I was boredly looking around YouTube on this Sunday morning and in the mood to watch some bozo talk about anime, maybe get some insights, discover some obscure hidden gem and the like.
However, I found it surprisingly hard to find quality in that scene, beyond niche video-makers like Kenny Lauerdale. Thus I was wondering if you have any recommendations of some people you like making videos about anime.
Good anime youtubers are pretty hard to find, you often end up seeing them make like 1-5 videos where 1 was extremely controversial to anime fans (reactionaries) and then they stopped making videos forever. An obvious example of this is the Goblin Slayer ideology video https://youtu.be/VPX2fWgoiyg This person was a great video maker and just disappeared and unlisted this video because of what it stirred up, a real shame.
Yeah, goblin slayer is too tough a subject for anime fans. They as a rule don’t have the artistic literary to not have the worst takes about it. I know my takes are awful about it.
The problem is when a show is good in a number of ways people switch their brains off to criticism unless the criticism is so blatantly obvious that it can’t be ignored. You can see this with Attack on Titan which they generally accept deserves criticism for its blatantly fascist message. Since the issues with Goblin Slayer are hidden within the art and framework rather than the explicit point of the story this gets lost on them.
I just like the show about a guy who fights to protect the poor people the government ignores because it is the right thing to do. Then everyone sees how cool he is for doing that and become his friends.
hazel makes a lot of cool videos - not always anime
Colleen’s Manga Recs is pretty cool. Mostly works around josei and shojo stuff, which isn’t my typical genre, but very helpful to broaden my horizons.
I could probably recommend more podcasts than YouTube channels, but that wasn’t the assignment lol
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Super eyepatch wolf is good.
I think mother’s basement is probably tolerable.
There are a bunch that make like two good videos then stop posting. Moon channel is good.
MB released some cringe video a while back. I couldn’t find it because i realized he took it down lol. It was about how you shouldn’t pirate anime
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Pause and Select was my favourite anime channel, but he got busy irl and doesn’t make that much content anymore
Zeria and Pedantic Romantic were also good but they kinda disappeared. Short rule of thumb, if a Youtuber makes a video about Revolutionary Girl Utena (and “gets” it) they’re usually cool and good.
