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Manga Talk: Ikigami The Ultimate Review · Dad Needs To Talk

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So one day the government comes to your door, A government agent
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comes to your door, hands you a card and says your time has
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come. You have 24 hours to live.
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Good luck. That is the setup and premise
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for it got me the ultimate. So what's up Y'all, it's your
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boy Rob. And we're back for another
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review. Like I said, it got me the
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ultimate. It's a series published by VIZ
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Media across 10 volumes. The story and art is done by
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Motaro, MASE. And yeah, so it got me the
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Ultimate. It's a series that has been high
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on my list of things to read for a couple of years now since I
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started doing reviews and podcasts and all this fun stuff.
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But I had been slowly clicking the volumes over over the last
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couple of years and so I have eight of the 10 volumes.
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The only two I don't have is Volume 5 and volume 10 because
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they are very rare and very expensive to find.
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But luckily Viz Media a few months back when they introduced
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their their Viz manga subscription and stuff they
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added it got me the ultimate on their butt.
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Because it's a mature rated series, it's only available to
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read on the website which is fine, so I was able to read
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those between the physical volumes I have.
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So the setup for this series is very intriguing and one of the
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reasons why I wanted to read it so much cuz cuz y'all know I
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love my thrillers and series like that.
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And so basically in this world, the government implements this
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thing called the National Welfare Welfare Act.
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And our main character, Fujimoto is a messenger now, the National
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Welfare Act basically where when kids reach first grade, one, in
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every thousand vaccinations that they receive at that time, one
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of them has a nano capsule that at a predetermined date and time
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will explode in their heart That's killing them and
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everybody else. You know, of course, you also
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get like immunity to a lot of diseases and different things
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like that, but you just never know.
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And this will happen, this death will occur sometime between the
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ages of 18 to 24. So during that time period, I
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would imagine you'd be under a lot of stress or just not know.
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Because the way they have their system structured is that the
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the facility that creates the vaccines and stuff is split, is
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split into three groups. It is the first group that puts
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the capsules into the vaccines and they they label them and
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they know which vaccine has a capsule.
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The second group takes the vaccines and puts them in
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syringes. They know which what vaccine
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goes with which syringe. And then part three is the
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people that make note of who got injected with that particular
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vaccine. So they do it that way so that
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it's not easy to track what went where and stuff whatever is all
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all the only thing that happens is that when the person's time
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comes is like, oh okay, we have capsule 344, you know what's put
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into vaccine, you know 22. Well, we informed the second
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team they could, they took the regular Okay vaccine 22 went
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into syringe, 99 Okay syringe 99 was injected into Billy Joe, you
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know in in Orange County. And so that is how the process
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of this all works. And the government is doing this
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so that people both appreciate the value of life and live to be
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model citizens. And So what happens is that in
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this final 24 hours, you get this itchy got me card and it
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grants you certain permissions or certain privileges to where
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like most public transportation is free.
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Certain restaurants or stores or whatever have either free stuff
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or do different things, whatever, just because it's like
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you got your final 24 hours to live kind of, you know, we're
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trying to make it a little bit easier because you're considered
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a national hero for your sacrifice.
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And also the family of the of the person, once they die, will
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receive a pension fund of money as long as that person doesn't
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do anything crazy. Now if you mess around, do
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something crazy like okay, you know what?
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I'm about to die. I'm going to get revenge on that
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dude that screwed me over all them years ago, or I'm going to
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go and assault this person, or I'm going to commit this crime.
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Whatever. Well then what's going to happen
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is you're still going to die regardless.
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But now your family, whether it be your spouse, your parents,
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whoever is left and your stead, they might have to pay fines and
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stuff depending on what it is that you did.
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And then they are pretty much going to be ostracized in some
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sense because they're going to be like man, that's Robert's
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family and he was a a a miscreant or whatever.
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And a lot of times the families end up leaving and moving away
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out of disgrace and shame. So yeah, pretty crazy, but but
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so we follow Fujimoto as he goes on his routes to deliver these
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economic cars and stuff and it's it was just like such a very
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fascinating and engrossing story because you have the smaller
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bite size stories of the person that's they got the economic
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card and then we follow them kind of how they live their
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final 24 hours. And one thing that always was
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impactful, every time, even though I saw it many times
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across these 10 volumes, was the reaction, the facial expression
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of the person when they got the economic card and also the
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impact. Every time I saw that timer
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because every time they come in, the car gets handed over,
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whatever. There's always a little timer in
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the corner of the page that says, you know, hours remaining,
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23 hours, you know, and 50 minutes or whatever.
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And throughout that person's story arc, we get to see no, the
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passage of time. And so every so often you'll
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see, OK, 16 hours, 15 minutes left to live, 7 hours and 36
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minutes to live or whatever. And it's just like, man, this
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sucks. Like you see this person going
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on their final day or whatever. And like I said, some of them do
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good deeds or some of them make sure, like, hey, OKI made a
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promise to do something or whatever.
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I'm going to do what I can to make sure this gets done or that
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things are in place for it to get done even after I'm gone.
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Some people go for revenge and some people are just so stunned
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by the news that they just do nothing.
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They just sit there and be like this is it, you know?
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And so the crazy thing also that you have to kind of keep in mind
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with this being known that like, OK, from the ages of 18 to 24
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this might happen to you or whatever.
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Some people choose to kind of like live a kind of small and
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modest life just in case. But some people, even knowing
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the risk, they still get married, they still might have
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kids, they might still start a business or whatever.
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And then it's like, you know, and and that kind of ends up in
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a struggle, whatever to like, like like there was a character
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that had got pregnant pretty young or whatever, and the
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parents was kind of against it because they're like, hey, well,
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what if something happens to you?
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Whatever. You know, you you should not
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have the baby and all this stuff.
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Whatever. And so you end up in a lot of,
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like situations like that. And throughout seeing all these
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smaller stories, we're also seeing how Fujimoto is impacted
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by this because he's the one having to deliver this economic
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car to all these people. And sometimes people take it
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well, sometimes people are distraught, Some people,
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sometimes people are angry. And he ends up in danger himself
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because it's like, hey, this is your fault.
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You're with the government that it had done.
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It's like, no, he just, it's just a job in a sense.
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Whatever. And it's like he's just
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literally, he's just the messenger.
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Whatever. He's not the person that
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injected your child 20 years ago.
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Whatever. He's not the one that's making
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the vaccinations and stuff. Whatever.
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He is just unfortunately tasked with this role of delivering
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these heartbreaking messages and stuff.
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And so you kind of get to see how his mentality and how he
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perceives stuff kind of morphs and shapes over the course of
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this series. And it is expertly done.
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Like I said, you get so many interesting characters along the
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way, some of which kind of pop up again throughout the story
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here and there, like like some of like the surviving family
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members and stuff, whatever might kind of come back into
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play. Let her own or he might kind of
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think back on that person and that situation or whatever.
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And yeah, overall the, the the stories are so good.
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And one big thing like I mentioned, just like like the
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impact of the story, one of the most impactful things is it
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visually and the art. Because the the author of the
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series does such a great job of, especially when it comes to the
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impact shots, the facial expressions.
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Like they are definitely something like like like when
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you turn the page and you just see like the despair or the
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anger or whatever the case may be on the person's face.
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It is just truly a sight to behold.
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And like I said, just like adds even more weight to a lot of
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these situations and stuff. And I'm glad that along the way
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I had did a Twitter thread of my read through of the series.
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Of course there are certain parts to where I was like so
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engrossed in it or whatever, so I wasn't screenshotting and I
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didn't get in my thread or whatever, which is fine.
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But All in all, if you got me the ultimate, it is a series.
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I definitely got to say that it was well worth the wait for me
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to read. I definitely hope that this
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fixes the problem with some of the chapters on the website,
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because there's a few chapters missing and there's also for the
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chapters that are missing that story arc.
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The chapters are the couple of chapters that are there or
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whatever are swapped around. So the story is is broken up
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into like like like you know, like chapter 17.117, point 217,
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seven 217.3 lower. I can't get my wires right or
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whatever, but one of them for example like 17.3 is unless or
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whatever, and 17.1 is actually 17.3 and 17.2 is actually 17.1.
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So I really hope that they get that ironed out or whatever.
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Because my hope and me doing this review is that it might
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encourage somebody else to go out there and to read this
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awesome series. But it would suck if the only
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way that you can read it is through the Viz manga site and
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if their stuff isn't in order then man, that's that is, it's
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going to suck. But but All in all it got me the
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ultimate definitely one of the best series I have read and it
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has like I said from beginning to end very impactful and in the
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moment I'm going to talk to spoilers in a few minutes or
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whatever. But it wrapped up pretty nicely
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as well. But and it really got into the
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into the deep thoughts of the the national welfare act and and
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people that are for it against it, how it affects Fujimoto and
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his role in all this, whatever. So All in all great series,
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highly recommend reading and with that we're going to jump
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into spoilers. So if you haven't read it, go
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read. You can tell me the ultimate and
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if you have or if you just don't care, you just want to hear
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more. Just stick around for some
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spoilers real quick. OK, so talking about this series
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through to the end and like I said, this is all spoilers,
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whatever. So y'all be y'all going to be
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seeing some spoiler images and stuff over on the side of the
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screen, but but man, like all throughout this story like and
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and and I might have to do like a separate video or something,
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whatever. Talking about like like like all
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the different acts and stuff, but just speaking for I'm going
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to just jump into like like the end of the story in general,
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man. So when things started to fall
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apart and when when things really started to fall apart and
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Fujimoto started, started doubting himself and everything
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that he went and posted online, the the, the supposed leaked
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information thing, whatever. And then when the when he best,
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when he got arrested for being a miscreant and then got sent away
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for those six months was super wild.
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Yeah, the the, the shot here of of when they, when they caught
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him was super wild. And then seeing, you know, he
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was in in that rehab Center for freaking six months.
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And then when he came out and then when the truth was revealed
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about how all of this was set up from a deal that they made with
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of course the freaking U.S. government way back in the day
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as a longterm plan for hey, if the ever, if the time ever comes
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and we need to go to war, we can use this system to get people to
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to join the army or whatever. And so the idea is that, you
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know, they've been going through this thing for all these decades
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and decades and then an actual war is breaking out and they
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need to recruit people whatever, because their country doesn't
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have a standing army. And so they use the National
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Welfare Act to kind of bait and switch and stuff for towards a,
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hey, if you sign up for for for the army or whatever, then we'll
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give you another shot that will. Now, now we can't tell you if
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you had the nano capsule or not, but if you do, then this is
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going to limit the capsule, whatever, and you're going to
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live longer or whatever. And if you're already somebody
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older that obviously didn't have it or whatever, well then you
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can still sign up for the Army and will inject a family member
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or somebody that your child, whatever with this new vaccine
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or this new shot or whatever. And duh, duh, duh.
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And so seeing Fujimoto just like being surprised and distraught,
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man, was just it it it was just so wild.
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Just to see like that final moment of where he's tried to
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escape with with the the Doctor Who ended up being like a kind
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of double agent or whatever to where they sent him to spy on
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her, but she was actually spying on him.
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And that whole thing was just super wild.
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And the fact that if it wasn't for the war going on, then they
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literally, they literally would not have escaped or whatever.
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But the fact that they snuck on this boat or whatever and then
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bomb stuff started getting bombed in the background or
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whatever, that distracted the police and everybody long enough
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for them to make their escape on the ship out of the country or
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whatever. And that's kind of where the
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story ends. Now, I did see that there is a
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sequel series they just started a couple of years ago is I can't
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find it anywhere translated yet or whatever.
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So I'll be very curious to see what that is, You know, is it
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Fujimoto trying to maybe fight the fight from the outside, from
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outside the country now, or what is going on with that story with
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us? I definitely want to learn more
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about it through that way or whatever.
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But but yeah, man, like all throughout, like I said, like
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all the different stories and stuff that happened along the
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way was just so dope, so special.
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I'm trying to think like like that.
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There are so many of them that I'm trying to trying to recall
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one specifically. I definitely got to say this
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series has some of the most trash parents in existence.
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One of the man ones I was talking about right now,
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whatever. And I like, I might still do
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something separate later on, but the one mom who was running for
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a government role and her son got an ikkigami and she wanted
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to use him getting ikkigami as a way to try to help boost up her
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political standing or whatever was such a trash move.
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And so and yeah, this kid, it was all about supporting the
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government or whatever. But oh man, sorry, I'm sorry.
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I'm all over the place. But the he got me the one to the
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to the to the graffiti artist dude.
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Like this is definitely one of the most impactful panels in
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this series is where he drew the people like like like people
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with their bodies holding up and he got me caught over her face
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and then the gun like that ish was super insane and like super
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like like beyond impactful but let me see So I'm trying to see
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if I can find that panel but but who point is like I said that
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that mom that was just trying to use her son for that situation
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was super trash. Shout out to to this brother
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though that he wanted to donate his that thing like the cornea
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or whatever from his eyes to his sister who he went blind.
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Because their their family ended up in this bad car accident when
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she was a young child and she ended up losing her sight.
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And so since he found out he was about to die, he wanted, you
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know, them to transplant the corneas or whatever from his
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eyes to his sisters. And the fact that that Fujimoto
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worked with this guy and the hospital staff to trick the
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sister in order to for her to get this operation.
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Whatever. The fact that they got everybody
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in the hospital on board with this to where they set the clock
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back an hour. So that so that she can still,
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the brother can still meet the quote UN quote promise to be
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there for the surgery. And that one shot of her walking
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through the hospital and there's posters are paper where there's
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like, hey, warning or for awareness removing the time
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back, all that stuff, whatever. And it was just so dope because
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like she's blind but she's surrounded by all these pictures
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and warning signs of her. It it it was just like super,
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super amazing. But but yeah, but All in all
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like I don't need to do the full rundown for y'all and
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everything. But like I said, just knowing
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that this series was so amazing, so amazing from top to bottom.
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And like I said, I highly recommend if you have not read
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it, go read it. I do know that there is like a
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live action drama or whatever about it.
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I don't know. I don't know part of me who is
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kind of interested in maybe checking it out, but I don't
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know if my heart can handle that pressure or whatever in live
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action form because it was stressful.
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Stressful enough reading it so, but I don't know.
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But like I said, it could tell me the ultimate definitely super
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awesome super worth degree. And yeah, so if if if you've
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read the series, comment down below or reach out to me on
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Twitter or whatever at dentists to talk and let me know what you
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thought of this series. But I loved it.
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Like so definitely gave you a lot of things to think about and
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to contemplate on and all that fun stuff whatever.
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So but but yeah but as always thank you so much for watching
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and or listening. As always you can find me
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everywhere at Danny's to talk and make sure you're subscribed
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on YouTube or following on whatever your favorite podcast
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streaming service is and let me know what you thought of the
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series. And with that I'm out.
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Y'all have an awesome day and or week and I'll catch on the next
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one. Read it.
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Got me peace.