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Manga Talk: Momo The Blood Taker Volume 1 & 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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  talk about a series that is very fitting for the spooky season.
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  And that is Momo, the blood taker volumes 1 & 2.
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  Now I'm on the blood taker. It is, the story art is done by
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  Akira, Osa Gita. I care us to Quito and the in
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  the volume is there a Pushed by Seven Seas entertainment, which
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  I seem to have a lot of stuff from 17 is feels like, every
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  time I turn around. I'm like, yeah, I know that,
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  okay? That's seven seas, that Seven
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  Seas do that Seven Seas as well. So, so yeah.
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  So I have a lot of Seven Seas to, for my collection, but so
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  Momo, the blood taker it is essentially a vampire themed
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  Thriller. I guess it's the bed, that's the
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  best way to describe it. Now the series as a whole is
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  already finished in Japan, it only ran for it was just not
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  volumes long with a total of about Ninety Six chapters.
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  So not too bad. Now super long fear feels like
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  like a like a great amount of time for a series.
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  So like I said, is a supernatural dark through Horror
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  Thriller. And on the horror front, they do
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  not hold back. You see all the grotesque
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  brutality dismemberments, all of that stuff but our two main
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  characters in this series is the vampire.
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  Lady herself Momo, Persephone your kuya and then our detective
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  mr. K go Mick.
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  Kagame, who is also a older gentleman?
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  Who is, I think I think Keiko is about 38, I believe is what he
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  said, which hey, I'm always down to see some of some older main
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  characters and some serious, especially series like this,
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  where it's like a thriller. So, so yeah.
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  So and so, I know very interesting, interesting thing
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  to whatever is it, like, I was only looking to the author of
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  this series and the other series that they did was a series
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  background like 2013 2 2016. Called beaucoup girl.
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  And it is a ecchi romance, supernatural comedy.
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  So it is like a whole different vibe from Momo, the blood taker.
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  So, yeah, they, they want to let you know what I did.
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  I did an itchy romance comedy thing.
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  Now, let's do a dark. A dark thriller.
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  So the setting for this series is basically our detective K go.
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  He is trying to track down this vampire that he simply refers to
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  as mr. To face or or the Too Faced
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  vampire witch, that is a picture of him right there because ten
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  years ago Mr. To face. Brutally murdered K goes fiance.
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  And I mean like No Holds Barred keigo came home, one day to just
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  a dismembered body, the head is missing.
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  And so for 10 years, he has been trying to track down this
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  vampire. Well, along the way during his
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  his investigations, he ends up running into Momo who is helping
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  them out along the way, and they end up forming a A partnership
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  of sorts, which I will get into in a little bit because I will
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  do a spoiler section and a little bit.
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  But for now, it stands for the free.
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  But but yeah, some this unlikely Duo I feel like I said that a
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  lot but mama and keigo end up, teaming up together, to try to
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  track down to take out mr. To face now With this series.
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  One of the things that caught my attention of course, is the
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  freaking beautiful cover of this series.
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  So a couple months ago when volume one came out, I was at
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  Barnes & Nobles. As I always am just browsing
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  around just seeing what's new out there, whatever.
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  And so now I try to stay pretty up-to-date and current with all
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  the different Publishers and stuff of like, okay?
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  This is what's coming out on the horizon and stuff, but you know,
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  a lot of times especially because they announced the
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  sometimes like a year ahead. There's a chance that I might
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  have missed this one, or maybe I did see, but just forgot, but I
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  remember when I was looking on the shelves, the spine is, were
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  initially caught my attention because of the color scheme and
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  I just see, okay, something just called Momo and some silver
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  haired chick. And then when I put it on the
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  shelf and I turned, and I saw this, everything about this
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  cover is stunning and eye-catching from this
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  mysterious girl with the bright yellow eyes.
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  To even. Just the way, the lettering of
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  how Momo is split across the cover with blood taker in the
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  middle. And if if you look at the video
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  you also see how the art looks for volume to it as well.
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  Very stunning, very eye-catching as so when I saw that and then I
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  read the synopsis, I was like, yo, okay, this might be at my
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  alley as so. Yeah, it did.
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  This series is different one. That is worth reading specialist
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  especially like this time of month that I'm reading.
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  It is very fitting because like I said I got run your wine like
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  this. It may be back around August
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  ready, immediately enjoyed it. And I knew Volume 2 is coming
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  out towards the end of October so I was like, you know what?
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  I'm going to read way too to comes out re both of them and
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  then do a discussion about it there and I'm glad I did because
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  one series if I haven't mentioned already, forgive me
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  but that this Definitely reminds me of a bit of is Tokyo Ghoul
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  just because of how the setting involves with, you know, a
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  detective agency with humans and then a creature of some sort of
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  goes, we're dealing with vampires and also across these
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  two volumes. We also encounter a special task
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  force that is trained and specialized in hunting down
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  vampires and things. That nature.
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  So that was another little cool thing about it to whatever.
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  But but yeah, so like I said, these two characters coming
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  together to try to track down this to face guy and to take
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  them out and another like, like, some, like with the art of this
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  series is so good. One of my other favorite panels
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  is just this one inside of a vampire's mouth with all these
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  freaking skulls and stuff at side.
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  It's just like it. I don't know.
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  I just love it. Just enjoy it.
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  Yes, if you're into some Supernatural type of series like
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  this, especially dealing with vampires and you want the dark,
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  the Grady, the grotesque then. This is one that I definitely.
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  Encourage you all to take a look at it to check out.
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  Because. Yeah, because even That first
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  shot there. Now, we'll say one little pet
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  peeve. I do have, is that?
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  Of course, my mom. She's a vampire.
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  She is hundreds of years old, but they make us look like a
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  child, which they kind of play into the story little bit
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  because some kids, make fun of her because of how young she
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  looks. But sorry, Mama certain scenes.
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  I'm like, it was awkward because you're like a kid, even though I
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  know you're hundreds of years old but that aside very dope
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  story. But like I said, definitely
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  recommend y'all check this out. Now, I'm a diver to a little bit
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  of some spoilers because there's some very important moments that
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  happened in this. That I need to talk on Flex
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  across both of these volumes. So be wary of spoilers, I'm
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  gonna turn out to dive into too deep whatever.
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  But just for those who might want to go into reading this
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  blonde on their own. Go check it out.
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  Come back. And let your bar know what you
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  think of my mother blood take her now, down to some spoilers.
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  So Now expanding upon the Tokyo Ghoul connection this series.
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  Also, our main man K go. So the first time like that
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  pattern, a short while ago of him and countering mr.
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  To face and of course, miss new face up here, pull up some eyes
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  and stuff where he is like yo I have been watching you all these
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  years. All the vampires, you Along the
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  way I put them there, everything that you thought that you were
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  figuring out, whatever our strategically, moving the
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  pieces, whatever I could take you out, anytime I wanted to
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  whatever, but I wanted to let the blood, just the flavor just
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  build and ripen over the years I could.
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  So when I do come for you, it'll be worth it or whatever.
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  So I'm So, yeah. So he within a blink of an eye,
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  I can't goes. Right?
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  Arm is gone. His left arm is gone and he's
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  just chopping it to keg or whatever.
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  And so he's about to just take him out and kill him, but keigo
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  is a lunging, Adam, and taking a bite out of his neck or
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  whatever. The guys like, I like your spunk
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  kid, but right at the moment, that's where Mama comes into the
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  story and she comes down and payoffs him or whatever.
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  But of course it was just like a clone or whatever but in this
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  moment is we're basically Mama offer him.
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  Like hey do you want to live And Caicos like yes I want to live
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  and she gives him some of her blood that's turning him into a
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  vampire. And so now we kind of get keigo
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  gets introduced into the water vampires which we kind of get
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  more into in volume 2, which is pretty interesting because you
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  get to see like all these Elite higher class vampires and stuff
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  will get to see the king of the vampires which is also most
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  father surprisingly And stuff like that.
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  So and we also get to see this other older vampire and a
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  wheelchair who, coincidentally, his name is also Robert, shout
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  out to my fellow Robert vampire. But but who is part of the first
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  generation of vampires along with mr.
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  To face that God blood directly from the King almost father.
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  But by, yeah. And so that's kind of where Her
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  mama and Caicos partnership starts to develop and stuff,
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  whatever. But man, it was.
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  So heart wrenching seeing when K go want to go investigate this
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  one, this other killing that was happening.
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  And find out there, like one of his fellow detectives, he got
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  turned into a vampire and so he ended up having to take the dude
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  out. And the guy was like, hey, I
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  didn't want this whatever, but hey, I'm offering you drink my
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  blood so that you can get my memories.
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  Which that's another cool thing is, like, you get the person's
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  memories as you drink their blood, but but then that's when
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  he starts to get and then that's how Keiko gets more clues about
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  the vampire society and things of that nature.
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  Now, of course, another sad moment, whatever is still like
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  his keigo had like this kind of like a Junior detectives kind of
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  coming up in the forest. Had good instincts, whatever.
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  I think his name was like, neck, not keema.
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  Something like that or whatever. I can remember his name, but he
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  walked in, and he saw K. Go.
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  There holding the other detective with, you know, blood
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  all over his face and stuff, whatever kind of like half a
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  looking. And so now this junior did
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  Junior detective got recruited into the Vampire killing Squad.
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  And so just like Tokyo Ghoul, I just know.
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  There's going to be these encounters.
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  That it's going to happen eventually between these
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  characters. And I know it's just going to be
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  very tough for when that moment comes from.
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  But yeah, but I just enjoyed those moments like that.
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  And yeah, just Keiko just come to reality of like, you know,
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  you're a vampire now and, you know, seeing keigo fight shoot,
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  I can remember her name but That other girl who rolled up with
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  her subordinate or whatever, and just seeing Keiko funny, kind of
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  get to like Flex his vampire abilities and stuff for the
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  first time which is like really cool and really dope to see.
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  But but yeah I look forward to checking out more of momo, the
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  blood taker, if you're still watching this despite the little
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  bit of suppose, whatever like I said, I highly encourage you to
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  give the series a shot and stuff.
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  That and I might even give us Arthur's other series of
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  beaucoup girl shot. Because like I said, just just
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  to see like how they went from like a comedy, a tri-series to
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  this Dark Fantasy horror, series whatever.
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  I my man I gotta find out like is there any DNA or similarities
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  whatever they might have led the connection or you just like I
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  just want to do something totally different but many ooh,
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  but yeah, but my mother, the blood taker like said published
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  by Seven, Seas entertainment, two volumes or out currently.
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  As of the time of me releasing this episode and I look forward
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  to checking out more. Like I said, I am very
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  enthralled with these characters and with this world, because
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  like I said, like, Tokyo, gorgeous series that I really
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  enjoyed it as well. The manga of it, and I look
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  forward to reading. More of Mama.
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  But I remember on a knife, hopefully, I say something
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  intriguing and they makes you interested in checking out this
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  series. But as always, thank you so much
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  for watching and or listening like, said, let me know if you
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  checked out mama or if it's on your radar.
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  And let's talk about it, you know, hit me up on social media,
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  I'm everywhere at Danny's to talk, feel free to email me as
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  well. All the information will be in
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  the description box below and with that.
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  I will catch you in the next one.
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  Y'all have awesome day and week and enjoy the rest of spooky
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  season and I'll catch y'all in the next one.
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  Peace.