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Alice in Borderland Volume 1 & Season 1 · Dad Needs To Talk

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What's up y'all? And welcome back to Danny's to
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talk, I'm your host Robert and today I'll be kind of doing a
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little bit of a kind of sort of doubleheader talking about
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Alison. Borderland, both volume 1 of the
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manga as well as season 1 of the live-action TV series.
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So this is definitely a very interesting case of you know,
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I've no I heard about the TV series where for a while because
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it because it came out I think what a couple of years ago I
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believe let's see. Doo-doo-doo-doo-doo-doo.
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Where is the live action? Yeah, 2020 so two years ago at
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this point but it just never got around to watching it wherever
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and then the manga just got a official English version.
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This Earth. So kind of an interesting
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situation but anywho, but before I dive into all that, it's
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always, you know, welcome to that need to talk or it's all
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about fatherhood manga anime TV shows and sometimes video games.
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So Yeah. So just a little bit of
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background on the series of the author, so the author of Allison
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Borderland is Jairo. Ah, so and you might recognize
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that name because that is also the author of zom 100 bucket
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list of the Dead manga, which I didn't know until I got out of
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some Borderland and like right at the top.
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It has the name and I was, I was, I why does that sound
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familiar? And I Googled it and then of
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course, zom 100. Popular sounds like aah.
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Okay. Cool.
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Which in hindsight both, after reading and watching Alison
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Borderland kind of makes sense because there's a character in
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Psalm 100 named shizuka who definitely reminds me of a
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chicken out some Borderlands 2, The the man come and check.
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But but yeah, but Sawyer so Alice in Wonderland.
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Manga fur that it's already complete.
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A ran from November 2010 to March 2016.
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It consisted of 18 volumes total and these.
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These English releases are two and ones, so they have two
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volumes in each each, I guess. I guess it's be kind of kind of
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be considered like an Omnibus. So, these were coming out two at
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a time. Which means we will get 9 over
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here in Translated. And then like I said, the TV
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show The live-action series came out in 2020.
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So yes like I said you're just very interesting situations
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where the manga came out and ended in Japan.
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Then we got the live action Show on Netflix and now we're getting
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the English version of the manga you know here all these years
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later. But anyway so basic setup of
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this of this series is that it is basically Kind of like a
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death game type of series. And I guess, even though this
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series came out before this show, but just for modern-day
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equivalents whatever kind of think of it, as a way of, like a
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kind of like a squid game type of Series 2, where you have a
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bunch of people that basically have to go through these various
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games and challenges basically order to continue to live.
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Now, the thing about this is that is that we don't at least
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at least in this first volume, we don't find out how they ended
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up here because the saying it seems like they're still in
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Tokyo but everybody like majority of the population is
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gone except for the people who are playing the games.
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So it's like do they get teleported to another world?
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And another dimension still don't have a clue.
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Like what? Exactly happened there?
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But they are so by ourselves, we follow our main character.
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I received him and a couple of his friends.
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As like I said, they all get transported to whatever world or
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whatever version of Tokyo that they're in.
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And that's begin the, the death games.
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And so there is kind of a common theme all of the East at
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challenge falls into four, different categories.
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All based around a deck of cards.
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So Each game you play, you know, you have a chance to earn one of
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the no cars. No, for diamonds or seven of
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Hearts. 2 etcetera, Etc. Now, what the full importance of
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the cars if there actually isn't an important sort of ever still
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to be really determined. But the the number on the card.
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Also determines the difficulty of it as well.
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So a, you know, four of diamonds.
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It's going to be easier than like a, you know, ten of hearts,
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for example, but yeah, but that is the basic setup and premise
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of this. Now, one thing I will say up
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front sir, because I'm a kind of focus on the manga a bit more
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and then going to the TV show. And the reason why is that The
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live-action show. Bye.
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Episode 2 and 2 episodes. They pretty much covered
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everything that was in this first volume.
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So the live-action series actually covers about partway
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through Volume 7 of the manga. So just kind of be aware of
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that. If you end up, you know, reading
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volume 1 and I liked it and they want to go into the show, just
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know that I've got the shows going to just blow through a ton
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of material though. They do kind of switch around
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some stuff there. There's some stuff that is a
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little bit. It from the manga and the show
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because I like prime example, the first game that they play in
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the TV show is a game where they have to guess like the right
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door to go through in order to escape out of this building of
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there in verses in the manga, the first game that they play is
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like this like a fortune game. So that was kind of like like
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like the general premise. But anyways, so talk about the
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manga. So first of all, I'll say like I
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really do like the style of the manga cuz I feel like Wow.
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Yes they live. Action does do a good job of
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portraying, you know, the brutal nest and the violence of of the
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manga. But it's still something about
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the way a lot of these characters and everything is
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drawn. That really like just feels
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really appropriate for this kind of like dire and dark situation
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because because because one of these like night just like a
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militia leader that they that they show and the in the manga
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like how he looks in the Manga versus ha Looks into live action
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show, whatever. Like of course, like, you know,
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I like the live-action he still looks like kind of a little bit
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intimidating, but the manga, he is just drawing like so big and
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stock. It kind of reminds me of not,
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not fully to this level, but reminds me a little bit of like,
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a character from Baki. That's how menacing menacing he
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looks in the manga. But, but yeah, but overall
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light, like, I enjoy reading. This first volume of it, like I
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said, enough to pique my interest to want to jump over
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and check out the TV show curse. Like I said, like I said, I like
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this first volume, they cover them playing two different games
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and so you kind of see our Sue and his his two best friends
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that he had with him. Doo doo, doo, doo doo.
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Why am I forgetting names? Lord, my brain is like going
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blank right now, but let me see. Okay, Kyra Bay and shelter.
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So I have like, baked on their names but but yeah, but won't
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want that. I was say, you know, is there
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like like like definitely you know, like I said, like this is
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a death game. So it is very brutal, very
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violent. Like the first time somebody
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like Died in the series or whatever are like okay we are
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not here we are not playing hopscotch or connects for in
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this series like now we are playing for our lives and so the
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other thing I forgot to mention as well is there like with each
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of the games depending on the difficulty if you win?
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Or if you know survive the game then that's how many days
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extended you get on. Basically you get a visa and so
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If you clear a level for a game, then you'll get four extra days
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added on to whatever amount of time of you already have.
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And so then it kind of becomes this thing of like how do you
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use that time? Both wise and strategically
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because some people they'll wait until okay.
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My thing is going to run out today and then they're panicking
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trying to play another game or whatever.
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You know versus some other people are like okay Beat this
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hard game there's like level 5 or 7.
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So I have a week until my Visa runs out that gives me time to
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kind of like one rest and recuperate because man they
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began put through it with these different games.
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But this also gives them a chance to kind of like do some
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charges like somebody like some of your reconnaissance research
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figure out, okay. Are we in our normal world?
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Do you get to the person? Where else how many other people
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are there around and all this different stuff?
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And so that is just like, just like one aspect, I really did.
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Enjoy is like the mystery behind like, okay, like what the heck
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is going on? But also like this series, like
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will quickly let you know that like, hey, nobody is safe, like
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nobody is safe, is because I was wrong.
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My man is, is the main character going to make it through because
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man, he goes through it and so so do a lot of the other
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characters and stuff throughout it as well.
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So like I said, you're just speaking on that in general.
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I'll say hey go check out the manga, pick it up like I said it
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was definitely you know, work worth a purchase for me.
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Now I'm going to transition and talking about a little bit more
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about the TV show which might spoil some stuff from this from
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past volume 1. So just be known.
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Hey Robert gives us a thumbs up for the manga I'ma talk about
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the live-action TV show a little bit and like someone talk about
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some specific things. So just now, hey spoiler warning
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and I'll put it in the comments below.
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Timestamps spoiler warning for stuff that happens in the TV
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show because Okay, so you still here.
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All right, let's go. Now with the TV with the show.
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Like I said, there you go on through, at least, like, cover,
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like, Volume, 7 of the Mongol, which I am.
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Like that's gonna take so long for the for the English release
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to get to because like, you know, there's at least like a
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few months between releases right now.
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So, So yeah so yeah so like Volume 2 is coming out in like
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June. So volume 1 was February or no
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March Volume 2 June don't have nothing for three after that or
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whatever. So that means like Volume 7
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where the season 1 of the show ends at that's probably like
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some time a year plus from now. But one other thing I want to
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say is well just like just like speaking in general before I
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actually get to spoilers whatever, sorry.
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It's kind of weird to do but is that like They do a good job of
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introducing like a pretty good solid mix of characters
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throughout the series. Both, you know, people that end
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up joining I resume and like I'm an kind of cast of characters
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because I really like I really like the chick.
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That's a nasty mountain climbing chick dude usagi.
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I really like her and I even like a lot of like, like Vivid
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light Samurai. Like two antagonists and I guess
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quote-unquote like villains. Do they kind of come across
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later on this in the TV show. So you know, and I enjoy that
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you kind of get a little bit of a peek into more of these
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people's Back stories as far as okay, who were you before we got
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here, who were you in the previous World, which is really
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cool. Because sometimes some of these
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characters like, oh, you had a complete makeover or a, your
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super Unrecognizable because like, in the, in the TV show,
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like the dude, with the sword, he got the tattoos all over his
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face and body, whatever previous life.
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He was like, writing online blogs and stuff, whatever.
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And the other character shoot doo, doo, doo doo, where is
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their name? Corinna Corinna was also a
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interested character as well just because you kind of
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awesome. Let me see how if I'm
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remembering that character right?
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I believe I am but but kawena also Like their backstory on
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like yo, you was a completely completely completely different,
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you know, back before, you know, or at least like, at least like
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the early parts of their backstory and stuff.
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So, but but yeah. So like I said, go a little bit
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more to like the TV show real quick.
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I did not expect once the names. Cairo Bay and show tonight.
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Make it like like when they got when they got killed.
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And and that game. Light, that that five of Hearts
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I was not expecting it. I was thinking, okay, iris is
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going to figure out some way last man to like save everybody
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and know when them collars exploded and they has went
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That's like when he like really stay in of like, okay. we are,
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we are in this now and so Saying that game, of course, my both in
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the manga and the anime. I enjoyed the kind of what was I
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think? I think.
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I think they're playing a tag. No, no tag was the fiber parts
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game. It was the Was it hide-and-seek?
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Yeah, kind of like the highness it do the one where they had
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like the dude with the horse head and see, I like I like
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early on that was kind of like the first hint of like, okay,
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there's two sides to these games towards all cut their sometimes
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people that like, like the dude that had the horse head, it was
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like going around killing people, never he was on the
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opposite side. He also was playing a game but
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his game was to protect the room from anybody getting to it.
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Surviving and so, that's kind of like the first time I break
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crumb of hints of al-Qaeda. There's more stuff going on and
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I also enjoyed, you know, once we were like the, like the whole
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Beach Ark was I super cool and interested in the show and just
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seeing, like, how they created this kind of Utopia to ages.
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I had all these people. Hey, we just partying living
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life, drinking having sex, doing, whatever we want.
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And then in My town, we all roll out God participate in these
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games, come back with cars, give them to the BIOS and I we can
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party again type of type of vibe.
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But just saying like how that whole group and stuff, just kind
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of like crumble to pieces and seeing That one character shoot,
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what was his name? Obviously, I can find its name.
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I think it's a Cheshire the, the one with the white hair.
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The kind of like, kind of like a cunning one.
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I think. Actually that wasn't his name.
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Okay, yeah, yeah, I had his name, right?
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She the kind of like really like Smooth like cold and calculating
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do like I kind of like him just because it's effective like he
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kind of like Looms in the shadows and it's kind of like
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just like Larks and like observes and he doesn't make a
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move until Like pretty sure like his odds of succeeding or like
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pretty good. And so I enjoy seeing like him,
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you know, in the the tag game and then him again in the at the
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beach and he's like, one of the executives and stuff and then
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like the moves, he pulled their on Irish suit and kind of like
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God is what to getting his hands on all the cars and stuff.
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And then, but I'll be at the whole bitch thing.
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Is like super interest in the fact that they turn that whole
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area into a game arena and it just like all hell broke loose.
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It was just like really good and so wild to see just like how
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quickly You know, the cookie crumbles as they say, but but
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yeah, but just overall super dope moment, super dope
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characters. And the two girls, the one that
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basically they were they were they were actually working for
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the game master to kind of get a little bit more insight into how
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that stuff works. And the fact that they had like,
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all these Clues and stuff. They been recording like, okay.
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Hey, here's where one of their like main bases are.
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And here's what they're doing. You just see, not all.
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People just like watching Everybody dying.
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I was going a little bit kind of like how stuff was a square
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games and just saying I everybody was freaking out dying
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and stuff whatever and they're making bets on the games and all
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that stuff. But then like the aftermath of
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that with You know, you know, Iris to them and even chiaki
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hsieh them kind of like coming together in that room and seeing
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the, oh, everybody in the room has been killed now because, you
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know, y'all managed to beat the game and that one girl, you
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know, had evidence of the location wherever and then kind
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of getting the setup for basically, the endgame of
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things, whereas, okay, they have gotten all the regular cards in
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the deck. Now they need like the all the
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like the kings, queens Jacks and stuff, whatever.
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And so just seeing like that one lady who was actually I guess if
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I remember correctly shoes disguise is one of the
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executives at the beach being like like one of like the main
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people over all this stuff whatever and just saying her
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show up and just kind of like show clips of like all the
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Mayhem that they've experienced and stuff throughout but But
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overall, I enjoyed both the manga and the show and I still
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think I still might end up reading the manga as well just
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because I kind of glanced in saw that.
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Okay. There are some pretty
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interesting differences between the two.
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So I would kind of like especially not like I said like
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now knowing that the that the show Covered through Volume 7
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and then kind of like going back and kind of like glancing at
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some of the stuff I saw in the show and some of those later
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manga chapters and being a lot. Okay.
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This is kind of the same but they did this different there or
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whatever. Definitely makes me kind of want
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to Read through everything as well.
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Because the first time was a 12-0 covers way more.
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Why should I even bother, you know, watching it?
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I mean, or reading it but now I say okay, you know what, this
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might be a rare case of, okay, both shut, both the manga, and
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the end of and the live-action are close enough to where if you
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don't want to read or watch both, whatever you probably will
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be fine. Just doing either or but I They
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might be pretty good complimentary experiences with
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each other and they like, I say, just based off of me, just
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reading the one book and then watching the One season.
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So there's a chance that hey, maybe I'll go back and I'll read
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through those chapters which the series even like said 18 volumes
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but it only had 60 four chapters.
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But granted the chapters are pretty long, you know.
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Cuz cuz this first volume Had. Let's see, well, I guess like
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the this first book had eight chapters all together because I
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can say, is this volume one and two together.
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And so, the first part of it was, yeah, was chapters one
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through four. And then the second part half of
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it is Chapters 5 through 9 so 9 chapters.
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So even though I don't like said only has 64 something like Fifty
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sixty. Four chapters total for the
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whole series. They're pretty long and media
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chapters. So And it's pretty easy to kind
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of line up if you kind of want to do comparisons, whatever the
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chapters in the chapter name is a pretty straight forward
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towards I. Okay, you know, five of Hearts
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part, 1, 2 3, 4 5, so the okay, the episodes with five of
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Hearts, okay, I can kind of just line it up with that.
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So, but yeah, like I said, overall, solid read and solid
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watch, like I said, I prefer the The art style and like the kind
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of like more gritty visual style of the manga to the show but the
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show still did a really good job with the actors performances and
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just seeing their kind of like play out.
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They really good as well as like I said, I'm an honest opinion.
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You'll be fine with either or honestly, doing both, because
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season one was only eight episodes, but they are long.
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So it's eight episodes about 45 minutes to maybe an hour each So
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keep that in mind. But I say go check that out and
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they've already confirmed this season 2 is in production, don't
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know when it's coming but there is going to be a season 2 but
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yeah. Overall, let me know down in the
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comments below if you have been enjoying or if you have read or
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watched Allison, Borderland like sign, I'm Lil bit late on the
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Netflix out of things, but hey, I'm pretty pretty good on time
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with. With reading the book by.
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Yeah. So let me know what y'all think
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Episode, y'all be easy and as always, treat yourself to
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something, nice Risa manga, watch some anime, play some
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video games and just live your best life.
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Yeah, I'll be easy. Allison, Borderland out.
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He Episode, y'all be easy and as always, treat yourself to
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something, nice Risa manga, watch some anime, play some
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video games and just live your best life.
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Yeah, I'll be easy. Allison, Borderland out.
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