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This is MJ Muñoz bringing you a quick quick review of Skullman. I've already

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reviewed Skullman one time it was actually four years ago according to

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YouTube so I don't know if that means I uploaded it for my celebrate Ishimori

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2021 initiative or if it was from 2020 and it just doesn't quite have the

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calendar right however that doesn't really matter what matters is that years

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later I've decided to go ahead and reread Chitarai Ishimori's Skullman and I

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definitely saw it through different eyes I actually went back and listened

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yesterday to my review of it because of my initial review of it because I just

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kind of wanted to see where I was at where I was coming from what my

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perspective was and I still agree with a lot of what I said in that review

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however this review and that review are different because I'm a different person

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at this time and while I called the first review nihilism incarnate I'm

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thinking about calling this something more like the tragedy of Skullman

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because Skullman is a tragedy Tatsuo is a tragic figure Skullman is a tragic

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figure Tatsuo Kagura is the name of Skullman the name that he has

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wow it's really interesting because he is an orphan and you can kind of you

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know quibble about his name but whatever he is Skullman that's the important part

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that becomes who he is over the course of his life and that defines who he is

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up until his death in the original manga spoilers for Skullman by the way

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which is you know decades decades old so yeah it's really interesting because it

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is such a tragic story before I get to bog down and that I do want to go ahead

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and say something with the artwork which is fantastic again I still have some of

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my quibbles with it but honestly listening to myself try to come up with

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criticisms for Ishii Nomura's artwork I thought yeah this is a I think this is a

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less confident person who's afraid of being called a shill who's afraid of

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being called somebody who just loves all of somebody else's work and you know

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doesn't you know wants to maintain the veneer of neutrality and the truth is

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I'm not neutral when it comes to story ishomori I am willing to criticize but

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you know I don't know because I don't need to because the focus of this is to

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celebrate him and his work and that's what I need to do here without any

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qualifications so yeah there the first 22 pages of this book of this manga are

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completely done in sequential art and there's absolutely no dialogue there are

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no thought bubbles which I don't know that you know the manga has that bubble

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sometimes yeah there's no dialogue and there are no thought bubbles and yet it

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tells a compelling story sets a mood of of horror and destruction and mystery

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that draws the reader in and makes them intrigued as to what is actually going

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on in this world what is going on in the world of skullman and why are these

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things happening and how are they connected with each other and that's

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amazing that's beautiful that's that's the a mark of artistry and skill and

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it's something to be very appreciated and I'm here appreciating it and telling

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you about that okay so now that I've spoken briefly about the fantastic art

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in this book I want to go and talk about the story and the real tragedy that is

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skullman and the thing that's making me actually really appreciate this work now

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I thought it was just about destruction and nihilism before and like being edgy

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and dark but I don't see that anymore this time when I read it and maybe next

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time I'll see just the edginess I see the real tragedy of Tatsuo it's very

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vague it's very unclear exactly what happened and we don't learn this until

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the end so it's kind of like one of those twist endings you know where you

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find out everything at the end it all comes together and then instead of

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there being like a cool resolution or whatever everybody seems to just die in

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a fire but at least they're together because that's what family is all about

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right you can't spell families without dying in a fire together so anyway and I

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know I'm kind of making fun of that and I'm you know talking about how this is a

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tragic thing and now I'm mocking it but uh you know it's a coping mechanism it's

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it's a really sad ending and it's I don't know it's a little bit hard to

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explain without just saying what happened in the manga and like just doing

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an exposition dump which is what I don't want to do so hmm so we learn that

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Tatsuo's grandfather Chisato something or other excuse me um is the one who's

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had this detective agency the Takichi I think or Tachiki? I think Takichi anyway

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detective agency looking for him for the last 15 years because he disappeared as

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a toddler we learn that that happened when Garo the bioengineered being the

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man werewolf alligator bat guy took Tatsuo toddler Tatsuo away from the site

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of his parents murder and his parents were murdered by his grandfather because

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when his sister Maya was born he realized that she with her incredible

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psychic powers or whatever would be a big bad problem for the world she and

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and Tatsuo himself if that was his name at the time I don't know because we

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don't really know if that was his name I would imagine he was given a name at

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the orphanage or given a name by the Yakuza instead the couple that took him

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in but anyway he like loses his family but his grandfather's one who kills his

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mother and father but the grandfather can't bear himself to kill him and he

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takes Chisato or Maya sorry he takes Maya she's not just it feels like a

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given female name from like a book isn't she sought to the girl and persona 3

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that focus friends with I think so they're like I can't remember what it's

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called but the the fashion girl with the like dyed hair and they're like pink

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lips and whatever anyway um tan skin is what I mean and their lips stand out in

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contrast anyway I don't know all the fashion trends or whatever from Japan I

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don't need to I don't know them all from my own country so and I don't need to so

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anyway anyway the Maya has these second powers which the grandfather's able to

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tell about somehow apparently his son who I don't think we know his name and

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his wife are both these beyond genius people with various types of powers that

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are not defined which is very clever very clever trick or each award just said

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they had ungodly powers they were neo-human mutants I would say that's me

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doing his grandfather's voice and the thing is that he wants to prevent his

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son and grandchildren the people from you know the product of his loins to the

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people who he's responsible for from destroying or damaging or doing terrible

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things to the world and it's like a great tragedy for him because in so doing

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he has these people murdered but then Tatsu goes out and he's a loose cannon

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and he and Garo are ripping through people they're causing so many innocent

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lives to be destroyed along with the legitimate targets if you want to call

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them that because he's Tatsu somehow even though he doesn't know who the man

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is that killed him he knows he's this very powerful person somehow he's been

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able to divine this stuff by the way a divinanzar from Spanish means to guess

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that's the like verbal form to this to that whatever coming out is to walk a

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divinanzar is to guess a divinanz that part like the divine is in there so like

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divine to guess that's what I'm saying he did like somehow he guessed you know

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for plot reasons he guessed that there was this very powerful figure singular

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figure who was controlling all these different things and he's able to trace

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it back to his grandfather finally when he gets the detective who was hired to

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track him down to identify him and it's unclear how he determined that all these

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people were connected to this mastermind who killed his parents so it turns out

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like I don't know like three-quarters in you think oh he's kind of a madman

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driven mad by revenge because he wants to avenge the death of his parents at

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the hands of some you know cold-blooded killer who took his parents away from

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him and turned him into an orphan who was a child only to be raised by this

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strange wolf that alligator man man and then it turns out that that's true but

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maybe the guy had a reason but it's a to quote an old associate it's a kill

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kill motive still murder and it turns out that his grandfather and then he

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kind of just wants to give up on life at that point and he's trapped in this

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house that his grandfather has rigged to fight to burn with the three of them

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inside of it or the four of them if you count Gara which you should Gara's a

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person to you know engineered though he is and as far as we know Tatsu just

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accepts it as Tatsu Kagura he has this brief emotional for him goodbye to the

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parents who raised him because he doesn't think or he's not sure he's going

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to come back from trying to avenge the parents who whose blood flows in his

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veins the parents who brought him into this world and he has a longing and a

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love for them which is good and legitimate and true but at the same time

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he has parents who love him now and who want what's best for him now who are

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here even though they're not his blood relatives something feels off something

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feels empty something feels wrong and he feels compelled to pursue vengeance for

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people he didn't know and he knows that that's going to possibly lead to his

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death and his separation from people he does know and people who will mourn for

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him his dead parents can't mourn for him I guess in the hereafter they could but

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would they you know is it just a moment no as Aslim says all times are soon for

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me you know is it just gonna be soon till he's with his parents again if if

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that we know after if that worldview of an afterlife existence go man and each

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tomorrow's mind for this story if that's something real then like Tatsu is

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wasting his time and energy and he's putting all this blood on his hands in

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order to avenge people who he doesn't really need to avenge in some way and

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maybe I'm missing something about honor culture maybe I'm missing something

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about being raised by Yakuza I don't know but I don't know it's interesting he

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had a whole life ahead of him he had the ability to inherit this Yakuza family

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and run it however he wanted to and do good in the world but instead he caused

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the lives of he caught he ended the lives of so many innocent people and his

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grandfather tells him if you want to kill everybody who's even remotely

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associated with me you'll have to kill everybody in Japan and Tatsu says that

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he's fine doing that and yeah that's evil but an evil is evil I believe evil

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should be called out but I'm seeing that there's he's only 18 years old there's a

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lack of maturity here and there's an obsession of fixation there's a tragic

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flaw that he has which is I don't know that he can't accept the love of those

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around him or that he's so wounded by what happened with his parents I'm not

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exactly sure and school man's powers are very ill-defined so it's hard to tell

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like what does Tatsu know how did he find out in this information it seems

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like he can hypnotize people it seems like he has amazing physical abilities

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and he probably inherited his parents like super intelligence which could

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explain how he at 15 started acting a skull man started doing these things and

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started piecing things together but I don't know it's tragic that this man

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felt like he had to kill his father or his son and his daughter-in-law and he

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had to kill his children and his grandchildren but he couldn't bring

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himself to do it and then he decides that they should all just die together

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because of the monster that Tatsu has become in trying to avenge the death of

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the murder of his parents he's murdered so many other people and it's just I

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know it's this very interesting cyclical thing like you can see it from his

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perspective but he's obviously morally in the wrong but you can still see his

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hurt and pain and feel sympathy for him and want better for him I'm not saying

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want him to get off scott-free I'm saying you can want him to have made

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different choices and that's where I'm at with Tatsu right now I really feel

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badly that this is where he ended up and I wonder what his life could have been

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in different circumstances and if he had felt the love of his yakuza parents and

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took it to heart and let the memory the pain the ache the wound of his birth

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parents being murdered in front of him if he could do something else with that

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how different would he have be and how much a better place would the world be

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or would you know his little area in Japan be if he took that into

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consideration maybe he'd be a yakuza boss who would you know make sure they

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don't hurt kids again I don't know much about yakuza or their families you know

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when it can be avoided or you know avoiding it at all costs or whatever it

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just really makes me think about that and I'm just you know coming up with

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random examples now but I think you see what I'm saying even though he's this

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you know murderous person the fact that he's doing it for vengeance the fact

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that he's so young he's only 18 years old and the fact that he's been pursuing

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this vengeance for a few years in his you know unsophisticated on you know

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immature you know teenage mind 15 18 year old it's not that he's not

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culpable of course he's culpable and you know there's justice in the fact that

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he dies at the end there but it's also sad to see the tragedy or to recognize

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the tragedy that it didn't have to be this way and I think that's part of what

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makes a tragedy a tragedy it didn't have to be this way but it ended up this way

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because of the choices that people made and it's uh it's bitter I'm not gonna

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say it's bittersweet it's definitely bitter but sometimes a little measure

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bitterness is good every now and and I really I really enjoyed reading this this

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time I think I wasn't shocked by the violence and shocked by the bloodshed

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and the bloodlust you could say and because of that I was able to see it

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again with this different perspective and see the tragedy in it as opposed to

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just the horror of it and I thought it was you know very useful for me um very

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interesting and I don't know I made like a 30 minute recording and I made a

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shorter 10 minute recording or 10 or so minute recording where I was you know

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winding up to this celebrate each and every day which this everything I'm

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doing should be releasing before the actual 25th and it'll be to encourage

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you to check out each and more stuff on your own but I mentioned in one of those

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recordings I don't remember which one is the solid one that I actually am

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writing a I've been working on the idea of a tokusatsu literary universe or I'm

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writing book series that are took such who inspired pension hero inspired

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specifically or more specifically there might be kaiju stuff or like Godzilla

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not really good so I'm not really interested in Godzilla but I do like

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Ultraman and there are kaiju in that so anyway we'll see where that goes but I'm

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thinking I want a not skull man literary universe where this character who's

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inspired by school man but it's a different take on school man does things

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and he has such a massive effect on the world that his world not just Japan but

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his world is influenced by crazy things that would appear in a tokusatsu show

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except they're all linked together think kind of like concrete revolution oh but

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less I don't know it's kind of yeah if you like it's gonna be part school man

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or not school man part concrete revolution and part my own thing there's

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gonna be no confusing jumping between timelines it'll be as linear of a story

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as I can get it to be and I just I kind of want to explore what happens to

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somebody with all this power who has all these things taken away from him and

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what choices will he make and how will those affect the world and I'm like very

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excited for this idea and it's something I wanted to write a short story for each

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morning's birthday but I was out of time so I decided to work on something in the

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background instead and I'm probably going into too much detail but anyway

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regardless I've kind of been thinking like what was each of we think when he

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made skull man and it's like such a dark bleak thing it's just nihilistic that's

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all I was thinking I've seen you nihilism nihilism nihilism that's all I was

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thinking about it and when I read it this time I thought well at the end

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there's like a concession and like a sadness of like oh this is what I want I

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wanted to kill these people but now these people mean something to me and

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the people I killed before didn't mean anything maybe they were strangers and

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so now it's different and oh also I love the fact I think the cover for scroll

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man the the comics all these last each memory pro one no offense it's less

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appealing than it should be I'll say that way I'll be charitable so

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spilling them it should be however the fact that it has grandfather and Maya in

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his eyes and then we get that shot echoed in one of the last pages where

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they're reflected in his eyes but their backs returned to him as they're walking

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away into the house is like such a gut punch because all he's wanted this time

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is to have to avenge his family and then he finds his family and then he finds

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that half of his family murdered his other family and Maya is an innocent and

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he probably loves her in some way already and his grandfather is the

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opposite of instance he's a blood-soaked monster and but then again so is Tatsu

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Oh and he's longing for something and these people represented this innocent

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girl and this blood-soaked man they represent what he's been seeking this

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whole time the thing that'll make him complete and so he follows them

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willingly into a death trap that he doesn't know is a death trap but then

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it seems like he just decides to stay in the fire and doesn't seem to fight his

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way out of it because the manga just ends there and it's just very meaningful

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and I know it feels it feels like there's something there I don't quite

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know what it is but it's something kind of it's something powerful and resonant

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I don't know that it's beautiful but it's definitely like it's making an impact

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and that's really cool and I want to be able to do that with my own story that's

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inspired by this but not quite like this and where you can have this you know

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jaded anti-hero and you can have real heroes emerge in the wake of his actions

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and in the world that he creates and I think it's a really fun idea and it's

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something I'm gonna be plugging away at in the background as I'm working on my

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middle grade books that are much more cheery light-hearted but do have still

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you know tokusatsu stuff in them but I decided if I do the skullman universe

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or not skullman universe I'll be able to put all the tokusatsu stuff I want into

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that and then I can leave all my other books alone and not try to cram in

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comradereferences which is something I have been doing and I might alleviate or

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remove some of those in the in the in the revision that I do to my book anyway

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that's it for now check out MJ winners comm for the show notes for this and

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check out girlbugs.com to learn about my middle grade book series to find out

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sneak peeks and release dates and things like that until next time folks take

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care be well