Web Video / Kyoto Video

Kyoto Video (sometime stylized in all-caps as KYOTO VIDEO) is a video series done by KaiserBeamz, or, as he prefers to be called, KB. It's a series devoted to the history and analysis of Japanese animation from days past, mostly the 80s, 90s and occasionally the early-2000s. The subjects can range from retro anime staples such as Ninja Scroll and GunBuster to out-of-print obscurities such as Wounded Man and Call Me Tonight.

The series is noteworthy for KB's adoption of the video essay format over the traditional review style. While he does crack the occasional joke, his videos are less centered around going through the plot bit-by-bit and more of looking at the anime as a whole; seeing which elements jibe with him and which do not.

You can find KB's channel here.

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This series provides examples of:

• The '80s: There's a lot of it in this series.
• Accentuate the Negative: Notably averted. KB will always try to give an anime its fair shake and list positives alongside it's negatives.
• All Anime Is Naughty Tentacles: Mentioned in his Wounded Man video on how the medium got an unsavory reputation in America thanks to companies like Central Park Media and Manga Entertainment flooded the market with ultraviolent and overly sexual OVAs in an attempt to break the Animation Age Ghetto.
• Author Appeal: He's not shy about bringing attention to anthropomorphic animal girls.
• Bait-and-Switch: In the beginning of his Comic Party video, he appears to heap more glowing praise on 90s anime as if to continue the route he started on his previous video. He then immediately switches to talking about anime in the early-2000s.
• Conspicuous Consumption: Often points how most of the 80s anime that had high-production values with audience-unfriendly premises were usually the result of Japan's bubble economy. Once that went away, so did a lot of the big budgets.
• Darker and Edgier: Discussed in his Wounded Man video regarding how the anime distribution industry would market the medium and how it would ultimate determine what types of anime got licensed first.
  KB: Most Americans saw anime as just cartoons. Which is seen as just for kids. Which is bad for some reason. The solution to this was to market anime as something different than the cartoons we knew. Something exotic. Something that emphasized the sheer variety and maturity that the medium had to offer. Something with a lot of violence and nudity.
• Denser and Wackier: His main complaint regarding the TV series of All-Purpose Cultural Cat Girl Nuku Nuku is that it is attempting to do this but never really hits its mark thanks to sluggish pacing and repetitive jokes.
• Disposable Woman: Despite being a fan of hs work, this is a common criticism he levels at the works of Yoshiaki Kawajiri.
  KB: There’s a place for women in Kawajiri’s works and it’s called a fridge.
• Ecchi: In his Amazing Nurse Nanako video, KB states he is neutral to the usage of fanservice in anime because he sees it as a tool and whether its good or bad ultimately comes down to how it is presented in the work.
• Furry Fandom: A self-professed member. If he ever needs to represent himself in his video, he'll usually use a pic of his possum fursona.
• Leave the Camera Running: Points out in his California Crisis video that there quite a few scenes where nothing happens and are just used to pad out the runtime.
• Lovable Sex Maniac: Discusses this trope in his Golden Boy reveiw. States that Kinatro Oe is a positive example of this trope because his pervy nature is just one facet of his personality and is ultimately out-weighed by his more positive traits.
• Take That!:
  • In his video on Violence Jack, he makes this crack after noting that the character of Blue brings up the Unfortunate Implications of all transgender people being "sexually deviant freaks of nature".
  (Stage Whisper) "J. K. Rowling cannot know that this anime exists!"
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Character: Invoked regarding Lufy in Gall Force. He states that she has the most personality amongst the crew and that there interactions bring out a lot of the other crew's personality as well. Instead, she's just there to introduce the Dwindling Party angle and provide emotional pathos for the less-interesting protagonist, Rabi.
• Vaporwave: What most of the general aesthetic surrounding the channel is based on. Vaporwave music also serves as the BGM of the series, along video game tunes.