On January 7th, 2014 (Australia time), I started The Canipa Effect. Ten years later, I’m ending it. My life has changed a lot since I first started YouTube. In 2014, I was fresh out of high school and going into university. Today, I’m married and have a full-time job--to put it simply, I donâ...
2024-01-06 21:51:23 +0000 UTC View PostSo, basically, I'm dumb. I've been freelancing for a very long time now, and this Patreon's allowed me to treat The Canipa Effect as another one of those jobs. It's made it so I've been able to comfortably turn down work offers on the basis that I still need time to create videos. While there's b...
2023-04-04 23:18:55 +0000 UTC View PostFor the second time, let me open this update with:
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Things have been goddamn HECTIC. And I'm never quite sure how much Canipa Effect viewers care about the reason behind stuff being infrequent (or weirdly frequent), but here you go... 2023-03-01 23:54:55 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello!
Last month's video was the very overdue Breaking Down Cyberpunk: Edgerunners' Incredible Animation. It's something I really enjoyed making in the end, but oh my god is it stressful to make a video that you know is becoming less relevant every second. That's reflected...
2022-12-05 04:10:26 +0000 UTC View PostSorry for the late update! I wanted to be able to say, "Hey, something's coming soon!" before I wrote anything down.
I recently released my video titled "Pokemon Colosseum Could Have Been the Future of the Franchise." I generally end up making at least one Pokemon video a y...
2022-10-19 03:57:59 +0000 UTC View PostAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
So basically, the timing on the last two videos haven't been all that great. I expected having to move July's video to August since, even though it wasn't that far from being done, I was busy moving house/country. Thankfully, the...
2022-09-07 00:10:13 +0000 UTC View PostHi!
I usually do these updates way earlier in the month, but I wanted to reserve this one for talking about the new video. Usually I'm fairly open about the videos I'm working on. For instance, the next one is on Baccano/Durarara, and the one after that is on Final Fantasy XV.
But muc...
2022-06-30 02:56:31 +0000 UTC View PostOnce upon a time, when I'd just graduated high school and was starting out on Youtube, I was told by a Youtube Network manager that all the big Youtubers had their videos planned out months in advance and were mostly just waiting for the prime time to release them.
I'm not sure if I count a...
2022-05-07 02:10:29 +0000 UTC View PostHello!
The last video on the channel did surprisingly well! It wasn't picked up by as many existing subscribers (unsurprising; it's a video game video on an anime channel, after all), but it ended up getting a lot of views from newcomers. Reaching outside of the channel's perceived scope ca...
2022-04-05 07:44:06 +0000 UTC View PostHello! And thanks again for the support.
Last month's video was How Anime Creates Appealing Fanservice and I was really happy with how it turned out. From me banging my head against the wall trying to work out what the actual point of the video should be, to a final product...
2022-03-08 03:12:06 +0000 UTC View PostImagine a scene: I'm sitting at my laptop typing out a compelling outro to a video. 5 minutes later, I delete it all. Now imagine that going on over and over again for two hours.
So I decided to take a break to write the Patreon update instead.
The next video on The Canipa Effect is "...
2022-02-08 06:50:23 +0000 UTC View PostIt can be difficult to talk positively about the future of anime. It wasn't all that long ago that anime piracy was at its peak, and the main argument against it was that we need to be paying for it so that the artists can get paid for their work. Personally, I will always advocate for legal opti...
2021-12-09 09:48:03 +0000 UTC View PostAck! Almost missed the Patreon update again! It always slips my mind when I'm really busy working on the channel, which ironically ends up being the times that I have the most to say. Last month, I spent a load of time getting a video on Slime Isekai and Anime Anthologies complete. Neither of the...
2021-11-16 13:01:02 +0000 UTC View PostOops! I forgot to release an update in September, but this one should basically sum up what would've been said in that one. September was a weird month, where I had some good ideas for videos, but ended up having to take on some sponsored content instead. Back in August, I talked about having los...
2021-10-05 08:32:23 +0000 UTC View Post
When I started making this video, I knew very little about US animation. Now I know a bit more. It's very intimidating making an editorial about an unfamiliar industry when you know that people from that industry will probably end up watching.
Thankfully, I didn't get dragged over the coals...
2021-09-02 02:42:15 +0000 UTC View Post
How'd you like it? This video was originally going to be a part of the "Anime Has a Bright Digital Future" series I was going to do in 2019, but I struggled to come up with a consistent message. Now, it's based on the idea of what it means to be a modern anime. This also is a very different thumb...
2021-08-07 12:41:02 +0000 UTC View PostOops! I forgot to make one of these updates last month. To cover what was going on in July, I lost my full-time job at OTAQUEST, and instead of rushing into something new, I wanted to take a bit of time to try out making YouTube videos full-time.
That's where I'm at now. Unemployed and maki...
2021-08-03 09:37:59 +0000 UTC View Post
I've genuinely wanted to make a video on Gravity Rush for over a year now. In fact, it was one of the first ideas I had when I decided to cover Japanese video games as well as anime. I wrote the script a while back and left it as a kind of backup video idea. So when a tight deadline for a sponsor...
2021-07-15 11:05:38 +0000 UTC View Post
This was something different! I requested a review code from Arc System Works to have a go at reviewing a game before release. It took some time, but here it is. It's something I'd be interested in doing in the future as well. (Although of course, there's very few games that would fit into my kin...
2021-06-17 13:42:54 +0000 UTC View PostI had (and still have) the bad habit of promising videos that I don't end up making. In 2016, I only ended up making 6 of the 8 "Best Anime of 2015" videos, I only made 2 of the 5 "A Guide to Anime Music Composers" (Kevin Penkin once called me out on this when he came to Tokyo), I only made 1 of ...
2021-06-03 09:25:15 +0000 UTC View Post
Thanks for watching the Pokemon Black and White video! This was more of a "Thing Callum really wants to make", rather than "Thing most subscribers were asking for", so I'm happy about the positive reception.
Right now, the channel is completely unmonetized due to an issue with AdSense. A ne...
2021-05-23 04:42:04 +0000 UTC View Post
For a good few hours, this was the best performing video on the channel /ever/.
This is probably the most difficult time I've had writing a script. In the end, I just renamed the video "The Two Sides of Studio MAPPA" because it was getting so difficult to form a consistent argument. MAPPA s...
2021-04-21 11:21:14 +0000 UTC View PostWe're back on track! The Attack on Titan video is doing really well and I'm two drafts into the much-requested Studio MAPPA video. It's been the most requested video on the channel, but it's definitely going to be different from most requesters expectations.
I feel that it's impossible to s...
2021-04-07 13:25:55 +0000 UTC View Post
IT IS DONE.
That took way too long! And the worst part is, there's still so much I could've talked about, from colour design, to the character design changes between Seasons 1-3. But at some point, you've just got to stop writing and actually make the video.
The next video on the chan...
2021-03-23 03:10:39 +0000 UTC View PostSo it turns out there's a hell of a lot to say about Attack on Titan.
I usually try and strive for a video every month, which I can generally manage, but this one's been way more difficult than I've expected. The script is the longest I've ever written and covers everything from Season 1 to...
2021-03-01 11:42:31 +0000 UTC View PostSo wow. The latest EX-ARM video is currently the fastest watched video on The Canipa Effect, performing better than any other within its first week.
It's kind of a weird feeling, since I prefer to make videos on good things, but it is good that more people are getting a more accurate and re...
2021-02-05 04:11:39 +0000 UTC View Post
One hell of a clickbait title, but it works!
This video was the result of a switcheroo of sorts. There's a lot of misinformation going around right now about both Attack on Titan: The Final Season and EX-ARM. The Attack on Titan video was originally going to come out this month, but after a...
2021-01-28 07:00:28 +0000 UTC View PostUghhhhhhhh. So the Akudama Drive video didn't come out last month. The script is completed, save for some revisions, and I've started editing, but last week, I got sick.
So the November video is turning into the December video. Sorry about that! It's working out to being a pretty good one, ...
2020-12-04 06:42:08 +0000 UTC View PostI genuinely can't remember the last time I released two videos in one month. In general, I've figured that one video each month means that I have the appropriate time to properly research, write multiple drafts of the script, and also do plenty of corrections before the video goes live. But what ...
2020-11-03 01:25:03 +0000 UTC View Post
I mentioned before that my Legend of Korra video featured the most amount of sources for a single video. This is the opposite. Due to Genshin Impact having no credits and there being very little information about the game's developers, this has been a weird video to create. At one point, it invol...
2020-10-31 01:19:11 +0000 UTC View Post