The Complete History of Manga Explained

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[00:14] for the nostalgic Saturday morning cartoons you would purposefully wake up for super early in the morning so that you could sit down and gawk at it as you unloaded your baby bowels into your already full diapers from the night

[00:28] before the infinite plethora of blasting out of your crappy $25 skull Gandy earbuds that you know is going to be destroyed by the end of the week but it doesn't matter mom they did a fortnite collab and they don't accept v-bucks the

[00:41] countless number of days and nights you spend playing Mario Kart Double Dash with your friends where the only core memory that's somehow burned into the back of your brain is someone in the room saying damn it Steve I want it to

[00:53] be Yoshi but among that vast sea of choice there is one group of individuals who have dedicated their entire lives to this unique entertainment format coming from this really obscure and strange and insignificant country called nipon an

[01:07] art form that has no sound no movement no color and yet is somehow still able to enthral and capture the lives of millions of people all over the world for decades and decades a little art form called Manga look if you've been on

[01:22] my channel before then it should be no surprise to you but um I freaking love manga some of the earliest memories that I have of my life is Lally old me I have of my life is Lally old me sitting down on my pain playmat car rug

[01:34] while opening up volume two of the Duron manga that my mom gave to me from somewhere and reading that crap over and over and over again and just being absolutely enthralled into whatever the pages were showing me because little did

[01:47] I know that normally the number one comes before the number two and if then first of all hey how's it going it might be a surprise to you that I'm talking about this kind of stuff considering that my username here has a

[02:00] considering that my username here has a type of Japanese art form that that that much over the past 10 years or something but trust me if it wasn't for me reading manga in the first place I would never have gotten into whatever

[02:14] history the art form of manga has touched the hearts of people in so many different ways but I doubt a lot of you watching this video or know anything watching this video or know anything about manga know exactly how all of this

[02:27] came to be in the first place how did all this come together these crazy colorless lines on paper that somehow form characters and stories that people have fall in love with over decades come to be how it is today my name is Joey

[02:41] the anime man and this is the entire history of manga long well I better find some snacks or something to eat while I watch this

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[04:16] was watching the video how did I get inside of it oh God help help all right let's start at the very beginning uh an era that I'm sure many of your grandparents will have really fond memories of the year is 1100 ad the some

[04:29] would I have just been upgraded in Japanese Society to a much higher form of power than before and who knows they might get so up their own asses that they'll start taking over the government or something but I'm not going to tell

[04:42] in the midst of all of these culture defining tussles and Wars as Japan was trying to figure out who exactly they were a bunch of artists that were laying low from all of that war stuff were busy creating these things called amakim Mono

[04:57] or Illustrated Scrolls which were these beautiful horizontally laid out art pieces that use pictures to tell a story and sometimes little bits of very very difficult to read text like like so difficult it makes a doctor's note look

[05:10] like Times New Roman and these stories were really varied in genre I'm talking things like war and romance folklore religion and even sometimes a little bit that you would take these Scrolls you would unravel them spread them out

[05:26] horizontally and you would follow the pictures from right to left as it tried to tell you some kind of a coherent story sounds familiar right well from this obscure art movement bir what is commonly referred to as the first

[05:39] example of a manga in history this little thing right here called Chu Jim little thing right here called Chu Jim try and say that three times

[05:52] as I clearly am then uh you can try its English title which is uh Scrolls of frolicking animals and humans man they had these long ass light novel titles apparently written sometime between the 12th and 13th century the scroll and the

[06:08] author of The Scroll itself is hidden under a veil of a little bit of a historical mystery as only one author is seemingly credited in the creation of this scroll more namely this priest artist here called tobas soel but a lot

[06:21] of people believe that it wasn't just one artist that was responsible for this but rather a whole Collective of artists as when you go through each of the different scolls you start to see very differing Artistic Styles that would

[06:33] have been kind of difficult for just one author to do I don't know maybe they assistants along the way who knows now to my knowledge this has never been done on YouTube before this is a YouTube first that you are about to watch right

[06:46] now but considering the fact that I am probably the only person on YouTube who has ever talked about this particular scroll right here allow me to give you for the next couple of minutes a succinct review of what is considered

[07:00] the first manga ever created God damn get on my level booktubers I'm out here reviewing historical Scrolls dog the first scroll here shows a bunch of anthropomorphized animals doing all sorts of frolicking and jovial

[07:14] activities that animals in the forest normally do you know we're talking things like tag and sumo wrestling and a good old sesh of hikaro the second scroll however goes in a bit of a different direction and shows off some

[07:28] really normal looking animals like roosters and even the mythical creature kierin you know like the same kierin that you see on those beer cans in Japan who are just kind of standing around and looking very Majestic and mysterious

[07:41] it's a bit jarring compared to the first scroll you just saw considering just how much more simplistic this second scroll seemingly is like this is the kind of pictures you would see on your bootleg copy of geny textbook the third scroll

[07:53] however switches up things drastically and this time shows people frolicking around and doing jovial things I couldn't tell you exactly what they're doing in this particular scroll but hey this is water in Japan you got to make

[08:06] up your own fun somehow the fourth and final scroll here shows a little bit more of a cruder style painting of this time a bunch of people doing certain activities like riding around on Horseback or pulling a man who is

[08:20] surfing on a giant wooden log like he's godamn towel pie pie or something girls be like I bet he's cheating on me meanwhile the boys here just coming Ball scenes in their underwear you love to see it now if you've been listening

[08:35] to my crappy synopsis thus far you might be kind of scratching your head and be kind of scratching your head and saying to yourselves so Joey uh what what exactly is the story of this oh you stupid little weeb how I pity you there

[08:48] is no story in fact that's actually the biggest mystery that even historians of today are trying to get around to is the fact that these four Scrolls that seemingly are trying to tell some kind of a story don't really have any such

[09:03] coherent story let alone historians have no clue what exactly the original intentions of the creation of these Scrolls even were I mean you have to for a second cuz you're really only just looking at a bunch of pictures right now

[09:17] but the real thing is not just some like random siiz scroll that you'd see being sold at a local anime convention for $15 aart some of these Scrolls go up to 10 m long when unravel and weigh an absolute buttload of weight I just have a really

[09:32] difficult time believing that a bunch of Monk priests during a very politically fragile and War Tor time of Japan just kind of sat down together and smoked a joint and just went hey uh Jimmy over here just wants to start riding a bunch

[09:46] of animals and people just mocking around and uh and put it in a scroll and around and uh and put it in a scroll and just not elaborate any further and just this particular work because there's still so much to talk about in this

[10:00] video but if you are somewhat interested or I somehow convince you to become recommend you go down this rabbit hole in your own time because it is fascinating either way the bottom line of all of this is that Cho Jima here was

[10:14] responsible for firing off the Catalyst for what would become manga but just looking at this is still very very far away from how we today 21st century people conceive as the idea of manga so to see something a little closer to home

[10:28] we have to jump in into this time portal right here come with me

[10:42] owner by the name of santor Cen starts messing around one day drawing a bunch of illustrations inspired by works like Chu jiga and creates a work called shadon or book of manners that focuses more on modern day relationships during

[10:56] Chinese philosopher think of the previous works the decent amount of five-star reviews he got from that results in him creating Sho yukai originally created as a promotion for his tobacco shop but was purchased more

[11:09] for the quality of the content and as far as we know is actually the first Common usage of the word manga in Japanese history uh before we move on quick uh Japanese lesson the word manga is written like this in kanji with the

[11:23] first symbol meaning Whimsical and the second symbol meaning illustrations Whimsical illustrations manga you get it and although looking at these images from the Edo period may not necessarily fire off any Whimsical synapses in your

[11:37] brain today but back in the Eda period people lost their [ __ ] to this stuff bro you think the reveal of gear five was hyped to be a part of imagine being there during the Edo period when manga was literally invented I would have

[11:52] crapped inside of my hakers but enough of that let's fast forward the tape right here and head on to 1862 New Zealand just discovered what trains are some dude in France decides to write a small play called less Miserables or

[12:06] something and America is trying to figure out if racism bad they might need a little more time to think about that one meanwhile over in the UK some dude named Charles wman visits Yokohama for the first time and thinks the current

[12:19] state of Japan is a bit [ __ ] in it and publishes this the Japan punch a monthly magazine that satirically tears about the inequalities and ations that he noticed about Japanese media and politics and overall disparities between

[12:34] the Japanese and the forers who were trying to live in Japan during the major restoration the magazine used more western style comic strips and cartoons to criticize and poke fun of what was happening in Japanese Society at the

[12:46] time and the Japanese government hated this like they wanted this [ __ ] dead despite the backlash however the magazine gained a surprising amount of support from both foreigners and the Japanese and would actually later go on

[13:00] to influence the monthly magazine format that you see in a lot of manga today that's right japanophiles all your favorite manga magazines like jump and sunde and magazine were all started by some factious British dude talking [ __ ]

[13:16] about Japan put Shen Jump magazine in the British museum look that might be a here is that workman's unique mixture of Western influence newspaper comic art and the traditional ukya styled Japanese

[13:29] art that he was studying at the time would later go on to inspire a bunch of early manga series just 100 years later let's time skip again to the 1930s Amelia aart is about to make aviation history Disney just dropped their first

[13:43] Banger and Japan is about to commit a horrible War crime which I'm sure they'll never forget to admit to their citizens in the streets of Osaka there are these men walking around with cardboard plaques with pictures on them

[13:55] and telling stories to children on the streets by narrating each panel and flipping over to the next to create some kind of coherent story huh I wonder if art of kamishibai and it reached its peak of popularity during the Great

[14:10] sagge of the 30s until the invention of Television not long after ah television always ruining the fun but this now relatively Dead art form here went on to inspire arguably one of the most influential important manga series ever

[14:26] created and what I would like to think is the true beginnings of what manga would be known today sa oh you were expecting me to say Astro Boy weren't you well hold on to your butts all you seven asterid boy fans I I will get to

[14:40] you in a second just sit your ass down for a second there buddy because too many people overlook this series when talking about the actual history of manga but not me baby I'm a goddamn elitist created by H ma in 1949 it

[14:55] originally started as a four panel or yon manga in the ass newspaper and later went on to Ghana a whopping 68 volumes until haar's retirement in 1974 so you

[15:07] might be asking the hell is saai son about well I will tell you audience well the story follows Ison saai a Japanese wife and mother who isn't like your wife and mother who isn't like your average 1940s Japanese girl dog mm- not

[15:20] me she's not interested in putting on makeup or wearing a kimono to attract her future husband like every other lame Japanese woman was no instead she's interested in channeling her in a Keenan McWilliam and decides to join The Saddle

[15:34] Club only Australians are going to get that CH in a form of society where the common belief was that women belonged in the kitchen to serve their working husbands and basically be diligent slaves to their bread makers saai son

[15:47] says uh screw all that misogyny I'm a strong independent woman [ __ ] and goes around bossing her husband around in very Progressive and pro- feminist ways for the time to say that the story themes of saan was ahead of its time is

[16:02] a severe understatement and although the deeper themes can be perceived as somewhat libertarian the manga itself presents sai's life in light-hearted presents sai's life in light-hearted quirky lowi impact Slice of Life ways

[16:15] with the main focus being on the importance of family and enjoying the simpler things in life like being a horse girl and this family Dynamic would later go on to be the embodiment of the standard Japanese family post World War

[16:28] II so yay progression uh also quick tangent uh saai son actually got an anime adaptation back in 1969 nice and believe it or not it's still airing to this very day like if you thought one piece was long with its pitiful uh 1,000

[16:45] episodes get on saai Sun's level dog this monster has over 7,000 episodes I mean this series is so old that my own mother grew up watching

[16:57] this series as did I and my mother is old as [ __ ] sorry Mom now what Mak saan here so important in this conversation is what it actually ended up doing for

[17:09] the early days of the modern conception of manga this is post World War II which was a real explosive moment in Japan artistically speaking H's work on saan would later be adopted into what we now know as the shjo genre that focus more

[17:25] on daily life and simple themes that could be explored in in depth at a slow yet richer pace and while we are here in the hospital during this birthing of the manga world it is time to introduce the key figure of this video nay the most

[17:40] important figure of this entire video ladies and Gentlemen please bring to the ladies and Gentlemen please bring to the stage the father of manga himself tzo Samu this man was a a genius to say the least born in Acker in 1928 he grew up

[17:56] eventually inspired him to start drawing notably apparently having watched the film Bambi over 80 times in a row which I don't

[18:08] know how any human could stomach that amount of sadness at once like not even Myspace era Emos out there would be able to do that at the ripe young age of 17 he draws and publishes his first manga maik or the Diary of Maran a four panel

[18:24] manga following the daily life of this preschool kid named marchan which I that to you it's it's literally in the title although there was only one volume ever published and looking at it now the art style is not up to par with tesa's

[18:38] leader works the series ended up being a relative success for Tesa and there even being physical marand dolls being made and sold to the public technically making these the first ever piece of manga merchandise ever created how did

[18:53] we go from something like cool and interesting like this to pin Badges and clear files otaka merch has really fallen off a year after the success of marcha one of tesa's mates who happened to be a big fan of the classic book

[19:07] Treasure Island approached and convinced Tesa to make a manga adaptation of it Tesa to make a manga adaptation of it which turned into 1947's Shin takarajima which was an absolute massive success in the manga world and really put tesa's

[19:21] name on the map and kick off what is referred to by many as the Golden Age of manga now sh takarajima here was quite a landmark for manga not necessarily for its art style but rather for the way that it was constructed today we all

[19:37] know that manga consists of frames or k are multiple windows on a single page that cut off and independently contextualize a scene so that readers can focus on them one at a time while

[19:51] reading manga typically up until this point in the world of manga there would only really be one frame per page but shin takarim was one of the earliest adopters of using multiple smaller frames in a single page using not just

[20:04] simple squares but other geometric shapes like circles and even manuscript inspiration from American newspaper Comics at the time but was implemented in longer singular stories that spanned across multiple pages and multiple

[20:19] volumes which as you all know now became the basis of manga storytelling today it's interesting to think that something as simple as using multiple panels in multiple pages to show a character maybe traveling from one place to another was

[20:33] absolutely mindboggling and revolutionary for its time and really sunk the readers into the world of the story they were reading and the pacing of which Tesa constructed these panels was very calculated as well remember how

[20:46] TSA grew up watching a lot of Disney films you know like Bambi 80 times like the absolute psychopath he was well tessica understood the pace at which readers would be looking at these panels and spaced out the movements so that it

[20:58] would replicate something close to animation frames to make movements and action sequences more fluid and easier to follow which is shocking that a manga from almost 80 years ago was able to do that but you still get manga in the

[21:12] modern days that aren't able to do that for whatever reason after the success of shin takarajima and while in medical school Tesa steps into the kitchen and chefs up his sci-fi Trilogy Masterpiece Lost World metropolis and next World

[21:27] which featured early adoptions of the steampunk genre that at the time was kind of unheard of in Japan this series would be the direct Catalyst of some of the most well-known sci-fi manga ever created like matoto dei's epic

[21:42] Masterpiece Space Battleship Yamato and hay Miyazaki Mir Shon and Conan just to name a few and if you've never heard of those series before then I think you need to revoke your manga anime fan card because they are genuinely some of the

[21:56] most important sci-fi series ever created in the world of mongan anime [ __ ] it up soon after the success of this Trilogy and while riding the wave of popularity tessica crafts his first True commercial success with Kimber the

[22:12] White Lion an often underrated an unappreciated manga that Disney just went ahead and definitely did not rip off every single portion of but everyone seems to be cool with it because hakun Matana it means no copyrigh in free M

[22:29] really start to see the heavy adoption of the quote unquote Manga style that was a lot different in flavor to earlier works of Western comic strips around the time not just in the physical art with its big eyes expressive faces and

[22:43] physically written in on aad appears like wind gusting through the plains or someone getting bonked in the Noggin but also in its deeper themes and narrative structures that were previously somewhat unexplored if you've never read Kimber

[22:56] the history of manga then I highly implore you to go out there and do so because this Series has aged tremendously well like that great Whiskey on Grandma's top shelf and despite its cute aesthetic on the

[23:10] surface below the surface it is an incredibly dark story the story follows Kimber a white lion ain't no way who lives in a relatively free and safe African safari with his parents but after kima's Dad approaches a nearby

[23:24] Village to feed his starving lion children he is ultimately killed and skinned completely of his hide while his mother is shipped off to Samu which kicks off DreamWorks Masterpiece animation Madagascar after learning

[23:37] about this absolutely horrible fate Kima sets off on a quest to learn about the human world and swears to protect his homeland while pursuing the idea of peace and understanding with the human race just like his late father would

[23:49] have wanted now although tzo was not the first manger artist to do these kinds of coming of age philosophical stories about death and destruction and mut ual understanding of the enemy i' say he was one of the first to Perfect all three at

[24:02] the same time with Kimber mind you these fairly dark and brooding and deep themes that I just talked about were presented and shipped and sold to Children Kimber

[24:14] the White Lion is a children's manga while the West was reading Cliff of the Big Red Dog over here teso was like don't mind me boys just just planting the seeds of generational trauma Japanese kids in the ' 50s must have

[24:26] just been built diff because of manga this and T knew exactly what he was doing as he would go on just a year later to publish arguably one of the most famous manga series ever created Astro Boy thank thank you so much for

[24:40] waiting Astro Boy fans here we are this was the beginning of what I like to call the anime eye aesthetic you know how every person who has no idea about anime and doesn't care to know anything about anime know the sole fact that these

[24:54] characters have these massive bug likee oples that are way too anatomically big for their tiny faces well Astro Boy here was basically the first popular example of this style and would later influence every Shonen shjo and pretty much every

[25:09] other manga from here on out with this very distinctive aesthetic look I'm not going to dive too deeply into the story or the themes of astroboy because there has already been millions of liters of ink spilled about what makes astroy so

[25:24] influential but all you need to understand is that this little boy right here and the series that he is a part of is without a doubt the most influential and successful manga series ever created if you don't believe me and

[25:38] you just think that I'm some old jaded biased dude towards the oldies but Goldies consider this to this day the asteroid Boy manga has sold a 100 million copies worldwide to put that into perspective that has sold more than

[25:53] into perspective that has sold more than Death Note spy family and one punch man combined mind and yet still to this very day for some reason AST boy is constantly thrown out of the goat conversation when it comes to manga or

[26:08] the greatest manga of all time because uh it's old and no one reads it anymore and oh it was just the first manga ever created so it's not like just shut up go read AST boy for sake you call yourself a manga fan or if you're just

[26:22] like so allergic to Vintage manga then at least do me a favor and go and read Pluto the spiritual successor to Astro Boy because the story is absolutely amazing just can we just stop disrespecting My Boy Astro Boy for for

[26:35] just a quick second please I beg of you rant over let's get back on topic tzo would go on to write over 200 individual manga series in his life time some of which becoming absolute goliaths of the' 60s and' 70s like Blackjack Doo and

[26:51] Buddha but there's one Series in particular that I want to highlight not necessarily because it is the most important in his catalog but more so because it is a series that I find to be one of his best works one of his most

[27:04] influential works and what I think is maybe one of the best Manga series ever made to this day Phoenix it's kind of difficult to convey exactly what makes this series special but one thing I can say is that Phoenix is tz's equivalent

[27:20] to Frank Herbert's Dune series like Dune Phoenix was tesa's life work in fact he actually died before he could finish the entire series off with the latest Arc Sun being published just a year before his death the story is about

[27:34] reincarnation and the effects that this ideology has on Humanity as a whole but the manga is interesting in the way that it is constructed as it follows multiple main characters across multiple moments

[27:46] of space and time for example the first book Dawn is set around 200 ad where humanity is still in its roots and this idea of gods and spirituality is at its most esoteric the legend of the Phoenix is murmured amongst the people who

[27:59] believe that you will be able to gain immortality by drinking its blood but that Revelation causes Humanity to split in two resulting in war famine betrayal and ultimately death in Pursuit Of Life the following Arc future then fast

[28:14] forwards 3,000 years to the end of humanity and is the final part of this story chronologically which is crazy for 1967 I mean the same thing can be said for Frank Herbert's Dune over here but tzo was doing these kinds of out of

[28:28] order storytelling stuff before Tarantino or niio isin and yet it still all makes perfect sense to this day the idea of jumping around different times and locations to explore vague and subjective matters like the inner

[28:41] psychology of immortality and life was an incredibly Forward Thinking way of Storytelling for its time and would later go on to inspire goated manga writers of all genas like seriously this dude just did not let go when it came to

[28:55] the inspiration Department look was that whole section just an excuse for me to talk about one of my favorite manga series ever created and possibly one of the greatest manga series ever written of course it was you dummy now go and

[29:07] read Phoenix otherwise I'm going to completely scrap that oam ppun idea that I planned about 5 years ago don't make me do it I I I swear to God before we move along any further in this messy timeline of manga let's take an

[29:20] important detour to talk about a genre of manga that is again constantly undervalued and underappreciated amongst the general manga reading audience the shjo genre listen uh I know this may be hard to believe for some of you but uh I

[29:34] am a male I may have a micro penis but I'm still a male but earlier in the video I mentioned hassa Macho's influence on the genre as a

[29:47] whole well not long after the success of saan came an absolute explosion of quality manga series from the shjo genre but the one manga that really kicks started the shjo manga movement alongside saai son as it's known today

[30:02] alongside saai son as it's known today is this little manga released in 1953 called Princess Knight which was created by you guessed it teso Samu seriously what could this man not do get stop cooking for God's sake now princess

[30:17] Knight here was revolutionary in the manga world for a number of reasons it was one of the first manga series to openly portray a strong female lead with androgynous qualities with the main character sappire having been born with

[30:29] the blue heart of a male and the pink heart of a female trust me it makes ask Not only was this the first example of gender bending in manga but it would also go on to influence many tropes we would later see in both shjo and non

[30:44] Shojo works like the aformentioned strong female leads in manga like Nana and the rose of Versa as well as every other now very tropy quality that you see in every show Joo heroin from this point onwards at the same time there was

[30:59] massive influence taken from the world of jooga or lyrical paintings a style of painting started in the early 1900s that focused on strong internal emotions being portrayed in a more physical outside world sense which we would see

[31:14] later on strewn all over the Shojo manga wall with its bubbly soft and sensitive portrayals of emotion like now that I know this fact the way that shjo manga is structured makes total sense to me like like when I first saw this kind of

[31:28] stuff I always wondered like where these shapes were coming from like I thought it was like some like weird glare coming through the window type of thing like God damn bro it's it's sunny close the blinds but having seen the success of

[31:41] Princess Knight a bunch of monthly shjo magazines were created afterwards like getan nakayoshi and getan ribbon just to name the more famous ones like these are kind of the equivalents if you don't know to like Shen jump in the shjo world

[31:54] like in the Shen world the shjo movement would also go on to expand and experiment in its multiple genre fusions until we arrive at the ultimate queen of shjo manga a little series by Tako chinalco called Sailor Moon listen guys

[32:09] chinalco called Sailor Moon listen guys do I even need to go into detail about why this series is important in the context of this video well let me do it long enough it revolutionized not only the magical girl genre as we know it but

[32:23] also made the shjo genre accessible to an otherwise non Shojo fan base with series due to its complex character Dynamics and batshit insane story lines which ju by the way just keep getting more and more insane the further you

[32:37] read into Sailor Moon I remember years ago when I visited the uh Sailor Moon Museum right here with my cousin and I was legitimately not only the only Foreigner in this Museum but I was legitimately the only dude in this

[32:50] entire Museum and I still remember to this day the hundreds of pairs of judging eyes who just watching me stroll through this very pink space and in my

[33:02] head I just thought like girls why are you looking at me that way I'm one of you guys sure was it a bit traumatic was it a bit awkward sure but that wasn't going to stop me from enjoying some Kaw anime girls you feel me dog skino usagi

[33:16] here the main character was also one of the first examples of the superheroin subg genre that focused on female leads having characteristics that posed as more ambitious and dutiful and introspective compared to the meek and

[33:28] obedient female heroins you would see in other shjo manga at the time if you were alive during the peak of the Sailor Moon manga in anime then you would remember every single girl who read it or watched it wanting to grow up to be like a

[33:42] Sailor Scout someone who was strong willed heroic and badass and every male who grew up reading Sailor Moon wanted to date a girl that had all of these qualities I mean I sure as hell did God the amount of times I dreamt about being

[33:57] with girl like Sailor Mercury right here Jesus Christ Army just take me now as someone personally who also read and watched a lot of Sailor Moon growing up I can tell you firsthand that this series singlehandedly made me interested

[34:12] series singlehandedly made me interested in the shjo genre from a young age and actually proved to me that not all hard-hitting action series necessarily need to fit into the shown in genre manga series like revolutionary girl UTA

[34:24] manga series like revolutionary girl UTA fusi Yugi eslon card to Sakura Banana Fish these are just the tip of the tip of the iceberg of fantastic and enjoyable shjo series that really all people of all genders can appreciate and

[34:39] is really proving that shjo can be somewhat of a misleading genre title but let's pull the handbrake here for a second and think potentially well what if we want something a little spicier I mean all these

[34:53] and all but not everybody in the world swings that way it's 2024 get with the times people well someone in the shjo manga World thought the exact same thing and one day woke up and decided to be a Marty by creating a brand new sub genre

[35:09] of Shojo manga that would soon take over the entire internet yahi in the late 70s there were two manga artists namely sakas and hatu Akiko who were kneed deep in the do jinii movement at the time meaning manga that was independently

[35:24] created and released as opposed to getting big publication companies to Works think of it kind of like the Indie music scene that does whatever the they want to do as opposed to releasing music

[35:36] on a major label the two came together started drawing up some shjo manga added a couple of ghost peppers into it and coined the term ywi which fun fact if you didn't know is actually an acronym for the phrase

[35:50] yamashii IMI which in English translates to no climax no conclusion no meaning probably has the most amount of climaxing I've ever seen if you get my

[36:03] drift the yahi movement was originally started as a parody of sorts and a subtle you to the mainstream manga world as well as being used in the community in a sort of post ironic self-deprecating way to describe manga

[36:16] that mostly consisted of mainstream manga boys making Furious Love towards one another which in turn caused every single female in Japan to simultaneously froth at the mouth and spew rainbows from there multiple subg genres of the

[36:30] yahi movement started to be born starting with sha and I or boy love which is pretty self-explanatory it's boys making love so then evolving into sub genres like tanby or aesthetic manga which focus more on having a wellth

[36:45] thought out narrative and structure than just two dudes boning each other for the sake of it to then finally evolving into junet Works which focus more on Original Stories and characters rather than just you know to of Roi and deu fisting each

[36:59] something like that but I know it exists one publication I found while doing research for this part of the video by the way about yahoi Monga describes the the way about yahoi Monga describes the genre as uh pedantic and difficult to

[37:13] understand but I I seriously don't know what's so difficult about all of this like have they watched Serial Experiment Lane obviously the yahi movement was originally aimed towards a female audience who were looking for this sort

[37:27] of stuff but over the years its Evolution has birthed some genuinely great storytelling and genre combinations that have slightly opened up the audience to whoever can or wants to stomach this kind of stuff I don't

[37:39] judge works on genre I judge works on the quality of their contents and I have read my fair share of yahoi manga and in case you were wondering cuz I'm sure no one asked my favorite yahoi manga of all time is killing stalking this one right

[37:53] here combining elements of psychological horror and human drama it's a genuinely thrilling story that keeps delivering devastating blow after blow with its mystery elements that is genuinely exciting to read even if you may not

[38:08] care anything about the whole yahi stuff that's involved in it and yes I get it I now oh Joey The Killing stalking is technically not a manga it's a Korean manga yeah I get it all right but that

[38:21] doesn't take away from the fact that killing stalking is a great freaking it of course we can't forget about the other type of spicy manga genre women on other type of spicy manga genre women on women action aka the scissor Synergy AKA

[38:35] Yuri Manga funnily enough actually the origin of Yuri Manga actually stems from origin of Yuri Manga actually stems from a gay men's magazine from the 1970s called barazoku with its editorinchief at the time itaku labeling the

[38:48] at the time itaku labeling the Magazine's female readers as Yoku or the Lily tribe like am I the only one that finds that vigorously ironic and hilarious in case you wondering over history white lies in Japan were used to

[39:01] represent Purity and Beauty in women which describes a lot of Yuri Manga out there because godamn they they they all look way too beautiful for this planet in the early '90s we started to see entire magazines dedicated to this very

[39:15] Niche sub genre like ladies comic misto and comic udim before exploding in popularity in the late '90s and early 2000s with works like the Affion Sailor Moon which definitely weren't afraid to show two characters being very very

[39:30] lovey-dovey towards one another in most instances I would say ah Jesus girls get get a room but in this instance no please let me take a closer look enhance enhance godamn it of course this also ended up becoming quite controversial at

[39:45] the time with the international version of Sailor Moon changing the relationship of Sailor Neptune and saor urinous here from simple lesbian lovers to from simple lesbian lovers to uh cousins you know cousins that

[39:59] sometimes aren't afraid to Bone one another like what the like did lard skinnard make these changes some of my personal Yuri recommendations are namely Bloom into you Citrus and my lesbian experience with loneliness especially

[40:14] somewhat weird title and aesthetic please give this one a read cuz it is Storytelling now at this point in the video we've established the beginnings of a lot of genres that we see in manga today but as you are all well aware

[40:29] manga really does push the boundaries when it comes to genres that can be explored so let's take a closer look at some of the more notable genre defining artists that are in the manga world uh a lot of which will involve this man right

[40:42] here nag listen I hate to break it to you but uh I don't think you can call yourself a manga fan without knowing who this esteemed gentleman is because man did this guy run so other mangas could walk I think if Tesa is considered the

[40:57] father of manga to everyone then nagay should be credited as like the cool Uncle of manga because of the sheer amount of innovation he brought to manga today this video is long enough so let's go through them one by one shall we the

[41:11] Super Robot or Mecha genre commonly associated with franchises like Gundam actually got its modern interpretation from naga's series mzinga Zed up until this point mecham Monga would have the controller or the pilot of the robot be

[41:24] placed independently to where the robot actually is usually in the form of some kind of like joystick based controller like what you would see in t but nag instead said hey here's an idea what if the the controller of the robot is

[41:40] concept actually came about actually apparently Naga was stuck in really heavy traffic one day on the way to work and thought to himself man I wish my car

[41:52] would just like I don't know turn into a robot or something so that I could just like walk AC cross all the traffic or something actually that's a really good idea the affirmation magical go genre was pushed further by Naga series cutie

[42:05] honey which according to nagay himself is the first example of a female lead in a Shen manga now there isn't much like Source on that and and it may just be a thing of like nagay just making it the [ __ ] up but hey this man has too much of

[42:20] a legacy u i I don't doubt him for a second about that the post-apocalyptic violence Jack which ended up getting in anime adaptations during the OVA boom of

[42:32] the80s and Jesus Christ it's so incredibly violent like I know violence is in the title of this series but it's almost comical how violent violence Jack

[42:44] actually is like it makes the first episode of Elf and Lee look like godamn Sesame Street and if n's track record wasn't already impressive enough for you guys he was also the first person ever to Pioneer the ety genre with this

[42:57] series Haden gakin which would go on to breed an entire generation of men and women frothing at two-dimensional boobies and panties in their Discord servers and if you are one of those people leave a like on this video oh and

[43:11] commercially successful manga ever created devil man which would go on to inspire an insane roster of future mangers and Anime creators like oh I don't know only one of the most incredibly influential and popular anime

[43:26] series ever created Neon Genesis Evangelion don't know if youve ever heard of it but it's pretty good n's contribution to manga truly cannot be understated mind you he made all of these Series in the span of like 15

[43:40] years and throughout his entire lifetime contributed to over 360 individual manga contributed to over 360 individual manga series now that is dedication at the top level but let's talk about dedication in a different sense namely dedication to

[43:55] just one long running ser Series so I throw the question over to you guys what is the longest running manga series ever naturally you might think of titles like one piece or JoJo's bazarre Adventure or baky and as impressive as these volume

[44:09] counts are they pale in comparison to the king of this title golgo 13 originally created by Saito Tako the series started in 1968 and believe it or not is still ongoing to this day at the time of me recording this video GoGo 13

[44:25] has 2 11 volumes now if you've never heard of Gogo 13 then I don't blame you because this series is mostly known only in Japan and I feel that weirdly enough this is a pattern that we see with a lot

[44:40] of very very long running manga series you know series like Doin and K being great examples of that but you're probably wondering Joey what the hell probably wondering Joey what the hell kind of story warrants 200 plus volumes

[44:54] well simply put the story of Gogo 13 follows our tit main character here who is a professional assassin and each chapter or story arc follows golgo carrying out assassination missions sent to him by basically whoever can afford

[45:07] his Services the way the manga has managed to last this long is that newer story arcs follow more current time events with the inclusion of time sensitive real life individuals like for example former US president Donald Trump

[45:20] being portrayed as this corrupt businessman called Ronald Trump that is genius also in a classic Act of fictional storytelling the age of the

[45:32] main character here remains pretty much unchanged which works great for the author because he had originally set up golgo to have a unidentified age and background as his whole character profile so it's almost like he planned

[45:47] for this story to be extremely long also uh here's a fun fact about GoGo you never asked for uh the name GoGo 13 is actually a reference to the death of Jesus Christ with golgo being short for gol gotha the place where Jesus was

[46:02] crucified and 13 being traditionally viewed as The Unlucky number I think these independently constructed episodic series that focus more on a little shorter singular story lines over and over again one after the other rather

[46:15] than one big overarching story like you'd see in a lot of long running shown in series is the key ingredient to having these extremely long serializations because God knows how the hell GoGo can still do what he does

[46:29] after 56 years like like my man should be carrying a can and a respirator not a fuing high caliber rifle come here Sunny let me teach you how to fire off this M16 I learned how to do this in World War I here we go like Gramps chill out

[46:44] you're really scaring me but speaking of scary let's talk about another manga genre that I personally have a great love and appreciation for horror I think a lot of people manga fans included kind of under value a lot of horror manga

[46:58] because uh it's not even that scary man like what are you some kind of [ __ ] the answer is yes did you not hear about my micro penis earlier most people think of Ito junji as the father of horror manga and although that assessment isn't

[47:12] exactly false we got to give proper credit where credit is due so let's talk about the actual beginnings of horror manga with umak kazul if junjiito is considered the father of horror manga then umak kazul I say was like

[47:27] the god of horror manga or I guess maybe the Satan of horror manga works off the tongue you get what I mean funnily enough umzu actually got his start by writing Shojo manga series but with a very obvious horror twist his

[47:42] with a very obvious horror twist his 1965 manga hiby or nut or reptilia is often credited as being one of the first successful horror manga that would also later go on to shape horror manga into the modern era by influencing people

[47:54] such as Junito one aspect that made reptilia really stand out was um's combination of traditional shjo manga Aesthetics with some gruesome and maab imagery that heavily utilized the style of old ukio paintings from the 1600s in

[48:10] fact some of these Works were so gruesome and so terrifying at the time that apparently umzu would get complaints from parents of young children who were just trying to read their favorite shjo manga but instead

[48:23] had to be subject to some of the most terrifying iny that kids could have seen in the 60s mommy what is that thing coming out of that girl's stomach did she eat too much spicy me balls but it wasn't all just for pure shock value in

[48:36] fact one of his most famous works the drifting classroom would go on to be a massive inspiration for future horror manga and would even grab himself the manga and would even grab himself the 1974 shakan manga award which is an

[48:50] absolute upset I mean to understand how much of an upset this series winning the sh K manga award is it's kind of like the equivalent of Cannibal Corpse winning a Grammy which I'm sad that hasn't happened yet also I found out

[49:03] while doing research for this video that apparently one of umzu assistants back in the day was none other than rumo Takahashi the creator of ramaha uru yatra and Inuyasha let that sink in I guess if you think about it it kind of

[49:18] makes sense since Takahashi is also considered a Shojo mongus that isn't afraid of throwing in slightly maab and traditional Japanese horror elements into her works like what you would see in some scenes of inha or mermaid Saga

[49:31] in some scenes of inha or mermaid Saga but just knowing that this somehow but just knowing that this somehow influenced this is really cool and weird at the same time from here it's kind of difficult to pinpoint exactly what came

[49:43] next in the chronology of the history of manga as this era really did help Boom the popularity of manga as a concept and as pretty much a household name for all

[49:55] genders and all demographics you had the birth and growth of different sports manga with series like Ashan captain sabasa and slam dunk whose successes not only became phenomena in the manga world but also would go on to be cultural

[50:10] phenomena for the individual sports like slam dunk here for example greatest sports manga ever created it's not even an argument shut up kids was so insanely popular that it singlehandedly brought the sports of basketball to Japan and

[50:24] according to a bunch of studies apparently there was a incredible Spike of kids in middle school and high school who joined their basketball teams as a direct result of the power of this manga and I know that to be a fact because I

[50:39] started playing basketball because of slam dunk in fact the late ' 80s and the early '90s is considered by many to be the second golden age of manga thanks predominantly to its incredibly strong lineup of different shown and manga that

[50:55] were just making wav after wave after wave I'm talking Dragon Ball YuYu huo Fist of the Northstar Roni Kenshin Yu-Gi-Oh City Hunter saint eyes Shaman King hikaro Prince of Tennis JoJo's Bizarre Adventure oh my God and that's

[51:11] just shown and jump in the late ' 90s and early 2000s then came the third golden age of manga with some of the most well-known and internationally recognized manga series emerging from this era we obviously have the big three

[51:24] you know one piece Naruto and bleach but on top of that you had some other incredibly prolific and wellestablished manga series that came after it as well look at Detective Conan for Metal Alchemist Death Note berserk Dy Man

[51:38] Hunter Hunter Attack on Titan one punch man fairy tale honestly the list goes on and on and looking back on all of this retrospectively I think there are mainly two reasons as to why the third golden age of manga actually happened not to

[51:51] say that these Works weren't just as good or even better than its predecessors but was certainly helped by these two reasons to become as popular as they did become reason number one being the power of the internet which

[52:05] pushed the discoverability and conversation of this Niche medium called manga to the Western World with blog pages and news articles and YouTube channels with questionable quality helping to further push the discussion

[52:18] of manga forward to all demographics the second reason being a little more on the subtler side but just as important manga Publishers in Japan suddenly had this Epiphany where they went oh wait you don't have to be Japanese to

[52:35] enjoy manga the birth of many International Anime conventions and a huge Spike of interest to just visit Japan for otaka related reasons really told the manga industry that there is actually a huge demand for this stuff

[52:48] outside of Japan and so Publishers started making deals with official translation teams and international Publishers to push their Works into the world and as the years progress there are still plenty of new mangas

[53:03] emerging out of the Woodworks that are here to push manga forward in some of the most creative and innovative ways fujimo tatki taen 5 and Miaki Nat are just a handful of my personal favorite new manga artists that are really

[53:18] pushing the boundaries of what is considered manga and giving something really unique to the world that has already birthed thousands thousand and thousands of ideas that have somehow managed to make their way out of the

[53:32] crevice of the darkness and into the Limelight of Rita's eyes and every time I visit my local bookstore I'm still constantly finding new refreshing ideas for manga which I'm sitting back and inevitably waiting for them to be turned

[53:46] apparently what happens in this day and age look there are so many different manga series I can delve into in this video but the whole point of the video video is this manga is truly beautiful I think after knowing its history of how

[54:01] it came to be and being aware of the Giants whose shoulders modern manga stands on really helps you to appreciate the medium for what it is because day in and day out manga is still being innovated and expanded upon thanks to

[54:14] outside Inspirations new trends and the overall growth of adjacent Japanese overall growth of adjacent Japanese media like anime and games and light novels and of course hentai and as much as I personally have a fondness for the

[54:28] oldie but Goldies I grew up on I am truly and honestly excited to see where manga is going to go from here I think you really need to have a special mind and skill in order to create these Vivid imaginative and wonderful worlds and

[54:44] Concepts that readers all over the world can just get sucked into all while just using a couple of pens and a sheet of paper and I truly believe that the people who are able to do that weeken and week out every single month every

[54:58] single day without rest need to be appreciated and respected whether you personally enjoy their works or not because the sad truth is 99% of mangas out there don't see the massive monetary success they don't see the worldwide

[55:14] praise and glory they don't see the distribution of countless bootleg merch of their Works being sold on Alibaba and wish but still decide to go through that grueling and arduous task of making the stories that are trapped into their mind

[55:30] into a readable reality purely for the love and appreciation for the art as cheesy as it is to say I really can't imagine a world without manga because ever since that fateful day I picked up that volume of dyon while sitting on my

[55:44] PE stained car rug my life has truly changed for the better through experiencing these stories and characters and worlds it's really made me appreciate so many things in life that I still carry with me to this day

[55:59] so thank you mangas for your hard work and dedication to the craft thank you manga for giving us and millions all across the world a place that we can just get lost in and enjoy to our hearts content and thank you for watching this

[56:14] content and thank you for watching this [Music] really freaking long time to research and uh make so uh hope you guys enjoyed

[56:27] it uh go ahead put in the comments I I know you probably already have at this point of well oh my God an actual anime manga video by Joey the anime man ain't no way yeah hilarious joke guys go ahead throw throw it in the comments I don't

[56:42] give a [ __ ] but I wanted to come back to like talking about anime and manga in a little bit more of a different format to how I normally do it so if you did enjoy this video please be sure to leave a like and leave a comment below on what I

[56:54] should do next also I've left the titles to all of the manga series that I in case you missed any of them or you want to check them out for yourself I've made it a little bit easier for you to look it up in your own time and and uh

[57:06] video I'm going to go read Phoenix now for the 30th time because it's amazing and you guys should definitely go and read it so thank you guys so much for watching this video hey check out some of these videos here that I have as well

[57:20] uh you can go do that as well I appreciate that subscribe if you're new and I'll see you guys in the next video Johnny