Blog:Jjaltoon

Jjaltoon (짤툰) is a South Korean-based YouTuber, animator, comic artist and voice actor who is best known for his comedic slice-of-life animations. His real name is Jjal Tae-shik (짤태식 Jjal Taesik). Apart from his real name, not much is known about him (his life, his birthplace, etc...), due to the fact that he's well-known in South Korea only. However, based on some references in his videos, it can be assumed that he lives somewhere in Seoul (possibly in Majang-dong), and studied at Naksung National University. His favorite food is gukbap (hot soup with rice), which is sometimes mentioned and/or appeared in his videos. He has a girlfriend, who appeared in his video for once. He used to animate his videos by himself. Later, he hired some people to help with drawing. As of 4 September, 2020, he has about 1,06 million subscribers.

Why He's Amazing

 * 1) His animations (recent ones) are very skillfully amazing, nicely-done. They comprise fluid movements, detailed backgrounds and a variety of characters.
 * 2) Creative, diverse and innovative storytelling.
 * 3) Awkwardly hilarious moments and surprising plot twists.
 * 4) Many of his animations often cover situations in which the characters have to deal with, other times they satirize some aspects of South Korean society and lifestyle.
 * 5) Many characters often have stable appearances and remarkable personalities of their own. For example:
 * 6) Professor Noh Gong-man (노공만), first appeared in "Cyber Lecture", is a professor at Naksung National University. He is comically portrayed as a old man who has "love interest" in Nadeko Sengoku (a character in Bakemonogatari). He puts on himself a facade of anti-Japanese sentiment, but in reality, he's just a stereotypical otaku. He's capable of speaking Japanese. In his first appearance, he sang the first lines of Renai Circulation by Kana Hanazawa while his webcam recorded the whole thing without being known until his assistant informed him about that. Due to the popular demand, Jjaltoon created a cover of Renai Circulation with Noh Gong-man as the singer.
 * 7) Private Lim Min-shik (임민식), first appeared in "The Private's Christmas", is a private who serves in the South Korean army. He tried to impress his Commander by making a Christmas tree for the Commander. However, he unknowingly chopped down the Commander's favorite tree and accidentally BURNED it, thus making Min-shik end up in confinement. In "Wet Dream" , Min-shik had a wet dream. He tried to keep it as a secret to his comrades.
 * 8) The grandmother (whose name is unknown) in "Selling Used Goodies" is an old countryside woman. She has a grandson named Yong-shik. She, along with Yong-shik, tried to get Yong-shik a Nintendo Switch by selling used stuffs. At one point, she sold a Nadeko Sengoku figure to Professor Noh Gong-man. She later appeared as a cameo in some videos, serving as a supplement to the Jjaltoon lore.
 * 9) The "I will pass my inheritance to you" father and the son, first appeared in "The Father's Inheritance", about which Jjaltoon later made a sequel. The sequel, "The Father's Inheritance - Part 2" , revealed the son's name, Park Jin-sung (박진성). It also introduced a new character named Park Jin-suk (박진석), Jin-sung's older brother.
 * 10) Choi Soo-jin (최수진) and Choi Sang-jin (최상진) in "Siblings" . They often argue and insult each other (Sang-jin would insult Soo-jin by saying she has a bad breath, whereas Soo-jin would call Sang-jin a smelly pig). One time, Sang-jin trolled Soo-jin's boyfriend named Lee Soo-hong (이수홍) by telling Soo-hong that he had SEEN Soo-jin taking a shower and was the one who had slept with Soo-jin the previous day. Soo-jin counteracted by doing the same thing with Sang-jin's girlfriend, only to realize that Sang-jin never had a girlfriend before and he had refused to get one in case this whole situation happened. Soo-jin decided to secretly delete Sang-jin's MapleStory account instead. Soo-jin and Sang-jin would never meet each other until 60 years later, by which time Sang-jin had a robotic girlfriend named Erika (에리카). Later appeared in "I Never Owned a Cat".
 * 11) Jung-woo (X정우), first appeared in "Untruthful YouTuber" , is a 27-year-old stereotypical NEET . Jung-woo is a YouTuber and he made vlogs about fabricated situations in order to achieve fame. Later, his mother, who had acknowledged his status as a YouTuber, informed him that almost all of his viewers had found his videos purely fake and multiple enterprises were about to sue him, implying that things had gone too far for Jung-woo. In the end, Jung-woo made an apologizing video.
 * 12) Jjaltoon himself. He has appeared in many of his animations as an in-universe character. In the Jjaltoon lore, he's portrayed as a almost-bald guy wearing a green T-shirt with a yellow strand of hair and a high-pitched voice. He's referred to as the "Creator of Jjaltoon".
 * 13) Jjaltoon's cover of Renai Circulation and his first video, "Gukbap Addict", gained a cult following.
 * 14) Furthermore, Jjaltoon even referenced his cover of Renai Circulation in his animations.
 * 15) "Why the hell would you eat [blank ? If you were to eat gukbap, you should try a nice hot bowl of gukbap..."]
 * 16) All of his videos are mainly provided with subtitles in 5 different languages (Chinese, English, Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese). Some have Burmese and Mongolian subtitles.
 * 17) Jjaltoon earned a YouTube Silver Button. That's a friggin' record, as by that time, he had released 5 videos and had joined YouTube for a few months.
 * 18) His webcomics are decent. However, he doesn't make them anymore.
 * 19) He single-handedly handles all the voice actings.
 * 20) The "Romance of the Jjal Kingdoms" (짤국지 Jjalgukji) series rocks, because:
 * 21) WHA #1, #2, #3 and #4.
 * 22) It makes Romance of the Three Kingdoms more interesting.
 * 23) The characters are decent, especially Master Kongming (Zhuge Liang), Liu Bei, Zhang Fei, Guan Yu and most recently, Cao Cao.
 * 24) Speaking of Liu Bei, he is the first Jjaltoon character to have ACTUAL EARS.

Bad Qualities

 * 1) All characters look the same, the only differences are the hairstyle and the clothes. Moreover, some characters SHARE the same voice.
 * 2) Frequent Korean curses like "아니 새끼가 진짜" (you son of a b****), "이 새끼" (you b****), "야이 씨발럼아" (Hey! You f***!),...
 * 3) Jjaltoon reduced the amount of curses later on.
 * 4) Some of his videos are really lame, and some are even mean-spirited.
 * 5) Ear rapes, especially when the characters are very angry.
 * 6) Excessive use of radial blur whenever a character screams.
 * 7) Subtitles aren't often proof-read (especially English), leading to unnoticeable grammatical errors.
 * 8) To top it off, the translations, despite fitting the context, are pretty weird. It feels like somebody coined new terms and just slapped them on the subtitles.
 * 9) The citations in the subtitles are helpful for most of the time. However, some are ridiculously redundant. One time, in the Vietnamese subtitle in one video, Jjaltoon refered to Naruto as, quote, "a very famous character in Japanese anime", as if most of the viewers never knew who Naruto is.

Videos
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