Basically, This is Chainsaw Man

all right everyone's talking about this new chainsaw man let's see what this Show's all about it chainsaw man easily the most anticipated new anime to come out all year the show that we weren't ready for that would come down and grace us showing us peasants once and for all what good anime is so how hard did chainsaw man hit when it dropped [Music] yeah pretty [ __ ] hard as expected it's taken over the community by storm and with all this extra attention comes the extra scrutiny after just one episode was out already all the doubters banded together experts and scientists poured in thousands of man hours to collectively construct the perfect critique confident that their words would be so severe the chainsaw man fandom would be put in their place and the whole anime Community would see the error of their ways here's what they came up with chainsaw man fans have still not recovered to this day but do the haters have a point did the anime live up to the expectations that deal anime fans 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way chainsaw man starts off like a pretty standard Shonen you could be forgiven for getting a slight feeling of deja vu watching a spunky teenager on the brink of death making a contract for the devil to gain devil powers only to be picked up by an organization that hunt said Devils under the pretense that they can keep an eye on him and won't kill him as long as he's assisting in hunting other Devils then we find out there's a super strong devil that they have to hunt by looking for his body parts which is really risky because like any devil who's consumed some of those body parts is a super strong s-tier devil and you're like wait a minute this is just Jiu Jitsu kaisen again but that's where the similarities end chainsaw man is a typical Shonen in the same way that Stephen King's It is a children's show about a funny looking clown it is brutal disgusting raw it is metal as [ __ ] it pushes the edge of what it even means to be a Shonen action show in the first place you look at some of these scenes you see what these characters do and you think you know that's not what Goku would do when we first meet denji he is what's the technical term for this again a broke ass [ __ ] due to some unfortunate circumstances he lives every day just to survive drowned in debt a bottom dweller of society he sold his left eye a kidney one of his nuts yes his nuts just a scraped by living on a slice of bread a day I mean good Lord someone get this boy some box suit there you go boxy that was that was a free one for you but this immediately sets the tone for just what kind of world this is Naruto Demon Slayer my hero these are words where some pretty hardcore [ __ ] can happen if you lay it out on paper yet somehow everyone seems to have come out squeaky clean tanjaro had almost his entire family brutally murdered and yeah he's still like oh I'm gonna be a good boy I'm gonna be the best boy I'm gonna empathize with all the demons I'm gonna make the world a good place [ __ ] you saw your mother's bloody corpse how are you more mentally stable than me remembering I got my tax returns due in two months Shonen protagonists have always been about preaching that good moral work hard train hard be a good person aspire to be something great everything that denji isn't the man's been through hell and just wants to live in mild Comfort while copying the Casual feel along the way he doesn't have any Grand aspirations he doesn't want to fight for what is right he's not The Honorable innocent safe protagonist we've gotten used to while Goku is out there being like sell I want you to power up to your final form so we can have a fair and honorable fight Genji is here like finishing move delete bloodline well that's the thing that well that's the thing though but that's the thing that makes him interesting okay no this is not the way Genji God please Benji for the love of God well that's the thing that sets him apart and makes him interesting and this is something that's pervasive throughout every single cast member in chainsaw man when you agree Aki yeah totally agree everyone here stands up from the typical characters you see and I'm not talking about in that usual anime way you know sometimes you watch these animes and you see these characters that are like look at me I'm so quirky look at this weird thing I do isn't it so weird are they so weird and quirky I'm not like other anime characters and then the super word Quirk turns out to be something like look at me I sit funny people in chainsaw man are just actually weird like I don't know puking in a guy's mouth and then he swallows her and then you try to sleep with him five hours later everyone here has a few screwsleys but it never comes at the expense of their character all too often in anime we see these characters that are distinguished by their weird quirks and even if they have some depth to them it always comes off as cartoonish the anime-esque [ __ ] we've all gotten accustomed to and one thing I've got to give props for is despite how bad [ __ ] insane these guys are they all still feel like people everyone is just broken in some way like they're all missing a different piece to make them normal they're not cartoonish they're just [ __ ] weird and that absolutely works the Dynamics the Antics the banter the cast is just so entertaining together like there's a scene where a bunch of devil Hunters are trapped in this building possibly for an eternity waiting for death one of them has a panic attack one of them starts freaking out and goes full yandere They're laughing at each other denji falls asleep two of them decide now is the best time to pick up smoking power starts spouting up that she's gonna be prime minister and raise the sales tax to 100 and I'm sitting here being like what the [ __ ] am I watching chainsaw man could be a sitcom and it would still work it's like watching the cast of Always Sunny if they were stars of a Shonen action show are they [ __ ] yeah would you be friends with them probably a bad idea is it just hella entertaining to see how they operate in the situations they find themselves in yes [ __ ] it's all great stuff even if the structure is a bit reminiscent the previous shonins we've seen that is until this guy shows up and that's when things really start revving up this is the moment when chainsaw man really starts showing its true colors within the space of 20 minutes that shifts from first gear straight to fifth gear looks you dead in the arm goes you stupid [ __ ] did you really think you knew where this was going you feel like a dumbass for forgetting the type of world this all takes place in it is a cruel ruthless place where your entire life can change in one instance one bad experience one unlucky encounter there are no Second Chances and villains aren't [ __ ] around here and just as you start to think damn these bad guys are pretty damn scary mahmas then like [ __ ] only when you start to fear the bad guys do you see that the good guys are even more and you don't know what to believe who's good who's evil what's really going on more questions emerge while nothing gets answered and you realize the only thing you really knew is that you didn't know a damn thing this was the chainsaw man I expected tusky Fujimoto is and never has been a by the books guy it's like he lured us into a false sense of security then was like all right you've had your fun now I'm die thank you forever the more episodes I watched the faster I click on the next episode button and my only gripe is that it feels like we've only just begun 12 episodes feels brazily short for the story that chainsaw man has set up which begs the question am I just gonna read ahead in the manga no because what I'm doing is watching the anime then reading the manga yeah that's right you heard that correctly I'm reading the manga second how does that make you feel manga readers does that make you feel uncomfortable uneasy maybe I'll mix it up maybe I'll read a few chapters ahead and then let the anime cat jump maybe I'll reach up to 70 other context maybe I'll just translate it all into Braille and consume it that way yeah I don't know why I was going with this anime it's just my medium of choice there's nothing to replace kensuke ushio's hypnotic mesmerizing soundtrack The Stellar animation or the voice sighting that bring the chemistry these characters have to life [Music] impressive very nice and let's see the official Spanish dub [Music] um but there are a few manga artists out there like tatsuki Fujimoto and after reading what the anime is covered yeah he's a [ __ ] genius alright only so rarely do you find someone who has such Mastery of the page here is a man who knows how to use manga to its fullest potential which he does consistently if you're someone who's never really thought about layout paneling or page composition I implore you to read any one of his works and you are immediately realize oh that's why it matters I know this because I never did until I could see how masterfully it could be used well you know you could just watch my other video where I go in depth about it the work he's put into chainsaw man the way he uses manga to convey ideas and feelings is something that would be impossible to translate into another medium and so it doesn't but what Nuance it loses it makes up for by adding its own the anime takes its own approach in telling the story colors are more muted It characters look more realistic it slows everything down not to pad out the run time but just so you have time to get absorbed into this beautiful world and this has made some of the more dramatic moments hit even harder it isn't just reference Cinema it doesn't just look cinematic it feels cinematic almost as if this is an anime original production not taking its material from a manga I mean just look at something like this I [ __ ] love how it feels like this devil was just deleted from existence like it's what only an eerie outerworldly creature can do and it was just such a subtle thing that could only be conveyed in anime form it really seems like the team have put so much thought into the visual storytelling there are no lazy camera angles no throwaway shots and instead of trying to replicate what the manga has done they've asked themselves what is something that only we could do they added a two-minute scene of Aki getting ready in the morning and it is so beautifully calming that gives us a glimpse of who Aki is that was never in the manga this is some Makoto shinkai level of Vibes that absolutely did not need to be done which shows that someone there gives a [ __ ] and this isn't even mentioning how good of a job they're doing with the animation when people think good animation they see a pretty fight scene they think oh now this is good animation wait 10 frames of CG unwatchable but what they can gloss over is that 17 other minutes of anime in that anime chainsaw man simply looks breathtaking in almost every single frame fight scenes aside light there is no reason why walking animation needs to look this goddamn smooth or backgrounds look so spectacular or hand-holding scenes should awaken something in me [Music] and you know what I'll say it the CG doesn't even look bad I think the real reason it stands out points is just because of how goddamn spectacular everything else looks which experience is better I don't know whatever meeting me bloody prefer why not both you have two separate versions two separate Styles two separate approaches to telling this fantastic story in a way that utilizes their own medium to as Highest Potential instead of one trying to emulate the other and I can't even begin to tell you how rare of An Occurrence this is which is why it blows my mind when I see complaints that this scene doesn't look exactly how it does in the manga or this isn't how the manga depicted this one thing we have a chocolate cake and a chocolate ice cream in front of us and people are unhappy that it's not the exact same flavor of chocolate and I'm like bro you have a delicious ice cream and cake right in front of you why are you complaining chainsaw man is setting up for the series fans said it would be and it hit the jackpot of having an anime production this good while in no way replacing what the manga has done will these 12 episodes live up to the insane hype people said it would reach no but we already knew that so the real question is when the hell are we going to get more of it oh God hey guys hope you enjoyed that video thank you very much this month too Alpha Sigma basil dysfunctional degenerates iviedo Jeff lovados misaka12315 Payne Patchett Pony Stark waltergeist VT anyone else my patreon for helping to spawn me for this month and making this video possible alright guys I'm gonna keep this short and sweet this was the last gigguk upload of the year and yes I'm busy watching all of the anime in 2022 there is a lot to get through this was a very very good year for anime so I'm not going to keep you here for much longer I hope you've had a great 2022 I hope you have a Happy New Year and I'll see you guys next year

Channel: Gigguk

Views: 2,097,289

Keywords: Anime Zone, Gigguk, Top Anime, OP, ED, Chainsaw Man, Chainsaw Man Anime, Chainsaw Man Episode 1, CHainsaw man OP, CHainsaw man ED

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Length: 14min 17sec (857 seconds)

Published: Thu Dec 29 2022