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2022 Favorites: Manga w/ Oliva Sudden · 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, today, I am joined by
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  a very special guest. I am joined by Brie.
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  What is up brie? Hey, how's it going?
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  Good. How are you doing today?
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  I'm doing excellent. I'm very happy to be here.
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  So thank you for giving me this opportunity.
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  Yes, definitely. So for those new listeners and
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  Watchers, This episode is part of my 2022.
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  Favorites that I am doing this week that y'all are saying this
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  tour each day. This week I am going through a
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  different subject with a different guest where we talk
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  about everything from manga anime movies TV, and video
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  games. And so of course this episode
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  today is about manga. And so When I was brainstorming
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  on, who do I know that as always talking manga, always popping
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  up, something new and interesting.
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  I was like, Bri Bri is the person Bree is the one.
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  You thank you so much. Oh my gosh.
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  Yes for sure. Cuz I'm so forth.
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  I guess, for a little bit of background for this is whatever.
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  So Bri is a Dope person that I met through just the anime and
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  manga community on Twitter. And I don't even know if I have
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  found you first or vice versa. But I found you first because
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  through you then I was able to access like the whole blurred
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  Community. Like honestly.
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  Well hey I am I will gladly take the achievement for the for for
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  being the the Gateway. Person you doing the Lord's
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  work. Glad glad to help cuz ya cuz ya
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  meet me and you connected on Twitter and I feel like we just
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  just naturally Just Vibe because because you were always just
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  posting some interesting or unique manga, panels and stuff.
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  And I'm always like, what is this?
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  What is that? That great Granite.
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  I will say you you are pretty good though, about at least like
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  most of the time. Like noting what it is that
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  you're posting. So that's what I can acknowledge
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  and thank you. I always find myself asking and
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  also, I'm really awkward. So I also kind of hate asking so
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  I always try to include it like when I post.
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  Yes indeed. Yeah.
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  Cuz I cuz I could so many times it's like Like, like I, like I
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  said, just so you should, you see a very cool panel or or a
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  screenshot, or a clip from a show or whatever.
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  And sometimes it is like, Help me out here.
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  Like what do I want impossible to find the sauce?
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  It's like they keep it hidden. Well, I guess it's secret sauce.
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  I love it, I love it as sauce. Oh yeah.
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  So that that is how, you know, we we kind of came together and
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  like I said here, here we are today to discuss our favorite
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  manga. We read this year.
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  And I feel like this is going to be a very dope list cuz I know I
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  have read some really cool things.
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  I think probably a lot of my stuff at least, if anybody
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  that's been listening to my show for a while.
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  Y'all have more than likely, probably heard me talk about
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  some of these series, a lot across this year, but you know,
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  that's also why I wanted to bring in.
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  In somebody else, a new voice as well.
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  Like I said, the did that could help introduce to potentially
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  some even more dope, amazing things.
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  Thank you. Yes.
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  So before we kick things off, so Bree, if you am, I sharing, how
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  long have you been into manga? And do you remember?
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  Was it like a specific series or something?
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  Like, you really got you into it?
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  Yeah, I could definitely pinpoint it.
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  So, a bit of background, I grew up in a pretty conservative
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  household, in South Florida, or well, not South Florida.
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  But basically the Northwest Panhandle and my grandma made me
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  read every summer because I kind of sucked at reading from the
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  get-go. Yeah, I'm dyslexic.
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  So I really do have trouble with like just the letters and
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  numbers and everything. So she just like, dropped me off
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  at the library every day of summer pretty much and just like
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  go read. And the only thing that I really
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  wanted to read was a New Asha nice.
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  Yeah, and I I love that Series so much and it was the perfect
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  like, starter series to get me addicted.
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  And it's got everything you need like, wonderful story, great,
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  husbands enough, but it's very good fantasy like it's a
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  wonderful starter. Manga, awesome.
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  And I am curious. So, wait with you starting with
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  Inuyasha did the library Have the full series or at least have
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  the beginning or was it just a random volume?
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  You picked up? So they did have all of them but
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  it was like really hard to get them all at one time because I
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  guess bunch of other people also like them.
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  So I would always like have my list.
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  Like I would keep notes on which one I was current on and what
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  page I was on and always try to hunt down like would recent one
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  I could. Yes, yes, yeah, that.
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  Yeah the the struggle of Of dealing with Community stuff
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  like that because, you know, like you said just by having to
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  make a note of like, okay, what page was a long was on what
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  volume was on and then it's like going back in his like crap.
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  It's not here or exactly. And that's why I think my mind
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  is blown so much on the switch to like digital reading.
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  It's so much smoother. Yes, yes, cuz it's like you you
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  for the most part, pretty much always have access to it.
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  It no matter where you go, depending on if you know, if you
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  have a certain apps or stuff or even certain sites will happen,
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  bookmark stuff for you help you keep track of stuff.
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  So yeah, think thank you. Technology is love to be alive
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  during this time. Period looking exactly.
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  Exactly. Yeah, cuz yeah, he had the the
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  struggle but that that is very dope that that your grandmother
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  dropped. You are off blossomed, you know,
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  your love of manga and I'll kind of mention for myself just in
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  case of somebody's listen to this for the first time.
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  So for me, I ended up getting into manga back when I was in
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  high school because of Naruto because Growing Up.
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  So for, for me, Naruto end up kind of being a Gateway for me.
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  Not only For manga, but also for getting into subtitled anime
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  because I got tired of waiting for every Saturday for a new
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  episode. And then I discover the oh wait,
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  I can find stuff online and there are hundreds of episodes
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  of head, so I jump to that. And then eventually when I
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  caught up to that, I'm like crap.
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  Now I'm at another brick wall and I was like, wait, there's
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  manga, there is like a book form of this?
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  That is even further Beyond and That is how I kind of got my
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  start with mangas with, with Naruto back in high school.
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  So that's awesome. Yes, so so we we all have a
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  place that that we started from. And the other question I asked
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  you to is Are you madly primarily a manga reader or do
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  you also enjoy some anime? What is kind of like your
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  balance with the to definitely and I would say I primarily Read
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  Manga and also as background I am a mom and so definitely when
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  it comes to like what's easier definitely Maga but when I can't
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  I always liked watching. Good anime love love love yes.
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  Yes. A and and you mentioning that
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  you're a mom, that that is another thing.
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  That we ended up connecting over as well.
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  That came out that I think you might have made, like, like a
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  random comment or tweet or something about having a
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  daughter and I was like, wait. Now the do you know, do you be
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  talking about dope manga, but you're also a fellow parent.
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  So Ryan's is that we kind of had that that other Cool thing to
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  kind of, you know, Bond and be able to converse said about so
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  social shout-out announce, I'm sorry, go ahead sorry.
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  No I was just going to say that was really exciting for me as
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  well because I've like not met any other parents that are also
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  nerds so I'm really happy that there's like Community for that
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  online. Yes, exactly.
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  And that that's all about the cell.
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  Yeah. Shout out to all of the nerdy
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  parents out. There you are not alone. cuz cuz
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  that that is kind of why I I tried to talk about family and
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  everything amongst with, you know, the Manga and Anime other
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  subs. I'll talk about whatever just
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  because I know sometimes some people might feel like oh, you
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  know, I've had a kid or whatever and I'm grown adult to whatever.
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  I can't do this other stuff in his, I know you can, you know,
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  you can parents being adults and still enjoy the things that you
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  want to enjoy as evidenced by the shelf of Manga, that is
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  overflowing behind me. Yes, definitely it is.
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  Okay to like spend time on your hobbies as a parent.
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  And definitely I feel like our kids would probably think us for
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  it as well because it kind of gives them the opportunity to
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  see all this cool stuff. Exactly, exactly.
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  Yes, I shut out to all the, all the cool nerdy parents out
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  there. All right, so all right, so next
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  I kind of want to To ask you real quick before we start
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  diving into the top 10, is this year and manga.
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  So for the year 2022, how do you feel things went?
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  As far as like the just like with the variety of series that
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  came in, came out this year and things like that did.
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  Did you find yourself? Overwhelmed with too much to
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  read. Or did you feel like it was this
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  just a cool a little bit. Yeah, it can feel really
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  overwhelming especially with all the new releases and there was
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  some good competition this year. Like there was some really good
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  reads. Yes, yeah, I agree with you too.
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  Yeah, it's it feels like a lot of these companies are kind of
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  finally seeing like oh hey there is, you know.
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  Oh, there there is people out there, they're want these series
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  as so I have definitely been enjoying seeing this kind of
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  like a new era. So, to speak of like, so many
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  series getting published and license and picked up and stuff.
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  It has been so cool and both for stuff that I was already aware
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  of. But I also love just any Time.
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  Like, I don't know, there's or Yen press, or one of the
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  Publishers, do like their little things like, hey here's, you
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  know, here's our new series, that we've licensed this month
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  or whatever, and they just seeing people in the comments
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  being like, finally, I have been talking about the series for
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  years and now other people. Other people can experience
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  this. So that that is just always
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  enjoy. Seeing the excitement that comes
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  with all right, something else is coming.
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  Definitely. And that's another good reason
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  that I really like the community on Twitter especially like the
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  nerd and like update Community because it's just that
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  excitement for a new release that you've really been waiting
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  for getting to share that with everybody.
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  Like, I definitely haven't been able to always do that in the
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  past. So I definitely really like I'm
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  thankful to be able to. Yeah, exactly.
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  And I feel like kind of like what we talked about earlier
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  just like the The cool thing about being into the stuff for,
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  with how technology and how connected and stuff we are.
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  I feel like if you search hard enough, you will pretty much
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  find somebody out there to talk about any Series so that's
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  awesome. Yes.
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  Exactly. Because because, because I know,
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  you know, like, growing up, you know, it's like, oh, I love this
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  thing but it's like, I don't know anybody local to talk about
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  this stuff with so so yeah yes I was like I'm just a lone fan by
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  myself. I guess just solo championing
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  this series so you bring it up in conversation and everybody's
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  like what what are you talking about?
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  Exactly. Exactly though sometimes I still
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  feel like that sometimes which are now kind of where as I can.
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  As of Honor, sometimes because yeah, a lot of a lot of series
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  that I've been reviewing. Since I started doing this
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  stuff, have been some, some lesser-known series and so, it's
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  obviously kind of cool sometimes to work with somebody comments
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  on one of my episodes about. Hey, I've never even heard of
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  this series but you know, your description over there or
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  whatever sounds interested. I'm gonna check it out.
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  That's pretty cool. Definitely.
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  That always has me smiling like super big.
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  Yes. Yes exactly.
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  Alrighty. So breed are you?
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  Are you ready to start diving into our top 10 list?
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  I'm ready. Alrighty, so, so since you're my
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  guest today, I will let you do the honor of kicking us off with
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  what is your on your number 10 - This year and what?
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  Thank you. And I'm starting off with horror
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  because of course I am, just a bit of background.
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  Most of these will be horror stories because I have a huge
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  biased against that. Oh, hmm.
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  And my number 10 entry is actually going to be a twofer,
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  so it's curly Han and she Rohan, and that translates to black
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  book, or white book and their horror Anthology series and Oh,
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  they're so wonderful and truly like creepy.
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  And they make you think about like the actual events taking
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  place, especially long after you're done reading.
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  Yeah, and they are really unique like they weave elements of like
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  Buddhism into the story. And I really, really enjoyed
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  that, because as somebody who really is a huge fan of horror,
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  it's hard to find those unique little twists like things can
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  start to run together and feel the same.
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  So I really like it. I've actually because I'm trying
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  to look it up now because I don't think I've ever even heard
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  of the series. Hmm, there are a quite a few of
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  them like he has a theme of listing the color and then ihan
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  so tone. So yeah.
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  And they all are kind of co-related, but the story's very
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  Meandering, like it goes all over the place.
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  Yeah. And it always has that.
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  Hmm. Something's not quite right
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  here. You're like, mmm, that face is
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  getting a little bit too close. So really it just has very
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  unsettling energy and atmosphere to it that I really love.
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  Awesome, awesome. And I see I have somebody I feel
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  like horror is something I want to start dipping my toe into but
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  I am also a big dad, baby, so maybe my feel that.
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  Me a horror having really a mixed to well before, but it has
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  been something that I have admired from afar.
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  So, so I'm definitely up for making note of your list as with
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  this one and as we continue to go forward because who knows,
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  maybe I'll find one or two to, to try out awesome.
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  And yes, and I definitely recommend this one because it's
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  not It too scary, and it also mixes in a bit of comedy, with
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  the scary. So it's like a good starting
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  point. Okay.
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  Okay, cool. So for my number 10, which I got
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  this, right? So my number 10 is is a manga
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  there was just a fun surprise for me earlier this year and
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  that is Rooster fighter. Yes sir.
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  Rooster fighter, pretty much follows a literal rooster, that
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  fights demons. Oh my goodness.
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  That's an amazing premise. Wow.
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  Yes. So when, when I, when I kind of
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  came across it or when I first started hearing about it earlier
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  this year, when I heard that it was coming, I honestly did not
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  know what to expect going into it.
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  And so when I got the volume and I started reading through Do it.
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  The first thing that stuck out to me was how insanely detailed
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  the art of that manga was like I guess for comparisons, if
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  anybody has ever seen anybody like the super detailed like a
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  one-punch man my battles. Wow.
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  Yes it is. That level of detail but it is a
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  rooster fighting demons. That sounds amazing.
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  Okay, I definitely have to check that out.
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  Yes, yes, so yeah, it's a newer series.
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  Like I said, I think there is I think it's about two volumes out
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  now that have come out of the come out in English so far.
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  But but yeah, it was just just a very just a fun series called, I
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  guess I wanted to and not expecting much or whatever, but
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  was blown away likes it by by the, by the Arts and just the
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  core. Action because he, he literally
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  does like a deep inhale and he literally does a cockadoodledoo
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  likes a sound shock wave attack. Oh my Lord.
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  Wow, I love how creative that is.
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  Yes, yes, exactly. And but yeah, but yeah.
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  So say it's a rooster father is a really fun and dope one.
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  Y'all go check that one out. So what is your your number
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  nine? Yes, my number nine is also a
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  horror Anthology series called PTSD radio, and it is amazing.
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  Ah, so you've heard of that one? Yes, yes, yes, hmm.
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  I love it so much. Really I would say I would put
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  it in the same camp as she really Han and curly Han because
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  it's got a lot of Comedy. Also has the Meander and
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  storylines, but in this sense, it kind of it becomes bigger
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  than the stories and like you can definitely see a lot more
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  interconnectivity and like one of the really fun things I like
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  about it. At the end of each chapter, you
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  have this like here, God, that I just shows up that's ever
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  present through the story. Three.
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  And it's just getting closer and closer to you with each chapter.
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  And so, I always just love checking for that and just
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  seeing like, how you doing here God interesting.
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  Yeah. So this, this is definitely one
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  that I saw you post some panels for that were both intriguing
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  and like very striking. Yeah, the visual art and stuff
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  over. It's Very, very eye-catching.
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  Mmm. Yeah, and this one, I would also
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  say it answered up on the creep, out Factor.
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  Definitely this one try. This is to actually get under
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  your skin with like, trying to gross you out.
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  And I will say it succeeded with that with me.
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  Cuz cuz yeah, it was definitely some panels outside cuz cuz not
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  fair because I think that not long after I saw you posting
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  about it. One time I happen to To be at
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  the store and I Barnes and Nobles or something.
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  And I happen to pick up a volume and I'll just kind of just like
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  flipping through it and I was like that back on the Shelf, you
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  go things. Like, oh yeah, let's leave that
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  for another time. Exactly.
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  So but, but yeah, I have heard people that have been picking up
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  those volumes that they've been really enjoying it.
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  So, so that that is a very, very dope one. so so for my number
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  nine, I also kind of have a on the phone to do this or not.
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  Yeah, I'ma do it. I want to make a an executive
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  decision. Okay, so I'm a I'm a kind of
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  sneak into into the slot just because both of these series I
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  haven't really gotten too much into, like, any, like, fantasy
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  romance series too much as so. I am kind of, like, slowly
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  diving into some stuff and try some stuff out and both of these
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  were actually webtoons, and one of them is called villains are
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  destined to die. Okay, and I think I've heard of
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  that one. Yes.
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  And the other one is the remarried empress.
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  Now with a villains are destined to die.
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  So the basic set for that one is that we basically have our main
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  character, she basically grew up in a home with her father and
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  her two half Brothers Nobody in the house seems to seem to care
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  about her whatever and pretty much.
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  You just shoot just waiting for until she got of age to her.
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  She can move out as so she does. She goes off to college starts,
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  finally, living her life and she ends up getting sucked into her.
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  Getting some getting intrigued by this, like popular romance
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  mobile game that everybody is playing and long story short.
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  She basically one day wakes up as the villain of the game.
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  Wow. Oh my gosh, that sounds amazing.
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  Yes, because I saw cuz cuz the game itself has two modes so has
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  like a the, I guess, I guess like the normal mode, where you
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  play as the the the long-lost daughter of this Duke, who Who
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  basically you, you got you got, you got separated at Birth or
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  not not at Birth them in your Youth.
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  And basically, during this time, they end up finding an orphan
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  girl who kind of looks like you. And so, she's kind of took the
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  took the daughters place for several years.
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  And then on the 18th birthday, they find the missing daughter
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  and she comes back into the house.
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  And so that that is kind of like, kind of like the normal
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  play through where you're old. The missing daughter, the
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  everybody loves or whatever. Well, if you play, the the game
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  on hard mode you play as quote, unquote, the villain, which is
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  the adopted daughter. That everybody seems to have a
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  problem with and stuff. And the cool thing I love about
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  this series is that, or I guess more like, like, an interesting
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  thing is that the game that she is in, it is kind of like a Like
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  a game where you have dialogue options and starting off, that
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  is the only way she is allowed to speak.
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  So, if somebody's talking to her unless, like, in, like, unless
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  in the game, it gives her the three dialogue options.
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  She literally has no ability to even speak at all.
• 26:53
  Yes, S 0 S 0 fast. Forwarding a little bit.
• 26:57
  Basically she she ends up triggering something in the game
• 27:01
  to where she's able to turn off the multiple choice option, and
• 27:06
  she is now able to speak freely and so that kind of starts to
• 27:13
  change how things are playing out, how the story is going
• 27:17
  because it is no longer on this set path of.
• 27:21
  Okay, this person is only going to say the one of these three
• 27:24
  things is now she just has just free speech and So, yeah.
• 27:29
  So that, that is kind of like that one.
• 27:31
  Yes, yes, yes, I'll that. That one was kind of like a like
• 27:35
  a the general Crux of that one and the other one, the remarried
• 27:41
  Empress. So this one, once again, like so
• 27:49
  is this a fantasy romance series?
• 27:50
  But basically, you have this Empress, where I came in, Ember
• 28:00
  empress a her husband. The a basically he goes on a
• 28:04
  hunting trip one day and he supposedly finds this woman that
• 28:10
  he did. The seems to be injured or
• 28:13
  whatever. And basically he brings her
• 28:15
  back, he ends up kind of fallen in love with her and he takes
• 28:19
  her in as I kiss, his mistress. Now and his kingdom, you know,
• 28:27
  they're, they're allowed to have Mistresses and stuff.
• 28:29
  So it's like no big secret. But but you see that he is
• 28:35
  throwing the show like more attention, more affection, and
• 28:38
  all the stuff to this mistress versus the actual Empress
• 28:42
  well-known. Yes.
• 28:44
  As so things start to happen and pretty much he ends up kicking
• 28:51
  the a to the curve to her Mary. The mysterious well surprised he
• 28:58
  doesn't he didn't expect the empress requests.
• 29:02
  She's okay. You want to be with her?
• 29:04
  That's fine. But I but I want to I'm putting
• 29:08
  in a request to be remarried and they're like okay, well little
• 29:13
  do they know she already also has somebody waiting in the
• 29:17
  wings. I like this.
• 29:21
  It sounds messy. Yes, yes. and, and the crazy
• 29:26
  thing is, is that That's how it starts.
• 29:29
  So so the manga like the first few Part of the, of the first
• 29:35
  chapter, whatever it just starts off with.
• 29:38
  Hey, I'm real. I'm getting remarried or
• 29:39
  whatever. And she's okay, well, I got this
• 29:41
  dude. And then, the story does a
• 29:44
  flashback to, like, six months or however, long prior to win
• 29:49
  all this mess started. And so you actually get to see
• 29:54
  what was going on, how how the messiness happened and stuff.
• 29:59
  So I'm So yeah. So I had to kind of shout out
• 30:02
  both of these equally and the R&B.
• 30:04
  Both of them is so freaking beautiful.
• 30:06
  Cuz of course with the better webtoons, they are both fully
• 30:10
  colored. And they are some beautiful
• 30:13
  vibrant color colorful Series. So slightly they're somewhat
• 30:18
  real gems and webtoons and wow I got to check out both of those.
• 30:22
  Yes. Yes definitely.
• 30:24
  Yeah. And yeah, I feel like feel like
• 30:26
  this year was the year right? Truly, really started diving
• 30:32
  into more webtoons more because because I feel like I haven't
• 30:36
  really read too many, I think probably, Solo leveling, and
• 30:43
  maybe one other one a long time ago before I even knew what
• 30:48
  webtoons was then what was it? A rest storm.
• 30:54
  I read that story that was a long time ago, that was really
• 30:56
  dope to bomb, but yeah but this year I just kind of just started
• 31:01
  trying to Branch out a bit more and it's okay.
• 31:03
  There's some cool stuff over here.
• 31:05
  Let me see what's going on the flame.
• 31:08
  They got way too much cool stuff to sleep on it.
• 31:10
  So definitely anybody who hasn't checked out webtoon.
• 31:13
  So highly suggest it. Yes, yes, I agree.
• 31:17
  Alrighty. So moving on to what is your
• 31:20
  number eight? Yes, and my number is also a
• 31:24
  whore, but at the same time, it's not Anthology.
• 31:28
  This is a complete like contained story and that's
• 31:30
  actually one of the things I really like about it.
• 31:33
  It's called Hideout to kind of set the scene for the story,
• 31:39
  young couple who is going through some marriage issues.
• 31:43
  I won't elaborate on our on an Island Getaway and the husband
• 31:49
  says hey let's go for a drive and it Quickly goes south like
• 31:53
  very quickly and, wow, just all of the shocks and twists and
• 31:59
  turns. Like it has you the guessing
• 32:01
  what's going to happen? Every single second, you're
• 32:03
  reading it and it has a very satisfying ending as well.
• 32:07
  That I really liked. And overall this one has some
• 32:11
  amazing art, like mind-blowing Lee detailed art.
• 32:14
  I highly recommend it. Awesome.
• 32:17
  Yeah. Cuz and I'm saying some okay.
• 32:19
  So, yeah, sorry, it's a pretty sure every caste It's just one
• 32:22
  volume mhm. Yeah.
• 32:26
  Okay. I stayed now that this might be
• 32:28
  one, I might be able to put on my big boy pants in and try out
• 32:33
  and be a little short Journey. But okay.
• 32:35
  That sounds interesting. I don't and I'm looking at yes,
• 32:40
  like a couple of little images and stuff, whatever you need.
• 32:44
  Hmm. It was really really good.
• 32:47
  Hmm. And now it gets intense.
• 32:49
  I do have to warn you like This is not really for the faint of
• 32:54
  heart and I wouldn't recommend reading it in the dark like I
• 32:57
  did that did not help but definitely it's a great read
• 33:02
  really wonderful story. Awesome, awesome.
• 33:07
  So my number 8 and get it pulled up.
• 33:15
  So my number eight is a, I will call this a rising star and
• 33:22
  shown in jumps catalog right now and that is a Kane Bonacci.
• 33:29
  No, I want to check that out so badly.
• 33:32
  Yes. So this is the one that is about
• 33:36
  about a young lady who is basically and on a journey of
• 33:43
  becoming a professional Rock, go person.
• 33:46
  And for those who do not know rock ago is a form of
• 33:51
  Storytelling to are, basically kind of think it was kind of
• 33:55
  like a stage play, but it's just a single person.
• 33:59
  Who sits on the stage solo and they might have maybe like a fan
• 34:03
  or something as a prop. But other than that, it is just
• 34:06
  one person on the stage kind of like retelling a story where
• 34:14
  they do all the characters and stuff by themselves say low so
• 34:18
  low. So Rocco is something that I
• 34:24
  have are, I had little to no knowledge about before reading
• 34:28
  this series but this series does such a great job of diving into
• 34:38
  the details and stuff of it. But without it being kind of
• 34:42
  just like tossing information that you they actually kind of
• 34:45
  like go through what different things mean and and how things
• 34:50
  work. And the kind of setup for this
• 34:54
  one is that the main character akane?
• 34:59
  Basically, her father was a professional Rocco person and
• 35:06
  back when she was younger he was basically trying to get promoted
• 35:11
  up to the next level because basically they kind of have like
• 35:14
  a like a like different levels of their professions, I guess
• 35:18
  for like medicine, kind of like a starter.
• 35:22
  Idiot top-level. Some of the so forth.
• 35:25
  Well he was trying to get promoted up to the next level
• 35:28
  but the kind of like head guide there was the judge he ends up
• 35:35
  failing him and everybody in that entire like class or
• 35:39
  whatever, they all get failed and don't get the promotion.
• 35:43
  And that pretty much is the Father's career.
• 35:48
  Oh wow. Is so the story does kind of
• 35:51
  kind of like a slight time skip to where she is now, like I
• 35:56
  said, like I said, like a younger dog, because I think she
• 35:57
  maybe is like I can remember somewhere between 17 to 19
• 36:03
  somewhere in there. And so now she is my kind of
• 36:07
  like seeker of the training with one of the other kind of Iraq
• 36:11
  ago, Masters at her father knew to just kind of prove to this
• 36:17
  person and others that know her the way her father did Rocco was
• 36:22
  a dope way, was very cool. And so we just kind of just get
• 36:26
  to see her go on this, awesome Journey.
• 36:31
  I don't know if I don't know if I'm going to call it Revenge.
• 36:36
  But but it just kind of just just kind of like a Coming of
• 36:39
  Age type of story as well. So that's nice and the the are
• 36:44
  in, it is very cool. I love that they this series is
• 36:48
  constantly getting color pages and so they're like the
• 36:53
  characters are always dressed a very stylish.
• 36:56
  Kane is always kind of changing like the color of her hair is a,
• 36:59
  their kind of Like black up top purple the bottom or blue, or
• 37:04
  changing different stuff, whatever so bomb.
• 37:06
  But yeah. But yeah kind of Bonacci very
• 37:08
  dope highly recommended like I said, it's a, it's a new series
• 37:13
  and Shonen jump right now. I don't think the physicals
• 37:16
  haven't come out yet, but I think they'll start coming out
• 37:20
  sometime in 2023 but like I said, the series is all up on or
• 37:25
  it's available to read on Shonen Jump.
• 37:27
  So That's so exciting. I'm always here for new
• 37:30
  characters with like, their own distinct personal style.
• 37:33
  I love that. Yes, yes.
• 37:37
  So what is your number or we a 7?
• 37:42
  Mmm, and my number seven is a classic and I actually wouldn't
• 37:46
  consider it horrid. This time, it's Tokyo Ghoul.
• 37:51
  Absolutely love this manga. It took me rereading it to
• 37:55
  realize just how much I love it. Yeah.
• 37:57
  I feel like it captures that sorrowful depressive State you
• 38:02
  know when you're a teenager like the world hates me.
• 38:07
  That's what this feels like. Only reading it and I love that
• 38:11
  so much also I really appreciate the art way more now because man
• 38:16
  some of these like for example like connectives emotions like
• 38:20
  whenever we get really into the thick of it that are is all over
• 38:24
  the place like ink splatters everywhere crazy.
• 38:27
  Lines for the movement and actually readability gets kind
• 38:31
  of blurry, and like some action scenes, but I think it does like
• 38:35
  a service to the overall aesthetic of the story.
• 38:39
  Yeah, I agree with you to Tokyo Ghoul was a very dope read
• 38:46
  Because I remember when I can, like, first dive into it, not
• 38:49
  not that many years ago. Myself.
• 38:52
  And, yeah, I just got asked him you hooked because because of
• 38:56
  course, I had no idea. Why?
• 38:57
  Watched season 1 of the anime back.
• 39:00
  When that came out, it really enjoyed it.
• 39:03
  But of course, Tokyo Ghoul is one of the Prime examples of
• 39:08
  read the Manga. Definitely.
• 39:10
  Oh my goodness, for the love of God, read the book.
• 39:13
  Yes. And I found myself just like
• 39:18
  fully hooked on that series or even through the Tokyo Ghoul re
• 39:25
  the I guess I'm just kind of caught the continuation.
• 39:27
  And sequel. Yeah.
• 39:29
  He's have you want to phrase? It just because I just remember
• 39:33
  just so many just dope moments of just like you said just like
• 39:38
  like some really just like cool and imagery and panels and
• 39:42
  stuff. They even to this day, just like
• 39:45
  Still Still stick with me because one one it kind of comes
• 39:51
  to mind is what one cool thing about kaneki.
• 39:59
  That I that I just enjoy. It's just like throughout the
• 40:03
  series just saying how much he changes like it.
• 40:07
  Like all these different looks and outfits and stuff too.
• 40:12
  Hmm. Yeah.
• 40:12
  It. You really see his development
• 40:15
  over time and it feels like earned.
• 40:18
  Yeah. Yes.
• 40:19
  Yes. And and I just think we remember
• 40:22
  like the panel or the, or the shots to where they kind of
• 40:27
  Armed the group that they call a goat.
• 40:31
  Mmm. Oh my God.
• 40:33
  I am like, I am, like how. Awesome, and how dope is a
• 40:40
  character to self name? Themselves?
• 40:44
  Goat if they knew. So, sorry are so cool.
• 40:49
  That, that is a very dope. Very awesome pic.
• 40:52
  I like that one. I like that one.
• 40:55
  Thank you. Yes, I shot up to two.
• 40:57
  To Tokyo Ghoul. So my next one and I'm trying to
• 41:05
  be here for this is probably the first of a few Thriller Manning
• 41:12
  series which I didn't really think about until I was like,
• 41:15
  like, looking at my list it started like, like look at the
• 41:19
  names and I'm like, hmm. That's a thriller that's out
• 41:21
  there. That's the Thriller.
• 41:24
  And and the seams aren't talking about Is blood on the tracks.
• 41:31
  Oh I love of this one. I'm so happy with made your
• 41:35
  list. Yes.
• 41:37
  Yes. This was one.
• 41:39
  As I was kind of like looking back over the stuff that I have
• 41:45
  read this. Your stuff that I have reviewed.
• 41:48
  This is one that I have continued to come back to.
• 41:52
  Now I do kind of, I kind of let Some some chapters build up
• 41:59
  before. I do not do another bench
• 42:01
  because I feel like this series is perfect for bed reading cuz
• 42:11
  but yeah. But so that this is one.
• 42:15
  I had bought the I had bought. I think volumes 1 & 2 a year ago
• 42:20
  or something, but I just sat on them you know I just didn't read
• 42:26
  them for whatever reason. Um actually though I was a
• 42:30
  little bit hesitant because of that there's a panel very early
• 42:36
  on in that very first chapter, where it's a double, it's a
• 42:40
  double page, spread of the mom's face.
• 42:46
  Hmm. And I know exactly which one.
• 42:49
  You mean. It's a very striking image.
• 42:51
  Yes. And I remember thinking at the
• 42:54
  time, the first time I open up the volume and I got to that
• 42:57
  path. Panel.
• 42:58
  It was like she was literally telling me.
• 43:01
  You are not ready for this now. And so I put it down for like I
• 43:06
  said for half a year to year. However, long it was and maybe
• 43:12
  in the most cruel fashion, the most, I don't know.
• 43:17
  Twisted comedic move, I decided to read to start reading, but on
• 43:24
  the tracks on Mother's Day. Oh goodness.
• 43:28
  Oh my goodness. Well, wow, that's a quite a time
• 43:31
  to kick it off. Yeah, I don't know.
• 43:34
  It's like it's like, I literally woke up that day and I was in
• 43:37
  the mood to recently. Oh, you know what?
• 43:39
  Because Mother's Day was on a Sunday.
• 43:41
  And, of course, Sundays, I was reading your neutrals or Manga
• 43:44
  or whatever, and I don't know it just it just happened and I
• 43:52
  ended up reading eight volumes more that day.
• 43:57
  And I recorded my review for it and stuff, and then I had took a
• 44:03
  little bit of a break and then came back some months later and
• 44:10
  write a few more volumes. And like I said, I've continued
• 44:14
  to do that. But but and I guess I should
• 44:17
  mention for anybody that might be listening is like, what is
• 44:20
  built on the track? So, pretty much it is a, it is a
• 44:25
  a through. I don't think it would notice.
• 44:27
  That's not a horse, just more, just like a psychological
• 44:29
  Thriller definitely. Well, it kind of weasels its way
• 44:34
  into your mind. It definitely edges on horrid,
• 44:37
  definitely, yeah. Yes, oh, yes, that's all I would
• 44:40
  say. It's kind of like like a
• 44:41
  psychological slight horror Vibes, basically, just kind of
• 44:46
  like follows this. This kid and his seemingly
• 44:50
  overprotective mother and some of the situations and stuff that
• 44:58
  that these characters end up being put in it is just a very
• 45:04
  gripping story that will pull you all the way through.
• 45:12
  And to just out of curiosity, how far into the series hell.
• 45:17
  Did you get or have you gotten? Yes.
• 45:20
  So not completed. Let me see, I think, I think I'm
• 45:25
  about like five or six volumes in but definitely like I've hit
• 45:30
  some of those main beats and wow, they do not hold any
• 45:33
  punches like even though this is a story dealing with like a
• 45:36
  little kid and his mom, bad things will happen.
• 45:39
  I can say that. Yes, yes, yes, yeah.
• 45:43
  And yeah. So I know Hardest thing, I'm as
• 45:51
  you continue reading. If you need somebody to talk to,
• 45:56
  we'll set up like a support group.
• 45:58
  Exactly. But just because either,
• 46:01
  they're, there is just like, certain, like story beats that
• 46:03
  happened that I was not expecting.
• 46:06
  And I was like, oh, okay. So yeah, I just tease it.
• 46:13
  That's for for, for the listeners out there.
• 46:18
  I highly have to recommend that one too because I got a test.
• 46:21
  You really can't look away from that one.
• 46:23
  It's really good? Yes.
• 46:24
  Yes, yes, for sure. All right.
• 46:28
  So let me see. So to number six, what is your
• 46:33
  number 6? That's it.
• 46:36
  My number 6, we're going back to horror and this is drifting
• 46:39
  classroom. So it all yes.
• 46:43
  Have you heard of this one? Yes.
• 46:45
  Yes. So that that is actually IE one
• 46:48
  that I kind of been eyeballing for a little bit just because of
• 46:54
  the the premise and stuff just sounds.
• 46:56
  So interesting. And of course how could those
• 47:02
  thick volumes not catch my attention?
• 47:06
  Oh my goodness, I want those physical volume so much.
• 47:09
  I read this digitally on my tablet and I promised myself, I
• 47:12
  have to get those physical volumes.
• 47:15
  Yes. And yes.
• 47:17
  So I'm sorry. Yes I'm sorry for Kenya our VIP.
• 47:19
  Yeah but yeah go ahead. Go ahead.
• 47:21
  Oh no trouble. And with drifting classroom to
• 47:24
  set the same. We got these kids attended a
• 47:26
  normal day of school until it isn't anymore.
• 47:32
  And then the title of the story comes in where their classroom
• 47:35
  is kind of set on this crazy Journey that's completely out of
• 47:39
  their control and terrible things in Sioux.
• 47:43
  What? I really like about this one,
• 47:45
  One it kind of has the same as Blood on the tracks because it's
• 47:50
  like a train crash. You can't look away from and
• 47:52
  just that feeling of hopelessness and Dread.
• 47:56
  Oh it it hits very hard. Also the characters you really
• 48:02
  start to feel the feel for the kids and the author really makes
• 48:06
  you care about them in a way that not too many other horror
• 48:09
  stories do like, normally. I like man I'm kind of okay if
• 48:12
  this person lives their die but you're really rooting for these
• 48:15
  kids. Has to pull through.
• 48:16
  Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, that that is definitely one that is
• 48:23
  That is all my list of potential Horrors and and this series is
• 48:31
  one of those that is like I'm glad that a lot of these
• 48:34
  companies are kind of like going back and bring him back series
• 48:41
  that are that have been gone for a while because I just looked it
• 48:44
  up. Yeah, this came out, this
• 48:46
  published from 1972 to 74. It's an old one.
• 48:51
  Wow, I didn't know it was that old the way.
• 48:53
  Wow. Yeah, I didn't either like I
• 48:55
  said, I knew it was some years back, but I had no clue.
• 48:59
  Was that far back. So but but yeah, It's wonderful
• 49:07
  and highly gripping story. Very terrifying landscape that I
• 49:11
  even wouldn't want to be in. Like I look at the situation
• 49:14
  like oh, Lord, help them kiss. One of my notes for it was
• 49:19
  actually lord of the front flies on crack because it definitely
• 49:23
  gives me the same Vibe as that book only like, to the umpteenth
• 49:27
  degree. Yeah.
• 49:32
  Oh man. So yeah, so yeah, yeah.
• 49:35
  See see. You got me wanting to like shift
• 49:38
  stuff sooner. I'm on my priority regionalist.
• 49:43
  I'm about to figure out something to do, ho, hopefully,
• 49:47
  by the time. My my goal.
• 49:51
  I'm a summer say this now, hopefully, hopefully putting
• 49:56
  myself on record. But I'm gonna try to no later
• 50:01
  than Halloween of next year. Try to read this one for for
• 50:07
  maybe like a spooky season read next year.
• 50:12
  So nice. Alrighty, so drift in classroom
• 50:15
  very, very dope, very dope of choice which quick little funny
• 50:23
  side tangent. So when I was searching it up or
• 50:26
  whatever I want to do any list, there was another series that is
• 50:29
  also called the drifting classroom, but it's like some
• 50:33
  Chinese Series or something I don't know because like as soon
• 50:40
  as I saw the art for that I was like that is definitely not the
• 50:43
  one I am looking for because it was like all like vibrant and
• 50:48
  colorful or whatever they slightly psycho like the cover
• 50:50
  image. I was like, oh, is it ya know?
• 50:53
  Yep. That is definitely not the one
• 50:56
  we're looking for the dark abysmal one.
• 50:59
  Yes. The one with, with no hope.
• 51:03
  Yep. Okay, so number six, for me, is
• 51:11
  another one that I read at the very beginning of this year,
• 51:15
  which I'm trying to think, is this, the first of the ones I've
• 51:19
  mentioned, this gotta anime coming.
• 51:22
  Yeah. So this one actually has a
• 51:26
  animated that is going to be dropping in April of 2023 and
• 51:32
  that is my home. Am hero.
• 51:38
  Hmm. Have you have you heard of this
• 51:40
  one? I haven't heard of that one.
• 51:45
  Yes. So this is another psychological
• 51:49
  Thriller about about a husband and wife that basically work
• 51:56
  together to cover up, a murder that they kind of committed to
• 52:04
  protect their daughter. Wow.
• 52:07
  Okay. Wow.
• 52:08
  That sounds interesting. Yes.
• 52:11
  So so this is one. I have found out because of I
• 52:17
  can't remember the full name of the Twitter account, but I know
• 52:20
  mean you both follow it as the my manga mortgage or something
• 52:24
  like that. Yes, yeah.
• 52:28
  I definitely know which one you're talking about.
• 52:30
  Yes. So they have posted I don't know
• 52:37
  but maybe like like the release of like volume 17 or something,
• 52:40
  whatever in Japan and I'm looking out knowledge of
• 52:44
  looking. I was like this one of the
• 52:45
  covers and you know it's just a guy in a business suit or
• 52:49
  whatever. And I'm like huh what is this?
• 52:53
  And somebody in one of the comments somewhere has said
• 52:57
  something about it being like a breaking bad situation, where a
• 53:02
  normal guy is investing kind of Important to be kind of like
• 53:08
  underworld sort of stuff with like, no drugs and stuff
• 53:11
  whatever. And so I'm like, I'm okay, I
• 53:15
  love me some Breaking Bad. What is going on a?
• 53:20
  So yeah that's basically why what the setup of it is that
• 53:24
  basically the the, the daughter, Was that in this guy who was
• 53:31
  part of the Yakuza, but basically, he was planning to to
• 53:40
  try to kidnap the daughter to get money from the grandparents.
• 53:44
  Because the wife's the the mother's family is they have
• 53:51
  like a like some like what they Corporation or something
• 53:53
  whatever. So long story short, he was
• 53:54
  just, he was just getting with her to try to get to the money
• 53:57
  basically. Well, one day, I said I'm trying
• 54:02
  to go into 2 into it too much, whatever, but just for setup
• 54:06
  purposes, basically the dad is over at the daughter's apartment
• 54:13
  when she's not home, he was right for her to come back and
• 54:18
  basically the boyfriend comes in, while the dad is in a
• 54:24
  different room and the dead over here is a conversation of the
• 54:27
  guy Betsy time. I like threatening And
• 54:29
  potentially killing the daughter.
• 54:31
  Oh my goodness, things happen, murder happens.
• 54:37
  And mom shows up, and is basically, like, what is going
• 54:42
  on the dad explains and then she's, all right, let's get this
• 54:46
  cleaned up. And nice, that is where the
• 54:49
  story takes off. And now you kind of had these,
• 54:53
  you know, you have the the other Yakuza members sniffing around
• 54:56
  because they're like, huh. Where did he go?
• 55:00
  The last time he was seen was here, no question the father,
• 55:04
  and the mother. And so it's this kind of like
• 55:07
  cat and mouse game to where they're trying to maintain a
• 55:10
  normal lifestyle. But they're slowly getting
• 55:13
  pulled more and more deeper into the darker world and all this
• 55:19
  stuff, whatever. So but he, wow, that sounds so
• 55:22
  interesting. Yes.
• 55:24
  So it was definitely a very big surprise read.
• 55:28
  And honestly, even bigger surprise that it is getting an
• 55:31
  anime because the because the manga isn't even licensed over
• 55:36
  here yet. See, so so now that I was
• 55:40
  Googling it and going through those covers and he looks like
• 55:43
  he was going through it on each one of the covers.
• 55:47
  Yes, yes. Yes, yes, exactly.
• 55:51
  So So yeah. So, so that, that is my number
• 55:57
  when I say six. Yeah, my number six.
• 56:00
  So, so yeah. So yeah, I'll go check that out.
• 56:02
  And like I said, if if, if you don't get to read it at least
• 56:05
  hopefully, fingers crossed the anime is good.
• 56:08
  I hope but yeah. So alright.
• 56:11
  So now we are at the halfway point.
• 56:16
  So we are to our top five and all real quick.
• 56:24
  Hold on. Alright, so Bri kick us off with
• 56:30
  your number five, okay. And my number five is bluelock,
• 56:36
  oh my gosh, I'm so excited to talk about this.
• 56:38
  What? I'm so this is probably my most
• 56:42
  well-known one of the most well-known on my love list.
• 56:45
  And I had to include this because I am obsessed with this
• 56:49
  story. Like this story, literally got
• 56:51
  me into sports, which is kind of incredible.
• 56:55
  I don't really have the attention span for sports but it
• 56:58
  hadn't re-watching like the World Cup and I never do stuff
• 57:03
  like that. Yeah yeah.
• 57:06
  It's very intense and it like a sports story.
• 57:10
  It focuses mainly on the characters and we'll have you
• 57:13
  like fallen in love with these people because the character
• 57:16
  development is like next-level. It's so good and really just the
• 57:22
  way they break down ex of soccer and like how you can apply
• 57:26
  different lessons you learn in the game to your life.
• 57:28
  I really love that. Awesome awesome.
• 57:32
  Yeah, so I've I'm trying to think Mongo wise.
• 57:37
  I'd only read the first volume but I have been keeping up with
• 57:44
  the anime every weekend and so that it has been a fun, a fun
• 57:53
  Just experienced your just watching all this stuff just
• 57:58
  could just kind of fold and stuff.
• 58:01
  And so just out of curiosity, how, how deep are you into the
• 58:07
  manga? Oh, pretty deep.
• 58:09
  So the first hundred chapters. I read it in like three days
• 58:13
  because I was obsessed with it. And then I really realized that
• 58:16
  we had like 90 chapters till I was caught up.
• 58:19
  And so then I started rationing out the chapters because I have
• 58:22
  no self-control Control. But basically I really love it
• 58:29
  so far. And I'm trying not to finish the
• 58:32
  manga and also like dip, a toe in the anime and not finish that
• 58:36
  because I just want to stay in the world as much as possible.
• 58:40
  That that is down. That is our Pia.
• 58:42
  And I've I've heard I've heard great things about the the I
• 58:49
  guess, I guess the things that are to come compared to Lila and
• 58:52
  he's like where I'm headed Annamayya stuff.
• 58:54
  So so I am, I am excited to finally wafted to continue to
• 59:02
  watch it for sure, and maybe even potentially read it out
• 59:05
  some point down the line for plume stand out for the reading.
• 59:09
  It definitely is the intensity like this will have you like,
• 59:13
  for example, I read on the tablet and I was like, gripping
• 59:16
  my tablet, when it came time for like somebody to score a goal,
• 59:20
  are gonna throw that vase. Awesome.
• 59:25
  Now I am curious because like his, because with this kind of
• 59:28
  been one of your first steps into sports serious stuff.
• 59:35
  Like this has a kind of at least like picture interest into
• 59:40
  potentially trying out some others 1000%.
• 59:43
  Yeah and it made me look at series I wouldn't have
• 59:46
  considered otherwise there's another soccer one ongoing
• 59:49
  that's ow. Oh she I believe And I really
• 59:54
  want to check that one out because of bluelock.
• 59:56
  Yes, please please do, please do.
• 1:00:01
  So I lo a lot of people on the curtain.
• 1:00:05
  So right before we were recording this manga one, I
• 1:00:08
  recorded my anime episode and me and my friend Shelby, we were
• 1:00:16
  talking super deep on on the anime for for a Ric.
• 1:00:23
  So with that, you know, it comparison to to Blue lock and
• 1:00:26
  stuff. So, so, definitely for sure,
• 1:00:30
  definitely check check that out too.
• 1:00:34
  Because of that, that is also a. That is also a really good one
• 1:00:38
  too, but I feel like it kind of has like a different vibe from
• 1:00:45
  from bluelock, not saying, like it does still have, it does
• 1:00:49
  still have those intense moments and stuff.
• 1:00:53
  But you'll see whenever you get to a, what I mean of like how
• 1:00:58
  its kind of similar, but also you'll see like where they can
• 1:01:02
  like the diverge and stuff. So I would not school and that's
• 1:01:06
  great that they each have their own like unique identification.
• 1:01:10
  Because, you know, you make a story about soccer, you're like,
• 1:01:12
  well I could only do so many things exactly.
• 1:01:16
  Yeah. Exactly.
• 1:01:18
  So I'm trying to make sure I'm keeping track of where I am with
• 1:01:23
  my stuff. Okay, so my number five is and I
• 1:01:33
  did not plan this, this is just pure coincidence.
• 1:01:35
  This is another one. That is also a psychological
• 1:01:40
  Thriller. That is also has an anime coming
• 1:01:46
  out. Out in April, which I always
• 1:01:52
  happy about it. But I'm also like, like know,
• 1:01:54
  both of these series, I love will be airing at the same time
• 1:01:57
  and that is oshino KO. Definitely want to check that
• 1:02:04
  out. Yes.
• 1:02:06
  So I won't dive to too deep into this one cuz this like I
• 1:02:14
  mentioned at the start pretty much everything that I have
• 1:02:18
  named and probably will name today.
• 1:02:21
  I have separate long reviews for each of them.
• 1:02:26
  Some of them spoiler filled. So go check those out, but but
• 1:02:30
  all she naoko. This one is a it is a
• 1:02:35
  psychological drama that basically follows the life of
• 1:02:42
  this pop Idol and her twin kids and them kind of being raised up
• 1:02:50
  in the in the industry and things like this.
• 1:02:54
  So I'm a kind of keep it vague because the let the less you
• 1:03:00
  know going in The. The better, they surprised.
• 1:03:07
  And I definitely have to check that out.
• 1:03:09
  It kind of gave me like perfect view of blue Vibes like from
• 1:03:13
  Satoshi cone. That's really the only thing I
• 1:03:16
  have similar to compare it to, but if it's anything like that,
• 1:03:19
  I know. I'm gonna love it.
• 1:03:21
  Yeah. And and the kind of wild thing
• 1:03:24
  about this too, is that this is from the same person who made
• 1:03:28
  kagyu. Sama.
• 1:03:29
  Love is War, no way. Wow, yeah, yeah.
• 1:03:34
  So say same Arthur. He got a different artist for
• 1:03:38
  this because pretty much after karge a going forward he's only
• 1:03:42
  going to focus on doing the story aspect and he's going to
• 1:03:46
  get different artists. For other students that going
• 1:03:49
  forward. I see Bob is still the same
• 1:03:54
  author and writer of the story as cocky Asama is doing this.
• 1:03:58
  So so yeah, so that definitely AI a pivot.
• 1:04:04
  And in genre from the kind of, like, romance stuff of that to
• 1:04:07
  the, the kind of like darker Vibes of this so, well oshino Co
• 1:04:13
  is my number 5. Wow, that's so interesting.
• 1:04:18
  They went from cocky Osama to oshino code, that's crazy.
• 1:04:22
  Yeah, yeah, yes. So what is your, are your number
• 1:04:29
  four? Yes, my number four is going to
• 1:04:32
  be Which hat until ye and absolutely love this 10.
• 1:04:38
  This one gives me all of the wonderful happy little bubbles
• 1:04:41
  that you get from, like, reading a story book, or like a fairy,
• 1:04:46
  fairy tale book and the art is absolutely breathtaking.
• 1:04:50
  So detailed and so wonderful magical like, if I could sum it
• 1:04:56
  up in one word, just magical, the story follows this.
• 1:05:00
  Girl, who is always been obsessed with like magic and
• 1:05:04
  like dreaming just kind of letting her mind wander and
• 1:05:10
  she's finding herself involved in this magical world and also
• 1:05:15
  she's an outcast and you really see her trying to like find her
• 1:05:19
  place in this world. Also the system for magic is so
• 1:05:24
  cool and inventive. I really like that.
• 1:05:26
  They actually have to learn the runes and like it makes more
• 1:05:29
  sense for Them to go to school. Yeah.
• 1:05:34
  Imagine Miss drawn. A fire room that could get real
• 1:05:36
  bad. Yes yes.
• 1:05:38
  Yeah. And I'm I'm right there with you
• 1:05:41
  like that, that was definitely. I did.
• 1:05:43
  This was even though this series isn't all my list.
• 1:05:48
  It was it was a struggle not to not to put it on my list.
• 1:05:52
  But but I'm right there with you to her yet.
• 1:05:54
  This series. Different has some of the most
• 1:05:56
  beautiful art I have. Ever seen and I'm manga and and
• 1:06:03
  yeah, I'm right there with you with with how they how they used
• 1:06:07
  to magic with drawing and stuff whatever.
• 1:06:09
  And like you said like how they break down how all that stuff
• 1:06:14
  works. So but yeah they did.
• 1:06:16
  This is definitely such a fun series on.
• 1:06:19
  I need to get back to reading more out of it because I think I
• 1:06:23
  made it too. I think I made some Volume 5 or
• 1:06:29
  600? See, I'm on five?
• 1:06:39
  Yeah, yeah. Cuz I don't think I have made
• 1:06:42
  it. Okay.
• 1:06:45
  Okay, I think I, okay, I think I did make it to like the
• 1:06:47
  beginning of six. Okay?
• 1:06:49
  Yeah, yeah, because I'm seeing some familiar stuff so.
• 1:06:51
  But, but yeah, that this series is definitely a Highly
• 1:06:56
  recommended, like you said, it's a really heartwarming Fish Out
• 1:07:02
  of Water, kind of story. But also, it just shines through
• 1:07:06
  the art, the art communicates so much that even like Words
• 1:07:11
  couldn't and just the paneling how it literally hopped off the
• 1:07:15
  pages. Like, it doesn't feel contained
• 1:07:17
  or limited to the page. Yes, exactly.
• 1:07:21
  And I'm curious. Have you checked out the authors
• 1:07:26
  of Series, I haven't read all of it but I'm on my butcher the
• 1:07:32
  name. But I think it's any L, and the
• 1:07:34
  way Le hmm, I haven't, but I definitely need to.
• 1:07:39
  Wow, that art looks amazing. Yes, so I was in the store one
• 1:07:43
  day and like you just said, art is amazing.
• 1:07:47
  I was like, that is beautiful. And as I'm like, flipping, you
• 1:07:51
  flipping through the pages, I'm like This Heart looks so good
• 1:07:57
  but it looks familiar. And then when I did, when I
• 1:08:00
  looked it up, whatever I found I was like, oh this is the same
• 1:08:04
  Arthur as as which had. So did.
• 1:08:06
  This is the this is the series that she did before Which hat.
• 1:08:11
  Wow. And it's absolutely have to read
• 1:08:14
  that. It is only three volumes.
• 1:08:18
  So wow. Okay.
• 1:08:20
  So I need a and wish this one is basically about a Honesty noted
• 1:08:27
  a we're taking a side tangent real quick.
• 1:08:32
  The synopsis of this is a Angels and Demons aren't known for
• 1:08:35
  getting along but their shared enthusiasm for a designer labels
• 1:08:40
  and luxury items has drawn Angel, anyhow and Dimond whele
• 1:08:46
  into a Tempt us friendship, which has a tendency to dissolve
• 1:08:52
  into conflict, with the powers of Heaven and Hell behind them.
• 1:08:56
  Even a minor fashion disaster, can have near apocalyptic
• 1:09:00
  consequences for the people of earth.
• 1:09:03
  Oh my goodness, this sounds like it was made for me, it's
• 1:09:06
  fashion. Its Angels and Demons.
• 1:09:08
  It's beautiful. Art.
• 1:09:09
  I love this. Yes.
• 1:09:11
  So so I guess I had to make sure shot at that Alex and I need to
• 1:09:17
  just take a day or or we can do something.
• 1:09:18
  Just read through those three volumes and do something with
• 1:09:21
  this. So.
• 1:09:22
  But but yeah, I had to make sure I mention that, like, since you
• 1:09:25
  brought up work, I brought up which has so, so, yeah.
• 1:09:28
  So that, that some very, very, very, very cool series, which
• 1:09:33
  that's another one that they don't have a day or even a year
• 1:09:37
  yet, but, but they announced that that's what beginning of
• 1:09:39
  anime at some point to. So my home was those animators
• 1:09:44
  because I don't know how they could do that.
• 1:09:46
  Yes, yes. I hope whoever gets the task
• 1:09:52
  good luck to you and is is all I can say on that.
• 1:09:57
  So number four for me, this was another one that I had never
• 1:10:05
  heard of before this year, but it kind of came through and was
• 1:10:13
  a A Adrenaline Rush of a read for me, in the best way.
• 1:10:21
  And that is Shangri-La Frontier. I've heard of this, I definitely
• 1:10:27
  want to check that out. Yes, so Shangri-La, Frontier,
• 1:10:32
  this is the one for those that might have seen the cover of.
• 1:10:35
  It is a guy who looks like he has a bird head and he is
• 1:10:39
  holding twin daggers. So this is a series that
• 1:10:45
  basically, it basically revolves around a main character who
• 1:10:51
  loves playing crappy VR games. Yeah, well, one day he decides,
• 1:10:59
  he's like, you know what, I want to try out actual good game and
• 1:11:04
  so a lot of his friends have been recommending this game
• 1:11:08
  called Shangri-La Frontier, and so, that's pretty much so.
• 1:11:14
  So, the story pretty much this isn't a starter on last
• 1:11:20
  situation where he is stuck in the game throughout the manga.
• 1:11:23
  You see him, leave the game Deus.
• 1:11:25
  In the real world debit to other games that stuff he wants to do.
• 1:11:29
  Like, like, like most of us that are dead.
• 1:11:31
  It's dead or game errors or or game of any sorts.
• 1:11:35
  You might be into a game for a while, then you're like, you
• 1:11:37
  know what, I need a palate cleansers.
• 1:11:41
  Let me try this other game. That's kind of what happens in
• 1:11:44
  this series so you'll kind of see him dive into some other
• 1:11:47
  games and stuff throughout but Shangri-La Frontier is the
• 1:11:50
  primary game and the thing I loved about this series, is that
• 1:12:00
  it spoke to my little gamer heart because they had so many
• 1:12:07
  things to wear, like, like like if you're into stuff, like the
• 1:12:10
  raw playing nature of video games, or the different stats,
• 1:12:15
  and getting new skills, and new weapons, and new unlocks and
• 1:12:19
  stuff, whatever stuff like that, that is what this series does
• 1:12:24
  and it has a very cool world and lower behind the Hold that just
• 1:12:32
  makes you just interested to sites like see more locations to
• 1:12:36
  see more enemies and stuff. Because one of the big
• 1:12:40
  attractions for the, for the video game of Shangri-La
• 1:12:44
  Frontier is that there are and I can remember, I can't ever
• 1:12:50
  remember, never remember the number but I think is like six
• 1:12:54
  or seven like mythical boss like creatures or whatever in the
• 1:13:00
  world. World.
• 1:13:01
  But even though the game has been out for a couple of years,
• 1:13:07
  people have only seen or at least found out the name of like
• 1:13:11
  2 to 3 of the bosses and the main character has a encounter
• 1:13:19
  early in the series, with one of the bosses that he's not
• 1:13:23
  supposed to say that you're not supposed to encounter until late
• 1:13:27
  in the game. And so, this series just has so
• 1:13:31
  many freaking cool. Action panels that look like I
• 1:13:36
  said, like the action was just so well drawn that it was just
• 1:13:43
  an adrenaline rush to read it. So this is one, I definitely
• 1:13:48
  highly recommend as well, and I sound like a broken record.
• 1:13:51
  This also has the anime coming out next year, as well.
• 1:13:55
  I just, I just lucked out with just like everything I've listed
• 1:13:59
  together. I'll have enemies coming but and
• 1:14:03
  And just from the, from the like the brief little glimpses, I've
• 1:14:06
  seen of the tread of the trailer that they put out for the anime.
• 1:14:12
  It looks on point so but yeah, but yeah, Shangri-La Frontier,
• 1:14:18
  highly recommended. Like I said, if if you are
• 1:14:22
  looking for a for a good enough, cool series to read.
• 1:14:28
  Hmm. Definitely out in that one to my
• 1:14:30
  list and well I'm excited. That one's also getting an I'm a
• 1:14:34
  yes for sure. All right.
• 1:14:38
  So all right so we are now down to our our final three.
• 1:14:46
  Well, top three. Yes so kick us off with what is
• 1:14:51
  your number three? Ah, and I really was, like,
• 1:14:56
  hemming and hawing over these decisions, because, like,
• 1:14:59
  honestly, all three of these could tie for, like, my
• 1:15:02
  favorite. Yeah, my third is going to be
• 1:15:05
  gentleman, another horror series but this one is special.
• 1:15:11
  This one is truly like no other story I've ever read before I
• 1:15:16
  kind of don't even want to go into too much detail.
• 1:15:19
  Yeah but basically our main character, really Enjoys being
• 1:15:24
  at the zoo and around animals, and always, feels that
• 1:15:27
  connection stronger with animals versus people.
• 1:15:31
  Some weird stuff starts happening at the zoo and that
• 1:15:35
  kind of flips that whole dynamic of human versus animal and that
• 1:15:40
  treatment structure hierarchy all of it on its head and it is
• 1:15:45
  the most unique thing. I think I've read this entire
• 1:15:48
  year like truly this premise is like one of a kind.
• 1:15:53
  So When you said the name, it wasn't coming to mind at first.
• 1:15:58
  But when I saw the cover with the elephant hmmm, I was like, I
• 1:16:05
  remember saying this and probably you posted some a
• 1:16:08
  paddle or something about it. Yeah.
• 1:16:11
  The this one definitely seems wild wild is the perfect word
• 1:16:19
  for this one because and also it's very thought-provoking.
• 1:16:23
  Like it really makes you think about.
• 1:16:25
  Okay, why do we treat animals like that?
• 1:16:27
  Or when I say we like humans as a whole or yeah.
• 1:16:30
  Why is this animal's life worth less in some people's eyes than
• 1:16:34
  any human? So it's very thought-provoking
• 1:16:37
  and just brutal, some of the most intense Gore and like,
• 1:16:42
  creepy seems like, I actually got creeped out reading this
• 1:16:47
  one. This is not for the faint of
• 1:16:48
  heart, but wonderful, wonderful art.
• 1:16:53
  Careful story. It'll have your job on the
• 1:16:55
  floor. You're like, wait, you're
• 1:16:56
  telling me animals did that? See you picking my interest with
• 1:17:03
  with with the way you described it, all of these.
• 1:17:07
  So maybe all all enter my my horror error soon.
• 1:17:16
  Now, that's a great are. Now I will say with gentleman,
• 1:17:19
  they've only translated seven volumes in English, I believe
• 1:17:23
  and they're working on the rest. I want to get my hands on the
• 1:17:28
  Japanese voice. Because I'm impatient definitely
• 1:17:33
  waiting those translations. Definitely awesome.
• 1:17:36
  Awesome. They're very very dope of every
• 1:17:38
  do recommendation that one. So my number three which this
• 1:17:45
  also might have been my number one ended.
• 1:17:51
  The depending on how if I want to do my list of different way.
• 1:17:55
  This petition could have been my number one, but my number three,
• 1:17:59
  Is Magus of the library. Now, this is another one that I
• 1:18:11
  would put up there with witch hat, as far as some of the most
• 1:18:15
  beautiful art I have ever seen in a series.
• 1:18:23
  So, this story, basically follows this young boy named
• 1:18:28
  Theo, who, You kind of find out throughout the story that
• 1:18:35
  basically, he, he is of mixed blood.
• 1:18:39
  Because for one, you, when you see him, and you see some of the
• 1:18:43
  other characters, whatever individually he grows up in
• 1:18:45
  whatever, he looks different from, okay, he has no blonde
• 1:18:51
  colored hair. He has kind of some pointy ears.
• 1:18:53
  It's kind of, okay, what is up with this kid?
• 1:18:58
  But, you know, like I said, they all just grows up in this little
• 1:19:00
  town raised by Al and an adoptive older sister, which I
• 1:19:06
  always love the family Dynamics and stuff like that.
• 1:19:11
  But he just has a simple thing of just wanting to go to the
• 1:19:16
  library and to read the books. That is all Theo wants in.
• 1:19:21
  Life is just to be able to to to read books and to just kind of
• 1:19:27
  experience adventures and stuff through the stories in these
• 1:19:30
  books. What The main guy that runs
• 1:19:35
  library and the town constantly is kicking him out because he
• 1:19:39
  sees him as less than as filthy as so on and so forth.
• 1:19:45
  But then, one day, there is a group of people in this world
• 1:19:50
  called if I remember correctly. I think, I believe they're
• 1:19:53
  called Kostner or Kafka. Like I always get always
• 1:19:57
  butcher. The name, forget me but
• 1:20:00
  basically more or less think of M as like as like Librarians.
• 1:20:07
  So in this world everything in this world is centered around
• 1:20:12
  books and knowledge. And so in the send in the center
• 1:20:16
  of the continent, there is this giant library in this city that
• 1:20:23
  I can't pronounce the name but it's called basically the city
• 1:20:26
  of books. And so every book in the world
• 1:20:32
  that That exists has existed will exist all go through this
• 1:20:39
  Central Library. And so these people, these
• 1:20:42
  coffins, are they travel the world in search of books as well
• 1:20:48
  as kind of, also kind of helping to regulate the different
• 1:20:52
  libraries that are in different towns around the place.
• 1:20:55
  And so You find lighter out throughout throughout the store,
• 1:21:00
  whatever that the coffin of, also kind of like have like
• 1:21:04
  different branches, kind of think for people that maybe have
• 1:21:08
  seen a series like bleach where you have like the 12 head
• 1:21:12
  Captain's big of the Soul Reaper, Captain's, but
• 1:21:16
  Librarians at school, I like that concept.
• 1:21:20
  Yes, to we're basically each one has a different specialty
• 1:21:25
  related to books. You have somebody that That
• 1:21:28
  their group, they specialize in the repairing of books.
• 1:21:33
  The appeal is this specialized in, you know, different aspects,
• 1:21:37
  whatever of books and book, keeping it stuff, whatever.
• 1:21:41
  And so basically these people are group of these people come
• 1:21:43
  to this, come to the city, and Theo has a chance encounter with
• 1:21:49
  one of them. And that is kind of how things
• 1:21:53
  kind of start off and this series.
• 1:21:58
  Our say of everything that I read this year, this one
• 1:22:01
  probably was the most dense in the sense of it is.
• 1:22:07
  A lot of text is a lot of information but it is the media
• 1:22:11
  information that I live for because they flesh out
• 1:22:18
  everything, all the various races of people in the world,
• 1:22:23
  they give back stories and details.
• 1:22:25
  It to rather different. People are how they are the
• 1:22:28
  Different cultures I love like throughout the story like
• 1:22:33
  between the chapters as like if they're traveling they might
• 1:22:37
  give you information about. Hey here's this like landmark
• 1:22:41
  that's in the story or whatever. So it is just very very detailed
• 1:22:44
  story and one other comparison I'll give is well between the
• 1:22:51
  main character and one of the coffin of that he runs into for
• 1:22:57
  anybody that might have seen In our rather series, Maggie
• 1:23:01
  Maggie, and the Labyrinth of Magic, the main character, he
• 1:23:06
  will be kind of like the equivalent of Aladdin.
• 1:23:10
  And this particular coffin of the he meets is the equivalent
• 1:23:15
  of Sinbad. Wow.
• 1:23:17
  Okay. Because my mind immediately went
• 1:23:19
  to that series when you started describing this.
• 1:23:21
  So I'm very happy about that up. Yes cause I'm that that there
• 1:23:25
  are some there are some Elements of Magic Use and stuff in the
• 1:23:32
  series as well. And like I said, and and this is
• 1:23:37
  from somebody who I haven't finished reading.
• 1:23:39
  All of them are ghee, but I have heard and known enough and I'll
• 1:23:45
  just say, when I said that, that guy's kind of, like Sinbad I
• 1:23:51
  mean that in the sense of if you kind of know like Sinbad is
• 1:23:56
  really cool but he's like he's got some other stuff going on.
• 1:24:02
  That's what that character is. So so yeah.
• 1:24:05
  So Magus of the library I ended up reading it on a whim because
• 1:24:14
  I'll because the ad for it wasn't the back of of blue
• 1:24:22
  period, I had picked up, I picked up the first.
• 1:24:25
  Well, it was volume 6 but it's the first volume that takes
• 1:24:29
  place that covers the end of the first season's first season of
• 1:24:33
  the blue period anime. And in the back of it they had,
• 1:24:36
  you know, I had four different manga including Which hat but
• 1:24:39
  then I also saw Magus of the library and I was like, Hmm.
• 1:24:44
  Wow, that are looks beautiful. What is this?
• 1:24:47
  And here it is. So that's so awesome.
• 1:24:52
  Yeah, that's the only time I don't mind ads in the back of
• 1:24:54
  manga because like, they'll really give you some great
• 1:24:57
  recommendations. Exactly, exactly.
• 1:25:00
  Alrighty, so kind of down to our final couple.
• 1:25:03
  So, what is your number to my number two?
• 1:25:07
  I'm very excited about its Chain Saw, man.
• 1:25:10
  And of course this had to be on my list.
• 1:25:13
  This is one of my favorite stories, I think I've read like
• 1:25:16
  ever truly, just the way that it is gripping in the way, you
• 1:25:21
  don't want to put it down, I think I blew through it in like
• 1:25:24
  two days like honesty and just the characters and oh, sorry.
• 1:25:32
  Should I provide like a brief summary of it?
• 1:25:34
  Sure, sure. Yes.
• 1:25:38
  So this story follows dingy on his quest.
• 1:25:43
  He has a few of them honestly, it's really just to mind his
• 1:25:49
  business. Be happy as well as happy as
• 1:25:51
  possible and be familiar with the opposite sex.
• 1:25:58
  He really cares about that for some reason, but also it follows
• 1:26:04
  him and entering this whole World of devils and just
• 1:26:10
  Association. Sorry my mind is slipping and I
• 1:26:13
  can't think of the association's name.
• 1:26:15
  But yeah. Yes here we just follow him
• 1:26:18
  trying to like just learn the way.
• 1:26:22
  Pick up the skills of being a devil Hunter and woo.
• 1:26:26
  Woo. It's bad.
• 1:26:28
  Yeah. Yeah, didn't did you begin put
• 1:26:31
  through it? Yeah.
• 1:26:33
  I feel for dingy like my heart really goes out.
• 1:26:36
  Him and pretty much for everybody in the series.
• 1:26:39
  The character development is so good and the human
• 1:26:42
  relationships, and it doesn't even have to be humans, but like
• 1:26:46
  that human Bond. That's depicted.
• 1:26:48
  As I think, is what I really like about this series and also
• 1:26:53
  I don't want to get into too much details but some of my
• 1:26:56
  favorite things I like spoil it. Spoiler territory.
• 1:27:00
  It's just they don't hold any punches when it comes to the
• 1:27:04
  villains and their abilities and what they I can do.
• 1:27:07
  Yeah, yeah. Yeah.
• 1:27:13
  They're they're different. They're definitely some some
• 1:27:15
  some, some broken characters. Oh, come on definitely where
• 1:27:23
  you're just like oh so and nobody can do anything about
• 1:27:27
  that. He can just do whatever you
• 1:27:28
  want. Yeah, yeah.
• 1:27:34
  Love it. And it really feels like every
• 1:27:36
  character gets their time to shine and just like, I don't
• 1:27:39
  know. Just get their own like quirks
• 1:27:41
  highlighted and I really love that.
• 1:27:44
  Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Chain Chain Saw man is is very
• 1:27:49
  dope. It has a, it is taking over the
• 1:27:52
  world. It is taking over the internet
• 1:27:56
  and especially with the what the anime currently airing and
• 1:28:01
  stuff. So, Yeah, it is a witch, which
• 1:28:06
  I'm guessing have you check that out.
• 1:28:10
  Definitely, I've been keeping up with it.
• 1:28:12
  Let's why Tuesday's are so exciting now.
• 1:28:14
  And even though I like the new chapters, like sometimes they
• 1:28:18
  drop sometimes they don't, I really enjoy looking forward to
• 1:28:21
  Tuesday's just because the new episodes are released.
• 1:28:24
  Yeah. Yeah.
• 1:28:26
  It is definitely a cuz I cuz for me because I also I had been
• 1:28:32
  dreaming. Rich and Salman sometimes think
• 1:28:35
  I'm trying to think I got into it.
• 1:28:37
  I feel like I want to say like close to when it was ending at
• 1:28:40
  least the first part I should say.
• 1:28:44
  And so it has been just enough time to where I remember a
• 1:28:49
  couple of like key moments and things, but some of like the
• 1:28:54
  like smaller things in between saying, the animated just feels
• 1:28:58
  like I'm experiencing it new and fresh for the first time all
• 1:29:01
  over again. So Yeah.
• 1:29:04
  Yeah. Shantanu chainsaw, man.
• 1:29:07
  And I can definitely empathize with that because I read this at
• 1:29:10
  the beginning of this year. So, going back to the anime.
• 1:29:14
  Oh, it's so wonderful. Just getting to relive those
• 1:29:17
  moments sometimes painful, though not even gonna lie.
• 1:29:21
  Yeah, yeah, yeah. That that is a pain, is the
• 1:29:25
  word. Alrighty awesome.
• 1:29:31
  So my number two and this is one that I kind of went back and
• 1:29:39
  forth on on if I would have even put it on my list but I was like
• 1:29:42
  no how could I not put it on my list and this is one that
• 1:29:49
  actually finished up this year and that is fire force.
• 1:29:57
  So, fire force, just reminder. For those who don't know, this
• 1:30:02
  is the the the latest series from the creator of Soul Eater
• 1:30:08
  back in the day, they basically follows this Shimmer who's the
• 1:30:14
  main character, who's part of basically this like squad or
• 1:30:19
  basically like firefighters that go around and putting to rest
• 1:30:25
  people. Who spontaneously combust.
• 1:30:30
  And so this series it just it just has so many just cool.
• 1:30:38
  Action moments the lower, the world-building, how it is a
• 1:30:43
  tying into Soul Eater. Because throughout the whole
• 1:30:47
  series people are kind of like okay there are some obvious
• 1:30:51
  because you know you know authors as they do different
• 1:30:54
  series they might put a little Easter eggs and stuff in
• 1:30:58
  definitely you know hinting at or make a note of their previous
• 1:31:01
  works. But the later in the series that
• 1:31:06
  gets is like okay we're Kind of getting past this, just being a
• 1:31:11
  wank and an odd and an Easter egg.
• 1:31:15
  This is like real world implications for the story and
• 1:31:18
  these characters and pretty much by the end you see how things
• 1:31:23
  kind of looped together. So cool but but yeah but yeah
• 1:31:28
  this was one that I had initially just started out with
• 1:31:31
  the anime A couple years ago and when I had heard that the manga
• 1:31:37
  was coming to an end, And it like to recite the end of last
• 1:31:40
  year, going to the beginning of this year.
• 1:31:41
  I was okay. You know what?
• 1:31:43
  Let me dive into it. Let me start reading it as so,
• 1:31:48
  once I started reading it, I could not stop it.
• 1:31:55
  Pretty much has gripped. Me and then I caught up and I
• 1:31:59
  got to read maybe like the like the last like five to ten
• 1:32:03
  chapters wait till week as it was going towards the end and
• 1:32:08
  and, It was just it was just a fun ride the the whole way
• 1:32:15
  through just ah I love every now and then when my action series
• 1:32:22
  kind of start to get like ridiculous and scale to where
• 1:32:25
  it's like okay now we're doing literal like like planet-sized
• 1:32:33
  damage to stuff. It's not just oh that border
• 1:32:39
  blew up its Now oh this whole town is getting annihilated and
• 1:32:44
  oh no you know we're creating craters and stuff whatever.
• 1:32:48
  So but I knew it is just it is just very dope, very fine and I
• 1:32:56
  really enjoyed it. So that sounds like a great
• 1:32:59
  time. I have to check that one out and
• 1:33:01
  with how happy. So L made me back in the day
• 1:33:04
  like I'm still a hardcore Cronus dancer like definitely yes.
• 1:33:08
  Yes yeah you you would Definitely you would definitely
• 1:33:12
  probably really big fire for us if it for if you were a bigger.
• 1:33:16
  So later fan back in the day. Alright, so we have reached the
• 1:33:22
  top of the manga Mountain. So what was the manga that
• 1:33:32
  conquered all for you? This year?
• 1:33:34
  What is your number one? And my number One's Gonna Be
• 1:33:38
  innocent. And I definitely have to say, I
• 1:33:42
  read this one. I believe that was back in
• 1:33:45
  March, right around March to April.
• 1:33:48
  And it has stayed in my mind ever since anytime, anybody
• 1:33:53
  brings up like what do you think your favorite panel is or like,
• 1:33:56
  what's your favorite art? I always throw this one out.
• 1:33:58
  Like half to the art is absolutely mind-blowing.
• 1:34:02
  It's set in the French Revolutionary time period.
• 1:34:05
  And it's actually historically accurate like based on well,
• 1:34:08
  semi all sisa both store equally accurate, but it's based on
• 1:34:12
  memory Memoirs of Charles on re I want to say and like His
• 1:34:18
  family members and also, wow, just the way it portrays, that
• 1:34:24
  feeling of being stuck in your situation in life or like being
• 1:34:28
  stuck in your station or job and how you just desperately want to
• 1:34:32
  break out of that. But everything's pushing back on
• 1:34:35
  you not to I really love that awesome.
• 1:34:40
  And yeah like like Something about that, this cover for the
• 1:34:46
  first volume. It's just like, it's just like
• 1:34:51
  very striking but also very different to definitely it's
• 1:34:58
  unlike anything I've ever read. It's really like mixing history
• 1:35:02
  with manga in a way that actually like I feel like it
• 1:35:06
  does it more Justice than just reading like a history book.
• 1:35:10
  Yeah, okay so This is one hour, we'll have to add to my reading
• 1:35:16
  list as well. Plus, I also see it's not that
• 1:35:18
  it's not super long either, something ninety nine chapters,
• 1:35:22
  and is yeah, for this first part cuz I see there's also a sequel.
• 1:35:27
  Yes. Innocent Rouge.
• 1:35:29
  Highly recommend that as well. Yeah, they work really well
• 1:35:33
  together and the same Ridge will have you finding out more about
• 1:35:37
  the other character that you meet an innocent.
• 1:35:40
  I'm blanking on her name right now.
• 1:35:42
  I'll bet she's blond and wonderful and I love her.
• 1:35:46
  Yeah, yeah. I'm I'm looking at this, at the
• 1:35:50
  cover and stuff for it now. Yeah.
• 1:35:52
  It is a yeah, yeah, yeah. Did it definitely very
• 1:35:57
  beautiful. Marie Joseph.
• 1:36:02
  Is Marie. Hmm.
• 1:36:05
  Yeah. And I believe she's actually
• 1:36:06
  supposed to be like the namesake for Marie Antoinette.
• 1:36:09
  So yeah. Gotcha, gotcha.
• 1:36:14
  So, okay, cool. So, yeah, I'm about to check
• 1:36:19
  those out because those look, very, very intriguing, and
• 1:36:24
  definitely, very differently. Like you said, from from most,
• 1:36:27
  if I have seen or read Dumpling and it's very dramatic.
• 1:36:34
  Like honestly I didn't think there was that much drama to be
• 1:36:37
  had and like, you know, you think you like history I'm
• 1:36:41
  probably not going to have too much fun with that but you
• 1:36:44
  forget heads were flying during the French Revolutionary time
• 1:36:48
  and they definitely make a big use of that like Gore is a part
• 1:36:51
  of this story. Okay, okay.
• 1:36:55
  See you. You have sold me.
• 1:36:56
  I am I am. I'm at the make time to dive
• 1:37:02
  into this one. Okay.
• 1:37:05
  Very cool. And so, my favorite manga of
• 1:37:14
  2022 that I read and this is another one that I kind of was
• 1:37:19
  going back and forth on, if I would even included in my list
• 1:37:26
  because I started reading this Series last year, this was like
• 1:37:31
  one of the first manga or didn't.
• 1:37:34
  First volume of this was the first manga I had bought after I
• 1:37:38
  started doing my podcast last year.
• 1:37:41
  And Due to life in other stuff. Whatever.
• 1:37:45
  I took a it unintentionally to like a six month gap between
• 1:37:53
  reading. But I came back and finish
• 1:37:57
  strong. And that is, of course drumroll
• 1:38:02
  20th century, boys. Woohoo.
• 1:38:06
  Yay, I'm so excited. Yes, yes.
• 1:38:09
  So this was one This this was just like such a freaking
• 1:38:17
  journey to go on that. I did not expect when I picked
• 1:38:24
  up that first volume to read it because this so this is only the
• 1:38:29
  second series that I have gotten to check out from from the
• 1:38:34
  Arthur now key or Ozawa, the first one being monster which I
• 1:38:40
  have watched his some you Back on which shout-out is supposed
• 1:38:44
  to be coming to Netflix me and him January.
• 1:38:49
  So Chad y'all check out monster if y'all want some good, a
• 1:38:52
  psychological Thriller anime. But but yeah, but this story
• 1:38:57
  just constantly had me wondering like what is going on, who were
• 1:39:05
  all these characters and I love how it takes place across many.
• 1:39:12
  He decades. And I love how be constant
• 1:39:19
  reintroduction of characters and stuff because the story will
• 1:39:25
  move ahead in time a bit and sometimes you might not
• 1:39:29
  necessarily notice that at first until you see a character and
• 1:39:34
  you're like, okay, who are you? And they're like oh I'm sewing.
• 1:39:37
  So even though flash back to when they were kids, Hey, do I
• 1:39:42
  owe? This is how this was that kids?
• 1:39:45
  You saw running around with them and did it and uh it is just a
• 1:39:49
  constant awesome Journey that I loved from the beginning all the
• 1:39:56
  way through the end and it just constantly kept me on my toes
• 1:40:02
  and and it kept going because I did not expect it to to go as
• 1:40:08
  far as and time as it did, but it was very cool.
• 1:40:12
  To see these characters grow and age and change, and all the
• 1:40:19
  stuff that they experience along the way.
• 1:40:20
  As so, I say, SR20, since you boys is easily my favorite that
• 1:40:25
  I read this year and definitely, one of my favorites that I've
• 1:40:29
  read ever period. I do have to say, I haven't
• 1:40:35
  finished that one yet, but, definitely, this is making me
• 1:40:37
  want to pick it up, like, right? When we put to sleep.
• 1:40:42
  Yes, yeah it is yeah it is just like they just kept on just call
• 1:40:48
  him back to me and you just kept pulling me back because like I
• 1:40:54
  said every time I was like, okay I think I might have it figured
• 1:40:58
  out and then it's like surprised you don't have it figured out
• 1:41:03
  love stories like that because it really does.
• 1:41:05
  Like, especially if you read a lot, like, it feels like we're
• 1:41:08
  seeing, well, it can feel like we're seeing the same thing over
• 1:41:11
  and over. Over.
• 1:41:12
  So when you find those unique stories, you can hold on to it.
• 1:41:20
  Yes, indeed. All right, so before we go on to
• 1:41:24
  our honorable mentions, I want to just do just like a brief
• 1:41:28
  recap of our top tens again. And so I'll go first.
• 1:41:35
  So my top tens were number 10 was used to fighter.
• 1:41:39
  Number 9 was villains are destined to die /.
• 1:41:45
  The remarried. Empress number 8 was a Neighbor,
• 1:41:50
  naxi number seven was blood on the tracks.
• 1:41:54
  Number six was my home. Hero number five was oshino Co.
• 1:42:00
  Number four was Shangri-La Frontier number three, Magus of
• 1:42:06
  the library. Number two, fire force.
• 1:42:10
  And number one, Twentieth Century boys and break.
• 1:42:15
  Will you do us the honor? Hmm.
• 1:42:18
  And definitely, that was a great list and my recap would be
• 1:42:22
  starting with number 10. We have curly Han /she Rohan for
• 1:42:26
  black book and white bug. We also have number 9, excuse
• 1:42:31
  me, number nine, PTSD radio, and number eight Hideout.
• 1:42:38
  Number seven, Tokyo Ghoul number six, drifting classroom.
• 1:42:44
  Number 5, blue lock, number four, Which hat?
• 1:42:48
  Ottilie a number three, jimin. Number two, chainsaw man.
• 1:42:56
  It my first place was in a said, yes.
• 1:43:00
  Yes. Very very, very, very awesome,
• 1:43:03
  very awesome list that you had can.
• 1:43:06
  I guess it had it. You had a maybe a handful in
• 1:43:10
  there. They either I was aware of, or
• 1:43:13
  maybe having at least seen it. Passing and then you also
• 1:43:17
  brought in some stuff that I had never heard of and stuff.
• 1:43:21
  So so yeah. So Shannon to you for the
• 1:43:24
  awesome. Awesome list one.
• 1:43:27
  Thank you. So, before we get out of here, I
• 1:43:34
  want to take a brief moment and just kind of just maybe just
• 1:43:37
  shout out some stuff that we and these maybe just want to just
• 1:43:43
  shout out like so just really quickly or whatever.
• 1:43:46
  There was also dope this year that that didn't make our list
• 1:43:51
  for one reason or another. And I'm going to go first and
• 1:43:58
  kind of quick with some of these.
• 1:43:59
  So I'll just say just in general Shout out to the series that
• 1:44:07
  some of the series that I've been reading for years that are
• 1:44:09
  still they did. They had some really cool
• 1:44:12
  moments this year. One piece.
• 1:44:15
  I'm always reading one piece and I'm dead.
• 1:44:21
  I luck. Because as we're kind of
• 1:44:23
  entering Simeon Lee the final Arc of this series.
• 1:44:31
  Some insane stuff has happened this year.
• 1:44:33
  So shy To that series, some of the kind of like newer ones I
• 1:44:39
  want to shout out to, there was a couple of smaller ones, one
• 1:44:45
  called Lost lad London. That one was kind of like a, a
• 1:44:55
  drama mystery 12, where this college kid basically kind of
• 1:45:03
  gets Brought into a situation surrounding the mayor's, the
• 1:45:07
  mayor of London or whatever town in London, that he's in the
• 1:45:11
  mayor's murder. And so this college kid is
• 1:45:16
  obtaining up with this detective as they're kind of trying to
• 1:45:21
  piece together. What happened how the boys
• 1:45:25
  connected so on and so forth. Another series that most people
• 1:45:31
  probably have never even heard of is when a cat faces West,
• 1:45:41
  that one is done by the same Creator.
• 1:45:43
  Who did mushishi? Oh, love that one.
• 1:45:48
  Yes. So that and that, that's when I
• 1:45:50
  kind of I just started a little bit after I had read the first
• 1:45:54
  volume of this one but it kind of has like a similar Up to
• 1:45:58
  where there are like strange things going on.
• 1:46:02
  Because basically, there's kind of like this, I can't think of
• 1:46:05
  what it's called, but Betsy kind of like this, like, Fog of some
• 1:46:10
  sort that. Kind of manifest people's either
• 1:46:17
  people's thoughts or desires or so something like, for example.
• 1:46:24
  So before I expand on that, the main characters are one of them
• 1:46:31
  is a guy who basically specializes in solving cases
• 1:46:36
  related to this mystery fog stuff and this lady that comes
• 1:46:41
  in to be his ass his ass. Assistant is a person who had
• 1:46:46
  their body affected by this fog because basically she I can
• 1:46:52
  remember, she had like a thought or something, whatever.
• 1:46:54
  Basically, she got stuck and I think she's like a 30 year old
• 1:46:57
  woman. She got stuck back in like her
• 1:46:59
  like teenage body. So it made things very awkward
• 1:47:04
  to where she can really do her job anymore and work and stuff
• 1:47:08
  on our people were taking her seriously in the morning ever.
• 1:47:10
  So she ends up finding this detective guy.
• 1:47:13
  And trying to work with him to solve these cases.
• 1:47:16
  But but one of the things that happen, for example is, there's
• 1:47:20
  a kid walking down the street one day.
• 1:47:24
  And he is having kind of like a mental struggle about because,
• 1:47:29
  you know, how, like in Japan, they kind of do like the little,
• 1:47:31
  like, surveys of like, hey, we fill this out on what you want
• 1:47:37
  to do for the rest of your life. Basically, whatever.
• 1:47:40
  And so he has his mental struggle of branching paths.
• 1:47:43
  Well, that manifest into creating a, a branching path on
• 1:47:50
  this on this alley that used to just be one path that so that
• 1:47:57
  distorts the actual world and environment.
• 1:48:00
  And so you get all these things that like depending on people's
• 1:48:03
  thoughts or desires. It has a real-world effect on
• 1:48:08
  the environment and stuff. And so we're just kind of this
• 1:48:11
  detective work. I'm with a trying to figure out.
• 1:48:14
  Okay, what happened? What caused this thing to shape
• 1:48:20
  and shift and stuff? Whatever.
• 1:48:21
  But My answer. Thank you, bye-bye.
• 1:48:27
  So, those are kind of like, um, like a few advantages to shout
• 1:48:29
  out very just briefly whatever. So, so yeah.
• 1:48:34
  So do you have some, you want to shout out to breathe?
• 1:48:37
  Definitely, I have a couple, definitely terraformers almost
• 1:48:42
  made this with. I love that story so much and I
• 1:48:46
  haven't given the anime a trail yet, but definitely the manga
• 1:48:50
  had me grip for a while. And actually, I was kind of
• 1:48:53
  using it to space out, bluelock there to give you more time for
• 1:48:59
  the premises. We got some astronauts headed
• 1:49:03
  off to a new world. I will actually Tamar's to try
• 1:49:06
  to colonize it and make it ready for, you know, humans because
• 1:49:10
  the Earth is dying. But when they get there, they
• 1:49:14
  have to deal with what the other scientists had sent to Mars
• 1:49:18
  previously. That were waiting for them, and
• 1:49:21
  I would just will not go into more.
• 1:49:23
  You tell because I went into this one blind and it threw me
• 1:49:26
  for a loop. Yes, yes.
• 1:49:30
  And and I will say, as somebody who did watch the anime for that
• 1:49:34
  years back, whatever you might be.
• 1:49:37
  Okay? Now watching it unless you can
• 1:49:39
  find a uncensored version because this series years back
• 1:49:44
  was the first time I had ever encountered a series that this
• 1:49:49
  censorship, but censorship in a bad way.
• 1:49:53
  Way to wear during certain violent scenes, they would have
• 1:50:03
  like, like literally like giant black circles on the screen
• 1:50:08
  covering up whatever or giant long, black bars, covering up
• 1:50:15
  gory stuff, whatever happening. I see it as so, yeah.
• 1:50:20
  So, but like I said, I did. There are some on me.
• 1:50:23
  That are kind of cool to see but like I said I don't know if
• 1:50:26
  they're if you know if you can maybe find a uncensored version
• 1:50:29
  that might be the way to go but it also Michael one is like is
• 1:50:33
  like system. Maybe just stick with among on
• 1:50:35
  down won't you? And yeah I think I really like
• 1:50:39
  the brutality of that story to I think that's one of the reasons
• 1:50:43
  I'm drawn to it. Yeah.
• 1:50:48
  Oh, and my other one. Let's see if I can get this name
• 1:50:51
  right on the first try. This is going to be dead.
• 1:50:55
  Dead demons dead to dead. Just dada.
• 1:50:58
  Dada. Dada their destruction.
• 1:51:00
  Yeah, I read it, but I, but I know it's because of that name.
• 1:51:07
  It's a really particular name. This great Brandon.
• 1:51:11
  Also, I really don't want to give too much backstory on this
• 1:51:14
  because I also wanted to this one blind.
• 1:51:16
  This is made by ennio asano. The same guy who did good night,
• 1:51:20
  Blue Moon, and also downfall. And all of his stories are very
• 1:51:24
  focused on what the Children characters themselves, normally
• 1:51:28
  navigating, some really tough situation.
• 1:51:32
  This is no different but in this okay.
• 1:51:36
  Hmm. Should I say I'm sorry?
• 1:51:39
  Do you think I should go into a little bit of detail about what
• 1:51:42
  it's? Yeah.
• 1:51:43
  Okay. Yeah.
• 1:51:43
  So basically aliens have invaded.
• 1:51:46
  Tokyo and these girls are just running around their city and
• 1:51:51
  Japan living their normal life, like trying to live their
• 1:51:55
  normal, like kid lives as they were before.
• 1:51:58
  But aliens have invaded and it is absolutely insane.
• 1:52:04
  It definitely feels like because I did that is like the only
• 1:52:07
  thing I have kind of like Loosely heard him passing about
• 1:52:12
  the series and stuff. Whatever is the?
• 1:52:14
  Yeah, I did involve something about an alien invasion and
• 1:52:17
  stuff so and plus like on one like the volume covers, you
• 1:52:20
  just, you see something alluding to that or whatever.
• 1:52:24
  But yeah, that this is definitely one that that I have
• 1:52:28
  been interested in. And checking out because I know,
• 1:52:33
  I know it's not like to awfully long, so that's what you want.
• 1:52:37
  Yeah. And it's really good, any
• 1:52:39
  asano's. So good at depicting, just human
• 1:52:43
  characters and all of the flaws, all the good.
• 1:52:46
  And to like, just this beautiful, like almost poetry,
• 1:52:49
  like I really love all of his characters so much.
• 1:52:54
  Yeah, I had so, I flipped this himself painting myself with
• 1:53:02
  with this stuff earlier this year because you mentioned
• 1:53:05
  downfall. So and one sitting I read
• 1:53:10
  downfall and so learning. No.
• 1:53:15
  Whoa, no. Did you have to like talk to a
• 1:53:18
  therapist afterwards? I I recorded a very long podcast
• 1:53:25
  episode about both of those. I feel like the I feel like the
• 1:53:31
  universe knew what I was doing because literally the day, I was
• 1:53:39
  reading it, it started raining. Well it's it was raining very
• 1:53:47
  hard because I never forget, I had read downfall first and I
• 1:53:52
  had heard, you know, of course, good things about that and so
• 1:53:56
  learning is I don't always heard about but I had never Since
• 1:53:59
  selling in person at the time. Whatever.
• 1:54:02
  And I happened to look at my brothers and I was just down the
• 1:54:04
  road from me and they had a couple in stock so I read
• 1:54:10
  downfall or actually. I might have I might maybe
• 1:54:12
  stopped reading. I put my bookmark in, got in my
• 1:54:17
  car, drove down to the store and on the way back home and started
• 1:54:22
  reading it started raining heavier.
• 1:54:25
  And then my my downward spiral into Despair and I finish
• 1:54:33
  downfall and then I proceeded to resoling in.
• 1:54:36
  And I was like, why Robert? Why did you do this to yourself,
• 1:54:41
  right? Oh the despaired.
• 1:54:44
  So deep like the way he just has taken you there, no matter what
• 1:54:49
  kind of mindset you were in before.
• 1:54:51
  It's really powerful. It's pretty crazy.
• 1:54:55
  Yes. And one other one, other thing
• 1:54:58
  about him, which I'm trying to think, I think I remember the
• 1:55:02
  right. Yes.
• 1:55:03
  So look a little fun fact for the listeners out there, in
• 1:55:07
  case, if you don't know, you know, we have a few people in
• 1:55:12
  the manga creators, who, you know, who are like I'll call,
• 1:55:17
  like quote-unquote like power couples that stuff.
• 1:55:19
  There's a ho that's cool that these creators were never
• 1:55:22
  married. So, of course, one of the most
• 1:55:24
  this time, it's ones. Most people know is Takashi the
• 1:55:27
  creator of Hunter Hunter, Yu, Yu Hakusho is married to the
• 1:55:31
  creator of Sailor Moon. I found out like a few months
• 1:55:36
  ago that the that Deadman Wonderland is co-created by
• 1:55:43
  husband-and-wife pair, which I did not know about.
• 1:55:47
  And the reason why I bring that up is because any well I saw
• 1:55:52
  know how far I think I'm Member correctly.
• 1:55:55
  He is married to another monkey akka.
• 1:55:59
  Kane tariqa. Oh she also does psychological
• 1:56:04
  Thriller series like sensei's Pious lie.
• 1:56:08
  Wow, I had no idea. That's amazing.
• 1:56:11
  Yeah, so so you know, Despair in the household.
• 1:56:18
  Yeah, whoo. I hope they got like a lot of
• 1:56:21
  levity. Like they're just watching
• 1:56:23
  really nice, fluffy TV show. I know.
• 1:56:27
  I do, hopefully. So, but by a so sorry for the
• 1:56:30
  dear L on that. They did.
• 1:56:33
  You have things you want to say about about that series or
• 1:56:37
  anything else? You wanted to shout out?
• 1:56:39
  No, no, I'm done with that. And no derailing, it's fine.
• 1:56:43
  Alrighty, so So yeah, so I think I think that's pretty much going
• 1:56:48
  to gonna do it for our discussion today with our top
• 1:56:54
  tens and stuff. And so, yeah.
• 1:56:59
  So this has been a super fine. Thank you so much for coming
• 1:57:04
  through and for joining me. Bri, thank you for having me.
• 1:57:08
  This has been so much fun and I just really appreciate you
• 1:57:11
  letting me be on the podcast. Yes, yes, for sure. and, Whoa,
• 1:57:17
  different probably have to do more stuff in the future as well
• 1:57:21
  because like I said here, you're always reading the good stuff.
• 1:57:25
  So we'll, we'll definitely probably have to have to Circle
• 1:57:29
  back at some point. Maybe even have maybe like a
• 1:57:33
  deeper discussion, maybe about a certain series of something,
• 1:57:37
  whatever in the future so what was that?
• 1:57:43
  Oh okay. So looking ahead.
• 1:57:46
  To stuff that might be on the horizon for like next year or
• 1:57:51
  whatever, or honestly, maybe even something that that's all
• 1:57:55
  you're right other. But you just haven't gotten to
• 1:57:58
  do you have maybe a, any particular series that you kind
• 1:58:04
  of have your eyes on of, like, okay?
• 1:58:06
  That might be sewn on my right are did that you want to to
• 1:58:11
  reader? Check out definitely.
• 1:58:14
  There is another one by the same.
• 1:58:16
  Her is jimin takahiro cocteau there with me.
• 1:58:21
  Let me get the name of that. I don't know what it is, but I
• 1:58:24
  think it's coming out next year. More more, more pain coming,
• 1:58:32
  that's all I want more people. Let's see.
• 1:58:40
  Found it. And bear with me.
• 1:58:44
  I might not even have a translation yet.
• 1:58:46
  I'm still looking. Yeah.
• 1:58:49
  Yep. Nope, it's just guy just no,
• 1:58:51
  futa are, are you right now? And I will send you the link for
• 1:58:54
  this all righty. And yes, it looks like a very
• 1:59:03
  exciting. I believe.
• 1:59:04
  It's like a Mysteries psychological Thriller.
• 1:59:08
  It looks to be more grounded than something like gentleman
• 1:59:11
  and I'm very interested. It's take on this?
• 1:59:14
  Yeah. Yeah.
• 1:59:16
  I think. Have you ever have you probably
• 1:59:19
  posted about this before, or share something about this one?
• 1:59:22
  Okay, I believe manga Mo. I don't know, but they posted
• 1:59:28
  about it. Yes.
• 1:59:30
  Okay. Cuz cuz I went to the because I
• 1:59:33
  went to the page for it on any list thing and already had it
• 1:59:41
  bookmarked is like planning. So I was like I was like, I
• 1:59:45
  would you did probably you had to be involved in and that cuz
• 1:59:50
  cuz otherwise I probably wouldn't have known I came
• 1:59:54
  across this. Okay, cool, cool, see yes, I'm
• 2:00:00
  very excited. Cited for it, anything like
• 2:00:03
  anything similar to Jim, and I can get my hands on.
• 2:00:06
  I'm down for that. Yes, yes.
• 2:00:10
  Alright, it's so with that being said, we're going to wrap things
• 2:00:15
  up. So before we go Bri, if there is
• 2:00:20
  anything you want to plug as far as like, if you want to plug
• 2:00:23
  your social media handles or anything that you know if you
• 2:00:27
  want people to follow you, okay you know and if there's anything
• 2:00:31
  else Tino promoter. Whatever now is your time.
• 2:00:35
  Oh, and thank you. But I appreciate you.
• 2:00:37
  Let me have the floor for this. I don't really have anything to
• 2:00:40
  promote but you can always find me talking about manga and just
• 2:00:44
  about anything else on Twitter. I'm at Bri bubbles, that's be
• 2:00:48
  ree, blz awesome. And yes.
• 2:00:53
  And y'all definitely make sure y'all go go check out break or
• 2:00:57
  follow her. So y'all can also be in on the
• 2:01:00
  loop. Of all the dope and interesting
• 2:01:04
  manga, that is out there. And so as for myself y'all know
• 2:01:09
  it's your boy Rob AKA Danny to talk.
• 2:01:12
  You can find me everywhere at Danny's to talk Make sure you're
• 2:01:18
  a few. If you're watching the video
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• 2:01:24
  listening to the audio version, make sure you're following the
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  podcast. On wherever you get your podcast
• 2:01:29
  at. And thank y'all so much for
• 2:01:33
  listening, and, or watching this episode, this has been so much
• 2:01:36
  fun and this year in general has been filled with So many amazing
• 2:01:42
  manga to read and looking ahead at 2023, there will be even more
• 2:01:47
  amazing manga to to read. So, make sure you keep yall's
• 2:01:55
  eyes peeled and ears open, because I would definitely be
• 2:01:59
  talking about them as they come up.
• 2:02:01
  But to wrap things up, as I always say, treat yourself to
• 2:02:07
  some nice, read some manga, watch some anime place.
• 2:02:11
  Some video games and live your best life.
• 2:02:13
  And with that, we are out of here.
• 2:02:16
  We will catch all in the next one.
• 2:02:18
  Bye my