he realised that his heart could not be moved by seeing his own wife suffering.
Or it reminded him of his own sexual molestation as a child he ran in abject horror. People miss the point in all of this He's actually too Human, he feels too much.
If you read the original novel (not by junji ito) this story goes more deeper than you think. i recommends you to read the original one. You can watch wendigoon's video.
@@abhayshekhawat4026 i'll add it to my to-read list :)
He explains pretty explicitly what his feelings were in the actual novel.
@@Shugg-Goff-HHofficalI don't think you realize just how much it means that you said this, thank you. I say this with 100% sincerity I'm not being sarcastic I genuinely appreciate that someone said this
By avoiding monster humans he just becomes became a monster himself 💀
Takes one to know one.
Life's ironies
“…just because you have no claws doesn’t make you good.” ~Nietzsche
I wasn't seeing any monster, rather a weakness.
Stories like this makes me realize how glad i am about the advancement in understanding of mental health and psychology.
Depends on the culture regardless of the understanding. Japan's societal norms r still very traditional. He would've been more likely to get help nowadays, but it's still a slim margin. Japan has an immense suicide rate, and the culture has a different relationship with the idea of suicide and mental health that we do. Depending who u ask, it's more or less taboo
@sr.skulletongrin8755 this is true. It's still seen as a quite shameful thing. In the western world we at least are largely more compassionate
The advancement I see for this is only the term, I relate a lot to this story and I had never known what Junji Ito was about until this vid. I have something called schizoid personality disorder, very similar to what is described here and what Yozo feels, but even after that, there seems to be no cure, at least no tratment that works truly, I don't think I'll ever get to experience what a normal person feels, the things I do i just do them because I have to, I don't derive any joy from anything and nothing seems genuine to me. You can look it up if you want, this is something very different from depression even if it initially sounds similar.
This looks extremely well thought out! I read No Longer Human (the book) a couple of years ago and ended up completely misinterpreting it but I read it again recently and it was crazy to me how much went right over my head on my first read. This video summed up exactly how I feel about the story now, great work!
I think why yozo ran away from his wife getting assaulted is that he couldn’t handle seeing the one person that made him "human", and who he himself( probably) considered very "human", still get violated and hurt. Yozo never understood being "human", and idolized it. He felt that being "human" was the only way he wouldnt have to be scared of other people, so to see another person who is very "human" get assaulted, then whats the point? Whats the point in trying to be "human" if it doesnt make you immune to anything.
In the original no longer human book he only saw it as animals doing what animals do he never felt human compassion enough to care
Hes a sociopath. He never cared about anyone
Nah he just saw it as the natural order of the animal kingdom.
Cowardly pos is what he was as well as a sociopath
He was assaulted as a child, up to that point he’s had continuous reinforcement that he is powerless. He ran because he didn’t know what else to do, he didn’t know another strategy, didn’t think he could save her, because it was already done. He knew what this would do to her, like it did to him. He knew there was nothing he could do, and that his one light was snuffed out.
Yozo was human. He was just a coward and a people pleaser who sacrificed his own individualism for the sake of everyone around him.. no wonder he was so drawn to an expressive medium
in the modern age he wouldve been a controversial tiktoker guaranteed.
It seems that way on the surface, but I don't think he sacrificed to truly please others. I think he did it to spare himself the discomfort of being in conflict with others. Except conflicts are unavoidable, and the more he avoided them, the more horrible they become.
@@lalakuma9 i agree. Wasn't saying he was a saint. His need for accommodating other people is purely selfish
@@james-nw9upNot true.
@@nielsbal3385 why?
One thing I find rather ironic is how Yozo considers himself to not be human cause of how humans seemingly do some downright horrible things for practically no reason. However, simultaneously, throughout the book, he ends up doing the exact same thing, by abandoning so many ppl around him and practically using them for his own gain. So in a weird sense, I think due to this notion, Yozu became human by the time the book ends, for he became the very thing he feared without even putting up an act.
He reasoned that because they are horrible, they are less than him, and that allowed him to act in horrible ways. He didn’t realize that by treating humans as less than him, he had become less than human.
Yeah and that’s pretty much exactly how humans are with other humans so it loops back around
I dont think i would have ever read this on my own, thank you. That was definitely a story I needed to hear.
Ironically, he acted extremely human throughout this whole thing. A very selfish one, but a human all the same. The 'not being human' is, i think, a way for him to excuse his fear and lack of understanding of others. Its a lot easier to run away from others than face your own poor culpability. Everything went over here, is something that happens all the time in the world by all kinds of people. Its heartbreaking.
I say this as someone who has extreme agoraphobia, im disabled, and i am on the spectrum. Im incredibly fearful of others, and ive had to really, really work to try and conquer that fear. Mental health is so... important. Access to help with mental illnesses is also important, more than i think folks want to realize. Though i think things are better now than they were, theres still so much more work to do.
I totally agree. I was thinking this is aswell, that him being sensitive and having an understanding of society and the world is what makes him more "human" then most people. Maybe the reason why he never felt "human" is because people around him weren't "human" enough
@@AStrangePersonOnlinewhat does it even mean to be human yall say as it's something special or divine when really it's just another silly artificial construct that yall praise to make yourselves feel more superior than the next species. However he sees it or you it doesn't matter I say to be able to understand this or humans makes you beyond human or any other silly limitation man created.
I wouldn't describe allowing an incestuous relationship between 2 family members, which resulted in one of them murdering the other, and the other carrying an incest baby reincarnation of someone that recently offed themselves directly due to your actions, very "human"-like, lol.
@@user-sp9po5qi9qit fits within the margins, even if it isn't the biggest portion representatively.
@@user-sp9po5qi9q Man you're not very bright are you
i was 7 minutes in and i said out loud “i think hes autistic.” (im autistic) i dislike that i felt similar as a kid. i no longer think so now but as a child i was outcasted and escaped through constant (and i mean CONSTANT) reading and daydreaming instead of interacting or going outside. im glad i have grown out of that and treat myself as a person again.
As a fellow autistic, I second this. Glad I grew out of it too.
Likes a billion ❤
ive noticed people who have an autistic kid or are autistic, see it everywhere. i think it really is that it is a spectrum, everybody falls on it, where one is considered "autistic" or not is entirely pointless
@@filthforce I see your point but no, not "everybody falls on it". Whether or not you constantly experience profound isolation from the rest of the human race is very much significant.
I also very quickly came to the same conclusion.
so glad we’re all on the same page here. it really is an isolation unlike being alone. being alone in body is one thing and being alone in emotional aspects is a whole other. it makes you feel so alien- literally.
This has parallels to Borderline personality Disorder and extreme PTSD.
Edit: This is definitely a very human expirence but the main character is so self centered due to his phobia making him so that he fails to see how is is as deceptive as the humans around him. The true horror is that this is something many people with undiagnosed mental illness will endure and even in modern times there are people so traumatized they lack any sense of connection to others. It's tragic.
Not to make myself sound like a victim but I also had this mind set due to PSTD. I'm not yet over it nor do I have the money to afford consistent care but art also helped restore my humanity.
Thanks for reading this and talking about it. You have earned a sub and no worries about the audio repeats mistakes are what makes us human after all.
Interesting. To me, I saw parallels to autism, and how it can make it hard to relate to other people and therefore make you feel like you may not be human and the fears and phobias that can come from that and how it can affect a person. That just may be me reflecting my own experiences though!
There is a sinister, gaslighting hubris amongst those that deem anyone troubled by this disgusting world, ‘mentally ill’. You’re mentally ill.
I have PTSD, and I agree. There's actually a lot of overlap in symptoms of ADHD, PTSD, and ASD. So I get why people with autism also relate to Yōzo.
I sadly relate to him, too. Having to wear a mask. Acting silly to be likeable. Being SAd. Pulling away in adulthood. Struggling with...with Self Crit. Even now, I have a hard time connecting with others. I feel so alone.
But I'm horrified by anyone in the comments saying "he's just like me". Yōzo is a sociopath. A straight up sociopath. He doesn't care at all about the people whose lives he's ruined, directly or indirectly. He's a monster.
@@WobblesandBean I actually don't think there's any overlap between PTSD and neurodivergence. I think a lot of people with neurodivergence just experience high rates of trauma and don't get proper diagnosis.
But in this case it is almost certainly neurodivergence and not PTSD at the root of the things. I started reading the book and his issues with disconnection started prior to the trauma. There's also other little things. He doesn't feel hunger and eating annoys him, he doesn't grasp social cues, etc.
He's not a sociopath. He's just a very mentally ill man who never received proper treatment.
@@WobblesandBean BPD also has a strong overlap with ASD and ADHD. I am not diagnosed because I feel like every single therapist I've been with just doesn't listen to the words I'm saying, but after a lot of reflection and research I've come to the conclusion that I likely have a cocktail of all 3, and definitely some symptoms of PTSD due to the bullying I faced because of my emotional sensitivity. I literally can't cry anymore unless I'm having a full meltdown/mental breakdown as my entire elementary school life was me being bullied for being a crybaby. I was too naive to realize it at the time so I kept going back to the people who bullied me cause I guess I assumed that was normal and part of being friends. It was only in middle school when I realized what I was dealing with was bad. My parents certainly didn't help either. Despite being considered a good kid, when I was little they were quick to scream at me or slap me when I did something wrong (my dad especially, he has a short temper and likely has some undiagnosed issues that I inherited from him). And teachers would generally tell me to suck it up or not be able to help despite my school having posters telling kids to tell an adult if they're being bullied. There was also the death of my grandfather when I was 10. I sat next to him in his room as he passed away and I was holding his hand and too young to really process it. I still kinda resent my mom for making me stay in the same room during his last moments. I can still vividly remember his eyes rolling back into his head as he slightly convulsed and eventually stopped breathing. I always thought that since none of my trauma left a physical scar that I didn't go through anything that bad and that I'm just overreacting to make excuses. It's only within the last few years that I've learned to take my own feelings seriously more but I still feel like a fraud somehow.
I have to tell you, I really enjoyed this story (I mean it) and it was fascinating to hear.
The author's idea to write a manga in the form of a suicide note is also fantastic. I know many may disagree with this, but as an artistic expression, I bow to this idea.
He did not write the manga, he wrote the novel that the Junji Ito manga is based on.
I have PTSD, and I understand a lot of myself in this. There's actually a lot of overlap in symptoms of ADHD, PTSD, and ASD. So I get why people with autism also relate to Yōzo, too.
I sadly relate to him, too. Having to wear a mask all throughout my life. Acting silly to be likeable. Being SAd. Pulling away from humanity in adulthood. Struggling with...with Self Crit. Even now, I have a hard time connecting with others. It's lonely.
But I'm horrified by anyone in the comments saying "he's just like me". Yōzo is a sociopath. A straight up sociopath. He doesn't care at all about the people whose lives he's ruined, directly or indirectly.
Yup I have ADHD and I felt almost exactly like this I always thought my family fucked me up and I couldnt make genuine human connections I never cared about anyone even in my direct family.
@@akiraasmr3002Exactly, while I don’t have ADHD I do have a mild form of autism. Because of said autism I lacked empathy and social awareness. It’s hard to care for someone when you don’t have the instructions to do so, that kind of thinking leads to destructive behavior but the tragedy is that it feels almost like that’s your “default” setting. And then you ask yourself or to any god “Why can’t I be ‘normal’?”
Well, about that. Personality disorders (colloquially called sociopathy) are frequently comorbid with autism. It fills in the gaps where they lack understanding socially, to disastrous results.
It's funny. I was like Takeshi. I fell in love with someone just like Yozo. He was a clown, always wore a mask, and I thought the mask and the real person were so obvious surely other people also saw it. But I was shocked to find out that they didn't. We were so toxic, so in love but so terrified of each other. I didn't end myself, but I did have a breakdown. And I'd end up stripping down his insecurities in spectacular fashion. I'm sad that he was so hurt and embarrassed by that that he never wants to talk to me again, but he is in therapy now and we both realize I had little other choice if I wanted to help, it was a bitter medicine.
Life and art and all that
@@daahorse1652 You may not actually lack empathy; you may have emotional empathy but lack cognitive empathy. This stuff gets tricky because people end up thinking they're "monsters" by not caring, but in fact they do, it's just another form of empathy they have and some specific parts they struggle with.
It's hard, but something to fight for because if you're working on it, then you're very different already much better then people who would rather not work on it at all and make it everyone else's problem.
@@akiraasmr3002 As someone who has adhd, we may not be the same, but I also have gone through certain events in my life time that effected me and the way I show care and support; you most likely do care and do have empathy since there's various kinds of empathy and makes things extremely difficult if even one is lacking. But I believe it is possible for you too; only thing is that you need to work on it and make progress with it. Little by little, you'll get there and I know you'll be able to care in your own way in a much healthier way.
What he did to yoshiko was so cruel and is the point where I saw him as significant as dirt I’m stepping on, he saw people as insects, I saw him below that. Its not that he didn’t protect her, it’s how he broke her after the fact to the point of her wanting to kill herself and how he doesn’t even think twice about it. There are people like him, always putting on a show. I felt his ending was deserved personally and I’m glad he got what he got, except for the part where he was getting molested as a kid that was really messed up and not fair, I feel like that had way more of an impact then he wants to believe it did.
Your lack of sympathy is absolutely disgusting. You can acknowledge that what a person does it not admirable while also not demonizing them when, in reality, their life was filled with suffering that resulted in their life events. You should try to empathize for once and not have such a black-and-white sense of morality, because real life human behavior is far, far more nuanced than you feel like realizing. This sense of morality is mere cognitive laziness.
Everyone in the comments is all like "he's autistic, he's just like me!" No. Yōzo is a sociopath.
@@WobblesandBeanA lot of markers of ASD and ASPD are the same to be fair. Yozo reads to me more as ASD coupled with a PTSD response from his childhood. In fairness he seems more innately cruel in the manga than he does in the novel and my perspective is only from having read the novel. I've dealt with patients like Yozo though which is what makes me lean toward ASD with a specific-anxiety comorbidity.
What I like about this story and how it was told is that We get the sense that Yozo also sees his suffering at the end as just and deserved, and is resigned to it.
it may seem messed up but thats the point. the strangeness is the point. he is not human. he is not supposed to be. it may seem extremely unfair to us but to him it wasnt at all. because he wasnt human.
I feel it should be noted (because it is not in the video so far and I haven’t seen it in the comments) that in the asylum he literally (as a drug addict) has characters assigned to him, I think even maybe written on his forehead? That literally translate to “Disqualified from being human…”
No longer human. That’s where it comes from.
The thing that sticks out the most to me is how ironic in a way the line about horses from hell and the general theme of it since Yozo's kinda in his own self made one. He does (to everyone else) deplorable things that only make sense in his own twisted view, and as a result he's punished either by the natural consequences or by pushing a problem too far (best example's really only his response to Takeichi calling him out. Like to everyone else, Yozo faking the whole fall really isn't that big a deal in reality, but to him it's a life or death sentence since it's one of the few things that keeps him at arm's length)
also you know, his self made hell is a result of a possibly undiagnosed mental illness that's only making his view on the world worse
For the mental illnesses, he obviously suffers from some terrible form of anxiety. His inability to understand other people and to make sense of various things might also suggest undiagnosed autism but I'm not sure about it.
Not to mention, his parents were just mentally abusive to him all throughout his childhood. He doesn't feel the same like them and his family just basically force him to be what they want him to be. He has to mask by being a clown because that's the only way he can keep everyone from yelling, assaulting, doing anything to him.
This is the first time in my adult life that I’ve shed tears over a story. As a former suicidal residential patient currently in recovery, this shot me through the heart.
I hope you continue to heal.
As an addict/alcoholic in recovery with 106 days of complete sobriety storied like these truly hits home. I'm a duel DX with major depressive and GAD on top of chemical depentcy I have heard stories just like this in the anonymous rooms I'm apart of. This is a sad reality some people really go thru.
Thanks for the comment. I’m in early recovery and couldn’t finish this manga. I was too disturbed. Very well made I just think it’s not a good time in my life for a story like this
How's it going?
@@diy_cat9817 Man, based on this thread one might assume pretty shitty, but I’m grateful for a lot right now :)
I think a big part of why he ended up as he did was because of the implied sexual abuse he faced as a child from the servants.
It was more than implied but I agree
Nah people have gotten banged young for thousands of years and they didn’t end up that way. That’s a western myth.
@@nukal4338 Yeah, it was basically portrayed with that gross, older middle aged woman next to a child Yozo.
Implied? Homie she was tonguing his face
implied? she was all up over him 💀
He was trying to become human in order to get rid of his fear of humans not knowing that even humans themselves fear other humans fear doesn’t make exceptions based on who it lays upon it is simply there to just instill terror in you, he got so caught up in the idea of becoming human that he forgot what it means to be human that is emotions the minute he feels emotions towards a person or situation he stops himself from becoming so called human all for the sake of not letting people hurt him well at least in his mind, only acting out of pure selfishness not considering how others may feel but only what he feels that is what’s missing for him to become so called humans his lack of empathy how when something doesn’t go right he immediately runs away or does something irrational only to make the situation worse.
this is an amazing video, really helped me understand what the story was about since i was curious about it, keep at it
I first read the book when I was 14 and after finishing it I felt like my brain broke down into pieces, grew wings and flew away 😂
Yozo is lucky that besides being a "freak" with issues, he's also smart and adaptable.
I feel like Yozo and Osamu would've chilled out a bit if they could listen to Slayer or read some H.P. Lovecraft.
And here's where we see the importance of being understood and having media that we can relate to. I have no doubt my story would be as tragic as theirs if I lived without the resources I do now (but um. I like to think I would be a better person)
@@lizart4679 Osamu Dazai apparently had a thing for Dostoyevsky. Apparently it wasn't enough.
As much as I think Dostoyevsky is a brilliant novelist and philosopher, the fact that the answers to all the pain and suffering in the world is "You need Jesus in your heart," is a bit of a cop out.
nice video bro, this helped me understand the manga better
It's the Junji ito version thought.
Dazai’s version is less threatening.
However, I'm really grateful for the review of the manga♡
what a beautifully scripted video. I love how you approached this story, with understanding and compassion, and how you chose to retell it. Thank you. I love No Longer Human and it pains me how often it is spoken about as if it's a fictionalized horror story and not - percisely as you put it - a suicide note. Extremely well done video essay, youtube needs more ppl like u
This video was amazing the ending was pretty cool.
I feel kinda the same: I’m extremely scared of people I don’t like humans fragile bodies I hate eating food (I’m autistic) I’m clowning around all the time joking around like I’m ironic cinic person what nothing can hurt me
i’m gonna give it 3 months max before you blow up with these amazing video analyses! loved the vid if you couldn’t tell :)
"analysis", do you reading the plot
It was 11 months to YT algorytm to spot it and send it into my neurolink
(Now I'm depress)
Out of all the Junji Ito mangas, including Gyo, No Longer Human was the only one I didn't finish.
The fact that this one, over literally zombie sea creatures or Uzumaki in it's entirety, frightens and repulses me truly baffles me.
AGREE. I had to finish it though.
bro u profile pic 💀
When i heard osamu dazai i thought of a character in bungou stray dogs its an anime
The character also acts happy and dumb all the time while actively trying to commit the unthinkable theres also this scene where the character dazai trys to drown himself only to be rescued
The world they live in has people with all kinds of power and his power is called "no longer human"
I had watched Bungou Stray Dogs also but it was forever ago and it didn't hit me until after I finished reading that they were supposed to be the same person so to speak. Since then I have not been able to see the character in the same light.
@@LoungeAct_ same bro
You're one who made me realize this
That character is named after the author of the original book "no longer human" which junji Ito has adapted into this horror manga
Be grateful for what you have and the people whom you care about. It can always be worse no matter what. I believe enjoying the little things life has to offer and the time and care people give to you is priceless.
😊
Not to sound cheesy or anything but Thank you so much for making this video. This is actually the first time a yt video has really made me cry. I read the original novel like a year ago and was taken by how much I actually could relate to it. It just goes to show that mental illness and depression is timeless. You can’t even really tell what time it is supposed to be set in really until the communist party comes into the picture. All this is to say that I know what it is to not feel human, to look in the mirror and not see a face you recognise. So I want to just thank you for making the video as you have, it’s so incredibly respectfully and well made that it actually made me cry. Junji Ito did an amazing job not only illustrating but also editing the story in a way that I feel so seen by and you captured and summarised it beautifully so thank you. And sorry for this long ass comment :)
I really enjoyed this video and the effort you put into making such a nice presentation. It struck a cord in me.
I honestly do wonder whatever became of his son, whether he was real or just made for the story. Perhaps his dad’s death made him realize what was truly up with him?
Poor baby, my heart breaks for every child with a deadbeat/sociopathic father 😢
i was like this is so well written, until i saw in the end it's a real story (great video btw)
Wow. What else can I say except that I'm stunned....
I remember listening to this before.
Character definitely was just broken and felt alone bc he experienced what happens when you are alone with a human and their own intentions.
Character could never see past himself being figured out and dusting it off. He has strong fixations and they undue him. They also are a source of his selfish mind. He can’t accept someone knew what he thought even for a second, like if being figured out meant anything. Never did never has.
9:45 for all he knows it was a stupid joke. Perhaps evil does exist, and it itself is a tortured soul in constant chaos and paranoia
autism horror as a genre should be explored more
just found out that I'm actually kind of a human... there were never any kind of alien... I'm just autistic... the first story reminds me of me... at least the beginning....
i dont understand humans... humans do irrational, cruel and stupid things over and over again... are they for real unaware of it?
And why do humans never listen? why are humans always talking and ashuming .....
This kinda describes a lot of symptoms of autism, functioning enough to know they have to please others. I ironically act the same way as an Aspie when I must, but more often then not I just don't care anymore. I am okay with not being human, I stay true to myself. Takechi is also a steriotypical case of autism/down syndrome, albiet a slightly more low functioning case. I kinda feel for Yozo, pushed to be someone he's not to fit the norms. Unable to be his genuine self, because his culture does not allow for it. And it's based off of a true story at that, I'm just hoping peace was found for all involved. Being the odd ball put isn't easy in a society that expects you to be just like everyone else...
Agreed.
It seems like autism that was repressed for so long it transformed into borderline personality disorder or psychopathy
I love the resident evil music in the background
underrated channel
This video just remind me the harrowing feel when i finished the manga
Autistic, having c-ptsd and other comorbidities, I can relate by a ton. I don't feel human too.
I started speaking the utmost unsettling truth, very less people talk to me now. Keeps the wicked away.
R.I.P DAZAI OSAMU/TSUSHUMA SHUJI. You would've loved the adaptations of your novel.
It's not often that I say this, but this story sent shivers down my spine. So many ruined lives and despair, and it's all so real
I... just realized I have major issues
Don’t worry, it gets better, I promise. Just keep pushing forward.
@@Sergeant306 You're way too kind, thank you!
You are not alone homie
knowing is half the battle (fr)
Then art has fulfilled its grandest purpose with you! Congrats!
How are so underrated you make rly good videos
Esto solo tiene 177 vistas?! Pensé que estaba viendo un canal de alguien grande en la comunidad porque te quedó re bueno el video!!
The presentation of this story, the static overlay and the classic resident evil ost playing in the background is excellent and captivating dude. Subbed and hoping to see more of your work!
The fact that bro had to clarify the Dazai he means is the actual author and not the bsd version 😭
Which itself is based on real life dazai lmao
I am anxious and should be doing things to calm my anxiety. So naturally I’m watching this…
This video essay was very well done !!
That ending crushed me though. I was NOT prepared to see Dazai pop up AND be in the same room as Yozo goddamn Oba.
But anyway, amazing video. You deserve a lot more subs for the amount of effort.
Bro have a different thinking process to other and mistaken it to an inhuman trait. Nobody else have ever show him otherwise so he just accept that he is not human. Because of that, he becomes "no longer human"
Oh, I understand. He was autistic and never made it out of the "I'm not human" phase because he kept experiencing tragedies every time he got close to his Realization, which just drove him further into the delusion. Tragic.
As an autistic person, that's exactly what my thoughts were the first time I read the book.... And the second time
I relate to Osamu Dazai so much but the first time I expressed that to someone who'd read the book they were very concerned for my well-being... Reasonably
But yeah this is exactly how I've always interpreted No Longer Human and your comment made me laugh bc I didn't expect to see it written out like that
@@lizart4679 That was the clearest way I could think to word it lmao. Non-Autistics typically don't deal with that, lucky bastards, and don't know how many people *do* have to deal with it. Such a terrifying and isolating experience that in hindsight is so incredibly embarrassing that just thinking about it makes you want to crawl into a hole. Still a valid conclusion for a child to come up with to rationalize their experiences pre-diagnosis, though.
@@0BucketMask0 no I love the way you worded it, it was very clear
I just didn't expect someone to write my thoughts out plainly like that XD
It really is sad though. His story didn't have to be this tragic. Understanding people and having resources does wonders
I literally was about to comment this. Our boi here sounds autistic to me. I still sometimes feel like I'm an alien, living in a world of beings very much unlike me on the inside, who assume that because I look like them, I am the same as them. Sometimes, relationships are scary, because you don't really understand people fully, so their reactions are unpredictable.
And I tell ya, there is something deeply anxiety inducing about when you're just sitting somewhere, minding your business, and someone comes up to you and goes, "why do you look like that? What's wrong with you?" and all you can think is "what? What was I doing? What did I look like? What did I do wrong? Am I in trouble?" Social rules can be a bitch sometimes.....
@@hollypixie4285 fr
I've also thought about the possibility he had antisocial personality disorder (sociopathy), bc that's something that develops due to trauma and he sure had plenty of that. The way he describes feeling emotion is what made me initially think about it. Just speculation though I don't know enough about aspd to say how likely that is XD
I can however say, as an autistic person I relate heavily to him and I choose to believe he was probably autistic
Edit: I mean to say that in a "this could totally be only autism and it's just interesting to speculate about" way btw
I realized my intentions weren't the most clear in my original comment
I kinda lost sympathy for MC when he drove Yoshiko into madness by constantly lying and betraying her even as he got caught. I don't think there's any real justification there. And what was especially infuriating is the double standard he had for the fact that Yoshiko was assaulted by one guy, when he himself was adulterous and had played so many other women before her. You'd think he'd be more empathetic because he was assaulted as a child himself, but no. This guy is a straight up scumbag who doesn't want to take responsibility for the mess he made through his cowardice and selfishness. And I guess when it seemed like he was starting to take responsibility by taking along Setchan and her son out of the mental institution, we never really find out if he really tried to change into a better person, because Setchan decided to just torture MC for the rest of his life.
I lost sympathy when he tricked the sped kid so horribly that he killed himself.
This dude took pictures of people smiling and called it “aliens” I’m too high for this
First time i read this i broke into tears as i realised that this story is the story of my life in a way. I have always been alien to the society i was born in
Ty for sharing a valuable and intriguing story. I do appreciate how accurately Junji Ito captures the horrific experience of being a child molested by adults women. I loved your reading of it but I have just one suggestion. Would you consider informing the viewer at the beginning of the video that there are depictions of a child being molested by adults?
Wow, what an incredible and heart-breaking story... Thank you
Dude you make phenomenal videos
This was so good! Please make more!
I think we all sometimes disassociate and while talking to someone you think: "I can't believe all these people actually think I'm as human as they are".
The part I love most about this story is that I don't believe Yozo(or Dazai) would've caused so much harm if they *did* have a space in the world that understood them. As that one quote says, "villians aren't born, they're made", y'know?
In my case, if I had faced that much trauma and such a lack of understanding around me, I very well might've ended up as an awful person too. Plenty of bad people truly were products of their circumstances.
I understand both the characters and the authors mindset very well. I've experienced a lot of the feelings described in this story, and I have a habit of running away from anyone when they get too close or too attached.
There's plenty of other things I could say about it but I'm not gonna do that in a UA-cam comment.
But I want to say that I love this story because it wasn't written to depict someone good or bad, it was simply written to express how one person felt going through life, and we can look at it and see what shaped Yozo into the person he was. He may have been born apathetic, different, "inhuman", but with the right resources, he could have been good.
As someone who relates so heavily, it's more of a source of hope to me than anything.
Wow I could go on about this forever.
all junji ito manga i've known before, felt like masterfull "ick"- stories. but this one felt genuinely disturbing .. and comforting .. and WAY too real, personal and relatable!
uzumaki might be his graphical magnum opus, but this is his masterpiece of existencial psychological terror , unless he makes something even worse .. even more banal, bleak and profound.
i"m SO looking foward to it!
PS: the only movie i could compare this to, would be "the coffee table". just as masterfull, but legitimately even more uncomfortable to make it though .. to put it lightly
bc this aint really a junji ito story
Thank you, this video was great!
best narration ever..
I'm surprised you don't have more subscribers. Maybe you'll get more if you continue uploading quality stuff like this (minus the repeating audio lol)
Morphin is pain medication. If you consider despair and mental pain as legitimate is up to you. Way better to use a crouch than dive off a cliff.
This is how i felt my entire life, I later found out I have ASD+ADHD
I didn't realize they were real people until the end of the video, and wow. I don't know how to feel.
I can't help but resonate with some of Yozos way of living and pretending, it's kinda similar to autism but not to the far lenghts he went.
I'm not a sociopath or a psychopath but I feel like this is very accurate portrayal of those conditions
Is is sad that when you describing not feeling human and having human connections I felt like that was me growing up I never felt any connections with people and would feel awkward in my friend group like I was a fake friend because I didnt talk enough and was just quiet. I couldn't understand why I was like that I didn't even cry at my step sister's funeral I had to fake cry. Ive always felt like I had on a mask and was worried about other people thinking im weird and any time I spent time with femily I would dread it.
This just may be the best media I have ever watched
Perhaps my favorite Japanese Ficitional work, granted this is only vaguely Ficitional, though more stories are of such a nature than Non-Authors realize. I was unaware Junji Ito had illustrated an adaptation of Dazai's work. I feel now more than ever people from both the East AND West can profoundly relate to.
Your music taste is on point!
This is really really good great job
Great video
23:15 I couldn't relate more to than this; except I tend to isolate myself and my family tries to get me to go out more.
Well, that was incredibly depressing.
One of the only protagonists I can say I unfortunately relate to.
yeah, not in the "cool" way either
its just how it is
its actually kind of disturbing how accurate it is
i wonder if junji ito did research on how neurodivergent people masked and had a lack of understanding of social cues to really know what "humans" wanted
That smile look pretty normal to me but them other people with no mouths is wild lmao
Just some light criticism, try going through your recording and edit out the repeating of words or little stutters it would really push your videos to the next level. But love the content and appreciate the visual elements. Keep it up 👍
Yeah, I noticed that. Really bothered me.
An interesting character study indeed, but it's also a shame how his first friend's suicide is unceremoniously glossed over; it demonstrates the deceptively powerful impact of hope, whether it's positive or negative we often don't realize its importance until after the fact. Because for some people, hope is all they have . . .
Love the RE Remake save room music
its strange how much i identify with this manga.
Yozo is based on a real person who most likely had autism and depression. Which makes all the comments outside the text about him "not being human" really fucking weird.
His true friend was his writer self in the end who disclosed his notorious personality out to the world
13:06 that’s this picture is crazy
In a cruel twist of irony, he was the most human of us all.
I am exactly like this person. I fucking hate attention. I also became addicted to heroin. I have been sober for almost 8 years. Man no character has ever resonated with me like this.
Great book (I haven't read manga, nor have I watched anime or films)! worth spending your time on it. Recommend to anyone who likes Dostoevsky or Kobo Abe. Came here to leave comment and like so that more people will know about the book.
This is the first ever book anime i have read and all i could say was wow ❤
I think this resonates with my people pleasing tendencies it tickled my blueberries.
Autism spectrum disorder? borderline personality disorder? Sociopath?
Schizoid pd, I think.