History WebVideo / TheAnimeMan

* SenpaiKohai: One ''Japanese 101'' [[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=20btoO1auDo video]] discusses the etymologies of the terms and their uses.

** LongTitle: Three of them have names longer than five words, the longest being Track 7: "I Don't Remember How We Ended Up Here, But I'm Glad We Did".
** TitleTrack: Track 3: "There Once Stood A Picture Frame Full Of Memories"

** When he covered the anime of ''[[LightNovel/SwordArtOnlineAlternativeGunGaleOnline SAO Alternative]]'' in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9cm4lLhNOiM "SAO Alternative: Gun Gale Online is a HORRIBLE Sword Art Online Spin-off"]], one would think he'd bash it based on the title. Instead, he was pretty positive about it. What he meant was more that it was [[ExactWords "horrible" as a SAO spin-off]], since it's not like SAO at all.

* CluelessChickMagnet: Ichika from ''LightNovel/InfiniteStratos'' annoyed the heck out of him because of this trait.

* SchoolClubsAreSeriousBusiness: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7nH-YnH2g0 As Joey and Gaijin Goombah note]], there are no real life school clubs that deal with the supernatural. Thus, if the SOS Brigade from ''LightNovel/HaruhiSuzumiya'' would be attempted, it would be rejected quickly because teachers are critical for the formation of clubs.

* StupidSexyFlanders: {{Invoked|Trope}} in "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztJAzTcbrR0 Hilarious and Cringey Anime Poems]]" when a poem about [[DudeLooksLikeALady Hideyoshi]] from ''LightNovel/BakaAndTestSummonTheBeasts'' comes up.

Aside from his [[https://www.youtube.com/theanimeman YouTube]] channel, he also has accounts on [[https://twitter.com/thean1meman Twitter]], [[https://www.twitch.tv/thean1meman Twitch]], [[https://www.instagram.com/joey.the.anime.man/ Instagram]] and [[https://myanimelist.net/profile/DaZinga MyAnimeList]].

* SempaiKohai: One ''Japanese 101'' [[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=20btoO1auDo video]] discusses the etymologies of the terms and their uses.

* ReactionVideo: Joey generally dislikes them, and as an extension, [=YouTube=] channels that rely on them. He's made bluntly disparaging comments in #[=AnswerMeSenpai=] videos about them, and in the ''WTF Japan'' video about ''LightNovel/RedoOfHealer'' and it getting an anime adaptation, he dropped this gem:

* WhoWantsToBeWhoWantsToBeAMillionaire: Parodied with [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tc0c3A4usDw "Who Wants To Be A Weeblionnaire?"]] in "CAN YOU BEAT THE IMPOSSIBLE ANIME QUIZ?? (ft. akidearest, WebVideo/{{Gigguk}}, [=CDawgVA=], Sydsnap & Bakashift)", where Joey let other [=YouTubers=] (mentioned in the title) take an anime quiz with increasing difficulty. He promised that the person who would get all 15 questions correct would receive 10,000 yen (roughly 100 US dollars) out of his pocket, which of course didn't happen. During the video, one of them jokingly asks if they can get a Lifeline. The real kicker is that for every question they get wrong, they have to take a teaspoon full of a powder that "makes sour things sour". Three lemons contain ''four grams'' of that stuff. It has nothing to do with what they are parodying, but is noteworthy nonetheless. The video does include commercial breaks though (yes, Joey cuts to an ad for merchandise of his halfway through the video).

* WhoWantsToBeWhoWantsToBeAMillionaire: Parodied with [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tc0c3A4usDw "Who Wants To Be A Weeblionnaire?"]] in "CAN YOU BEAT THE IMPOSSIBLE ANIME QUIZ?? (ft. akidearest, WebVideo/{{Gigguk}}, [=CDawgVA=], Sydsnap & Bakashift)", where Joey let other [=YouTubers=] (mentioned in the title) take an anime quiz with increasing difficulty. He promised that the person who would get all 15 questions correct would receive 10,000 yen (roughly 100 dollars) out of his pocket, which of course didn't happen. During the video, one of them jokingly asks if they can get a Lifeline. The real kicker is that for every question they get wrong, they have to take a teaspoon full of a powder that "makes sour things sour". Three lemons contain ''four grams'' of that stuff. It has nothing to do with what they are parodying, but is noteworthy nonetheless. The video does include commercial breaks though (yes, Joey cuts to an ad for merchandise of his halfway through the video).

* HiddenDepths: He can also play the guitar, as shown on his {{crossover}}s with Eddie van der Meer, such as [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1MgIqz66NZA this one]]. He also offhandedly mentions [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3s8n5cLJFMc playing classical piano in the Sydney Opera House]] once.

* ReactionVideo: Joey generally dislikes them, and as an extension, [=YouTube=] channels that rely on them. Joey's made bluntly disparaging comments in #[=AnswerMeSenpai=] videos about them, and in the ''WTF Japan'' video about ''LightNovel/RedoOfHealer'' and it getting an anime adaptation, he dropped this gem:

Joey Bizinger, AKA The Anime Man, born September 28, 1994, is a Japanese-Australian Internet personality active on Website/YouTube, where he talks about anime and manga, mostly in the style of vlogs. In the beginning of his career he would mostly do {{Lets Play}}s. He is also one of the most-subscribed anime [=YouTubers=] with just over 3 million subscribers as of October 2021.

Joey has a number of recurring segments on his channel, including:

* ArtifactTitle: A more downplayed example. Although Joey still talks about anime, in more recent years, he has largely broadened his focus to focus on subjects outside of anime, such as manga, Japan and a variety of other otaku related subjects. He has lampshaded this a couple of times on ''WebVideo/TrashTaste''.

* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: This is yet another trope where Joey and Gaijin Goombah discuss [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7nH-YnH2g0 the huge difference between real life schools and those in anime]]. Colorful hair is used to help viewers in distinguishing anime characters just by looking at them. However, the strict dress codes enforced in Japanese schools would almost certainly prohibit students from coloring their hair.

Joey Bizinger, AKA The Anime Man, is a Japanese-Australian Internet personality active on Website/YouTube, where he talks about anime and manga, mostly in the style of vlogs. In the beginning of his career he would mostly do {{Lets Play}}s. He is also one of the most-subscribed anime [=YouTubers=] with just over 3 million subscribers as of October 2021.

He also operates a second channel called [[https://m.youtube.com/c/Joeytheanimeman Joey]], where he discusses numerous subjects related to anime and manga, on top of more random stuff.

* LanguageEqualsThought: Discussed in "Why My 'Personality' Changes When Speaking Japanese." after he got comments saying that he seemed a different person when speaking Japanese. Having thought about it, he realised that, while his personality doesn't change, he physically can't be sarcastic in Japanese, a character trait that is a ''major'' staple of his personality and English-spoken content. The reason being, according to him, that there is ''no sarcasm'' in Japanese.

* {{Gorn}}: One of Joey's ''WTF Japan'' videos is about his being utterly incredulous that a live-action adaptation of the infamously horrific ''ero-guro'' manga ''Mai-chan's Daily Life'' had been made.

* MostWritersAreMale: {{Discussed|Trope}} [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cg5OcQ52CR0 in response]] to the Website/{{Crunchyroll}} controversy around them promoting a show called ''High Guardian Spice'' (based on a web comic made in Website/{{Tumblr}}) they were making by claiming the crew of the show is diverse, yet most of them were white women and there was only one male in their promotional video. Joey's point was that the anime industry and community seem to be ''averting'' this trope, although it can't be said for sure that females are the majority. To support this, he mentioned a number of prolific female writers and directors in the anime and manga industry, and pointed out the size of niches in the community surrounding it. Therefore, it annoyed him that most people involved in or talking about the Crunchyroll controversy didn't seem to realise that the diversity problem in the industry doesn't really exist.

* MixedAncestry: His mother is Japanese, his father Australian. He speaks both of the corresponding languages fluently. [[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=aiHOjDNE8wU Yes, Australian is a language.]]

Joey Bizinger, AKA The Anime Man, is a Japanese-Australian Internet personality active on Website/YouTube, where he talks about anime and manga, mostly in the style of vlogs. In the beginning of his career he would mostly do {{Lets Play}}s. He is also one of the most-subscribed anime [=YouTubers=] with almost 3 million subscribers as of August 2021.

* WhoWantsToBeWhoWantsToBeAMillionaire: Parodied with [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tc0c3A4usDw "Who Wants To Be A Weeblionnaire?"]] in "CAN YOU BEAT THE IMPOSSIBLE ANIME QUIZ?? (ft. akidearest, WebVideo/{{Gigguk}}, [=CDawgVA=], Sydsnap & Bakashift)", where Joey let other [=YouTubers=] (mentioned in the title) take an anime quiz with increasing difficulty. He promised that the person who would get all 15 questions correct would receive 10,000 yen (roughly 100 dollars) out of his pocket, which of course didn't happen. During the video, one of them jokingly asks if they can get a Lifeline. The real kicker is that for every question they get wrong, they have to take a teaspoon full of a powder that "makes sour things sour". Three lemons contain ''four grams'' of that stuff. It has nothing to do with what they are parodying, but is noteworthy nonetheless. The video does include commercial breaks though (yes, Joey cuts to an ad for merchandise of his halfway through the video).

Joey Bizinger, AKA The Anime Man, is a Japanese-Australian Internet personality active on Website/YouTube, where he talks about anime and manga, mostly in the style of vlogs. In the beginning of his career he would mostly do {{Lets Play}}s. He is also one of the most-subscribed anime [=YouTubers=] with 2.41 million subscribers as of September 2020.

* '''#[=AnswerMeSenpai=]''': A Q&A segment where he gives (mostly) sarcastic answers to questions asked from his Twitter and the comments on his videos with that hashtag. It started out as a regular segment but now updates whenever he gets around to it, which he frequently lampshades.

* '''Monthly Otaku Collection''': Joey shows the various anime, manga, collectibles, and other otaku-related media he's encountered that month that he feels are worth informing his fanbase about.

* TranquilFury: Anime Man was no exception when it came to criticizing a vlogger Logan Paul's video, where he filmed a dead person and his {{Jerkass}} behavior in Japan. From that video, Joey, who was calm but extremely frustrated, told Logan how "it isn't hard for someone to turn off the camera just for a little bit," and eventually ending the video by telling Logan to get out of Japan.
-->'''Anime Man: ''' I think I speak on behalf of everybody in Japan in saying Logan, [[GetOut get the fuck out of my country.]]

-->'''Anime Man: ''' I think I speak on behalf of everybody in Japan in saying Logan, get the fuck out of my country.

* WidgetSeries: His ''WTF Japan'' video series is partly based on the weird or disturbing stuff exclusive to, or created from Japan, regardless of how niche or popular they are in the culture.