Hey y’all! Chris here again, AKA Dated. In today’s blog post, I wanted to take some time to announce something I am pretty excited about.
Horror manga is near and dear to me. Western horror very rarely achieves the level of engrossing, gothic, bizarre horror that Japan manages. Popular J-Horror films like The Ring (Ringu) and The Grudge (Ju-On) have shown western audiences just how different and terrifying the Japanese take on ghost stories can be, however horror manga has the same level of unique flavor, but applied to so much more than just ghosts and curses. Lovecraftian terror, body horror, surreal atmospheric horror, and a myriad of unsettling locations make horror manga a special type of experience, not only the best in horror comics, but some of the best horror period.
As many of you may have noticed from a lot of the imagery and themes around the channel, I am a huge horror manga fan. It is a big source of inspiration for me, and I have samples quotes from anime adaptations of it, names songs after horror manga series, used visuals such as GIFs directly from horror manga, created a lot of artwork for the label in a horror manga style and have even released horror manga videos on the channel on rare occasions. Needless to say, I’m really into this stuff.
This is why I’ve decided to start a second Youtube Channel specifically for horror manga content. This won’t affect the way I upload to the main channel at all, and is mainly a way for me to release as much of this type of content as I want without feeling like I’m bogging the main channel down. Youtube also works in a very unfortunate way, where if I upload a horror manga video and lots of people don’t click it because they came mainly for the music, Youtube may actually stop putting any of our videos in their feed - something that may be happening to you for your favorite channels without you realizing it. For this reason, I felt it was best to keep things separate.
That said, I have noticed a pretty big overlap with fans of horror manga (or potential fans who haven’t heard of it before), and listeners of dark lofi music. My hope is that I can funnel everyone who it interested from the main channel into this second one so that I can give you lots of horror manga content.
The main content I’ll be making on this new channel will be reviews of specific titles, spotlights or essays about certain authors, collection tour videos, and “unboxing” style videos when I get something new. My hope is to provide a lot of detailed content about horror manga which doesn’t seem to really exist out there, tailor-made for those who are as obsessed as I am and newcomers alike.
If you like the sound of that, be sure to subscribe to the new channel, here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSKjEmOFfiYyGwx1Zf8jjSg. I’ll be moving all of the existing horror manga videos over there, and will start posting new content very soon (If I haven’t already by the time you read this!).
