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Manga Talk: Dark Gathering Volume 1 · Dad Needs To Talk

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  What's up y'all? And welcome back to Danny's
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  talk. I'm your host.
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  Robert. And today, we're going to be
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  talking about dark Gathering. Vol 1.
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  Now, nor gathering this series is published by Vis, and the
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  story art is done by Kenichi condo.
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  Now Kenichi condo. This is actually their first
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  serialization series, but They did previously work on the grey
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  man, back in the day as an assistant.
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  So dark Gathering is a, it is classified as a supernatural
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  horror, which it is, but I would say it also has a few sprinkles
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  of some comedy moments mixed in as well.
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  Now, some of y'all may know that, you know, your boy Rob.
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  I don't really deal too much with.
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  Horror and spooky stuff for their, but every now and then,
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  you know, try to be open to new things be open to new
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  experiences and solid or gathering is one.
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  That's always caught my attention.
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  Because, how could this kid's face with the weird eyes and
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  stuff? Not piqued your interest.
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  And so with volume 1, just coming out and there's an anime
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  coming out in the summer of twenty twenty-three and a couple
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  of Once I was like, you know what, let me check it out.
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  And so this actually ended up being a pretty solid read.
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  So what this one is about it basically follows.
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  Well, first of all, it follows this kid named Kate, I row
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  again. Toga, who back in middle school,
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  he experienced some suits, basically some Supernatural
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  phenomenon, that happened to him, Because he has always been
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  very sensitive to Spirits. He can't see them, but he's
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  always been like, pretty sensitive to Spirits to spirits.
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  But in the process of a certain incident, one of Caterers
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  friends ended up getting hurt and curse as well as he kind of
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  wanted to Sheltering for a couple of years.
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  But thanks to the help of some friends and family started
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  slowly trying to get back into. To reintegrating into society
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  and stuff. And so it's been a couple of
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  years since caterer has been a shirt in.
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  But Kate I Ro gets a chance to be a tutor of this little kid
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  who actually is a little girl named.
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  Yeah yeah. Oh sookie who actually ends up
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  being the cousin of one of his close childhood, childhood
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  friends named Aiko. So It is so funny how you can
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  look at something over and over and over, but sometimes, just a
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  little details. You don't notice so, I think
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  because of, obviously, the big creepy eyes, the dead giveaway
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  that this potentially might be a girl, is the freaking two giant
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  red ribbons in her hair. So, all this time I thought that
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  this was just like some creepy little boy in till I was reading
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  it. And they mentioned and even in
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  the synopsis on the bag they're like you know, kitaru is
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  tutoring a little girl yada yada yada.
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  I didn't think this little girl was the person on the cover but
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  they, when they introduced a lot.
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  Yeah, here's my little cousin cousin.
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  Her name is joão. And although, and like I said, I
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  thought I finished reading it. I went back and I just like just
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  glancing at the cover and I'm like, oh there's two freaking
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  giant red bows in her hair but by ourselves, so Kitaro.
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  Stuck with or guess a opportunity to tutor this young
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  girl named. Yeah.
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  Oh sookie. Who has these very unique double
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  pupil eyes? And one very cool thing about
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  the eyes is that it allows her to see the real world and the
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  spirit world, which is kind of do pal.
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  You know, this is what she says. She's out of one people what she
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  says out of another and they kind of it all just kind of just
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  mix together now. Yeah, yeah.
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  It's back story as somebody. Who can see spirits Spirits is
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  that she was involved in an accident where it's simulators,
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  very bad, powerful Spirit caused their family vehicle to have a
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  car crash. And then seemingly her mother
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  Spirit got taken by this evil. Here is so iäôs been on a
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  journey hunting down curses and Spirits trying to find the one
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  that took her mother. And so that is kind of what
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  brings our kind of two main characters together.
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  And even the cousin Aika she's pretty much along with all the
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  adventures and stuff as well because she pretty much drives
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  them all around. To all these different, a
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  supernatural locations that yeah.
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  Wants to go and visit and stuff. And so so yeah.
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  So it's Like I said, it's pretty much just a series of just these
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  characters going on these Supernatural Adventures to these
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  haunted locations. While you're.
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  Yeah, I was trying to hunt down the spirit that took her mother
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  and also, you know, trying to help kotaro overcome this curse
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  that he has on his arm. So all in all I would say, this
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  was a pretty solid first volume and honestly kind of makes me
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  interested in checking out the chicken out the anime because
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  just like look at it. Like some of these cool panel.
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  I really love this powder with her, with her sword, and kind of
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  curl bar, looking thing that she uses when fighting spirits and
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  stuff, but there's lots of like Really creepy Vibes are stuff
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  going on in this that I'm like, if the anime can yell, I think
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  that the anime might end up being a better showcase for this
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  series and all of its creepiness and stuff versus in the manga.
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  But like I said, it was a pretty solid first read and maybe after
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  maybe reading another volume, you know, it might grab me even
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  more but like I said, if somebody who isn't Be too big
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  into horror stuff. This was a pretty solid
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  introductory thing and like I said, just enough Supernatural
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  elements and stuff and some mystery they made me want to
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  know more about what is going on with these characters.
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  Wouldn't, and with this world, like, what exactly is going on
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  with y'all and the Dual pupils and stuff?
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  Which, like I said, that's, that's a very cool design and
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  trait. And like I said there, there's
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  like some like Some nice little sprinkles of comedic moments all
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  throughout. So it's not just all tense and
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  horror and creepy the whole time.
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  And when the other kind of like cool things, I want to point out
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  as well. Is that, like, I mentioned while
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  ago? Yeah, yeah.
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  Is not only fighting, but I also capturing all these different
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  spirits and stuff that she is encountering.
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  And she is basically trapping them inside of all of these
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  dolls with in her room. And we found out later on that.
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  She is using the dolls as best typically.
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  Like proxies so that as she is going out and encountering these
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  different spirits and stuff, whatever she basically put a
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  piece of herself, whether it be strand of hair, fingernail,
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  whatever blood and to all of these dolls.
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  So, they basically, if she ends up getting injured, then that
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  pain, just redirects to one of these dogs.
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  So, basic kind of like gave it like, like, even like extra
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  lives and stuff. Like she spent like like in a
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  video game. Which is which is a pretty cool
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  costume thing. Like to just kind of adds even
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  more creepy revives, you like you going to do this little
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  girl's room is just filled with all these stuffed animals, but
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  it's like, no, he's like evil and really bad, cursed, Spirits
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  or inside of there and other kind of cool thing too is that
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  like all the curse Spirits kind of keep each other in check
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  because none of them want to get hurt.
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  And so they basically kind of keep each other in check because
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  if one of them tries to rebel and tries to attack.
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  Yeah, yeah directly. Well that pain will just get
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  redirected to all the other spirits and so they kind of have
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  this kind of like, like rock paper, scissors type of
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  relationship. So, to speak to wear one of
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  them's like, hey, I'm going to take you and others persons I
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  know you not. Because I am not trying to find
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  no pain, bro. You know, whatever, beef you
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  got, keep that to yourself. And so I just found that just
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  pretty Fascinating like said that they kind of touch on some
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  of that stuff arm and what, you know, we've kind of seen a lot
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  because we even saw it on display because there's like
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  this big spirit that she got a piece of and tossed into the
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  room with the other spirits. And they started tormenting this
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  one because when y'all was fighting the spirit, all the
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  pain that she was enduring with getting redirected to all the
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  plushies back in her room and so So when she brought back a piece
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  of that Spirits, like yo, this is the one responsible for all
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  y'alls paint earlier. They started attacking it and
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  the spirits of the Beggars, like you, oh, please help me.
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  And so, y'all gave it a piece of herself so they basically just
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  like balance everything out again.
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  So but yeah, like I said, all in all, this was a pretty
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  interesting first volume and like I said, I am definitely
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  interested. I don't know if I'm a pickup.
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  The next volume, but I will, for sure be checking out the anime
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  when it drops in July. And so, like I said, if any of
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  this sounds interesting, the volumes are now, like I said,
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  it's, you know, standard via. So, 10 bucks or cheaper,
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  depending on where you buy it at, or like I said, maybe check
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  out the anime where that drops in a couple of months.
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  So but there are gathering vol 1, like I said, it's a solid
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  spooky introduction for your boy.
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  Oi one that I'll be coming back to when when the anime drops in
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  a couple of months but that's pretty much going to be all for
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  that for me today. So, thank you so much for
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  watching and listening. Let me know if you've checked
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  out dark Gathering and if so let me know what you think, and if
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  you haven't checked it out, let me know.
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  Did you plan on checking it out? Or will you beat maybe checking
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  out the anime when it drops later also.
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  But, but yeah, I'm gonna, I'm gonna, I'm gonna try to venture
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  out and check out maybe a couple more horror and spooky things.
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  And I got to just dip my toe into it, but but as always,
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  thank you so much for watching or listening and I'll catch you
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  on the next one. Yeah, I'll be easy piece.
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  And I got to just dip my toe into it, but but as always,
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  thank you so much for watching or listening and I'll catch you
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  on the next one. Yeah, I'll be easy piece.