@@annoying_HK_guy thank you! I tried to capture the vibe of the original Kamen Rider without copying specific shots.

It does this month. If you join the Patreon :) I love those weird transforming abominations too.

I believe it was a collaboration between himself, Buronson, and one of the editors. I only ever saw Buronson enter the studio once or twice, and it was treated like a special thing. I've not seen much of Regenesis, how did it compare? I honestly don't know much about it, but I've briefly met some of the new assistants that worked on it with Hara-sensei on my last visit a few years ago.

@@TOKYOTOYBANZAI Awesome man! Subscribed to your channel btw, great stuff brother! The rajin comics of Blue Sky had nobuhiko horie as author and Hara as artist. But the Japanese comics has Hara as writer and author with Buronson supervising. Thanks for the clarification! Regenesis is super epic, the artist Hideki Tsuji is a genius worthy of being Hara sensei’s successor. It’s on hiatus right now but it will return probably within the year. Tsuji is really cool I’ve had many conversations with him on X. The manga is infinitely times better than the anime btw I don’t recommend the anime to anyone they need a real studio to animate it and keep it faithful to the source material.

@@conzalez94 that’s right! Horie Nobu - I hadn’t heard that name in years. Since I had no involvement with the script, that stuff was never of interest to me. Thanks for the reminder! I do believe that the initial concept was discussed between Hara & Bronson, but it was very evident that he didn’t play a large role in the script. I’d say the same for the last volumes of FOTNS too… they were just milking it at that point.

@@conzalez94 and thanks so much for subscribing!! 🙏 🙇‍♂️ 🙏

@@TOKYOTOYBANZAI That would make sense. Awesome man! HnK is getting a remake anime to celebrate its 40ths anniversary last year. No update in almost a year unfortunately. If that is really well done and brings in a lot of viewers hopefully they can animate blue sky and regenesis, you never know

Thanks! I've honestly not met many people that have read Fist of the Blue Sky. I know it's not looked upon as fondly, but there is some fun stuff there. I was handed the scripts for each issue while Hara-sensei would work on the (super rough) layouts. I couldn't read any of it, and even if there was any Japanese writing I recognized, it was all written by hand and not so easy for a beginner to read. So most of the time, I had no idea what was going on - I just did as I was told 😅

@TOKYOTOYBANZAI it's still very cool that you got to work with tetsuo hara. His art is timeless and better than most manga, even today. His art is so iconic and detailed that it's almost impossible to animate it at the same level of detail and artistry, much like berserk. We'll see how they do with the remake. Hopefully 2d.

@TOKYOTOYBANZAI i don't like fist of the blue sky as much but it's still fist of the north star at its core and had plenty of great moments. I liked the gang war setting in the beginning, some of the extra lore on hokuto shinken and the unique setting. It's no post apocalyptic wasteland but it is an interesting historical setting that we rarely see.

@@zh7334 NorthStar studios had been using 3D cg animation before most other anime (and we were one of the only major manga publications that was doing digital rendering for the manga screen tone elements (which were then printed out on sticky film and then cut put and placed on the final ink. Replicating his style was very tough. I imagine with the advancement in cell shaded 3d cgi, I’m going to guess that whatever comes next will be more manga accurate, but be built ontop of 3d models, made to look 2D. Much like the last Dragon Ball Super Hero film (which surprisingly looked MOSTLY fantastic). But with studios cranking out mega hit mixed media anime with an emphasis on 2D style, like Chainsaw man and Demon Slayer - they could be leaning more in that direction for some of it too… the biggest obstacle is that THAT sort of intense animation requires space labor to complete - the 3D cgi is much more manageable to complete.

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@@codeninja100 Thank you! I actually did! I show some toward the last half of the video (briefly), but as I will go into detail in a future video, doing that for a couple years burned me out, and I realized I enjoyed the design aspect more than sequential artwork (it’s so demanding) - and that led me to stepping away from it and later taking up writing and then producing videos 😊

@@TOKYOTOYBANZAI that’s dope! I’d love to read them! I’m currently working on my first long form manga inspired comic. I’ve written smaller 2pg, 6pg, and 12pg stories. While the actual drawing part is daunting to get through, finishing a complete chapter or short story is so gratifying to me. Is your work posted anywhere?

Indeed! I do plan on doing a deep dive on Hara-sensei, some more details about what he taught me, and how much influence his work had on ALL of shonen manga.

I'm not entirely sure how extensive that was - but I will say that after I started, they also hired a part time artist assistant from South Korea (who was so cool), which seemed progressive to me as it seemed like all the other adjacent studios that worked in our building were 100% Japanese (I spoke to many of them during parties, dinner, etc). Back then they were known as BUNCH COMICS, owned by COAMIX. Now they are called ZENON - and recently launched an international manga contest. So they have a continous history of trying to bring cultures together with manga, which I think is fantastic. I am very thankful for the opportunity I had, and to the people that helped make it happen - Hara-sensei being my biggest supporter at the time. If he ever allows me to interview him (he rarely does interviews, and they are usually text based and printed in major Japanese publications), I'd love to ask him about all of that. He's been studying English for the past two decades, and the last time I went to visit him around 8 years ago, he already spoke English very well, compared to when I worked for him (his English was non-existent, as was my Japanese 😅) Sorry for the lengthy reply! Thanks for the question!! 🙏

I'm too embarrassed - I have a couple old DeviantArt accounts floating around there. I don't even want to go back to... I don't even like watching my old videos. The curse of the artist.

I'm so happy to hear that 😊 Stay cool out there!

@@stephenrichnafsky897 thanks man 🙏