Uploaded September 2022 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago
Life is a downright insane thing. Filled with both wonderful and awful moments, one of the few things we all share is the fact that we live. So, what happens when two lives collide, and how easy can it be to change everything?
The desire for change is one of the most human feelings. In other video essays, we looked at ideas like the manic pixie dream girl, it's reality, and how wishing for change like that could only hurt us. But, is that something which actually exists around us at all times, only we simply fail to notice it? Humans are social creatures, surrounded all the time by others. We can look at our closest friends and see how simply we met, and how much it changed our lives. Are those moments happening every day, and we ignore them? This is something we see in many stories as well, with anime as no exception. Durarara is a prime example, as the entire premise is everyday life, and how both mundane, and amazing it can be, as Mikado, Anri, Kida, Celty, and more collide. Erased is an anime that looks at how we miss these important moments, and what it would be like to fix them as Satoru gets another try with Kayo. Anohana presents us with the end of lives together, and how easily we can fall apart from the relationships that defined us. And Violet Evergarden shows that maybe such things ending isn't always bad. This anime video essay will look at all of these, and show how quickly life can change life.
#animeanalysis #anime #professorviral #durarara #erased #anohana #violetevergarden
0:00 Introduction
2:20 Durarara!!
7:37 ERASED
11:58 Anohana
16:28 Violet Evergarden
21:12 Collision of Life
Life is a downright insane thing. Filled with both wonderful and awful moments, one of the few things we all share is the fact that we live. So, what happens when two lives collide, and how easy can it be to change everything?
The desire for change is one of the most human feelings. In other video essays, we looked at ideas like the manic pixie dream girl, it's reality, and how wishing for change like that could only hurt us. But, is that something which actually exists around us at all times, only we simply fail to notice it? Humans are social creatures, surrounded all the time by others. We can look at our closest friends and see how simply we met, and how much it changed our lives. Are those moments happening every day, and we ignore them? This is something we see in many stories as well, with anime as no exception. Durarara is a prime example, as the entire premise is everyday life, and how both mundane, and amazing it can be, as Mikado, Anri, Kida, Celty, and more collide. Erased is an anime that looks at how we miss these important moments, and what it would be like to fix them as Satoru gets another try with Kayo. Anohana presents us with the end of lives together, and how easily we can fall apart from the relationships that defined us. And Violet Evergarden shows that maybe such things ending isn't always bad. This anime video essay will look at all of these, and show how quickly life can change life.
#animeanalysis #anime #professorviral #durarara #erased #anohana #violetevergarden
0:00 Introduction
2:20 Durarara!!
7:37 ERASED
11:58 Anohana
16:28 Violet Evergarden
21:12 Collision of Life




![The Necessity of Violence
Violence, while its form will change greatly with time and place, may always be a necessity in the meeting of beings.
Psycho-Pass, the all-time great anime from Gen Urobuchi (Fate/Zero, Madoka Magica), is about society with Akane, free will with Kogami and Makishima, and the value of human beings with the Inspectors, Enforcers, and all alike, however included in this is also violence, with the Dominators enacting the Sibyl System’s will. Psycho-Pass presents a society under Sibyl which is seemingly ultra peaceful, but can a society ever be free of conflict, or is such a thing always a dangerous lie? Let’s analyze Urobuchi’s classic in this video essay and see what we can learn (again!)
Jormungand, often compared to Black Lagoon, is of course discussing violence with the anime’s aggressive use of weapons and war. Jormungand follows Koko Hekmatyar, an arms dealer, and her bodyguards, mostly Jonah, as they both inflame conflict… and also prolong peace. Koko is a character showcasing human duality, as she sells weapons with the goal of peace, allowing someone who hates all weapons like Jonah to follow her. But with people like her brother Kasper who have no such moral objection to weapons and war, could this arms dealer truly provide world peace?
Vinland Saga, through Thors, Thorfiinn, Canute and more, discusses a much more brutal form of violence with its viking action. Whether they leave it like Thors, enter it like Thorfinn, or control it like Canute, this brutal nature touches every life in this viking world. Vinland Saga explains just how hard a path of peace can be in extreme detail, but analysis quickly reveals that the violent path, while simpler, can only ever lead to a worse future. And so, “the path of a true warrior” becomes one of peace; fighting against every single day.
A video essay analyzing and explaining the necessity of violence across three anime (Psycho-Pass, Jormungand [& Perfect Order], & Vinland Saga [Seasons 1 & 2])
0:00 Introduction
1:51 Part 1 | PSYCHO-PASS
20:42 Part 2 | Jormungand
39:40 Part 3 | Vinland Saga
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