The Absolute Art of Deception — Transcript

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1. 0:00You know how some words just stick with you for the rest of your life?
2. 0:03Like how my dad told me I was a waste of space or...
3. 0:06how my crush said "ew" when I went up and talked to her.
4. 0:08Those are just a few of my finest examples.
5. 0:11But I remember a line from "The Hangover" that stuck with me till this day.
6. 0:14It changed my life.
7. 0:15And it goes something like this...
8. 0:17"Gambling?"
9. 0:18"Who said anything about gambling?"
10. 0:22You hear that?
11. 0:24That's the sound of confidence.
12. 0:27I've spent the past 3 weeks reading this manga.
13. 0:30Imagine gambling, but the main character is crazy and so is everyone else.
14. 0:34A gambling manga filled with crazy people.
15. 0:37I'm sold.
16. 0:47That's how I introduce myself at the blackjack table.
17. 0:49He goes around bankrupting casinos and robbing people of their retirement funds.
18. 0:53If you think for a second that you could fool him,
19. 0:55then you're the fool.
20. 0:57He's the lie eater and he's gonna...
21. 1:01Kaji on the other hand...
22. 1:03does not eat lies.
23. 1:04He's the one being lied to.
24. 1:06A loser covered with debt.
25. 1:07The two met at the pachinko parlor  and Kaji helped Baku win 1000 bucks.
26. 1:11So as thanks, Baku helps clear his debt.
27. 1:14And he does this...
28. 1:172 million yen...
29. 1:18✨.
30. 1:18Easily won in one game and they do it in spectacular fashion.
31. 1:22Now, let's take over the world.
32. 1:26Usogui is a manga with a whopping-
33. 1:30That's 12 main story arcs.
34. 1:32It starts off with these two dudes meeting.
35. 1:34Then they go to an abandoned building,
36. 1:36an abandoned mine,
37. 1:37a labyrinth.
38. 1:37Then there's a bull,
39. 1:38a TV show,
40. 1:39a tower,
41. 1:39a ship,
42. 1:40a bookstore,
43. 1:41an island.
44. 1:41The shit they pull off just to gamble is unprecedented.
45. 1:44And the games they play aren't just poker and blackjack.
46. 1:47That's for casuals.
47. 1:48This is the sweats lobby.
48. 1:49I'm talking-
49. 1:51-where they gamble underwater and the chips are oxygen tanks.
50. 1:54-where the man actually gets hanged.
51. 1:56There's an entire arc simulating an RPG game on an actual island in real life.
52. 2:00These guys are nuts.
53. 2:01They bet on perfect timekeeping,
54. 2:03on whether any aircrafts will pass by the area.
55. 2:05They bet on anything at this point.
56. 2:07And amidst these bets, there are referees.
57. 2:10Kakerou is a club that oversees the  gambling between their members.
58. 2:13It's not easy to join this club.
59. 2:15You would have to be one of their 48 exclusive members.
60. 2:18And once you join the club, you can never leave.
61. 2:20They'll actually hunt you down and kill you if you do.
62. 2:23But on the flip side, you get full protection from your gambles,
63. 2:26meaning you can raise the stakes so high without the fear of getting shot mid game
64. 2:29and having your bets taken away.
65. 2:31Because the referees are there to protect your ass and make sure everything is fair.
66. 2:35You can count on the referees to ensure everything stays within the rules.
67. 2:38"Oh, why don't we just kill the referee then?"
68. 2:41These guys are professional hitmen, wanted assassins.
69. 2:44They're all lunatics.
70. 2:45This guy is overdosed on steroids.
71. 2:47This guy plays with his own spit.
72. 2:48This guy's on a wheelchair...
73. 2:50how tf did he even get up there
74. 2:52You're not beating any of these guys.
75. 2:54Even the weakest link has the skill to take out a group of mercenaries.
76. 2:58And the one who stands at the top is who they call-
77. 3:01This man has full control of Kakerou.
78. 3:03And he's got those bunch of madmen on a leash.
79. 3:17Eiichiro Oda wanted to be a mangaka when he was four.
80. 3:20Gege Akutami began drawing manga in fifth grade.
81. 3:22And Tatsuki Fujimoto started drawing  professionally right out of high school.
82. 3:26Manga authors usually grow up wanting to be an author.
83. 3:29It's always been a dream of theirs and they follow the usual path to get there.
84. 3:33This man was a barber.
85. 3:35He didn't go to art school or follow the path most authors take.
86. 3:38In fact, Sako Toshio only decided to pursue manga seriously in his late 20s.
87. 3:43And for the next 11 years of his career,
88. 3:45he would go on to perfecting his first serialized work.
89. 3:48And when you give a guy that much time to constantly improve his craft,
90. 3:52you bet he's gonna go all in.
91. 3:59The manga gets better as it goes on.
92. 4:01The art style evolved massively over serialization.
93. 4:04Early Usogui looks almost like a standard Seinen manga,
94. 4:07but later arcs become hyper-detailed.
95. 4:09You can see the faces that emit fear
96. 4:11or just sheer insanity.
97. 4:12They're the ones who are gambling, but it feels like you're trapped in the gamble alongside the characters.
98. 4:17Most mangas run on a weekly basis, so it's a given that authors have their hands full,
99. 4:21focusing solely on their work every week,
100. 4:23and some fall into the pit of self-doubt in the process.
101. 4:27This man started boxing.
102. 4:30Sako took up boxing while working on the manga, WHILE raising a daughter.
103. 4:33THIS MAN IS A GAMBLER.
104. 4:35HE'S GAMBLING HIS OWN HEALTH.
105. 4:36But he didn't just pick up the sport for fun.
106. 4:38Boxing influenced the realism in his manga.
107. 4:41That's why the fights are INTENSE.
108. 4:43You're not even gonna believe this manga is about gambling.
109. 4:45You see how precise the anatomy and impact is in the combat scenes.
110. 4:49This is drawn by a man who fights.
111. 4:51Sako believe pure mind games eventually become repetitive.
112. 4:54So, he makes psychological warfare with real violence.
113. 4:57That's why fights in Usogui are so brutal compared to most gambling manga.
114. 5:00He wanted the gambling to feel physical and not just intellectual.
115. 5:04I was deceived thinking it's just another gambling manga.
116. 5:07The characters are cunning.
117. 5:08The author is a master of deceit.
118. 5:10This manga is The Absolute Art of Deception.
119. 5:20The story is essentially just a series of outsmarting.
120. 5:23"You thought you've won, but I actually made you think you'd won."
121. 5:25"And now you think I've tricked you into thinking that I've won, but actually..."
122. 5:29"I made you think that I tricked  you into thinking that I've won."
123. 5:31"And I've won by tricking you into thinking that I've tricked you INTO THINKING THAT"
124. 5:33"YOU'VE LOST!"
125. 5:35We're not Baku.
126. 5:36We're more like-
127. 5:37Kaji.
128. 5:38We wanna be like Baku and figure out what he's thinking, how far he's thinking.
129. 5:41Why is he tapping his fingers?
130. 5:43Why is he checking out the pipes?
131. 5:45This man is a gambling prodigy,
132. 5:47a master manipulator.
133. 5:48He's the ultimate deceiver.
134. 5:50Each and every move of his has to mean something.
135. 5:52And it always seems like everything is a part of his plan.
136. 5:55But when things go south, you start to lose faith.
137. 5:58"Maybe Baku hadn't thought this far."
138. 6:00"Maybe he miscalculated."
139. 6:02Those thoughts circle around your head...
140. 6:05And then he rips out the plums and you're like-
141. 6:07YEAHHHHHHHH
142. 6:09FUGGGGGG YEAHHHHHHHH
143. 6:11There's far more depth to Usogui than just gambling for money.
144. 6:13The story dives into topics like corruption and criminal activity.
145. 6:17Beneath the mind games, there are bad people who are trying to rule the world.
146. 6:21So each arc you read in anticipation of seeing how Baku's gonna beat the bad guys.
147. 6:25It's almost like a recipe you've seen a thousand times.
148. 6:28All that buildup and suspense just for the protagonist to win like it was part of his grandmaster plan.
149. 6:33So subconsciously, you figured he'd be all right...
150. 6:36but then he starts freaking out and-
151. 6:38loses an eye.
152. 6:39And it really makes you question,
153. 6:40was this a part of the plan?
154. 6:43Unknowingly, you've sat at the table with the author and he's playing mind games with you,
155. 6:47tricking you into thinking that Baku is always victorious, but before you know it...
156. 6:50the main character that we all know is gonna win might just get-
157. 6:53stabbed through the throat with a dagger.
158. 6:55The more you read, the better it gets.
159. 6:57The gambles get bigger.
160. 6:58The stakes have never been higher.
161. 7:00You feel nervous just flipping to the next page.
162. 7:03The story gets so intense that I can hear it.
163. 7:05You hear that?
164. 7:20They talk a lot in this manga.
165. 7:22I mean, there's the character's thoughts,
166. 7:23the game's rules,
167. 7:24why this character did this, and why did he do that?
168. 7:27It's gonna be a long read.
169. 7:28If you're not hooked into one of the games, then it's just a blur.
170. 7:31And sometimes, it kind of feels like we've lost the plot.
171. 7:33I remember a chapter where they were talking about protein and muscle mass.
172. 7:37I just started dissociating like my mind was somewhere else...
173. 7:39I was thinking about how-
174. 7:44it's over 500 chapters and I spent about 3 weeks finishing it.
175. 7:48Some days, reading 20 chapters felt like a drag.
176. 7:51But towards the end, I was-
177. 7:52FLYING through the chapters, itching to read the next.
178. 7:55This manga makes you feel a lot of things.
179. 7:57The thrill from the gambles,
180. 7:59the intensity from the action,
181. 8:00and it catches you off guard with how touching it can be.
182. 8:04There's a part of the story away from the gambles and away from the fights
183. 8:07that just tugs on your heartstrings a bit.
184. 8:10Kaji is the opposite of Baku.
185. 8:12He's scared, naive, and completely out of his depth.
186. 8:15He's a directionless loser drowning in debt and bad decisions.
187. 8:19But when you find out that his mom tried to drown him for insurance money
188. 8:22and has been financially exploiting him ever since he was a kid,
189. 8:25it makes sense how he ended up the way he did.
190. 8:27These guys are side characters who are not  psychopaths that are willing to gamble their lives away
191. 8:32and it makes them human.
192. 8:33Some of them just happen to find themselves on this unfortunate path and so you sympathize with them.
193. 8:38In a manga filled with chaos and craziness,
194. 8:41it's these quiet, ordinary moments that somehow stand out the most.
195. 8:46It's really...
196. 8:47magical.
197. 8:52Life is a series of gamles.
198. 8:53Almost every decision we make involves uncertainty.
199. 8:56Quitting your job,
200. 8:57trusting a friend, becoming a-
201. 9:00There's risk in everything we do.
202. 9:02No matter how carefully we plan our actions,
203. 9:04the possibility of failing still exists.
204. 9:08But the possibility of becoming a-
205. 9:09fucking billionaire at the roulette table also exists.
206. 9:13I swear if you watch a motivational video before a game of poker,
207. 9:16you would be just as hyped as hitting a game winner.
208. 9:20How far are you willing to go for your beliefs?
209. 9:23How strong is your resolve to own-
210. 9:24a yacht in Miami?
211. 9:25How does one line from a movie fuck up your whole life?
212. 9:28I believe if you really, really want something,
213. 9:31you would do whatever,
214. 9:32and I mean whatever, to achieve it.
215. 9:34You see how much the characters risk to get what they want
216. 9:37and how much they've lost by getting there.
217. 9:39It's a spiral if you look down, but that's not how gambling works.
218. 9:42You gotta think about the view, the excitement from coming out on top.
219. 9:46It's enough to make your nose bleed,
220. 9:47your hair go crazy,
221. 9:48and your laughs be hysterical.
222. 9:50"oH, WHaT iF yOu lOsE aLL yOUr mOnEY ANd go BaNKruPt?"
223. 9:56See, it's all in the mindset.
224. 9:57Because if you want to gain a lot,
225. 9:59you got to risk a lot.
226. 10:04But then again, there are no right or wrong gambles in life.
227. 10:07If you're not willing to bet everything on the line,
228. 10:09that doesn't mean you've lost.
229. 10:11That just means-
230. 10:13you're a 😺
231. 10:13and you need more motivational edits-
232. 10:15What I'm trying to say is...
233. 10:16when life becomes a gamble,  your choices reveal who you truly are.
234. 10:20So, do you stand by the truth...
235. 10:23or are you just a-
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