Uploaded May 2023 | Updated September 2026, 5 days ago

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My Girlfriend's Child was a truly unique experience of a manga that I had to talk about what made this series feel so.... cinematic.
Copy Editor: Cass Moulton

REFERENCES AND SOURCES:
Great Videos by @patrickhwillems
youtube.com/watch?v=ZbByKUDJlbI
youtube.com/watch?v=1-6-8HN5yv8
youtube.com/watch?v=pxuK4NQ2NHk
Definition of Cinematic
industrialscripts.com/definition-of-cinematic
nofilmschool.com/what-does-cinematic-mean
Calling Books Cinematic
lithub.com/when-we-call-a-book-cinematic-what-do-we-really-mean
Osamu Tezuka
asianstudies.org/publications/eaa/archives/the-osamu-tezuka-story-a-life-in-manga-and-anime
Cinematic Techniques in Manga
immortalliumblog.com/interesting-cinematic-techniques-within-manga
Media Can Influence Reality
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/12705505
Composition in Storytelling
youtube.com/watch?v=CvLQJReDhic
Perspectives in Film
nofilmschool.com/2017/05/difference-between-objective-and-subjective-perspective-movies-cinema
storystruggles.blogspot.com/2018/03/camera-angles-objective-subjective-or.html
Paneling in Shoujo Manga
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/791017
The Grammar of Manga
artsandculture.google.com/story/EAWB4YvyVDqJJQ

0:00 Intro
1:45 What Does Cinematic Mean
3:37 Film Influences in Manga
4:55 Synopsis of My Girlfriend's Child
6:12 What Makes the Series Cinematic
6:45 Composition
8:01 Subjective and Objective Perspective
8:34 The Use of Perspective in the Opening
10:02 Framing
12:42 Creating a Pace or Rhythm
16:09 A Shoujo Manga Borrowing Film Language
16:45 The Visual Language of Shoujo Manga
17:52 What White Space Symbolizes
20:30 Analyzing the Shoujo Sparkle
23:38 Closing