The Best Game Dev Manga You Haven't Read (16-bit Sensation) (Uncensored)
Added 2022-11-16 02:02:11 +0000 UTCClick me for the Dropbox backup if Patreon Video does not work!
From the illustrators that brought you many of Leaf's modern classics and the author of The World God Only Knows, comes a manga that perfectly captures the history of a long gone era and all the complex feelings of being a game developer... and it's beautiful.
Script & Sources: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1TGlhzePbxmb38nY-NHycwHfkg3A3ptakNfp4O9tv_70/edit?usp=sharing
Questing Refuge: https://www.youtube.com/c/QuestingRefuge
Human Restoration Project: https://www.youtube.com/c/HumanRestorationProject
The History of Leaf: https://youtu.be/d5GoykMJLYk
Kastel's Twitter: https://twitter.com/kastelwrites
Buy the manga on Bookwalker: https://bookwalker.jp/series/263231/
or Amazon: https://www.amazon.co.jp/dp/404109755X/
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Comments
Great work as always! This video gave me inspiration and even made me a little emotional! Thank you
Socks
2022-11-17 21:22:37 +0000 UTCOh no, you're totally good! I was worried I might have came off as combative. Yeah, I definitely agree we give them more importance than needed. There was a bit I had in the script I cut for brevity where I talk about the way in which something described as non-fiction is immediately assumed to be more true than fiction, which is not inherently true. Tons of journalism is totally fabricated, tons of fictional stories are heavily based on real accounts, etc... it's as much a cultural issue as it is a lingusitic one.
Noelle Aman
2022-11-17 01:08:21 +0000 UTCI can definitely see where you're coming from. There's this tendency to treat "non-fiction" as a synonym for "real," and that can cause a lot of issues indirectly, as it ignores that art is necessarily fake in the sense that regardless of its subject matter, it's using artistic techniques to present certain things to an audience in certain ways, to the exclusion of other things. Salesman may be made up, but so is a Ken Burns documentary. Building a narrative and making it into something for an audience to take in is all smoke and mirrors, no matter how authentic you try to be...and that's not a problem. When it comes to the grey area of historical fiction and things surrounding it, I think we'd benefit a lot culturally from using work like this to think about how these things, and I appreciate you bringing that to the front here. So I guess for me, the problem is less that the labels we use for the spectrum between fiction and non-fiction are too rigid, but more that we tend to treat them as more important than they are. How much do I really care if the original inspiration for something is real or fake if how it makes me feel or think is the same either way? A non-zero amount, sure, but I don't think it's the massive gulf we tend to assume it is. Thanks for responding, and I hope I didn't sound combative at all. I don't think I really disagree with you, I'm just identifying the issue slightly differently. Thanks for doing such fantastic work :)
Scarlett Serenity
2022-11-16 21:16:44 +0000 UTCI think historical fiction is really close to what this manga could be labeled as, but historical fiction is still considered fiction for any reason from names being different to entire plot lines being fabricated. If it's just slight differences, then why is that fiction? And to bring up the film Salesman again, that film IS considered a non-fiction documentary quite commonly, but the construction of the film is totally made up. So why's it still non-fiction? Ultimately my point is that this black and white distinction can sometimes obscure just how real these stories can feel to us anyways and how much they can make us relate to things we otherwise wouldn't. This comment may have not cleared a ton up and I apologize for that, I'm tired from working on this video really hard but I wanted to respond anyways cause I appreciate the question - I thought a bunch about historical fiction when I was writing this script
Noelle Aman
2022-11-16 20:51:54 +0000 UTCMaybe I'm missing the nuance in what you're saying about the strict lines between fiction and nonfiction in storytelling in English, but does the umbrella of "historical fiction" not capture that? I'd think most media-savvy people would be used to fictional characters in very true-to-life settings and doing things which mirror the feelings and actions of historical people through dramatization and making the internal something visible to outsiders. Regardless, fantastic work and I desperately hope I can read this someday.
Scarlett Serenity
2022-11-16 20:31:25 +0000 UTCWatching this on patreon for lack of censorship. Gonna watch this on youtube later to add to the boost. Really hoping for an english translation!
Dorian Costley
2022-11-16 16:34:56 +0000 UTCAnother great vid. I don't have any questions, but I do have a recommendation. If you want a manga that seems similar to this but focused on Anime animation, I highly recommend 'Animeta' by Yaso Hanamura. While Shirobako focused on the production side of anime, Animeta focused on the actual animation, in particular, in betweening and keyframes. 5 volumes out so far from J-Novel Club.
Bear McBearing
2022-11-16 11:16:36 +0000 UTCI just watched this! The patreon video player didn't work so I used the YouTube link. As someone who's worked on scanlations in the past, I am really interested in reading this in English... gahhh I wish I could read Japanese.
livvy94
2022-11-16 03:46:23 +0000 UTC
