Anime documentaries

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Death Scythe
If you find any good anime documentaries on Youtube or elsewhere, post links here. A couple of the best channels I've found for well-researched anime documentaries are:

kenny lauderdale
If you're interested in old or obscure anime, this channel is a goldmine. He specialises in shows and OAVs from the 80s that border on falling into the lost media category. Here are a few highlights.

MercuryFalcon
Less prolific than the previous channel, but has some great detailed retrospectives and documentaries on some 80s classics, with the one about Megazone 23 being especially enlightening about why that OAV is such an incoherent mess.

All Things Lost
Not primarily an anime-related channel, but it does have some interesting videos on lost anime.
 
One channel I follow is called Toy Galaxy. They started talking about toy collections, but pivoted into the history of the shows and films that the collections started from and now just anything nostalgia based.
Their latest is about Diacon III and IV:

Most of their anime videos are about the American versions, but start with the original shows. There are a few about the original shows that weren't butchered, like Ulysses 31. I made a playlist:
 
A good primer on 70s super robot anime. It would have been nice if it also integrated the live-action super robot shows of the decade (such as Red Baron, which aired around the same time as Mazinger Z), but this goes a lot deeper than the usual big name Go Nagai and Tomino shows. It mentions a few less successful series that I'd never heard of before.
 
KaiserBeamz
This Youtuber does some excellent deep dives into 80s and 90s anime, combining behind-the-scenes insight, thematic analysis, and a dash of humour.
 
We've all secretly been watching propaganda!
The Sony take over makes more sense now!
 
D1tchd1gger said:
We've all secretly been watching propaganda!
The Sony take over makes more sense now!
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Just finished watching this. Outstanding stuff. I need to watch it again with pauses so I can think about it and go down some Google rabbit holes.

I don't know if I've ever had any conversations with other anime fans about anything as specific as the idea of Japan remilitarising - but, in the same way that we here in Britain are taught barely anything about the historical crimes of our country, it's not surprising that there's many anime fans who idolise Japan in such a way that that their either ignore or don't know anything about Japan's own history.

Also, lol @ the politician that kicked the statue of the "comfort woman", and claimed that he was only stretching his legs. Presumably he's giving implicit consent for us all to kick him, if - AND ONLY IF - we feel that it will keep us limber. (Lol, it's so annoying when u want to stretch ur legs, and there's a statue or memorial or monument in the way. So annoying! Nothing u can do but kick out into the air anyway. Am I right folks?!??!)
 
Actually a podcast (Modern Rubbish Podcast) but this episode on Ghost in the Shell and cyberpunk as a genre in media has been an interesting listen: ‎Modern Rubbish: Episode Twenty-Nine: Ghost in the Shell on Apple Podcasts

It’s also on Spotify too.

They also have an episode on Akira and the latest is on Robot Carnival with Justin from Discotek/MediaOCD/Animeigo. They usually cover horror films though (not my thing so not listened to those either).
 
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