 This is Gijo. Welcome to my channel. Now, what I wanted to do is sort of do a little introduction to a playlist that we're starting with this video, which is basically going to be sort of a Q&A playlist. Sort of facts, you know, frequently asked questions. Sort of an open-ended playlist where if you have any questions, if you'd like to know something, maybe regarding the videos that I'm putting out, regarding the mathematics, regarding the comic books, regarding any aspect of anything that I'm sharing. If you like my perspective, then please post a comment on this video. And we'll consider this to be the introduction to a Q&A period with me, with Gijo. And because people have commented, I found a favorite of comments. Thank you for the comments, the compliments. And I do take it as a compliment. There's been a few people have commented that they would like to, you know, it'd be great to sit down and have a conversation together. Maybe, you know, over a drink, over tea, coffee, going for a walk. That puff puff, whatever it might be, right? So that's sort of a recurring theme that's come up in the comments. So I think what I'm going to do is call this playlist in conversation with Gijo. And it's going to be really informal. It will most likely almost all of it be ASMR format. And because this is going to be sort of just a conversation we're having, please take what I say with a grain of salt. Because I'm not sure what type of question is going to come my way. There's already been some heavy questions and comments. So I might start tackling those. I'm pretty sure I will. And there was lighter comments and requests, such as, you know, what I like, you know, top five list of animation comic books and stuff like this, right? And just to get the ball rolling, because some of the stuff that I've had, some of the questions that I've had is sort of, you know, one of my, some of my favorite books, some of my favorite comic books, animations or whatnot. I sort of went through and, you know, printed off a couple of sheets, two or three sheets of just a handful of subjects that I'll give you my, some of my favorite, favorites of, okay. And what we're going to do, if you're only interested in certain segments, let me tell you what we're going to do. I'm just going to give you a five books, five more books anyway, list. Because a long time ago, I, you know, when I first started doing this, I was asked, you know, what are some of my favorite books were math books, so I put out a video regarding five books. And most of those books were science, and it was one comic book graphic novel on there. So I'll do five more books. I'm going to give you a top five list of movies, war movies specifically. I'll touch on animation. And I'm going to give you sort of a top list of some comic books, okay. And I'm pretty sure there's going to be buttons on this page or somewhere where you can skip to what you're interested in. And I'm not going to elaborate too much on these subjects, but if, you know, one of the things we could do definitely, if you want me to do some analysis on any of these things that I'm listing, let me know, I'll make a specific video for those, because I could definitely go off on some of these, some of the things that I'm listing here. And if you're interested in more material like this, more like some of my favorite things, I guess movies, animation, comic books, whatever it might be, if you go to my site, chichou.com, in the About page. And that's basically my About page since I was online. And I haven't updated the list, but basically I give a little write-up where I say basically who I am is a reflection of what I've learned, right. What I've been exposed to, what I've taken to heart, right. What's been resonated with me, right. So there's a list of a whole bunch of more things that I've listed on that site, on that page. So if this interests you, there's more you can find related to the stuff. So again, comments, requests, anything you'd like to know, please post it on this video and I'll address whatever questions that come up as best of my abilities. As far as some of my favorite things, books, movies, animations, and comic books, here is a list of five books that have influenced me a lot. As far as I'm concerned, the five of the best books that I've ever read. The first one, Education and the Significance of Life by Jidu Krishnamurti. It was printed in 1953 or 1955. I looked online and there was conflicting dates on it. And this book is available for free online. Education and the Significance of Life, and it's very powerful, is influenced the way I look at education in a big way. The second book, you would have seen this, me comment on this before when we did how to read a textbook. Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt by Chris Edges and Joe Sacco when it was printed in 2012. Absolutely brilliant. The third book, Wilhelm Reich in Hell by Robert Anton Wilson. This came out in 1984. That's a pretty interesting date to come out of. For this book to come out, Wilhelm Reich in Hell. Brilliant book, brilliant book. The fourth book, Salvadoran, the Psychedelic Essence of Salvia Divinorum by D. M. Turner. 1996, it was published. And this book is available for free online as well. And huge respect to D. M. Turner. He approached the psychedelic world in a scientific manner and decided to be one of the most important psycho-naughts to ever walk this earth. The fifth book is Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace by Gore Vidal. It came out in 2002. Very important, very important book. So a couple of, I guess, three political books. One education book and one life book I guess. So those are five movies, as far as I'm concerned, five books. As far as I'm concerned, five of the most influential books that I've ever read. Five movies. I've had some requests anyway to list some movies. And I have a whole bunch of movies on my site that I've listed there. So I can't give you a top five movies because for me, the genres matter. The subject matters, right? So I just picked five war movies because I watched a lot of war movies in my life. Because it's related to politics, I guess. Politics, economics, everything. Analysis and sort of related to a lot of the board games I've played. So five unforgettable war movies. Like really, okay. First one, hands down. This is the one that if anybody, you know, asked me an amazing movie. This is one of the ones I list. If they asked me for any political war based movie, society movie. This would be it. Which is Come and See by Alem Klimov. It's a Russian movie about the war on the Eastern Front. I believe it was Belarus. I've watched it. All of these movies I've watched multiple times. And it came out in 1985. I think it came out in 1986, but for some reason the website was saying 1985. It is absolutely brilliant. It blew you away. The second movie, War Movie, Paths of Glory by Stanley Kubrick. It came out in 1957. And Kubrick also directed Doctor Strange Love, right? If you like your cult movies. Paths of Glory. What a powerful movie. It will make you angry. Apocalypse Now by Francis Ford Coppola. 1979. Overwhelming. Powerful, powerful movie. Number four, Lawrence of Arabia by David Lean. Directed by David Lean. It's Peter O'Toole, Omar Sharif and a whole bunch of people. It came out in 1962. So that movie for a long time was my favorite movie of all time. And it is still one of my favorite movies. But just visually it's stunning, right? So Lawrence of Arabia. And that just as a side note, complimentary to that movie would be Doctor Zhivago. And the same director. And the fifth movie is again Stanley Kubrick. Which is a full metal jacket. Vietnam War came out. The movie came out in 1987. And it came out around the same time as Platoon. Getting all the media attention. Full metal jacket was, you know, secondary. But to me, full metal jacket was, yeah, blew away. Platoon. Platoon's fantastic movie. But full metal jacket was something else, right? Because it is Kubrick. And that's five more movies I can give you a recommendation of. As far as animation, there's been a lot of people asking me about animation. And I broke it down into three categories. Because animation is huge, I watch. As far as I'm concerned, some of the most brilliant movies ever made have been animation. Some of the most important movies ever made have been animation. So what I'll give you, I broke this down into three categories. The first one being, I'm going to give you a list of 10 full length animated movies that I've watched multiple times. So this isn't, you know, I wanted to do the 10 best animated movies. But they're very difficult to do. Because again, it depends on the genre. And, you know, there are amazing movies out there that I've only watched once. I've only had the opportunity to watch once, right? So these are, we'll call this the 10 full length animated movies that I've watched multiple times. Okay. First one, and this is in no order. The first one on the list is Tekken ken kirit. Then English name would be black and white. It came out in 2006. And it's based on a manga series from 1993, 1994. And wow, what a brilliant movie. Really just visually stunning. And the story was absolutely magnificent. And after watching the movie, I tracked down the manga and I read the manga. And the manga is fantastic as well. Really amazing. Okay. After the first five minutes of that movie, 10 minutes of the movie doesn't blow you away visually. I don't know what well. The second movie was from 1988 from Studio Ghibli, Grey of the Fireflies. Okay. And it's, wow, what a powerful movie. It's the movie that I, it's the to go to movie that I expose people to if they've never watched animation, if they're into more serious movies and stuff like this. If they're into, you know, they brush off animation. Grey of the Fireflies is what I introduced them to. And it was directed by Isio Takahata, Japanese studio Ghibli. Third movie, absolutely brilliant movie. It's sort of a French-Canadian, I believe French-Canadian, sort of multiple countries involved in this. Thief in the Cobbler on the production for this. It started in 1964 and they were able to finally finish it in 1995. It came out, I think it was released in 1993, but I think it was released before that. I remember finding out that this movie, it cost a lot of money. It's absolutely brilliant. I think Ashourash, as far as the animation is concerned, just layered. But the production was taking so long, it's considered to be the longest production movie there's ever been. And at some point, I believe the DVD for this was being released with serial boxes. Like one of the children's serial boxes. They included the DVD of this in the serial box, right? It should be much, much better known. Fourth movie on the list, Cowboy Beep Hop. The movie in 2001. Amazing movie. Amazing movie. Fifth movie, The Prophet. It came out in 2014. It's got multiple directors. It's based on the book by the Lebanese writer, artist, philosopher, I guess they mentioned here. Khalil Gibran. And it's amazing. It's a fantastic animation, really. I've already watched it two or three times. I came out and I was just exposed to it a few months ago. Well in the last year anyway. Fantastic movie and great stories. And the animation styles are beautiful. Very reminiscent of Animatrix, The Prophet. The sixth movie, The Iron Giant. 1999. Brilliant, brilliant movie. Very powerful movie. The seventh movie, Princess Mononoke. 1997, Studio Ghibli again. Directed by Miyazaki. Here. Here. I'm sorry about the names. But Miyazaki, okay. Princess Mononoke, amazing movie. Fantastic theme. And again from Miyazaki. And this movie. Miyazaki's movies have certain themes associated with them, which is environmental. And this movie as well. Just blew me away. 1984, it came out. Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind. And I didn't know this. I found this out after looking this up. But this is the movie that gave birth to Studio Ghibli. And Miyazaki's success. Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind was so successful that Miyazaki started Studio Ghibli with just kicking that off into Studio Ghibli. Fantastic. And a couple other animations. Old school that I've watched the most. Would be Heavy Metal from 1981. Fantastic. And it has Vancouver roots to it. I believe some of the production was done here. Or financed from here. And Lord of the Rings, the 1978 animation that was Bakshi, Ralph Bakshi. And fantastic. Amazing animation. Too bad they ran out of money to finish the whole thing off. But fantastic animation. I saw both of these in the movie theater. Heavy Metal I got in. I was a kid but I got in. And Lord of the Rings was a double feature in Clash of the Titans. And I went on a matinee by myself and watched it and it was fantastic. So those are 10 movies. Animated movies that I've watched multiple times and I will continue to watch multiple times. As far as animated series are concerned five animated series that I looped. So I started watching them, finished them and I went back to the beginning and started again. And these are the only five that I can remember looping. And I've watched them again. I've watched some of the episodes again. And couple of these I've looped again. I've watched from beginning to end again. And the first one, the series that I've looped the most would be Cowboy Bebop. Absolutely, absolutely amazing. From 1998, 1999, there's 26 episodes. The soundtrack is absolutely magnificent for it. It's layered with blues, jazz and a little bit of metal in there for Cowboy Bebop. So absolutely amazing series. And it's, what do you call it? Yeah, the director for this is Shinichiro Watanabe. His, everything is directed. There's only one series that I haven't seen that he's directed. It's the last one that came out. It's because I haven't found dumb versions of these yet. And I'm sorry to the purest, but I like watching animation that's dubbed. I don't want to read subtitles for animation. I've watched a lot of animation with subtitles because I couldn't wait, right? Last Exile, a fantastic series. I watched that with subtitles and a few other ones. But I really like my animation with visuals and there are amazing English voice actors that dubbed these. And it is voice actors that do all animations. So I believe with English it works as well. So that's the only series that I haven't watched of Watanabe is the last one because I haven't found a dubbed version. But I've looped other, I've watched almost all the other series that he's put out multiple times. Okay. And the second one from this, from the same director is Samurai Champloo. And as soon as I watched Samurai Champloo to the end, 26 episodes again, I looped it again. A fantastic series. And again, the soundtrack for this, mind blowing. And the soundtrack was with Nujabas and Fat John put it together. And for me, one of the saddest weeks in my life when I found out Nujabas passed away in a car accident, right? So amazing, amazing soundtrack to that series. So the second one, Samurai Champloo. The third animated series that I looped, and this was a biggie, it was Samurai Jack. And I watched all the way to episode number 52. And I didn't have 53 and I went online trying to find out where episode number 53 was. And I found out he stopped making Samurai Jack because from what I understand, George Lucas wanted to do an animated series for Star Wars and he loved Samurai Jack so much that he asked. And Samurai Jack is put together by Jendi Tattavoski. I'm sorry. And he's the director for, so he approached the director, the producer of Samurai Jack, George Lucas. And he asked him if he would do Star Wars animation and he turned George Lucas down multiple times from what I've understand. And then George Lucas came and offered him a ridiculous sum of money. And he stopped Samurai Jack and went and did the Star Wars Clone Wars series. And it's a fantastic series if you want to watch another series that he's produced. That one is fantastic as well. And supposedly he's going to come back and do another Finish Off Samurai Jack, so we hope, right? So that one I looped again, 52 episodes, absolutely magnificent. The fourth series that I've looped would be the Boondocks. And I've actually looped this three times. I went through it. I watched it once three seasons and then watched it again. And then I watched it again because there was no fourth season until in 2014 where they put out season four. And from what I understand the creator of Boondocks didn't have anything to do with season four. They had a falling out, but it's a good season as well. And number five, the series that I looped would be Avatar, The Last Airbender that came out in 2005 to 2008. And it's 61 episodes, three seasons. And when I finished watching it, I watched the whole thing again because it was so fun. Okay. Just because, you know, some of the animated series that I've watched, I haven't looked, doesn't mean they're not brilliant, right? So I made another list. Here are six animated series that I will watch again. Okay. So I've already finished off these series. But this is six more that I will watch again. I just need to take a sip. So six animated series that I will definitely watch again. The first one would be Full Metal Alchemist. And the reason I would, you know, Full Metal Alchemist didn't make my, you know, five series or who would have been six series that I looped was because after I finished Full Metal Alchemist I hadn't, you know, I wanted more. And I found out they put out another series called Full Metal Alchemist Brotherhood, right? So instead of looping Full Metal Alchemist I watched Full Metal Alchemist Brotherhood. So it's fantastic. They're both, I really love both of them. I know Brotherhood doesn't get as much love but for me it was it was magnificent as well. But Full Metal Alchemist the first series, a fantastic series. And it's got the first one's got 51 episodes and the second one's got 64. And again they were adopted from Manga which is sort of different than Kebue Biba, I guess Kebue Biba. I believe the animation came out and then they did the manga. The second series I will watch again is Bubble Gum Crisis Tokyo 2040. Okay. I watched it, it was fantastic. And then I watched some of the episodes again so I would definitely re-watch the whole thing again. I really liked it. I really liked the feel of that show. Very well done. Third one, third series that I will definitely plan on re-watching at some point in my life is South Park. I've watched all 19 episodes I guess 18 episodes, 19 episodes. Some of them I watched again and again and again. And there's 267. And they're still doing a fantastic job. Very relevant, fantastic series. Not every episode is brilliant but overall the whole package is absolutely magnificent. The fourth series I will definitely be watching again is Space Dandy. Again, the same person that's done Kebue Biba up on Samurai Champloo. I will definitely be watching that again. The fifth series that I will definitely re-watch all of it again at some point. I've watched certain episodes multiple times in the Duck Man series that came out from 1994 to 1997. Four seasons. 70 episodes. Fantastic series. And the sixth series a sort of two series definitely Star Wars Clone Wars. The 2003-2005 series that was directed but I'm not going to try to pronounce the name again. Same person that did Samurai Jack. He's the person that George Lucas got to do the Star Wars. That's a fantastic series. And the next Star Wars Clone Wars series that came out. That came out in 2008. I wouldn't watch all of it again but there are certain segments certain runs in there that they're brilliant. I would definitely be re-watching those again. And this series Star Wars Clone Wars the animated series the 2003 series and the 2008 series have some of the most amazing Jedi and Sith battles ever. Some of the most amazing lightsaber and just battles between the bounty hunters and the Jedi and all of them. They're absolutely fantastic. So both those series for the second Clone Wars animation I'll definitely be watching some of those again. So those are some of my favorite animated visuals I guess TV shows or series or movies. Let's talk about comic books. So as far as comic books goes again I broke this into two sets of comic books categories. The first one is five comic book series that I finished. Like I've read every issue. And the second category is ten comic book series that I plan on finishing. So I haven't even touched on some of my individual standalone comic books or some of the minis would be. These are long comic book series volumes I guess you can call them. So five comic book series that I finished that I think they're absolutely brilliant. The first one would be Trans Metropolitan by Warren Ellis and Derek Robertson. That came out around from 1997 to 2002. 60 issues. Absolutely fantastic by Vertigo by DC Comics. Well worth the rate. The second series comic book series that I finished that I think was one of the best comic book series I've ever read in my life was the 2012 Archer and Our Strong series by Fred Van Lent and Clayton Henry. It ran for 25 issues plus issue number zero and it's from Valiant Comics and it ran from 2012 to 2014. Super, super fun. I mentioned this before in one of the first videos I ever created for Language or Mathematics which was five book recommendations and I recommended this as well as a break from all the science and the mathematics which is Bone by Jeff Smith and he originally self-published this with cartoon books and then went to Image and it ran for 55 issues from 1981 to 2004 and it's all compiled together in one thick book that you can grab and read. Fantastic read and I've read that at least two I think three times now the second comic book it's not comic books but comic book strips that I've read all of multiple times is Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson basically cartoon strips syndicated cartoon strips that ran from 1995 to 1995 and you know they come in volumes and there's the Sunday specials and the strips with the Sunday special absolutely fantastic right and the fifth animated series and the comic book series that I've read is a manga which is called Akira by Katsuhiro Otoma Otomo Katsuhiro Otomo from 1992 and it was adapted into English in 1998 fantastic fantastic manga, fantastic comic book reveals like I read the manga the comic book way later after watching Akira multiple times and after watching the animation the movie after you've read the comic book there's maybe a 10 5 second segment in the animation that's a whole volume in the manga multiple issues so if you like the animation of the movie you should definitely read the manga it's fantastic so those are 5 comic book series that I've read that are absolutely magnificent and here is 10 comic book series that I plan on finishing that I've read with only one of these I've only read a little bit but for most of them I've read a fair bit I just haven't finished because there's so much of it the first one is Halblazer various artists various writers 300 issues from 1988 to 2013 and it's brilliant it's one of my all time favourite comic book series The Walking Dead by Kirkman Tony Moore and Charlie Ablaard it started in 2003 and it ran for 155 well it's at 155 issues and I've only read 68 and I started reading this because of a comment that was posted on the first video that I put out giving comic book recommendations where I recommended Bone by Jeff Smith and someone I believe they posted a comment that sent me a message, personal message saying I should be reading The Walking Dead so I tracked down The Walking Dead and it was a period where I wasn't reading too many comic books and I started reading it and within a week and a half it took me about 4 days to read 10 issues and then I read the rest of it which was like 58 issues in a matter of a week I was staying up until middle of the night reading the cliffhangers were walking that are amazing I will definitely finish off the series 100% I'm just waiting to do another binge read on it Preacher by Garthiness I haven't finished it it ran for 66 issues so I don't even know which parts I've read I think I've read I'm pretty sure I've read the beginning I'm not sure anymore because I've read a long time ago Savage sort of Conan I've read a ton of it I haven't read all of it and it's got 235 issues in it and I've read probably 100 looking forward to reading the whole thing it's my favorite comic book series of all time really for any genre this in Hellblazer Top 2 and it's got multiple artists Roy Thompson Roy Thompson was the main writer for a lot of them and the artists that I've read that I've loved a lot Ernie Chan Dick Giardano Barry Windsor Smith Bochima Pablo Marcos those are some of the ones that I've really liked a lot and one thing I found that after digging down some of this info for it because Savage sort of Conan was not comic book format, it was magazine format it didn't have to abide by the comic book code so that's why I always felt more intense than the rest of the stuff I was reading okay I plan on reading Saga by Brian Wagen and Fiona Staples I've only read I haven't even read a full comic yet I've read pages from different issues right and I've heard it's amazing and a lot of people I've talked to that I respect their opinions they're asking me why I'm not reading it because I didn't get on it right away and I have a lot on my table right now that I'm reading and at some point I'm going to just sit down and do a walking dead on it and just binge read 60 issues or something I think it's at 35 issues right now another series that I plan on reading finishing and I've only read I think like 3-4 no I've read more than that I start picking these up at the library I've read probably 6 or 7 volumes on this which is Lone Wolf and Cub by Kazuo Koki and Gosiki Kojima and I you know what the dates on this I didn't realize it was this from 1970 to 1976 that's when the series these comics were put out I didn't know this when I was reading I thought Lone Wolf and Cub still being put out I guess the stuff that Dark Horse was doing was reprints or maybe some news stories I don't know I've got to look into it more but fantastic what I read was absolutely amazing another series that I'm so close to finishing but I didn't finish it because this one actually I was reading it from the library as well I was going to my library so DMZ by Brian Wood and Borsila Burcili Ricardo Burcili it ran from 2005 to 2012 75 issues oh sorry no 72 issues and I've read a fair bit of it I haven't finished it another one that I haven't finished Sandman by Neil Gaiman not sure why I never finished that you go through periods right it ran from 1989 to 1996 and I'm I don't think I've read the last third ran for 75 issues and I'll have to read from beginning again Sandman was pretty intricate so I'll definitely be reading it as a binge read at some point doing a marathon on it One Outer Bullets by Brian Azarello and Brian Azarello was one of my favorite writers I try to pick up a lot from him he's definitely one of my favorite writers for the stuff he did on Hell Blazer and right now he's doing an American monster for Aftershock which is fantastic So One Outer Bullets by Brian Azarello and what do you call that American monster is very reminiscent of One Outer Bullets and I've read for a hundred issues and I haven't read all of it I've read maybe less than half and I've read a lot of Why the Last Man by Brian by Logan and Pia Gura and it ran from 2002 to 2008 I've read a fair bit of it but I haven't finished it and I definitely want to finish it it was a fun read and that's some of my favorites favorite list I guess I'll definitely be open to expanding on these a little bit more and critiquing some of these I'm even just one or two I could go off on Catboy Bebop and come and see and you know I'm a Wrike and How and definitely education the significance of life and what not right so basically we'll consider this to be an introductory video to a Q&A for my channel we'll call this in conversation with Chicho what would you like to know basically so if you have questions comments, recommendations open anything goes because this goes on Chicho and I will do my best to be as forward as possible and give you my opinion and I'm very straightforward so I don't really miss words and take my perspective as you wish with a grain of salt or to heart or what not or as entertainment if you like or as a relaxing tool but I'll be as honest as I can be for anything that I do the side to do try my best to answer as many questions as possible that's it for now I'll see you guys in the next video