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Among YouTubers who talk about anime in English, “Gigguk” is one of the channels that has been running for a long time.
On his agency's Japanese-language page, his name is written in katakana as ギグック.
He is known for videos that look back on each season's new anime with rapid-fire sarcasm, and in 2025 he even completed a short anime based on his own original work.
In this article, we look in turn at who Gigguk is, his channel's numbers, his signature video formats, his short anime Bâan and his connection to Trash Taste.
Figures such as subscriber and view counts in this article were measured by this site at about 8:44 a.m. Japan time on October 30, 2026.
Gigguk: A YouTuber Who Has Kept On Talking About Anime
The description on his own YouTube channel is just one sentence.
“Just a guy who likes to talk about Anime and has been doing it for way too long.” That's how he introduces himself.
On GeeXPlus's official page, his management agency describes Gigguk as “one of the pioneers of anime YouTube famous for his satirical style”.
According to the same page, he also has a second channel, “Garnt”, where he posts “more generalized or stream-related content”.
GeeXPlus is a Tokyo-based creator management company.
Apart from his channel name, he has also made public the name Garnt Maneetapho.
In the description of the short anime on his own channel, that name was credited as “Original Work/Supervising Director”, and the same name also appeared in the copyright notice.
GeeXPlus's announcement writes it in katakana as ガーント マニタポ.
On his upbringing, in a comment he gave for the short anime's announcement (carried in the gamebiz report we come to later), he says he grew up “in the UK with Thai parents” (our translation from the Japanese).
His comment also mentions that he has lived in many countries and experienced many different cultures, and that he always found the concept of “home” hard to understand (also our translation from the Japanese).
His age was not stated in the official profiles and announcements we checked, so we could not confirm it.
The Channel's Size and Upload Pace
As of October 30, 2026, the channel had 3.62 million subscribers and just over 656.77 million total views.
At the same point, YouTube showed 306 videos on the channel (305 when we counted the list).
As of October 30, 2026, the oldest video still on the channel was “Anime Zone: Bleach Anime Review”, from June 2011.
In the early days he ran a review series called “Anime Zone”, and there are 23 videos up to 2013 with that name in the title.
He doesn't upload on a weekly schedule, though.
At the time of writing (October 30, 2026), the most recent upload was “This Anime Traumatized A Generation”, published on September 18, 2026, and it had more than 1.45 million views.
Eight videos were published between January and October 30, 2026; sometimes the gap between them was about three weeks, and sometimes it was more than two months.
His recent videos are mostly in the 20-minute range, and the fairly long running time of each one seems to be another characteristic.
The median view count of his 10 most recent videos was about 970,000, more than a quarter of the subscriber count.
He may not post often, but it seems fair to call this a channel where each video gets properly watched.
“In A Nutshell” and “IN X MINUTES”
The most common format among Gigguk's videos is “In A Nutshell”, which looks back at each season's new anime all in one go.
When we counted by title on October 30, 2026, 41 videos had “In A Nutshell” in the title.
Among the titles we counted, the oldest installment is from January 2017, and from that spring on it has continued as a seasonal series.
The latest installment as of this writing is the summer anime one, published in August 2026.
The format crams the shows that aired in a single season into one video and pokes fun at them one after another.
It should give you a quick sense of which shows were getting talked about that season, from the point of view of English-speaking fans.
The other format is “IN X MINUTES”, which tells the story of a long series in just a few minutes.
The channel's top four videos by views were all in this format.
The most viewed was “Attack on Titan IN 9 MINUTES”, from March 2017, with just over 33.43 million views.
The installments on Tokyo Ghoul, Sword Art Online and Re:Zero also had more than 16 million views each.
It's fair to say this is a channel that has long been introducing Japanese anime in English, with a laugh.
He Made His Own Short Anime, Bâan
In 2025, the short anime Bâan -The Boundary of Adulthood- (Japanese title: baan-大人の彊界-) was completed, with Gigguk himself as its original creator and supervising director.
In July 2025, GeeXPlus announced a new anime-production business, GeeXProductions, at Anime Expo.
In the announcement at the time, Bâan was introduced as one of its first three projects.
The film is directed by Yoshimitsu Ohashi, director of Code Geass: Rozé of the Recapture, with music by Kevin Penkin of Made in Abyss and animation by studio daisy.
In the Japanese-language version, Rin is voiced by Haruna Mikawa and Daichi by Shoya Ishige.
The story is set in the fictional world of Euthania, which is connected to Japan via a warp gate.
It follows two protagonists who leave their birthplaces in search of a place where they truly belong.
In gamebiz's report on the announcement (in Japanese), the story's theme was described as Gigguk's own struggle over his cultural background and where he belongs.
So the comment about “home” mentioned earlier sits right at the heart of the film.
According to an announcement dated July 28, 2025, the Japan premiere was scheduled for August 24, 2025, at Grand Cinema Sunshine Ikebukuro in Tokyo, with Gigguk also set to give introductory remarks before the screening.
Later, in September 2025, the full film was released on his own channel.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-P3HWXGYm4
The YouTube video runs 18 minutes 53 seconds and had more than 1.57 million views.
At the end of October 2025, a 1 hour 54 minute documentary going behind the scenes of the production was also released: “The YouTuber Who Made a Real Anime.”
In its description, he wrote that it documents “the biggest project of my career”.
As a record of someone who had been talking about anime and then crossed over to making it, it's one worth watching.
Trash Taste and His Ties to Japan
Gigguk also co-hosts the English-language podcast Trash Taste with The Anime Man and CDawgVA.
GeeXPlus's page also introduces him as “one of the Trash Taste Trio”.
We cover the show's format and the official channel's numbers in detail in our Trash Taste article.
On June 17, 2021, the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan (FCCJ) held an event in English with the three of them as guests.
In the FCCJ's notice for that 2021 event, his name appears as Garnt “Gigguk” Maneetapho, and the three are introduced as “Japan-based YouTubers” who had made Japan “their new home”.
That, however, was how they were described in 2021.
Neither his channel nor his agency's profile says where he lives, so we could not confirm whether he still lives in Japan.
Even so, the official announcements make it clear that he is with a Tokyo agency and made an anime, with a Japanese-language version, together with a Japanese production team.
Perhaps it's fair to say that all those years of talking about anime in English have reached the actual places where Japanese anime gets made.
