Jacob Hope Chapman (formerly Hope Chapman), aka JesuOtaku, is by far the most successful and analytical of the former Desu Des Brigade, formerly a member of That Guy With The Glasses.

He produced 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" (now on hiatus), an audio drama adaptation of Fruits Basket, from 2011 to 2013 (which can be found here and here). He is notable for his large amount of shows:

His videos used to be found on That Guy With The Glasses, but since the domain change to channelawesome.com and his departure, his videos and his links have been removed. The only signs of his existence on the network are the role he played in To Boldly Flee and two videos where he guest starred, one by Nash on What The Fuck Is Wrong With You? and one by Bennett the Sage.

Since joining That Guy With The Glasses, he gained a great degree of success previously unseen. Despite efforts to keep the Desu Des Brigade alive, he made the decision to officially leave the Brigade, which then disbanded. Jacob then quit the TGWTG network in October 2014 due to payment issues with blip.tv and to focus on his writing job on Anime News Network.

His videos used to be found here on Blip.tv before they shut down. They can also be found on his YouTube channel. He had a live stream, here on Justin.tv, which also shut down. Additionally, he has also appeared often on Nash's long running Radio Dead Air internet radio show, which can be found here. His website is archived here.

In 2013, Jacob was cast as Rin Tezuka for a voiced adaptation of Katawa Shoujo, named Katawa Seiyu, which was cancelled in 2015.

In 2016, he came out as transgender, announcing that he was changing his name to Jacob and planning to begin hormone therapy.

"Kyoya, you're not quite dressed for the occasion; you have to take your pants off too!"
"The correct response to this situation would be to grab his shoulders, throw him on the bed and ride him like a stallion!"

  • Crossover: The number has been steadily rising since he joined TGWTG. Notable examples include a review of Sucker Punch alongside Film Brain, his status as a regular on his ex-boyfriend Nash's WTFIWWY and Radio Dead Air (he returns the favor by appearing on his streams on a regular basis, and also appeared in his review of Transformers Animated). Also, he appears in the 4th Anniversary Special.
  • 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 he got over it, but he got depressed.
  • Double Standard Abuse (Female on Male): His crossover review of Sucker Punch with Film Brain was a pretty severe example of this.
  • 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.
  • Fake Brit: He makes fun of this trope at the beginning of his Hellsing review.
  • Readings Blew Up the Scale: JO's "Metafiction meter" blows up at least twice during his review of Digimon Tamers.
  • Real Women Never Wear Dresses: The Mahoromatic review starts with him playing a maid, before he gives it up and complains "I'm in a dress. I'm wearing make-up. I hate all of you."
  • 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.
  • 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 his usual "Snark Text" subtitles during his 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.
  • Something Else Also Rises: In JO's review for Chobits, he gave it X "Good Mornings" with appropriate gestures.
  • Squee: Not himself, but his snarktitles don't pass the chance in the Ouran High School Host Club review.
  • Stupid Sexy Flanders:
  • 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 his top 25 favorite anime.
    • The Top 20 openings is intended to be an annual project. He did one for 2011 as well.
  • Transsexualism: Came out as transgender in 2016, going under the name "Jacob Hope Chapman".
  • 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.
  • What Do You Mean It's for Kids?: Invoked: When commenting on the scenes that didn't get edited out of the Toonami showing of Outlaw Star, he snarks "Toonami: Women abuse...for kids! :D"
  • Who Names Their Kid "Dude"?: Asked this via snarktitles in regards to Jacuzzi Splot ("No really, WHAT were his parents on?")
  • Your Mom: In the snark text captions of his Outlaw Star review, when comparing the plot structure to a round robin story-telling game:
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