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Manga Talk: Don't Call It Mystery Vol1-2 · 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 we're going to
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  be touching on a series that is very well known in Japan but it
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  just now making this English US debut and that is don't call it
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  mystery. Now don't call it mystery is
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  published by Seven Seas and the author is Yumi tomura which some
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  of y'all may have heard that name or at least know of some of
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  her previous Works which probably two of the most
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  well-known series and she worked on in the in the 90s and early
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  2000s was whoops, wrong picture, definitely not Elder rain basara
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  and seven seas. So this series is it is cus
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  fight as like gay drama mystery just a title but it's it is all
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  things. But it's kind of funny that the
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  author herself doesn't really see it as a mystery because I
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  loved her at the end of volume 2.
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  She made mention that you know she's happy to hear the lobby.
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  Picking up this volume despite having never read any of her
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  previous works. And she was like, maybe it's
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  because it has mystery in the title even though she doesn't
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  really think of it as a mystery. Hence, the title, don't call it
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  mystery which I think is. Brilliant, brilliant name for
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  it, but so This series and like I said with, with this one I'm a
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  kind of try to keep this brief because I do have a bigger more
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  in-depth discussion planned with a guest and the coming future
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  but this wouldn't be done is to talk.
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  If I didn't talk about something that I thoroughly enjoyed
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  because there's volume for as stickers, it is about 380 some
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  pages. It's pretty much took to my
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  attention. Ian, the whole day last day and
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  a half because I picked this up Friday morning, and it is now
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  Saturday afternoon that I'm just now finishing it, because it has
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  some pretty big and Meaty chapter.
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  So this series basket follows our main character to, Tha know
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  who he's a, he's a, a college student, who just, he's just a
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  chill guy, he just loves to Enjoy a curry, but he is also
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  very observant and seems to constantly find himself in these
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  situations that he needs to puzzle out.
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  And think his way out of, I think in the description they
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  kind of use it. As kind of like a, a Sherlock
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  type of mentality, he has and I think that might be one reason
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  why I really like him, because now maybe I'm I'm out of sight.
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  I'm not as I don't think I'm as observant as he is, but I do
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  consider myself to be pretty observant of my surroundings,
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  the people that I meet and work with, and my family, and my
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  kids, all that stuff. And I think that might be why I
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  enjoy this main character and why I enjoyed reading this so
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  much because And even, even just with the presentation of this
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  volume. Looking at it.
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  Now, after having finished reading it, there's a lot of
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  like small hints and clues and things just meant to kind of
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  make you Ponder along the way even as your kind of.
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  Like first opening it up because on the on the cover of it and
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  even just like this first page, you know, it says detective and
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  criminal and his hair and there's also a bunch of like
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  text and stuff in the background that says Noah Father, key
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  trouble lie and honeybee, bullet train motherwell incident.
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  Straight hair garbage can with waiting left hand and all of
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  these things, come back and look at it.
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  Looking at it in, hindsight were all very key words that came up
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  through various situations and stuff.
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  So kind of way kick things off and this is that and of course
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  there won't be any major spoiler stories for this are going to
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  imagine that. Now everybody just got to give
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  it this a general description of what's going on is that things
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  kick off with him getting accused of a murder?
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  You know, somebody's like, hey, we found somebody, you know,
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  somebody said they saw some, I fit your description kill.
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  This person, yada yada yada, and so he kind of gives roped into
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  this. Murder investigation and he ends
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  up using his observation listening and things of that
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  nature to basically kind of help figure out what really happened
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  in the situation. And I'll just say it was
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  beautiful to watch happen. And one thing that that I really
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  like is that like and all the volumes and stuff in this Vault
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  and all of these chapters within this volume. and there's a lot
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  of, like, kind of I guess, like, self-contained stories or murder
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  cases are Mysteries that all kind of What kind of leads to
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  another in a way? Now, some of them are kind of
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  fully separate but sometimes it might be a case where, okay, a
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  character that you get introduced to and a section,
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  kind of may come back into play later on, or kind of kind of
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  kind of a come back up. And I also love how so I can
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  find it because missing words and stuff.
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  At the end of every chapter, there is kind of like this page
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  with these boxes. To kind of highlight a lot of
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  like keywords and phrases and thoughts and stuff like that,
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  kind of came up Throughout the chapter, but, but yeah.
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  So that that that's kind of like, like, in a basic nutshell.
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  What this series kind of is is just following to Tom to hope
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  I'm pronouncing that right as he just tries to live a normal
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  life, but like I said, constantly finds himself getting
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  roped into these various Relations and that having to
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  help himself and others figure out what's really going on.
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  And it honestly in the other series that kind of reminded me
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  of. But and not as not in such a
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  joking manner is the knives out TV series on Netflix because you
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  know you should always kind of have this assortment of
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  characters that come together and you try to figure out, okay?
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  Is there some type of connected thread.
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  Between all these people and the situation and you know, trying
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  to figure out okay, what really caused the murder or whatever
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  mr. The trying to solve and there's
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  always more than meets the eye and there and but there's also
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  like a little sprinkles of Clues.
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  They get laid along the way. But but yeah.
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  So this one likes, it definitely did not disappoint.
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  I'll mention as well, like, with the art, it kind of has this
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  nice mixture of. There's some really nice.
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  It's kind of like, like really beautiful and soft looking
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  panels and stuff like that, that that I really enjoy that they
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  typically kind of have your the beginning.
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  But then I would say kind of has like more traditional Looking
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  panels and stuff in the regular part of the story.
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  But but yeah, but all I know likes if, if you if you enjoy
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  mystery type of series, like I said character, the kind of
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  Thinks things through. Now was that it is a lot of
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  dialogue because because I was worried because I was like, I
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  was like, man, my okay. It is a thick volume.
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  Like I said, it's a two-in-one Omnibus, but I was like, man
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  feels like it is taking me a while to get to this one volume.
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  And I was like, reading it, almost non-stop felt like, and
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  I'm like, man, I spent a long time and I just read one chapter
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  and then thinking back on his. Okay.
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  Now there's a lot of the, the main character, he talks a lot
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  because like I said, Said he is diving into each of the
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  characters involved in that sand, whatever, mystery or
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  crime, or whatever, they're trying to figure out and then
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  yeah, it's just it's just a lot of dialogue and stuff blocks
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  that I love that. I love, just getting that very
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  in-depth detail with that stuff. So just gonna know that just
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  going in but like I said, if you enjoy that kind of almost kind
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  of Thriller but not so much like the drama mystery.
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  Our series and this is definitely one.
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  I would highly recommend just showing off for another really
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  dope panel and pages that I really enjoyed and stuff.
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  But but yeah, so all in all, don't call it mystery.
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  Very awesome. And I also kind of want to point
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  out in mention as well. That this one is.
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  So don't call it or don't ya, don't call the mysteries of the
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  Japanese just do not say mystery.
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  The other kind of interesting thing about this one is that it
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  is one of the last at least of last year's top ten best-selling
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  manga that before now didn't have.
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  Any type of like English / us for me, I'm here in the US and
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  Texas presents, but everything else in the top 10 from last
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  year already, has the manga has been out for years for most of
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  them. They've all pretty much all of
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  them. Have an anime except for there
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  was two of them which was do not say mystery.
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  This one and Kingdom. Now, kingdom does have an
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  animator for five seasons in so far but we still haven't gotten.
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  Any official English, release of the volumes and stuff?
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  Whatever. And, you know, that series is
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  what seven eight hundred chapters something like that.
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  700, for sure, who knows. We might never get it at this.
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  Punk is like, says Hardy African said - I'm just on the chapters,
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  which is probably like 50, 60 million volumes of manga but
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  baby, I saw from it. It just no just for and for the
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  audio only listeners, they can't see what have up on my screen.
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  The top 10 best-selling manga from last year.
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  Going from One to ten number one, you just a cousin to Tokyo,
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  Revengers three spot family for One Piece.
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  Five, my hero Academia, six, Kingdom, Seven, bluelock 8
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  chainsaw, man. 9 do not say mystery and Tenkaichi.
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  Number 8 and of course, cauchy number eights getting an anime
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  next year in 2024. But but yeah, so like I said it
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  having read it myself now and got my hands on it.
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  I can definitely see why it is a best-selling Series in Japan
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  because like My kind of saying the name floating around like a
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  couple of years ago maybe and then especially last year when
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  it started hitting entering into the top 10 sales I was okay I
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  started seeing it more with a black.
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  I said first like I said, I didn't know anything too much
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  about it or whatever, but I knew there was a half of the people
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  that I follow. Shoutout to vampy who runs the
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  show. Joe, say World, count account
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  and of course, Colin Colleen. Manga recommendations, you know,
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  both of them. I know for sure been riding
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  heavier on this series. And yeah, I'm just glad to see
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  that is out in the streets now or maybe not fully.
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  I happen to get a, get a, get my hands on a copy early which is
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  why cuz I think it's I think it's really not coming up to the
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  30th which is still a handful of days from now, but I'll stop
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  people online personal. Yeah, I found it out in the wild
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  and I went to my local Barnes and Noble and I asked them and
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  they had it in the back. So and that seems to have been
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  the case of. Hey, if you see this Released an
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  you're interested, he's just going, ask him at the counter.
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  They probably have them already in the back room, just in.
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  Put it out yet and stuff. So, but but yeah, I'll and I
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  like, so, I'm very happy with this read.
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  And, like I said, look forward to in the future.
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  I won't get no set timeframe because I've got to coordinate
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  schedules and stuff, but there will be more discussion on this.
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  And I look forward to reading more of these volumes.
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  The second Omnibus is coming out in August and the third in
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  December. So we'll get a couple more
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  before the years over finger. Is crossed by all, and I'll let
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  me know what y'all think, you know, have y'all even heard of
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  this series? Before you either click on this
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  video or you happen to find this podcast out there, if you have,
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  let me know if you've already read it, did you enjoy it or or
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  data anything I say in this conversation piqued your
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  interest and stuff. So but yeah I think that's
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  pretty much all I wanted to touch on like so I want to try
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  to keep this short. Let me take a look.
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  Really quick. Okay.
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  Yeah, I'm leaving their car. Like I said I must save the Deep
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  dive going to actual spoilers of this for that other discussion.
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  I have with my future guest, so look forward to that.
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  But as always, thank you so much for watching and listening as
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  always you can find me everywhere at Danny's to talk.
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  And like I said, let me know what you feel about this series
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  and less common said about it. So as always, I hope you all
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  have an awesome day. They enter weekend and I will
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  catch all in the next one. Go read this, whoops.
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  Go read this manga piece. They enter weekend and I will
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  catch all in the next one. Go read this, whoops.
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  Go read this manga piece.