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Manga Talk: Green Green Greens chapter 1 · Dad Needs To Talk

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  What's up, Y'all? And welcome back to Danny's
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  Talk. I'm your host, Robert, and
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  today, today I wanted to jump into and talk about the first
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  chapter for a new Shauna John manga series called Green Green
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  Greens. Now this series is basically
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  it's it's a sports manga centered around golf.
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  And so the kind of interesting thing about it and kind of what
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  led me here was I I don't know because I'm I'm, I'm always
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  pretty hesitant about covering and talking about a series,
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  especially after just the first chapter, because you know Sean
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  and Jeff has not been too kind with a lot of series.
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  A lot of series don't make it, you know they're they're full
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  run. But something about this one
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  spoke to me and so before I dive into all that, a little bit of
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  background on this. So the story in art is done by
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  Kento Terasaki who has a background and lots of of some
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  other sports manga series, specifically getting his start
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  with Kurkano Basket or Kurko's Basketball back in the day.
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  And then he had a short series that run about 3 volumes about
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  four years ago called Let me see what was it?
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  Beast Children, which was a rugby series.
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  And then he's done a couple of one shots here and there since
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  then and now back with Green Green Greens.
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  So with all that being said, so the kind of setup for this and
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  kind of why I think you might have spoke to me in a way is
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  that it basically follows this second year high schooler named
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  Haku who over the course of the chapter and kind of reflecting
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  on and stuff, he is kind of the type of person who really
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  doesn't have anything like any like personal goals or ambitions
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  for himself. Everything he talks about is
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  something that somebody else has done or is doing.
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  Like, man, did you know that Floyd Mayweather makes this much
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  for every fight or that, you know, Tiger Woods Golf Club sold
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  for this much or whatever, Or, hey, you know, his buddy or
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  whatever is getting scouted by some baseball pros.
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  Like, hey, if you sign here or whatever, you might become rich.
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  Just kind of always talking about other people, other
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  people's goals or what people have accomplished, but never
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  nothing for himself. And so over the course of this
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  first chapter going through that, we see him kind of
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  interacting with one of his classmates that's a girl named
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  Olga, who through a little situation or whatever, he ends
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  up finding out that she's really big into golf.
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  And so the kind of seas that kind of led to this was that
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  early in the chapter, him and her birth both get caught into
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  the office, I guess kind of talk about their, their future goals.
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  Like like we've we've seen in terms of anime and stuff over
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  the years where a lot of high schoolers, when they getting,
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  you know, like their later years, will fill out the
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  paperwork. Like, hey, this is what I'm
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  planning to do, like their goals, their dreams and stuff
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  like that. And so she had only written Jazz
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  down North America. And so that kind of caught his
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  eye. And then Fast forward a little
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  bit. In the chapter he comes across
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  her or her with a set of golf clubs or whatever, going to
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  practice. And as he's watching and seeing
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  just like how great her technique and stuff is with her
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  swing game, he's like, huh, is, is, is this just a hobby or are
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  you trying to GoPro? And she's like, no, I'm trying
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  to GoPro. And so that kind of leads to a
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  situation where they're talking about stuff, whatever.
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  And then basically she ends up going off on him, mentioning how
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  he always is just talking about of the people's goals and dreams
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  and yadda, yadda yadda. And it just like really, really
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  made him kind of self reflective.
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  Like Dang, she ain't lying. And I think the thing that like
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  really made this stick out for me, like I said after reading
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  the chapter, skimming through it a couple more times and then
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  just kind of just sitting around and reflecting, it made me think
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  about Blue Period, which those of y'all that's been following
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  me for a while, y'all know how much I love that series, did a
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  review on the 1st the first season of the anime couple years
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  ago now, which is weird to say. Oh, but it kind of made me think
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  about the main character, Yaguchi from Blue Period, of how
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  he was, how he was also just kind of going through the
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  motions, doing the things that his friends wanted to do and
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  then kind of finding inspiration and finding out they're like,
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  no, OK, he actually found something in art for Blue Period
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  that he was actually really passionate and interested in and
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  ended up becoming or ended up finding out that he's really
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  good at it. I see a similar potential
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  trajectory here. And like I said of course I'm
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  I'm making a lot of assumptions but just speaking on just how
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  the vibes and stuff feel off of this first chapter.
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  It just really made me see those kind of similarities and stuff
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  and and honestly kind of made me reflect on myself in some in
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  some sources well to back when I was in high school to where you
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  know I I always did really good great wise great and academic
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  wise in school. But I also kind of was just not
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  not necessarily like like not really like looking too far
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  ahead of like, OK, hey, you know, college planning and, you
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  know, the SA, TS and all this stuff, Whatever I tell, you
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  know, I sort of like looking around and like noticing like my
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  classmates, my best friend, you know, making plans, Oh yeah, I'm
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  going to this university here or yeah, I'm going to be going and
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  doing this career path or I'm going work in this field or, you
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  know, what did they catch my view?
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  Whatever. And I was like, man, I really
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  ain't done no planning or whatever.
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  Like I said that that bitch just like really hit me.
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  Like I said, reading this first chapter of Green, Green, Greens.
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  And then also like, I went back and I rewatched the first
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  episode of Blue Period before I recorded this, whatever, just to
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  kind of see if if was my mind, you know, reflecting properly.
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  And it was. So I'm saying, so you know, like
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  I said, who knows? Do you know where this might go?
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  But like I said, I hope you know that it does kind of stick on
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  this potential path. Like, I think that'd be
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  something great to see. Because another thing that there
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  was really good about it was the art and the drawings of
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  everything, 'cause even honestly, even from this like
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  this, this initial color spread then we got for the chapter
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  looks so good, so fun. And then seeing how the motions
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  and stuff were drawn with the golf swings and even just like
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  as they're, you know in the beginning of the chapter he was
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  going swimming or whatever, just like different motions and
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  stuff. Looks really good, Looked really
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  good in the chapter. Whatever, which I feel like,
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  especially for like a sports manga, that fluid of motion is
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  something that is like very important.
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  And also just with any action stuff in general, 'cause that's
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  one of the one of the big highlights for a series like
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  Sakamoto Days that I love is like when the action is starting
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  up, I know it's going to look so clean and so fluid.
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  And I remember years ago when I first got into reading haiku,
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  that was a concern I had because I had never read a sports manga.
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  I watched some, you know, sports anime, but me trying to picture
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  like, man, OK, I don't know if I would like reading this or
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  whatever, but the art and stuffing that was done so well
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  with the fluid motion and how everything was drawn with the
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  characters moving stuff, whatever.
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  It was like, OK, no this can't work as a manga and like I got
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  those same vibes reading this first chapter and stuff.
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  So but anyway, I'm not going to drag this on too long.
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  Like I just wanted just to kind of just just share some quick
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  initial thoughts. Cause like I said like like like
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  when it really clicked in my head and like man I'm kind of
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  feeling that that blue period vibe and stuff.
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  But you know this kind of has of course, like I said it has the
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  pedigree of the author working on Kirkos no Basket back in the
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  day and I kind of maybe want to maybe check out this beast
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  children this rugby series they did a few years ago as well.
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  Just maybe just kind of get a feel for some of their other
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  work and stuff. But but yeah, but who knows,
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  We'll we'll see how this goes. If it continues to improve and
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  continue to be good, then I'll definitely do another episode
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  like this. Just kind of share my thoughts
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  on it in the future if we get to get to that point.
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  So but as always, thank you so much for watching and or
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  listening. You can find me everywhere at
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  Danny's talk for all your discussions surrounding
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  fatherhood and manga, anime, TV and games.
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  And with that I'll catch on the next one.
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  Y'all be easy. Peace.