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Manga Talk: Steel of the Celestial Shadows Volume 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
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  today we are talking about still of the Celestial Shadows volume
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  one. Now this is one of the first
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  manga I new manga I have read. They should have kicked off 2024
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  and if this is an indication of how great manga might be this
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  year, then we might be in for a treat.
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  So still of the Celestial Shadows.
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  First off, it is Lord. The story of art is done by
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  Daruma Matsura and the volumes are going to be published by Viz
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  Media. So still of the celestial
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  shadows. So this one caught my attention
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  both by the name and the cover art.
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  If you're watching the video version of this, you'll have it
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  up on screen. If not, go look up what the
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  cover of this looks like, because it is one that at least
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  like grabs your eye for a little bit.
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  Just with how they have Silky, the the woman, her in the
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  background, Canelsky the main MC guy, kind of like looking
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  disheveled and stuff. Whatever kind of shadowed out.
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  And then the text in red. Very nice looking cover that
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  grabs your attention. And so I decided to to reach out
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  for a digital review copy. Shout out to Vist for providing
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  that, just on my curiosity. I didn't even really read much
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  of A synopsis or whatever. I was just like this cover looks
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  dope and interesting, let me check it out.
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  And so this story pretty much follows a on a super basic
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  level, it is about a samurai who can't touch metal, thus he can't
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  hold a sword. A traditional samurai sword.
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  So Konosuke basically was raised up and trained up in the way of
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  a samurai. So he knows how to wield, or he
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  knows how to fight and do combat or whatever, supposedly.
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  But you know, he's always mainly had to train with wooden or
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  bamboo swords or whatever, 'cause he can't hold a metal
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  sword. And to be clear, he can't
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  interact with any metal, period. Not just sores, like jewelry,
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  money, anything. If he gets close to whatever it
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  basically he like repels it or deflects it or whatever.
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  So kind of like kind of like maybe like like a like A twist
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  on Magneto sort of speak, whatever Ben who saw.
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  So he spent most of his life after, you know, some tragedy
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  happens in his youth or whatever that he felt like was at his
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  fault because he couldn't hold a sword to protect someone or
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  whatever. He's kind of just lived his
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  life, you know, just along with an assistant or whatever,
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  because he can't handle money or certain things, whatever.
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  So he needs somebody to help him.
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  And so one day he goes in trying to find a job, whatever.
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  They make fun of him because he's a samurai who, he's a quote
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  UN quote samurai who can't wield a sword.
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  And also small things you don't think about when you can't deal
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  with metal is because he can't deal with metal, whatever.
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  He can't really get shaved cause the blade will just reflect off
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  his skin. So he looks, you know, just like
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  bad facial hair and stuff, whatever, 'cause he can't get it
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  trimmed or whatever. And so they're like, no dude,
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  like if if if you can't even come in looking presentable
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  shaving and stuff, whatever, then no, you're not going to get
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  a job. So he's feeling kind of down and
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  out or whatever and ready to just kind of give up on life and
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  stuff. And so some guys are kind of
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  coming by, he picks up, he picks a fight with them because he's
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  like, you know what? If nothing else, I'd rather die
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  by the sword. And so this is when they kind of
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  like start to kind of really show off his ability or whatever
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  or the thing that's going on whatever is that he picks a
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  fight the guy goes to cut down on, cut him down and he's know
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  basically went to embrace sweet release the sword gets like
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  right upon his face and then just like to flex back on the
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  dude and staff to do they try to attack him whatever.
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  And so that kind of starts off this snowball of events and
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  stuff that kind of leads him to being rescued and then ending,
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  ending up getting a wedding invitation from a mysterious
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  woman named Silky who is like, hey, I want to marry you,
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  whatever. And of course a very beautiful
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  woman just comes out of nowhere and is like, hey, random,
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  seemingly random person or whatever I want to rent.
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  I want to marry you, whatever. And here's all this money to pay
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  for the wedding and da da da da, and now we're husband and wife.
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  And that's kind of like the basis of the situation or
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  whatever. And so anyway, lots of little
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  situations and stuff happen along the way.
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  I'm not going to, I don't want to spoil every single thing,
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  whatever. But another kind of
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  confrontation happens to where he ends up finding out they're
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  like, oh OK, I actually can fight even without a proper
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  sword. All that training he's done all
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  his life, actually. He actually has skills to fight
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  and stuff. Whatever.
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  And that kind of brings him and his now wife kind of closer
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  together and they kind of start living a little bit of a happier
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  life. And then he kind of gets this
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  introduction to this kind of more mystical realm and starts
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  to get answers into this problem that he's had with not being
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  able to touch metals. But it's more specifically
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  warping metals. And they have an encounter with
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  the guy who can't manipulate water, like, water of all sorts
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  because they're in the house. And like, man, like, my mouth is
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  feeling dry, whatever. And like, they go to, like the
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  the little, like, pot for water. Isn't this like?
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  And the summit, the the assistant guy?
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  Like, like, dude, I swear I just filled up the thing with water.
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  I don't know what's going on. So crops and stuff outside
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  ground is looking dry. Oh, thank you.
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  Downpour. Rain is OK, it's raining
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  whatever, but the ground is still dry.
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  And so it begins this confrontation with this guy
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  that's coming to get his wife and kind of likes it in the
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  process while this whatever, it kind of starts to open up the
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  door of answers of hey, there is this whole other part of world
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  or society where there are a lot of people that have special
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  powers of special techniques like like this guy who can
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  basically manipulate water or like you who can warp metals.
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  And so that's kind of in a basic nutshell, how things kind of
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  leave off. A bit of like a little bit of a
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  Cliff thing, a little bit of a tease at the end of the.
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  Volume. But Oh yeah, it it just like
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  really blew up in the door of my interest in this because like I
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  said, like, like early on I was a little bit interested.
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  And then the moment where the sword came down and then kind of
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  deflected, I was like, oh, what's going on, 'cause, like I
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  said, I didn't really read the read the synopsis.
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  So I don't even know if this was in the synopsis or not, but I
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  was like, oh, you have my interest here, What is going on?
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  And then like I said towards the end, it's like, OK, now there's
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  more people out there that have abilities and stuff like you or
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  whatever. So 'cause matter of fact, I
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  think I'm trying to think. I think she even has an ability
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  of some sort, some. I can't remember if it was
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  something to do with dreams or something, but yeah, I can't.
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  I can't find it, but I don't. I don't need to spoil
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  everything, whatever. So best overall, very strong
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  first impression and I definitely look forward to
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  reading some more volumes of this.
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  I don't know if I'm immediately read volume to or depending on
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  what the release dates and stuff, whatever, maybe wait and
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  let a couple more volumes and then read a couple volumes at a
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  time. But, but yeah, like I said, I am
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  definitely very interested to see where this might go.
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  But this is a strong start. Like I said, just like the
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  overall ideal package to start things off with.
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  A beautiful volume cover, interesting title and a very
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  interesting premise and stuff. So, so yeah, so that is a still
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  of the celestial shadows. Like I said from Viz Media, put
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  it on your radar. It should be out within the next
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  couple of weeks or it might already be out by the time
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  you're releasing this comma. Try to release this close to the
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  release of of the volume coming out of English.
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  But but yeah, this is a pretty strong start for 2024 manga.
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  And I got some other stuff I got lined up that I want to check
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  out and stuff, but I like to talk about the stuff that has my
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  interest wireless fresh on my mind before I go trying to read
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  a bunch of other stuff at the same time.
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  So, but but yeah, very, very good stuff.
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  And I am looking forward to seeing where this goes.
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  But yeah, let me know Y'all thoughts down below.
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  Is this something that piques your interest or is it something
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  that you've already been checking out and that you're
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  happy that it's finally getting a physical release?
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  Let me know, Let's talk. And as always, you can find me
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  everywhere Danisatalk. Make sure you're subscribed on
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  YouTube and following on podcast services and I'll catch y'all in
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  the next review or the next podcast episode.
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  And y'all be easy peace.