History WebVideo / TotallyNotMark

* AndThatLittleGirlWasMe: ''The YouTube Comment That Changed My Life'' begins with Mark discussing the titular comment, one from the animated music video for ''Sparkling'' from ''Anime/YourName''. Mark reveals that ''he'' was the one who made this comment, using it as a FramingDevice on how the movie led him to leave a life in Japan to be with his lover, formerly a childhood friend, implied to now be his wife.

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[[caption-width-right:350:Mark's Website/{{Twitter}} profile picture during his time reviewing ''Manga/DragonBall''.]]

** The first Buu Saga episode of ''Dragon Ball Z: The Ultimate Review'' was a collaboration with Creator/TeamFourStar, with short ''WebVideo/DragonBallZAbridged''-style clips dispersed throughout the video.

* TheLancer: [[DiscussedTrope Discussed]] in ''Piccolo: The Humiliated Character''. In order to be a very effective sideman to Goku, the character needs to have a rivalry in which both characters can keep up with one another and be an active character. Since Krillin couldn’t keep up with Goku, he was replaced with Piccolo; since Piccolo could no longer keep up with Goku, he was replaced with Vegeta. Vegeta was lucky the manga ended soon after he accepted he couldn't keep up with Goku. But when ''Super'' premiered, this got retconned and he kept up, withhim still being Goku's rival. Mark says that idealistically, Majin Buu or Hit would have replaced him as the sideman role.

** In ''Jiren: The Terrible Antagonist'', Mark describes Jiren as a passive antagonist, with the side characters [[CharacterShilling speaking of how powerful and great he is]] instead of showing it, while he himself barely has any goal within the story. And he fails at being a great antagonist, as he doesn't attack Goku's weakness nor works with the other antagonists, the Omni-Kings. Jiren only becomes somewhat effective at the very end of the arc, when he finally gets consistent [[CharacterFocus focus]], but it's too little too late for him to develop his personality, with Mark saying that [[TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot that personality should have been the focus of the arc from the beginning]]. Mark expanded on this in a tweet, stating that Creator/{{Toyotaro}} handled Jiren's introduction better in the manga, but that's his only comment on Jiren in the manga.

** The first Buu Saga episode of ''Dragon Ball Z: The Ultimate Review'' was a collaboration with Creator/TeamFourStar, with short WebVideo/DragonBallZAbridged-style clips dispersed throughout the video.

* {{Crossover}}: ''Fixing Dragon Ball Super's Terrible Artwork'' episodes 1 and 2 has him alongside [=AnimeAjay=] and artist [=IamTheTrev=] redrawing off-model keyframes from ''Dragon Ball Super''.

* AndThatLittleGirlWasMe: ''The YouTube Comment That Changed My Life'' begins with Mark discussing the titular comment, one from the animated music video for ''Sparkling'' ''from Anime/YourName''. Mark reveals that ''he'' was the one who made this comment, using it as a FramingDevice on how the movie led him to leave a life in Japan to be with his lover, formerly a childhood friend, implied to now be his wife.

Mark then decided to open up a channel on Website/{{YouTube}}, reviewing ''Anime/DragonBallSuper''. From that point, he would end up reviewing the entire series, and almost everything that was done in the franchise, alongside other series like ''Manga/OnePiece'', ''Manga/MyHeroAcademia'', ''Webcomic/OnePunchMan'' or the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse.

You can find his videos [[https://www.youtube.com/user/xxraythompsonxx/about here]]. The editor of his Franchise/JojosBizarreAdventure videos is [=AnimeAJay=], whose channel you can find [[https://www.youtube.com/c/AnimeAjay here]].

In December 2021, much of the video content discussed on this page (''Franchise/DragonBall'' and ''Franchise/OnePiece'' in particular) was made temporarily inaccessible to watch, as Mark's Website/YouTube channel was hit with numerous automated copyright strikes by Creator/ToeiAnimation. Most if not all of the videos are now reinstated, except in Japan.

[[folder: Semi-Blind Jojo's Bizzare Adventure Reviews]]

* PetPeeveTrope: [[InvokedTrope Invoked]]. Mark is not a fan of {{Fanservice}}, as he thinks very few shows used it well.

* CharacterDevelopment: DiscussedTrope in The Anatomy of Anime, while quoting [=K.M. Weiland=]'s ''Creating Character Arcs''. Mark discusses the character development of characters in fiction with three types of arc, the "Flat Character Arc", the "Positive Character Arc", and the "Negative Character Arc". A Flat Character Arc character is [[StaticCharacter devoid of change]], instead helping others change, this character can be both positive or negative. Then there's the Positive Character Arc, when a character changes for the better through letting go of the lie they believe. And finally, the Negative Character arc, when a character changes for the worse because they ''refuse'' to let go of the lie they believe.

* StaticCharacter:
** Mark describes Goku as a character that doesn’t change significantly, using the "Flat Character Arc" term. In it, Goku as a character already knows "the truth" and in turn guides others to find what the truth is, allowing for the CharacterDevelopment the Dragon Ball cast (Piccolo and Vegeta mostly) received.
---> '''Mark''': "The reason why Goku remains the focus of ''Manga/DragonBall'' is due to one simple fact: Goku is ''Dragon Ball''. Everything that happens in ''Dragon Ball'' is due to his character, and it can't be any other way, so let me explain why. Goku's character is ideal for a long-running show because unlike Vegeta and Piccolo, his arc doesn't have an expiriation date. Vegeta's character was praised in his climax, but because the show wanted to continue, his development had to be altered and [[AesopAmnesia slightly retconned]] at the beginning of Anime/DragonBallSuper, during which they had to [[CallBack repeat certain key scenes]] to invoke a similar reaction to the fanbase. The same can be said for Piccolo, jumping in front of Gohan and blocking a blast in the Resurrection F arc, is just not the same, because as the show reflects, his time in the sun is over. On a much more real level, Gohan's story is absolutely over, it ended at Cell. That was the ComingOfAge moment and nothing he will do will top that unless they drastically revamp, reinvent or retcon his character. But unlike them, Goku is not restricted to such conventions due to the nature of his story arc. Because Goku doesn't need to change or grow from experience, the intrigue when he interacts with a character or situation comes from how the world or that character reacts to Goku, so technically, Goku and characters like him that implement the Flat Arc have as much intrigue as the world around them does."
** In ''Frieza: The Unsympathetic Villain'', Mark regards Frieza as an excellent Negative Flat Character, as in, a character devoid of anything sympathetic to his character, not having much in the way of CharacterDevelopment as his psychopathic nature alongside his childish traits make him an excellent foil to Son Goku. Likewise, both Frieza and Goku are in a way fighting for the same thing (obtaining the Dragon Balls, and proving who is stronger than the other), the two being unable to change the other, but Frieza exploiting Goku's weaknesses multiple times are excellent traits that made them such a compelling rivalry.
** In turn, Mark considers Vegeta a negative example of a dynamic character in ''Vegeta: Super Boring Sequel''. Since a major contribution to Vegeta's effectiveness as a character was his CharacterDevelopment in ''Dragon Ball Z'' and his gradual change, he feels that since in ''Super'' he doesn’t change anything about him, any spectacle or cool scene with him is meaningless, since there's no progress involved for his character that would make them important.
--->'''Mark''': I ask you, what has changed about Vegeta or his current situation since the end of ''[[Anime/DragonBallZBattleOfGods Battle of Gods]]''? The answer is very little. And the troubles with that can be seen very easily. All of Vegeta's monumental moments in the series are rooted in this archetype of change, oftentimes positive changes and sometimes a negative one, but a change nonetheless. He isn't forced to change any meaningful emotional way in ''Dragon Ball Super'', but the writers place him in circumstances [[InternalHomage that are reminiscent of his highlights]] in ''Anime/DragonBallZ'' in the hopes that they will achieve what it did for him in the past. But they won't. They can't. Structurally speaking, narratively speaking, and logically speaking, they can't work the same way because they are, in the most fundamental way, different.

--->'''Mark''': I ask you, what has changed about Vegeta or his current situation since the end of ''[[Anime/DragonBallZBattleOfGods Battle of Gods]]''? The answer is very little. And the troubles with that can be seen very easily. All of Vegeta's monumental moments in the series are rooted in this [[DynamicCharacter archetype of change]], oftentimes positive changes and sometimes a negative one, but a change nonetheless. He isn't forced to change any meaningful emotional way in ''Dragon Ball Super'', but the writers place him in circumstances [[InternalHomage that are reminiscent of his highlights]] in ''Anime/DragonBallZ'' in the hopes that they will achieve what it did for him in the past. But they won't. They can't. Structurally speaking, narratively speaking, and logically speaking, they can't work the same way because they are, in the most fundamental way, different.

In December 2021, much of the video content discussed on this page (''Franchise/DragonBall'' and ''Franchise/OnePiece'' in particular) was made inaccessible to watch, as Mark's Website/YouTube channel was hit with numerous automated copyright strikes by Creator/ToeiAnimation.