Benett White, better known online as BennettTheSage, (or simply Sage) is an American YouTuber, formally a member of Channel Awesome, who runs a show called Anime Abandon, where he does in depth analytical reviews of anime that are at least ten years old.
After JesuOtaku left Channel Awesome, Sage became the only anime reviewer on the site. He also does a movie reviewing-vlog show called Sage vs., and back in the day he did Elfen Lied Abridged, which is no longer able to be viewed on YouTube.
History[]
Beginning of TGWTG/Channel Awesome[]
Bennett started doing reviews in March 2008 and began releasing them on GameTrailers.com under the pseudonym Strayer.
After visiting sites like the short-lived Reelgamers.com and also Gamepartisan.com, he stumbled upon TGWTG. He says how he actually got on the site is a convoluted story: "After That Dude In the Suede released his first AMV Heaven, I made a comment under the video where I said that he shouldn't have posted that AMV at the end of his video since he's getting payed for views.
Mike Michaud, the admin of the site, contacted me after that comment and said that he liked my Chrono Cross retrospective that I posted onto the ThatGuy's blog list some time ago, and that he would not have seen it had I not posted that same comment under Suede's video. From there, he asked me if I would like to participate in the Best of Blogs contest about a few months back. I said yes and I got the majority of the votes and landed this gig here on ThatGuyWithTheGlasses.com."
Sage has also made a few appearances in other videos. Most notably the farewell to Suede and the Christmas 2008 special. During this time, he also established (a now semi-discarded) persona of a smug yet sinister semi-antagonist in crossovers.
Sage Reviews[]
In his first series, Sage takes a look at some of the biggest games of this century and creates lists of some of the greatest "greats" in video game history. For a list of episodes, go see Sage Reviews.
In November 2013, he openly decided to stop reviewing games to focus on other projects and series like Anime Abandon.
Masterpiece Fanfic Theater[]
Sage debuted his next series in February 2009, during the donation drive where he reviews a user's fanfiction about The Nostalgia Critic and the Angry Video Game Nerd in a show he called "Masterpiece Fanfic Theatre". In this series, he reviews the best of the worst in the world of fanfiction. He stopped this series in early 2011; when asked if he would ever continue on his formspring he stated:
I pretty much explained in the last MFT that I was through with the series. I just didn't feel like making them anymore.
Comic Conventions[]
Sage's latest series started in August 2009, and is all about the world of sequential art. In Comic Conventions he attempts to showcase a particular comic, or a series of moments in comics, while explaining how the subject at hand is related to the industry as a whole.
Donation Drive[]
On December 5th, 2009, Sage took part in the second donation drive for the Ronald McDonald House charity!
Specials[]
As part of the December 5th donation drive, Bennett released a special video. This video was a review of the movie, Dolemite.
Videos[]
Anime Abandon[]
Anime Abandon is Sage's anime review show, which is the main feature on his channel; when he reviews a show he goes into great detail and spoils the first three episodes, letting you make the decision whether you would want to watch past that or not. He mainly deals with old anime, but has a 10-year review limit; for example, right now the limit is 2005, and next year the limit will be 2006.
- Psychic Wars
- Golden Boy
- Bounty Dog
- The Humanoid
- Doomed Megalopolis
- Ninja Scrolls
- Vampire Wars
- Mad Bull 34
- Ghost in the Shell
- Urotsukidoji
- Angel Cop
- Sword for Truth
- The Wings of Honneamise
- The Love Hina Christmas Special
- Jin-Roh: The Wolf Brigade
- Dracula: Sovereign of the Damned
- Diatron-5
- Kite
- Mezzo Forte
- Junk Boy
- Wicked City
- The Ultimate Teacher
- Akira
- Perfect Blue
- Grave of the Fireflies
- Devil Hunter Yhoko
- Vampire Hunter D
- Demon City Shinjuku
- X
- Fatal Fury The Motion Picture
- Voltage Fighter Gowcaizer
- Genocyber
- Gall Force
- Sonic the Hedgehog The Movie
- Neon Genesis Evangelion: Death and Rebirth
- The End of Evangelion
- Baoh
- Macross II
- Tenchi Muyo In Love
- Macross Plus
- Odin
- Dominion Tank Police
- Virgin Fleet
- Armitage III
- Project A-KO
- New Cutey Honey
- 8 Man After
- Devilman
- A Wind Named Amnesia
- Art of Fighting
- Sin The Movie
- Pilot Candidate and Blue Gender
- The Big O and Trigun
- Cowboy Bebop
- EYES of Mars
- The Guyver (with Nostalgia Critic)
- Twilight of the Cockroaches
- Fist of the North Star
- Golgo 13
- Apocalypse Zero
- City Hunter
- Iria
- Roujin-Z
- Spawn
- Lady Death
- Aeon Flux
- Outlaw Star
- Yu Yu Hakusho: Poltergeist Report
- Blue Submarine No. 6
- Legend of Lemnear
- Plastic Little
- Love Hina: Spring Movie
- Battle Arena Toshinden
- Detonator Orgun
- Angel Blade
- Street Fighter II: The Animated Movie
- Night Warriors
- Fatal Fury: Double Impact
- Tokyo Revelation
- Dark Cat
- Lily CAT
- Space Adventure Cobra
- Sol Bianca: The Legacy
- Gunsmith Cats
- Venus Wars
- The Top 10 Best Moments In Anime Abandon (as of 2014)
- MD Geist
- Agent Aika
- Burn Up!
- New Dominion Tank Police
- Tenchi 2: Daughter of Darkness
- Tokyo Godfathers
- Inuyasha
- Galaxy Express 999
- Spriggan
- Hyper Speed Grandoll
- Ninja Resurrection
- Ninja Cadets
- Wrath of the Ninja
- Amon Saga
- Super Atragon
- Landlock
- Teknoman
- Video Girl Ai
- Robot Hunter Casshern
- Darkside Blues
- Sailor Victory
- Jungle De Ikou
- Tokyo Babylon
- Fake
- Wild Cardz
- Blood Reign: Curse of the Yoma
- Burn Up W!
- Harlock Saga
- Slayers The Motion Picture
- Memories
- Sin of the Sisters
- Ayane's High Kick
- Blood the Last Vampire
- Bubblegum Crisis
- Berserk
- Robot Carnival
- Lupin III: Castle of Cagliostro
- Very Private Lesson
- The Place Promised in Our Early Days
- My My Mai
- Kekko Kamen
- Speed Racer (with Nostalgia Critic)
- Eiken
- Strange Love
- Tenchi Muyo
- Samurai Champloo
- FLCL
- Appleseed
- Gestalt
- De:Vadasy
- Elfen Lied
- Hyper Doll
- AD Police Files
- Battle Skipper The Movie
- Read Or Die
- Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence
- Virus Buster Serge
- Dangaizer 3
- Viger GTS
- The Weathering Continent
- Cyber City Oedo 808
- Angel Sanctuary
- Itsudatte My Santa
- Ranma 1/2: Tendo Family Christmas Special
- Metropolis
- The Dark Myth
- Maze
- Gall Force 2: Destruction
- Bubblegum Crash
- Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex - Solid State Society
- Pokemon: The First Movie
- Escaflowne: The Movie
- The Digimon Movie
- Armitage III: Dual Matrix
- Black Magic M66
- Battle Angel
- Kite The Movie (with Christ Stuckmann)
- Golgo 13: Queen Bee
- Twilight of the Dark Master
- Bio Hunter
- Dragon Half
- I Dream of Mimi
- Super Kid
- Dragon Ball Z: The World's Strongest
- Tenchi Universe
- Sailor Moon R: The Movie
- Garaga
- Madara
- Judge
- Mobile Suit Gundam F91
- Mobile Suit Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz
- Mobile Suit Gundam 0080: War in the Pocket
- RG Veda
- Mask of Zeguy
- Iron Virgin Jun
- Galaxy Fraulein Yuna
- Orguss 02
- The Mihoshi Special & Pretty Sammy
- Top 10 Hero Vehicles
- JoJo's Bizarre Adventure OVA
- Teen Titans: Trouble in Tokyo
- SWAT Kats: The Radical Squadron
- Big Guy & Rusty
- Excel Saga
- Black Jack
- Gantz
- Space Travelers: The Animation
- Little Nemo
- Red Hawk
- Puppet Princess
- Cybernetics Guardian
- Hellsing
- Pet Shop of Horrors
- Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust
- Paranoia Agent
- Android Kikaider: The Animation
- Wolf's Rain
- Mobile Suit Gundam: The 08th MS Team
- Mobile Suit Gundam 0083: Stardust Memory
- Mobile Fighter G Gundam
- Demon Fighter Kocho
- Debutante Detective Corpse
- Galerians: Rion
- Street Fighter Alpha
- Samurai Shodown
- Pychic Force
- Pokemon: The Movie 2000
- Grappler Baki: The Ultimate Fighter
- RE-Serk: Why Anime Reboots Are a Necessary Evil
- Paprika
- Steamboy
- Revolutionary Girl Utena: The Movie
- .Hack SIGN
- Crying Freeman
- Cowboy Bebop The Movie
- Miami Guns
- Green Green
- Tenchi Forever!
- Ghost in the Shell (2017)
- 5 Centimeters Per Second
- Goku Midnight Eye
- Princess Mononoke
- Barefoot Gen
- Summer Wars
- Mystery of the Necronomicon
- The Tokyo Project
- Gundress
Nuts & Bolts[]
Nuts & Bolts is a series Bennett does where he commentates over his Anime Abandon episodes, giving funny quips, interesting comments, or the making of comments, about the episodes and the episodes creation.
- Psychic Wars
- Gall Force
- MD Geist
- Inuyasha
- Ninja Resurrection
- Video Girl Ai
- Sin of the Sisters
- Ayane's High Kick
- Speed Racer
- Elfen Lied
- Cyber City Oedo 808
Behind the Scenes[]
Behind the Scenes are a series of vlogs Bennett makes to tell some background information on certain reviews. He started doing these on November 6, 2015.
Sage vs.[]
Sage vs. is a movie review show where he, along with a friend or a few of his, will sit in front of the camera, unscripted, and review a movie that they just saw in theaters. They go into length discussing it, and their reviews usually go from 30 minutes to an hour long. At the end of each year, Sage and a few of his friends do Sage vs. Best and Worst, where they often go for over 2 hours or longer talking about the best and worst movies that each one of them saw that year.
- That Awkward Moment
- The Lego Movie
- Robocop
- Pompeii
- Non-Stop
- 300: Rise of an Empire
- The Single Mom's Club
- Divergent
- Noah
- Captain America: The Winter Soldier
- The Raid 2
- Under The Skin
- Brick Mansions
- The Amazing Spider-Man 2
- Godzilla (2014)
- Jersey Boys
- Transformers: Age of Extinction
- Tammy
- Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
- The Purge: Anarchy
- Guardians of the Galaxy
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2014)
- The Expendibles 3
- Sin City: A Dame to Kill For
- As Above, So Below
- The Equalizer
- Gone Girl
- Dracula Untold
- The Book of Life
- John Wick
- Nightcrawler
- Interstellar
- Birdman
- The Best and Worst of 2014
- Jupiter Ascending
- Fifty Shades of Grey
- The Revenant
- 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi
- Dirty Grandpa
- Fifty Shades of Black
- Hail, Ceaser!
- Deadpool
- Risen
- Gods of Egypt
- Zootpia
- 10 Cloverfield Lane
- Allegiant
- Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice
- The Jungle Book
- The Huntsman: Winter's War
- Keanu
- Captain America: Civil War
- The Darkness
- X-Men: Apocalypse
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows
- Warcraft
- Independence Day: Resurgance
- Swiss Army Man
- The Secret Life of Pets
- Ghostbusters (2016)
- Star Trek: Beyond
- Jason Bourne
- Suicide Squad
- Sausage Party
- Sully
- Snowden
- Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
- The Girl on the Train
- Boo! A Medea Halloween
- Inferno
- Incarnate
- Office Christmas Party
- Rouge One: A Star War's Story
- Passengers
- The Best Films of 2016
- The Worst Films of 2016
- xXx: The Return of Xander Cage
- Resident Evil: The Final Chapter
- Rings
- Fifty Shades Darker
- John Wick: Chapter 2
- The Lego Batman Movie
- A Cure for Wellness
- Get Out
- Logan
- Kong; Skull Island
- Power Rangers (2017)
- Ghost in the Shell (2017)
- The Fate of the Furious
- Guardian of the Galaxy Volume 2
- Alien: Covenant
- Pirates of the Carribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales
- Wonder Woman
- The Mummy
- The Book of Henry
- Baby Driver
- Spider-Man: Homecoming
- Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets
- Atomic Blonde
- Shin Godzilla
Oldtaku, New Tricks[]
Oldtaku, New Tricks is the most recent series on his channel, where he reviews recent anime, ones that have already finished airing but are still new, or at least relatively new, and fresh in people's minds. This was monumental for his channel, because for his main series, Anime Abandon, he only reviews anime that are at least 10 years old or older.
- Devilman: Crybaby
- Haven't You Heard? I'm Sakamoto!
- Aggretsuko
- My Hero Academia
- Happy Sugar Life
- Castlevania
- Goblin Slayer
- The Promised Neverland
- Mob Psycho 100
- Boogiepop and Others
- JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Golden Wind
- One Punch Man
- The Rising of the Shield Hero
- Is it Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon?
- Fruits Basket (2019)
- Dororo
- Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken
- Id:Invaded
- Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex - 2045
- Citrus
- Great Pretender