This is the kind of game I'd be so down to play on my ps1. Shame it's only in Japanese. I'll have to settle for the PS4 version. Thanks for the review, always appreciate some suda love, subscribed!

great video

knew it would be a banger when it started with end of small sanctuary

hi. i'm here after watching your nekojiru vid. zelle is one of my fav rpg maker titles and i never thought i would see a video on it so this makes me really happy. i will be watching this later and i am very excited to hear your thoughts on it. ^__^ take care, your videos are very cool

Now this is content. I love the use of Silent Hill music, too; good taste!

Do you talk about Memories of Nekojiru in this vid? I skimmed through but it didn't seem like it, I found it very enlightening and devastating. I think people tend to romanticize misanthropy and isolation but that account gives a very strong account of what misanthropy really means, and it brought me a lot of peace

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I love this video sm, I resonated a lot with your ending notes. All these years, I feel alienated from everyone else, even when I'm surrounded people I care the most. It was exhausting thinking in how to progress into a relationship with other people. I've also struggled with my own identity, whether it was shaped by other people or if it even existed at all. I read a few pages of nekojiru after watching this video, I love how bizarre and hilarious it is. I'll watch the anime and movie in the weekends.

Thank you for making things

You got me muttering actually factually to myself like a verbal tic I downloaded a Mara language patch to my brain

Social Isolation and monsterhood. Welcome back mara !

Portugal , canal panda verão de 2005 ❤

this movie looks so good i think i'm going to try and watch it before the video but i will be back i cant wait to see what you have to say about it

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Very swag as always

I love this video so much but my mind made me remember Action League NOW! half way through it.

the way you have with words has made me feel less lonely in how I prefer my words. thx

I remember this time in high school where someone somehow knew it was my birthday and wished me happy birthday, in retrospect it was very kind of her, but then everyone started following her exemple and everyone wished me happy birthday that day and that got me absolutely depressed and angry that people who would act like I don't exist most of the time would all just posture at being nice to me because that one person did so. And when I didn't reciprocate beyond the first couple people they all started to just get upset at me but not even directly they started talking about how awful I was like I wasn't even there. Worst part of all that is that the one "friend" I had in that class didn't care enough about me to wish me a happy birthday so that made that whole experience even worse. I'm not sure why I'm recounting that here exactly, like, it's a different experience from that of the girl coming at your desk your described but that reminds me so much of that, existing in isolation, wishing you'd be seen but then getting hurt even more when seen because it makes you realize how exactly you are seen.

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I notice how everybody who doesn't vibe with this uploader's style of delivery doesn't write their own comment, but instead bury their whining in the replies of somebody complimenting them. Makes sense that people who are buzzkill squares can't stand on their own, and have to dogpile on someone enjoying the moment. They are like a reactionary defense mechanism working against any kind of experimentation. Not only can they not handle the occasional dissonant chord they have to make it known to the world that you can't enjoy it either. Just enjoy the jazz or step out of the club, no need to make booing noises.

I used to hate the theories that resumed the game as being about her being abused, I always felt it was so much more than that...

Someone have the list of references in this video? The link doesnt work anymore

sufferin with all sorts of crap, i can relate with this alot. iv always felt just, different from everyone and everything, even when people are so close and care so much, its just, this odd feeling, like i dont deserve and dont belong, and this video just made me think alot, on how even when one feels so different, they can share that feeling of difference.

That media list is insane. Thank you for your hard work!

hello, i'm one more person in the spectrum that grew very isolated and whose only company was out there japanese art, though so afraid of others that i still didn't participate in online spaces besides obsessive reading. the very last story hit close, a classmate wanted me to promise that i never do what i did to myself again, i didn't say anything back and i continued doing it, plenty times more. on a separate occasion a long time later that ex-classmate told me she didn't like me very much back then, but ever since i admired that she still went out of her way to talk to me, be worried that time and not treat me differently than others, she had noticed i had changed from back then, i was very happy to had hear that. we don't have contact, last time only happening due to a mutual friend, i hope she's doing fine out there. nowadays it's still easy for me to retreat into my shut-in habits at the first second i have a break from university, i still get very afraid of work being inevitable and afraid it'll leave me hollow, i also feel like someone stirring shit for not having work experience at my age is something brewing to happen at any corner, or it might just be paranoia, i'm familiar with that sensation. the cat soup movie is one of those things that when i remember it, i have to pause for a moment and bask in the emotions it brings, even if they're not easily describable, i had watched a handful of the theater animation shorts and recognized it's dark humor, but wow i have a weird melancholic reaction to dark humor sonetimes!! happened with stuff like johnny the homicidal maniac too, i can only experience that sort of media in small quantities otherwise the weird bizarre melancholic reaction happens, don't know why!!

Until watching this video, I thought the whole internet collectively decided to pretend Hylics existed.

Your vocabulary is wild, but I am enthralled. Love your perspective here.

This one was very inspiring. I'm writing some short stories and I wanted to bring out this vibe of weird media I grew up watching and this reminded me of a lot of stuff I haven't thought about in a long time and exposed me to a ton of stuff I would have totally been into if I was familiar with it back then.

Wayne is my boyfriend ❤

hey, random question but how did you make your thumbnail, that image of nekojiru with all the glitchy jpeg-like artifacting? What's the process to make something like that?

When I was about ten years old I saw a commercial for cat soup on a dvd I rented from the library. I was so struck by the commercial I remembered the name “cat soup” and looked it up on KZfaq when I was a bit older. I feel so close to the art work and I have so many questions

jus found your channel but my god u are amazing

A beautiful portrayal of pain

I'm bringing up Tigtone as well because Xavier Renegade Angel inoculated me against enough weirdness so that I could love every season of Tigtone. If you like the uncanny realistic style and the general tone of Xavier it's a great and hilarious watch.

I KNOW WHERE THAT PROFILE PICTURE COMES FROM, i really need a proper video about kami no kodomo please make one i really loved this one

I’m easilyyy the biggest Zelle fan. Fun fact, Zamza had red hair when he was young. Around the time he was friends with Adolf and Patrick fighting astaroth

Identity is something I find others forcing on me as my freedom of self expression and discovery is being lost

your soul shines thru here

This is one of the most beautiful videos I've ever seen, it really inspired me to keep making niche art that makes me happy instead instead of trying to appeal to a broader audience, thank you so much

The story about school was really relatable to me, except for the reaction. I never cared what people thought, it pissed them off. I ended up getting into fights with people and being considered a "problem child", or at least it felt like that. Despite my best efforts, i wouldn't be seen as anything other than "weird". The more I tried to be seen or heard, the more I'd get dismissed. In a world like this it becomes hard to want to try anymore, especially when everything tells you not to. Regardless I still try, whether it's to survive, spite, or maybe i just can't let go of the hope that one day things will change.

This really gives me hope for my own stuff. Just making random and non-conformative art.

Beautiful video

20:09 Oh my god that is so cool I really feel like making my own weird game now

what song is playing @41:32

There’s something beautiful about this video. So deeply expressing how unique humanity is and how flexible morality changes on any given persons mind. Telling how being lonely, sad, empty and uncertain is just apart of being alive. The realization of being a human and just experiencing emotion is incredible. What a feeling this video can so easily explain. Amazing work.

Yeah, isolation… I won’t say it is painful for me, but it is strange. I daydream about talking to others yet isolate myself from everyone around me. I had to drop out of college because I wouldn’t leave my dorm room even for class. If it wasn’t for work and family I would probably not talk for days on days like I did in college or during summer/winter break... It isn’t because I feel shunned or anything though, it is just an instinctual yearning to be alone.

i didnt know about that in crypt underworld thanks

I came to this channel through the Weird Art video, your work is wonderful Mara and this video made me think too much, some parts I felt too much inside me and in my story I don't know you but I hope you are well and proud of this work sister, you can see the passion and love for Nekojiro Sleep peacefully, you have done a good job, tomorrow will be a new day, I just hope you continue making this beautiful content

We used to spend summers in the village when I was a kid. It was a gloomy village that was quite far from the city. There were no computers or internet, but if there was one thing I enjoyed doing back then, it was exploring the areas of the village that no one else saw. My friends and I would find hidden places made of trees and discover hidden places. Yume Nikki reminds me of the feelings I had at those moments. There were also times when I was interested in mathematics. This may sound strange, but what I felt was similar to what I felt in Yume Nikki and in the village. I guess there are some directions that these feelings drag me. I feel like I can find peace if I can produce something in the areas I love one day. After this video, I'm sure I need to strive for something. I always hesitated because I couldn't find what I loved in the people around me. But then I realized that most people don't have things of their own that they can love. That's why I find this characteristic of mine very valuable. But how well can I live this life by being guided by others?