Memories: An Anime Anthology Masterpiece

Memories: An Anime Anthology Masterpiece | KYOTO VIDEO

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For KYOTO VIDEO's 5th anniversary, we return to where we started: looking at an anime anthology film that has Katsuhiro Otomo attached. But this one is bigger, better and, in many ways, more memorable.
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00:00 KYOTO VIDEO’s 5th Anniversary
03:07 Memories: An Intro
05:18 A Man Named Otomo
13:16 A Stinky Weapon
23:52 Cannon Town
32:21 Her Memories
45:48 Final Thoughts
47:17 Credits
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@neilworms2 Жыл бұрын

Couple of things to add: Magnetic Rose is like an anime supergroup, there is literally 5 top tier talents working in key roles on its production: Direction from Koji Morimoto (who's shorts are some of the best in surrealist animation you'll see anywhere just search for his name on youtube), Writing by Satoshi Kon (who needs no introduction), Animation Direction / Design from Hiroyuki Okiura (director of Jin Roh and one of the absolute best "realist" animators in the entire industry), Music by Yoko Kanno (again no introduction) and finally an original story and creative force behind this project Katsuhiro Otomo. I don't think we'll see this level of "anime dream team" ever again in the industry!

@KaiserBeamz Жыл бұрын

Aww man! Was so focused on Morimoto, Kon and Kanno's involvement I totally forgot that this was also a huge stepping stone Okiura's career as well. Thanks for reminding me!

@neilworms2 Жыл бұрын

@@KaiserBeamz You still did great! Its so much to cover :).

@prozacchiwawa Жыл бұрын

grateful for getting introduced to satoshi kon (rip) and yoko kanno through magnetic rose. it's up there with the seventh seal in terms of all time great cinema. everyone who worked on it is (or was) brilliant.

@skeaneable Жыл бұрын

@@KaiserBeamzI have been a fan of your videos for several years now is it possible you can do a special feature video comparison between anime of the 80's,90's and 2000's how the art style evolved and certain genre I noticed robot anime popular in 70's to early 2000's got suddenly replaced and saturated by Isekai genre andwhat are your thoughts on so called 'American' anime like Avatar:The Last Airbender,Boondocks,RWBY,Castlevania,Yasuke or Batman TAS it would be nice to here your thoughts on this as I notice your love for classics in the 80's and 90's (I still like hand drawn animation)

@MicahBuzanANIMATION Жыл бұрын

This anthology is a masterpiece of animation. Cannon Fodder has got to be one of the best short films I've ever seen. I wish more anime took the stylistic risks of Cannon Fodder, both in storytelling and the visual style being so different. Like something out of a children's book but drawn by demons. Really enjoyed listening to your thoughts on these 3 great shorts!

@kirgan1000 Жыл бұрын

Its take insperation from Europan comic style.

@neilworms2 Жыл бұрын

Same, I also wish Katsuhiro Otomo didn't give up on 2D animation...

@drakashrakenburgproduction5369 9 ай бұрын

Magnetic Rose is so good it needs to be it’s own film.

@ajclements4627 Жыл бұрын

This channel should be a heck of a lot bigger than it is, I can’t get enough of this content!

@Gunsight-One Жыл бұрын

Since I had an unusual early exposure to a wide range of anime titles while growing up as a kid in the 80's I have a particular fondness for the older animation from that time period. This channel hits that nostalgic button for me so well. I'm so glad I stumbled upon this channel a few months back as it is totally up my alley.

@jasonblalock4429 Жыл бұрын

100% agree about Kon. Every time I watch something of his, I still can't believe he died so early in his career. I honestly think that if he'd lived longer, he'd truly be remembered among the greats of animation like Disney and Miyazaki.

@cookiesonastick Жыл бұрын

Those who know, definitely know

@stickershock66 11 ай бұрын

The amount of heartbreak Kaiserbeamz put into that summation of Magnetic Rose almost brought me to tears, no joke.

@andrejg4136 10 ай бұрын

The definition of bittersweet, we lament his passing but celebrate what he did give us.

@user-zo9dc1lu3q Жыл бұрын

For a couple of minutes KZfaq tell me that the video was "unwatchable" from my country. I cried like a baby X-D But now it's all fine, and i can watch your masterpiece 🥰

@-Fapologist- Жыл бұрын

Magnetic Rose is easily one of the most haunting Anime I've ever seen so far.

@scotteaton4868 Жыл бұрын

Magnetic Rose is as genre defining as Akira, and distances itself from other stand alone productions by a significant margin. Its like the Tarkovsky of Anime' in my opinion.

@supme7558 Жыл бұрын

Its tartakovsky

@AA-cf4es 11 ай бұрын

@@supme7558you are kidding, right?... tell me it was a joke.

@joseeduardobolisfortes Жыл бұрын

I saw Memories years ago and, when I saw the movie Ghost Ship, I immediately remembered Magnetic Rose because it is the same plot: A place you know you need desperately leave but you can't do it.

@Iceteague1 Жыл бұрын

Happy 5th anniversary KB! Been a fan of your work since Robot Carnival and have been loving your work since then. Made me love anime like Nuku Nuku, Mystery of Mamo, Dezaki's work, and tons of classic anime that I now know why they are loved and talked about till this day. Thanks for being a great reviewer, historical professor, and overall a great person.

@n.o.9838 Жыл бұрын

Thanks for making 5 years worth of content and I hope you keep going at least 5 more! You have a very sharp critical mind and a clear passion for animation and the people involved in making these works. Some of the very best video essays on YT in this series.

@RailroadJerk Жыл бұрын

Happy anniversary, KB! This was well done, as is everything you touch over here. I started watching the Merrie Melodies series out of boredom during the holidays and found myself riveted by it!

@Likhos1 Жыл бұрын

I quite enjoy Stink Bomb's ending, I had a good laugh from it. Happy channel anniversary KB, still have yet to see all your videos, but I've had on hell of a time.

@kiddwong4186 Жыл бұрын

Congratulations on 5 excellent years of content creation. Your channel is so well researched and edited it's really an achievement just to have kept up your release schedule.

@0047sssss Жыл бұрын

I love Stink Bomb, and i specially love the final punch line

@oSJmee 9 ай бұрын

I hated the stinky guy so much 😅😂

@bencanfield Жыл бұрын

Absolute masterpiece. Thanks for the solid rundown as usual

@eletricistafodao1030 Жыл бұрын

oh my god, i saw the short of the guy that stinks on cartoon network brazil when i was little, i could never find it to see it again! I remember being traumatized!

@derBene Жыл бұрын

Thanks for the video. It's always a pleasure hearing well thought through reviews of these masterpieces. 👏👏

@garkun23 Жыл бұрын

Congrats on the five years! I've only started watching you in the last year thanks to a recommendation from my brother, but I love your videos. Hope you are able to continue to make more videos in the future! Happy anniversary!

@neilworms2 Жыл бұрын

Thanks for all the great work these last 5 years! What a better way to celebrate anime criticism than this masterpiece too!

@jakewerderly5959 Жыл бұрын

One of the few works I’ve seen before the review. They definitely deserve to be known and remembered more. The stink short was on my mind, but memories blew me away. Never knew Kon was connected.

@imogenmangle Жыл бұрын

Thank you for reviewing Memories! I'm lucky enough to have friends with amazing taste who showed it to me about a year ago. Completely agree with your ranking of the segments - Magnetic Rose is an unbelievable standout.

@mandenmoris Жыл бұрын

Hi man i stumble upon your channel by chance last year and i fall in love by your style and manners thanks for bringing old and unknow anime to me and as for the review itself i bought memories last year in blueray and its the same version you show in the video amazing. Keep the good job.

@user-rc3cm1zv4j Жыл бұрын

Honestly you're one of the best anime channels on KZfaq. Period.

@damianstarks3338 Жыл бұрын

Her memories/Magnetic rose is my favorite in this anime anthology.

@dirtnastyish Жыл бұрын

So glad I found your channel. Incredible video.

@Ikkepop 4 ай бұрын

What a great review of a timeless classic!

@ENZEED Жыл бұрын

thank you for the new video. i miss your vintage reviews

@Andrew-Winter Жыл бұрын

Congratulations on 5 years, you've earned every subscriber. :)

@konrambo1000 4 ай бұрын

Thx for all your videos🎉

@gig2734 Жыл бұрын

Hand drawn animation has somewhat unfairly been overshadowed by computer animation.

@weirdproq Жыл бұрын

Ok, you have convinced me to check this out, and probably buy the Blu-ray. This looks and sounds amazing.

@teddyfurstman1997 Жыл бұрын

This Channel is amazing love your fascinating look backs at Classic Animes and Animations like Looney Tunes. Also, Talk about The Animatrix!

@JulesJstar Жыл бұрын

Quick tip! Eschew (ess-CHOO) means to avoid using the thing. Askew (as-KYU) means crooked or tilted.

@ShanaReviews Жыл бұрын

Happy 5th KB! Here's to another 5 yrs of retro anime videos!

@Enshohma Жыл бұрын

Here's to hopefully another five more years! All the best to you as well, good sir.

@signaturewrap4843 6 ай бұрын

I saw thumbnail, subscribe, went to watch the movie and now I’m back. I actually want to thank you for the great suggestion. Absolute masterpiece

@TheJayRoth Жыл бұрын

This was a great and very impactful anthology. I rented it from Blockbuster back in the day and was like ..... WOW

@what1fun1v3rs3 3 ай бұрын

Magnetic Rose is amazing and makes me wish it gets a full film. And I am thankful for discotek for releasing this masterpiece to help it be more accessible.

@FriendlyNeighborhoodGeek99 Жыл бұрын

Congrats! I love your reviews and i love older anime lol i can never get tired binging your content or listening to your anime history lessons lol side note saw this for the first time last year i thought it was really good but the didn't like how the first story ended tho

@nicholasschumacher5020 Жыл бұрын

Happy 5th year. Literally paused this video essay 4 minutes in to go watch it (for free on Tubi) before continuing on. Never did that before, and wow! Great suggestion, going to share it with friends.

@GiantBrother Жыл бұрын

Thank you for bringing old anime for new audiences! I've been watching Gunbuster, Dirty Pair, and Escaflowne so far and I want to explore more.

@Zero_Tester Жыл бұрын

There alot of younger generation disliked Gunbuster because it too fanservicey for them,whenever i recommended it too them,also back in late 2000s when i recommended them romance anime/manga like Emma Victorian Romance,they called it boring

@Sweetestsadist Жыл бұрын

I've seen Magnetic Rose about 20 times. I've seen the other parts twice.

@electrofonickitty823 Жыл бұрын

Happy Five Year Anniversary! I hope to see more

@DicePunk 7 ай бұрын

I'd like to commend you on splicing in just a few seconds of Rebel Without a Cause and 2001: A Space Odyssey. I immediately realised and understood the influence those movies had on Otomo. I legit had to take a moment as flashbacks of Akira filled my head.

@frankg111 Жыл бұрын

I don't think the second part's end is that off putting. That short is a comedy. It's the punchline. High octane comedy goes for the ridiculous and doesn't need step by step logic for certain gags. Great video in general on this film! That's just the defense I always toss into the ring for the 2nd short.

@otakudoomer646 Жыл бұрын

nice video. love all your videos

@zak22wolftheultramanzenith35 Жыл бұрын

Interesting hearing that Mark Swint plays Heinz. I know Swint best from working with Bennett the Sage on Anime Abandon. Bennett has stated that Memories, Magnetic Rose specifically, is his favorite anime. Just a neat little connection.

@majingunplero8472 Жыл бұрын

love how you Include Uncle Go work when relevant to your analysis. Still waiting for a full fledge Mazinger Z and Getter Robo video, influence, legacy, toy impact etc...

@jaylenpeoples6517 6 ай бұрын

yo , this video is amazing

@mechajay3358 Жыл бұрын

I say they should've went with the initial ending for Stink Bomb. It just makes a whole lot more sense than the final product.

@trika91 Жыл бұрын

Freezing than isolating him on a remote island for the rest of his days, instead of killing him, would’ve been a bittersweet ending (bitter in that the protagonist is forever isolated and has to come to terms that he’s a living bio-weapon, while the Japanese and US military will most likely keep him alive to test/experiment with him; sweet in that he’s alive and contained/isolated, no longer being a danger to humanity). Though, the actual ending is darkly hilarious in how ridiculous the protagonist was able to get all the way to his superiors unscathed, and that said superiors faced their own hubris by having their mishap of a bio-weapon (it was mostly their fault for making the weapon and leaving out in the open for anyone to find) make it to them regardless of their efforts to stop/contain it.

@stickershock66 Жыл бұрын

Back in the 1990s, I first encountered "Magnetic Rose" in the form of the absolutely classic Anime Music Video scored to the techno remix of Phantom of the Opera. It's on KZfaq, don't miss it!

@BottleWaterson Жыл бұрын

its been a wild ride, and will absolutely continue to be.

@Toon_Pirate Жыл бұрын

Thank you for this review. I saw Memories when it came out and back then I considered it such a deviation from what anime *was supposed to be* as anime was Slayers, Tenchi Muyo and bright happy stuff. Since then I've only seen Magnetic Rose pop up in AMVs and video essays about Anime Being Art Actually. Thanks to this review I have reevaluated my thoughts on this anthology and I've found a new respect for it. It's not just the Sweaty Guy kills half of Japan movie anymore.

@scout9329 Жыл бұрын

I watched this a couple months back with some friends as part of a big anime triple feature along with robot carnival and neo Tokyo. It was crazy how each anthonlogy kept getting better and better, with us ending with Memories. Also watching cannon fodder was driving me insane because I was just yelling "CUT ALREADY".

@Haydenthemaker1000 Жыл бұрын

Great video

@Kolbatsu Жыл бұрын

Happy 5th anniversary KB!! And another amazing video on top of amazing videos of yours!

@ShhhHhhhz Жыл бұрын

magnetic rose reminds me of beyond the Aquila rift.. both are phenomenal short animations

@juliagoodwin9510 Жыл бұрын

Happy 5th anniversary!

@WanderingWeirdly Жыл бұрын

24:00 The dad from Cannon Town is giving me serious Donovan Desmond (Spy x Family) vibes... maybe an ancestor, lol

@Bubbleskittymaster 9 ай бұрын

I came across this movie on accident and i was amazed when i watched it. I came across a clip from stink bomb showing how overly animated the soldiers were.

@martinr3648 Жыл бұрын

Happy 5th anniversary! But after 3 years of knowing your channel. I still don't know that opening theme

@LyraFay12 Жыл бұрын

I'm still pissed that I missed Magnetic rose when it was free on youtube last year! Congrats on the anniversary!

@PhonePhone-sf8te Жыл бұрын

you could, you know, always torrent it in 4k in a few minutes. or stream it on one of the few hundred thousands free movie sites that exist.

@gilbertculloden87 Жыл бұрын

FYI Memories is currently available to stream for free on Tubi (along with some other classic anime films). At one point it was on retrocrush too, but I don't see it now

@GaIlows 5 ай бұрын

Having lived through Covid, Stink Bomb reads completely different these days. What used to be utterly ridiculous is surprisingly realistic. The idiocy/stubbornness of Typhoid Mary used to seem like an extreme outlier, but I literally know more than one person who pulled the same crap she did.

@RichardHannay Ай бұрын

Aw, I love the ending of Stink Bomb.

@PauloSilva-ep9ox Жыл бұрын

29:59 - Gundam MS 008 have a similar aprouch!!! I call that gundam flick a natal tale as same like Batman 2 (Burton) and Die Hard rsrs

@Rukunetsu Жыл бұрын

Keep up the great work Kaiser.

@candidgamera Жыл бұрын

Discotek is doing God's work.

@Pickledsundae Ай бұрын

Literally one of the best things to watch whilst on ketamine

@samwill7259 Жыл бұрын

Cannon Fodder doesn't look much like "anime" to me, which I know is a pointless statement But if you told me it was British animation, or like 80s American adult animation I would probably believe you

@lainiwakura1776 Жыл бұрын

Seems like it's on Tubi, for anyone who wants to know.

@alexh4319 Жыл бұрын

I hope you do Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust one day.

@quintessenceSL Жыл бұрын

Goddamnit! You need to figure out a way to do a spoiler free set-up for films you are recommending.

@user-cd4bx6uq1y 9 ай бұрын

32.7k subs and 75k views for a 48 minute long video is unfair even though I didn't begin watching yet. People got more with less. KZfaq is unfair. Best of luck to you!

@rolandguiscard Жыл бұрын

It's also free on Retro Crush and Tubi. So why would you not watch it?

@pantelisliakos2481 Жыл бұрын

The top TOP animes achieve something that other "cartoons " or (western)animation fail or have difficulty to do: With no sound or subtitles in the first seconds/mins in, just by the SUBLIME drawings and attention to detail they command you to sit the F @ # K down and watch it! This is art at the highest level and it's almost lost...

@metabaron6664 Жыл бұрын

Finally

@billjones642 6 ай бұрын

stink bomb was a needed bit of comic relief after magnetic rose.

@CocoHutzpah Жыл бұрын

I'll either be here in 5 years or I'll be dead.

@alexh4319 Жыл бұрын

I had no idea they had dubbed this.

@claudelarose8831 Жыл бұрын

Happy fifth anniversary to the channel!!

@artboymoy Жыл бұрын

Dubbed? Come on man. :) I have my favorites in the order they're presented. First time I watched Cannon Fodder, I was falling asleep. I appreciate it a lot now, but it was a slough when I watched it the first time through. The soundtrack is a masterpiece. I do hate how the subs did make it seem like people fell asleep instead of dying. It's totally crazy. Don't know why they did that. Did the US distributers think so much death would make the rating different? Love Magnetic Rose. It's such a masterpiece. The story and memories of Heinz's daughter, just heartbreaking. The animation still holds up so well, IMO.

@SkyboxMonster 9 ай бұрын

I'd like that animation and story telling. with a more happy theme.

@lordkayx Жыл бұрын

I noticed in cannon fodder the SS symbol on one of the walkways

@animefreak8535 Жыл бұрын

Thank you for your time and have a great time and 5 more years of older anime ahead of you. I know I ask before but would you like to talk on my podcast about anime manga or anything really

@azlanrazif Жыл бұрын

I'm still waiting for the 4k.

@MultitaskingGuy Жыл бұрын

5:00 I’ve watched a lot of things in foreign languages that I can’t understand but there’s context clues

@jamesharris4695 9 ай бұрын

Magnetic rose gave me post anime depression

@supme7558 Жыл бұрын

Akira the first anime i owned

@matthewstoneback9 Жыл бұрын

47:35 No KB, thank you!😉

@richardblack3385 Жыл бұрын

Didn't know there was a good dub. I own the DVD with subs. Maybe I wanna eat and watch and be able to hear English. Thanks for the heads up

@D__T_____ Жыл бұрын

'Le Corbooja'

@someuser4166 Жыл бұрын

44:44 isnt that the engineer guy from BennettTheSage?

@ryoko65 Жыл бұрын

I remember seeing the movie on Toonami when it first started out on Cartoon Network... Back when they would show anime all Saturday night... They even showed Dirty Pair.... Not sure how they got away with that one. Memories is definitely one of the best and heart wrenching of movies ever made. Thank you for making an essay about it ❤️

@vincentjenkinsjnr Жыл бұрын

can anyone tell me why the number 17 turns up in his films?

@fabian3946 Жыл бұрын

New Tokyo 1987 needs a review.

@tipulsar85 Жыл бұрын

... When did Discotek release the dub? 2021? Because if Swint's involved in the cast, I'm reminded that he did have a hand in a review of it in 2015. Leading to being in said dub an interesting return to an old frustration.