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thanks yall sorry for the holdup i was watching anime with my wife. rpgs q&a should be out tomorrow LOL. sorry 4 the hazel overload this week

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Anonymous

Have you heard of the Weeb Ass Shit scale for rating anime (i know it from a Tumblr meme idk if it predates that) and how would you rate Eiken on it? Also have you ever played Katawa Shoujo? It was the first dating sim I ever played and I have Complicated™️ feelings about it

Saoirse

You said you quite liked anime about making anime, have you seen Shirobako? Or Keep your hands off Eizouken? If so what are your thoughts?

Anonymous

When it comes to fan service in anime, Rosario + Vampire is the first that comes to mind for me. Was wondering your feelings on the show if you’ve seen it, I think it gets away with a lot by being entirely self aware

Anonymous

You gave a deserved shout out the to Venus of Willendorf, but she kinda already has a large following. Are there any other Venuses you'd like to shine a light on? Personally, I stan the Venus of Hohle Fels

Anonymous

How is your brain after all that Eiken? Also, your song list says you made a cover of Gymnopedia No 1. Any intention of releasing that? (Whether as a Patreon exclusive or under Twinkle Park??)

rainaScallion

do you think early digipaint is an aesthetic worth bringing back?

Anonymous

Thank you for sacrificing your sanity for us, hazel :). I love the kirby anime production footage. intentionally open ended question - what is your favorite flavor of kirby?

Anonymous

What do you think is the best looking anime that came out of the digipaint era?

Anonymous

Do you have any shone ai recommendations?

Anonymous

What hentai do you think has the better concept or character development

Anonymous

Recommend more movies like fascination from jean rollin?

Anonymous

What’s your opinion on the whole “they’re thousands of years old but look like a child so it’s legal” thing (since it’s sorta relevant to the video) And have you actually watched the lupin vs detective Conan movie? (It’s good! the special that came before it isn’t as good but the movie comes recommended if you like the ol bois.(you unfortunately have a big detective Conan fan within your audience))

Anonymous

i’m kinda curious how you think the big breast thing ties in with the equally ubiquitous mother-son incest theme that is littered all over hentai and doujin. I wonder if the huge boobs tie into an otaku desire to find a safe warm place in a woman that can fill their mother’s role in their life

Anonymous

I can't imagine how just like.. emotionally and psychologically taxing the whole middle section of this video must've been to make. I honestly considered skipping when the warning popped up just because the whole topic kind of sets off anxiety alarm bells for me but I ended up just sticking it out and you handled it really well. and I really like that you ended it off on a positive note with some recs for good shows, it was a nice little treat for getting through the more difficult stuff. Definitely hoping the next vid lets you give yourself a break. That song at the end is coming along great too, I love how unapologetically Coaltar it is, haha. Speaking of which I guess I wanna ask somethin that I think was a pod spirit question but you didn't end up getting around to it- as a fellow lefty who plays guitar right handed, do you find that you struggled at all with your strumming technique at first? Because it's something I feel I struggle with a lot and I wondered if it was because my weak hand is the one I'm using to strum, but I've seen you play pretty complicated mathy riffs and stuff really well. do you find that being lefty makes that harder?

Codfish Cartographer

I notice you use the Fire Punch Grin face a lot in your vids - what're your thoughts on Fire Punch / Chainsaw Man, if any?

Anonymous

This is an impulse coming off the pure sadness I get from this anime and everything surrounding it that you talked about, but can we get an AVGN-esque video of you destroying your Eiken blu-ray in a creative way? Or maybe just a blunt, low-effort hammer attack… I think that’s all it really deserves. Thank you!

Anonymous

What is your favorite fighting style or signature move from Keijo!!!!!!!! ?

leafbladie

For the shallow people (myself included) who like Bakunyuu solely for the sake of itself, are there any anime, games, manga with Bakunyuu you would recommend?

Anonymous

While I wasn't the one asked, Valkyrie Drive could be your thing if you haven't checked it out already.

Elias Rosner

A fitting end would be an edit of it getting crushed by the Keijo!!! girls

Elias Rosner

Since it was such a big part of the video I gotta know. What's your favorite Alan Smithee film, if you have one?

Anonymous

I just started watching Keijo. Great show, I enjoyed it more than Jojo so far. Are there any other female led shojo battle style anime you recommend?

T. K.

Hey! So having grown up in the era of dying movies stores with beaded back room doorways, and seen the internet bloom and have basically no partition from mild to wild other than "u 18? y/n", I have been, Goddess help me, been "thinking of the children," and how to best be part of nerdy spaces that is safe for the youths and people with adult interests. Like I feel like there is a real comparison to people stressing out about leather daddies and kink at pride, who have long standing history in supporting LGBTQA+ efforts but still make some people uncomfortable, and the really pervy booths at the anime con who's rent helps the con exist, and the 10 year old pokemon fans walking by it. Also there is the fact that people speaking frankly about sex in geeky spaces has been a boon to many young people with internal struggles and existential questions about their identities, which they often can't get answers from their care givers nor "standard" sex ed. But, as you yourself, expressed some fairly positive shagrin about how available adult content was to you as a youth and now via the internet, do you have any thoughts on how older geeks, and/or event/space (digital/physical) organizers can do to balance youth safety/curiosity? I mean obviously we can't all have a soft spoken sexshop worker give us a genital piercing ala moral oral but yeah what could be done?

Anonymous

Did you ever get in trouble for reading manga in school? I used to be obsessed with Love Hina in middle school and I forgot a volume under my desk once and some kid stole and narced on me saying there was lots of boobies so manga was banned from my school.

Anonymous

Did you know you can import a super cub for hella cheap straight from Japan and they even come branded with like Kumamon and shit, they are cheaper and more feature rich than the US super cub, and you don't even have to register it because it's got such a little motor but that's only if you get the 50cc I did research it's not cheaper to ship it over but you can buy them in the US for 4k$ and motorcycle riding classes will be starting in like May

Anonymous

I think there was a strange trend during the 00s for incredibly dull, yet overly sexualised harem anime. Even is certainly one of them, you could even include School Days, because beyond that final episode, it is a horrifically boring slog to get through. I wonder if there are any other anime that fit this weird niche, shows where if you're not mesmerised by the boobs and panties, there is only brain death waiting for you.

Anonymous

Loved the To Wong Foo reference. It made me wonder, do you ever worry that shows like Keijo run the risk of falling into a similar trap as that movie, where they reinforce regressive tropes but shield themselves from some criticism by being progressive in depictions of other norms? I haven't seen Keijo so I don't want to assume it does this, but I do feel there's a trend I've seen across many forms of media where a selective progressive portrayal is used as protection from criticism of shitty, regressive ideals portrayed elsewhere within a work. I also think constant, meticulous critical evaluation of your own consumption is no way to live, so maybe it doesn't matter even if that is the case! Absolutely love everything you've put out, your videos have been a real highlight of the last year for me, thank you!

Anonymous

There are a lot of artists out there who feel like they would rather die than not create the art they want to create. I’d like to say I fit this description…but deep down I’m scared to die, and I’m lacking in confidence that I can achieve financial well being through art. Do you think you’d be able to live without creating art or would you rather die? If the answer is you think you’d be able to live without creating, any idea on what you would pursue instead? You are a very open minded thoughtful person and I appreciate this video a lot. Thank you so much.

Anonymous

Have you ever watched any seasons of FLCL, and if so what did you think of them?

Anonymous

I think you're right that this is a trend, but Keijo is kind of too stupid to fall into it. IIRC there are some issues that might turn people off the series, like with groping-based humor, but the sport element is pretty straightforward and surface-level--it's not claiming to convey any kind of progressive or feminist commentary beyond the go-to shonen action series motto 'it's good to chase your dreams.' I agree with you that it's not necessary to pick apart the minutiae of the media we enjoy to justify enjoying it, but if you're curious about this particular series and/or progressive-minded commentary on anime in general I've gotten a lot out of the site AnimeFeminist!

Anonymous

What did you like most about the anne of green gables anime?

Anonymous

I really liked the edits you made to the recordings of you speaking and I was curious how that came about. Was there any reason behind it or was it just an "Oh, this looks cool" thing?

HazelYT

I'm not sure I understand, sorry, I try to edit everything to the rhythm of my voice over so I'm not sure if you mean a specific part or not

HazelYT

OH! right okay thank you!

Anonymous

this is pretty off topic and mostly just for Alyssa I think, but do you have any recommendations for someone looking to get into visual novels? or just recs for your favourite vns? thanks!

Anonymous

Have y'all ever played the Humongous Entertainment CD rom games ( Freddie Fish, Putt-Putt, Spy Fox, Pajama Sam)? Y'all seem like the right age to have experienced them and theres full on Lesbian representation in Pajama Sam 2. I love them and honestly the music in them fuckin slaps

Anonymous

Have you ever read Shuzo Oshimi's manga ? reading "inside mari" in the middle of my adolescence sure was a ride

Anonymous

What do you dislike about Nakashima Kazuki's works? Does this extend to other members of the Gainax/trigger gang like Imaishi?

Anonymous

It's so difficult to walk the through-line of "This media, no matter how awful or lacking of value I find it, deserves to exist" and not be immediately retorted with like "Oh so we should just let cold hard CSEM and Hate Speech Materials be freely and widely distributed without issue because otherwise that would be infringing on someone's freedom" I find a lot of younger folks online really fall into the trap of trying to figure out that line out with a whole "baby out with the bathwater" mentality (which is why I appreciate channels like you and Ms Lola who make their these around transgressive art deserves to exist) so seeing people respond to it very thoughtfully and give more nuanced discussions is fantastic, but still it can be verrry hard when it looks like you're going to bat for nonces so I really do admire what you do here. Completely unrelated to any of that, my actual question is have you ever heard of the Deltora Quest anime? I haven't watched it but it was based on a book series I loved and I just liked how Emily Rodda turned down multiple studios to adapt her book but let an anime studio take on the property because her kids were MASSIVE weebs hah

Anonymous

possibly silly question, and i hope it's not been asked before! - can i ask what the video of the boat is from that youve used a couple of times?

Anonymous

also, just wanted you to know that I watched your video while eying my bathroom door to make sure the maintenance guys didn't accidentally see the sin on my screen; so, thank you!

Anonymous

Since this OVA is an affront to God and all that is decent in visuals, I'll ask what is the most aesthetically pleasing anime and/or manga you've seen? For me, in terms of anime it'd be Utena or Gunbuster and manga Dorohedoro or X 1999.

Anonymous

Hi Hazel! First, I just wanted to say I'm a prion researcher irl so when I heard your reference to Mad Cow in the new video I cheered outloud LOL! My question! I finally started watching Golden Boy after your recc and I'm loving it. Besides anime, are there any other raunchy/sex comedy manga, shows, movies, etc that you like? What do you think distinguishes a good, enjoyable sex comedy from one that is "cringy" or dismal?

Anonymous

Hey Hazel, curious if you've seen the 2012 anime From the New World and if so what your thoughts on it are? I ask this because the character designer and animation director of the OP on Eiken was the director of that series, Masashi Ishihama.

Anonymous

Is that gymnopodie cover avaliable anywhere? x

Anonymous

Do you find it difficult to pay attention to background music? I know music is like Your Thing but personally I find it hard to watch something with dialogue or play something while also listening to the BGM. So, when you mention the BGM in an anime that's crazy as hell I know I wouldn't have even noticed despite how much I like BGM.

Siegfried Pinzer

First at all thanks for the attempt to spell my german name correctly in the last qna video, also you have a talent to remind me of the existence of stuff I watched in my younger years... This time with the angel and the spike mace. To the question itself: what do you do with rabbit holes you fall in that just has nothing to do with the actual topic of a video project, or are you good at keeping your focus on falling into revellant rabbitholes?

Anonymous

I noticed you tweeted about watching the Yokohama Shopping Diary series's which much like Eiken are 2 ep OVAs based on long running series. Are there any other series that've received partial anime treatment that you'd be interested in seeing animated to completion? Also how did you find out it was pronounced "ayy-ken" as I was convinced for years it was "eye-kan" until hearing the anime.

Anonymous

I really enjoyed this YT vid. Especially the section on the censorship campaign led by Ishihara, which I remember well when it was going down. (Damn, I think I just aged myself). Keep up the awesome work! You made me return to anime from the depths of manga hell (where I basically still reside).

Laura Lou

When I first saw the "Those aren't pillows!" panel from the Eiken manga, my immediate reaction was it had to be fake. Some poor underpaid localizer must have been wishing they were watching "Planes, Trains, and Automobiles" instead of working on Eiken.

Anonymous

I saw you mentioned Drakengard 3! Thoughts on that game/that series?

Anonymous

What’s some of your favorite anime from the weird early 2000’s digipaint era?

Anonymous

I think patreon ate my last comment. (if it didn't, I'm sorry for the repost) I had a lot of words of support from the section of the video about work culture, really hit home. But I'll just skip to the question I had. You mentioned Re:Cutie Honey, it's definitely one of my personal favorites, and I was wondering your opinions on it and the series as a whole. Re:s incarnation of Natsuko definitely put it up there for me.

Anonymous

Apparently Gabe Newell is hand delivering steam decks to Seattle residents, what would you do if Gaben came up to you in real life? fight, flight or freeze?

Anonymous

Did Shintaro Ishihara's death happen during or before the video scripting process, and how happy were you to find out you were no longer sharing a planet with that abscess of pathetic xenophobia?

Anonymous

When you decided to dig into this, was there a specific person (or type of person) you were hoping Alan Smithee would be?

Anonymous

I think I jumped out of my seat when you started talking about Golden Boy, then jumped some more when you talked about Keijo!!!!!! (proper amount of exclamation points added out of due respect). Anyways, with the reoccurring mentions of tails gets trolled, and even a physical book of it in this video, are there any other pieces of wack early 2000s sonic-related media that you enjoy/have fond memories of? The two others that stand out to me was Super Mario Bros Z (which I think you might've mentioned before?) and a weird sprite animated series on youtube about Kirby moving into a house with Sonic, Shadow and Silver, and then promptly falling in love with some sprite animated anime girl and then shortly after becoming a pink hedgehog. (sorry for the long question, ADHD brain makes me ramble)

Anonymous

What are your guy’s favorite and least favorite Danganronpa trails? Btw it’s pronounced (Cah-see-us), the mispronunciation in the last video was funny lol.

Christopher Roger Simons

Hi y'all! Since the Patreon is growing and you're getting a lot of questions, would you ever consider doing a month of "lighter" questions? Like having a month where people ask questions that are easily answered yes or no, or a month where people ask you to choose between two preferences, like ketchup or mustard, or PS2 or Gamecube, Linus or Lucy? (I prefer Linus.) It's up to y'all how much to elaborate, and it could lighten the load when you need a break or see family over the holidays. Just a thought, signed Chris from California.

Anonymous

How do you make the tangents that you go on in your videos feel as relevant as you do? Seriously, it's a skill that I'd love to get better at. /genuine

Anonymous

So as Sonic Enjoyers and Fanservice Enthusiasts , How did y’all feel when those 2 worlds collided in SA2 with the introduction of Jiggle Physics on Rouge the Bat? As a baby kid I never really took note of it , But They really did that in my Silly little Sonic game huh!🤪 Love your Music and your videos !

Anonymous

You keep dropping Precious Park in your videos and I am vibing every time to Kota Hoshino goodness but I'm curious on your feelings about Armored Core For Answer personally.

Anonymous

Hey Hazel, good work on the video, big fan. Eiken had a longer tail on it than it deserved because Kirika's design meant she became a "Hero" character for fetish communities. Can you think of any other characters or shows that were needlessly popular because their character designs struck a chord, and what can we do to stop them?

Anonymous

Hello Hazel, new sub but absolutely love your content! Especially this video has some very based povs on class solidarity and anti capitalist retoric. What were your main life inspirations/people for these points of view?

Robert Denby

Loving the videos, and sorry to ask a question that pertains to the earlier cozy JRPG video. There's a Saturn JRPG for Magic Knight Rayearth that I'd definetly recommend if you can get your hands on it. Its short, and has an amazing localization courtesy of Working Designs, who add some fun flourishes to the characters.

Rachael

I read Otaku: Japan's Database Animals on your recommendation and it blew my mind a little bit. Are there any other books you would recommend in this vein? (I was eyeing a book by Saito Tamaki, if you have any opinions to share about his work.)

Anonymous

This video was a wild ride; when starting this project, did you initially intend to cover all the topics you did or did you start with a specific thing to cover and had the project grow in scale as you researched it?

Anonymous

From seeing the Gunbuster clips in this video aswell as the Noriko figure I saw you have, it had me wondering what your opinion of the show?

Anonymous

I think my original question got deleted somehow but I wanted to ask about ecchi manga/ anime. What aspects do you like and dislike about them? Any particular series you think does it well?

Anonymous

Dont know if this is too off topic, but do you have a favourite moment of storytelling in a video game? Some specific scene or use of a techinque that really stuck with you that could only come from games as a medium?