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Magus of the Library Volumes 1-5 · Dad Needs To Talk

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What's up y'all? And welcome back to Daddy's
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talk. I'm your host, Robert.
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And today, I'm going to talk a little bit more about Magus of
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the library. Volumes 1 through 5.
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Now, I've already done a combo video.
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It's kind of like speaking in general terms of both Max at a
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library, as well, as a sentence of a bookworm anime.
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But I wanted to go a little bit more in-depth with Max of the
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library, and honestly, I already have recorded like an hour-long
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thing on this, but just wasn't really feeling this.
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I'm like, you know what? I want to give this a second
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shot and just kind of sleep on it, which I did.
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It's curly, like, five something in the morning that I'm kind of
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Revisiting this and just wanted to talk because, you know what?
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Mac, is it a library? Which first of all was written
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by mitsu uzume and I said, it's currently five volumes out.
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Now with volume 6 due later this year in December, 20 22, but
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yeah, sometimes we Come across either people or even things in
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media, to where we read, watch play a game, whatever that is
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kind of what we need to experience, or to having our
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life during that moment. And that is what happened with
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me and Magus of the library, because the story of The main
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character Theophilus, who is this young boy, at least when
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the story starts off. He's a young boy who is of mixed
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blood. And he just wants to read books,
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he just wants to imagine all these Adventures but sometimes
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we are in situations in our life, whether it be something of
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our own doing, you know, or just sometimes we like in Theo's
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case, sometimes you were just born into situations. that are
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out of your control and there are times when we come across
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certain people in our lives that are just there for just a brief
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moment or just, you know, like a gust of wind passing through and
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you know, some people are there forever in our lives and then
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some people are things happen that are just there to kind of
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like push you forward and that's And of where this Journey
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Begins. And so I'm gonna say upfront
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real quick. I am going to be talking, this,
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this video is going to be talking spoilers for all five
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volumes of Mega City library. But like summer, try to keep
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this more condensed than the one hour thing that I already
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recorded. But yeah.
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So like I said, Theo, you know, he grows up in this very small
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out in the boonies town called a month.
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They have a library but because Theo, like I said, he's born of
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mixed blood because we find out that, you know, he is born of
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two races, one that pretty much wiped out the other.
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And so he is the child of this big conflict and so, of course,
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you know, he looks different than everybody else from it from
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his, the color of his hair to his pointy ears.
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All this stuff. And we also found out later on
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that he has like this really big excess of Mana but because of,
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you know, how he looks at, how you all that stuff, whatever
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originally is treated poorly, and he's not even allowed in the
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library to read books. And this is in, and this is in a
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town where not many people can really even read and appreciate
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books and say, you have this young boy who just wants to read
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all these Grand Adventures, It's the head guard the library.
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He's like know if people see you right here, it's going to
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basically like, you know, scare them away from coming to read
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and stuff. But you know, anywho as things
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go on. One thing that I truly
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appreciate about what how this thing starts off.
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And like I said, kind of like really hit me because I'm kind
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of currently going through some stuff in life and, you know,
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even though, yes, I am, I am a 32 year-old, you know, husband
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and father of five, you know, those mattresses are made across
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my life that have kind of put me in certain situations that I'm
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in now. And With maggots in a library
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and me reading it. Now, there's kind of this moment
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where, you know, Theo he kind of has some moments throughout to
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where he is trying his best and a panel that really sticks with
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me is one like, like, two panels in volume one were here, just
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crying because he just like, you know, I'm trying my best, you
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know, to live a good honest life.
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But, you know, he just keeps on. just run it all these bad
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situations and you know be the cough Nur the that come through
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town to visit and when he first meets the donor and kind of he
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feels like man is this finally the person my hero who is going
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to help me and bring me out of this but you know, they kind of
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work together and overcome some Situations that happen in town
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but you know, Sedona gives Theo this book and take some owner on
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a Magic Carpet Ride literally and kind of just shows on my
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hey, yes, look at look at this world.
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There are so many more things out there in this world, waiting
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for you. And Bo kind of has this moment
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towards the end of the Where he's crying and he's asking
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Sedona, like, like, like, when is my hero gonna come?
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And save me, you know, when, when do I get that moment and
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Sedona basically tells him, I, hey, that's not going to happen.
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There will be no hero and he said because we all live and
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experience things that sometimes only we can understand, you
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know, there's certain things that we see that on that, nobody
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else can understand because they can't see what we see.
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See and so, he basically encourages still just be like,
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hey, sometimes we have to take fate into our own hands and be
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the hero of Our Own Story. And so he just encourages still
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like, hey be your own hero take charge of your own life and, you
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know, he kind of does the, you know, I talked about in the
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other video. The kind of Shanks in Luffy
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moment where, you know, Shanks gives Luffy the straw hat.
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Hey, return. This had to me when you become a
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great pirate. Well, Sedona gives, you know,
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Theo this book and he's like, hey, someday come find me and
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return this book to me, you know, once you if you know,
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become no on this great journey or whatever and that is how this
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adventure begins. You know, seeing Theo, I loved
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and was, was happily surprised, you know, by How at the end of
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volume 1, we have a freaking seven-year time Skip.
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And now Theo is 13. And we see that over the years,
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he has been putting pouring his heart and soul into preparing to
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go on this journey to become a Costner.
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So that, you know, he can go and see the central library and just
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so that he can, you know, see and explore more of the world.
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And I love the reoccurring theme.
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Happens throughout the series in the reoccurring.
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Saying that happens which is basically you know to protect
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the text is to protect the world as self.
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And yeah. And just seeing this journey
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that the oh goes on. And it is why, you know, like I
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said I had heard ahead of time, you know, that there's a lot
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going on in these volumes. There's a lot to read, but in a
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good sense. Because, you know, series don't
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always You really good about, you know, world-building and
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character backgrounds, and just information and stuff, and Magus
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of the library, gives this to you in abundance because all the
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various races that we meet across this series, we get a
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chance to get detailed information on their history.
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Their background Weevil are sometimes like history between
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different races. Has and stuff like hey like this
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one had this other one enslaved but then they found their own
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freedom and so on and so forth. And you know, all these
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historical landmarks is up because, you know, I love how
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you know, we constantly kind of get these moments where, you
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know, we see these kind of like ancient drawings and stuff as
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the narrator is, kind of like, detailing this great war that
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happened in the past that I almost, you know, that so many
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of the texts and books in history.
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World got lost in this Great War and that is what led to the
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establishment of the Central Library and thus the you know
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the cough NE system you know with the with the 12 different
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departments you know that basically melt makeup and no
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kind of help oversee the central library and how books are
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handled across the world and stuff.
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And so Yeah, just just along the way, just seeing all these
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various characters that Theo Meese, and just seeing how
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everybody kind of has their reasons for going on their
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Journeys and taking this exam to try to become a coffin, ER, you
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know, some of them do it because they feel like, hey, you know,
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everybody else in my family basically, went down this path
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and so I am too. And then some coaches like hey
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this is the only way I will get to forge my own path and to make
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my own life decisions especially a lot of the women in the series
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because you know the series you know it is they're all super old
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mentality of a you know, women when you get older you're going
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to have a family and you're just basically just going to be there
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taking care of your kids and the house and stuff.
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Whatever. Well, you know, becoming a cop
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Ofner. It's kind of like one job that,
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you know, women can try to pursue to try to get their own
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Freedom, so to speak. And I just love the whole host
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of. Like I said, different people
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that we meet along the way, I love how they kind of have all
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these various departments, you know, from the group that kind
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of handles, you know, the fixing and repair of the books.
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Group that catalogs everything that makes sure the show know,
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the books are in the proper orders on the shelves to people.
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They're basically kind of like security and so on and so forth.
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I just love the way that the series is just so detailed in
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those facts and Yeah, like I said it, I am just very
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interested just to see how things go along the way.
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I truly loved and appreciated seeing all of the, the three
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stages of the exam and just how grueling and taxing this stuff
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was. And this series or the the exams
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and stuff was definitely one. That shows a hey you need to
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have some very strong mental fortitude to make it through.
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These exams and stuff. Because man, that is a lot of
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information, they have to know and maintain, and just so many
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things that happen or know how to knowing how to properly care
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and to repair the books and everything in between.
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And I just I really just love just like all the different kids
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to meet along the way. I love the little cat girl who
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you know, she seems very immature.
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Her. But she is also very perceptive
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and how, you know, her ability to kind of like notice when
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somebody is watching and observing kind of helps out
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along the way of the series towards she know that ability
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comes in very clutch during the exams and stuff and just how,
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you know, just seeing the various ways that the Central
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Library test people, you know, from you know, the rim portion
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to you know the interview To the kind of practical, part of the
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exam and just seeing, you know, these characters having to be
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physically and mentally fit to be able to take on this job
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because like, hey, you're here to help protect the text.
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And so, yeah, that's a very dope.
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I really loved and appreciate it. you know, like I said, just
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just saying all the various locations and information on the
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world and everything of that nature and seeing the moment
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where first, you know, vo me, Stout old lady, who ends up
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being the kind of like head person of the Central Library,
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and all of that stuff was just like very dope because Cuz I, I
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just love for one ever like a very important character.
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Kind of, is just in Disguise and just plain Jane close.
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And then you find out later on like, oh this random person that
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you that we met or saw is actually super important in this
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world. And so, yeah, that was just, I
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just very dope to see, you know, this old lady up to her
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shenanigans. Guess how she just really just
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wants to. She just wants to freaking just
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be able to just kind of just you know not be this high and mighty
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person. She just wants to, you know, go
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and be amongst the people and stuff like that or whatever and
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just a little Adventure that her and Theo has, you know, to, you
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know, them talking and discussing things to them
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fighting that Rogue spirit. And I am just like super eager
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to find out more information alike Okay.
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Who was that masked? Person that was behind it and
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things of that nature. And yeah, and and I love how,
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you know, her and Sedona, hey, kind of talked and that's how
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she kind of got interested in Theo, because the donut had
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basically told her like, hey somebody's going to come along
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at some point a boy with pointy ears and basically he's going to
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change the game. So yeah, just seeing her when
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she first, you know, kind of was caught in the background during
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the interview portion. And she did something to
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basically like, make the oh, just like flood tears and stuff,
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whatever. And then, like I said, their
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encounter in town, fighting the spirit together, and then
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finding out like, oh no, this is the lady that is in charge of
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everything and she played a very crucial role in this Great War
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of the past. And so, I love how, you know,
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this is just like, we're seeing the kind of like, The tides
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change and basically a new era beginning because she is
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basically kind of like the only person still am in a position of
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power that was involved in this Great War back in the day and
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how a lot of like, the younger generation that are taking these
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various cease of the, I think it was called like the, the 12
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stages of the library. and I'm always a fan whenever we get,
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like, Like do panels introducing a bunch of like basically.
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I quite them to kind of like the like the 12 captains and bleach
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and just like, okay, we kind of get to see these people.
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We know these people are important and so we've only got
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a chance to kind of like interact with like a few of
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them. And so just kind of just it's
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always just exciting just not that okay?
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There's more of these important figures that we're going to have
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to encounter and deal with the various points as we go on
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throughout the series. But yeah, and just learning they
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like Now, Sedona has become, you know, in the seven years since
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he last Saw Theo, Sedona has become, you know, one of these
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one of these key figures here. And so that is just like just
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super dope to see. And of course I always
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appreciate a good bust. Iron mentor and teacher.
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And that is what we get with the lady who is basically in charge
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of teaching this generation of students, how you know, they
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call her the what was her nickname, the trimmer that trez
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lightly. And so just like seeing like the
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one with shoes, like good morning class and she gives us a
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like I can't hear you and this Venture.
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She's like, I can't hear you and it's like a freaking like a
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Spiritual pressure /, white beard Quake, Quake level.
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It's like, what? What, if, what if white beard
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was a, was a librarian and stuff.
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So, but yeah. But just like, just like her
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presence when she's like, hey, you know, people are that there
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are just mad because I know she's an older lady, you know,
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she looks so innocent but it's like, hey, when she demands
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attention, she's going to get your frickin attention.
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But yeah, but I just overall I and I like how the series has a
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variety of characters of no all shades and backgrounds and stuff
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and characters of various ages to where, you know, we have some
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attendees of this class There's some of, you know like the group
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like the core of them or like around like 17 to 20 or so and
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then we have like, in some people, they're like, no early
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20s. That have chopped the exam, a
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half a few times. And then finally, just now
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getting in on the third and fourth trial, and then we even
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have one who is and then we even have one who, you know, she's in
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her 30s, and she's a mother. And then we have somebody who's
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a prodigy whose only like a lie. And so yeah, I just appreciate
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that. There was a variety and age
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range, you know, without the characters, both these people
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that are that are kind of going through this year of training as
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well as you know, with the with the various Costner and people
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in power, how you know, some of them are parents.
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They have their own families and stuff, whatever, and come from
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all walks of life. And edited, it was like very
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dope for, you know, just seeing Theo go on this journey, but I
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also like along the way. You know, he works so hard in
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those seven years while he was training to where he went from
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being this you know poor kid and nobody wanted to talk or
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interact with two now he's kind of like The Shining Jewel of the
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town and how everybody is like rooting for him to succeed.
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But, you know, once he started this journey out into the into
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the Larger World, he's having to deal with those discriminations
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and prejudices again. And a lot of times or a lot
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like, like a reoccurring thing in the series is just like
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people eventually find out. Hey, sometimes, we just need to
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talk, you know, to, to figure out what's going on with the
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problem, or issue because a lot of times, especially when
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there's like so many different races of people, a lot of times
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and people from different backgrounds and stuff.
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It's like, you can't assume that oh this Person is here or got
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here easily or whatever, it's like, no, like we all went
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through a lot. On our journey to try to take
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this exam and to be, you know, a coffin and stuff.
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And so a lot of times it just kind of comes down to the right
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situations coming up and the characters talking and
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interacting with each other by, okay?
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Hey, we just, you know, had a misunderstanding or I didn't
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really, you know, I couldn't really see everything that you
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have gone through and okay, this is why you are the way you are
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now because of some stuff. The happened in your past.
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It's like that because because one person is a Ayah the girl
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who's kind of like top of the class and she has, she seems
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like so, you know, proper and perfect.
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But it's because, you know, when she was younger she had a dream
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of becoming a scholar and stuff like that but hey she wants to
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research the research, the stars and all the stuff, but then like
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being told like know, women can't be Scholars.
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You know, and then just like have her dream Crush at young
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age and that kind of setting her on this path of the, of the
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termination of being like, no, I will Forge my own path.
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I will do. You know what I want to do?
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I want to take full control of my life, but then you also have
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other characters who Shoot, I can remember her name, but the
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one girl, who basically was going off with the teacher and
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basically, you know, taking to the teacher was insulting her
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house, but the teacher being like, nah, you know, I ain't got
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a problem with your family. My problem is you trying to see
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if I can find it. Yeah, Medina.
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Yeah, her name was Medina the student but she just Such deep
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rooted like basically racism and her blood and stuff to worry,
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just a mom or she just like, you know, Theo trying to help and
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she's like don't touch me. You filthy you know makes blood
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or whatever, she called them but but yeah.
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But overall like see this. This has just been just such a
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amazing read for me and I cannot wait for volume 6 to drop later
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this year. Like I said this, this series
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truly came And to my life, right?
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At just the right moment because like I said, I'm kind of just
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going through some things, whatever.
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And it's just kind of just gave me a bit of encouragement and
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just kind of rig knighted some things and some passions within
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me to being like, hey Rob like, you know, you can't sit around
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and you can't wait for somebody to come help bail you out of a
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situation. You know, you're going to take
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grasp of your life and it might be tough to me.
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Be hard but you can do it. You know, if you put, you know,
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your heart and your soul and your mind to it, then you can
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achieve anything. And that is why I like to that
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is why. I just wanted to kind of have a
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little bit of Mama just speak separately on maggots, to the
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library. But like I said, if somehow you
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listen to all this and you still haven't read the series, I
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didn't go into like, Super detail on every aspects like I
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did in that one hour video where I went volume by volume but I
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hope that you know that this at least like gave you a good idea
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of you know of what the series is and what to expect and like
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so I highly encourage you to go out and pick it up, you know, if
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if nothing else. Hey these just go find volume 1
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and check it out. Like I said, it can't is it was
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spent Has published by kodansha comics and yeah like says,
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currently five volumes out. So go check it out, go give it a
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read. And if you are a fan of the
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series, then I let me know, you know, comment down below if
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you're watching the video or hit me up on Twitter Instagram,
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where ever you know I'm at Danny's to talk on all
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platforms. So hit me up.
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Let's talk unless you know spread the greatness of, you
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know, I guess at the library and just how just override is just
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so good because just like the freaking the art of the series
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just like the world-building, the background, everything it is
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just just so freaking good. Yeah.
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And that that that's the girl I do.
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I really enjoy her character and just bend seeing her grow and
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just seeing her, you know, open up and, and everything, and
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that, that is what I love about the, you know, it's like, hey,
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he's there to help out to connect with people and stuff.
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And, you know, and very curious about this girl.
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The one we just met in Volume 5 who is like the kind of like
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mysterious 27th examinee and stuff whatever.
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So but and also I want to know like what is up?
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What is Sedona? his true intentions because the
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book that he lent, the It is one that, you know, Theo told him
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when they re when they met each other again.
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I hey, this book can be very dangerous in the wrong hands
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because of the ideals and stuff that is in there.
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And then that kind of Mama where they kind of, you know, go their
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separate ways again and how you know, Sedona tells them, hey,
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you keep keep the book because I, you know, I'm pretty sure
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you'll find a good use for it later on and how the narrator is
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basically saying like no basket, In that moment.
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I okay. The two met again and our
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departing and how they said the narrator was like, you know, one
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of them destined to save the world and one destined to this
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to destroy. And so that is where I kind of
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like even though I haven't read all of my Gigi and the Labyrinth
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of Magic. I do know enough about Sinbad
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and that is why I like so I kind of get send bad vibes a little
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bit from Sedona as well because he's very charismatic and and
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things like that. But he also seems to have I have
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a are of lie or credit or something darker going on here.
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Same thing with With that, my book.
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Sorry about that same way I kind of feel about, you know, this
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dude Q free from a witch hat Atelier, which another great
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series with beautiful art. I highly recommend.
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If you are somebody who has read magazine library but hasn't read
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which had Atelier read it, read it, read it read.
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It is another fantastic read. Just like Max of library was but
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but yeah I just love you know. Those characters are kind of
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mysterious little Do a little bit dark is okay.
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Hey there's more going on with you than what you're letting on.
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Yeah, I just love it but enough for me just rambling on.
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I'm going to kind of wrap this up here, but yeah.
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Like I say just go check out Macos to the library.
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It is truly a fantastic read and I can say, I feel like, you
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know, it's like safe if you're a fan of world-building and
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character development and All that stuff, whatever.
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Then you can't go wrong with this series but I'm wrapping up
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there, you know, I hope you enjoyed listening to me talk
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about this series, you know, whether you are a fan of it
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already or maybe I've piqued your interest, especially since
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I have talked about it twice in two different things.
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But with that being said, you know, like I always say, treat
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yourself to something nice. Recent manga.
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Watch some anime, play some video games and live your best
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life. Like Sedona Tokyo.
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Become your own hero and write your own story.
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Be be the author of your own story, become your own hero and
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Forge your own path. And with that, I'm done yeah
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I'll be easy. Thanks for listening and or
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watching peace.