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Manga Talk: From the Red Fog Volume 1 · Dad Needs To Talk

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What is up y'all and welcome back to Danny's to talk.
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I'm your host Robert and today I am so very excited to talk about
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from the red fog. Now this is a recent release
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from Yen press and the author is Mosaic najara.
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Now likes it it's just came out. Recently and genre wise is it is
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definitely pissed in the horror genre.
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Now. Just off the BET.
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First of all, there's your first time here.
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Welcome. You know, here to talk about
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some manga but just kind of just Dive Right In because I'm a read
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it to gnosis. And then I'm going to talk.
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So this series follows, our Young MC Rwanda Bailey, Yeah,
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Rwanda Bailey is his name. He's 12 years old.
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Now the synopsis for this is born in darkness.
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A young boy stares into the light raised in a Cellar steeped
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in solitude his entrance into English society.
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At the turn of the 19th century is anything, but painless from
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place to place, he Journeys, seeking companions, who share
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his unusual interest but always, Always, always a red fog follows
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consuming everything in its path.
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Now, this is why. That when I saw on the list of
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series coming up from this year, I was very excited for a just
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from off of the cover alone. Now I'll say first of all, this
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did not disappoint it for me and knocked it out the park.
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I'm just going to say that up front which is one of the
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reasons why I'm even talking about it. because I feel like,
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This series. Pretty much.
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All potential points that they can capture you, it does,
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whether it be somebody passing by and sing this cover, because
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the cover from the manic look on Rwanda space.
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To even the lettering of the text, the way, it's on there.
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Just like the from the red fog really pops out.
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To the synopsis on the back or just the synopsis in general.
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Now, a lot of times, you know, we, we know those of us who know
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if you read a lot of manga or just reading a lot in general,
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you know, maybe, you know, maybe by the end of the volume itself,
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in my capture you maybe sometimes at the end of the
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first chapter that. Okay, I'm in.
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It is very rare that between the cover Just the presentation.
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And the first few pages is enough to already kind of grab
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you immediately because the front cover of it and apologize
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for my audio only listeners, but the front and side cover shows
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Rwanda and three other characters.
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Another young boy, and a young girl, atop some steps with some
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skulls around them. And jewelry and flower petals
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and stuff. And then we get another color
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page that has the three chapter titles.
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Which chapter one is child of Misfortune chapter two, friends
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in chapter 3, the organization. Now, this volume only has three
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chapters but they are very very meaty chapters.
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It has a being altogether about 175 Pages between the three
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chapters. So they're pretty long chapters
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and then of course, the actual first page of the story, Which
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starts off know kind of just setting up the scenery, which is
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late 19th century England. So, the story pretty much worked
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with Rwanda is that as the synopsis says, he pretty much
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grew up in a Cellar. So his mother that he grew up
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with She was a Infamous murderer around that time and she kept
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him just tucked away in a Cellar.
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Only time, she really let him out or something, he can help
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her clean up the murders and the bodies and take care of the
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bodies and stuff. Well, of course, you know,
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somebody that is just seeing that around that.
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For the first 12 years of her life.
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Of course, they would not be all the way they're mentally, you
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know, just because hey this is all they've ever known.
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And of course I his mother never really showed him much love or
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affection. If if anything she even at at
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one point says that like hey if you were my own flesh and blood
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I would have killed you because it was cut that.
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I think it was like her birthday so he's a Mommy, it's your
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birthday. Hey, we should celebrate.
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She like smack the crap. Out of was like Don't Touch Me.
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If You Were My Flesh and Blood, I would end you right here and
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so that kind of immediately sets the tone for just letting, you
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know, okay? What to expect for this and then
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the situation or just the potential mindset that Rwanda
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might have. Now I won't get to the specifics
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Pros because I didn't feel like this is one that definitely
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needs to be enjoyed, you know, on its own but just speaking
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generally certain things happen early on the series to wear
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Rwanda is up out in the world on his own.
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And so over the course of these chapters.
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In this volume, we kind of follow him as he kind of goes to
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different places and meets interacts with different people.
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um but you know the the bloodlust that he's just now,
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grown up continues to re-emerge which kind of, you know, that's
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kind of a little bit hinted at in the synopsis with it, talking
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about him journey and from place to place sink, seeking
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companions, who share his usual interest because cuz I'll just
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say the The first chapter definitely kind of kicks things
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off in a way to where it was like okay yep. just cuz it was
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like man, it was okay you was kind of in a good situation but
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his bloodless just couldn't be Hailed.
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And so he has a more or less kind of taken out a lot of
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people along the way of his journey.
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And it, it honestly, it is just kind of fascinating, because
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it's been a while since I have followed since I've gotten into
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a series to where to where I am following this type of main
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character. And granted, I don't really read
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a lot of horror style series and stuff like that.
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As is not, I do not Out of no action and fighting and stuff
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like that. So it's not necessarily oh no.
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I don't either honestly because I definitely do then I saw it
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was right there behind me. It starts.
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I am a hero and some other, you know, series and stuff.
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But but still just the way that this stuff just as presented
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like I said, it just It feels weird to say because of the
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because of the the situation, but it's like it looks cool.
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Just like the way everything is just drawn and the Art of
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everything. It just looks so, so raw and so
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visceral. And to like when, when Rwanda
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kind of goes into his craze States, you know, everything
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around him just kind of goes, its kind of black and white.
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You know, as he just like, you know, even if you have to speech
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bubbles turn into like black-and-white or reverse kind
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of black and white black bubble with white text is a better way
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to describe it but but yeah it is just fascinating.
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Like I said just watching him travel from place to place kind
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of finding out where he fits in but kind of destroying things
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along the way. But later on, he kind of ends up
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with an organization of other assassins and killers and stuff
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like that. So it's just kind of interesting
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to see him finally in some aspects come to, I don't know.
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I'm going to tell you when I said like me his equal, but just
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kind of being like, okay I'm no he's not the only one anymore
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that's doing. This type of stuff, but his
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potential of how far he will go and can go and stuff.
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You just have to kind of see a little bit of those threads
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unraveling throughout the story. And even with, like I said, some
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of these characters that he's meeting along the way.
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Because there, there, there there is a character from
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chapter 2. I'll just leave it at that, that
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I look forward to seeing seeing rope what what role they will
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play in because it seemed like they were kind of maybe taking
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out the picture, but then it was like, maybe not, you know,
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especially cuz it's okay. Like it just the way some things
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with hinted at or whatever and then just seeing that somebody
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kind of is like taking Rwanda potentially under their wing and
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it's like an other people kind of being like hey this kid he's
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kind of he kind of enjoys Is this stuff for lie?
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He's no, he seems kind of dangerous, you know what you're
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saying, if you have somebody that's inside of a group of
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Assassins telling you that somebody in the group of
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Assassins, is kind of getting out of hand, then, you know, you
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might have a potential problem. But like I said that, that's
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kind of what really just like, Grips me is just because like
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Rwanda is that type of characters where he is like
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because of his lifestyle, he is just so cold-hearted.
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I don't give a care because he doesn't have hey, he's out here
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on his own. Don't have no other family,
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nobody else to really live for whatever it just, he just enjoys
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the joy of doing the deed, so to speak.
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And so somebody potentially trying to shape and mold, His
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interest, whatever. Like I said, just kind of just
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makes for a very gripping story, but like I did my best because I
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really want to talk about some very strong specifics, but it's
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like, I'm trying so hard, not to, but it's also like, who else
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can I talk to about this besides y'all?
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Oh, but you know what? I'll say it is.
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First of all, if you if you if If you're still listening, thank
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you for listening. Definitely go pick up and check
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out from the red fog right now I'm gonna do maybe like a quick
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minute. Some spoiler thoughts, I have or
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whatever just because I know eventually somebody's going to
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come across this that also want to talk about it.
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So I'm gonna just say this before I jump into spoilers is
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if you're not ready. Thanks for dropping by listening
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watching. Make sure you subscribe to the
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YouTube channel. Leave a comment down below.
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Let me know what you thought and all that fun stuff.
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Now, mi spoilers for like a minute.
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So, Chapter one. After the people came in there
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and Brass like this home, basically he ended up running
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away when he ends up at the orphanage and He is basically
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the stuff that happens at the orphanage with him meeting.
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I don't see the guy that runs the orphanage.
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She was so sweet and so innocent but freaking between were
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Rhonda's bloodlust and then freaking bully kids.
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And then before you know it, he took out all the kids at the
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orphanage man. It's like I do man, but it, but
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like I said, it's just it was just fascinating, just watching
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him just my Actually, just like know he took out.
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I'd like the main Bad Apple but then like other kids they just
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thought he just don't take an at everybody and then it was just
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like, eventually is all right. I just burn it all down and I'll
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just talk to the next town. Now, in Chapter 2, when I was
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kind of alluding to earlier with The girl that he meets, I'm
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pretty sure. You know, that that is the same
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girl that he meets or that's on the cover here.
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That she also seems to have a strong interest in killing and
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the situation that happens with her parents and Rwanda and how
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that whole thing was kind of left, you know she was kind of
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still twitching at the end afterwards.
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So it's like okay she gonna be back and I can't wait to see How
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she comes back into the fold. And then in chapter 3 when, you
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know, basically he finally, you know, he kind of met his match,
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little bit with that one with the, with the one kid I can
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remember, his name was, but, but the the kid is kind of showing
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him around, but then when he kind of came back, I could like
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a couple of days like the next day or two whatever and then
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just like started beating his but it was like, yo, No, I had
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ID. You learn all this in a day and
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so it just kind of like, okay, this kid, he's a bit unhinged
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boss and the boss been like, yeah, I know that's what I like.
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So Manu it, like I said, sport a little bit but still kept it as
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vague as I could by any. You let me get up outta here.
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I hope they haven't done enough to convince you to go check out.
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From the red frock from the Red Frog by mosai.
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Nohara go check it out and please come back and let me know
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what your thoughts are of it. Because like I said, I need more
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people to be talking about this but it sucks.
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Like the next volume isn't coming out until freaking July
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and I'm like, oh and it's like I need to know what is going on so
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we'll see if I can hold strong for the next volume.
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But I'll definitely be picking it up.
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So for sure in the summertime maybe we're going to be back
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talking about some Red Frog by. Yeah.
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This one is want to keep your eye on, so go pick it up, go
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check it out and let's talk about it.
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And so like I said with that, I am done, like say if you stick
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to this brother stuff, I greatly appreciate it.
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If like I said, if you're not already, make sure you subscribe
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to both the YouTube channel as well as the podcast feed on
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wherever you get Podcast for the audio.
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Of this. And yeah, as always, treat
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yourself to some nice racing manga, wash them anime.
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Please play some video games and live your best life and I'll
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catch you all in the next one. Go pick a red fog.
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Let's talk about it. Peace.