Comic Books With The Prettiest Art

November 1st of 2007 manga author shinichi Sakamoto comes out with a series called the climber the climber is a very strange manga that was based on a very strange guy who in the 1930s waser refer to as the immortal Mountaineer alpinists at the time were convinced he was invincible alpinists themselves are already insane people it's a hobby where just for funsies people will go in groups put on shoes with spikes on the bottom that are called crampons carry what is literally an entire apartment on their back and climb up a mountain often attached to one

another via an extremely long piece of rope you know to slightly prevent the odds of dying its appeal I think comes from the fact that you are engaging in the ultimate form of like five different Hobbies you are hiking rock climbing camping land scuba diving and pursuing a PhD in snow hydrology each day each step you are literally dealing with about a million different factors that are constantly changing constantly increasing the chances of you one day becoming rest in peace John he was pretty [ __ ] weird but then so why do so many people

bother with this hobby why is it that every time I see footage of Mount Everest it is the most overpacked group of insane people spending two entire months trying to reach the summit well the answer can be summed up in two words rich egotists with way too much money in free time so like eight words but then this all brings us back to the 1930s a time that was pre- Netflix pre- TED Talks pre ghostwritten self-published Amazon bestseller autobiographies pre any social incentive to risk your life by climbing tall mountains a time where alpinists were

simply just granola people on steroids and so now imagine that and then imagine someone actively trying to make the sport even more dangerous that is the immortal Mountaineer AKA Kat in his early 20s he had become known for going on these insane escapades where he' descends some of the highest mountains in Japan like Mount Yari all by himself soon after his name started reaching the local newspaper about climbers spotting this mysterious figure that was ascending these mountains at extremely fast rates this is considered to be extremely dangerous because Mountaineers have to be very careful about

what pace they ascend their routes once you reach an elevation of over 8,000 M it's often advised to stay at this level for a day or two in order to avoid altitude sickness you can't just any% speedrun Earth years later he came across a crew in the northern Alps that was being led by another Mountaineer named Nakamura who had told him mate your living on borrowed time this then LED Kata to write out an entire Manifesto in response a 744 W essay explaining his reasoning for why he decided to pursue mountaineering in this way in

his words he wanted to think of himself as an Alpine Ali ganger a German word for a guy who was willing to take the life-threatening routes that hadn't been discovered yet as opposed to the ones that have already been cleared out by others in the past he also mentions that he just didn't want to invite anyone else into what he'd call his search for truth and knowledge because he believed it would distract him from that process then saying this why climb mountains I climb because I want to climb surely it's a good enough reason to

climb if one is moved to do so by some irrepressible Instinct of the spirit but even after making this Manifesto two years later he finally took nakamura's words to heart whether it was because of his recent marriage or the fact that having a partner was a requirement to take on harder routes it's not exactly clear as to what changed his mind although we know for sure is that for around 2 years he finally began to make his ascents with another climber named Yoshida tomihisa and then in January of 1936 the two of them went on

an attempt to revisit the summit of Mount Yari and that became the last time that anyone would hear from the immortal Mountaineer not much later it had been confirmed that Kato buaro had tragically passed away at the age of 30 all that was left to commemorate him was a memorial placed on the Upper Floor of a library in Japan a stone engraving in a Manifesto that he had written explaining that the reason why he was out there risking his life was purely because of an irrepressible Instinct of the spirit that was all katunar was ever

remembered for for 70 years until one day a guy named shinichi Sakamoto decided to retell his story instead he is now remembered for artwork like this artwork of psychedelic body horror ice Dragons cloaked Warriors running away from baby eating Gods Pirates zombies and the most bizarre abstract depictions of anxiety that you'll ever see in your life kataro is now remembered by a manga called the climber and some of you might be asking how did this happen which is a really great question Nathan context is an important thing and context will be given right after I

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you're a guy you're probably just going to use black and red and you're also free to disable and enable whatever feature you think is necessary personally I decided to end up using the Vagabond one make sure to use my link in the description at oppra gx. g/ Alex and if you don't um I'll wish bad things on you I didn't put anything clever for that part of the script originally the climber was going to be worked on by two people the illustrator was going to be shinichi Sakamoto and the writer was going to be yoshiro

naida but after their first year naida decided to dip out now is that the world's biggest coincidence yes but it is also because of this that the manga suddenly goes through a massive drastic tonal shift at first it's like one of the most generic things I've ever seen I sometimes like to imagine that the initial creative direction that they decided to go with it was just take a popular sports thing and then replace thing with rock climbing so for example they write in this bully except in this case he was written to be a rock

climbing themed bully so he goes up to people like Kato and the other students and he just decid decides to crimp grip them I guess kind of like that one kid in elementary school who would go up to you and rip your forearm and be like does this hurt if it hurts you're a [ __ ] they also tried to introduce Kato as this like shy mysterious transfer high school student who ends up randomly being interested in rock climbing he eventually joins The Rock Climbing Club it obviously turns out that he's a savant and then

all the stars align for this to become just like any other sports manga tournaments bullies High School crushes being like oh my God cut and themes about how friendships cure cancer nothing wrong with that but also nothing special either yet still at around Chapter 30 the writer decided to quit the writer could not be [ __ ] to continue this story so he left the artist all by himself to figure out where to go from here this probably sucked a lot it sucks to now have to double the workload especially in a circumstance where it's

likely for a publisher to discontinue your series but it was a circumstance that also meant that Chichi Sakamoto would be given full creative freedom with the story so in the manga he decides to scrap everything the coach and The Rock Climbing Club go on this field trip and the coach gets [ __ ] mutilated by a boulder and then the club just ends the high school just shuts down the program and then Sakamoto had the story take place in an entirely new timeline where Kato is now an adult with a job and it's here where

it's evident that he made two significant changes in its creative Direction one he did not want this to be another high school sports manga he wanted this to be a story about the real kataaro a lens through which he would try to make sense out of what he meant by this Manifesto still why did he climb mountains why did he climb them alone in a way that exponentially risked his life why couldn't he have just gone the normal route eventually getting a chance to be a part of or even just witness Humanity one day reach

the summit of Everest and K2 the second change was that he completely decided to change its artistic approach rather than only ever trying to make his work seem realistic he instead decides to depict the experience of rock climbing through Visual metaphors for example when there's an avalanche the next panel will show a building collapsing sexual experiences get drawn through psychedelic body horror mountain climbing gets expressed through these allegories of pirate ships moving through a storm the survival of a zombie apocalypse or a cloaked warrior being chased by God most notably though Kato's own internal conflicts

get shown through pieces like this his feelings being split in two his mind and body fighting against itself his intuition moving towards opposite directions and not just that when Sakamoto was left by himself he also ramped up the frequency of double spreads but really who's counting that I was the first three volumes have an average of around 0.5 two and then the following nearly tripled at 1.43 which is insane I feel like when you're forced to work double the workload you don't then decide to double that workload but why even bother mentioning that why go

out of my way to even try to count double spreads you see double spreads are something that are usually conserved for its most important moments of a chapter it's the author basically trying to shake you by the shoulders and be like look at this like please look at this moment they're special because they also serve as visual proof of an author's efforts I'm a guy who can barely draw a circle but even I can imagine how hard it must have been to make a chapter like this I can imagine that the creator of this had

to spend hundreds of hours cramped up in an office space speedr running his way into carpel tunnel to be able to tell this story every line every bit of shading detail stroke technique is a landmark of its Maker's history and it was through all this that I came to realize how unique of an experience it was to read a manga like the climber after naida had left the main focus of the story would then revolve around the main character training himself to one day be able to take on the summit of K2 the Moby Dick

of mountain climbing the cfus of mountain climbing the bail to Egon of mountain climbing and rather than focusing on the actual Logistics of how he was going to get there and instead is more concerned about exploring the origin of that feeling why did kataro desire such a thing in the first place what does he seek to find at the top of it and I think it was through this line of thinking that led Sakamoto to put himself up for this challenge the pursuit of having to work a thousand times harder to one day makes something

that's now considered to be one of the most visually stunning pieces of fiction to ever come out of this industry what the clent is about at its core is a story with two Journeys one is of a mountaineer trying to find meaning through the summit of K2 and the other is of an author trying to seek that meaning through the process of making his story comic books that have the prettiest art aren't just eye candy they are a beautiful and unique case where they serve as visual proof of a person's efforts when an artist is

able to achieve greatness we are looking at the aftermath of someone choosing to run thousands of miles in pursuit of a Finish Line that they can't even see when at its best they are the result of someone pushing boundaries pushing past what the industry or anyone expects of them comic books that have pretty art remind me of Kato buaro so why I make a dumb little video about that now I'm going to be fully honest here I was totally planning on this just being a cutesy video about comic books that I felt like were kind

of pretty it was going to be a nice soft little 20-minute video and then I got to be like ha look guys I can actually make things without it taking me several months and having it remove a part of my soul but for reasons that are now clearly evident by how long the timestamp is that did not end up being the case because instead of making a video about comic books that I felt like had pretty art it is now a video essay of me trying to answer the question of why the [ __ ]

do people climb mountains [Music] the year is 1987 comic books looked like this and this and Somewhere Out There was an artist who had become obsessed with the works that were coming from this industry out there was an artist who was the nerdiest of nerds for superheroes not just in the way that they looked or how they had cool Powers but in the way that they embodied the virtues that we can see in ourselves in the same lens that we viewed the Greek gods this artist was also at the time inspired by painters he was

raised by a mother who was a professional illustrator and had spent most of his childhood attempting to recreate the works of George Perez and birdie w but in art school he was shown quite the opposite he loved to study the works of Andrew Lumis Norman Rockwell who fun fact is actually the original artist of this and Salvador do who had a knack for creating fiction through the lens of hyperrealism the problem was that this artist wanted to find meaning through works like this but wanted to make comic books but comic books looked like this they

were made in pen and ink were done quickly efficiently this then LED this artist to come up with a profound solution me plus paint equals [ __ ] that will look cool as [ __ ] he believed that with these painters had made were no different from what the superhero comic industry was trying to do in his words superheroes weren't Heroes because they were strong they performed acts that looked beyond themselves he wanted to be the first one to approach these stories in its most believable shape not just in the way that they looked but

in the way that they reminded us of a friend a teacher a neighbor wearing costumes that aren't additional 3D objects but an extension of their own skin by the time 1990 came around this approach began to lead to a couple job opportunities here and there but most notably his name began to start making its round to the industry after his work on a comic called Marvels a four-part series revolving around the Marvel Universe from the perspective of a regular photographer and then by 1996 he begins to work on a series called kingdom come now I

don't often like to claim this but I become convinced that this artist is one of the few people on this Earth that was literally born to do what they do the name of this artist is Alex Ross who hasn't been showing up to any of the Alex meetings Mark weed in Alex Ross's 1996 comic book takes place in a world that's become fully accustomed to the ecosystem of superheroes they're in theme parks restaurants they're commercialized governmentalization conflicted people who are now forced into great positions of power to an extent where they've gone past just being

people and instead are now perceived as mythological beings what I find to be objectively hilarious is the fact that they also introduce these characters in that kind of way in the realm of Earth lies a guardian angel who writes even the most harmless of wrongs with lightning speed he lives between the ticks of a second he is The Flash another takes Refuge high above the Earth's surface his self-made Emerald City twinkling in the night like a verden star they call him the Green Lantern and then there's Batman he's where is it I don't know where

is the candy arresting high schoolers all to make the point that they hold power beyond just their physical form evil isn't scared because it's seen Superman it fears the possibility of him ever showing up in the first place it's a big reason why in the story he ends up retiring to stay as far away from civilization the original members end up being split between whether or not they should embrace the role and having so much power over Earth's war in politics and I think the panels that best help us imagine this concept of what it's

like to live on an earth that's filled with a bunch of nuclear red buttons comes from the fact that Alex Ross Drew these compositions from the POV of an everyday person page 18 is a perfect example of this these are weapons of war morphed into humanoid form flying around shooting beams missiles Flames throwing each other around at 100 m an hour destroying everything that stands in their way in the same way people like us have crushed an ant while on a walk this is the real terror of what it's like to be a normal human

alongside superheroes not just because death beams are being shot around like confetti but because when you look at these panels you can't even tell which one of them are supposed to be the good guys it's [ __ ] awesome I love this [ __ ] out of this comic and not only begs the question of how humanity is supposed to be dealing with this much power in its hands but also if whether or not the goal of making progress is simply just regression given to us in a different shape which mind you is all being

told to us from a [ __ ] teleporting priest tagged alongside MF Doom and while a lot of that credit can and should be given to Mark weed for the writing that was put into the story I also think it cannot exist without the work of Alex Ross he is and should be the only person crazy enough to ever consistently attempt to do an art style like this even the way he draws faces is something that you don't ever find in this medium for example in issue two it becomes revealed to us that the US

government has come up with a plan to get rid of all super beings by sending them into a civil war not long after we find out that it's all being funded and executed by Lex Luther they then hear the news that Bruce Wayne is willing to tag alongside him on this plan Bruce shows up to the board meeting comes up to Lex to go shake his hand and then we see this panel on the side are Bruce's most trusted allies staring at Lex with Expressions that can only be described as their best attempt at a

poker face because they're signing a contract with literally evil Johnny Sins and in the middle you see Bruce smiling in a way where you can't really tell if he's either on board with the superhero genocide plan or if he's about to backstab him all that we know for sure is that he looks like he's four steps ahead of everyone else in the room this is not something you'll often ever see in the medium when someone is shocked they are visibly shocked when they're scared or angry the artist makes it very clear that they're scared or

angry either because the pages are too small or readers will read them too fast to even notice but when it comes to Alex Ross it's not just cinematic in the way that it looks but also in the way that you have to read in between the lines they're saying something but the story requires you to look closely to try and understand what they mean by it this is the case because Ross often uses reference photos for both the layout of his Pages as well as the character designs the teleporting priest was based on his dad

and he had his friend come over to wear shitty cheap undersized costumes to pose for szam I also found out that he'll just do poses himself sometimes which led me to coming across this Polaroid which for someone like him should tell you everything you need to know look at the way he even draws Reflections on the armor of Iron Man no seriously look at it he makes it so that the light bouncing off of it warps into different shapes based on the people around him tell me that's not physical Insanity no one is asking him

to do that the guy has an entire Channel on YouTube where he'll go into detail about some of the behind the-scenes process for each character design in one of them he goes on about Shazam and Captain Marvel purely to then spend 20 minutes both flexing and explaining his knowledge of the entire history of the character I've kind of always been of the opinion that the greatest people in anything are always the ones that happen to be the biggest fans and in this case so many writers from the industry have noted the amount of times they've

gotten into arguments and um actes with Alex Ross he grew up being and still is a huge comic book nerd he has an entire museum at his home he is the original artwork of his favorite artist framed up in a hallway all to be mentioned as proof that it's work being done by someone who gen only cares about their craft like he really really [ __ ] cares when working on Kingdom Come he was only 25 years old when he reached out to Mark Wade on this project he wanted to depict heroes in a way

that felt like it was as close as possible to people that we knew and both of them agreed to take on this project with the approach that they wanted to depict superheroes in the most what if they were actually actually real way possible except for Superman bun Wade has recently come out in an interview to say that we should all just delete that from our memories that was apparently DC's ideas not theirs except for the other than that the one note we had to take that we didn't want to take was the absolute insistence on

DC's part that when Superman is shown back in the day of Magog that he wear his hair in a mullet because he was wearing his hair in a mullet in the comics at the time we all knew this was a terrible idea but I think for a story that so heavily needs us to understand its theme how weak and fragile humans are in comparison to the power that they have I think the strides made for this aesthetic needed to be there to Alex Ross what was most important about this comic was its ver similitude in

an upcoming documentary that's being made on the whole process for how Alex Ross managed to make this comic book there's a part where he literally said this I know it meant a lot to him to see that where we were going with this thing he got a sense an epiphany himself of like there's going to be a lot of attention towards this and there's going to be something of this that will be with us for years to come so it would weigh on us the way it would be perceived for all time to come but

I always had this sense of like oh when people see this thing they're going to be reading it for years and years to come so I had this you know very self-absorbed sort of sense that like oh I'm making a legend right now that's just that that's the most badass [ __ ] I've ever heard in my life I don't know what else to say the thing I want to make clear though is that realism isn't the only thing I want to go for here just because a thing looks close to the real thing doesn't

make it impressive if it's not being used for any purpose in fact I so strongly feel that way that I decided to then beg the question of what would happen if we were to go down the complete opposite route what if you were to go down as unrealism istic as humanly possible more specifically what if you were to make a comic book from the point of view of someone who can't properly perceive reality at all not just emotionally but from a chemical imbalance in their [Music] brain Dave mcken is a painter abstract artist bird Enthusiast

and a fourth adjective who was hired by DC in 1988 to work alongside Neil Gaiman on a series called Black Orchid before it ever even got released they were planning on aing the series entirely in fear of it selling [ __ ] all but after mcken had showed them what he had done with the artwork they completely changed their minds about the release what was originally supposed to be a caped pink chameleon hero who according to Wiki has a main ability where she transforms into background female characters was then turned into this the series still

ended up being short-lived but after this I think both Neil Gaiman and Dave mcken had a moment with themselves where they looked at each other and were like dude dude dude dude dude dude dude bro dude bro dude dude dude you need to get hired the Arkham Asylum comic starts off with the diary entries of a man named edus Arkham the founder of the Arkham Asylum which is a psychiatric hospital meant to rehabilitate the villains of Gotham the first entry talks about his reasoning for wanting to open up the facility in the first place he

was raised by a schizophrenic mother and after her death decided to pursue a career in Psychiatry at Gotham he was assigned to work with patients suffering from extreme mental illnesses which one day led to a meeting a patient named Martin madg Hawkins this didn't last long as he would end up going missing for a while things had gone quiet until eventually the news had gone out that he was on a murdering spree in Gotham the police told emus to stay low since their relationship implied that his family might be in danger as well emus too

busy with his own career decided to ignore this advice and then one night he came home to find the corpse of his wife and daughter laying on the ground now added along to one of the dozens of Mad Dogs Vic victims the police arrested him that same night a jury declares him medically insane and decides that he should be sent back to a psychiatric hospital the only one available in Gotham being the location that Aus works at for 6 months mad dog gets assigned to be treated by Aus he proceeds to spend every session going

into great detail about each event what weapons he used how he went about it all joyfully explained to the man who was the husband and father of the two victims the journal entries proceed to go on about how this part of amadeus's life had begun to make him lose his sanity and then one day in the middle of a session involving an electroshock therapy machine emus decided to set the device to overdrive burning Mad Dog to his death the hospital reported it as an accident and the following entries devolve into a mius confessing that this

did nothing for him all that was left was an overwhelming feeling of emptiness The Killing may have been seen as just by a court of law but nothing was changed by this nothing was solved nor was anyone helped by this incident all that happened here was a result of amadeus's malice this became the moment where he came to the conclusion that he was going to use the house that was handed to him down by his mother to open up the Arkham Asylum he was left with the choice of either looking at a man like mad

dog cursing his name until he laid his last breath on this Earth or he could be the one to try and find a cure a solution to treating these people in hopes of riding this world from Evil the story then alternates between this timeline and one that exists 70 years later where the Arkham Asylum has now become a home for where the villains of the Batman Universe get sent to the Joker the lizard too fac and scarecrow but I've got to be fully honest here and admit that I only managed to pick up on all

this after reading the story multiple times it's difficult to follow both narratively and Visually as I just mentioned it's constantly alternating between these unwell diary entries and a Batman who's experiencing what I can only describe as a god- awful acid trip when you see the Joker there's not really a clear silhouette to his appearance you can't really point out where his design starts or ends it's almost like you're staring at the idea of him the story then goes on to explain how it's possible that the Joker was is born with a condition that forces his

mind to live in a constant state of super sanity like a roller coaster that can only move forward at 1,000 M an hour a doctor goes on to elaborate how this might be the source of his behavior that early on he had to make the decision to either be destroyed by it or to embrace it in another scene there's a part where we get introduced to Twoface who's depicted as a man in fear of his own Morality In this version they explain that he's not flipping a coin to be like hm how shall I inconvenience

this man in spandex today he's like that because his mind doesn't want to open itself to anything other than binary decisions which then gets followed up by this panel it is so [ __ ] cool some of the panels even purposely look like Polaroids with a subtle Camera blur and extremely high exposure you know how when people talk about dreams they describe it as a version of real life but with some of the settings on the physics being skewed when you're running it doesn't feel like your feet are touching the ground it's like as if

you're gliding against Pavement in slow motion when you reach to grab something it's right in front of you but it's almost like as if your hand no matter how hard you try just phases through that's what it's like to read this comic it's giving you things but only just the idea of it this also gave me the random thought that statistically at least one of you right now is watching this while high off an edible that was a little bit too strong hey Brian I called the cops on you run what the comic is trying

to show is how malleable physical things can be based on how we perceive them there is no objective version of reality because really it just comes down to how we store that information this is the reason why the story then puts into question on if Batman is really the good guy or if he's made himself believe that Dave mcken going into this project didn't think so the only thing was that I really didn't believe in in Batman as as a man dressed up in a suit at the end of the day I was even hoping

to take it as far as doing the whole thing like a big sort of the theatrical production and having everybody wear masks and the Joker would just just be a mask suspended mask and two fa would have two masks but actually it came back a little bit from there it actually turns out that this loose hazy dreamy art style would go on to become the source of a lot of conflict between Dave mcken his writer the editors and pretty much anyone else involved in the creative process of making this comic and the reason for that

was because each party involved had a completely different Vision as to what the story was supposed to be Morrison wanted for there to be themes but for them to have Clarity while mcken on the other hand couldn't be [ __ ] he strongly felt that a story like this didn't deserve the cookie cutter treatment that everyone around them had expected also Al by the end of it I'd really begun to think that this whole thing about four-color comics with very very overpainted lavvish illustrations in every panel just didn't work it hampers the storytelling it does

everything wrong it's very difficult to have any enthusiasm about it after that he like Alex Ross was fully aware of what this industry wanted from him but just didn't care to listen apparently the original draft of the Joker was even supposed to consist of him wearing black lingerie as a parody of Madonna but when they submitted their early drafts to editors and other people in the industry they all called it Uber pretentious dog [ __ ] and I'm obsessed with the fact that what we are reading is the byproduct of that conflict we are looking

at the most perfect coincidence ever of two creative Geniuses fighting over what a story about insanity is supposed to be and regardless of constant input to change things mcken had no interest in fulfilling those needs he's not asking you to make sense of the story he's not asking for you to follow along and come out of it with an explanation he simply decided to depict the story in a way that made sense to him I like to believe that Alex Ross and Dave mcken are two people with opposite approaches that ended up aiming towards a

similar goal they both worked in an industry that they themselves decided to seek something that was beyond what was expected of them and I can't help but feel like there's a part of me that wants to understand why what is it that they're trying to prove what do they hope to achieve by constantly going against the input of others what psychopath decides to only ever make comic books with gouache do you know how [ __ ] hard that is it's gouache why do we as human beings feel the need to do that no like seriously

between the years of 2006 to 2011 a manga author named Haro ichikawa had worked on about a dozen different ones shots all of them were weird all of them revolved around her strong desire of wanting to make fiction that expressed its themes through biology sometimes there was incest she came from a background of working as an editorial designer for a company before working on her own stories this approach early on helped her a on figuring out how good design is able to guide the eyes on where to look it also had a clear influence on

the way she'd present her values using negative space as a way to invoke the mood of her stories stories that would usually revolve around humans being treated like the game Spore what I love about her work is the way that they all seemed to take place on an earth that grew to have a couple different rules about its nature what if plants if taken care of correctly could grow like a human what if lightning wasn't just electricity and actually had thoughts what if you could slightly tweak the evolution of Beatles to become more like us

what if you were a baseball player with a damaged rotator cuff you wished Upon a Star to have your arm fixed that shooting star then morphs into a clay doll you then raise that clay doll as if it were one of your children and then it sacrifices itself to become a new part of your body for you okay maybe you didn't find that to be strange so how about this what if you were to one day eat a shellfish and then the mollusk crawls inside of you to use your body as its new shell your

career as a marine biologist then consists of you embracing the fact that your body is it shell and now produces pearls that your brother takes out of you from your legs I don't even know why this one has incest Haro ichikawa by all means has a strange mind I love it I love the way she writes humans as if they were just any other blob that stands on this floating piece of rock her characters are doctors scientists Visionaries with a great purpose who are then next to people who die in these really silly dumb ways

where it's like oh my god what happened I just mold her short stories were weird but they were excellent they were stepping stones that would eventually lead her to make a masterpiece a story about a gem that causes the end of the world land of the lustrous is about many things it's about Moon people that fight gemstones that fight snail people and barely anyone seems to have a clear answer as to why all of this gets told to us from the perspective of the main character named phosphite who I am just now discovering as I

write the script is actually called fah fite so fah fite wants to put an end to the this war she is sick and tired of seeing her fellow gem people get annihilated by Moon people so she decides in the first chapter that she was going to do whatever it took to come up with a solution here she wants to be strong but isn't and that's because she's made of FPA fite which is actually one of the most fragile minerals to ever exist this means that every time she's attempted to contribute to this war she breaks

apart into pieces the solution she comes up with is to then replace different parts of her body with stronger material the only downside being that her material is also what makes up her identity meaning that for each bit that she replaces she also begins to lose different parts of her memory progressively throughout the story we watch falite change drastically eventually becoming something that's unrecognizable from the bubbly ambitious character we met in the first chapter its theme is pretty clear from the get-go how much of yourself are you willing to lose in pursuit of your own

desires should we do things in consideration of the people around us or should there be somebody who steps in to completely reconstruct that system but what I love is the way we as readers are visually told the mood of that the negative space gets used in like a million different ways at times it's used to show how opposite the surrounding world can be in comparison to our main character other times it gets used really cleverly like in this panel where it's conveying motion through the removal of the white space around her it gets used to

express loss it gets used to express hope it's almost like as if you are reading an experience where the main character begins to view the world through an abyss a tunnel that's forcing her to move forward in Only One Direction even just in general Haro chawa has always been excellent at prepping for her compositions for example in its first chapter there's part where a character goes outside of the panel's box to guide the reader to the next page where you can see the aftermath of this motion it's a manga that just looks so deceptively simple

the moon people are all clearly inspired by Buddhist symbolism in a way that looks so beautiful it inflicts so much Terror and then there's just Parts like this where maybe this is a matter of me being dumb but my brain genuinely cannot comprehend how someone is able to draw metallic liquid and then make it feel like it's metallic liquid this now leads me to the part where I once again do things that cause me to delay my upload schedule after I finished my video on enway my YouTube algorithm obviously was still flooded with content that

revolved around him one day I came across this video of a professional illustrator talking about how she had been studying his technique alongside other Masters like Mira yusuke Morata how witch hat Italia was made basically an entire channel that specializes in both teaching and also sharing their learnings about pen and Inc illustrating that person's name was Khloe gendin and I decided to reach out to her and ask if she could explain some of these things to me in my artistically challenged brain and by pure coincidence it turns out that shinichi Sakamoto actually follows her on

Instagram not because she was an illustrator but because before that she used to post content on her mountaineering Journeys [ __ ] what anywh who I asked her about land of the lustrous as well as one other series that hasn't been mentioned yet and this was her response I mean obviously there's a lot of like negative space so it's like emphasizing the parts that look bright to someone like me but is there any yeah is there something that I'm not noticing here no it's just genius like it's just yeah it's good to know even if

you tried to copy it like it would it might still not turn out that way like might you think if I like like like as if I thought there was a chance I never thought there was a chance anyways so yeah I I guess that answers that around last summer I made the decision to work on a recommendation video where I read a bunch of Manoa I [ __ ] hated making that but what kept my sanity together was that it was also the video where I used it as an excuse to figure out blender

a software that has kind of become the universal thing for people to say yeah I will totally get around to that someday but in my case someday ended up being the day that I realized I was the inventor of a premise that I really [ __ ] hated the thing about blender and the reason why I think everyone struggles so much with getting into it is that it has a fairly High skill floor and an even higher skill ceiling a ceiling so high that I'm pretty sure it might just be the sky itself it honestly

took me a week to even just figure out how to do these three steps how to move thing how to move my camera and how to make thing big but the reward after getting over this bump was insane I went on to learn how it's also a software that can make the simplest things look so impressive it's why you often see people talk about the dut tutorial and come out of it with a rendering that looks like you have been working as a VFX artist your whole life I however decided not to go with this

approach instead I tried to learn it by figuring out how to make this bookshelf that you have probably seen in some of my previous videos I went to a Barnes & Noble with a camera took a bunch of photos of the shelves and I'm pretty sure most of the people around me that day either thought I was a serial killer or a serial killer it's because of this though that in the last year I've come to both notice and appreciate when a mangaa has also recently gone through that Journey the first time I ever noticed

it was in the later chapters of gance where a lot of the Boss Designs would be the byproduct of mixing 3D compositions with digital artwork even before then a lot of mangas have been using CG as a way to create their background architecture a great example of this was when Akira had come out in 1982 but then by the late '90s some artists wanted a bigger wof of this CG crack that people were smoking perya oku the same guy who later made gance decided to go Haywire with this technique in his manga called 01 even

the sequel to Ghost in the Shell where apart from all the porn that used to be in its original manga also tried to go Haywire with this approach but then in the early 2000s came a mangaa named inio asano who took a couple steps back to refine his Craft on this in most of his early works like what a wonderful day and Solen in he would mostly just work with characters that were drawn in his art style and then place them into hyper realistic settings whether it was intentional or not I think this technique ended

up fitting his writing like a glove made out of soft kittens asano stories for the most part always took place in these really human mundane settings giving us insight about ourselves through the lens of a fly on a wall in 2007 his name really began to start making its rounds after starting good night punpun where I think he really began to have a knack for it it's here where we also began to get a lot of insight into his process for this his staff would go around Tokyo taking reference photos bring them into Photoshop and

then digitally move around the assets to shape about the settings of its story and like a glove made out of soft kittens you know at first I thought that would be a description that made sense but now I'm just realizing it's kind of morbid the result of that was a story that follows a cartoon bird learning to deal with his own trauma but then a year after he had come out with the last chapter of punpun I think asano had a moment with himself where he decided that he really wanted to spice things up on

his approach to making manga it was clear that he had become known as an artist who had mastered the use of incorporating real life photos in CG into his artwork but now we had blender now we had Maya Houdini Cinema 4D we had a [ __ ] ton of tools that could prevent us from the recreation of things like this and so I think it was at this point where aano had decided that he wanted his next manga to be something new specifically aliens dead dead demons dead dead dead destruction is about two girls experiencing

very normal things when you're about to graduate from high school you don't know what you intend to do with your life you're scared about going away from home you feel confused about your sexuality but most importantly you're underneath a UFO that could nuke your home and the first thing that became the main difference in how asano made this manga was that it was his first story where the CG was going to be a main character there were going to be aliens war machines time travel dream sequences and a giant massive UFO there were also at

times scenes that wouldn't have been possible to make in person due to legal issues for example in this courtroom the staff decided to recreate it in a 3D software to be able to have its characters move around it in that same interview there's a part where he mentions that if he were to make a page like this by hand it would usually take him about a day but now that they've really begun to make use of the innovation of CG it now takes them a week it now takes them a week these guys spent months

years studying how to do this in order to come up with a a solution that takes exponentially longer than if it were to be done by hand which Probably sounds like the dumbest thing you could possibly do but I would actually make the argument that it was worth it without it this manga never would have been able to have panels like this or this or this or this or even moments like this it objectively wasn't a better approach to making this manga it took asano 10 years 10 years to be able to finish its 100

Chapter story but on the other hand I'd like to propose the counterargument of isn't it also cool as [ __ ] that they got to work with a UFO that was a giant 3D asset that they could move in whatever angle they please or even for a panel like this one in chapter 38 where one of the characters enter a dream sequence where they can see all of the alternate timelines of their universe that by hand would be one of the hardest things to ever make but on blender it's actually really simple all you have

to do is take a bunch of rectangles click on their sides and then assign that face onto whatever image you want to put on them it's even said that in his most recent manga the plan is to have its story take place in an entire 3D map the characters can all simply just Traverse through but what I want to understand is why the hell would somebody ever go out of their way go through so much labor and effort to be able to make something like that well I think at its core it's because what's always

been most important to aano story is the ability to make them mirror the way we behave he wants his Bland weird characters to reflect our own impulsive non-rational way that we choose to do things what was most important to ISO stories was its very similitude listen that's the second time I've used that word now let's just pretend for 6 seconds that a guy like me is allowed to say it okay I think what asano does is write his characters in a way that intentionally feel like they're Bland in a story like solonin you meet moo

who after recently dealing with the death of a loved one comes to realize that there is no such thing as a happy ending all that one can never really do is come up with their own in punpun some [ __ ] up things happen and by the end of it punpun comes to realize that all he can do is return back to the people in his life that are no different from him deeply flawed hurt complicated unreasonable inconsiderate human beings who can only say that they're trying their best to try their best some days you

can't get out of bed and that's okay it's a big reason why on world mental health day VI media actually decided to dedicate a poster board of kind letters he received from readers around the world who wanted to tell him that his stories made life feel just a little bit easier I think the reason why asano was always so obsessed with taking the strides that would lead him to make the most realistic results was because he wanted us to be able to look at our elves in full 4K Ray tracing settings I think it's him

saying hey this is you it's not perfect deeply [ __ ] up in many ways if anything but that's fine because at the end of the day it's you that is what ver similitude means sorry now I cannot make a video about comic books that have beautiful art without mentioning one last author I wouldn't say they fit into the category of being the most aesthetically pleasing nor the most realistic nor the most abstract or pretty or the one that reinvented the wheel but it is the most important one I cannot possibly ever make a video

like this without talking about the work of the lake canar riro when I think about people who have climbed mountains I think about berserk to me it's the definitive piece of media for something that just screams pure effort it's special in the way that everyone regardless of what background they're coming from have all come to acknowledge that it's the work of someone who was willing to bleed for their story and it's even more important to consider the fact that it all started in 19 89 where there was no access to digital tools or shortcuts every

line every bit of detail and energy that's being conveyed is all coming from the work of someone who is willing to do whatever it took to relay a message to us like look at this page this is a panel where every horse every night every swordsman has their own unique design and armor set they are all posing doing their own actions in a way that truly makes us as readers believe that what we are witnessing is war is something that's relentlessly violent and chaotic it's the world that the main character guts lives in and this

goes on forever Mira approached the story with that level of intensity all the way till the 364th chapter that he had worked on before his passing it's pretty but I think what surprised me the most when revisiting this manga again was the way even when he was so young and early into his career he was able to have so much confidence in his ability to make us sit with certain moments here's what I mean as an example early on there's a part where Griffith and guts have a fight against an enormous Beast named Zod in

the middle of it Griffith goes in to save guts but ends up coming out of it severely injured Zod escapes and the band of the hawk immediately try to get him to be medically examined after this guts comes back to go check on him but is stopped by Costa who believes that he was responsible for carelessly putting their leader in danger guts tries to play it off cool and walks in to go see him anyways only for Costa to then punch him in the face and what I love is that instead of making this a

small moment where the story's like M ca's mad instead mura decided to follow this moment up with a panel of guts looking shocked pissed then confused he then notices Costa crying calms himself down walks away tries to play it off cool but is then clearly concerned about her well-being realizing that he clearly made a mistake and I'm obsessed with that I'm obsessed with the fact that mura is willing to dedicate multiple pages to these small interactions conveying the idea that these are three people who deeply care about one another but there's actually another small part

in the early chapters that I found myself becoming obsessed with for some context at this point of the story The Band of the hawk reach a land called Midland which is being ruled by some old p with no air to his throne this leads Griffith to come up with the plan of having his mercenary group do all the work for him hoping that this would one day lead him to be trusted be able to Wed the daughter of the king and eventually be in a position to overthrow his kingdom for even more context guts had

begun to reach a point in his life where he was feeling unsure about the path that he was about to go on to him G Griffith was a leader who inspired many he was a symbol a man who encouraged people to aim high and do whatever it took to achieve their goals that to someone like guts wasn't ever a thing that was taught to him he's never been provided with enough room to breathe and think about something as crazy as a dream guts wanted to be more like Griffith ambitious unrelenting someone who knew in which

direction they wanted to go in life and fly as fast as possible to get there and it's from both of these factors that eventually lead us to this one moment there's a part where Griffith finds out the king's General is actively trying to sabotage his plan Julius the general wants his own son to be the future heir of the throne so he hired somebody to make an attempt to assassinate Griffith this obviously doesn't go to plan and griffith decides that he was going to pull an UNO reverse on the guy he has a talk with

guts tells him that he needs someone to do the dirty work for him and in secret do whatever it takes to get rid of this General guts without any hesitation accepts the mission in the middle of the night gut sneaks into his home charges straight for Julie and kills him in one swing left to bleed out on the floor everything goes according to plan until guts comes to the realization that a shadowy figure off in the distance had just witnessed this entire thing go down and before he could even think he aimed straight for this

figure thrusting his sword directly through the Torso and it's only then after a few seconds that he realizes this figure was julius's son Mira then decides to dedicate the next 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 eight eight pages to this very moment first we see him commit the attack out of anger then he realizes who it is then he becomes shocked then he freezes watching as the thing that's being held on the other end of the sword is quickly becoming lifeless then he reaches out to give it a hand and then the kid [

__ ] dies do you know how crazy it is in manga terms to dedicate eight entire pages to 1 second of a moment each chapter at the time was only 18 pages each chapter took up to 2 weeks to finish that means multiple days of sitting in your office drawing each and every single individual line for this one [ __ ] moment that is the equivalent of walking into a room full of people farting and then making sure to stay right where you are to the point that every single person smells it and knows that

it's coming from you that's ridiculous that's how confident Mira was in his ability to create a certain moment and make us sit with it make it simmer make us really spend some time to taste it fragrance the actual reason as to why I wanted to interview a professional illustrator was to ask about the early works of Berserk I wanted to get more of a hands-on experience as to what it would have taken for somebody to make artwork like this so mir's work generally like he kept this in essence it's kind of like have you ever

journaled yeah yeah yeah I still do yeah like if you read back your journals from when you were a little kid your values like what you believe in is probably still similar like your view of the world doesn't change that much from childhood and I would say like early guts his artwork evolved like he learned how to do anatomy and perspective and and refine the art fundamentals but his general focus which is like action movement rage is there from the beginning how does one produce energy like what about it gives off that feeling the line

Direction so like his sword is is going like diagonally and if you look at the the pattern of the line treatment and we've got some cross cont T lines going around the form so like in some in his armor like the line work the stroke movement is following the form but it's Dynamic it's like it's like he's drawing like like this really fast and like sort of like thick to thin thick to thin where he he's fading all the lines he drew by hand for the longest time so he rendered everything can I ask a

dumber question is that no okay go ahead is that hard like is that yes yeah okay yeah it's insane you it's insane like this would take I don't know like I wanted to say 100 hours but eventually he came up with like techniques and you know digital like it's not just assistant like you have like digital brushes and you can do photo bashing and use like backgrounds and like there's ways of helping yourself digitally but like not in here like he handrew every single little textur thing there was also a part in the interview where

I showed her the dense War panels and tried asking about how long it would take for somebody to make something like that it this is probably like a super unrealistic thing to ask but for the previous two panels would you know of an estimate of like how long it could take somebody to make something like this I wanted to St like an hour per square inch but it really depends on the on the artst speed and also the tools he was using like if he's using a dip pan here which I think he is which

means like every three Strokes you have to like dip an ink clean your nib you know make sure the ink is the right consistency you know do three four strokes and then you dip it again it takes forever a panel like that probably take him like three days or like 12h hour days why would someone do that it's a very open-ended question but it's fun yeah it is it is like you kind of lose yourself in the in the in the process I see it's super satisfying when it's done and you just go yeah mind

you this is all purely just me asking vague questions and her just guessing it's hard for any of us to ever know how much effort or time an author put into their manga I also just want to give a special thanks to Chloe for taking the time to do all this as someone who doesn't have any artistic experience I really appreciated the fact that she was quite literally willing to respond to all of my really basic and dumb questions I'll make sure to include all of her stuff in the description of the video and I'll

be posting the full interview on my second Channel but the part of that earlier clip that I wanted to mention was Khloe saying that it's also simply just fun to make art that looks like that berserk to me is one of those cases where I think it manages to create a feeling that you can't ever really replicate unless you were willing to sit down and give your art a piece of yourself I think that thing is honesty when I own volumes of a manga the thing that I've really grown to love about them is the

fact that I am looking at traces of History it's just like Khloe said it's like coming across your own diary you are seeing the evidence of a 23-year-old who was fueled by Passion and as you read along you are also taking part in their growth you see them change how they write and view people you see how their perceptions of the world have changed the way they've grown to forgive the way they've struggled at times I'm sure to a lot of you what I'm saying right now might sound obvious but to me I think I've

realized the importance of this even more with the passing of canaro Mira while he might not be here with us anymore I think what still exists out there is him when he was 23 when he was 30 when he was 40 when he had just started his career and was fueled by Passion and when he was making these lines after going on a Hiatus these Pages mean a lot of things to a lot of people but to me what's most important is that they are proof of someone who a long time ago made the decision

to go on a thousand M long run this now leads me to the part that I warned you guys about in the beginning from here on out it's going to get pretty weird if you just wanted a list of stuff to read that looks pretty then here you go if not don't say I didn't warn you spoilers in this upcoming bit for the climber a penguin documentary and other stuff in 1973 a 24-year-old Mountaineer named Kato yasua was part of a 50- member Japanese team that was attempting to ascend Mount Everest they failed to reach

it Summit but were officially listed as the first in history to ever climb the mountain in a postmonsoon season and for the sake of not confusing this Kato for the other one I'm just going to call the guy Yasuo Yasuo would go onto Summit Mount Everest three times the third time was in 1982 where he went with a team of eight and had reached the fourth camp in around 16 days in the morning after his plan was to go for a solo push to the summit believing that the jet stream would remain calm for a

short period but once he had reached 8,100 M the winds were so strong that he wasn't even able to stand up upright so he decided to turn back the second attempt was then done with a partner a few days later and the two of them had reached around 8,800 M before they decided to split up one of them had become exhausted and was experiencing frostbite so yasua went off on his own by around 1:50 p.m. he made it to the South Summit and around 2 hours later he had finally made it to the peak of

Mount Everest on The Descent the two of them realized that they had run out of oxygen and the winds were starting to pick up again while they may have said over the radio to their teammates that they were confident they'd make it back the actual circumstances were saying otherwise and it wasn't until 5 months later that the Sherpas had found their bodies Kato just like Kato passed away in his early 30s in the climber shinichi Sakamoto decided to honor this man's name in the last three chapters of his manga but he made sure to do

it in the weirdest way possible the chapter was based on one of yasuo's journal entries noting the time that he saw a species of birds that was somehow able to survive at the elevation of Everest these birds were called demoise cranes who were known for migrating across the Himalayas by using the Upstream of wind to shoot themselves up into the sky the only main flaw in their bird aerodynamic strategy was that it would usually kill about half their flock while the other half would go on about their Journey Sakamoto then alternates these bird facts with

panels of a small naked baby climbing up the mountain alongside these birds and then he says this the birds have no consciousness they simply follow their instincts and aim upwards then he drew a panel of a monkey reaching for fruit a ladybug flying off a leaf a bird leaving its nest a fish flopping in the ocean the sun Dawning over the Earth and a panel of Kato buaro lifelessly climbing up a mountain and to be fully honest here I was convinced this guy was smoking crack I didn't know what any of this meant nor what

it had to do with a naked baby birds with suicidal ideation or a bunch of random ass animals I could not for the life of me make sense of this ending but not much longer after I had read this I randomly ended up coming across a video on YouTube that was called nihilist penguin it was a clip from a documentary that was directed by wner Herzog who I am fully convinced is an alien wearing the skin of a human and the moment consisted of Herzog asking a researcher who had been living with penguins for over

a decade if whether or not a penguin was capable of experiencing Insanity Dr andley is there such thing as Insanity among Penguins the reason why he asked was because at some point during his visit in Antarctica his film crew noticed seven Penguins that were out in the open five of them walked out to the Open Water one of them went back to their colony and then one of them just stood there there was one single penguin that had no interest in doing either of those things it instead began waddling straight for the mountains that were

off in the distance and according to the researchers that penguin would no matter what try to do that every time regardless of how often they would try to return it back to its Colony this is a penguin it physically cannot [ __ ] make it to the mountains get for whatever reason even though it's a penguin it cannot help itself from waddling straight towards its death why the [ __ ] does it do that when I was 8 I learned how to play piano in the wrong way my family had just moved over to the

US my dad worked with computers and I really liked video games which all led me to spending a lot of my childhood playing flash games on mini clip Cool Math armor games and new grounds at some point I came across a song called chaos fantasy and little me had become convinced that this was the coolest thing mankind had ever come up with in the eight years that I had stood on this Earth I was so obsessed to a point where I tried to listen to every single remixed version of it which eventually led me to

coming across this piano cover and I don't really know why but somehow I think this video flipped a switch in me that made me want to do whatever it took to learn how to do that I wanted to know how to make an instrument do cool sounding things so my parents let me use my sister's old shitty keyboard and I spent several weeks pressing different pieces of plastic in hopes of it eventually sounding like their piece of plastic my parents were like you do realize that we could just sign you up for lessons right and

I said no rather than looking up how to read sheet music or any fundamentals about how to play I proceeded to spend several more weeks constantly pressing the pieces of plastic and after what probably could have been figured out after like one or two lessons I finally figured out the pattern to make it sound like chaos fantasy I ended up playing the piano that way for several years when I was 14 I snuck into a half marathon cuz I felt like it I had this one friend my freshman year of high school and we had

both known each other the year before because we both did cross country in middle school out of nowhere he asked me if I'd be down to do a half marathon in San Francisco and I did not know how long a half marathon was so I just said sure he then found out that I was supposed to pay to get in so instead he decided to print out a fake bib for me that would look like I was one of the people attending mind you this was over the span of like a month and it wasn't

until the morning of when his mom was driving us up to San Francisco at 4: in the morning that I actually found out how long a half marathon was and don't worry I ran the race I think I cried for the entire last half hour of it here's a picture of me and you can clearly see that my bib was just a piece of paper and one of the numbers literally was just the breast cancer logo drawn in Sharpie anyways I think I've realized that what Sakamoto was trying to say with that ending of animals

doing what animals usually do is that there's a part of us to our core that will always commit to making really extreme decisions purely because we just feel like it I've always been under the impression that whenever anyone tries to reach a summit they're hoping to get something out of it motivation self-improvement achievement social points whatever the [ __ ] destination Journey but I know for a fact that when it came to the case of me running or learning the piano I purely just did those things for the sake of doing it I was too

young to ever even think about what self-improvement meant as a matter of fact I don't even know if I ever even liked either of those things and that line of reasoning never came up for these artists either now once throughout any of my research did they ever mention that they were doing it to prove everyone wrong or to beat the guy at the top or to revolutionize what the industry was capable of they all just had an idea did the job that would complete that idea and the result turned out incredible Alex Ross was fully

aware of how ridiculously timeconsuming it would be to try and tell stories in gouache Dave mcken regardless of the fact that he was biting the hands of both his writer and editors refused to make the Arkham Asylum in any other art style asano ichikawa and mura all come from one of the most impossibly demanding Industries ever mangas already don't sleep nor do they have wrists yet still there's a part of them that cared so much for their stories that they were willing to make that process even harder I think I came out of this video

realizing that sometimes we tend to make what seems like a psychotic decision for the pure reason that we have the freedom to do so there's a part in karo's Manifesto where he said that one shouldn't need a reason to climb if moved to do so by some irrepressible Instinct of the spirit I think in this case he's referring to that part of our soul that just needs a reminder every now and then that we're not stuck in a [ __ ] box sometimes we just get bitten by bugs and we have every right to act

upon that because it's a right that was given to us in the same way that mountains were given the right to be there I don't think it's a choice it's our duty it's us stretching our Limbs and exercising the ability to walk towards whatever place we want it's no different from a fish flopping in the ocean a sun setting a penguin waddling to its death a guy painting in gouache a Solo alpinist and an 8-year-old playing the piano the reason why we climb mountains is because they were already there in the first place a long

time ago they made the selfish decision to exist and then sometime later we did [Music] too I think all that happened was that some of us just chose to do the rest of the job hi so you've unfortunately made it to the end of the video that has to mean that you like me there's no other way around it and I just want to say that if by any chance you happen to really really really like me I highly recommend checking out the patreon on there I have all of my editing tutorials video setup advice

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