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Manga Review: Succubus & Hitman Volume 1 · Dad Needs To Talk

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What's up, y'all? And welcome back to Danny's to
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talk. I am your host, Robert.
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And today, I'll be sharing my thoughts on succubus and Hitman
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volume 1. Now, this is one since I read
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the synopsis few weeks ago, that I was like, I have to try it.
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I got to see what's up with this and just picking just out the
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gate surface level. I like it home and it had a lot
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more going on from it for it down, where I initially thought
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it would. But before I get too far ahead
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of myself. So, this is the first print in
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English and it just dropped today to day of the the day of
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me recording this on January 18th.
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And so just a little bit of a brief synopsis about it.
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High schooler. I'll show you is a dead man.
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Sort of the real shaurya is long gone, but his body lives on
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inhabited, by the song of a boy who made a pact with a succubus
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named, or are Molina, which is this lovely lady here in
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exchange for his Services, as her personal Hitman All Molina
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is helping him hunt down the people, who brutally murdered
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him and his family. The path ahead is dark and
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deadly, but surely has got nothing left to lose.
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Not even his soul. So that was the synopsis that
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initially caught my attention when I was kind of like Guys,
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this is also produced or published by Seven Seas.
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And so, you know, one thing I like about, like, like a lot of
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manga Publishers recently have gotten into the habit of kind of
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doing like weekly or monthly updates for threads on line of
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like, hey here's what's coming up next month or in the near
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future or whatever or even just when they announce Loyola hey we
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got the we got the licensing rights to this.
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They will be the ones. Publishing it and yada yada
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yada. So yeah.
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So I saw this as so the team behind this worked on some other
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series called magical girl, spec ops Rasika.
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Now I looked at that one, whatever that was still ongoing
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things like goes like 15 or 16 volumes.
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It looked, okay, whatever, but not enough for me to check it
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out. And last little bit, I needed to
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just have from about, as well. So, this series is the story is
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written by Makoto fukami. And the art is done by say go to
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kia. So, Off the bat.
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I'm going to say, I thought I definitely think that this would
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be one that I will continue reading and because I already
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looked at the date, Volume 2 is dropping them and May.
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So this is this is this is automatically going up to my
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Hey, by the next volume pile because I really enjoyed it.
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Because so from from the synopsis And I feel like, you
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know this I feel like this is like a pretty meaty volume have
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five chapters but he's five chapters plus a bonus chapter
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chapter 0 which is like a prequel.
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So basically, six chapters. But I feel like over, I was a
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pretty pretty meaty little read and I really like the like just
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like the overall tone is set up of a because it has a good mix
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of Dark, really dark, brutal, action and sings and stuff,
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whatever. With a little bit of spice mixed
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in, in regards to kind of like, you know, of course her been a
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succubus. You see the cover, the way she's
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dressed and I kind of want to for those watching the video
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version. This is also a nice little extra
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treat. You kind of get a little teaser
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for couple more succubus, the one of them.
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About that thing. That's not good.
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I don't know, looks like I can't do it.
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That's like a short hair or succubus or or Y, or gas like
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you miss. I don't know.
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And of course got the chocolate man of the melanin.
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Lovely want to look in there, but but yeah.
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But so so the whole thing behind The the souls and stuff.
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So basically, you know, with without going into too many
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spoilers of, we're just kind of speaking surface, or just to
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kind of give it a bit better context for like, what's going
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on. So, basically, there was two
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situations that happened. So there is the person, the
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original person who had surely has body The Original Soul of
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it, he died. I can't remember if they, I
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don't remember if they specifically say like how he
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died, Basically, he died, but when he died, he made a pact
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with the succubus in exchange for Redskin.
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I'll just say a favor. And so at the same time that
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that happened. So, you know, so his soul of the
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body, but it basically, if the empty mouse-over, well, pretty
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much like a roughly around the same time.
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This other guy, his family like him, his family more, that's got
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murdered like his like, like I said, without getting like too
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specific or whatever, but basically, like Due to some
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circumstances with his father, his estranged, father that he
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hasn't seen like for who knows how long the Yakuza show up.
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And basically Do something. So it's mother including killing
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her and taking his sister and they end up killing him as well.
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Now, when he died, he ended up meeting the same succubus and
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basically formed a pact with her towards a.
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Hey in exchange for me, being your hit man because The
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succubus has her own goals and said that she's trying to reach.
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But succubus / demons, can't directly interact with humans.
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So they form contracts with humans in order to, you know,
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collect souls and stuff. And so, one thing I kind of
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like, like really liked about this was and then once again
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super minor spoiler but just adjust like a really Detail is
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that basically after killing so many people, it's kind of like
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he levels up a bit to where he starts on locking later.
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He gets the ability, the ability to choose like new skills and
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abilities and stuff, which is kind of a neat, extra extra
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little twist on them thrown two things, whatever.
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As well as start to gain more information, about these
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mysterious figures, who came in and killed his family.
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But I really like the That dynamic between these two just
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because, you know, with her being a succubus, she's used to,
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you know, people in the past and she's at contracts with just
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being like, Oh yeah, hey I want that body.
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I want you. I want it all.
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And this dude, he just like man. Hey I'm all about revenge you
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cute and all but my mind is on finding out what happened to my
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family and get some revenge. And so that's kind of kind of a
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funny little you know, back and forth between them.
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It's not a constant thing but it just gets brought up like every
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now and then and of course this guy happened, this body.
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He's still having to carry on like business as usual because
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the guy whose body he habit or whatever lives with his sister
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and Mom. And so, You know, basically
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wearing, when he kind of came to or a walking in his body, the
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body had been in a coma for a thing like a few months.
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Maybe weeks that they might have been just like a few weeks,
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whatever. But of course, you know, they're
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kind of going with the story of like, oh, did you whatever
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accident? He had a, he got amnesia.
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That's why he's not remembering stuff because like his, because
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obviously, this is the new Soul inside the body.
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So a lot of like different habits from eating habits to
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different Ever, you know, this kind of thrown a red flag for
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the sister cause she's like yo hey Pratt wrestling is on its
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kind of whatever and so she's okay, something's up cuz my
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brother loves wrestling. And yeah, but yeah, but yeah but
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I just I love like how dark it is but like I said like what
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it's like seems like a mix of a little bit of sexiness in there
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with with the succubus and and different things like that. and
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one kind of like, like, like really exciting part that I
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really enjoyed, was like a little bit like tours, like the
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back half of the volume, we kind of Get some more people, throw
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into the mix, including basically another him and
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succubus team. And their introduction was
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really dope, the way they kind of interacting stuff, very nice.
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But but yeah, like I said, I am like try to talk as vague as
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possible. Just like for this General
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Point, whatever one other thing I really appreciate about this
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was like because I really enjoy When Arthur's of the story would
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like leave little gnosis of a date of the volume.
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And so, for this one, the afterward was thank you for
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reading until the end. I thought, I drew two kg Curry
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which is like one of the kids that you meet for the afterward.
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Whoops. Yeah.
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In the, in the, in the series Bible, she's classified as human
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garbage. She's a fun character to draw
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because she's basically, she's a, she's a cosplaying, a hacker
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/ cosplayer, I hope you stick around to see where the garbage
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you things, she does in the future and that that was the
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artist that wrote that the author wrote thank you for
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reading volume 1. Discussing the project before.
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I serialization we were hoping to make something a little more
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barbaric than usual. I'm going to totally blow off
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the brakes when it comes to violence and eroticism from here
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on out. Thank you for your continued
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support. Now you saying hey I'm a blow
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off the brakes with violence and eroticism.
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Hey, sounds, are we in for, for a wild ride?
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But yeah, but overall you no, I'll definitely say That's like
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I said, this was a very pleasant surprise that.
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I'm very glad I took the chance on picking up day one to read.
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Because like I said, I am, I am sold after this volume and I am
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ready to, to dive into more now, I'm going to say this part real
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quick, cuz Slice slice for other because I need to talk about a
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little bit of this. So, and I will put a Time step
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whatever down in the bottom body.
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Just goes like a couple specifics for, like a few
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minutes, whatever. So I hope you enjoyed the
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spoiler-free portion of the review, you know.
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Hey leave me a like subscribe to the Channel, all that fun stuff.
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Let's talk a little bit more specifics with this.
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So So once again, spoilers so like I said, I really enjoyed
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when this Duo, the blonde chick and the Black Succubus when they
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showed up towards the end. And coz coz, coz coz shaurya you
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know, he finally killed enough people to a, he's able to gain
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information about somebody that was involved.
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And so it was basically like base, the price of a like, Did
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they saw his mother physically? Did his mother?
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Was this was a sumo wrestler, who also was kind of like a
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cleanup man for the Yakuza. So anytime like, hey, you need a
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body. This to, me know, makes me makes
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my disappear clean a passenger to death.
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He's that person while so, you know, we're trying to get
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information on him and we get to the part where we're okay, we
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found where he's at and Shia. Amelia are kind of like scope
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out the scene to figure out like I had it when a plan to attack
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all of a sudden. They see these other to come
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Waltzing in and Jess guns a-blazing and I loved it
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because, yeah, I miss you. I don't know if I have their
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names. Wow.
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Holy only name I found wants to succubus.
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His name is a Delk right outfit out but just like their whole
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introduction from like them. Just walking through the front
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door the girl taking a lollipop out of her mouth and putting a
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bullet in her mouth and walking right up to the right up to one
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of the security guards. There's like a guard on the
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front or be like, hey this is a secured area, you can't be here
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and shields up a shotgun to his face and he's like, oh toy just
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blow up blow his brains out. And then she asks the succubus
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for a guardian kiss. I'm like I'm expecting a little
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peck on the cheek or something whatever and they fall on
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Full-on tongue down throats and then they're like, I bulletproof
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ability activate I'm like, yo all right, is this how y'all get
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down? But yeah, just watching her just
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go in just like some John Waite just Pat Pat Pat Pat and the
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nurse was really dope when I saw you.
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I was like screw it. We drawn to the party too and
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just do Vin and that her and him just taking out dudes or
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whatever. And then I love how you know it
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just ended with both of them kind of like Point guns at each
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other and stuff and just kind of having a little face off.
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So they're excited to see where that goes and I also appreciated
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the little prequel chapter 0 thing at the very end.
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We're kind of gave little bit more context to how the guy
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first met Emilia when they made The Pact or whatever.
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He got the friend, he got the flashback of The history of the
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succubus and all this stuff, but anywho not going to Ramble On
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too much longer whatever. But like I said, super super
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good stuff. And like I said, hey if you
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happen to listen to that spoiler part, hopefully that enticed you
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even more to look into this to pick it up but I'll wrap it up
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with that likes. I'm going a little bit long, but
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I hope you enjoyed this review and yeah, stick around your
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the series of this volume. If you've read it and yeah,
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always feel free to leave suggestions down in the comments
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for stuff that you think I might be interested in and I'll look
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into it. So y'all have an awesome day and
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week and as always say treat yourself to something, nice Read
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Manga watch anime, play some games, and live your life and
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I'll catch y'all in the next one.
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Peace.