Jesu Otaku

 Jacob Chapman, aka Jesu Otaku, is by far the most successful and analytical of the former Desu Des Brigade, currently a member of That Guy With The Glasses.

He produces a review segment simply entitled "The JesuOtaku Anime Review". His review approach is very analytical, using a four-star rating system. He tries to be as objective as possible and may give high scores to shows that he doesn't personally like. He also produced his "summer project", an audio drama adaptation of Fruits Basket, every Wednesday throughout summer 2011 (and which can be found here if you're interested). He is notable for his large amount of shows:

• JO Anime Reviews
• In-Betweens
• New Lyrics
• Various Lets Plays.

Despite efforts to keep the Desu Des Brigade alive, he made the decision to officially leave the Brigade. This news, however, led to the Brigade's outright breakup.

He also has a live stream, here. Additionally, he also often appears on Nash's long running Radio Dead Air internet radio show, which can be found here.

Jesu Otaku provides examples of the following tropes:

• Actor Allusion: In his review of Princess Tutu, he says, "I see a host club in someone's future..." on a clip of Femio.
• Adorkable
• Attention Deficit Creator Disorder: Let's see, he reviews anime, is making a retrospective on all the Digimon anime, dubs Anime Theme Songs, is analyzing the Trigun anime, has another job reviewing even more anime on Anime News Network and oh yeah, is currently working on a Radio Drama adaptation on the ENTIRE Fruits Basket manga (also, he works at a theater).
  • He is no longer writing reviews for ANN. However, in 2012 he decided to see every wide-release movie that came out, and in spring started doing video blogs about several of them.
• Alternate Character Interpretation: In his in-universe LP of Super Mario 64, he does a first-person, diary-like monologue if Mario was actually an Italian plumber from...well..Italy, felt like he was hallucinating, and eventually became a thrill-seeking, sociopathic, evil-overlord-to-be with a god complex who never "gets some" from Peach.
• Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking: A common thread in his written introductions for each of the villains in her Top 20 Deliciously Evil Villains.
• Author Filibuster: He used her FLCL review as an opportunity to go on a rant about how Studio Gainax are complete HACKS when it comes to making Psychological Dramas and that they should stick to over-the-top goofiness and simple morals. He addressed this fact on his Twitter, and stated that the reason he did this was because FLCL was just way too simple for even him to talk about at length.
• Berserk Button: In-Universe, Moe, and now also an ecchi comedy about Brother-Sister Incest called Oniichan No Koto Na... ah, screw it. He found it painful just to get through the first minute of the first episode.
  • Hee also seems to have a real and legitimate hatred of people questioning her on why he doesn't care for Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood. To be fair, this is because people did this INCESSANTLY after he made his lukewarm feelings towards it clear.
    • And don't tell him to read the Berserk manga either. People have been telling him to do this too.
    • And now we can add the episode "Boogie Woogie Feng Shui" from Cowboy Bebop.
    • Also, don't get him started on any recent work done by ADR Director/Scriptwriter Steven Foster.
• Brain Bleach: Probably needed it after Ikki Tousen, and even more after Eiken, never mind Master of Martial Hearts...
  • Subverted in his Master of Martial Hearts review, surprisingly. Sage got a Pyrrhic Victory there.
• Break the Cutie: Usually calm and collected, JO was reduced to a fit of hysterical rage by the final fight of the Yu Yu Hakusho: Dark Tournament video game.
  • Bennett the Sage's goal for him. So far Sage's failed all three times.
• Brief Accent Imitation: Takes on a self-admittedly goofy Brooklyn gangster accent for his Baccano review.
• Broke the Rating Scale: JO gave KissXSis a -5/5 and Oniichan no Koto Nanka Zenzen Suki Ja Nai N Dakara Ne a GTFO.
• Catch Phrase: "Sayonara, bye bye!"
• Cats Are Mean: One of JO's cats (the calico) isn't very friendly, as seen in the review for Fruits Basket.
• Cheshire Cat Grin / Slasher Smile: Sage looks terrifying at the end of the Koi Kaze review.
• Cloudcuckoolander: It's not as apparent in his reviews, but if you watch his Let's Plays, especially the Star Fox 64 and Super Mario 64 ones, it becomes clear that JO is something of one.
  • His Twitter is also a good source, especially after he's had 5 cans of coke.
  • He also mentions in her Azumanga Daioh review that among his friends, he's known as the Osaka of the group.
• Companion Cube: His snarktitles. Until they have a brief falling out about their use in the Now and Then Here and There review, making up afterward.
  • The titles were not happy when Nash subbed in to review Transformers Animated.
• Cool Big Bro: He lets his little sister make cameos in the live-action intros (Beck and Princess Tutu being notable examples), and off-screen shares some of the more child-friendly anime with her.
• Crowning Music of Awesome: His Top 15 Dub Themes, invoked in-universe. Topping the list was, but of course, Pokémon. Nothing specific, just Pokémon.
• Deadpan Snarker: His "snarktitles" in all of his reviews but Now and Then Here and There.
• Dear Negative Reader: Released a full-length one over his Twitter sometime around mid/late-2011 in response to the frequent complaints about his aforementioned ADCD.
• Despair Event Horizon: Bennett the Sage keeps trying to "break" Jesu by showing him horrible, sick anime. It eventually backfired when Jesu got over it, but Sage got depressed.
• Erotic Eating: Invoked then averted in the end credits for the Eiken review.
• Evil Is Cool: Invoked as the main criteria for his Top 20 Deliciously Evil Villains list.
• Fingore: His review of Baccano! got a rating of "three and a half de-fingerings out of four".
• Fake Brit: He makes fun of this trope at the beginning of his Hellsing review.

Hello, and welcome to the JesuOtaku Anime Review. Your mission today is to sit right where you are and listen to me talk about vampires in a very baloney British accent. May God and Her Majesty be with you. Amen.

• Farm Boy
• Fun with Subtitles: While introducing the review for Now and Then Here and There, JO gets into a fight with the Red Snark Titles.
• Gag Nose: In his Phoenix review, he points out a recurring character's bulbous and almost tumorous nose. He even plays the Inception music while zooming the camera in on it to point out how bizarre it is.
• Heroes Love Dogs: He's been shown playing with a roommate's dog and his love for wolves is part of why he loves Wolfs Rain.
• Hey, It's That Voice!: JO plays this game a few times, more notably in his review of Jyu Oh Sei.
• Hurricane of Euphemisms: While summarizing Ikki Tousen, JO went through just about every synonym for underwear (and a few breast mentions as well). It underscores that this review is going to be rough.
• It Is Pronounced "Tro-PAY": YAY-zoo? JEH-soo? He's pronounced it both ways...
• Kindhearted Cat Lover: He enjoys letting cats show up (i.e. his roommates' cats) in his videos.
• Let's Play: Star Fox 64, The Legend of Zelda Majoras Mask, and Super Mario 64 on the Nintendo64.
• Mood Whiplash: Directly after reviewing Fruits Basket, JO reviewed Now and Then Here and There, an anime he considered too depressing to even make fun of.
• Naked People Are Funny: In the Witchblade review:

JesuOtaku: By God, if I can't make a good impression, I might as well make a lasting one!

• Not Making This Up Disclaimer: The line "That's not a metaphor" is something of a Running Gag.
  • A particularly unbelievable bit in Master of Martial Hearts gets a "THIS IS A THING THAT HAPPENS" caption.
• Pet Peeve Trope: Forced drama, Moe pandering, Ecchi, "Exactly like the Japanese version" dubs, shoddy endings, Gorn, and flat-out wasting the potential of your premise.
• Pokémon-Speak: Points out Nyu's tendency to do this in Elfen Lied.
• Pretty Fly for a White Guy: In the opening to Samurai Champloo review and his first line of the Digimon retrospective. The snarktitles are not impressed.

Aow! It's August!

• Readings Blew Up the Scale: JO's "Metafiction meter" blows up at least twice during his review of Digimon Tamers.
• Running Gag: His gripes about GONZO and their varying production values.
  • From his live stream, Boyd being blamed when something crashes or doesn't work properly on the stream.
  • From his playthrough of Path of Radiance, the silly voices he uses for characters.
  • Also from his stream, the people in the chat shouting "NAIL!" whenever Soren, who has the voice of Super Kami Guru, appears. It has gotten to the point where JO tells them early on to get it out of their system.
• Say My Name: JO at the end of the Koi Kaze review, upon realizing who sent him Master of Martial Hearts.

JO: SAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGE!!!!

• Schedule Slip: JO's "Digimon Month", a month of reviews of the first five seasons of Digimon was intended to encompass August 2010. The Digimon Adventure review finally came out on August 20th (with part 2 only half-done until about a week later). It then took until November 6th for the first part of Digimon Adventure 02 to be released, followed by parts 2 and 3 on the 23rd (and part 2 half-done until the 28th). Following 02, his weekly anime review continued for the first time since July, with the fate of rest of the Digimon reviews left uncertain.
  • He recently stated on his new Formspring account that they will continue, but they'll come as they're done, like Linkara's History of Power Rangers.
  • His "Month of Mayazaki" didn't quite fit in just one month, probably because he was moving IRL at the time.
• Shoo Out the Clowns: JO forwent her usual "Snark Text" subtitles during her Now and Then Here and There review for fear of damning his eternal soul by making fun of something so depressing.
  • Except in one short instance: Lampshading the intentional Mood Whiplash (From the director of Fruits Basket, everybody!).
• The Smart Guy: For the Desu Des Brigade.
• Squee: Not himself, but his snarktitles don't pass the chance in the Ouran High School Host Club review.
• Top Ten List: Top X Lists, mostly. Top 20 Villains, Top 15 Dubbed Anime Themes, Top 15 Stupidest Izzyisms, Top 15 Nerd Jokes in Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, Top 10 Cowboy Bebop episodes, Top 20 openings of 2010, and her top 25 favorite anime.
  • The Top 20 openings is intended to be an annual project. He did one for 2011 as well.
• Turn the Other Cheek: He actually did this at the end of his review of Eiken, much to Bennett the Sage's disappointment.
• Wall Bang: Does this before reviewing Eiken.
• Who Names Their Kid "Dude"?: Asked this via snarktitles in regards to Jacuzzi Splot ("No really, WHAT were his parents on?")