Transcript (en)

What's your favorite anime? So when you're watching anime as a kid, as say like a 13 year old or a 14 year old, at least for me, there were things in it that you just would not see in other forms of entertainment, for better and for worse. Violence, sexual material, stuff like that, like that, you know, things that were really over the top for animation. But also, other than that, aside from that, it was the ideas and the stories that were so complex and so far reaching that they really made you think. They kind of expanded your imagination. And so for a kid my age watching, at 13, watching Akira for the first time, my mind opened. It changed the way that I I looked at stories It made me it scared me a little bit So anime really spoke to that part of me that was curious and wanted more of a well more of a well kind of more of a mature understanding of the world that I wasn't really getting. So that's one of, I think, the misconceptions that people have, I think, about manga in general, is they think it's just kind of a style of drawing, bigger eyes or you know grayscale but actually it's a style of storytelling so there is a style of storytelling that happens in manga in which things really are paced out differently visually than in American or Western comics it's not a better or worse than it's just different where you are really setting a scene and you want someone to understand where they are and what the feeling of that place is. And you'll take more time to do it, which is something that, you know, the economy of visual language in American comics is way more condensed.