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2023 Favorite Anime & Manga · Dad Needs To Talk

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What's up, Y'all? And welcome back to Dad Needs to
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Talk. I'm your host, Robert, and today
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today we are going to be talking about my favorite anime and
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manga for this year, 2023. Now, like I've mentioned in the
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last couple episodes, this is a gauntlet, a series of me talking
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about my favorite things I've consumed this year.
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So I've already did an episode talking about my favorite video
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games that I play this year. And then I also did an episode
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talking about my favorite TV shows and movies as well.
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So this will be the one to wrap up this series, and I'm very
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excited because right before I set out to record this tonight,
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which is pretty late, it's about 11:30 at night.
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I took a trip to my local comic book store and just took like a
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good hour and some change to just for one get out of the
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house and to just be surrounded by shelves of manga and stuff
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like that. And to just kind of clear my
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mind, make preparations of stuff that I'm want to get to next
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year and stuff like that. And then yeah, just kind of just
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get energized and stuff. So here we are.
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So how I'm gonna do this, I'm a kind of, I guess, I guess just
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kind of just starting off. I must say, in general, this was
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a fantastic year for both anime and manga.
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Now on the manga side, I'll say I personally slow down a lot on
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buying a lot of physical manga, just because looking back over
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the last couple of years since I've been doing this, I realized
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I buy a lot, but then I don't end up reading a lot of them.
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I still do a lot of reading in general, but a lot of times I'm
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reading stuff on Viz and Shauna Jump and Manga Plus Webtoon,
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other stuff online or whatever. And then it's like I have stuff
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just piling up. Then I spent a lot of money on
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that. I'm not reading, so I'm like,
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you know what, I got to slow down on the physical buying and
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kind of focus in a little bit more.
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So that's what I did this year. But I will say I kind of was a
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little bit more broadening my scope as far as diving more into
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like the Manga Plus app, finding more series and stuff there.
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And then of course, you know, diving into some of the new
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stuff on Showing a job. As well as earlier this year,
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this created a separate catalog of stuff which was very vital in
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me finishing certain manga and stuff that I had some gaps in my
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physical collection. So yeah, like they just kind of
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just like really broadened up my horizons of stuff that I could
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have access to. And going forward, there's a lot
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of like completed series I want to kind of start going through
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and knocking out starting next year and going forward as well
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as I also kind of want to dive back into more Webtoons and
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stuff as well next year. So bam, so lots of good reading.
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And with that being said, that's what I'm going to start with,
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with my reading stuff. So I'm not going to do like a
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very specific, like a numbered order list like I did with my
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games, movies and TV shows and stuff, whatever.
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I'm just kind of just show general love to some stuff that
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just really stuck out to me this year Now.
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A lot of stuff, especially stuff that I read like on Manga Plus
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and showing the Jump, whatever, I did separate reviews and
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discussions for throughout the year, as I do with a lot of
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stuff. Whatever.
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And same thing with that. I encourage you to go, if you
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want longer 1015 plus minute discussions on a lot of these
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series, go seek out those individual reviews.
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This would be kind of more of like a quick highlight of stuff.
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So, so yeah, so I'm going to go ahead and get started.
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So first up, one that I really enjoy this year is Sarah and the
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House of Monsters. So this is one that basically
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followed this young lady who is a ex soldier.
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She was kind of raised up to be a soldier in this war against
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monsters. Well, a peace treaty gets
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brokered between the two and she no longer has that purpose or
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whatever that she was trained for her whole life to to do
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whatever. And so she basically ends up
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encountering these three dwarves who are basically architects who
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go around and build houses for various monsters.
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And so it is just like a very a very beautiful, beautifully
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drawn series and also one that is just a very unique concept.
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Like I said, just like a kind of like a fantasy adventure
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surrounding building houses for various monster creatures and
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stuff. So say it.
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So Sora and the House of Monsters was a very fun and dope
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one, another one. Now that I really enjoyed that,
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I look forward to going back and finishing the last few volumes
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is the Savior's book Cafe Story in Another World.
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So this series is fully finished.
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It's only about 5 volumes long so and I only got to read the
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first two volumes so far. But this is a Isaka to where
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young lady gets reincarnated into another world and she ends
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up getting all these crazy OP abilities, but she just wants
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her biggest goal. Is it to really go out and fight
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any crazy monsters whatever? She just wants to live a simple
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life in the countryside with a in her own book cafe.
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And so she gets that wish along with some OP abilities and
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stuff, whatever, but she doesn't really use them, at least in the
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start. And then she kind of encounters
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this high-ranking night that she kind of slowly starts to fall in
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love with, or they start to fall in love with each other.
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And it's just kind of a story of him visiting her often, them
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sharing their love of books and stuff like that.
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And it kind of things start to unfold to where she might have
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to come out of just being her book cafe and actually maybe
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take action to help save the world and stuff.
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So. But a very, very sweet, very
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wholesome story. Save that one for a little bit
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later. This next one is 1 from the Home
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is over at Saturday AM Comics called Underground.
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Now Saturday AM is a is a company that I've been well
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aware of since I first started doing my podcast and reviews and
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stuff, whatever. But I hadn't really taken the
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time to really deep dive into the stuff that they create or
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whatever. And so I finally decided to do
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that with Underground and boy was I impressed and looking
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forward to dive into more series from them.
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But Underground basically follows this young man who is.
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He is a biracial young man who has a a background in various
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mixed martial arts to the point where he was even in the
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Olympics and stuff like that. But basically it just kind of
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follows him on this journey of basically our revenge and
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redemption through underground fighting.
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And so I love it for a variety of reasons.
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For one, the art in it is very dope.
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The author of it himself is somebody who also has a
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background in mixed martial arts, and you can tell that from
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how detailed the description of the fights and techniques are.
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It's like, OK, this isn't just a normal, just fighting series.
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The person who is writing this seem like they actually have
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personal in depth knowledge of what they're talking about and
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he does. So shout out to JRD Bard and
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Saturday AM Underground is super dope.
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Like I said, check out my deeper review for my own that let me
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see. OK, so Next up is don't call it
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Mystery. Now this is a Jose series that I
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have heard a lot about and has been highly acclaimed in Japan
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for a long time. So it's a rival in getting a
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English release. Has been highly anticipated.
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And I've only gotten the first omnibus so far, but I think
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they've already released three since I read this earlier this
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year. Whatever.
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But this one basically follows a young college student who
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basically, I guess you kind of think of it as kind of like a
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Sherlock type of mindset to where he is.
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Very inquisitive and he basically is very good at
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solving mysteries and things like that.
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And so it kind of follows him working on solving some various
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cases and stuff that he kind of got roped into and stuff.
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And it it's it's just like very awesome.
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So I look forward to getting back to reading more of this.
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But yeah, don't call it mystery. Definitely one of my favorites
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this year. Like I said, it's plenty more
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volumes already out that I'm looking forward to picking up.
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Next up and this is another one that recently they finished
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releasing the last omnibus for this and that is less misery
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bliss. This is based off of a classic
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novel from Victor Hugo that is very, very old and has been
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adapted across various mediums. And so we got this very awesome,
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very personal story that like it hit me really hard when I read
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it earlier in the year, so definitely go check out my
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review for this one. So bad, less miss rubles,
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Definitely one of my favorite ones, and definitely when I get
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some more pocket change I plan on picking up those last few
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volumes and finish reading the rest of this.
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But definitely one of my favorite things that I've read
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this year. Now this next one is one that
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for a while I heard the Manga Streets talking about it and I
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didn't know too much what to what to expect going into it.
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But I am here to say that the hype was real and I'm so happy
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that I finally got a chance to start reading it.
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And that is the English name is Go Go Loser Ranger, but the
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streets know it as Ranger Reject.
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This series is so freaking dope. Definitely one of my favorite
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things that I've read in recent years and I think I think we've
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already got like 7 or 8 plus volumes released since they
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started coming out early this year or end of last year I
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believe. But basically this story
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follows. So basically it's kind of like a
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Power Rangers theme but with a more darker tone.
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Kind of think of it as like since a lot of people have
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watched it, the boys, but think of it in the Power Rangers sense
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to where you're following one of the enemy grunts.
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So his name is Fighter D and basically think of him as like
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one of like the Putty monsters and Power Rangers.
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But this, this monster he can shape shift into looking like
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other people. And so basically he starts to
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infiltrate the Rangers. And yeah, that's kind of what
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I'm going to say on a basic level.
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This is one that I am sad that I didn't get it, that I didn't get
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a chance to do a specific review for this year.
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I definitely plan on doing that sometime early in 2024.
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But the reason was is that I was planning on doing a discussion
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with a guest, but due to technical difficulties I haven't
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been able to do many collaborations and have many
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guests on most of this year. So that plan kind of fell
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through. But but yeah, I definitely had
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to show us some love here at the end of the year and especially
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with the anime come in next year, you would definitely hear
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me talking about more about this one and shout it from the
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rooftops when the anime comes out as well.
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So yes, and last but certainly not least, a manga series that I
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had heard so much about that I scoured the earth to try to
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collect all of the physical volumes for this, and I got all
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but two of them. And luckily with the timing of
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Biz Media coming out with a separate app and putting this
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series on there, I was able to finally read the full series of
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IKEA Gami, The Ultimate Limit and what a roller coaster of a
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read. This was all 10 volumes
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psychological thriller manga that basically follows a
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basically a Ikagami person is some.
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Basically in this world, the government deemed it to where
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what is it? One in every 1000, I believe
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kids, when they're in first grade, kindergarten and 1st
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grade, everybody gets injected with a capsule or with a vaccine
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that prevents all illnesses and stuff.
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But one in every thousand gets a capsule with a time limit
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somewhere between when they're 18 and the age of 25 to where
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they will be randomly selected to die for the betterment of
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humanity. And so you follow this person
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whose job is to deliver basically that this ikigami to
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this person to be like, hey, your time is up, you have 24
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hours to live, do with the information what you want to and
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it's like, hey, you got 24 hours to live.
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What you going to do? And so, yeah, you can kind of
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get an idea of how crazy of a roller coaster that might be.
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And so there is a overarching story with this guy and his
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journey over the course of time with him in this position and
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kind of him kind of dealing with the morals of what he does.
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And then along the way you get all these kind of like smaller
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stories of all these people that he give Ikigami to and how and
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follow and following them over over the course of their last 24
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hours of do they go out as a good person?
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Do they choose to go out for revenge or to do something crazy
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or whatever? So very awesome read, definitely
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one of my all time favorites and glad I finally got a chance to
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read it in full. So Ikigami the ultimate, So
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yeah, so I kind of speed through that a little bit, sorry, you
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know. But like I said, most of those I
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did very long separate reviews and discussions for.
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So go stick those out for longer, more in depth thoughts.
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And like I said, especially for the stuff that I've read at the
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very beginning of the year, my memory of the very finer details
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is a little bit fuzzy now 12, you know, ten, 11-12 months
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later. So forgive me for that.
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So but still just wanted to highlight and show some love to
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a lot of those series. A few albums I just like to just
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like when a name drop and just shout out to of course as far as
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like longer ongoing series. One Piece was still great this
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year. I'm still reading My Hero
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Academia, but I'm kind of. I'm kind of waning on my
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excitement of it, you know? But sorry, but I feel like My
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Hair Academia is probably going to be wrapped up within the next
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six months. So Sakamoto Days continues to be
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fantastic, and I am eagerly awaiting for the day that they
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finally announced the freaking anime for it.
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But it'll come in due time, I guess.
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Be In Motion is another kind of newer series that I that I've
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been really enjoying Reading Daddy and Buddy is a really dope
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when I started catching back up on that one because I had only
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read like the 1st 2:00 or so chapters when it first came out
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months ago and now we're up to about 9910 chapters or whatever.
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So I've been slowly catching up with that over today and yeah, I
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think that's kind of it. As far as that stuff, I just
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want to shout out, but lots more stuff I plan on talking about
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more in the future, some of which are going to get physical
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releases next year, like a Gotcha CUDA and full night or
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something that I'm very excited to kind of circle back to and
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talk about more in depth when those drop and stuff early next
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year. But yeah, so now let's move on
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to talking. Some anime shout outs.
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So speaking in general, this once again was a very, very
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strong year for anime. Lots of highly anticipated
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adaptations for some series came out this year and lots of
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including some series that I've personally been enjoying the
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manga for. They got really dope adaptations
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and stuff this year. So yeah, so it it was a very,
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very awesome and packed year overall.
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So I'm a kind of run down some of like my main 10 that I really
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enjoyed and then I'm a wrap up afterwards kind of going through
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each of the seasons and just kind of shouting out someones
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that I maybe didn't finish or just stuff that I just kind of
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enjoyed what they were doing, that I still want to show some
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name, drop some love to whatever.
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So so yeah, so I guess I'll start off with, let me see.
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OK. So this is one that I personally
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enjoyed a lot, even though like the art style and stuff of this
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wasn't the best because it was mainly CG but the story and the
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setting was just so intriguing and that is kinda of the great
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snow sea. Now this is when they came out
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like at the very beginning of the year and we finally got the
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sequel movie to it a few days ago that I still need to go and
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watch. But this is 1 where the setup of
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this world is that it kind of starts off with this young man.
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He lives in a very small colony. It's just him and a bunch of
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elderly people. They basically live on these
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villages atop these. So there's very tall trees that
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go up into the stratosphere of the planet and they all kind of
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like interconnect by their branches and stuff.
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And that's kind of how where people live at and stuff,
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whatever. But a lot of the colonies and
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stuff up there started slowly dying out.
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So it's just kind of been thought that they were the last
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ones living well. They discover that there are
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some people living down below on earth at the root of some of
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these trees, but some of them are are kind of like warring
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with each other and stuff. And so that is just kind of led
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to know resources and stuff for drying up and so certain
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colonies or kind of trying to take over others for resources
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and stuff. So but it it was just just like
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a really, really unique and interesting story to follow and
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that's why it's one of my favorite ones that I watched
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this year. So Next up from that I got to
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show some love to skip and loafer.
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Now I'm trying to think. I think I still might need to
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finish like the last episode or two of this one.
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But one thing I would say this year is that there's a lot of
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shows that kind of just like really were like really
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comforting to watch and to where every time I sat down to watch
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them, whatever, I was just fully absorbed into what was going on
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with the story and stuff and skipping love for just like had
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such a soft vibe to it with the art style and the way it looked.
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Because the manga for this is one that's kind of been on my
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radar for a long time because I always see it all the time when
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I go into the store. I was like, man, I want to get
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around today at some point. And then when I heard that there
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was an anime coming out, I was like, OK, you know what, I'll
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give the anime a shot. And the art style was very
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beautiful. I really liked both of the main
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characters and a lot of their surrounding cast and stuff were
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super dope. And so like say I have maybe
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like a couple episodes they need to circle back and finish up
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whatever so but but skip and loafer.
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Definitely a very very memorable show that I watched this year.
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Next up is one is another one which is kind of like a
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reoccurring theme with a lot of stuff on this on my list.
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But the I was highly anticipating checking out
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because I am a fan of this, of the author, of this, of his
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other works, and that is Pluto. Now Pluto came out on Netflix
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short, sweet 8 episodes about an hour long apiece.
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And Pluto is from the same creator as 20th, 20th century
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boys, which I have up on the top of my shelf right behind me.
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So yeah, so 20th century Boys, one of my favorite series I keep
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behind me. And he's also the same Arthur,
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like I said of Pluto, 20th century boys and also of a
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monster. So Pluto is a series that is
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basically kind of like a kind of like a retelling of sorts of or
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kind of like like a different take on the Astro Astro Boy
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world Cuz this series was done in conjunction with the Tezuka
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family that created Astro Boy back in the day.
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But but yeah, it was just like like very beautifully animated
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and just such a strong story, 'cause I love my sci-fi stuff
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and just kind of seeing these different stories of these
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different robots or androids and stuff and how they kind of dealt
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with the situation that was going on.
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So but yeah, so I'm kind of happy that this was the way I
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got to experience this story, even though I probably still
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might maybe circle back and check out the manga at some
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point but this one was did did not disappoint.
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So yeah, so definitely check out Pluto.
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So Next up and I I I I have to give this show some love.
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And some people might laugh at me mentioning this on my list,
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but this was one that a lot of people made fun of when it came
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out during the summer. And a lot of people checked out
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the first episode just for the giggles and just to to dragon
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bag on it. But I stuck around with it and I
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watched the entire season of it and had a lot of fun with it,
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and that is reborn as a vending machine.
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Now for those of y'all that have followed me for a while, y'all
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know I love my Isakai series, but I love the Isakai's.
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There are fun and have kind of a different twist on stuff
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whatever to where people be like, Oh my God, this is just
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getting ridiculous. But I look beyond the gimmick,
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and there's actually something like really fun and endearing
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here. And so Reborn is a vending
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machine. So you basically, as the name
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suggests, follow this guy who dies in real life, gets
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reincordinated as a vending machine in this fantasy world.
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But there's there's more to it than just that, because the
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surrounding cast of characters around him is really dope.
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And then the other cool thing is that he gets experience points
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and stuff and he actually gets to unlock and transform into a
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variety of quote UN quote vending machine type of
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machines. And so you kind of get a chance
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to also see what different type of vending machine stuff that
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Japan has had over the years. So from from just your classic
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food and drink vending machines to a vending machine that does
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clothing, that that that does gas, that does soap and water
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that does, what's the word for like a contraceptives, which is
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like for sex protection and stuff and lots of wide variety
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of a balloon vending machine, lots of wide variety of
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different stuff, whatever. And he also gains various skills
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and stuff, from being able to create a barrier barrier for
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protection to doing some offensive stuff to it's it's a
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whole host of stuff, whatever. They made it just like that.
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Much more intriguing because like I said, I'm maybe I'm just
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different to where I'm more open to the idea of these wacky ideas
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and stuff 'cause like I said, I've gotten to read and watch a
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variety of Issa Khan series that are more than just a typical
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person, gets reincorded into a fancy fantasy world and they're
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there to save the world. Like I said, this one was just
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something very interesting and very different than I've really
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enjoyed. So yeah, so shots of Rerun as a
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vending machine. Really enjoyed it and I'm
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looking forward to another season of it whenever it comes
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out. So Speaking of Easter Kai's I'm
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also keep going with that. The next one that I really
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enjoyed as well there was just a nice comfort watch was campfire
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cooking. Now this one started off with a
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guy that gets into an into a fantasy world and he has this,
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his unique ability basically lets him summon and purchase
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stuff from basically Amazon or their equivalent of Amazon into
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this world. And he kind of uses that to cook
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different dishes and stuff like that.
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And he ends up encountering A Fenrir Fenrir which is basically
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like a basically think of it as like a freaking like a legendary
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wolf Pokémon, like a sweet cone from Pokémon Crystal.
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So basically he is traveling around with this legendary
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creature and cooking it meals but going on different
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adventures and stuff and get into various combat situations
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and stuff. And just seeing the variety of
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very awesome dishes that he is creating from both ingredients
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and stuff from the real world. Mixed in with these different
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ingredients and stuff from the the monster world and stuff that
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favor is hunting and killing and stuff and him cooking it up in
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these very specific and unique ways and stuff.
31:37
So yeah, like I said it it it was just a overall just a fun
31:42
series to watch and to just enjoy.
31:47
So shout out to campfire cooking.
31:50
I'm looking forward to watching more of that whenever they do
31:53
another season of it. Next up is one that's still
32:00
ongoing now, but that has really captivated my attention Once
32:06
again. This is one that I heard a lot
32:08
of stuff about over the years and that is Apothecary Diaries.
32:13
Now Apothecary Diaries basically follows this young lady who is a
32:19
apothecary. So basically she specializes in
32:23
herbs and poisons and things like that.
32:26
And so it kind of starts off with her getting kidnapped and
32:29
brought into the inner palace. And so she kind of starts off as
32:32
a just as like a maid, a working girl just doing chores and stuff
32:37
around. But because of her knowledge of
32:39
medicines and poisons and stuff, she's quickly gets into our
32:44
higher position working underneath one of the emperor's
32:47
concubines and through happenstance kind of working
32:53
with various people to solve different mysteries and crimes
32:57
and different stuff going around the palace or whatever.
33:00
And it is just such a beautifully a beautiful show to
33:04
watch, which is like a very intriguing situation to kind of
33:08
follow. And I'm kind of like on this, on
33:11
this kind of like same tier, well not not maybe not quote UN
33:15
quote in the same tier, but just kind of in the same theme.
33:18
Even I said this was kind of like 10 shows, but I kind of got
33:20
to shout out a few, a couple more shows just kind of in the
33:23
same vibe or whatever. Is my happy marriage, which was
33:32
another kind of like unique one that kind of had more of like a
33:38
magical fantasy element into it or you're kind of following this
33:43
young lady who is seen to be from lower birth or from like a
33:51
lowly family meets this kind of like high ranked noble God.
33:57
And they kind of slowly start to build a relationship and a
34:00
romance. And you kind of start to slowly
34:02
find out like OK and maybe there was more to her than miss the I
34:06
with her bloodline and her actual lineage and stuff.
34:10
And so some of the mysteries that surrounds that.
34:12
So my happy marriage was a really good one.
34:15
And then also O Ku of the inner Chambers.
34:19
Now this is one that is very unique because it basically
34:24
follows a situation to where in Japan a crazy epidemic, a
34:31
regular Z starts to hit and targets the male population only
34:40
to where it cuts down the male population to like 1/3 of what
34:45
it used to be. And so basically a lot of roles
34:48
get reversed within society to where they have to keep a lot of
34:53
the men indoors and kind of tucked away to kind of keep them
34:58
healthy and out of harm's way because they're dying out and
35:02
stuff. And so basically a female takes
35:07
over as a, as a as a woman Shogun.
35:13
And so a lot of the head positions in government and jobs
35:17
and stuff, whatever is now run by women and even like the like
35:21
the pleasure districts or whatever, instead of it being
35:23
women, it's a lot of men. And so a lot of ladies are
35:28
paying these. Basically, men are being paid a
35:31
lot of money sometimes to just sleep and have sex with women or
35:35
whatever, just so that they can, you know, give birth and stuff,
35:39
whatever and continue their family, their legacies or
35:42
whatever. So very interesting situation.
35:45
Whatever. Very dark tones of course given
35:49
the subject matter, whatever, but still very good.
35:52
Be like I had to kind of mention those two as well with
35:54
apothecary Diaries, so stuff to check out.
35:57
So say yeah so next show I kind of want to give a shout out to.
36:02
Now this one isn't necessarily quote UN quote a traditional
36:05
anime, but still had a lot of anime flair that I had to show
36:08
love to and that is a Blue Eye Samurai now.
36:13
Blue Eye Samurai I love my samurai swordsman type of
36:19
setting and stuff. And of course a good revenge
36:21
tale. And this one kind of follows a
36:24
young lady who was born of mixed blood, who is basically on a
36:28
revenge path to find these four European men, one of which is
36:37
her birth father. But they have also kind of like
36:41
done a lot of like dirty deeds and stuff to the country and
36:46
different people on the way or whatever.
36:48
So just a very dope revenge tale, beautifully drawn, very
36:54
awesome choreographed fight scenes and stuff.
36:55
So the last Samurai, very dope. Let me see.
37:01
Next up. So this is one I fell in love
37:07
with. The Manga have right behind me
37:11
Villa Saga Season 2. They so amazingly adapted the
37:22
farmland slash slave ark for Thorfinn and Villasaga.
37:28
Visually, on point and honestly probably one of my favorite
37:34
ending things that I've heard in many years, the it's called
37:40
Without Love and I have it saved on my Spotify.
37:44
It was one of my most listened to soundtracks of the year and
37:50
just the lyrics and stuff over there would just like really hit
37:52
home the journey that Thorfinn went on after the events of
37:58
season one into this new arc and stuff.
38:02
But by Advent of Saga, Season 2, masterfully done.
38:06
Definitely one of my favorites that I look forward to hopefully
38:09
in the next few years. Plus getting season three and
38:14
then you know the the expedition and stuff going on with that.
38:20
So yeah, in which I'm looking forward to getting back into
38:23
reading as well. So yeah, Next up a series that
38:32
was just so sweet. A nice, peaceful, comforting
38:37
romance series that I was just just the whole time.
38:44
I'm just leaned in, enthralled and just like how peaceful but
38:50
so well done this story was. And that is a Angel next door.
38:57
Basically. It just follows these two young
39:01
people. I think they're like later in
39:03
high school, whatever. But they are living next door to
39:07
each other and they kind of start to slowly build a bond and
39:10
a connection to where they start to, you know, become closer and
39:15
closer to where you know they're spending a lot of time with you,
39:18
with each other, mainly at home, in secret.
39:21
But then eventually, you know that bond and relationship start
39:28
to become more out in the open, at school and in public and
39:33
stuff, whatever. But it was just such a.
39:35
You just a such a peaceful and beautiful shuttle watch which is
39:40
some really great characters. So yeah, so shout out to the
39:43
Angel next door and all the romance stuff like there.
39:47
There's a lot of like romance anime that I started this year
39:50
but a lot of them I didn't get a chance to like circle back to
39:52
and finish that. I want to get back to like like
39:55
Tomo Chan is a girl. Laura, what was the ice guy and
40:04
his female colleague? And.
40:06
So many more that I want to get to and check out.
40:10
So from this year. So yeah, and let me see what
40:14
else do I got on my list. I think the last one I have as
40:19
far as like main wine that I wanted to shout out, that I
40:24
actively watched actually before I get to that one, just a couple
40:27
quick shout outs for like stuff that I've already read.
40:30
And I didn't watch all of the anime for whatever just because
40:33
I'm so far ahead on the manga. I just didn't wasn't feeling
40:37
like watching all of it, but the adaptations were done so well
40:43
and that is Oshinoko. I am so happy to see that show
40:51
and in turn the manga blow up this year from the popularity of
40:57
the show or whatever being so well done.
41:01
Yeah, so I'm happy to see that transition.
41:04
And then a Shangri-La Frontier, one of my favorite series that I
41:08
started reading last year has been done so freaking awesome in
41:12
the anime and stuff, so definitely had to give a shout
41:14
out to them too. So yeah, and so that kind of
41:19
leads me to probably I think my favorite anime that I've watched
41:22
this year, and we'll continue to watch as the season continues
41:25
into next year, and that is Free Run Beyond Journey's End.
41:31
Now Free Run is one that I had only, I had only read the first
41:41
volume of the manga, and I'm so happy that they dropped the
41:46
first like 4 episodes of it at the same time, which
41:50
coincidentally covered everything from the first
41:54
volume. So I got to enjoy everything
41:58
else beyond that as a anime only person.
42:01
And just because seeing how masterfully they did the
42:06
adaptation of that first volume and that in those first four
42:09
episodes I was like Oh yeah, Oh yeah, Madhouse they are, they
42:15
are really cooking with this one.
42:17
And everything from the visuals to the freaking music and the
42:22
animation and the voice acting, everything across the board is
42:28
done so beautifully. And so just as a reminder, I
42:30
guess the people that don't know what this is about, Free Run
42:34
Beyond Journeys Inn basically follows the Elf Mage Free run
42:39
who was part of the party of heroes that defeated the demon
42:44
Lord after their decade long journey.
42:48
And so after their journey and defeating the demon Lord, they
42:52
all go their separate ways and she circles back 50 years later
42:56
just as one of the heroes, one of the members of the party, is
43:01
at the end of their life. And she kind of starts to slowly
43:04
realize that the value of time and spending time to get to know
43:11
and understand the people around her.
43:14
Because she lives for so long that she never really bothered
43:18
to try to get close to anybody or ever even learning nobody,
43:22
because by their by the time she missed them, she's already over
43:25
1000 years old. And so you know, the 10 year
43:31
journey for everybody else in the party was long, but for her
43:35
was like, OK, that was 10 years, whatever.
43:38
And then she was like OK hey, well I'll see Y'all in 50 years,
43:41
you know. And so her concept of time is so
43:45
much different from everybody else.
43:47
And the way they constantly interweave that with the journey
43:53
that she's on present day and how they tied into with her
43:59
reflecting on stuff from the past, it is like some of the
44:05
best that has ever been done. And so that is why Free Room
44:09
Beyond Johnny's In is probably my top anime from this year and
44:16
one that I highly recommend If you want something that is just
44:21
a really well done story that has some adventure into it that
44:27
has some sprinkles of fighting and combat that is done
44:30
masterfully. But at the core you are coming
44:33
to the series for a well tell, well told story with fleshed out
44:40
characters and stuff that is told in a beautiful way.
44:43
So yeah, Forever and beyond Journey's End.
44:48
So that is the list. So in closing, before I wrap
44:53
this up, I almost kind of look back through all the seasons of
44:59
the year just to kind of see what other stuff I want to kind
45:02
of shout out before I wrap this up.
45:05
So kind of looking back on the year, starting with the winter
45:11
season back in January. I was happy that they that the
45:19
near altimeter anime came out, but I was very sad that they,
45:25
the the studio had a lot of production issues.
45:29
So it kind of got broken up and releases and stuff throughout
45:33
the year by definitely playing a circle back and finishing the
45:36
anime for that. But just very glad that like a
45:38
very awesome game got a very awesome adaptation.
45:44
Buddy Daddy's was a really fun show about these two close
45:48
friends and he got up in a situation where they're having
45:52
to raise a four year old girl and just kind of them
45:57
discovering more, more of themselves and being thrown into
46:02
these parental roles and stuff like that.
46:05
So that I was a very fun one. One that I want to get back,
46:11
that I want to circle back in trial at some point is Kubo
46:14
won't let me be invisible. That's what I want to get to.
46:19
A big one I have to address that.
46:21
A lot of people that know me that are like Robert, you didn't
46:24
mention this one at all is Trigon Stampede.
46:27
So I still have not watched all of Trigon Stampede and I do not
46:34
fully know why. So I was enjoying watching it as
46:37
it was coming out earlier in the year.
46:39
But for some reason I just stopped watching it now because
46:44
of how it looked or anything whatever.
46:46
But just something about it. At the time I just wasn't fully
46:50
hooked in with. And maybe it was also because I
46:53
think I also was wanting to wait for the English dub once they
46:57
got confirmed. Of course it took many weeks
47:00
before it was confirmed that at least the the voice actor for
47:04
Johnny Young Bach of a of a Vash who is Johnny Young Bosch would
47:10
be returning. So I plan on early next year,
47:14
circling back and watching it straight in English Dove.
47:19
So I for sure had to address that one cause a lot of people
47:22
be like Barbara, What happened? So yeah, so continuing on
47:28
another kind of like fun one that I enjoyed was a
47:32
reincarnation of the strongest exorcist.
47:36
Farming life in another world was very comforting to watch and
47:42
chilling in my 30s. Like it.
47:44
It was really cool again to see more adult centered main
47:50
characters. Those are just some kind of fun
47:54
ones to check out and even the Fire hunter was one that I
47:59
enjoyed kind of in the same boat as a kind of the great snow sea
48:03
to where have some kind of iffy animations and stuff, whatever.
48:07
But the story and some of the concept were very interesting to
48:12
me. So let's see, moving on to
48:18
spring season, Hell's Paradise was very dope.
48:25
Let me see. Masho got a very dope
48:29
adaptation, that's one the manga ended earlier this year so I
48:32
want to circle back because I think I'm like 20 chapters from
48:35
being done. So hopefully sometime next year
48:38
I circle back, knockout those 20 chapters just so I can see how
48:42
did the series end and stuff. So because a lot of Manga and
48:45
Shona Jump are kind of getting close to that ending point, so
48:49
definitely want to circle back to that.
48:52
Heavenly Delusion is one that was pretty cool to watch.
48:59
Insomniacs After School was another really awesome and
49:03
comforting kind of slice of life romance.
49:07
Like like a skip and loafer. But I still need to finish last
49:11
few episodes of that Dead Mouth. Deathly I want to go back to
49:16
because I know that I got a second season.
49:18
Even the new episodes of Ranking of Kings, I want to circle back
49:22
to. I think I still need to finish
49:25
the last few episodes of Gundam Witch from Mercury.
49:29
So many shows, Yeah, just just too many to try to count is I'm
49:35
kind of scrolling through quickly these seasons and stuff,
49:40
but those are kind of like the main ones from that season, I
49:43
think. Yeah, Spy Classroom two, maybe.
49:48
I might circle back to that at some point.
49:51
Birdie Wings, that golf anime, I heard that was pretty good.
49:55
OK, so going over to summer season, of course.
50:01
Jujitsu concert season 2 is awesome.
50:03
The next arc of Bleach Thousand Year Blood War?
50:06
Awesome. Jobless Rear Carnation, while it
50:10
was kind of slow, still really enjoyed that season.
50:14
ZOM 100 bucket list of the Dead Man man man man, this show came
50:21
out swinging. Now this is a manga that I
50:24
really enjoyed reading the couple of volumes I got to read
50:27
a couple years ago. Whatever.
50:29
And so when I heard that it was getting a anime, I was very
50:32
excited. And so those first few episodes
50:35
that I have stuff that I had already read done fantastically,
50:39
but I didn't get a chance to to finish watching more because
50:43
just like near Automata this, the studio ran into a lot of
50:47
production issues and stuff. So so they just released the
50:51
last three or four episodes of the season on Christmas Day.
50:54
So I plan to go back, and I might even circle back and watch
50:57
it again with the English dub since they got Xena Robinson as
51:02
the main voice of the main character.
51:05
Whatever. So I enjoy his work.
51:07
He's also Hawks in my academia and lots of other very dumb
51:11
roles. So I want to go back and finish
51:13
that up. So rain of the 7th spellblaze, I
51:18
want to circle back to undead murder force, dark gathering.
51:26
Want to circle back to that. So bongo, Stray dogs five.
51:32
I have a lot of ground to make up with that one.
51:34
That is a series I'm probably got to just start from scratch
51:37
with because I had only watched. I remember for sure I watched
51:40
the first two seasons and I maybe started the third season,
51:44
but that was long, long ago. And then we got season four and
51:48
five back-to-back. I was like, whoa, I need to
51:53
catch up at some point with that.
51:54
So yeah, heck, that is one that I enjoyed the bit of the manga
52:00
that I read last year, and so they finished putting out the 25
52:05
episodes of that. So I definitely want to circle
52:07
back to that at some point. A couple of more like kind of
52:12
Isakai ones that were kind of simple but I still enjoyed
52:16
watching was my unique skills make Me OP and the great cleric.
52:22
Those are kind of just like some fun, comforting series.
52:26
I want to go back to the masterful cats.
52:30
St. Celia and Pastor Lawrence were
52:32
some fun ones. Sugar apple, Fairy tale.
52:37
That's one that I really enjoyed the first season.
52:40
And so I need to go back and finish the first season and then
52:43
watch the second season. They came out this year just
52:49
scrolling through the rest of summer season.
52:53
Those are kind of the main ones for that.
52:54
And so with Fall season, Spy Family continues to be great.
53:00
Undead on luck is getting a dope.
53:04
Season imminent since Shadow, so that is one that I enjoyed what
53:11
I got to watch of season one. But like a lot of other stuff, I
53:15
need to circle back to to finish season one and now watch season
53:21
2 so. But I definitely plan on
53:24
checking that out. I've heard season three of
53:28
Rising of Shooter Hero is better, but don't know.
53:31
Someday I might circle back to that Goblin Slayer Season 2 new
53:36
circle back to, which that reminds me of Overlord.
53:39
Season four I think was early this year too.
53:42
So I need to go back to that as well because I also enjoy
53:46
watching that series and stuff as well.
53:49
But I just need to circle back to.
53:52
One that I definitely want to check out is I thought I had
53:55
this on my plan to watch this, but I guess not.
53:58
But the it's the the the 100 girlfriends who really, really,
54:03
really love me. I've heard a lot of great and
54:06
fun things about that one so I want to circle back to that.
54:09
Probably one of the biggest disappointments of the fall
54:12
season, Kingdoms of Ruin started off kind of strong, then got
54:16
really murky towards the middle and then I just completely
54:19
dropped it. One that I really want to circle
54:25
back to as well is Ragnar Crimson, but that's going to be
54:30
a 25 episode season so I might just wait until a way later date
54:34
and then just binge watch that one later on.
54:38
A Returner's Magic Should Be Special was one that I did watch
54:44
fully and really enjoyed, so that one was really fine.
54:50
Oh, Faraway Palandas season 2. So I finally went back and
54:55
finished up season one a few months ago, like around like the
54:58
end of the summer break or summer season.
55:01
And so I plan on watching season 2 at some point, and when that
55:05
finishes with the dub Ron Kamanahashi's forbidden
55:10
deductions, that is a really intriguing, kind of like
55:14
detective mystery series that I I watched in spurts.
55:18
Like I watched like 4 episodes at a time, so now that the
55:21
season is over I'm going to go back and finish watching those
55:24
last few seasons of last few episodes of that.
55:26
But that also got confirmed for season 2.
55:29
Same thing with Returners Magic. What else?
55:33
Shy. I really have been enjoying
55:37
watching that, but I need to go back and finish that because
55:41
that also got a season 2 confirmed.
55:46
Oh S rank daughter. That is one that's kind of was
55:50
kind of like a nice comforting one.
55:52
Y'all know a show that is about a father and their child.
55:56
I got to check out and I really enjoyed what I got to watch of
56:00
that one. So I think I may be like halfway
56:01
through the season I just need to go back and knock out the
56:04
rest of the season. But that was like a nice
56:06
comforting watch. Same thing with a playthrough of
56:10
a certain dudes VRMMO Life. Going to circle back and finish
56:13
those last few episodes. Mickey and Dolly was a very nice
56:19
surprise. Kind of like a kind of like a
56:24
dark mystery kind of comedy, but mainly mystery type of situation
56:31
from the same creator who did. Haven't you heard?
56:34
I'm Sakamoto, who unfortunately she passed away right before the
56:39
anime for this aired. But this show was super
56:45
intriguing from beginning to end and ended off really well.
56:50
So what is some last couple of months?
56:54
The Uziki family's four sons? I only got to watch like a
56:58
couple episodes, a couple of episodes of that, but I can
57:01
already tell that was going to be a gut wrenching show to
57:06
watch. So I got a plan.
57:08
That one at him. Check that out at some point,
57:12
and they might be. As far as I messed up, I'm a
57:14
shout out, 'cause I can't shout out every single thing that I
57:17
watched and stuff, whatever. So but those are kind of like
57:19
the high level main ones that I've watched throughout this
57:25
year across the various seasons and stuff.
57:29
So so yeah. So overall I feel like, Like I
57:35
said it was a nice strong year with a wide variety of anime of
57:42
all types and genres. So lots of lots of slice of life
57:47
and romance and action and drama and mystery and everything in
57:54
between. Came out this year, so wide
57:59
variety of years. So yeah, so let me know what
58:03
y'all thought of everything I've talked about, and let me know of
58:09
some of Y'all's favorites, both anime and manga, and also
58:13
webtoons and stuff as well, and even some comics.
58:16
Let me know what are some favorite things that Y'all
58:18
watched and read as we wind down this year.
58:23
Because like I said, it was a very busy year and I look
58:26
forward to doing more of this starting next year.
58:30
So I've already got early access to some new manga that is coming
58:36
out in the early months of next year that I'm planning on
58:40
talking about and reviewing. And I'm kind of trying to make
58:44
plans for some anime series, both anime and manga that are
58:49
already complete, that I want to go through and review because I
58:54
have some pretty crazy gaps in my anime and manga history to
59:00
where where y'all find out, like yo, you haven't watched or read
59:03
that yet. But I'm looking forward to
59:07
getting to those series and sprinkling them out throughout
59:09
the next year and many years have come, because it's going to
59:12
be a lot of stuff new that's going to come up along the way
59:16
that might derail some of my plans.
59:18
But I also plan on going through the stuff that I physically
59:22
collected as well as a lot of stuff that is on the show to
59:25
Jump app, the Vez manga app. Like I said, definitely hitting
59:28
up those more of those web tunes and stuff as well because
59:32
there's a lot of stuff out there and maybe even dipping my toe
59:37
and a little bit of comic stuff. So but yeah, so I hope y'all
59:41
have enjoyed these episodes. They have been a lot of fun, Big
59:47
labor of love for me, lots of late nights and stuff, but very
59:51
fun to kind of reflect on the year of everything across the
59:56
board that I've watched, read, played and enjoyed.
1:00:01
And so in closing, I just got to say thank y'all so much for.
1:00:06
Whether you are new here and you just found me through this
1:00:10
content or just found me recently, or if you're somebody
1:00:14
that has stuck with me and been with me along the way, whether
1:00:18
it be from the very beginning or just over the course of these
1:00:21
many years, these these few years that I've started this, It
1:00:25
has been a pleasure and an honor to talk to y'all and to share
1:00:30
with y'all the things that I come across cuz like I've talked
1:00:34
about all the time. I pride myself on finding a lot
1:00:40
of hidden gems, manga, anime, webtoons, wherever the case may
1:00:45
be that a lot of other people might not be talking about and
1:00:48
to kind of help shine a spotlight on that.
1:00:51
And yeah, like I said, I'm just here to talk about the stuff
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that I'm enjoying and I hope that y'all are enjoying these
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conversations and these highlights and looking forward
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to much more of this in the future.
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And so in closing, as they say, you know, hey, if you're
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enjoying the content, enjoying the discussions, make sure if
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you're watching it on YouTube and you want the video version
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of this, make sure you subscribe to the YouTube channel.
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Dan needs to talk or wherever you're listening to the audio
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version of this Spotify, Apple podcast, Google podcast,
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etcetera, etcetera. I should be everywhere and make
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sure to follow. Leave me some likes, leave me
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some reviews and let the world know that you enjoy listening to
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Danny's to talk and feel free to reach out.
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You can find me everywhere at Danny's to talk.
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And in closing, as I always say, hold on, let me get my let me
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get my, my, my stack together. OK, So as I always say, treat
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yourself to something nice. Read some manga, watch some
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anime and TV, play some video games and live your best life.
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And with that I am out. Y'all have a awesome end of the
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year and I will catch on the next one.
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Thank y'all so much for all the love, kindness and support and I
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will catch y'all in the next one.
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Y'all be easy peace.