Anime Youtubers/Reviewer Reccomendations and Discussion. - Criticisms of "AniTubers", Discussion of them, and Reccomendations of people that have any kind of air of normality and decent content.

[Danone]

I'm sorry but all of these recommendations just kind of suck.

NatalieXHunter is a very good anituber that basically uses a 3D avatar for her videos. Her voice is really soft and soothing (she's British, living in Italy, I believe) and she makes great long form content that actually deals with subjects seriously. I first cottoned on to her when the Noralitie's shit shook out because she was one of the many people who made a response video to Noralitie's vid. However, her vid was the one that stuck out the most to me. What also help's Natalie's vids is that she herself is a professional writer, so she brings some actual writer's perspective to her vids: Some choice ones:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=X6cTbbghJn0
https://youtube.com/watch?v=N-FJYRzgg_Q
Also, Dimitri Monroe, who mainly writes about video games, but has made videos about anime:


https://youtube.com/watch?v=61KFcEk5OzY

Natalie is a "professional" writer only if you are pretty impressionable and have not read much works in general,

Dimitri is a tranny, coomer whom has milquetoast opinions in general (not to mention he has been "digibro-ish pedophile" in the past.

Although Demo can at least laugh at himself for how gross and creepy he is, he is just that, a creepy weirdo that many people are attached to because he was one of the first "YouTube anime reviewers" that garnered an audience. His early videos have not aged that well due to how plain they are (they are still funny to this day though).

The cinema cartography has pretty okay-ish videos about anime. At least it is somewhat better than what EVERY channel dedicated to talking about anime can do.

Also, I couldn't help but laugh at this video.

"Guyzzz its sooo distaaarbing shi gut preggo fram bad mein rip , dis is sooo aquirate to reel lif guyzzz"


Anyone who unironically has read emergence is a weirdo coomer. It's just torture porn for otaku creeps, not some social commentary about Japan and prostitution Jesus Christ.

 

[The Demon Pimp of Razgriz]

Dimitri is a tranny,

Dimitri isn't actually trans; he just crossplays and he actually has a girlfriend, so he isn't even gay either.

Natalie is a "professional" writer only if you are pretty impressionable and have not read much works in general,

Not sure what you mean by this statement.

It's just torture porn for otaku creeps, not some social commentary about Japan and prostitution Jesus Christ.

I mean, it can be both. Nothing limits it to either category.

 

[Danone]

Dimitri isn't actually trans; he just crossplays and he actually has a girlfriend, so he isn't even gay either.


Not sure what you mean by this statement.


I mean, it can be both. Nothing limits it to either category.

- Then why did Pedantic Romantic was going on about Dimitri being trans. Anyway, it's hard to tell with these people whom are mentally damaged.

-What I meant was that people whom consider Natalie a "professional writer" are people whom have not read enough compelling works or just consume commercial, popular media. Not to sound like a sperg or to denote other people for what they like. Also, if she really is a writer with a degree in writing or literature then it doesn't mean much since the bar is pretty low to get those.

-Not necessarily. You can't be both since being one would impede the other's point and seriousness. In the hands of a component writer it might work, but the guy who wrote emergence is a pretentious deviant. What I missed on the previous post was that the social commentary is really milquetoast and stupid.

 

[The Demon Pimp of Razgriz]

- Then why did Pedantic Romantic was going on about Dimitri being trans. Anyway, it's hard to tell with these people whom are mentally damaged.

Because its Pedantic Romantic. He has a thread for a reason.

-What I meant was that people whom consider Natalie a "professional writer" are people whom have not read enough compelling works or just consume commercial, popular media. Not to sound like a sperg or to denote other people for what they like. Also, if she really is a writer with a degree in writing or literature then it doesn't mean much since the bar is pretty low to get those.

I mean the whole point of me pointing that out is just to point out that she is a writer who has written professionally, and brings a fresh perspective to a lot issues that people talk about regarding anime, censorship, death of the author, and the like due to her experience. That's all.

-Not necessarily. You can't be both since being one would impede the other's point and seriousness. In the hands of a component writer it might work, but the guy who wrote emergence is a pretentious deviant. What I missed on the previous post was that the social commentary is really milquetoast and stupid.

As you said, a competent writer can do it. I haven't read emergence so I can't speak to that writer's competence. Considering the reaction and publicity that story got, he's doing something right.

 

[Danone]

Because its Pedantic Romantic. He has a thread for a reason.


I mean the whole point of me pointing that out is just to point out that she is a writer who has written professionally, and brings a fresh perspective to a lot issues that people talk about regarding anime, censorship, death of the author, and the like due to her experience. That's all.


As you said, a competent writer can do it. I haven't read emergence so I can't speak to that writer's competence. Considering the reaction and publicity that story got, he's doing something right.

- Agree to disagree with the Natalie point and its "fresh perspective".

-It's popularity is mostly due to its art style and western weebs sensationalizing it because I don't think it is nowhere near as popular in Japan.

 

[The Demon Pimp of Razgriz]

-It's popularity is mostly due to its art style and western weebs sensationalizing it because I don't think it is nowhere near as popular in Japan.

Maybe, maybe not. Not familiar enough with the Japanese Hentai fandom to know one way or another.

 

[Jolyne THICCujoh]

Anyone who unironically has read emergence is a weirdo coomer. It's just torture porn for otaku creeps, not some social commentary about Japan and prostitution Jesus Christ.

I thought the author of that particular manga said it was supposed to be a commentary and not far material? I'm not saying Metamorphosis is high art (it's heart breaking and definitely not masturbatory stuff), but I don't think the author was totally going for like. Ryona and that stuff. Skimming through their other stuff too shoes that they don't usually make stuff like Metamorphosis so IDK.

 

[Cracked Screen]

I've been watching Anime Youtubers closely for about a year now. There's still a lot more down the rabbit hole, but I can contribute some the good and some of the horrifying type of channels I've run into. I'll start with the hilariously bad, all who must be mentally ill:

Rurounik95:

The worst anime reviewer I have found. His so called reviews are 15 minute ramblings that go all over the place. I am not sure why he feels the need to make every single review 15 minutes. Some of them are just outright hilarious because of how bad they are. He reads off of Wikipedia and Myanimelist, talks in circles, repeats himself constantly, and overall makes little sense. And of course they all start with his terribly made intros. Additionally, he has been doing this for about 10 years or so. There is no growth in his videos from the earliest to the latest. This isn't something for him but he won't stop.

Not only that, he will delete any criticism from his channel and harass the person endlessly until they remove it. Besides that he does some really bad non-anime related content, and spams his community page with endless amount of useless anime information.

Boobop1987:

Essentially, the woman version of the previous person. Has a strange community of channels made by old people that comment on her videos.

Otaku National News:

First of all, reaction channels are lazy, boring content, and a waste of time. This is the worst one. I think I can say that confidently with this bizarre channel. He makes reaction videos for nearly all current seasonal anime and spams them on streaming sites, begging for viewers. As a result, he was getting constantly harassed and reported. Since he stopped sharing his poison on those sites recently I think the reports finally worked.

His videos are all unwatchable. There is no effort in them. The audio is so bad you can't understand almost anything he says, and he's always desperately advertising himself as the intro to them. Also, he often moves back and forth which is irritating to look at. He's a lost cause and delusional.

Good channels:

SteveM:

He makes incredible passion projects. There is lots of good research and he draws his own art for his videos. He did a documentary on Satoshi Kon which is impressive. The downsides are that his livestreams are not very interesting, and he can came come off as rude or immature at times.

Catgirl Research Society:

Hilarious anime themed comedic content. There is a lot of clever writing in their scripts and jokes. As an example, their series on "Every 20XX X Seasonal Anime in Under 10 Seconds" is classic.

Kenny Lauderdale:

Already mentioned but I want to add a few things. His channel recently got demonetized (it no longer is as of now at least). When he made the announcement under his community page, his Patreon membership increased like 30-40% which is well deserved. Sometimes he'll do some live streams playing retro games, and he is an interesting enough person to make them enjoyable. His content is a gold mine and among the most important on Youtube.

 

[Danone]

I thought the author of that particular manga said it was supposed to be a commentary and not far material? I'm not saying Metamorphosis is high art (it's heart breaking and definitely not masturbatory stuff), but I don't think the author was totally going for like. Ryona and that stuff. Skimming through their other stuff too shoes that they don't usually make stuff like Metamorphosis so IDK.

Then he should have had that art style completely revamped. It's pretty embarrassing to read through a rape scene and the characters do that retard face every anime seems to take as "sadistic" (not to mention those hearts on the chick's eyes whenever she has sex).

 

[Jolyne THICCujoh]

Then he should have has that art style completely revamped. It's pretty embarrassing to read through a rape scene and the characters do that exceptional individual face every anime seems to take as "sadistic" (not to mention those hearts on the chick's eyes whenever she has sex).

Oh, fucking agreed. I know they had a whole message they wanted to convey, but that's not really gonna work when the art is still made to titillate first and foremost.

Yeah, she totally looks like she's not enjoying it as she's making another dumbass fucking ahegao face.

 

[Registration]

damn, some people just can't understand that is intentionally masturbatory work and these characteristics are inherent to it.

 

[Drain Todger]

Not sure if it has been said yet but I kinda dig Scamboli Reviews. Decent voice, sometimes says funny shit and doesn't seem to be a COMPLETE degenerate at least. He does manhua/manga and anime review stuff. Wish Demo D would produce content again but I doubt that'll ever happen.

The Best Webtoon/Manhwa I Have Ever Read

Hellper is literally the best piece of Korean media that I have personally consumed. Pretty spicy. Second Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXyJ4wKlY...

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I think this was maybe the first video of his I saw, and yes Hellper is fucking amazing if you're into manga/webtoons/etc

After YouTube's algorithm recommended me his hilarious High Guardian Spice review, I started watching Scamboli's other reviews, and holy shit. He is one funny motherfucker.

He's right, though. There was no SJW salt over Redo of Healer, unlike Goblin Slayer or Shield Hero. This was a disappointment, because I wanted there to be SJW salt, but they didn't actually watch the show. Instead, what we got was a bunch of people muttering "LOL, the SJWs must be so mad about this", and then looking dumb and paranoid because there were practically no SJWs talking about Redo at all.

 

[Kari Kamiya]

He's right, though. There was no SJW salt over Redo of Healer, unlike Goblin Slayer or Shield Hero. This was a disappointment, because I wanted there to be SJW salt, but they didn't actually watch the show. Instead, what we got was a bunch of people muttering "LOL, the SJWs must be so mad about this", and then looking dumb and paranoid because there were practically no SJWs talking about Redo at all.

Knew a couple of SJWs in a Discord server I'm in who were completely aware I was watching it since I kept posting screencaps to make fun of how it looked, but they joined in on it, briefly. I have a feeling they secretly enjoyed watching it (and Interspecies Reviewers) because it was borderline hentai and SJWs are hypocritical enough to flick it to hentai when they think no one's looking.

 

[fuck niggers & trannies]

After YouTube's algorithm recommended me his hilarious High Guardian Spice review, I started watching Scamboli's other reviews, and holy shit. He is one funny motherfucker.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=0HJ9NNtkFNw
He's right, though. There was no SJW salt over Redo of Healer, unlike Goblin Slayer or Shield Hero. This was a disappointment, because I wanted there to be SJW salt, but they didn't actually watch the show. Instead, what we got was a bunch of people muttering "LOL, the SJWs must be so mad about this", and then looking dumb and paranoid because there were practically no SJWs talking about Redo at all.

Sometimes it just happens like that LOL. I remember Sargon made this video getting angry at SJW's getting mad at a Doom expansion trailer when nobody even said anything.

Of the three animes you mentioned I think that both Shield Hero and Redo are trash, I get that light novels are supposed to be for teens but they actually read like they were written by a 13 year old.

 

[Str8Bustah]

How in the fuck has this thread gone this long with no-one mentioning grumpy jiisan yet? Every single one of you is underage and has absolutely zero taste in content;

 

[Kari Kamiya]

How in the fuck has this thread gone this long with no-one mentioning grumpy jiisan yet? Every single one of you is underage and has absolutely zero taste in content;

https://youtube.com/watch?v=mZnwVNTdUpY

Now that's a name I haven't heard in a long time.

Though that reminds me that there's like a whole slew of old-school written anime reviews just floating around out there that I think goes underappreciated in the days of vidya. Came across this guy's Vault of Error reviews from Otaku USA Magazine not that long ago on accident, but it's fun finding these reviews hanging out in the wild.

 

[Vodyanik]

Love kenny lauderdale but I wish he'd stop constantly changing the titles of his old videos, it's starting to feel like retroactive clickbait or something.

 

[Kari Kamiya]

Love kenny lauderdale but I wish he'd stop constantly changing the titles of his old videos, it's starting to feel like retroactive clickbait or something.

Titles and the thumbnails, thought I was the only one noticing that. Due to the thumbnail, I thought his "Things that Might be Anime" video was recent 'cause it showed up on my dashboard but I didn't take a good look at the upload date to see it was an exact year since it was uploaded. Fucking January.

Guess I'm just that starved for more Kenny Lauderdale content.

EDIT: Randomly looking up D.N.Angel stuff got me stumbling across this old channel that dropped off the face of the earth several years ago.

Early 2010s weeb cringe and she has the crazy eyes, but I mean... I've never seen her before, but there's a weird nostalgia to how these older reviews used to go with their brevity. No anime clips whatsoever (only a few seconds of the OP's song will play) and is probably why channels like hers just get left alone and disappear into the void. Who knows where she is anymore, if she's left the anime scene or not. (According to the video there, she (at the time) is a huge fan of Vic Mignogna, which may be more of a Weeb Wars topic of discussion, but still. Interesting.)

She's easier on the ears than someone like MarzGurl, just have to say.

 

[JJLiautaud]

Does really nice anime reviews of obscure/old anime plus some seasonal stuff as well.

 

[Kari Kamiya]

PicotheSpicyWarlord isn't too bad. You can tell he's a shitlord at heart.

(Azumanga Daioh on top.)